Over 135000 Idle as Steelworkers Stage Walkout
Pittsburgh December 27 The idle steel workforce surpassed 135000 as CIO United Steelworkers and War Labor Board kept quiet on President Roosevelt's push for a swift contract settlement. Pickets appeared at Detroit and Columbus plants while major mills like Republic Steel and Timken reported large shutdowns.
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Etree
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Wheeling Steel
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Crucible Steel Ompany
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Americans seize strategic heights near Mt Samucro in Italy
Allied dispatch reports Fifth Army troops advanced through driving rain to capture two key elevations on the Mt Samucro mass along the Cassino road and push closer to San Vittore. The Ortona fight rages as German resistance persists in streets and sewers two miles inland. British destroyers shell Drvenik while American raiders strike railway yards near Florence and along lines to Pisa and Leghorn, aiming to cripple German communications.
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Leghorn
Empoli
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Riviera
France
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Pedaso
San Benedetto
Censorship Tightens on War News for U S Readers
London reports imminent expansion of military censorship as American and British forces prepare for the continental invasion under Eisenhower. Capt. Nute notes a doubled press censor staff in the European theater and hints at tighter control of speculative reports and closer Anglo American coordination. Soviet advances around Vitebsk and Zhitomir are described, with disruptions to rail lines and upcoming operations shaping coverage.
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Reds Smash Nazi Defenses Near Kiev and Vitebsk
Soviet dispatches report the first Ukrainian army driving 25 miles on a 40 mile front and the first Baltic army closing to eight miles of Vitebsk. More than 20 000 German casualties in three days as villages fall. Vatutin’s forces reportedly rout about 150 000 troops in the Kiev winter offensive.
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Polo
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Vite
CBS
Moscow
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Red Army drives near Zhitomir in Ukraine offensive
Moscow dispatch reports Gen. Nikolai Vatutin s First Ukrainian army advancing on both sides of the Kiev Zhitomir highway within 20 miles of Zhitomir trapping a large German tank and infantry force as winter offensive across Ukraine expands.
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The War Today Major offensives reshape Eastern Front
The second Russian offensive within two weeks heightens peril for Nazi forces in the Dnieper bend and Crimea while a continued push in Vitebsk and a possible southern assault threaten German lines. The piece notes expected Western Europe invasion moves and Ike's pledge of victory in 1944, signaling prompt developments.
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Berlin Burns Stockholm Raid death toll and rations
A Berlin dispatch to Aftontidningen says the German air raid on Christmas Eve burned today. It reports two thousand bodies recovered and one million Berliners have received emergency rations over the past three days.
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Stockholm
Aftontidningen
RAF
Eisenhower Predicts Allied Victory in 1944
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, newly named commander of the invasion force, declared at Algiers that the European war will be won in 1944. He urged every man and woman to do their duty from front lines to home, and reflected on 1943’s progress and strategic gains in Italy and the Mediterranean.
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Canadian General McNaughton to Rest in England
Lt. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, commander of the Canadian army in Britain, leaves his post due to ill health and will return to Canada for a long rest. Lt. Gen. Kenneth Stuart acts as temporary commander. H. D. Crerar is seen as a likely successor. Prime Minister Mackenzie King expressed deep regret.
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A. G. L. McNaughton
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Europe
Canada
Kenneth Stuart
Ottawa
Stuart
London
H. D. Crerab
McNaughton
Bernard L. Montgomery
Ickes Says Philippines Need U S Aid After War
Secretary Ickes outlined postwar plans for the Philippines noting the need for sympathetic US assistance to rebuild finances and a robust economic rehabilitation program. He projected independence by 1946 if Japan is expelled, with caution on timing per a Senate resolution. He described expected postwar damage and governance challenges.
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Philippines
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Treasuries
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Commonwealth
Marines Land At Cape Gloucester In Two Simultaneous Footholds
United States Marines established two beachheads at Cape Gloucester on New Britain with no American casualties. A heavy bombardment preceded the landings, while Japanese losses included 36 bombers and 25 fighters. The operation also secures control of the Vitiaz straits and disrupts the enemy supply line from Rabaul.
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Robert Euison
New Guinea
United States
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Japan
Pacific
Vitiaz Straits
U.S. Sixth Army
Rabaul
Bhief
Arawe
Straegic Cape
Gloucester
Long Island
Vitiar Straits
REPO
William S. Rupertus
Guadalcanal
British Sink German Scharnhorst in Arctic Action
British home fleet units sank the 26,000 ton German battleship Scharnhorst in an Arctic engagement off Norway, likely near North Cape in the Barents Sea. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser led the operation, with U.S. forces possibly reinforcing. the sinking marks a major Allied victory and revenge for the loss of the carrier Glorious in 1940.
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Gneisenau
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Sir William James
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Luetzow
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Prinzagen
Admiral Hipper
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Bear ‘Island
Spitzbergen
FDR cuts Christmas in Hyde Park as labor rows flare
President Roosevelt returns to the White House from Hyde Park to press a crisis over steel and rail wage disputes threatening a nationwide strike. He urges a peaceful settlement by collective bargaining, arbitration if needed, and War Labor Board action. He plans a congress message and a 1945 budget amid the standoff.
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Hyde Park
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White House
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Capital Hill
War Labor Board
Philip Murray
CIO
United States Steel Workers Union
Republic Steel Comey
Cleveland
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Youngstown
Ohio
Taylor Wharton Iron and Steel Company
Highbridge
N. J
Wallace Sees Fast Victory For Americans
Vice President Wallace predicts Germany will be defeated within months after a second front opens if a secret weapon proves effective. He urges high domestic and military will to win and warns against economic complacency.
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Washington
Wallace
Germany
Ice kills birds on State House grounds in Columbia
Freezing rain coated magnolia trees on the State House grounds Christmas morning. By dawn more than 100 blackbirds lay dead on the State House lawn, victims of the icy conditions.
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Columbia
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