U S Destroyer Sunk by Japanese Bombs at Cape Gloucester
Secretary of the Navy Knox reported one American destroyer sunk and a coastal transport damaged by Japanese bombs during landings at Cape Gloucester on New Britain Island. No casualties or ship identities were released. Admiral Hill praised American defense and noted the rapid buildup of forces ahead of the Thanksgiving period.
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Washington
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Knox
Te Navy
Tokyo
Tokoo Radio
Coumngmgur
United States
Harry W Hill
Taraws
Stein
Soldier identified as Private First Class Winford Pattern at Shreveport
Authorities identified the fallen soldier as Private First Class Winford Pattern, 25, son of Mrs. Helen Patterson of Garfield Arkansas. Testimony indicated he apparently fell accidentally from Red River bridge last Friday morning while Patterson was with an army unit nearby. Taxi driver Lynn Book and witness described events. Book denies proximity at the moment of the fall and says he pursued the soldier after failing to get payment.
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Shreveport
Dee
Fie
Milites
Winford le Pattern
Helen’ Patterson
Garfield
Ark
Harry W. Paul
Serone
Red River Bridge
Lynn Book
Alexandria
Tax
Book
D Cc Niltom
Bossier City
Hamilton
Patterson
Smith Proposes Teeth in Smith Connally Act Against Strikes
Representative Smith accuses labor unions of violating the Smith Connally no strike pact and urges revision to punish strikes without proper notice. He wants withholding of bargaining rights for a year under the national labor relations act and says action requires executive backing.
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Washington
Smith
Wirshia
Smith-Connally
War Labor Board
Hinze Comenitier
Abe Smith-Connally Act
German entertains prisoners at Rome Christmas party
Rome correspondent of Dagens Nyheter says 200 Allied POWs including Carl Johnson of Louisville Kentucky attended a German hosted Christmas party in a Rome hotel. The event had no stated reason and prisoners received soup potatoes meat white bread and a package of cigars and cakes.
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Stockholm
Rome
Dagens Nyheter
United States
Agne Hamlin
Carl Johnson
East Market Street
Louisville
Rail network seized by U S Army to run railroads
Washington December 28 The army takes control of the nation's railroads with troops to run trains if needed Secre tary of War Stimson and Gen Somervell announce army direction of rail operations Wage and labor terms frozen as of last night and return to civilian management planned Arbitration award for Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen noted but not fully detailed.
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Washington
Stimson
Brebon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Rai
Roosevelt
Army
Railraads
Somervell
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and
Ortona Falls to Germans as Canadians Press Near City
Allied communique reports German forces using flame throwers in Ortona as Canadian Eighth Army struggle street by street with bayonet fighting. Canadian and Indian troops take prisoners while Fifth and Eighth Army patrols tighten positions around San Vittore and Samucro. Moroccan troops assault hard points as fighter activity increases with raids on Civitavecchia and Zara without losses.
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Algiers
Eighth Army
Orion
Rome
Geman Transocean
Fenry
Adriatic
Berlin
Ortona
Samucro
San Vittore
Carm
San Vitore
Castel San Vincenzo
Catenelia Degli Mainardi
Monte Marrone
Fifth Army
Civitavecchia
Reco
Zongi
Genoa
Zara
Yugoslavia
Rations of Sugar Won’t Be Changed
Washington December 28 The Office of Price Administration announced sugar rations for housewives will stay the same through April 1 Sugar stamp No 30 becomes valid January and allows five pounds of sugar to be purchased in a two and a half month period through March End of March will see stamp No 29 expire January 15 Institutions such as hotels and restaurants will keep current rations and industrial users may revert to 89 percent of their 1941 base after the present bonus period ends December 31
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Steel Workers End One Day Walkout Ends Strike
More than 170000 steel workers resume production after gains in retroactive pay and new contracts. Philip Murray of United Steelworkers directed a return to mills as the War Labor Board backed pay retroactivity affecting about 100000 workers in 46 companies.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
C. B. O. United Steelworkers of America
Dee
United Steel Workers Union
War Labor Board
Washington
A and W Restaurant Fire in Monroe Causes 10000 Loss
A large blaze at the A and W restaurant on 32 DeSiard Monroe caused about 10000 in damage. Firemen from four stations fought the flames for hours starting after midnight, with eight waitresses evacuated to Hotel Frances as wind and rain hampered efforts.
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Monroe
A. and W
DeSiard
Frank J. Rowidy
Restaurent Live
Hotel Frances
C. P. Guerrierio Estate
Tedder Named Chief Deputy for Dwight D. Eisenhower
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, noted for leading North Africa air campaigns, was named deputy to General Eisenhower as Allied invasion plans intensify. The appointment completes a key leadership group for the impending European assault, with Bernard Law Montgomery and other senior officers assigned to pivotal commands.
