Yamashita Proves a Formidable Foe in Philippines War
The article portrays General Yamashita as a dangerous and determined Japanese commander in the Philippines. It compares him to Nazi leaders and cites past campaigns in Malaya and Singapore as indicators of his strategic capabilities. The piece notes the MacArthur Nimitz alliance pressing Japanese forces on Mindoro and hints at a continued wartime drive toward potential surrender.
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Marshal von Rundstedt
Philippines
Yamashita
Europe
MacArthur
Mindoro
Ani Ve
Philippine Archipelago
Yata
Radio Tokyo
Malay
Singapore
Yamashita the Mikado
Sentiments On Old Issues Remain Unchanged In 79th Congress
Washington dispatch notes the 79th Congress opens with unchanged sentiment on race discrimination taxes and states rights. Nine new members join the Senate and House, including Fulbright Arkansas and governors John ton South Carolina and Clyde North Carolina. Southern leaders retain key chairmanships as labor and military policy debates loom.
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Washington
Mississippi
Houses
Senate
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
North
J. Wil- Fulbright
Olin D. Johnon
South Carolina
Clyde
North Carolina
House
International League
Fulbright
Huey
Johnston
Sam Rayburn
D- Tex
Whit Roberts
Flannagan
D-Va
Agricul
Manasco
D-Ala
Whittington
D - Miss
Rankin
D- Miss
Sumners Tex
May
Vinson
D-Ga
Mansfield
D-Tex
Troops Sweep Shwe District Advance toward Mandalay
Southeast Asia Command announced Allied forces swept across the Shwe district of upper Burma and entered Yeu near a railway to Mandalay. Troops held Kabo and Kaho, pivotal sites along the Mu Canal, as operations consolidated north of Mandalay in a 70 mile reach toward the Shwe plain.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylan
Shwe
Brother Arrives As Lt Wishes He Would Appear
Lt Albin W Novak a 29 year old communications officer from Hudson Pennsylvania writes to his parents about longing to see his brother Leo who is overseas Then the sergeant Leo J Novak 26 of Jersey City New Jersey appears at the base in the Marianans as a Seventh AAF heavy bombardment unit member The reunion is described in a wartime AP dispatch from a Seventh AAF base in the Mariana Islands
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Brother
Marianas
Albin W. Novak
Hudson
Leo
Leo J. Novak
Central Avenue
Jersey City
N. J
Sub-Zero Readings Hit Lakes Erie Ontario Regions
Winter weather subdued large areas with heavy snow, 10 to 12 inch falls near Erie and Buffalo, and lighter snows of 3 to 6 inches in Pennsylvania and upper New York. Temperatures fell below freezing in several states while Texas and Florida saw milder readings. Frost and subfreezing forecasts were issued for parts of the Florida citrus belt.
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Stove
Lakes Erie
Ontario
Weather Bureau
Erie
Buffalo
N. Y
Pennsylvania
New York State
Elmira
Elkins
W. Va
Texas
Florida
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
North Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Ashene N. C
Airmingham, A
Memphis
Florida Citrus Belt
Danes Destroy Radio Plant Of The Nazis
Eighty Danish patriots blew up a radio manufacturing plant in Copenhagen that makes guidance devices for the German V-2 rocket. The Danes overpowered twenty factory guards and killed one, the Free Danish Press service reported.
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Stockholm
Jah
Copenhagen
Free Danish Press Service
Nazi Forces Press On Front As Allied Counterthrust Continues
Paris dispatch reports American armored units advancing 54 miles northeast of Bastogne toward St Vith while German forces strike at a dozen sectors along a 70 mile stretch from Saarbrucken to the Rhine. The Third Army has captured 7,825 prisoners since December 22 and regained three towns in the Belgian Luxembourg bulge.
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Wanks
Belgium
Luxembourg
Third Army
Bastogne
Moircy
First Army
Grandmenil
Paris
Pnsla
St. Vith
Michamps
Maister Woods
Saar
Rhine
Sarregue
Field Marshal
von Rundstedt
Bitche
Blies
Sarreguemines
Bulge
rAoues
Third
Saarbrucken
Siegfried Line
Saarland
Palatinate
Supreme Headquarters
Blies River
Maiaret
Gerimont
Mande-St. Etienne
1944 Election Costs for Two Parties Revealed in Reports
Reports filed with Congress show Democratic and Republican committees spent 7.86 million and 7.06 million dollars respectively in the 1944 campaign for Roosevelt’s fourth term and Dewey’s bid. The House committee considered legislation to broaden campaign scrutiny under the corrupt practices act as figures highlighted party fundraising and receipts.
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Washington
Dan
Republ
Congress
Roosevelt
Republican Commt
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
House
Russians Fight To Hold Budapest In City Wide Battle
Moscow reports intensified Soviet assaults smashing German forces in Pest and Buda as Budapest fights under siege. German and Hungarian casualties run high with thousands dead wounded and civilians feared trapped inside the city. Fresh German thrusts near Komarom on the Vienna road were repulsed, officials say.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Rmy
Pest
Danube
Buda
Red Army
Janos Voros
Budapest
Komarom
Austria
I. Tulbukhin
Vienna
Sixth Arrest In Beck Slaying Ties Guilford Case
Greensboro reports the sixth white man, Bob O Connell, about 40, arrested on murder and conspiracy charges in the fatal June shooting of R L Beck, a Guilford County blind man. Sheriff Story says O Connell, then an escapee from a Georgia prison camp, is in five year detainer and will be returned for trial after term. Other five defendants remain in county jail awaiting preliminary hearing in High Point.
