Resistance in New Britain Offensives Intensify
Allied and American forces press a New Britain drive with Marines advancing toward hill 660 near Bergen Bay Cape St. George. Bombers hit Rabaul area airfields as Japanese fend off incursions and sustain heavy losses on both sides.
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Cape Gloucester
U. S
New Britain Island
Pacific
Rabaul
Coast Guard
New Guinea
New Britain
United States
Bergen Bay
Capeter
Douglas MacArthur
High Command
South Pacific Command
Cape St
New Ireland
St. George Channel
Vunakanau
Lakunai
Tobera
Arawe Peninsula
Didmop
Umingalu
Pe Merkus
Umtingalu
Arawe
Invasion Watch As Allied Plans Face Nazi Defenses
Allied war plans hinge on a mid February invasion of western Europe while Anglo American air forces intensify raids on German war industries and coastal defenses. Berlin warns of bad news as Moscow reports danger to rail lines and German forces brace for possible encirclement.
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Reich
Moscow
Poland
Dnieper
Berlin
Russia
Japan
United Nations
Orient
Europe
Hitler
Marshal Rommel
Germany
FDR Will Broadcast Report From Washington on State of the Union
President Roosevelt will transmit the annual message to Congress at noon tomorrow due to illness and not appear in person. A shortened radio version will be broadcast tonight. The budget for the fiscal year ending June 1945 will be sent to Congress Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Wallace
Rayburn
Senate
Barkley
House
McCormack
White House
Ross T. McIntire
State of the Union
Harold Smith
Wayne Coy
Conviction Upheld for Viereck on Foreign Agents Act
The United States Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence of George Sylvester Viereck for violation of the foreign agents registration act. The court ruled he was properly convicted and sentenced after a fair trial and upheld a term of one to five years imposed last July.
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Washington
George Sylvester Viereck
United States Court of Appeals
Viereck
V-Mail Woes and Wartime Letters From Home
Observations from a Mediterranean American bomber base on January 2 describe V-mail as fast yet flawed. Soldiers vent about brief impersonal notes, with anecdotes of a sergeant awaiting missing pages and a wife insuring her arm for 720 dollars. A New Year joke about Italian phrases ends the piece.
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Mediterranean
Robert E. Smith
St. Louis
Smith
Clyde Sullivan
Milwaukee
Yanks Break Through Cassino Defense In Fresh Push
Fifth Army forces drove into the Cassino defense belt with American doughboys advancing northeast of the stronghold and British troops securing a bridgehead west of the Peccia river. Mount Maio and Mount Chiaia were captured or attacked as Allied air forces bombed targets from Pola to Ancona, with heavy bomber strikes and local fighter-bomber support aiding the push toward Cervaro and the Cassino line.
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Joseph E. Dynan
Algiers
Fifth Army
Bu R
Cassino
Peccia River
Mount Maio
Poe
1 Sts
Peccia
Mount Maggiore
Mark W. Clark
Chiaia
Porchia
Moppi
Cervaro
San Vittore
Mount Chiaia
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pola
Italy
Istrian
Ancona
Aquila
RAF
Villorba
Venice
Saturnight
States oppose federal ruling on insurance regulation
Thirty four states in a brief to the Supreme Court argued that ruling insurance as interstate commerce would strip states of sovereignty, end state regulation of fire insurance, and force a federal system under the Sherman act. Virginia joined last week, making thirty five states in opposition to the Justice Department suit against eighteen stock fire insurers in the southeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Virginia
Forts Bomb Bulgarian Capital
Allied air headquarters in Algiers reported a heavy force of Flying Fortresses bombed Sofia the capital of Bulgaria at noon. This marked the fifth heavy bomber assault on the German controlled city in two months, following yesterday’s raid from Italian bases hitting Pola naval port.
