Nazis Readying Retreat From Kharkov Amid City Fire
Associated Press reports Hitler era forces prepare to withdraw from Kharkov as demolitions hit oil depots and stores. Soviet dispatches claim German losses and civilian casualties in Kharkov while Donets basin fighting continues with unclear Moscow confirmation.
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Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Stockholm
Kharkov
Pittsbugh
Hitler
Donets
Moscow
Red Army
Tax Evasion Sends Chicago Fixer to Federal Prison
William R. Skidmore began a 30 month term for evading 347 409 in taxes on income from his Chicago gambling racket. Joseph Tobin announced Skidmore departed for Terre Haute prison in custody of U S Marshal and deputies.
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Chicago
William R. Skidmore
Sam
Joseph Tobin
Skidmore
Terre Haute
Ind
U. S
William H. McDonnell
al Wohlers
Michigan Boulevard
Billy” Skidmore
Squire
Germans Run Propaganda Drive in Guatemala City
In Guatemala City a heavy Nazi propaganda campaign worries observers of the United Nations war effort. The government has interned 115 Germans, but estimates range up to 5000. Anita Raeder de Diestel, daughter of Admiral Erich Raeder, is said to be among them. German coffee interests complicate surveillance and influence.
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Guatamala City
United States
Panama Canal
United Nations
Guatemala
Anita Raeder de Diestel
Erich Raeder
Legation
Veteran J R Blackaby Dies in Oregon Pioneer and Politician
J R Blackaby 82, longtime Oregon Idaho pioneer and former state legislator, died Monday in Long Beach California. He helped organize banks in Ontario Jordan Valley and Homedale and served as Malheur County Democratic chairman. he was father to Otto Blackaby of Homedale and survived by his widow and sons Earl of Ontario and William of Payette. Services were set for Friday in Ontario Oregon.
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Ontario
Ore
J.R. Blackaby
Idaho
Oregon
Long Beach
Calif
Blackaby
American Legion District
Otto Blackaby
Homedale
Jordan Valley
Malheur
Earl Blackaby
William of
Payetty
Sailors Defy Nazi Subs
Miami reports brave United Nations crews in Atlantic sinkings. Thirty eight crewmen saved from a medium freighter after nine lost. Cuban evacuees recount 11 hours in darkness and two officers killed while aiding others. Norwegian tanker survivors in Miami speak of a boarding party returning thrice and two subs surfacing to shell the ship. two dead and others hospitalized.
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Miami
Fia
United Nations
Atlantic
Cuba
Nassau
Yankee Ship Makes Port in Egypt Bridgehead for North Africa
An American-built freighter flying the Stars and Stripes sailed through the eastern Mediterranean to Alexandria with war materials for Britain’s North African armies. The ship, first of its class under the wartime US program, boosts morale for British forces in Egypt who had few American flags since the war began.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean
Britain
Movie Star Sally Payne Plans Short Stop in Gate City
Hollywood star Sally Payne will arrive at Gate City airport Friday night at 7 18 for a 10 minute stop. Counselor Clarice Tripp of Western Air Lines announced the arrival as Payne heads to Cutbank Montana to lead a defense bond drive.
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Sally Payne
Hollywood
Gate City
Clarice Tripp
Western Air Lines
Miss Payne
Cutbank
Montana
Death of Mrs Emily Gazier at St. Anthony
Funeral notice reports the death of Mrs. Emily Matilda Hathaway Gazier 75 at St Anthony. She is survived by her husband Benjamin Gazier and daughter Ella Barrett of Pocatello.
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Emily Matilda Hathaway Gazier
St. Anthony
Benjamin Gazier
Ella Barrett
Pocatello
Eastern Star Lodge buys two defense bonds
Members of the Ruth chapter Order of Eastern Star announced the purchase of two defense savings bonds each valued at $1,000. The bonds were funded from the organization's treasury via publicity chairwoman Mrs. R F Brookhart.
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Ruth Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
R F. Brookhart
Chinese face Japanese on Sittang river front in Burma
AP dispatch reports Chinese expeditionary forces battling near Pyu on the Sittang river south of Toungoo. A Chinese cavalry unit claimed three armored cars destroyed and 100 enemy casualties in a brisk engagement. Kuibyshev wires say Russia renewed the year old fisheries pact with Japan for one year, seen as a gauge of relations.
