Prisoner Broadcasts Tracked by US Radio Propaganda Service
The United States relay system tracks every American prisoner named on enemy radio broadcasts. FBIS monitors broadcasts from Berlin and Tokyo, and shares data with Britain, Canada, and Australia. The effort aims to alert families, deter Axis propaganda, and record daily 1.5 million words of foreign broadcasts, with over 50 prisoner notices processed daily.
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Washington
United States
Berlin
Tokyo
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
FBIS
FBI
Federal Communications Commission
John Doe
South Pacific
Mary Doe
Midge
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Orient
Hsinking
Kai
Saigon
Tavia
Manila
Kingsville
Tex
Latin America
Capes
Europe
United Nations
Pais
Robert D. Leigh
Sic
Bennington
Axis
Uncle Sam
North Carolina Weather Cloudy and Cool With Light Rain
The forecast calls for cloudy skies across North Carolina with continued cool temperatures and occasional light rain on Sunday, followed by a mostly cloudy and warmer Monday with intermittent showers.
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North Carolina
Record High January Placements at USES High Point
The High Point U S Employment Service office reports 605 placements in January, the highest since 1935 relief days. Of these, 135 secured jobs outside the local area, with the rest inside High Point. Civil Service agent Frank Welbern completed 612 interviews producing 120 placements, 339 pending.
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High Point
U.S. Employment Service
Rachael Shiplett
Pacific War Air Raids Hit Rabaul and Kavieng
Allied raids targeted Rabaul and Kavieng with carrier-based planes and bombers. Fifteen ships were sunk or damaged in the two bases while Japanese defenses and shore batteries engaged, and American warships fired on coastal targets in the pre-dawn actions.
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Rabaul
Cataconares
Kavieng
Soviet War Losses Dated in Red Army Destruction Claim
The report lists massive Red Army losses including 41 planes 116 tanks and 10 000 trucks, with 415 railway fuel cars and 4 050 carts of war materiel captured or destroyed. Berlin denies encircled troops were erased and says a corridor reached German forces.
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Ool
Berlin
Espionage Ring Tied To German Agents In Argentina
A wartime report names Argentines Spaniards a German and a Russian implicated in espionage linked to German submarines off the Argentine coast in late 1943. Chilean Ger trudis Hostovsky De Schlosser and husband Herbert Kiesser are cited as spies linked to wireless studies. Police warn additional German and Japanese espionage reports will follow within weeks.
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Gertrudis Hostovsky de Schlosser
Schlosser
Spruance cites Tarawa lessons shaping Marshalls drive
Admiral Raymond Spruance credits Tarawa lessons with saving lives in the Marshalls campaign. He cites coordinated use of infantry, ships, and aircraft, early heavy bombardment, and surprise as key factors, noting two days of reef exposure at Tarawa and improved air and naval control in Kwajalein operations.
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Spencer Davis
Marshalls
Bloody Tarawa
Gilberts
Raymond A. Spruance
Kwajalein
Spruance
Tarawa
Central Pacific
Pocket Size Books See Big Army Demand
About 20 million pocket size books are produced for the Army by the morale division of the Army Service Forces. Textbooks worth about six million dollars are issued, along with 25 magazines. Lighter editions cost 7 cents and weigh one sixth of regular versions. Ads are deleted and some magazines are miniaturized for overseas shipment.
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New York
Morale Division
Army Service Forces
Mailman’s Wife Delivers Mail With Baby On Route
A British postmaster’s wife, after giving birth, continues delivering mail on schedule. She carries her infant in a carriage and completes an 11 mile route in about five hours, proving war efforts stay on track despite motherhood.
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Durham
Eng
Travel pact signed to boost inter American traffic
Secretary of State Cordell Hull signed an agreement to stimulate travel in the western hemisphere and over the Pan American highway. Bolivia Brazil Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador Guatemala Haiti Nicaragua and Peru had already approved the pact.
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Washington
Ins
Cordell Hull
Bolivia
Brazil
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Guatemala
Haiti
Nicaragua
Peru
Fire authorities require consent for men leaving the country
A Dublin report notes authorities bar men from departing without written consent of their family or guardians citing the aim to prevent disruption of home life. The policy appears tied to public safety and domestic stability efforts.
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Dublin
Japs Never Knew What Hit At Kwajalein
Army officer Col. Syril E. Faine says Kwajalein fell with utter surprise to Seventh Infantry forces. Japanese radio shut down and a navy patrol boat system blocked escapes. many concrete pill boxes breached and destroyed. prisoners taken exceeded any prior island operation. a Japanese admiral reportedly died after disguising himself as a private.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Kwajalein
Syril — E. Faine
Japan
Navy
Faine
Tarawa
Gilberts
Seventh Infantry Division
Om Island
Diag Aie
Paasikivi and Kollontay Conduct Cautious Stockholm Talks
A Finnish source says Paasikivi and Mme Alexandra Kollontay had contact in Stockholm amid memories of 1940 but Paasikivi claims no meeting occurred. The source notes no direct U S mediation and that contacts were via a neutral intermediary.
