Doughboys Drive NE Cassino Front With Mounts Captured
American and British forces push into Cassino area with US troops seizing Mount Catena Vecchio and Mount Chiaia while advancing toward Cervaro. British hold a bridgehead across the Peccia near Mount Maggiore as air and naval actions target Pola and Ancona.
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Mount Maio
Catena Vecchio
Fallen San Vittore
Cassino
Peccia
Mount Maggiore
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Westbrook Pegler Critics Frankfurter Morals Stance on Court
Pegler notes a Supreme Court clash among Justices Black Murphy and Murphy against Felix Frankfurter over using personal morals as a guide. He cites two major opinions by Mr Cranny and argues the court risks moral standards by not letting Frankfurter speak for colleagues and questions whether jurists can resist his influence in the New Deal era.
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Supreme Court
He. Black
Frank Murphy
Felix Frankfurter
Murphy
Franker
Mr. Cranny
Frankfurter
New Deal
Soldiers at LSU enroll in army training program
Baton Rouge January 10 1 300 soldiers attend Louisiana State University as part of an army civilized training branch program. Colonel Verry H Comer notes the courses are concentrated college curricula adapted to military needs with ongoing drill and regular classes.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University News Reau
L. S
Verry H. Comer
Army Civilized Training Branch
Headquarts
Eighth Service Command
Dallas
Saic
Army
Coiner
Soviets Push Deep Into Ukraine Near Vinnitsa And Sarny
Soviet forces under Vatutin inch toward Vinnitsa on the Bug river while nearing Sarny in a drive that may trap German units in the Smela gap. Zhornishche falls to advancing troops as the war lines press toward key rail corridors.
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Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Bug
Vinnitsa
Dnieper
Vatutin
Smela
Ivan
Transnistria
Rumania
Schlastelivaya
Ukraine
Ochakov
Black Sea
Dniepers
Green Urges War Loan Support In Fourth Drive
Indianapolis broadcast quotes William Green AFL president urging workers to back the January 18 to February 15 war loan drive. Speakers include Ted Gamble and Indiana Governor Schricker. 27,000,000 workers reportedly pay bonds totaling 430 million monthly. The article also notes Harry Hopkins hospitalized with influenza in Washington.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Wiliam Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
National Broadcasting Company
Hitler
Ted Gamble
The
Treasury
War Finance Committee
Henry F. Schricker
Indiana
Gamble
Jones offers drainage plan for Louisiana lands outcome
Governor Sam H. Jones proposes a 15 million dollar drainage and land improvement project to drain 11 million acres in delta and prairie regions. It would cost share between state federal and local areas, benefit 47 of 64 parishes, save farmers 25 million yearly losses, and add 250 million in land value while creating about 20,000 new 180 acre farms. The plan targets half the population and seeks federal aid for navigation improvements and construction under state supervision.
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Louisiana
Jones
DeWitt L. Pyburn
State Public Works Department
J. G. Lee
State University College of Agriculture
Edgar B. Stern
State Economic Development Committee
Louissana Farm Bureau Federation
London Daily Mail first transatlantic edition sails to U S
New York report says the London Daily Mail issued a four column twelve page digest flown from England. Don Iddon notes 3500 copies prepared not for sale to the public. Viscount Rothermere states the issue aims to foster closer understanding between British and American peoples.
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New York
Man
London Daily Mail
England
Mail
America
Britain
Don Iddon
Daily Mail
Viscount Rothermere
Brooks Presses One Dollar World War II Service Bonus
Washington January 10. Representative Brooks Democrat Louisiana urges a one dollar daily bonus for each day of active service to accompany mustering out pay for World War II veterans. Brooks leads a drive to add the bonus to the bill before the House Military Affairs Committee. cost estimated at ten to fifteen billion with combat and wound bonuses.
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Ings
House Military Affairs Committee
Representative Brooks
Lousiana
Brooks
Costello
Louisiana
Army
Navy
Stiff Japanese defense slows Allied advances in Pacific
Allied reports depict renewed Japanese resistance on New Britain and New Guinea as American and Australian forces push inland. MacArthur’s forces advance from Cape Gloucester while Bougainville air attacks intensify toward Rabaul. Japanese strength and air power remain a central concern as combat continues across the southwest Pacific.
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New Britain
New Guinea
Eitoa
Warren J. Clear
Army General Staff
Japan
Los Angeles
MacArthur
Bergen Bay
Cape Gloucester
Big Island
Silimati Point
Arawe
Umtingalu
Cape St. George
New Ireland
Bougainville
Fred Hampson
Associated Press
Rabaul
Cape St George
Tokyo Radio
Seventh Army Air Force
Marshall Islands
Mili Atoll
Doughboy Talks 19 German Captors Into Surrender
Private Billy Miller of Peoria Illinois used bold talk to convince a German lieutenant and 18 enlisted men they were surrounded and then marched them single handed to captivity across 600 yards of no man’s land. He spied Allied troops on a distant hill and proposed the breakout plan, guiding his captors toward surrender amid cave and farmhouse shelter.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
Billy Miller
Peoria
No Man’s Land
Miller
San Vittore
Billy
American bombers hit Sofia in fifth raid this two months
Allied reports say a heavy force of American Flying Fortresses bombed Sofia at noon in a major raid. The attack follows yesterday’s fortress operation against Pola in the northern Adriatic. Sofia serves as a rail hub for German troop and supply movements in Yugoslavia Romania and Bulgaria. Pola is a German shipping base supporting the Yugoslav front.
