Ground fighting at Cassino and Anzio fronts
Allied troops pressed the Cassino assault under a six hour barrage as American and British units on the Anzio beachhead repelled German attempts to break through. Allied air forces carried out 1,500 sorties aiding ground troops with heavy bomber strikes and fighter-bomber support.
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Naples
Cassino
Mt. Cassino
Rome
Mediterranean
Monastery Hill
Monte Cassino
Anzio
Cisterna
Carroceto
Adolf Hitler
Local Notes From Across The Nation
A collage of brief items shows Leap day plans in Ditsville Pa and birthday leaves in Isbury Conn. Henry Couse mails a London observation, Kiwanis in New York notes a top reading score, and George Wer earns a tax discovery in Rochester. Linemen race to lay rural lines in New York as Los Angeles drills test bomb handling. Pete Reilly finds a 1878 Abilene clipping inspiring war bond ads in Kansas.
Allied ship sinks in European waters with heavy loss
An Allied troop transport was torpedoed at night in European waters. The army says about 1,000 American soldiers were lost with the ship, while roughly 1,000 were saved. Survivors’ locations and exact fate remain unclear amid censorship.
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Atlantic
Presit Coolidge
Pacific
Alabama's First Oil Well Reported Near Gilbertown
Abama's first oil well is reported near Gilbertown in Choctaw County Alabama about 75 miles north and west of Mobile. Dr. J. Lloyd, acting state geologist, cited Hunt & Company of Shreveport as the driller and owner. The well produced at 20 gravity with 70 barrels per day at depths between 3000 and 4000 feet. Geologists head to Gilbertown to study the producing site.
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Uscaloosa
Ala
Abama
Gilbertown
Petaw County
Mobile
J. Lloyd
Lloyd
Alabama
Army Captain To Operate On Hiccuping Girl In New York
Anna Mayer 21 has hiccuped 46 days and was taken to Kew Gardens hospital where Captain Lester Samuels of the Army Medical Corps on emergency leave will perform surgery. He previously treated her during a 42 day siege. Mayer asked President Roosevelt to help secure leave. the request was approved. Lieutenant Edwin Green accompanied the doctor and denied prior denial reports.
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New York
Anna Mayer
Kew Gardens Hospital
Lester Samuels
Army Medical Corps
Samuels
Captain Samuels
Transportation Corps
Green
Southstone Park
New York City
Roosevelt
Surgeon General of the Army
Ninth Air Force Spearheads Allied Invasion Effort
London reports the United States Ninth Air Force has been reorganized and expanded in Britain as the aerial spearhead for Europe invasion. It joins Royal Air Force ground support units to form the Allied Expeditionary Air Force under Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory, aiming to achieve air superiority to knock the enemy from the sky in the opening Germany campaign. General William Butler is named deputy commander. General Lewis Brereton leads the Ninth.
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London
United States
Ninth Air Force
Middle East
Asia
Britain
Europe
Supreme Allied Command
Ninth
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory
Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William O. Butler
Leigh- Mallory
Expeditionary Air Force
Butler
Alaska
Lewis H. Brereton
India
Manila
Java
Australia
United States Eighth Air Force
R. A. F. Bomber Command
Wil
Seek Compromise on Service Vote
Washington reports ongoing talks over a service vote bill. House conferees demand exclusive stage control of armed forces voting while Senate conferees push federal ballots for military voters. Senator Green of Rhode Island and Senator Hatch of New Mexico express cautious optimism for a possible agreement.
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Washington
House
Senate
Green
Rhode Island
Hatch
New Mexico
Evacuation of Staraya Russa Signals German Retreat in Russia
British and Moscow reports describe the evacuation of Staraya Russa as German retreat amid eastern front collapses. Red army claims massive Korsun trap victory with 52 000 killed and 11 000 captured, 84 900 German losses. Berlin counters with a relief tank breakthrough and corridor through German forces in Ukraine.
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Red Army
Lake Umen
Korsun
Dnieper
Russia
Stalingrad
Stalin
Berlin
Baltic States
Hitler
Moscow
Staraya Russa
Lovat
Novgorod
Lake Ilmen
Leningrad
Pskov
Lake Imen
Shimsk
Cherkasy
Italy's Labor Active Again In Salerno Convention
Liberated southern Italy's reborn General Confederation of Labor sends delegates to a three day Salerno convention. Key topics include reopening idle factories with Allied aid, wage adjustments amid high living costs, and cooperatives for rationed food distribution. Leaders aim for political neutrality to avoid past factional splits.
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Salerno
Italy
General Confederation of Labor
Rome
Churchill poker player claims by Nazi chief
Lisbon report quotes Robert Ley in Der Angriff saying Churchill’s statesmanship hinges on a gambler’s temperament. Ley calls him a poker player who provokes opponents into overreaching themselves, claiming bluff and hypocrisy mark his skill.
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Lisbon
Churchill
Robert Ley
Labor Front
der Angriff
Ley
Jap convoy pummeled by Allied bombers near Mussau Island
Allied report says a Japanese convoy seeking to supply garrisons in the Bismarck Archipelago lost six ships, sunk or damaged, as Allied air strikes continued. Liberator, Catalina, and Mitchell aircraft attacked escort vessels, tankers, transports, and cargo ships off Mussau, with further raids on Rabaul and nearby airfields.
