Roosevelt urges free college training for high school grads
President Roosevelt urged high school graduates by July 1 to enroll in a new government funded free college training plan. Examinations on March 15 in high schools and colleges will select youths too young for the draft for a short term specialized program toward Army and Navy duty. Trainees will be sent to colleges at government expense, drawing pay and wearing uniforms, to help replace shrinking Army Specialized Training as colleges face wartime strain. Educators estimate up to 100,000 may be eligible.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army-Navy
High Free College
Invasion Hold Expanded on Los Negros
Allied reinforcements have extended the invasion hold around Mokomeairdrome on Los Negros Island in the Admiralties. Los Negros was invaded Tuesday, securing a firmer foothold in a strategic Bismarck Sea position. The expansion follows Nipponese counterattacks as cavalry moved from a mile long beachhead north and south.
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Southwest Pacific
Fifth Calvary Regiment
Momote
Los Negros Island
Admiralties
Los Negros
Bismarck Sea
Rabaul
Japan
Truk
New Guinea
Nurse Freed Of Perjury Charges
Edna Hancock cock a Brooklyn State Hospital attendant was acquitted by a Kings County jury after less than two hours' deliberation. The perjury charge related to her testimony about an alleged assault, tied to Murray Goldman who had been convicted of assault and freed. Her attorney argued she was told she would not be prosecuted for perjury, leading to the acquittal.
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New York
Edna Hancock
Brooklyn State Hospital
Kinga County
Hancock
Drury
Murray Goldman
Hyman Barshay
River Bed Used In Search For Murder Weapon
Officers in Amarillo said crews are using a tractor and grader to alter the Canadian River course to recover a pistol believed discarded after the October 26 slayings of Dr and Mrs Roy Hunt of Littlefield Texas. A former convict was arrested in Galveston soon after the killings but no charges filed.
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Amarillo
Tex
Roy Hunt
Littlefield
Galveston
Strike Ends as Italians Plan Naples Protest Action
The ten minute Italian strike in protest of Prime Minister Churchill’s endorsement of Premier Badoglio’s government was called off by the Allied control commission after talks with Allied authorities. Socialist and Communist leaders suspended the action and announced a mass meeting in Naples on Sunday to circulate a petition likely urging abdication of King Vittorio Emanuele and government reforms. The leaders met with Lieut. Col. Charles Poletti, Naples regional administrator.
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Naples
Churchills
Badoglio
Allied Control Commission
Supreme Command
Vittorio Emanuele
Charles Poletti
New York
Bombing of Rome Rail Yards Targets Nazi Supply Routes
Allied heavy bombers struck Rome rail yards and outlying yards in Littorio and Tiburtina to disrupt German supply trains and warehouses as the Italian campaign faced a stalemate after a failed German attempt against the Anzio beachhead. Liberator raids hit Viterbo and fighter bases near Rome. Nazis answered with heavy anti aircraft fire while Marauder bombers attacked Ostiense.
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Naffles
Rome
Anzio
Littorio
Tiburtina
Liberatora
Viter
Italy
Fome
Ostiense
Fabrica and
Canino
Russian anger grows as Finland delays armistice terms
The Soviet Union pressed Finland over armistice terms while civilians fled Helsinki amid air raid fears. The Red Army widened the Narva bridgehead near Estonia, about 100 miles from the naval base at Reval, tightening pressure on Finnish positions.
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London
Finland
Helsinki
Moscow
Red Army
Narva
Estonia
Reval
Finland to Reject Russian Armistice Demands Said to Parliament
The Finnish government has won parliament over its stance to reject Russian demands for internment of German troops in Finland and to restore the 1940 boundary. A Stockholm newspaper reported the government’s reply is still being drafted, making Finland’s exact answer unclear.
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Stockholm
Finland
Dagens Nyheter
Russia
Finns Open to Moscow Talks on Terms, Eyes German Exit
Russian control of the Gulf of Finland could ease naval access as Finnish press softens criticism of Soviet terms. Moscow dispatches claim terms are generous and some urge a general Red Army offensive, while Finns seek to avoid inviting Soviet forces to dislodge German divisions guarding nickel and copper mines.
