Force Sinks 15 Ships In Jap Convoy
Allied Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific reports a three day air assault off Mussau Island and New Hanover sinks 15 ships from a Japanese convoy totaling about 36,590 tons. MacArthur announced losses include 12 merchant ships and three warships with several more sunk or damaged.
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Southwest Pacific
Bismarck Archipelago
Mussau Island
New Ireland
New Hanover
Douglas MacArthur
Massau Island
General MacArthur
Hanover
iThis
MacArthur
Rabaul
Kavieng
Green Island
Solomons
Army To End ASTP Program
The Army announced plans to eliminate most of the ASTP college training, transferring about 110000 trainees to combat by April. Education leader Dr. George F. Zook warned of serious effects on colleges, especially those without women students or Navy contacts. Only advanced medicine, dentistry, and engineering courses remain. total students drop to around 35000. The move stems from a 200000 man shortfall and strict draft goals. Anne Bullitt wed Staff Sgt. Casper W. Townsend Jr. at Fort Meade in a quiet Episcopal ceremony.
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Washington
Army
War Department
George F. Zook
American Council On Education
Navy
Astp Army
High Command
ASTP
Vollages
Anne Bullist
Fort George G. Meade
Anne Bullitt
William C. Bullitt
France
Russia
Casper W. B. Townsend
Charles E. Kennedy
Townsend
Yale University
Merion
Truk Raid Signals Shift in Pacific War View
War analyst Kirke L. Simpson explains the Truk air sea strike as a bold American move that unsettles Tokyo. He argues the attack demonstrates power and speed, pressures Japan’s defense setup, and suggests expanded American bases in the Gilberts and potentially the Marshalls are prepared for offensive operations.
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Truk
Tokyo
London
Chungking
Solomons
Guam
China Sea
Marshalls
Pacific
Admiral King
Europe
Japan
Marine Corps
Gilberts
Pearl Harbor
Central Pacific
Compromise Bill on Soldiers Vote Stirs Senate Debate
Washington reports a new administration backed compromise on the federal soldiers ballot as Green RI proposed a supplementary federal ballot while urging state ballots remain primary. Conference talks stalled over service rate issues and delivery of state ballots to troops abroad. A separate dispatch notes Hans Frank escaped an assassination attempt as a Polish underground blast damaged his armored train near Craed and killed companions.
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Washington
Green
D-Ri
Senate
Hoyes
Greer
Army
Navy
London
Hans Frank
Poland
Frank
Craed
Lwow
Empress of Canada Sunk Off Freetown Nearly One Year Earlier
Vancouver reports survivors recount the torpedoing of the Empress of Canada by an Italian submarine off Freetown West Africa. About 400 lost, many Italian prisoners of war, 800 rescued by British forces. The liner, launched 1920, carried troops, Navy personnel, refugees, and prisoners.
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Vancouver
Admiralty
Ottawa
E. R. Emond
Freetown
Canada
Welfare funds under county control urged by grand jury
February grand jury in Hagerstown reports welfare spending in Washington County is too centralized and calls for the Board of County Commissioners to obtain detailed information on money flows and actual relief. It urges legislation to place all county welfare funds under a local nonpolitical board, notes 22 Welfare Board employees with a 543000 payroll and raises, and complains about a powerless unpaid advisory committee. It also recommends Bible reading in public schools to address juvenile delinquency.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Joseph D Mish
Board of County Commissioners
Grand Jury
Welfare Board
Military Plane With 14 Aboard Is Overdue
A Pan American Airways plane carrying 14 aboard including five crew and five naval personnel is overdue en route from the Pacific Northwest to Seattle. Navy says wreckage and a liferaft sighted near the crash area, but no survivors found. Notables aboard include Lt. William W. McClain and Davis R. Rolston with spouses listed.
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Washington
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Wash
Navy
Pan-American Airways, Inc
William W. McClain
Katherine McClain
Wheeling
Davis R. Rolston
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Ellen S. Rolston
Staunton
Berry case ends as Chaplin’s paternity suit closed
Joan Berry will not hire another lawyer to reopen the case. Her mother Gertrude Berry said they hope to live quietly without notoriety and do not want pictures of baby Carol Ann. The matter concludes in Los Angeles.
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Istit
Los Angeles
Joan
Berry
Charles Chaplin
iMrs
Gertrude Berry
U S Troops Land On Eniwetok Amid Pacific Strikes
United States assault troops landed and established beachheads on Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands as American task forces hit Truk. The invasion, announced by Nimitz, follows warnings of a major victory against Japan and showcases the Navy's power.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
Japan
mid-Pacific
Truk
Chester W. Nimitz
Knox
Washington
Eniwetok
Nimitz
Ponape
Carolines
Engebi Island
Eniwetok Island
Richard K. Turner
H. W. Hill
22Nd Marines
106Th Army Infantry
22Nd Marine Regiment
John T. Walker
Egypt
Fleet Headquarters
Tokyo
Chungking
Baruch Outlines Postwar Plan For Peace Time Prosperity
Bernard Baruch and John Hancock, at Roosevelt request, present a 30 000 word postwar reconversion plan to Congress and the White House. It calls for swift termination of war contracts, tax changes to peace levels, disposal of surplus goods, government loans to ease business readjustment, public works, a unified government approach, and ready to enact pace-setting demobilization measures to avert a postwar mood of gloom.