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Landon
Europe
Arthur Tedder
Britain
Dwight D Ebenhower
Tedder
North Africa
Sicily
Haly
London
Wen
Bernard (Tolly Paxet
Norway
Middle East
Cairo
Bruce Fraser
Scharnhorst
M. R. Halcomb
Pasadena
Calif
Londonderry
North Ireland
United States
Navel
Eisenhower
Germany
Berlin
Erwin Rommel
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Rommel
Mediterranean
Theater of Mediterranean Will Occupy Fateful Place
William Smith White reports the Mediterranean theater will play a pivotal role in the grand allied assault next year. He notes Italy as a bridgehead and discusses the surrender of Italy and the impact on Allied naval strength and the wider war effort.
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Theater OF Mediterranean
William Smith White
London
Mediterranean
Italy
Rome
Russia
Stalin
Marine’s Letter Reveals Japanese Loot Found by Soldier
Frederick A. Hoffman Jr., son of West Monroe residents, in the marines, reports sending home money taken from a Japanese combatant on the Gilbert Islands. He forwarded three yen notes labeled MW Yen and slightly larger than a dollar, plus three smaller bills with unreadable denominations.
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Frederick A. Hoffman, Jr
Frederick A. Hoffman, Sr
West Monroe
Gilbert Island
FEPC cites 14 railroads for racial bias in war work
The FEPC certified 14 southeastern railroads and seven unions as violating President Roosevelt's order against racial or religious discrimination in firms working for the U S government. The issue now rests with the president as railroads are operated by the War Department during wage disputes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fair Employment Practice Committee
FEPC
United States
Organized Labor
Mario Ross
Ady
Smuts Urges Big Four Pact To Lead Postwar World
Field Marshal Jan Smuts, in a New York broadcast, calls for a United Nations led by a Big Four as a temporary framework for postwar peace. He urges neutrals to join, but suggests defeated powers be held under guardianship until they shed dangerous attitudes and dangers of entanglements.
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Pretoria
Union OF South Africa
Jan Christiaan Simuts
League of Nations
United Nations
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
New York
Smuts
League
Versailles
The
Palmotors Save Lives Of Many New Orleans Victims
Dr. Joseph A. Davis of the American Red Cross in New Orleans states pulmotors in Charity hospital ambulances saved many lives after the Lake Pontchartrain disaster where 2% soldiers drowned. He disputes Science magazine claims that mechanical resuscitators cause lung hemorrhage and argues pulmotors are dangerous only in unskilled hands.
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New Orleans
Joseph A. Davis
First Aid
American Red Cross
Charity Hospital
Lake Pontchartrain
Danna
Science Magazine
Denna
Soviets sever two railroads in southwest Ukrainian drive
General Vatutin's First Ukraine army pushed southwest of Kiev in a major offensive disrupting the Warsaw Odessa rail network. The drive crossed key lines near Vinnitsa and Zhmerinka, severing two rail routes while advancing toward Berdichev and threatening German logistics as casualties mount on all fronts.
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Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Ukraine
Kiev
Rumania
Dnieper
Vatutin
Andrushevka
Brusitew
Zhitomir-Odessa
Fritz von Mannsiein
Berdichev
von Mannstein
Zhitomir-Korosten
Poland
Brusilov
Orsha
Minsk
Bagramian
Vitehak
Vitebsk
Unik
Vatutii
Vatican Bombing Attack Probed as Bomber Identity Sought
Pope Pius said the Vatican City air raid on November 5 was deliberately planned and dishonorable yet the attacker was not identified. General Eisenhower noted no Allied planes over Rome at the time. four bombs fell, while Berlin propaganda blamed the Allies.
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New York
Doc
Vatican City
Pope Pius
Vican Radio
College of Cardinals
Federal Communications Commission
Peter
Rome
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Vatican
Berlin
Kiwanis Induction Delayed By Wartime Hotel Shortage
The Kiwanis installation meeting is postponed due to lack of hotel facilities for a large gathering. It will be held on Tuesday January 4. The annual district mid winter conference will take place at Edwards hotel in Jackson Mississippi on Wednesday January 5 with a large local delegation attending.
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Kiwanis Club
Edwards Hotel
Jackson
Miss
Louisiana raises oil allowable to 360 101 barrels for January
In January the state Department of Conservation raised the daily oil allowable to 360 101 barrels, up from 363 942 in December. South Louisiana was set at 292 495 barrels, North Louisiana at 4,000, and district allocations included Lafayette 90 711 New Orleans 12 149 Houma 65 583 Lake Charles 64 053 Shreveport 46 65 and other totals.
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Baton Rouge
iPimenerals Division
State
Dhc Nent of Conservation
Louisiana
South Louisiana
North Louisiana
Lafayette
New Orleans
Houme
Lake Charles
Shreveport
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