Many Issues Confronting Washington On Weekend
Wartime manpower worries dominate Washington as labor problems take center stage with talk of a 48 hour work week. Congress may push the measure while miners and unions react to a coal strike affecting production. Senator Reed plans a Senate showdown once he returns from the Midwest, aiming to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to start overtime after 48 hours.
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Associated Press
Washington
Edward J. Flynn
Board of Warfare
South America
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
Agriculture and Manpower
War Manpower Commission
War Production Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers International
Reed
R-Kas
Senate
Midwest
Committee On Education and Labor
Semi Circle Closely closes in on Rostov base
Red Army forces sweep through 30 towns along the Don and Donets lines and toward Rostov, closing a semicircle around the Nazi base at the gateway to the Caucasus. Russians press toward the Donets and Sal-Manych hills as battlefront dispatches signal an imminent assault on Rostov.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Donets
Kamensk
Manych River
Rostov
Caucasus
Don
Miners Stay Out As WLB Orders Resume Work
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania thirty eight hundred men previously not on strike join the wildcat walkout amid a War Labor Board ultimatum directing 10 000 to 17 000 strikers to return to work. The dispute centers on a 50 cent monthly union dues cut and a $2 a day wage bonus demanded by the United Mine Workers leaders.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers
UMW
Roosevelt
WLB
Labor Board
UMWA
John L. Lewis
Acton
Ormal
RAISE
Lewis
Lorient Hit Again In RAF Night Attacks On Germans
London reports Allied air forces conducted heavy night raids on Lorient, a key German submarine base in Western France, with large fires in dock areas and repeated strikes in the ongoing campaign. RAF forces also targeted western Germany, France, Holland, and Belgium, while German raids hit inland England causing damage and casualties.
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London
Lorient
France
Air Ministry
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Lorenz
U. S
British Isles
RAF
Continent
England
Hazebrouck
Ypres
Aerial clash nets 23 enemy planes down in Tunisian fight
Allied fighters and bombers scored a major victory over Axis air forces in Tunisia, downing 23 German and Italian planes. Two major actions accounted for most of the toll as P 38s and B 25s fended off Axis transport aircraft off the Tunisian coast. Ground fighting on the Tripolitanian front intensified with patrols inflicting casualties and a possible Montgomery push from the east toward Rommel.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Rommel
Tank
Bernard M Montgomery
Tripoli
Gulf of
Sirte
Tunisian
Gabes
Navy says 3 Japanese destroyers damaged in Solomons raids
In reported actions around Guadalcanal American forces claim 30 enemy planes shot down and a burning cargo ship after strikes on five destroyers near the Russell Islands and nine destroyers northwest of Lunga Point. Seven US planes lost as seven days of heavy fighting continue.
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Washington
Navy
Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal
United States
Solomons
Catalina
Russell Islands
Dauntless
Navy Marine Corps Wildcat
Lunga Point
Con
Reed To Press Bill Setting 48-Hour Week
Senator Reed announces plan to force an early Senate vote on a 48 hour work week bill amending the 1938 act. The measure would start time and a half pay after 48 hours, not 40, and would not apply where contracts govern pay.
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Washington
Reed R-Kas
Senate
Reed
Sesson
Education and Labor Committee
New Purges In Poland Start by Germans
London reports describe German led executions arrests and mass deportations in Poland as the war's largest extermination drive. A 60 mile wide corridor through Silesia targets Poles and defenses along the east wall. Thousands arrested in Warsaw and beyond. up to 1700 killed in one village. children and women segregated for deportation or camps.
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London
Gestapo
Warsaw
Silesia
Russia
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajczyk
Reich
Calcutta AA Defenses Score Perfect Against Jap Raid
New Delhi January 16 Calcutta anti aircraft defenses shot down three Japanese bombers in a single wake up raid praised by a British communique credit to Flight Sergeant Maurice Pring 21, who previously had three enemy planes. The raid caused little damage while other British air operations targeted ships on the Chindwin and Irrawaddy rivers and the Magwe airdrome 120 miles northeast of Akyab.