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Greensboro
R. L
Bob) Beck
Guilford County
John C. Story
Reidsville
Bob O'Connell
Georgia
O'Connell
Guilford
Beck
George
Ridny
High Point
Turkey Votes Break With The Japanese
Ankara radio said the Turkish Grand National Assembly voted unanimously to sever diplomatic and economic relations with Japan effective next Saturday. The move follows rising tensions between the two nations and affects all diplomatic ties and trade.
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London
Ankara
Turkish Grand National Assembly
Japan
Bank Call Issued by OCC and FDIC
The Comptroller of the Currency issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Saturday December 30. Simultaneously the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a call for the condition of all insured banks as of the same date.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
79th Congress Faces Universal Service and War Policy
The 79th Congress opens amid war still raging and debates over how to reinforce the home front. President Roosevelt endorses Byrnes' postwar tax plan and broader control over unfit soldiers, while resistance grows to enforcement of labor orders without seizures. The House Military Committee will study Byrnes 4-F assignment proposal.
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Washington
Cne
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
War Labor Board
House Military Committee
Byrnes Urges Quick Induction From Agricultural Deferments
James F. Byrnes urged Selec tive Service to immediately induct 18 to 25 year olds with agricultural deferments into the Armed Services. About 364000 in this group hold deferments. the move aims to tap a major remaining manpower source for the Army and Navy.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Armed Services
Stephen Early
Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Navy
Byrnes
Former Governors Chat About Cigarette Seasoned Talk
Washington entry notes former North Carolina governor Clyde Hoey and former South Carolina governor Olin Johnston sharing a quip about long gaps between cigarettes as they take seats in the U. S. Senate. Hoey, who does not smoke, reflects on North Carolina’s tobacco role and recalls a past remark about scarce cokes at a governors conference.
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Washington, Jan
North Carolina
South Carolina
Clyde R. Hery
Olin D. Johnston
U. S. Senate
Hoey
Albany
N. C
Supers Strike At Japanese Industries
Washington reports 90 Superfortresses struck Japan today targeting industrial sites on Honshu. Japanese communique cites hits on Nagoya Osaka and Hamamatsu as the raid proceeds with undisclosed numbers and objectives.
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Washington
Japan
Honshon
War Department
Nagoya
Osaka
Hamamatsu
B-29s From Guam Blast Nagoya in New Phase of War
American Superfortress bombers based in Guam for the first time directed a large force against Nagoya on Honshu. The 21st Bomber Command began operations from Guam and carried the biggest Nagoya raid yet, with about 90 planes targeting Nagoya Osaka and Hamamatsu among Japan’s key industrial centers.
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Guam
America
Japan
Nagoya
Nippon
Honshu
21St Bomber Command
Saipan
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo
Osaka
Hamamatsu
Communique notes minimal damage from incendiaries in Nagoya and Hamamatsu
The dispatch reports that Nagoya and Hamamatsu suffered damage from incendiaries but the effects were near zero. No further casualties or details are provided in the fragment.
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Nagoya
Hamamatsu
Clark Field Bombed Again by Liberators from Leyte
General MacArthur reports Lib erator aircraft based in Leyte struck Clark Field in Manila on New Year’s Day, facing heavy anti-aircraft fire but returning safely. The raid extended land based assaults toward Luzon and reached targets up to 150 miles north of Manila as Formosa was added to the combat zone.
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General MacArthur
Philippines
Manila
Clark Field
Douglas MacArthur
Formosa
Red Riders
Capond
Raymond Seidel
Olympia
Wash
Luzon
MacArthur
Senators Warned They Must Not Wear Carnations
A satirical admonition recounts Senate rules forbidding carnations in the chamber and notes on other strictures. It lists named senators and humorous prohibitions from private studios to cigars, highlighting the formalities of Congress and reminders of their ceremonial privileges and posthumous honors.
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Senate Chamber
Senate
Rail Road Centers Hit By American Bombers Over Western Germany
Eleven hundred American Flying Fortresses and Liberators hit rail and road centers in western Germany for the 12th day in a row. Bombers pressed targets from Cologne to Fulda and near the Belgian border, while US Ninth Air Force dive bombers and allied fighters supported ground operations with extensive attacks on railroad yards, bridges, and armored units.
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London
Germany
Kaarlsruhe
Cologne
Aschaffenburg
Fulda
Frankfurt
Nurnberg
Ludwigshafen
Berlin
France
Belgium
Holland
U. S S
Ninth Air Force
Bastogne-St. Vith
Richardson Elected Speaker as Lt Governor Pay Bill Passed
In Raleigh on January 3, L Richardson of Union, a Republican, was elected speaker. A Senate bill introduced by Archie Gay sets the lieutenant governor’s pay at 2100 a year plus travel, replacing the former 700 per session. The plan aligns with a national amendment and affects the senate press officer role.
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Raleigh
Jan
L. Richardson
Union
Unani
Today
Senate
Archie Gay
Nampton
T. E. Storey
Richardson
Stone Rockingham
Rep
Barker
Ham
Storey
Hutchins
Madison
Son
Lurry
Gays
Hopeful China Leader Sees Path to Unity This Year
Dr T F Tsiang said Generalissimo Chia Kai Shek may usher constitutional government this year. He added such a move could pave the way for an accord between the Kuomintang government and the North China Communists.
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Chungking
T. F. Tsiang
Chia Kai-Shek
North China
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