Marines Strike Cape Gloucester In Two Allied Landings
United States Marines established two beachheads at Cape Gloucester on New Britain as part of an advanced invasion plan. General Douglas MacArthur announced heavy aerial bombardment and naval support with significant air losses on both sides.
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Cape Gloucester
New Britain
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Guadalcanal
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
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Gesere
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Gunedaicenal
F D R Faces Labor Disputes
President Roosevelt confronts a growing labor dispute as workers threaten a nationwide strike amid stalled wage talks and production stoppages. He weighs arbitration and continued production while White House officials await word from unions and companies on compliance.
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Wallace Predicts Germans Near End In War Talk
Vice President Wallace warned that Germany must develop a truly secret weapon or risk rapid destruction after a Second Front opening. He urged sustained sacrifice on the home front and warned Americans to hold leaders accountable for long lasting military and economic peace.
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Dex
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Amerans
Tokyo asserts war critical as Tojo warns of fierce fronts
Premier Hideki Tojo told the Diet the Allied counteroffensive is real and fierce with fronts decoupled across theaters. Emperor Hirohito said the war situation is most serious and Japan must mobilize total effort to curb enemy ambitions. The Diet adjourned until January 26 after Tojo and Navy Minister Shimada spoke.
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United States
South Pacific
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Japan
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Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
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Hotel Fire Death Toll Rises to Eighteen in New York
The Christmas Eve blaze at the Standard hotel raised the death toll to 18 as Fire Marshal Thomas P. Brophy sought witnesses to explain the fire. Initial findings point to a second floor storeroom as the origin in a Bowery type lodge. Three injured remained critical and eleven victims were unidentified.
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New York
Standard
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Mississippi Governor Jehreon dies after heart attacks
Governor Paul B. Jehreon dies in Hattiesburg after a series of heart attacks starting November 2. Dennis Lansphree becomes acting governor, with Thomas L. Bailey set to be inaugurated. The report notes a debt of gratitude to Jehreon’s administration and mentions a later drowning death of J. Wills in the Ouachita river during a Christmas duck hunt.
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Hattiesburg
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Opie
Jobson
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Mississippi
Dennis Lansphree
Thomas L. Bailey
Meridian
Henry L. Whitfield
Naples Closed to Fifth Army Troops
Naples suffers a typhus outbreak and closes to Fifth Army troops except local units. Civilians exceed 1 million, with 250 cases and about 25 percent mortality. Overcrowding in caves and shelters, bombed and demolished buildings, and water-supply losses fuel the epidemic. Dusting squads distribute lice-killing powder at public points.
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Fifth Army
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Alles
Radios to Tell of 100 War Campaigns
Washington December 27 The Office of Information reports that Americans will hear over a hundred home front war campaigns in 1944 across national networks and local stations. About 138 campaigns reached the public in 1943 and radio time valued at more than 183000 dollars supported them. A new 1944 effort urges women to serve the war, and a sea cargo plea led to 20000 merchant seamen enlisting after a World Series game.
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Washington
Office of An Information
Radio Bureau
Bureau
Ow! Radio Bureau
Merchant Marine
Morgan Recovered, To Campaign In New Orleans
Supporters say gubernatorial candidate Lewis L. Morgan has recovered from influenza and will resume campaigning. He plans to join the Morgan-Long ticket at St Francisville for a 10 a.m. meeting tomorrow.
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Morgan-Long
Lewis L. Morgan
St. Francisville
Americans Clinch High Points in Italian Forge
Allied dispatches report Fifth Army taking two high points on Mt Samucro near Cassino and pressing toward San Vittore in rain soaked fighting. British Eighth Army tanks join Ortona street fighting as German lines in the port rut. Indian troops seize Villa Grande, taking 25 Germans prisoner while surviving counterattacks. Drvenik shelled by British destroyers offshore as New Zealand divisions shift command.
