De Gaulle’s Rift With Roosevelt Teaches France’s Place
The dispute over De Gaulle not joining the Big Three parley in Algiers signals France’s fragile standing. The French leader seeks equal status, hoping to join Europe’s top powers. but the Big Three, and the UN, indicate France must prove strength before restoration to former influence.
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General de Gaulle
Roosevelt
de Gaulle
France
Europe
Paris
Algiers
United Nations
Allied Bombardment Targets German Rail Hubs In Major Strike
London reports the United States Eighth Air Force and RAF bombed Germany with about 7 000 planes striking Duisburg Worms and Berlin. The Worms raid hit freight yards with 1 400 Flying Fortresses and 800 Liberators. Duisburg suffered heavy damage as Ruhr rail traffic was targeted to slow German reinforcements.
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London
Germany
Worms
Berlin
Rman
Duisburg
West Front
Reich
U. S. Eighth Air Force
RAF
Third Army
Ruhr
Dortmund
Air Ministry
Europe
Hitler
Cologne
Local Shifts in Family Ties Reported in Missouri News
In LDON Missouri on February 22 Mary Lou Brown, a sixth grade pupil, becomes stepmother to ten children through a marriage to Ralph Houdeshell whose age is listed as 30. Kas consent filed by Maude lists the girl’s age as 17 though Nadine Crites, the teacher, notes she is 13. The children’s father is described, and Houdeshell’s first wife and ten children died years ago at age 43.
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Ldon
Mary Lou Brown
Ralph Houdeshell
Kas
Maude
Nadine Crites
Deshel
Joudeshell
Timber sale fuels wartime lumber push in Georgia
The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Haynesville North Carolina bought nearly 2 000 000 board feet of timber from the Chattahoochee National Forest in North Georgia for military and essential civilian uses. Regional U S Forester Joseph C Kircher announced the sale valued at about 13000 dollars plus a 50 cent per thousand feet royalty to fund growing-area improvements.
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Atlanta
W. M. Ritter Lumber Company
Haynesville
N. C
Chattahooche National Forest
North Georgia
U. S
Joseph C. Kircher
Kircher
Patton presses on toward Trier as Third Army sweeps 38 towns
On the Western Front Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army advanced within five miles of Trier crossing the Saar and pushing into the Moselle valley. American forces joined Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch's 7th Army near Saarbrucken while Canadian and British units edge toward the Ruhr. German resistance dissolved in the Saar Moselle triangle as Eisenhower awaits a full offensive.
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Third Army
Moselle
Trier
U. S
Saarbrucken
Paris
George
Patton
Saar
Middle Rhine
Konz
Volksturm
Spiceren
Siegfried Line
Canadian First Army
Calear
Ruhr Valey
Omar N. Bradley
12Th Army Group
Saar-Moselle
Losses for U S Vessels in Drive to Capture Iwo Jima
U S Pacific Fleet reports heavy combat near Iwo Jima with 4 553 U S Marine casualties and seven enemy planes shot down as Japanese counterattacks are repelled. Reports from San Francisco mention unconfirmed Tokyo claims of 12 000 Marine casualties amid ongoing fight.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Navy
United States Fleet
S. Marine
Island
Chester W. Nimitz
Thesu
Tokyo
San Francisco
Blue Network
Iwo Jima
U.S. Third Marine Division
Nimitz
Mt. Suribachi
Japs Offer Resistance in Hotel in Manila Battle
Deathless fighting rages in Manila as Japanese remnants hold the second floor of a famed hotel while Americans press a street by street assault. Allied commanders report Corregidor cleared and Bataan free of living Japanese, with tunnels and post office buildings proving fierce for control.
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Corregidor
Orient
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
South Shore
High Commissioner's Office
Intramuros
Intras Muros
Bastaan
Associated Press
Corres C. Yates McDaniel
Yes
Dems Clash on House Floor in Abrupt Fight
Two Democrats, Rep. Hook of Michigan and Rep. Rankin of Mississippi, fought briefly after Hook called Rankin a dirty liar. The clash occurred during a Floor speech on the CIO PAC. Ramspeck ordered remarks stricken and aides separated the rivals.
