Iwo Jima Battle Stalemated Amid Heavy Casualties
U S Pacific Fleet reports 12 364 Japanese dead with 1 prisoner taken and continued stiff resistance on Iwo Jima. Fourteen Marine divisions push 50 to 100 yards as Maj Gen Clifton Cates Fourth Marines seal a sector and Rockeys Fifth Marines repel a counter attack. Naval gunfire supports ground advances while air forces strike Chichi Jima and targets in the Bonins Carolinas and Marshalls.
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U.S. Pasifie
Guam
Iwo Jima
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Fim
Tokyo
Clifton B. Cates
Keller E Rockey
Fifth Marines
Epenax
Dewey Signs Bill to Reorganize Workmen's Comp Board
Governor Dewey signs a bill reorganizing the Workmen's Compensation administration from the Industrial Board to the Workmen's Compensation Board. The move aims to cut delays and waste, giving the board full executive power and a $10 000 chairman salary. Mary Donlon of New York City screens the report backing the change. The Ives Quinn anti discrimination bill heads for action, while critics call the measures a GOP grab.
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Staif
Albany
New York State
Thomas E. Dewey
Ives-Quinn
Falk-Gugino
Troy
Dewey
Administrative Authority
Industrial Board
Workmen's Compensation Board
Win Center Authority
Mary Donlon
New York City
Frances Perkins
Red Cross Volunteers Do Six Million Hours of Service
More than six million volunteers carry on Red Cross activities nationwide. Nearly four million are enrolled in ten Volunteer Special Services corps. Local chapters report 162 08 hours of service during 1944 with volunteers serving in canteens aiding servicemen families driving ambulances and preparing surgical dressings.
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Red Cross
Jocal Red Cross
Reds Trap 200000 Nazis In Pomerania
The Red Army launched a 62 mile break through to the Baltic coast near Kolberg, trapping an estimated 200,000 German troops in eastern Pomerania. Simultaneous advances near Stettin and Stargard pushed toward Berlin and Danzig, with heavy fighting described in a sweeping four day push.
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London
Red Army
Baltic
Kolberg
Germany
Greve
Free City of Danzig
East Prussia
Koenigsberg
Zhukov
Pomeranian
Spsb
Esst
Iqalactiae
Danzig
Moscow
Strike ends at Detroit Chrysler plants after eight days
In Detroit local 3 United Auto Workers members voted to end an eight day stoppage that halted war production in six Chrysler plants and paused output for over 24 000 workers. The return to work followed a national war labor board order and a pledge to reinstate eight discharged employees. The vote and resumption were described as overwhelming by union officials despite a few dissenters.
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Chrysler Corp
National War Labor Board
Chrysler
Briggs Manufacturing ‘Co
Ce S
United Automobile Workers
CLO
Mike Mavak
WSE
Patterson
New York Sets Record Quota in Seventh War Loan Drive
New York State is assigned a record $1.134 billion individual quota for the Seventh War Loan, the largest in state history, announced by Fredrick W. Gehie of the State War Finance Committee. The drive targets payroll savings, individual purchases, and corporate sales across three phases from April to June.
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New York
New York State
Fredrick W. Gehie
State War Finance Committee
Gehie
Chase’ National Bank
Treasury Department
Getile
German Bombers Resume Raids on England
London reports say German planes resumed raids on Britain with six aircraft shot down as attacks hit northern and eastern England. Coastal towns suffered fires and damage to cottages and public buildings while incendiaries set parish halls ablaze and civilians were wounded or killed.
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London
Germany
Britain
North Sea
East Anglia
England
Londom
Ene
Air Ministry
Hale Replaces Harmon as Navy Continues Search
P Maj. Gen. Willis H L Hale is named to replace Lieut Gen Willard F Harmon as commander of Army Air Forces Pacific Ocean Areas while Harmon and nine other officers and ten others remain missing after a trans Pacific flight. An extended air and naval search continues. Hale also handles deputy commander duties of the Superfortress 20th Airforce and will perform these roles until War Department formal action. The Pacific strategic air force is seen as the framework for mass attacks on Japan as soon as European operations wind down.
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Advance
Guam
Ia Navy
Hadio
Willis HL Hale
Willard F. Harmon
Army Air Forces
Pacific Ocean Areas
General Harmon
San Francisco
General Hale
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Strategic Air Forces
Harmon
20Th Airforce
Hale
War Department
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Pacific
Japan
Paul Whiteman Predicted Jazz Revival Despite Jam Session Era
Paul Whiteman voices optimism about jazz surviving the jam session era arguing that swing and Army Navy orchestras offer future strength. He criticizes Artie Shaw for pessimism and defends contemporaries while recalling past concerts and works like Rhapsody in Blue and the Grand Canyon Suite. He says jam sessions can hurt jazz as an art form by fostering mediocrity and excessive saxophone bombardment.
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Hollywood
Paul Whiteman
Artie
Guck
Stormy
Harry” James
Jimmy Dorsey
Tommy ‘Dorady
Whiteman
New York
Vandenberg Free Rein for World Security Conference Role
President Roosevelt assures Senator Vandenberg of freedom of action at the San Francisco World Security Conference. Vandenberg is expected to accept a delegate role as the U S delegation prepares to finalize the Dumbarton Oaks peace machinery. Other GOP figures Eaton Stassen are set to attend.
