Westbrook Pegler Attacks Communist Labor Against Navy Fliers
A Westbrook Pegler column charges the Communist Party with hostility to enlisted sailors and naval fliers, accusing it of deriding uniforms, exaggerating pay gaps, and undermining morale. It cites remarks by National Maritime Union president Joseph Curran regarding draft deferments and wartime pay tensions among merchant marine crews and gun crews.
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National Maritime Union
Navy
St Guard
National Maritime
Joseph Curran
Roosevelt
Four Executed At Kharkov War Crimes Trial
Four men, three Germans and one Russian, were hanged at Kharkov public square after convictions by the Fourth Ukrainian front military tribunals. Wilhelm Langheld, Hans Ritz, Richard Ratzlaw, and Mikhail Bulanov died within minutes to five, with crowds reported to applaud. The trials addressed who bears responsibility for war crimes and tested definitions under postwar justice, while Moscow radios omitted coverage.
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London
Kharkov
Moscow
Fourth Ukrainian Front
Wilhelm Langheld
Gestapo
Hans Ritz
Storm
Richard Ratzlaw
Mikhail Bulanov
Langheld
Ratzlaw
Bulanov
Ritz
Maxes
Kherkov
United Nations Commission For Investigation
Moscow News
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Europe
Congress to Open Vacation Amid Inflation Battle
Congress breaks for holidays as inflation tops the agenda with proposals to curb food subsidies, raise railroad pay, and a modest crude oil price increase debated. Senate and House delay final action until February 17 on government paid food subsidies.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
White House
Fred M Viren
Office of Price Administration
House
Jonenn
Known Deaths in Wreck Set at 72
The death toll from last Thursday’s double ACL passenger train wreck stands at 72 with one or two bodies possibly under a coach. Engineer statements cite blinding headlights and no torpedoes, as 52 servicemen and civilians are confirmed dead or injured. Three more identifications bring the tally to Miss Winifred Gilmore, Mrs. Mary C Raleigh, and Dr. Frances Goldsmith. three remain unidentified.
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Lumberton
N.C
Atlantic Coast Line
William Myer
Rocky Mount
Frank Belknap
Grace Brown Benennfant
Lowell
Mass
Red Cross
Admiral Stark Returns to Washington for Invasion Talks
Admiral Harold R. Stark arrives in Washington for conferences expected to finalize plans for a major Allied invasion of Europe. British leaders including General Sir Alan Brooke and French commander General Henri Giraud were also reported en route to London for climactic invasion discussions.
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London
Harold R. Stark
United States
European
Washington
Hitler
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Brazzaville
Henri Giraud
Andre Lemmonier
Philippe Marie Auboyneau
Vichy
Erwin Rommel
Karl von Rundstedt
Paris
Johnson's condition worsens. sons summoned home
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on December 2 2 percent the Governor Paul B Johnson's personal secretary said a sharp turn for the worse in his condition prompted the summon of his two soldier sons Lieutenant Pat Johnson of the army stationed at Nashville Tennessee and Lieutenant Paul B Johnson Jr of the marines based at San Diego California Mrs A C Lee the governor's secretary said the condition is grave with his wife and daughter Peggy at his bedside. The governor has suffered heart attacks since November.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Paul B. Johnson
Pat Johnson
Army
Nashville
Tenn
Paul B. Johnson, Jr
Marines
San Diego
Calif
A. C. Lee
Johnson
Peggy
Bolivian Coup Overthrows Penaranda Regime
In La Paz a nationalist revolutionary movement seized control, arresting Penaranda era leaders including General Candia and General Ichazo. Victor Paz Estensor reportedly headed the coup as troops sealed the government palace and halted newspaper publication.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Enrique Penaranda
National Revolutionary Movement
United States
Penaranda
Miguel Candia
Antenor Ichazo
Pedro Arce Zilvetti
Victor Paz Estensore
U S Army Near Arawe Air Strip Advance in New Guinea
Allied forces push toward the Arawe air strip on New Britain as U S Sixth Army breaches the Cape Merkus peninsula. American troops press the attack with air and artillery support, aiming for a three way squeeze on Rabaul and surrounding Japanese positions.
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New Guinea
Cape Merkus
Arawe
New Britain
Associated Press
United States Sixth Army
Rabaul
Glider bombs of Nazis miss ships in daylight attack
London reports detail a first eight-plane use of rocket powered radio guided glider bombs against a large Allied convoy. British officers describe the bombs diving with white smoke and high speed, none hitting targets, with one glider shot down near a ship.
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London
Spain
Robert Daley
Daley
Bombers Blitz German Targets From West In Daylight
American heavy bombers struck northwest Germany in daylight, supported by fleet fighters in renewed raids on U boat bases and North Sea shipyards. Mediterranean-based forces also hit Innsbruck Augsburg and railroad hubs in Italy, with significant bomber losses reported.
