Servicemen's Legislation Tops Lawmakers' Agenda
A bi partisan group backed higher service men mustering out pay with debates set for Monday. Lemke urged at least two days for discussion while Ketcham of the VFW warned of risks to other veteran benefits. Strategy talks involved AR legislators across states as voting supervision and federal versus state control divide Republicans and Democrats.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
Sng
Fcung
Aed
Lemke
R-Nd
Senate
House Military Committee
House
Omar B. Ketcham
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ketcham
McCormack
Mass
Partisans Make Progress In Fiume Drive
Yugoslav partisans under Marshal Tito gain headway toward the German held base at Fiume as German patrols threaten Sarajevo. The communique cites two eastern Bosnia towns captured, heavy clashes near Novomesta, and Allied bombers striking Mostar to aid the partisans.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Fiume
Sarajevo
Bosnia
Novomesta
Varbas
Jajce
Biam
Janja
Banja Pose
Mostar
Balkans
87 Tons A Minute Bomber Raid On Brunswick Breaks Record
RAF blockbuster raid on Brunswick central Germany dropped 2000 long tons of bombs in 23 minutes creating a record 87 tons per minute. Mosquito feints disrupted Luftwaffe defenses as 38 British planes were lost. daylight raids followed on the French coast and other fronts.
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Brunswick
RAF
London
Berlin
Magdeburg
Germany
Rai
Airo
Luftwaffe
France
Consen
Be City
Hannover
Air Ministry
Ee Po Bn
Norway
Black Sea
French Forces Rally Forward Near Cassino In Italy
Allied reports from Algiers say French units pushed two to five miles toward Cassino in the Gustav line region. Acquafondata and nearby points fell as American forces moved closer to Cassino with continued Appenine offensives. Air operations supported ground advances and targeted Yugoslav supply hubs.
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Allied
Algiers
Europe
Italy
Cassino
Acquafondata
Ea Ba Des
Mark W. Clark
Alphone Juin
Iive
15Th
Tudaea
Gustav Line
Mt. Trocchio
Fifth Army
Yugoslavia
Mostar
Adriatic
Sibenik
Eighth Army
Hull reorganizes department for wartime and postwar duties
Secretary Hull announces a far reaching reorganization to prepare the state department for wartime and postwar duties. New committees led by Hull will coordinate foreign policy and postwar planning while twelve major line offices create geographic divisions for Europe Far East Near East Africa and the Americas.
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Washigton
State Department
Secreary Cordell Hull
Hull
Leo Pasvolsky
Norman H. Davis
American Red Cross
Myron C. Taylor
Isiah Bowman
Johns Hopkins University
Als
Europe
Far East
Near East
Africa
Department
International Communications
Office of Public Information
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
G. Howland Shaw
Soviet Russia
Stettinius
Soviet Union
United States
Penicillin credited with saving brain abscess patient at Walter Reed
Army doctors report a soldier Private Herbert F. Collins 23 Holyoke Mass cured of a secondary brain abscess from a distant infection after penicillin treatment begun in October. He recovered enough to go home for Christmas and even perform a tire change. Doctors note this as a unique success against a secondary brain infection fed through the bloodstream.
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Washington
Herbert F. Collins
Holyoke
Mass
Walter Reed Hospital
Collins
Senator George Calls Pearson Columnist a Liar
Senator George of Georgia, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, denounced columnist Drew Pearson as lying about influence on his tax votes. The remark followed Pearson’s claim that Senator Gillette urged Secretary Hull to seek the Democratic nomination for president.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate Today
Drew Pearson
United States Chamber of Commerce
Senate Finance Committee
Gillette
Dtown
Pearson
Hull
Nazis Reported Concentrated On Turk Border
London dispatches relay reports of German troop concentrations along the Bulgarian Turkish frontier. Sofia reportedly under pressure, Bulgaria fears loss of neutrality as Sofia evacuates other cities after heavy bombing. curfew and penalties for spreading alarm.
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Turk Border
London
Stockholm
Sofia
Tabet Inonu
Cairo
Roosevelt
Minist Churchill
Bulgaria
Turkey
Budapest
Todor Christov
German air raid over England prompts brief London alert
About a dozen German planes crossed into England, with several reaching the London area. Heavy gunfire along the Thames followed the raid and one Nazi plane was shot down.
