Big Three Silent On Iran Parley After Tehran Talks
London reports Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin withheld official word on the Tehran conference outcome amid Nazi propaganda claims. Speculation swirled on a master plan for invasion of Europe, Balkans actions, and postwar measures to curb aggression with ambassadors and advisers named for European commissions.
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Iran
Red
London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Prem- Stalin
Germany
Europe
Min- Goebbels
Teheran
Moscow
MQ Vasraneves
Early
T Ismet Inonu
Turkey
Cairo
Stalin
Russia
Balkans
Amer
Stockholm
Tid
Post
Fori
G. Winant
European Ad Commission
Washington
Issia
Jme F. Kennan
Charles W. *T
Commission
Arrest of Alba Kin as Foreign Agent in New York
Carlos Veano Cassina described as the Duke of Alba was arrested at his New York home on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent. FBI Special Agent E. Earoy announced Cassina had been recruited by German intelligence to influence U.S. policy. Congressional members comment on foreign policy implications.
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New York
Carlos Veano Y Cassina
Fderal Bureau of Investigation
Duke of Alba
E. E. Earoy
FBI
Cassina
Congress
War Production Board Sets 1943 Plans for November Output
The War Production Board announced November targets for Axis ship and aircraft production. About 55,300 1943 model planes had rolled off by month’s end, with the 1944 goal projected near 115,000. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox noted weekend activities would advance the 1943 program.
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Washington
Far Production Board
WPB
Scretary
Navy
Frank Moe
Armed Forces Vote Battle Shapes Senate Split
In Washington a Senate clash over absentee voting for service members pits Southern Democrats against Republicans with Senator Guffey accusing an alliance to curb military suffrage. The measure, sent to the House after Senate voice approval, urges states to ease absentee voting for personnel at home and abroad. A rival plan proposed a bipartisan war ballot commission and looser state voting rules.
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Washington
Senate
Guffey
House
House Elections Committee
Barkley
Kentucky
Ladies Aid Society
Lucas
Ill
Green
R. I
Shipbuilding Goal Topped
NEW YORK America shows the shipbuilding drive surpassing its 24,000,000 deadweight ton target for 1942 43 with 25,284,387 tons already delivered and about 2,000,000 more due in December. Rear Admiral Howard L Vickery noted that November output reached 1,692,700 tons and contrasted with 1941 launches of 103 ships totaling 1,100,000 tons.
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New York
America
Howard L. Vickery
U. S. Maritime Commission
Sheriff Reports New Evidence in McCoy Triple Murder
Sheriff W H Icenhower announced new evidence uncovered Saturday in the McCoy triple murder case. He did not indicate what the evidence was or when it would be disclosed. James W Collett pleaded innocence to slaying Elmer McCoy, his wealthy brother in law, during the proceedings.
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Washington, C. H
McCoy
W. H. Icenhower
James W. Collett
Elmer McCoy
Seenhower
Japs Readying for Allied Island Invasions in Pacific War
A wartime recap notes Japan increasing air patrols over the Marshall Islands and fortifying Sumatra while Australian forces push on New Guinea. U S bombing of Burma and Thailand targets focuses on airfields and transports as Allied planning for a Marshal Islands invasion grows.
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Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
New Guinea
Philippines
New Britain
China
Rice Bowl
Pacific
Burma
Thailand
Rangoon
Malayan
Marshal Islands
Mid- Pacific
Gilbert Islands
Tarawa Atoll
Ralph A. Bird
Cherry Point
N. C
Tarawa
New Britain Island
Cape Gloucester
Publishers Back Bond Ad Plan Against Treasury Objection
Rural publishers told the House Ways and Means Committee that a 30 million dollar annual bond advertising program is needed to push sales in rural areas. They argued government payments would not curb editorial freedom and urged authorization of the paid newspaper ads.
