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27 Dec 1943
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Corry Evening Journal in Corry, Pennsylvania
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1943
Page
1
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German Battleship Scharnhorst Sunk in Arctic Action
Allied forces report the German battleship Scharnhorst was sunk in the Barents Sea near North Cape after a long, fierce engagement with British home fleet units. The blow cripples portions of the German surface fleet and follows revenge for prior losses to British forces.
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Coast Defenses Kept On Alert
A New York report said a sneak air attack might be attempted on Christmas Eve but Eastern Defense Command cancelled the alert at 9 05 P M after stating protective measures were taken Army officials would not disclose the report origin and civilian defense units remained on standby through Christmas Day
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New York
Eastern Defense Command
EDC
135000 Idle as Steel Strike Spreads After Roosevelt Appeal
About 135000 steel workers idle as work stoppages spread across Ohio Pennsylvania West Virginia Michigan and New York following CIO United Steelworkers contracts expiring Christmas Eve while U S Steel reports absenteeism 6 to 8 percent higher than normal. Pickets appear in Pittsburgh Columbus and Detroit as unions press for contract rejections and work stoppages echo 1943 tactics.
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Housevelt
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West Virgina
Taojana
Michigan
New York
Cio-United Steelworkers of America
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Detroit
Gahim— Bus
Ice Columbus
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Exyrent Steel
Little Steel
Sleet and Rain Storm Slashes East Seaboard
A widespread sleet and rain storm swept the Atlantic seaboard from New England to Virginia, halting traffic for hours. Cars, buses, and trains were delayed as ice coated highways across Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. Police urged caution while Red Cross aid aided stranded soldiers and commuters. Several deaths occurred in the Pittsburgh area amid numerous accidents as temperatures rose and roads thawed later.
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New Easinl
Virginia
Pennsylavan
New York
New Jesse
Wilkes-Barre
Scranton
Wyoming Valley
American Red Cross
Wilkes- Barre
Ue Pittsbummh
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Berlin Fires Burn After Christmas Raid
A Stockholm dispatch reports Berlin still burning after the RAF Christmas Eve raid. Officials say two thousand bodies recovered and a million residents have received emergency patrons in the past three days.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Attoniidningen
Crisis Forces FDR's Return From Hyde Park
President Roosevelt cut short a Christmas weekend at Hyde Park to tackle labor disputes threatening a key war industries. He faced the task of drafting the annual message to Congress outlining the 1945 fiscal year budget and policy, to be delivered in the capital within days.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde ‘Park
Ian
Capital Hill
Bombers Hit Bangkok and Chittagong in World War II Raid
CAPITOL OF BANKOK HIT BY BOMBERS New Delhi Dec 27 American heavy bombers attacked Bangkok, setting fires visible from afar as Japanese airmen raided Chittagong. Allied fighters and bombers then conducted a three day attack in the Kukawng valley, starting December 22 and ending Christmas Eve. Two Allied planes did not return.
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Associated Press
New Delht
India
RAP
Bankok
Thailand
Southeast Asia Command
Chittagong
Burma
Kukawng
Wallace predicts Nazis fall after second front
Vice President Wallace tells a radio audience Germany’s power could be crushed within months after a successful second front opens with the proviso Americans must keep a high will to win at home and abroad. In a separate item, Mrs Catherine Cmareda, 60, a department store operator, died in a Christmas morning upstairs fire in Clairton Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Wallace
Germany
Clairton
Catherine Cmareda
US Marines land to secure New Britain invasion front
United States Marines landed in two simultaneous assaults on Cape Gloucester and nearby sites in New Britain to establish a second front against Japan. Allied reports say veterans of Guadalcanal aided the deployment, with heavy air and naval bombardment accompanying the landings. Japanese losses included 36 bombers and 24 fighters as the Allies seized strategic isthmus positions and cut the enemy supply route from Rabaul toward Cape Gloucester and Gloucester Island.
