Chile Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Axis Nations
Chile announces breaking with Germany Italy and Japan after a 30 to 10 Senate vote approving President Rios decision. Axis diplomats to be notified. broadcast planned at 7 p.m. Officials say espionage and fifth column activities will be halted with suspicions rounded up and Axis propaganda outlets closed.
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Associated Press
Santiago
Chile
Axis
Senate
Rios
Germany
Italy
Japan
Baroness von Schoen
Baron Wilhelm von Schoen
Americans Kill 1 032 Japs In Five Day Fight
The Navy reports 1 032 Japanese killed on Guadalcanal from January 13 to 17 as U S forces press toward Henderson Field. Allied HQ says Papuan Peninsula garrison on Sanananda is cut into four groups after capture.
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Associated Press
Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Navy
Shortland Island
South Pacific
United States
Quadalcanal Island
Henderson
Australia
Papuan
New Guinea
Sanananda
Ensign Nelson Survives Sea Rescue After Aboard Gale Surgery
Ensign Kenneth B. Nelson 26 of Chicago survived an emergency appendectomy performed aboard a coast guard cutter during a 100 mile per hour North Atlantic gale. Lt. Paul W. Lucas led the operation with a small aboard team. Nelson recovered within a week and is on sick leave at home while fellow crew members say he is eager to return to sea.
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Washington
Coast Guard
North Atlantic
Kenneth B. Nelson
West Morse Avenue
Chicago
Navy
Paul W. Lucas
Club Boulevard
Durham
N. C
Cly B. Goodwin
Morehead City
Nelson
Lucas
Committee Seeks Eased Ban on Undersized Fish Sales
The North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development referred requests to its commercial fisheries committee to permit sale of undersized catch and raise limits on sun fish and round robin. Lieutenant W M Wells of the Navy urged lifting the ban to increase food supply. Senator Erill Evans of Currituck asked that fishermen be allowed to sell sun fish and round robin, currently treated as game fish.
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Raleigh
State Board of Conservation and Development
Commercial Fisheries Committee
W. M. Wells
Theavy
Senateerrill Evans
Currituck
Japanese Ship Shortage Deepens As U S Forces Cut Supply Lines
Allied submarines warships and planes have destroyed at least 445 Japanese naval and merchant ships. Axis reports say Japan faces a serious transport shortage despite sprawling conquests across 5000 miles of Pacific waters. To cope, Tokyo reportedly tests junk and raft transport. Berlin cites two and a half acre boo rafts ready by February. Submarines alone reportedly sink 117 vessels with additional losses and damages.
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Murray Rose
New York
Japan
Axis
Berlin
Tokyo
Senate Approves Surplus Investment Bill in North Carolina
RALEIGH Jan 20 The Senate passed an amended bill to authorize the governor and state treasurer with council of state approval to invest surplus state funds in interest bearing securities of the federal or state governments. The measure envisions possible postwar surplus and allows non federal guaranteed paper. Senate Weathers proposed changes to the State Board of Health chair qualifications as well.
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Raleigh
Senate
Council of State
O'Berry
Wayne
House
Weathers
Cleveland
State Board of Health
Assembly
Congressional Leaders Seek Streamlined War Effort
Leaders from both parties including Speaker Rayburn and James W. Wadsworth push coordinated committees to reduce duplication across Military Affairs Appropriations and other panels. The plan aims to speed decisions on war policy and funding, with potential joint sessions for Senate and House on global issues.
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Ray Tucker
Rayburn
G.O.P
James W. Wadsworth
New York
War
British Eighth Army closes on Tripoli from Nefusa ridge
Allied forces push north from Tarhuna and Homs toward Tripoli as American B‑24s hammer the Libyan capital. Axis columns retreat toward Tunisia with continued Allied air attacks and parachutist drops reported behind Rommel’s lines.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Nefusa Ridge
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tarhuna
Homs
Jefara
Sousse
Tunisia
Penetratio
North Africa
Pont du Fahs
Bou Arada-Goubellat
Bernard Montgomery
Ziliten
Rommel
Berlin
House of Morgan Opens Doors to Public Stockholders
New York January 20 The House of Morgan for the first time in its 80 year history opened its doors to show how its affairs run. The first annual meeting of new stockholders followed the February distribution of 16500 shares. J P Morgan presided with about 40 of roughly 600 new stockholders present as the secretary read nominations for directors up for reelection.