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Mount Chia
Cerraro
Eighth Army
Air Command
Adriatic
Pola
Italy
Istrian
Ancona
Aquila
Fifth Army
France
Toulon
San Pietro
Mediterranean
Algiers
Sofia
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Sith
Caiital
Spangler applauds Mackinac declaration as GOP foreign policy
Spangler declares the Mackinac declaration the only concrete and comprehensive statement of American foreign policy by party leaders. He cites its role in the Connally resolution and opposes Roosevelt era labels while arguing the nation is Republican in policy though the army and navy serve all.
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Mackinac
Chicago
Harrison E. Spangler
Republican National Committee
Spancler
United States
Hull
Spangler Sharpis
Exiled Lithuanian Leader Antanas Smetona Dies in Fire
Antanas Smetona Lithuania’s exiled president died of suffocation in a residence fire in Delveland at age 69. He had fled Russian occupation in 1942 and lived with his wife Sofie since, with son Julius and other relatives also displaced. Smetona, a onetime leader of Lithuania’s independence movement, served as president in the early 1920s and again in the 1930s. Thousands of Cramp Shipbuilding workers return to work after a four day strike amid Navy and War Labor Board protests.
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Delveland
Antanas Smetona
Lithuania
Sofie
Julius Smetona
Burita
Smetona
Germany
America
Nationalist Party
Philadelphia
Cramp Shipbuilding Company
Navy
War Labor Board
Roosevelt to send state of the union by mail then broadcast
President Roosevelt will deliver the annual message to Congress at noon by clerks and broadcast a shortened version to the nation tomorrow night due to illness. He met with congressional leaders and will not appear in person to avoid a possible relapse from influenza as the 78th Congress session opens. The budget for the year ending June 30, 1945, goes to Congress Thursday noon with a focus on domestic issues and potential national service legislation remains unconfirmed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Wallace
Rayburn
Senate
Barkley
House
McCormack
White House
Ross T. McIntire
Harold Smith
Wayne Coy
DOUBTS FARM BLOC EXISTS IN CONGRESS
Washington January 10 A newspaper publisher in Washington quotes Representative Harvie Ellsworth Republican Oregon declaring there is no farm bloc in Congress He says the bloc exists only in writers and commentators imagination and that he searched to identify any such bloc but could not find it His search prompted others on Capitol Hill to offer similar views and the dictionary consulted defines bloc as a group Combining to influence policy
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Washington
Harvie Ellsworth
Oregon
Congress
Ellsworth
United States
Search for Major Boyington in Pacific Continues
Major Gregory Boyington missing since January 3 in a fighter sweep over Rabaul New Britain is pursued by navy spokesman The Okanogan Washington based marine flier had just claimed his 26th enemy plane tying the record held by Major Doe Foas and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
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Guadalcanal
Gregory Boyington
South Pacific
Navy
Okanogan, Wash
Rabaul
New Britain
Doe Foas
Eddie Rickenbacker
Oil dispute on Congress floor over Canadian project
Washington January 16 The Truman committee's war department oil development in Canada faces congressional scrutiny. Senator Truman accuses the Canon project of ongoing error and unpardonable continuation after a committee report cites repeated warnings from Standard Oil and U S officials. Somervell cites biblical verse to defend his stance as Alaska defense oil plans advance.
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Washington
Jan
War Department
Senate
Truman Committee
Canada
Congress
Truman
Missouri
Robert P. Patterson
Brehon B. Somervell
Somervell
Standard Oil Company of
California
Harold Lockes
United States
Alaska
Aleutians
Norman Wells
Whitehorse
Five Indicted on Evading Draft in New York
Gert Hans von Gontard, 217, a grandson of Adolphus Busch, is named in an indictment with four others for conspiring to evade selective service. The group includes John Edward Wilson, Arnold Hutschnecker, Francis Grottano and Michael Mangan in a scheme to make false statements and aid von Gontard’s alleged evasion.
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New York
Gert Hans von Gontard
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
von Gontard
George Grant
John Edward Wilson
Draft Board 20
Armmold Aaron Hutschnecker
Army
Francis X. Grottano
New York City
Michael Mangan
G. M. Uniform Company of
Brooklyn
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Bug River
Aeniicunis
Peccia River
Allied
Jan. W
Pecoia River
Clark
Chiaia
Mount
Porchia
Cervaro
Westbrook
Pegler
Sarny
Zhornishche
London
Ochavok
Hopkins
Harry L. Hopkins
Naval Hospital
Thew
Robert M. Stanley
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Baton Rouge, la
Sam H. Jones
U. S
AIR Force
Southwest
Pacific
Doughboy
Peoria Army Biscuit
Spangler Hits
F.D. R. Label
Major Boyington
Ige
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