Tojo Seizes Opportunity for Crushing Blow in War Speech
Tokyo broadcast quotes Hideki Tojo urging expansion of national labor service and greater basic war material output. He says air power will determine war's direction and warns Japan needs iron, light metals, coal, better transport to achieve a decisive strike. The premier cites US unrest and British exhaustion as favoring a short war.
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New York
Hideki Tojo
Diet Today
Alles
Japan
National Labor Service
Tokyo
U. S
Tojo
Domei
Diet
United States
Great Britain
Pacific
Allied drive nears Rome as Minturno breach opens route
In Italy, the Fifth Army breaches the Hitler line north of the Garigliano river near Minturno, clearing a path toward Rome. British Eighth Army advances to seize high ground north of Pescara while winter weather eases, signaling a possible spring capture of the capital.
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Italy
Sam
Rome
Garigliano
Minturno
11Th
Fifth Army
Frosinone
Eighth Army
Pescara
Adriatic
Frost
Berlin Admits Production Has Shrunk
Berlin acknowledged that Nazi war production has shrunk affecting operations on the eastern front and submarine warfare though officials called the setbacks temporary. Admiral Karl Doenitz and Gen. Kurt Dittmar warned Allied forces may soon face stronger German U boats and emphasized conserving time to bolster armament output.
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Stockholm
Reich
Karl Doenitz
Navy
Meti Marine
Stettin
Oner Erst Telegraph Bureau
Doenitz
Kurt Dittmar
Berlin
Germany
Russia
Hull says Soviet not yet accept liaison for Poland Russia talks
Secretary of State Hull announced that the Soviet government has not yet accepted the United States offer to act as liaison and seek a resumption of diplomatic relations between Poland and Russia.
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Washington
Hull
Poland
Russia
Submarines Sink 12 Jap Ships Boosting War Losses
American submarines sunk 12 Japanese merchant vessels, bringing total ships sunk or damaged to 558 since the war began. Of these, 408 were definitely sunk, with 36 additional sinkings and 114 damaged. The vessels were freighters tankers and transports, some within Japanese coastal waters, reducing Japan's cargo fleet and forcing use of barges in supply runs.
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Washington
Pacific
South Pacific
Yankee Ingenuity Producing Vital New Guinea War Bases
Editor notes the Markham Valley installations built by American forces to support attacks on Madang Alexis-hafen Hansa Bay and Wewak. The article describes a vast, green valley converted into an air drome with camps, aircraft and riverfront bases guiding operations against Japanese positions in the Southwest Pacific.
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New Guinea
Markham Valley
Madang
Alexishafen
Hansa Bay
Southwest Pacific
INS
Lee Vanatta
Fifth Air Force
Wewak
Markhang
Eamu
Markham
Policemen Wounded in Indianapolis Gun Battle
In Indianapolis three officers Sgt. Ralph Bader Patrolman Thomas Flannery and Joseph Klein were critically wounded during a gun battle while arresting robbery suspects a man John Edgell 31 and a woman Maria Taylor 19 both of Indianapolis The pair were hurt seriously as a sawed off shotgun was found strapped to the woman and a revolver fired during the scuffle at the tavern curb
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Indianapolis
Ralph Bader
Thomas P. Flannery
Joseph Klein
City Hospital
John Edgell
Maria Taylor
Sgt
Bader
Flannary
Klein
Stevin
German Peace Feelers Getting Cold Shoulder
German peace feelers have been made to the British on several occasions and more are planned. The British Government, in full agreement with the United States, Russia and other United Nations, has taken none of the proposals seriously until Germany is ready for unconditional surrender.
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Washington
Jaff
United States
Russia
United Nations
RAF Wording Echoes Berlin Nightfall Goodbye
Travelers from Germany report the progressive intensity of RAF raids on Berlin is changing Berliners’ farewell phrases. Early in the war they said a bombless night. now they say bleib uebrig meaning hope you survive the night.
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Spockholm
Germany
RAF
Berlin
Baltic Fleet Freed By Offensive Lifts Leningrad Siege
London dispatch reports Russia’s northern forces breaking the two year siege of Leningrad in six days. They captured Novgorod and killed about 40 000 Germans as they press to trap roughly 250 000 more in the Leningrad sector.
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Naples
Italy
London
Russia
Leningrad
Novgorod
Red Army frees Baltic fleet as surge reaches Kronstadt
The Red Army drives south from Leningrad freeing the Baltic fleet to operate from Kronstadt. German forces are being driven from positions west of Novgorod and between Oranienbaum and Leningrad, with thousands of Nazis cut off and targets along key railway and highway junctions under threat.
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Moscow
Red Army
Leningrad
Russia
Baltic
Bay of
Kronstadt
Cap- Novgorod
Oranienbaum
Moscow-Leningrad
Russians claim major breakthrough near Leningrad
Dispatches from Moscow report German forces driven from near Leningrad with heavy Soviet counterattacks. Novgorod’s capture by Meretskov’s troops opens a road toward Lakess and Southern Estonia as Govorov’s units encircle large enemy formations in the Strelna corridor between Krasnoye Selo and the Gulf of Finland.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Novgorod
K. A. Meretskov
Lakess
Estonia
Stalin
Red Army
Leonid A. Govorov
Strelna
Krasnoye Selo
Gulf of Finland
Elizabeth City Block Destroyed by Early Fire
Fire swept most of a block in Elizabeth City business district in January, causing about 125000 in damage. The blaze started at 440 a m and burned for nearly three hours before local and coastal units contained it. Electric power remained out until shortly before eight this morning.
