Bari harbor raid sinks seventeen ships in Bari port
Seventeen United Nations merchant ships, including five American vessels, were sunk by German bombers in Bari Italy on December 1. About 1,000 are killed or injured, with 37 American naval men among the casualties. Secretary Stimson disclosed casualty figures and noted the blow's impact on Allied supplies while warning of rising German air strength in southern Italy.
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Washington
United Nations
Bari
Italy
Stimson
Pearl Arbor
War Department
Legal Charley Ross Kidnaped Heir Dies In Obscure Craft
Gustave Blair, long recognized by a Maricopa County court as Charley Ross, the kidnapped heir of the 1874 Germantown case, died at 73 in Phoenix after influenza. His claim to a $469,000 trust fund was never resolved and the Ross family refused to acknowledge him as Charley.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Charley Ross
Gustave Blair
Maricopa County
Christian
Sarah Ann Ross
Carpenter
Ross
Charley
Walter
Germantown
Philadelphia
Phoenix Carpenter
Armour May Purchase Creamery Interest in Desoto Company
Franklin D. Newell, president and GM of the Desoto Creamery and Produce Company, says Armour & Co. is negotiating to purchase a substantial interest in Desoto and will likely take over its poultry, butter, and egg business. Desoto operates a creamery in Grafton, North Carolina, and runs poultry and egg depots across Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin with headquarters in Minneapolis.
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Armour
Minneapolis
Franklin D. Newell
Desoto Creamery and Produce
Armour & Co
Dexoto Company
Desoto
Grafton
N. C
Minnesota
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Luftwaffe Pilots Congratulate Eaker
Washington December 1647 American bombers grow more accurate and the German air force more polite Lt Gen. C. Eaker has received Luftwaffe congratulations. Wellwood Beall Boeing vice president reports the message followed a Regensburg raid noting the Luftwaffe praised American precision and restraint in avoiding a hospital.
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Washington
Ka C. Eaker
Luftwaffe
Wellwood E. Beall
Boeing Aircraft Company
England
Baker
Regensburg
Beall
Beadle Quota Set At 926000 For Fourth War Loan
Beadle County in South Dakota is assigned a 926000 quota for the fourth war loan drive with 520000 expected from individuals. Plans for the campaign starting January 18 will be outlined soon as the state finance committee sets an overall 28000000 quota, down from 35000000 in September.
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Beadle
Beadle County
George Fullinweider
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
State War Finance Committee
Gas Allotment Cut In Midwest
The Petroleum Administration for War ordered January to March gasoline allocations with most districts cutting. The Midwest district two suffered the heaviest cut, 34,000 barrels daily, reducing its quota to 433,000. Southwest district three was raised by 1,000 barrels daily to 146,000 as farm use and truck movement decline in winter.
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Washington
The
Petroleum Administration For
Southwest
PAW
Midwest
the Paw
Nazi Sub Center Hit By Heavy Allied Bombers
An armada of American heavy bombers escorted by fighters battered Nazi shipyards and submarine centers in northwest Germany for the third time this week. Fliers reported towers of black smoke from targets including oil stores, with German fighter opposition greatly reduced and only scattered single engine planes seen.
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Robert Stordevant
London
Germany
Two Streamliners Collide In North Carolina Wrecks
In southeastern North Carolina two crowded Atlantic Coast Line streamliners crashed near Buie causing heavy casualties. Rescue workers faced frigid conditions as 50 to 100 killed and over 100 injured were reported. Hospitals in Lumberton and Fayetteville treated survivors. Red Springs morgue listed about 50 bodies.
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Lumberton
N C
North Carolina
Fayetteville
Qne
Red Springs
Southeastern
American Red Cross
Atlanta
Atlantic Coast Line
Buie
Coast Line
Rocky Mount
U S Casualties Stand At 131 098
Washington reports war casualty totals through November 30. Army casualties total 98 594 with 15 334 killed 35 049 wounded 23 725 missing and 24 486 prisoners. Navy total 32 504 with 13 983 killed 5 868 wounded 400 missing and 4 247 prisoners. Fifth Army in Italy totals 13 419 with 2 010 killed 8 583 wounded and 2 826 missing.
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Washington
United States
Stimson
Fifth Army
Italy
Fascist Purge Decree Approved By Badoglio
Allied reports from Algiers say Marshal Pietro Badoglio’s government approved a decree to purge Fascists from military and civil administration. The order targets removal of National Fascist Party members from government posts.
