Nazis Change Methods Under Red Pressure
Moscow reports German forces under heavy Soviet pressure shift to open field fighting. The Battle of Staraya Russa and Murmansk coast actions, Dietl leading Alpine troops on the defensive, and Soviet claims of German losses and 2,450 dead mark a broader Soviet push on the eastern front.
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Moscow
Staraya Russa
Arctic
Alpine Army
Murmansk
Kalinin
Soviet Information Bureau
Reich” SS
FBI Raids Hoboken Sailors Rendezvous Seizure
FBI agents and Hoboken police raided the Seemannshaus Deutsches known as the Seamen's Institute in Hoboken New Jersey and detained about 68 residents as possible enemy aliens. E. E. Conroy led the Newark field operation with Captain Dennis McFeely assisting. The raid occurred just before 6 am local time.
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Hoboken
N. J
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Seemannshaus Deutsches
Seamen's Institute
E. E. Conroy
FBI
Newark
Dennis McFeely
National Police Academy
Washington
Defenders Raid Japanese Positions in Pacific and Home Front Arrests Made
Philippine defense forces conducted two successful raids on Japanese targets on Bataan and Mindanao’s Zamboanga while Corregidor anti aircraft batteries repelled bombers. In Washington, two suspects were arrested for propaganda aimed at undermining Army morale, with possible ten year prison terms and fines of ten thousand dollars.
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Washington
Chattanooga
Tenn
George W. Christians
Crusader
White Shirts
Rudolph Fahl
Denver
Colo
War Department
Corregidor
Bataan
Zaboanga
Mindanao
Cavite
Zamboanga
British Naval Force Passes Cape of Good Hope
Rome radio said a major British naval force passed the Cape of Good Hope on its way to the Indian Ocean. The broadcast named two large battleships two aircraft carriers several cruisers and smaller ships in the force.
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London
Reuters
Rome
Cape of Good Hope
Africa
Indian Ocean
Roosevelt Signs War Insurance and Powers Bills
President Roosevelt signed a bill creating federal insurance for homes factories and farms against enemy damage. The act authorizes the War Damage Corporation to set uniform rates, with free protection until premiums are finalized, and caps WDC capital at 1 million dollars. The second war powers bill imposes penalties for priority violations and extends seizure powers while permitting free military postal service abroad.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
War Damage Corporation
RFC
WDC
U. S
Topeka
Kan
Senate
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury Department
Port Moresby Raid and Koepang Fire Reported
General MacArthur's headquarters say seven Japanese bombers raided Port Darwin but were repelled with no major damage. Allied forces hit Koepang on Timor, setting a 7,000-ton ship ablaze and destroying seaplanes, while Port Moresby in New Guinea endured raids with all Allied planes returning safely. Curtin’s communique notes a near miss may have destroyed an enemy flying boat. two Japanese planes were shot down in Port Darwin dogfights.
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Corregidor
War Department
Manila Bay
Philippine
Corregidor Island
MacArthur
Australia
U.P
Port Darwin
Darwin
Koepang
Timor Island
Port Moresby
South New Guinea
John Curtin
Curtin
Koepang Irdrome
Royal Australian Air Force
Port
Cripps to Announce India Home Rule Offer Monday
Britain's envoy Sir Stafford Cripps will reveal the home rule offer to India on Monday after productive talks with Indian leaders including Mahandas Gandhi. He indicated only one sentence in his proposals, from Churchill, was altered for clarity and said he may stay beyond two weeks to decide if the plan is acceptable. Some officials believe he has strong Indian backing to push a political breakthrough.
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New Delhi
India
U.P
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Cripps
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Winston Churchill
Gandhi
India Freedom Movement
U S Navy Sinks Five Destroyers and More, Pacific Claims
London based Star correspondent says American submarines in the Pacific sank five Japanese destroyers, an aircraft carrier, and about 30 transports and supply ships in 2 3 weeks around Australia. Damages included five cruisers an additional carrier and transports. US Navy in Washington denied the information.
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London
London Star
Sydney
Pacific
Australia
United States Navy
Washington
Burma Fronts See Mixed gains as Chinese Hold Toungoo
British and Chinese forces report a better eastern front around Toungoo after recapturing the airport and reinforcing defenses. Farther west, Japanese advances toward Prome are halted as Allied lines hold. The Chungking bulletin says Chinese and Allied forces still control Toungoo and the city remains defended against three directional assaults.
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New Delhi
India
Toungoo
Burma
Prome
Irrawaddy
London
Irrawaddy River
Chungking
China
Touragoo
Spring Conflict On Russian Steppes May Turn War Tide
The spring battle on the Russian steppes promises to be the war’s greatest and bloodiest engagement. The Allies rely on Soviet manpower while Russia seeks planes and tanks from America and Britain. President Roosevelt orders priority shipments to the Soviet to bolster the Red lines as Moscow presses for full Allied support.
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Russian Steppes
Russia
America
Britain
White House
Roosevelt
War Production Board
Army and Navy
Sam
Moscow
Ivan Maisky
London
Washington
Litvinoff
Maisky
Senate panel to probe wartime aviation gasoline program
The senate investigating committee plans a full inquiry into the wartime aviation gasoline program. Chairman Truman cites reports that Standard Oil of New Jersey helped set up pre war German refinery plants and that big firms with contracts for 100 octane fuel may profit from government plants, amid claims smaller firms were excluded. The probe will follow the synthetic rubber inquiry.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
D-Mo
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Germany
Standard Oil Group
Thurman Arnold
Con
Explosions Hit Remington Plant in Bridgeport Fire
In Bridgeport this afternoon the Remington Arms Co plant, a key wartime facility, was hit by a series of heavy explosions. Ambulances and fire crews responded as a building collapsed and six patients were admitted to Bridgeport Hospital, with one witness recalling a chaotic scene of flames and entrapment.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Remington Arms Co
Bridgeport Hospital
Ory
Mary Nemeth
Invasion Ports Under RAF Bombardment
RAF bombers and fighters pounded invasion ports along the coast of German-occupied France tonight despite a heavy anti aircraft barrage that echoed across the channel.
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London
France
British raid on St Nazaire crushed by German high command
Berlin dispatch reports British naval strike on the occupied French base St Nazaire failed in night action. German high command says one British destroyer and nine motor torpedo boats were destroyed, expanding an earlier raid statement.
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London
St. Nazaire
French
Brittany
Zeebrugge
France
High Command
Loire
Sir Roger Keyes
Belgian
Keyes
Zeebrugge Canal
Atlantic
Cornish
Berlin
Germany
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Manila
S. S. Mactan
Irving Williams
Orphans of the Philippine Forces
Dietl
Eduard Dietl
Adolf Hitler
Narvik
Red Star
Arctic Circle
Barents Sea
Biddle
Fort Oglethorpe
Camp Forrest
Fahl
Air Corps
Lowry Field
Department of Justice
Department
C. O
Justice Department
Dutch Timor
U. S. Navy
Dewitt MacKenzie
Standard Oil
Remington
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