American Torpedo Boats Hit Japanese Destroyers Off Guadalcanal
Allied motor torpedo boats attacked Japanese warships off Guadalcanal, scoring two hits on one destroyer, one on another, and two or three hits on a third. US Army troops on the island pressed their advance as Allied planes hit Lag in New Guinea and bombed Lae Salacans Madang and Finachhafen, with heavy fires seen at Lae and ongoing patrols against hidden Japanese positions.
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Guadalcanal Island
Solomons
Navy Department
Navy
United States Army
Japan
Burma
South Seas
Lag
New Guineas
New Guinea
Sanananda Point
Neampe
Douglas
Westbrook Pegler reports on Norman Thomas attack mob violence
Westbrook Pegler recounts Norman Thomas of the Socialist party facing a mob in Newark New Jersey in 1938. He describes assailants as gorillas tied to local politicians, plus mentions a former fighter Anthony Zawalick alias Jack Wallace.
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Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
United States
Newark
N. J
Party of Humanity
Chicago
Harold Ickes
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Anthony Zawalick
Jack Lawrence
Andy Wallace
Jack Wallace
Hod Carriers and Common Laborers’ Union
Newburgh
N. Y
Orangeburg
Edward G O'Neill
State of
New York
Wallace
French troops gain two strategic heights in Tunisia
Allied reports say French forces attacked northwest of Kairouan capturing Jebel Haoub and Jebel Bou Davous, described as important gains. Allied air squadrons bombed targets near Mirata, Sousse port damaged a merchant vessel, and eight Allied planes did not return. Direct contact linked General Giraud with Brigadier Leclerc amid shifting Allied commands.
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North Africa
Tuniisia
Kairouan
Jebel Haoub
Jebel Bou Davous
Picton
Harold Montgomery
Eighth Army
Mirarata
Tripolitania
Tunisia
Sousse
Cairo
Reuters
Henri Honore Giraud
Jacques Leclerc
Giraud
Leclerc
Ferzan
Libya
Lake Chad
Erwin Rommel
Goebbels Warns War Intensifying in Fourth Year
Lisbon dispatch quotes Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels saying Germany faces a harder mission in the war’s fourth year. He argues the eastern front fights a system turned to total war with barbaric cruelties and urges Germans to work harder to share the burden and avoid exhausting their potential.
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Lisbon
Paul Joseph Goebbels
DNB
Germany
Das Reich
Goebbels
Secretary Ickes Seen Leaving Radio Studio Crowd Gapes
In Washington on January 14 Secretary Ickes was spotted leaving a radio studio, not a newsreel theater, after a broadcast. A crowd gathered outside the venue but dispersed quickly as he emerged with the petroleum administrator.
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Washington
Ickes
Germans mobilize unfit men to bolster front lines
Stockholm reports Germany seeks 2,000,000 more soldiers by enlisting men previously deemed unfit for active service and using them as garrison troops or staff. The plan adds pressure on labor dictator Sauckel to replace workers in wartime industries as 760,000 Ukrainians already work in Germany.
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Stockholm
Reich
Fritz Sauckel
Sauckel
Europe
East
Ukraine
Germany
Two Held in Big Cigarette Thefts
In Liverpool England on January 14 a U S army truck driver and a motor mechanic were arrested on charges of stealing about $50,000 worth of American cigarets from the armed forces. Detectives caught them unloading cases from trucks and hundreds of cases were reported missing.
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Liverpool
England
United States Army
United States
Sam Smith Elected President of Chamber of Commerce
Sam Smith cashier of the Central Savings bank was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce for 16 at a chamber board meeting. Harry Frazer was named vice president and J. W. Keene treasurer. nominations came from F. F. Millsaps and others.
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Sam Smith
Central Savings Bank
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Board of Directors
Harry Frazer
J. W. Keene
F. F. Millsaps
Grover Holloway
George W. Lofton
Tom Hicks
Mr. Smith
Chamber
Monroe
Shreveport
American Legion
Lions Club
Ouachita Parish
T He Temple B’nai Israel
Smith
Sow
Louisiana State University
Neville High School
Georgia Tucker Grammar School
Nazi Spy Housed In Capetown Jail Aids German Infiltration
German spy used Capetown jail cell as a base, gathering details on British merchant ships and plotting to send information to Berlin. A Durban girl was arrested for treachery. Inmates included ship crew members and other nationals, with notes urging no escapes to protect nationalist aims in Africa.
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Capetown
Union of South Africa
Germany
H. G. Lawrence
Lawrence
Lourenco Marques
Portuguese East Africa
Berlin
Laurenco Marques
Giri
Durban
Africa
Five Children And Woman Die In Houston Fire
A Houston blaze killed five children and a woman in a two story four apartment building. The Glass family perished with Earl Glass at work unaware of the tragedy. M F Goforth lost two infants and his wife survived with burns. a fireman described failed rescue efforts and near escapes.
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Houston
Tex
Earl A. Glass
Brown Shipyard
Ruby Jane
Betty Jane
Benny Earl
Billy Wayne
M. F. Goforth
G. M. Goforth
Dallas
Jane
Ann
China complains of insufficient war supplies
Dr K C George Yeh London director of the Chinese ministry of information says China receives “ridiculously small” lend lease material. He notes the Burma road cannot meet demand and urges a greater flow of war materials from America and Britain to intensify the fight against Japan.