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London
Germany
Innsbruck
Augsburg
Munich
Brenner Pass
Hitler
North Sea
Algiers
Brenner
Foligno
Peruoia
Arezzo
Italy
Adriatic
Civitavecchia
Rome
Pasman Island
Split Giher
RA. F
Naples crowds call for abdication of King Vittorio Emanuele
About 5000 Naples residents gathered at Teatro Politeano for Italy’s first free political mass meeting since 1923. Placards urged the king to quit and a democratic government, with leaflets from the balcony declaring the people demand change. Alberto Cianca led the address mourning Amendola, slain by Fascists. the report continues on page three.
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Naples
Vittorio Emanuele
Italy
Teatro Politeano
Giovanni Amendola
Alberto Cianca
Amendola
Young Italians N N pact awaiting trial at rail meet
Sixteen young Italians including a 22 year old wealthy girl and a 19 year old poet are held at Trapani Sicily awaiting trial on charges of aiding sabotage and restoring Fascist cells in Italy. Leader Cataldo Grammatico 19 admitted cutting communications. Maria D Ali financed the plot. her father a high rank fascist official disappeared. Pietro Cardillo confessed plans for armed revolt.
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Allied
Algiers
Trapani
Sicily
American Counter-Intelligence Corps
Maria D'Ali
Rome University
Waa
Italy
Pietro Cardillo
Pitiful Christmas letters reveal plea for help
Readers share heartfelt appeals to Good Fellows and Santa Claus, detailing a widow with four boys on welfare and grandchildren living with grandparents. They request clothing, toys, fruits, and care as a mother and children struggle with illness and unemployment.
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Tam
Good Fritows
Santa Claus
Jan
Santa
Non-Father Draft Bill Declared Too Late
Washington officials say the new father draft law delays induction of prewar fathers, noting it mirrors older laws. The action shifts Selective Service from the War Manpower Commission, while McNutt rejects resignation rumors as boards must supply about 2,000,900 more men by July 1, roughly half being pre Pearl Harbor fathers.
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Washington
Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Armed Services
Pearl Harbor
Allied Forces Break Through In Italy And Strike Augsburg
Allied troops push from the Sangro into new gains toward San Vittore and Cassino while Montgomery’s Eighth Army overpowers a Adriatic sector defense and captures Consavi. Fifth Army forces advance north of Venatro amid heavy losses to German units in Italy as American air power raids Germany near Augsburg.
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Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
San Pietro
San Vittore
Cassino
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Consavi
Orsogna
Montgomery
Sangro River
Italy
Venatro
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Corsica
Germany
Augsburg
Munich
Senate Democrats clash over Guffey chairmanship
The Senate Democratic split between northern and southern factions deepens as Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania refuses to quit as campaign chair, while Senator Byrd of Virginia and other southerners demand his resignation and threaten to form a southern Democratic bloc if Barkley does not remove him.
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Washington
Senate
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Byrd
Democrat
Virginia
Barkley
Kentucky
Bailey
North Carolina
Smith
Son Is Born To Paralysis Victim In Portland
Mrs. Carolyn Davis Wilson, an infantile paralysis patient in an iron lung, briefly emerged from the respirator to give birth to a 6 pound 10½ ounce boy. Doctors said her condition was “just fair” at that time and that the baby was doing fine.
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Portland
Ore
Der
Carolyn Davis Wilson
Bridgehead at Kherson Taken as Red Army Advances
Soviet forces smashed the Kherson bridgehead on the Dnieper and drove toward the Bug River as Nevel sector gains neared Polotsk, with Riga within reach and German defenses collapsing along a widening 50 mile front.
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London
Red Army
Adolf Hitler
Kherson
Dnieper
Berelin Radin
Nevel
Crimea
Nikopol
Berlin
Sdeas
Polotsk
Moscow
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Vitebsk
Gilmore
Riga
Geremans
Leningrad
Nortwest
Gilmore Adda
Germany
Kiev
East Prussia
Nevel Sector
Ernst von Hammer
DNB
Youth Freed In Death Of Mother Browning Case
Willum V Browning an 18 year old Little Rock Catholic High School athlete was acquitted in a six day circuit court trial of bludgeon slaying of his mother Mrs Julia Keers Browning a Little Rock physician in their Pilaski Heights home The defense cited a possible mysterious blue stranger and witnesses testified to his finding his mother’s body in a pool of blood in the sun parlor This verdict ends the case with no motive established and no deathbed confession.
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Little Rock
Ark
Willum V. Browning
Pilaski Heights
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Sixth Army
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U. 5
Cairo
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Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Sol Bloom
New York
Michael Reilly
Secret Service
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Operating Brotherhoods
Chicago
James F. Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Temple Baisrael Sisterhood
Amos Pau
Pace
Clyde W. Knox Lao
Little Pete
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