Allied Air Offensive Blitzes Northwest Germany and Invading Coast
Allied air forces hurled about 9 750 planes in a dawn to dusk assault on Northwest Germany and the French invasion coast. The mass raid involved heavy bombers Marauders Liberators and escort fighters with substantial losses reported for 18 bombers and 2 fighters.
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London
Germany
Stockholm
Kiel
U. S
Channel
Army
Roosevelt
Earl Maze
Harleston
S&s C
Ira Eaker
Sweden
Denmark
Algiers
Berlin
Germans Baffled by New Navigation Device
Stockholm reports Germans express shock at a secret Allied navigation device enabling RAF and US bombers to strike Berlin with precision in any weather. Officials say the device allows pattern and pinpoint bombing from high altitude, a development tied to US Eighth Air Forces claims of 25,000 feet accuracy.
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Stockholm
RAF
Berlin
U.S
Eighth Air Forces
Paratroopers Deoffed in Ru mande Landing Report
An Ankara radio service reported that British paratroopers had landed in Rwanda to deter trouble, though details were unclear. The broadcast referenced a mission with limited official confirmation and described the operation in vague terms.
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Ankara Vedic
Oyster Propagation Allotment Is Scored
Annapol ig, Jan 4 Oyster dredgers called the $88,000 state oyster propagation budget a waste under the Tidewater Fisheries Commission. They argued reopening dredging bars would undermine conservation while oyster production has fallen since the commission’s start. Buy-boat masters criticized planting programs, saying shells planted by practitioners yield more oysters than the commission’s efforts.
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Annapolig
Chesapeake Bay
Tidewater Fisheries Commission
Edwin Warfield, Jr
Maryland
Commission
Thomas Elbourne
Rock Hall
Congressmen Defend Strike Statements
Washington January 4 three members of Congress defended as true the claim by Army Chief of Staff General Marshall that strike threats gave Germany a propaganda weapon risking revolts in Europe. They urged union leaders to witness frontline morale and noted Roosevelt and Marshall have not criticized labor. Senator Reed called Marshall a model of candor and directness while defending the anonymous statement.
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Washington
Jan
Congress
George C. Marshall
Army
Germany
Europe
AFL
William Green
Marshall
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Hitler
Roosevelt
Gen. Marshall
Ingh
Reed
R-Kas
Marsall
Physician indicted On Draft Fraud Charge
Baltimore January 4 Dr James S Hens former assistant physician at Spring Grove State Hospital was indicted by a Federal grand jury on four counts for counselling aiding and abetting a selectee to simulate a psychiatric condition to avoid induction The indictment also charges Hens a War Department medical examiner sought $2500 from Ferdinand Nauheim of Washington DC for influence The FBI said Hens accepted a dummy package containing 2000 as partial payment for instruction in feigning psycho neurosis Nauheim 34 told US Commissioner Cullen he notified the FBI after Hens proposed instruction in simulation of psycho neurosis PHILADELPHIA January 4 Mayor Bernard Samuel said the city will not bid for the 1944 presidential nominating conventions due to a ruling by the Office of Defense Transportation He added Philadelphia will pursue conventions in 1948.
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Baltimore
James S Hens
Spring Grove State Hospital
Fifth Regiment
Hens
Liberty
Hen
Nauheim
U. S
James K. Cullen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Replies To Criticism Of Farm Bureau At Frederick Meeting
Road official Roger H Willard told Kiwanis members at the Frederick club luncheon that some Farm Bureau leaders oppose road improvements due to prejudice and politics. He argued postwar county road work needs funds and outlined three potential tax options to raise about 100000 yearly, noting federal funds are unavailable and state gas tax revenue is low. The talk followed a Farm Bureau condemnation of postwar road plans.
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Roads Board
Farm Bureau
Frederick
Roger H. Willard
Kiwanis Club
Francis Scott Key
Mr. Willard
The
Bureau
Willard
League of Women Voters
Frederick County Roads Board
W. T. Delaplainee
Francis B. Sappington
Charles K. Taylor
Alcohol Receipts Fall For Maryland Six Months Ended Dec 1943
Annapolis report shows Maryland alcoholic beverage tax receipts for the six months ending December 1943 totalled 2,990,045, a decline of 86,108 from 1942. Distilled spirits dropped to 2,072,074, wine fell to 108,310, while beer rose to 804,907. December receipts were 411,926 versus 633,293 last year.