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Washington
Rep
Hook
D-Mich
Rankin
D-Miss
Rep. Ramspeck
D-Ga
Hoffman
R-Mich
CIO
Mississippi
Rep. Cox
James Griffin
Russians Again Batter Into Guben as Nazis Fight Frantically
The Russians battered into Guben the hinge town on the Neisse southeast of Berlin amid street fighting. East Prussia saw intensified Soviet pressure with over 2000 planes in action as Zinten near Koenigsberg was evacuated. A Nazi counteroffensive reportedly opened a corridor between Koenigsberg and Pillau, while Moscow reported heavy German losses as the front shifted.
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Guben
East Prussia
Neisse
Berlin
Oder
Ernst von Hammer
von Hammer
Zinten
Koenigsberg
Prussia
Konigsthe
Pillau
Moscow
Polish Question Threatens To Embarrass Churchill
London reports say Prime Minister Churchill faces a vote of confidence over Crimean decisions and unity of action with Poland in dispute. Anthony Eden filed the motion for next Tuesday and Wednesday as Conservative doubts about Polish policy surface but rebellion is not seen as large enough to topple the government.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
Cri
Poland
Free Textbooks and Kindergarten Oversight Bills Filed
Rep. Stone of Rockingham introduced measures to provide free eighth grade textbooks and place kindergartens under the Department of Public Instruction. The eighth grade funding comes from the general appropriations bill already passed. The bills would let the State Board of Education adjust administrative unit boundaries decide who bonds school funds and require non profit school lunchrooms.
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Raleigh
Stone
Rockingham
Department of Public Instruction
Assembly
State Board of Education
State Board
Askew
Pamlico
Grimes
Beaufort
Navy Man Freed Of Rape Charge In Elizabeth City
In Elizabeth City North Carolina on February 22 1944 navy enlisted man Paul L Gammons 20 was acquitted by a 13 man jury after a trial for rape of a 16 year old girl known 30 hours They testified the girl agreed and the jury reached a quick verdict The judge expressed anger saying the girl is ruined for life and the accused may go free but there is no pride in his going
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Elizabeth City
N. C
W. H. S. Bureve
Paul L. Gammons
Pasquotank County Court House
Gammons
Burgwyn
Liberated Captain Holt and War Correspondent Bryan
Capt T M Holt of Oak Ridge was freed by the Red Army from Oflag 64 Szubin Poland after being imprisoned by Germans. Wright Bryan, captured near Chaumont France, was among the group and recounted the escape and march with paratroopers on D Day. A Polish corridor town camp held American officers awaiting evacuation as civilians streamed by.
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Wright Bryan
Atlanta Journal
Chaumont
France
National Broadcasting Company
Moscow
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Europe
Liberation Near For American War Prisoners
Szubin Poland February 20. Delayed report that liberation for at least one group of American prisoners held by the Germans at Szubin came within eight days after the Red Army advanced. Details remain to be confirmed as communications were disrupted by the war.
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Szubin
Poland
Red Army
Capt Thomas M Holt Son of Oak Ridge Head Freed by Russians
Captain Thomas M Holt, 25, son of Col Earl Holt of Oak Ridge Military Institute, was prisoner 27 months in German camps. He entered the U S Army in 1941, served at Fort Bragg and Fort Dix, joined the Rangers in Ireland, fought in North Africa, was captured in Tunis, then held in Szubin after the Italian invasion.
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Thomas Holt
Oak Ridge
Thomas M. Holt
Fort Bragg
Fort Dix
Ireland
Rangers
Tunis
Italy
Szubin
Holt
Incomplete List Names Americans in Camp
An incomplete list of Americans in camp includes Capt. T. M. Holt of Oak Ridge North Carolina and Roy W. Cureton of Greenville South Carolina. They learned from a German communiqué that the Russians attacked more than 100 miles eastward as of January 20 with the German garrison warning the American …
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Ready
Capt
T. M. Holt
Oak Ridge
N. C
Roy W. Cureton
August Street
Greenville
S. C
Ameri
Casualties Top Eight Hundred Thousand For U S
Washington reports Army and Navy casualties since Pearl Harbor total 801,162. War Secretary Stimson lists Army losses at 711,497 and Navy at 89,655, with weekly rise of 18,982. Details show killed, wounded, prisoners and missing by service.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Secretary of War
Stimson
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