Battle for Germany Seen Going Well for Allies
DeWitt MacKenzie analyzes Allied progress as western forces push into two strategic centers Kiev and Pruem amid strong Soviet advances. He warns of German morale and the river flooding from a dam boost, with heavy fighting near Kleve and along a flooded Rhine corridor.
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Germany
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
United Nations
Kieve
Pruem
Reich
Moscow Radio
Pastor Robison to resign as Hope Gospel Tabernacle leader
The Rev. E. J Robison announced at Hope Gospel Tabernacle he will resign his pastorate on March 4 due to health. He had been granted a three month leave last Fall and has since returned to duties. He moved from Galveston Texas with Mrs Robison and their four children and has no definite plans.
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E. J Robison
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Robison
Galveston
Texas
Robi
Star of Hope 1890 paper notice from Hope Arkansas
Star Publishing Co. Inc. based in Hope Arkansas announces editor and publisher details with address, circulation rates, and Associated Press affiliation. Publication information lists C. E. Palmer as president and Alex H. Washburn as editor and publisher along with postal entry.
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Star Publishing Co., Inc
C. E. Palmer
Alex H. Washburn
Star
South
Walnut Street
Hope, Ark
Associated Press
Black Tournament at Guernsey School Friday
The Hempstead county basketball tournament for junior and senior teams is set for Friday at Guernsey High School Fulton Route One starting 9 30 a m All coaches and teams should arrive by 9 30 Dinner will be served by the PTA Principal S W Williamson and the Guernsey faculty organize the event Opening brackets list several matchups with winners advancing to a district contest at Rosston on March 2
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Hempstead County
Guernsey Negro High School
Fulton Route One
PTA
S. W. Williamson
Guernsey Negro School
Guernsey
Clow
Fulton
Blevins
Lincoln
Hope
Columbus
Mt. Moriah
Verger High
Patmos
Clow Training School
Yerger High
Lincoln High
Rosston
Capt Walters Led Tanks Into Manila
Capt Jesse L. Walters formerly of Hempstead County led American Sherman tanks into Manila during the fall of the city. A Rockford Illinois native, Walters spoke on the Army Radio Hour and is credited with directing a tank command and rescuing 1,100 internees at Santo Tomas camp.
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Manila
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Hempstead
Jesse L. Walters
Rockford
Inl
Walters
J. C. Walters
Fulton
Frank Walters
Jack Brown
Hope
Army
Capt. Walters
Fulton High School
Rockford, Il
Santo Tomas
Breslau Battle Flank Drives Westward Amid Flood Threats
Soviet reports describe a westward drive from Breslau in a scythelike sweep from Liegnitz area, with a 15‑mile corridor west of the city between Kanth and Kurtsch. Pravda notes the Oder thaw flooded Konev’s theater, with ice damaging bridges and crossings.
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Liegnitz
Breslau
Kanth
Kurtsch
Pravda
Konev
Our Daily Bread Reflections on Lincoln's Legacy
A continuation discusses Lincoln guiding the nation toward freedom and equality, noting the goal remains distant yet plausible. The new world order is described as closer to the Gettysburg Address than to Mein Kampf, acknowledging ongoing struggle ahead.
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Lincoln
Market Report from St Louis Livestock Market
National Stockyards Illinois February twelve hogs totaling eight thousand five hundred were active and steady with prompt clearance across weight ranges from 100 to 330 pounds. Cattle and calves numbered around five thousand with varied classes and prices, steers moderate and steady to high, heifers and yearlings 12.00 to 14.50, beef cows 9.50 to 13.00, vealers 15.00, stocker and feeder steers 8.50 to 13.75, slaughter steers 10.00 to 16.50, sheep around fifteen hundred with lambs at 14.50 to 16.75 and fat ewes 8.00.
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ST. Louis Livestock National Stockyards
Ill
Japs Claim Sinking of Transport Off Leyte Gulf
An unconfirmed Japanese dispatch claimed a Nippon submarine sank an American transport off Leyte gulf in the Philippines today. The report was transmitted to North America and recorded by the FCC.
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Associated Press
Comet
Dispatch
Leyte Gulf
Philippines
North America
Federal Communications Commission
First Virginia Coal Mines Opened About 1750
The earliest coal mines in America began operations in Virginia around 1750, marking a formative period in the nation’s industrial history and energy development.
