Allied Air Power Sinks 10,000-Ton Japanese Merchant Ship
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports Black Cats Sik planes sank a 10,000-ton Japanese merchant vessel and left two other cargo ships aflame off Kavieng New Ireland. Four merchantmen and two warships were damaged or destroyed as Allied air operations expanded across New Guinea and New Britain.
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Kavieng New Ireland
MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Nort
Saidor
Pacific
Arawe
Amer
Madang
New
Bogadjim
Sio
Churchill Surprises Commons Return After Pneumonia Recovery
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill returned to the House of Commons in London after convalescing in North Africa from pneumonia. He appeared in good health, declined changes to his duties, and the gathering hailed his reappearance with cheers.
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London
Churchill
Middle East
House of Commons
Europe
Oliver
Lampson
Herbert Alliam
L. Montgomery
Rome
Dwight D Eisenhower
Commons
Britain
Roosevelt
Stalin
Teheran
North Africa
Trinity House
Clement Attlee
Chiang Kai-Shek
Cairo
Germany
Attlee
Marrakech
Morocco
Offer To Mediate Not Ejected Yet
Washington reports say Hull’s offer to resume diplomatic relations with Poland and the Soviet Union did not reach Moscow by morning. Russia’s response remained uncertain as Britain and America pressed for intervention to resolve the Poland Russia dispute.
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Ediate
Washington
Hull
Poland
Moscow
Atdf
Averell Harri
Amer
Communist Journal of
Brit
Ribben
Hopkins letter forgery alleged in Hopkins controversy
Washington reports say Francis Hopkins letter about Harry Hopkins and Wendell Willkie is a forgery. Interior official N Briggs is suspended while grand jury probes the Hopkins letter publication tied to Interior aide claims by Senator Langer. Briggs denies wrongdoing through his wife in Alexandria as the FBI investigates.
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Washington
Ry A. Schweinhaut
se“Hopkins
Presidnl
Harry Hopkins
Windell Willkie
Ickesto
N. Briggs
Grand
Hopkins
District Columbia
Lehweinhaut
Peaur
Ickes
Grand Jury
Langer
Rec N. Briggs
Briggs
Alexandria
Ewsmen
Briggster
Interior Department
Federals of Investigation
Moscow Puts Foot Down On Carol's Hopes
Washington dispatch reports a Soviet publication dismisses any chance former King Carol of Romania returning to power. It brands him a traitor to democracy and allied ideals and says Antonescu’s rule will endure, predicting no restoration for Carol.
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Moscow
Carol
Washington
Romania
Antonescu
Ion Antonescu
Rumania
United Nations
Imne
Bulletin
Washateste
Profiteers Strain Nation as WPB Chief Issues Warning
War Production Board Chairman Donald Nelson warns at a Britannic allied dinner that profiteers threaten national unity by backing would-be Hitlers. He cites pressure groups and wartime strikes as men risking democracy to seek profits during the war.
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Washington
America
War Production Board
WPB
Donald Nelson
Combined Production and Resources Board
Nelson
Chinese General Saved By American Doctors
In China’s front lines Gen Cha o Yao Ming received an emergency appendectomy by lantern light after two American medical officers reached the jungle hospital by plane. Capt. H L Stop of Idaho and Capt. Debose Eggleston of Georgia performed the operation in a mud building starting at 2 a.m. It was completed two hours later and the general was given American blood plasma and is recovering well.
Ground crew heroes praised for 200 bombing missions
Leaves From War Correspondent's Notebook visits a base in Italy where ground crews kept Flying Fortresses ready. A lieutenant colonel urges a medal for ground crew, noting they kept engines turning and planes airborne across 200 raids, while pilots faced risk abroad. The piece emphasizes loyalty, hard work, and long overseas service.
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Italy
Air Force
Ttle
England
North Africa
French Troops Occupy Sant Elia Near Cassino
Allied dispatch reports French forces occupied Sant Elia three miles northeast of Cassino after advancing from the Rapido river. American patrols probed Gustav line defenses while Allied air fleets targeted rail and dock facilities from Prato to Anzio. Weather varied from cloudy hills to cold coastal winds as operations continued along the Fifth and Eighth Army fronts.
