Americans Capture Kwajalein Atoll In Pacific Campaign
Allied forces report firm control of Kwajalein atoll including Ebeye and Lands, with airfields on Roi and Kwajalein and a seaplane base. Navy aircraft strike Wake and Jaluit as battles widen across the Marshall Islands. General Tojo warns of Japan's future fate while U S presses operations across the Pacific theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Kwajalein Atoll
mid-Pacific Marshalls
Yesy
Ches W. Nimitz
Kwajalein
Ebeye
Wake Eniwetok
Mili
Jaluit
United States
Kwajan Atoll
Roi
Kwaja
Japan
Pacific
Seventh Divi Army
Gugegge
Lagoon
Kwajalein Oll
Roi Island
Marshall Group
Fleet Wing Two
Wake
Army Air Force
Thern Marshalls
Gilislands
Jaluit Lagoon
Richard Connolly
Waukegan
Army and Navy
Nippon T
Domei
Hi’ko Tojo
Burma
Chindwin
Miners to Work Sunday Shift Amid Fuel Shortage
Hazleton Pa Feb 5 A jur y indicated that between 80 and 90 percent of anthracite miners will work the first February Sunday shift requested by Solid Fuels Administrator to ease a shortage. Omas Kennedy international rotary treasurer of the United Workers said 90 percent production is anticipated in UMW district 1 including Scranton and Wilkes Barre areas, with only two locals in district 7 and Panther Valley not mobilized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
Omas Kennedy
International Rotary
The
United Workers
Kennedy
UMW
1,400 U.S. Planes Strike Nazis Bases
United States heavy bombers and escorts attacked six German airfields in France as part of a major daylight raid. The operation involved Fortresses and Liberators with analysts counting around 700 heavy bombers and more than 200 Marauders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Bealmearloin
France
U. S
Paris
Tours
Newt Panay
Britain
Goring
French Channel
RAF
Berlin
Frankfurt
Brunswick
Hanover
Wilhelmshaven
Villacoublay
Grand Jury To Hear Evidence In Dean Case
A Yadkin county grand jury will convene Monday to hear evidence in the fake wreck slaying of Everett Dean. Three men, Woodrow Lane 20, Early Vernon Sears 20, and an unnamed third, are jailed on murder charges. A small monkey wrench found on the Deans kitchen stove may be the murder weapon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Bend
N. C
Yadkin County
Everett Dean
A. L. Inscore
State Bureau of Investigation
Dean
Woodrow Lane
Deans
Early Vernon
Honey) Sears
Inscore
Italian Aviation Workers Executed
Bern report says 100 Italian aviation workers were killed and over 200 wounded when Mussolini's fascist troops fired on rioting workers at the Alfa Romeo engine plant in Sempione Northern Italy. Dispatch from Chiasso to Libera Stampa Lugano notes a withering volley aimed at the strikers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
Sempione
Aee
Chiasso
Libera Stampa
Lugano
Cassino holds German drive as beachhead battles rage
Allied headquarters report a German assault south of Rome was halted with heavy losses as British and American forces stiffened in a house to house struggle around Cassino. Luftwaffe and U S 12th air force aimed to blunt reinforcements while Toulon base battles echoed across Southern France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DLIED
Algiers
Rome
Carroceto
Fifth Army
Cassino
Liri
Berlin
Italy
Hitler
U. S
12Th Air Force
Gustav
Adolf Hitler
Toulon
France
Cannes
Mark W. Clark
26Th Panzer
High Command
Moderated Food Subsidy Plan Offered
A bipartisan group proposes a 500 million dollar food subsidy plan limited to families with incomes under about 1600 dollars annually. The shift would modify the Aiken Lafollette stamp bill, which the war food administration estimates could cost 3 billion yearly, and would abolish consumer subsidies under Bankhead’s alternative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
Aiken
R-Vi
Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate
Tydings
D-Md
Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
Roosevelt creates Bronze Star Medal for heroism
President Roosevelt issues an executive order establishing the Bronze Star Medal to honor heroic or meritorious achievement in the armed services. The new award will not cover participation in aerial operations, as separate aviation honors already exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
U S Plans 1250 Mile Oil Pipeline From Gulf to Med
The United States will build a 1250 mile oil trunk line from the Persian Gulf area to the eastern Mediterranean coast at a projected cost of 130 to 165 million dollars. The plan, supported by Harold L. Ickes, creates a standing crude reserve for the Army and Navy and is backed by Arabian American and Gulf Exploration oil groups pending Saudi and Kuwait approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Persian Gulf
