Finland Peace Hopes Rise as Stockholm Talks Begin
Washington officials grow hopeful that Finland may exit the war, as Finnish leaders visit Stockholm for preliminary peace talks. Moscow may demand limited terms based on the March 1940 armistice, while Finland faces German troop risks and food imports with aid from Sweden and Western allies.
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Washington
Finland
Stockholm
Helsinki
Logie
Viipuri
Hangoe
Baltic Sea
Lenin
Baltic
Estonia
Sweden
Great Britain
Russia
Germany
War and Militia Talk and Local Events Highlight
A collection of wartime notes discusses militia roles in the U S and Nazi conscription, cites war department rulings on age exemptions, and reflects on faith and resilience. Local notices follow with church meetings, visits, rehearsals, birthdays, and school sports announcements.
Warm Weather Expected After Freezing Visitation
Charlotte braces for milder days after sleet and a wintry mix battered the Piedmont. Temperatures mostly hovered near freezing as snow and ice melted slowly. A fuel shortage, flagged by M. L. Burtress, pressured distribution and urged sparing stocks while relief talks with SFA continued for Durham and surrounding counties. The Army’s prime mover towing a 155 mm cannon is noted among the article details.
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Charlotte
Piedmont
M. L. Burtress
Solid Fuels Administration
Carolina
Carolinas
Frank A. Pierson
Durham Chamber of Commerce
Wayne Ellis
SFA
Cincinnati
Durham
Ration Roundup for Food and Fuel Coupons
Ration Roundup lists validity dates for meat fats and processed foods stamps, sugar stamps for home canning, shoes airplanes, gasoline and fuel oil coupons, and notes waste fat usage. It provides dates through February and March 1945 and explains unit values for several coupons and waste fat conversion.
Polish Leader Calls Off Trip To United States
Premier Stanislaw Mikolapcyzk of the Polish government in exile in London indefinitely postponed a scheduled visit to the United States. He remains in London to aid efforts to settle the Russian Polish dispute, having earlier announced plans to present views in Washington.
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United States
London
Stanislaw Mikolapcyzk
Mikolaicyzk
Washingon
Little Change Expected In First New Cars
Detroit reports postwar passenger cars will borrow from the war effort but substantial changes will wait years. Engineers foresee better braking, gear efficiency, fuel mileage, and water proof ignition. Early models will reuse 1942 tooling with minimal reconversion downtime and no rear engine or diesel common in the near term.
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Detroit
Pecs
Vaca
Ssenger
Marine’s Brother Sparks School Peace Prayer Question
Seattle on February 15 reports Wally McKay, a Marine on leave, puzzled by classmates idolizing his six-year-old brother Larry. The teacher notes first graders were asked to pray for peace. Larry refused, saying, My brother's in the marines, so that's already taken care of.
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Seattle
Wally McKay
Marines
Larry
Remembering Raymond Clapper and William Allen White
Damon Runyon notes the deaths of Raymond Clapper and William Allen White. He praises Clapper as a sound columnist and White as a country editor who became a national figure and a gifted fiction writer. White’s novels include A Certain Rich Man and In the Heart of a Fool, with his best journalism less celebrated than his fiction.
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Kansas
Raymond Clapper
South Pacific
William Allen White
Emporia
Clapper
Sunflower
White
Coblentz
Rhine
Red Cross
Bill
Pate
United States
Strand
Main Street
Emporia Gazette
Ed Howe
Court Bayville
Hall of Fame
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Daily Smith
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the Cosmopolitan
Jerry
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Winston-Salem Journal
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Kinston
Prince Strickland
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Hoover Street
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California
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Washington, D. C
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Ethel McKnight
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Willie Mae Cavelock
Katie Stokes
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Sami
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Sutton
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Lindsay Tyson
Thisssel Street
Lelia
Emanuel Mackey
Charles McCaney Crawford
Dorothy Dye
Clydie Torrence
Kay F. Torrence
Marian Torrence
Margaret Williamson
Ralph Williamson
Eric Torrence
Doris Walker
Katherine Walker
Dora Ella Simpson
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
Gertrude Spencer
Normal Street
Willing Workers Club
L. B. Burton
Mars Hill
Daughters of Elks
Elks
United Club
F. R. Mason
Temple Memorial Baptist Church
Pearson Memorial A.M.E. Zion
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Mount Vernon Baptist Church
Adare
Eccles Street
Wm. Penn High School
Langston High
Danville
Australia
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ARMY
WAC
Women's Army Corps
Damon Runyon
Ree U. & Pet
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King
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Wells Senna
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