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Gulf of Finland
Moscow
Finland
Red Army
Broadway Roundup of Delinquents in Times Square
Police rounded up 95 youths in Times Square area yesterday including five girls and one 12 year old runaway boy. Detention followed in the broad crackdown on juvenile delinquency.
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New York
Times Square
Spain to Get High Grade Oil Shipment
The Philadelphia Record reports from an undisclosed source that 250000 gallons of high grade Pennsylvania lubricating oil were loaded at an East Coast port for transfer to Spain within days. The claim says the move contradicts State Department policy and embargo statements, noting the embargo targets shipments since February 1 and that only Caribbean-area shipments were allowed before, while a State Department spokesman said the embargo does not apply to package oil.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Record
Pennsylvania
Spain
State Department
Washington
Caribbean
United States
Roosevelt avoids Barkley break talk at press conference
President Roosevelt declined to discuss Senator Barkley’s split with him over the tax veto. He would not comment on Barkley and moved on to other matters during yesterday’s press radio conference in Washington.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senator Barkley
D-Ky
Army Credits Penicillin Slashes Venereal Disease Rates
Army medical bulletin reports 1943 venereal disease rate at 27 per 1000 men, a wartime low, with penicillin trials curing 96 percent of sulfa resistant gonorrhea and retreatments lifting cures to about 99 percent. It notes penicillin replacing fever therapy and potential standardization in station hospitals, comparing 1943 rates to higher prewar levels.
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Washington (P
Bulletin
The
Army
Medical Department
French Shipping Returns to French Flag Under UN Aid Pact
The United States and Britain will return a substantial number of requisitioned French merchant ships to the French Committee for National Liberation to operate under the French flag. Crews will be supplied by the French group, with ships and tonnage placed at the UN’s disposal until Axis defeat. Six other vessels and several layups are included, though the Normandie is excluded. The total count remains undisclosed for security reasons, with several million dollars saved by avoiding refit costs for commercial use.
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Washington GP
United States
Britain
France
French Committee For National Liberation
War Shipping Administration
WSA
United Nations
Whch
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Martirque
British
Ministry of War Transport
Normandie
New York
Reds Within Five Miles Of Pskov
Soviet forces pushed within five miles of Pskov from the east after capturing Maloye Fomkin and advancing about six miles. They swept up 17 towns and four railway stations, reaching eight miles southeast of Pskov and threatening the Pskov Ostrov and Polotsk rail lines. The patrols held Dobrovedk and other stations, with the city now six miles from the front line to the north.
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London
Pskov
Maloye Fomkin
Moscow
Pokhvaishchina
Sysneva
Pskov- Ostrov
Pskov- Polotsk
Dobrovedk
Pskov- Staraya Russa
Female jury verdict set aside in DC civil case mistrial
Justice Bailey overruled the first all woman jury verdict in a District of Columbia civil case. She said the jury showed sympathy rather than considering testimony and granted a new trial. The judge noted an error in damages, awarding a male plaintiff 2500 instead of 1500 as requested.
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Washington
Jennings Bailey
Jrey
District of Columbia
Bailey
May to October births yield smarter babies says Lancet
The Lancet reports that babies born from May to October are generally more intelligent due to having more intelligent parents. It notes conception timing was once considered influential, with autumn and winter conceived children thought smarter. No theory is given for the May October link.
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London
Lancet
British Medical Journal
Soldier Says He Hopes To Wed Wo Help Mother Of His Four Babies
Staff Sgt. William Thompson Jr. 26, in London revealed he is the father of Norah Carpenter’s quadruplets, one dead, as he said he and Norah are not married but hope to wed. He asked for a divorce from his Pittsburg wife, plans to register the babies and provide for them, and noted one child, MacDonald, had died. He spoke amid Army officers and offered a written statement detailing his situation and intentions.
