Two Mile Rhine Crossing Cleared By Canadian Troops
Canadian forces cleared a two mile stretch along the Rhine opposite Emmerich and bridged to Kessel and Gennep as they pressed toward Ruhr pocket targets. American units pushed into the Siegfried Line near Echternach while German defenses stiffened across the front amid heavy rain and floods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyd D. Lewis Paris
U.P
Rhine
Kleve
Ruhr
Rhineland
Goch
Calcar
Cakar
Third Army
George S. Patton
West Wall
Pruem
Echternach
N. H. D. G. Crerar
Canadian First Army
Crerar
Emmerich
Reich’s Forest
Niers
Kessel
Gennep
Hammersum
80Th Infantry
Sure
Siegfried Line
Cruchten
Saar
U. S
Seventh Army
44Th
Rimling
Sarregue
Offenburg
Strasbourg
Japanese Prison Ship Torpedoed
United Press reports reveal 1,800 Allied captives, mainly Americans, perished when a Japanese prison ship sunk by a submarine last Oct 24 in the China Sea. Only five survivors known. a prior Sept 7 sinking near Mindanao killed most aboard during transfer from the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
China Sea
Tokyo Elates Over American Air Raids Report
United Press notes Radio Tokyo says residents remained calm during a Friday air raid. Citizens dressed in fighting toys, workers continued breakfast and reported a clear sky view of dogfights as airmen patrolled in cold air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Tokyo
San Francisco
RFC Measure Passed Goes To President
The House passed and sent to President Roosevelt legislation to clear the way for Henry A. Wallace to become secretary of a trimmed down commerce department. The vote was 204 to 196 as Democrats fended off Republican efforts to send the bill back to the banking committee and block Wallace’s confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Commerce Department
Senate
George Bill
House Banking Committee
Wallace
Commerce
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jhouse
Lemke
North Dakota
Wilson
Indiana
Arizona
Richard Harless
John R. Murdock
George
U. S. Housing Projects Here Net $160 000
The local housing authority reports six months ending Dec 31 shows net income of 160000 from government rental units. Total 1071 dwellings plus 306 Rincon Vista homes and more, with trailers for Southern Pacific and Consolidated-Vultee workers. Average rents range from 18 50 to 44 dollars. utilities paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Big
Uncle Samuel
Ajo
Rincon Vista
Davis-Monthan
Southern Pacific
Rodeo Field
Consolidated-Vultee
la Reforma
Davis-Monthana
Uncle Sam
You
OPA
FPHA
Cain
Davis-Monthan Field
Fifth Army Withdraws In Monte Canala Sector
Rome dated dispatch reports American Fifth Army troops in the Tyrrhenian coastal sector have withdrawn after German infiltrations at Monte Canala. Allied headquarters says enemy pressure pushed troops to the southern slopes of Monte Canala, four miles inland and southeast of Massa, areas previously held before a prior coastal attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Fifth Army
Tyrrhenian
Monte Canala
Mark W. Clark
Massa
U. S. 92Nd Infantry Division
Ane
Sailor Survives Ship Sinking After 30 Months as POW
Sgt Avery E Wilber of Navarino Wisconsin returns home after two years two months as a Japanese prisoner of war. He was among 1 800 prisoners aboard a prison ship sunk in the China Sea on October 24 by an Allied submarine. The long ordeal ends with a joyous homecoming for the 32 year old mechanic and his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mindanao
Philippines
U. S
United Press
Avery E. Wilber
Navarino
Wis
Via
Leonard C. Schubert
Appleton
U.P
Farmer
China Sea
Corregidor
Wilber
Society Doctor Takes Own Life in Winne tka Case
In Winne tka NL on February 16 UP police report Dr Harold L Sippy 43 a society physician died by suicide in his garage from carbon monoxide poisoning He left a note blaming psychoanalysis A telegram from his wife Camilla of Tucson Ariz urged him not to visit and to plan his future without her The couple's children include Bertram III and Camilla Jr
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnetka
Harold L. Sippy
Mrs Sippy Leaves Silver Bell Ranch For Winnetka
Mrs Sippy and her two children left the Silver Bell ranch early today for Winnetka. The children remain enrolled at the Arizona Sunshine school in Tucson.