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London
K. C George Yeh
Chinese Ministry of Information
China
Roosevelt
United States Congress
Burma Road
Burma
Dr. Yeh
America
Britain
Navy committee launches broad wartime sea review
Washington Jan 14 The house naval committee opened a wide inquiry into American sea warfare since Pearl Harbor chaired by Vinson with Vice Admiral F H Horne as first witness. The session will be mostly behind closed doors focusing on naval strategy training WAVES and ship carrier versus battleship debates while some testimony will be released publicly through statements.
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Washington
Jan
House Naval Committee
Pearl Harbor
Vinson
Georgia
F. H. Horne
Naval Operations
Horne
Solomon Islands
Navy
River side Consolidated school destroyed by fire in Pettit
River side Consolidated school at Pettit south of Greenville, built in 1919 for 75000, was destroyed by fire causing about 50000 damage. Superintendent E g Jack said the blaze started from wiring or a defective flue and firefighters could not save the 114 room two story building on a 10 acre campus. Records were saved from the office. Reconstruction to start after the war is unlikely.
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Greenville
Misa
Riverside Consolidated
Pettit
Jack
Separate Spearheads Of Assault Stab Through More Towns
The Red army drives deeper into the Caucasus along the Rostov to Baku line with multiple spearheads advancing west and north of Mineralnye Vody. Tanks lead gains in Kuma river valley fighting local German counterattacks as Red Star reports encirclement of a German force in a Caucasus settlement.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Caucasus
Rostov- Baku
Minerainye Vody
Red Banner
Leningrad
Voronezh
Don Bend
Novo Bladgedarnoye
Kumagorsky
Zhuravskoye
Mineralnye Vody
Kalabarka
Orbelianovka
Pobegailovskoye
Kuma River
Red Star
Rostov
Don River
War Labor Board calls public hearing on anthracite strike
The War Labor Board scheduled a public hearing for Friday January 15 at 2 p.m. in Washington to hear from union leaders and coal operators about the anthracite miners strike amid wartime policy concerns.
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Washington
The
War Labor Board
Department of Labor
14Th and
Constitution Avenue
United States
Lewis
Truman
Missouri
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Ickes
Nine Escape From Prison in Texas
Nine prisoners escaped Eastham farm in Texas early today. Two tents or tips were used with one heading toward Trinity and another toward Wel don as state police and prison officials investigated. Prison hounds tracked the fleeing convicts toward Trinity.
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Austin
Tex
Eastham Farm
Trinity
Weldon
Testimony in Errol Flynn Trial Begins in Los Angeles
The state opens its case in Los Angeles as prosecutors seek to convict Errol Flynn on three counts of rape involving two young women. Betty Hansen and Peggy La Rue Satterlee are named as alleged victims with details of parties aboard Flynn’s Bel Air home and his yacht Sirecco.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Thomas W. Cochran
Betty Hansen
Lincoln
Neb
Patricia Marsden
Miss Hansen
Bel Air
Peggy la Rue Satterlee
Hollywood
Sirecco
Superior Court
Flynn
Jerry Giesser
Miss Satterlee
Lynchings Trial Set for April in Laurel Case
Five men including Luther Holder and William Johnson face federal charges for violating civil liberties in the October lynching of Howor Wash in Laurel Mississippi. Trial expected at the April federal court term. bonds set at 1500 dollars. Kate Smith improves after gall bladder ailment and will be off air indefinitely. Friday show first missed in 13 years.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Laurel
Andrew Scott
Luther Holder
Jones County
William Oscar Johnson
Nathaniel Shotts
Allen Pryor
Barney Jones
Howor Wash
Wash
Clint Welborn
New York
Kate Smith
Ted Collins
Miss Smith
Park Avenue
Collins
Greenville
Columbia Broadcasting System
British raid devastates Essen in third Ruhr night attack
London January 14 U P The RAF hit Essen and other Ruhr centers with a 12 minute concentrated bombardment dropping hazardous materials and incendiaries. Four bombers were lost. German reports say Hudsons and coastal command aircraft faced enemy fighters with two Allied ships damaged and two enemy supply ships hit.
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London
Essen
Harde
Krupp Armament Works
Ruhr
Air Ministry
Berlin
Sunderland
Germany
France
Holland
Hudsons
Ruhe
Netherlands
May sidetrack F D R s plan and tax issues
Washington January 14. Congress faces delay as pay tax and social security expansion clash with Roosevelt plan to combat postwar economic hazards. Senate Finance Chairman George says calendars for Ways and Means and Finance will be crowded with tax, debt, and reciprocal trade measure debates.
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Washington
Roosevelt
George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
House
Finance
Senate
Congress
House Wave Committee
American Federation of Muesicians
James C. Petrillo
Bossier farmer freed in slaying case
Curtis Impson, a young farmer near Plaquemine, was exonerated by a Bossier parish grand jury on a no-bill in the December shooting of his cousin Clyde Hamiter. Hamiter was shot by a .22 rifle while walking near his home and later recovered. Impson was arrested on suspicion after ballistic tests.
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Benton
Curtis Impaon
Pla
Bossier Parish
Clyde Hamieter
Hamiter
Amebush
Impson
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