Navy Task Force Pounds Marshalls For Second Day
Navy and carrier forces pounded Kwajalein Roi and Wotje atolls and Eniwetok in a two day operation. Adm Nimitz reported heavy bombardment from ships and air, with shore batteries shelled as ships stood within range amid radio silence for security.
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Pearl Harbor
Kwajalein
Roi Islands
Maloelap
Wotje
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Gilberts
Tarawa
Central Pacific
Eniwetok
Marshall Atolls
Nimitz
Japan
Kwaja-lein
Taroa
Marshalls
League of Nations
Tokyo
Luftwaffe Lashes Back At London
London endured its 701st air alert as a German raid killed at least 26 and injured over 25. A direct bomb hit in a shelter killed nine, while fires and debris scattered across southeast England and East Anglia. Moviegoers faced blasts, with seven hurt and two close calls as roofs were penetrated during screenings. Rescue teams worked through the night amid flare light, with many buildings damaged and areas around shops shattered.
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London
England
East Anglia
German Tank Chief Killed by Russians
The German High Command announced on a Berlin broadcast yesterday the death on the Russian front of Maj Gen Schulz, a noted tank commander decorated by Hitler for bravery. He was described as one of the best officers and an exemplary commander though not identified by name in the communique. Prior dispatches identified him as chief of staff to Field Marshal von Mannstein’s south Russian armies.
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Berlin
Schulz
Hitler
Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Pet Mongrel Saves Entombed Boy
A black and white mongrel named Mickey saved 15 year old Fred Michaelis trapped in a collapsed tunnel near Jacksonville. Mickey barked and drew attention to the victim while neighbors and two brothers Charles and Robert Harris helped extricate him after the accident on Saturday.
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Jacksonville
UPI
Mickey
Fred Michaelis
Charles
Robert Harris
British policy in Palestine condemned by author
New York writer Pierre Van Paas described Britain's white paper banning Jewish immigration after March 31 as a phase of the overall scandalous policy in Palestine. He urged Jews to stop whining about the policy while noting the United States’ stance recognizing Palestine as a co belligerent.
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New York
Pierre van Paassen
Palestine
Great Britain
van Paaswen
United States
Two Men Held For Strangling Indian Wrestler
In Charlotte, James Clinstock, a 38 year old Indian wrestler, was allegedly strangled with a towel in a dental laboratory. At a habeas corpus hearing, Dr Henry Parker and Lee Sikes were bound over on $5,000 bail each after Judge Bobbitt found no substantial evidence of premeditation. A February 11 hearing was set.
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Charlotte
N.C. G.P
James Clinstock
Superior Court
William H. Bobbitt
Henry C. Parker
Lee Sikes
Bobbitt
Norwegian Methodist Leader Imprisoned in Grini Prison
The Dagens Nyheter reports Alf Kristoffersson, president of the Methodist Church in Norway, was arrested during a tour of Norwegian provinces and sent to Grini prison in southern Norway by Nazi occupation authorities.
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Stockhollm UP
Dagens Nyheter
Alf Kristofferson
The
Methodist Church In
Norway
Norwegian
Grini
Wickard Sees 44 Crucial For Food
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard warned in a wartime annual report that 1944 would bring tighter U S food supplies as production nears a top and overseas demand rises. He outlined Britain, Russia, Germany, occupied Europe, Japan, China and global trends, noting a general animal protein scarcity despite record 1943 output in the Americas and British Dominions.
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Washington
Wickard
United Nations
Germany
Agriculture Department
War Foods Administration
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Europe
Greece
Japan
China
Americas
United Kingdom
Dominions
Italians Demand Ouster of King Vittorio Emanuele
A Bari conference of Italian political parties called for King Vittorio Emanuele abdication and the formation of a new government. The order said conditions prevent an immediate constitutional solution, and blamed the king for Italy’s misfortunes.