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Stockholm
Paasikivi
Mme
Alexandra Kollontay
Sweden
Mme. Kollontay
United States
Gastric Ills Rise With War Strain In Glasgow
Surgeon Bert Mailer of Victoria Infirmary links rising gastric and duodenal ulcers to wartime worry, economic hardship, restless living, snack meals, and tobacco use as a scourge alongside TB and rheumatic fever.
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Glasgow
Bert Mailer
Victoria Infirmary
Lands for sale advertised by Aaron Burr in Albany Register
The June 17 1799 Albany Register lists a sale ad for Chemung and Tioga County lands by Aaron Burr and associates in New York City. The issue, a four page paper, was donated to Cornell University Library by Dr D M Steele of Cayuga New York. Oil was first found in the southwest during a water well drill near Corsicana Texas.
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Aaron Burr
Ithaca, N. Y
INS
Chemung and Tioga County
New York City
Albany
N. Y
Register
Cornell University Library
D. M. Steele
Cayuga, N. Y
This Is Literally Taking Money From A Baby
A two year old Tongan boy swallowed a shiny two shilling coin triggering an international flap. A British consul appealed to Allied Commander, a RN plane flew a Scottish doctor to Suva, where an Incan army doctor removed the coin. The boy will recover and the coin remained with the American doctor as a souvenir.
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Suva
Fiji Islands
Roosevelt Names Hassett Secretary in Surprise Move
President Roosevelt appointed William D. Hassett a full fledged secretary to succeed the late Irvin H. Meint who died December 13 after 11 years service. Hassett, 63, former newspaperman, was named in the White House surprise announcement today.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William D. Hassett
Ivin H. Meint
Miami girl sought in New York after Pearl Harbor tragedy
New York police were asked by Miami officials to locate 15 year old Joy Roberta Austin of Miami who allegedly enlisted in the WAVES under an assumed name after reporting her parents were killed at Pearl Harbor. She was provided with train tickets to reach the WAVES training school at Hunter College in the Bronx.
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Miami
New York
INS
Joy Roberta Austin
City
WAVES
Pearl Harbor
Miss Austin
Hunter College
The
Bronx
Billion Dollar Food Subsidy Nears Approval
Washington reports a simple resolution extending the CCC for one year clears the way for the administration’s food subsidy. The 1944 plan could cost about 1.4 billion dollars with CCC funds extending to 900 million and up to 500 million for price roll back subsidies on meat butter and flour amid congressional funding limits.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Congress
CCC
Ivin Jones
CDC
Reconstruction Inance Corporation
Warplane crashes and brave escapes in fierce battles
A damaged bomber crashes after flak and enemy fire leaving navigator with a broken leg among the casualties. Lt Robert Powers of Raynham MA is among the uninjured crew. A second Warhawk piloted by Hudson from Hudson bellys-lands after engine failure avoiding collision with another plane. Maj M S Osler of Benoni South Africa downs two ME-109s before his Spitfire engine fails and his plane somersaults, wrecking the fuselage though he survives.
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Robert W. Powers
Raynham
Mass
Beguna
Hudson
Maj. M. S. Osler
Benoni
South Africa
Beach head battle stories told by returning soldiers
Veterans recount constant shelling and near death during the beach head fight. Majors warn they are living on borrowed time while enemy air raids, burning aircraft, and wounded planes punctuate nights of war.
Sgt Decides English Needs Some Translation
London reports Sgt Jack son Lindsay of Milwaukee conducts a survey for a book titled English as she is spoke in Britain. Examples correct misunderstandings like a homely girl meaning attractive home and a letter box called a pillar box. He explains hotel doors marked FLMC stand for house maids cupboard.
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London
Jackson Lindsay
Milwaukee
Britain
FLMC
West Coast Workers Reassigned to Critical War Roles
Over the past eight months about 189000 personnel on the West Coast have been moved from non essential duties to more critical war jobs, reflecting reallocations to bolster frontline support and industrial output during the war effort.
Chanute Field Welcomes First Woman Air Traffic Cop
Air-Wac Sgt Elizabeth of Chanute Field becomes the first woman to serve as an air traffic controller. She begins duties in the control ethos goal, marking a milestone for women in military aviation operations.
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WAC
Chanute Field
Til
Air-Wac
Elizabeth
Sergeant Doty Oversees Airfield Flight Operations
Sergt. Doty, stationed in a glass-enclosed perch high above the field, monitors the entire area and uses a microphone to direct flight operations of all military planes in the vicinity.
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Sergt. Doty
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Moscow
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Russia
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FDR
Hassett
Shing Drama
Mervin
Sgt
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W.T
Chrysler
Chrysler Corporation
Plymouth Dodge Pysil
Desoto
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