Pact Perils Pacific Area Pact Hits US Rights
Two Antipodean members of the British Empire propose a pact that would challenge American rights in the Pacific and push an Anzac oriented territorial pattern after Japan's defeat. The move aims to block semi American sovereignty over bases used by US forces, while excluding American participation and limiting former German territories.
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Japan
Pacific
U. S
Aan Wala le
Ausirana
New Zealand
Australia
MacArthur
Down Under
United States
Herbert V. Evatt
Evatt
Anzacs
Knox
Magwerram He Muon
Naval Airs Committee
Indian Ocean
Western Australia
Rabaul
Kavieng
United Kingdom
America
Washington
State Department
Amoraa al AL Tta
War anger against Japan grows in U S but decisions stand firm
A broad briefing shows rising demand for vengeance against Japan among lawmakers and citizens. Officials say strategic choices to defeat Germany first remain intact while preparations and justice for wartime crimes proceed.
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Jan
Aled
Germany
Japan
Andrew Ju! May
D-Ky
House
Military Affairs
Pacific
Marshall Islands
Adm
Ernest J. King
U. S
Atlantic
San Francisco
Delos C. Emmons
Western Defense Command
Senate
Wallace H. White, I Jr
Maine
Weather forecast for tonight and Sunday
Occasional snow flurries and colder tonight with a low of 23 degrees. Partly cloudy and moderately cold Sunday. Northeast forecast notes occasional temperatures around 41 to 38 degrees at various early morning hours with brief readings for overnight Saturday into Sunday.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
British Prisoners Die In Forced Burma Labor
British Empire prisoners of war and Chinese civilians are said to be forced to build a Burma Thailand railway as Japan presses toward Burma. Eyewitness reports describe brutal conditions in jungle work camps where many prisoners and laborers died and were buried.
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Chungking
Burma
Thailand
Washington
London
Grave Concern Over Jap POW Treatment In Canada
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons Canada is gravely concerned by reports of conditions for Allied prisoners of war held by Japan. Canada and other commonwealth governments have protested through Switzerland. about 500 Canadians are in Hong Kong and 1,000 more are on the Japanese mainland.
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Ottawa
INS
Canada
W. L. Mackenzie
King
House of Commons
Switzerland
Hong Kong
Britain vows full might against Japan after atrocities
The London Daily Express reports that Japan brutalities against Allied POWs will remove any doubt Britain will use full force against Japan once Germany falls. UK papers condemn Japanese savagery while calling for retribution and strict measures.
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London
London Daily Express
Britain
Japan
Germany
London Daily Mail
The
Daily Herald
Safe Yields Safety Pins
Newark police opened a four ton safe after three hours of work with acetylene torches chisels and hammers. Inside were found safety pins paper clips and miscellaneous office paraphernalia but no clues were uncovered.
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Newark
Ohio
Rath Fon
Meadow
Soviets Hit Nazi Flanks Amid Heavy Kerch Battle
Soviet advances created large gaps in German lines with 1,200 dead and 65 tanks lost as Kerch comes under unprecedented artillery bombardment. Radio Berlin cited embittered street fighting and a reported eight to one Soviet superiority in sources.
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Radio Berlin
Kerch
Crimea
Nazis Accused of Slaying 13 000 Sarny Residents
London reports from Moscow indicate more than 13 000 residents of Sarny in old Poland were killed by German forces during recapture by the Red Army. The broadcast cites 23 killed in a gas chamber, two priests burned on a bonfire, 1 000 youths sent to Germany, and 400 houses burned. Surviving locals including a clergyman, two doctors and a teacher corroborate the brutal abuses.
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London
Sarny
Poland
Red Army
Moscow
Monitor
Germany
FCC
Peter Kalinovich
Alexander Kukharsky
Allied Bombers Rampage Over Berlin in Night Raids
Royal Air Force and American Liberators hammered Berlin in multiple raids, dropping about 20 000 tons since November 18. The Berlin attack coincided with U S daylight strikes on Pas de Calais targets, while evacuees flee the capital and schools close. Canadian bombers and fighters supported operations with several losses among crews.
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Europe
R.A.F
Berlin
Germany
Britain
France
Hamburg
Pas-de-Calais
Stockholm
Svenska Morgenbladet
London
Thunderbolts
Sesterany 2
Pas- de-Calais
Sereolans
North Sea
Lepke Gangsters Lose Appeal on Death Sentence
New York January 29 Louis Lepke Buchalter Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone, gangsters of Murder Inc, lost another appeal in the Brooklyn slaying of candy dealer Joseph Rosen. Judge Franklin Taylor denied a new trial motion and the condemned men plan to appeal to the Court of Appeals. The case ties to Gov. Dewey as special prosecutor and prior federal detentions and Surrender disputes with President Roosevelt.
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New York
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Emanuel (Mendy) Weiss
Louis Capone
Murder, Inc
Brookelyn
Franklin ‘Taylor
Brooklyn
Joseph Rosen
Taylor
Court of Appeals
Buchalter
Allied Forces Reach 19 Miles From Rome amid Italian Front Push
U S troops push toward Rome with the bridgehead near Carroceto expanding as Allied air forces fly over 1 500 sorties. Aviano airfield 40 miles north of Venice targeted by bomber missions while German resistance slows progress and Paris radio claims another Allied landing may occur.