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London
England
Thames
Admiral Halsey cites pilot shortages among Japanese in South Pacific
Centerville Delaware reports Admiral William F. Halsey stated that Japanese air squadrons in the South Pacific lack officer pilots due to a shortage, affecting their air operations.
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Centerville
Del
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Jap Strong Points Falling as Allied Raids Advance
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Australian troops were nearing Sio on New Guinea's Huon peninsula while American Marines fought up Hill 660 and over Bergen Bay at Cape Gloucester on New Britain, signaling the fall of two Japanese strong points.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Sio
New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
Bergen Bay
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Allied advance toward Sio Mission on Huon Peninsula
Allied forces push toward Sio Mission as Japanese defenders reportedly retreat to delay the Australian onslaught. MacArthur’s spokesman says the enemy conducts rear guard actions while Aussies reach the mission outskirts.
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Foy Fallen
Anya
New Guinea
Sio
Huon Peninsula
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Australians Close in on Japanese On Huon Peninsula
Australian forces capture artillery and supplies as they trap retreating Japanese on the Huon Peninsula near Saidor. Marines fight on Hill 660 overlooking Bergen Bay while U S Seventh Airforce pounds the Marshall Islands.
Democrats Stand On War Records Asserts Walker
National Chairman Walker criticizes the war record ahead of the 1944 election and vows to present results to the country. He comments on Roosevelt’s potential fourth term and notes a New York state Democratic resolution backing a fourth term for Roosevelt.
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Harrison E. Spangler
Frank C. Walker
Walter S. Hallanan
Chicago
Walker
Syracuse
N. Y
Acw Cras
Roosevelt
Soviet Reply To Poland Nears, London Reports
London dispatch notes a Soviet reply to Polish overtures for talks to settle differences with Russia. Kremlin studies policy proposals for joint mediation with Britain and the United States. An affirmative reply may depend on Moscow's stance toward the exiled Polish government.
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London
Poland
Russia
Red Army
Kremlin
Moscow
Bond rally speaker contrasts wartime costs with Civil War
Tom C. Clark assistant U S attorney general told a Young Democratic clubs of North Carolina rally in Charlotte that the nation spends in two weeks what the Civil War cost for both sides.
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Charlotte
Tom C. Clark
U. S
Young Democratic Clubs of
North Carolina
United States
Ponza island learns war is underway and Mussolini’s fate
Belman Morin reports on Ponza, a remote Italian island where residents largely speak Brooklynese. After Mussolini’s ouster and his brief confinement, Allied officers arrived, discovering a fascist-backed local government with an isolated jail, a small police force, and minimal public activity.
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Belman Morinnaples
Ponza
James Kincaid
New York City
Sardinia
Kincaid
Richard Werner
Salinas
Calif
AMG
Italy
Mussolini
Soviet mobile units push toward old Polish border as Russians attack near Leningrad
Soviet forces in southern white Russia moved west toward the old Polish border about 55 miles away. In the Ukraine Russian troops repelled 2,000 German counterattacks. A Moscow broadcast claimed a major Russian drive near Leningrad and further advances through the Pripet marshes with heavy German losses.
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London
Russia
Ukraine
Moscow
Berlin
Leningrad
Mozyr
Pripet
Skrigalov
Kalinkovichi
Pinsk
Nikolai Vatutin
Odessa- Lavon
Dnieper Bend
Vinnitsa
Uman
Vinnitss
Rovno
Old Poland
Aidi Vatutin
Sarny
Red Army
Oranienbaum
Lake Ilmen
Nevel
Luce’s Only Daughter dies in California car crash
Ann Clare Brokaw 19 daughter of Rep Clare Boothe Luce was killed in an auto crash January 11 in Palo Alto California. She will be buried Wednesday at Strawberry Chapel Berkeley County in an old Episcopal churchyard.
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Charleston
S. C
Ann Clare Brokaw
Clare Boothe Luce
Strawberry Chapel
Berkeley County
Miss Brokaw
Palo Alto
Calif
Ceiling prices set on Appalachian hardwood logs
The Office of Price Administration announced ceiling prices for all Appalachian hardwood logs at 21 to 29 dollars per 1000 feet log scale for woods run grade, issued at buyers' request.
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Washington
Appalachian
Office of Price Administration
OPA
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