Offshore inquiry hints at graft within Westchester GOP
The text suggests possible motives behind a formal inquiry into Westchester County Republicans tied to Bove and two other indicted joneers. It mentions Martin Parkinson and William J. McGeory as leaders of a group under the Operating Engineers charter, and notes the potential for Elbert T. Gallagher to conduct any such probe as county attorney.
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Westchester County Reblican
Bove
New York
Martin Parkinson
Willian J. McGeory
Oeal 131
Elbert T. Gallagher
The
Sunty
Sameepublican Organization
Leningrad Siege Ends as Russians Break Two-Year Standstill
Russia’s northern armies report sweeping two major advances from Leningrad sector. Novgorod captured, opening road to Lake Peipus. Govorov and Meretskov encircle large German forces, with thousands killed and hundreds of guns, tanks, and mortars seized.
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London
Russia
Leningrad
Novgorod
Moscow
Stalingrad
Moscow Radio
K A. Meretskov
Lake Peipus
Estonia
Stalin
Red Army
Leonid A. Govorov
Strelna
Krasnoyo Selo
Gulf of Finland
Govorov
Krasnogvardeisk
Govorny
Peterhof
Moeretskov
Meretskov
Volkhov
RAF Big Berlin Raid Marks 11th Heavy Blow in Two Months
The Royal Air Force delivered its 11th massive Berlin raid in two months using Lancasters and Halifaxes with about 2,300 long tons of bombs, setting a new record for the campaign. American heavy bombers joined the action on Pas de Calais targets with Fortresses and Liberators escorted by fighters.
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London
Berlin
United States
Reich
Pas-de- Calais
France
Pas- de-Calais
Soldiers Voting Bill Advances with State Control Aim
A re drafted bill drops provisions voiding poll tax rules and grants state and local election officials authority to judge service members voting eligibility. Senators Tydings and Connally praise state rights approach while Beveridge and Moore oppose. Committee approves 12 to 2. bill allows a federal ballot for service members and directs distribution of absentee voting forms through the army and navy.
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Additon
Tydings
Maryland
Connally Democrat
Texas
Milar
Bevercomb
West Virginia
Moore
Oklahoma
Congress
Army
Navy
Argentine plans rebuild San Juan after deadly quake
President Pedro Ramirez announced a government funded plan to reconstruct San Juan on a modern, quake resistant site, with 500 million pesos backing. Reconstruction start is uncertain due to steel shortages while survivors remain scattered nationwide. Death toll surpasses 3,500 with Angaco and Albarden suffering additional casualties and injuries.
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Buenos Aires
Pedro Ramirez
San Juan
Ramirez
Argentina
Angaco
Albarden Department
Government should liquidate wartime plants after war says Fairless
Benjamin F. Fairless, president of United States Steel, urged Pittsburgh business leaders that the government must quit operating war plants and avoid competing with private industry. He favored selling or leasing viable facilities on an even basis and scrapping or locking nonessential plants for future emergencies.
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Pittsburgh
Benjamin F. Fairless
United States Steel Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
Roosevelt dodges fourth term push as Hannegan set to lead
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt unlikely to address fourth term backers at the Democratic meeting while nerve grows for nominating convention. In Louisiana, James H. Davis leads in the first primary with 15,000 vote edge over Lewis Morgan amid Old Regular drift and Huey Long loyalties.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Lewis L. Morgan
Ernest Clements
Morgan
Clements
Huey P. Long
United States
James H. Morrison
Morrison
Huey Long
Davis
Two Young Italian Spies Shot in Naples
In Naples on January 21, two 18 year old Italian spies connected to the Fascist youth organization were executed by firing squad. Luigi Cancellieri and Mauro Bertoli, both from Baii, confessed to sending information on Allied troop movements, units, vehicles, and shipping to German forces after leur arrest near the Fifth Army front.
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Naples
Italy
Luigi Cancellieri
Mauro Bertoli
Baii
Fifth Army
AMG
Communists Guillotined in Angouleme Reprisals
French press reports 10 people described as Communists were executed by guillotine at Angouleme on January 17 in reprisal for a Vichy policeman’s death. Three other Frenchmen were said to have been condemned by German courts and executed January 13 for sniping German troops.
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Barcelona
Angouleme
City Sprayed by Machine Gun Fire
Calm returned to Millville New Jersey after an accidental burst from a fighter plane at a nearby air base damaged eight dwellings and a clubhouse four miles away. No one was hit but there were narrow escapes including a bullet missing a pair of children. An investigation is underway led by Captain Lawrence Davis.
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Millville
N. J
Jersey
Army Air Base
Mary Bird
William
Elizabeth Bean
Ambrose Pancoast
Lawrence Davis
French Advance Up Mt Il Lago Near Cassino
Allied reports say French troops crossed the Rapido and took the foot of Mt Il Lago north of Cassino threatening to outflank the Gustav line. British Fifth Army captured Minturno and pressed along the Appian Way toward Cas teltorte and Ventosa amid harsh weather and heavy shelling.
