Davis Tells Experiences Down Under
Pfc. Robert C. Davis Jr. recalls six months in the Australia New Guinea area under heavy Japanese bombardment. He describes Coral Sea and New Guinea battles, seeing numerous dead soldiers and prisoners, and notes nurses evacuated then returning to service.
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Pfc
Robert C. Davis, Jr
the Plank Road
Trong Somerset
Australia-New Guinea
Pfc. Davis
Somerset High School
Air Corps
Keesler Field
Miss
Kessler Field
Davis
Fort McDowell
Angel Island
San Francisco
Australia
Coral Sea
Terra Firma
New Guinea
Jean
Presbyterian Hospi
Roosevelt suspends eight hour workday for War Department
President Roosevelt issued an executive order suspending the eight hour day for laborers and mechanics on War Department public works essential to the war effort. Wages will be based on a basic eight hour day with overtime at time and a half for hours over eight. He cited an acute labor shortage as the reason for action.
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Washington
Rooosevelt
War Department
Wallace Has Plan To Run Whole Work
Vice President Wallace proposes a world council to preserve peace and regionalize postwar problems. He spoke on Woodrow Wilson birthday, outlining four aims including liberty equality security and unity of the united nations. The address, backed by major associations, aligned with the Roosevelt New Deal and argued for global development of industry and agriculture.
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Waseington
Wallace
World Council
Woodrow Wilson
United Nations
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
American Political Science Association
American Society For Public Administration
American Historical Association
Roosevelt
Office of War Information
Wilson
South America
Asia
Africa
Europe
North America
No Smallpox Cases Since Christmas in Kishacoquillas Valley
Dr. S J Dickey of the Pennsylvania health department said no new smallpox victims have been listed since Christmas, after 28 cases in the Kishacoquillas valley. Vaccination centers opened in Belleville as officials estimate 6 000 residents in the area and quarantine restrictions may ease in a week or ten days.
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Lewistown
J. Dickey
Pennsylvania Health Department
Kishacoquillas Valley
Dickey
Ohio
Belleville
Mifflin County
Bellevide
A. H. Stewart
State Secretary of Health
Huntlingdon County
A. J. Greenleaf
Ancaster
Kate Peachey
Springs
Somerset County
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Jerry Jeines
Hoovyersville
Two New Smallpox Cases in Lancaster Prompt Vaccination Clinic
Lancaster reports two new smallpox cases in a city of 60,000. Dr. Joseph Oppleyard, secretary of the board of health, says a free vaccination clinic will open tomorrow. These are the first cases in the city.
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Lancaster
Joseph Oppleyard
Board of Health
Notice to Public on Lights Off When Absent
The local Counsel of Defense warns lights must be turned off if ten ants are not at home. Any light left burning that the warden cannot extinguish is a violation.
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Local Counsel of Defense
Parasite supplies dropped to Guadalcanal by Japanese
Allied observers report Japanese parachute supplies found at Tassafaronga on Guadalcanal and strafed by American air units. Navy says a new dive bomber was destroyed at Munda and a bivouac raid on Guadalcanal inflicted unreported damage. Two Lockheed Lightning planes were lost with one rescued pilot. Tassafaronga remains a barrier to sea-based Japanese reinforcements.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Guadalcanal
Navy
Tassafaronga
Solomon Islands
Gersal
Kiska
Aleutian Islands
Kokumbona
Japanese warships shell Buna in notable New Guinea action
Allied dispatch reports Buna village shelled by Japanese warships for five hours before daylight. The attack began around midnight with submarines suspected. no damage reported. A counterattack breached the enemy position while Allied planes hit targets from Timor to New Britain, including three direct 500 pound bomb hits on a large cruiser in Rabaul harbor.
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C. Yates McDanitel
Australia
Buna
Deper
New Guinea
Timor
New Britain
Rabaul
Jap Landing in Kwangtung and Hopeh Reports
The BBC announced that China reported a Japanese landing on the eastern Kwangtung coast and the capture of four towns in eastern Hopeh. It said six thousand Japanese were driven back in southern Shantung and that an enemy thrust in northern Hopeh was repulsed with heavy losses.
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New York
British Broadcasting Corporation
Kwangtung
Hopeh
Shantung Province
BBC
Federal Communications Commission
CBS
Allied Drive Rommel Forces Toward Misurata Front
Allied air and ground units pressed Rommel's Libyan forces westward toward Misurata as Tunisia's weather again hindered a major thrust. French and American actions across North Africa reported. De Gaulle and Giraud discussed political moves. Eisenhower returned to the front after Darlan's funeral.
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Belman Morin
London
North Africa
Rommel
Misurata
Tripoli
Tunisia
Pont du Fuchs
Canisia
Kairouan
Pichon
Brazzaville
Charles de Gaulle
Lake Cuad
Fezzan
Libya
Washington
Roosevelt
Henri Giraud
Jean Darian
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Darlan
Giraud
Sousse
U. S
Cairo
Bernard L. Montgomery
Wadi Bei el Cherbir
Sirle
Japs Launch Hupeh Drive
Chinese communique reports Japanese forces in eastern Hupeh driving on Chinese concentrations in Tapichan mountains along the Yanktse river between Hankow and Kiukiang. Forces massed near the Rupen Anhwei border advanced December 19 and 23, capturing cities and moving toward Kwangsi and Macheng amid heavy fighting. China says 6,000 Japanese troops were repelled in southern Shantung.
