Japan massing ships and planes toward northwest Australia
General Douglas MacArthur warned that Japan is assembling ships men and aircraft at bases northwest of Australia. In New Delhi a communique said Japanese momentum in Burma has slowed and that fighting near Rathedaung north of Akyah forced British line realignments. Allied airmen hit a Japanese convoy off New Guinea and bases in the Solomons and Kiska as reconnaissance noted growing enemy transport concentrations near Amboing and Debo northwest of Darwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Australia
South Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
New Delhi
Burma
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
Akyah
Rathedaung
Akyeh
Pacific
New Gainea
Solomons
Aleutian
Kiska
MacArthur
Amboing
Debo
Darwin
Arca
East Indies
Margarine Debate and Legal Controls Backed by Dairy Interests
Westbrook Pegler notes ongoing tension over margarine versus real butter. He cites federal and state actions restricting margarine sales, licensing requirements, and past grand jury indictments amid dairy industry concerns and public health crusades.
Gulf ports urged to boost postwar trade through valley routes
Governor Sam Jones of Louisiana addressed Kentuckians urging shipping via Gulf ports to reduce postwar factory headaches. He argued Gulf ports offer cheaper transport through north south rail lines and waterways, linking to Latin America and Europe to boost U.S. trade beyond other routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uisville
Overnor Sam Jones
Louisiane
Gulf
Pendenis Club
Peoria
America
Centre United
Allred Nomination to Circuit Court Draws Close Vote
The judiciary committee to consider former Texas governor James V. Allred for the circuit court of appeals as opposition from Louisiana senators and Democrat Texas senator James Overton grows. A 2-1 vote to forward Allred’s motion to the full committee followed a dissent from Senator Ferguson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Theate Judiciary Committee
Hatch
Mexico
Allred
Stor Ferguson
Michi
Planes Strafe Japs at Kiska and Rendova
American planes strafed Japanese targets at Kiska in the Aleutians damaging grounded aircraft. In the South Pacific, Lockheed P 38 Lightning and P 40 fighters hit Rendova island and a small Japanese vessel was destroyed. Liberator bombers attacked Shortland Island Munda and Vila with no US losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kiska
Rendeva Island
Navy
North Pacific
Kiskoom
Severs
South Pacific
Rendova Island
New Georgia Group
Shortland Island
Munda
Vila
Solomons
United States
Nary
Aleutians
North
Kahili
Ballale
Train kills youth in taxicab collision in Baton Rouge
Milton Lee Thornton, 16, of Brookhaven Mississippi, a construction company employee, was killed when a freight train struck a taxicab in which he rode in the front seat. Four others in the back seat were injured. the driver escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Milton Lee Thornton
Employe
Brookhaven
Miss
Thornton
U S Bombers Raid Rommel Positions in North Africa
Allied forces report United States Mitchell bombers struck Rommel's positions to soften the Mareth line for the British Eighth Army. Spitfires escorted the raids as air combat and patrols continued along the Medenine plains and nearby coasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Eighth Army
Tunisia
Western Desert Air Force
Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
Medenine Plains
R. A. F. Spitfires
Algerian
Caug
Eden Busy Visiting High U S Officials
British foreign secretary Anthony Eden met Secretary of State Hull and planned talks with Under secretary Welles, aiming to meet all cabinet members by week’s end. He lunched with Secretary Knox and saw President Roosevelt after a White House visit, and Churchill sent a letter with the film Desert Victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Britain
Anthony Eden
Hull
Lord Halifax
Eden
State Department
Wallace
Nenaren
Knox
Navy Department
Arthur Salter
Welles
Stimson
Roosevelt
White House
Burks Granted Eight Day Reprieve in Mississippi Case
James Finnan Burks 27 received an eight day stay of execution from Governor Sam Jones as legal challenges proceed. Burks, convicted of the 1940 murder in a rice field near Houston, was scheduled for the electric chair and faces potential commutation issues raised against the pardon board. The stay runs to March 23 while court actions continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Charles
James Finnan Burks
Sam Jones
Burks
Eugene Stanley
Rice Field
J. P. Calloway
Houston
Tex
Annie Beatrice
Toni Jo) Henry
Jones
Mark C. Pickrei
Pardon Board
John T. Hood
Mississippi
Supreme Court
Pickrel
Henry A. Reid, Jr
Taxpayers lineup as IRS offices cope with filing deadline
Thousands line up nationwide to file returns before midnight as the IRS removes notarization for mail filings. Crowds at collection offices and post offices set records, with police aiding crowd control. Treasury officials express confidence most will pay despite some protest. At Cleveland, late-week returns double compared with the first two months. Some cities open overflow branches and reassign staff to handle the surge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue Collection
Treasury
Washington
Cleveland
Frank F. Gentsch
Boston
Internal Revenue Bureau
Hearing Begun On Leche Disbarment Case In New Orleans
Former Louisiana governor Richard W. Leche appeared with his wife and an FBI guard as disbarment proceedings opened in New Orleans civil court. Eleven defense witnesses, including Harvey Fields, and LSU ethics committee charges were heard with limited spectator access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
FBL
Richard W. Leche
Emiling
Civil Courts
Leche
Atlanta
Harvey G. Fields
Western
Louisiana Federal District
Committee of Ethics and
Louisiana State Bar Association
Charles J Rivet
Hunt Two Missing Military Planes