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London
United Nations Radio
Algiers
Bari
Italy
Vittorio Emanuele
Associated Press
Bombings Drive Axis Requisition Of Everyday Goods
Axis Europe intensifies requisitions from goose feathers to paper bags as factories and transport networks suffer from Allied bombing. Officials note glass shortages and greenhouses must declare glass stock while schoolchildren in East Prussia contribute 1600 featherbeds from goose feathers for bombed cities. Manure from horses is seized for licensed gardeners and ads reveal swaps like shoes for valuables amid scarcity.
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Lisbon
Europe
Bohemian
Germany
Koenigsberg
East Prussian
Prague
Posen
Poland
Hitler Warns Reich To Hang On With Nazis
Adolf Hitler told bomb-groggy listeners the fight will be hard and must end in Germanys biggest victory despite opponents tricks. He framed the struggle as two-sided between Germany and Soviet Russia, warning of Bolshevik threat and urging perseverance as Britain and the US face defense challenges.
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Hitler
Reich
Nazis
London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Russia
Berlin
Associated Press
Europe
Britain
United States
Op. N. B
Dewey and Perry Put To Sea Again
Marines reporter Sergt Gordon D Marston describes Commodore Perry and Admiral Dewey aboard PT boats in the Southwest Pacific chasing Japanese targets. Lt Commodore Perry Hudson and Torpedoman 2nd Class Admiral Dewey Guilds Jr are PT crew, meeting previously in a Newport hospital after simultaneous appendectomy, jokingly calling each other Commodore Perry and Admiral Dewey.
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Gordon D. Marston
Stoneham
Mass
Marine Corps
Associated Press
Commodore Perry
Admiral Dewey
Commodore Perry Hudson
William Commodore Hudson
Dallas
Tex
Admiral Dewey Guilds, Jr
Beatrice Myrtle Spencer
Pontiac
Art figure dies Miss Goldthwaite 69
Anne Goldthwaite 69, artist and Arts Students League instructor in New York for 23 years, died Saturday. Her paintings are displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress and major galleries in the United States and abroad.
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New York
Anne Goldthwaite
Arts Students League of New York
Soviet Skiers Swoop on Nazis Near Narva Gap
Soviet forces under Gen Govorov driving toward the Narva gap captured rail junctions at Weimarn and nearby stations, advancing within 17 miles of Estonia. Moscow said 80 Germans killed in a single unit, with three tanks and ten guns seized as units push toward Luga and the Leningrad trunk line.
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London
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Narva
Gulf of Finland
Lake Peipus
Weimarn
Moscow
Kingisepp
Baltic
Batetskaya
Chernoye Khreptsi
Myselka
Veliskoe Selo
Luga
Moscow-Leningrad
Kastyenskaya
Yeglino
Leningrad-Novgorod
Dies Discovers Japs Have Been Tricky for Years
The Dies Committee reported yesterday that the Axis invasion of the United States began ten years before Pearl Harbor. It urged legislation to halt foreign penetration by governments and groups seeking to destroy the country, focusing on Japanese activities and noting their cunning and language barriers complicate full understanding.
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Washington (P
United States
Pearl Harbor
Dies Committee
House
Unamerican
Goosebone and Calendar Rival Groundhog As Weather Prognosticator
In the Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania the goosebone man and the calendar lady compete with the groundhog for weather forecasts from New Year to Groundhog Day. Arch-rivals Willoughby Troxell 73 and Louise Weisgerber 76 explain their methods involving a goosebone and counting first-year weather. Both admit occasional errors and offer humorous alibis when forecasts miss.
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Allentown
Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania
Lehigh
Northampton Counties
Groundhog
Willoughby Troxell
Indian Spring Park
Troxell
Boosebone
Compromise On Soldier Vote Seen
Washington reports signs of a compromise in the bitter armed forces voting row as Sen Danaher proposes a new plan to quiet states rights opposition to a federal war ballot. Supporters in the House claim growing strength among southern Democrats backing a uniform absentee ballot for soldiers overseas.
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Washington (P
Congress
Danaher
R-Conn
Army
Navy
House
Administration
Food Subsidy To Continue Says Senator Washington
The administration plans to maintain the current food subsidy program through November amid a price rollback dispute. Senator Ellender predicted a veto of a rollback ban that Congress will sustain, with an expectation to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation and Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds to make payments into late fall.
