War Today Bloodied Fronts In Russia As Hitler Presses
Soviet President Kalinin declares Germans cannot recapture the Red Army and claims Nazi forces are 175 miles back in some sectors. Stalin’s wall prophecy and Kalinin’s forecast frame a brutal winter battlefield where German retreat entails heavy losses in men and matériel as a spring strike looms. Prauda’s wartime tallies conflict with Hitler's own casualty notes, underscoring the high cost of the Russo-Nazi war.
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Kalinin
Red Army
Hitler
Reds
Wilhelmstrasse
der Fuchrer
Stalin
Germany
Fuehrer
Communist Party
Pra‘da
Pacific Council In Operation Revealed By FDR
President Roosevelt disclosed that a Pacific Council has been in operation in Washington and London for a month. He said it handles military and political questions with offices in both cities and directs military matters to the Army and Navy chiefs of staff while political issues go to appropriate government bodies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pacific Council
London
Council
Army
Navy
Possible potato shortage seen for German people
The Agriculture Department said Germany faced a possible wartime potato rationing for the first time since the war began. Frosts last fall cut the Greater German crop by about 200 million bushels, with the Reich’s wartime diet centered on potatoes. The crop was estimated at 2.38 billion bushels. Fire destroyed a large two story brick business building in Chester, South Carolina, around noon, endangering nearby structures.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Germany
Greater
Chester Cihiester
Japanese gun emplacements destroyed near Manila Bay
U S fortifications fire on the southeast shore of Manila Bay destroyed Japanese gun positions believed built to attack Corregidor. Nine Japanese transports were reported at Lingayen Gulf ports, landing troops to reinforce large enemy concentrations in Bataan and Luzon. Bataan front remained relatively quiet with decreased bombing and no damage from aerial attacks.
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Associated Press
Washington
Manila Bay
Corregidor
War Department
Lingayen Gulf
Bataan Peninsula
Luzon
Bataan Front
Philippine Theater
Lingayan Gulf
Bataan
Committee Pushes Monopoly for Independent Tire Dealers
Washington February 6 1942 The House Small Business Committee urged a virtual monopoly for independent tire dealers and servicers during the war The panel released a letter and resolution to President Roosevelt citing concern over wartime rationing and its impact on small operators Independent dealers accuse rubber companies of crowding them out through company controlled retail outlets and low profit margins of 60 cents a year in some cases The committee notes dealers are buying up rebuilding materials and machinery to seize the tire rebuilding market and questions the present system.
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Washington
House
Small Business
Tee
Patman
D-Tex
Roosevelt
Italian Warplanes Aid Nazis in Russian Battle
Nazi high command disclosed that German air force has called on Italian planes for help in the Soviet front. Hitler’s headquarters bulletin said 38 enemy planes were shot down or destroyed on the ground, marking the first Italian involvement on the Russian front. Goebbels acknowledged domestic discontent over the Russia campaign and shortages, while Soviet reports claimed heavy losses for Germany and continued fierce fighting around Kursk Kharkov and northwest of Moscow. Additional Soviet claims noted battles near Velikie Luki and in the Valdai hills, with North Africa reports not detailed here.
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Associated Press
Germany
Belgium
Holland
France
Russia
High Command
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Gbering
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Elion
Red Army
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Reich
Semeon Timoshenko
Ukraine
Petropaviovka
Chieperopetrovsk
Moscow Radio
Kursk-Kharkov
Moscow
Velikie Luki
Reste Kalinin
Valdai Hills
Kuibyshev
Leningrad
North Africa
Mussolinis
Roosevelt fights War Powers clause power shift
Washington report by Ray Tucker notes President Roosevelt seeks to delete a War Powers provision that would let Congress reclaim its emergency authority after a crisis. The fight centers on limits till December 31, 1944 and a concurrent resolution to strip executive power without a veto. Congress argues for retained democratic control amid fears of executive dominance. Continued on Page 9.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Congress
People's Representatives
Hitler
Stalin
House Judiciary Group
Tornado Hits Little Rock Business District
A tornado in Little Rock Arkansas last night killed two people and injured at least 20 as a windstorm of tornadic intensity damaged the business district. William Burgin, 63, died from a demolished home. Manila Raney, 79, and her son R. W. Raney’s home were destroyed, sending the 57 and 42 year old spouses to a Benton hospital in critical condition. Storefronts windows shattered, debris blocked streets, and bricks rained on cars at Third and Scott Streets.
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Litle Rock
Ark
Lite Rock
Willian Burgin
Bed J Ss
Here
Manila Raney
R. W. Raney
Congo
Little Rock
Raney
Benton, Ark
Third
Scott
Nazis Name Six Allied Ships Sunk By U Boats
Berlin reports a German high command communique naming six Allied ships sunk by U boats off the East Coast of North America. Amerikaland, Empire Wildebeeste, Rochester, Traveller, Tacoma Star, and Transolite are listed with tonnages. Amerikaland is Swedish, others British. The Racine Star is the only American ship noted as sunk.
