TightenVise' On Trapped Nazi Troops
Moscow announced Soviet forces closed in on Krivoi Rog as they moved from Apostolovo capturing Radushnoye and Gorodische. The drive included 40 towns taken, 26 large guns seized, and German losses of tanks and trucks. Allied invasion talk and a Küchler resignation followed in press debates.
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London
Krivoi Rog
Ukraine
Moscow
Apostolovo
Radushnoye
Luga
Leningrad-Warsaw
Ickes Calls for Free Enterprise After War
Secretary Ickes spoke at the Marine Corps School graduation in Quantico to officers including his son Raymond Ickes. He urged after the war a system of free enterprise free of monopoly and questionable government power, saying liberty includes work, wages, recreation, education, and old age security.
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Quantico
Ickes
Marine Corps School
Raymond Ickes
Jap Submarine Sunk In Rabaul Harbor
Allied forces report a direct hit on a surfaced Japanese submarine in Rabaul Harbor at New Britain. The week’s air raids from Solomon Islands bases destroyed or damaged gun positions and aircraft at Vunakanau and Tobera airdromes and damaged airstrips.
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Southwest Pacific
Solomon Irelands
Rabaul
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Vunakanau
Tobera
Mesa to Appeal to President Cleveland
The Mechanics Educational Society of America urged President Roosevelt to order an investigation of C I O and AFL membership during the War Labor dispute, appealing for presidential intervention.
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Mesa
Cleveland
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Roosevelt
A. FB. L
Zimmer And Quill Attack Budget
Albany hearing on Gov. Dewey's 371.8 million Executive Budget included a 7.8 million cut for education. Assemblyman J Eugene Zimmer proposed boosting the formula by 8 million to aid public schools facing delinquency as returning soldiers and students swell the system. He warned increases in state aid ease local real estate tax burden and support an expanding democracy. Budget battle continues.
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Albany
Thomas
Dewey
Assemblyman
J. Eugene Zimmer
Troy American Laborite
Zimmer
Rensselaer
Dew
British wary of American oil pipeline to Mediterranean
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons Britain has not approved a proposed American oil pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. MPs pressed concerns that U S sovereignty over project-affected territory could arise, noting pipelines would pass through British interests in Iraq, Palestine or Egypt under alliance and mandate ties.
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London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Great Britain
Persian Gulf
Mediterranean
United States
Iraq
Beirut
Haifa
Palestine
Egypt
Britain
New Jersey Opens Campaign for Dewey
Morris County Republican leader E Bertram Mott launched a statewide effort to win New Jersey presidential primary support for New York Governor Thomas E Dewey. He said Morris County sentiment favored the New Yorker.
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Morristown
N. J. GP
New Jersey
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
E. Bertram Mott
Morris County
Mott
Ferry Captain Brings Liberty Ship Home After Skipper Dies
Thomas Cavley, 54, a New York harborman who never commanded a ship larger than a ferry, led the Wagstill Avery from Iran to New York after Captain George Bickford died of heat prostration in Aberdan. Cavley described extreme heat that hospitalised crew and his relief upon entering New York harbor.
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New York
George Bickford
Newport News
Iran
Panama Canal
Australia
Indian Ocean
Aberdan
Persian Gulf
Bickford
Cavley
United States War Shipping, Administration
Cawley
Brooklyn
Avery
New York Harbor
Senate blocks $1.5 billion food subsidy plan
Senate voted 49 to 26 against a Maloney amendment to cap food subsidies at 1.5 billion dollars for 1944, despite administration support. Debate linked subsidies to inflation, wage demands, and political appeasement, with Bankhead proposing a June 30 halt and Taft urging a limited compromise.
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Washington LP
Senate
Maloney
D.-Conn
Bankhead
D-Ala
George
D.-Ga
Congress
Taft
R.-O
Body of Entombed Child Recovered After Mine Subsidence
In Pittston Pennsylvania the body of two year old Jule Ann Fulmer was recovered at 7 25 pm after she vanished during a mine subsidence Tuesday afternoon. The child fell into a shallow shaft as rescuers toiled through night and day to retrieve her. Authorities say she likely died of suffocation. The rescue was led by mine inspector Andrew Wilson of Hazleton.
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Jule Ann Fulmer
Pittston
Andrew Wilson
Hazleton
Jule Ann
Mrs
Marie Mitchell
David
Bombs Hit Rail Yards At Tergnier
British long–range Marauders struck rail yards and repair shops at Tergnier in a deep penetration raid along the invasion coast. The attack came with other Allied air strikes on Pas-de-Calais and northern France. More than 580 Marauder sorties have been flown without loss since dawn Tuesday.