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New Delhi
India
Burma
Sittang
Pyu
Toungoo
Rangoon
London
Kuibyshev
Russia
Siberia
Japan
New Guinea Coast Reinforcements Reported. Andaman Population Relocated
Berlin dispatches quote Tokyo sources claiming strong new reinforcements landed on the northern coast of New Guinea. A separate report, with no source named, says the Andaman Islands population is being moved to Madras in British India.
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Berlin
Tokyo
New Guinea
Andaman Islands
Indian Ocean
Madras
India
Soviet forces said to reach Staraya Russa trapping German 16th Army
London dispatch reports a Vichy radio broadcast claiming Soviet troops entered Staraya Russa in northwestern areas along the German winter line where about 96,000 soldiers of Hitler's 16th army have been cut off.
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London
Vichy
Staraya Russa
Hitler
British radio reports Tirpitz back at Trondheim Norway
The BBC broadcast heard in New York said the German battleship Tirpitz had returned to Trondheim Norway after a recent Royal Navy air attack off the Norwegian coast. It also said the 10,000 ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and the cruiser Prinz Eugen, which had slipped through the channel from Brest, were involved.
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New York
Tirpits
Trondheim
Norway
Norwegian
Royal Navy
BBC
CBS
Scheer
Printz Eugen
Brest
Stilwell to Command US Forces in China Burma and India
United States Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell announced he would command all US forces in China, India, and Burma and aimed to deploy American and Chinese troops in Tokyo. He emphasized strong aid to China and pledged large American support, following his return from Burma where he commands the fifth and sixth Chinese armies.
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Chungeing
United States
Joseph W. Stilwell
U. S
China
India
Burma
Tokyo
Roosevelt
Stilwell
Organ Player Kills Three in California Family Tragedy
Courtney Fred Rogers 24 confessed to killing his aged grandmother Sophie Spiegelmann and his parents Lillie and Courtney C. Rogers. He said he chloroformed his mother on February 14 1941 and shot his father on October 25 at their home. Authorities note the grandmother’s property and cash in San Diego would go to him or his mother.
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Los Angeles
Courtney Fred Rogers
Sophie Spiegelmann
Rogers
Lillie Rogers
Courtney C. Rogers
Spiegelmann
Larry Carmack
San Diego
Boise Auxiliary Police Begin Traffic Direction Shift
Boise Chief George Haskin assigns the city’s auxiliary police to their first traffic direction shift from 2 to 4 pm in the business district with traffic lights off.
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Boise
George Haskin
MacArthur vows all out push to recapture Philippines
In Australia US forces rally to MacArthur's pledge of an all-out offensive to retake the Philippines. Australian snipers, drafted civilians dubbed minute men, engage a Japanese column moving toward the Markham river valley to threaten Port Moresby and its airports.
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Canberra
Australia
United States
Priday
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
New Guinea
Markham
Port Moresby
Torres Strait
US Discount Jap Charge Draws Skepticism Abroad
Acting Secretary of State Welles questioned Japan’s charge that Allied forces are unduly ruthless. He contrasted Japan and Germany as violating warfare rules. Observers say Tokyo’s claim backfires, amid evidence of Japanese atrocity and Pearl Harbor aggression.
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Washington
Welles
United States
Germany
Japan
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Hong Kong
Burma Presses For Home Rule Amid War Strikes
Burma faces invasion and hardship as British forces brace for Japanese advances. Burmans press for independence spurred by Cripps visit rumors in India and discussions with London. Frontline action centers on the Irrawaddy and Toungoo fronts with a key battle likely along the Prome road to Mandalay.
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Mandalay
Burma
India
No-Man's Land
Irrawaddy
Toungoo
Prome Road
Yenangguang
Survivors of Dutch freighter reach Capetown
Survivors of a Dutch freighter sunk near the voyage end from Britain have been landed at Capetown after rescue by United States and British ships.
