Mussolini reshuffles cabinet naming new Foreign Minister
In a cabinet shakeup Premier Mussolini moves to take over the Foreign Ministry displacing his son in law Count Galeazzo Ciano. Giuseppe Bastianini is named Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs as Ciano moves to a Grand Council seat.
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Mussolini
Italy
Foreign Ministry
Galeazzo Ciana
Rome
Associated Press
Giuseppe Bastianini
Dalmatia
Britain
Count Ciano
Grand Council
Dino Grandi
Justice
Chamber of Fasces and Corporations
Alfredo de Marsico
Giacomo Acerbo
Budget Commission
Adi Phan Wi Reve
Chamber of Deputies
Carlo Biggini
University of Pisa
Giiseppe Bottai
Zenone Benini
Giuseppe Garla
Vittorio Cini
Giovanni Host Venuri
Undecided Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan In Congress
Washington reports show House Ways and Means members divided after four days of debate over a pay as you go tax plan. Beardsley RumI backs partial 1942 tax abatements but many oppose. Rep Crawford argues against cancellation as wartime needs require steady revenue. Treasury and Chairman Doughton oppose cancellation, Burrill favors gradual amnesty. Hearings resume with 16 witnesses including CIO and farm groups. likely adjournment by Friday.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Beardsley Rumi
New York
Danker
Rep
Crawford
R-Mich
Treasury Department
Doughton
D-N. C
Burril
Treasury
CIO
Man Executed by Firing Squad at Utah Prison Yard
Walter Robert Avery, 34, was put to death by firing squad in the Utah prison yard after dawn. Witnesses watched as a target was placed over his heart and four rifles fired, one blank. Avery had been condemned for a 1941 Ogden grocery-store hold-up and spent his last hours with Ogden reporter T. R Johnson and Avery’s wife keeping vigil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Walter Robert Avery
Utah
Avey
Avery
Mort L. Geren
Ogden
T. R Johnson
Latter Day Saints
Moorman
Churchill Lands Eighth Army in Tripoli Amid Bold Homecoming
In Tripoli Churchill arrived to praise the British Eighth Army and Allied Air Forces for driving Rommel from Egypt and Libya. He met Montgomery and Alexander, toured frontline scenes, and praised the troops before dining at Calvary headquarters. Earlier, Churchill had toured Casablanca and Adana during a dramatic wartime itinerary.
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Tripoli
Churchill
Eighth Army
Erwin Romsmel
Egypt
Libya
Roosevelt
Casablanca
Ismet Inonu
Adana
Cyprus
Tripolitania
Harold Alexander
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Cairo
Rommel
Castel Benito
Alexander
J. C. Darey
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Montgomers
Aven Browne
Stal
Army
Air Force
Anil
Calavany
Giraud Forms War Committee in Africa
Allied dispatch from North Africa reports Gen Henri Giraud reorganizing the imperial council lineage into a war committee. The body, dominated by the same members as the Imperial Council, was framed as a civilian government lever. further names and roles remain unsettled as General de Gaulle and other Fighting French leaders are discussed.
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T Allied
North Africa
Henri Giraud
Imperial Council
Darian
Isstead
War Committee
Char- Msne PeGenile
Jap Merchant Ships Scourged by Allied Bombers
Allied headquarters reported the destruction or severe damage of three Japanese merchantmen off Ambon in the Dutch East Indies and 128 more Japanese killed in New Guinea ground fighting. Further land and sea actions included raids on Rabaul and Aru Islands, plus an advance by American troops on Guadalcanal as combat continues across the Solomon Islands.
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Australia
Ambon
High Command
Dutch East Indies
New Guinea
Admiralty Islands
New Britain
al- Viepedares
Lorengau
Tala
Rabaul
Lakunai
Vunakanau
Bobo
Aru Islands
Dutch New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Navy
Washington
Solomon Islands
Lee Lom Sa
Hatebor
Shortland Island
United States
Tassafaronga
Tassafaronga Beach
Cape Esperance
Air Raid Wardens Courses Begin in County Towns
Air raid wardens courses expand from Frederick to county towns with sessions in Walkersville Thurmont Brunswick Woodsboro and at Frederick companies. OCD instructors will present civilian defense facts and coordinate classes with local PTA groups as plans to widen the program continue.
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Frederick
OCD
Walkersville
Thurmont
Brunswick
Woodsboro
P.T. A
Mort Culzsars
Ernest Weddle
John Gittinger
William M. Brish
Frederick Tailoring Company
Ox Fibre Brush Company
Frederick Iron and Steel Company
Volunteers To Aid In New Registration
Baltimore observers report that the Office of Price Administration will recruit volunteers through the Maryland Council of Defense to help teachers register thousands of Marsland families under the paint rationing system February 12 27. Registration in the Baltimore metro area will run February 24 27 with plans for a local information center.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
Maryland Council of Defense
OPA
Baltimore City
Anne Arundel
Hartford
Howard
C. Harold Williamson
C. Harold Williamson, State Director of Civilian War Services
Clearing Up North Africa Political Situation and Prisoner Fate
Secretary of State Hull said North Africa’s political problems are being clarified and hinted at forthcoming announcements about the fate of thousands of Spanish Republican prisoners in concentration camps. He cited the release of 27 French Communist deputies as proof of progress by a British American commission since Casablanca. He noted no conclusive report on transferring Spanish prisoners to Mexico. In Baltimore, bankers opposed evening bank hours to cash war workers pay, citing staffing and workload strains. A railroad brakeman, Perry G. Morgan, 61, was killed at Dickerson Run yards after slipping beneath a locomotive.
