End of Work Prolonged as Major Bills Move
Raleigh legislative week sees stalled major issues as the Senate and House push toward adjournment. The school term measure advances to final readings while governors powers over term length and tax amendments face votes. The revenue bill clears second reading amid a heated sales tax contest with sharp party lines.
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Woodrow Price Raleigh
Board of Education
Scott Summers
Raleigh
Broughton
Taylor
Wayne
Bost
Cabarrus
Horner
Lee
Richardson
Union
Turner
Guilford
Cook
Cumberland
Finance Committee
Hancock
Granville
Burns
Person
AF Destroy Wilhelmshaven munition depot
The British raid on February 11 leveled the Wilhelmshaven naval base munition depot. Fifty sheds stored mine materials and depth charges. a blast collapsed 150 acres of oil storage tanks and caused craters far larger than typical bombs. Photographs showed extensive destruction and confirmed the crews understood what they observed.
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London
Gernaval
Wilhelmshaven
Ber
Air Ministry
Oys
FDR Says Congress Meddling In Federal Hiring Powers
President Roosevelt denounces a plan to require Senate confirmation for all federal employees earning 4500 dollars a year or more. He warns it would hinder the war effort and shift responsibility from the executive to Congress. Senator McKellar and Chairman Van Nuys defend the measure as advancing oversight and merit not politics.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Legislative Branch
McKellar
Dtenn
van Nuys
D-Ind
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wallace
Police Seek Swanson Killers in District Wide Search
Police and sheriff's deputies comb the district for a suspected two man killer and an accomplice linked to the death of E. J. Swanson a Friday night storekeeper in Jamestown. Officials report calls about a light blue car seen near the crime but the vehicle and suspects remain at large. The line up suggests two assailants entered the store while a third waited in a car outside.
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E. J. Swanson
Jamestown
High Port
Swanson
Argentina to stay neutral in world affairs says Castillo
President Ramon S. Castillo told reporters Argentina will remain neutral during the final year of his term and possibly after, while continuing cooperation with American nations. He endorsed Robustiano Patron Costa as successor, saying the policy would not change in foreign or domestic matters.
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Buenos Aires
Ramon S. Castillo
Argentina
Senate
Robustiano Patron Costa
Castillo
Patron Costa
Futhermore
5000 Political Prisoners To Be Released In North Africa
Gen Jean Marie Bergeret says 5000 political prisoners in North Africa will be released or repatriated within two months. He notes no De Gaullists remain in camps and outlines releases of 7000 interned since the Allied landings.
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Daniel DE Luce
North Africa
Jean Marie Bergeret
Henri Giraud
Interllied Commission
Onthe
Fs Commission
Allied Military Securities Service
de Gaullist
French Equatorial Africa
Bergeret
Allied Commission
Red Cross
America
Trucks In War Hauling May Exceed 35 mph
Emergency deliveries for the Army Navy Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration may exceed the 35 mile per hour limit for 60 days starting March 1. Defense transportation director Joseph B. Eastman says the exemption speeds vital shipments. Certificates and pennants are required and available from ODT district offices and affiliated trucking associations and war agency offices.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
War Department
Eastman
ODT
American Trucking Associations, Inc
Federal Workers May Be Released to Armed Forces
A presidential committee recommends releasing thousands of federal workers to the armed forces. Deferments should be limited to essential jobs with removal of overlapping or unnecessary positions. The panel chaired by Paul Bellamy with Eric Johnston and Ordway Teachey proposed a policy to govern draft deferments, with Roosevelt expected to issue an order summarizing the plan.
