U S Bombers Hit Wilhelmshaven in Daylight Raid
United States bombers attacked Wilhelmshaven by daylight, with seven planes reported missing. The raid marked the third American strike on German soil and targeted major shipbuilding and submarine facilities.
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London
United States
Wilhelmshaven
Air Ministry
U. S. Army
Germany
North Sea
RAF
Gladwin Hill
Associated Press
Hill
Wellesley
Mass
Ameri
Senators Worry About Pet Bills
The House Small Business Committee charged the Office of Price Administration and Agriculture Secretary Wickard with poor cooperation and policy clashes over meat shortages. It warned continued price squeezes and strict civilian quotas could imperil war morale and trigger widespread packer closures.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Agriculture
Wickard
House
Small Business Committee
OPA
Senate calendar swells as bills flood committee
Phoenix February 26 senators push to advance many bills before the sitting committee forms Monday. The calendar grows by 18 to 20 bills daily and fear rises some measures may lose ground. Baker urges hearings on a pension raise to 50 dollars monthly for about 9,636 elderly residents.
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Phoenix
Senate
Paul C. Keefe
House
Sen
H. H. Baker
Yuma
Baker
State Tax Commission
Dan Angius
Cochise County
Rommel Falls Back Toward Tunisia Coast
Allied troops advance in central Tunisia recapturing Kasserine pass and high ground on both sides. The withdrawal of German forces under Rommel pushes toward Gafsa as Gen. Sir Harold Alexander's forces gain the initiative, with 10 to 15 miles gained in the Sbiba area northeast of Kasserine.
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North Africa
Tunisia
Kasserine Pass
Erwin Rommel
Sbiba
Faid Pass
Gafsa
Harold Alexander
Gafsais
Rommel
Thala
Sbeitla
Kasserine
Bou Arada
Mareth Line
Bizerte
High Plains
Middle East
French North Africa
Raf Bisley
Gabes
Libya
Rommell
Bernard L. Montgomery
Africa Corps
Coasta Plain
Robaat
Tebessa
Sebestia
Thelepte
Fermia
Sfax
Union Issues Ultimatum To Labor Board
AFL Machinists union with 35 000 members at Consolidated Aircraft Corp vows a 24 hour mass meeting if the War Labor Board does not render a wage ruling by midnight Monday. Harv ey C Brown union president announces action as Seattle reports mass Boeing plant walkouts and threats of round the clock protests across West Coast aircraft centers.
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San Diego
Calif
AFL Machinists Union
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
WLB
Harvey C. Brown
Seattle
Boeing
War Labor Board
Aeronautical Mechanics’ Union
California
International
AFL
Washington
D. C
Wayne Morse
Labor Board
Boeing Company
Charles E. Branshaw
Army Air Force
Reds Strike Deep in Caucasus Drive Near Novorossisk
Soviet forces smashed into Angelinskaya and captured Staronizhe-Stebleiveskaya after heavy street fighting, routing German infantry and tanks. The push extended toward Novorossisk with villages near Krasnodar and Orel also reported advancing, while German counterattacks were repulsed with heavy losses.
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London
Caucasus Army
Novorossisk
Kerchstrait
Red Army
Angelinskaya
Staronizhe- Stebleiveskaya
Krasnodar
Timoshevkskaya
Orel
Angilovka
Staronizhe Steblievskaya
Mingrelskaya
House Passes Large Deficiency Bill Shelving Perkins and McNutt Proposals
The House approved a 6.298 billion dollar deficiency appropriations bill without restoring cuts sought by Secretary of Labor Perkins and Labor Commissioner McNutt. No move was made to restore 2.54 million for U S Employment Service salaries, or the 1.2 million for emergency maternity care, as a parliamentary ruling blocked the measure. Most funds fund war needs, notably shipping.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Perkins
Comjoner McNutt
McNutt
United States Employment Service
Secretary of Labor
American Warplanes Attack Japs In Both Solomons Aleutians
Navy reports aerial strikes on Japanese positions in the Solomons and Aleutians. On Feb 23 U S bombers with escorts attacked Kiska. Feb 25 Dauntless dive bombers with P 38 and F4F escorts hit Vila on Kolombangara island, starting fires. Liberator bombers hit Kahili and Faisi in the Shortland island area.
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Washington
Solomon and
Aleutian Islands
Navy
Solomons
North Pacific
U. S
Kiska
South Pacific
Dauntless
Douglas
Vila
Kolombangara Island
Kahili
Faisi
Shortland Island
Wickard Halted Army Use For Cotton Work In Arizona
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told the House agriculture committee he ordered rescinding an Army plan to assign troops to pick cotton in Arizona. He said no extreme emergency existed and migrants had been sent in by the Farm Security Administration. He opposed using troops for farm work except in extreme emergencies. He urged concrete evidence of any drafted essential farmers and said the unit system would be discussed with manpower officials.
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Washington
Claude R. Wickard
House Agriculture Committee
Arizona
Farm Security Administration
Wickard
Congress
Hampton P. Fulner
S. C
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Falner
House
Senate
Gandhi calm as fast reaches day seventeen in Poona
Doctors report Mohandas K. Gandhi is cheerful and shows no real change in condition on the seventeenth day of his three week fast. Friends say a crisis rebound last Sunday persuaded them that God intends for him to live.
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Poona
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
God
Conan
Air Force Eyes Equalization of Axis Squadrons
A senate investigation panel reports that combined manpower needs of military, war industry and agriculture exceed available personnel by several million, prompting a plan to equalize axis squadrons. The group met with government officials to assess the nation’s manpower bank.
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Washington
Senate
Senate panel weighs effects of expanding armed forces on standards
Washington reports that a senate appropriations subcommittee summoned manpower, agriculture, and war production chiefs to explain how food and equipment can be produced as the army plans a 1943 air force and a 4.75 million overseas division by 1944. The testimony warns of dwindling single men in nonessential roles and possible lowering standards or raising the 38 year age limit.
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John H. Wiggins
Washington
America
Senate
Agriculture Wickard
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Paul V. McNutt
U S Fliers In India Gain on Japanese Air Attack
Fresh communique reports show 29 Japanese planes destroyed or probably downed during an attack on American air bases in Assam. Six bombers and three escorts were wrecked, with 20 more enemy craft likely shot down. details remain incomplete. American fighters refueled after engagements and hit bases in northern Burma.
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New Delhi
Assam
U.S. Air Force
Burma
Hukawny
Irrawaddy
Myitgne
Mandalay
Internal War Breakdown May Hasten Axis Collapse
United Press War Analyst Louis F Keemle argues that German internal disarray, boosted by Allied air raids on industry and communications, could hasten the collapse of Hitler's forces. He notes strained manpower, blocked non European sources, and reduced supply lines from Europe to the front.
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Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Hitler
Europe
Caucasus
Ukraine
Russia
Germany
North
Africa
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Hamburg
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Kiel
U. S. Bomber Command
England
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Nuernberg
Cairo
Naples
Crotone
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Harold Gibson
Union District Lodge
Reds
Mingt €Tskaya
Akhtirskaya
Staronizhe-Steblievskaya
Kramatorsk
Donets
Stalino
Krasnoarmeisk
Voroshilovgrad
Rostov
Kharkov
Perkins, McNutt
Aleutians
Army
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Roosevelt
India
Algeria
Sousse
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