Touhy Gang Cleanup Announced by Hoover in Chicago
FBI chief J Edgar Hoover announced the Touhy gang crackdown after a December roundup. The gang leader Roger Touhy and Basil Banghart surrendered in a north side apartment with Edward Darlak. two officers were killed opposing arrest. Police later seized cash and weapons as agents closed in on remaining fugitives in Minneapolis and Chicago.
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Banghart
Chicago
FBI
Touhy
Stateville
Joliet
J. Edgar Hoover
Roger Touhy
Basil
the Owl) Baughbert
North Side
Edward Darlak
Hoover
James O'Connor
Clair McInerney
an @parmnen a
Leland Ayzmuc
Matthew Nelson
Minneapolis
William Stewart
Chicag
Darlak
Pelson
John
Jake
Langhart
O'Connor
Kinerney
Leland Avenue
Soo Well
Kenmore Avenue
Tanhy
Ali
McInerney
Norwood Apartments
Nelson
Seeger
Hennes Pin
Siguart
Bureau
Nazi Air Marshal Shifted To Russia
A foreign source says Nazi Field Marshal Albert Keselring was moved from the Mediterranean air command to the Don front in Russia due to RAF pressure in Libya. He is said to be replaced by Field Marshal Erwin Von Witzelben who had been sent to North Africa to direct Vichy forces before Allied landings.
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London
Albert Kesselring
Mediterranean
Don Front
Russia
RAF
Libya
Keselring
Rommel
Eighth Army
Erwin von Witzelben
North Africa
U.S. Air Raids Hit Nippon Bases Across Burma and Yunnan
Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault's force destroyed three enemy planes and damaged two, with American bombers sweeping the Sashio airdrome in Burma. A separate strike hit Mengmao on the Burma road as anti aircraft fire damaged some aircraft but they returned safely. Captain Grant Mahony reported strafing a steam clouded train near Mamyo Burman.
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China
Claire L. Chennault
Burma
Yunnan
Sashio
Mengmao
Salween River
Yunnan Province
Grant Mahony
Vallejo
Calif
Mamyo
Mahony
Vandenberg Sees Fewer Quizzes In Coming Year
Senator Vandenberg predicts 1943 will see about 50 percent fewer business surveys and government orders as a result of a Congressional push. He said the Byrd committee has started reform and warned questionnaire campaigns must justify their questions. He noted the effort targets nuisance inquiries.
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Washington
Vandenberg R.mich
Michigan
Byrd Committee
Under Fire Changes Mind About Religion at Guadalcanal
Norfolk dispatch reports a Marine on a transport who argued atheism across the Pacific. Under fire near Guadalcanal he warned a chaplain that if he kept it up his views would change. Captain C A Neyman cites this as evidence that religious response among naval personnel rose in World War II versus 25 years earlier.
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Norfolk
United States
Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal
Goodland to Assume Wisconsin Governor Powers
The Wisconsin State Supreme Court ruled Lieutenant Governor Walter S. Goodland will take over the powers of the governor on January 4 to fill the vacancy after the death of Governor-elect Orland S. Loomis.
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Madison
Wis
State Supreme Court
Walter S. Goodland
Wisconsin
Orland S. Loomis
Hoover condemns parole in Touhy gang case
Hoover criticizes parole and probation histories of captured or killed Touhy gang members. He reads criminal records and backgrounds and says parole practice stinks, denouncing releasing "rats" to threaten innocent citizens.
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Touhy
Hoover
WPB Control Of Needed Materials Satisfactory
Wright Field Ohio reports that War Production Board control brings order to critical material flow for war industry. Brig. Gen. A W Vanaman says schedules now reflect actual material bills and reduce guesswork, with Wright Field labor force and four regional offices expanding under the new system.
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Wright Field
Ohio
A. W. Vanaman
Vanaman
Air Forces
WPB
Washington
Western
Santa Monica
Wichita
Detroit
Eastern
New York
Wallace Plan Draws Interest in Postwar World Council
Vice President Wallace outlines a world council to guide a planned global economy. Senators warn against bureaucracy while some Congress members call the plan a possible trial balloon ahead of President Roosevelt’s January address. Wallace links the new freedom to Wilson and the postwar aims of the United Nations.
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Washington
Wallace
World Council
Roosevelt
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
United Nations
Adolf Hitler
Waeeler Baus
Crary
Proposed War Council Raises Rights and Opposition
Maryland legislators debated a plan to grant Governor O Conor and a seven member War Council power to suspend laws during wartime. State Senator Dudley Roe attacked the proposal saying democracy at home must not be sacrificed while billions are spent on global democracy.
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Baltimore
O'Conor
War Council
Maryland Legislative Council
Dudley G. Roe
Queen Anne's
Synthetic Rubber Is Biggest Industrial Chemical Plan
Chicago reports that wartime-driven goals push the United States toward independence in synthetic and substitute chemicals. Prof. O A Haugen and F H Van Antwerpen say American chemistry doubled plant capacity in two war years and will lead in most chemical fields after peace, with synthetic rubber the era’s milestone.