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America
Virginia
Berlin Under State of Siege Amid Red Army Advance
Berlin was reported in a siege state with Hitler guarding the capital block by block. Moscow and Swiss reports claimed martial law, hundreds of thousands displaced, curfew, mined bridges, and mass fortifications as the Red Army neared. Eisenhower urged railway disruption to hinder troop movement. Sundermann urged defense to the death and warned against Allied gains.
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W. R. Higginbotham
London
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Moscow
Stockholm
Hitler
Spree
Germany
Red Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Reich
Helmut Sundermann
Nazi Party
Sundermann
Clare Luce childhood run away to work at paper neckwear firm
Clare Beathe Luce, later a playwright and congresswoman, ran away from home in her youth and found employment with a New York company that manufactured paper novel ties.
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Clare Beathe Luce
New York
B 29 Pilot Explains Operations To B 24 Crew
An Air Base in the Marianas hosts a two way briefing where a B 29 pilot describes 21st Bomber Command setup to B 24 crews. He explains shared rations, secrecy habits, and the need for mutual understanding as reconnaissance planes earn the nickname Snoop erforts.
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Vern Haugland
Marianas
21St Bomber Command
States
Japan
Canadians fight Germans amid Rhine flood near Kleve
Canadian forces battled along the Rhine corridor between Kleve and the Roer as floodwaters hampered movement. Amphibious gear kept the advance within 22 miles of Wesel while German defenses and looming offensives mounted near Aachen Venlo. U.S. First Army advanced as the Roer flood subsided and German holds near Prüm faded.
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Rhine
Kleve
Wesel
Ruhr
Maas River
Aachen-Venlo
Supreme Headquarters
Roer
Dueren
U. S. First Army
Heimbach
Germany
Pruem
Third Army
Allied Drive Pushes Germans Back on Rhine Front
Allied forces report rapid advances along the Rhine foothold with Seventh Army eyes on Drusenheim and Oberhoffen as German resistance falters. Canadian, British and Scottish units press the Kleve front despite paratrooper counteractions amid air support disruption and battered civilians.
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U. S
Alsace
Oberhoffen
Drusenheim
Haguenau Forest
Rhine
Colmar
Kleve
Crerar
Montgomery
Gennep
Reichswald
Anne of Cleves
Henry VIII
Emmerich
Berlin
William Gilbert and the 1600 earth as a magnetic field
William Gilbert proposed in 1600 that the earth functions as a giant magnet with magnetic poles and an encompassing field of force, foundational to early ideas about magnetism and radio.
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William Gilbert
Earth
Major Leagues May Not Split Under War Travel Plan
Washington officials voiced official astonishment at a reported 1945 plan to divide major leagues into east and west circuits to cut travel. Col. J. Monroe Johnson and James F. Byrnes aides denied hearing of any reorganization, while Branch Rickey and Edward Barrow judged the proposal impractical. Baseball leaders suggested adjustments to wartime schedules could reduce travel without breaking up the league.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transport Non
Col. J. Monroe Johnson
ODT
Office of War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
Edward G. Barrow
New York Yankee
Clark Griffith
Washington Senators
Sen. A. B
Chandler
D. Ky
Rickey
Patmos Senior Class to Stage Jimmie Vonson's Job
Patmos High School will present its annual senior class play Jimmie Vonson's Job on Friday February 16 at 8 p.m. Cast includes Charles Middlebrooks Milton Yaney Winfred Horton Dwight Adcock Beulah B Burns Bolton Jonnie Lou Stewart Hamilton Aileen Jester and Mary Julia Mayton.
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Patmos High School
Jimmie Vonson
Charles Middlebrooks
Milton Yaney
Winfred Horton
Dwight Adcock
Beulah B. Burns Bolton
Jonnie Lou Stewart Hamilton
Aileen Jester
Mary Julia Mayton
2200 Miles Phone Wire Laid Daily by Army Troops
War Department reports that signal corps and communications units on the Western Front laid 33,000 miles of wire in the first five months after D-Day and now use about 2,200 miles daily. Unprecedented demand for wire in France and elsewhere has prompted calls for increased American production from industry and labor.
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Washington
Signal Corps
France
War Department
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