Russian Casualty Reports Signal Axis Morale Strain
Analysis notes a shift in World War II reporting from daily casualties to rising prisoner and surrender figures from Moscow. It discusses the reliability of Russian and Berlin figures, the difficulty in tallying losses, and the impact of morale breakdowns on Axis troops in Russia amid strategic conferences in Africa.
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Africa
Rge
Moscow
Sre
Adte
Russie
Germany
Berlin
Blackout Plans Announced For Louisiana Parish
The Quachita parish civilian defense council says plans are ready for a simulated enemy air raid and statewide blackout ordered by state and federal authorities. The blackout will occur randomly between February 1 and 15 190. Local control rests with parish officials and Monroe West Monroe city councils overseen by police jury ordinances. Over 1000 service members will mobilize and the public will be warned when industrial sirens and air raid whistles sound in Monroe and West Monroe.
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Quachita Parish
Quachua
Monroe
West Monroe
United States Army Information Center
New Orleans
Civilian Defense
Allied forces push into Tunisia in Rommel chase
British and American units breach the Tunisian border as General Montgomery's Eighth Army advances with patrols 15 to 25 miles inland. Allied air strikes hit Axis supply lines and a Tunisian convoy while the Twelfth Air Force targets the Bizerte dock area. The Mareth line lies about 65 miles inside Tunisia.
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Worth Africa
Jan. B
Bernard J. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Rorame
Tunisia
Middle East
Twelfth Air Force
Bizerte
Montgomery
Mareth Line
Roosevelt stops in Trinidad on return trip
The White House reports President Roosevelt halted briefly in Port of Spain Trinidad during his return from the Casablanca talks. Admiral Leahy met him at Waller Field as locals greeted the American leader and toured defense installations on the island.
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Washington
Jan
White House
Roosevelt
Trinidad
British West Indies
Panama Canal
Caribbean
Port Au Spain
Erith
Wiliam D. Leahy
Waller Field
George F. Durna
Army Air Corps Ferrying Command
Admiral Leahy
Casablanca
United States
France
Adtmirs Lacalogy
Port Au Spein
Buenos Aires
French Morocco
Monrovie
Liberia
Bercley
Natal
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
Fraril
Compromise Pay-As-You-Go Plan Favored in Congress
Washington insiders say treasury backs a compromise to the pay as you go plan proposed by Robertson and Carlton. The scheme would erase 1942 lower bracket taxes and levy a 20 percent withholding on net income for current collection. Hearings start Tuesday as Ways and Means explores options possibly affecting 40 million taxpayers.
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Washington
Jan
Treasury
Robertagn
Democrat
Virginia
House
Ways and Means Committee
Beardsley Rum
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Carlaon
Kansas
Robertson
Carlton
Plane crash reported near Glendale by Pasadena police
Pasadena police reported a transport plane carrying army personnel crashed in Glendale near the Chevy Chase Country club. The incident was observed late tonight and is under investigation by local authorities.
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Los Angeles
Jan
Pasadena
Glendale
Chevy Chase Country Club
U.S. Submarines Sink Six Japanese Ships
Navy communique No 266 reports American submarines in the Pacific sinking six Japanese ships including a destroyer and damaging another. The actions occurred in the South Pacific and Far East areas with additional bomber operations at Kahili in the Shortland area. results were not disclosed.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Far East
United States
Navy Department
South Pacific
Kahili
Shortland
Allied forces repel second Japanese raid in New Guinea
Australia reports the second Japanese raid in two days on Allied positions in the Mubo WaU area of New Guinea was crushed. No further details available in the fragment.
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Australia
Mubo
Salamaua
New Gunes
Douglas MacArthur
Mubo-Wau
New Guineas
Somoza Son Enrolls At Louisiana State University
Captain Louis Somoza, 21, son of Nicaragua's president, arrived in Baton Rouge to enroll in LSU's College of Agriculture for the second semester. He will study animal industry and agronomy while avoiding political discussion. His brother Anastasio is in a U S military school program preparing for West Point.
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Baton Rouge
Louis Somoza
Somoza
Nicaragua
Louisiana State University College of Agriculture
United States Agriculture
Plattsburg
N. Y
Anastasio TU
Washington, D. C
West Point
Somers
University of California College For Agriculture
Sacramento
Earthworms Do Their Bit Against Hitler in Shreveport
In Shreveport Louisiana Mrs Billie Stewart of Vivian explains that she sold earthworms as fish bait to raise funds for four $25 war bonds. She says her son serves in the army and was at Pearl Harbor, noting worms are turned against the Axis as wartime dope.
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Shreveport
Billie Stewart
Vivian
Pearl Harbor
Mrs. Stewart
Senator McKellar opposes Flynn for Australia post
Senator McKellar of Tennessee announced opposition to President Roosevelt's nomination of Edward J. Flynn as minister to Australia. He warned that rejection could follow if the appointment is not withdrawn before Monday when consideration begins.
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Washington
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Roosevelt
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
McKellar
Nazis Far From Jubilation Bay
Ernest G. Pisher notes in Dallas on January 30 1941 that Germans anticipated jubilation marking ten years since Hitler became chancellor but face a grim future with plans for Nürnberg rally and vast party structures by 1943.
