Favors Simpler Tax Return Plan for 1944
Washington AP reports Rep Carlson Kansas proposes a major plan to simplify tax returns for millions. The plan would auto-deduct most income taxes from wages and salaries, streamline withholding, and unify laws into one base with graduated withholding. Carlson calls current statutes a confusing hodgepodge and seeks repeal of the earned income credit to ease the tax process.
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Washington
Rep Carlson
Akans
Rep
Philadelphia
State Department Urged To Reveal Post War Plans
Senators Batch and Ball urged the State Department to submit to Congress a concrete plan for an immediate United Nations council to implement Moscow Conference postwar pledges. They argued revealing specifics would clarify foreign policy aims during the presidential campaign and pressure action toward establishing a general international organization open to peace-loving states. The Moscow framework calls for a general international body at the earliest practicable date with sovereign equality for members.
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JACK BELL _WASHINGTON
Batch
D-N. M
Ball
Rminn
State Department
Conan Cultine
United Nations Council
Senate
Baleh
Kage
Gmail
Maintex
War News Flash Across Eastern Europe and Baltic Fronts
Unclear fragmentary report describes near ten mile advance toward old Polish border within four miles of Latvia and urgent conferences among Russian war lords. Britain claims heavy air attacks on Revita and capital cities. rumors of invasions and multiple bomber offensives.
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Latvia
Russia
Americans land at Saidor New Guinea harbor airstrip seized
Allied forces under General MacArthur announce a third offensive strike in New Guinea. American troops from Michigan and Wisconsin's 32nd division secure Saidor on the north coast, capture the harbor and airfield, and push Japanese forces toward Australian troops. The beachhead lies 55 air miles southeast of Madang with Finschhafen a further coastward distance.
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New Guinea
Saidor
New Guine
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Michigan
Wisconsin
Madang
Saldor
Finschafen
Huon Peninsula
Strike Critic's Identity Sought By Rail Unions
Washington AP President Roosevelt and an anonymous government official were linked to rail and steel controversy as unions seek who blamed for possible wartime actions. Stephen Early cited Roosevelt's remarks to railroad chiefs on December 23 and noted action if agreement failed. Union leaders demanded Senate inquiry into the anonymous New Year's Eve statement and vowed to pursue the source.
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Washington
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Roose Welt
Moma
Early
Germany
Truman Senate Committees
Rail Brotherhood
Travel furlough time extended for troops on duty
Senator Millikin announced War Department instruction allowing extended furloughs to account for travel time. Enlisted men stationed far from home have seen 15 day furloughs shortened by train and bus travel, prompting a change to grant extra days equal to travel time.
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Washington
Millikin
R.cole
War Department
Treina
War Patterson
Jetter
Department
Noram
President names three main commition for fair practices panel
Washington AP reports President Resserett appointed a three member commission to investigate four maps involving the Fair Practices Committee and sixteen Southern carriers, addressing potential racial tensions. Delayed wire from Metanbul notes Turkey-Turkey talks with January 16.
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Washington
Resserett
Georgia Legislators Meet To Enact War Voting Law
Governor Arnall urged the Georgia General Assembly to create a war ballot commission to aid absentee service members. He called for abolishing the poll tax on military voters and establishing a simple registration and voting process. The measure would be temporary and aimed at ensuring servicemen and women could vote as if they were present.
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Atlanta
AFP
Ellis Arnajl
Georgim General Assembly
Georgia
Union
General Assembly
Arnall
House
Senate
Itq
Georgia General Assembly
Arngit
Congress
Thors
Tara
City of Flames by Gladwin Hill London 4P Berlin Bombing
The RAF opened the new year with a heavy attack on Berlin delivering a great blow as fires burned from a prior 60,000-ton assault. German rescue workers labored amid ruins while Air Ministry reports note losses and western Germany and northern France operations.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Berlin
RAF
Air Ministry
Germany
France
Allies Turn Big Guns On Pescara
A U S destroyer exploded and sank about six miles northeast of Sandy Hook New Jersey during dawn operations. Casualty reports ranged from 113 injured to more than 100 survivors landed with 54 treated at Fort Hancock hospital. Rescue efforts continued as ambulance convoys and naval aid units rushed to the scene.
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New York
United States
Sandy Hook
Navy Pubic Relations Office
Navy
Fort Hancock
Ferst
Naval District
Marine Hospital
Staten Island
Brooklyn
Queeny
New Jersey
British 8th Army Gains Amid Storms In Italy
Allied reports say Canadian troops move within nine miles of Pescara as they seize key Adriatic positions amid heavy snow and wind. Romes road network and rail yards face air strikes while Fifth Army eyes Cassino. Germans retreat to the Arieli line as Allied air forces claim wide damage to supply routes.
