Allied air raids pound Rabaul and Pacific fronts
American precision bombers sank three Japanese ships at Rabaul harbor and damaged others as Allied forces battled in the Solomon Islands, Caroline Islands, and New Guinea. Japanese losses, air battles, and ground actions shaped a tense, ongoing campaign in January.
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Associated Press
Rabaul Harbor
Pacific
New Britain
Rabaul
Navy
Kusaie
Marshalls
Central Pacific
Mili Atoll
Radio Tokyo
Mili
MacArthur
Rabaul Arca
Squander Bug In War Bond Drive Targets Farmers
County Agent Leonard Ladd and Beadle County officials urge farmers to fund the war effort with war bonds. Campaigners canvass rural areas before the drive opening to build a backlog of purchasing power and help reach V day sooner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard L. Ladd
al Barnes
Frank Coughlin
Beadle County
Ladd
Darmers
George Green
Badine
Secret meeting hints at Lewis and Green on union readmission
After an eight year split John L. Lewis and AFL President William Green met in Washington on an off the record basis to discuss readmitting the United Mine Workers to the AFL. Green refused to discuss details while pressure from AFL leaders and allied unions grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fla
John L. Lewis
AFL
William Green
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Green
CIO
Miners’ Union
Washington
Federation
Executive Council
Farmers Benefit From Subsidy Says National Union
The National Farmers Union released a pamphlet arguing a wisely administered subsidy supported price program benefits farmers as much as city people. It says family farmers gain least from price spikes and most from direct government payments, warning inflation could end family farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Farmers Union
Ayogaet Rarity
Gets Year In Pen On Gun Charge Gets Year In Pen On Gun Charge
J W Marshall 45 of Bismarck ND was sentenced to one year in the South Dakota penitentiary after pleading guilty to carrying a loaded concealed weapon. Gladys Riley 43 of Sioux City IA was fined 50 dollars for possession of eight ounces of bootleg liquor. State Patrolman Al Stasne and Sheriff Edward Erren detained the pair when the vehicle lacked proper license plates near Sioux City on Highway 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siour Falls
J. W. Marshall
Bismarck
N. D
South Dakota
Gladys Viola Riley
Sioux City
al Stasne
Union County
Edward Erren
Stasne
Britons Warned Against German Peace Rumors
London officials warn Britons to ignore insidious peace talk propaganda inspired by Germany as Pravda rumors prompt warnings in London and Moscow. The Moscow magazine War and the Working Class urges cleansing the political atmosphere of Nazi gas and disinformation aimed at sowing Allied disunion.
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London
Pravda
Moscow
War and the
Teneran
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Foreign Office
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Russia
Britain
United States
London Daily Express
Lord Beaverbrook
the Express
Brendan Bracken
American Society
Hitler
Attache's Wife in Mystery Shooting Shocks Chicago
Mrs Frank Starr Williams wife of a state department attache was shot in a Drake Hotel apartment. The 35 year old socialite was struck in the head by a unidentified woman described as middle aged and well dressed. Police said motive unknown and she remains near death after surgery at St Luke's hospital. Her daughter Mrs Patricia Goodbody and other relatives offered accounts before she lapsed into a coma. Williams formerly served as commercial attache in Tokyo from 1933 to 1942.
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Chicago
Frank Starr Williams
State Department
Washington
Drake
Williams
Patricia Goodbody
Williame
Edgar R. Born
United States
Tokyo
St. Luke
Allied Raids Cut Rome Rail Lines as British Reach Garigliano
Allied bombers sever rail connections south through Rome to German forces amid the Fifth Army advance. British troops widen bridgeheads above the Garigliano River, seize three villages, and press toward Minturno while French Fifth Army units contact the enemy. German evacuations and heavy river defenses accompany the offensives across the Rapido and along the Apian Way.
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al- Siers
Italy
Rome
Fifth Army
Associated Press
Lynn Heipzerling
U. S
15Th Ai Force
Eighth Army
Garigliano
Minturno
Argento
Tufo
Suio
Tugo
Ehore
Monay Oe
Cassing
Rapido River
Allies Bolt Forward in Northern Burma Front
Allied forces on the Arakan front repel Japanese counterattacks as they hold new positions. In northern Burma Lt Gen Joseph W. Stillwell’s troops push east along the New Ledo highway, seizing the village of Guimgz and crossing the Tanai River. Mitchell bombers of the 1st U S Air Force hit Campha docks and rail yards in French Indochina, returning safely.
