New Allied Gains In Southwest Pacific Reported By MacArthur
General MacArthur announces two fresh Allied offensives against Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific. Forces seize the Los Negros Is thmus and advance toward Madang on the New Guinea coast while bombers strike Rabaul and Choiseul.
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Los Negros Island
Admiralty Group
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
First Cavalry
Los Negros
Momote
32Nd
Saidor
Madang
Rabaul
New Britain
Japan
Choiseul Island
Solomons
Bougainville Island
Tokyo Radio
Solomon
Domei
Central Pacific
Marshall Islands
U. S
Frank Merrill
Asiatic
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Burma
Walawbum
Maungkwan
Joseph W
Stilwell
Nambyu
Southeast Asia
United States
Maingkwan
Idi River
Sumprabum
Araka
Kaladan
Chill Hills
Chindwin
Bhamo
Heho
Bricker Urges Southern Support to Oust New Deal
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio appealed to the Democratic solid South to join in eliminating the New Deal. He argued that once the task is done there should be two strong parties maintained in every state.
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Jacksonville
Fla
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Democratic Solid South
12 Year-Old Boy Becomes Yale's Youngest Student
Merrill Kenneth Wolf aged 12 son of Morris Herbert Wolf and a Cleveland lawyers family has entered Yale University, after showing a full sentence at four months, making him the youngest student on record in New Haven.
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New Haven Conn
Merrill Kenneth Wolf
Morris Herbert Wolf
Cleveland
Yale
German fears rise over Soviet Red Army drive near Lwow
Berlin reports say the Red Army may have 35 divisions in the Lwow Odessa sector with eight armored divisions and large motorized units. German sources claim retreat to new positions along the Lwow Odessa Railroad front as Soviet forces outnumber them greatly. Attacks were also reported toward the Orsha Minsk Highway with renewed Soviet pressure.
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Odessa
Poland
Dnieper
Stockholm
Berlin
Lwow
Old Poland
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Orsha- Minsk
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Ural
Nimitz Sees Submarine War Shaping Pacific
Washington reports Admiral Chester W Nimitz warns U S subs are crippling Japanese shipping and may decide the Pacific war. He favors an early clash with the Japanese fleet, saying it would harm their overseas communications and that Japan preserves its remaining ships.
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Pacific
Chester W Nimitz
Nimitz
Penelope Lost While Maintaining Nettuno Bridgehead
The Admiralty reports HMS Penelope lost in Nettuno action after earlier Malta damage, joining Spartan and destroyers Janus and Inglefield. First Lord A. V. Alexander confirmed the casualties as part of naval operations off Italy.
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Admiralty
Penelope
Pepperpot
Malta
Spartan
Janus
Inglefield
Nettuno
Italy
Commons
A. V. Alexander
Barksdale AFB Pilot Dies In Local Bomber Crash
SHREVEPORT La Staff Sgt Jack Clayton Kern 24 radio gunner from Canton Ohio one of six Barksdale Field fliers killed in a twin engine medium bomber crash near here The crash claimed multiple airmen including the crew from the base and the surrounding area.
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Shreveport
Jack Clayton Kern
Canton
Barksdale Field
Here
Shipyards Need Men To Build Quality Boats
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land estimated the nation’s shipyards require 109000 more workers to meet 1944 shipbuilding goals. The Maritime Commission chair told a Senate military committee the boost is needed due to a shift from cargo vessels to “quality ships” for specialized war needs.
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Washington
Emory S. Land
Maritime Comission
Senate
Stove Firm Destroyed by Fire in Ashland Windstorm
A high wind fueled fire last night destroyed the W. J. Sell Stove Co. plant in Ashland Kentucky and briefly threatened a nearby lumber yard as flames swept the building.
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Stove Company
Ashland
W. J. Sel! Stove Co
Flying Fortress Nelson King Returns After Battle Over Berlin
The bomber Nelson King with four Ohio crewmen escaped heavy air combat near Berlin. Captain Francis G. Lauro reported 60 German fighters attacked, a 20 mm shell damaged controls and oxygen, but the Fortress landed at base despite damage. Crew members included Lt. E. E. Greasamar and Lt. Emery Howarth.
