The Hyphen A Symbol to Destroy America
The piece argues against hyphenated American identities amid wartime tensions, challenging Polish Americans to prioritize U.S. interests. It contrasts loyalty with dual loyalties and warns policy should reflect America’s best interests rather than foreign affiliations. The essay by Ames Thrasher discusses the Age of Plastics and Synthetics, predicting a potential impasse, and notes a public poll on postwar auto prices and price controls.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Polan
America
Poland
Europe
U.S.A
Britain
United States
Germany
Ames Thrasher
Riberia
Troika
Animal Kingdom
Labor groups clash over work or fight bill in Congress
In Washington on January 13 1944 labor opposition grows as CIO AFL leaders prepare to testify against general or limited national service law. House military committee chair May asserts Congress must act soon to fix manpower and calls for work or fight legislation despite union objections.
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William F. Arbogastashington
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Congress
Philip Murray
CIO
Murray
Military Committee
James F. Byrnes
Industry
Labor
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Railway Brotherhood
Greeks clash over hostage release in ELAS truce
In Athens the Greek government denounced ELAS for withholding civilian hostages as a British brokered truce nears its Monday 12:01 a.m. start. Regent Damaskinos and Premier Plastiras demanded release, warning against reprisals while Lt. Gen. Scobie urged concessions for peace talks. Alice Duer Miller wrote The White Cliffs of Dover in her New York apartment overlooking the East River.
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Athens
ELAS
Damniaskino
Nicholas Plastiras
Damaskinos
SAS
Ronald Scobie
Greece
Alice Duer Miller
White Cliffs
Dover
New York
East River
Allies push south of Bologna amid heavy German resistance
American Fifth Army patrols probe German positions south of Bologna encountering fierce enemy resistance. Eighth Army on the Adriatic coast reports 40 Germans captured and 20 killed near Comacchio spit north of Ravenna. American patrols reach Canavetta and San Ansano as mortars and rifle fire halt a Savena River crossing. The General Education Board is noted as incorporated by Congress in 1903.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Bologna
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Comacchio
Ravenna
Albert Kesselring
Senio
Faenza
Fusignano
Savena River
San Ansano
Sergeant Bluff Captures 70 Nazis Without Fire
U S First Army reports staff sergeant Adolph Dreiling of Denver bluffed a pillbox surrender after his Tommy gun magazine failed. Other anecdotes include a Belgian cake misadventure, two soldiers at an army dance mocking a trombone player, and a Buffalo sergeant acting as a cow midwife amid Siegfried Line quarters burning.
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Hal Boyleith
U. S. First Army
Bellum
Adolph Dreiling
Denver
Marion Manley
WLW
Cincinnati
Manley
T-5
Julius Tolney
Buffalo
N. Y
Henry W. Shultze
Brenham
Texas
Germany
Henry
Heinie
Schulze
Beachhead on Luzon Widened by Six Miles
Sixth Army forces drove six miles deeper into Lingayen Gulf flank under naval fire, expanding the Luzon beachhead to at least 26 miles from San Fabian to Rabon and Rosari airfield. Naval action sank or heavily damaged 46 landing vessels near San Fernando.
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William D. Dickinson
MacArthur
Luzon
Sixth Army
Lingayen Gulf
San Fabian
Rabon
Rosari Airfield
Baguio
Gulf
Tokyo
Batangas
Manila
Lamon Bay
Capital
Transocean Agency
Roosevelt Adams Boys Get Taste of Fighting at Sea
On January 12 off Luzon aboard Admiral Kinkaid's flagship Lt. Cmdr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. commanded a destroyer escort during the Luzon invasion. Another destroyer escort was commanded by Lt. Cmdr. Charles Francis Adams, son of the former secretary.
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Roosevelt
Adams
Admiral Kinkaid
Luzon
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Cmdr
Charles Francis Adams
Navy
Ribbon honors GI aid for Italian mine victims
In an Italian Army hospital ward during World War II a nurse recalls a GI receiving a ribbon gift for two wounded girls Graziella Badine seven and Ariana Menotti twelve who survived a mine blast both girls have bandaged hands and chests as they sit up for the first time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Army
Italy
Army
Graziella Badine
Ariana Menotti
Baby left in carriage mostly untouched by thief
In Spokane Washington a passerby noted a theft where a baby remained in the carriage while a thief stole all other items from the buggy including a photograph of the child and $11 during a brief absence by the mother Mrs John Schnainagel from a downtown shop.
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Spokane
John Schnainagel
Loreto Guerrillas Defeat Japan in Loreto Dinagat Island Story
Guerrilla leader Nisslane Gopana recalls Japanese occupation of Loreto on Dinagat Island. Japs burned the town in 1942, looted in 1944, and stayed until August before Americans returned. Loreto residents fled to the hills, kept faith, and ultimately forced the occupiers out.
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Richard C. Bergholz
Loreto
Dinagat Island
Philippines
Nisslane Gopana
Leyte
Gopana
Truman Heminway
Davao
Former Hope Resident Mollie Slavak Dies at 85
Mollie B. Slavak a former Hope resident died at her Little Rock home Friday age 85. Funeral 3:30 p m Saturday Griffin Leggett Little Rock with Rev W P Witsell officiating burial Rose Hill Cemetery Sunday 2 p m. She is survived by a daughter Mrs G B McCarty Little Rock a brother Tom Moore Royal a sister Mrs Birdie Donahue Curtis and three granddaughters Mrs G E Jernigan Mrs O M Moyer and Mrs W H Saterfield of Little Rock.
