Reds Regain Offensive in N Kiev Area
American heavy bombers and fighter escorts attacked northwest Germany in a daylight assault targeting key Reich cities. Unverified claims noted raids over Hamburg Wilhelmhafen Bremen and Emden with Mosquito raids continuing into the night.
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Germany
London
Eighth Air Force
Reichge
Hamburg
Wilhelenhafen
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Emden St
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Frelay
Geramny
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Agen
PAT
Solingen
France
Mongulios
Civil Liberties Union reports on union conduct and reform asks for worker rights
The American Civil Liberties Union completes a long study critiquing internal union conduct. It argues unions must admit qualified workers, uphold democratic rights, and respect workers' rights under the U S constitution while noting tensions with AFL leaders and legal constraints.
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American Civil Liberties Union
Bor
Uon
Unitedtates
Urier
Roosevelt visits Sicily troops in wartime briefing
President Roosevelt stops in Sicily during war conferences with General Mark W. Clark and five officers receiving high honors for extraordinary heroism at Salerno. The ceremony occurred on a parade ground in the southwest Sicily sector as Major George E Durno filed the White House dispatch.
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Thu Pithares
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Salerto Brkigenond
Ben Clark
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Reuben Reer
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Joseph Crawford
Hurbold
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Tex
Thomas F Borteau
Chicago
Edwin F Gould
Orange
Calif
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White House
George E Durno
Army mulls cut in soldier student program
Washington reports the army is considering a reduction in soldier students assigned to the college training program. Pending final decisions, officials have not disclosed specifics though current plans anticipate enrollment below the 146,000 peak. The Specialized Training Program uses college facilities nationwide to provide intensive technical training to selected enlisted men.
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Washington
Army
Gasoline ration may be cut further says PAW chief
Washington dispatch reports that there is little prospect of larger civilian gas quotas early next year and that unforeseen military needs could require deeper cuts. Harold Ickes said quotas depend entirely on war needs and that sudden fighting-zone acceleration might reduce civilian allotments.
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Petroleum Administration
PAW
Harold Ickes
Railways Defy Racial Order in Protest to FEPC Directives
Sixteen southern railways told the Presidents committee on fair employment practice they would not obey FEPC directives issued in November. They argued the FEPC lacks constitutional power and that executive order No. 9346 prohibits discrimination by federal contractors. The railroads called the plans impractical and said enforcing racial promotions would disrupt labor relations and public service.
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Yugoslav Partisans Repel Nazi Attacks in Balkans
Free Yugoslav radio reports Tito’s appeal galvanizes partisans to strike back at German forces in Bosnia and Croatia. The communique notes heavy losses for the invaders and mentions reinforcements from Ustachis Chetniks Bulgarian units Albanian Quislings and other Nazi-occupied fighters.
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Josip Broz
Tito
Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Croatia
Free Yugoslav Radio
Southern Democrats Threaten Independ ent Party Split
Senate debates reveal southern Democrats split over breaking from the Democratic Party to back an independent slate aimed at controlling electoral votes. Some senators urge a southern route with Byrd’s support while others warn against factional realignment amid servicemen’s voting issues.
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Washington
Selid Eouth
Democratic Party
Subsidy repeal hearings begin in Senate Banking Committee
Washington December 15 executive hearings on the food subsidy repeal bill opened with administration aides conceding little chance to block Senate passage. Pryo subsidy supporters led by Chairman Wagner plan to fight to retain part of the 1.9 billion dollar annual program of price support payments amid inflation fears. Senator Murdock signaled support for continuing current policy. Ellender proposed delaying final action until February 5 to gauge home sentiment during holidays. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urged early disposition.
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Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Wagner
New York
Murdock
Utah
Elieider
Louisiena
Ellender
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
Japs Flee in Central China amid Chinese Counterattacks
Chinese high command reported recapture of Niupitan and 16 villages northwest of Changteh, encirclement of about 2000 Japanese troops with over 566 killed. Shihmen fell to Chinese forces. Panlungkiao was occupied as Japanese counterattacked in Ansiang. Allies, including American bombers and ships, attacked bases along the Pacific invasion route.
