Signs of Western Front Drive Grow as Berlin Looms
United Press reports growing signs that a Western Front offensive is under way as Russian forces mass on the Oder. U S First and Third armies prep with three additional northern formations, aiming to strike from the Netherlands to the upper Rhine, while Berlin’s loss would fragment German defense and force a southern retreat to the Alps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Oder
Berlin
Hitler
Hig
Germany
Souuthern
United States
Netherlands
Upper Rhine
Baltic
Carpathians
Map Plans for Farm Phones
W M Sutherland of the Pacific Telephone and Volograph Company announced plans to improve rural telephone service. The firm is proceeding with farmer owned lines and peacetime expansion, limited only by available manpower and materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Sutherland
Pacific Telephone and Volograph Company
Sutherland
Telephone Company
Scout Executive Cain to Address Four Local Groups
In observance of Boy Scout Week, B C Cain assistant scout executive and public relations director for the Oakland area will speak to four groups today. He will address the Liang dntity at noon and the Kiwanis Club in the early evening and then give talks at Bret Harte school at 2 30 and San Lorenza school at 9 30 with photographs and rattling rattlesnakes. Cain, holder of an M S from Stanford, is a naturalist by hobby and training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C. Cain
Oakland
Kiwanis Club
Cain
Bret Harte
San Loren
Stanford University
New Mayor in City Hall Scout Takes Over Hayward
A 15 year old Boy Scout, Jerry Simpson, is named mayor for Good Government Day by 20 scouts from Hayward Troop 5. Scout leaders, city officials, and patrols plan a day of tours and duties with Norman Sousa and Marvin Becker among those appointed to city posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevive Grant
Jerry Simpson
Hayward
George Forth
Norman Sousa
Lesser
Mervin Becker
Dale Orr
Simpson
Jack Blanford
Jay Broadwell
Lewis McAlister
Don Waernch
Bob Seaver
Norman Little
Kenneth Bates
Gilbert Lewis
Dick Lane
Stanley Burns
David Waldick
Danny George
Henry Francis
Ronnie Siegel
David Rezeb
Scowls
Porth
Casiro Valley
Ackland
Independent
Valle Vista
Heyward
Rents in Hayward Area Deemed Excessive by OPA Official
An OPA rent registration drive in Hayward led by Alameda County Supervisor L. Le Handriess drew over 125 filings. Officials said rents appear out of line despite few tenant complaints and urged others with unfair charges to register their complaints for potential adjustment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayward
L. le Handriess
Alameda County
OPA
Seais
Pest
Hayward Area
Kaiser Plans Postwar Fontana Steel Plant Expansion
West coast industrialist Henry J. Kaiser announced plans to convert Fontana California into a peacetime steel operation with about 37 million dollars to be raised for reconversion and debt payoff. He denied plans to sell Fontana and signaled study of the Utah Geneva mill and possible use of Eagle Mountain ore to support Fontana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
W.P
Henry J. Kaiser
West Coast
Fontana
Calif
Geneva
Utah
U. S. Steel Corp
Pontana
Munday
Benjamin M. Fairless
U.S. Steel
Kaiser
Sqtil
Bis Company
U. S. Steel
UL. Steel
Defense Plant Corporation
Kaiser Company
Eagle Mountain
California
Uhh
Gonoys
Red Cross Campaign to Open in Hayward Area March 1
Dr Vo TR Krag named chair of the Hayward Area Red Cross Drive announcing a March 1 start with a two week intensive campaign to cover the area. A City Hall kick off will unveil plans and map worker duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Hayward Area
Vo TR. Krag
Krag
Ed Stanton
Area
Russ Wing
Special Gifts
Lester Griggs
Jack Kennedy
Don Gilmore
Grace Morton
John Sandoval
Christean Rackle
Hans Henningsen
John Mitchell
Hans Ogaard
Roger’ Anderson
Castro Valley
Paul Ramm
Mount Eden
Will
Cryer
Ashland
U S Third Army Opens New Offensive Into Germany
American Third Army units crossed the Luxembourg border into Gers, pushing across the Sure and Our rivers on a 22 mile front near Echternach to Clervaux area. The drive extended from Echternach to northwest of Prum as three towns fell north of the front and lines pressed toward the Siegfried line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Army
Luxembourg
Gersmany
Eehternach
Clervans
Prue
George SS. Patton
Ourwil
Germany
Thirdivany
Pruem
Eisenhower
Holland
Saarlautern
U. S
West Wall
Navy ships delayed by manpower shortages and draft plan
Washington officials disclosed that labor shortages slow completion of warships. Secretary Forrestal urged broad draft coverage for essential civilian and combat jobs as urgency grows. Navy turnover remains high with 270,000 hires over 18 months yielding a net loss of 11,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbert D. Thomas
Utnh
Forrestal
Navy
Ralph Bard
Navy Yard
Theavy
Van Wie Plea Set For Feb 13 in San Francisco
Francis Van Wie, accused of bigamy after marrying 13 women, was ordered by Superior Judge Herbert Kaufman to enter a plea by February 13. James Toner, Van Wie’s attorney, requested the delay to gather details on the marriage situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Francis van Wie
Herbert Kaufman
James Toner
van Wie
Civilians Shelled as Manila Camp Attacks Continue
Japanese bombardment hit Santo Tomas and Bilibid internment camps in Manila, where thousands of Allied civilians and POWs sheltered. General MacArthur visited internees as fires raged along the Pasig river. city destruction across areas north of the river was estimated at two billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Teatworth Mawila
Santo ‘Tomas
Bilibid
Teatforth
Manila
Santo Tomas
Bilibic
Douglas MacArthur
Pasig River
Macario Arebejo
Pasig
Arebeja
Limited Civilian Flying Approved