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Allied
Algiers
Ortone
Pescara
Italy
Taggia
Ventimiglta
Acma Rive
Italian
Terni
Rome
Fifth Army
Cassino
Garigiano River
Castel Forte
San Tommaso
Ortona
Rosdreada
Adriatic
Arieli
15Th Army Group
Minimum Subsidy Rates Announced For Fluid Milk And Butter
Washington AP reports the War Food Administration has set minimum subsidy rates from 35 to 60 percent per hundred pounds for fluid milk and butterfat, with the dairy subsidy program extended through January. The WRA raised rates in some regions to offset a nine-cent per bushel corn price increase nationwide.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WRA
Over 2,000 Pilots Graduated At Napier Field This Year
Napier Field reports a record year with over 2,000 pilots graduating and more than 200 flying students receiving silver wings. Since 1963 the Operational Training Squadron trained crews in combat areas, with P-40 flights surpassing 7,000 hours. Training improvements include Gun-Sight Aim-Point Cam era use boosting score outcomes.
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Napier Field
Guanary
Napier
Congressman Six Others Billed in Brokerage Frauds
Washington AP reports Representative James M. Curley and six others indicted by a Federal grand jury in a case tied to Engineers’ Group Inc a war contracts brokerage racket. Indicted along with Curley are former Massachusetts leaders and multiple executives accused of mail fraud and false representations of engineering qualifications to obtain government contracts. The indictment details extensive conspiratorial activity through brochures and mailings from June 2 to December 28, 1942.
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Washington
James M. Curley
D-I
Moan
Enginesra’ Group, Inc
Department of Justice
Curley
Hoston
Massachuselty
Democratic Committee
David E. Deamond
Boston
Engineers’ ‘Group, Inc
Desnonu
Fdar
District of Corumbin Federal Court
Engineers’ Group, Inc, Mp
Donald Wakefield Smith
Wishington
Pittsburgh
Federal
Tusmaila
James Daring Underwood
Cairo
Egypt
Bert Hall
Dallas
Tex
Tulum
Oklo
Marshall , Fitzgerald
Chicago
Mally
End
Fate Lly
Georgia Stages Bays Bay Line Bus Service Announcement
J A Blreyer, president and general manager of the Atlanta and St Andrewa Bay Railway Company, with headquarters at Dothan, announced the sale of the Bay Line bus facilities to Georgia Mingea, Inc. of Albany, Ga. The Bay Line truck division will be maintained by Bay Line. Georgia Stages assumed operation of the bus lines, with inaugural schedules issued from Dothan shortly after.
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J A Blreyer
Atlanta and St Andrewa Bay Railway Company
Dothan
Bay Line
Georgia Mingea, Inc
Albany
Transport Station
Blroyer
Tothan
Tura Te
German Propaganda Speaks of Invasion Talk in London
London AP reports German propaganda outlets amplified invasion talk as American and British troop presence grows in southern England. Broadcasts claim political motives pressuring an earlier invasion and note Allied reinforcements, shipping buildup, and air assault efforts. OWI transcripts cite Hungarian broadcasts hinting at near war's end but costly fighting ahead.
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London
Sald
Barilh
England
Moscow
Berlin
United States
Office of War Information
Redio
Sude Peat
U Magyareng
Europe
Snd
OWI
Frans Szombathely
Locomotive Blast Kills Engineer at Tuscaloosa Station
A locomotive exploded while taking on water at a Tuscaloosa station killing engineer T Collier of Montgomery and severely burning fireman W W Burch. Agent A W Davis and porter Henry Farcher were lightly injured. depot and boiler house burned. explosion heard about 8 am. investigators assing details.
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Letogohatchie
Ala
Loulavne
T Collier
Montgomery
W. W. Burch
Niemen
Wes
Montgomery Hospital
Arivere
Nazi Defenses Deteriorating Before Attacks
James M. Long reports from London that Soviet advances near the Polish frontier push toward Poland as Gen. Vatutin’s columns close on key rail junctions at Novograd Volynski and toward Koreten. Stalin described the regions as Russian-claimed as German defenses crumble. A Soviet communique notes large stocks of war materiel abandoned as drives press from Zhmerinke toward the Romanian border and Latvia, Lithuania, and the Baltic area.
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James M. Long
London
Novograd
Voltynek
Zhitomir
Joseph Stalin
Poland
Nikolai Vatutin
Keroaten
Salo Poyseki
Volynski
Kore
Statin
Moscow
Stalin
Russia
Old Poland
Othar
Zhmerinke
Stockholm
Cites
Latvia
Ketonta
Lithuania
Fuel Oil Rationing Rumor Denied Here
The County War Price and Rationing Board denied a circulating rumor that ke gro w, once and other fuel oil were the target of freezing by the Office of Price Administration. Officials in Montgomery and a Houston County board member said the rumor lacked confirmation and urged residents to rely on newspapers and radios for official announcements.
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County War
Office of Price Administration
Fue Offord Haman
OPA
Montgomer
Houston County War Price and Rationing Board
Dothan
Army Plane Crashes Into Two Dwellings on Missionary Ridge
In Chattanooga Tennessee a four engine Army plane crashed into two homes on Missionary Ridge killing three people. Victims not named immediately by authorities. bodies recovered from wreckage. One wingtip knocked debris from the 8 Price residence and damaged the nearby Dr David P Houston home which burned, though it withstood the impact.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Missionary Ridge
Chattanoon
AFM
8 & Price
David P. Houston
Houston House
Price
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