Cape Gloucester Falls to U S Marines in Four Days
Allied forces capture Cape Gloucester in a four day advance on New Britain securing the key airstrips as Japanese defenses suffer heavy losses. US casualties described as surprisingly light with 500 to 700 Japanese dead reported in related fighting near the airfields and Bergen Bay.
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Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Pacific
United States
Bismarck Sea
Bougainville
Marshall Islands
New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
Madang
Japan
Toio
Tou
Hideki Tojo
New Ireland
Admiralty Islands
Gloucester
Bergen Bay
Rabaul
MacArthur
South Pacific
Solomons
Admiral King Forecasts Pacific Offensive in 44
In a Christmas message Admiral Ernest J. King predicts major Pacific offensives against Japan in 1944 and states the U. S. fleet is ready to engage. He anticipates Germany's defeat in 1944 and notes plans to shift power from Europe to the Pacific as Germany nears collapse.
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Admiral King
Washington
Pacific
Ernest J. King
U. S
Germany
King
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Japan
United States
Allies Repulse Japs in Burma Front Action
New Delhi reports one of the heaviest battles on the Burma front as Allied troops push east of the Mayu range and repel Japanese counterattacks with heavy enemy losses. Allied air strikes hit concentrations and airfields in Northern Burma as forces build a Burma Road from Assam to China.
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New Delhi
Burma
Mayu Range
Assam
China
Maya Peninsula
Five Die in Liberal Bomber Crash After Takeoff
Corp James R Nolte 22 of Cincinnati and four other airmen were killed when a Liberator bomber crashed shortly after lifting off from Liberal Army Airfield. Investigators searched the wreckage for cause as grieving families waited for word.
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Liberal, Eas
Corp
James R. Nolte
Cincinnati
Liberal Army Airfield
Fire Sweeps Superior Provision Plant in Massillon
The packing plant of Superior Provision Co. was swept by fire caused by grease dripping into a firebox. Firemen estimate the loss at about 25000 dollars.
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Massillon
Superior Provision Company
Tito Guerrillas Suffer Irreparable Losses Reported
Cairo dispatch says Marshal Tito's Partisans suffer heavy losses in recent weeks with 14,000 guerrillas cut off in the Dinara Alps of Yugoslavia. The Royal Yugoslav government in exile issued the claim, though not independently confirmed. Partisans claim resistance to German invasion and liberation of about a third of Yugoslavia.
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Cairo
Egypt
Josip Broz
Drug Tito
Dinara
Yugoslavia
Peter
Broz
Ten Villages Retaken By Chinese Forces Near Hunan Hupei
Chinese high command says forces recaptured more than ten villages around Owchihkow in the Hunan Hupei border area, restoring the sector to its pre Japanese rice bowl campaign status as of today.
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Chungking
Owchihkow
Hunan-Hupeh
Chinese High Command
Unions Reject Roosevelt Arbitration Basis on Rail Wage Dispute
Washington unions representing 15 railroad non operate groups reject the President's arbitration basis for the wage dispute. They demand a ruling on overtime independent of other factors and warn a strike could resume if the issue remains unresolved. War Department notes possible government control continuation while seeking private management.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
D. B. Robertson
H. M. Frasey
T. C. Cashen
Burley Market to Run Four Day Week in War Revision
Lexington Ky Burley markets will operate four days a week when sales resume next Monday after a War Food Administration committee decision. Friday sales are to be discontinued temporarily due to redrying plant difficulties and labor shortages affecting deliveries. Hugh W Taylor heads the WFA administration and training division.
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Lexington
Burley Belt
War Food Administration
Burley Tobacco
Hugh W. Taylor
WFA
Timken Strikers Reclassified by Board
In Columbus two Timken workers previously rated 2A and 2B were reclassified due to participation in the Timken Roller Bearing plant work stoppage earlier this week. Orville Carson, clerk of local draft board 20, provided the information.
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Columbus
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Orville Carson
Cleveland Investigator Killed in Parma Heights Crash
Thomas A. Donaldson, 51, an Army Air Force intelligence investigator, was killed when his car hit a telephone pole in Parma Heights last night.
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Cleveland
Thomas A. Donaldson
Army Air Force Intelligence Section
Parma Heights
Mining Test Cases Started
In Pottsville Pennsylvania 16 independent miners were temporarily restrained from digging on lands owned by organized coal companies, marking the first major test of a new state ban. The suit by Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company aims to eliminate independents from eastern Pennsylvania anthracite fields.
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Pottsville
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company
Pennsylvania Anthracite Committee
Film Pioneer Hobart Bosworth Dies at 75
The Marietta born actor and filmmaker Hobart Bosworth, long noted as a leading figure in early Los Angeles cinema, died in Glendale California at age 75 after a 34 year West Coast career. He helped make the first motion picture in the Los Angeles area and produced nearly 600 more. He served as writer director and producer and was regarded as the dean of the motion picture colony. Bosworth was born in Marietta Ohio in 1867.
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Glendale
Califo
Hobart Bosworth
Los Angeles
Motion Picture
Marietta
Ohio
Denied Furlough for Visit To Dying Sister
In Sikeston Missouri Army officials, on the Gary Indiana Red Cross Chapter recommendation, refused an Air Cadet Denis Mathews furlough to visit his one year old invalid sister near death in Griffith Indiana.
