Curtin says no shortcut to victory in war against Japs
Prime Minister John Curtin told a three day talk with General MacArthur that there is no quick path to victory in the Pacific. He noted Rabaul is now a dangerous base for Japanese ships and planes and reported Allied air and naval successes in Bougainville and the Gilberts. The Liscome Bay carrier, missing captain and crew casualties were confirmed as the war toll rose.
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Curtin
Associated Press
John Curtin
Australia
Pathe
Douglas Macur
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Cairo
Japan
Rabaul
New Britain
Ific
Japa
Solomons
Bougainville
Ant
Ameri
How
United Tes
Tabor
Liscome Bay
Gil Island
Gilberts
Pacific
Henry M. Mullinix
Irving D. Wiltsie
Navy
U. S
Liscome
Herbert Enters Governor Race In Ohio GOP Field
Lt. Gov. M. Herbert formally announces his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. He joins other hopefuls including Mayor James Garber Stewart of Cincinnati and Gen. Thomas J. Herbert in the race to succeed Gov. John W. Bricker.
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Ftul
Herbert
M. Herbert
John W. Bricker
James Gar- Stewart
Cincinnati
Thomas J. Herbert
Dogs Sought to Aid War Effort in New York News
The War Manpower Commission and Defense agencies call for small dogs to join the K-9 Corps. Reports note spaniels and basset hounds being considered to support armed forces. An aviation disaster near Dayton claims Second Lt. Har Posey, 22, of Montgomery. A truck collision in Reubenville results in a fatality.
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New York
Pearl Harbor
Defense
Department
Ultimatum to Nazis Drawn At Big Three Conference
The London Star reports Roosevelt Stalin Churchill met in the Middle East and drew up a final give in or die ultimatum to Germany. Reports claim Soviet troops guard the area near Iran as Allied leaders pursue a declaration to reassure Germans of democratic freedom after Nazi defeat.
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London
The
London Star
Middle East
Germany
Tom Connally
U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fort Worth
Texas
United Nations
Parish Radio
Tabriz
Iran
Russia
Bern
Vichy
Turkey
Teheran
Expect Break Soon in Triple Murder Case
Washington C H reports a major break forecast in the McCoy triple slaying. Prosecutor John B. Hill says James W. Collett has confessed to killing Elmer McCoy and asserts an accomplice was involved. Collett is held in safekeeping with charges likely to follow. Hill notes renewed questioning focused on pistols used in the murders.
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Washington, C. H
John B. Hill
James W. Collett
Elmer McCoy
Collett
Hill
Collet
Allied Edict Shapes Final Drive Against Japan and Europe
In Cairo the Allies declare Japan to be dismembered, hastening Hitler's doom as RAF bombs Berlin. The Big Three must mount a second French front to crush Nazi forces, weather permitting, while planning an invasion across the English Channel despite rough seas and fog.
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Cairo
Hitler
Fuehrer
Royal Air Air Force
Berlin
Japan
America
Russia
Britain
Europe
France
English Channel
Three War Correspondents Missing After Berlin Raid
London reports three war correspondents failed to return from a RAF raid on Berlin. Norman Stockton of The Sydney Sun and Lowell Bennett of International News Service were aboard. a third name is withheld. Bennett reported missing by the Air Ministry, and Stockton flew with an Australian Lancaster squadron. The loss raises British American correspondent casualties to 115, with 27 killed, 33 wounded, 10 missing, and 45 prisoners or interned.
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London
Berlin
Lowell Bennett
International News Service
Norman Stockton
Sydney
Australia
Ican
Associated Press
United Press and
Air Ministry
INS
Bennett
William W. Wade
FDR Assassination Plot Thwarted by Secret Service
William A. Carlson said agents blocked a plan by Harold Best of Pontiac to kill President Roosevelt. Best, 38, was adjudged insane and hospitalized after arrest. He claimed brain electrodes urged him to remove Roosevelt and a gun was found in his Washington hotel room.