Mediterranean
Harold L. Ickes
U S. Army
Navy
Ickes
Petroleum Reserves Corporation
Arabian American Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of California
Texas Company
Gulf Exploration Company
Gulf Oil Cortion
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Tito Gains London War Dispatch on Yugoslav Partisans
Marshal Josip Broz Tito announced that Yugoslav partisans backed German communications in Western Bosnia and preoccupied three towns in the region amid fighting in the rugged mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tito
London
Josip Broz Tito
Bosnia
Time At Hand When Japan Must Bring Out Her Fleet
The Army and Navy Journal says Japan must risk its fleet soon and may face air base bombing from Siberia. It notes American advances press Tokyo to answer where and when to counter the U.S. push across the Pacific. The piece outlines Marshalls and Wake Island moves and contemplates bases between Truk and Guam and a possible Siberian air base treaty amid Soviet policy tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Washington
Army and Navy Journal
Siberia
Pacific
Tokyo
Marshal Islands
Wake Island
Marshalls
Amd Aa
Wake
Truk
Guam
Oghre
Coicted
Soviet Union
Siberian Republic
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
Baltic States
Moscow
Rubber Production Hits 50,000 Tons
Synthetic rubber output in January reached nearly 50,000 tons, per Rubber Director Bradley Dewey. He noted the gain over the prior three months average of 41,000 tons but warned civilians should not ease conservation as military and civilian vehicle demand will absorb the increase for months, affecting the year's second-half production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bradley Dewey
Dewey
Soviets Reach Near 1939 Boundary With Dnieper Sweep
The Red Army drives west into former Poland seizing Lutsk and Rovno along the Warsaw rail line and over 200 towns. Two Hungarian divisions routed and about 2,000 prisoners taken as forces advance to within 50 miles of the 1939 Russian German boundary. The Moscow release stated the new push reached key points captured in the 1941 invasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Long
London
Red Army
Old Poland
Lutsk
Rovno
Warsaw
Moscow
Russia
German officer urges surrender of encircled divisions
Gen Walter Von Seydlitz, once a German artillery chief and later head of a Soviet backed union, urged ten Nazi divisions below the Dnieper to surrender. In a Moscow broadcast approved by the Red Army he offered two inducements: disobey Hitler and surrender would better serve Germany, with guarantees of safety from Russia.
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New York
Walter von Seydlitz
Union
Stalingrad
Middle
Dnieper River
Moscow
Office of War Information
von Seydlitz
Red Army
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Forces Break Through. Russian Front Advances Near Poland
Stalin ordered a 20-gun salute after a mobile unit and infantry victory. The Moscow communique reports the 18th and 19th Hungarian divisions destroyed and German withdrawals. Russians now sit 85 miles inside the old Polish frontier and 60 miles from its nearest point, a 50 mile advance since earlier Ukrainian front gains. East of the Dnieper, encirclement tightens around ten Nazi divisions near the Zvenigorodka Shpol a area, with Ishana taken and ten more towns captured. Leningrad front clears remaining Germans on the Narova east bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Stalin
Lutsk
Rovno
Stalin
Moscow
Monitor
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Dnieper Bend
Dnieper
Zvenigorodka-Shpola
Ishana
Shpola
Leningrad Front
Narova River
Speed Star Puts In Appearance In Milky Way
Bloomington Indiana February report by Dr Frank K Edmondson of Indiana University describes a newly discovered dwarf star moving through the Milky Way at about 155 miles per second. The star was found via photographic measurements under a cooperative program with Texas McDonald Observatory and the University of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ind
Frank K. Edmondson
Indiana University
Edmondson
University of Texas McDonald Observatory
University of Chicago
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Wajalein Inder
South Atlantic
International Soundphoto
U.S
Union Head
WLB
Detroit
Matthew Smith
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Michigan
Ohio
National War Labor Board
Smith
Kenith
MESA
George White
Cleveland
Peinsinger
Oo Smith
Cuar
Wlbirman
William H. Davis
White
Beachhead
Vanderbilt
Nashville
Tenn
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Milton T. Bush
Pharamcology
Andres Goth
Leo Dickinson
Goth
Molotov
Great Britain
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