Clark's Army Starts March Upon Cassino
Allied forces pressed toward Cassino in central Italy as San Vittore fell after a fierce 40 hour battle. American units pushed along a 10 mile front toward Cassino while Giusto and Mt Porchia were seized as the northern arm of a pincers directed at the Cassino junction.
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Wes Gallagher
Alpiers
San Vittore
Cassino
Rome
Via Casilina
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Hove
Sth
Iulis
Yven
San V Vittore
Giusto
5Th Army
Rome Road
Mt. Porchia
Mt Maio
Viticoso
Mount
Raima
Italy
Cassini
Peniinsula
8Th Army
Perugia
Maribor
Yugoslavia
Fiume
Germany Blasted for 7th Consecutive Night
British Mosquito bombers hit western Germany for the seventh night in a row. American daylight raid on Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, with claims of extensive damage and fires, was reported by Swedish papers citing private sources. The high command acknowledged heavy damage and losses.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Britain
Wooder
Germany
Ludwigshafen
Stockholm
Morgan Tidningen
I. G. Farben
Jockheim
Mannheim
Reich
France
Vichy
Death of Mrs Herbert Hoover Shocks Nation
Mrs. Hoover dies at 68 after sudden heart attack at Waldorf Towers apartment. Former First Lady and wife of President Hoover, she had just returned from a concert and collapsed as her husband spoke farewell before dinner. Notified to her sons Allan Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr, she had long ties to Iowa Stanford and California. The passing prompts tributes from friends including Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur.
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Sew York
Herbert Hoover
America
Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Priory
Ralph H. Bogls
Mrs. Hoover
White House
Girl Scouts
Wilbur
Lou Henry
Charles D Henry
Waterloo
Iowa
Stanford
Californiia
Globe
Tientsin
Mandalay
Tokyo
St. Petersburg
London
Washington
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
German Raider Sunk in South Atlantic
Brazil and United States fleets sank a German surface raider in the South Atlantic, the Brazilian news service reported from Recife. Capt. J. B. Blaine, chief of staff of the US South Atlantic fleet, said patrols located the raider, which was carrying war supplies to Germany from Japan after an intensive search by both nations’ units and aviation teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RLA DH
Panic in Romania as Reds Near Frontiers
A Basel dispatch reports panic across Romania as Soviet advances push toward Bucovina and Bessarabia. Factories move inland, rail use halted to aid troop withdrawal, peasants transport goods by cart and cattle, and cadets in Chisinau cautioned to stay away. Frontier guards refuse entry to puppet and German units fleeing Yugoslav partisans.
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Thomas F. Hawkins
Bern
Switzerland
Rumania
Cernauti
Chisinau
Bucovina
Bessarabia
Budapest
Easler Nachrichten
Interior
Bend
Basler Nachrichten
Yugoslavia
Explosion Tied to Mosley Resentment at Inn
London report from the Daily Mirror claims two sticks of dynamite exploded at the Oxfordshire Inn entrance where Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife stay after release from prison. The blast is attributed to local resentment over the Mosleys presence. Weather notes follow with typical regional forecasts and temperatures across Iowa Nebraska Missouri.
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London
The
Daily Mirror
Oxfordsire Inn
Oswald Mosley
Fron Prison
Mosleys
Wealthy Vanderbilt dies after heart ailment in New York
William Kissam Vanderbilt 65 prominent railroad executive and yachtsman died at 12 32 a m EST Saturday. He was a son of the Vanderbilt fortune builder Cornelius and a director and longtime executive of the New York Central. Survived by widow Rosamond Lancaster Warburton, brother Harold, daughters Muriel and Consuelo, sister Mrs Jacques Balsan. He funded the Vanderbilt marine museum, built the Long Island motor parkway, and donated it as a public road. His yacht Alva cost 2 500 000 dollars and served as a Navy lieutenant commander in World War I after he lent it to the government. He married Virginia Fair then Brg Warburton.
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New York
William Kissam Vanderhut
New York Central Railroad
Florida
United States
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Harold
William Kissam Vanderbilt
Harvard University
Rosamond Lancaster Warburton
Muriel
Consuelo
Jacques Balsan
Duchess of Marlborough
Vanderbilt Marine Museum
Northport
Long Island
Long Island Motor Parkway
South America
Virginia Fair
U. S
Fair
Nevada
Silver King
Brg
Warburton
Five Army Men Die in Plane Crash Near Kellogg Field
Five army men were killed and two injured when a B 26 Marauder bomber plunged into a field south of Kellogg Field near Battle Creek Michigan at 9 30 am Saturday after reporting an engine failure. The crash occurred hours after the crew radioed they would attempt an emergency landing.
