Russia Battles on as Germans Grip Dnieper Vicinity
Front dispatches report the German army within 45 miles of the front lines along the Dnieper and the 1 200 mile east front. Malinovsky's third Ukrainian army is destroying five Western divisions near Nikopol while Votatin and Konev close in near Cherkasy. Nikopol’s loss would hit manganese production for the Reich, as Hitler orders battalions to hold.
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Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Dnieper
Y. Malinovsky
Nikopol
Meanle
Nikolai F. Vtautin
Ivan Konev
Cherkasy
Ans
Pravda
Malinovsky
Dnie
Jak
Krivoi Rog
Hitler
Americans Repulse Stab At Cisterna
U S forces repulse German attacks at Cisterna near Rome amid heavy fighting on multiple fronts. Allied advance continues around Cassino as Montenerodomo and Pizzoferrato villages fall and Col. Charles M McCorkle earns ace status over the Anzio beachhead.
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Edward
Anzio
Cisterna
Rome
Carroceto
Aprilia
Itfore
Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
715Th
France
Emis
Cassino
Fifth Army
Mt. Cassino
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pizzoferrato
Sant’ Angelo
Soviet Press Sees Shifts in European War and Moscow Politics
The article notes red army advances in Narva Estonia and Poland while linking battlefield gains to broader political shifts. It highlights Moscow’s sovereignty declarations by Soviet republics and hints at plans for a Polish state, signaling Moscow’s westward and eastward influence in Europe.
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Ter
Narva
Itie
Estonia
Poland
Dnieper
Moscow
Tinent
Asia
Soviet Union
Rusa
States Rights Ballot Bill Fails in Senate Vote
The administration beat back a second Senate bid to bypass the federal ballot bill by rejecting a States Rights measure 44 to 42. The result keeps the Green-Lucas federal ballot bill in progress, as supporters warned the House could block any alternative.
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Washington
Senate
House
Overton
D-La
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Taft
Ohio
Missing Co-Ed Found Visiting In Miami
The missing persons bureau reports 19-year-old Margaret Mabon Williamson of the University of South Carolina was found in Miami visiting relatives. Acting Capt. Cronin said her father notified authorities that she disappeared from campus January 4 and is now safe in Florida.
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New York
Missing Persons Bureau
Margaret Mabon Williamson
University of South Carolina
Miami
John J. Cronin
W. Roland Williamson
Green Street
Columbia
S. C
Florida
NLRB Orders Election At Thomasville Chair Plant
The NLRB directed an employee election within thirty days at Plant B of the Thomasville Chair Company in Thomasville to determine a representative for collective bargaining. On the ballot are Furniture Workers Local 2992 AFL and Upholsterers International Union Local 308 AFL. Workers may vote yes for either union or neither.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Thomasville Chair Company
Thomasville
Furniture Workers Local
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
AFL
Upholsters International Union Local
French Front Urged to Revolt by BBC Appeal
London reports the BBC aired a Haute Savoie patriots leader call for French revolt against German occupation. The four point plan urges armed bands to join, workers to strike, sabotage with limited risk, and recording of German militia and leading Vichy police members.
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London
British Broadcasting Company
Haute Savoie
Vichy
McCarran Heads Senate liquor shortage inquiry
Senator McCarran of Nevada took chairmanship of the Senate special liquor shortage investigation committee and announced plans to determine where the liquor is who has it and why it is being removed from normal trade channels.
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Washington
McCarran
New
Senate
MESA strike deadlocked over WLB cooperation demand
Washington February 7 The Mechanics Educational Society of America MESA faces a prolonged strike in 44 Michigan and Ohio war plants as the WLB presses for union recognition. Attorney William L Brooker says only the union's administrative board can end the strike and cooperation from the WLB could terminate it within hours. The WLB seeks to freeze MESA as bargaining representative the central issue. The hearing resumes with officers Smith and White unavailable without admin board approval. The WLB orders compliance and calls on MESA leadership to call off the strike.
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Washington
Mechanics Educational Society of America
War Labor Board
Michigan
Ohio
WLB
William L. Brooker
MESA
National Administrative Board
William H. Davis
Brooker
Matthew Smith
George White
Union
Administrative Board
Cleveland
Davis
Smith
White
Helsinki bombings drive thousands to flee in war alert
Helsinki faced new Russian air strikes with two Sunday raids reported to have damaged about 200 buildings and killed 38 people. Wounded reached 232 as fires raged, and evacuation began as residents sought shelter amid ongoing bombardment and disrupted communications.
