Ranking air commanders named by Eisenhower in Europe
In a briefing of Allied invasion leadership, Gen. Eisenhower identifies key air commanders for the European theater. Visible left to right: Sir Arthur Coningham of the British Tactical Air Force, Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy Eisenhower, Gen. Carl A. Spaatz of American strategic forces, and Maj. Gen. James Doolittle, newly leading the U. S. Eighth Air Force in Britain.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Germany
Arthur Coningham
Britdah
Houston Farmers Rally To U S Call For More Foodstuff
Houston County farmers endorse the slogan Another Year Of Farming for Victory and begin land preparation for a major food production drive. GM Ling, county agent, notes rationing and labor shortages will hinder efforts, with selective service and factory drain adding to the challenges.
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Houston
U.S
Houston County
Japan
Pearl Harbor
G M. Ling
Ling
Georgia lawmakers push new session over liquor repeal
Two Georgia House members said they started a petition to urge Governor Billy Arnall to call an extra session of the General Assembly to consider repealing the state's liquor law. Also, Tokyo broadcasts quoted Tojo warning of a grave situation and a hard road ahead for Japan. German radio announced a mobilization decree for all youth for war tasks alongside school duties. Ankara radio reported Ari Bahari landing in Ru Nanaia to stir trouble.
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Atlanta
Georgia House
Billy Arnall
General Assembly
London
Additio
War News Recaps Across Fronts From Europe to Pacific
AP dispatches describe Soviet troops moving across prewar Poland near Warsaw and northwest of Kiev. Secretary Knox reports US air forces pressing Marshall Islands, claiming carrier forces sank two heavy cruisers near New Year. US bombers target France and Italian rail yards while Balkan unrest stirs in Bulgaria as revolts loom. A German general reportedly heads toward Ragland for a meeting though details remain vague.
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The
Associated Press
Poland
Warsaw
U.S
France
North
Maly
Turin
Balkans
Bulgaria
Kaiser
Indictment Expands In Nazi Sedition Plot
Two women and 28 men face federal indictments in a widening probe of a Nazi propaganda campaign aimed at mutiny and a fascist regime in the United States. Named defendants include George Sylvester Viereck, Joseph E. McWilliams, and Elizabeth Dilling as authorities accuse conspirators of inciting disloyalty and insubordination in the armed forces.
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Earl R. Bauman
United States
George Sylvester Viereck
Joseph E. McWilliams
Christian Mobilizera
Eizabeth Dilling
Masaryk predicts Hitler death by own action
Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk told an interviewer Hitler may not live to face trial as a war criminal. He predicted Hitler could be killed by military action or commit suicide, and urged Allied nations to help purge Nazi terror while outlining postwar plans for Germany and satellite states.
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Washington
Jan Masaryk
Hitler
Masaryk
Thare
Massarky
Czechoslovakia
Hel
Britta Grenadiera
Prague
Naza
Germany
Hungary
Bulgaria
Rumania
Russia
Britain
United States
Prohibition Hearings To Open Soon In Congress
House Judiciary subcommittee to begin public hearings next week on national prohibition legislation introduced by Rep Bryson. Hearings aim to outlaw beverages over 0.5 percent alcohol until end of the war mobilization. Proponents back bill. opponents warn it unfair to armed forces. Petitions pour in, with estimated 150,000 signers in support and opposition figures exceeding 300,000 signers overall.
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Williams
Arbogast Washington
House Judiciary
Hobby
D-Ala
Congress
Bryson
D-S. C
Tis
House
Rep. Ramspeck
Georgia
William McDermott
Hobbs
Postal Receipts Rise Again at Dothan Post Office
Dothan post office reports record yearly postal receipts of 126 408.06 for the year ending December 1, up 14 892.90 from 1942. December receipts totaled 15 227.70, and last quarter volume rose 3 537.79 from the prior year, despite armed forces mail aid.
