Typhus and Spotted Fever Sweep Across Europe
Reports from London and Stockholm describe a rapid typhus and spotted fever outbreak across eastern and central Europe, with thousands of deaths in Russia, Poland, and Germany. Frontiers and ghettos are tightened, serum supplies are strained, and western Europe faces a serum shortage as populations move and prisoners of war may spread the disease.
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Aussies Wipe Out General And Staff On Malayan Front
Straits Times correspondent reports Australian troops chosen for guerrilla warfare killed two Japanese major generals and their staff on the northern Malayan front. The operation was led by a mix of local guides and European planters under a covert strategy, as troops moved through the countryside.
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War Roundup: Global Offensives Sweep Across Front Lines
AP tally reports Jap forces drive toward Singapore with British withdrawals and stalled defenses while Dutch Sumatra and Ambon face raids. MacArthur’s Philippine defenders resist on Batan. Germans retreat in North Africa as British advances push near Libya. Russian fronts widen near Mozhaisk and Sevastopol offensive grows. China reports heavy Jap casualties. Changsha forces pull back. Ruwanji movement led by exiled King Carol surfaces amid Bangkok fires.
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New Zoning Board Names Seven Member Commission
The city council on Thursday named a seven member zoning commission including Arthur E. Bord J Siiber James Tsfollg Jr Mrs Thomas B Blue Gus Mallerma Fred Pflughaupt and A L Becker. They repealed an ordinance creating an advisory committee to a 1936 commission and noted state law offers no term for city zoning bodies. The move aims to zone new areas being annexed to the city and address old commissions.
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Four Third Army Officers Promoted
Four officers at Third Army headquarters received promotion notices on Thursday. Promoted to lieutenant colonel were Ma Haydon L. Baater, assistant G-3. Maj. Merrow E. Sarley, assistant G-1. Maj. Clyde D. Eddleman, assistant G-2. Second Lt. George C. Boxer, in the office of the Rearmord, was promoted to first lieutenant.
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Legalized Vice in Reno Is Ended
Reno district attorney Ernest E. Brown ordered abatement of the state licensed vice district following military establishment weariness. The community where the city’s girls were housed was closed last night, ending legalized vice in Reno.
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War 25 Years Ago Today
A January 4 1954 roundup notes the Allied council in Rome issuing an ultimatum to Greece the Spanish government protesting Germany over the sinking of the San Leandro Russian forces advancing on the Riga front claim 800 Teutons captured near Galicia and a year earlier Greek forces make progress in Albania against Italy Austcalis moves to mechanize forces and British troops surround Tobruk in Egypt with Pearl Harbor remembrance.
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Chief of Gestapo Heads German Front on Russian War
New York Jan 8. Heinz Himmler head of the Gestapo has set up headquarters with German armies on the Russian front according to a British radio broadcast quoting an official German record read in Stockholm this morning.
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Return of airmen under Italian flag at Hallaya pass
In Cairo Lagot Tan reports an Italian medical officer guided five injured British airmen through Axis lines at Hallaya pass to siege sites held by South African forces. He said the airmen were wounded in a bomber crash inside Axis territory and that Italian troops lacked medical supplies. The South Africans sent the Italian officer back to his liner with surgical dressings for his own wounded.
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Brest Raided Again by RAF
London reports RAF bombers attacked Brest and St Nazaire again last night, with ships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst involved. All aircraft returned. This third raid on Brest in as many nights, and the fourth this year, follows prior Allied attacks on western ports. Berlin claims German bombers sunk a 1000-ton merchant ship off the Scottish coast and damaged another vessel with explosives.
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Sub Threat On West Coast Said Ended
The Thirteenth Naval district announced coastal sea traffic has returned to normal and Japanese submarine attacks off the Pacific coast are ended. Navy said sub raids were ineffective and warnings of enemy craft near Alaska were precautionary. No attacks reported for days as an army bomber destroyed a raider off California.
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Supreme War Production Office Aims For Centralized Control
Washington hearings begin next week as Senate Military Affairs Committee advances a Kilgore bill to create a supreme war production office, modeled after Britain's Ministry of Supply, with one man in charge of production. President Roosevelt may back a broader defense coordination plan. Wallgren named to lead subcommittee. Pearl Harbor referenced amid wartime urgency. The Marble Palace Gallery notes the world’s largest marble building cost about 16 million dollars.
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