British Push Deepens Into Ethiopia Amid Port Occupation
British headquarters report occupation of Chisimato in Italian Somaliland and Queissan in the Blue Nile sector. They describe scuttled ships, burning tanks, and prisoners as Allied forces advance toward Morgadisco and Sulo Erilie along the Juba River region.
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Cairo
Egypt
Chisimato
Somaiand
Ag Frosy
Arenya
Kenys
Indian Ocean
Queissan
Bive Nile
Ethiopia
Lake Tana
Addis Ababa
Naljams
Eritrea
Asosa
Libya
Communiacue
Inter
Sulo Erilie
Juba
Chrisimsio
Morgadiscio
Vichy cabinet shakeup rumors as resignations swirl
In Vichy France on February 15 Marcel Peyrouton announced his resignation at a farewell dinner. Admiral Jean Darlan eyed to add the finance portfolio while remaining navy and foreign affairs and vice presidency. Other changes were hinted for Pierre Caziot and Rene Belin roles, with Peyrouton possibly named ambassador to Buenos Aires and Al Angly eyed as interior secretary general.
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Vichy
France
Marcel Peyrouton
Interior
Jean Darlan
Navy
Council
Pierre Caziot
Rene Belin
War Today Looms in German Planning Across Theatres
The column argues Germany faces a strategic choice between multi front offensives and a focused drive against Britain. Germany’s energy must balance Balkan moves with keeping air and ground power for a potential invasion while Italy is weakened and Japan cautious. The outcome hinges on fuel, resources, and whether Britain can be knocked out.
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Far East
Hitler
Tokyo
Nippon
Germany
Britain
Italy
British Isles
England
Channel Front
Tho
Balkan
Greece
Acros the
Near East
Japan Denies Crisis Brews In Far East War Talk
A news briefing notes Japan and the United States pursuing deescalation while a foreign propaganda campaign frames the Japan US tension as severe. Hochi argues Russia should align with Japan and abandon leadership of Greater Asia, suggesting coordination toward India and Persia.
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Japan
Far East
United States
North
South America
Russia
Hochi
China
Burma
Hichi
Greater Asia
Asia
India
Afghanistan
Persia
London Says Hitler Plot Has Been Balked
London reports authoritative British sources believe Hitler's Far East diversion attempt was blocked. Four Pacific powers acted in unison: U.S. evacuation advisory, Australia declaring gravity, Britain warning Japan Italy erred, and the Dutch East Indies ordering ships to neutral ports.
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London
INS
Hitler
Far East
United States
Australia
Great Britain
Dutch East Indies
United Sates
Orient
Britain
Italy
Pacific
War scare ends as Manila returns to calm after 43 hours
Manila reports a brief war scare in the Philippines due to unexplained orders. A Dutch vessel sped to neutral waters, U.S. officers were recalled, and Dutch ships prepared to depart. The atmosphere eased with three Dutch ships sailing from Manila and a planned departure of the merchantman Tjitjalegka.
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Philippines
Manila
United States
Tjitjalegka
Lehman Hails Susan B Anthony on 115th Birthday
Governor Lehman calls Susan B Anthony the greatest leader of the woman suffrage cause on the eve of her 115th birthday. He praises her unfailing devotion courage and wisdom as inspiration to her followers in Albany February 15.
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Lehman
Susan Anthony
Albany
Susan B. Anthony
Italy notes raid paratrooper threat overblown
Tevere asserts that suspending trains in the raid sector reduced invasion risk and argues parachutists in Southern Italy are not a surprise or alarming. He says isolated parachute clusters have limited effect, as in Norway and Holland, and morale will not waver from such drops.
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Italy
Tevere
Norway
Holland
Britain admits raid on Italy lands parachutists in Southern Italy
Britain confirmed its first military raid against the Italian mainland with parachute troops dropped in Southern Italy. Some troops reportedly fulfilled their mission and escaped to base. others uncertain. The operation targeted port-related objectives as British ships and planes bombarded Genoa and nearby zones.
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London
Britain
Itay
Italy
Ministry of Information
Sicily
Genoa
jRome
Libya
American Killed Chasing Nazi Plane Over London
The first action death of the American Eagle Squadron fighting with the Royal Air Force was announced. Edwin E. Orbison, 23, a Californian, was killed during a training chase of a German aircraft. He was the third American flier to die in the RAF service.
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London
Eagle Squadron
R.A. F
Edwin E. Orbison
Orbison
William Mead Lindsley Fiske,iii
Howard Lekrone
Eagle
Senators Clash Over British Aid Bill Terms and Arms Policy
Opposition senators press for restrictions including prohibiting transfer of US ships and naval escorts for convoys while the White House seeks unity on the British aid measure. Secretary Knox and Wendell Willkie clash with naval views as debates shape possible amendments and timing.
