Allied Forces Close on Rome and Press in Europe
Allied forces reached Campos 16 miles from Rome and 15 miles from Anzio while British units seized Mt Natale near Minturno. Russians advanced toward Estonia and Latvia as fighting intensified on multiple fronts. German air and land losses mounted as Allied and Soviet offensives expanded.
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Campos
Rome
Terna
Campoleone
Anzio
Estonia
Knupp
Baltic
Spain
Buenos Aires
Franco
Aratina
Sis
The
London
Italy
Uth
Vances
Garigliano-Caso-Adriatic
Liri
Mt. Natale
Ale
Minturno
Mediterranean
Adriatic
Germany
Klagenfurt
Udine
Jano
Bologna
Verona
Yugoslav
Marshal Tito
Sey
Genera Mihailovic
Monte
North
Rus
Luga
Kingisepp
Baltic State
Gulf Finland
Lake Peipus
Ingrad
Lake Ilmen
Latvia
Red
Vinnitsa
Tokyo Radio Hints U S Forces May Have Landed on Vital Outposts
Tokyo radio suggested American troops had landed on Marshall Islands defenses as the Central Pacific invasion buildup intensified. Navy plans kept secrecy while seaborne bombardments and aerial strikes pressed Wake Island and the Marshalls, with a seaplane raid described as strong and not resulting in losses.
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Tokyo
U. S
Central Pacific
Marshalls
Japan
Marshall Islands
Wake Island
Army
Seventh Air Force
Mid-Pacific
Vatican Role in Fascism Endorsed by Soviet Press
The Moscow dispatch quotes an official Soviet news outlet accusing Vatican officials of servility to Fascism and approving of aggression by Mussolini and Hitler. It notes the Vatican's stance during Italy’s 1940 attack on France and asserts complicity in wartime actions.
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Moscow
Estia
Italy
Vatican
Hitler
Musso
France
Groundhog Forecast Hints Long Winter Ahead in Punxsutawney
In Punxsutawney Pennsylvania the famed Groundhog of Gobbler's Knob is due to awaken tomorrow for a weather prognostication. Town leaders and members of the Groundhog Club prepare to mark the event amid talk of winter's duration and local politics.
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Punxsutawney
Johnny Sedchuck
American Bombers Strike French Coast In Major Raid
Allied air power continues its heavy assault on the French invasion zone with the 30th raid in a month. U S heavies bombed, Thunderbolts hit a Nazi airfield in Holland, Berlin and Breslau rumors circulated, and Swedish reports claimed thousands killed in raids across the German capital.
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London
Holland
RAF
Berlin
Nya Daglit Allehanda
Breslau
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
New Induction Rules Go Into Effect Today
Washington reports new draft rules take effect with about 212 million men deemed independency groups under selective service. Inductions target 600000 men in the first two months of 1944 after a mandatory Army Navy physical exam of at least 21 days. Registrants aged 18 to 21 lose most occupational deferments unless farming or a state director certifies essential industry need.
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Washington
Selective Service
Ohio flier among top aces in fighter group
Three Ohioans rank among the first four in the highest scoring American fighter group in Britain which has shot down its 204th German plane. Leader is Lt Col Walker Mahurin of Fort Wayne with 15 planes, followed by Lt Glen Schlitz of North Canton with eight planes.
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U. S
England
Britain
Walker M. Mahurin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Glen. D. Schlitz
North Canton
Looting Report Hits Peace Now HQ Files Missing Letters
Bessie 5 man executive secretary of Peace Now says pressure group files at New York headquarters were looted. She notes missing letters from Senator Burton Wheeler and copies of correspondence to former President Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, and General Robert Wood, ex-head of America First.
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Bessie 5Man
Peace Now
New York
Burton K. Wheeler
Hoover
Charles A. Lindbergh
Robert Wood
America First
Mechanics Strike Over Trivial Issue Settled
The War Labor Board announced that members of the Mechanics Educational Society of America at Willys-Overland Motors Co in Toledo returned to work after a walkout over partition opening sizes. Board Chairman Lewis M. Gill called the stoppage unbelievably trivial and a last straw in an unwarranted labor dispute.
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Cleveland
Regional War Labor Board
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Willys- Overland Motors Co
Toledo
Lewis M. Gill
Japan Protests Highlight US Atrocity Complaints
Washington reports reveal 89 protests to Tokyo over two years accusing Japan of captive mistreatment and violations of international law. Senator Chavez calls for escalating the Pacific war as diplomats warn prisoners remain beyond relief through diplomacy.
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Tokyo
Chavez
State Department
Switzerland
Philippine
Clerk Tells of Setting Jap Settlement Afire
An Los Angeles arson suspect, Clarence Everett Steepleton, 40, asserts he started over 200 fires in cheap Japanese lodgings near the Pearl Harbor period. Fire chief Capt. Carl Halter quotes him as saying he tried to burn places before they were cleared out.
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Los Angeles
Pearl Harbor
Clarence Everett Steepleton
Carl Halter
Czechoslovak Ambassador Urges Allied Alliance After War
The Czechoslovakian ambassador to the United States says small European nations must closely ally with Russia, Great Britain, and a revitalized France to survive the postwar era. He outlines a strategic balance among major powers.
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Baltimore
Europe
Russia
Great Britain
France
United States
Legislative Experts Refine Major Tax Bill Provisions
Washington AP The new 2.14 billion dollar tax bill moves to legislative draftsmen for final polishing. It adds excise rates including 20 percent on furs jewelry cosmetics and handbags 30 percent on cabaret checks and 15 percent on tickets and local phone service. Airmail postage rises to 6 cents per ounce and other postal charges increase. If enacted by Feb 19 the measures take effect March 1. the Victory Tax becomes a 3 percent levy on all income over 624 dollars.