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London
U. S
Tergenier
Pas-de-Calais
France
Namur Beach Gravely Tests Marine Gunner Dupeck
In Namur on Kwajalein Atoll during the Marshall Islands operation an officer warned Pfc. Edward Dupeck that night firing could invite misidentification. The next morning Lieut. J R Donovan found 35 to 40 Japanese corpses in front of Dupeck s machine gun after he fired through the dark to repel an attempted infiltration.
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Namur
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands
Edward Dupeck
Philadelphia
Dupeck
J. R. Donovan
Peoria
Lieut
Donovan
Four Prisoners Escape Cheung County Jail
Sheriff George H. Janking reports four inmates escaped from Cheung County Jail last night after overpowering a turnkey. The group includes two fourth offenders as authorities investigate the breakout.
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Ehmra Pi
Chemung County
George H. Janking
Perkins Reviews 1943 Strike Totals And Coal Tie
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported 1943 saw 3 750 strikes involving 1 9 million workers causing 13 5 million idle man days the second highest since the war began. Coal stoppages alone accounted for 8 5 million idle days. Excluding coal, average man days lost was 3 per worker signaling improved government handling and cooperation from labor leaders.
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Washington
Perkins
Miss Perkins
Allies Take Bigger Toll of U-Boats
Washington report says Allied forces destroyed more German submarines in January than December. The joint Anglo-American statement, issued under Roosevelt and Churchill, notes lower merchant ship losses and decries German propaganda exaggerations about sinking Allied ships.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Workers Poisoned at Romulus Depot Restaurant
Public relations office of the Seneca Ordnance Depot said yesterday civilian employees were stricken with food poisoning after eating at a post restaurant. Seven were hospitalized but all were discharged within 24 hours. all cases described as old.
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Romulus
Seneca Ordnance Depot
U S Moves Toward French Government In Algiers Link
Washington signals broadening ties with the French National Committee in Algiers to act as a provisional government for liberated areas, with Roosevelt policy likely to revise and London alignment anticipated. The plan aims to start elections when civilian rule returns.
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Washington
United States
French National Committee
Algiers
France
Europe
Roosevelt
London
Churchill
Charles DeGaulle
de Gaulle
White House
State Department
Coroner May Seek Reenactment in Williams Slaying
Coroner A L Brodie said he may ask Patricia Goodbody to reenact how her mother Mrs Frank Starr Williams was wounded fatally in a Drake Hotel apartment three weeks ago. He will confer with Chief John L Sullivan before deciding on next steps in the inquiry. Mrs Goodbody 28 and her sister Elizabeth Born planned a California trip, with no objections from Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Pope.
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Chicago
A. L. Brodie
Patricia Goodbody
Frank Starr Williams
Drake
John L. Sullivan
Elizabeth Born
California
Joseph Pope
Two Held After Payroll Hold-Up Probe Finds War Ration Stamps
Two men arrested in the West Side payroll robbery case face charges as federal and state probes follow the seizure of a German submachine gun and more than 100000 ration coupons for food shoes and 100000 gallons of gasoline. Napoli 34 of the Bronx and Vito 30 of Manhattan are jailed on weapon and stamp offenses with ongoing investigations into stolen ration coupons and counterfeit stamps.
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New York
West Side Tron Works
Harry Napoli
Bronx
John Vito
Manhattan
Napoli
United States
Charles J. Wagner
Vito
Edward Dillon
Assaults Roar as Cassino Looms and Cassino Falls Turn
Allied forces press a major assault on Mount Cassino near dawn with heavy shellfire as German counterattacks push near the Anzio bridgehead. In the Cisterna area American and British forces bombard positions while fighting rages across the Cassino town and surrounding fortifications.
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Algiers
Cassino
Rome
Cisterna
Anzio
Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
Tires Available For Civilians At Low Point
Washington civilians will receive only 18 to 24 million new passenger car tires this year, far below the 30 million minimum once estimated. Rubber Director Bradley Dewey said the low point of rationing has been reached for six months, with relief expected afterward. He noted armed forces demand absorbed some synthetic rubber and cotton cord previously for civilian tires.
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Washington (P
Bradley Dewey
Destroyer Burns Sinks Four Japanese Vessels in Marshalls
The destroyer Burns, part of the carrier task force, shelled and sank a tanker a medium cargo vessel and two smaller ships in the Marshall Islands area on January 31. The operation came as the task force opened the assault on the Marshalls.
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Burns
Marshall Islands
Navy
Marshalls
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