Soviet forces drive deeper into Ukraine and Caucasus front
Moscow reports Red Army gains in Orel province capturing towns near Orel and advancing behind the front. Taganrog's supply line cut by Seizing Matveev-Kurgan north of the Sea of Azov. Western Caucasus drive pins Germans toward the Kerch Strait while Deneka basin pressure grows.
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Moscow
Hardhitting
Red Army
Orel
Zlegoshch
Yelets
Taganrog
Rostov
Matveev-Kurgan
Sea of Azov
Gorlovka
Caucasus
Peninula
Kerch
Crimea
Deneta
Novoshakhtinek
Voroshilovgread
Kramatorsk
High Command
Berlin
Congress Moves to Regulate Unions with New Accountability
Westbrook Pegler reports a push in Congress to curb union power through measures enforcing incorporation, stricter accounting of union funds, and bans on political contributions from treasuries. The Hobbs anti robbery and extortion amendment faces likely House passage, amid debate over impact on labor and national interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Sern Hobbs
Alabama
Judiciary Committee
Sufpreme
Unioniama
Treasuries
Acta
Defense Housing: 18 new Monroe units begin construction
Permits to start 18 defense housing units for Monroe were granted and construction has begun. Union Construction Company, lead contractor, works in the 1500 and 1500 blocks of South Second and South Third streets. Expected occupancy in sixty days. One story frame houses with six rooms and bath cost 3406 each to be built on listed Second and Third street addresses. Five room and bath houses costing 5000 will rise at other listed lots.
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Monroe
Seam H.wi
Union Construction Company
Hous
South Second South Third
South Second
South Third
Arizona executes attacker of child Marylin Atkins
Florence Morenci Arizona Feb 19 Jim Rawlins 46 died in the state gas chamber after being executed for the rape and murder of eight year old Marilyn Atkins. He was strapped in the chair at 6 05 and pronounced dead eight and a half minutes later. Warden G Walker announced the death to witnesses near the glass partition. Rawlins had raped and strangled the girl in Morenci on August 29 and spent his last hour with two ministers including Morenci pastor Elbert and prison chaplain S B.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence, Ariz
Jim Rawlins
Arizona
Murer
Marylinda Atkins
Rawlins
G. Walker
Wlns
Morenci
Elbert
S B
Bomber Crash Leaves Many Dead at Frye Plant
Seattle reports a four motor bomber crashed into the Frye and Company packing plant during a tests flight. The disaster already claimed 73 dead or missing with 15 bodies recovered in the first hours. The pilot Edmund T. Allen led Boeing's flight and aerodynamics division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Bering
Frye and Company
Boeing Field
Boeing
Edmund T. Allen
Boeing Flight and Aerodynamics
Four Frye Company
Allied Air Offensive Targets Japanese Shipping and Bases
Allied forces launched a two hour air sweep over Kahili airdrome Buin and attacked Madang and Lae Waria areas. Catalina bombers destroyed enemy aircraft and caused fires at Kahili. Beaufighters damaged a 300 ton schooner and a 30 foot launch. Liberators hit Madang and Finschafen runways. launches damaged and enemy aborts noted.
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Australia
Madang
New Guinea
Buin
Solomon Islands
Southwest Pacific
Catalina
Kahili
Liberator
Finschafen
Lae-Waria
F D R Promises Aid To China At Earliest Date
The article notes President Roosevelt pledging aid to China as soon as possible. It highlights the new Supreme Court justice Wiley Rutledge appearing in robes for the first time since taking the oath. He is the eighth justice appointed by FDR.
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China
United States Supreme Court
Asociate
Wiley Rutledge
Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Young Rowland Among Two Ellington Cadets Killed
Thomas F. Rowland Jr. a 23 year old Ellington field flying cadet from Pine Bluff Arkansas died in a twin engine trainer crash 16 miles northwest of Batson Texas. Cadet Major F Russell of Nacogdoches Texas also perished. The crash occurred during a routine flight after dark. A board of inquiry from the field is investigating. Rowland's aunt Mrs H K Roberts notified in Blytheville Arkansas where he lived while student at Northeast Junior College. He was a Pine Bluff High School graduate and journalism major who worked on the Pow Wow and Flying Lines while in training. He is survived by his parents and a sister Mrs William A Galloway.
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Thomas F. Rowland, Jr
T. F. Rowland
Pine Bluff
Ark
Ellington Field
Batson
Texas
Major F. Russell
Isom P. Russell
Nacogdoches
H. K. Roberts
Rowland
Northeast Junior College
College
Louisiana State University
Air Corps
Corsicana
Flying Lines
William A. Galloway
Blytheville
Two Soldiers Ask For Each Other's Addresses at Camp Howze
At Camp Howze Texas two privates Jack Kilfoy and Dick Mayer who joined together seek each other and family letters. Kilfoy and Mayer are in the same division and both request the others address from their parents.
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Peka
Kans
Jack Kilfoy
Dick Mayer
Kilfoy
John L. Kilfoy
Kilroys
Camp Howze
Tex
Chinese First Lady Joins White House Press Q&A
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek urged U S aid to China with more war implements while President Roosevelt vowed rapid action. The two leaders answered questions jointly as Americans discussed boosting the force to 7 5 million in 1943 and using China as a base against Japan.