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Washington
Hull
North Africa
Casablanca
Goves Mens
Mexico
Baltimore
Baltimore Clearing House Association
Oto
Connellsville
Perry G. Morgan
Baltimore and Ohio
Dickerton Run
War Plant Jobs For Men Who Are Wounded
Baltimore February reports that Navy disabled sailors will be offered war plant jobs. 19 aircraft makers including Glenn L. Martin and Fairchild Aviation agree to place partially disabled veterans in suitable roles. Navy Bureau of Personnel and Veterans' Employment Service coordinate placements with private industry. Each plant pledges to fit employment to skills, disabilities, and experience. The article notes Pluto completes one orbit every 249 years.
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Baltimore
Navy
Vie Couperalios
We Navy
Navy Magazine
Glenn L. Martin Company
Fairchild Aviation Company
Martin
Bureau of Personnel
Veterans’ Employment Service
U. S. Employment Service
Bureau of Naval Personnel
Mer
Bureau
Thei
Indiana Pvt Esworthy Enlists At Fort Benjamin Harrison
Pvt Esworthy stationed at the Finance Replacement Training command at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana takes basic finance training. He is married to Mrs. Lucille Esworthy of 29 Jefferson Street and son of Mrs. Elsie Esworthy of 716 East South Street. Before induction he worked for Air Track Manufacturing Company.
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Pvt Esworthy
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Jlad
Lucille Esworthy
Jefferson Street
Elsie Esworth
East South Street
Pvt. Esworthy
Air Track Manufacturing Company
Hitler's Lust Costs World Over Four Hundred Billion Dollars
Washington reports Adolf Hitler's drive for conquest has already cost the world more than 400 billion dollars, with potential to top 500 billion if the regime endures another year. The Commerce Department tallies military spending by Germany and allies, Axis victims, and losses in conquered lands, highlighting heavy burdens on the United States, Britain, and Russia.
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Washington
Adolf Hitler
Commerce Department
Fuehrer
Department
Germany
Hitler
Foreign Commerce Weekly
Italy
United States
United Kingdom
Russia
France
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Poland
The
Netherlands
Belgium
Norway
Yugoslavia
Greece
Czechoslovakia
United Nations
Unified Allied Command Declared For North Africa
Washington reports President Roosevelt stated there is already a unified command in North Africa with General Dwight Eisenhower in command in the French colonies and British Generals Alexander and Montgomery directing Libya operations. He cautioned against further talk of command unity as prognostication on military matters. The remarks followed Casablanca conference questions about a single Mediterranean command, and he noted prisoners release policy on political prisoners.
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Washington
Roosevelt
North Africa
Dwight Eisenhower
U. S. Army
Alexander
Montgomery
Libya
Mediterranean
Roosevelt-Churchill
Casablanca
Panhandler Escorted to Bus Station Amid Probe
Special Investigator Allen Bartgis guided a 70-year-old panhandler who had 139 dollars to the bus station in town. Bartgis then escorted him to the station where a ticket to Chambersburg was bought. The man identified himself as Herman Pay from Chambersburg and was released after no charges were filed.
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Allen
Bartgis
Chambersburg
Bart
Xara
Alma
Herman Pay
Suit Filed In Court Over Divided Church
The Woodberry Church of the Brethren in Baltimore seeks court relief against a dissident faction seeking to oust the current pastor and officials. Since 1939 dissension allegedly caused disruptions including singing out of tempo. Judge Edwin T. Dickerson granted a restraining order directing the dissenters to show cause within days.
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Baltimore
Woodberry
Church of the Brethren of
James M. Hoffa
Edwin T. Dickerson
Thirtysixth
Poole Streets
Mt. Airy
Frederick to test air raid setup next Wednesday
Frederick County OCD Director Alton Bennett announced a three minute air raid warning test to occur at noon next Wednesday. The test will evaluate the City Hall siren atop the building Detrick Field siren and Hood College steam siren for endurance and future two tone fire alarm use.
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Frederick
Alton ¥. Bennett
Frederick County
OCD
City Hall
Detrick Field
Hood College
Defence Headquarters
W. Raymond Walter
WPB
Bennett
Plan To Draft Fathers Soon Stirs Congress
Washington February 5 The War Manpower Commission faces strong House opposition as plans to draft fathers of families proceed only if they switch from non essential jobs. A Kilday bill would assign four draft categories targeting dependents and prioritize men with no dependents. Deferment for farm workers is proposed to boost agricultural labor when shortages exist.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
House
Military Committee
May
D.-Ky
Kilday
D.-Tex
Ful‘mer
The
Agriculture Committee
Pearl Harbor
Kildays
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Carlo Tiengo
Milan
Renato Ricci
Gaetano Polverelli
Nationa
Ministry of
Popular Culture
Alessandro Pavolini
Gresto Bonomi
Trade and International Payments
Raffaele Riccardi
Umberto Favagrossa
General Favagrossa
Amilcare Rosei
National War Veterans Association
Luigi Russo
Umberto Albini
Naples
Guill Buffarini
Interior
Africa
Winston Churchill
Robinson
Detroitt
Rugeed Jacobs la Motia
Nanded Ray 1Sugard Rob
Oly Pia Stadium
New
Fort Oglethorpe
Maryland
Giraud
Richmond
Pic
Mobert Baer
Pluto
Indiana
Pvt
Charles Esworthy
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Delphey
West Patrick
Carty
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