New Offensive Near Gomel Expands Across Wide Front
Soviet General Vatutin’s first Ukrainian army widened its Sarny front to over 50 miles and struck toward Rovno Pinsk and Kovel. Rokossovsky’s White Russian army moved toward Mozyr as German forces fall back toward Pinsk. Other columns advanced from Sarny to Dombrovitsa and toward Kovel as Konev’s second Ukrainian army pressed east of Vinnitsa.
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Henry
Beyar
Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Sarny
Old Poland
Rovno
Pinsk
Kovel
Vatutin
Dobrovitsa
Mozyr
Gomel
Rokossovsky
Tpl
Revne
Anlenossovsky
Pripet
Sluch
Dombrovitsa
Warsaw
Ukraine
Vinnitsa
Belaya Tserkov
Ivan 5
Konev
Vatu
Altmeyer urges automatic social security tax rise to 2 percent
A J Altmeyer with the social security board and AFL official Lewis G Hines urged the House Ways and Means Committee to let the tax rise automatically to 2 percent starting January 1, arguing freezing at 1 percent would force future subsidies and create inequities. Senate had frozen the tax through 1944 by a 48 to 17 vote. hearings opened as Republicans predicted Senate action would stand.
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Washington
A. J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Senate
Congress
Altmeyer
House
Ways and Means
Lewis G. Hines
AFL
Rep. Knutson
R-Minn
Old Age and Survivors Insurance
Old-Age and Survivors Incurance Trust
Taxi Drivers In Raleigh Strike Over City Fare Rates
About 200 Raleigh taxi drivers remained on strike awaiting a city commissioners’ ruling on a petition to set city rates of 50 cents for one or two passengers and 25 cents for each additional rider. The drivers, serving roughly 75 cabs, protested that some were unfairly charged in court for charging too much. Spokesman George A. Bailey said the non union did not know what to do as the Office of Defense Transportation urged shared rides. The group vowed to stay out until the issue is resolved and sought a special session with the commissioners.
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Raleigh
George A. Bailey
Office of Defense Transportation
American casualties total 139,800 since war began
Washington reports total American casualties since the war’s start exceed 139,800. Army losses reach 105,220 with 16,831 killed 38,916 wounded 24,067 missing and 25,415 prisoners of war. Fifth Army in Italy records 18,119 casualties including 2,798 killed and 11,762 wounded. Navy Marine Coast Guard losses list 15,186 killed 6,616 wounded 8,429 missing and 4,292 POWs.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Marine
Coast Guard
Stimson
5Th
Italy
Navy-Marine-Coast Guard
FDR Pushes for Higher Tax Bill as War Revenue Grows
President Roosevelt urges Congress to raise taxes by about 10.5 billion dollars beyond current revenues to fund war costs. Senate consideration aims at roughly 2.275 billion in additional revenue, with experts noting little chance of far beyond these figures. He cites high personal incomes and record corporate profits as justification for extra revenue.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Administration
Morgenthau
Death Wave Of Flu Epidemic Is Receding
The census bureau reports the influenza death wave has peaked for the year and began to recede last week. Major cities show a seven percent drop in deaths, with declines in all regions except the West coast where deaths rose eleven point nine percent.
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Washington
Census Bureau
West Coast
Soldier dies at Camp Butner from trench knife accident
Pte. Joseph H. Wargala, 21, of Depew, was fatally injured yesterday at Camp Butner when he accidentally fell on a trench knife during a rest period between classes in his regimental area.
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Oseph H. Wargala
Depew
Camp Butner
New Mustang P-51B Breaks Long Range Air Battle Record
The P-51B Mustang, newest and longest range single engine fighter, claimed to have destroyed at least 14 German aircraft in Tuesday air battles over England. It operates with Thunderbolts and Lightnings, escorts bombers, and may spearhead invasions. Armament includes four wing guns and a nose cannon sacrificed for range.
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U. S
England
United States Army Air Forces
Mediterranean
Pilot Bails Out As Army Plane Crashes In Charlotte
A small army plane crashed and burned in Charlotte after pilot Staff Sgt. William H. Wood jumped to safety. Wood from Morris Field reported the craft became unmanageable and forced him to parachute before impact. he was uninjured.
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Charlotte
Jan
William H. Wood
Morris Field
Wood
Leaves From War Correspondent's Notebook Movies Irk Fighters
HAL BOYLE reports at an American airfield in Italy on soldiers reacting to war films. Troops view cinema history with mixed feelings, criticizing patriotic narratives and battlefield accuracy while appreciating realistic depictions.
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Hal Boyle
Italy
Army Life Overseas
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Hollywood
Hitlerians Offer Romanian Lands for Peace to Russia
Three British officers parachuted into Romania with a German offer to cede all of Bessarabia and Bukovina to Russia if the Soviets end the war. The claim places the messengers in Bucharest after meeting Romanian military authorities. they reportedly hold POW status and preferred treatment.
