Eight Civilians Arrested in Wisconsin Ammunition Theft Case
Eight west Wisconsin civilians, including four from La Crosse, were arraigned on charges of receiving stolen army property. At least eight Camp McCoy soldiers face courts martial over theft and sale of ammunition and government supplies. The FBI, War Department, and La Crosse police led the joint probe.
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West Wisconsin
la Crosse
United States
Camp McCoy
Harry O'Connor
Milwaukee
FBI
George MacMullin
War Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Floyd Francis Gaskill
Copeland Avenue
Gaskill
Clarence James Krueger
George Street
Russell Louis Ferris
Oo Street
Gregory Callahan
Readstown
Charles William Showen
Sparta
U. S
Madison
United States Attorney General
Wisconsin
MacMullin
Col. MacMullin
Allied push nears fall of Sio on New Guinea coast
Allied forces advance to Sio on New Guinea northeast coast as Australian troops unleash artillery on Japanese positions. Capture would open over 100 miles of coastline. ongoing air raids target Rabaul and other Pacific fronts with heavy losses for Japan.
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Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Sio
Finschhafen
Saidor
U. S
6Th Army
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Associated Press
Marlin Spencer
Bergen Bay
Netherlands East Indies
Solomons
Balikpapan
Borneo
Australia
Celebes Island
Portuguese Timor
Ceram
Dutch New Guinea
Madang
Rabaul
Kavieng
New Ireland
Bougainville
Imperial Headquarters
Tokyo Radio
RAFs Blockbusters Blast At Brunswick
Three railroad brotherhoods plan to formally notify the army of canceling their strike, clearing a path to private control. An agreement with class 1 railroads gives a 9 cent hourly rise and one week vacation, with 43 short lines still to sign. A separate non operating dispute remains unsettled as a presidential board hears overtime claims.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Brehon B. Somervell
Russians Drive Deep into Pripet Marshes and Fast-Closing Kovel Area
Soviet dispatches report Rokossovsky and Vatutin pushing west from the Pripet marshes with rapid advances toward Kovel and Rovno. Steady gains include Stepan and 40 nearby towns, 3,000 Nazis killed, and bridges across key rivers intact as Romanians suffer heavy losses in the Pripet fighting.
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Moscow
Horyn
Sarny
Kovel
Old Poland
Pripet
Pinsk
Red Star
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Sluch
Nikolai Vatutin
Styr
Stochod
Stepan
Rovno
Lake Ilmen
Leningrad
Rokossovsky
Pripet Marshes
Ippa
Kalinkovichi
Moscow Radio
Red Army
Skrigalov
Mozyr
Kotsury
Kiev- Warsaw
Horyn River
Naziheld Rovno
Kiev-Warsaw
Dnieper River
Vatutin
Novograd Volynski
Poles Seek Mediation In Frontier Dispute Talks With Russia
The Polish government in exile urged United States and Britain to mediate talks with the Soviet Union on the Curzon line and other outstanding issues. London and Washington signaled support for mediator efforts to reconcile Polish and Soviet relations amid World War II upheavals.
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Russia
Move
London
United Nations
Soviet Union
Curzon Line
United States
Britain
Red Army
U. S
U. S. State Department
Washington
London Times
Polish Republic
Poland
Moscow
Total Evacuation Of Sofia Ordered
The Bulgarian government orders immediate total evacuation of Sofia's 300000 residents after heavy Allied air strikes. Reports say central Sofia suffered extensive damage including ministries and the national theater. German and Bulgarian sources note evacuations to provinces and further town evacuations.
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Sofia
London
Istanbul
Slavianska Besseda
2 000 Tons Dropped On Enemy City
The RAF unleashed a massive bombing of Brunswick in a heavy attack on the German air force industry, dropping 2,000 long tons of bombs as part of a broader pre invasion campaign. The raid, lasting last night, left great fires and cost 38 aircraft with Mosquito operations hitting Berlin and Magdeburg.
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London
RAF
Brunswick
Messerschmitt
Air Ministry
Berlin
Magdeburg
France
United Nations
Black Sea
Norway
Oschersleben
Halberstadt
Bielefeld
Heppen
Elbe
Coastal Command
French Stave Off Stiff Nazi Attacks
Allied dispatch reports French forces under Gen. Alphone Juin push two miles toward Cassino in Italy capturing Acquafondata and three heights. American and British units attack fortifications near Cassino as air raids continue on German positions and coastal targets in Europe.
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Algiers
5Th Army
Italy
Cassino
Acquafondata
Alphone Juin
Rome
Viticuso
Berlin
Mt. Ferro
Vallrotonda
Mt. Pagano
Mt. Pile
San Bretro Ridge
Mt. Trocchio
8Th Army
Civitella
Cassoli
Source Of Bombs In Fruit Shipment
The Spanish government is asked to identify who placed time bombs in orange cargoes headed for Britain. Bombs were found on two of three ships from Spanish ports. one explosion destroyed 200 to 300 cases. A second ship carried a bomb found in its cargo. a third ship will be sealed after search.