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Berlin
North America
Amerikaland
Empire Wildebeeste
Rochester
Tacoma Star
Transolite
Lloyd'’s Register
United States
Racnester
Navy Department
A Amerikaland
FBI Raids Japanese Laundry Near Navy Yard
Federal agents raid near Mare Island and Bainbridge Island lead to the arrest of nearly twenty axis aliens, mostly Japanese, with seizure of naval signal flags weapons radios cameras and suitcases. Nine held for immigration authorities others released. one suspects espionage in the Vallejo area.
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Vallewo
Calif
West Coast
FBI
Nat Pieper
San Francisco
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Vallejo
Mare Island Navy Yard
Bainbridge Island
Navy Yard
Bremerton
Wash
Aare Island
FRE
U.S. Navy
Pieper
Puget Sound
Gerald Lucklin
U.S
Seatiule
British Wait For Big Drive On Singapore
British and Allied troops man beaches and outposts around Singapore and Johore Strait as the Japanese threaten a parachute and waterborne assault. The correspondent reports tens of thousands of soldiers from Britain Australia and India in fortified positions along the shallow waterway, with lookouts and patrols ready for a possible bridgehead across the strait. The scene recalls Crete with high danger and close proximity to Japanese forces.
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Singapore
No-Man’s Land
Johore Strait
Crete
Ten Jap Planes Are Shot Down In Rangoon Air Battle
In Rangoon Burma on February 6 American Volunteer and British pilots repelled a Japanese daylight raid, downing ten planes and likely destroying more. The fighters reported no losses as the Salween front activity eased, with Japanese shelling Martaban and British guns targeting Paan north of the area.
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Ranggoon
Burma
Rangoon
Hanggon
Wield
Salween River
Martaban
Paan
Two Dutch Cruisers Sunk In Java Sea Air Attack
Japanese headquarters claimed two Dutch cruisers sunk and another damaged in the Java Sea, with a Marblehead class US cruiser heavily damaged, while a 5,000-ton enemy vessel was sunk. Dutch and US losses and later alternate claims circulated in com munique broadcasts from Domei and press reports.
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Tokyo
United States
Java Sea
Dome? Ceveral
Soerabaja
Netherlands East Indies
Rangean Island
Java
Ixangean Island
Comei
Malaya
Strait of Malacca
Singapore
Domei
Samarinda Occupied By Jap Invaders
Japanese forces have occupied Samarinda in Borneo near Balikpapan, a key oil and coal region, with civilians evacuated. Dutch reports note fighting around Amboina and a naval raid on Surabaya, with losses on both sides and pilots killed or missing.
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Samarinda
Batavia
N.el 1
Camarinda
Balik Papan
Borneo
Netherlands Indies High Command
Amboina
Indies
United Nations
Australia
Duttch
Kutai
High Command
Aneta
Soerabaja
Surrabaja
Du Pont Expected To Sign Mining Pact In North Carolina
In Raleigh on February 6 a tentative agreement was reached between E I du Pont de Nemours and Company and North Carolina officials to mine ilmenite from the Albemarle Sound bottom. If pilots prove profitable, a floating factory may operate with concentration in state facilities, yielding 10 cents per ton to the state. The project would expand if successful, with multiple vessels and nonexclusive rights, and would require processing in North Carolina.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Waller Motel
Raleigh
North Carolina
E. I. du Pont de'Nemours and Company
Albemarle Sound
Department of Conservation and Development
du Pont
Board of Conservation
Council of State
Albemarle
Sound
India
Wilmington
Del
Henry E. Ford
Harry Miller
Irving Hall
War Production Board
Washington
Wilbur Bunn
Roy Hampton
Hall
Bunn
Druggist Group Indicted On Anti-Trust Act
Washington Feb 6 The Justice Department says a Newark grand jury indicted the National Wholesale Druggists Association 23 members and 29 officers and agents for conspiring to violate the Sherman anti trust act The indictment accuses fixing profit margins and wholesale drug prices to force manufacturers to set prices, involving the largest wholesaler group in the nation representing about 80 percent of the business.
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Washington
Justice Department
Newark
N. J
National Wholesale Druggists Association
National
Wholesale Druggists Association
Department
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U. S
MacArthur
North
Africa
C. Yates McDaniel
Lot
Taya
Netherlands
Toks Yo
The
Utilities Commission
Granville Transportation Company
Oxford
Siem
New Army Camp
Durham
Retuen
Camp Trailways, Inc
Army Camp
Creedmoor
Arny Camp
State
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