WFA Backs Food Subsidy Plan For Low Income Families
The War Food Administration endorsed a bill to create a government stamp program subsidizing food for low income families. It would offer a basic diet via stamps, target about 18 million people, and cost up to $3 billion, with hearings planned shortly.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Legison
WFA
Senate Agriculture Committee
Grover Hill
Aiken
RVI
LaFollette
Navy reports loss of submarine Pompano in Pacific waters
The navy said the submarine Pompano was lost after engaging at least two enemy warships and destroying merchant shipping. It was the seventeenth submarine lost since the war began, with the loss location not disclosed but presumed Pacific based on patrols near the Japanese coast.
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Washington
Pompano
Victor
Pacific
Elmer Adams
Springfield
W. Va
Herbert Hare
Gales- Ville
Wis
Fruitee
Army
Hare
South Pacific
Ooden
Local Artillery In Saidor Fight
Milwaukee Journal war correspondent Robert J. Doyle reports a field artillery unit from La Crosse among Wisconsin and Michigan forces landing at Saidor New Guinea. Soldiers slept aboard ships and endured long preparation, with optimism and resolve to fight.
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Saidor
la Crosse
National Guard
New Guinea
Robert J. Doyle
The
Milwaukee Journal
Doyle
Wisconsin
Michigan
Allied Air Blows Press Japanese in Southwest Pacific
Allied air and ground operations in the Southwest Pacific report heavy air attacks across Dutch Timor to New Ireland. American Marines push inland on New Britain as Australian troops land on Cape Gumbi New Guinea. An Allied communique notes 17 Japanese planes and two freighters destroyed with one enemy cruiser hit and four Allied aircraft lost.
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London
Tokyo
Reuters
New Britain
Rabaul
New Guinea
Dutch Timor
New Ireland
Southwest Pacific Command
United States
Cape Gloucester
Bergen Bay
Lend-Lease Aid Totals $18 Billion
President Roosevelt reported lend-lease aid to Allies through November totaled 18.608 billion dollars. He called 1944 a year of decisive actions and said United Nations power against the Axis had grown. The report shows exports of 13.844 billion with munitions at 4.674 billion, and notes criticism and labeling questions while outlining distribution and civilian fuel allocations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
United Nations
Teheran
Cairo
Secretary of the Senate
House
Russia
United Kingdom
U.S. A
Greek Exile Reports Massacre at Kalavrita and Megaspileon
Exiled Greek government alleges Nazi troops killed over 1,000 residents of Kalavrita and burned sacred convents Mega Spileon and Agia Lavra. Males over 12 were gathered outside the town for a speech that turned into machine gun fire. women and children were later forced into a fire set at a school.
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Cairo
Kalavrita
Mega Spileon
Agia Lavra
Peloponnesus
Stay Off Roads Belgians Urged by Allied Broadcast
UK state radio under UN command appealed to Belgians to stay home during operations. The message warned roads hinder Allied air attacks on enemy lines and urged civilians to dig slit trenches and shelters to avoid being shot.
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London
United Nations High Command
British Broadcasting Company
U S Airmen Build China Aerial Supply Route Substituting Burma Road
An American Air Base in northeast India reveals the air transport command forged a 600 mile aerial supply route to China as a substitute for the Burma road. Flyers faced downed planes jungle rescues and long, perilous weeks of endurance in secrecy and danger.
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India
Air Transport Command
China
Burma
ATC
Ted R. Carmack
Brewton
Ala
James King
Eugene
Ore
P. M E. Sampson
Oakland
Rommel Ends Tour Of Holland's Defenses
Marshal Erwin Rommel completes inspection of Holland defenses as part of anti invasion works survey. DNB Berlin broadcast cites alarm drills with live ammunition showing high training standards and readiness for attack.
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Rommel
Holland
London
Erwin Rommel
Europe
DNB
Berlin
Italians Revolt Against Germans Near Fiume
Travelers arriving from northeast Italy report 2000 Italian soldiers seized from the German army in the Fiume area revolted on December 30. In five hours of battle 100 Italians died while about 300 were captured. German casualties were higher as Italians defended buildings and held off forces until many fled to the hills. The rebels joined Croat Italian guerrillas near San Pietro with seized arms.
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Barcelona
Italy
Fiume
Bosnia
San Pietro
65 Carriers Built In 1943 Forrestal Tells
NEW YORK American shipyards with rapid tempo doubled navy size in a year by building 65 aircraft carriers across Essex type six 27 000 ton ships nine light carriers of 10 000 ton cruiser type and 50 escort carriers. Forrestal disclosed in a Beekman hospital fund speech.
