Churchill says Britain will throw all at the Japs
President Roosevelt disclosed after the Alexandria talks that Churchill pledged to strengthen British forces against Japan once Germany falls. The White House said Roosevelt invited Gen. Charles de Gaulle to Algiers, met Egyptian, Ethiopian and Saudi leaders aboard a U S warship, and discussed pacific war strategy with no Soviet participation. Roosevelt plans to return with about 14 000 miles traveled and described Sevastopol scenes of devastation.
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Washington
U.P
Winston Churchill
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Germany
White House
Alexandria
Egypt
Yalta
Crimea
Churchill
Russia
North Africa
de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
France
Algiers
DeGaulle
Ethiopia
Saudi Arabia
U. S
Suez Canal
Britain
Italy
Japan
Pacific
Paris
United States
Black Sea
Topol
Sevastopol
White
Canadians Push Past Goch in 15 Mile Offensive Front
Paris February 20 Canadian first army troops blasted most Nazis from the west wall anchor of Goch and pushed beyond the town as part of a 15 mile offensive front closing on the Ruhr. To the south the American third army pushed into the Eifel defenses and crossed the Moselle behind heavy shelling. 7th Army advances.
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Paris
First Army
West Wall
Goch
Ruhr
Third Army
Eifel
Moselle
Germany
7Th Army
U. S. Seventh Army
Saar
Sarregue
Roer
Rhine
Schwammaneul Dam
Bayonet Point
Gelder
Rhine-Maas
Maas
Afferden
Hassum
Moyland
Calcar
Calcar-Goch
United Press
Walter Cronkite
Roosevelt Itinerary From Yalta Revealed Amid War Developments
White House releases Roosevelt itinerary since Yalta showing travels from Sevastopol to Cairo and Alexandria with leaders Farouk Selassie Ibn Saud and Churchill. War updates report U S seventh army advances in Saar region and Rhine front activity with Germans counterattacks near Goch Calcar and Gelder as Scots push south and east.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Yalta
Crimea
Levadia Palace
Sevastopol
Molotov
Russia
Egypt
Cairo
Great Bitter Lake
Suez Canal
Farouk
Haile Selassie I
Ethiopia
King Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Churchill
Alexandria
Stettinius
John G. Winant
London
Algiers
French North Africa
Jefferson Caffery
Paris
Alexander Kirk
Rome
City Warned Often About Floods Trial Opens
Six local firms seek 548,796.02 in flood damage from the city. Hearing in superior court before Judge M. T. Phelps began with Mayor Henry O. Janstad on the stand. City officials, including City Manager Phil J. Martin Jr., faced questions about culvert size and prior flood concerns from 1935 and 1940. The session adjourned, continuing next day with Corbett Lumber & Hardware Co. testimony.
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Superior Court
M. T. Phelps
Phoenix
Henry O. Janstad
George R. Darnell
Ralph Bilby
Darnell
10Th and
Bean Street
Phil J. Martin, Jr
Thomas Elliott
J. Knox Corbett
Corbett Lumber & Hardware Co
Corbett
Bilby
Ed Dietrich
Dietrich
Yanks Smash Ancient Wall In Old Manila
American forces pound Manila 400 year old wall as 37th infantry and 11th airborne troops close on a 1 square mile Japanese pocket south of the Pasig River. MacArthur visits front. damage to Intramuros and surrounding districts reported. Manila business district nearly destroyed by demolitions and fires.
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William B. Dickinson
Manila
Pasig River
37Th Infantry Division
Ft. MocKinley
Corregidor
Bataan
Charter City
Ermita
Intramuros
Port
Bay Press
Philippines General Hospital
High Commissioner
Santa Theresa College
Wallace Field
Tion
Manhattan
MacArthur
Hagonov
Tagig
Laguna
Marines Break Through On Iwo Jima Airfield Advance
American marines seized the main airfield on Iwo Jima and held about a third of the island. A tough battle followed as the Fourth and Fifth Marine Divisions pushed a line east to west north of the airfield. A spearhead of tanks, about 300, led the assault against entrenched Japanese positions.
