Japs Rally For Stubborn Fight In Pacific War
Allied reports say Japanese forces have rallied in the South Pacific and refuse to yield key territory. American troops face stiff enemy lines on New Britain and New Guinea as air battles intensify and both sides suffer losses.
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Pacific
New Brittain
New Guinea
Col
Warren J. Clear
Army General Staff
Japan
Los Angeles
MacArthur
Bergen Bay
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Big Island
Silimati Point
Arawe
Umtingulu
Arawae
Cape St. George
New Ireland
Bungingilie
Ireland
Rabaul
New Hunt
Capa St
U.S
Cape Glouccester
New Britain Island
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Gosst Guard
Officers Seek Bethel McCloud On Larceny Charge
Cumberland County deputies widened a manhunt for Bethel McCloud as Walter and Thomas McCloud faced bonds totaling 4000 on robbery by force housebreaking and larceny charges. Jesse Hodgey was released after last week’s arrest. The trio’s alleged burglary of Pleasant Hill Academy store sparked the case with two motorists reporting a hold up.
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Crossrem
Cumberland County
Bethe
Highway Rc
Squires H. D. Shaver
J.D. Wyatt
Thomas J. Stennley
Walter McCloud
Tomy McCloud
Jesse B. Hodgey
McClouds
Bethel McCloud
Gib Barnes
Lalisud
Sparta
Barnes
Mr Clouds
Pleasant Hill Academy
Here
Problems in State Draft Ironed Out At Meeting
State appeal board representatives and headquarters officials met to resolve issues in the handling of a large number of 2-A and 2-B selective service registrants. Brig Gen T A Frazier noted about 30 000 Tennessee registrants in these classifications, with most remaining under Tennessee jurisdiction.
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State Appeal Board
Brig Gen
T. A. Frazier
Vate
Aid Loday
Frazier
Tennessee
Frather
Roosevelt to broadcast state of the union due to illness
President Roosevelt will broadcast a shortened state of the union after sending the annual message to Congress at noon tomorrow instead of delivering it in person. He met with congressional leaders and plans a later radio summary, while budget matters and subsidies face immediate decisions.
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siuEnt Ogsevelt
Congress
Roosevelt
Wallace
Rayburn
Senate
Barkley
House
McCormack
White House
Ross T. McIntlys
Almot
Harold Smith
Wayne Coy
Barry
Wah
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Ceus
Reds Drive Toward Odessa Warsaw Threaten Sarny Junction
Soviet forces under Vatutin push south and west in Ukraine driving toward the Odessa Warsaw railway and the Sarny junction while threatening the Bug River bend. Units strike toward Vin or Vinniats and Zigernishche, aiming to disrupt German communications and trap German forces east of the Dnieper.
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Warsaw
Sarny Junction
Old Poland
Sricia
Dnieper
Ivan 8
Xenev
Alexandrovia
Kirovograd
Seng
Poland
Vatutin
Bend of the Bug River
Zkornishche
Vinnitsa
Odessa-Wersaiy
Bug River
Rutiania
Schastlivaya
Ukraine
Ockaixor
Black Sea
Dnieper'ty
Berlin
Sarny
Eld Poland
Berdichev
Nirovegrid
Pture
Sayny
Wilno-Ravno
Brest-Litovsk
Odessa-Warsaw
Zhornishche
Russia
Stockholm
Spelsassmen
Nazis Claim Reds Fail To Make Black Sea Landing
Reported by Léendén re the norman ogi temmand that Raussing forces tried a landing west of Ochavolk near the Black Sea port about 40 miles inside its southern front but were repelled. Ochakov lies between the Dnieper mouth and Odessa, a Nazi base, and the move might have aimed to flank the southern German line.
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Ogi Temmand
Raussing
Ochavolk
Black Sea
Ochakov Iles
Dnieper
Odessa
Mayn
Moscow
Dnieperbendeen
ICC Investigation Of Rail Class Rates Nears End
The Interstate Commerce Commission nears completion of a long inquiry into railroad class rates prompted by South and Southwest complaints. Examiners say a decision will follow filings of exceptions and briefs. Regions largely converge on similar mile for mile class rates, with different commodities often moving under distinct rates.