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Annapolis
Roger V. Laynor
Laynor
OPA to Stay in Force Says Maryland Officials
Maryland war price boards marked the second OPA anniversary with a dinner. Daniel P. Woolley warned that inflation and a drop in controls would follow if OPA ended. Leo H. McCormick noted records would go to the Government archives. Speakers praised volunteers and listed wartime rationing origins in Baltimore. A separate item reports Lucille Manners to wed Lieut William Walker of the Army Air Forces at Short Hills New Jersey.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Daniel P. Woolley
Maryland
Woolley
Congress
Leo H. McCormick
Pearl Harbor
O'Conor
W. Frank Roberts
Maryland Council of Defense
William Walsh
MecKeldin
Robert O. Donnell
War Services Section
Maryland State Council of Defense
New York
UPI
Lucille Manners
William Walker
Army Air Forces
Short Hills
N. J
Miss Manners
Walker
George
Jacob Ruppert
Ruppert Breweries
Armed Forces
Cornell University
Kleberg Criticizes Byrnes Views On Food Subsidies
U S Rep Kleberg, a Texas Democrat, tells a Columbia broadcast that continued food price subsidies would finance a disintegration of the American way of life. He argues against subsidy advocates and proposes a market based on flexible prices to balance demand and supply.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Kleberg
D-Tex
Congress
Columbia
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Commodity Credit Corporation
Kieberg
Estate of Ella Strong Left 155000 by Teacher in Louisville
Miss Ella Strong, 92, a teacher for 53 years, left an estate of 155000 probated today in county court. The will, attributed to wise investments, was described by niece Mary Wilson. School officials estimated her average annual salary at 850.
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Louisville
Ella Strong
Rift Between Justices Of Supreme Court
Washington January 4 A judicial rift has formed between Justice Felix Frankfurter and Justices Black and Murphy over Court approaches to ward questions of law and economics. Black and Murphy attack Frankfurter's views in patent law and utility rate cases, saying his positions reveal personal morals and constitutional overreach. The split drew wide attention as all three appointees by FDR were seen as a liberal bloc. The court ruled 5 to 4 in one patent case with New Dealers backing. Black and Murphy joined in dissent on the constitutional reasoning. In the other, a 5 to 3 decision limited court review of Federal Power Commission orders unless total effect is unjust, with Jackson, Frankfurter, and Reed dissenting. Black and Murphy issued concurring opinions criticizing Frankfurter’s reasoning. Murphy signed with Black.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Black and
Murphy
Frankfurter
Black
Congress
Roosevelt
Mercaid Corporation
Mid-Continent Corporation
Minneapolis- Honeywell Regulator Company
Douglas
Stone
Black, Murphy
Rutledge
Roberts
Reed
Jackson
Federal Power Commission
Marshall Praised by Eddie Rickenbacker for President Hope
Boston January 4 Col Eward Rickenbacker praised General George C Marshall as the ideal presidential type saying his main thought is saving the lives of soldiers He urged a fifth freedom to the Atlantic Charter opportunity He spoke of tours to Russia and the Far Pacific and warned of Nazi flyer shifts and declining enemy quality
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Boston
Col
Eaward
Rickenbacker
Boston Advertising Club
George C. Marshall
Army
United States
Washington
Marshall
Russia
Far Pacific
Marshalls Raid Drops Zeros Across Three Atolls
American Army bombers struck Watje Maloelap and Jaluit in the Marshalls, reporting heavy air resistance and ten enemy planes shot down with likely seven more. No U S planes were lost though some were damaged. Nimitz announced atoll-directed daylight raids.
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Pearl Harbor
mid-Pacific
Marshall Islands
U. S
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Central
Pacific
Watje
Maloelap
Jaluit
Wotje
Taroa
Marshalls
Jabor
Bright Left Estate Of Half Million
Richmond Virginia January 4 Rob ert S Bright 71 retired lawyer and banker of Frederick Maryland left an estate valued at 480000 to family members probate of his will in Richmond Chancery Court showed He died December 18 at the Jefferson Hotel and had lived in Frederick recently The will provides 1000 cash to his widow Mary McCaw Bright to live in the Frederick house if she wishes One fourth of the estate income goes to his grandsons Thomas Foster Bright and Robert S Bright II The income from the remainder goes to the widow during her life After her death the estate is divided one fifth to a stepdaughter Mary Hawes Harrison one fifth to the children of Anne Hawes Harrison and three fifths to a grandson Thomas Foster Bright of his heirs Executors named are the widow J Gowan Roper of Philadelphia and First and Merchants National Bank as trustee
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Richmond
Robert S. Bright
Frederick
Richmond Chancery Court
Bright
Philadelphia
Thomas Biddle and Co
Jefferson Hotel
Mary McCaw Bright
Thomas Foster Bright
Mary Hawes Harrison
Anne Hawes Harrison
J. Gowan Roper
First and Merchants National Bank
Freight car derailment damages car in yard
A freight car being moved into the Boston yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad derailed struck a fence and demolished a parked automobile. No injuries were reported.
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Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Boston Yards
Mortality rate shown in Allied hospital report
Cairo reports 611 deaths for the year ending April 1943 with a 21 percent mortality rate among casualties treated at Allied hospitals in the Middle East. This compares with a 7.44 percent rate in Egypt and Palestine hospitals during the last war.
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Cairo
Middle East
Egypt
Palestine
Mail Valentines Early Urges From War Department
The War Department urged wives sweethearts and relatives of soldiers overseas to mail Valentine greetings by January 15 to ensure delivery by St Valentines Day. Messages intended for boys overseas should reach the post by February 14.
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Washington
Chris
War Department
St. Valentine’s Ds
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Philly
Bernard Samuel
Office of Defense Transportation
Arabia
Arabian Hoyle
Ralph Royce
USAAF
Black and Murphy
Eddie Rickenbacker
Poles
Market St
Leg von
Confusion
C. E. Cline & Son
Hendrickson’s
Cannon Mills
Hendrickson
Carty
C. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
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