Tanks Break Double Siegfried Line Near Berlin Front
British and Moscow broadcasts report Russian tanks probing Berlin outskirts and breaking the Oder line. Soviet claims say bridgeheads formed along 185 miles of the river. Himmler defends Berlin as Goebbels flees. Refugees flood roads while Berlin fights near Kuestrin and Goeritz.
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Siegfried Line
Oder River
London
Moscow Radio
Berlin
Stalin
Oder
Ratibor
Silesia
Gruenberg
Frankfurt
Moscow
Heinrich Himmler
Gregory Zhukov
Kuestrin
Stettin
Goeritz
Himmler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Alt- Drewitz
Westbrook Pegler Rants on Ickes and New Deal Morality
Westbrook Pegler rails at Harold Ickes and the New Deal in a satirical civics lesson. He ridicules avarice and covetousness while recounting a New Mexico legal oddity over a taxi man’s theft suit and the later supreme court setback.
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Harold Ickes
Ickes
Mrs. Perkins
Mr. Roosevelt
Sighbor
Frank Allen
Axi
Allen Slear
Supreme Court of the
State of New Mexico
Allen
Labor demand change seen as war nears final phase
Senate military committee hears that labor demands may shift dramatically if Europe war nears its final phase. Sen O Mahoney notes post White House Big Three pact signals altered needs for munitions and heavy equipment. He warns downward adjustments could follow enemy defeat as war effort winds down. Committee questions Paul V McNutt amid spillover warnings to workers.
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Washington
Senate
Europe
O'Mahoney
Yoming
White House
Nazi
Germany
Ator Thomas
Utah
Paul V. McNutt
Soldiers receive extended sentences in France food case
Feb 7 report states seven American enlisted men were sentenced to terms ranging from two to eight years for disposing of cigarette rations in army supply trains during World War II. The group, held since earlier in the trial, included William H. Hudson of St. Louis Mo and others from Terre Haute Indiana, Cameron Texas, Hazleton Pennsylvania, Birmingham Alabama, Canton Ohio and additional locations.
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ARIS
Bing
France
William H. Hudson
Hemistreet
St. Louis
Vas
William E Houster
First Avenue
Terre Haute
Dorrance Brewer
Cameron
Tex
Nicholas F. Beltrami
Mongest
Hazleton
Heber Wer
North 61St Street
Birming
Ala
Aaron Whitehouse
Ninth Street
N. E
Canton
Ohio
Allied airborne army may leap Rhine crossing plan近
Washington reports speculation that Lt. Gen. Brereton's airborne force may be readied to cross the Rhine as ground troops close on Cologne. Analysts stress bridgehead tasks, probable use of air landings to seize crossings, and caution over timing to avoid a repeat of Arnhem.
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Washington
Lewis H. Brereton
Rhine
Cologne
Germany
Siegfried Line
Arnhem
Holland
Germans wire wounded man into deadly booby trap in forest
Pvt William H. Edwards of the Fourth Infantry division described his 70 hour ordeal in the Haertgen forest. After stepping on a mine his body was wired with explosives by three German soldiers who refused water, seized five cigarettes, and kept him alive as a human booby trap until medics reached him.
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Haertgen Forest
Edwards
Fourth Infantry Division
Hayti
Inland port channel to link Lafayette with coast and river system
Manila Shells and Fire report announces a five-part U S Engineers project to create a 12.5 mile dredged Vermilion river channel 100 feet by nine feet to Lafayette and a 3.5 mile navigation stretch from Vermilion bay to the Intracoastal canal. The work, approved 1943, aims to reduce flood crop damage and boost food production, with bidding set for February 9 in New Orleans.