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New York
House of Morgan
J. P. Morgan and Co.,, Inc
J .P. Morgan
Morgan
Chile breaks relations with Germany Japan and Italy
Chilean Ambassador Rodolfo Michels formally notified Undersecretary Sumner Welles that Chile has broken diplomatic relations with Germany Japan and Italy. The move leaves Argentina as the only American republic with diplomatic ties in the region.
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U. 8
Washington
Rodolfo Michels
Chile
Sumner Welles
Germany
Japan
Italy
State Department
Argentina
Anis
Post War Plan of Cooperation Considered in Commons
London January 20 British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons the government will prepare a common postwar economic cooperation program with the United States Soviet Russia and other United Nations. He said progress has been made in prep work and reassured a rumor of U S S R discord is unfounded. He declined comment on Peyrouton appointment and North African politics while noting Vatican support for Allied condemnation of Axis atrocities against Jews.
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London
Anthony Eden
Commons
United States
Soviet Russia
United Nations
Eden
Marcel Peyrouton
Algeria
Vatican
German Press Admits Losses on Russian Front
Berlin reports admitted Nazi reverses on the eastern front, noting Russians have more soldiers, guns, and tanks. Basler Nachrichten warns of Stalingrad's last act with losses exceeding 20 divisions. Italys Relazioni Internationale says rapid movement warfare ends, time no longer favors the Tripartite powers.
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Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Voelkischer Beobachter
Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Basler Nachrichten
Battle of
London Bombed in Largest Daylight Raid Since Battle of Britain
London faced a daylight assault described as the largest since the Battle of Britain. Reports say 11 attacker planes were shot down by British fighters. a school was wrecked and bodies recovered from debris as two city sections were hit. Raiders attacked from Kent to London with RAF battles, anti aircraft fire, and intruder operations overnight.
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London
Associated Press
Britain
Channel
Kent
Sussex
England
RAF
Continent
Tojo Illness Delays Tokyo Diet Opening
Tokyo broadcast reports Premier Hideki Tojo is ill and the Diet recess is extended to January 27. A Domei Tokyo report cites a cold with expected recovery by the 27th. Diet resumes after New Year with cabinet speeches and two addresses by Tojo on war policy and foreign affairs.
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New York
Office of War Information
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Federal Communications Commission
Harbian
Manchukuo
Tokyo
Tojo
Masayuki Tani
Flynn Denies Knowing Flegenheimer Was Notorious Dutch Schultz
Edward J. Flynn testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he did not know Arthur Flegenheimer was Dutch Schultz when naming him a special deputy sheriff of Bronx County. He said the role was ceremonial, unpaid, and part of the sheriff's old practice of appointing friends, not a formal deputy position.
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Flynn
Arthur Flegenheimer
Washington
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bronx County
Dutch Schultz
Bridges
Senate
G. Howland Shaw
State Department
Schultz
Ofice
New York
Germans Fail To Hold Lines At Any Point
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army advancing on two fronts toward Kharkov and the Leningrad corridor. German lines are said to be unable to hold a defense anywhere along the battleline as Soviet forces press past Voronezh toward Valuiki and Urazovo, narrowing gaps near Kupiansk.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Kharkov
Ukraine
Leningrad
Voronezh
Red Star
Volkhov
London
Valuiki
Ikov
Urazovo
Red
Pittsburgh
Kastornoye
Kursk
Moscow-Rostov
Kamensk
Donets River
Rostov
Petrovskoe
Northern
Caucasus
Hitler Keeps Giant Fleet Of Subs In Action
British naval observers report Hitler maintains about 200 U boats of a fleet totaling around 500 at sea continually. Germany, aiming to outpace Allied production, reportedly builds 15 to 20 subs monthly using prefabrication, with new crews and torpedoes from large mother U boats.
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Hitler
James King
London
Adolf Hitler
United Nations
Britain
Germany
United States
Europe
French Bay of Biscay
Atlantic
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
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Blackland Army Flying School
Waco
Tex
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Pacific Ocean
Aleutians
Knox
U. S
By Frank Brutto
Relazioni Internationale
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