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Algiers
Sofia
Bulgaria
Pola
Atriatic
Sofia Biig
Freezing Weather Abates Across South After Deep Cold
Sub freezing temperatures eased today under bright sun after one of the coldest days of winter. Snow fell from North Carolina to Northwest Arkansas, with western Arkansas receiving the heaviest. Little Rock logged 2 to 10 degrees above zero, rising to 20 today as fair and warmer conditions were forecast for most southern states.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Arkansas
Little Rock
Birmingham
Nashville
Atlanta
New Orleans
Mercury
Florida
Pensacola
Miami
Tampa
West Palm Beach
Charlotte
Columbia
Congressmen Barred From Army and Navy Service
President Roosevelt issued a directive barring members of Congress from serving in active components of the armed forces. Attorney General Biddle advised the constitution forbids simultaneous service, closing a long political issue as lawmakers previously joined the ranks. Rep. Albert Gore of Tennessee and Rep. Jackson of Washington were among those affected, Gore reporting to Camp Shelby and Jackson serving as a tank crewman at Fort McClellan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Secretaries of War and Navy
Congress
Biddle
Stephen Early
Stimson
Knox
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Camp Shelby
Miss
Gore
Tennessee
Rep
Jackson
D-Wash
Fort McClellan
Seven Burned to Death in Shipyard Dormitory Fire
In Richmond California a dormitory for shipyard workers burned killing at least seven men and injuring seven others. Police report the bodies recovered and a search to find additional victims was underway. The blaze was discovered around 3 a.m. by a guard who fired to wake occupants.
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Richmond
Calif
James Arbuckle
Arbuckle
Five Men Indicted On Draft Charges
Five men including John Edward Wilson Dr Arnold Hutschnecker Army Lieutenant Francis Grottano and Michael Mangano were indicted for conspiring to falsify Von Gontard’s draft status and to aid evasion. They allegedly pressured draft board officials about Von Gontard a key figure in a Brooklyn based uniform company. The case cites medical history records and a normal selective service physical.
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New York
Gert Hans von Gontard
Tientis
Collene
von Gontard
J. Gerard Cregan
Cregan
Grattano and
Mangano
Draft Board
Uniform Manufacturing Company
Los Angeles
Wilson
Hutschnecker
National safety drive cites 18000 industrial casualties
Washington reports 18000 soldiers of production killed annually in U S war plant accidents as the War Production Board launches a national industrial safety campaign.
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Washington
U. S
War Production Board
Sergeant's Skill Saves Liberator And Crew In New Guinea
Advanced bomber base New Guinea Jan 9. Tech Sgt Walter Tadys, a flight engineer and former carpenter, improvised a hydraulic control fix from heater parts to recover a four engine Liberator with gear hydraulics shot out and wheels failing to lock. He guided a safe belly landing as an engine cut out, earning praise from crew members including 2nd Lt Charles P. Pomerlin and 2nd Lt Allen Jones Jr.
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Asahel Bush
New Guinea
New Britain
Tech
Sgt
Walter
Tadys
Charles P. Pomerlin
Buffalo
N.Y
Donald J. O'Brien
Chicago
Thomas Ivan
Mondaminla
Ivan
Allen Jones, Jr
Seneca
S.C
Soviet Advances Close on Bug River Rail Junction
Soviet forces under Gen. Vatutin and Gen. Konev moved within 15 miles of the Bug river and near Vinnitsa threatening the Odessa Warsaw railway. A push toward a Smela Gap junction could trap German troops while Sarny’s capture would force reliance on Brest Litovsk for north south rail links. Reports spoke of a chaotic German retreat and a potential ring near Smela as the Red armies pressed in from both flanks.
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Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Bug River
Vinnitsa
Dnieper
Smela Gap
Dnieper River
Ivan S. Konev
Alexandrovka
Kirovograd
Sarny
Old Poland
Vatutin
Zhornische
Zhornischche
Odessa-Warsaw
Transylvania
Rumania
Schastlivaya
Ukraine
Ochakov
Black Sea
Dni
Berlin
Berdichev
Kirovegrad
Wilno-Rovno
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Stockholm
Dnieepr
Buki
Alexanddrovka
Smela
Congress Receives Legion Bill for Postwar GI Benefits
A bipartisan group in Congress receives a Legion backed plan offering post discharge aid for G I Joes and Jains. Demobilization pay scales range from 100 to 500 dollars by service length, with unemployment credits doubled, education stipends, and federal aid to states for veteran home loans. The proposal also elevates the Veterans Bureau to a vital war agency and expands rehabilitation and hospital programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Legion
Congress
Senate
House
Legion
G. I. Joe
G. I. Jane
Veterans’ Bureau
War and Navy Departments
Veterans Bureau
Veterans Administration
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FDR
Hal V. Boyle
Rome
U.S
Arcadia
North Africa
Army
Navy
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