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Washington
Treasury Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
National Editorial Association
Cutback Jitters Reported Across Tri-State Factories
The War Labor Board said Ohio Michigan and Kentucky factories show cutback jitters after layoffs tied to reduced war contracts. The regional committee warns against optimism that peak production has been reached amid notices from Northern Ohio alloy steel plants and other industries.
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Cleveland
War Labor Board
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
War Agency
WMC
Robert C. Goodwin
Tri-State
Naval Bill Points to Invasion Preparations
A House Naval Committee report on a 5 billion fleet expansion bills signals intensified amphibious warfare and invasions through 1944. It envisions 2.5 million tons of auxiliary vessels and 1 million tons of landing craft, underscoring land sea force unity and potential further authorizations.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Congress
Six Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty Dollars Found With Deceased Man
Police in Chillicothe recovered 6730 dollars in the rear of the car of Steve Simon of Beckley West Virginia after he was found dead in a local hotel. An earlier $117 in his pockets led investigators to suspect a larger sum. Officials said Simon died of natural causes while en route to a clinic for surgery.
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Chillicothe
Steve Simon
Beckley
W. Va
Simon
Alex Taraczkozy
Expect Farm Income To Hit New Peak in 44
Columbus 1943 farm income, the highest in history, would likely be surpassed next year says Paul M Mul liken St Louis executive secretary of the National Retail Farm Equipment Association at the Ohio Food Producing Equipment Conference. He warns surpluses built for the Allied armies may be sold at lower prices after the war.
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Columbus
Paul M. Mulliken
St. Louis
National Retail Farm Equipment Association
Ohio Food Producing Equipment Conference
Marine combat correspondent recalls Tarawa landing from perilous ringside
Sergeant Hy Hurwitz describes his experience aboard a landing boat six miles from Tarawa as U S Marines and Navy bombard the island. He details the 72 hours of brutal fighting, the heat of shelling, and the deafening blasts that drowned all others' voices during the assault on the Gilbert Islands.
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Tarawa Atoll
Tarawa
Gilbert Islands
U. S. Marine Corps
Navy
Greatest U S Fuel Crisis Seen by Ickes
Interior Secretary Ickes warned Congress the nation faced a unprecedented fuel crisis due to miners strikes cutting coal output by 40 million tons. He requested a 3.55 million dollar supplemental appropriation to allocate coal supplies for winter with 65 district offices to be set up under the plan.
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Washington
Ickes
Congress
Senate
Ickes’ Office
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers and Operators
Ceiling Price Of Corn Raised By U S Order
Washington announced a nine cent rise in the ceiling price of corn to 1.16 dollars a bushel on the Chicago basis and froze oats barley and sorghum in preparation for a permanent regulation within 60 days. The War Food Administration also said government owned wheat sold for livestock feed would rise 20 cents a bushel Monday to conserve feed supplies and transportation.
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Washington
Chicago
War Food Administration
Trains Crash Killing Three After Fog Derailed Auto
In Massillon a Pennsylvanian Liberty Limited terminally wrecked in dense fog after strike on an automobile killing three occupants of the car Franklin L. Ralston 52 his wife 50 and Miss Jean E Fibber 16 of Portage Lakes Ohio identified by state patrol. The collision occurred when a following passenger train rammed the auto wreckage telescoping coaches and injuring 25 passengers.
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Massillon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Liberty Limited
Here
State Highway Patrol
Franklin L. Ralston
Kilbuck
Jean E. Fibber
Portage Lakes
Milk Producers Urge Stabilization Plan
The National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation on Saturday urged a price stabilization program to unleash farm energies and free agriculture and its cooperatives from conflicting orders and crippling regulations.
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Chicago
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Casualty list awaited after Gilbert operations
Washington says the full casualty list from the Gilbert campaign, including the USS Liscombe Bay, has not arrived. Next of kin will be notified by telegram. A night assault on the island brought heavy shelling and rising smoke as landing plans faced delays and stiff resistance.
