Five senators probe broad conspiracy in liquor warehousing
AP dispatch reports five senators push to probe a wide liquor conspiracy tied to bonded whiskey. Von Nuys asserts investigations may reveal large withdrawals from government warehouses, with figures suggesting up to 10 million gallons withdrawn in September and calls for accountability amid price ceilings.
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Ammeton
Lees
Christ
Gaints von Nuys
D.-Ind
Rejdt
Odty
van Nuys
Gov. mmm
Ean
Tes Ieffanan
Sen- Kos Elgure
D.W. Va
Murdock
Densher
R.conn
Rmich
Moe
OPA
World in Today 3 Abe 7 Mae and pave way for great
Fragmentary report notes moves in Europe with references to Abe and Mae, German forces at Venafro, and Allied counter-attacks. Mentions Britain Yugoslav seats and Greek airfields amid war activity.
Explosion at Navy Depot Kills Six in Yorktown
An explosion in a warehouse at the Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown Va killed about six civilian employees and injured 20 to 30, with two seriously hurt. The blast at 12 25 am woke thousands in Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News. Fires followed but were put out. Rescue teams sought to avoid further danger as naval authorities listed several presumed dead.
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Yorktown
Naval Mine
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Newport Newa
R. D. Kirkpatrick
Naval
J. F. Remine
Robert A. Taliaferro
Malachi Taliaferro
Leonard Co. Brown
Charlie Lucas
Catroux Seeks End To Lebanese Strife
Gen Georges Catroux arrives in Beirut with full powers to settle Lebanese sovereignty issues. French commissioner aims to negotiate on the spot while Lebanese officials remain jailed after an attempted constitutional amendment. Senegalese troops patrol streets as two tanks block the Moslem quarter.
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Cairo
Georges Catroux
French Committee of Nationel Liberation
Beirut
Little Republic
Catrous
Germans Execute Italian Partisans Near Domodossola
AP reports German occupation troops executed several Italian partisan prisoners after an all day battle near Domodossola. Dispatches from Brigue to Le Salese say most Italians escaped to the northern Italian hills.
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Bern
Switzerland
Domodossola
Brigue
le Salese
Brigua
Re Marriages Of DeMarignys Go Astray In Nassau
Bahamas story reports Alfred de Marigny and his wife Nancy failing to appear for a planned remarriage at Nassau church. Father Bonaventure waited an hour. De Marigny canceled citing illness. The ceremony would have followed a 1942 civil New York marriage. Formerly acquitted in the Sir Harry Oakes case, he faces possible departure steps by the governor’s council.
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V. W. Jones
Nassau
Bahamas
Dapper
Alfred de Marigny
Hip
Nancy
Borcrventure
de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Wifs
New York
Father Bonaventure
Moreime
Crown Colony
Burma raid headlines RAF medi um and heavy bombers strike in war’s early days
The latest wartime bulletin reports the heaviest and most concentrated air attack on Burma since the war began as RAF medium and heavy bombers strike strategic targets. Washington sources say the Benate and House cleared quick peace legislation to place pre Pearl Harbor fathers at the bottom of the draft list and strip War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt of authority over the Selective Service. Chinese forces on the Yangtze valley front break into Japanese lines south of the river and push toward Ichang and Tangyang.
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Calcutta
RAF
Burma
Simos
Washington
Benate
House
Pearl Harbor
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Cainese High Command
Yangtei
Japan
Poiais
Ichang
Tangyang
First Skirmishes With Japs Ticklish Says U S Flier
Lt. Col. Frank Coleman a Panama City flyer and Distinguished Service Cross recipient describes the early air war in the Southwest Pacific. He recalls a run on an airfield at Las in New Guinea, where only five of ten bombers survived a Japanese bombardment, yet the crew pressed on the next morning.