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Chicago
Dec
Pie-The Nations Chemical Engineers
United States
American Chemical Society
O. A. Haugen
University of Wisconsin
Germany
Hitler
Haugen
F H van Antwerpen
New York City
Society
van Antwerpen
Industra
Counriy
British Push in Western Burma Reaches Rathedaung Area
Advance elements of British forces reach Rathedaung about 25 miles northwest of Akyab as patrols clash with Japanese troops the night of December 27. Other units reach the Chindwin valley via Chin hills and RAF bombs Magwe airfield. One Japanese fighter is lost. a Japanese steamer on the Irrawaddy damaged.
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New Delhi
Burma
Rathedaung
Akyab
Bay of Bengal
Aletheng Yow
Paris
Bangkok
Chindwii
Chin
RAF
Magne
Mayne
Irrawaddy
Mohr Promoted To Brigadier General In Maryland Guard
Governor O Connor announced Dwight A Mohr's promotion to brigadier general in the Maryland National Guard where he has served as colonel in the Medical Corps. Mohr was assigned to command the Maryland State Guard effective February 3 1941 on an acting basis during the war.
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Baltimore
O'Conor
Dwight A. Mohr
Maryland National Guard
Mohr
O Conor
Gen. Mohr
Maryland State Guard
National Guard
State Guard
Scattered Recoveries Show Up In Market
Scattered recoveries cropped up in today s stock market though leaders failed to show much convalescence. Dealings ran at more than a million shares for the seventh session this year with trends shaky at the start and fractional declines predominant near the fourth hour.
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New York
Appeal To Consumers To Avoid Store Runs
The Office of Price Administration urged retailers and consumers to prevent runs on scarce food when more than 200 canned bottled dried and frozen fruits and vegetables will join the February ration list. Leo H. McCormick, OPA state director, said the agency is ready to handle the rationing program.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
Leo H. McCormick
OPA
McCormick
Repairs Long Since Made To Battleship
Secretary Knox said a U S battleship struck an uncharted reef very early in the war and was repaired long ago. He declined location details and noted Navy casualty lists will be published nationwide rather than just in local areas, with the Army adopting a similar policy.
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Washington
Knox
Navy Go Ho
Tbs
Army
Navy
Germans Claim 15 Convoy Ships Sunk
Berlin reports in a special communiqué that Axis submarines sunk 15 cargo ships totaling 85 000 tons along with a destroyer and a corvette during a two day convoy attack bound from Britain. Three escort vessels received torpedo hits and the climactic sinkings were said to have occurred last night. No Allied confirmation is noted.
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Berlin
Sceuth
Britain
Give Up Attempt To Control State Wages
Annapolis December 2 Governor OConor said he never doubted the final outcome of any federal effort to regulate salaries. He commented on the War Labor Board and the Internal Revenue Service relinquishing control over wages for state county and municipal employers. He said the move confirmed assurances federal officials would not press into state pay due to legal and constitutional aspects.
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Annapolis
O'Conor
War Labor Board
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Wilhelmina Decorates American Generals in 1943 Ceremony
The Netherlands honors US General George M. Brett Major General Lewis H. L. Brereton Rear Admiral William R. Purnell and three other American officers in an official ceremony. The article notes the US Army jeep cost about 86 dollars with a 15 gallon fuel tank and 16 miles per gallon efficiency.
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London
Bec
Wilhelmina
George M. Brett
Lewis HL Brereton
William R. Purnell
New Allied Thrust May Be Coming In Tunisia
Berlin radio claimed United States troops entered Gates in central Tunisia about 200 miles southeast of Tunis, signaling a possible new Allied push toward the Gulf of Gabes as Rommel’s forces in Libya face pressure. P-38 Lightning fighters and B-17 bombers conducted aggressive attacks, destroying trucks, damaging docks at Sousse, and downing enemy aircraft amid rainbound conditions. Lieutenant Virgil Smith, ace with six confirmed victories, led fighter actions while ground operations near Medjez el Bab and Pont-Dufahs continued with Allied advances and air support.
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Berlin
United States
Tunisia
Tenis
Galsa
Gulf of Gabes
Mare
Rommel
Libya
North Africa
An & Motor Canoas
Es Zauin
Tripoli
Medevine
Gabes
Sousse
Virgil Smith
McAllen
Texas
Messerschmitt
Smith
Ramee
Pont-Dufahs
Pont-Du-Paris
Axix
Tunis
40 Hour Week Will Continue Says Mead
Washington December 29 Senator Mead of New York declared administration supporters expect failure by reactionary elements to rewrite labor laws in the next Congress. He asserted legislation establishing a basic 40 hour week would withstand any assault and does not limit total hours a man may work.