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ICC
Aanington
Interstate Commerts Commission
IRC
Congress
Thal
Commission
Freigi
Nazi Propaganda Retreats On Wide Front In Europe
Nazi propaganda retreats on a broad European front as reverses force Berlin into a defensive posture. Dispatches from German papers note rising pro Allied sentiment in Portugal Sweden and Switzerland with films and books dominated by English and American material. Lisbon reports show German efforts curbed by censorship and shifting from battle to cultural imagery in theaters and newsstands.
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Vuerman
Force
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Beung J
United Nations
Pariser Éeitung
Lisbon
Sweden
Switzerland
Chapiteh
America
Cai
Pariser Zeitung
Allies Break Through Cassino Defenses Amid Heavy Fighting
American and British forces press the Cassino offensive, breaching the front with advances toward Cerraro and Mount Ghisia. Heavy fire and snow limit combat as air forces strike Italian harbors and shipping while fighters protect the operations.
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Catena Vecchio
San Vittore
Feeda
Mount Maggiore
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Amnark
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Chiaia -Oust
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Cerraro
Cassino
Adriatic
Pots
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Istrian
Italy
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Ttlys
Aquila
Sgater
Vill
Congressmen Cannot Serve In Armed Forces
President Roosevelt said members of Congress may not serve in active military components. Attorney General Biddle advised the constitutional ban exists, plus national service evaluation concerns. Rep. Albert Gore and Rep. Jackson were among lawmakers who had joined or were joining military units, Gore reporting to Camp Shelby on January 19 and Jackson serving as a private in a tank destroyer unit at Fort McClellan.
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Roosevelt
Secretaries of War
Navy
Jersey
Congress
Biddle
Stephen Barry
Stimson
Knox
Une
Albert Gore
D-Tann
Camp Shelby
Mias
Gore
Tennessee
Representative Jackson
Fort McClellan
Ala
Investigation into Johnson City Gambling Rackets
Circuit Judge D A Vines ordered a County Circuit Court Grand Jury to probe gambling dens in Johnson City. He said men operate weekly and on Saturdays leaving families in need and directed the jury to stay in due secrecy while these conditions are cleared up. Also funeral services were held for Mrs Herbert Hoover, 68, in New York at St Bartholomew Protestant Episcopal Church.
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Particuelarly
Jolson City
D. A. Vines
Into ‘County Circuit Court
Grand Jory
Vines
Pageatey Waki
Hoover
New York
St. Bartholow, Mon
Herbert Hoover
Spangler Sets Out Mackinac Declaration For Policy
Harrison B. Spangler, head of the Republican National Committee, calls the Mackinac Declaration the only concrete, comprehensive outline of American foreign policy by party leaders. He warns against New Deal labels, cites wartime unity, and notes a poll showing Republican sentiment among U.S. troops in England. The convention likely to be in Chicago with June 29 as a target date.
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Chicago
Harrison B. Spangler
Republican National Committee
Spangler
United States
Hull
Pitles A. Hallecis
Tridiana
Vermont
Wilmnn
Wills
Alfred M. Landon
John D. M. Hamilton
Joseph Pew
Pennsylvanis
Power firm sues TVA over Hiwassee water rights
Alabama Power’s Hiwassee Nolichucky firm seeks 2 million dollars in damages for alleged diversion of water rights on the Hiwassee River in Polk County Tennessee. The suit, filed in Colbert County Alabama circuit court, claims TVA diverted water for a TVA power project in 1941. TVA contends a federal condemnation suit precedes any damage action and plans to pursue removal to federal court.
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Seca
Hiwassee-Nolichucky Fawer Co
Asil
Polk County
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Iaushority
Colbert County
Ala
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Ten Hensce Holding Company
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Thenedore Swann
Birmingham
Plaintif
TVA
Hiwassee
Pokere Ma
Sun
Stephen B. Coleman
Swann
Knoxville
William Fitts
Tennessee
Fills
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