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Stockholm
Helsinki
London
Finland
Moscow
Reval
Tallinn
Sweden
Stockholm Aftonbladet
Seven Army Air Force forged path to Marshalls invasion
The Seventh Army Air Force led the Marshalls air war from Central Pacific bases. In 75 days it flew nearly 700 tons of explosives and destroyed 328 enemy aircraft, with 38 fighters and bombers lost and 32 killed, 206 missing, 113 wounded. Flights stretched 2500 miles with long overwater legs and fierce storms.
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Navy
Roi
Namur
Kwajalein
Seventh Army
Marshalls
Carolines
United States
Malcolm R. Johnson
Associated Press
Seventh Aaf
Central Pacific
Marshall Islands
Seventh Army Air Force
Willis H. Hale
Seventh
U S Bombers Press France Front in Second Day of Attacks
U S navy and medium bombers again hit the French invasion coast and Luftwaffe airfields in northern France as RAF Mosquitos strike Berlin and western Germany. Eleven Allied planes did not return, while seventeen German planes were destroyed. daylight raids targeted Pas de Calais, Evreux Fauville Caen Chateau d Un St Aubin, with airfields at Rontineiceness shown to suffer severe damage and 37 German aircraft destroyed or damaged on the ground.
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London
U. S. Navy
France
Berlin
Germany
Pas-de-Callas
Evreau-Fauville
Saint Andre de L’eure
Caen
Chateaudun
St. Aubin
Ala
Gasoline Shortage Strands Wallace Workers
A critical gasoline shortage loomed around Wallace in the Wilmington area. Governor Broughton asked federal officials to provide tank cars to relieve the crisis as defense workers from Wallace could not reach jobs and agriculture tractors were stalled.
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Raleigh
Wilmington
Wallace
Broughton
Tinker’s Condition Takes Turn For Worse
Joe Tinker baseball star of four decades ago remains ill with influenza worsened by diabetes and a heart condition. Hospital attaches report his outlook as poor but not critical, worse than yesterday, with no oxygen tent required at this time.
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Orlando
Fia
Joe Tinker
Tinker
Night Bombardment Hits Kurabu Point In Paramushiro
United States warships bombarded Kurabu point on Paramushiro island in a surprise attack lasting about 20 minutes. Japanese gunners fired into the air as the bombardment began. no US ships were hit. The force was led by Rear Admiral Wilder D. Bakee.
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North Pacific
United States
Japan
Kurabu Point
Paramushiro Island
Pacific Ocean
Sea of Chkotsk
Wilder D. Bakee
Navy shells Kurabu Point and east coast of Paramushiro
The Navy department confirms American ships bombarded Japanese installations at Kurabu Point Paramushiro Island and says an attack hit the island's east coast. Eyewitnesses describe Kurabu Point as a shallow shoal area with reefs two miles offshore, guiding ship approach. The point lies on the north side of a thirty mile strait separating Paramushire from the southern island.
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Washington
Navy Department
Kurabu Point
Paranmushiro Island
Paramushire
First War Correspondent Reports Bombardment of Japanese Home Soil
Navy forces under Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher bombard Paramushiro with Major General Davenport Johnson and Brigadier General E D P Post aboard Admiral Baker’s flagship. The Alaska department conducts assault maneuvers as Japanese gunnery fires at shadows along the shore. I, a war correspondent aboard Commander Harry Smith’s destroyer, witnessed the action after flying over Paramushiro with Commodore Gehres’ air wing.
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Frank Jack Fletcher
North Pacific Fleet
Admiral Baker
Davenport Johnson
Commanderith Air Force
E. D P. Post
Simon Boliver Buckner
Alaskan Department
General Post
Paramushiro
Harry Smith
Fletcher
Coral Sea
Mid‘way
Leslie E. Gehres
Fleet Air Wing Four
Willkie Enters Nebraska Primary For Gop Nomination
Wendell L. Willkie will enter the Nebraska preferential primary on April 11 as a Republican presidential candidate. The 1940 nominee told reporters in North Platte he would file during a interview in his railcar to show he has voting strength in the middle west and win the 15 Nebraska delegates.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
Nebraska
New York Times
North Platte
Neb
the Times
Willkie
Middle West
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Richard Kelly Turner
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Kwajalein Atoll
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Nea Aval
Chester W. Nimitz
Gupeeve
Bigej
Ebler Islands
Tokyo
Tokyo Radio
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NBC
Kwajalein Island
Maloelap Atoll
Cnit
Didilapide
Pacific
Seventh Air Force
U.S
Norman Bell
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