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Associated Press
New Guinea
United States
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Japan
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
develWear
U. S. Sixth Army
Rabaul
Arawe
Te Island
Second Marine
Gloucester
America
Long Islarf
Vitix Straits
William S. Superius
Ivasto
Guadalcanal
Barges Screen German Targets In WWII Air War
London dispatch reports hundreds of barges repurposed from an attempted invasion to shield German targets from Allied air raids. Portable smudge pots and hazing particles create air obscuration while fake airfields and decoy towns lure bombers. real targets include war plants, towns, and air fields across Germany, France, and the Low Countries.
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London
Britain
Germany
France
Jorge Lake
City faces budget clash over sewage plant funding demands
Health official pressuring council to allocate funds for initial engineering of a sewage disposal plant. City faces potential tax hike as budget debates center on earmarking about eight thousand dollars and preserving other funds for future plant costs.
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Lily Corneil
Nashiven
Evehine
Fae Welon
Stan Heath
Nest Genr
B. Young
Health Department
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Young
State Department
State Health Department
Wikiett
Duel Expected in Buenos Aires Between Government Figure and Ex-Judge
In Buenos Aires on December 27 a duel is likely between General Armando Verdaguer and Julio Moreno, former judge of the provincial supreme court. Verdaguer, recently resigned as federal administrator, challenged Moreno after Moreno's vitriolic letter protesting his dismissal amid provincial judiciary reorganization.
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Buenos Aires
Armando Verdaguer
Julio Moreno
Heidt Stricken With Heart Attack At Daybreak
Pastor Carl L. Heidt of St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic church suffered a heart attack shortly after moon today and was rushed to Carry hospital for treatment. No condition report available at 2 o clock.
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Tey
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Carry Hospital
Navy patrol plane crash near Sheepshead Bay claims crew
Reports from New York state that two Navy patrol planes plunged into Sheepshead Bay after taking off from Floyd Bennett Field. Three bodies were recovered within an hour. In other dispatches, Berlin military commentators discuss the Allied invasion, Naples imposes city restrictions amid syphilis outbreak, and Polish exile Premier Mikolajczyk may be en route for talks with President Roosevelt to ease a Polish Soviet rift.
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Associated Press
York
Navy
Sheepshead Bay
Floyd Bennett Field
State Authority May Be Revived in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports that the Commonwealth Building Authority, created under Governor Earle, may regain power as a postwar measure. Executive Director David W. Binh says the agency, now with 77 employees, still retains borrowing and bonding ability and will run remaining projects with a reduced staff, including possible dismissals next spring.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg Deu
Pensylvaniire Genere
Syle
David WH Binh
George H Earle
Diehl
Nation's Death Toll Rises Amid Christmas Week Tragedies
The nation logged 339 violent deaths this Christmas week, with traffic accidents contributing the largest share. Overall violent deaths reached 999 for the period, slightly above last year's 999 count, while traffic fatalities stood at 216, up 16 from the previous year and near half of a prior record.
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Buda
Spaatz Directs All American Raids On Nazis
Allied Headquarters reports that General Spaatz directs intensive American bombing of Nazi targets across Western Europe. The plan uses 2,000 planes on a coordinated raid with heavy bomber formations and fighter escorts, aiming to maximize impact while minimizing losses.
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Spaatz
Spaniard Held On Spy Charge In New York Case
Carloy Vejurano y Crisita, a 24 year old Spaniard, convicted as an unregistered German agent. He pleaded guilty to spying for Germany without notifying the state department. Judge John Clark set surrender until January 3 to begin service and kept him on $4,000 bond. Prosecutors said he received $4,000 for services and planned to relay information via his father in Spain.
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Associated Press
New York
Carloy Vejurano
Eisenhower pledges victory in European war this year
General Eisenhower, Allied commander, declared we will win the European war in 1944. The statement followed a farewell press conference before briefing British and French commandos about Channel defenses. The forecast underscores confidence in planned invasion and Allied resolve amid wartime presses.
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Associated Press
Dwight Eisenhower
Europe
Hull Warns Unity Needed for War Effort
Washington December 27 Secretary Hull qualified Eisenhower’s claim that victory in Europe would come in 1944. He urged unity and support for allied leadership noting the need to sustain efforts at home and abroad as Soviet forces advance, Germany slows, and Allied strategy consolidates. The report highlights broader wartime pressures and calls for national resolve.
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