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Mollie B. Slavak
Hope
Little Rock
Griffin- Leggett
W. P. Witsell
Rose Hill
Tom Moore
Royal
Birdie Donahue
Curtis
G. E. Jernigan
O. M. Moyer
W. H. Saterfield
Hope's Firemen Respond to Grass Fire on Rainy Day
Yesterday the Hope firemen answered a grass fire alarm at 1523 South Main Street despite heavy rain. No damage reported as crews battled the blaze and cleared the scene.
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Hope
South Main Street
Eisenhower Calms Churchill Over GI Enthusiasm
The tale recalls Eisenhower telling Churchill that British troops were tempering American enthusiasm on the Western front. A GI rushed in asking to borrow the general’s jeep, and Eisenhower remarked that times have changed since a year ago.
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Eisenhower
Churchill
38 Jap Ships Sunk as Fleet Breaks Up Luzon-Bound Convoy
The U S Pacific Fleet reports a furious assault on four Japanese convoys off the French Indochina coast with 38 enemy ships sunk and 25 more damaged on the first day of the operation. Admiral Halsey’s force moved near Saigon and Camranh Bay, sinking transports and bombardment ships while proving Japan’s mainland vulnerability. Also confirmed is the sinking of the 45,000-ton battleship Musashi by aircraft in October last year.
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Leif Erickson
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pear Harbor
Indo-China
Third Fleet
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Philippines
Asiatic
Pacific
William F. Halsey
Japan
Saigon
Manila
Halsey
Camranh Bay
South China Sea
Formosa
MacArthur
Qui-Nhon
Nimitz
Russians Admit Winter Offensive Across East Prussia Front
The Germans report a Russian winter offensive on the East Prussian front from Suwalki to Goldap a 30 mile stretch. Berlin says a broad front west of the Vistula in Poland has been penetrated while other Soviet forces strike along the Hungarian Slovakian border. Moscow silent on these claims. Budapest remains a crushed pocket with heavy civilian casualties amid continued liquidation of die-hards.
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London
Red Army
DNB
East Prussian
Suwalki
Goldap
Berlin
Vistula
Poland
Lucenec
Kassa
Kosice
Moscow
Budapest
Stockholm
Sitions
Kelce
Warsaw
Krakow
Kielce
Silesia
Pest
Buda
Danube
Feodor Tolbukhin
Third Ukraine
Bodega: From Cellar to wine shop around the world
The term bodega traces its origin to a wine cellar or storehouse in Spanish. Over time the name spread to designate wine shops in many regions. Local usage reflects a cultural shift from storage space to retail venue.
Spies Landed by Sub to Get Army Trials
President Roosevelt orders two men landed on the Maine coast by a German submarine to be tried by military tribunal under the laws of war. The decree asserts enemy nationals entering the United States during war and charged with sabotage espionage or other hostile acts fall under war law and military jurisdiction.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maine
United States
Flaxseed Output in 1943 Surpasses Earlier Averages
Production reached 52,008,000 bushels in 1943, one and a half times the 1932-41 average, reflecting substantial wartime agricultural gains.
Yanks Drive Into Heart of German Bulge
Paris dispatch reports U S First Army units pushed through snowbound forests toward Houffalize in Belgium's Ardennes, narrowing Von Rundstedt's salient and threatening the last escape routes. Third Army advances near St Hubert, Bastogne area, with 2,377 more prisoners taken in the mop up of the Harlange box.
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James M. Long
Paris
U. S
First Army
Houffalize
Bulge
Belgium
Third Army
Karl von Rundstedt
Ourthe River
von Rundstedt
Meuse River
Langlir
St. Vith
Ithout Houffalize
Vianden
Siegfried
Salm River
Luxembourg
Laroche
Second Army
St. Hubert
Bastogne
Huge Increase Sought for State Veterans Service Bureau
In Little Rock on January 12 the Arkansas Service Bureau faces a push for a large funding rise. American Legion leaders Dwight H. Crawford and Sam Rorex plan to back two state convention resolutions to lift the bureau’s annual appropriation from 12,900 to 75,000 dollars.
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Little Rock
Joint Budget Committee
Arkansas Service Bureau
General Assembly
Service Bureau
American Legion
Dwight H. Crawford
FE Dorado
Sam Rorex
Legion National
Legion State Convention
Oil Blast Kills One Injures Seven Near Hughes Ark
One man died and seven others were severely burned last midnight when fuel oil flames touched a fire and caused an explosion in a house near Hughes Arkansas. Robert Lee Davis of Wilson Arkansas died. his wife and three children were badly burned. Other occupants suffered burns. War Department promoted John Vines Satterfield Jr of Little Rock to temporary captain. Joe Roy Shinpaugh of Little Rock ordered to active duty.
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Arkansans
Washington
War Department
John Vines Satterfield, Jr
Little Rock
Ark
Joe Roy
Ostrich myths debunked on head burying behavior
A historical note explains that ostriches do not bury heads in sand due to fear but use their bills to grub for worms or to cover eggs when threatened, clarifying a common misconception.
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Alex. H. Washburn
Heart of Japs
Miles
Dingalan Bay
Rpolillo
Sibuyan Sea
General Education Board
John Q. Lupnacca
Etna
Vance D. Somers
Washington, D. C
Somers
Lupnacea
Slavak
Mindoro
Aperri
Philippine Sea
PANAY
Atanouanes
Samar
Sub
German Bulge
State
Veterans Service
Hughes
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