Eisenhower Heads North Africa Theater Under U S Command
North Africa theater established under U S Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower with British Eighth Army units in the new command. Andrews moves from European theater to replace Eisenhower in Europe, Brereton becomes commander of U S forces in the Middle East area.
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Middle East
Tunisia
Frank M. Andrews
Eisenhower
U. S
Roosevelt
Churchill
Casablanca
London
Algiers
Bernard L. Montgomery
Mareth Line
Rommel
Reuters
Cairo
Gers J. Brereton
Middle
Pas
M. Andrews
General Andrews
U.S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
French North Africa
Brereton
Henry H. Arnolds
U.S. Army Air Forces
Brereton Sateen
U. S.air Force
Eighth Army
Allied Armored Force Prepares for Tunisia Clash
An inexperienced American armored and infantry force faces a veteran Axis army of about 170 000 in Tunisia. Reinforcements and new equipment arrive as Allied leaders under Dwight D Eisenhower push logistics across long routes to the front.
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North Africa
Tunisia
Libya
North
Africa
Hitler
Russian
Mediterranean
Marshal Rommel
Eighth Army
Dwight D. Hisenhower
Nazi Counter Attack Recovers a Strategic Height From Allies
Allied and German forces fought near Bou Arada and Djebel Mansour in Tunisia with weather limiting air activity. German and Italian troops retook the hill 648, near Point du Fahs, as allies reported limited land action and continued air combat over the Tunisian front.
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North Africa
Tunisia
Djebel Mansour
Point du Fahs
Bou Arada
Tunisian
Djebel_ Mansour
Gabes
Gafsa
Pont du Fahs
Italian High Command
Rome
Storm on Capitol Hill Signals War Time Policy Clashes
Washington notes a tense week ahead as Congress debates repealing Roosevelt’s $25,000 salary limit and blocking the war manpower commission plan to draft fathers. Concern grows over federal wartime demands, debt, and import capacity as shifts in French leadership unfold with Giraud and De Gaulle in Casablanca.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Roosevelt
War Manpower Commission
House
Ways and Means
Disney
Oklahoma
House Military Committee
Kilday
Texas
WMC
May
D-Ky
Fulmer
D-S.c
House Agriculture Committee
Commerce Department
Uncle Sam
Soviet Front Pages Carry Roosevelt Stalin Congratulatory Messages
Soviet newspapers featured front page congratulations from President Roosevelt to Premier Stalin and Stalin’s reply prophesying joint Allied victory. Stalin’s message to Roosevelt expressed belief in forthcoming joint U.S. Britain U.S.S.R. military operations bringing victory over the common enemy.
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Roosevelt
Stalin
Stalingrad
United States
United Nations
U.S.A
Great Britain
U.S.S.R
Moscow
Sik
Hitler Reported at His Headquarters in Switzerland Visit
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich reports Hitler was at his military headquarters and recently photographed receiving prominent visitors. The note cites speculation that Hitler’s absence at the January 10 Nazi anniversary rally may reflect a period of mourning in Germany following setbacks in Russia.
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London
Reuters
Zurich
Switzerland
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Berlin
Germany
Russia
Mrs Ethel Lynn to Speak on Family Health Monday
Mrs Ethel Lynn Douglas County earth unit will speak Monday afternoon at 2 30 on rationing doctors dentists and nurses and home health measures in emergencies her subject Putting the Family Health in Order details read like a community program note
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Ethel P. Lynn
Ethel Pynn Douglas
County Earth’ Unit
Moderate Losses in Solomons Fight Reported
Secretary Knox said both sides suffered moderate losses as fighting around the Solomons remained in a preliminary stage. He noted no specifics on Japanese objectives or major assets sunk, while American patrols advanced on Guadalcanal and raids targeted Munda and Kolombangara.