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Battle Creak
Mich
uPi
Army Air Base
Kellogg Field
David E. Beles
Bales
December Warplane Output Surges to 8,302 Planes
Washington reports December warplane production at 8,302 units, averaging 388 per working day, nearly doubling 1942 output. Total 1943 military aircraft rose to 85,946 versus 47,878 in 1942, with year-end WPB notes on potential loosening of metal bans and civilian-use exceptions.
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Washington
America
Aircraft Production Board
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
WPB
Two Sleek Bandits Nabbed by Police in New York
Two Norfolk men admitted abducting a Washington cab driver and his passenger and another Brooklyn driver. They were seized Saturday at an Eighth Avenue theater after a wild ride spree across Holland Tunnel and Jersey City. FBI held them for charges as investigations continued.
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New York
Nor‘folk
Washington
Brooklyn
Eighth Avenue
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Midtown
Paul Caulford
Holland Tunnel
Jersey City
Mercedes Platt
Herman Corman
Pratt
United States
Havang
Toronto
Corman
Miss Platt
South
Baltimore
Washington National Airport Transportation Company
FBI
Plan New Soldier Rotation Policy
The War Department adopts a rotation plan aimed to bring home by mid-1944 all Alaska and Caribbean troops with two years overseas service. North Africa and Pacific theaters outline monthly decollects. Europe delays changes until conditions require a new system. Air crew personnel rotations are established and functioning. Senator Reynolds relayed the plan after Senate inquiry, noting many logistical hurdles remain.
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Washington
War Department
Alaska
Caribbean
United States
Reynolds
Connally
Texas
Senate
Army
Warren Open to Presidential Candidacy in California Primary
Sacramento report says Governor Early Warren agreed to allow his name to be used as a Republican candidate for president at California’s state primary in Wee many. Party leaders pressed for the move, citing unity and strong statewide support.
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Sacramento
Early Warren
California
Republican Organization
Airforce Evacuates 50 000 Wounded Men
The North Africa air force evacuation squadron has flown its 50,000th wounded allied soldier from the front to rear hospitals. The milestone was announced on Saturday.
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Airforce
Allied Headquarters
Algiers
North Africa Airforce
New Tax Measure Fight Waxes Hot
Washington opinion on the new tax bill splits between Randolph Paul and George. Paul calls it inadequate, inflationary pressure unchanged, and harmful to 50 million taxpayers while opposing renegotiation amendments. George argues the measure would yield far less than requested and disrupt the economy.
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Francis J. Kelly
Washington
UPI
Randolph Paul
Treasury General Counsel
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Congress
Treasury
Paul
Indiana State Bar Association
Indianapolis
Senate Committee
Western Challenger Derailed at Bertram
Seven cars of the Chicago and North Western Challenger derail near Bertram ten miles east of here around 5:30 Saturday. No injuries reported. Cause not learned immediately. The derailment blocked both tracks and rerouted traffic over the Milwaukee line between Cedar Rapids and Clinton. The Challenger is one of the North Western’s crack trains between Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Cedar
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Bertram
Here
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
North Western
Chicago
Los Angeles
Jet Propelled Aircraft Seen as Key Tactical Weapon
Steven Willams reports Maj. Alexander De Seversky predicts jet propulsion will be a highly important tactical weapon against the axis. He says jet aircraft could be used for home defense interceptors and short-range flying and may enable faster takeoffs or heavier loads for bombers and aircraft carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steven Willams
New York
Europe
Alexander Podle Seversky
Ales
Notfa
Japan
de Seversky
Reds Break Nazi Lines In Ukraine Push Near Kirovograd
Soviet 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Armies drive through gaps in German lines, nearing Kirovograd from the Dnieper bend. Advancing units reach within three miles of the city, with Do lina and Lipo vets also under pressure as Vatutins and Konevs forces widen a multi-front offensive toward Vinnitsa and Zhmerinka.
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Henry
Cassidy
Moscow
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Red Army
Klesow
Rovno
Old Poland
Sarny
Dolinovice
Krivoi
Novoukrainka
Smela
Kiev
Berdichev
Shepetovkan
Vinnitsa
Bug River
Odessa-Warsaw
Zhmerinka
Dniester River
Dmiester
Konev
Germany
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ukraine
Tanushpel
Jompomols
Dniester
Mercury Dips Below Zero Across Iowa Saturday
The weather bureau reports sub zero temperatures across much of Iowa with scattered readings. Spencer registered 13 below while Fort Dodge Mason City hit 12 below and Burlington rose to 2 above as frigid conditions eased for a warmer Sunday.
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Mercury
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Spencer
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Burlington
Sioux City
Charles City
Ames
Cedar Rapids
T' Des Moines
Towa City
Lamoni
Yan
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Clark
South Atlantic
Mosley
U. S. Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Fair End
Missouri
Purday
William H. Vanderbilt
Warren
Bill
U. S. Army Air Forces
de Severaky
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