President touts UN aid pledge in White House signing
Washington AP report states President urges strong United Nations link in facing global need as four nations sign a joint document at a White House ceremony. UNREA aid aims to feed and clothe victims, with representatives present and a pledge to sustain relief efforts.
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Washington
Chimasad
Moscow
Peinees
United Nations
White House
United States
United Nations Relief ‘Ad Rehabilitation Administration
Per Ton Price for Spanish Peanuts At Growers Meeting
AMERICUS Ga AP A price of 98 cents per ton on No 1 Spanish peanuts was set by 500 growers here. The CCC paid an average 4.43 per hundredweight for No 1 Spanish this year. Rep Stephen Pace urged parity pricing and proposed a 192 price for Span Mo 1 peanuts. Parker and Wingate spoke on costs, crop size, and grading reforms to improve fair meat and sampling.
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Americus, Ga
Feders
Commodity Credit Cor
HE. T. Parker
HL Wingate
the Farm Bureau Federation
Stephen Pace
D.ia
House
Senate
Pace
World War II Updates From War Fronts and Pacific
Fragmented wartime notes describe Soviet forces near Kiev with Polish Romanian and Latvian units in position west of the city. British advances along the Adriatic promise pressure on Axis positions while MacArthur fronts report renewed Japanese aerial activity. Naval movements include 11 cruisers and 14 ships at Rabaul as plans for a major sea battle unfold amid reports from London on shifting front lines.
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Poland
Rumania
Letvie
Kiev
Mila I Baly
Adrivoast
Wangro River
Mediterranean
MacArthur
Rabaul
Londen
Labor Broadens Attack To Erase Wage Ceilings
Labor expands attack on pay ceilings as a presidential committee begins a study on the ratio of living costs to wages. CIO AFL railroad unions and independent railroad brotherhoods urge strike votes amid unresolved miners' wage disputes. Government officials foresee no immediate strike, but settlement shape remains unclear.
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Joseph A. Loftus Washington
Cottam
Ouf
CIO
AFL Railroad Unione
Rail Unions Prepare for Nationwide Strike Threat
George M. Barrigan of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks warned Senate subcommittees that rail unions are ready to strike if wage increase demands are not met soon and urged Congress to intervene. He cited support for a general eight cent per hour raise vetoed by Vinson and noted unions would set a strike date to disrupt the transportation system.
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Washington
George M. Barrigan
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Senate
Congress
Harrison
Interstate Commerce Committees
Truman
D.- Ho
Econom
Fred M. Vincon
Compalites
Roosevelt
Vinnon
Army vehicles to aid Christmas mailings at Camp Rucker
Camp Rucker command plans to place Army vehicles from its motor pool at local postmasters for Christmas mail transport. Col Lloyd Spooner ordered the vehicles and schedules, aiming to ease heavier holiday mail volume as more men and women serve. The Postal Service, War Department, and Post Office Department will operate and service the vehicles during the season.
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Rucger
Camp Rucker
Col
Lloyd 8. Spooner
Feat Office Department
War Department
Post Office Department
Republicans Continue Reverse Filibuster To Force Legislation
Speech weary House members enter another round as a small GOP bloc conducts a reverse filibuster to pressure action on taxes food OPA and federal spending. Rep Landis Indigo says they will speak daily to keep the House in session and demand roll call votes to avoid recesses.
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William ¥. Arbogast
Washington
House
Office of Price Administraton
OPA
Rep
Landis
R-Ind
Roserve
Seasion
Challen
Houssa
Rotary To Present Lecturer Tomorrow in Dothan
The Dothan Rotary Club, sponsor of an Institute of International Understanding, will host Don Bolt at the Recreation Center tomorrow at 8 pm to discuss the Americas as Contributors to a new world order. Admission is free, with tickets available from Rotarians. Bolt will also speak to Dothan High School students during the day.
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Dothan
Eerlen Oof
Rotarians
Pate Foyner
Kta
British War Chief Warns Nazi Defeat Won't Come In 43
London AP dispatch quotes Prime Minister Churchill warning Germany’s defeat cannot come before 1944. He cites setbacks to the German war machine, Russian advances, and reduced submarine and air threats, forecasting heavy British and American sacrifices ahead.
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SY . C. Daniel London
Churchill
Germany
Waterloo
Gettaburg
United States
Aerial Assaults Neutralizing Rabaul as Base
Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters reports continued Allied air dominance at Rabaul. In the past hours 63 Japanese planes were lost or damaged, with 35 wiped out near Rabaul by Liberators and Lightnings. Bombers dropped 84 tons on Rapopo airdrome, destroying nine bombers and three fighters on the ground, while Lightning fighters claimed 10 more Zeros. Eight additional Jap planes were likely destroyed, boosting total enemy losses to about 900 in less than a month. The report notes the fortress now seems unable to resist Allied invasion.
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Southwest Pacific
Allied
Rabaul
Bundsy
Rapopo
New Britain
Itha
Second Front Near Imminent Invasion Debate
London reports suggest the second front promised by Stalin may be moved up as Allied and Soviet operations press toward Western Europe. British observers weigh spring timing, potential for a joint assault before or after the season, while Soviet offensives in the Balkans loom.