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London
William Thompson, Jr
U. S. Army
Norah Carpenter
Norah
Pittsburg
Thompson
Heanor
MacDonald
Pittsburg (P
Wiliam H. Thompson, Jr
England
Eleanor
Mary Jenemann
Sergeant Thhmpson
William H. Thompson, Jr
Billy
Roosevelt reveals Soviet claim to part of Italian navy
President Roosevelt disclosed yesterday that the Russians want part of the Italian navy and that about one third of surrendered ships, or their equivalent, may be turned over to them. He said this fits a general policy of using everything that floats for the war effort and noted that some ships might be manned by Italians. The talk left questions about Italian merchant ships and whether other war material could be exchanged for ships.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Britain
United States
Josef Stalin
Andrel A. Gromyko
Italy
Soldier's Dad Won't Let Son Down
Pittsburg report notes Staff Sergeant William H. Thompson Jr. claimed paternity of Eleanor Carpenter’s quadruplets in England. Eleanor, 26, declined comment and remains secluded. Thompson Sr. hopes Eleanor will grant a divorce so Billy can wed the English woman and legitimize the children.
Youth Threatens to Kill Draft Board Members
A 19 year old New York man Albert Salvatore Fanell was arraigned on FBI charged counts for threatening to kill members of his local draft board after his deferment appeal was denied. He said he would join the Army and claimed to be acting to aid his crippled brother, with $500 bail set for a March 10 hearing.
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New York
FBI
Mebers
Albert Salvatore Fanell
U. S
Garrett W Cotter
Cnaire
Fanell
Man's body found in Florida shark off Venice Gulf
Venice Fla GPi Walter Deane a commercial shark fisherman reported last night that the greater part of a man's body was found in the belly of a leopard shark caught about thirty miles off Venice in the Gulf of Mexico. The shark weighed 800 to 1000 pounds and the body extended from the third rib to the knees. Deane said the body had presumably been swallowed about four days before the catch.
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Venice. Fla
President Opens Mind on Soldier Vote Bill
President Roosevelt indicated he has not yet decided on the new service vote bill. He said the issue is whether more soldiers may vote under the new proposal than under current law, a point that has divided legislators.
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Washington Py
Roosevelt
Wing Identified in Lake Ontario as Getaway Gertie Part
Rome reports Westover Army officers identified a found airplane wing in Lake Ontario as part of the B 24 Liberator bomber Getaway Gertie. Identification came from numbers on wing parts, with no other plane debris or crew bodies recovered.
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Rome
Westover Field
Mass
Yeeterdo
Lake Ontario
Gertie
Army Discovers Revolutionary War Booby Trap
Army engineers dredging the Delaware River uncovered a Revolutionary War stockade trap off the New Jersey shore below Hog Island. The 30 by 20 foot wooden crib was weighted with pounders and armed with long iron spikes to pierce hulls, a plan thwarted when a traitor revealed a safer channel enabling friendly ships to bypass the trap.
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Philadelphia
George Washington
Delaware
New Jersey
Hog Island
Carpetbaggers Flee Nazis Frantically Pull Stakes In Baltic
Refugees from Estonia Latvia and nearby areas describe rapid German withdrawal across the Baltic states as Russians advance. Wealthy Germans seek Reich safety. German women and children depart. local women assume civil posts while men vanish into forests or cross the sea. Mines and scorched earth policies provoke resentment and arrests. Rumors say Russian parachutists and partisans provoke daily insecurity and clashes with German supply units.
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Stockholm
Baltic States
Estonia
Reich
Baltic Sea
Reichs
Heinnien Loh
Aes
Riga
Greek Civil War Ends as Two Guerrilla Groups Unite
Under Allied mediation Greek guerrilla factions Edes and Blas sign a peace pact to end hostilities and jointly resist the Germans. They pledge to release all prisoners within 13 days and intensify guerrilla actions in Greece led by Gen Napoleon Zervas' National Democratic Army and the Elas from the National Liberation Front.
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Cano CP
Greece
Guerrila
Edes
The
Blas
Greek National Democrat
Army Says Penicillin Output Gun to New Heights
St Louis Ordnance District executive officer Lt Col BR Wy Coward announced penicillin now built in 24 tanks of 2500 gallons each. He noted experts previously doubted feasibility but the laboratories near the ordnance plant are using large datasets from January to intensify production.
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St Loui
BR. Wy Coward
St Lows
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