Attacks Begun On Other Marshall Isles NIMITZ PLANS CHINA LANDING
United States forces report Kwajalein atoll secured with organized resistance ceased. Admiral Nimitz says conquest completed eight days after invasion and future operations will limit Japanese use of Marshall bases.
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Lawmakers Seek Quick Income Tax Simplification Plan
Senate finance chair George of Georgia and House Ways and Means members push joint action to cut tax complexity. They favor withholding as final tax for many earners and aim to spare about 30 million taxpayers from filing returns. A House proposal suggests a short form for incomes under 3000 dollars with treasury withholding and assessment.
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Back Rayburn for 2nd Place in Democratic VP Tilt
Washington dispatch reports early preconvention moves to pledge support for House Speaker Sam Rayburn as a running mate option. With Roosevelt’s term prospects uncertain, strategists eye Rayburn to gain a lead for the 1948 presidential race and potential roles after the war ends.
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Married pilots fight well says Marine ace in Pacific
Advanced South Pacific base report cites Marine Captain Harold R Spears of Ironton Iowa as the south Pacifics third ranking air ace. He and wife Mary Elizabeth Anderson of Newark Ohio were married in 1942. Spears says he fights with no thought besides returning home to his wife. He recently downed his 14th Japanese plane near Rabaul. His wingman Creighton Chandler from West Point Mississippi has five confirmed kills.
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Harold R Spears
Ironton
South Pacific
Spears
Mary Elizabeth Anderson
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Iowan
Rabaul
Snears
Creighton Chandler
West Point
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Finland denies surrender despite Helsinki threat
Finnish foreign office and Helsinki papers denied a report that Finland would not surrender even if Helsinki were razed. Washington said no such comment was made and censorship limited publication to authorized statements amid Soviet pressure and peace talks rumors in Stockholm and Geneva.
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Warden Resigns Over Brady Execution in Kansas
Warden M F Amrine quit the Kansas State prison rather than supervise the planned hanging of Fred L Brady set for April 15. He called capital punishment barbarous and said he would not participate in an act he deems unworthy of a civilized state. Governor Schoeppel denied clemency for Brady, marking the first scheduled execution in Kansas in over seven decades.
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Earth Swallows 3 Year Old Tot in Pittston Cave In
In Pittston Pennsylvania a three year old girl Jule Ann Fulmer was buried alive when an abandoned anthracite mine subsidence opened under a sidewalk. Miners fought darkness and floodlights to reach her as a second squeeze widened the shaft and rescue crews installed cribbing.
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Missionaries slain by Americans claim heavy toll near New Guinea
Tokyo radio claimed American airmen killed 58 missionaries or relatives and wounded 80 in a machine gun attack on Japanese barges near Wewak New Guinea last Sunday. Authorities will report to the Vatican on the alleged inhuman gunning as part of wartime propaganda.
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Louisiana Official Named Vice Chairman of AAMVA Enforcement Panel
Brigadier General Steve Alford director of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety has been named vice chairman of region two on the AAMVA enforcement committee for 1944. Other members include Homer Garrison Jr. of Texas DPS in Austin and Captain N W Kimbrough of the Alabama highway patrol in Montgomery.
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American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
Homer Garrison, Jr
Texas Department of Public Safety
Austin
N. W. Kimbrough
Alabama Highway Patrol
Montgomery
Service Vote Feud Spurs Senate House Conference Action
Washington reports a battle over a uniform federal ballot for service members as the senate passes a bill for federal ballots and the house prefers state control. Conferees Worley Rankin Bonner Lecomte Ellsworth named to resolve the clash amid calls for compromise and Taft proposals.
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Iowa
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War casualties of Australia listed this year
Canberra, Australia, Feb 9. Prime Minister John Curtin announced total Australian war casualties at the start of the year stand at 66,930. Among them 16,480 were killed, with 36,600 casualties in the war with Japan including 7,500 killed, 7,500 wounded, 19,900 prisoners and 4,700 massing.
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Japan
Red s Close In On Krivoil Rog In France
United bombers pound northern France and German Atlantic wall targets for a third time in 24 hours along with RAF medium, light, and fighter-bombers. The operation follows yesterday’s raids on Frankfurt and earlier attacks on Limoges and Brittany.
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Morgan Plans Message to Voters in Louisiana Governor Race
Lewis L. Morgan, backed by Old Regulars, will deliver an important statewide radio address tonight at 6:30 p.m. and resume campaigning tomorrow after a week off the stump. The Old Regulars reaffirmed endorsement of the full ticket including Earl K. Long for lieutenant governor. Morgan called for support from unbossed and independent voters as he plots a four day speaking tour.
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Earl K. Long
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Five Die in Opelousas Truck Van Collision Near Livionia
In Louisiana on February 9, a truck carrying five Opelousas men collided with a parked van east of Livionia. Two killed Joseph Dupuy and Clarence Berlin died at the scene. five others were seriously injured and taken to Our Lady of the Lake sanitarium where identities were pending. The group was en route to a local defense plant.
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Walker
Russians Close On Krivoi Rog In Multi Front Push
Russian forces tighten grip on Krivoi Rog from three sides after breaching the Dnieper bend at Nikopol and push toward Kherson and Nikolaev. German losses at Nikopol cited, with encirclement threats and reduced Red Star morale reports amid battlefield conditions.
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Ouachita Parish Nears War Bond Goal With Five Days Left
Ouachita Parish public and corporate buyers face a last push to meet the Fourth War Loan target. As of noon Wednesday sales total 2 339 093 dollars, about 700 000 short of the quota. Chairman J Rogers urges individuals to buy 250 000 in Series E and businesses 500 000 in F and G to push past the deadline February 15.
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Dumbo rescues airmen around Bougainville and Rabaul
Base reports PBY Catalina named Dumbo rescued 38 airmen in 35 days as air war intensifies around Bougainville and New Britain. Some pilots never survive, others are captured or perish. Dumbo remains relentless, spotting danger and reporting lifeboats and rafts.
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One Fourth of Cassino Taken by Allied Troops
Allied forces report about one quarter of Cassino captured with heavy fighting around Mt Cassino. US troops drive toward the abbey on the summit as Mitchell bombers strike Cisterna. Air and ground actions continue along the Anzio bridgehead and surrounding fronts.
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Daring Raid by U S S Ranger Off Norway
The navy disclosed that the U S S Ranger conducted a daring raid into enemy waters off Norway destroying more than 40000 tons of German shipping. The carrier, active in Atlantic convoys and North Africa invasion support, carried planes and pilots to fronts and led in various campaigns. The October strike followed Hitler claiming the Ranger’s sinking and honored submarine commander Otto von Bu low.
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Otto von Bulow
Weeks Named Senator for Massachusetts in Surprise Move
Sinclair Weeks, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, was named United States senator for Massachusetts to replace Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Weeks, a Newton resident, was appointed by Governor Leverett Saltonstall at a brief state house ceremony. The governor also announced his own candidacy for the November Senate race.
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Sinclair Weeks
Republican National Committee
United States
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
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Leverett Saltonstall
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