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Capetown
South Africa
Britain
United States
Pocatello Military Club Rolls Honor List
Construction started Friday on the Pocatello military club roll of honor on the Bannock hotel north side facing Center street. The roll will display the names of all Gate City men serving in the armed forces.
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Pocatello Military Club
Bannock Hotel
Center Street
Gate City
Michigan Beans Stored Wet Face Canning Ban Risk
Michigan agricultural authorities seek ways to prevent spoilage of over a million bags of beans stored in bins. A wet fall left beans 20 percent moisture, fit for canning which normally handles 50 to 60 percent of the crop. Warm weather in five to six weeks could cause germination, and drying facilities are lacking.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Leo Cline
Michigan Bean Shippers Association
Two Convicts Deny Guilt In Kidnapping Case
James Quillen alias Ralph J. Midget and Bill Baker alias Jack Pepper pleaded innocent before a U S commissioner on Lindbergh act kidnapping charges. They were held on 20000 bond for grand jury action in Wyoming or Utah over the abduction of Ogden garage owner Ira Gourley and his 17 year old employee James Giles following a garage robbery. Escaped San Quentin convicts, arrested after the stolen car was found in a Cheyenne hotel, waived preliminary hearing. Prosecutors plan: decide Utah or federal court. federal grand jury convenes in May.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
James Quillen
Ralph J. Midget
Los Angeles
Bill Baker
Jack Pepper
Rochester
N. Y
U. S
Oeden
Utah
Quillen
Baker
Francis Bon
Wyoming
Ira Gourley
Ogden
James Giles
Harvey Jackson
San Quentin
Calif
Gourley
Giles
Carl Sackett
United States
Ben
Redheaded gunner sinks axis submarine in South Atlantic
Survivor merchants credit a little redheaded navy gunner with sinking an axis submarine that torpedoed and sank their freighter on February 23 in the South Atlantic. The Ninth Naval District released the official account from Great Lakes, Illinois, but the crew insists the redheaded gunner delivered the finishing blow.
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New York
South Atlantic
Ninth Naval District
Great Lakes
Minute Men Organize to Prepare for State Resistance
Washington county volunteers framed by the Rod and Gun club and granges polished firearms Friday awaiting word to affiliate with the state organization. They act under Gov. Clark's plea for armed citizens to ready for possible invasion with a statewide body to be perfected soon.
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Weiser
Washington County
Rod and Gun Club
Granges
Gov. Clark
MacArthur vows bold counteroffensive to relieve Philippines
In Australia Gen. Douglas MacArthur said President Roosevelt ordered him to plan a major American push against Japan to lift the Philippines. He pledged he would return, recalling his dramatic Bataan escape. Allied reporters described fighting near Port Moresby as Japanese columns push toward Australia. Ground actions and strategic moves across the Pacific framed a long, distant war theater with reinforcements slow and costly.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Roosevelt
Japan
Philippines
MacArthur
Bataan
Washington
Port Moresby
Lower New Guinea Island
Timor Sea
United States
Corregidor
Boom Town to House Japs Boom Town to House Japs
Manzanar reception center rises in Owens River valley to house 10000 Japanese evacuees. 400 carpenters started work and a 150 bed hospital is under construction. Center lies 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles with 500 military police guarding. Land seized from Los Angeles by General DeWitt for alien relocation.
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Manzanar
Calif
California
Owens River Valley
Dace
Benetricians
Pacific Coast
Japan Revises War Rules Amid Claims of Allied Violations
Tokyo reports the Japanese navy issued an ordinance revising its warfare regulations citing retaliation and hatred by the United States and Britain. Navy Minister Shimada presented the decision to the cabinet as Japan notified neutral powers of the move. Professor Enomoto said the navy seeks to act under international law but notes war is reciprocal.
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Tokyo
United States
Britain
Pacific
Japan
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
Shigeharu Enomoto
Naval Academy
Imperial Navy
NYA Trains Women at Pocatello Idaho Center
Women join the training at Idaho Southern campus class shops in Pocatello as part of the new defense industry education, mirroring men’s programs. The effort expands technical instruction to girls, aligning with wartime labor needs and local workforce development.
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Pocatello
Idaho Southern
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White House
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Winston Churchill
Middle East
Casey
Dutch Timor
Malaya
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