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Ferrara
Italy
Aviano
Venice
Orvieto
Orte
Terni
Carroceto
Anzio
Paris
Ministry of Information
London
Chile to Sell Farm Produce to United States
Santiago Chile January 29 Ricardo Heatley the subsecretary of commerce announced negotiations would be completed next week for sale of excess Chilean agricultural products to the United States Government.
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Chile
Santiago
Ricardo Heatley
United States
Briton Gives Nation Big Estates To Nation Gift Of 17 000 Acres
Sir Richard Acland, a 36 year old MP and Commonwealth party leader, fully transfers 17000 acres of Devon and Somerset estates valued at about 1 million dollars to the nation. He cites conscience and principle saying private ownership of large properties impedes national development and that death duties would break up the estates. He will live modestly in Devon during the war and continue as MP and writer.
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London
Devon and
Somerset
Richard Acland
Commonwealth Party
Acland
Devon
U S S Missouri Is Launched A Giant Warship To Awe
Navy officials announced the Missouri, sister to the Iowa New Jersey and Wisconsin, will have 418000 square feet of deck space 150 feet square. Ten thousand workers logged 3300000 man days since keel laid January 6 1941 and 330000 man days before that. The ship will displace water to flood 46 acres and include an electrical plant to power a city like Santa Fe New Mexico. The crew pledged at least 1250 gallons of blood to the Red Cross in a historic donation.
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Iowa
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Santa Fe
X. M
Navy
Missouri
Red Cross
Arnold Airmail Heiress to Wed Army General's Son
The engagement of Barbara Douglas, daughter of aircraft magnate Donald W. Douglas, to Lt. William Bruce Arnold, second son of Gen. H. H. Arnold, was announced. They know each other from Riverside California. Barbara attended USC and William Arnold graduated West Point and is stationed at Camp Irwin California.
Whiteside to Quit Federal Position in War Production Board
Arthur D. Whiteside will resign as director of the Office of Civilian Requirements in the War Production Board to return to his civilian job as President for Dun & Bradstreet in New York. No successor has been named and he plans to leave February 19.
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Whiteside
Washington
Arthur D. Whiteside
War Production Board
Dun & Bradstreet
New York
F Credit Rating Agency
War Agency
Truce on the Rapido Enables Yank-Nazi Casualty Evacuation
Two American soldiers with a Red Cross banner crossed into German lines at the Rapido River to evacuate wounded after a German request for a battle lull. Captain David Kaplan and Private Arnol Fleischman led litter bearers in bringing back 25 bodies and four wounded, including a medical officer, amid heavy fighting and barbed wire.
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Talwan
Red Cross
No Man's Land
Rapido River
Salerno
David Kaplan
Sioux City
Pvt
Arnol Fleischman
Wood Haven
S. J
Mata Combe Corey
Sanguinary Rapido River
No Man’s Land
Rome
Rapide
Cassino
Thomas FE. Wilson
Bangs
Tex
Wilson
Rapido
Robert Murphy
Syracuse
Ike
War crimes and the fate of nations in the Nazi Soviet era
In a continued wartime column, the piece denounces Nazi barbarism under Hitler and notes that not all Germans support him. It condemns Germany's attack on civilians, praises Churchill’s stance, and warns of reeducation and punishment for war crimes while stressing the need to civilize Japan and Germany through education.
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Hull
War
Navy
United Nations Commission For Investigation
London
Germany
Fuehrer
Hitler
Gestapo
Winston Churchill
Reich
Russia
Japan
Mussolini
Vittorio
Ethiopia
H Duce
Italy
Eden
Bombs Rain Near Writers' Beach Villa Frontline Dispatch
A wartime diary style account describes near misses and bomb bursts above a villa near a beachhead. Journalists Ken Dixon Gordon Gammacki and Jack Fossie report while soldiers and locals cope with air raids and wrecks.
Polish Navy Though Small Is Nazi Dread
Polish navy strengthened since WWII began with a cruiser six destroyers three submarines and several smaller craft despite losing home base. It has sailed Atlantic North Sea and Mediterranean theater duties with Britain and the United States, sinking multiple German ships and earning high Allied honors.
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Chicago Daily News, Inc
London
Poland
Dieppe
Atlantic
North Sea
Russia
Mediterranean
North Africa
Baltic Sea
Britain
Orzel
Piorun
Sokol
Dzik
Black Mart Liquor Ring Indicts 11 in New York
The government indicted 11 men on charges of conspiring to sell whiskey above Office of Price Administration ceilings. Seven were nabbed by the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit after an agent posed as an assistant wine steward at a midtown hotel. The Harry Gertske Company and Waldorf Liquors, Inc. named in the indictments. Indicted individuals include Arthur Lombardi of New Haven, Harry Novick of Jacksonville, Philip Peters of Detroit, William J. Regan, and Edward Turner of Miami.
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New York
INS
New York City
Office of Price Administration
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
Harry Gretske Company
Waldorf Liquors, Inc
Waldorf
Arthur Lombardi
New Haven
Paid Informers Tip Off Dane Arrests Rise
The Free Danish Press Service says Germans use paid informers to curb sabotage with 50 to 75 Danish arrests daily. Hundreds of tramcar informers are hired for weekly pay, free transport, and bonuses for each arrest linked to their reports.
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Stockholm
Pasteeth Promises Comfort With Loose Teeth Relief
An early 20th century advertisement touts PASTEETH an alkaline powder to secure upper and lower plates, reducing wobble and embarrassment. It claims soothing cooling effects and urges purchase at drug stores to overcome dental discomfort.
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Des Moines Register
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