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Dothan
Mra A Y. Malone
Malone
Fosse
Senator Seeks Early Opening Of Campaigns
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan pushes for June conventions for both parties to enable armed forces voting in November. He says nominations should be completed by July 1 to let servicemen vote, opposing wartime ideas of short campaigns. Michigan signatures to be reviewed in February.
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Jack Bell Washington
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Senate
Coldier
Michigan
Sixth Army Troops Secure Positions New Guinea Coast
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS reports Sixth Army troops with the 82nd Division have secured the coast in New Guinea near Saldor after an invasion landing. American air forces damaged Japanese ships at Kavdang New Ireland and engaged enemy bases at Kavieng and Rabaul, with five American planes lost in the raids. The attacks occurred New Year's Day as part of 1944 operations.
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Sixth Army
New Guinea Coast
New Guinea
Japan
United States Navy
Kavdang
New Ireland
Pacific Command
South Pacific
Kavieng
Rabaul
Gan
Douglas MacArthur
Army
Navy
82Nd
Saldor
American Air Raids Weaken Pacific Enemy Air Power
Secretary of the Navy Knox said U S forces continue raids on Marshall Islands including Wotje Kwajalein Mitte Jaluit and other bases with light American losses while Japanese raids against Tarawa and Makin are repelled. A major New Year action saw U S carrier task force hit Japanese ships off New Ireland sinking or beaching two heavy cruisers and damaging two destroyers as 230 to 250 Japanese fighters opposed. 11 planes were shot down and four destroyed.
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Pacific
Knox
U. & Airforcen
Marshall Islands
U. S
Cape Gloucest
Washington
Wotje
Kwajalein
Mitte
Jaluk
Tarawa
Makin Islaad
South Pacific
New Treland
Havieng
Knos
Demands To Reveal Identity Of Source Grow At Capital
Washington AP reports intensified calls to publicly identify the anonymous author blamed by AFL President William Green for a statement tying Axis propaganda to American rail and steel output to the war. Lawmakers, including La Follette and Shafer, condemn the anonymity and urge the source to come forward.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
AFL
William Green
Ataft
Marshall
White House
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Soviets Cross Old Border as Poland Still Ahead
Soviet forces push across the old Polish frontier as Moscow asserts new territory is Russian. Red Army advances about 15 miles beyond the frontier, placing troops 370 miles from Germany and 170 miles west of Stalingrad, with earlier moves cited near Kharkov Kursk and Kiev.
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Poland
Russia
Ukraine
Moscow
Red Army
Germany
Stalingrad
Kharkov
Kursk
Kiev
Clevex
Pelané
Allied troops strike in Italy and Adriatic front
Allied forces report a successful raid on the Villa Perosa bearing plant near Turin, wiping out a key Nazi production site and destroying dozens of trucks. Eighth Army Indian troops seize a hill inland from the Adriatic as snowbound terrain slows large scale ground fighting. American patrols probe San Vitore defenses while air forces raid Yugoslav ports Split and Sibanik.
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WEA Gallaghrer
Algiers
Villa Perosy
Italy
Tain
Eighth Army
Adriatic
San Vittore
Yugoslay
Split
Sibanik
18Th Air Force
Nathan Twining
Vill. Perora
Ville Perosa Ia
Turin
Berlin
Pistoia
U S Bombers Attack France and Raid Germany
United States Marauder bombers struck military objectives in the Calais area of France amid RAF Mosquito raids into western Germany. All aircraft returned safely. Escorts included RAF Dominica and Allied fighters. Berlin fires and paralyzed traffic were reported after prior night raids.
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London
United States
Pears Calaic
France
Wealeamn
Germany
RAF
Dominica
Oslo
Tromsoe
Sometimnan Fn
Air Ministry
Berlin
Bwecen Antd
One Fatally Burned In Auto Collision Near Dothan
An unidentified Camp Rucker soldier died from burns and four others were injured in a nighttime auto collision seven miles north of Dothan near the county line. Injured include two soldiers, Father John St Hogan of Birmingham, Irby C. Bimma of Midland City, driver of a Dothan taxi, with details released by State Patrolman P. Fe Page and Patrolman Earl Henley. Military officials withheld the dead soldier’s name pending notification.