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Randall Jacobs
Navy Bureau of Personnel
Gilbert
U.S.S. Liscombe Bay
Washington
Fifth Army Advances in Southern Italy Breaks Nazi Winter Line
U.S. Fifth Army drives into the German winter lines near Mignano and Cassino as Allied air and ground forces threaten Rome. British Eighth Army seizes Treglio Orsogona Lanciano pushing toward Pescara while Liberators bomb Casale airfield and Mitchells target Split and Sibenik.
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U. S
Italy
Rome
Fifth Army
United States
Mark W. Clark
Mignano
Cassino
Eighth Army
Treglio
San Vito
Adriatic
Orsogna
Sangro
Lanciano
Eighth
Pescara
Casale
Split
Sibenik
RAF Attacks Leipzig and Berlin as Soviet Push advances
RAF raids on Leipzig devastate the German rail and industrial center while bombing Berlin and shaking its capital in daylight hours. Berlin defenses lose planes as Leipzig sustains heavy damage and casualties. Soviet forces retake towns along the upper Dnieper and press toward Kremenchug Cherkasy bridgeheads amid guerrilla raids and harsh weather.
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RAF
Leipzig
Berlin
English Channel
Dnieper River
White Russia
Dnieper
Ukraine
Kremenchug
Cherkasy
Gomel
Propoisk
Moscow
Red Army
Smela
Znamenka
Vitebsk-Orsha
Army to discharge sequence of officers and shift roles
Washington reports the Army plans to dismiss about 25 000 officers no longer needed and reassign another 25 000 to operational posts. Total officer strength would fall from 650 000 to 600 000 as enlisted strength drops to 7 600 000 by year end. Burley tobacco ceiling price is set to rise to about 41 cents per pound per Office of Price Administration.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Army
War Department
Burley
Chapman
Office of Price Administration
Doughboy Pay Is Analyzed For Ohio 37th Division
Lt. Col. Craig Moore of Columbus estimates an average Ohio Doughboy earns 88 dollars monthly. After 20.14 allotments 9.17 for insurance and 10.75 for family deductions he nets 42.83. He sends 18.60 home, deposits 10.75, buys 5.11 War Bonds, spends 6.10 locally, leaving 7.38. Post exchange buys 3.70 in merchandise. 3.68 unaccounted. Over 5,000 soldiers bought War Bonds for Christmas gifts.
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South Pacific
Craig Moore
Columbus
Ohio
Joe Doughboy
Joe
Moory
Soldiers’ Deposit Fund
Moore
Post Exchange
Landon Voices Fear On Moscow Pact
Ailf M. Landon, speaking for Republican freshmen in the U S Senate, derides the Moscow parley as only a beginning and fears the Roosevelt administration will lure the G O P into accepting part of the peace plan responsibility. He argues Democratic policy is undefined and warns of accountability when a showdown arrives.
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Washington
M. Landon
Roosevelt
U. S. Senate
Moscow
Landon
G.O.P
Yank Fliers Complete 200th Bombing Mission
Allied quarters in Algiers say the 97th Bomb Group completed its 200th mission last Wednesday. The unit began with an August 17 1943 raid from England to Rouen and has since attacked targets in Tunisia Italy Greece Austria Sicily Pantelleria and Libya.
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Allied
Algiers
Flying Fortress Group
Europe
97Th
England
Rouen
France
Tunisia
Italy
Greece
Austria
Sicily
Pantelleria
Libya
Barracks Blast Kills 12 German Troops in Grenoble
A trio of explosions rocked a Grenoble barracks housing hundreds of German troops injuring about 50 and killing 12. Earlier a munitions depot blast in Grenoble killed several Germans and sparked crowd violence that left over 35 dead.
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Bern
Switzerland
Grenoble
France
Tribune de Geneve
Lost Freighter Sinks in Alaskan Storm. 11 Missing
The 13th Naval District reports 11 men missing and 70 survivors after a Liberty Ship wrecked on an Alaskan island in a severe November storm. The vessel is a total loss. Missing include seven soldiers one Navy gun crew member and three crew.
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Seattle
13Th Naval District
Navy
Cren
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