February 11, 1944

Davis asks overseas branch employes avoid publicity

Koneff army advances in Dnieper bend area; Govoroff army takes Vetchiny on Luga front; other gains made in Krivoi Rog and Novgorod areas; Ger 8th Army encirclement discussed; Moscow predicts Ger disaster equal to that at Stalingrad

Under-Sec Patterson warns that Ger counter-attacks on Allied beachhead south of Rome are serious threat

Sen agrees to compromise on conferees; names 3 who back Fed ballot and 2 States rights supporters; Green to head group

secret messages exchanged between Churchill and Stalin

US fliers bomb Brunswick and Gilze-Rijen airfield; northern France targets bombed; 84 Ger planes destroyed, 37 US planes lost; Gers fight desperately

invests additional $25,000,000 in war bonds

Australian-US forces win control of Huon Peninsula; meet 14 mi east of Saidor; wipe out nearly 14,000 Jap troops; threat to Jap Madang and Bogadjim bases noted; US planes meet no opposition in raid on Rabaul; attack Wewak and Kavieng; Melbourne radio says Japanese may have evacuated Madang; map

GB, US and USSR plan negotiations for Middle East resources development program for post-war sale and distribution; Wash conf planned; control seen as effective peace-making weapon; Middle East resources discussed

Lincoln Day dinners: Wash, DC

Piedmonte and Aquino heavily bombed

Indicted for violating Mann Act in transporting J Berry from and into Calif for immoral purposes, and for conspiring with Police Capt W W White, Police Judge C Griffin, R Arden, T W Durant, Police Lt C Marple and J B Reno to deprive her of civil rights in having her held on vagrancy charge and removed from State; atty comment; por