Missouri Launch Signals New Navy Power For War And Peace
The U S S Missouri was launched in New York amid ceremonies led by Senator Truman and others. The 45 000 ton battleship will be commissioned nine months ahead of schedule and becomes the Navy's most formidable warship. Officials noted its vast deck space and heavy armament as part of a broader push to project both victory and peace. Blood donations from Missouri workers were pledged to the Red Cross.
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Sen. Truman
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Navy
Red Cross
Allied Forces Hammer Cassino Front Near Cisterna In Italy
American beachhead troops push toward the Appian Way and the Cassino front within artillery range of Cisterna on a broad advance from Anzio. British troops rout a German unit near Carroceto as naval gunfire and aerial combat pace a costly offensive along the Italian coast.
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Appian Way
Cassinoe Front
Cisterna
Anzio
Carroceto
Rome
Ferrara
Gachting
Cassino
Flerce
Belvedere Mountain
U S Continues Air War On Jap Bases
Allied air forces 2000 miles over Japan strike major targets across Rabaul and Lorengau, sinking ships and destroying airfields. MacArthur reports 390 enemy planes lost in January and Allied losses exceed 180. Liberator bombers and Catalina patrols supported land and sea actions from New Guinea to Timor.
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Admiralty Islands
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Kavieng
New Ireland
Madang
Hansa Bay
Liberator
Portuguese Timor
East Indies
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Solomons
The War Today: Were Japanese barbarians or civilized rulers
The piece argues that Japanese atrocities in World War II reflect primordial instincts beneath a veneer of civilization. It contrasts Japan with modern progress since Perry and questions whether Nazi Germany is similarly uncivilized.
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London
Commodore Perry
Germany
Presbyterian Hospital
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Navy
Far East
Powell
Long
Japan
Nazis Charged With Widespread Atrocities
London reports on the Soviet broadcast via Moscow radio alleging mass Nazi crimes in Sarny Old Poland held by the Red Army. It cites torture chambers, tar burning, slave transport, and 400 houses burned with survivors naming victims Peter Kalinovich and Alexander Kukharsky.
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Sarny
Poland
Red Army
Moscow Radio
Monitor
Germany
FCC
Peter Kalinovich
Alexander Kukharsky
Ervin Gains Support From County Democratic Committees
In Morganton on January 29, Joe W. Ervin of Charlotte announced that members of the Democratic executive committees in Burke Avery and Mitchell counties have endorsed his bid for the Tenth District congress nomination. He presented signed statements from supporters. Other committee members said they pledged support to no candidate, while some favored Hamilton C. Jones of Charlotte.
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Mitchell
Joe W. Ervin
Charlotte
Ervin
Hamilton
C. Jones
Soldier Marion Raven Killed in Action at Arawe
Mrs. Mattie Howell was notified by the War Department that her son Private Marion Raven was killed in action at Arawe New Britain on January 16, his 27th birthday.
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Mattie Howell
War Department
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Arawe
New Britain
Miller son Garland receives Purple Heart posthumously
Mr and Mrs W B Miller of Hickory have received the Purple Heart awarded posthumously to their son Garland Miller age 19 who was fatally wounded in action in Italy.
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Italy
William Allen White Dies at Home in Emporia
William Allen White longtime editor of The Emporia Gazette known as the sage of Emporia died at his home after a year of declining health. He recently underwent major surgery at Mayo Clinic Rochester and returned home unable to resume duties. His death was announced by his son W L White.
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OPA Halts Milk Price Rollback Rescinded Temporarily
The Office of Price Administration suspended the three cent per gallon rollback on North Carolina wholesale milk until February 23. George Coble of Cable Dairy Products in Lexington NC halted shipments to 34 government camps and projects citing the reduced ceilings as unworkable, threatening losses.
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Cable Dairy Products Co
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George Coble
Carolinas
Georgia
Coble Dairy Products Company
Dairy Products Company
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Franco Faces Showdown On Axis Leaning
The United States and Britain move to curb Spain's Axis ties by halting oil shipments and restricting Spanish tanker loading. The State Department signals Franco must choose a side as pressures mount over Madrid's wartime policy.
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United States
Tokyo Raiders Tortured After Doolittle Raid Says Ex-Editor
J B Powell, former China Weekly Review editor, recounts in Shanghai's Bridgehouse torture of six American aviators captured after the Doolittle raid. He says prisoners endured daily beatings, starvation, and inhumane confinement, with Powell later repatriated to the United States.
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Tokyo
J B. Powell
China Weekly Review
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Shanghai
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Benown
J. B. Powell
Frances Long
Pearl Harbor
Manila
Greatest daylight air raid thirty eight? eight hundred planes assault Berlin
Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle took command in England as the Eighth Air Force sent more than 800 heavy bombers in a daylight strike on Berlin. The raid, described as the greatest single-day attack of the war, followed heavy RAF assaults and produced widespread fires and devastation in the German capital.
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James H. Doolittle
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Eighth American Airforce
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Aftonbladet
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