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Washington
Beny
Mead
D-Ny
Admits Rape Slaying Of Ten Year Old Girl
Cincinnati police announce Anthony Treat 57 confessed to the Christmas rape and murder of 10 year old Metren Sellers. The body was found beneath an abandoned freight shed after she walked home with a man. Treat previously sentenced for sex crimes statements describe the alleged attack. Murder charges filed as he persisted in denials.
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Cincinnati
Patrick Mayes
Anthony Treat
Meten Sellers
Hayes
Tlo
Pubee
Treat
James A. Young Dies at 63 in Annapolis
James A. Young 63 of Annapolis died of a heart attack at his home. A former Mary land Court of Appeals clerk and later member of the State Liquor License Appeals Board, he had served five terms as clerk in Allegany and was appointed to the board two weeks after election day. He was born in Keyser West Virginia and survived by his wife Daisy Wilson White and son James Lloyd Young, plus a sister and a brother.
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Annapolis
James A. Young
Maryland
Court of Appeals
State Liquor License Appeals Board
Young
George A. Bal
Keyser
W. Va
Allegany County
Barton
Moscow Mills
Cumberland
Annapolla
Maurice Ogle
J. Millard Tawes
Liquor License Appeals Board
Daisy Wilson White
James Lloyd Young
Ogle
Bertha Lightner
Baltimore
Joreph W. Young
Plane Crashes Into Ocean At Rehoboth
December 29 Rehoboth Beach Delaware Coast Patrol flyers Lt John W Chex and Howard T Carter were in a plane that plunged into the ocean 100 yards from the shore. Four local boys swam to the scene while the flyers freed themselves from wreckage. Major Hugh H Sharp Jr said they were testing water flares when the crash happened.
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Rehoboth Beach
Del
John W. Chex
Chester
Howard T. Carter
Walmington
Civil Air Patrol
Renoboth Beach
William Massey
Willam Hamilton
Keith Coddington
Frank Small
Hugh H. Sharp, Jr
Coast Patrol No 2
Bus and Truck Collision Leaves Drivers Burned
In Grand Rapids a city bus and a heavy truck collided on a hill, the bus catching fire. Both drivers were burned. the truck driver was trapped by flames and the bus cab. The report notes the accident occurred at the western outskirts and mentions the Bristal port and Saxon invasion context.
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Grand Rapids
Midh
Dee
Pete
Bristal
Rail Line City Nearly Encircled By Soviets
Soviet southern armies push forward in a fan shaped advance toward Novaya Kalya south of Rossosh and Kichkino in the Kalmyck steppe. They report encircling Field Marshal Von Bock 22 divisions near Stalingrad and Don steppe fronts while inflicting air and ground losses on German transport and positions.
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Moscow
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Novaya Kallva
Rossosh
Ukraine
Kichkino
Kalmyck
Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk
Napolny
Kostylaikovski
Kotetnikovaki
Fedor von Bock
Stalingrad
Red Army
Don Steppe
Likhaya
Millerovo
Red Banner
Kotelnikovski
Med Star
Posthumous Award To Officers Widow
Baltimore December 28 The Distinguished Service Cross and Purple Heart medals, posthumously awarded First Lieutenant Olin Gibson King killed in action on Bataan in January, were presented to his widow Mrs Dora Lee King of Laurel Maryland by Major General Milton A Reckord at his headquarters ceremony. The citation signed by General MacArthur praised his unwavering devotion to duty and example to his command. Lieutenant King, son of Dr and Mrs Juudvien Kang of Salt Lake City, was with a field artillery unit at the time of his death. General Reckord spoke at the ceremony.
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Baltimore
Olin Gibson King
Bataan
Mra
Dora Lee King
Laurel
Milton A. Reckord
Third Service Command
MacArthur
King
Mies
Juudvien
Kang
al Salt Lake City
Aield
Reckord
Terrific Run On Canned Goods Report In Baltimore
Baltimore officials report a terrific run on canned goods with February rationing planned. Harry W. Walker secretary manager of the Independent Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Association says women are trying to ration foods and grocers are launching their own rationing system to curb the surge.
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Baltimore
Harry W. Walker
Independent Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers* Association
Walker
French Somaliland backs Fighting French in World War II
London reports that French Somaliland in East Africa officially joined the Fighting French today. De Gaulle's headquarters in Djibouti confirmed the alignment as the Croix de Lorraine flag flew at the capital, while the exact number of troops was not disclosed.
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London
Charles de Gaulle
East Africa
Djibouti
Pone Etzwse
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Goodland
South Pacific
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War Department
Mecdjez el Bab
North African
Sitte
Feld
Erwin Barmmei
al Quarte
Jas. A. Young
Appeals Court
John W. Young
Allegany Circuit Court
Rehoboth
Somaliland
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