Furious Dog Fights Mark Air Cover In New Landing
Aboard a bomber above Italy’s landing forces, Allied pilots engage in heavy dogfights as eight Messerschmitts dive on the formation. Bomb run completed under flak, tail gunner mortally wounded, rescue efforts and hospital near a field follow.
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New Landing
Robert Vermillion
United Press
Italy
Vermillion
Messerschmitts
Rome
Harwood Beebe
Spartanburg
S. C
Lotito
McCormick
Lottie
Lolita
Bebe
Clapper At Front: Area Already An Enormous Supply Dump
War correspondent Raymond Clapper reports from Cape Gloucester aboard a Marine beachhead where Guadalcanal veterans reinforce rapidly. He describes a vast supply dump, muddy terrain, improvised roads, and frontline conditions with naked troops in warm rain and scattered helmet use.
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Clapper
Raymond Clapper
Cape Gloucester
LST
Yellow Beach
New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Dac
Turret Gunner Marvin Fink Narrowly Escapes Suit Tear
A flying suit damaged by an explosion ripped the back of top turret gunner Marvin Fink from Schoharie New York but he was unharmed with no scratches.
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Ment
Marvin Fink
Schoharie
N. Y
Biddle Named Lieutenant Colonel On Eisenhower Staff
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Army and will serve on General Eisenhower’s staff as liaison to governments in exile. He has been U S ambassador to the exiled governments of Poland Norway Belgium Holland Czechoslovakia Luxembourg and Yugoslavia. The White House will use a chargé d affaires in London for his former duties. Roosevelt accepted his resignation with praise for his liaison work.
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Washington
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Biddle
War Department
White House
Middle
U.S
Poland
Norway
Belgium
Holland
Czechoslovakia
Luxembourg
Yugoslavia
United States
London
Roosevelt
Validity Of Price Control Questioned
Otis Rogers argues the emergency price control act is unconstitutional citing the Schechter case. He contends meat markets as farm products should be exempt from price ceilings while OPA cites multiple rulings upholding the act. Judge Kennerly will rule after considering the motion to quash the indictment against Ezra Smith, indicted July 1943.
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Houston
Jan
Office of Price Administration
Otis Rogers
Fort Worth
T. M. Kennerly
Ezra Smith
West Columbia
Rogers
Fred Leigh
United States District Attorney
OPA
Kennerly
Kennery
Smith
Ex-Texan John C Moseley to lead Nevada University
Dr. John C. Moseley 51 former dean of students at the University of Tennessee was named president of the University of Nevada to replace the late Dr. Leon W. Hartman. He will assume the post in July after earning an A B from Austin College Sherman Texas in 1912 and an LL D in 1936. He is a Rhodes scholar and previously led Central State Teachers College Edmond Ohio.
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Reno
Nev
John C. Moseley
University of Tennessee
University of Nevada
Leon W. Hartman
Moseley
Austin College
Sherman, Tex
Central State Teachers College
Edmond, Ohlo
Partisans threaten Budapest rail line in Croatia fighting
Yugoslav Liberation army communique reports Partisans advancing in the Croatian mountains and attacking the rail line from Budapest through Zagreb to Split. Algiers radio says Partisans batter about 40 German divisions, though the number may be inflated.
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London
Budapest
Zagreb
Split
Adriatic
Croatia
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Algiers
Officers in Green GI Caps Lead Muddy Frontline
General Rupertus and officers wear green GI caps with medium visors as insignia are pinned on the front. Bars resemble miners lamps, distinguishing officers only by their rank. All are muddy, shirts open, blending with the rank-and-file in the field.
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Rupertus
Letter to FDR Reveals Young Soldier's Ordeal
Cleveland mother Mrs. Bert A. Gerson appeals to President Roosevelt to grant a furlough for her son Pvt. Harold Lee Gerson, who enlisted in July 1941 and has been overseas 32 months, possibly on New Georgia island, and would turn 18 on Jan. 31.
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Cleveland
Army
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Bert A. Gerson
Cleveland Heights
Harold Lee Gerson
New Georgia
Weatherford College to Merge with Southwestern University
In Fort Worth the Central Texas Methodist conference board approved merging Weatherford College with Southwestern University. Weatherford will remain as a junior college of Southwestern, with C. A. Sutton remaining Weatherford president and the Weatherford board acting in concert with Southwestern.
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Georgetown
Tex
Board of Education
Central Texas Methodist Conference
Fort Worth
Weatherford College
Southwestern University
Weatherford
Southwestern
J. N. R. Score
C. A. Sutton
Hee
Weatherford Board of Trustees
Score
Fort Worth Show Promises $10 400 in Premiums
Fort Worth will host the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show March 10 19 at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum with total premiums of 10400 for horse show exhibitors. John B Davis secretary manager announced the event will mirror past years in premiums and classes including the third year championship cutting horse contest as part of matinee rodeo and horse show programs.
