Allied push expands Anzio bridgehead near Rome
Allied American infantry and tanks pierced the Gustav Line north of Cassino and crossed the Rapido bottom flooded by Germans. Air power rained down 63 enemy planes as 900 sorties supported the advance toward Cassino with Cairo and Mortola villages taken and 42 prisoners captured.
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Algiers
Rapido
Cassino
Italy
Anzio
Rome
Alban Mills
Sisterna
Eternal City
Innit
Gustav
New Heights
Repido River
Cairo
Morte Villa
Cisterna
Anato
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
Gustav Line
Faerians Heights
Vilelorba
Manglao
Lavarino
Udine
Rapida
Capless City
January Black Month For Jap Aerial Warfare
Allied and Japanese air losses dominate January in the Southwest Pacific with Rabaul as the focal point. Japanese planes destroyed exceed 46 with many more likely. Allied losses total far lower. The Rabahaul base and New Britain fronts suffer heavy aircraft and ship damage as MacArthur reports naval bombardments and dive bombings on Bougainville and Madang.
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New Guinea
Rabaul
Hera
Rabani
New Britain
Japan
Algo Snunday
Douglas
MacArthur
Tapanes
Mougainville Island
Solomons
Madang
New Guiness
Kingsport Bond Drive Near Half Way Mark Reported
War Finance Committee chair B M Brown announced Kingsport bond sales through Saturday reached 0455,600 with 105,017 in E bonds, over half the quota. Other bonds totaled 51 0,072.50. Mont Ward Co allocated 50,000 to Kingsport and 30,000 for Durphase due Feb 1. A planned display on Broad Street featured a Montgomery Ward fighter plane and Army trucks to promote the drive. Giraudou n reported dead as Vichy radio claimed.
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Balfevay Anirk
B. M. Brown
War Finance Committee
Mr. Brown
Kingsport
Treasury
Montgomery Ward Ware
J. A. Godwin
Toro
Chicago
Montgomery Ward Company
Killigan County
Bristol
Shigsport
Iy P.m
To & Pam
Broad Street
Behale
Peace terms for Japan sharpen as atrocity reports rise
Washington reports the U.S. aims for a pitiless peace with Japan backed by strong authorities. A three point plan would deprive Japan of heavy industry and large ships, bar merchant marine and major air fleets, and limit farming to sustain population. Postwar measures would strip conquest laws and punish atrocity leaders, with possible control of Bonin Islands for naval bases while the Pacific war continues.
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Washington
Japan
United States
Pacffc
Agia
Sur Criminata
Philippines
Guam
Pacific
Thieves Take Ration Stamps In Store Robbery
Kingsport grocers warned by Ration Board clerks to watch stamps after a weekend break in at the Piggly Wiggly. Police say rear glass was broken and a heavy iron removed, with cigars cigarettes soft drinks and candy scattered as drawers were rifled. loss reported by Piggly Wiggly manager R D Liggins.
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Kingsport Grocers
Offieciads
Piggly Wiggly’ Shore
Supreme Court upholds state ban on literature sales
The Supreme Court, in a 5 4 decision, affirms a Massachusetts law prohibiting a parent or guardian from supplying literature to a child for sale in any street or public place. The ruling, reported amid wartime dispatches, frames a key constitutional question in a public ethics debate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Union Political Activities In 1944 Campaign Focus
Labor unions from Oregon to Florida mobilize a turn out the vote drive led by the CIO Political Action Committee to press for anti strike law reform and regulatory actions while facing scrutiny from Rep Smith and the House Un American Activities Committee. In Florida unions push to maintain collective bargaining rights amid a proposed open shop ban with Attorney General Tom Watson leading campaigning efforts. In California AFL and CIC target registration of 500 000 War Industry workers to influence California politics.
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Washington
CIO
Smith
Justice Department
Smitha
Smith-Connally
Bers
Roosevelt
Associated Press
Florida
Tom Watson
Watson
California
AFL
CIC
Soviets Press Nazi Colonists From Balkans Front
Soviet forces pursued retreating German colonists as the Bel Army advanced from the Gulf of Finland toward Kingisepp near the Estonian border. Units near Leningrad and the Lake Timen sector pushed toward vital rail junctions while reporting heavy German resistance and encirclement attempts in the Ukraine. More than 2,000 Germans were said killed in the Novosokolniki area as the Moscow-Leningrad rail line was cleared.
