San Juan Quake Strikes City Amid Nationwide Aid Drive
Stricken San Juan faces its tenth aftershock since a weekend disaster that killed more than 1,500. President Ramirez urged a minute of silence as Chilean and Brazilian Red Cross teams arrive to aid Argentines. US offer accepted. Survivors recount terrifying scenes of collapsing mountains and buildings.
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Buenos Aires
San Juan
Pedro Ramirez
SOS
Tatas
Red Cross
United States
Andes
Peace hints amid Russo Polish deadlock expressed in Commons
Halifax signals hope for a friendly resolution to the Russo Polish dispute affecting Allied unity. Britain and the Soviet and Polish governments are in close touch as Moscow and Warsaw spar over borders and postwar boundaries, with US and British mediation discussed quietly.
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Europe
London
Commons
Russia
United States
Britain
Flying Tigers Ace Howard Leads Bloodless Air Feat Over Europe
U S Army record shows Major Howard, famed Flying Tigers veteran, shooting down six enemy aircraft in a dramatic dogfight during a raid. He sustained only a single bullet hole in his plane while his squad protected bombers. Mustang P-51Bs, recently deployed in Europe, destroyed or damaged 87 Nazi planes in initial missions and racked up 41 confirmed victories with 13 probables. In China he reportedly downed 613 Japanese planes and earned Chiang Kai-shek’s decoration before joining the European fight.
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Howard
Flying Tigers
Burma
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Britain
France
Germany
U. S. Air Force
Kenneth R. Martin
Kansas City
Air-Wae Recruit's Heart in Right Place
New Haven Conn January 19 The Army describes Miss Veilleux 20 of Bridgeport as a girl whose heart is in the right place patriotically even if not anatomically. She enlisted this week as an air Wae and the induction medical officer found her heart on the right side. She was healthy athletic and accepted for service.
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New Haven
Conna
Army Today
Miss Veilleux
Bridgeport
Army Vessel Sinks Claims 32 Crew Members
Boston reports the five day North Atlantic gale ended with the Nevada foundering. Coast Guard Lt Langford Anderson and cutter Comanche saved 29 of 61 crew members as 37 survivors were drawn from a lifeboat eight miles downwind. The Nevada, captained by George F Turiga, sank with 32 dead.
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BNW
Nevada
North Atlantic
Coast Guard
Boston
Langford Anderson
Wellesley
Anderson
George F. Turiga
Beacon
N. Y
Great Lakes
William Mitchell
New York City
Arthur Nickerson
New Bedford
Philip Feldman
New
York City
Wasj
Associated Press
Toj
Robert G. Wiles
Haddam
Feldman
New York
Grandal
Dog
Federal Reserve
Bank of New York
Reserve Bank
AP to Take Trust Case to Highest Court
The Associated Press announces an appeal to the U S Supreme Court of a federal anti trust judgment. AP directors insist no newspaper or press service can operate under a court injunction and warn a perpetual injunction would harass a non profit cooperative. The decision follows a New York statutory court ruling that found AP not a monopoly.
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New York
Associated Press
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Washington
Supreme Court
Country Club
AFL Opposes Using War Prisoners in Non-Competing Jobs
AFL executive council urges a government policy against employing prisoners of war on projects that do not risk sabotage or competition with American workers. President William Green cites complaints from Wisconsin woodcutters and notes halt in railroad wage settlement as a sign of ongoing labor tensions.
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AFL
U. S
Miami
Fla
Executive Council
William Green
Refunds Totalling 100000 In North Jersey Rent Overcharges
OPA Rent Director H Russell Phillips announced arbitration on rent-overcharge disputes in 1943 refunded $100000 to about 2000 North Jersey tenants. Excludes court awards to about 50 who sued for treble damages. Of 600000 registered residential units, about 10000 faced overcharge complaints.
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North Jersey
Newark
N. J
OPA
H. Russell Phillips
Phillips
Famed Yank Ace In R A F Killed In An Accident
Wing Commander Lance C. Wade 27 American ace of the R A F with the Mediterranean theater high score of 25 enemy planes destroyed died Jan 12 in Italy when a small communications plane crashed behind the front. Wade held British DFC and two bars and was praised as the war’s greatest fighter pilot.
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Algiers
Lance C. Wade
Mediterranean
Italy
Tucson
Ariz
Middle East
Basil Thornton
London
Wade
Eighth Army
Thornton
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Wilhelmstrasse
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Izvestia
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Coccia
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