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England
Flying Fortress
Nelson King
Berlin
Disce Ge Mallaha
Francis G. Lauro
Lauro
E. E. Greasamar
Sunbury
Emery Howarth
Huron
W. R. Heathman
Warren
Willis
Pierce St
Belfast
Seven Children Die As Cottage Burns on Long Beach
York Beach Maine reports a devastating fire at a sea front cottage on Long Beach Boulevard last night killing seven children. Their mother, confined in a York village hospital, was not informed of the tragedy. Raymond Rokey, who lost one eighth child in a car crash last fall, was at the Portsmouth Navy Yard when the blaze occurred.
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York Beach
Raymond Rokey
Long Beach Boulevard
York Village
Rokey
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Draft Board Calls Are To Be Increased
Washington AP selective service estimates that 3,000,000 men will face examinations in five months starting Feb 1 and about 1,200,000 will be inducted. House Appropriations Committee reports a 91 million dollar cut in the first 1944 deficiency bill, reducing total requests to 500 million. Major cuts include 22.5 million from community facilities, 17.5 million from war housing, and reversal of 39.4 million for CCC capital impairment. The Navy’s request drops to 120 million, while the VA is allowed 30 million for hospital construction amid predicted wartime bed demand.
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House Appropriations Committee
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House
Federal Works Agency
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Commodity Credit Corporation
Navy
Veterans’ Administration
Frank T. Hines
CCC
Hamden Navy Flyer Killed in Plane Crash Near Olathe
Norman M. Griffith a Seaman First Class from Hamden Ohio was killed in a twin engine transport plane crash near the Olathe Naval Air Station. Two other Navy fliers were killed and two injured in the routine flight from Oakland to New York.
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Kansas
Norman M. Griffith
Hamden, O
Navy
Olathe Naval Air Station
Oakland
Calif
New York
Deferment Sought for 3200 Inducted Seamen
The Lake Vessel Committee will seek selective service deferments for 3,200 seamen subject to immediate induction. A. H. Ferbert, committee spokesman, reports.
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Cleveland
Lake Vessel Committee
Great Lakes
A. H. Ferbert
Mrs McGraner to be named good neighbor on Wednesday radio
Mrs Ernest McGraner of Athens known as the "magazine lady" will be named the good neighbor on the Breakfast at Sardis radio program. The Blue Network program runs 10 to 10 30 a m with the announcement near the end and best Athens reception on Wheeling station around 1200 on the dial.
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Ernest McGraner
Athens
War veteran Harold Wilson dies from fall under truck
Harold Wilson, who had recently received a medical discharge from the Army, died from injuries after a fall beneath the wheels of a truck.
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Harold Wilson
Toledo tragedy notes smoke suffocation of war worker
The fragment reports Charles Kenney, 43, a wartime worker in Toledo, suffocated by smoke blown into a bedroom from an air draft vent. Details are incomplete but indicate a fatal domestic accident with smoke intrusion.
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Toledo
Charles
Kenney
Reds Drive 60 Miles From Rumaniya Front
Russian forces crossed the Odessa Lwow Warsaw line 60 miles from Rumania after routing enemy units in the Ukraine. Moscow tallies 15,000 killed and 3,000 captured in three days. Allied war reports note heavy German losses and continued Cassino fighting in Italy with Rome bombardment and large air battles over Berlin.
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Rumania
Ukraine
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Zhukov
Odessa-Lwow
Russia
Romania
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Tarnopol
Volochinsk
Lwow
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Narva
Washington
Italy
Cassino
Rome
Adriatic
Ostiense
Trastevere
Artllery
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Dubrovnik
Garigliano
Fifth Army
Prison Farm Fugitive Returns After 17 Years
Benjamin Dear, a convicted Ohio wool thief, ended a 17 year fugitive period by voluntarily returning to the London Prison Farm to complete a sentence he left March 9, 1927. His wife and eight children accompanied him from Columbia City, Indiana, where they had been living. He surrendered to Columbia City police and waived extradition.
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London
Benjamin Dear
Ohio
Columbia City
Ind
Allied Convoy Losses One in 1000 Vessels
London reports Allied convoy losses were under one ship per 1000 in H2 1943 per First Lord A V Alexander. He warned U boats would persist while noting the Mediterranean route to the East reopened, lifting tonnage and aiding North Africa and Italy. Losses to date in the Mediterranean since Sicily include two cruisers one minelayer ten destroyers two submarines and ten minor war vessels.