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London
Baltic States
Bel
Gulf of Finland
Lake Peipus
Kingi
Isepp
Narva
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Kinglsepp
Veimarn
Kath
Velmarn
Rnce
Moscow
Lake Timen
Leningrad-Fskov
Voliskoe Seio
Luga
Batetskoye
Luge
Novosckolniki
Merkian M. Popov
Latvia
Novosokolniki
Moscow- Leningrad
Kastyenskaya
Yeglino
Leningrad-Novgorod
Vinnitsa
Endorse All Gas Coupons Warned by OPA Official
The Office of Price Administration warned Middle and East Tennessee gasoline distributors and retailers that after February 7 they will not receive credit for unendorsed or invalid coupons. Coupons must bear the car or truck state and license number and be valid and unexpired. OPA district enforcement attorney John M. Cate urged immediate inking of endorsements on receipt from War Price and Rationing Board and cautioned that unendorsed coupons are revocable on the scene. Filling station operators must not accept coupons without endorsement.
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Office of Price Administraion
Middle and
East
Tennessee
John M. Cate
OPA
Nashville
Task Force Bombards Marshalls In Second Day Of Assault
Admiral Nimitz says surface forces moved within 10 to 20 miles of atolls to shell shore installations while carrier groups pounded Kwajalein Maloslap Wotje and Rai with hundreds of tons of bombs on the second day of the invasion. Japanese positions are believed to be in underground pill boxes and shelters as U S forces press toward Eniwetok and surrounding atolls.
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Pearl Harbor
Highory
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Kwajalein
Maloslap
Wotje
Rai
Radio Sitente
Oread
Japs Claim Air Forces Intercept Marshall Raiders
Tokyo radio says Japanese army and navy units intercepted powerful enemy forces attacking the Marshall group since dawn on January 30. The broadcasts, relayed to North America and Italy, claim hard fighting continues as the forces engage in the Marshalls sector.
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New York
Tokyo
Marshall Group
North America
U. S
Italy
Marshalls
Hitler Says No Victor In War and Two Possible Winners
Adolf Hitler argued in a New Year message that no victor would emerge from the conflict, leaving only survivors and annihilated. He claimed only Germany or Soviet Russia could win, and accused Britain of losing power while pointing to Poland Finland and the Baltic states as evidence of Bolshevist progress. He warned Britain and the United States face a choice to defend against Bolshevism or perish.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Russia
Nazi Germany
Nasi Kiehrer
Ight P
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Europe
DNB
Berlin
Siller
Hitler
England
Poland
Finland
Baltic States
Great Britain
United States
Briggs Pleads Innocent To Forgery Charges
George N Briggs pleaded innocent to federal indictments charging forgery false pretense and use of the mails to defraud He appeared subdued and his $3000 bond was continued Attorneys for Briggs asked three weeks to file motions or demurrers Briggs was a former confidential aide to Interior Secretary Ickes The indictment alleges he forged the Hopkins letter on White House stationery bearing Harry Hopkins name The case drew attention after it was publicized by C Nelson Sparks Akron Ohio Republican leader and author of One Man Wendell Willkie Page 3
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Washington
George N Briggs
Sheurges
Hopkins
Briggs
Ickes
Interior Department
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Wendell Willkie
White House
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Brigns
RAF raids smash Berlin in fourth night of air offensive
RAF night raids batter Berlin and three other industrial cities with massive bomb and mine drops. The sustained offensives over four nights pile up long tons of explosive as Mosquitoes join heavy bombers to widen damage across Germany.
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London
Berlin
Germany
Brunswick
Hannover
U, & Barney
Frankfurt
Sweden
Stockholm
RAW
Noorthern
France
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
RAF
Tradio
RAI
Red Jab Into Poland Threatens Nazis With Economic Disaster
Russian advances into old Poland threaten Germany with broad economic ruin. German gains have fortified central Poland under government control, supplying Wehrmacht and home front with minimal transport costs. Report cites Krakow sources describing livestock, breeding, dam building, and agriculture reshaped to meet German needs.
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Poland
Lisbon
Goveyternment
Germany
Balkan
Krakow
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NEA
George Scarbo
Army
Navy
Shrekup
Giraudoun
Gondon
Vichy Radio Mala
Jean Giraudour
Welter
Wrench
Pae
Paris
U. 5
Bulletins
U. S. Army
Stratapia
Pas-De-Calais
Balkans
Marshall
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