Allies claim heavy Japanese losses in Pacific raids
Allied air and ground actions across the Pacific report 300 plus Japanese planes down in January. In Wewak Guinea and Rabaul New Britain raids, Nippon losses totaled 349 with many more probably downed. Australian troops advance toward Madang while Arawe and Wewak areas see heavy bombing. British and Indian forces push in Burma as Gen Sir George Gifford and Lt Gen Slim assume new commands.
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Central Pacific
Rabaul
New Briton
Japan
Wewak
Guinea
Haul
Laukanai
Satay
Ack Ack
En Guinea
Madang
New Guinea
Dumpu Valy
New Britain
Bergen Bay
Arawe
Puthwest
Lakunai Aire
Seventh Army Airree
Fleet Air Wing
Kaven
Maloelap Atoll
Jinglapalap
George Iford
Mountbatten
W. J. Slim
Freien
14Th Armyquarters
Arakan
Burma
Ohioans Die in Traffic Last Year
Ohio highways killed nearly 120000 residents in traffic accidents last year according to the State Highway Department. The safety division report compiled from statistics tied to the 1943 statewide traffic safety contest.
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Columbus
Fator Van Nuys of Indiana Dies in Capital
Senator Van Nuys, a 69 year old Democrat from Indiana and former Judiciary Committee chair, died early today in Washington. He had served in the Senate since March 4 1933 and chaired a subcommittee investigating liquor.
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Fator van Nuys
Indiana
Washington
Ak van Nuys
van Democrat
Judiciary Committee
Senate
U S War Casualties Reach 142 289
Washington AP reports latest American war casualties total 142,289 with 32,662 killed in action. Navy losses through Jan 22 list 35,572 with 15,520 dead and 4,284 captured. Army casualties through Dec 31 total 106,717 including 17,142 killed and 25,521 POWs.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Briggs testifies before federal jury in Hopkins letter case
George N. Briggs, suspended special assistant to Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, appears in Washington before a federal jury probing the Hopkins letter. He complains of being “thrown to the wolves” as the inquiry unfolds.
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NEA
George N. Briggs
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Washington
Hopkins
Subsidy Backed Hogs Sell at Higher Prices
On the Chicago market a 310 pound hog may fetch less than a 200 to 300 pound choice hog. Government weights 200 to 300 pounds receive a $13.75 per hundredweight subsidy to packers, while other weights do not qualify.
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Chicago
Ohio License Tags Costly
Ohio officials estimate prison labor at five cents an hour will cost nearly 5000 to produce 2 400 000 1944 blue license plates. Metal delay from the federal government pushed work late, and only a rear plate will be issued replacing the usual two. Windshield stickers replaced licenses last year due to metal shortages.
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Columbus
Ohio
Steelworkers Union Official Reclassified for Draft
Canton report shows I W Abel 35 year old district director of the CIO United Steelworkers reclassified 1 A by the draft board after Navy pre induction physical. Abel heads about 31 000 steel workers in the area. He is married and has a two year old daughter.
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Canton
I. W. Abel
CIO United Stevelworkers
Fire kills wife and three children in New Boston home
A dawn house fire in suburban New Boston claimed the lives of Leonard McNeal's wife and their three young children. Authorities report the family perished in the blaze that destroyed their home.
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Portsmouth
Leonard McNeal
New Boston
Used Gas Coupons Survive Shredding Scheme
A paper shredding machine failed to destroy ration coupons worth millions of gallons of fuel oil and gasoline on the Eastern Seaboard. Four people are in custody, with one employed by the Washington firm contracted to shred federal waste paper. OPA says surplus coupons, some still cashable, were fed into the shredder under supervision between 1943 and 1944 and later appeared in circulation.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Y. Opa
the Age Company
OPA
National and Distret
Refusal to Recognize Bolivian Rebels Signals Anti Axis Action
Washington reports show Britain the United States and eight Western Hemisphere nations refuse to recognize Bolivia s revolutionary rulers. The move aims to curb pro Axis elements with Argentina watching closely as Foreign Minister Gilbert promises forthcoming news. The United States non recognition policy links the Bolivian regime to subversive groups. Eden suggests German agents aided the coup.
