Russians close on Baltic from eastern Pomerania
Berlin and Moscow reports say the Red Army drove toward the Baltic with advances around Neustettin and Pollnow as German units attempted to escape along the Danzig Stettin corridor. The blitz near Koeslin and the Polish corridor faced strong German counterattacks and mud hindered progress.
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Pollnow
Pomerania
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Danzig
Stettin
Transocean
Berlin
Koeslin
Moscow
Reuters
Danzig-Stettin
Associated Press
Constantin Rokossovsky
Gregory Zhu
Korematsu Case Sparks Debate On Internment
The article discusses the Korematsu decision and opinions by Justice Black and Justice Frankfurter. It notes fears that acknowledging wartime internment could justify locking up descendants of immigrants from enemy nations, with critics labeling Black as an old Klansman and warning about civil liberties erosion.
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Supreme Court
Hugo Black
Fred Toyasaburo Korematsu
San Leandro
Calif
Korenatsu
Felix Rankfurter
Ausia
Frankfurter
Justice Black
Korematsu
Stassen Probes Dewey Views On World Peace Policy
Albany reports Harold E. Stassen, chosen by President Roosevelt for the San Francisco delegation, pressed Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for his stance on enforcing world peace. Dewey’s position remains unofficial and not party-authoritative. Stassen stated the United States has left isolationism behind, noting the trio of Republican delegates would seek informed party views ahead of the conference. The delegation also includes Arthur H. Vandenberg and Charles Eaton.
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Albany
N. Y
Harold E. Stassen
Mas E. Dewey
Ofinnesota
Roosettt
United States
San Francisco Conference Organization of International Security
Dewey
Establishment
Stassen
Halsey Reid
U. S
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michin
Charles Eaton
New Jeey
Massen
S. Sen
Joseph Ball
Health of F D R Reported Good
President Roosevelt’s health stood up well under the strain of the Crimea conference as he spent long hours on the job. A physician who accompanied him to Russia said he was pleased with his condition and noted improvement since last year, despite a trace of a cold.
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Fice Adm
Rowse McIntire
Rsident
Crimea
Russia
Chamber urges four reps to push CAB on airline petition
The Chamber of Commerce aviation committee voted to send four representatives to Washington to urge the Civil Aeronautics Board to re argument and reconsider the January 15 verdict that granted Mid-Continent Airlines authority to fly Kansas City to New Orleans via Tulsa and Shreveport. The CAB reportedly approved two new airports and noted a North East South route for the Eastern Airline Company from Memphis to Cropus Christi linking Pan American for South American points, with a hearing set in 1945. Committee members included Lester Scharff as chairman and W H Anders, A H Buford, A B Clarkson, Otis Crawford, J F Choate, Morrix Haas, A C Hewey, E F Jones, and H Mickel.
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Aviation Committee
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Chamber
CAB
Mid-Continent Airlines Authority
Kansas City
New Orleans
Tulsa
Shreveport
Congress
Selman Field
Eastern Airline
Memphis
Monroe
Alexandria
Lake Charles
Cropus Christi
Pan-American
Two Women Killed in Shell Plant Blast Near Shreveport
An explosion at the Louisiana Ordnance plant near Shreveport LA killed Miss Della K Brown 18 of Minden and Mrs Gloria Brewer 23 of Doyline. Maj L K Kalliyer said the blast hit a medium caliber loading bay, injuring three other women and leaving ten more treated and sent back to work.
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Shreveport
Della K. Brown
Minden
Gloria Brewer
Doyline
Louisiana Ordnance Plant
Here
L. K. Kalliyer
Dumase
Kallmyer
War Fund Drive Opens Thursday in Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita Parish Red Cross launches an $80,000 war fund drive Thursday with house to house canvassing, business appeals, and rural outreach. Headquarters will be in Hotel Frances lobby. Miss Fanny Maelzard of Atlanta visits as 300 women volunteers gather under De Witt Milam and co chairs Fletcher Ashcraft and C E Faulk.
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The
American Red Cross
Monroe
West Monroe
Hotel Frances
W. J. Veazey
Ouachita Parish
Red Cross
War Fund
Fanny Maelzard
Atlanta
de Witt Milam
Fletcher Ashcraft
C. E Faulk
F D R Log Of Roosevelts Crimean Conference Trip
The record details President Roosevelts travel from January 22 departure from Washington to February 28 return, including ports, key meetings with Churchill Haile Selassie Kirk Caffery and others, eight day Big Three conference in Crimea, and the death of Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson at sea.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Straits of Gibraltar
Malta
Stettinius
Harry L. Hopkins
Averell Harriman
Russia
Churchill
Valletta
Crimea
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Airport
Egypt
Great Bitter Lake
Farouk
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Alexandria
John G. Winant
England
Algiers
Alexander C. Kirk
Italy
Jefferson Caffery
France
H. K. Hewitt
Eighth Fleet
Gibraltar
Edwin M. Watson
Inaugural Gold Medals Presented at Crimean Conference
President Roosevelt presented gold copies of the fourth term inaugural medal to Crimean conference principals including Prime Minister Churchill Premier Stalin and the British and Russian foreign ministers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Military Aide of F. D. R. Dies
Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson presidential secretary and military aide died at sea on February 20. His body returned to Washington in a flag-covered coffin as President Roosevelt planned noon burial at Arlington. A memorial mass is set for tomorrow at St Matthews Cathedral. Watson, aged 61, spent most of his career in the army and accompanied Roosevelt to the Crimean conference with Churchill and Stalin.