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Niupitan
Changteh
Linli
Shihmen
Panlughiao
China
Pacific
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Hunan
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Ree Bowl
Ansiang
Quigies dies on deer hunt near Tallulah Louisiana
J A Quigies 52 chief engineer at United Gas, a Tallulah resident for two years, died of heart failure during a deer hunt ten miles south of Tallulah. His body was found by a boy Sunday morning and later moved to Shreveport for funeral arrangements. Bloodhounds from Angola failed to locate him.
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Dew
J. A. Quigles
Shreveport
Quigies
United Gas Plant
Angola
Tallulsh
Good Fellows Aim to Help Christmas Happiness in Twin Cities
The article notes a Christmas fund for Twin Cities residents with donations listed and acknowledgments, urging citizens to support a broader effort to provide a happy Christmas. It frames this amid calls for American civic responsibility and voter accountability for public servants.
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America
Twin Cities
Robinson Receives Death Sentence In 1934 Kidnapping Case
Federal Judge Shackelford Miller sentences Thomas H. Robinson Jr. to die in Kentucky’s electric chair for the $50,000 ransom kidnapping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville in October 1934. Robinson, a former Nashville law student, pleaded guilty in 1936 and was convicted after a habeas corpus effort freed him from Alcatraz.
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Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Kentucky
Alice Speed Stoll
Robinson
Eddyville State
Paducah
Nashville Tenn
Alcatraz
Stoll
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Stell
Glendale
Calif
Reds Czech Republic Sign Mutual Assistance Pact
Moscow reports Molotov and Czech envoy Fierlinge signed a 20 year mutual assistance pact in the Kremlin with Eduard Benes and Michael Kalinin present. The agreement aligns postwar cooperation and opposes a federation of small eastern European states. Benes to visit Czech brigade with Red Army. troops fought into Kiev on November 6 and Kharkov last spring.
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Soviet Union
Czecho-Slovakia
Vyacheslav Molotov
Zdenek Fierlinge
Kremlin
Eduard Benes
Michael Kalinin
United States
Poland
Allied Break Through Adriatic Line Near Ortona
Allied HQ in Algiers reports British Eighth Army has seized elevated ground overlooking Ortona and the Adriatic sea coast as three German divisions hold the line. Fighting spans Ortona to Guardiagrele with two new river bridgeheads widened, while Fifth Army advances and German attempts to retake ground fail. Prisoner captures reach into the thousands as weather curtails air operations.
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Germans' Tank Losses Heavy As Red Army Advances Near Kiev
Soviet forces push in the Kiev bulge with river area gains south and southwest of Malin and near Chigirin. The Red Army reports destroying 28 tanks and 4 self propelled guns while killing about 1,000 Germans in recent fighting.
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Tax bill struggle to raise new revenue stalls
Washington reports showing Senate Finance Committee members doubt lifting more than 2.14 billion dollars from the 1943 tax bill amid pressure to meet Morgenthau’s 10.5 billion demand. Time constraints threaten passage before Christmas with printing, reporting, and a possible conference committee to resolve differences.
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Senate
Fs Committee
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Morgenthad
Chaiman George
Georggia
Congress
McIntyre Roosevelt Aide Dies at 65
Marvin H. McIntyre, secretary to President Roosevelt for a decade and a half, died at 65 at his daughter’s home after a long illness. A native of LaGrange Kentucky, he served as Roosevelt’s public relations man since 1920 and helped in the 1932 campaign. He was ill with a lung condition in 1939 and sought treatment in Asheville North Carolina.
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Roosevelt
White House
MeIntyre
Fred Warren
LaGrange
Oldham County
McIntyre
Louisville
Asheville NC
Washington, D.C
Secretary of the Navy
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Asheville
N.C
German scientists urged to develop a super weapon
A Daily Mail dispatch from Munich reports German scientists were urged at a recent meeting to devote all effort to a super weapon needed by the Reich. The propaganda claim is backfiring as the public clamors for its use, while the existence of a setback in weapons development is noted.
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Daily Mail
Germany
Munich
Reich
Soldier killed in Seaboard derailment near Seals Georgia
A Seaboard Air Line derailment near Seals Georgia killed one soldier and injured 22 others. The dead soldier’s name was withheld pending kin notification. Eleven injured were taken by ambulance to Brunswick and ten to Jacksonville. Officials cited a broken rail as the likely cause and promised a full investigation.
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LiMor Rie
Jacksonville
Fla
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C. H. Sauls
Savannah
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