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Edward Kennedy
Algiers
Rapido River
Cassino
Gustav Line
Sant’ Elia
Rapido
Valvori
Fifth Army
Mt. Castellone
Adriatic
Tommaso
Eighth Army
Pisa
U. S
Prato
Pontassieve
Florence Arezzo
Rome
Chiaravelle
Viterbo
Orte
Anzio
Palo
Sibenik
Britain's National Debt Rises to 19.24 Billion Pounds
In London on January 18, the House of Commons heard that Britain's national debt stood at about 19.239 billion pounds as of December 31, up from 8.026 billion in 1938. Sir John Anderson, chancellor of the exchequer, disclosed the figures. The U.S. gross public debt was cited as 165.877 billion dollars.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
John Anderson
United States
Eight Die In Army Transport Plane Crash
An army transport plane crashed after taking off from Oakland airport killing eight aboard. The twin engined craft fell into a residential area and struck a house, with the resulting fire spreading to several other homes. Police said occupants of the house likely escaped.
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Oakland
Calif
Labor Draft Legislation Set Aside By Committee
The House Military Committee voted to set aside Roosevelt's national service draft proposal indefinitely. Chairman May said the move is not a rejection and hearings may be held later to reassess the need for compulsory service, with the Senate lining up related discussions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
House Military Committee
White House
May
Dky
Senate Military Committee
House
Ex-Draft Board Official Dies After 14-Story Plunge
John Edward Wilson, 58, former draft board No. 20 chief clerk, died after leaping from a midtown 14 story building. He had been indicted with brewery heir Gert Hans Von Gontard on conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act and faced additional charges related to trying to keep a restaurant owner from enlisting. Four notes found, two to his wife, one to a friend, one unsigned, referenced the indictment. Police quoted him saying this was the only way out.
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New York
John Edward Wilson
Draft Board
Gert Hans von Gontard
Selective Service Act
Draft Board No. 20
Wilson
Woman defies tax program in postwar reserve stand
Vivien Kellems of Westport Connecticut industrialist and war plant owner urges businesses to join her in a Westport tea party and withhold postwar reserves from taxes to fund ongoing operations and workers' wages. She objects to forgiveness schemes and pay as you go tax rules claiming they tax wartime profits and demand profits on work not yet completed.
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Kansas City
Vivien Kellems
Westport
Conn
All Bulgarian Reserve Officers Under 60 Called
ISTANBUL Jan 17. An official Sofia announcement says all Bulgarian reserve officers under 60 not already in service are ordered to report for Army duty.
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Istanbul
Sofia
Battle of Walt's Ridge at Cape Gloucester forces hold amid jungle
Marines clash with Japanese in the Battle of Walt's Ridge on New Britain. Lt. Col. Lewis Walt commands from a forward post as five Japanese charges are repelled in brutal hand to hand fighting amid dense jungle and ceaseless rain.
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Bullseyve
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
U. S. Coast Guard
International
United States
Walt’s Ridge
Lewis Walt
Fort Collins
Colo
Walt
Fall Would Imperil Nazis In South
Moscow dispatch reports Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's Ukrainian Army nearing Rovno and a rail hub south of Pinsk as part of a broader offensive. Russian forces threaten southern and western Russia while sustaining advances along the Leningrad front and toward Uman.
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Henry
Cassidy
Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Rovno
Old Poland
Pinsk
Vatutin
Pripet
Berdichev
Warsaw
Lwow
Russia
Novogee Voyacki
Tuchin
Horyn
Goringrad
Leningrad
Novoskoliiki
Velikie
Lukie
Riga
Nevel
Lake Ilman
Oranienbaum
Berlin
Red Army
Nevil
Lake Ilmen
Vitebsk
Ivan Bagramian
White Russia
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Sarny
Noryn
Ukraine
Uman
Yarovatka
Smela - Khristinovka
Dnieper
Vinnitsa
Heavy Losses Inflicted On Nazis By Tito
Tito reports Yugoslav partisans have inflicted heavy losses on German motorized forces attempting to push through western Bosnia toward Glamoc near Banja Luka while German marines land on Brac island south of Split. Fighting rages north toward Glamoc and at Mrkonjkgrad with Partisan 4th division routing a detachment and capturing three field guns, 1000 shells, and war gear.
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London
Bosnia
Glamoc
Banja Luka
Army of Liberation
Brac
Split
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Mrkonjkgrad
Montenegro
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