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Adolf Hitler
Kurt von Cehleigher
Reichstag
Third Reich
Hitler
Nuernberg
Surprising Lifeboat Survival Of 17 After Torpedo Strike
A British officer J A Whyte and Mrs Margaret Gordon survived 51 days in a lifeboat after their ship was torpedoed off the west coast of Africa. Fifteen others, including Mrs Gordon’s husband, died. The crew included 16 Indian Lascars and six Europeans. Whyte steered by sun and stars while Mrs Gordon managed the tiller. Water rationing and loss of hope marked the voyage toward South America.
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Miami
Fin
J. A. Whyte
Africa
Margaret Gordon
Melbourne
Australia
South Atlantic
Whyte
South America
Gordon
Vital Railway Junction of Tikhoretsk Regained by Reds
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army recaptured Maikop oil region and the strategic Tikhoretsk railway junction, severing German access to Caucasus fuel. Advances toward Krasnodar followed, with further captures near Kramodar and Kropotkin as Soviet forces press toward Rostov and Baku lines.
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Tikhoretsk
Reds
Moscow
Maikop
Adolf Hitler
Caucasus
Red Army
Punehon
Roetov
London
Krasnodar
Kerch Straits
Rostov
Ladojskaya
Kramodar
Kropotkin
Archangelskayya
Maikeop
Voronezh
Belgorod
Kursk
Leningrad
Lake Ladoga
Roosevelt away on birthday trip aids infantile paralysis drive
President Roosevelt, age 61, absent from Washington to attend Allied war councils, sent a message of thanks for nationwide birthday parties raising funds for infantile paralysis. He noted two wars for humanity and asked Mrs. Roosevelt to convey thanks to volunteers and Basil O Connor for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Mrs. Velt
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation For
Louisiana Negro Is Electrocuted at State Chair
Hugh Pierre, a 34 year old farm hand, was executed in Louisiana's portable electric chair for the October 1936 murder of Ignace Rouswell. The case went before the US Supreme Court three times, with the final ruling upholding the conviction and the electrocution law. He died at 12 19 p.m. after receiving Holy Communion and the Catholic Way of the Cross. Sheriff P D Hebert reported he faced execution calmly.
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Edgard
Hugh Pierre
Ignace Rouswell
United States Supreme Court
P. D. Hebert
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Louisiana
Muskrats Taste Tested by Washington Dignitaries
Vice President Wallace and lawmakers sampled fricasseed muskrat in a Capitol dining room to test wartime meat alternatives. Secretary Wickard remained skeptical at first but joined in the tasting as Representative Domengeaux financed the lunch. The Louisiana dish drew praise and quips about renaming it musk rabbit. Mrs Agnes Gautreaux led the cooking in Rayne Louisiana.
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Washington
Wallace
Congress
Official
Washington Today
Capitol
Dixie
Louisiana
Wickard
Domengeaux
Sam Rayburn
Wirchard
Mississippi
Agnes Gautreaux
Rayne
British Mosquito raid echoes Berlin anniversary address
British Mosquito bombers attended Nazi Berlin anniversary ceremony delivering thunderous sound effects as Goering spoke to Luftwaffe leaders and the German people. The daylight raid marked the first time London listeners heard their own bombers during a raid in Germany. Continuous noise and shouts echoed from the Air Ministry area as Goering addressed the crowd.
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London
Berlin
Reichamarshal Goering
Germany
Goering
Luftwaffe
Air Ministry
Marines Fail To Persuade Jap Soldiers In Solomons
Captain John Erskin of Urichville Ohio, an interpreter born in Japan, spent ten minutes urging trapped Japanese soldiers to surrender using his best Japanese. A Jap officer spoke in fluent English and told him to go to hell, ending the attempt. Marines sealed the cave after grenades failed. Captain William Sperling reported other Marine actions from Tulaga and Guadalcanal over 55 days of fighting.
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South Pacific
John Erskin
Uricheville
Ohio
Japan
Solomons
Erskin
William E. Sperling
New Brunswick
N. J
Tulaga
Guadalcanal
British daylight raid targets Berlin on Hitler anniversary
London reports a first daylight RAF attack on Berlin aimed at Goering and Goebbels during Hitler's anniversary celebrations. Mosquito bombers struck at 11 am and again later, causing delays and ministerial turmoil while Berlin radio kept broadcasting. No British planes lost. morale impact cited as the raid's main effect.
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Associated Press
London
Berlin
Hitler
Air Ministry
Goering
Marshal Goering
Goebbels
Betelin
Ewift
Lorient U Boat Bases Bombed by British Bombers
British bombers attacked Lorient in western France for the sixth time in 16 days. The United States Air Force disclosed the first results of an all American strike on Germany. A German raid on a southeast English town killed at least three and destroyed two homes. Four German planes did not return from the Lorient mission amid heavy clouds and poor visibility.
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London
Jen
Germany
Lorient
Air Ministry
United States Air Force
Sortheast
England
Lorent
Bay of
Auscay
France
Air Mninistry
Sergeant Murray Scott Returned Home After Plane Crash
The body of Sergeant Murray Scott Bert Tenn killed with seven other airmen in a Lafourche swamp plane crash was sent to Bemis for funeral services. It was found in six inches of water near the crash site after hunters located the wreckage, with a military escort accompanying the remains to Tennessee.
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Murray &. Scott
Bert Tenn
Army
Lafourche
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Bemis
W. Y. Tarver
Renta
Monroe
Edward Dorset
Tom Benton
Here
Cda
Barksdale Field
North Carolina
Hody
Scott
Tennessee
Dioug Funeral Home
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