AMG purges Fascists as Italy code of civilian rule grows
Naples dispatch reports Allie Military Government begins year by removing known Fascists from civil government in occupied Italy. AMG aims to aid in forming a temporary civilian administration to stabilize the population and prevent enemy influence while avoiding a full permanent governance role.
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Naples
Allie
Italy
AMG
America
North
Africa
Fifth Army
Tito’s Partisans Pressing Drive Against Germans
Yugoslav Partisans report heavy fighting across Hercegovina Montenegro and the Sanjak of Bosnia while German defenses shift in Livno Duvno. Partisans seize Ljubinje beat Chetniks near Badar and clash with German forces in Sibia. Slovenian units take Belki and kill many Germans. Rail interdiction expands in Vojvodina and Cronn. German agency cites high Partisan losses. four months bring 400 guns 60 tanks and thousands captured. Exiled government notes 14,000 guerrillas isolated in the Dinara Alps.
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London
Hercegovina
Montenegro
Sanjak
Bosnia
Army of Liberation
Livno- Duvno
Ljubinje
Badar
Solvenian
Vojvodina
Cronn
Aspania
Igh
DNB
Sarajvo
Albania
Josip Broz
Dinara Alps
More Pork Less Beef for Civilians
Washington January 1944 War Food Administration announced allocation of 17 billion pounds of meat for civilian consumption. The plan would provide about 132 pounds per person, with more pork and less beef in civilian supplies.
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Washington
Jan
War Food Administration
WFA
Keeping Up With Ration Coupons
A compact record of ration stamp dates and valid periods. It lists green stamps D F in Book 4, brown stamps Q R in Book 3, brown stamps L M N P Q in Book 3, brown stamp S in Book 38, stamp 18 in Book 1 for shoes, airplane stamp 1 in Book 3, sugar stamp No 29 in Book 4, and No 9 coupons in Book A with corresponding start and end dates and usage notes.
New Year 1944 Hopeful Yet Warns of War Toll
The editorial urges turning over a new leaf in 1944 to support Allied aims in Europe and the Pacific. It notes war production nearing peaks and civilian shortages easing, while warning that heavy casualties and wounds lie ahead for U S troops. It calls readers to act at home to aid those in uniform.
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Hitler
Pacific
Europe
Hill's hillbacking home in wartime car parts shortage
Henry Linebaugh of Knoxville Tennessee used to coast up the hill to his home. The wartime shortage of automobile parts wore out his car’s low gear. Now he must back up the hill for about a half mile to reach his house.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Henry Linebaugh
Linebaugh
Yanks Hit Ballbearing Plants Near Paris in New Year Strike
Allied air forces attacked ballbearing factories at Ivry and Bois de Colombes near Paris and airfields at Chateau Bernard and St Jean d Angely while bombers raided the French invasion coast. Losses totaled 29 bombers and 3 fighters for the Allies, with 17 enemy aircraft shot down and 11 more by accompanying fighters.
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London
Paris
France
Air Ministry
United States Army
Ivry
Bois de Colombes
Chateau Bernard
St. Jean D'Angely
Cognac
Adolf Hitler
Enrollment Survey of State Public Schools in Arkansas
The State Education Department will survey enrollments across Arkansas school districts to compare the past two years. Commissioner Ralph B. Jones said the effort responds to county boards seeking to freeze funding at present levels. Some districts fear rural losses from wartime job departures, while 17 and 18 year olds in the workforce may skew results.
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Little Rock
State Education Department
Arkansas
Ralph B. Jones
Jones
Pope
Sevier
Grant
Crawford
Clark
van Buren
Garland
Drew County
Rail and steel strike cited as war delay risk
Washington dispatch reports a high official warns that the rail and steel labor troubles may prolong the European war by stiffening Axis resistance and delaying uprisings. Reactions from unions and lawmakers blame administration handling, with War Mobilization Director Byrnes named by non operating unions seeking a settlement.
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E -Washington
Tom Reedy
Washington
White House
United States
United Nations
Hitler
House of Cards
D. B. Robertson
H. W. Fraser
T. C. Cashen
Steel
United Steel Workers of America
Goebbels
Rep. Smith
Congress
Rep. Manasco
Ala
Office of War Information
Josef Saal
Britain
U.S
Reich
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Roose
Gala Festival Is Held in Philadelphia
Philadelphia on New Year’s Day saw 8000 4-Fs and veterans in a five mile parade down Broad Street. War era costumes, floats, and satins drew nearly a million spectators as bands, comic costumes, and jests lampooned Axis leaders. The Mummers’ revival, aided by a $20,000 prize fund, lasted five hours at city hall. Also noted: a push to save 6,000 tons of steel and 30 million board feet by reusing containers.