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Johnson R
Calif
Messare Starling
Senate
George Id.-Ga
Ce Foreign Relations
George
S.enator Clark
D-Mo
Senator 2
House Leutenants
Britain
Ase
Senator Walsh
D-Mass
Walsh
Knox
Wendell L. Wilkie
Wilkie
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Roosevelt
White House
Willkie
Tobey
R-N. H
Wiley
R-Wis
Hull
Pacific
Greenwood Forecast Hitler Strike Within Weeks
Arthur Greenwood, minister without portfolio, said Hitler could launch a major invasion within weeks. In a Wakefield War Weapons Week speech he warned Britain is better equipped but faces England’s hardest testing ahead as Hitler’s fury remains to be unleashed.
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Hitler
Greenwood
London
Arthur Greenwood
Germany
Wakefield
Britain
England
Gets Jail Threat He’s Already There
A Caddo Parish Negro registrant who twice failed to appear was warned by the draft board in Shreveport Louisiana that he would be sent to jail if he did not report for a physical examination. The board then learned the man had already been in jail for over a month.
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Shreveport
Caddo Parish
Dairy Farm Runs Successfully in Smoky Brooklyn
Brooklyn New York February 15. Brook lyn's only dairy farm with 15 cows operated by Rocco Alessio. He speaks of the cows with plain pride noting their milk and the simple country vibe, amid nearby yards and carrots and lumber.
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Brooklyn
New York
Rocco
Alessio
Bessie
Odd Tales From The Roadside And A Twin's Penny Wish
Kansas City report notes a grocery driver loses meat from a truck with a police dog returning a five pound ham. Canby Minnesota item tells of an egg marked with a name that reaches Sutherland Virginia and is eaten. Sioux Falls S D reports Hoy Sherwood, three, has swallowed safety pins, a broken leg, and a penny, each sending him to the hospital. Ralph Rows asks if the penny was recovered.
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Kansas City
Clifford Myers
Sioux Falls
S. D
Hoy Sherwood
Ralph
Webster Township Trustee Faces $17 000 WPA Gym Bond Dilemma
Webster township trustee Stephen Williams of Wayne County has $17,000 in bonds issued last April for a school gym project. He says the WPA has little money left for such projects and asks the state Board of Accounts how to proceed since the bond proceeds must be used for the gym.
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Richmond
Ind
Stephen Williams
Webster Township
Wayne County
WPA
State Board of Accounts
Window Rock Indians Enter Gallup Tourney Lineup
Gallup tournament next week will feature Window Rock basketball players from seven tribes including Caddo Kiowa Cheyenne Arapaho Chickasha Cherokee and Navajo.
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Gallup
N.bl
Sister of Syracusan State Department Held by Nazis
The Paris office of the American Embassy reports German authorities are holding Etta Kahn Shiber as an accessory to others under arrest and charged with aiding the escape of military refugees into the free zone. No date for receipt of the telegram is given. Shiber, who has lived in Paris since her husband’s death over three years ago, was arrested December 12 and released December 23.
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State Department
Paris Loffice
Paris
Etta Kahn Shiber
Cordell Hull
Department
Shiber
France
Elizabeth Deegan
Ashville
N. C
Kahn
Army investigates shooting of private at West Point
Sgt. L. T. Miller a Black soldier is in the West Point jail as an Army board probes the fatal shooting of Private Paul Mayo of Vian Oklahoma. Mayo allegedly struck Miller with a belt in a medical barracks hallway assault prompting two warning shots and two follow up shots in which Mayo was killed.
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Army
West Point
L. T. Miller
Army Board
U. S. Military Academy
Miller
Paul Mayo
Vian
Okla
Balkan tremors as Axis plans loom in Balkans
Yugoslavia may yield to Germany amid signs of Axis plotting in the Balkans. British diplomats depart Bucharest for Constanta while Britain breaks relations with Romania and calls it occupied. Hungary and Soviet Russia restore direct railway links for the first time since WWI.
