Federal ballot row stymies war vote plan in House
Congress debates a federal war ballot for armed services as House committee rejects it 7 to 5 leaving voting rules to states. Senators Lodge and Lucis propose limited federal ballots and a federal ballot commission, while Roosevelt warns of voting rights erosion.
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Washington
House Elections Committee
Senate
Tydings
Maryland
Armed Services
Senate Elections Committee
Lodge
Massachusetts
Army
Lucis
Illinois
House
Roosevelt
Worley
Texas
House Committee
Worey
Rep
Worsell
Ilinois
Cape Gloucester Battles Cost Jap
Allied reports say Japanese defenders at Cape Gloucester New Britain have suffered about 3000 dead since Marines landed three weeks ago, up about 600 from earlier counts. Air and bomber operations focused on Madang Alexishafen Bogadjim Rabaul Makassar Balikpapan and Mili Atoll as forces push toward key objectives.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Maw Arthur
Cape Gloucester Battlefront
Madang
Alexishafen
Bogadjim
Rabaul
Makassar
Balikpapan
Celebes
Dutch East Indies
Sio
Nambariwa
Allied Pull Near Cassino as Gustav Line Fights Back
Allied forces press toward Cassino in Italy’s Gustav line with American advances yard by yard and French and British troops widening belts around Aquafondata. Air strikes hit Rome area airfields and German garrisons as German resistance remains stubborn in the three mile front.
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Algiers
Cassino
Rome
Rapido
Europe
San Vittore
Cervaro
Alphonse Juin
Fifth Army
Aquafondata
Vitticuso
Berlin
High Command
Polish government seeks US Britain aid for Polish Soviet talks
London based Polish government in exile proposes to United States and Great Britain mediation to discuss all outstanding Polish Soviet issues. They reject unilateral actions and urge early settlement to restore solid UN unity.
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London
Russia
Curzon Line
United States
Great Britain
Poland
Britain
Soviet Union
United Nations
Polish Republic
Viscount Curzon
Germany
Lithuania
Galicia
Moscow
Eden
Tadeusz Romer
Washington
Campbell In Dallas Jail
Ralph Campbell age 39 and his wife Claudine Campbell age 35 jailed in Dallas after transfer from Amarillo on four burglary indictments involving house looting with property valued over 10000 dollars Campbell had just received a 10 year sentence at a burglary trial in Amarillo
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Dallas
Jan
Ralph Campbell
Claudine Campbell
Amarillo
Jim Townsend
Jim Tanner
Campbell
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Surrounding Areas
Weather forecast notes fair conditions across Amarillo and West Texas with little temperature change and light to moderate winds. New Mexico shows fair weather with no major temperature shifts Saturday and Sunday. forecasts include scattered station readings and time-specific notes from a historical newspaper page.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Evacuation of Sofia Ordered Amid Allied Bombing
Bulgarian government orders immediate evacuation of Sofia’s 300000 residents after heavy Allied air raids this week. Most evacuees to be housed in provinces. curfew and death penalty for looting imposed. schools closed. debt moratorium and lawsuits paused.
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London
Sofia
Associated Press
Berlin
Bern
Switzerland
Bulgaria
CBS
BBC
Yugoslavia
Rail Unions Reach Wage Agreement and Strike Off
The Brotherhood of Firemen Conductors and Switchmen join engineers and trainsmen with a 4 cent per hour raise plus 5 cents overtime. Roosevelt backs the deal, strike off for operating unions, while non operating unions seek arbitration. A bill to place railroad wage powers with the Railway Mediation Board advances.
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Washington
Brotherhood of Firemen
White House
J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Pelley
Fred M. Vinson
Railway Mediation Board
Economic Stabilization Director
House
Red Guerrilla Hero Honored in Moscow
Col Victor Liventsov aged 25 arrives in Moscow after two and a half years behind German lines to find he has been twice awarded the Order of the Red Banner and named Hero of the A village, his brigade credited with killing thousands of Germans and destroying large quantities of fascist equipment, including 20 to 30 trains. Joan Berry to testify before federal grand jury in Los Angeles concerning civil rights violation claims after last year’s arrest on vagrancy charges.
