Soviet Forces Fast Nearing Latvia Border
Berlin radio reports German troops hold the Kher son bridgehead on the Dnieper while a major Soviet offensive advances north of Nevel, capturing villages and pushing toward Polotsk and Vitebsk. Moscow says 20,000 Germans killed, 2,000 captured as Red Army nears Riga rail lines and threatens Leningrad and southwest fronts.
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London
Berlin
Donmeper
Nevel
Polotsk
Moscow
Associated Press
Eddy Gulmore
Vitebsk
Germany
Red Army
Gilmore
Faga
Riga
Leningrad
Gumare
Kiev
East Prussia
Ernst von Hammer
DNB
Lour Tin Cane
Shenandoah Theater Destroyed by Fire
Shenandoah Iowa theater owned by Mr and Mrs BB Holdridge was destroyed by an explosion and fire at 5 30 am Monday. The owners escaped in their night clothes from the apartment above the theater. Weather Bureau note and regional forecast follow with partly cloudy to cold conditions and minor temperature changes.
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Shenandoah
Iowa
BB Holdridge
Oslo rocked by blast on German munition ship
Stockholm dateline reports Oslo was shaken by a large explosion in the harbor linked to the destruction of a German munitions ship the previous day. The incident is described as the worst catastrophe to strike the city in recent memory with wide impact.
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Oslo
Edwin Shanke
Stockholm
4&Pi
Oslo bombing disaster described with fires and evacuations
The Norwegian capital endured a large explosion as a munitions ship was unloaded. The Hotel Bristol served as a hospital for wounded, and casualties were listed though initial reports cited four killed. Fires lit the city while German troops battled blazes and sheltering due to repeated blasts.
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Bristol
Oslo
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Biasta
New Gains Made on Italian Front
Allied reports say General Clark's Fifth Army advanced toward San Vittore and gains up to two miles in the mountains northeast of the Sangro. Montgomery's Sixth Army overran an Adriatic sector position, captured Cousalgi near Orsogna, and knocked out many German tanks, with 50 parachutists captured. Fifth Army northern Venafro area pushes continue as French central sector fights a mountain pass. the 96th Light a div suffered heavy losses, with about half its infantry strength gone across two battalions fused from the 8th Army front.
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Joseph Dynan
Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Sth
San Pietro
San Vittore
Cagsino
Bernard L. Montgomery
Adriatic
Cousalgi
Orsogna
Montgomery
Sangro River
Italy
Fifth Army
Venafro
Amere Jean
8Th Army
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Stkany
Corsica
News of Churchill All Good Monday
London reports Prime Minister Churchill in good condition after a Sunday bulletin stated his temperature was normal and pneumonia symptoms had disappeared. A previously noted heart irregularity remains unaddressed, with a heart specialist continuing to attend to him.
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Churchill
London
Middle East
Warmer Weather Forecast and Civic Briefs
Warmer weather is forecast with Tuesday mornings near 25 degrees, up from 16 on Monday, with 43 degree high on Sunday and increasing clouds. In Sicily, sixteen young Italians including a 26 year old woman and a 14 year old male face trial in Trapani for alleged sabotage against the war effort as reported by Allied headquarters.
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Weather Bureau
Allied
Al'filers
Trapani
Sicily
Ilitsa
Tistat
Amerah Contit
Perinteligence Corps
Americans Near Arawe Airfield Advance in New Britain Drive
Allied forces push toward the Arawe airstrip six miles north of the Arawe peninsula on New Britain as air support tightens. Reports say the airfield could fall to American control soon, enabling further raids on Rabaul. Allied planes strike from Bougainville bases and continue operations across Cape Merkus, Cape Gloucester, and Cape Hoskins as Bougainville and the Solomons campaign advances.
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Bye
Yates McPantel
New Guinea
New Britain
Arawe
Arawe Peninsula
U. S&s. 6Th Army
Istand
Rabaul
Solomons
Lour
Bougainville
Empress Augusta Bay
Halsey
Thunderbolt
6Th Army
Cape Merkus
MacArthur
Umtingalu
Cape Gloucester
Semerican
Cape Hoskins
mid-Pacific
Marshall Islands
Mill
Kwajalein
Isian
Ebon
Congress Will Quit Tuesday for Holidays
The eighty-eighth congress ends for holidays as House and Senate plan a return January 10 to face inflation debates. Key items include food subsidy policy, a railroad workers pay raise, and an oil price increase, with final decisions delayed to February 17. A new revenue bill and soldier/vote measures await action amid war-financing totals of about 120 billion dollars for 1943.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Fred M. Vinson
Office of Price Adminisstration
James F. Byrnes
Vinson
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Congress
Hanging of Gestapo Agents in Kharkov Public Square
In Kharkov the bodies of three German soldiers and a Russian who aided them were hanged in the main square after a military tribunal conviction. About 30,000 spectators watched as Wilhelm Langheld, Hans Ritz, Richard Ratzlaw, and Mikhail Bulanov were executed following the incident late Sunday. An editorial in Pravda warned that Hitler and his henchmen would meet the same fate.
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Uday Gilmore
Moscow
Kharkov
Fourth Ukrainian Front
Frig
Taraway
Wilhelm Langheld
Gestapo
Hans Ritz
Storm
Richard Ratzlaw
Mikhail Bulanov
Pravda
Communist Party
Germany
Hiter
Swart
Railroad Labor Expert Dies of Pneumonia
Edward Murrin, 56, executive secretary of the Association of Western Railroads and a railroad labor expert, died Sunday of pneumonia in Cop ley hospital. He was a member of the railroad coordination and wage conference with President Roosevelt in 1936 and had been designated to attend the strike conference between the president and labor heads in Washington.
