Allied Bombers Hit Villa Perosa Bearing Plant in Italy
U S Flying Fortresses knocked out Villa Perosa bearing plant near Turin and battered Turin railway yards. Eighth army Indian troops seized a hill inland from the Adriatic as Allied artillery and patrols pressed the Rome front. Dozens of German trucks were damaged. Yugoslav ports Split and Sibenik were bombed.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
United States
Villa Perosa
Italy
Turin
Eighth Army
Adriatic
San Vittore
Rome
Split
Sibenik
15Th Air Force
Nathan Twining
Berlin
Pistoia
Florence
Tornasso
Ortona
Tollo
Stais
Fifth Army
Mignano
Fair Enough Fair Enough by Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler reflects on Paul V. McNutt urging workers to sleep early Friday to avoid New Year celebrations. The piece traces the rise of New Year drunken revelry since 1910 with cabarets expanding social drinking and changing accompanying gender norms.
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Paul V. McNutt
Mr. McNutt
Bangor
Tarawa veteran predicts shrine for fallen Marines
First Lieutenant Joseph Ott Schulte of New Orleans, wounded Tarawa veteran, says the island will become a shrine to the thousand Marines who fell. He recalls leading a tiny beachhead and fighting hand to hand within 500 yards of the beach as Japanese fire raked the area.
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New Orleans
Tarawa
Joseph Ott Schulte
Navy
Schulte
Poles and Russians Face Border Tension as Red Army Advances
Diplomatic observers monitor the Red army’s westward drive amid fears of border incidents with the Polish government in exile. Polish deputy premier Jan Kwapinski says underground instructions were sent to Allies, while a Polish embassy spokesman notes Teheran and London shifts but no London instructions yet on occupation policy.
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Washington
Russia
Poland
Red Army
London
Jan Kwapinsk
Atlantic City
Chicago
Teheran
Eight candidates vie in open Louisiana gubernatorial race
New Orleans January 4 Eight candidates wage vigorous campaigns for the Democratic nomination on January 18 in the widest open Louisiana gubernatorial primary since Huey Long. With a large field and split factions a run off is likely February 29.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Huey Long
Long
Sam Jones
Jones
Civil Sery
Fugitive Held in Orleans Police Capture One Youth
New Orleans police reported the arrest of one juvenile fugitive from a Monroe training institute escape. Desk Sergeant Robert Gonzales identified the youth on the street and took him into custody. He confessed participation in a Tallulah robbery and carried $20 in coins.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Training Institute
Monroe
Robert Gonzales
Gonzales
Tallulah
Invasion War Council Nears Start of Allied Assault
London reports a first meeting of an allied invasion war council is imminent as plans for the assault on fortress Europe appear worked out. General Montgomery, Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory, and Lt. Gen. Spaatz are in England to coordinate the invasion effort.
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London
Allied “Invasion War Council
Europe
Bernard L. Montgomery
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
United States Strategic Air Force
Carl A. Spaatz
England
Montgomery
Italy
Eighth Army
Soldier's wife spared eviction in Bronx case
New York Supreme Court Justice John F. McGeehan denied a landlord's bid to evict Mrs. Eve Schatzberg, wife of a soldier at Fort Meade, from a 1-2 room Bronx apartment. The case drew on legal and emotional appeals, including a judge's plea against removing the expectant mother and her unborn child.
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New York
Supreme Court
John F. McGeehan
Tenth Avenue Corporation
Eve Schatzberg
Bronx
Christpher C. McGrath
McGrath
Mme
Jungle warfare strips ranks as jungle fighters call officers by first names
Dispatch from Bougainville reveals that American troops in the Solomons drop formal titles to avoid alerting Japanese snipers. Privates address officers as first names while officers use nicknames or code names, with calls like Hipp for a supply major.
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Washington
Southwest Pacific Islands
War Department
Department
Jith
Buckeye
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Charlie
Bop
Army
Bombers Hit Pas De Calais As Berlin Fires Burn
U S Marauder bombers raided Pas De Calais in northern France escorted by RAF and Allied fighters after Mosquito raids into western Germany. Berlin suffered fires in multiple districts with heavy damage reported at Tempelhof and surrounding factories as RAF and allied aircraft conducted operations over northern France.
