Soviet Army Drive Envelops German Force In White Russia
Soviet dispatches indicate Red Army pincers closing on a large German force in the Smolensk Mozhaisk corridor. Byponding Smolensk, Vitebsk and Velizh sectors, Russians claim a shrinking escape route as fighting costs Germans heavily and Moscow marks its army anniversary with expected good news.
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Associated Press
Russia
Republic of White Russia
Moscow
Mozhaisk
Smolensk
Red Army
Sozh River
Velizh
Vitebsk
White Russia
Ruslavl
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Soviet Information Bureau
Crimean
Feodosiya
Finland
Royal Navy
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Brest
Ger
Rival Chicago dailies clash over New Deal war stance
Westbrook Pegler notes Chicago Tribune and Daily News with Marshall Field's Sun battle over gov’t policy and Pearl Harbor, praising McCormick’s independence while criticizing media influence on politics. Frank Knox shifts from anti New Deal to wartime inevitability alignment.
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
The
Daily News
Marshall Field
the Sun
Middle West
Georgia Senator Seeks Broader Tax Basis for $7 Billion Gain
Senator George of Georgia said Congress may widen the income tax base or adopt a sales or payroll levy to raise $7 billion in the next fiscal year. He opposes lowering exemptions and dismissed a payroll tax plan, though month to month withholdings were discussed as a tool to curb spending and ease annual tax payments.
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Washington
George
Georgia
Congress
Senate
Roosevelt
Passenger Trains Crash Reported Near Hypoluxo Florida
Palm Beach Fla Feb 19 VP The Seaboard railway reports a wreck near Hypoluxo seven miles south of here Two passenger trains were involved early notes but no details yet Medical staffs were alerted and crews rushed to the scene The Sea Birds Sun Beam northbound and the Orange Blossom Special southbound were identified with no trains involved and officials noted a possible sideswipe logic remains to be learned
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Pee Palm Beach
Fla
Seaboard Railway Office
Hypoluxo
Seards
Jami
Miami
Fort Lauders
Jacksonville
G. L. Hurley
Mother of Eleven Is Honored by City
Lebanon, Pa. honors Mrs. Reuben McLaughlin as the outstanding mother. Four of her 11 children serve in the army, including Sergeant John McLaughlin and Privates Franklin Reuben Jr. and Clarence McLaughlin, with two others overseas. She worries and hopes for an early victory, while remaining proud of her sons’ service.
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Lebanon
Reuben McLaughlin
C. Ray Bell
WPA
John McLaughlin
Franklin
Reuben, Jr
Clarence McLaughlin
America
Blum Denounces Constitutional Fatal Flaw At War Defeat Trial
In unoccupied France on February 19 former Premier Leon Blum challenged the court and France's government as unconstitutional. He argued only the chamber of deputies may indict a minister and only the senate may try him. Maurice Gamelin as co defendant clashed over roots of France defeat during opening session.
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Riom
France
Leon Blum
Blum
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Gamelin
Prominent Chemist Fatally Injured En Route to Wilmington
A B Miller Hercules Powder chemist was found dead near railroad tracks in Tuscaloosa Alabama after illness in Hattiesburg Mississippi. He was en route to Wilmington from Hattiesburg where he worked at the company's experimental station. Surviving are wife Hazel and two sons Don and Hugh.
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Wilmington
Del
A. B. Miller
Hercules Powder Company
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Miller
Hattiesburg
Miss
Foster King
Chattanooga
Prisoner status listed for Eighth Naval District men in China
The Navy reports 239 men from the Eighth district serving in China are presumed prisoners of war after the December 7 attack on Pacific island outposts. Of these, 34 are civilian employees. total civilians presumed captured reach 1,200. States listed include Texas 93 and Oklahoma 47, Louisiana 29, Mississippi 25, Arkansas 23, Alabama 13, Tennessee 7, Florida 2.
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New Orleans
Navy
Eighth Naval District
China
Pacific
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Alabama
Tennessee
Florida
Navy Department
Navy and
Marine Corps
Stimson Foresees Broad U S Offensive Against Axis
Secretary of War Stimson warned in Washington that the nation should expect attacks along coasts and other areas as submarines struck the Netherlands Caribbean island Aruba. He urged readiness against public pressure to scatter defenses and pledged urgent preparations for offense, citing a surge of 90 441 volunteers in January as proof the army will surge to victory.
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Washington
Stimson
Natio
Netherlands Caribbean
Aruba
United Nations
Bills push to raise soldiers' pay and family allowances
Senator Johnson proposes increasing base pay for enlisted men from 21 to 42 dollars a month and a sliding scale for officers. Representative Edmiston backs an allotment system requiring at least 15 dollars monthly sent to dependents, with 15 dollars more from the government. Johnson criticizes the administration for not acting and notes the bill awaits a budget bureau report.