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Jack Smith
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Pearl Harbor
New Orleans
Old France
Letters Home
Mummer Association
North Africa
Italy
Hitler
Hirohito
Americans Seize Heights on Cassino Highway Front
Allied reports say Fifth Army troops seized three heights overlooking the Cassino road, a key invasion route to Rome, while the Eighth Army advances along the Adriatic toward Pescara. British raiders north of the Garigliano river destroyed a bridge and took prisoners, as heavy German fire slowed progress near Ortona and San Tommino. Weather limited air actions, with casualties and strikes on locomotives, convoys, and gun positions in the eastern sector.
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Richard G. Maslock
Algiers
Fifth Army
Cassino Highway
Rome
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pescara
Garigliano
Ortona
Cassino
San Tommino
Forhia
Minturno
Guardiagrele
Jalopy Era Arrives For American Roads
Toledo report from Willys Overland Motors notes the average age of light passenger cars in the United States is seven years. No new civilian cars since Pearl Harbor. Most popular models range from 1937 to 1941, with only three of every hundred being 1942 models.
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Toledo
United States
Willys- Overland Motors
Pearl Harbor
Auto Tag Deadline Reset to January 30
Arkansas motorists gain 30 extra days to purchase 1944 automobile license tags without penalty. Governor Adkins extended the deadline from midnight to January 30 due to the influence epidemic and manpower shortages. Revenue offices report skeleton staffs to handle motorists.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Adkins
New Year Revelry Eases War Worries Across Nation
The nation rang in 1944 with wartime restraint and hopeful cheer. In New York 900000 celebrated in Times Square, clubs charged high minimums, and some patrons at the Fenwick hotel paid five thousand dollars in war bonds. A Boston hotel group reserved tables only with such bonds, and a Buffalo youth club offered a liquorless night of soda and music for teens, seen as a success. Chicago enjoyable reservations turned to disappointment as federal agents shut down the Colony Club for nonpayment of social security taxes. A Colorado Springs Adaman club faced similar scrutiny as festivities continued with alcohol-free options and plenty of fanfare.
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Associated Press
New York
Times Square
Fensgate
Boston
Bellvue Hospital
Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
Colony Club
Adaman Club
Colorado Springs
Colo
Waterfront Child Pirates Of Bari Tests Patience Of Tourists
A Bari waterfront report describes persistent bands of young pickpockets and beggars, ages two to ten, targeting male soldiers and tourists. The chipper mobile crews operate in zones, sometimes with older handlers, selling small items or begging for coins while maintaining a rough, urban hustle. Some children are neat and clean, others poorly clad with sores, but all treat peddling and begging as the local game.
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Halbole
Bari
Italy
Allo
Johnny
Kidd
Joe
Little Joe
Greg Rice
Red Army Advances Near Old Poland Front
Red Army units pressed toward Nazi lines along a broad front near the old Poland border. Moscow said advances in multiple sectors included taking Novka, moving toward Pogrebische, and reaching near Novograd linski and Nevel. Kalinin predicted 1944 liberation of Soviet territory. German circles talked of potential peace talks and a new Berlin front stabilization plan.
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London
Novogradlinski
Novka
Moscow
Reda1
Ivan
Bagr Jan
Vitebsk
Orsha
Viteb
Nevel
Dnieper
Ukrainn
Nikopol
Mi Kalinin
Praesidium
Supreme Council
Soviet Soviet Union
Sheetro Pe
Berlin
Celest von Hammer
Comuunique
Zhitomir
Tokyo Warns of American Invasion Build Up in Alaska
Tokyo reports said by Berlin radio that the United States massed invasion forces in Alaska and the Aleutians, listing 1000 aircraft and six divisions in Alaska with motorized, tank and parachute units. Dutch Harbor Kodiak Nome Kiska Attu were named as assembly sites with two carriers and several cruisers and destroyers noted. Also claims 30 U S air bases in China for potential attacks on Japan.
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New York
Tok
Alaska
Berlin
Een
Federal Communications Commission
Dutch Harbor
Kodiak
Nome
Kiska
Attu
Norther
U. S
China
Japan
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Alex. H. Washburn
Tito
By S. Burton Heath
Hill
Kenyon A Joyce
Allied Control Commission
Eisenhower
Arthur Lance
Ind
Red Army
Old Poland
Tokyo
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