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JCD
O'Quinn
London
Europe
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Red Army
France
England
Germany
Stalin
Berlin
Middle East
Balkans
Paris report notes death of Grand Duke Boris of Restis
Paris radio reported Grand Duke Boris of Restis, cousin of the last year, died in Paris last night. He would have been 06 years old Friday. In Metuchen New Jersey explosions at the Army Karitan area plant destroyed two magazines with no employee injuries. French ammunition from overseas stored nearby was among items affected.
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London
Paris
Boris of Restis
Metuchen
N. d
Karitan Arecas
Second Service Command
Rahmad
Contributions Rebuild Soldier's $700 Hope Chest
Anonymous readers raised 700 to repay a Fort Worth gunner who had hidden funds in a marital chest after his fiancée married another man. The Charlotte Observer published his plight and sponsors funded the repayment, aiding the soldier on furlough.
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Charlotte
N. C
Charlotte Observer
Post Office
the Observer
Deadline Set To Defeat Nazis From Air
AP report describes a deadline for defeating Germany by air power with potential ground invasion if not achieved. U S Air Forces chief General H H Areold and RAF Marshal Arthur Harris target surrender through sustained air raids. Lt Gen Ira E Bak er says the 8th Air Force can field up to 1 000 planes daily in support of the plan.
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George Maelke Washington
Germany
Holt
Europe
HH. Areold
U. S
Writsia
Arthur T. Harris
Ira C. Bakeor
Um. Army Air Forces
Britain
Pace Pla
8Th Air Force
Harris
Owl
Eighth Army Pushes Five Miles Toward Cassino
Allied forces report the Eighth Army cutting five miles into German lines near Mignano and Galluccio, seizing heights overlooking the Sengro river as the Fifth Army advances along the Adriatic front toward Cassino. German counterattacks were halted by heavy Allied artillery and mortars.
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Noland Norgaard
Algiers
Eighth Army
Sengro
Mignano
Cassino
Rome
Gallucio
Garigiano
Aurune
U. & Troop
Actase
Apennines
Sangro River
Eectora
Adriatic
Omat
De Gaulle Giraud battle for control of French National Committee
In Algiers AP reports a showdown to cleanse the National Liberation Committee of lukewarm elements and install De Gaulle loyalists. Gen Charles de Gaulle and Gen Henri Giraud hold copresidency as the protest moves to reassign Finance Maurice Couve de Murville and other commissioners. Rene Manigi and Gen George Catroux face possible pressure as Da Gaulle allies push for stronger party alignment.
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London
Algiers
Henri Giraud
French National Committee of Liberation
Charien de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Giroud
Joseph K Dynan
de Gaullist
National Liberation Committee
Consultative
M Assembly
France
Gan
Charles de Gauls
National Committee
de Gaulsiat
Het
Charles de Gaulle
Maurice Couve de Murville
Andra Diethelm
Andra Philip
Alphonse Georges
Jean Monnet
Henri Bonnet
Giraud
Rene Manigi
George Catroux
Musaulman Affaire
Algena
Army Posts Laud Help To Chests In Dothan Area
Officials of the Voothan United Charities Cheat and War Chest praise joint campaign in the Dothan area. Napier Field drive under Col James F. Deniel and Major Hermes Harris raised 2000 dollars and 32 cents from officers enlisted personnel and civilians.
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Voothan United Charities
Dothan
Relief Funda
Napier Field
James F. Deniel
Hermes Harris
Knox Declares Jap Position In South Pacific Is Critical
Secretary of the Navy Knox said the Japanese in the South and Southwest Pacific are in a critical position and facing survival concerns. He highlighted Marine landings on Bougainville, a night surface action sinking one Japanese cruiser and four destroyers, air attacks on Rabaul Harbor, and torpedoing two light cruisers as key military developments in the past ten days.
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Wasgton
AFP
Knox
Pacific
Navy
Koor
Southwest Pacific
Bougainville
Rabaul Harbor
U S Offers Funds To Recreation Center
The Federal Works Agency offered funds to maintain and operate the Déthan Recreation Center, accepted by the City Commission. The center, run partly with government money, began with wartime support and sought continued funding as the new fiscal year started to extend a prior program with local money matched.
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Federal Works Agency
Déthan
City Commission
Dothan
Soviet Armies Drive West Toward Polish Frontiers
Two Russian armies under Gen N I Vatutin push toward the Polish frontier after defeating German forces around Kiev. Advances threaten central rail links while a separate northern push nears the Polish border. Kiev’s fall leaves vast destruction as Germans retreat, with thousands killed or captured and key landmarks looted or blown up.
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London
Nikolai FW. Vatutin
Kiev
Makacov
Zhitomir
Fastov
Dniepe
Black Sea
Stull
Neve
Moscow
Polotogk
Jinclinn
Vitabok-Rige
Stockholm
Elvilane
Lake Timen
Rusele
Peipia
Gernastaipol
Dnieper
Pripat
Pravda
Uapensit
Ystena
City Restricts Juke Organ Playing
City Commission moved to restrict automatic juke organs with hours limits and a Sunday prohibition. Violations carry fines from three to nineteen eight dollars and up to six months imprisonment at the Recorder’s discretion. The measure also sets license fees and applies within city limits and adjoining jurisdictional areas.
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Recorder
Patios Juriedicionan
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Aims
Tee Presient
Ag Wall
Natonal Committee of Liberation
The
Railroad
Senate Group
Amy
NEA Telephoto
Patricia Burton Lonergan
Wayne William Lonergan
New York Socialita
Wayne Lonergan
Rotary
Reich
Robert M. Acott
Greensboro
New York
South Pacific
U.S
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