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Aurora, IL
Edward Murrin
Association of Western Railroads
Copley Hospital
Ralrad
Roosevelt
Washington
U S Bombers Roar Through German Northwest Fronts
American heavy bombers hit northwest Germany from the west as escorts guard fighters. The Innsbruck and Augsburg targets were bombed along with rail yards and ports in Italy and the Adriatic, with substantial German losses and several planes missing.
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London
Germany
Mondey
Innsbruck
Augsburg
Munich
Hitler
North Sea
Bolivian Rebels Topple Penaranda Government
In Bolivia a nationalist revolutionary movement ousted President Enrique Penaranda and arrested key leaders including Gen. Mirguel Candia and Gen. Antenor Ichaze. Victor Hostensoro led the coup, halted newspaper publication, and took over the palace. The country, a major tin supplier, faces inflation and shortages amid war.
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Jutta Valdex
la’ Paz
Bolivia
Enrique Penaranda
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
United States
Penaranda
Mirguel Candia
N Miinister of
Antenor Ichaze
Pedro Arce Zilvetti
Axia
America
Roosevelt
Detroit
Berlin Faces 100 Percent Evacuation Discussed
Stockholm dispatch reports Nazi authorities weighing total evacuation of Berlin as bodies are removed from ruins a month after RAF strikes began. The Swedish correspondent says Berlin is a ghost city with inhabitants living in basements and damaged areas.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Gandhi's Wife Suffers Another Heart Attack
In Poona, Mrs. Aufundas Gandhi, wife of Indian nationalist leader Gandhi, suffered another heart attack. Government statement says her condition must continue to cause anxiety after previous attacks in November and last spring.
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Hombay
Aufundas
KX. Gandhi
India
Gandhi
Poona
Senate Dispute Flares Between Democrats in 1944
Washington reports a renewed rift between northern and southern Democrats as Senator Guffey resists being ousted as head of the senatorial campaign committee while Senator Byrd demands his replacement. Byrd and other southern leaders threaten to form a separate bloc if action is not taken, arguing Guffey lacks majority support. The debate touches on 1944 ticket plans, including possible Roosevelt running mates and state control of election procedures.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Senate
Guffey
D-Pa
Senator Byrd
Dva
Byrd
Senate Democratic Conference
Barkley
Baiteau
Smith
D-80
Blender
D-La
Roosevelt
Louisiana
Ellender
Wallace
Goldier
Marshalltown Negro Held for Murder
Walter Bailey a 40 year old Black man was charged with murder in Marshalltown after the body of William C. St John a White man with a slashed throat was found in the Bailey yard. Bailey said St John was in the home with his wife Willie Ann who was injured in a fight. The crime marked the town’s first murder since 1928.
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Marshalltown
Walter Bailey
William C. St John
Bailey Home
Fotle
Harold Black
Jnald Bailey
St. John
Bailey
Willie Ann
Tunnel planner William Collard dies at 75 in Sussex
William Collard aged 75 who spent 30 years drafting a Channel tunnel scheme died Saturday at Brackens Stor Fington Sussex. A woollen merchant by trade he treated tunnel planning as a hobby and kept proposing schemes despite government rejection in 1918.
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London
UPI
William Collard
Engish Channel
Brackens
Stor Fington
Sussex
Collard
Steps to Feed Starving in Nazi Europe Relief Plan
The Senate foreign-relations committee, with full vote, urged immediate relief moves for Nazi-occupied nations including Belgium Norway Poland The Netherlands Greece Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia to be coordinated with Britain Sweden and Switzerland. Senator Gillette said a simple resolution would notify the State Department and could enable food shipments on neutral ships once belligerents agree on relief handling. Former President Hoover endorsed the proposal.
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Washington
GPI
Senate
State Department
Great Britain
Sweden
Switzerland
Gillette
D.ta
Taft
House
Belgium
Norway
Poland
Netherlands
Greece
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
South America
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
Europe
Nazi Germany
Germany’s Rocket Glider Bombs Miss Allied Convoy
London reports eyewitness accounts of a German secret weapon, a rocket powered glider bomb released from eight Nazi planes during a major Allied convoy attack. A British marine officer described the attacks as Martian invasion like while detail described gliders about 25 feet long with 11 foot wings.
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Germany
London
Spain
Robert Daley
Thhe
Teve Tour Tin Cate
Western States to Vote on a Townsend Plan
Boise based report states Idaho Oregon Washington California and Arizona voters will consider a Townsend plan at the next general election. John H. Weir of Temple City Calif regional Townsend director said the proposal calls for a 3 percent gross income tax to fund monthly benefits of 40 dollars for those 60 and older and 25 weeks of benefits for the blind disabled workers and war veterans.
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Boise
Idaho
UPI
Oregon
Washington
California
Arizona
John H. Weir
Temple City
Calif
Townsend Organization
Nald
Leaders Seek Settlement of Rail Dispute
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Committee moved to strip wage cases from Vinson's stabilization act and set a plan to exempt railway labor from the act. Separate talks at the White House with five operating brotherhoods and 15 carrier spokesmen considered concessions beyond raises to avert a looming nationwide rail strike.
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Washington
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Fred 2. Vinson
Senate
Vinson
Roosevelt
White House
Chicago
James ¥. Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Vine Non
War Labor Board
Little Steel
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