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Cassiny
San Vittore
Eighth Army
Ortona
Italy
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Villa Grande
Ortona-Orsogna
Drvenik
Split
Bernard C. Preyburg
Crete
New Zealand
135000 Steel Workers Out Across Several States
About 135000 idle steel workers reflected walkouts by the United Steelworkers and the War Labor Board amid stalled talks after Christmas. Philip Murray leads the union while wage demands rise 17 cents per hour, challenging the Little Steel formula. Pickets appeared in Columbus and Detroit as plants remained closed in several states.
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Dee FT
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War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
New York
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Steelworkers
Murray
Steel Companies
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United Steel Workers of America
Wet Labor Board
Little Steel
Columbus
Detroit
Russians Trap German Force In Ukraine Offensive
Soviet forces under Vatutin push west along the Kiev Zhitomir road and near Zhitomiy, while advancing around Vitebsk. Berlin and Paris reports confirm heavy fighting and penetrations in the Kiev salient and Zhitomir area with hopeful indications of a major Red Army push.
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Rexi
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Zhitomiy
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Zhitomir
Berlin
Paris
Zhiobin
Two Louisianians Missing In Action Named
War department lists two Louisianians among 234 soldiers missing in action. Second Lieutenant George Sartis is from New Orleans area and Private Ale Walker from Dubberly along with mothers Mrs. Ethel C. Koenig and Mrs. Carrie Walker named as next of kin.
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War Department
United States
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Ethel C. Koenig
Bonny Street
New Orleans
Pacific Area
Ale Walker
Carrie Walker
Box 19
Dubberly
Three Die in Mississippi Christmas Weekend Crashes
Three people were killed and eight injured in Mississippi accidents over the Christmas weekend, mainly traffic wrecks. Mary Pauline Burnside, 31, Jackson, died after being struck by a cab in Rankin County. T. N. Thompson of Crawford perished when his car overturned and burned in Lowndes County. Jo Anne Stewart, 18 months, Transylvania Louisiana, died in a car wreck on Highway 35 near Carthage Friday afternoon.
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Crawford
Lowndes County
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Johnnie Stewart
Transylvania
Carthage
Sinking of Scharnhorst Ends Nazi Surface Threat Off Norway
The German battleship Scharnhorst was sunk by British forces off North Cape Norway after a lengthy Arctic action. An admiralty report cites heavy losses for the German fleet and notes that only a handful of survivors may exist. Admiral Bruce Fraser led the home fleet in this decisive blow echoing past battles with Hermann von Tirpitz and Gneisenau.
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Polish Premier to Visit Roosevelt Amid Polish Soviet Rift
Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish government in exile is reported en route to meet President Roosevelt and possibly mediate the Polish Soviet breach. Reported conditions include restoring eastern Poland with changes and compensation by East Prussia and Silesia, while demanding Sosnkowski’s dismissal remains unresolved.
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Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Roosevelt
Anthony Eden
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Smolensk
Poland
Russia
Sosnkowski
Sunday Times
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Eisenhower predicts 1944 European war victory
Allied headquarters in Algiers reports General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the new invasion commander, stating unqualifiedly that the European war will be won in 1944. He outlined plans to form a unified supreme staff and stressed teamwork from front lines to home fronts as crucial to success.
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Algiers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Britain
Italy
Eisenhower
Europe
Germany
Cairo
Malta
Violent Death Toll Hits 340 in Christmas Weekend
A national eight day period tallied 340 violent deaths from Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight. Traffic accounted for 218 deaths, amid storms and rain in the east. New York led states with 32 total deaths. California 30. Massachusetts reported six fire deaths. totals include 28 from traffic and 86 from miscellaneous accidents.
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Joey
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New York
Mingis
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Alabama
Arnona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connectic
Sick War Veteran Gets Many Letters
Atlanta, Dec. 27. A sick war veteran in Mountain Home Tenn V A hospital may hire a secretary to answer his mail after the Atlanta Journal published his pen. The story attracted AP papers as the veteran said he had 6 telegrams and over 69 letters, hoping for more from distant readers.
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C. L. Dunlap
Veterans Hospital Annex No. 2
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Dunlap
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China
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