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New Delhi
Calcutta
Maurice Pring
Akyab
Burma
RAF Blenheim
Chindwin
Irrawaddy
Magwe
Chilean Proxy Is Backed By Former Leader
SANTIAGO January 16 14 President Juan Antonio Rios has the support of former President Carlos Ibanez for any move toward breaking relations with the Axis Ibanez defeated Rios last election and says he opposes a break without full information but will back the president’s decisions He believes sovereignty will be preserved and the nation’s interests served Former President Arturo Alessandri who supported Rios also opposes a rupture of relations
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Santiago
Chile
Juan Antonio Rios
Carlos Ibanez
Axis
Ibanez
Rios
Arturo Alessandri
AFL Labor Leader Sentenced in Newburgh
Samuel Nuzzo a 40 year old labor leader was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in Sing Sing for misappropriating more than 89000 from a union whose members work on a 300 million dollar NYC water project. Convicted Jan 7 on 32 of 33 counts including grand larceny forgery and petit larceny while chief business agent of Local 17 AFL. Acquitted on one count for 115.60 for a movie camera. A third indictment of 5452 counts for about 25500 is pending.
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Newburgh
N. Y
Samuel Nuzzo
Sing Sing
New York City
Nuzzo
State Supreme Court
Local 17
International Hod Carrying and Common Laborers Union
AFL
Grew Warns Nation Of Jujitsu Peace Plot By Japan
Former Ambassador Joseph C. Grew warned that Japan may attempt a jujitsu peace maneuver to lull the United States into dropping guard and then strike. He spoke at a Women's Republican Club luncheon outlining how Tokyo might simulate surrender to ambush Allied forces.
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Grew
Nation
New York
Japan
United States
Joseph C. Grew
National Republican Club
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Iraq Declares War on Axis in World War II
The Iraqi foreign affairs office informed Secretary Hull that Iraq is at war with Germany Italy and Japan effective after midnight. The communique blames Germany for interference in Iraq’s domestic affairs and accuses Italy and Japan of similar acts and aiding the Axis.
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Washington
Iraq
Hull
Germany
Italy
Japan
Four Minute General Assembly Session Produces One Local Bill
RALEIGH January 16. Only one local bill was introduced as the Senate and House held four minute sessions with about 20 members present. A letter from George W Enloe urged higher funding for feeble minded children and Caswell training school expansion. The House also received a petition from Graham county on wine and beer ballot. The lone bill from Rep Deal would let veteran veterinarian practice in Alexander county after paying state tax. Budget reviews covered Adjutant General Metts and library services with requests for increased library aid and utilities budgets.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
George W. Enloe
Charlotte
Caswell Training School
Appropriations Committee
House A
Graham County
Deal
Alexander
Alexander County
Joint Appropriations Committee
J. van B. Metts
Adjutant General's Office
Stanley Winborn
Marjorie Beal
State Library Commission
Beal
WPA
Assembly
Historical Commission
State Library
Library Commission
More Japanese Are Killed In New Guinea
Allied headquarters in Australia reports that in Papua New Guinea Allied forces broke through at Sanananda and killed 152 Japanese who tried to halt the advance. Forces also raided Mubo area, destroying an enemy HQ, a radio station, and supply dumps, with 116 Japanese killed in yesterday's action.
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Australia
New Guinea
Sanananda
Buna
Papua
Mubo
Salamaua
NMB Abandons Mediation in Railroad Wage Dispute
Chicago January 16 The National Mediation Board announced it had abandoned its mediation effort over wage and closed shop demands of more than 900000 non operating employees of class one railroads The board said it was confident the dispute could still be settled without a strike vote and that no threat to wartime railway transportation exists at present
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Chicago
National Mediation Board
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Black Sea
Turkey
Stalingrad
Voronezh
Smolensk
Pacific
By John M. Hightower
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Metts
State Guard
War Department
Budget Commission
NMB
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