Americans Seize Eniwetok Island After Stubborn Resistance
U S forces report capture of Eniwetok Atoll with heavy fighting and 150 dead 350 wounded. Nimitz releases communique stating Parry Island heavily attacked as ground opposition begins to yield. Initial estimates place about 1 000 Japanese on Ensebi and Eniwetok at start. details on survivors unclear.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Eniwetok Island
Parry Island
Eniwetok Atoll
Chester W. Nimitz
Ensebi
Eniwetok Islands
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Parry
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Kwajalein
Marshall Islands
Baruch Plan Sets Postwar Prosperity Drive
The administration accepted Bernard Baruch’s postwar plan and named Wilkie Clayton to head surplus war property and Frank Hines to lead veterans affairs and retraining. Anna Rosenberg is invited as an assistant. Roosevelt to define duties by executive order. Continued on page eleven.
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Bernard M. Baruch
Wilkie Clayton
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Houston
Tex
Hines
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Manpower Commission For
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Roosevelt
War Property Administration
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Woman slayer possibly hid in Drake Hotel ballroom
Police believe the woman suspected of killing Mrs. Frank Starr Williams may have slept overnight in the Drake Hotel ballroom. Supervising Capt Naughton said two witnesses saw a woman leave the ballroom about 138 hours after the slayings. Ward Breiz identified the woman, while Rene Gallett said he thought he could recognize her.
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Frank Starr Williams
Drake Hotel
Michael P . Naughton
Scotland Yard
Ward Breiz
Bell
Rene Gallett
Montreal Tramway Workers Arrested
Five employees of the Montreal Tramway Co. were arrested after a thirty hour strike ended Sunday. The arrests follow provincial legislation banning strikes in public services and stem from a walkout during which workers refused to operate trams in cooperation with AFL and CCL organizers.
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Montreal Tramway Co
Canadian Congress of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Reds Bomb Finnish Port Stockholm Raid Near Ulenborg
Finnish news agency reports Russian bombers raided the Finnish port of Ulenborg on the Gulf of Bothnia last night. The town lies 395 miles north of Helsinki and 75 miles from the Swedish border.
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Stockholm
Ulenborg
Oulu
Gulf of Bothnia
Helsinki
Army to Determine Status of Students
The Army plans to keep advanced medical dental and engineering students in its college program but is unsure what qualifies as advanced. The move aims to determine status and continuation of their studies within military training pathways.
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Army
Washington
Anzio Battle Shows Allied Hold After Weekend Figh
Allied reports say American and British forces repulsed intensified German attacks on the Anzio beachhead. British and American units blocked Kesselring’s counterstroke and held ground around Carroceto and Cisterna as fire raged in Anzio and Nettuno. Rome radio claimed strong American assaults were beaten off, while supplies and reinforcements continued to move toward the coast.
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Anzio
Albert Kesselring
Carroceto
Cisterna
Rome
Nettuno
Biddle Condemns Franco Falange as Fascist Threat
Attorney General Biddle denounces the Falange of Franco as akin to Fascism and Nazism. He notes plans in Puerto Rico to revoke Isidro Conde Fernandez’s citizenship for Falange ties, saying any member cannot be attached to the U.S. Constitution or loyal to the United States. The Department of Justice adds that the Falange mirrors fascist parties in Europe.
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UPI
Biddle
Falange Party
Generalissimo Franco
Spain
United States
Falange
Justice Department
Italy
Germany
Nazis Raid London Again In Third Night Assault
Bombs fell at several places in the Greater London area as German air raiders struck the British capital for the third time in five nights. A small number of enemy planes were reported, and night fighters were slow to engage the raiders.
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London
Lincoln Kin Killed Noted Psychiatrist Murdered In Downtown Washington
Dr John E Lind a 57 year old noted psychiatrist and Lincoln kin was shot to death in his car on a busy downtown Washington street Mrs Miller wife of Robert J Miller 67 a criminal attorney was detained as a material witness after two shots were fired police say Miller fired into the car near Eleventh and G Streets Northwest Lind was senior medical officer at St Elizabeths Hospital He died almost instantly Detective Murray re constructed the account and a bystander Navy man Stearns took the pistol from Miller
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John E. Lind
Abraham Lincoln
Robert J. Miller
Robert Murray
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di Lind
Murray
E. B Dickerson
Three of A Kind All Queens Triplets debut
Three Cramer siblings born January 81 in Leonard Hospital, daughters of Marie Sergi and Mrs. Frank Cramer of Waterford, posed informally for first photos. Anne hungry, Joan stretch, Jean sleepy as progress shows. Neonatal care by three nurses noted. Continued on Page Nine.
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Marine Sergt
Frank Cramer
Waterford
the Leonard Hospital
Anne
Joan
Jean
Marie Sergi
Leonard Hospital
Masquerade Murderer Hunted in Mazatlan Sinaloa Massacre
At Mazatlan's carnival a tall masked man shot and killed Governor Col Rodolfo T. Loaiza at a masqued ball. Bystanders fired while fleeing, wounding Alfredo Duart and killing two U.S. tourists Walter V. Cotchett and Reuben Brooks. The gunmen fled in a car amid chaos at the Hotel Belmar.
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Mazatlan
Mexico
Sinaloa State
United States
Rodolfo T. Loaiza
U.S
Stewart McMillin
Walter V. Cotchett
John Vazza
Tucson
Alfredo Duart
Duait
Hotel Belmar
Parole Hearing Denied for James J Hines in Sing Sing Case
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn upheld a judge s refusal to review the State Board of Parole decision. James J Hines 66 who led Tammy was denied parole after a four to eight year sentence for lottery conspiracy at Sing Sing.