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Washington
South America
Great Britain
United States
Bolivia
Dor
David Victor Kelly
Erich Otto Meynen
State Department
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Gallia Robbery Suspects Battle West Virginia Officers
A gun battle in Charleston on the west side led to a police manhunt for a robbery suspect believed wounded and a 20 year old girl who escaped from a city jail matron hours after the shooting. Officers had pursued suspects across Southern Ohio through Ashland Huntington and Charleston after Gallipolis robberies last week.
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Charleston
West Side
Edgar C. Bourne
Robert Linkenanger
Gallipolis
Bourne
Betty Jane Martin
Myrtle Stephenson
City Health Department
Ohio
West Virginia
Ashland
Huntington
Wright Plane Output Halted After Overnight Strike
An overnight strike involving about 3,000 workers on two shifts halted Wright Aeronautical Corp operations in Lockland. The dispute centered on work assignment and pay for inspectors. Workers returned to jobs around 12:30 a.m. under a CIO arbitration pause agreement.
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Cincinnati
Wright Aeronautical Corp
Lockland
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Five Die in Blast at Carnegie-Illinois Steel Plant
An explosion at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp South Chicago plant yesterday afternoon killed five workers and injured 11 while a steam turbine undergoing tests ruptured, hurling steel fragments and blowing a wall section outward. Despite the disaster, employees proceeded with a planned war bond rally.
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Chicago
Carnegie-Ilinois Steel Corp
Grand Jurors Probe Shooting At McArthur
Vinton County Grand Jury to examine the shotgun death of Martha Victorson 34 wife of Earl Victorson owner of Athens Lime & Coal Co. Officials initially ruled suicide but prosecutors say investigation follows residents' requests. Victorsons and Hamiltons were close friends.
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Hamiltons
Victorsons
Darby
Daylight Raiders Strike Invasion Coast Again
Allied bombers hammered the French coast from Dunkerque to Boulogne for the third day in a row as clear weather followed a windy night. Observers on the English coast saw large formations of bombers and fighters launch the assaults at dawn and operate over the channel.
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London
English Channel
Dunkerque
Boulogne
Channel
Brothers Arrested in $11000 Ohio Robbery
Chester Kuchin sky, 25, and Henry Kuchin, 18, brothers, were jailed in Summit County charged with breaking and entering in connection with the theft of 11000 from a Medina Road home last week. Officers recovered most of the loot including 7500 in cash 2800 in War Bonds and rings worth 900.
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Akron-4
Chester Kuchinsky
Henry
Summit County
Medina Road
Jack Lehr
Ghent
Easter inventory relief promised by WPB to merchants
Chester L. Jones, WPB inventory limitation administrator, announced the War Production Board will provide sympathetic attention to retailers who show April 9 Easter requires inventory adjustments. The WPB aims to help merchants with short inventories for the holiday.
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Cleveland
War Production Board
Chester L. Jones
WPB
Ohio sailor drowns in Narragansett Bay rescue attempt
David M. Dunninger 19 of Sandusky Ohio a fireman first class was among three Navy enlisted men who drowned in Narragansett Bay during a rescue attempt after a sailor fell from a boat Saturday.
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Ohio
Newport
R. I
David M. Dunninger
Sandusky
Navy
Narragansett Bay
Murray Urges Aid for White Collar Worker
CIO President Philip Murray told a Senate subcommittee that living costs have risen about 50 percent since January 1941. He urged wage policy adjustment under the stabilization act to protect industrial and white collar workers and government employees, stressing production must continue. He noted CIO plans to organize white-collar groups to assess wage adequacy for war-time living expenses.
