Noxon and Jury Tour Scene of Child Death
Berkshire County jury preparing for the murder trial of John F. Noxon Jr. visited the Onota Lake home where six month old Lawrence died by electrocution last September. The panel, led by Dist. Atty Alberti, viewed the book room and Noxon’s residence while courtroom proceedings loom at Pittsfield.
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Pittsfield
Mass
VPI
Berkshire County
John F. Noxon, Jr
Book Room
Lawrence
Iice Samaneed
Abraham E. Pinanski
Noxon
Albert
Massachusetts
Joseph B Ely
White House
Onota Lake
Berkshire Hills
Little Lawrence
Wing Sighted May Tie To Missing Bomber Plane
Rome Army Airfield public relations officer said a wing was sighted in Lake Ontario near Oswego. Coast Guard investigators look into the sighting as search for the Westover Field bomber continues. The crew vanished after failing to land in Syracuse during a blinding snowstorm with 15 minutes of fuel remaining.
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Rome
Rome Army Airfield
Lake Ontaro
Oewego
Coast Guard
Westover Field
Mass
Lake Ontario
Syracuse
Port of New York Sees Record Low Fire Losses in War
The Port Security Command of the Coast Guard disclosed that despite wartime hazards the port recorded the lowest fire losses and explosions in history while handling billions of dollars in lend-lease goods munitions and troop movements.
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New York
Coast Guard
Soviets Advance as German Positions Break Near Vitebsk
Reuters reports German evacuation of Vitebsk near Smolensk as Soviet forces push toward Pskov and Rogachev. Moscow claims 30,000 Germans killed overall with 4,000 in Rogachev, while Germans retreat through Latvia toward the Baltic. Stalin declares victory in two orders as Berlin confirms disengagement at Dao and Rogachev.
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London
Pskov
Baltic
Dno
Moscow
Stalin
Berlin
Dao
Rogachev
House Overrides Roosevelt On Wartime Tax Bill
The House passed the $2.3 billion second wartime tax measure by 299 to 95, overriding the President's veto. Ninety-nine Democrats, one minor party member and 199 Republicans supported the override as the Senate faced a similar vote expected to enact the legislation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate
House Democrats
Allies Foil Nazi Sneak Attacks on Anzio Front
Allied reports say German infiltrations southwest of Carroceto near Anzio were repelled in sharp fighting. Carroceto remains under Nazi control as fighting continues on the flat beachhead with assertions of heavy casualties for the Germans and confidence the Allied line will endure.
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Aled
Naples
Anzio
Albert Hesselring
Carroceto
Mies
House Extends CCC Reprieve to June 1945
The House passed a bill to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation's life to June 30, 1945. A subsidy ban fight failed to derail the measure as Rep Kean proposed an amendment forbidding subsidies not in effect or announced on February 21. President Roosevelt’s signature is assured after he requested the extension.
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Washington
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
White House
Roosevelt
CCC
Kean
R-N.j
Sky Over Gotha Like Artist's View of Hell
Liberator air raid over Gotha yesterday produced a blazing horizon and a fierce 20 000 foot battle. Crews reported ships damaged with engines out and holes in wings yet many returned, claiming a decisive strike on the Gotha aircraft plant near Berlin. Schweinfurt and Gotha fires were visible from each other as crews rushed back after long, exhausting missions.
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Hell
Britain
Luftwaffe
Berlin
Schweinfurt
Republicans and Democrats clash over veto on tax bill
The record shows Rep Dean P Taylor of the 2nd District and Rep William T Byrne of the 28th District among those voting to sustain the veto, with 89 Democrats and a few Republicans and minor party members supporting. After the vote, Knutson urged stripping Mor Genthau of tax authority favoring the IRS, amid a full House gallery.
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Troy
Dean P. Taylor
William T. Byrne
Loudonville
Treasury Department
Hnutson
R.-Minn
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Knutson
House
Destroyers Sink Jap Troopship and Raid Rabaul
American destroyers in the Bismarck Sea sank three Japanese ships including a troop transport and shelled Kavieng facilities while Allied bombers hit eight other vessels in a third unopposed raid on Rabaul. MacArthur said the blockade tightens and sealanes are dominated, with Nimitz applying the same tactic to the Marshals in the Central Pacific.
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Associated Press
Bismarck Sea
Kavieng
Rabaul
Japan
Pacific
Bismarck
Douglas MacArthur
Sealanes
Duke of York Island
New Ireland
Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific
Marshall Islands
Board Warns Rubber Supplies Near Minimum
The American British Canadian raw materials board warned that UN consumption of natural rubber outpaces supplies and by year end could dip below the 100900 ton safe minimum. It noted synthetic rubber does not replace all uses especially in surgical goods tires and war items.
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Washington
United Nations
Baruch Rubber Report
Winnie Puts Shoulder To the Wheel
A plane at an Allied airfield in the Middle East slid off a runway into mud and could not move. Volunteers were called to push it free. A bulky man leapt from the plane and shouldered the effort. it was Prime Minister Churchill. Miss Irene Ward MP reported the tale after returning from China.