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Supreme Court of Brooklyn
State Board of Parole
James J Himes
Hines
Sing Sing
Vandals Upset Twenty-Two Gravestones in Staten Island Cemetery
Police report Twenty-two gravestones at the Moravian Cemetery on Staten Island damaged over the weekend. The site was once part of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt's estate, according to authorities.
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New York
Staten Island
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Japanese High Command Shakeup After Truk Losses
Tokyo announced the drastic restructuring of Japan's high command as Field Marshal Sugiyama and Admiral Nagano were replaced. Premier Hideki Tojo added army chief of staff to his posts while Navy Minister Shimada became navy chief of staff amid acknowledged heavy Truk losses and similar figures cited by Admiral Nimitz. The moves signal official response to the Pacific setback and losses blamed on the American raid.
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Associated Press
Army
Navy
Tokyo
Truk
Sugiyama
Osami Nagano
Pearl Harbor
Hideki
Shigetaro Shimada
Equatorial
Pacific
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Wife hides in car trunk to spy in Baltimore divorce case
In Baltimore, Vernal Mace testified she spent five hours hidden in her husband’s car trunk while he caroused with another woman and sought $10,000 for alienation of affections. She said the trunk experience occurred in 23 degree cold and named three dates. she and James H Mare were divorced last autumn.
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Baltimore
Vernal Mace
Common Pleas Court
Jean A. Landsman
Princess Elizabeth Faces Winter in One Outfit
London reports Princess Elizabeth receives no extra clothing coupons and has worn the same dress coat hat shoes gloves and handbag in every portrait since December 22 as rationing continues.
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London
Elizabeth
Jas
Lonergan Trial Ordered for Wife-Charm Case
Wayne Lonergan, once from a modest home to Cafe Society circles, was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on charges tied to allegedly forcing his heiress wife Patricia into her bedroom last October.
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Lonergan
New York
Wayne Lonergan
Cafe Sooty
Charcel
Pa Icia
Red Army Reaches Krivoi Rog in Ukraine Offensive
Soviet forces breach the outskirts of Krivoi Rog within four miles of the city center as part of a two front push. Moscow reports a strike across the Lovat River toppled Kholm and advances push German lines east of the Bug River toward Latvia. The campaign claims 190000 German deaths in a month and 3400 more Axis losses overnight as 170 localities are retaken.
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Ukraine
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Dnieper
Moscow
Lovat
Kholm
Lake Ilmen
Bug River
Rumania
Latvia
Krivoi Rog
Leningrad
Red Army
Congress May Name Carlisle Poet Laureate
Washington author Horace Carlisle of Troy Alabama a 73 year old Capitol Architect Office employee would be named poet laureate of Congress under a House bill introduced by Representative Cole. Carlisle is cited for writing historical and religious poetry and the measure was referred to the House library committee.
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Pi— Horace ) Carelisle
Troy
Ala
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Congress
House
Cole
Nic
Carlisle
Housebrary
Allied Air Assault Slashes Luftwaffe Output by a Quarter
American daylight raids hit Brunswick two aircraft factories and targeted six airfields and military sites across northern Germany. Bombers and escorts suffered losses but damaged Leipzig Mackau hangars and other Me 109 fighter plants. Bramsche Lingen Vechte Dipeholz Ahlborn airfields noted as hit with major Nazi fighter plants at Leipzig and Bernberg sustaining damage.
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Allied raid cripples key German fighter plants
General Anderson said the May daylight attack knocked out plants near Leipzig accounting for about 38 percent of Germanys single engine fighters and Bernburg which produced about 30 percent of twin engine fighters. Brunswick component factories face a three to four month restoration delay.
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London
Leipzig
Germany
Frederick L. Anderson
Britain
Bernburg
Brunswick
Anderson
Eighth Army Air Force
State Tally For Soldier Vote Proposal Advances
Washington reports a PSA plan to send federal ballots to service members and let states decide counting. Rep Wesley 1D Tex advocates the measure amid a congressional deadlock on service vote legislation. Rep Rankin 1D Miss says the proposal removes constitutional questions and would repeal the 1942 act waiving local registration and poll tax for the armed forces, shifting eligibility to the states for this year's presidential election.
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PSA
Wesley
States
Rankin
Cichts Democrats
Delay Granted Chaplin Plea Postponed on Mann Act Charges
Charlie Chaplin appeared in a federal court in Los Angeles facing Mann Act violations and conspiracy charges. He was granted a Friday deadline to plead to two Mann Act counts and a March 4 deadline to plead to conspiracy indictments alongside five co defendants. Jessie Reno of the Beverly Hills police department pleaded not guilty and requested trial readiness.
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Charlie Chapin
Joan Berry
Chaplin
F. O Connor
O'Connor
Owever
Jessie Reno
Beverly Hills
Mrs Reno
Bne
Garbeq
Senator George Attacks Pearson in Senate Clash
Senator George accused Drew Pearson of leading a smear campaign against Congress and plotting to override President Roosevelt’s veto on the 2.815.2 million tax bill. Pearson denied the charges and noted George once sought to testify before the Senate Finance Committee but did not.
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George
D-Ga
Senate
Congress
Drew Pearson
Troy
Racse
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Skunk Pearson
Senate Finance Committee
MacArthur Announces New Allied Ring Around Japanese Centers
General Douglas MacArthur said the Fifth Army Air Force has drawn a tightening ring around Japanese centers in the Esmatek archipelago. The advance followed two days of recurrent air activity and intensified pursuit along the New Teland coast. No freighters were reported in action during the latest engagements.
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Soippma
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Cota
Rabaul
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New Teland
Douglas MacArthur
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