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Southwest Pacific
Mussau Island
Bismarck Archipelago
Douglas MacArthur
Bismarck Islands
Wiliam F. Halsey
Rabaul
New Britain
Vunakanau
Tobera
Rapopo
South Pacific
Green Islands
New Zealand
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Kahili
Bougainville
Buka Island
Borpop
New Ireland
Kavieng
Cape Gloucester
Rottock Bay
Cape
Wunung Plantation
Jacquinot Bay
Mot River
Saidor
New Guinea
Defense Attacks Juvenile Court Validity in Caddo Parish
Louisiana, Feb. 18. Defense attorney W W McDonald argues the 1924 act creating the office of juvenile judge for Caddo parish is unconstitutional and that juvenile court procedures violate due process. He challenges admissibility of hearsay and ex parte probation reports and seeks recusal of Judge Chris Barnette. Barnette plans to have a district judge hear the case.
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Shreveport
Caddo
W. W. McDonald
McDonald
Caddo Parish
Ex-parte
Chris Barnette
Barnette
Roosevelt vetoes anti subsidy bill in fiery message
President Roosevelt vetoed the anti subsidy bill calling it an inflation and high cost of living measure. The House sustained the veto 226 to 151 as congress debated extending the Commodity Credit Corporation life to 1945 pending further legislation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Rayburn
Democrat
Texas
Congress
Davis Warns on Postwar Tools and Vocational Schools
Louisiana governor candidate James H. Davis told Greensburg residents that postwar federal surplus tools should be used to expand trade and vocational schools in the state. He urged a unified government across communities to mobilize support and accused a city ring of trying to control Louisiana politics.
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Greensburg
James H. Davis
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Davis
New York Proposes 48 Votes for U S at Peace Conference
Albany N Y Feb 18 14 New Yorks legislature considers a resolution by Senator Edward J Coughlin Brooklyn Democrat to give the United States 48 voting seats at any peace conference to match Russia 16 states and outvote England if needed The measure would authorize Roosevelt to represent New York and supporters argue it would provide proper representation in negotiations.
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Albany
N. Y
New York
United States
Russia
Edward J. Coughlin
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
Coughlin
England
Hopkins Dies Hero’s Death On Namur Island
Marines tell how Private First Class Stephen P. Hopkins, son of Harry Hopkins, died a hero’s death on Namur Island during the Marshall Islands battle. He was 18 and known as Hoppy for his cool courage as an ammunition carrier and flank security man.
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Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands
Stephen P. Hopkins
Harry Hopkins
Namur
Hoppy
Hopkins
US Carrier Forces Launch Attack on Truk Fortress
The US Navy struck Truk Atoll in the central Pacific with heavy air power from carriers protected by battleships cruisers and destroyers. Admiral Nimitz said the attack commenced citing a strong strike that followed the conquest of Kwajalein, extending American reach 1000 miles eastward.
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Truk
mid-Pacific
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
United States
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshalls
United States Fleet Ever Amassed In the Pocifics
Nimitz’ Cryptiee
Exiled Polish Cabinet Drafts Agreement With Russia
The Polish government in exile drew new compromise proposals aimed at an agreement with the Soviet Union. The talks, shared with British Foreign Minister Eden for Moscow, suggest concessions may be offered while Moscow holds to the 1939 German Soviet border.
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London
Peles
Moroscow
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Russia
Kremlin
Anthony Eden
Moscow
Churchill
London News Chronicle
Bold American assault on Truk shocks Tokyo
Japanese radio reported ground fighting as U S carrier task forces bombarded Truk in the central Carolines with hundreds of aircraft. Tokyo claimed powerful mechanized units and air power supported a heavy raid but cautioned it may be only a strong reconnaissance.
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Chungking
Truk
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
China
Carolines
Associated Pres
Tokyo
mid-Pacific
United States Navy
Imperial Headquarters
Pearl Harbor
Truk Pronounced Like Tronk in Reported AP Note
The Associated Press states that Truk, a fortress in the Caroline Islands, is pronounced as if written Tronk with a long double o as in food.
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Truk
Ares Fortress
Caroline Islands
Boy 9 Presses Naval Enlistment Amid Runaway Spree
Nine year old Carl Fromme repeatedly tried to enlist in the navy. After a Philadelphia run with sailors and a marine he was detained by police and returned home with his mother and grandmother. He was last seen near Times Square pursuing officers.
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New York
Feo
Carl Fromme
Navy
Philadelphia
Riverside Drive
Carl
Marcel Fromme
Ffimes Square
Fromme
House of Detention
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Aungst
Morris Aungst
Horace Goodyear
Henry Couse
Mpstead
Kiwanis Club
George Wer
Mercy Bleskill
Bly
OS Angeles
Peka
Kans
Pete Reilly
Abilene
Newsver
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Vin
Coleone
Edward Dietl Jabove
Finland
Republic
Dietl
A. P
9Th Air Force
Hun
Smolensk
Claims Churchill
Mussau
Gibert B. Bailey
Delphi, Inc
Marine Corps
The
Pacific Fleet
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