Yanks Capture Three Main Marshall Isles
U S Pacific Fleet announces Seventh Division troops have killed most defenders and seized Kwajalein Ebeye and Lot islands in the Kwajalein atoll. The action boosts American control to about 19 of Kwajalein's 30 plus islets and pins down new air and seaplane bases for the Allies. Fourth Division Marines had already secured Roi Namur to take the north end. Gugegwe near Loi faces continued attack as forces push eastward.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
America
Japan
Marshall Islands
Seventh Division
Kwajalein
Ebeye
Lot Islands
Chester M. Nimitz
Kwaja‘Jein Island
Roi
Namur
Gugegwe
Loi
Nimitz
Union Leader to Ignore Subpoena
Detroit February 5. Matthew Smith national secretary of the Mechanics Educational Society of America says he will not attend a National War Labor Board hearing in Washington to determine sanctions against 25 000 MES A members on strike in 44 Michigan and Ohio plants. White MES A president still abroad awaiting subpoena return. The MES A demands joint attendance of executives and may halt NLRB inquiries into bargaining at Willys-Overland Toledo. The MES A claims 53 000 members with contracts at 67 plants.
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Detroit
Matthew Smith
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Michigan
Ohio
National War Labor Board
Washington
Smith
U. S
WLB
George White
Cleveland
William H. Davis
National Labor Relations Board
Willys-Overland Motors Company
Toledo
United Automobile Workers
NLRB
National
Willys‘Overland
Government tax plan projects 42 billion annual revenue
An official estimate issued after the tax bill conference report sets federal income and related revenue at 42.2393 billion annually with 2.3152 billion more than earlier projections. Individuals would bear about 18.2622 billion, corporations 16.1422 billion, plus various taxes and receipts totaling the Treasury’s big jackpot.
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Washington
Conference Committee
Joint Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Treasury
Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund
Administration Staves Off Showdown Vote on Federal Ballot Bill
In Washington on February 5 the Senate adjourned to avoid a battle over a federal war ballot bill. Administration supporters, outnumbered on the floor, pushed through an adjournment as 44 senators, near quorum, assembled and Democratic Leader Barkley called the session off. Advocates of a House backed states rights approach urged recognition.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Japanese Air Bases at Wewak Blasted
Allied airmen pounded Wewak New Guinea for a second day with 108 tons of bombs raising two day total to over 300 tons. MacArthur said Fifth Air Force struck Wewak four airdromes and shot down eight planes and 72 on the ground.
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Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Fifth Air Force
Rabaul
Japan
New Britain
Madang
Alexishafen
Bougainville
Solomons Islands
U. S. Planes Blast at French Areas
U S warplanes led by bombers attacked Nazi targets along the French invasion coast to beyond Paris. The assault involved hundreds of bombers and fighters, with Marauder medium bombers facing heavy flak. Four Marauders were reported missing as air offensive expanded from Beauvais-Tillé to the Channel coast.
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London
U.P
Paris
France
Channel
Berlin
Stockholm
Reich
Dominion
Luftwaffe
Hitler
Beauvis-Tille
Silver Bow residents boost Fourth War Loan bonds sales
Silver Bow county residents contributed 74 520 25 in new war bonds Saturday bringing individual sales to 1 738 595 25 as the drive nears its February 15 deadline. Officials hope to acquire 932 604 75 more to meet the 2 671 200 goal for all seven bond types while total county sales reach about 2 551 000.
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Silver Bow County
Montana War Finance
Helena
Naval Invasion of Marshalls Described as Duck Soup
Rear Admiral Richard L. Connolly described the Marshalls operation as the purely naval phase of the invasion, calling it duck soup. He noted surprise at light enemy resistance and said potential Japanese counterattacks were uncertain and aerial measures were anticipated.
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Kwajalein Atoll
U.P
Richard L. Connolly
Marshall Island
Roi
Connolly
Waukegan
Modified Subsidy Plan Offered by Senators
A group of senators proposed a $500 million per year food subsidy program limited to low income families, targeting those under roughly $1,600 annual income. The plan is a modification of the Aiken LaFollette food stamp bill, which the War Food administration says would cost about $3 billion annually.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Byrd Seeks Quick Liquidation of HOLC by 1946
Senator Harry F. Byrd urged Congress to liquidate the Home Owners Loan Corp by June 30, 1946, selling mortgages and assets to private business. He argued the agency has met its goals and would cut U.S. obligations and government payrolls, with Rep Everett Dirksen预计 introducing similar legislation. HOLC assets include about 12,000 properties with 7,500 expected after July sales. no new loans since 1936.
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd
D.-Va
Joint Economy Committee
Home Owners’ Loan Corp
Byrd
New Deal
Everett Dirksen
HOLC
United States
Senate Banking Committee
Robert F. Wagner
D.-N.y
Taber
Lieutenant Robert Corette to Lead Montana Marine Recruiters
First Lieutenant Robert D. Corette, a prominent Butte attorney and former Montana sports leader, is named commanding officer of the Montana Marine Corps recruiting district. He succeeds Lt. Gray P. Minor, reassigned to Portland, Oregon, with both officers to assume their posts about February 15.