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London
Middle East
Churchill
Irene Ward
China
London Blitz Strikes Again as Five for Five
Five nights of German bombing hit London with incendiaries and high explosives. Nine raiders were shot down, many houses and two restaurants were demolished, a gas main spouted flames, Churchill inspected the scene and vowed to endure. Rescue teams searched wreckage as hospitals and streets bore the destruction.
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London
Churchill
Argentine President Resigns amid Military Pressure
General Pedro Ramirez resigned as Argentina's president after a period of military pressure and a severed Axis relation. Vice President Edelmiro Farrell succeeded him. Censorship blocked details while reports hinted at a possible military move and shifts in foreign policy amid nationalist army forces.
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Montevideo
Pedro Ramirez
Axis
Argentina
Edelmiro Farrell
Buenos Aires
Ramirez
Alberto Gilbert
Germany
Twin Air Blows Lash Germany In Fury Night Raid
British and Italian based U S heavy bombers targeted German aircraft plants in Schweinfurt as the daylight onslaught intensified. The Berlin radio reported heavy raids followed by a night bombing sweep continuing the wartime assault.
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Germany
London P
Continent
U. S
Berln
Schweinfurt
Messerschmitt
Amernia
Senator Tunnell Backs Barkley Amid Veto Debate
Senator Tunnell of Delaware avoided a Democratic conference after Senator Barkley of Kentucky won reelection as majority leader. He said he saw no personal attack in the president’s veto message and would have voted for Barkley if present.
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Washington
Tunnell
D. del
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Republican Party
Barkley
Senate
Guffey
D Pa
Bilbo
D. Miss
Allies Mop Up Japs In Burma Pass
Allied forces close on Japanese troops in the Ngakyedauk Pass Burma as Indian troops press remnants from the Mayu Range and repulse an eastern exit attack. Mountbatten's command said operations continued to destroy raiding parties.
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New Delhi
Ngakyedauk Pass
Burma
Adm
Lod Laws Mountbatten
Mayu Range
Detroit Doctor Convicted as Axis Spy Agent
Federal jury in Detroit convicts Dr Fred W Thomas of conspiring to spy for Germany after a five day trial that included 21 hours of deliberation. Co defendants pleaded guilty. one was found mentally incapable of aiding his defense. Grace Buchanan Dineen testified as a key FBI counter espionage witness. Thomas allegedly supplied invisible ink chemicals for German reports.
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Detroit
Fred W Thomas
Germany
Edward J. Moinet
Thomas
Bertrand Stuart Hoffman
Grace Buchanan- Dineen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
New York
General Strike Rumor Reported in Paraguay
Private reports from Asuncion claim Paraguay declared a general strike on February 15 to oppose President Higinio Morínigo’s government. A circulated manifesto urged workers to fight the regime and form a National Union Government in Montevideo.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Prati
Asuncion
Paraguay
Higinio Morinigo
Allied Air Blows Will Defeat Luftwaffe
Washington reports Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said Allied air offensives over Europe have not yet broken the Nazi fighter strength but will reach a point where Luftwaffe defending squadrons go downhill as shattered plants and shot down aircraft accumulate.
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Washington
Europe
Lindersecretary
Robert P. Patterson
Luftwaffe
Barkley Offers Unity Plea After Resigning Majority Leader Move
Senator Alben W Barkley sent a letter to President Roosevelt urging closer unity across branches as he resigned and was reelected Senate majority leader by the Democratic caucus. He stressed seeking common ground to win the war and restore trust among all government branches.
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Barkley
Alben W. Barkley
D.-Ky
Francis Maloney
D.conn
Senate
Democratic Caucus
Kenneth McKellar
D.-Tenn
Washington
Congress
White House
Roosevelt
Alben
Barkley Emerges as Senate Majority Leader and Potential Presidential Hope
Senator Alben Barkley yesterday won unanimous endorsement as Senate majority leader, transforming a previously strained relationship with President Roosevelt into enhanced political power. Speculation centers on Barkley becoming a presidential possibility and possibly Roosevelt's running mate in a fourth term bid.
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Washington
Alben Barkley
Roosevelt
Senate
Rooosevelt
Kentuckian
Barkley
McNary Heads G O P Senate Minority
In a GOP session described as a warm up for 1945, Senate Republicans elected a full slate of officers led by Oregon’s Charles L. McNary who was reelected conference chairman and minority floor leader. Michigan’s Vandenberg became vice chairman and acting conference chairman, Maine’s White was elected assistant floor leader, Nebraska’s Wherry named minority whip, Ohio’s Burton named secretary.
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Washington
Senate
G. O
McNary
Oregon
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Florida
White
Maine
Wherry
Nebraska
Burton
Ohio
Barkley Speech Sparks Editorial Reax In Courier Journal
The Courier Journal will editorialize today about Senator Barkley urging passage of the tax bill over Roosevelt veto. The paper says Barkley has caused rejoicing among Roosevelt's enemies and that his outburst may yet help him, noting the White House speech and Barkley’s later denial of full knowledge of the veto language.
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Louisville
The
Courier Journal
Independent
Senator Barkley
Roosevelt
Barkley
White House
Mr. Barkley
Senate
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