Artillery Breaks Up Nazi Column in North Africa
Allied and French forces reported action across Tunisia. American and British artillery disrupted a German motor column northeast of Medjez El Bab while French guerrillas near Sfax and Sousse destroyed an entire Italian troop train with a mine blast and machine-gun fire. French troops then engaged an Italian armored column near Faid, aided by American air support, forcing the Italians to flee.
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Sousse
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Turkisia
Curtain Speech Marks Fort Meade Broadway Visit
Katharine Cornell and her Broadway troupe gave a pre Broadway performance of The Three Sisters at Fort Meade before 1000 soldiers. Impressed by the audience, Cornell delivered her first curtain speech in a long stage career.
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Katharine Cornell
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Edmund Green
Ruth Gordon
Gertrude Musgrove
Tom Powers
Less Meat Means Less Lard For Home Use
Baltimore December 14 salvage campaign officials urged housewives to help preserve scrap fats as meat supplies shrink and lard shortages grow. Renderers depend on housewives to prevent worsening shortages amid reduced slaughter of cattle and loss of meat straps and trimmings.
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Baltimore
Medical Miracles: Cheating Death On War's Battlefields
Washington Wide World Features Writer Alexander R. George notes four medical advances since World War I transforming WWII care. Sulfa drugs and sulfathiazole reduce infection and fatalities. plasma transfusions help shock. chest and brain surgery improvements. mobile equipment speeds evacuation.
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Navy
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New Weapons War Parachute Medics and Military Reforms
A wartime report details advanced medical and chemical defenses, including field4 medical corps G-3 boards and parachute units aiding wounded within minutes. It notes the push for reorganization of Congressional war procedures, calls for a joint war committee, and mentions Italian POWs and a sunken ship near West Africa with survivors describing Skarree Marines.
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GOP Sets Early Goals Include End Of NYA And FSA
Washington December 14 House Republican leaders list abolishment of the National Youth Administration and the Farm Security Administration as among their first objectives in the 7th Congress. They also call for reorganizing the office of price administration and Congress itself.
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