Russian Armies Close In On Key to Latvia
Soviet forces push toward Pskov from three directions after German resistance collapses near Luga and Lake Peipus. Ehrenbourg reports Nazi offices and administrators retreating from Pskov Minsk Tallinn and Kowal as partisans strike German lines and rail links behind the front.
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Pskov
Latvia
Minsk
Tallin
Kowel
Red Army
Luga
Lake Peipus
Ilya Ehrenbourg
Tallinn
Estonia
Old Poland
Rovno
Luck
Ehrenbourg
Germany
Lake
Freipus
Ukraine
Cherkast
Wilsons Daughter Dies in India
Margaret Woodrow Wilson eldest daughter of the World War president died in India where she studied Aurobindo's religious teachings. A cable reported she died February 12 of uremia at age 57. She had lived in Pondicherry for four years seeking refuge from the world and planned to stay there. Her sister Eleanor Wilson McAdoo relayed the family note and said repatriation would await the end of the war. She was an accomplished musician and vocalist who discovered Aurobindo’s works in a New York library.
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Hollywood
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
India
Su Aurobindo
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
Miss Wilson
McAdoo
United States
Finland
Germany
Sattellies
Paasikivi
Mme
Alexandra Kollontay
Grand Hotel
London Daily Express
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Des Moines OPA warns limits on fuel oil use
Walter D. Kline acting director of the Des Moines OPA district says households in Des Moines Davenport and Sioux City areas should have used no more than four percent of their yearly fuel oil allotment as of today.
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Des Moines
Davenport
Sioux City
Walter D. Kline
OPA
Soldiers Wage Unplanned Battle in Italy Mount Cassino
Feb 13 headquarters confirmed an unplanned clash on Mount Cassino after a German sniper hit an American soldier. As stretcher bearers attempted to retrieve the wounded, they came under fire from a German strongpoint. Enraged troops stormed the position, killing the Nazis there, drawing heavy German artillery. one general and four colonels helped halt the fight.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Mount Cassino
Simpler Taxes After March 15 Debate at Capitol
Washington lawmakers pushed to simplify individual income tax forms while warning relief may miss the March 15 deadline. House Ways and Means cryptic toward quick changes. Senate Finance cautions against wide tax cuts, favoring gradual rate reductions and business levy tweaks. Committee leaders emphasize aiding individuals first, with potential cross‑committee and Treasury aid. Rep Wesley Disney urges integrating taxes and possible full withholding to spare millions from filing returns.
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D. C
House
Ways and Means
Capitol
Senate Finance Committee
Walter F. George
Loughton
Coughton
Congress
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
Wesley Disney
D. Okla
Disney
Sees Air as Field For Shipping Firms
J Taylor president of the American Merchant Marine Institute urged revision of the Civil Aeronautics act to let American steamship lines participate in overseas air transport as a supplement to routes. Speaking at the Chicago World Trade Conference he said foreign nations push shipping interests into air transport and American lines should have the same opportunity to serve U S commerce. He noted shipping has modernized from wood to steel and sail to steam and said the new transport development poses no insurmountable problems. The 10th annual world trade conference at the Chicago Association of Commerce drew nearly 1000 export and import leaders.
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Chicago
Rank J. Taylor
New York
American Merchant Marine Institute
Taylor
Export Managers Club
Chicago Association of Commerce
Monastery at Cassino Hit by Allied Shelling Warned to Evacuate
American artillery fired on the Benedictine monastery atop Mount Cassino as leaflets warned monks to leave immediately. The 1,800 foot hill dominates the Cassino battlefield where fighting has raged for days. An artillery captain objected to sparing the monastery, saying Catholic gunners in his battery sought permission to fire but were denied.
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Italy
Mount Cassino
Allied daylight raid strikes France and Holland bases
Allied forces including Air Base bombers and Thunderbolt fighters attacked northern France targets and the Gilze-Rijen base in Holland. The mission marked the US strategic air forces 11th operation in 18 days with no P47 losses, while German defenses claimed 6 planes shot down and 15 penetrated London.
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London
France
Gilee-Riven Ar
Holland
Royal Air Force
United States
Gilze-Rijen
U. S
Strategic Air
Helland
Deadlock on soldier vote and plane industry progress
In Washington Charles E Wilson of the War Production Board reports mass production cuts plane construction time by 34 percent. He notes U S air forces destroyed 40 percent of Germanys fighter output while American factories accelerate capacity and production efficiency. Separately, house senate conferees inch toward a compromise on the soldier vote amid a deadlock between state and federal ballot plans.
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Washington
Charles E Wilson
WPB
Aircraft Production Board
America
Germany
Wilson
Army
United States Army Air Forces
United Nations
Japan
Senate
House-Senate
Robert A Taft
Theodore F. Green
Motor Traffic Drops in East and West in June 1943
Motor vehicles counted on roads in the East during June 1943 ran at 40 percent of the 1941 average, while in the West and Middle West they reached 57 percent, signaling a sharp decline in road use during the period.