Rome's Former Rabbi Chased From Ghetto
Israel Zolli the former Rome chief rabbi fled the ghetto with his wife and daughter after threats to their lives following their conversion to Catholicism. Invective scrawled on ghetto walls, including their apartment, signaled danger. The family reportedly sought refuge in a Catholic institution with Vatican extraterritoriality. Zolli to take his first communion Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Israel Zolli
Zollis
Vatican
Zolli
Arizona House Proposes Horse and Dog Racing Board
A bill to create a state racing commission to supervise horse and dog races was introduced in the Arizona House. The commission would have three members appointed by the governor with Senate consent, serving six year terms, and limit horse racing to 60 days annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Arizona
House of Representatives
A. Berky
Pima
Robert Perkins
Ralph Hooker
Yavapai
Ed Jameson
Mohave
Senate
House Public Lands Committee
House Labor Committee
John Hardwicke
Pima County
Soviets Close In On Berlin From Southeast Front
Soviet armored forces under Marshal Konev push from Beeskow and Cottbus toward Berlin as they link with Zhukov to form a Berlin offensive. Neisse defenses shattered and columns of tanks and cavalry move through shattered villages toward the Spree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Konev
Berlin
Beeskow
Cottbus
Neisse
Forst
Guben
Oder
Frankfurt
Marshal Zhukov
Elbe
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Dresden
Germany
North Sea
Hamburg
Moscow
Zhukov
Kuestrin
Beeshow
Philippines
Gershans
Harding And Clark To Go Before Court
A hearing is set in Judge William Hall's court on charges against T. F. Harding, a suspended liquor control agent, and M. K. Clark, an Indian agent. Cecil Wayne Clampitt, the U. S. commissioner defending them, may ask for Judge Hall's disqualification. The pair are to be arraigned Saturday on triple charges linked to the December assault and false imprisonment of Papago Percy Lewis. If disqualification occurs, the case could move to Judge Evo de Concini's superior court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hall
T. F. Harding
M. K. Clark
Cecil Wayne Clampitt
U. S
Papago Percy Lewis
Hall
Evo de Concini
Tokyo radio hints Iwo Jima attack may preface landing
A Tokyo radio broadcast quoted by United Press from San Francisco suggested the carrier strike on Tokyo and the Iwo Jima bombardment could precede an American landing on Iwo. It said Iwo's capture would provide a base for escorting fighters for B 29s from the Marianas, though Nimitz headquarters did not confirm carrier planes in the Iwo shelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Volcano Islands
Iwo
San Francisco
Marianas
United States
Chester W. Nimitz
MBS
Arthur Primm
Guam
Tokyo Bay
Yokohama
Yokosuka Naval Base
EWT
Boso Peninsula
Yokosuka
Shizuoka Prefecture
Boso
Domet
FDR Planned Senate Presentation on Yalta Big Three Talks
Vice President Truman leads push to invite President Roosevelt to brief Congress on the Yalta conference and Big Three agreements. Senators like Pepper praise the idea as Byrnes and others support a direct presidential address to lawmakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FDR
Congress
Truman
Washington
Roosevelt
Yalta
Churchill
House of Commons
James F. Byrnes
Senate
Sen
Pepper
D-Fla
Municipal League Bill Blocked By Senators
Phoenix February 16 Efforts to legalize the Arizona municipal league ran into trouble in the state senate and the bill was kept on the calendar for possible further action. Sen Walter Thalheimer of Maricopa county previously Phoenix mayor introduced the measure to give legal buoyancy to the league. The Arizona supreme court had ruled public funds could not be used to pay league dues and the senate removed a provision allowing cities to pay annual dues from the public treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Arizona Municipal League
State Senate
Senate
Walter Thalheimer
Maricopa County
Arizona Supreme Court
Preview of U S Plans for Japs
Dewitt Mackenzie writes that American air forces with a vast task force have joined the war against Japan, aiming to destroy Japan’s home warplane fleet and sever Nippon’s life lines as the Allied blockade tightens. The article notes the fleet’s approach to the Japanese mainland within 300 miles and signals U S naval dominance in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Japan
Nippon
Philippines
Orient
East
Mitscher
All Nippon
Mikado
Pacific
Massive U.S. Air Armada Bombs Tokyo In Heavy Raid
More than 1,300 American planes from a vast carrier task force struck Tokyo for about nine hours, targeting airfields and installations. Reports say forces then bombarded Iwo Jima as part of the operation, with Japanese sources noting anticipated carrier actions toward the Japanese mainland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Tremaine
Nimitz
Guam
U.P
Tokyo
Comei
Iwo Jima
Domei
Pacific
Yanks Break Japanese Line on Bataan Advance to South
Manila dispatch reports American troops piercing the main defense on Bataan and seizing Balanga and Pilar, with U. S. 11th Corps advancing five miles along the peninsula’s east coast. Gen. MacArthur’s forces move toward the Pilar–Bagac corridor as Wainwright’s units began their 1942 stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Dickinson
Manila
U.P
Bataan
United States Army
11Th Corps
U. S
11Th Army
Balanga-Pilar
Abucay
Balanga
Pilar
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Douglas MacArthur
Bagac
Party Leader Calls Session Over Platform
E C Locklear Prescott to chair a meeting of Arizona Democrats to determine if members of the 17th legislature are repudiating the 1944 platform. Mrs Claire Phelps Maricopa said representatives had no comment on the platform, which she alleged was drafted by the CIO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Democratic State Executive Committee
E. C. Locklear
Prescott
Claire Phelps
Maricopa
CIO
Locklear
Senator Kimball Defends Dogs Against State Tax Measure
In Phoenix on February 16, Sen. William Kimball of Pima opposed house bill 83 calling it class legislation. He argued the proposal would create a permanent rabies control fund via dog tax fees and empower constables to impound or euthanize unlicensed dogs or hold them 30 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
State
Senate
William Kimball
Pima
Kimball
David Kimball
Maricopa
Severe Cold Wave Grips Midwest States
A severe cold air mass moved southeast across the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes, ending the warm spell since November. Temperatures dropped to zero and below with high winds and storm-associated phenomena in parts of Vermont and New York. Wisconsin faced 5 to 15 below, Illinois 0 to 10 above, and Indiana and Michigan 5 to 10 above.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Vermont
New York State
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Miche Igan
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Ferry
RFC
Silesia
Harding
Clark
Iwo Jima Island
By Jack Bell
Municipal League
Yanks
Sen. Kimball
Midwest
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