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Robert D. Corette
Butte
Montana Marine Corps
Gray P. Minor
Portland
Ore
Minor
Montana
Corette
J. E. Corette
Camp Elliott
Calif
Office of Marine Officer Procurement
Seattle
Butte- Anaconda Independent Football League
Butte Country Club
West Steel
Allied Forces Beat Off Nazi Attacks
Allied forces repelled the first major German assault on the Anzio beachhead near Carroceto and held a line north of Rome. American tank destroyers knocked out four Tiger tanks while Allied artillery battered German troops, with high casualties reported. Cassino house to house fighting continued as both sides pressed toward the Gustav line and Rome.
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Algiers
Anzio
Carroceto
Rome
Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
de Luce
Italy
Fifth Army
Cassino
Liri
Gustav Line
Berlin
Butte And Montana Forecasts Partly Cloudy With Snow Flurries
Butte Partly cloudy with light snow flurries Sunday. Not quite so cold. Saturday's maximum 37 minimum 12. Montana Partly cloudy to cloudy Sunday with snow flurries west and north, warmer east. Cloudy with snow flurries Sunday night. Colder northeast and north central portions.
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Butte
Montana
Reds capture Lutsk and Rovno as 200 prisoners taken
The Red Army reports major westward gains capturing Lutsk and Rovno about 85 miles inside old Poland. Soviet losses to Germans include 4,500 men and 95 tanks in failed attempts to break the encirclement near the Dnieper. The push nears the 1939 boundary and Warsaw rail corridor, with 200 towns retaken and 50 miles to Moscow’s reach.
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London
Red Army
Rovno
Lutsk
Old Poland
Moscow
Dnieper
Poland
Warsaw
Red
Germany
Americans Tell of Victory at South of Rome Beachhead
A platoon of American tank destroyers helped the British repel a German counter attack north of Corroceto. Surrounded by Mark IV and Tiger tanks, they broke through and returned with tales of victory. Sergeant John Shoun of Butler describes the breakthrough and mowing down Germans with 50 caliber guns. Six German tanks were knocked out and three self propelled guns destroyed in the night battle.
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Fifth Army
Rome
U.P
Corroceto
John Shoun
Butler
Temn
Son of Marine General Dies in Marshalls
Capt. James L. Denig, tank company commander in the Fourth Marine Division, was killed in action on Roi island in the Marshall Islands as Marines fought to drive Japanese forces from Roi and its key airfield. He is the son of Brig. Gen. Robert L. Denig, Marine public relations director, whose office was notified Saturday.
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Washington
James L. Denig
Marine Tank
Robert L. Denig
Marshall Islands
Navy
Young Denig
Fourth Marine Division
Roi Island
Roi
Deniy
Marine Corps
Death March Memoir: Burial Alive Of Three Soldiers In Bataan
Lt Col W E Dyess recounts the brutal Bataan death march and burial alive of three fighters after a 21 hour trek from Cabcaben to Orani. He describes hunger thirst dysentery heat and filth on the march and the crowded barbed wire compound where hundreds suffered.
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W. E. Dyess
Bataan
Philippines
Montana
Standard
The
Chicago Tribune
Orani
Cabcaben
Caribbean
U S to Build Huge Pipeline From Persian Gulf to Med
Secretary Ickes announces a government oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean, about 1250 miles long, costing 130 to 165 million dollars. It would stock one billion barrels for U S Army and Navy use on favorable terms. Agreement covers Arabian American Oil company Standard Oil California Texas company Gulf Exploration company. Sanction awaited from Saudi rulers and Kuwaiti authorities.
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Washington
United States
Persian Gulf
Mediterranean
Harold L. Ickes
U. S. Army
Ickes
Petroleum Reserves Corporation
Arabian American Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of California
Texas Company
Gulf Exploration Company
Gulf Oil Corporation
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Widower Sues Over Wife’s Coffin Fall Injuries
A Philadelphia widower sues two coffin companies for 25000 dollars alleging his wife's body fell from a coffin and struck his leg causing injuries and shock.
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Philadelphia
Two Casket Comes Panies
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Marshall Isles
William Hipple
Charles H. Corlett
Kwajalein Islet
Marshalls
Corlett
Attu
Administration
R. L. Ruhle
U.S
Ridid
Bill
Robert Corette
By Edward Kennedy
Laken
By James M. Long
Joseph Stalin
Kiev
Stalingrad
Olshana
Zvenigorodka
Monitor
Volosovo
Mshinskaya
With
Reynolds Packard
Col. W. E. Dyess
United States Army Air Forces
Charles Leavelle
Wats Cot
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