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Algiers
Rapido River
Mt. Il Lago
Cassino
Gustav Line
Italy
Fifth Army
Castelforte
Ventosa
Santi Cosme
Vamiano
Tyrrhenian
Leningrad
Mark W. Clark
Ree
Eighth Army
Sant’ Elia
Adolf Hitler
Gustav Belt
Terracina Minturno
Garigliano
Rome
Gulf of Gaeta
Adriatic
Korcula
Suio
Woman plans to forego income tax in wartime protest
Miss Vivien Kellems of Westport Connecticut announced plans to withhold her December 15 income tax payment to build postwar reserves for jobs. She called Morgenthau’s stance treasonable and accused the government of boondoggling while asserting patriotic aims to fund future employment.
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Morgenthau
Air raids on Berlin recounts of massive RAF bombing runs
The Associated Press chronology details repeated RAF attacks on Berlin since November 18, listing dates from November 18 to January 20. It notes tonnages, targets, and bomber losses, including 2,500 tons on Berlin and Ludwigshafen, 1,400 to 2,000 ton raids, and dozens of bombers missing or shot down.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Ludwigshafen
Hamburg
Slain Socialite Mrs Williams Hurled Murder Probe
Chicago police sharpen the hunt for a slayer of Mrs. Frank Starr Williams 45 wife of an American diplomat after a middle aged woman shot her in the Drake hotel. Williams died 25 hours later as investigators pursue a “revenge shooting” theory and follow leads from witnesses and family members.
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Chicago
Frank Starr Williams
Williams
Wiliams
Patricia Goodbody
Patrick Groark
Baltimore
Rankin presses IRS action to tax Field inheritance
Representative Rankin demanded in the House that the IRS sue Marshal Field to collect income and inheritance taxes on a $70 000 estate Field inherited in 1943. He accused lawyers of a scheme to sidestep taxes and urged using the funds to finance the war effort.
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Washington
Rankin
Mississippi
Internal Revenue Institute
Marshal Field
Field
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Submarines Cut Further Into Depleted Nipponese Fleet
American submarines sank 12 Japanese ships, raising total sunk or probably sunk or damaged to 558 since the war began. The fleet victims include seven medium freighters two small freighters a large tanker a medium cargo transport and one small transport.
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Washington
Pacific
Navy
Far East
United States
Navy Department
South Pacific
Submarine Sinks Japanese Light Cruiser Near Malacca
Allied forces reported a British submarine destroyed a Kuma class light cruiser in the northern approaches to Malacca. The action also credited torpedoes and aerial bombs with sinking numerous Axis merchant vessels in the broader campaign against enemy shipping.
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Associated Press
Malacca
Patterson warns reconversion will be long and complex
Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson told the United States Conference of Mayors that war production is rising while plans for peacetime reconversion are underway. He warned that demobilization could lower national income by half and cause unemployment if not managed carefully, insisting the process will be as difficult as the original shift to war.
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Chicago
Robert P. Patterson
War Department
Patterson
United States Conference of Mayors
Mercy plane crash in Chile kills 12 in route to Argentina
Santiago reports a Lockheed airliner carrying doctors and nurses to quake victims in San Juan, Argentina crashed after taking off from Mendoza. All 12 aboard died, including three doctors four nurses a soldier two pilots a mechanic and a Chilean Airlines representative. First reports say the plane struck trees and burst into flames.
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Santiago
Chile
Government Information Bureau
Chilean National Airlines
San Juan
Argentina
Mendoza
British U boat sinks Japanese cruiser in Indian Ocean
London January 21 A 1 year old British submarine commander famed for Malta missions was credited by the admiralty with sinking a Japanese Kuma class cruiser in the Indian Ocean near the Malacca Strait. The Kuna class cruiser went down as three large Japanese supply ships were also sunk by the same submarine under Lieutenant Commander L W A Bennington who previously commanded the Porpoise.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Indian Ocean
Malacca Strait
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Sumatra
L. W. A. Bennington
Bermington
Malta
Jane's Fighting Ships
Three policemen shot in Indianapolis gun battle
In Indianapolis Jan 21 three city policemen were wounded while arresting a pair described as a man and a tall blonde woman with a sawed off shotgun strapped to a leg. Sergeants and officers were struck as the couple resisted before a squad car transfer. The wounded officers include Sergeant Ralph Rader and Patrolmen Thomas Flannery and Joseph Klein.
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Indianapolis
Gusty
Ralph Rader
Thomas P. Flannery
Joseph Klein
City Hospital
John Edgell
Marie Taylor
Bader
Flannary
Klein
Eriemia
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Frank C. Walker
Walker
Robert E. Hannegan
Culbert L. Olson
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