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Fort Worth
John B. Davis
Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum
Matagorda contract awarded for range expansion work
War department awards Brown and Root Inc of Houston a 1 011 404 dollar contract for Matagorda peninsula bombing range improvements including firing end range runways taxiways and apron expansion.
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Washington
War Department
Brown and Root, Inc., Corp
Houston
Matagorda Peninsula
Oklahoma Indian earns Medal by single handed assault near Orvieto Italy
2nd Lt. Ernest Childers a full blood Creek Indian from Broken Bow Oklahoma ignored a fractured instep and retrieved eight men to hunt concealed German machine gun nests and snipers blocking his regiment near Orvieto Italy. Despite a wounded foot he crossed open ground and killed two snipers then destroyed a machine gun nest with a grenade.
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Washington
Ernest Childers
Oliveto
Italy
War Department
Childers
Broken Bow
Okla
Ship to be named for fallen Navy metalsmith LeRay Wilson
A destroyer escort vessel launching at Brown Ship Building honors LeRay Wilson, metalsmith second class USN from Cove Oregon, killed in action February 19 1942, holder of the Silver Star. The ceremony occurs January 28 in Houston.
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Houston
Oregon
Brown Shipbuilding Company
LeRay Wilson
USN
Cove
Ore
Senate May Give Vote Bill Right Of Way
Washington Jan 22 The Senate may move the revised Green Lucas soldier vote bill ahead of pending food subsidy repeal legislation after a compromise on controversial sections. Senator Lucas said key provisions were removed and predicted passage in two days.
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Washington
Senate
Lucas
D-Nii
Elections Committee
Oil Commission to Meet in New Orleans
The Interstate Oil Compact commission schedules its quarterly meeting in New Orleans on March 31 and April 1. Kansas Governor Andrew F. Schoeppel chairs the commission while Joseph L. McHugh of Louisiana Conservation is named chairman of the arrangements committee.
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Oklahoma City
Inerstate Oil Compact Commission
New Orleans
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Kansas
Joseph L. McHugh
Louisiana Department of Conservation
Immigrant naturalization drive marks 3678 new citizens
Dr Henry B Hazard head of the Justice department immigration and naturalization service announced he naturalized 3678 persons during a 42000 mile tour to war fronts and Army posts and stated the new citizens would be as loyal as natives of the United States.
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New York
Henry B. Hazard
Justice Department Immigration and Naturalization Service
United States
Meningitis Cases Rising Across Texas In Weeks
Texas health department reports a threefold increase in meningitis over the last three weeks with 14 new cases in the week ending Jan 15. Factors include stress, malnutrition, overcrowding, and infection carriers. children and young adults most affected across multiple counties including Dallas Harris Harris Galveston Potter Travis. Influenza and related infections remain high but showing a decline in pneumonia and flu cases.
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Austin
Department of Health
Bexar
Brazos
Brown
Cooke
Dallas
Galveston
Gregg
Hardin
Harris
Orange
Potter
Runnels
Travis
Symphony Orchestra Leader Is Inducted
Erich Leinsdorf arrived at Fort Hayes with a dog tag and a new army assignment unknown. He spoke of an overture to a symphony in khaki and joked about his G I outfit.
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Columbus
Erich Leinsdorf
G. I
Leinsdorf
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Uncle Sam
Fort Hayes
Internationale Becomes Communist Party Hymn in Moscow
The Internationale was sung for the first time as the party hymn at a Lenin anniversary ceremony in Moscow. It follows the Soviet Union’s former national anthem being replaced by the Hymn of the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Lenin
Soviet Union
Public safety says tests of synthetic tires need license
Austin January 22 1930 The department of public safety was advised by the attorney general that automobiles road testing synthetic rubber tires require commercial licensing Several such tests are underway in the area
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Austin
Department of Public Safety
Free Korea Meeting Urges Recognition in Ashland
Sponsors of a Free Korea gathered in Ashland Ohio to advocate recognition of a provisional government in exile and to bolster Allied efforts against Japan.
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Free Korea
Ashland
Japan
Promotion Is Given Venerable G I 75
John Westervelt, 75, said by the Army to be its oldest G I, received a promotion from staff sergeant to technical sergeant at a Santa Ana Army hospital. He is recovering from a fractured leg from a car crash and hopes to return to his mail room orderly job for the 6th Ferrying Group at Long Beach. He adds he can work from a wheelchair.
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G. I
Santa Ana
Calif
John Westervelt
Army
G. IL
6Th
Long Beach
Heavenly Voice Led Man to Jaywalk Says He Heard Voice
A 35 year old man told Police Judge Jack Reeves a heavenly voice instructed him to jaywalk. He claimed the voice appears daily and aids him in composing tunes and creating a game similar to monopoly. Butter used as a cosmetic in Ethiopia.
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Houston
Jack Reeves
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Cornwall-on-Hudson
Philip LaFollette
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Nevada University
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Leningrad
FDR
Matagorda
Swart
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