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Navy
Solomons
Knox
North
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Tassafaronga
Umasani River
North Pacific
Aleutian Islands
Kiska Island
U.S
Aleutians
Munda
New Georgia Island
Douglas Dauntless
Kolombangara Island
Shortland Harbor
Shortland
Rabaul
New Britain
Stock Market Index Declines for 60 Stocks
A stock market summary shows 60 tracked equities with 44 dropping and 1 rising, while 15 remained steady. Report notes overall weakness in yesterday's trading as investors mixed across sectors.
Churchill Parades Through Tripoli in Surprise Visit
Prime Minister Churchill, after meetings at Casa Blanca and with Turkish leaders, visited the British Eighth Army in Tripoli. He reviewed troops in an open car beside General Montgomery, then flew to an undisclosed destination amid Axis rumors of Portugal and Spain summits. United Nations aircraft patrolled the city without Axis incursions.
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Cairo
Churchill
Casablanca
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Bernard L. Montgomery
Empire
Piazza d’Italia
Axis
Gibraltar
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Portugal
Francisco Franco
Spain
General Montgomery
Piazza d
Italy
United Nations
Still Near Peak at Sunflower Ordnance Works
Employment remains near the peak at the Sunflower Ordnance Works as contractor crews replace laid off workers in later construction stages. Plant leaders and local planning officials discussed future labor needs, housing capacity, and Dormitory occupancy, noting ongoing cooperative efforts, including a university training program.
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Sunflower Ordnance Works
Hercules Operating Company
Ordnance Plant
War Industries Planning Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Charles Pruden
George Foulke
L. C. Kleinhans
Foulke
Lawrence
H. C. Bigelow
James Higgins
U. S. Employment Office
Paul McNutt
Mussolini reshuffles cabinet to rally Italy morale
Washington reports the Mussolini cabinet shakeup viewed as effort to lift morale after Libya loss and bombing by Allied forces. The state department spokesman said the changes, likely Nazi approved, are window dressing and will not deter the United States from pressing Italy and the Fascist regime. Ciano’s removal is noted as ineffective on foreign relations and as marking his collaboration with Germany.
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Washington
Mussolini
State Department
Libya
Ciano
Germany
Ceiling Price Fixed for Onions and Potatoes
Washington reports ceiling prices set by the Office of Price Administration for early and mid season dry onions and potatoes. Prices guarantee farmers parity and retailers base housewife prices on net cost. Early dry onions range from 2.60 to 1.65 per 50 pounds depending on harvest period. Early white potatoes vary by region from 2.15 to 2.50 per hundredweight, with Florida and Texas at 3.10 to a higher level.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
South Atlantic
South Central
Florida
Texas
Reds Press South Fast As Nazis Flee Rostov Defenses
Soviet dispatches describe Red armies driving toward Rostov and closing in from the Donets basin with reports of German troops disguising as peasant women. London and Berlin confirm rapid advances, with Rostov threatened and new landings near Novorossisk.
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London
Rostov
Don
Sea of Azov
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Kerch Strait
Donets River
Stalingrad
Red Army
Sea of
Azov
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Donets
Voroshilovgrad
Kursk
Belgorod
Kharkov
Pittsburgh
Ukraine
Caucasus
Berlin
Hitler
Farmers Opinion Sought On City Parking Meters
F S Cowles of Pleashat street runs classified ad in Journal World asking local farmers to mail or sign a petition at Ernst Hardware regarding keeping meters on Massachusetts street. He notes water bills give patrons a chance to speak as mass of meters have yielded 2100 dollars in December and January.
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City -Treeta F. S
Cowles
Pleashat' Street
Journal-World Today
Ernst Hardware Store
Massachusetts Street
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Delay Salary Limit Action in Washington
Washington delays action for a week on a proposal to nullify President Roosevelt's $25,000 net income limit for individuals as the chief executive seeks time to submit views.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Floating hotel project runs aground in Missouri river
Kansas City reports the floating hotel scheme tied up after barges built last spring by D. O. Smart III and associates drifted down the Missouri to the Kaw and toward Sunower Ordnance Works. Fire destroyed one barge, another sank, and ownership remained unclear until R. P. Lyons revealed his connection to Smart and the project aimed at easing DeSoto housing shortages.
