Rabaul Knockout Campaign Gains Steam in Pacific War
Allied air operations indicate continued pressure on Rabaul as a key Japanese base in New Britain. MacArthur reports Japs unable to field interceptors for Lakunal strike, while heavy February losses and carrier actions against Truk and surrounding targets underscore a widening Allied initiative across the Pacific.
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Te Southeast Asia Command
Arakar
Burma
Macarthur
Bunday
Lakunal
New Britain
Associated Press
Marlin Spencer
Marshall Islands
Truk
Barkley resigns as Democratic Leader over veto attack
Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky offered his resignation as Democratic Leader in the Senate after a bitter protest against President Roosevelt’s tax veto. Barkley denounced the veto as an assault on Congress, declared he would not accept the action quietly, and announced a Democratic conference to select a successor, with resignation to take effect at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
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UPI
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
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Congress of the United States
House
Senator McKeller
D.-Tenn
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Congress
Senate
Churchill
Stalin
Moscow
United Nations
Teheran
Britain
United States
Red Army
Krivol
Kherson
Nikolsey
Black Sea
Stalin Claims Nazis Seek Separate Peace Amid Soviet Push
Stalin says Nazi diplomats franticly seek a separate peace as Germany retreats after heavy fighting near Moriv Rog and the Carpathians. Finland resumes talks with Germany while Russia widens Baltic bombings and Allied unity gains ground in Moscow.
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Carpathian Mountains
Mar’shal Stalin
Finland
John Paastkivi
Helsinki
Stockholm
Germany
Russia
Washington
Stettinius
Finlany
Sta Ln
Three of Alabama Quadruplets Die
The Hutto family of Hillsboro Alabama lost two more of their quadruplets at Benevolent hospital as Edmund Hutle Jr died and sisters Sherianne and Yvonne followed. The surviving two were among four born yesterday to Mrs. Hutto 23, a paratrooper’s wife, now in satisfactory condition. The husband served as a farm worker before enlisting at Fort Benning Georgia.
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Dind In & Benevolent Hospital
Edmund Hutle Jr
Sherianne
Yvonne
Diane
Hutto
Fort Henning
Huttos
Hillsboro
Ala
Nazis Renew Shelling of Beachhead
Allied headquarters in Naples reported renewed German pressure around Anzio and Cisterna as Kesselring regrouped for another attempt to lift the Allied beachhead. German artillery bombarded Anzio while 130 planes attacked ground troops. Allies answered with 1600 sorties and heavy fire. Casualties were heavy on the German side, with a unit tally noting 506 dead near Carrepeto, and the 106 Jaeger division suffering significant losses amid tough fighting in the Cassino area.
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Bouzeinville
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Ngwk-yednuk
Mayu Hills
Burma
Arakan
Kyauktaw
Buthedaung
Hukwang Valley
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UPI
Cisterna
Marshaal Kesselring
Sndther
Anzio
Naz
Cassino
Fifth Army
Garroceta
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Jas
Car
Répeto
Ldth Jaeger
Pane
Adriatic
Italy
Yugoslavia
Kidnaping bandit hunted after downtown liquor heist
Police pursued a youthful gunman believed 17 years old who robbed a Shgroyman liquor store bundle, tied customers, and fled in a borrowed car with two passengers. He escaped with about 412700 after a tense downtown chase ending near Granada street. Detectives A B Neal and John Long investigated as suspects were questioned.
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Hix
James G. Matheny
Shgarman's
Tiquar
Houston Street
Set
G. E. Matheny
Peace Department
T. R. Fife
Pulla Gun
Matheny
Pull‘d On
Vera Sugarmen Kalb
Bernard Sugarman
Ann Shapiro
Dallas
Kalb
CA. Ramby
Sugarman
Dead End Street
Shapiro
Laredo Street
Five Points
Fredericksburg Road
Granada Street
Austin Street
Green
A. B. Neal
John Long
Sweatman
Negroes to Be Navy Officer History of first commissioned group
Washington February 23 For the first time in navy history a group of Negroes will be commissioned in the naval reserve. Plans under development select about 22 billets with 12 enlisted men to be commissioned as line officers and ten as staff officers. Two new anti submarine vessels will be manned mainly by Negro crews.
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Washington
INS
Navy
Naval Reserve
Leutenlant
Tanks at Gloucester Open New Brain Jungle Warfare
Tanks defined jungle warfare in Gloucester New Britain campaign reports from the Southwest Pacific. General Sherman tanks provided armored support for infantry, smashing pillboxes and forcing defenders to retreat, with Marines advancing under cover as Japanese holds collapsed.
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Gloucester
Houston
New Britain
Chief of
Army Ordnance
M. P. Barnes
San Jacinto
FDR Orders Army to Seize Crippled City Utilities
President Roosevelt directed War Secretary Stimson to seize and run the Los Angeles municipal water and power department. The move aims to prevent war effort delays from outages as about 125,000 homes and businesses lose electricity. Over 2,500 strikers were ordered to return to work while city leaders pressed for negotiations and immediate stabilization.
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FDR
Wasitington
Roosevelt
Stimson
Los Angeles
Fletcher Howton
War Patterson
Washington
Army
Power Bureau
Bombers Step Up Attacks Against German Plants
Allied air forces from Britain and Italy intensified strikes on German aircraft factories as part of a coordinated assault deep into Germany. Eighth and Ninth Air Forces reported 61 bombers lost, setting a new record for combined operations from Britain and Italy.
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Maples
Geremany Aircraf
Stes
Austra
London
Britain
Italy
Germany
UT. S. Army
Nyseult
Britealn
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Taly
Mediterranean
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Ninth Air Forces
Fighth
15Th Air Force
Bernburg
Ascherslebee
Halberstadt
Messerschmitt
Regensburg
Petershausen
Munich
15Th Air Foree
Ninth Air Force
Tost
Ytaly
Anzio
Schweinfurtral
U.S. Strategic Air Force
Europe
Okeh Doc Coming Down Rescue Fort Drama
Washington reports a fighter escort saves a crippled Fortresses crew during a December mission. Second Lieutenant Robert H. Hubbell of Topeka, Kansas, piloted the Decatur Deb, which plunged from a high formation, raising three Focke Wulf attackers, while only two tail guns fired. A pair of P-38 fighters arrived, shooting two Focke Wulfs down. the third retreated in smoke.
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Washington
Bar Department
Robert H. Hubbell
Topeka
Kan
Mak
Eighth Air Force
Te Ruler Valley
Forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
Forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions across San Antonio and surrounding areas with a partly Woody Wednesday afternoon and night and a slightly warmer Thursday. Minimum temperatures around 62 degrees Thursday morning. East Texas may see similar partly cloudy skies and slight warming in the west central portion tonight.
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San Antonio
East Texas
West Central
Spring Song Timely For L A Area
Weatherman J H Jarboe reports Mendelssoh s Spring Song will be timely for the next few days. With sun and partly cloudy skies, temperatures in the 70s, sprig will be on the air Wednesday afternoon. Thursday morning will be about 62 degrees.
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J. H. Jarboe
Jarb
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