Washington Roundup prompts race for minority leader
Washington Roundup reports Republicans in the Senate consider candidates to replace the late Charles Le McNary. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Wallace H. White Jr., and Robert A. Taft are named as potential leaders while internal divisions and postwar strategy loom. News covers McNary’s death, reactions, and debates over tax simplification and a push to honor Col. William Mitchell.
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Four Days as OPA Officer
Oklahoma City reports Paul Sim Ge Tyerthen served four days as an OPA officer at a small cafe counter. Appointed food rationing officer on Monday, he reported Tuesday, attended an explanation meeting Wednesday, and resigned Thursday saying it was too much and he went home.
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Midwife Charged in Abortion Case at City Inquiry
A licensed midwife named Trejo on East Cevallus Street faces abortion charges after a February 22 incident. The case, heard by Justice Corrigan, involves a widow of a Latin American woman murdered last year. A grand jury will review the matter after two preliminary hearings. bond set at 2500. Also indicted on March 1, 1943 were Stella Loreng, Dr J B Martin, and Vincent Polivka in a separate abortion case with hearing set for March 20. Public program announced by San Antonio lodge No 1 C F will be at Crockett Hotel Tuesday night, chaired by H H Paulus.
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H. H. Paulus
Boy Admits Killing Chum in Manhattan Attic
SEW swans 2e0 reports 15-year-old Frank Drury told police today he accidentally shot his chum Henry Federsen 21 two weeks ago and helped hide the body in an attic closet where it was found yesterday. Drury, who lives in a top floor apartment across from the body, initially denied knowledge of the shooting before admitting it occurred February 11 when both were home from school with minor illnesses. Federsen had been listed as missing since that date.
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Henry Federsen
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Allied Air Strikes Hammer Saipan Tinian and Guam
Allied forces reported heavy air attacks on Saipan Tinian and Guam with no Japanese warships seen at Saipan or Tinian. The February carrier strike destroyed 135 Japanese aircraft and damaged ships, while U.S. bombers continued raids on Bougainville and Buka. MacArthur’s forces claimed gains in New Guinea and the Solomons, with no air opposition over Rabaul. An American Fortress pilot crashed his B-17 on target at Regensburg, praised as a posthumous hero for sacrificing his plane to strike the German targets.
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Hearst Attacked in Pravda As Hitler’s American Friend
Pravda, the Soviet Union’s official paper, published an article by Dmitri Zaslavsky accusing American publisher William Randolph Hearst of seeking to break the wartime alliance among the USSR Britain and the United States. The piece characterizes Hearst as ardently hostile to any American aid to the Soviet Union and labels him Adolf Hitler’s American friend.
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Azores Based RAF Plane Sinks U-Boat in Attack
A British coastal command bomber based in the Azores was credited with destroying a U boat while defending an Allied convoy. The aircraft attacked three times, the last dive coming from about 40 feet. the rear gunner was wounded by a shell from the submarine.
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Lonergan Trial Mapped Delayed Murder Defense Strategies
Defense counsel Edward V Broderick prepared a three pronged plan for Wayne Lonergan murder trial opening Monday. He will argue the RC A F serf confessed due to exhaustion from incommunicado detention and contend Lonergan was driven mad by wife infidelity and denial of access to his infant son. He may also pursue hereditary insanity, sending Ontario Mental Hospital records to Judge Freschi showing Lonergan’s mother was institutionalized before her death.
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Wayne Lonergan
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Barkley Seen As FDR Running Mate In New York Redux
London and Dallas wire reports tie Senate Majority Leader Barkley to the Democratic vice presidential ticket while Roosevelt tops the field amid war era rumors. Amid hospital damage in London and a German raid nearby, party leaders in Dallas plan fund raising for the campaign.
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Protestant Chaplains Endorse Hearst in National Drive
A letter from Bishop Alexander A. Lowande, deputy chief chaplain of the Protestant Chaplains Association, praises Hon. William Randolph Hearst for his Americanism and endorses a church drive urging a national day of prayer for guidance of pro‑government patriots in Congress. The missive, dated February 25, 1944 in New York, cites the February 24 New York Journal American editorial An American Speaks and extends blessings for Hearst and his family.
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William Randolph Hearst
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New York Journal American
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Ameri Lcan Republic
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Coast Guardsmen Under Fire on Namur Island Beach
Aboard Coast Guard craft Coast Guardsmen James Price James Goodwin and Roy Wardlaw, all of Texas, were among crews delivering reinforcements to Marines on Namur Island in the Marshall group. A grenade burst as a ramp lowered, wrecking landing boats and scattering shrapnel. Marines pressed up the beach amid dead enemy on the ridge while shells and debris covered the area.
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James B. Goodwin
Ome
Gineste
Santa Barbara
Ban
Antonio
Roy Wardlaw
Hale Center
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Mrs Driscoll Ill Misses Party Confab at Driscoll Hotel
Mrs Clara Driscoll a 62 year old Democratic national committeewoman was confined to her penthouse at the 18 story Driscoll Hotel after a relapse of influenza. The party caucus in Dallas was to be attended by National Chairman Reber, E Hannegan and other party leaders. Her physician reported the relapse from the previous influenza attack.
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Dallas
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E. Hannegan
Miners End 5 Day Wildcat Strike in Pennsylvania
About 8000 miners in Philadelphia and Read coal operations ended a five day wildcat strike. Workers slated to return to the pits Monday after the stoppage affecting Conyngham area operations and related facilities.
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