Manila Ruins After Retreat As Japs Press In
Despite Japanese withdrawal the Manila district lies in ruins with armor and ground troops sweeping the city. Allied forces report bombardment and air strikes across Luzon as Japanese positions in the southern sector crumble. Allied vessels and aircraft continue to attack in the Pacific theater, including strikes toward Bangkok and Kobe as operations press onward.
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SEO Atul
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Dutch Indies
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Nippon‘eee
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Kobe
Japan
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Thailand
Burma
Indies
London
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Shumishu
Kuriles
Bookies May Lose. Phones by FCC Order
Columbus safety director certifies a list of about twenty five suspected bookmaking and numbers establishments to Ohio Bell Tele vise Co. following a request by the FCC and board of war communications to reclaim facilities and manpower used to disseminate racing information. The action aims to cut off their telephone lifelines.
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C. C. Cole
Ohio Bell Televise Co
Federal Communications Commission
Board of War Communications
Newark gets new track tire plant in $2,250,000 expansion
Pharis Tire and Rubber Co of Newark announces a new $2.25 million track tire plant to be built beside the current factory, targeting completion and operation around July 1 and providing about 700 additional jobs. The move accompanies a broader industrial push in the area as the company expands capacity.
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Furber Marsshall
Pharis Tire jand-Rubber Company of
Air Assault Continues as British Bombers Strike Key Nazi Targets
Air force units over Kleve and Goch along the Maas and Rhine Rivers engaged Nazi concentrations last night. A700 British heavy bombers roamed the area while Mosquito aircraft attacked seven crucial industrial and communications centers.
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Kleve
Former foe Hutcheson backs Lewis return to AFL
MIAMI FLUP Former foe William Hutcheson once clashed with John Lewis now urges AFL unity. Hutcheson, a Lakeland Florida carpenter and ex executive committee member, says Lewis’s reaffiliate would strengthen the federation and help miners’ president push the Little Steel wage policy. The AFL council waits for Hutcheson’s arrival before deciding on the Mine Workers leader’s return.
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Carpenter
John “I
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American Federation of Labor
Lakeland
State
United Mine’ Workers
Atlantic City
Wair
Eileheson
Vminérs
AFL .Council
Increased lend-lease flow through new Ledo Road outlined
The Affairs Committee described plans to boost a 15 000 tons per month throughput once the Burma Road closed. A fleet of 15 000 American trucks will reach China via the Ledo Road to build a transportation system. About 1 000 American technicians are en route to China and 1 000 Chinese will come here for training to handle the greater lend-lease material volume.
Soldier in Jap Camp Unaware Parents Died
TOWANDA Pa in June 1942 the War Department reported Pvt Carlyle Bevan as missing in action in the Philippines. The first word of him came the other day from a Japanese prison camp keep well he wrote his father 50 we can go fishing and hunting again when I get home He was unaware that both his parents have died and his home has been sold.
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Towanda
War Department
Carlyle Bevan
Philippines
Yank is Used as Booby Trap at Temple Hospital
Pvt. Wil Edwards recounted the Huertgen Forest ordeal at McCloskey General Hospital in Temple Texas. He described being blown by a mine and then booby trapped by German troops while lying between American and German lines, enduring hours of fire, a severed foot, and a failed rescue attempt before medics finally reached him.
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Press
UMW Workers Call OPA Decision The Big Gyp of 1944
The United Mine Workers accuse the OPA of a major misstep that could affect wage talks as 42 coal company stores shift from Group Three to Group One. Koppars Coal Company and Island Creek Company in West Virginia are cited as moving to higher price ceilings, allowing higher retail prices.
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Washington
OPA
Hina
United Mine Workers
UMW Journal
John L. Lewis
Koppars ‘Coal’ Company
Island Creek Company
West Virginia
Confab Hurts Manpower Bill in War Labor Talks
White House notice of a Big Three meeting may shift work or jail legislation as joint military operations in the final phase of the war against Nazi Germany are announced. Senator O Mahoney predicts labor demands will swing if Europe nears victory, while Chairman Thomas warns the move could push war workers to seek peacetime jobs.
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Washington
White House
Germany
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Japan
Thomas
Utah
Military Committee
Plane crash kills ten en route to Big Three conference
A British Foreign Office group is among 19 dead when a plane carrying government officials crashes while traveling to a conference with Prime Minister Churchill. Five passengers are missing and five are injured. the exact time of the crash was not released.