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New York
James Forrestal
Navy
Beekman
Atlantic
United States Navy
Kiel Shipyards Hit By Yankees
London reports Stettin, Germanys Baltic port, hammered by RAF heavy bombers in a bold night raid and Berlin hit again by Mosquito attacks. The strikes aim to disrupt emergency Baltic supply routes to Russia and shake the capital while targeting German rail and maritime links. Fifteen aircraft were lost in the combined operations, including the 1300 mile Stettin raid.
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London
Stettin
Germany
Baltic
RAF
Berlin
Air Ministry
France
Russia
Hitler
Leipzig
Red Polish Dispute Deepens Between Moscow and Warsaw
The Russia Poland dispute over prewar borders widens as Moscow asserts the territories are part of the Soviet Union and Pravda frames Polish areas as liberated. The rift threatens Allied efforts as Polish underground forces may be pulled into guerrilla operations behind German lines.
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Washington
Russia
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
Moscow
Communist Party Organ
Pravda
Soviet Union
Partisans Ousting Nazis From Banja Luka
Yugoslav partisans report steady gains near Banja Luka during six days of fierce street fighting against the second German tank army. The communique says enemy units were driven from the Cetina river valley and trapped groups near Novo mesto in Slovenia were repelled with over 50 killed.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Yugoslav Army of Liberation
Banja Luka
Cetina
Dalmatian
Em Rae
Adriatic
Novomesto
Slovenia
Berlin Still Burning After Monday Raid
Stockholm dispatch notes fires still burning in Berlin at 4 p m Wednesday after the RAF heavy Monday raid. Thousands of evacuees flee the city by trains and roads as food shortages spread. Three hundred people were rescued from air raid shelters beneath Hitler's damaged Reich Chancellery after being trapped for 30 hours.
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Stockholm
Berlin
RAF
Aftentidningen
Hitler
Reich Chancellery
5th Army Smashes Into San Vittore In Italy Drive
Allied forces on a 10 mile front push through sleet and rain to breach San Vittore turning the fortress town into a battlefield. American and British troops seize outer defenses and move to control the remaining half in hand to hand combat.
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Allied
Algiers
5Th Army
San Vittore
Rocca
Venafro
Mark W. Clark
Cassino
Italy
Left Wing of Russian Army Gains Speed
Field Marshal Fritz von Mannstein's army retreats into the Pripet marshes and reforms for a stand along the prewar Polish frontier west and south of Olevsk. Olai Vatutin's 1st Ukraine Army pushes south toward the Dniester after Kiev's fall. Bridges are targeted for destruction as von Mannstein fortifies a left flank near Kowel and regions south of Gorodnitza and Novogorod-Volynski.
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Fritz von Mannstein
Pripet
Olevsk
Kiev
Warsaw
Olai Vatutin
1St Ukraine
Dniester
Zhitomir
von Mannstein
Kowel
Gorodnitza
Novogorod- Volynski
Eoal
German press shifts to retreat on Russian front
From Bern Switzerland the German press signals a shift as propaganda begins to orient public opinion toward retreat on the Russian front. The coverage indicates an admission of strategic difficulties and a fading impression of success for the German army.
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Bern
Switzerland
Russians Drive Through Sluch Bend in War Update Near Olevsk
A Moscow News dispatch reports Red forces breaking German defenses along the Sluch near Olevsk and Sarny with mounting intensity. Vatutin’s corps push toward the Dniester with Berdichev fallen and Vinnitsa and Zhmerinka key rail junctions, while White Russia sees 60 towns seized as Baltic forces advance toward Novosokolniki.
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Olevsk
Sluch
Novogorod-Volynski
Moscow News
Sarny
Dnieper
Nevel
Berlin
Berdichev
Krivoirog
Kirovograd
Vitebsk
Nikolai Vatutin
Dniester River
Vinnitsa
Dniester
Mogilev Podolski
Zhmerinka
Odessa-Warsaw
Dnieper River
Vatutin
Ukraine
London Radio
6Th Army
Pe Tarascha
Belaya Tserkov
Krivchunka
Red
White Russia
Ivan Eccuiente
Novosokolniki
Vlasye
Vlasievo
Pustoshka
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Allen B. Cook
Frank J. Kulikowski
Chicago
William H. Spruell
U. S
Claire Chennault
Hennault
Forrestal
Kiel Shipyards
Gladwin Hill
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