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Washington
Chiang Kai-Shek
White House
Roosevelt
Madame Chiang
Persident
Mr. Roosevelt
Bill 10 lifts wartime salary cap to Pearl Harbor levels
Washington reports the House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill to repeal the executive order capping post tax salaries at 25 000 for individuals and 54 000 for married couples. The measure sets wartime pay at Pearl Harbor levels and faces opposition from Doughton.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House Ways and Means Committee
Ihs
Pearl Harbor
Doughton
North Carolina
Disney
Oklahoma
Coughton
Jimmy Byrnes
Little Steel
House
Goebbels Appeals for Sympathy in Alarm Speech
Goebbels calls for world sympathy for Nazi Germany while refraining from direct attacks on the United States and Britain. He blames Bolshevism and strained Allied relations, noting pressure from Soviet advances and predicting possible German withdrawals to the Dnieper and Duna basins with strategic consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Germany
Russia
Goebbels
Berlin
United States
Great Britain
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Churchill
Soviet Russia
Britain
Europe
Friedrich Paulus
Stalingrad
Weltwoche
Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Germany
Duna
Dnieper
Crimea
Black Sea
Balkan
Four Czech resistance members sentenced to death in homeland
Four more Czechs were sentenced to death for organizing and carrying on propaganda for the illegal Czech movement of resistance against Nazi domination, according to a Reuters dispatch from Zurich dated February 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuters
Zurich
Americans Retreat in Tunisia Recounted by Boyle
Reporter Harold V. Boyle describes American withdrawal in Tunisia as a strategic retreat not a rout. He notes tanks and soldiers fighting to slow German advance, the field littered with broken vehicles, and guards in the Sheitla Feriana valley watching almond trees and olive groves as troops vow to strike back at the Nazis once ordered.
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Harold V. Boyle
U. S
Tunisia
Jerry
Germany
Star of America
New York
Tunis
Sfax
Sheitla-Feriana
United States
Michael Higgins, Jr
New York City
Open hearings sought on labor bill in Congress
Chairman Sabath urged the House rules committee to waive its rule to hear voices from the AFL CIO and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen on the Hobbs anti racketeering bill. He opposed the measure while noting wartime labor cooperation and the need to keep hearings open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sabath
Illinois
House Rules Committee
Organized Labor
Congress
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Brotherhood of Railway
Philip Murray
Murray
Senator Overton pushes measure to guard natural gas
Senator Overton of Louisiana introduces a bill to tighten federal power commission controls over natural gas reserves. The plan would require certificates for pipeline construction after weighing reserves adequacy and social economic effects, plus value and uses of gas in industry. Overton argues gas is rapidly depleted and Louisiana gas is piped interstate to distant areas, underscoring price advantages tempt pipelines to ship Louisiana gas out of state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Overton
Louisiana
Federal Power Commission
Ford B Bosses Report Labor Shortage Slows Willow Run Bomber Output
Ford sources say manpower shortage and high absenteeism hinder Willow Run bomber production. Senate investigators led by Senator Truman visit the plant to view Liberator work and final assembly efforts amid claimed design changes delaying rates.
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David J. Wilkie
Detroit
Willow Run
Ford
Senate
Truman
Democrat
Missouri
Office of War Information
Hugh Fulton
Senate War Investigating Committee
Widely Used General Stars Move Through War Theatre
New Delhi February 19 14 The most widely worn general’s stars in this war theater were placed on Brigadier General William S Old of Texas by Brigadier General Clayton Bissell head of the Tenth Air Force in India and China. The stars have rotated among several officers including Doolittle Chennault Haynes and Oliver, and will return to Bissell when Old receives his own pair.
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New Delhi
William S. Old
Uvaide
Tex
Clayton Bissell
Tenth Air Force
India
China
Kane
Sewanee
Tenn
John Magruder
Bissell
James H. Doolittle
Chungking
Tokyo
Doolittle
Claire L. Chennault
Chennault
Caleb V. Haynes
India Air Task Force
Robert C. Oliver
Maxwell Field
Ala
Air Service Command
Old
Germans Fear First British Army Attack Near Tunis
Allied communique reports Rommel’s central Tunisia drive slowed to skirmishes near Feriana while French troops withdraw north of the Faid Pass. American and British forces stabilize alpine Tunisian borders as Montgomery seizes Foum Tatahouine and presses toward Mareth line amid scattered resistance.
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Daniel de Luce
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Tunisia
Pichon
Faid Pass
Rommel
Feriana
Tunis
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Cairo
Foumtahouine
Matmata
Ramada
Foum Tatahouine
Medenine
Allied Forces Halt German Offensive in Tunisia
A French North Africa commander quoted from London reports American tanks and British artillery halted the German push in central Tunisia. United States troops regroup around the Al area as the setback slows the Axis advance.
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London
Tunisia
North Africa
United States
Captured Submarine Exhibit Planned in Monroe
A captured Japanese submarine from Pearl Harbor will be shown in Monroe on Tuesday March 2. The display is sponsored by the Ouachita Parish War Bond and Stamp committee and aims to boost war stamps and bonds sales. Admission is a 25 cent stamp purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Monroe
America
Virginia Hotel
Ouachita Parish
S. L Rogers
War Savings Division
The
Treasury Partment
Three convicts believed trapped near Indian Creek bottoms
Mississippi report says three of seven escapees from Parchman prison were spotted near the north Mississippi village of Michigan City and were believed trapped in Indian Creek bottoms. Troopers and a posse sealed exits as they pursued the fugitives identified as Taylor, W. M. Mize, and Frank Monty after a spree involving kidnapping a housewife and stealing multiple cars.
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Michigan City
Miss
Parchmen
Indian Creek
Mississippi
Tennessee
Taylor
W. M. Mize
Frank Monty
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Westbrook
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Warizona
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New Justice
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Pilth
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