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Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Bougainville
Torokina River
Empress Augusta Bay
East Lagoon
Bansa Bay
New Guinea
Madang
Arakan
Burma
Southeast Asia
Joseph W. Stillwell
Guimgz
Hukawng
Tanai River
Vie Chungking
U. S
Airforce
French Indo-China
Campha
Franco’s policy lands him in jam with Britain
The War Today reports Franco’s wavering stance tightens pressure from Britain. Eden charged Sir Samuel Hoare to push strong representations over Spanish volunteers aiding the Nazis against Russia. Britain renewed support for Italy’s broader actions and the release of Italians in Spanish ports.
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Franco
Britain
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Spee
Hitter
Eden
Mons
Samuel Hoare
England
Spain
Russia
Hia
Somayanes
Hig Bee
Mule Entitled To Buck Once Legally, Court Rules
Federal Judge Leon R. Yankwich dismissed Elmer Mateos damages suit against Fred Harvey Co. The mule Chiggers, used for riding, is deemed a domesticated animal with the right to buck once, thus limiting liability for a back injury alleged from a single incident.
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Los Angeles
Leon R. Yankwich
Elmer Mateos
Fred Harvey Co
Mateos
Butler alleges vast U S Latin America spending totals
In Washington on January 26 Senator Butler released a second accounting claiming U S spending commitments and credit extensions in Latin America totaled 5 733 953 543 over the past three years. He attached a 20 page itemization from government departments and testimony, challenging administration denials and clashing with Senator McKellar’s lower figure of 1 483 372 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Latin America
Butler
Rneb
Senate
McKellar
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
Senate Appropriations Committee
Farmers Union pushes national agri cultural relations act
South Dakota Farmers Union committee endorses a national agricultural relations act to stabilize prices and empower farmers in bargaining with processors. They seek marketing quotas and ask Congress to oppose repeal of renegotiation of war contracts. They urge a public weigher and grader for all packet purchases, restore 30 percent of license fees to townships for roads, and maintain a four cent gas tax exemption for agricultural purchases. W. C. Herman Rockham and D. J. Tiede Parkston named to livestock boards. J. E. Broline Winner named to Omaha board.
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Mitchell
Legislative Committee
The
South Dakota Farmers Union
South Dakota
Washington
W. C. Herman
Rockham
D. J. Tiede
Parkston
Farmers Union Livestock Board
Sioux City
J. E. Broline
Winner
Omaha
Highway Shed Fire In Mitchell Costs Estimated $37,000
Pierre reporter says Highway Commission Engineer E W Blesker estimates a Mitchell shed fire caused at least 37000 in losses. The main item was a new snowplow valued around 12000 to 15000 with equipment and materials. shed value placed at 3000 to 4000. Origin of fire under investigation.
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Mitchell
Pierre
Highway Commission
E. W. Blesker
Highway Department
Meeker
Naid Lace
Meeker Hepard
Roce Whedy
Russians Capture Siege Guns In Clever Leningrad Offensive
Russian forces break into a German siege line near Leningrad with Govorov leading strikes from Oranienbaum and the Volkhov front. They seize 36 of 192 siege guns and claim 20,000 German dead and 1,000 captured as major towns near Peterhof, Tsarskoy Selo, and Novgorod fall or are isolated.
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Moscow
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Gelds
Peter the Great
Red
Russia
Oranienbaum
Gulf of Finland
Lake Imen
Novogorod
Red Army
Talliz
Estonia
Vologda
Moscow-Leningrad
Wey
Lake Ladoga
Peterhof
Pulkovo
Office of War Information
Govorov
Volkhov
K. A. Meretskov
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South Pacific
F. Prist
War Picture Pool
NEA Telephoto
Mediterranean
Garig- Hane
Tyrrhenian
L. A
By Henry C. Cassidy
Lexingrad
Novoscholmai
First Ukraine
Nikolai Valeutin
Goshcha
Rovne
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