Yugoslav Partisans Claim Gains Around Banjaluka
Yugoslav forces in the Adriatic region report street battles, prison siege actions, and the capture of a town hall as Partisans strengthen their front near Banjaluka. Allied officers are said to command Tito’s divisions amid rumors of a looming Dalmatian coast invasion. Yugoslav airmen flying Liberators have averaged two missions daily in the Mediterranean.
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Banjatuka Tasro
Cairo
Middle East
Tito
Yougoslav
Geremans
Yupovias
Tan
Une
Blace
Klling
Parissan
Banjatuka-Zagreb
Budapest
Stockholm
Tidningen
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Dalmatian
Cuba
Mediterranean
Havel
Roosevelt
Cadet Killed As 2 Trainers Crash
Fort Worth, Jan 4. Aviation Cadet James Rohrbaugh, 20, of Lafayette, Indiana, died when two army training planes collided in mid air near Hicks Army Air Field. The other plane landed with no injuries. Investigations by officers were announced.
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Fort Worth
INS
James
Rohr
Baugh
Lafayette
Ind
Hicks Army Air Field
Eire to Intern German Sailors
London Jan 4 The government said it would intern 164 German naval men picked up in the Bay of Biscay and decline to yield to demands to repatriate them aboard a neutral ship.
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London
Government of Hire
Bay of
Bikeay
Eire
Invasion Heads Conifer in London
Allied invasion council forms as Montgomery arrives in London with Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory and Gen. Carl A. Boalds in England.Montgomery vows quick action as Eighth Army troops in Italy hear a hopeful message.Paris radio notes countermeasures against a revolt timed with the invasion.
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London
Allied
Europe
Bernard L. Montgomery
Allied Air Command
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
U. S
Strategic Air Force
Carl A. Boaalz
England
Montgomery
Italy
Eighth Army
Paris
France
Blame over anonymous wartime statement fuels political uproar
Washington reports intensified demands that an anonymous author be identified after a statement alleging Axis propaganda ties American rail and steel disputes to prolong the war. Senator La Follette, House members, and Rep Shafer condemn the anonymous source as tantamount to treason while urging disclosure and accountability. In Pittsburgh, Philip Murray of the CIO says steel capacity should shift to essential civilian goods and cites open furnaces and high capacity, linking industry output to war needs and propaganda concerns.
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Washington
Avex
Aithorso
George C. Marshall
APL
William Green
Marshall
White House
Stephen Earry
Roosevelt
Congress
141 Fallette
Wisconsin
LaFollette
Shafer R.mich
Paw Kilday
San Antonio
House Military Committee
Ition
Gibson
D.-Ga
Shafer
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
C.I
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Murray
Europe
Weather forecast for San Antonio area turns colder
Mostly cloudy Tuesday afternoon and night into Wednesday with scattered light rains. Tuesday night may dip near freezing in the northwest and extreme west ventral portion. Wednesday colder in west and north portions with light rain in the east and south. Lowest Wednesday around 42 degrees.
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San Antonio
Texas
Travelers Head To Visit S A Travelers Head To Visit S A
Toyd Carter of Columbus Ohio supreme touoriller of the United Commercial Travelers of America will visit the San Antonio Council No 61 Tuesday night at the Crockett hotel. Weather bureau asta on P 2-A.
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Toyd Carter
Columbus
Ohio
United Commercial ‘Travelers of America
San Antonio Council
Crock
Weather Bureau
Lect
War change of address in jungle warfare rules
Frontline officers and men in Bougainville and the Solomons drop formal rank terms. Private soldiers call officers by first names and code names, while snipers pick off leaders listening for calls. The army notes that despite battle, discipline shifts as men endure informal exchanges and improvisation in jungle fighting.
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Washington, Jan
Earr
Jay Eara
Southwest Pacific Islands
Ely
War Department
Buckeye
Bougainville
Solomons
Charlie
Army
Hipp
Wu Swaimp
Rong
Japs Lose Heavily In Pacific War News
Allied forces press in the Pacific as U S Marines widen the Cape Gloucester beachhead on New Britain and Seabees rush to rebuild airfields. Allied air forces soften enemy bases in the Marshalls and New Guinea as carrier planes hit Kavieng and Rabaul and Japanese raids on Tarawa Makin and Arawe are repelled.
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Southwest Pacific
Gaines
New Britain
New Ireland
Central Pacific
Tarva
Marshall Islands
Mary Knox
Alr
Wolfe
Kwajalein
Mill
Jaluit
Marshalls
Tarawa
Makin
Gilberts
Knox
Cape Gloucester
Bergen Bay
Te White
Bordiers
3Nd
Seidor
New Guinea
Sixth Army
Arawe
Kavieng
Rabaul
Huon Peninsula
Sai- Gor
Madang
Suidor
Navy Orders Mars Planes
Secretary of the Navy Knox announced the navy has ordered 20 more Martin Mars cargo flying boats. The huge craft, already setting cargo and over water flight records, will join the naval transport service after completion by Glenn L Martin Co. in Baltimore. Completion of the first of the 20 planes is expected in about a year. The Mars, the largest operating plane, has a 200 foot wingspan and a 117 foot length.