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Washington
Johnson
Colorado
Edmiston
West Virginia
Army-Navy
Budget Bureau
British Forces Sweep Eastern Mediterranean Campaign
British warships and planes completed a four day sweep in the eastern Mediterranean damaging two cruisers and a destroyer and destroying five axis warplanes. Two British merchant ships were set afire and later sunk while another freighter suffered superficial damage. The action ranged from Malta to Alexandria and into the Ionian Sea with heavy air attacks paused only by escort vessels’ heavy anti aircraft fire. The German dive bomber attack on February 14 struck our ship afterdeck killing no one aboard.
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Preston Grover
Associated Press
Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean
Malta
Ionian Sea
F B I Seizes Over 250 Enemy Aliens in California Raids
Federal agents raided five counties in California and arrested more than 250 enemy aliens, mostly Japanese. In Santa Maria, more than 200 Japanese were taken, with guns radios and cameras seized. other raids reached Santa Barbara and Yolo Yuba and Placer counties. Hartwig Reese a German artist was also seized in San Francisco amid discovery of Nazi items.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Federal Bureau of Investigation
California
San Luis Obispo
Santa Maria Club
Murray C. Hathaway
Oso Flaco
Santa Barbara County
Percy Heckendorf
John L. DeWitt
Western Defense Command
San Francisco
Yolo
Yuba
Placer
Hartwig Reese
Reese
Terminal Island
Los Angeles Harbor
Man Fatally Burned While Lighting Gas Fire
James Andrew Foster 54 of 202 Egan street died from severe burns after his clothing caught fire while lighting the Neeley residence gas fire early Thursday. He was taken to a clinic where he died. Funeral arrangements planned for Decatur Alabama, with Mulhearn Funeral Home in charge. He leaves his mother Mrs. Alice Foster sister Mrs. Neeley brother George W. Foster and nephew Louis Black now at Camp Claiborne.
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James Andrew Foster
F. B. Neeley
Egan Street
Neeley
Mr. Foster
Decatur
Ala
Mulhearn Funeral
Alice Foster
Mrs. Neeley
George W. Foster
Vidalia
Louis Black
United States Army
Camp Claiborne
Clerk subdues armed robber with bottle in Pasadena
In Pasadena on February 19 Emmett Quinn, a drug store clerk, reports felling a would be robber with a whisky bottle after the suspect warned of a holdup and waved an unloaded pistol. The gun was examined and found to hold five cartridges. The bleeding suspect was jailed.
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Pasadena
Calif
Emmett Quinn
Senate panel votes to repeal congressmen pension law
Senate civil service committee votes 4 2 to send repeal of the pension law for Congress to the floor. The measure would remove Congress the president and vice president and cabinet members from participation in the civil service retirement system and require repayment of any past payments within thirty days. The vote comes as house panel also begins consideration of repeal amid opposition from government employee unions.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Civil Service Committee
House Civil Service Committee
Ramspeck
Georgia
Senate Committee
Congress
Civil Service
Byrd
Virginia
Burton
Ohio
Bailey
North Carolina
Johnson
Colorado
Harry B. Mitchell
The
Civil Service Commission
Britain to Launch 2 New Battleships
In London reports say the 35 000 ton battleships Anson and Howe of the King George V class will join the fleet soon. Churchill pledged royal navy reinforcement before Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Anson and Howe, launched in 1940 and 1939 respectively, may be at sea or in trials.
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London
Anson
Howe
Churchill
Scharnhorst
Royal Navy
Beatty
Allied troops arrive in Java to bolster Dutch East Indies defense
American and other foreign troops reach Java to aid in defending the Dutch East Indies from Japan. Aneta notes small US ground forces and air units are now present, yet not yet enough. Japanese warplanes strike Darwin and advance toward Rangoon as Palembang resists in Sumatra.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Java
Dutch East Indies
Japan
Lower
Sumatra
Aneta
United States
United Nations
Pacific
Darwin
Burma
Tokyo
Rangoon
China
Dutch Indies
Palembang
Rising Sun
Soerabaja
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
MacArthur
State Defense Tour Planned Across Louisiana
A statewide tour will bring civilian defense speakers to every parish in Louisiana to explain war era government efforts. Roland Cocreham outlines aims to spur civilian defense prep, food production, health precautions, and defense bond and stamp sales alongside post meeting council discussions to resolve local issues. He notes tours exclude metropolitan defense industry areas.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Roland Cocreham
Cocreham
Learn’s Missing Son Prisoner Revealed in Wake Island List
Los Angeles February 19. E F Wilson an Associated Press wire editor has waited since mid December for news of his son Franklin Marquette Wilson a navy seaman 2nd class listed as missing in action then identified as a prisoner of war on Wake Island. His Glendale California address is shown.
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Los Angeles
E. F. Wilson
Associated Press
Navy
Wake Island
Wilson
Franklin Marquette
Maryland
Aves Nue
Glendale
Calif
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Hurley
Rod Campbell
Amen
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