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Washington
Bernard Baruch
Baruch
War Industries Board
Office of War Mobilization
John Hancock
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
White House
Congress
Baruch and Hancock
Executive Branch
Senate
House
State May Top Nation In Oversubscriptions
Maryland reports 134 percent of its Fourth War Loan quota raising the possibility of leading the nation in oversubscriptions. Federal bank data list Maryland at 256 million dollars against a 191 million quota with Minnesota and North Dakota ahead in percent. Hood College students buy 10,236 dollars toward a 3,000 quota, while the note adds the earth is struck by lightning about 50 times per second.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Free State
Howard W Jackson
State War Finance Committee
Federal Reserve Bank
Richmond
Treasury Department
Minnesota
North Dakota
Jackson
Hood College
Frederick
Wallace Says Voters Want Roosevelt Fourth Term
Vice President Wallace told President Roosevelt that many voters on the West Coast want him to have a fourth term. Roosevelt declined to discuss his own feelings, while Wallace laughed at press attempts to probe the issue.
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Washington
Wallace
Roosevelt
West Coast
White House
Capitol
Brass replaces steel in artillery cartridge cases
Aberdeen Proving Ground Md Feb 18 Army ordnance plans a reconversion to brass for all artillery cartridge cases. Maj Gen L H Campbell said brass will cut labor machinery and expense and save taxpayers about 100 million in 1944. The steel shift followed brass shortages years ago and a recent drawdown of small arms ammo freed brass tonnage. Lt Comdr Robert Montgomery returned to active sea duty in the Atlantic after serving in the Pacific and France.
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Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army Ordnance
L. H. Campbell
Army Ordnance Department
George G. Eddy
Campbell
Ordnance Research Bureau
Aberdeen
Army
Ordnance Department
San Diego
Calif
Robert Montgomery
Operational Training Command
Pacific
Atlantic
Montgomery
France
England
South Pacific
Two Sentenced On Gasoline Charges In Baltimore
Two Hagerstown residents were fined by Judge W Calvin Chesnut in Federal Court after pleading guilty to unlawfully accepting gasoline ration coupons for transfer. Harry B Stouffer, a filling station operator, admitted selling about 600 gallons of gasoline without receiving coupons and was fined 500 dollars. Raymond Schildthnacht received a 50 dollar fine. Government prosecutor Thomas J Kenney said the pair bought coupons from another Hagerstown resident who obtained many R coupons via false applications and fictitious names. that man is imprisoned on a State charge and faces Federal charges.
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Baltimore
Hagerstown
W. Calvin Chesnut
Harry B. Stouffer
Raymond Schildthnacht
Thomas J. Kenney
Kenney
Bacteriologist Philip C Harvey resigns effective April 1
Philip C Harvey state bacteriologist of the Frederick laboratory has resigned his position with the Health Department effective April 1. He will enter private industry in New York State with Lederle Laboratories and undergo a pre induction Army physical. Harvey has been bacteriologist for the county for just under two years and faces possible Army service or the Lederle post.
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Philip C. Harvey
Frederick Laboratory
Health Department
E. C. Kefauver
Harvey
New York State
Baltimore
Washington County
Kefauver
Lederle Laboratories
New York
Lederle
Dr. Kefauver
January 1944 independent retailers sales rise nine percent
Washington reports January sales of independent retailers up nine percent from January 1943 but down 36 percent from December. All business sectors show gains over last year except furniture stores, which fell three percent. The Census Bureau based figures on 14,133 retailers in 34 states.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Highest Russ Award Given To Eisenhower
London reports Russia awards Gen Dwight D Eisenhower the Order of Suvorov First Class the highest decoration to a foreign general. Also honored are 24 American Army officers and enlisted men 16 Navy personnel 10 Merchant Seamen plus Lt Gen Spaatz Lt Gen Eaker Maj Gen Anderson and two Rear Admirals with various Orders for war service and heroism.
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London
Russia
Berlin
Murmansk
Carl A. Spaatz
U. S
Strategic Air Force
Order of Suvorov
Ira C
Potomac Hydro Development Opposed by Olmstead Report
Washington February 18 The plan to build hydroelectric dams above and below Great Falls on the Potomac faced opposition from Frederick Law Olmstead in a National Parks Service report to the National Park and Planning Commission. Details were withheld as the commission joined Army Engineers in studying the impact, arguing the project would destroy or impair the region’s natural park value.
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Washington
Great Falls
Potomac River
Frederick Law Olmstead
National Parks Service
National Park and Planning Commission
Army Engineers
Olmstead
Mississippi River
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Associated Press
South Africa
U.S
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Kwajalein
Marshall
B. M. Baruch
W. Gum
Frederick 5
South Market
Cal
Bernie's Arena
Delphey
W. Patrick St
Eisenhower
Potomac Hydroelectric
Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Carty
Carty’s
C.C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
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