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Dothan
John St. Hogan
Birmingham
Irby C. Bimma
Midland City
P. FE. Page
Earl Henley
Sty
Commission Idle At First ’44 Meet
The City Commission met in an informal session to begin the new year with little business. After the routine payment of current bills, the board reviewed past actions and drainage system matters were touched upon by President Rachine McKinney and others.
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Rachine McKinney
Tom Te Neeser
Germans Bring Up Tanks and Guns to Battle Tito
London AP reports Yugoslav Partisans hold half of Banovce city after a New Year’s Eve surprise attack. Tito says bitter street battles rage as Partisans counter tanks and enemy nest positions. German garrison precarious as intercepted telegram seeks relief.
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London
Navyj
Banjatuka
Adriatic
Ceam
Josip Broa
Tito
Tura
Russo-Polish Rift Feared As Soviets Cross Old Border
Washington AP diplomatic watchers fear rising tension as Soviet advance toward the prewar border risks border incidents with Poland in exile. Polish underground instructions, Red Army moves, and London policy shape the crisis amid calls for Allied officers present and renewed relations before occupation.
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Washington
Diplo Matic
Russia
Poland
Rucala
Polah
Red Army
London
Jan Kwapinati
Atlanta
Chicago
Tsat
Omatarn
Commerce Chamber Banquet Honors New Directors
The Commerce Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual banquet Thursday at 7:30 PM in the Houston Hotel to honor new board members. Thomas A. Martin of Alabama Power will speak on postwar planning, with Archie D. Carmichael outlining 1942 plans and Charles A. Adam presenting 1944 programs. Outsiders may attend by reservation. plates are $1 cash.
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Chamber of Commerce
Arthur Johnson
Houston
Johnson
Thomas A. Martin
Alabama Power Company
Camp Rucker
Archie D. Carmichael
Charles A. Adam
Benquet
Mr. Johnson
German Generals Unable To Halt Soviet Push Into Poland
Soviet forces under Gen. Nikole Vatutin crossed the prewar Polish border near Olevek and Novograd-Volynski, advancing toward the Kiev Warsaw line. The German rear areas near Mhitormir resisted, but heavy Soviet pressure reported as 6,000 Germans were said to have been killed or forced to surrender the first day of the offensive. Elsewhere, Bagration pressed toward the Latvian frontier and the Rumanians watched the Red Army approach.
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Pell
Olevek
Novograd- Volynski
Rossian
Olevak
Kiev- Warsaw
Russia
Poland
Warsaw
Moscow
Vatutin
Dageahtash
Mhitormir
Frits Vom Mannatain
Kiev
Old Poland
von Mannstein
Arma
Sde
Red Army
Abtinn
Statin
Novograd-Volynski
Ivan Bagramian
Bil Istin
Neval
Latvis
Action Considered In Gas Coupon Theft
State OPA offices in Montgomery head a planned investigation into the theft of more than 6,000 gallons of gasoline ration coupons from the Houston County War Price and Rationing Board. Chairman D Wilkerson said cases will be made against those linked to trafficking in stolen coupons. the theft occurred the week of December 20 and was recovered within 24 hours. detectives questioned several suspects in Dothan, including a local woman linked to the loss, as police pursue leads in the case.
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OPA
Montgomery
Dothan
Houston County War ‘Price and Rationing Board
D. Wilkerson
Wilkerson
Wilkergon
Mable
Samme
Wee Herring End XE
J. Mrickes
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New York
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Tokyo
Ankara
Aritiah Perachatide
Ru- Nanaia
Ragland
Marshalls
LaFullette
Wisconsin
LaFolletta
Dagtardly
Shafer
R.-Ind
Kidey
D-Tex
Haly Hil
U. S. Forts
Teheran
Commerce Chamber
Henry
Cassie
Nikole Vatutin
Uberater
Emilichina
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