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Washington
Philip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Senate
Murray
CIO
Park Program Is Advocated by Ohio Association
The Ohio Park Association urged a Southeastern Ohio park program to raise the water table and conserve resources. Gov. Paul M Herbert cited Muskingum Conservancy District as a major development and a committee was appointed to discuss postwar park planning with the Ohio Natural Resources Planning Board.
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Columbus
Ohio Park Association
Ohio
Paul M. Herbert
Muskingum Conservancy District
Ohio Natural Resources Planning Board
Ford Hack
Logan
Allied Forces Dominate Road Network to Cassino Front
Allied units pushed 12 miles inland from Nettuno Anzio, seizing control of the Appian Way and the coastal railway linking Rome to the Garigliano Cassino front. German planes attacked the bridgehead, losing nine aircraft, as Fifth Army patrols recrossed the Rapido near Cassino and reinforcements flowed in to brace the sector. Americans battled Germans near Cassino while French and British forces held bridgeheads near Mt Grace and the Garigliano.
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Leningrad
Russia
Leonid A. Govorov
A. K. A. Merétskov
Volkhov
Novgorod
Moscow
Govorov
Krasnogvardeisk Narva
Smolkovo
Krasnogvardeisk
Pushkin
Tsarkoye Selo
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Slutsk
Meretskov
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Luca
Ion
Pskov
Peipus
Nettuno- Anzio
Rome
Garigliano-Cassino
Fifth Army
Rapido
Cassino
Nettuno
Appian Way
Rome Front
Mt. Grace
Garigliano
Mediterranean
Minturno
Somme
Italy
Anzio
Cassino-Garigliano
Allied advance near Rome faces German defense groups
British veteran recalls brutal German dead near Minturno while German battle groups rush the invasion lines. Allied forces bomb rail yards at Vrattsa and Skoplje as Rome front uncertainty grows. Britain and the United States refuse to recognize Bolivia's revolutionary government, recalling ambassadors.
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Nettuno
Rome
Malya
Vrattsa
Sofia
Skoplje
Yugoslavia
Britain
United States
Bolivia
U. S
Marshal Tito
Senj
Fiume
Hayes Reception Center to Close at Fort Hayes
Maj. Gen. James L. Collins announced Fort Hayes reception center would close Feb 2. Ohio inductees would be sent to Fort Thomas Kentucky or Fort Benjamin Harrison Indianapolis. The move aims for substantial savings in personnel and money.
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Columbus
James L. Collins
Fort Hayes
Ohio
Fort Thomas
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Collins
Fifth Service Command
Abolition Urged for Army Specialized Training Program
Washington House Military Committee may push to abolish much of the Army’s specialized training system to save about 200,000 pre war fathers from induction. The move aims to trim wartime preparation costs and modify personnel flow.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Dixie Democrats Seek Southern On Roosevelt Ticket
Southern members of Congress and the Democratic National Committee discuss a Dixie man as Roosevelt’s running mate for a fourth term. Potential candidates include Gov. J Melville Broughton Gov. Ellis Arnall Speaker Sam Rayburn and James F Pyrnes.
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Washington
Congress
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
J. Melville Broughton
North Carolina
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
Sam Rayburn
Texas
James F. Pyrnes
South Carolina
Super Destroyer Taussig Launches at Staten Island Shipyard
A 2,200-ton U S S Taussig, a new super destroyer, was launched at Bethlehem Steel's Staten Island yard in New York. Named for Rear Admiral Edward D Taussig who served from the Civil War era through 1918 and claimed Wake Island for the United States.
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New York
U.S.S
Meat Spoilage Charge Sparks Senate Probe
A Senate investigation was opened into claims by Senator Thomas Idaho that large quantities of meat spoiled or were destroyed as officials refused to suspend meat rationing temporarily.
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Washington
Senate
Thomas
Ridaho
Post‑war Planning Edition of The Messenger
The Messenger’s post war edition reports activities in Athens and Southeastern Ohio with views from many readers on post war planning. It reviews last year’s business and the outlook, emphasizing private enterprise leadership for national welfare and urging Southeastern Ohio readers to study the edition closely.
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the Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Ohis
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