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London
Admiralty
A. V. Alexander
Commons
Europe
Royal Navy
Mediterranean
Taft Warns Against Heavy Post War Taxes
Senator Robert A. Taft warned in Cleveland that postwar taxes must not burden private enterprise. He predicted an $18 billion annual federal budget with $6 billion interest on the war debt, $5 billion for the Army and Navy, $5 billion for peacetime departments, and $2 billion for veterans care.
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Cleveland
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Blaze Destroys Farm Annex at Sears Roebuck Store
Fire at the Sears Roebuck Co east side store annex in Cleveland swept through a farm supply area destroying 2,000 day old chickens. Total damages are estimated at 75,000 dollars by General Manager Charles H Hellstadt.
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Cleveland
Searsebuck and Co
East Side
Charles H. Hellstadt
Army Officer Slays Three Wounds Five At Camp Anza
Riverside Calif. Two girls and a Riverside police patrolman were killed and five others wounded when 31 year old Second Lieutenant Beaufort G Swancutt of La Crosse Wisconsin opened fire with a .45 caliber army automatic at Camp Anza Sunday night. The incident occurred in the Camp Anza officers club after dining in Riverside about 1030 pm. Swancutt shot Miss Dorothy Douglas and Miss Lourdine Livermore in the chest and Lieutenant Harry Light in the hand and leg before fellow officers restrained him. The two women died at the post hospital. A military board of inquiry is examining the motive for the shootings.
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Camp Anza
Military Board of
Beaufort G. Swancutt
la Crosse
Wis
Earle R. Sarles
Dorothy Douglas
Long Beach
Lourdine Livermore
Arthur B. Simpson
Swancutt
Harry J. Light
Miss Douglas
Miss Livermore
Lieutenant Light
Post Hospital
Capital Blast Kills Woman at Bureau of Standards
Mrs. Lor raine B. Chandler, 21, a navy bride eight months married, died after being hurled from a second story window by a blast at the Bureau of Standards in Washington. Four others injured. Dr Lyman Briggs said the group worked on an urgent war project to improve aviation gasoline. Chandler had only 12 days in the lab. Her husband Ensign Lawrence F Chandler served in the Navy in Washington.
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Washington
Lorraine B. Chandler
Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Lyman J. Briggs
Chandler
Harry Bennett
Bellevue
Nebr
Lawrence F. Chandier
Navy
Editor Warns Against Tokyo Appeasement
London editors warn against appeasement of Tokyo. Simon Hartcourt-Smith argues a London financial group and members of the Commons seek a compromise peace with Japan. He claims Japan believes Americans are bored with the Pacific war and would welcome a reasonable settlement.
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London
Japan
Daily Mail
Simon Hartcourt - Smith
Tokyo
Veterans Battle Over Current War Bonus Split by Service Groups
Five veterans groups push a draft bill offering up to 3500 for home service and 4500 overseas, plus 3 daily adjusted pay and a 500 bonus for wounds, with bonds for excess. contrasts with the GI bill backed by the American Legion and supported by broader VA structures. House sponsors push hearings as rival legislation advances.
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Johnson
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Lesinski
D-Mich
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Hagen
Fl-Minn
Isac
D-Calif
Carlson
Rogers
R-Mass
Bates
D-Ky
Dingell
American Legion
Warren H. Atherton
Veterans Administration
Army
Navy
Treasury
War and Navy Departments
Daniels Admits Ousting Head of REA Probe
Washington news shows Jonathi Daniels, administrative assistant to President Roosevelt, testifying before a Senate investigation that he sought to oust Harry E. Slattery as head of the Rural Electrification Administration after an inquiry requested by the President. He described his actions in a second appearance before the Agriculture subcommittee.
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Washington
Jonathi Daniels
Roosevelt
Senate Investigati
Harry E. Slattery
Rocevelt
Daniels
Slatte
Questio
Agricuture
Twin brothers William and Samuel Kyle mark 95th birthday
William and Samuel Kyle celebrate their 95th birthday today awakening belief they are among the nation’s oldest living twins. The milestone underscores longevity for the brothers and prompts reflections on family history and time.
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William
Samuel Kyle
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