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London
United States
Pas de Calais
France
Germany
R. A
Dominion
Cay
Oslo
Tromsne
English Channel
Air Ministry
Berlin
Sweden
Hitler
Reichschschanellery
Tempiehof
Bulgaria Lines Still Cut Off From Sofia Reports
Telegrams from Istanbul said Bulgaria’s pro German government may have fallen or was near collapse as Premier Dobri Bosilov’s cabinet faced possible overthrow. Communication with Sofia was broken and obscured the exact situation, with warnings of potential revolts in Bulgaria and Romania against the German influence.
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London
Berlin
Bulgaria
Turkey
Dobri Bosilov
Istanbul
Sofia
Romania
Poland 150 Miles Farther On From Moscow View
Russian forces press westward beyond the 1939 Polish border as Moscow insists Poland lies 190 miles farther on. Soviet advances reach toward Bessarabia and the Bug river line, with Kiev region and Kharkov cited as already secured.
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Poland
Russia
Ukraine
Moscow
Red Army
Germany
Stalingrad
Kharkov
Kursk
Kiev
Olevsk
Bug River
Chelm
Lubomil
Fronkiey
Novograd Volynski
Sokol
Bessarabia
Rumania
Dniester
Prut
30 Indicted in 32 Jap Planes Sedition Probe
Two women and 28 men face a widening sedition indictment tied to Nazi propaganda to incite mutiny in the U S armed forces. Notables include George Sylvester Viereck Elizabeth Dilling William Dudley Pelley and Loir De Lafayette Washburn. The probe targets efforts to subvert military loyalty and establish a fascist regime.
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Justice Department
German Reich
United States
George Sylvester Viereck
Joseph E. McWilliams
Christian Mobilizers
Elizabeth Dilling
Red Network
William Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
George F. Deatherage
Knights of the White Camellia
Lois de Lafayette Washburn
Chicago
National Liberty Party
Francis Biddle
Department
Chandler warns against cross-Channel invasion approach
Senator Albert B Chandler of Kentucky told a Long Beach dinner club that a cross-Channel invasion of the continent is unnecessary and would be mass murder. He urged focusing on the Pacific war and noted the British unlikely to favor a frontal assault due to risks and casualties. He spoke during a 35,000 mile tour of battle fronts with four other senators.
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Long Beach
Calif
Albert B Chandler
Kentucky
Pacific
Chandler
Masaryk predicts Hitler will not live to be tried
Jan Masaryk Czechoslovak foreign minister predicts Hitler will die before trial, likely by military action or suicide. He argues Nazi terrorists must be cleaned up after the war and notes a firing squad in Prague may be necessary for Nazi leaders. He favors quarantine for Germany and demands proof from any potential good Germans.
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Washington
Jan Masaryk
Hitler
Masaryk
London
Atlantic City
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Germany
Red Army advances in Poland reach Olevsk and beyond
Soviet forces under General Vatutin cross the prewar Polish border near Olevsk and push toward Gorodnika and Zhitomir region. The campaign, described by a Moscow communique, reports heavy German losses and mass surrenders as the Red Army overruns towns along the Kiev Warsaw corridor.
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Moscow
Red Army
Nikolai Vatutin
Kiev
Old Poland
Olevsk
Novograd-Volynski
Warsaw
Vatutin
Dzerzhinsk
Zhitomir
Fritz von Mannstein
Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladet
Gorodnika
Slucz
von Mannstein
Stalin to shake hands with four heroines of war
Moscow reports featured youths Svetlana Lily Galina and Valentina, members of the Young Pioneers, who hid red ties, published a wall newspaper in Kharkov during occupation, and circulated anti Nazi messages to Soviet women, drawing Gestapo ire.
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Moscow
Stalin
Svetlana
Lily
Galina
Valentina
Kharkov
Gestapo
Young Pioneers League
Wanted Pictures of all Quachita Parish Servicemen
Local newspaper seeks photographs of every man and woman from Quachita Parish serving in the armed forces for a Hero Edition. Readers are urged to contact the advertising department immediately for details and submission instructions.
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Quachita Parish
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