Western Defense Command grants restricted civilian flights within a new zone. Proclamation by Maj. Gen. H. C. Pratt sets Feb 16 start and marks a path across Washington Oregon and California from the Canadian border to the Mexican line, detailing longitudinal and latitudinal boundaries around Donner Summit Mt Whitney Silver Lake Yuma and other landmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco U.R
H. C. Pratt
Western Defense Command
Western Air Defense Zone
Washington
Oregon
California
Silver Lake
Yuma
Tremors Hit Los Angeles Area In Brief Shocks
California Institute of Technology seismograph teams logged two quakes within 24 hours, striking at 2 12 pm today and 3 56 pm yesterday. The tremor woke sleepers in Palm, South Gate, and areas between Inglewood and Hawthorne, while the earlier quake was felt in Beverly Hills and Inglewood with greater intensity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Los Angeles
California Institute of Technology
Palm
South Gate
Inglewood
Hawthorne
Beverly Hills
Big Three Meet In Black Sea Talks On War Ending
The White House reports Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill meeting in the Black Sea area to plan final defeat of Nazi Germany and joint occupation. They discuss military operations and postwar peace, including a possible permanent international body to maintain peace and political economic issues in liberated Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ual
White House
Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchil
Black Sea
Germany
London
Moscow
Gurinvany
Ablation of Last Secret Base in China Ends Major U.S. Air Campaign
General Claire Chennault announced that American squadrons abandoned and destroyed the last vast China bases 400 miles east of battle lines as Japanese columns closed in from Hankow Mengying and Canton. Oil bases at Namyang and Kanchow were also destroyed to cut Japanese supply routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Havenholt
14Th Air Force
China
Americanamen
Hankow
Mengying
Canton
Claire Chennault
Namyang
Kanchow
Chennai
Chennault
Kunming
Namyong
Canton-Hankow
Four Prisoners of War Escape Mare Island Yard
Vallejo police report four dangerous prisoners escaped from the Mare Island Navy Yard work detail after beating a guard. Three were recaptured. one, named Saheerons, remains at large as of today. They fled in an automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vallejo, W.P
Vallejo
Mare Island Navy Yard
Mare Is
Move to Incorporate San Lorenzo Gathers Community Support
Three areas Cherryland Groom and Scobie express desire to join San Lorenzo in the proposed incorporation plan. At a San Lorenzo Community Club meeting about 300 residents heard delegates urge inclusion while Hayward observers warn of growth setbacks. U S Atlix district attorney and club leaders were announced in the first phase of organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherryland
Groom
Scobie
San Lorenzo
Croom
San Lorena Village
Hayward
Destruction of Hitlerism Near Reds
London reports unofficial Soviet gains across the Oder before Berlin with Zhukov’s forces expanding bridgeheads and promising the complete destruction of Nazi Germany. Soviet dispatches claim two Red armies near readiness to strike Berlin as German positions deteriorate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow
Oder River
Berlin
Red Army
Nazi Germany
Germany
Oder
Red Star
Argun
Battle of the Oder
Missing Navy Catalina Plane Sighted in Oregon
A Navy Catalina plane reported missing en route from California to Seattle was sighted in Oregon near Brookings twelve miles inland. Western Sea Frontier headquarters announced a search led by Commander Herbert Woodman from Arcata Naval Auxiliary Air Station started at 4 am toward Gold Beach to recover the aircraft and crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Seattle
Oregon
California
Western Sea Frontier
Herbert
Woodnan
Arcata Naval Auxiliary Air Station
Calif
Gold Beach
Ore
Brookings
Ove
Sailor Diés Killed in Bay Bridge Auto Crash
Levi B. Byron, 22, a sailor, died of critical injuries after a two car collision at the Oakland end of the Bay Bridge. The 12th Naval District announced the death today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sailor
Bay Bridge
Levi B. Byron
Oakland
12Th Naval District
Blaze Destroys Ranch Building in San Lorenzo
A two story frame ranch owned by Oakland Sceuvanper Co. on Bockman Road San Lorenzo burned early this morning. The fire destroyed the structure and 1500 gallons of wine valued at about 5000 dollars. Deputy Sheriffs Thompson and Souveid spotted the blaze on Toesper iin Blvd. and Ed Di Guilio of Ban Lorenz said the department had not been notified until the sheriffs arrived. Chief Wolters of the Parerview Fire Department estimates damage at 5000 dollars and origin is still undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland Sceuvanper Co
Bockman Rooad
San Lorenzo
Wolters
Parerview
Recruitment of Spies Revealed at Trial
New York report says German consulate and Boston crews recruited Americans to spy in 1940. William Colepaugh of Connecticut testified he was invited aboard ships and told of going to Germany to study at the Nazi Marine engineering school. Fritz Gimpel, a fellow defendant, allegedly entered the United States from a submarine in December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
WWPX
Boston
Hravenly
Imilitary Commission
Twa
William ©. Colepaugh
Connecticut
Germany
Colepaugh
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Frich Gimpel
Gimpel
Gurnahy
United States
Army
Star Chamber
Nezt Marina Engineering Schoola
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Nan Heide
Mbps
Clark Silva
Noyes Alexander
Ing
Joyce Biek
Reds
Poriudhat
Gregory II. Zhukov
Kushin Gree
Youri
Zhukov
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Amluh Y Kustrin
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