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Washington
Ellender
D.-La
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Boys Hold Escaped Nazis in Henhouse
Indianola Neb. six farmers armed with shotguns held five escaped German prisoners of war in a henhouse after they slipped from a side camp and trekked eight miles through snow before military authorities arrived. Lieut Col Frederick E Whitten confirmed the incident and the prisoners were taken back to the POW camp.
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Indianola
Neb
Frederick E. Whitten
Whitten
Stalin Rejects Yugoslav Alliance Offer in Exile Government
Premier Dr Bozhidar Puric proposed a treaty of alliance and friendship to Joseph Stalin. Stalin reportedly replied that the time is not now, turning down the move in what was learned unofficially yesterday in Cairo.
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Cairo
Joseph Stalin
Bozhidar Puri
Yanks Advance In Russian Manner At Cassino
Allied forces drive a Russian style advance near Cassino after engineers span the Rapido River with a log bridge and corduroy road. Sherman tanks cross under heavy fire and push to within a mile of the fortress as 48 hours of intense fighting ends in a decisive probing move.
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Allied
Algiers
Gustav Line
Rapido
Cassino
Aluminum Output To Be Cut
The War Production Board nears end of aluminum cutbacks by closing three more lines at Mesena New York. The 15 shut downs are in the east and south where power is scarce. Output had been 40 million pounds a month above demand before cuts. Army plans to use 100 million pounds for invasion mats.
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Washington
UPI
War Production Board
Messena
St. Lawrence County
Philip DP. Wilson
WPB Aluminum Division
High School Strike Leads to Demand for Mass Meeting
Pittsburg UP! striking students of a Pittsburgh high school return to classes today with a formal demand to use the school auditorium for a mass meeting to elect a parent student spokesman. Mrs Camp, chosen by the students as their spokesman during the strike, cites long smoldering grievances exposed by the dismissal of Dr. J Ernest Wright. The strike began Thursday with picketing on Thursday and Friday. only a few students returned.
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Pittsburg
Mhar-Black Union High School
Butter quota drops to 12.1 pounds per person for 1944
War Food Administration announced civilian butter allocation for 1944. Per capita supply set at 12.1 pounds, about 0.5 pound less than 1943. Remainder goes to military needs, Lend-Lease to Russia, and reserves. Russia again receives butter under Lend-Lease for front line troops and hospitals.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Military
War Services
Russia
Ito
WFA
The
Food Agency
U.S
Farewell gesture with Fifth Army troops near Rome
Italian refugees report German withdrawal from Rome as Allied forces advance. Demolition bombs target key buildings to slow the advance while tanks blow anti personnel mines. A field officer praises the cooperation as one of the war’s best. Allied gains near Bordo Montello and Anzio secure towns as six infantry divisions ashore at bridgehead.
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Fifth Army
Rome
Bordo Montello
Cisterna
Campo Mort
Former New York dancer held for manslaughter
State police arrested Constance Elizabeth Miller, 38, a former New York City dancer, on a manslaughter charge in the death of Thomas Wasson, 54, found dead at his Carthage home. Autopsy cited shock, exhaustion, and concussion of the brain. bruising noted on the face and throat. held on $4,000 bail.
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Carthage
New York City
Thomas Ward Wasson
Constance Elizabeth Miller
Sne
Garner Scullard
Watertown
Jefferson County
Carl J. Hynes
Wasson
Allies Make Slight Gains in Burma Fronts Inch Forward
Allied ground forces in Burma have slowly penetrated Japanese positions on three fronts. British Indian troops in western Burma’s Mayu Peninsula with light opposition seized three hills near Razabil. Patrol units engaged in brief, bitter encounters as they advance toward two key ports and repulse a third attack.
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New Delhi
Burma
Asa
Atrakan
Mayu
Razadil
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Dewey
Perry
Pskov
Meretskov
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Dies
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Batman
Drew Pearson
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