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Moscow
Thss
Victor Liventsov
Order of the Red Banner
Soviet Union
Russia
Liventsov
Joan
Los Angeles
Joan Berry
Charles Chaplin
Beverly Hills
Rail Junction Kalinkovichi Falls to White Russian Drive
Soviet forces under Rokossovsky seized Kalinkovichi a major rail junction and Mozyr as part of a broader advance. The victory expanded the front toward Pinsk while Vatutin’s army pushed 46 miles inside Poland and overran more than 30 towns. Stalin hailed the outflanking success and warned German defenses faced a powerful Red Army.
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London
Constantine Rokossovsky
Kalinkovichi
Mozyr
Moscow
Pripet Marsh
Pinsk
Kotsury
Skirgalov
Nikolai Vatutin
Old Poland
Stepan
Tutovichi
Sarny
Kilikiev
Moscow Broadcast
Soviet
Monitor
Novograd-Volynski
Vatutin
Vinnitsa
Joseph Stalin
Rokossovsky
Stalin
Warsaw
Worley thanks WFA for feed shipments to Panhandle
Rep. Gene Worley cautions War Food Administration about possible future weather emergencies in the Texas Panhandle and requests immediate livestock feed shipments. He notes prior aid of 175 carloads of high protein feed and 143 of 148 extra carloads allocated to Texas. Worley urges ongoing coordination with local officials.
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Washington
Gene Worley
War Food Administration
Texas Panhandle
Worley
Panhandle
Texas
Foxhole Housing Problem Solved
Dallas report tells how a wounded Marine, Sgt. Carl Campien, described killing a Japanese soldier in a fox hole after a crowded housing situation. He recalled that there wasn’t room for both of them and he chose to cut the enemy’s head off.
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Dallas
Tarawa
Carl ‘Campien
Beef outlook sparks roundtable dispute among cattle growers
At the American National Live Stock Association convention in Denver on January 14, cattlemen clashed over meat supply and government policy. Albert Mitchell warned of a looming beef shortage despite claims of no short age, while others urged removal or overhaul of OPA control and a stronger meat policy from Washington.
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Denver
American National Live Stock Association
CPA
Albert K. Mitchell
Albert
N. M
OPA
Hub Russell
Maricopa
Cal
Congress
Will Miller
Topeka
Kan
Kansas Live Stock Association
A. D. Bromfield
Deming
Harry E. Reed
Washington
Livestock and Meat Branch
The
Food Distribution Administration
Trial Date Set In Tulia Death
Judge Kuykendall set January 19 as the trial date for Aaron Heffner 43 charged with the murder last April of James R Durkin Camp McCain Miss soldier of Tulia Texas A I Shaw Jr chairman of the Yalobusha County election committee is charged jointly with Heffner but to be tried separately Shaw's hearing date has not been set
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Coffeeville
Miss
U.P
John M. Kuykendall
Aaron Heffner
James R. Durkin
Camp McCain
Tulia
Tex
A. I. Shaw, Jr
Yalobusha County
Heffner
Shaw
Army Restores Tule Lake Center to Civil Administration
The Army returned Tule Lake Japanese segregation center in California to full civil administration for the first time since disturbances on November 14. War Department and War Relocation Authority said the transfer followed peaceful conditions established within the center.
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Washington
Tule Lake
California
War Department
War Relocation Authority
Scrap Iron Slices Hillside as Tanks Edge Through Frozen Valley
American medium tanks advance along a snowbound valley as German artillery opens a heavy barrage. Crew members crouch around a cold howitzer, heat from fires barely enough, and tanks struggle to move while dodging shells and gas. Infantry seek shelter behind the hill as the shelling subsides at dusk.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
AEF
Italy
Cassino
Henry Blankenship
Campton
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