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Washington
Callon
Strike Threat at Ford WilLow Run and Rouge Plants
Ford says a wage dispute over a ten cent raise led to protests at the Willow Run and Rouge plants in Detroit. Night shift workers stayed past quitting time with 169 employees and 925 day workers, while over 1,000 in the Rouge rolling mill walked out. Management notes the dispute followed a 15 minute pay deduction for earlier time clock delays.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Willow Run
Ford Rouge
Churchill Declines Comment on War End in Commons
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Churchill refused to state when the war might end. Labour MP George Mathers pressed for the principle guiding end date or cessation of hostilities as wartime agreements expire.
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Churchill
London
Commons
George Mathers
Vichy Urges French To Leave Southern Coast
The Vichy radio urged the civil population along France's Mediterranean coast to evacuate at once for reception areas prepared for them. The appeal emphasized immediate departure to safety as Allied operations loomed in the region.
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Vichy
London
Vichy Radio Today
Mediterranean
France
Abandoned Child Reunited With Mother in Detroit
Tiny Marylin Ann, found abandoned in a car last November, was sheltered by the Children's Aid Society and placed with a private family. She was reunited with her mother Mrs. Juanita Waits 18 of Columbus Ohio late yesterday. Mrs Waits said a friend left the infant in the car after tiring of care.
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Detroit
Marylin Ann Waits
Children's Aid Society
Juanita Waits
Columbus
Ohio
Wounded Yanks Bayoneted by Japanese on New Georgia
Army posters issued from a July account by J Norman Lodge recount barbaric Japanese actions on New Georgia Island. Marines guarded litter cases as 300 Japanese forces attacked along the Rairoko River. six Americans died and others were bayoneted or mutilated.
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New York
New Georgia Island
J. Norman Lodge
Associated Press
Lodge
United States
Munda
Rairoko
Pacific War News United in Fierce Skirmishes and Air Sieges
In the Pacific theater on the 25th day of aerial offensive, Japanese land-based bombers struck Kwajalein and surrounding atolls while Allied air forces pressed raids on Rabaul and New Guinea fronts. Allied claims cited heavy Japanese losses, with Allied pilots shooting down numerous Zero fighters, and Australian troops advancing toward Madang as Stilwell discussed a new land route to China from India.
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Marshalls
Kwajalein
Mili
Maloelap
Wotje
Jaluit
Gilbert Islands
Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Tokyo
Aubrey W. Fitch
South Pacific
Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Saidor
Madang
Joseph Stilwell
New Delhi
China
Republicans Prepare for Lincoln Day Dinners Nationwide
Washington reports indicate at least three potential presidential hopefuls will appear at roughly 2000 Lincoln Day dinners and meetings nationwide. Wendell Willkie and Ohio Governor John Bricker are set for major speeches. Bricker is due Feb 10 at a banquet organized by Republican groups, signaling a new campaign stance.
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Washington
Harrison FE. Spangler
Wendell L. Willkie
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
House and
Senate
League of Republican Women
Bonds Bought for Counties in Fourth War Bond Drive
State Treasurer Don H. Ebright announced a 20 million dollar War Bond purchase from the general revenue fund. Each of Ohio's 88 counties will receive a proportional share toward their local quota in the Fourth War Bond drive. Total general revenue invested in war bonds rises to 35 million dollars with more purchases planned from special state funds. Allotments included Athens 41000 dollars.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
General Revenue Fund
General Revenue
Ebright
Athens
Crosby Sinatra Stage Crooning Duel Today
Crosby and Sinatra were slated for a radio duel on Command Performance but only beamed to armed forces overseas. The Hollywood Victory Committee billed the event as a musical battle of the century with Crosby the hero of old-guard swing fans and Sinatra the swoon crooning heartthrob of the bobby socks brigade.
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Hollywood
Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
America
Crosby
Sinatra
Bobby Socks
Hollywood Victory Committee
Priceless Art Destroyed by Nazis in Italy Loot
War Minister Sir James Grigg told the House of Commons a German incendiary squad in Livardi destroyed art works and 886 archival cases dating 1238 to 1811 after Italian pleas to spare them. OWI reports total U S armed force casualties at 146,186 with dead not including Japanese atrocity victims.
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London
Italy
James Grigg
House of Commons
Livardi
Naples
Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
Army-Navy
War Relief Shop Robbed in Suburban Cleveland
Thieves broke into the United War Relief shop in Shaker Heights last night and fled with jewelry, antiques, and emblems valued at several hundred dollars, according to a representative of one of the charitable organizations.
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Cleveland
United War Relief
Shaker Heights
Lorain Judge Orders Bond Purchases After Guilty Plea
Municipal Judge Malcolm Thomson ordered 17 men to buy a $50 War bond each after pleading guilty to visiting a gambling establishment yesterday.
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Lorain
Malcolm Thomson
Japanese blame Allies for atrocities accusations
Tokyo spokesman denounces Allied disclosures as a cloak for cruelties committed by the Allies themselves, in official commentary echoed by a DNB Tokyo broadcast.
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London
Tokyo
DNB
Canada Limits Men To Cut American Wood
A Canadian emigration ruling restricting border crossing by men to cut US timber hampers felling for munitions and pulp, per the Boston Herald. The measure slows timber supply used for war and industrial needs.
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Canada
Boston
United States
Boston Herewald
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Mejit
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Lae
CeBeve
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Erikury
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Pacific Ocean
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de Arno
Narik
Apaiangs
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