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Elizabeth City
N. C
Coast Guard Station
Naval Air Station
Harvey's Point
Hertford
French Crossing Threatens Flank of Gustav Line
Allied dispatches report French troops crossing the Rapido near Cassino capturing Mt I Lago foot and threatening to outflank the Gustav Line in Italy. British Fifth Army advances along the Appian Way reach Minturno Castelforte and Ventosa as American patrols probe Cassino below the river in cold weather.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Rapido
Mt. I Lago
Cassino
Gustav Line
Italy
Fifth Army
Appian Way
Minturno
Rome
Castelforte
Ventosa
Mt. Santi Cosma E. Damiano
Tyrrhenian
Leningrad
Mark W. Clark
Eighth Army
Elia
Adolf Hitler
Gustav Belt
Allies Expand Bridgehead On Peninsula
Allied ground forces push the Mayu Peninsula bridgehead in Burma, seizing new Japanese positions near Buthedaung amid hand to hand fighting. Japanese counterattacks were repulsed, with bombers striking enemy villages and troop concentrations as Chindwin river lines are targeted. American trained Chinese troops advance toward the Ledo road route to China with aerial support. RAF and American heavy bombers attack Bangkok.
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New Delhi
Mayu Peninsula
Burma
Buthedaung
East India Comunique
Upper
Chindwin
Mandalay
Ledo Road
China
Bangkok
Thailand
British Sub Sinks Japanese Cruiser in Indian Ocean
London reports Lt. Commander L. W. A. Bennington commands a British submarine that sank a Japanese cruiser near the northern approaches to the Malacca Strait between Malaya and Sumatra. The captain, famed for Mediterranean exploits, closed to within a mile to achieve the first Japanese cruiser sinking by a British sub in the Indian Ocean.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Indian Ocean
Malacca Strait
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Sumatra
L. W. A. Bennington
North Carolina convict questioned in New Jersey murder case
Montclair detectives questioned Robert J. Pitts, a North Carolina convict who testified that Dr. Leopold W. Brandenburg had removed his fingerprints before a warrant was issued for Brandenburg as a material witness. Pitts was transported from a Raleigh camp for interrogation and later returned.
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Montclair
N. J
Robert J. Pitts
North Carolina
Leopold W. Brandenburg
New Jersey
Ralph McLean
Essex County
Pitts
Raleigh
McLean
Dr. Brandenburg
Brandenburg
John Longstreet Ely
J. Raymond Tiffany
Tiffany
Chicago
Tito's Troops Regain Their Headquarters
Marshal Josip Broz Tito announced that Yugoslav partisan forces recaptured Jajce, the patriots’ mountain headquarters in western Bosnia. German Alpine and motorized divisions were driven back toward the Dalmatian coast as partisans advanced 30 miles southwest of Jajce.
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London
Josip Broz (Tito
Jajce
Bosnia
Dalmatian
Senate rejects postwar reserve amendment in tax bill
The Senate defeated a proposed amendment by Truman and Hatch allowing corporations and individuals to set aside up to 20 percent of their taxes as a postwar reserve. Funds would be invested in non-interest bearing government bonds redeemable after the war. The move aimed to ease future tax collections but was opposed as too costly to wartime revenue. Senator Truman pledged to press a related plan for postwar conversion reserves.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
D-Mo
Hatch
D-Nm
Finance Committee
George
D-Ga
Taft
Ohio
Danaher
R-Conn
Great RAF Berlin Raid Tops Allied Bombing Campaign
London reports the RAF with Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped about 2300 long tons of bombs on Berlin in 30 minutes, the largest Berlin strike since the campaign began two months ago. American heavy bombers targeted Pas de Calais as daylight forces followed, extending operations across the channel.
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London
RAF
Berlin
U. S
Reich
Pas-De-Calais
France
Air Ministry
Brunswick
Germany
Midn
Three Soldiers Arrested After Jail Break Near Raleigh
Three soldiers escaped from Camp Mackall after overpowering a guard and were recaptured in Raleigh by city police, highway patrol, and county officers. They allegedly robbed E B Futrelle and seized his car keys, later abandoning the vehicle near Swift Creek Bridge. The men were spotted with a pistol and suspected of stripping a soldier and detaining motorists en route from Vass.
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Raleigh
Camp Mackall
Co. F. Farmer
Highway Patrol
Lee County
E. B. Futrelle
Vass
Swift Creek
U. S. Highway One
Ries
Hague to Back Roosevelts Fourth Term Delegation Plan
Mayor Frank Hague announced in Jersey City that New Jersey's Democratic delegates will be instructed to vote for President Roosevelt for a fourth term. If Roosevelt does not run again, Hague said the delegation would back a candidate chosen by Roosevelt for the nomination.
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N. J
Frank Hague
New Jersey
Roosey
Hague
Roosevelt
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