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Bern
Switzerland
Rumania
Russia
Bucharest
Budapest
Basler Nachrichten
Bessarabia
Bucovina
Ion Antonescu
Antonescu
Soviet Papers Show Map of Polish Border Curzon Line
Soviet newspapers printed a large map of the Curzon line and reviewed the Russian Polish border dispute since 1919. Observers saw it as a sign of progress toward an amicable settlement and as an opening to negotiations with Russia ready to do business on the Curzon line.
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Moscow
Liberator Bombers Raid Japanese Aluminum Plant and Bangkok Lines
Unescorted Liberator bombers attacked the Japanese aluminum plant at Takao in Formosa and the Bangkok railroad yards in Thailand during two night raids. It marked the first blow at Bangkok from China-based bombers, as Tokyo reported Formosa was struck and Bangkok raid continued over an hour and a half.
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14TH
U. S. Air Force
China
Takao
Formosa
Bagkok
Thailand
Bangkok
Bill Sharpe To Return To State News Bureau
Raleigh January 13 The advertising committee of the state department of conservation and development proposed to offer its news bureau manager post to Bill Sharpe who resigned last year to head public relations for Fairchild Aircraft. Garland Porter has filled the post since. A formal announcement was not issued but Governor Broughton was expected to discuss Sharpe’s return within a day.
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Raleigh
State Department of Conservation and Development
J. L. Horne Jr
Bill Sharpe
Fairchild Aircraft
Burlington
Sharpe
Garland Porter
Winston-Salem
Atlanta
Broughton
Fifth Army Advances in Italy Amid Mountain Warfare
Allied forces push toward Cassino as American units reach three miles from the town in a frontal assault. French troops secure peaks on Monna Casale and near Roccheia, threatening the Cassino route. Luftwaffe activity limited by weather with Allied air and sea support sustaining the push.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Fifth Army
Italy
Cassino
Cerraro
Germ
Alphonse Juin
Roccheia
Verraro
Isernia
Monna Casale
Mt. Mollino
Mt. Raimo
Viticuso
Juin
Europe
Cassino-Atina
Eighth Army
Sofia
Adriatic
RAF
Wellingtons
Peruglia
Restraints Placed On Associated Press
A special three judge federal court barred the AP from observing by laws that let members weigh competitive effects of membership applications. The court kept AP free to restrict admission on other grounds and stayed the judgment pending possible appeal within 60 days to the U S Supreme Court in the Civil anti trust suit filed in 1942.
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New York
Associated Press
Supreme Court of the United States
FDR Says U S Readies Offensive Across All War Fronts
President Roosevelt told Congress that after years of effort Allied forces are poised for offensives in all theatres. He outlined a four phase plan ending in total victory and projected a 90 billion dollar war outlay for the coming year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
America
Britain
Europe
Germany
Japan
Pacific
New Bombers On Runway To Counter Nazi Attacks
London dated January 13 1944 American bombers rushed to replace 59 lost in Tuesday raid on central Germany. Eighth Air Force says replacements acceptable as more than 100 Nazi planes were shot down and three Nazi production centers damaged. Airmen say the three hour battle was a victory.
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London
Germany
Eighth Airforce
Cicero Man Receives Purple Heart at Cherry Point
Anton F. Matulewicz of Cicero Illinois was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in action in the Solomon Islands area on December 19 1942. Brigadier General Claude A. Larkin presented the medal at Cherry Point where he commands the third Marine Aircraft Wing.
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Cherry Point
Anton F. Matulewicz
Cicero
Solomons Islands
Claude A. Larkin
Third Marine Aircraft Wing
Roosevelt proposes record food output as AAA crop payments end
President Roosevelt in a budget message calls for greatest farm production to meet war demand and eliminates major AAA crop payments for 1944. He notes 1944 could top 1943 output, recommends a 33 percent cut in USDA spending for 1945, and outlines proposed support prices pending CCC funding and RFC loans.
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Ovida
Martin Washington
Roosevelt
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Ing
Congress
Department
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
War Food Administration
WFA
Roosevelt outlines vast wartime budget for 1945
President Roosevelt presented a second wartime budget calling for $90 billion in war expenditures beginning July 1 1944 and total war program outlays of $397 billion through June 1945. He urged higher taxes and subsidies to control costs and affirmed demobilization and postwar reconversion as major challenges requiring timely action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Europe
Typhus Epidemic Threatens Naples and Southern Italy
Cairo report says Naples typhus has grown fiftyfold since October and could threaten the Allied war effort though troops remain unaffected. Brig. Gen. Leon A. Fox, field director of the U S typhus commission, warns Naples is seriously threatened and the danger may extend to southern Italy.
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Cairo
Naples
Leon A. Fox
Birmingham
Ala
Fox
United States Typhus Commission
Italy
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