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Balkans
Britain
Suez
Gibraltar
Singapore
Japan
Cvetkovic
Cincar-Markovic
Germany
Belgrade
Bulgaria
Bussia
Balkan
Bucharest
Black Sea
Constanta
Izmir
Istanbul
Rumania
Hungary
Soviet Russia
Cordial German Yugoslav Talks Reported in Berlin
German commentators said relations with Yugoslavia after Hitler’s talks with Dragisa Cvetkovic and Aleksandar Cincar-Markovic were most cordial. No clear signs of negotiations for joining the Axis bloc emerged, while Yugoslavia’s central position within Axis-claimed “new order” territory was noted. Turkish radio broadcasts were deemed aimed at Bulgaria but unlikely to influence German or Bulgarian policy.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Dragisa Cvertkovic
Alesander Cincar-Markovic
Yugoslavia
Germany
Italy
Japan
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Free Rumanian Movement Emerges in Britain
London reports a "Free Rumanian" campaign opening abroad after months underground. Viorel Tilea and other former Romanian officials spearhead a four point manifesto to crown Mihai as constitutional king, free Romania from serfdom, help shape a European order, and restore frontiers. The movement garners 4000 British supporters and 350000 in the Americas, with aims against Germany but cautious toward Italy.
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England
London
Britain
United States
Canada
Viorel Tilea
Mihai
Rumania
Romania
Italy
Vatican Denies Pope Backing Axis Amid False Reports
Vatican paper denounces reports that Pope Pius XII supports the Axis in World War II. It calls the claims false and harmful, saying the life of the Catholic Church in Germany remains unsatisfactory and denying any stand on Spanish racial policy extending to American nations.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
England
Oervatore Romano
Vatican
Germany
Congregation of the Holy Office
Stark to Testify on Samoa Defense Plans
Adm. Harold R. Stark testified before the House Naval Affairs Committee on defense works for Samoa. Capt. Harry W. Hill outlined plans for spending 8.1 million dollars on an air base bombproof shelters and related works. Samoa would be a terminus of the Pacific patrol line from Dutch Harbor Alaska.
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Stark
Samoa
Washington
Harold R. Stark
Navy
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Pacific
Harry W. Hill
Hill
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Hawaii
United States
Fire causes $30,000 damage to Rhinebeck building
Fire last night damaged a three story brick building housing the James Gibson Lumber Company and the Superior Soap Company in Rhinebeck. Damage was estimated at $30,000.
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Rhinebeck
James 3. Gibson
Superior Soap Company
RAF raids hit German targets and London under alert
British and German air action continues amid raids on the northeast of Scotland and eastern England. London experiences a brief alert with several incidents including a bomb near a church and damages to a pub house. RAF mines along coasts and daylight attacks on Calais and Den Helder are reported. a tanker fire off Norway and a supply ship hit at Den Helder are noted.
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Scotland
East Anglia
England
London
Air Ministry
Calais
France
den Helder
Netherlands
English
Admiralty
Norway
Three British Planes Fell, Says Berlin
Berlin reports three British planes shot down near the Scheldt mouth by German fighters during daylight over Western Germany after R A F raids on 22 communities. A recon British bomber was shot down near Flushing, while German raids on London caused fires. A Hebrides steamer raid and a German flotilla sinking 14 ships were noted by DNB.
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Berlin
Scheldt
DNB
Germany
Flushing
Netherlands
High Command
London
Hebrides
Atlantic
New Consul General Named by Japan in New York
Morishima Marito, councilor at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, appointed Consul General in New York. His prior post goes to Sadao Iguchi, First Secretary at the Washington Embassy. Iwataro Uchiyama relieved as Minister to Argentina with successor not named.
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Japan
Tokyo
Marito Morishima
Washington
New York
Morishima
Sadao Iguchi
Iwataro Uchiyama
Argentina
Rome Admits Somaliland British Raid Escalation
A High Command communique says British empire forces advancing from Kenya reach the Somaliland coast with warships air operations underway. Italian bombing hits British ships near Mogadoiscio, and Italian planes bomb Valletta and Mikabba as fighting broadens across Italian Somaliland and adjacent fronts.
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Rome
UPI
Kenya
Italian Somaliland
Somaliland
Progr
Chisimaio
Chiisimaio
Indian Ocean
Juba
East African
Cairo
Keren
Italian Eritrea
Valletta
Mikabba
Britain
Malta
North African
Former King Alfonso XIII in grave health in Rome
In Rome on February 15 former King Alfonso XIII of Spain suffered a new heart attack and doctors reported his condition grave. He signed a proclamation on January 15 renouncing the throne in favor of his son Juan Prince of Asturias and is resting quietly with the Crown Prince at the Grand Hotel.
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Rome
Alfonso XXIII
Spain
Juan
Prince of Asturias
Alfonso
Alfonso XII
Generalissimo Franco
Build defense with Father John's Medicine ad claim
An advertisement promotes Father Johns Medicine rich in vitamins A and D as a defense against cells by boosting resistance and health.
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John
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