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London
Ministry of Food
Federal Ballot Group Confident on War Ballot Passage
Advocates push for a federal war ballot for armed services amid congress battles over states rights. Senator Lucas says the Senate would approve the Green Lucas plan now and vows to resurrect or substitute a federal ballot while Tydings and Lodge propose related federal voting measures for service members.
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Washington
Congress
House
Lucas
Senate
Senator Tydings
D-Md
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
Armed Services
One Killed Five Hurt In Plymouth Explosion
A Plymouth Wisconsin warehouse explosion at Cleveland Container company injures six workers. Bernard Gannon, 45, dies 90 minutes after the blast from skull fracture and brain injury. Anton Kreidler, 61, and Alex Brest, 44, suffer severe hand injuries. Jacob Franzen, Walter Gosse, and Alvin Frantz Jr. escape with minor injuries.
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Plymouth
Wis
Cleveland Container Company
Bernard Gannon
Anton Kreidler
Alex Brest
Jacob Franzen
Walter Gosse
Alvin Frantz, Jr
Madison Ballroom Fire Rages Through Amber Club
Madison fire crews battled a blaze that destroyed the Amber Club ballroom and damaged seven nearby businesses on Gilman Street. Four fire companies fought the flames for hours, forcing evacuation of a nearby building and reaching the second floor of a adjacent structure.
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Madison
Wis
Amber Club
Tooming
Gilman
Richard Widman
Leon Perssion
Dozen Die as Madrid Building Collapses
Twelve people were killed and at least 75 injured when an eight story under construction building in western Madrid collapsed last night.
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Madrid
Local Rail Employee Missing in Pacific
Milwaukkee railroad switchman Theodore R. Rapraeger, who joined the U S army on March 9 1941, is reported missing in the southwest Pacific His aunt Mrs Genevieve Buchholz of Merrillan has been notified He began railroad work October 2 1937 after leaving Whitebreast Coal Co.
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Theodore R. Rapraeger
Milwaukee Railroad
U. S. Army
Southwest Pacific
Genevieve Buchholz
Merrillan
Whitebreast Coal Co
Evacuation Report From Tromso Area Due To Invasion Fears
The Scandinavian Telegraph reports Oslo sources stating about 4000 people were evacuated from Tromso on fears of an Allied invasion in the area. The word comes as wartime tension rises in Norway near the coast.
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Tromso
Norway
Stockholm
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Oslo
Bank earnings rise as Fed banks report profits surge
Federal reserve banks posted net earnings of 49.5 million dollars last year, more than four times the 12.47 million dollars recorded in 1942. The report highlights the substantial growth in earnings across the system.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
British Parachutists Reported in Rumania Credibility Debated
A Berlin foreign office spokesman acknowledged some truth to Basler Nachrichten reports that British paratroopers landed in Rumania for propaganda aims. The events were said to aim at pressuring Romania to capitulate, similar to Italy. Diplomats in Switzerland noted that British officers were dropped on December 24 with a supposed German offer to cede large Romanian territories to the Soviets if the war ended.
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Bern
Switzerland
Berlin
Rumania
Basler Nachrichten
Italy
Russia
Swedish Dam Burst Reported After Earthquake
A German broadcast heard by the Associated Press said an earthquake caused a dam to burst at a lake near Filipstad in southwestern Sweden. No casualties were mentioned.
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London
Associated Press
Filipstad
Sweden
Tribune Series Tracks Where Yanks Are Around the World
The Tribune launches a 12 part series with maps showing locations of US armed forces globally. The first article covers the Solomons with a world map outlining force dates and language areas. Readers are urged to collect maps for ongoing geography context.
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the Tribune
United States
National Geographic Society
Washington
Solomons
City Rinks Open for Weekend Skating
La Crosse skating rinks will be open to skaters on Saturday and Sunday as announced by George Ritter, the parks superintendent.
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la Crosse
George Ritter
Senate Rejects Burton Tax Scale Revision for Excess Profits
The senate declined to lower the trigger for excess profits taxes on corporations while approving a revised scale affecting large concerns. The $2,275,000,000 bill was taken up and Burton's proposed credit scale based on invested capital was defeated as cutting too deeply into federal revenues.
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Washington
Senate
Burton
Ohio
George
Finance Committee
Snowstorm Paralyzes Greenwood Streets in Mississippi
Nine inches of snow dumped on Greenwood Mississippi after Friday midnight blocking streets in several town areas. City officials warn highway travel hazardous as heavy snowfall continued into morning hours.
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Greenwood
Miss
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