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Chungking
Hupeh
Tapichan
Yanktse
Hankow
Kiukiang
Rupeh-Anhwei
Hishui
Kwangtsi
Huangmei
Susung
Nahwei
Macheng
Hupeh Anhwei-Honan
Shantunk
Death toll rises from Xmas crash near Girard
Richard Luther, 16, died at St. Vincent's Hospital after his sister Thelma Luther, 18, was killed in the Christmas Day car crash three miles west of Girard. Barbara Babinger, 17, suffered injuries and is listed in fair condition. The Luther siblings lived on a rural route outside North Girard.
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Erie
Richard Luther
Thelma Luther
St. Vincent's Hospital
Barbara Babinger
Girard
Miss Babinger
Luthers
North Girard
Women Taxi Drivers Ready to Hit Philadelphia Streets
The Yellow Cab company announced six women have passed driving tests and will start work Wednesday in Philadelphia. Two more will begin as starters. The new drivers will wear olive-drab uniforms and hats.
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Philadelphia
Yellow Cab Company
Red Army advances trap Germans near Stalingrad
Russian forces push toward Kotelnikovski and Verkhne-Kurmoyarskaya as part of a multi pronged drive. Berlin reports stiff resistance in the middle Don, while Soviet communiques claim dozens of tanks guns planes and trucks seized and thousands of enemy troops killed or captured.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Kotelnikovski
Stalingrad
Don
Verkhne-Kurmoyarskaya
Don River
Krilov and
Nikolski
Caucasus
Middle
Chertkov
Millerovo
Moscow-Rostov
Kotel- Nikovski
Gremyachaya
Kuseleva
Middle Don
Likhaya
Rostov
Berlin
Kotelnikoviski
Ron-Volga
Ukraine
Volga
Yugoslav government reshuffle amid exile cabinet rumors
London dispatch reports the Yugoslav government in exile may reshuffle ministers with Mihailovic remaining war minister. Nincic purportedly resigns as foreign minister amid claims of unity efforts, while external sources deny civil strife and rumors of talks with Axis powers. UK, US, and USSR monitor as Mihailovic-led guerrillas disrupt key rail lines to aid Allied Africa operations.
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Montehilo Nincic
E. C. Daniel
London
Foreign Minster
Draja Mihailovic
Yugoslavia
Nincic
M Hailovic
Mihailovic
Britain
United States
Russia
Budapest
Adriatic
North Africa
Germany
De Gaulle endorses Giraud and calls for united temporary French government
In a radio broadcast from London General Charles de Gaulle praised General Henri Giraud as the rightful ally leader in North Africa. He urged forming an enlarged temporary French authority uniting forces at home and abroad to achieve liberation and national independence.
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London
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Jean Darlan
North
Africa
de Gaulle
Washington
Roosevelt
Algiers
North Africa
Giraud
Darlan
Vichy
Freak Mishap Kills Woman At Pittsburgh Train Station
Mrs Opal N Moore a 23 year old wartime worker in Pittsburgh was killed in a freak mishap at the station train shed when a Greensburg local backing out struck an ice truck and hurled it into her She died two hours later at St Francis hospital Another woman worker was also struck by debris or vehicle after the incident
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Pittsburgh
Opal N. Moore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Greensburg
Yanks Hit Bangkok in Second Raid After Night Assault
A large force of American four motored bombers struck Bangkok, the Thai capital under Japanese control, smashing the naval dock area, a powder factory, an arsenal, and the air field. The raid came after a midnight approach from across the Bay of Bengal and Burma, with fires observed from heavy explosions.
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New Velhi
Bankok
Thailand
Bay of Bengal
Burma
North Bankok
Ara
Bangkok
Not So Quiet As Reported In Medjez El Bab Front
War report from Medjez el Bab describes rough front activity despite claims of quiet. An American tank unit led by First Lieutenant Cyrus Overman of Wynnewood Pennsylvania works with British infantry and Senegalese French forces in night raids and heavy artillery duels.
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Wes Gallagher
United States
Medjez-Elbab
Communitioe
Messerschmitts
Cyrus Overman
Wynnewood
Britain
Overman
Speed Railroad Petroleums Add 100000 Barrels Daily
Officials will discuss speeding railroad petroleum car round trips from southwestern oil fields to east coast distribution points to supply 100000 additional barrels daily. Proceedings set in Washington tomorrow.
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New York
Washington
New Victory Stamp to Feature United Nations Post Office Design
Washington announces a central victory design for the new United Nations post age stamp to be issued January 14 by the Post Office Department. The stamp highlights unity and progress with a symbolic motif.
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Washington
United Nations
Post Office Department
Somerset Daily Weather Summary Report
The report records daily weather data from 5:30 pm Sunday to 5:30 pm Monday. It notes a high temperature around 51 with a minimum near 32 and about 0.17 inches of precipitation.
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Somerset
David Grove
U. S
Weather Forecast for Eastern States Tuesday Rain
Eastern Pennsylvania expects rain on Tuesday with gradually rising temperatures. Western Pennsylvania likewise shows Tuesday rain with warmer conditions in the east and far north. Maryland and West Virginia face Tuesday rain or drizzle, with warmer central portions and cooler conditions in central and southern areas.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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