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Admiral Nimitz
Guam
U.P
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
William F. Tyree
Nimitz
Japan
Holland M. Smith
Suribachi
Iwo
U. S
Iwo Island
Enc
Pacific
Two Jima
Germans Land Counterblows Upon Russians
Berlin reports stronger German counterblows slow the Red army as Konev’s first Ukrainian army breaks a line near Sorau. Germans claim gains between Sorau, Bober and Neisse rivers, and Guben. Von Hammer notes Soviet penetration south of Breslau but defense holds. Reds lose 64 tanks in East Prussia as remnants of 200,000 trapped troops combat пресsure.
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Robert Musel
London
U.P
Ivan S. Konev
Berlin
Sorau
Silesia
Breslau
Konev
Bober
Neisse
Guben
Ernst von Hammer
von Hammer
Silesian
East Prussia
Work or Jail Proposal Faces Senate Rejection
The Senate Military Affairs Committee tentatively rejected "work or else" legislation by 12 to 6 and shifted to less drastic manpower plans for war production after a protest by President Roosevelt. A motion to study a bipartisan five senator proposal proceeded in a closed meeting.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Moscow funeral for Oumansky held in Moscow
Funeral services were held in Moscow for Constantine Oumansky the ambassador to Mexico killed in a Jan. 25 airplane crash His ashes were flown there by a U S plane for interment at the Novodevichy monastery
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Moscow
Constantine Oumansky
Mexico
Oumansky
U. S
Novodevichy
Judge Faires Selected For Harding And Clark Battle
In Globe and Maricopa County, Judge Faires was chosen to preside over the Harding and Clark case after local judges disqualified themselves. The defendants, T. F. Harding and Melvin Clark, face charges including false imprisonment and Harding is accused of shooting Percy Lewis. The arraignment is set for March 2 with pending appeals about judge assignment.
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Gila County
Cc. C. Faires
Globe
T. F. Harding
Melvin Clark
Papago Percy Lewis
Harding
Lewis
Maricopa County
Howard Speakman
Eva de Concini
J. Mercer Johnson
Cecil Wayne Clampitt
U. S
Harding and Clark
Speakman
Judge Speakman
Tucson
Judge Faires
de Concini
William G. Hall
Clark
Clampitt
Hall
Johnson
Supreme Court of
Justice Court
Superior Courts
Senate Kills Utility Purchase Bill Here
The Arizona Senate killed a bill allowing cities to waive budget limits to buy municipally owned utilities. The move followed a Tucson push to purchase the Tucson Gas Electric Light & Power Co. An earlier push failed by votes 8 to 11 as Sen. H H d Autremont switched to negative to seek reconsideration. The house adopted four year terms for many state and county officers and approved a gas tax distribution plan over strong city opposition.
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Senate
House
Boards of Supervisors
Monty Signals Final Round On Western Front
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes Field Marshal Montgomery’s order to troops as the Allies press the German northern flank in the flooded Rhineland. Eisenhower is positioned to intensify the attack, aiming to force Rundstedt to fight on the open Cologne plain amid bad weather and mud.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Montgomery
Goch
Rhineland
Monty
Eisenhower
Ike
Siegfried
von Rundstedt
Cologne
Rundstedt
Belgium
Rundstelt
Vets Bills Stalled in Arizona House Debates
In Phoenix two WWII veteran measures stalled as the Arizona House debated a federal hospital for Ft. Huachuca and a tax exemption on 2500 dollars of property. A proposed amendment to bar conscientious objectors was discussed, with Sen. Kimball and Sen. d Autremont clashing over the bill. The senate kept the measure on calendar as sessions adjourned awaiting a public hearing on the underground water code.
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Phoenix
Arizona House of Representatives
Ft. Huachuca
Senate
William Kimball
H. H. d’Autremont
Pima County
House
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Yalta Meet
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Legislative Council
Bill
G. N. Baker
Jack Cummard
J. W. Estes
Owen A. Kane
Sidney
Western Front
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