In Sedding California aerial and ground crews search the McCloud river region 35 miles north of Redding for two missing Army planes. One aircraft with a parachutist aboard was forced to bail out after frozen controls, and five crew members are believed to have bailed as well. Names are unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sedding
Calif
McCloud River
Redding
Giraud Abolishes Vichy Laws in Africa in Union Plea
General Henri Giraud at Casablanca drafted decrees erasing Vichy influence in North and West Africa. He outlined a 300,000-strong force with American arms and urged a union with de Gaulle to set a provisional government chosen by ballot. He vowed to abolish anti Jewish decrees and restore democratic functions including municipal elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Henri Giraud
Charlies de Gaulle
Casablanca
Giraud
de Gaulle
North Africa
Asia
Anderson May Not Return to Prison
Baton Rouge report says Ben Anderson a 52 year old former Missouri inmate who escaped in 1919 and later worked in oil fields may avoid extradition. Missouri seeks to finish a forgery term, but Governor Sam Jones questions efforts and reviews FBI records deeming his past punishment adequate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Ben Anderson
Missouri
Anderson
Sam Jones
Paul BE. Kaizer
Missouri Penitentiary
Jones
Block Leveled by Portsmouth Fire
A general alarm fire leveled a one story block in downtown Portsmouth New Hampshire destroying five businesses and damaging nearby buildings including the Kearsarge hotel and Montgomery Ward. Damage was estimated at 200000 dollars. sixty hotel guests were displaced and two firemen injured. The blaze was noticed by Mrs. William Stevens of Portland Maine, a Cocoanut Grove survivor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Portsmouth
WN. H
Kearsarge
Montgomery and Ward
William Stevens
Portland
Boston
Cocoanut Grove
Fifteen-year-old desertion case reaches Fort Sheridan
Milwaukee youth Johnny Maras, age 15, held on desertion charges after return from Camp Kilmer. Police arrested him on orders from Camp Kilmer and he was to be sent to Fort Sheridan for processing. He admitted never advancing beyond private, though wore sergeant insignia during his trip home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Johnny Maras
American Legion
Johnny
Fort Sheridan
Camp Kilmer
Army of the United States
N. J
Edward Miller
Miller
New York
J. A Bommarito
Five Men Injured As Delta Ship Scaffold Collapses
Five workers were injured when scaffolding collapsed at Delta Ship Building Company Inc. in New Orleans. The most severely hurt was Charles Raphael Sarpy, 56, who sustained a skull fracture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Delta Shipbuilding Company, Inc
Charles Raphael Sarpy
Threats Against Young French Rebels Reported
Axis authorities threaten to send German and Italian troops against several thousand armed youths hiding along Lake Geneva to force surrender. Italian forces cut communications. mobile guards patrol Haute Savoie as rebels receive nightly food and arms from foreign agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
France
Laxe Geneva
Geneva
le Suisse
Germany
St. Gingolph
la Suisse
Haute Savoie
Evian
Simple funeral fixed for J. P. Morgan
A simple funeral will be held in New York for banker J. P. Morgan who died aged 70. Services are at St George's Church Stuyvesant Square with cremation at Fresh Pond and ashes to Hartford where family members rest. The body travels from Florida by rail to New York for interment and library display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. P. Morgan
Bone Grande
Fla
St George's Protestant Episcopal Church
Stuyvesant Square
Rush R. Sloane
St. John's Church
Lattingtown
Locust Valley
S. 1
Morgan
Morgan Was Senior Warden and A Regular Attendant While Living At His Matinecock
Glen Cove
Farmilg
Fresh Pond
Middle Village
Queens
Hartford
Conn
Paul G. Pennoyer
Florida
Morgan Library
East 36Th Street
Russians Admit Setback In Kharkov Sector
London dispatch reports the Red army withdrew to a new defense line in the Kharkov area after heavy fighting with German tanks and infantry. Soviet bulletins describe fierce engagements around Kharkov and progress west and southwest of Vyazma as Russians push toward Smolensk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Red Army
Kharkov
Great
Ukraine
Kharekov
Vya
Moscow
Sinlevo
Bely
Smolensie
Aging Monroe Jeweler S. J. Rivoire Dies at Home
S J Rivoire oldest jewelry store operator in Monroe and possibly north Louisiana died Monday at 523 Jackson street. Funeral from his home to St Matthew's Catholic church with a Tuesday requiem mass. Interment in Catholic cemetery directed by Peters Funeral Service. Born January 15 1863 in Peyrins France he came to the United States in 1881 learning jewelry and watch repair. He later settled in Monroe purchasing a South Grand street shop and in 1922 built 322 DeSiard street continuing the business as 8 J and A V Rivoire. He was grandson of Marquis de Lafayette and Count Rochambeau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J. Revoire
Monroe
Louisiana
Jackson Street
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
H. H. Benoit
Shelby Cage
Marcel Renaud
Phi Bernhardt
A. W. Pickeng
B. J. Breard
Peters
Mr. Rivoire
Peyrins
France
Mount Blanc
United States
New Orleans
Rivoire
South Grand Street
Mr. Bros
Ein
Three Airplane Victims Named From Laurel Army Base
The Laurel Mississippi air base released the names of three air corps men killed attempting a forced landing after a Saturday crash. The deceased are Second Lieutenant John Kenneth White of Lexington Kentucky and his mother Mrs Maud C White. Sergeant Jack Evans Formby of Alena Arkansas with parents listed. and Corporal Lloyd Israel Berkoff of Los Angeles with father Harry Berkoff of New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel
Miss
Army Air Base
John Kenneth White
Lexington
Maud C. White
Jack Evans Formby
Alena
Ark
Lloyd Israel Berkoff
Sos Angeles
Harry Berkoff
New York City
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Dec
Seatac
Westbrook
Pegler
Chicago
Wong
Aiath
NES
Gulf's
Tks
Ipps Valley
Rufus
U.S
Mareth Line
U. S
Africa
Bymes Gallagher
Conia
Vyazma
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