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Washington
INS
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Navy
Glenn L Martin Company
Baltimore
Wercom House
Allied Air Strikes Hit Italian Rail Yards and Plant
Allied bombers and fortresses attacked Villa Perosa and Villa Prrosa in northern Italy, destroying the bearing plant and damaging the Turin yards. Eighth Army Indian troops advanced inland from the Adriatic while American patrols probed San Vittore near Rome as heavy bombers hit Civitavecchia and nearby rail targets. Seven enemy planes were shot down for three Allied losses amid ongoing operations in the Italian theater.
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Allied
Algiers
Din
Villa Peresa
Italy
Yurta
Eighth Army
Adriatic
San Vittore
Rome
Split
Sibenik
5Th Air Force
Fretime
Gon
Nathan Twining
Villa Prrosa
Villa Petosets
Turia
Berlin
Pistoia
Florence
Tomasso
Ortons Wlmont
Tollo
Naels
Fifth Army
Mignano
Villa Perosa
Civitavecchia
Tax Declarations In Full Swing At County Office
County Tax assessor-Collector Dicktson reported 440 visitors to the courthouse over the last two days as residents declared property for tax assessments. He said io men are handling the work and more staff will be sent to precincts later this month to assist citizens in this annual duty. Bridgeport authorities also reported Ida Tarbell, 46, dean of American women writers, remained critically ill but with condition stable compared with the past days.
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Dicktson
Bridgeport, Conn
Bridgeport ‘Hospital
Ida. Tarbell
Nazis Leave Huge Stocks Of War Gear
The Soviet Red Army, under Gen. Nikolai Vatutin, advanced into old Poland after capturing Olevsk and Novograd-Volynski, recapturing 170 villages and pushing toward Korsee. Reports say vast quantities of German war gear were abandoned as Soviet forces neared Riga and Latvia, with Bagramian pressing toward Nevel and the Latvian frontier.
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Moscow
Red Star
Nikolai Vatutin
Olevsk
Poland
Erich von Mannstein
Sarny
Kowel
Lwow
Old Poland
Phish
Korsee
Red Army
Kiev
Novograd- Volynski
Vileages
Warsaw
Klev
Emilehino
Russia
Vatutin
Dzerzhinsk
Zhitomir
Fritz von Mannstein
Elant Nagi
Hatte
Stockholm
Svenska Dagbladet
Gorodnika
Slucz
Oleysk
Baltic
Ivan Bagramian
Soviet War Bulletin
Nevet
Latvia
Vitebsk
Bagramisn
U.S. Bombers Hit Pas de Calais in France Raid
United States Marauder bombers attacked military targets in Pas de Calais with RAF, Dominion and Allied escort. Losses included two enemy aircraft shot down and seven Allied planes missing in northern France operations. Berlin fires from prior raids reported.
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London
United States
Pas de Calais
France
Germany
R.A. F
Dominion
Oslo
Tromsoe
Air Ministry
Berlin
Sweden
Hitler
Hellers
Ing
Tempelhof
Ir.a.f
Domion
England
FDR Ill Forces News Conference Cancellation
President Roosevelt cancelled his news conference today and remained in bed on a physician order after an attack of grippe. Rear Adm. Ross T. M 판단 Mefture, his doctor, said activity would be limited for some time, likely for the rest of the week.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ross T. Mefture
Poland Seeks US Aid as Red Army Enters Poland
Poland's refugee government pressed for American diplomatic help to safeguard independence as Soviet troops crossed old borders amid German retreat. Ambassador Ciechanowski met with Secretary Hull to urge US influence, while officials warned against Polish resistance to the advancing Soviet forces.
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Kingsbury Smtat
Washington, Jan
INS
Poland
Janu Ciechanowski
Cordel Hull
Pooland
Hull
Ciechanowski
Russia
Moscow
May Tas
Cuchanowski
Cairo Reports 600 Nazis Killed
New York dispatch cites a Cairo radio claim that Greek patriots killed 0 Nazis in a battle of great importance in Epirus. the patriots suffered light losses while attacking a motorized group of 700 Germans. Also notes Aggies to meet at Alamo A and M club starting the new year.
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New York
Cairo
Epirus
Aggies
Alamo A
M. Clab
Will Wold Itz
Petroleum
Alamo National Building
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Green
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Ida Tarbell, III
Luis Lopez Cordeti
Cuenca
Gibraltar
Gibraltar Supreme Court
William Adkinson
Gibraltar Security Police
Tet'l
News Phate
U.S
FDR
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