Allied sweep presses toward Cape Gloucester and New Britain
Allied forces capture Cape Gloucester in four days as US Marines overwhelm defenders and seize two air strips on New Britain. Japanese losses exceed 700 killed, with Tojo warning of a crucial test as Allied air and naval actions expand in Bougainville, the Huon Peninsula, and the Solomons.
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Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Pacific
United States
Bismarck Sea
Bougainville
Marshall Islands
New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
Madang
Japan
Hideki Tojo
New Ireland
Admiralty Islands
Gloucester
Bergen Bay
Rabaul
MacArthur
South Pacific
Solomons
Admirals King and Eisenhower Foresee 1944 Pacific Offensives
Admiral King predicts broad new Pacific offensives to oust Japan and sees Germany defeated in 1944. He notes plans to shift power from Europe to the Pacific, with the U S fleet ready to meet Japanese forces under any terms. Senator George urges Congress and states to expand voting access for service members in primaries and general elections.
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Washington
Congress
George
D-Ga
Pacific
Ernest J. King
U. S
Germany
King
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Japan
United States
Allies Repulse Japs in Burma Front Action
Allied troops beat off heavy Japanese counterattacks east of the Mayu range in Western Burma with substantial enemy casualties. Air forces conducted renewed strikes on airfields and troop concentrations in Northern Burma as American and Chinese forces build a Burma Road from Assam to China. Allied aerial losses were two planes.
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New Delhi
Burma
Mayu Range
Assam
China
Maya Peninsula
Liberal bomber crash kills six near airfield
Corp James R Nolte age 22 of Cincinnati and five others died when a Liberator bomber crashed just after takeoff from Liberal Army Airfield. Authorities name the victims and investigate the late night accident.
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Liberal
Corp
James R. Nolte
Cincinnati
Liberal Army Airfield
Massillon Packing Plant Fire Causes $25,000 Loss
Fire at the Superior Provision Company packing plant in Massillon was blamed on grease catching in a firebox. Firefighters estimated the damage at $25,000.
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Massillon
Superior Provision Company
Tito Guerrillas Suffer Heavy Losses in Yugoslavia
Cairo reports from the Royal Yugoslav government in exile say Marshal Tito’s Partisans have suffered irreparable losses and 14 000 guerrillas are cut off in the Dinara Alps amid fierce fighting. The exiled government offers no independent confirmation of the claims.
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Cairo
Egypt
Josip Broz
Drug Tito
Dinara
Yugoslavia
Peter
Broz
Ten Villages Taken By Chinese Forces
Chinese high command says forces recaptured more than ten villages around Owehihkow near the Hunan Hupeh border, restoring the sector to pre rice bowl campaign conditions before November 2.
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Chungking
Owehihkow
Thhe
Hunan-Hupeh
Chinese High Command
Unions Reject Roosevelt Arbitration Basis in Rail Wage Row
Washington reports 15 railroad non-operating unions rejected President Roosevelt's arbitration proposal. They demand a ruling on overtime independent of other issues as Army control of railroads looms. War Dept seeks private management but unions say two key groups postponed strikes only. they accuse the administration of bungling and deviating from the Railway Labor Act.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
D. B. Robertson
H. M. Fraser
T. C. Cashen
Burley Market to Run Four-Day Week
Lexington Ky burley markets to operate four days a week when sales resume next Monday. Friday sales will be discontinued temporarily due to labor shortages delaying deliveries. Hugh W. Taylor of the War Food Administration announced the change as necessary to manage plant capacity and staffing.
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Lexington
Burley Belt
War Food Administration
Burley Tobacco
Hugh W. Taylor
WFA
Timken Strikers Reclassified by Local Board in War Plant
At least two men were reclassified from 2A and 2B by draft board 20 for taking part in the early week work stoppage at Timken Roller Bearing Company plant. Orville Carson, clerk, stated the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Orville Carson
Army air force investigator dies in Parma Heights crash
Cleveland report states 51 year old Thomas A. Donaldson, an investigator with the Army Air Force intelligence section, was killed when his car struck 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 Start in Pennsylvania Injunctions
Temporary injunctions restraining 16 major independent miners from digging on lands owned by organized coal companies were issued in Pennsylvania courts. The cases test a state ban on miners working land they do not own or lease, targeting independents in eastern Pennsylvania's anthracite fields. The suits, led by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, aim to eliminate independent operations after the November 30 ban by the Pennsylvania anthracite committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Pennsylvania Anthracite Committee
Film veteran Hobart Bosworth dies at 75 in Glendale
Hobart Bosworth, born in Marietta Ohio in 1867, died yesterday in Glendale California at age 75 after 34 years in the West. He led in the first motion picture made in the Los Angeles area and later contributed as writer director and producer with nearly 600 films to his credit. He was regarded as the dean of the motion picture colony.
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Glendale
Calif
Hobart Bosworth
Los Angeles
Marietta
Ohio
Furlough Denied for Cadet to Visit Dying Sister
Army officials said Air Cadet Denis Mathews would not be allowed a furlough to visit his 13 year old invalid sister near death in Griffith Indiana despite recommendations from the Gary and Red Cross Chapter.