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Baton Rouge
Leo Odom
State Department of Public Works
U. S
Lafayette
Gulf Coast
Intracoastal Canal
Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Vermilion River
Congress
War Food Administration
War Production Board
Odom
Teche-Vermilion
Louisiana
John H. Overton
Vermilion Bay
Mile 52
Bayou Teche
All Pennsylvania Menaced by Flood
Flood threat loomed over nearly all Pennsylvania as authorities mobilized. Ice jams, warming temps, and snowpack feared to echo 1936 conditions. Health dept shipped typhoid vaccine to 51 endangered counties while War veterans organized 52 food stations in Pittsburgh. Civilian defense units mobilized in Lancaster as the coast guard prepared rescue boats for stricken areas. Debris and rising waters threatened rivers from the Delaware to the Monongahela and Allegheny. Weather forecast warned of above freezing temps, rain, and continued thaw in parts of the state.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Health Department
Lancaster
Coast Guard
Delaware
Schuylkill
Susquehanna
Monongahela
Allegheny
Pasig River Front Line In Manila Battles
The Pasig River and its blown bridges form the frontline in Manila as house to house fighting, fires, and shelling rage across the liberated north bank. Japanese casualties near 48,000 on Luzon. U S forces advance with strong air and armor support while avoiding civilian harm. South of the river demolition fires continue as First Cavalry and 37th Infantry push to curb remaining Japanese pockets.
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Fred Manila
Pasig
Manila
Luzon
Orient
Santo Tomas University
Pasir
Escolta
Four Teens Rob Downtown Hotel in Jackson
Four teen aged white boys held up the Walthall hotel in Jackson Mississippi early today escaping with about $750 then captured by police within hours. Names listed include Carl Williams 17 Glenn Bannister 16 James Church 20 and Donald Rumph 18. Charges of robbery with firearms were to be filed.
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Jackson
Miss
Walthall
Carl Taylor Williams
Glenn Davis Bannister
James Church
Hattiesburg
Donald E. Rumph
Petal
W. C. Dear
Dear
Williams
Bannister
Ruimph
Church
Japs Look for China Landing
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer said American Luzon gains pressured Japan to plan a China landing. He noted Tokyo hopes to build a deep Asian belt while considering limited offensives. Chinese forces beat back a Japanese drive near Tayu as heavy fighting continued in Kiangsi and Kanhsien.
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Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Luzon
China
Asia
United States Army
Philippines
Wedemeyer
Tayu
Kiangsi
Kanhsien
Kan River
United States 14Th Air Force
Americans Seize Bloody Schmidt in Roer Front Breakthrough
American First Army broke the Siegfried Line near Schmidt 15 miles southeast of Aachen and pushed toward the Roer dams, aiming to unleash floods. Third Army advances near Pruem and Dueren tightened a widening offensive across the Eifel and Roer front as Patton fortified new positions. Berlin and German reports forecast a major Allied push along the Roer with Cologne and the Rhine as goals.
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James M. Long
Paris
First Army
Siegfried Line
Aachen
Bloody Schmidt
Roer
Cologne
Rhine
Ruhr
Dueren
Schwammenauel
Schmidt
78Th
Roermond
Third
Pruem
Coblenz
Eifel
Kommerscheidt
310Th
Earl M. Miner
Bridgeport
Conn
Schwammenauel Reservoir
Germany
Third Army
Obermehlen
George S. Patton Jr
West Wall
Berlin
Saar
Schleiden
Courtney H. Hodges
Big Three meet in Washington amid secrecy concerns
Washington notes a highly publicized wartime gathering as President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin confer. Lawmakers expect a post meeting briefing by Chairman Connally while censorship curbs factual reporting. Absentee top officials and security limits highlight the secrecy around the talks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Connally
Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Stettinius
James F Byrnes
Harry L. Hopkins
George C. Marshall
Army
Ernest J. King
William D. Leahy
Stephen Early
E. M. Watson
Big Three Meet in Russia Plan Smashing Nazis
The Big Three Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin meet on Russian soil as Moscow reports announce a speedy complete agreement on military prosecution of the war. Berlin broadcasts warn of failed German hopes for discord while Izvestia cites a postwar frontier debate delaying France's role in policing Germany.
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London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Berlin
Black Sea
Izvestia
Moscow
All Freedom
Germany
Europe
France
Charles de Gaulle
Casualty totals show 765,584 American losses since war start
Washington February 8 The army reports 676,796 killed wounded and missing along with 58,878 prisoners while the navy lists 33,192 killed 40,248 wounded and 9,873 missing This update adds 21,242 to prior totals and notes 191,439 wounded have returned to duty and 865,000 Germans taken prisoner on the Western Front since June.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Stimson
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Westbrook
Pegler
Enator O'Mahoney
Santo Tomas
U. S. Navy
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Leyte Island
U. 8
Lafayette Navigation
Rth P
Pasic
Nth
Roer River
Russia
Prut
Turkey
Odessa
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
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