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Southwest Pacific
Acant
Pearl Harbor
Frank Coleman
Panama
Cry
Fie
Camille Thornton
Dothan
Chent
Las
Mew Guinea
American Planes Bomb Norway and Athens
Allied air forces struck targets in Norway and Athens as Allied bombers hit the regions around Eleusis and Kalamaki. Yugoslav Libera tors, trained as heavy bomber crews, joined the Mediterranean campaign and flew with Fifteenth Air Force formations.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Nor Way
Athens
Neus
Norway
Allley
Algiers
United
Mediterranean
Fifteenth Airforce
Liberatora
Eleusis
U. S
Italy
Strack
Mt Political Rollback Urged In Subsidy Talks
Senator Smith and New Deal agriculture chair backed a political rollback in 1844 amid rice subsidy tensions. Testimony from W D Ferr blamed rollback for harming livestock buyers. Smith urged voters to push a political rollback at the next election as Roosevelt sought authority to fund price controls.
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Washington
Cotton Ed” Smith
New Deal
Banate Agriculture Committee
W. D. Ferr
Greeley
Cole
Colorado-Nebraska Lamb Feeders Association
Smith
German Pressure Forces Partisans Back In Dalmatia
London AP reports Tito’s Yugoslav National Liberation Army says German offensives pressed Partisans along the Dalmatian coast but Tito’s forces repelled drives in eastern Bosnia and Slovenia. Communique notes over 140 Germans killed and heavy clashes in Bosnia and Serbia with Partisans retreating under superior numbers.
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London
Peljesac
Macedonia
Yugoslav National Liberation Army
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Slovenia
Partisana
Nedio
Mihailovic Chetatka
Serbia
Dalmatian
Marsh To Address Rotary Institute
Marsh will address the Rotary Institute at the Dothan Recreation Center tomorrow night as part of a four lecture series on International Understanding. The program, sponsored by the Dothan Rotary Club, features John A Marsh special assistant to the Canadian Minister of Munitions and Supply, and Em Bolt who opened the series with a review of Latin American roles in the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dothan Rotary Club
Amorrow
Dethan Recreation Center
Jonn A Marsh
Mun'lione and Supply
Mduyance
Tem Bolt
Hull to brief Congress on Moscow pact and policy aims
Secretary Hull plans a two mile Capitol visit to report on the Moscow conference and present a unified American foreign policy agenda. He urged free elections and a proposed Allied Commission to supervise postwar order in liberated nations, including the Baltic states Estonia Latvia and Lithuania.
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Washington
Corde
Hull
State Department
Capito
Congress
House
Senate
Thes Polnta
Baltic
Balkan
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
California
Postal Sub Station To Aid Yule Rush
Dothan postal officials announce a sub post office opening December 1 in the Mane Motor Company building on Booth Street Andrews Street to alleviate peak Christmas mail. Patrons are urged to mail gifts after December 10 for on time delivery, overseas parcels by December 1, and cards by December 14. Fragile packages should be marked clearly with a legible return address in the upper left corner of the envelope.
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Dothan
Maone Motor Company
Booth St. Andrews Street
Post Office Department
Allied bombings tally heavy in Pacific raid on Rabaul
Allied bombers struck Rabaul and Kavieng areas in the northern Solomons, sinking three destroyers and damaging multiple cruisers and destroyers. By Oct 13 a record 250 tons hit Rabaul, marking a major opening blow of the current drive. Navy notes cited substantial cruiser and destroyer losses and damage, with additional hits likely at Rabaul.
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Southwest Pacific
Allied Headquarters
Solomone
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Corvatta
Navy
Knox Weld Jepsn
Japan
Iaeen
Bougainville
Ture
London Poised for Allied Victory Drive Accord Talks
London expects unofficial agreements among United States, Soviet Union and Britain to forge a final 1944 victory plan and postwar alliance. Washington and Vichy rumors hint at Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill meetings while Moscow foreign ministers discuss common goals and possible heads of state talks.
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London
Moscow
Europe
Washington
Vichy
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Hitler
Eighth Wins New Heights In Eastern Italy Front
Allied HQ reports Fifth Army retreats from Venafro north of Montefants Croce. Eighth Army secures new eastern hill positions while German attacks push US forces from prior ground. Air raids hit Eleusina Athens airfield and Kelamaki area as resistance persists along the front.