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Detroit
William A. Carlson
Secret Service
Michigan-Ohio
Pontiac, Mich
Roosevelt
Harold Best
Pontiac
Carlson
Gallinger Hospital
Washington
Michigan
Best
Oakland County
White House
Nelson
Wis
United States
Italy
Steelworkers Asking Leaves To Restore 48 Hour Week
MASSILLON Ohio. About 400 union members of the CIO United Steelworkers of America requested leaves from Republic Steel Corp to permit a return to a 48 hour work week in departments affected by the shutdown of four open hearth furnaces. War Manpower Commission director Robert C. Goodwin said availability statements would be issued on request. He had approved a 40 hour week earlier due to reduced alloy steel orders.
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Massillon
John M. McClure
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Republic Steel Corp
Robert C. Goodwin
War Manpower Commission
Cleveland
Goodwin
Republic
Operator of 3 Farms Refused Deferment
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals refused to restrain a Preble County draft board from inducting Orville Wood 36 of Camden operator of three farms Wood sought deferment claiming occupation merit Ohio judge Nevin said court lacked authority to grant an injunction Ohio Chamber reelected A Graves Williams to sixth term as president Williams heads Williams Manufacturing Portsmouth plant The Reconstruction Finance Corporation took over Ohio Valley Clay Company plant in Steubenville after foreclosure suit for 122407 dollars
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Cincinnati
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Preble
Orville Wood
Camden
Wood
U. S
Robert R. Nevin
Columbus
Ohio Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
A. Graves Williams
Williams Manufacturing Company
Portsmouth
Steubenville
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ohio Valley Clay Company
Roof Collapse After Chiangs Lunch Visit
A U S Chinese base in eastern India reports the dining room roof collapsed seven hours after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Mrs Chiang Kai-Shek had lunched with Admiral Lord Mountbatten and other senior officers. Brig Gen Frederick McCabe ordered an immediate investigation, with no sabotage evidence found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Chiang Kai-Shek
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Frederick McCabe
Portland
Ore
Plastic Reduced From $400 a Pound to $1
CINCINNATI UP A soybean fibre once a 400 per pound oddity is now manufactured locally under a new process that will allow market price under one dollar per pound. H R Drackett president of the Crackett Company notes the material suits blankets, felt hats, underwear, hosiery, suitings and upholstery fabrics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
H. R. Drackett
Crackett Company
Portsmouith section hands killed by passenger train
Clarence Arnette aged 55 and Alfred Schneider aged 53, section hands, were killed by a Norfolk and Western Passenger train in Portsmouth. The accident occurred near the rail yard, with authorities examining the scene and notifying families.
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Portsmouth
Clarence Arnette
Alfred Schneider
Norfolk and Western
Tattoo Artist Sees Gas Sailors Crowd Waves Shop
Jake Kasper, a South State Street tattooer, says Waves Tattoo is not a big business but brings money. Gas sailors have flocked in daily for two months seeking personal ornamentation at his shop.
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Chicago
Jake Kasper
South State Street
GOP Victory Is Forecast By Wheeler
Senator Wheeler predicts President Roosevelt may not run in 1944 and warns of a definite Republican trend. He says the President may not want to run whether or not a draft effort occurs. The piece also notes Mead urging a draft and Pearson testimony before the Senate Finance Committee. It covers Congress choices on food price subsidies and the servicemen's vote bill with proxy voting proposals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Montana
Wheeler
Montanan
Senator Mead
D-Ny
Drew Pearson
Senate Finance Committee
Pearson
United States Chamber of Commerce
George
D-Ga
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Congressional
Senate
V Mail Service Opens Direct Letters From Italian Front
Army postal authorities announce direct V-Mail service to and from the United States has begun in Naples cutting letter delivery time by several days. Previously photographs were sent to North Africa for development before mailing.