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Washington
Paul Bellamy
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eric Johnston
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Ordway Teach
New York City Board of Higher Education
Roosevelt
Alexander Pitt In Charge Of Allied Forces
Allied authorities said the tide has turned in Tunisia as American and British troops repelled Rommel's renewed push toward Tebessa near Sbeitla and Kasserine. Gen Sir Harold Alexander takes command of all Allied ground forces in Tunisia under Eisenhower and moves to organize a supreme offensive against the Axis.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Tunisia
Marshal Rommel
Tebessa
Sbeitla
Kasserine
Sir Harold Alexander
Fifth Army
Alexandria
Eighth Army
Mareth Line
Medenine
Foum Tatahouine
Libya
Shiba
Sbeita
U. S
Kasserine Gap
Sbiba
Kasserine Pass
War Dept Halts 3-A Registrants From Officer Candidate Track
The War Department halted acceptance of applications from 3-A selective service registrants for induction as volunteer officer candidates. Applications already in process will be completed and the status of existing volunteer officers will not change.
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Washington
War Department
Selective Service
Single U S Tank Saves Column By Staving Off Nazis
A lone General Sherman tank in Southern Tunisia engages ten German tanks in a running fight to protect an American light-vehicle column. The tank crew destroys four Mark IVs before abandoning their shell-riddled vehicle.
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U. S
Harold W. Boyle
Tunisia
Americas
Faid Valley
Texas
Col
Louis V. Hightower
Winnsboro
South Mtn St
Allentown
Hightower
Austin H. Bayer
Laporte
Ind
Djebel Lessouda
Faid
Sia Bouzid
Gafsa
Cook Goes On Own Jap Hunt After Serving Breakfast
Private Leland B. Simpson of Winnetka Illinois quit the galley to hunt Japs near Nee Man's Land on Guadalcanal. He crawled 20 feet from a cliff edge and shot a Japanese soldier who stuck his head from the brush. He then warned others and fired a grenade, a feat praised as saving 300 American lives in the jungle action.
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Cook
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Leland B. Simpson
Auburn Road
Winnetka
Marine Cook
Nee- Man's Land
Wickard Extends Rationing To Beans Peas and More
Secretary Wickard announced adding dry edible beans dried peas lentils dehydrated soups and certain processed vegetables and fruits to the ration list effective March 1. Retail stocks are frozen until then as demand rises from the armed forces and allied forces. The new point system will be used to price these items with key values set by the Office of Price Administration.
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Washington
Wickard
Office of Price Administration
Anti-Administration Democrats Threatening Third Party
Congressional chatter grows over anti administration Democrats considering a third party if Roosevelt seeks a fourth term. Veterans and southern lawmakers hint at bolting, while Wheeler signals a possible bolt. Some fear a constitutional or American party forming in the South if nominating pressure persists.
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Roosevelt
Jack Bell
Washington
South
Sam. H. Jones
Louisiana
St. Louis
Midwest
James A. Farley
New York
Soviets press toward Crimea as Kharkov drive advances
A Moscow broadcast cited by the Soviet Monitor says the Red Army moved southwest of Kharkov to within 56 miles of Dnieper Petrovs k, capturing Krasnograd and Pavlograd, threatening to trap retreating Germans and abandon the Crimea. In the Caucasus, Russians pushed toward Novorossiysk and seized Iskaya and Novomishastevkaya, while west of Rostov multiple towns fell and war material was captured.
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Eighth Army
Gabes
Djerba
Gulf of Gables
Anxix
Sfax
Ousseltia
Robaa
Associated Press
London
Kharkov
Red Army
Dnieperopetrovsk
Russia
Moscow
Monitor
Donets
Crimea
Krasnograd
Paviograd
Lozovaya
Pavlograd
Dniepero-Petrovsk
Dnieper
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Iskaya
Krasnodar
Novomishasktevskaya
Black Sea
Ursk
Krasnaya Yaruga
Sumi
Kegtcheva
Sakhnovschina
Poltava
Rostov
Voroshilovgrad
Allied raids batter Japanese bases at Buin and Faisi
Allied forces report heavy bombardment of Buin and Faisi in the North Solomons. More than 23 tons of hazardous devices and incendiaries were dropped on the islands, igniting fires and damaging airfields and a seaplane base. Ships deserted. planes returned without loss.
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Allied
Australia
Buin
Faisi
North Solomons
Guadalcanal
Allied High Command
Bougainville
Kahlili
Baallale
Douglas MacArthur
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Los Angeles
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Sec
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D-Mont
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