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SY Edward Kenn
Allied
Algiers
Fifth Army
Venafro
al- Wed
Eighth Army
Hillinpa
Italy
Sreag
Montefants Croce
Yoase Liberatora
Elevaia
Athens
Kelamaki
Mid
Holdiers
Bernard L. Montgomery
Atesas
Adriatic
Bangro
Montaxgoll
Sangro
Allies Land Greeks On Leros To Strike New Blows At Nazis
BODRUM, Turkey AP reports fierce Greek Andartes landed on Leros last Friday to strike revenge for the Dodecanese island and drive back Nazi forces. Greeks reportedly seized landing beaches, attacked from the rear, and repelled hundreds of paratroopers and infantry, aided by a destroyer under cover of darkness. Cairo dispatches later said German casualties ran high while German beachheads remained contested.
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Leros
Bodrum
Turkey
Larose
Nexis
Dodecanese
Cairo
Learos
Ickes Urges Coal Price Boost in White House Appeal
Interior Secretary Ickes urged higher coal prices to cover rising production costs. He sent the appeal to Stabilization Director Vinson after a draft schedule was prepared by OPA and the Solid Fuel Administration which Ickes leads.
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Washington
Ickew
Fred M. Vinson
Office of Price Administration
Ickes
Vinson
OPA
Solid Fuel Administration
Japanese Digging In Solidly For Defense Says Reporter
AP dispatch from Rio de Janeiro reports Russell Brines, just returned on Gripsholm after two years of internment, offers insight on Japan's defense of key industrial and raw material centers. He warns Allied attacks aimed at the Netherlands East Indies Malaya and surrounding areas would pressure Japan hard, while a northern campaign could bring heavy losses for both sides.
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Ruseel Brinna
Preas
Gripsholm
Manila
Bhanghal
Japan
Herber Industries
Brines
Tm AP
Tokyo
Mantle
Europeia
Japa
Natherlanda
Egat Indies
Malaya
Russian forces widen drive as Gomel falls toward Soviets
Red Army pushes north along Priest marshes cutting rail and road links from Gomel to Kalinovichi. Gomel garrison isolated as Soviet units south of Rechitsa advance, capturing Kaganovich and Esmar. West of Zhitomir Vatutin nears Polish border after Baranovka, while Crimea forces push to extend beachheads near Karch.
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Henry
Casarmdy
Moscow
Red Army
Priest Marshes
Kev
White Russia
Gams
Kalinnovichi
Gomel
Dalepar
Rechitan
Kaganovich
Esmar
Korocaten
Korosten
Alash Scroas
Reehit
Korostentsalf
Zhitomir
Fastov
Kiev
Nikolai Vatutin
Crimea
Karch
Dothan Fortress Pilot Is Missing
Recong Lieutenant Thomas R. Martin of Dothan is missing in action while piloting a Flying Fortress. The War Department notified his parents that he has been missing since November 5, with the 8th Air Force in England reporting raids over Western Germany. Martin is married to Christine Brows, formerly of the Brats Highway Patrol office.
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Recong
Thomas R. Martin
W. F. Martin, Jr
Dothan
Wiying Fortress
War Department
1Th Air Force
England
Martin
Germany
Christine Brows
Brats Fighway
Hare Gam
Dependency Checks Violation Charged in Wartime Case
Mary Alice Hiddleston, wife of Camp Rucker soldier, is charged with receiving dependency checks while still married to Boseman. FBI agent G Davey Hall took her into custody as the case, based on the marriage status and halted payments, proceeds with bond set at an unspecified amount.
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Mary Alice Hiddleston
J. W. Daughtry
Mra
Hiddleston
G. Davey Hall
Federal Bureau of Investigation
George Boze- Mann
Boseman
Mra Hiddleston
Bossman
Bend
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Catroux
DeMarignys
U. S. Flier
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D.-Alaf
House Banking Committee
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