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Middle Wear
Reich Calls Up 60-Year-Olds for Looming War
European reports say Germany has called up men up to age 60 and ordered private industry to release 900000 workers as part of a broad recruitment push. A London Telegraph dispatch cites fear of an Allied invasion of western Europe as bombings intensify near Pas de Calais. Middle aged recruits are assigned to infantry and panzer units, while workers are replaced by war invalids. Norwegian sources say the Reich may reduce Norway’s Reich Commissariat staff by 30 to 40 percent as withdrawal appears possible.
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London
Norway
Berlin
Europe
Pas de Calais
Zurich
Burich
Sweden
Reich Commissariat
Polish Soviet Crisis Near London Mediation Urged
British efforts to mediate amid a near crisis as Soviet forces advance toward the Curzon line. Moscow hints at a rump government if Poland is partitioned, while Finland seeks Paasikivi talks for a separate peace and Germany warns Finland of force if peace moves proceed.
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London
Curzon Line
Poland
Soviet Union
Moscow
Britain
United States
Germany
Finland
Bulgaria
Rumania
Hungary
Russia
Downing Street
Foreign Office
Lwow
East Prussia
London Sunday Observer
Stockholm
Juho K. Passikivi
Paasikivi
Helsinki
Chaplin Indicted on Mann Act Case and Related Offenses
Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin faces four counts in a federal case alleging transportation of a woman for immoral purposes and conspiracy to influence a judge. The 60 year old British comedian, famed for his films and marriages, is to appear February 21 for arraignment alongside police, a Beverly Hills judge, and associates.
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Hollywood
Charlie Chaplin
the & S Marshall
Whoseldon
Joan Barry
New York
Et Civil Marits
Bevcy Hills
Herm
Chaplin
Navy Airmen Sink 2 Subs in Atlantic
AFCISE reports United States navy airmen sank two submarines in the south Atlantic in operations that caused no American losses. Headquarters announced today through Vice Admiral Ingram.
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Atlantic
Brazil
United States Navy
South Atlante
Donage Ingram
Ammunition for Civilians Aims to Shield Livestock
Washington reports the army will manufacture large quantities of ammunition for civilian use to protect livestock and crops from predators and assist the fall hunting season. Supplies should reach Midwest retailers within 60 days, with priority to hunters in the east and 17-state region between the Mississippi and the Rockies. Cartridges will be controlled to favor essential users, not skeet shooters.
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Washington, DC
Midwest
Mississippi
Rockies
Stilwell urges greater air and sea supplies to China
Lt Gen Joseph W Stilwell urged an immediate and sustained boost in supplies to China to back the U S Navy trans pacific push toward Chinese bases to defeat Japan. He said air and cargo capacity must expand, with new carriers and improved facilities, as Chinese and American forces press the Ledo road and operations in north Burma continue amid bad weather.
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Chungking
Joseph W. Stilwell
China
United States Navy
Japan
Chester W. ‘Nimitz
Pear Harbor
Pacific
Stilwell
Burma
India
Ledi
Indo-Burman
Ledo Road
Pipeline Break Drains Gasoline into Indiana Creek
In Batesville Indiana a break in a small pipeline released a flood of gasoline into a dry creek bed near the city reservoir. Residents scooped up hundreds of gallons while officials considered burning the fuel to prevent contamination of drinking water for about four thousand residents. The line transports gasoline from Texas to the east, parallel to a larger crude oil line.
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Batesville
Ind
Indianatown
Allies seize bridge as Anzio gains strategic edge
Allied forces under British leadership break through to capture a strategic bridge on the Anzio Aptia road near Rome after repelling repeated German counterattacks. British and American units push into Cassino’s outskirts, advancing house to house and taking Nazi pillboxes while artillery targets Abbeys Monastery as the battle for the beachhead continues.
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Neplas
Anzio-Aptia
Rome
Anzio
France
Aprilia
Vichy
Cisterna
Fifth Army
Cassino
Abbey Hall
Benedictine Monastry
Radio
Tied to Bed Four Children Burned in Tragic Fire
GloucesterMass UP Four of a soldier's children died in a southern camp fire yesterday in a home tied to bed with clothesline. Raymond Thompson Jr 3 Robert 2 Mary Louise 17 months and Marjorie 4 months perished. The father 25 and newly inducted was at Camp Blanding Fla. The two oldest were tied to beds to keep them asleep while the fire began in a kitchen closet. Cynthia 5 stayed with grandmother.
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Gloucester
Mass
Thea
Raymond Thompson, Jr
Robert
Mary Louise
Marjorie
Camp Blanding
Fla
Cynthia
Bashful Dewey Gets Valentine
Helena republicans sent a telegraphic valentine to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. The message urged him to run for president with a playful line about being their choice and modern political humor.
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Dewey
Valentine
Helena
Mont
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
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