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London
British Foreign Office
Churchill
ICYO Officials Return From Tour of France and Belgium
Eight officials of the United Rubber Workers of America CIO returned from a 10 day tour of army installations in France and Belgium. The Akron Ohio based group included George Bass Francis Hannley Howard R Lloyd William Nelson F B Van Houten Clarence Wheeler W D Richards of Barberton Oh and John F Mar mou of Detroit.
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Paris
United Rubber Workers of America
CIO
France
Belgium
George Bass
Francis Hannley
Howard R. Lloyd
William Nelson
F. B. van Houten
Clarence Wheeler
Akron
W.,d. Richards
Barberton
John F. Marmou
Detroit
Lausche Orders Dismissals Over Salary Kickback Scheme
Gov. Frank Lausche ordered immediate discharge of highway department workers who collected a two percent salary assessment. He announced a broad investigation into past and ongoing kickbacks.
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Columbus
Frank JJ
Lausche
Highway Department
European Big Three parley aims at European accord
Washington reports a three power plan for joint action in Europe by Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill. Military talks yielded full Anglo American Soviet army cooperation while postwar peace plans included extended civilian control Germany expanded European advisory bodies and rapid relief to liberated areas. A final communique is expected at the conference in which the Big Three will set steps toward a lasting peace.
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Washington
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Churchill
Stalin
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Crimea
Germany
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Moscow
European Advisory Commission
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Hubby Slaps Wife With Nazi Gives Self Up
Paris report describes German war discipline amid frostbite and trench foot refusals. One casualty led to a jail sentence and loss of furloughs, prompting a Nazi soldier to surrender to American troops after a battalion commander’s note on his tag.
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Paris
Wax Hall
Roer River Dams Threatened in Allied Push
Allied forces breached Siegfried Line near Aachen and Schmidt advancing toward the Roer River dams and reservoirs a key to potential Western Front flooding. Patton's Third Army moved toward Pruem while Fifth and Seventh Army actions pressed along the Rhine front. Soviet reports claimed Berlin nearing with Oder bridgeheads and German losses mounted. a U S air medal was awarded to Sgt Clarence Funk.
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Liberated Filipinos to Return Home as Military Situation Permits
General Douglas MacArthur told the War and State Departments that liberated people in the Philippines will be allowed to return to their stateside homes as soon as the military situation permits. The statement signals planned repatriation pending security conditions.
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Philippines
Legislation Introduces Toll Free Bridges Plan
Senator Joseph T Williamson of East Liverpool introduced a bill to pay off the bonded debt of four state bridges totaling 2790000 to abolish the State Bridge Commission and make the Sandusky Bay Sandusky East Liverpool Chester Fort Steuben and Pomeroy Mason bridges toll free.
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State Bridge Commission
Joseph T. Williamson
East Liverpool
Sandusky Bay
Sandusky
East Liverpool-Chester
Fort Steuben
Steubenville
Pomeroy- Mason
Newspapers' War Loan Support Valued At Over 24 Million
Washington report states the Sixth War Loan received newspaper support valued at more than 24 million dollars. The November December drive raised over 21 billion, with advertising valued at 7.7 million and news and editorial support at 16.98 million. Frank E. Tripp, chairman of the Allied Newspaper Council, cites total ad value for the program above 28 million.
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Washington
Uhi
Frank E. Tripp
Alied Newspaper Council
Tripp
Leaders Seek Support Of Little Steel Formula
A Northern Ohio CIO delegation sought congressional backing for immediate upturn of the Little Steel Formula. About 100 CIO members met with Representatives Bender Huber Feighan and Crosser in Washington and left with assurances of sympathy for the objective. Frances Bolton could not attend.
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Ohio
CIO
George H. Bender
Cleveland
Walter Huber
Akron
Michael Feighan
Robert Crosser
Objector's Death Sentence Changed To Life Imprisonment
Pvt Henry Weber, a Vancouver shipyard foreman drafted into the army, had his death sentence for refusing to drill commuted to life imprisonment at hard labor. His wife in Portland opposed the ruling and urged justice, while Congress and civil liberties groups weighed in on his case under the 64th Article of War. Weber said he would help end the war without bearing arms.
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Call
Henry Weber
Vanecouver
Wash
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A¢Nti
Weber
Portland
Oregon
Sam
Congress
Want Postwar Plans Outlined From Congress Session
Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee pressed the administration for the full postwar reconstruction plan. During a session on a one year lend lease extension they demanded detailed reports on the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and other world economic plans. Representative Vorys of Ohio stated the people and Congress deserve to know within six months what role the United States will take in Europe’s reconstruction and rehabilitation.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
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