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Roosevelt
Vandenberg
R-Mich
San Francisco
Vanderberg
United States
Dumbarton Oaks
Michigan
Senate
Moses
North Dakota
Hep. Eaton
H-Nj
Becomié
Harold E. Stassen
Yanks Turn Volcano Into Field Kitchen on Iwo Jima
Navy radio report describes Suribachi Volcano erupting hot steam while American Marines in the sector received hot rations for the first time in days. Captain E H McCarthy of Medford Massachusetts notes many Japanese forces were seen leaving volcanic caves as fumes rose from fissures.
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Iwo Jima
Navy
Suribachi
Cept
E. Ht. McCarthy
Medford
Mass
McCarthy
Liberal Party Proposes Pay Hikes for New York City Teachers
The Liberal Party of New York urged the State Legislature to grant cost of living increases of 300 dollars annually for New York City teachers and 460 dollars for teachers outside the city, to be paid from the state surplus fund. They note few teachers have had wage adjustments since 1938 despite costs rising 30 percent and also propose ending the permanent substitute system in NYC.
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New York
Liberal Party of
New Yote
New York City
Jobh L. Childs
Liberal Party
Alex Rose
Mit
Italian Troops Rout Germans Along Adriatic Coast
Allied reports say Italian units attached to the Eighth Army swept the coast south of the Po Di Primaro, taking nearly 200 prisoners after a heavy artillery and air supported assault. The advance reached the Adriatic end of the front, overcoming mines and strong resistance to clear the last enemy positions from a spit of land between the Po Di Primaro and the sea.
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Home CP
Eighth Army
Po di Primare
Adriatic
Po di Primaro
Valli di Comacchio
Porte Garibaldi
Regoon
Nazis Err In Kurusu Death
London via Pi-Berlin Transocean agency broadcast a death notice for Seburg Kurusu in Washington during Pearl Harbor attacks. The error was corrected to state Capt Makoto Kurutsu, son, was killed in air combat February 16.
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London
Berlin
Transocean
Seburg Kurusu
Washington
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Kurusts
Makoto Kurtsu
Toakuro
Tokyo
U. S
Federal Communications Commission
United States
Kurosa
Alice Little
New York
Tpokre
Foreign Planes Bomb Swiss Cities Amid War
Foreign planes pounded Zurich and Basel areas yesterday with American bombers also striking near the frontier. Twenty five bomb craters appeared at Basel freight gates as warehouses were wrecked and many homes damaged in Basel and Zurich. Injuries were reported and a suburban agricultural school was wrecked.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Babel
Germany
Basel
Soviet U S S R guerrilla unit escapes German guards in Dresden raid
Pravda describes a four week fight to freedom by Soviet labor slave survivors in Saxony. Led by Serafim Shamilin the brigade formed to break from a Farben plant slave camp. They used bricks and sticks to overpower guards, seized weapons, and fled into the Saxon woods amid January raids.
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SRS
RAS FS Som Jes
Dresden
Saxony
Pravda
Boris Polevey
U.S. S. FL
TS. R
Serafim Shamilin
Lour
Bettariot
New York Workers Call Roosevelt to Seize Coal Mines
The Greater New York C S council and 1,809 shop stewards urge President Roosevelt to use wartime powers to nationalize coal mines to ensure continuous war production. They condemn Tom L Lewis for a supposed strike plot and demand royalty changes amid ongoing contract talks in Washington.
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New York
Tom L- Lewis
C. O
Roosevelt
Toe
Imuiies
America
Germany
Lewis
Operaioes
Washington
Bong Lewis
Each Mile of Ledo Road Cost an American Life
War Department report details that American soldiers died along the Ledo Road from India to China. Negro troops allegedly formed 65 percent of more than 15 000 workers in construction, with malaria and disease taking tolls as the route crossed city territory and faced Japanese threats.
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Ledo Road
Washington
Leto
India
China
War Department
U S Tanks Near Cologne Pressures German Defenses
U S Ninth and Canadian First Armies push toward the Rhine as Cologne and nearby suburbs come under heavy bombardment and tank advance. American forces reach Loevenich and Bonn area while German lines retreat with bridges at risk and Duisburg, Duisserldorf, and Rheinberg under threat.
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Loevenich
Hitler
Amey
Stalingrad
U.S. Ninth
First Army
Rhine
Ninth Army
Duisberg
Duisseildorf
Sth
Bonnberg
Duiisberg
B-29 Raiders Hit Tokyo Again In Early Morning Assault
U S Army Air Forces reports Guam based B-29s conducted a large scale raid on Tokyo, marking the eleventh B-29 strike and the first early morning attack. Allied communiques say no fighters or anti aircraft fire hindered the mission and no planes were lost. Other raids targeted Wasori Hamamatsu Torobashi and Osaka Kobe districts along the coast and northern Kyushu.
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21St Bomber Command
Guam
Marianas
Tokyo
20Th Air Force Communiqne
Jokso
Wasori
Torobashi
Hamamatsu
Nagoya
Osaka
Kobe
Kyushu
Historic Warship Oregon Sinks Into Pacific Battle Legend
A battered but famed Spanish American War battleship Oregon lies at anchor in a Guam area inlet awaiting its fate. Once the lead ship from the West Coast to Cuba, the Oregon carried dramatic lore as it moved toward a planned sinking to serve as a breakwater in a distant modern conflict.
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Pacific Fleet
Guam
Oregon
Western Pacific
South America
Cuba
Santiago
Timor
Tokye Barber
Growe
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