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Sikeston
Gary
Ind
Red Cross
Army
Denis Mathews
Griffith
Ohio Welcomes 1944 With Roaring Open House and War Time Plans
Ohioans prepare a festive start to 1944 with sold out night clubs and hotels offering open house style welcomes. Prices for couples range from five to seventeen dollars with no drinks included, as churches plan watch night services and governors urge church attendance. War plants mostly holiday, government offices stay open, and postal services limit Saturday work to urgent war plant and military mail.
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Associated Press
John W. Bricker
Ohio
War Manpower Commission
U.S. Employment Service
State Selective Service Headquarters
Draft Boards
USO
Allies Bomb Industry in Paris Area
Allied planes bombed the suburbs of Paris during daylight as part of a wider offensive after dawn formations. Renault at Billancourt reportedly produced transport vehicles tanks and aircraft engines while nearby Gnome Rhone built engines for Germany. Other raids hit Ludwigshafen and Berlin with RAF Mosquitos aiding in Western Germany and Northern France.
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London
Paris
Renault
Seine Island
Billancourt
Ludwighshafen
Germany
U. S
Reich
France
Postmaster General Rules Against Esquire
Postmaster General Walker ruled that Esquire magazine is not arts news or science and should be barred from second class mails. The decision, announced yesterday, follows a two to one vote by a three man postal trial board which had previously urged dismissal.
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Washington
Walker
Esquire Magazine
Post Office
British Warships Move Into Pacific in Growing Strength
London reports the Royal Navy is shifting more capital ships and aircraft carriers toward the Pacific theater. The Admiralty notes the 1943 year review credits intensified Atlantic operations for this redeployment and early successes against Japanese forces.
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London
Scharnhorst
Pacific
Admiralty
Ohio Fliers Credited With Downing Nazis
Allied headquarters in Algiers announced Ohio gunners credited with victories over German fighters in a Vicenza battle Tuesday. The credited pilots are Alfred Runyan Caldwell Roy D Newison Leonardsburg and Raymond M Dryens, all flying ME 1109s.
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Allied
Algiers
Ohio
Vicenza
Alfred Runyan
RFC 3
Caldwell
Roy D. Newison
Leonardsburg
Raymond M. Dryens
Norwood
Shoes Free Sale Under OPA Ration Rules
Shoe dealers may sell part of their women's footwear stock ration free at $3 or less per pair during January 17 to 29. Dealers may release 15 percent of their stock from September inventories. High prices require ration stamps to be collected.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Roosevelt Skips Friday Press Conference Due to Cold
President Roosevelt, keeping a light schedule after a cold, omitted his usual Friday morning press radio conference. His physician reports no fever, and the ailment is described as non serious.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ida Tarbell Reported Critically Ill in Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport Connecticut Ida M Tarbell noted author and dean of American women writers is critically ill with pneumonia at Bridgeport hospital.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Ida M. Tarbell
Bridgeport J Hospital
Ohio Ends Year With An $68 Million To $69 Million Surplus
State Finance Director H. D. Defenbacher estimated Ohio closed the year with a surplus between 68 and 69 million dollars, up about 23 million from the year’s start. Most revenue sources rose, liquor profits dipped, gallonage tax and sales tax changes noted.
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Columbus
Ohio
H. D. Defenbacher
Defenbacher
Willkie Opposed To Convention Site Clash
Supporters of Wendell L. Willkie oppose Chicago as the Republican convention site despite a defense transportation proposal. They had favored Cleveland but Bricker’s stance against Ohio moves the bloc to seek any place but Chicago and Cleveland.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
GOP
Chicago
Office of Defense Transportation
Cleveland
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Willkie
Wounded servicemen to receive special gasoline rations
The Office of Price Administration announced that wounded servicemen may obtain special gasoline rations for travel to and from home and other convalescence locations.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
22 Divisions Routed Near Bug River in Ukraine Drive
Soviet forces drive a wide breakthrough into Nazi lines north of Kiev, advancing toward the Bug River and Dnieper bend. Vatutin’s First Ukrainian Army moves toward Zhitomir and Novohrad-Volynskyi as German supply lines collapse and hundreds of tanks, guns, and prisoners are reported.
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Moscow
Bug River
von Mannstein
Bug
Germany
Kiev-Zhmerinka
Vatutin
Dniester
Rumania
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Zhitomir
Kiev
Vitebsk
Reachi Shepetovka
Ukraine
Novograd Volynski
Korosten
Red Army
Pripet
Stalin
Stalingrad
Berdichev
New Landing Threatens To Flank Nazis in Italy
Allied troops launched a large raid along Italy's west coast north of the Garigliano River, gaining a bridgehead and threatening the Appian Way. Berlin reports claim heavy beach fighting with casualties as the German Tenth Army pressed Ponte Fiume and Minturno remained a key objective.
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Algiers
Italy
Garighiano
Sir Harold Alexander
Rome
Pontine
Berlin
Minturno
Tenth Army
Garigliano
Ponte Fiume
Two Meningitis Deaths Reported in Cincinnati
City health commissioner Dr. Carl A. Wilzbach said two meningitis deaths occurred in the last 36 hours in Cincinnati and two more patients were admitted to hospitals.
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Cincinnati
Carl A. Wilzbach
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