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Washington
Edwin M. Watson
Roosevelt
Arlington National Cemetery
St. Matthews Cathedral
Watson
Churchill
Stalin
Atlantic
Navy
Mr. Roosevelt
President Roosevelt Returns From Crimean Conference
President Roosevelt arrived in Washington after a five week trip covering 14 000 miles by cruiser and plane. He planned a report to Congress on the Crimea meetings with Churchill and Stalin and the aim of defeating Germany and building enduring peace. He will open the United Nations conference in San Francisco on April 25 and may greet delegates as host.
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Russia
Roosevelt
Congress
Churchill
Stalin
Germany
San Francisco
London
Washington
President to Address Congress on Big Three Conference
Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced President Roosevelt will deliver his report to a joint House Senate assembly in the House chamber at 12 30 p m EST tomorrow. The speech will be broadcast across the nation.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Roosevelt’s Yalta Trip Amid War Peace Talks and Exile
Eight days of momentous talks on war and peace at Yalta followed by a Malta Egypt and Algiers route. In Egypt President Roosevelt met with King Farouk and rulers of Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia before a Gibraltar crossing as Nazi submarines prowled. He then faced a sorrowful homecoming and a stack of catching up tasks.
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Yalta
Malta
Egypt
Algiers
Farouk
Ethiopia
Saudi Arabia
Straits of Gibraltar
Mr. Roosevelt
Ice grips Denison Texas in brutal winter storm
Denison Texas faced the worst ice storm in memory leaving the city without electric power and water with no heat. A 83 year old farmer William Gibbons died when a tree fell on him. Communications with the outside world were limited to radio as ice coated streets and toppled poles paralyzed daily life. Officials warned power may be out for weeks while emergency pumps struggled to function.
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Denison
Tex
William
Gibbons
Tokyo Ruins Shattered by Largest Daylight Bomb Raid
Tokyo's industrial and business district lies in smoldering ruins after a daylight B 29 raid. Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay calls the attack excellent with 29 074 000 square feet of factories burned. Allied naval air forces supported by carriers struck in the morning, while Japanese defenses offered little interception. In Manila, a major banzai assault targeted the Mav ikina watershed as American forces hold and push back Japanese positions.
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Leif Erickson
21St Bomber Command
Guam
Tokyo
Curtis
Iron Pants
Ninth Army presses toward Cologne in major Rhine push
Allied forces across the Erft river near Cologne push eight miles inland as the Ninth army drives across the Rhine plain on retreating German troops. Patton's Third army moves toward Trier while Ninth and Canadian forces close in on a Rhineland junction, aiming to trap German divisions. More than 8,000 Germans captured yesterday, totaling 25,718 in six days.
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James M. Long
Paris
First Army
Cologne
Erft
Ninth
Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Rhine
Ninth Army
George S. Patton
Third
Bitburg
Bastogne
Germany
Third Army
Erft River
Rhine Plain
Noremandy
Muenchen Gladbach
First
Berlin
Reich
Trier
Rhineland
Supreme Headquarters
von Rundstedt
Poland to be strong say Britain in Commons
London Feb 28. Foreign Secretary Eden told the house that when settlement is reached Poland will be as strong or stronger than in 1939 and that Britain has not guaranteed Poland’s prewar frontiers. The debate centered on the Crimea charter and Polish aspects amid a confidence vote in Yalta decisions.
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London
House of Commons
Poland
Eden
Britain
Anthony Eden
Commons
Crimea
Yalta
Churcenill
Canadian seaman given life in Louisiana
Baton Rouge Feb 28 Gordon Leonard Tindale a Canadian seaman, 21, was sentenced to life imprisonment after a January 25 aggravated rape conviction. Evidence included the girl identifying him in court and a defense claim of mental illness. The verdict avoided the death penalty, per Louisiana law.
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Baton Rouge
Gordon Leonard Tindale
Louisiana
Tindale
East Louisiana
Jackson
Woman's severed head identified near Virginia road
The neatly severed head of a missing War Department employe was identified as Pearl W. Corens, 31, wife of a Bethesda, Maryland painter. Police withheld who made the identification. No torso fragment has been found.
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Washington
Virginia
War Department
Pearl W. Corens
Bethesda
Roosevelt Signs George Bill to Clear Wallace Path
President Roosevelt signed the George bill at sea, separating the federal lending agencies from the Commerce Department. The move clears the way for Henry A. Wallace to be nominated as secretary of commerce, with the Senate set to take up the nomination tomorrow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
White House
Commerce Department
Jonathan Daniels
Senate
Wallace
F D R Gives Chair to King of Arabia aboard presidential cruiser
President Roosevelt on a Mediterranean trip presents a wheelchair to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi monarch, famed for surviving nine battle wounds, admired the chair and indicated it would ease his steps at home. Roosevelt also offered a spare chair to the king.
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Roosevelt
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
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