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Badoglio
Algiers
Pietro Badoglio
National Fascist Party
Magnesium Burns Destroy Austin Bridge Company Plant
A magnesium fire at the Austin Bridge Company plant in Dallas last night destroyed the facility with flames and explosions. Officials reported no injuries as firemen protected workers and shielded operations while heat consumed the highly flammable metal. In Detroit, production halted at Ford Rouge due to a magnesium chip fire in a wooden box car, sending thousands from the building and hospitalizing eleven briefly.
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Dallas
Tex
Austin Bridge Company
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
Roosevelt Back From Conferences Returns to U S
President Roosevelt has returned to the United States from international conferences in the Middle East. White House secretary Stephen Early announced the president is safely back and plans for his Washington arrival remain undisclosed. A rumor from Lisbon claimed a forced plane landing in the Azores en route to Cairo and Teheran conferences.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
White House
Stephen Irarly
Early
Middle East
London
DNE
Lisbon
Portugal
Azores Islands
Cairo
Teheran
Invasion Date Speculation Echoes Across War News
Observers and prophets speculate on a sure and near Allied invasion of western Europe. General Lesley McNair cautions that the war is not moving fast, while high command signals loom of a cross-channel operation.
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Western
Europe
Weaver
Lesley McNair
Army Ground Forces
San Francisco
E Seta
Germans At Kiev Yield To Artillery And Tank-Busting Planes
Soviet dispatches report Gen. Vatutin's Ukrainian Army launching an offensive near Kiev, repelling German armor with artillery and Stormovik bombers. Red army claims 48 German tanks and 7 armored vehicles knocked out, as Germans press with 100 tanks and thousands of troops elsewhere. West of the Dnieper, Russians widen bridgehead to 65 miles and control a 250 mile stretch along the river, while Kirovograd area sees 1,400 German casualties and 46 tanks destroyed. Sixteen towns fall as Red forces push from Cherkasy toward Nikopol.
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Kiev
Henry C
Cassidy
Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Kiev Ulees
Ewittcountera
S Ceriigne
Teterev
Fritz von Mannstein
Red Army
Stormo
Vatutin
Iev
Dnieper
Kremenchug
Cherkasy
Nikopol
Churchill Suffers Pneumonia Touch at Teheran
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, aged 69, contracted pneumonia in the left lung while at the Teheran conference with Roosevelt Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek. Deputy PM Attlee told the House of Commons that Churchill is in the middle east and a bulletin said his condition is as satisfactory as can be.
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London
Winston
Churchill
Teheran
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
Attiee
Middle East
No. 10
Downing Street
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Britain
Josef Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
Inonu
Turkey
Jamison Elected Hotelmen's Head
Nevin S. Jamison of Huron was elected president of the South Dakota hotel association, succeeding Jack McGirr of Watertown and Rochester. Robert Howlett of Bell Fourche was named vice president and G W Alexander of Madison as secretary treasurer. Homer Myers of Pierre named as namemaker for the associations. about 40 attended the one day meeting in Pierre.
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Wertane
Tillman Brothers Involved In Tarawa Battle
Mrs Ruth Meadows of Watertown reports three Marine brothers from Huron took part in the Tarawa invasion. PFC James Meadows was wounded and hospitalized, Corp William Meadows and Pvt Richard Meadows served without injury. The brothers previously saw action on Guadalcanal, with Richard making his first battle.
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A. E. Tillman
Battle of
Tarawa
Watertown
Ruth Meadows
United States Marines
Gilbert Islands
Meadows
Bowie Meadows
Corp
William, Meadows
James
William
Pvt
Richard
Marinca
Ay EL. Tillman
Huron
James Meadows
William Meadows
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Keith
Wheeler
Times
Mea
Beother
Ezivete Richard
Invasion Hints From Arawe Bombardment Echoes
Port of Arawe heavily bombed as MacArthur reports 356 tons dropped on Arawe and 248 tons on Gasmata. The strikes target New Britain as Allied forces prep an invasion route toward the Philippines, with B-24 Liberators dominating a seven hour assault.
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Phoenix
Ariz
L. D. Brewer
Phoenix Radio Amateur
Tokyo
New Britain Island
Associated Press
New Britain
MacArthur
Patkway
Philippines
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
All
New Britsain
Bougainville
Solomons
Rabaul
Cape Gloveter
Arawe
Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Finschhafen
Madhur
Huon Gulf
Huon
Madang
Charles Willoughby
Southwest Pacific
Time Extended for Ration Token Orders
Retail merchants in South Dakota face a likely missed Dec 15 deadline for ration token forms from banks. Richard Pease, secretary of the Retail Merchants Association of South Dakota, says a telegram from the Office of Price Administrator advised extension due to anticipated noncompliance.
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Richard Pease
Etail Merchants Association of
South, Dakota
Price Pospinistabens Waghinston
Pease
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