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Naples
United States
North Africa
RAF Bombers Hit Berlin In Violent Aerial Battles
RAF bombers suffered heavy losses in a massive attack on Berlin as 41 planes were reported shot down. Incendiaries ignited fires across all districts, with one pilot noting a half hour of concentrated bombing that damaged foundations. Meanwhile American and British forces advanced in Italy and along the Sangro line, capturing Castel Frentan o near Pescara.
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Maloelap
Marshalls
Berlin
Germany
Fifth Army
Italy
Calabritto
Eighth Army
Castel Frontano
Adriatic
Pescara
Rome
Allied push through Italian front near Brenner Pass
Units of the Fifth and Eighth Armies pressed the Rome front as Lt Gen Mark Clark’s forces broke a stalemate with a rolling artillery barrage and aggressive advances. German resistance stiffened in Lanciano and across Adriatic approaches while refugees hinder retreat efforts and bridges roads were blown. Air and naval actions targeted the Yugoslav coast and Durazzo in support.
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15Th U. S
Bolzano
Brenner Pass
San Giorgio
Rocca
Cervano
Rome
Mark Clark
Fifth Army
Fifth
Eighth
Montgomery
Adriatic
Lanciano
Eighth Army
Clark
Ceb
Durazzo
Reds Make Gains in Gomel Sector Amid Heavy Front Fighting
Soviet communique reports new gains northwest of Gomel with over 80 towns captured amid continued fronting fighting despite harsh weather. Russian moves extend along Pripet and toward Znamenka and Kremenchug. about 2,900 German dead cited. Berlin claimed Soviet drive pierced lines in two places as Finns drift toward Allied alignment and Balkan Partisans report revolts and victories in Bosnia and Croatia.
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Europe
Cherkasy
Dnieper
Red Army
Gomel
Pripet River
Zhlobin
Znamenka
Kremenchug
Kiev Bulge
Zhitomir
Korosten
Smolensk
Isha
Minsk
White Russia
Berlin
Finland
Stockholm
Rommel
Balkan
Bosnia
Croatia
Workers Battle for Raise Pledge Despite No Strike
Pittsburgh dispatch reports the United Steelworkers of America plan a 17 cent an hour raise while pledging no strike. Some 485 steel firms are asked to honor current contracts as wage conferences set for December 13 proceed and any disputes go to the War Labor Board.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers of America
War Labor Board
Editors Protest Delay Of Cairo Conference Story
American editors cried foul after Reuters released word of the Roosevelt Churchill Chiang conference from Lisbon more than 24 hours ahead of the White House release time. War Information Director Elmer Davis pressed British officials for censorship reforms to keep Reuters in line and preserve wartime coordinated disclosures.
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White House
Office of War Information
Reuters
United States
Elmer Davis
Brendan Bracken
Roy A. Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Bracken
Davis
Lisbon
Oil pipeline leak spills oil near Okeawa Butler County
A break in the Big Inch transcontinental pipeline caused a serious oil flow through a county area near Okeawa in Butler County. Hamilton reports say 40 miles of oil may be lost while engineers rush to prevent fire as oil runs into Dry Creek where a Baltimore and Ohio wooden trestle crosses the stream.
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Cincinnati
Okeawa
Butler County
Hamilton
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
First Trench Foot Reported From Italy Front
Allied headquarters in Algiers reports trench foot, a common WWI ailment, now appearing on the Italian front for the first time in this war. The condition results from soldiers standing in mud and water unable to change footwear.
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Allied
Alegiers
Pilotless Airplane Runs Wild in Texas Incident
A pilotless airplane ran wild on the ground for about two percent of an hour in Elec tra Texas. The starter failed, owner H C Barrows cranked it, and the plane then shot past him and buzzed in circles until fuel ran out. Nearby buyers are urged to note automotive items in Messenger Want Ads.
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Electra
Texas
H. C. Barrows
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