Tanks and troops seize key German strongpoints in Italy
Allied infantry and tanks advance through German fortifications toward Cassino. They take Giusto and Mt Porchia as part of the push from the Cassino plain, with heavy bombardment and street fighting, while air forces pound arma ferried to the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E. Dynan
Algiers
Cassino
San Vittore
Mt. Por
Guasos
Tas Ear
Don Whitehead
Fifth Army
Mt. Porchia
Salerno
Hiwarters
Giusto
Mt. Maio
Viticuso
Rome
Adriatic
Eighth Army
15Th Air Force
Fiume
Yur
Dnieper
Kirovograd
Dnieper Bend
Red
Stockholm
Yugoslavia
Bari
Italy
Balkan
Banja Luka
Bosanska Gradiska
Finland Seeks Peace While Russia Terms Unknown
The Finnish official radio said Finland wants peace and is willing to make peace but requires Russia’s terms to be disclosed first. A Berlin broadcast quoted Finland’s finance minister as ruling out a separate peace with Russia due to unconditional surrender demands, citing a CBS-recorded broadcast via Aftonbladet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Finand
Russia
Berlin
Vaino A. Tanner
CBS
Aftontidningen
Prisoner Recaptured After Orange County Escape
Penal Director Oscar Pitts announced the recapture in Marshall Madison county of James Lee Massey of Durham. Massey is one of seven inmates who escaped December 27 from the Orange county prison camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Oscar Pitts
Marshall
Madison County
James Lee Massey
Durham
Orange County
Marines Slay 200 Japs In New Guinea Advance
Allied dispatch reports Marine jungle fighters driving inland from Bergen Bay New Britain slaying 200 enemy troops and reaching Hill 660 an artillery observation post. The campaign adds to more than 2,000 enemy killed in Cape Gloucester sector since December 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Robert Euison
Bergen Bay
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
Silimati Point
Silmati
Bismarck Sea
Huon Peninsula
Dallman River
Approxi
Mately
Finschhafen
Saidor
Solomons
Rabaul
New Ireland
Orc
Drowning Fire Tragedy Claims 12 Year Old Hero
In Klamath Falls Oregon twelve year old Josephine Milani died while trying to rescue younger children from a fire at her sister Mrs Sherman Mayer's home. Mayer said he built a fire and went back to bed awakening to find the house in flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klamath Falls
Ore
Josephine Milani
Sherman Mayer
Deferments Curbed as Draft Rules Tighten for Young Men
Selective Service moves to curb occupational deferments for 18 to 21 year olds, with most non-fathers facing possible draft. Farm workers 18 to 21 remain unaffected. some industries may still obtain exemptions. Deferments are not renewed after Feb. 1, and student deferrals are sharply reduced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Nazi Blockade Runner Sunk in South Atlantic
A U S naval attache announced that American planes and warships sank a German blockade runner in the south Atlantic a few days earlier. Brazilian ships and planes participated per Agencia Nacional. The vessel, sailing from Japan to Germany with war supplies, was of the same type as the one British sunk in Biscay on December 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
South Atlantic
U. S
Agencia Nacional
Navy Department
Ncia Nacional
Recife
Germany
Japan
Bay of Biscay
Radio blackout spreads as Allied raids hit Hitler fortress
Nazi radio stations shut down across Belgium and Vichy France with Berlin silent. Allied daylight raids report deeps blows on Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, with Mosquito bombers sweeping western Germany for a seventh night and a Canadian pilot noting heavy losses over Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
Hitler
Belgium
Vichy
Berlin
France
Paris
RAF
Germany
Heavy Snow Blankets North Carolina State
North Carolina towns including Raleigh Durham Greensboro and Salisbury saw the heaviest snow of the season with seven inches at Louisburg and two to three inches in Rocky Mount and Roanoke Rapids. Officials urged non essential travel and warned of continued flurries sleet and freezing rain as highway patrol mobilized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Jan
North Carolina
Durham
Greensboro
Salisbury
Chapel Hill
Louisburg
Rocky Mount
Roanoke Rapids
Williamston
Elizabeth City
Elizabethtown
John T. Armstrong
Highway Patrol
Rham
Steet
Ship Yard Work To Be Resumed At Cramp Yard
Philadelphia January 8 Officers of the Cramp Shipbuilding Company Union announced they would recommend immediate resumption of work at the yards closed three days by a strike involving 17 000 workers. The move followed talks with national officers of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers with local leaders and War Labor Board intervention. Local 42 chief William Schaffer and ex secretary Herbert Moyer said termination of the walkout would be recommended, as groups at gates kept workers from entering earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Cramp Shipbuilding Company Union
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
CSO
Camden
N. J
Delaware River
William Schaffer
Herbert Moyer
Axis Satellite Nations Brace For Worst Across Balkans
News from Bern reports panic among Balkan satellites as Soviet advance nears Romania and Dniester. Romanian evacuations clog Besarabian roads while factories in Vernauti and Chisinau dismantle for interior shipment. Antonescu regime braces for mountain defense. leftist protests and pro Soviet manifestos rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F. Hawkins
Bern
Marshal Stalin
Rumania
Dniester
Germany
Balkan
Bessarabian
Bucovina
Budapest
Basler Nachrichten
Vernauti
Chisinau
Juliu Maniu
Deader
Moscow
Ion Antonescu
Bucharest
Red Army
Rail workers offered terms if strike order is cancelled
President Roosevelt announced the railway conductors firemen and switchmen may receive the same terms as the trainmen and engineers five cents an hour and a weeks paid vacation per year effective December 27 1943. The three unions press for arbitration while Whitney rebukes them with a poem citing trust in the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
U S Submarines Sink Ten Japanese Vessels in Pacific
American submarines raided enemy shipping and sunk 10 vessels in the Pacific and Far East. The Navy tally now stands at 546 ships sunk, probably sunk, or damaged by U S submarines, including one large tanker and several freighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pacific
Far East
U. S
Navy Department
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Drea
Hungary
WAC
High Point Enterprise
High Point
N. C
Mt. Raimo
Russell C. Landstrom
Old Poland
Romania
Ivan S. Konev
Konev
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Klesow
Viry
Rudnya Bobrovskaya
Rovno
Rovne
Poland
Strashov
Vatutin
Ilintsy
Buc River
Odessa- Warsaw
Vinnitsa Aninka
Fritz von Mannstein
Mier
Joseph Stalin
P.ge
Messina
iReagio
Talebria
Albania
Greece
Danube
Bulgaria
By Max Hall
Sweden
Ludwigshafen
I. G. Farben
Mannheim
Tidningen
U U. S
Cincinnati
Axis
Bessarabia
Dalmatia
Dinara Alps
Jajce
Prijedor
Bosaniska Gradiska
Mar‘shal Josip Broz
Tito
Mitrovica
Whitney
U.S
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