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Kansas City
DeSoto
Sloan
D. O. Smart III
Missouri River
Kaw
Sunower Ordnance Works
Coast Guard
R. P. Lyons
Concrete Company
Smart
Lawrence evening school enrollment grows for second term
The Lawrence evening school reports 165 students in the second term, down from 219 in the first term. Commercial classes total 122 students including typing and shorthand, with 43 in general classes such as blue print reading and home decoration. Blue print reading ends February 11 with another class likely soon. Classes run Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the senior high. a third commercial term is planned. Faculty includes Garvin C. Gillum, Miss Wilma Windett, Mrs Warren M. Smith, Mrs Lena Huddleston, and Verner Smith.
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Persens
Lawrence Evening School
Toda Misa Vesta White
Garvin C. Gillum
Wilma Windett
Warren M. Smith
Lena Huddleston
Verner Smith
Roosevelt forms panel to study alleged subversive activity
President Roosevelt named a five member interdepartmental committee to review cases of federal employees suspected of subversive activities. The Dies committee has published 1200 names. the panel will advise on disposition of complaints and possible removals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Quseice Department
Herbert E. Gaston
the Treasury
Oscar L. Chapman
Secretary of the Interior
Rudolph M. Evans
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Francis C. Brown
Federal Deporit Insurance Corp
Errol Flynn Acquitted After 13 Hours of Deliberation
In Los Angeles on February 6 Errol Flynn was acquitted on three counts of statutory attack after a 13 hour jury deliberation. The nine women and three men panel cleared him of alleged intimacies with two teenage girls.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Flynn
Employment Service Trials Farm Labor Recruitment in Kansas
The U S employment service began an experimental program to recruit farm help in Riley Geary Pottawatomie Marshall and Nemaha counties with plans to expand statewide if successful Farmers were asked to register immediate and future labor needs Men with farm experience not tied to essential industries urged to register if not on a full-time farm.
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Manhattan
CPI
U.S. Employment Service
Riley
Geary
Pottawatomie
Marshall
Nemaha
University of Kansas Chosen for Army Specialized Training Program
The War Department advised Chancellor Deane W. Malott that KU will host young men in uniform for specialized study under the new program. The university will keep basic ROTC on Mt. Oread and aims to continue ROTC after the war to supply junior officers. Sixteen senior ROTC students left for Ft Leavenworth for voluntary induction and will study in civilian clothes until the program begins.
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University of Kansas
Deane W. Malott
War Department
Maelett
Kansas
Basic Reserve Officers Training Corps
Mt. Oread
R.O.T.C
Army
Malott
K.U
Ft. Leavenworth
Parachutists Executed After Capture in North Africa
London reports that seven Parachutists wearing civilian clothes captured in Allied territory in French North Africa were executed. The Algiers radio said four groups dropped near Constantine on January 21 were involved, including Germans Arabs and Fascist French. A Constantine tribunal reportedly imposed the death sentence. Two enemy agents were executed in Algiers and two more were sentenced in absentia with other penalties imposed.
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London
Sevanteer Axis
French North Africa
Alsgiers
Constantine
Captu
France
Morocco
Algiers
Hard Freeze Tonight Seen Across Eastern Kansas
Topeka reports a hard freeze for tonight with colder weather in eastern Kansas and lows around 22 to 28 degrees. Northwestern Kansas may be slightly warmer, while Fargo, North Dakota records 13 below zero as a contrast.
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Kansas
S. D. Flos
Faney
Goodland
Fargo
N. D
Wichita
Dodge City
Iittle
MTWTF
Mtwtes Fee A Kane A
Axis ships sunk in central Mediterranean by British subs
British submarines in the central Mediterranean sank three Axis supply ships and a tanker and left another supply ship in flames, the British admiralty announced.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
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Algeria
Imperial Council
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DeGaulle
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Giraud-De Gaulle
Georges Catroux
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