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Sikeston
Gary
Red Cross
Army
Denis Mathews
Griffith
Ind
Ohioprepares for roaring welcome to 1944
Ohio roars in with sold out night clubs and hotels under open house orders. Prices per couple run 5 to 17.50 excluding drinks. Watch night church services planned across the state and Gov Bricker urges attendance. War plants mostly holiday. offices stay open but inductions paused. many services and USO events slated for servicemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Allies Bomb Industry in Paris Area
Allied planes bombed the suburbs of Paris in daylight, as great formations streamed from dawn. Renault at Billancourt reportedly produced transport vehicles and engines, while nearby Gnome-Rhone made German engines. RAF and US bombers also targeted Ludwigshafen and other German sites, with losses on both sides and renewed anti aircraft fire.
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London
Paris
Renault
Seine Island
Billancourt
Ludwighshafen
Germany
U. S
Reich
France
Folkstone
Dungeness
RAF
Berlin
England
Stockholm
Social Demokraten
Ludwigshafen
L. G. Farbenindustrie
London Herald
Postmaster General Rules Against Esquire
Washington postmaster general Walker rules Esquire magazine not arts news or science and bars it from second class mails. He announced the decision though a three member trial board had previously voted two to one to dismiss.
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Washington
Walker
Esquire Magazine
Post Office
British Warships Move Into Pacific War Zone
London reports the Royal Navy is being redeployed to the Pacific in growing strength. The Admiralty credits the Atlantic turn in the war for increased use against Japan, noting successes in 1943 including actions that sank the Scharnhorst and three destroyers.
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London
Scharnhorst
Pacific
Admiralty
Ohio fliers credited with downing Nazis over Vicenza
Allied headquarters at Algiers announced that Ohio gunners won aerial victories Tuesday over Nazi fighters near Vicenza. The pilots named were Alfred Runyan Caldwell Roy D. Newison Leonardburg and Raymond M. Dryens, all credited with ME 1109s.
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Allied
Algiers
Ohio
Vicenza
Alfred Runyan
RFC
Caldwell
Roy D. Newison
Leonardsburg
Raymond M. Dryens
Norwood
Shoes Ration Free Sale Allowed by OPA
Shoe dealers may sell part of their women's footwear stocks ration free at $3 or less per pair from January 17 to January 29. Release equals 15 percent of retailers' stocks listed in September reports. If prices exceed $3, ration stamps must be collected.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Roosevelt Skips Friday Press Conference Due to Cold
President Roosevelt, kept to a lighter schedule by a cold with no fever, canceled his usual Friday morning press radio conference. The illness is described by his physician as mild and nonfeverish.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tarbell in Bridgeport Hospital with Pneumonia
Ida M. Tarbell dean of American women authors is reported critically ill with pneumonia at Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut. The famed journalist and author faces a serious health condition as doctors monitor her condition.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Ida M. Tarbell
Bridgeports Hospital
Ohio Surplus Grows in 1943 As Revenue Ends Higher
Ohio ended 1943 with an estimated surplus between 68 and 69 million dollars, up about 23 million for the year. Beginning 1943 with 45.6 million, most revenue sources rose except the liquor monopoly, which fell by about 9 million. Liquor profits totaled 9.15 million, gallonage tax revenue dropped to 5.87 million, and sales tax rose roughly 1.5 million.
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Columbus
Ohio
H. D. Deffenbacher
Defenbacher
Willkie Opposed To Convention Site Choices
Supporters of Wendell L. Willkie oppose Chicago as the GOP convention site despite a defense proposal for both parties to meet there. They had favored Cleveland but Bricker’s stance shifts the effort to seek any site but Chicago or Ohio.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
GOP
Chicago
Office of Defense ‘Transportation
Cleveland
John W Bricker
Ohio
Willkie
Wounded servicemen may receive special gasoline rations
The Office of Price Administration announced that wounded service members may obtain special gasoline rations for travel to and from their homes or other places of convalescence.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
22 Divisions Routed In Ukraine Front Breakthrough
Soviet dispatches report a massive Red Army advance ripping a wide gap in German lines north of Kirovohrad. Vatutin’s forces press toward Zhitomir and Novograd Volynski with hundreds of tanks and big guns seized, while overwhelming German rear areas and rail junctions fall.
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Vatutin
Zhitomir
Shepetovka
Ukraine
Novograd Volynski
Korosten
Red Army
Pripet
von Mannstein
Stalin
Stalingrad
Kiev
Berdichev
New Landing Threatens To Flank Nazis in Italy
Allied forces seized initiative along Italy’s Garigliano front with a large coastal raid north of the river. A bridgehead was established aiming at junctions on the coastal road to Rome through the Pontine Marshes. Berlin said fighting was localized on beaches with high casualties. Minturno is a key area as the German Tenth Army pressed Ponte Fiume.
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Moscow
Bug River
von Mannstein
Bug
Germany
Kiev-Zhmerinka
Vatutin
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Zhitomir
Kiev
Vitebsk
Algiers
Italy
Garigliano
Harold Alexander
Rome
Pontine
Berlin
Minturno
Tenth Army
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 area hospitals.
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Cincinnati
Carl A. Wilzbach
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