Aussies Capture Bonga Seaward Anchor In New Guinea
Australian jungle fighters push north from Pinschafen and seize Bonga, the seaward anchor of Japan's supply line to the northeast New Guinea coast, depriving the enemy of a Huon peninsula hold. Gusika also falls as Allied bombers hit Cape Gloucester airfield.
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Bonga
New Guinea
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Douglas MacArthur
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Alracobra
Public Health Service seeks $1 million for relocating doctors
Senate debate reveals opposition and support in closed hearing. Senator McKellar calls the plan socialized medicine while Pepper defends the need to place 600 physicians and dentists in underserved areas. Letters from medical leaders bolster the proposal as a wartime health measure. Continued on Page Four
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Florida
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Pepper
James Paullin
Atlanta
Georgia
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Norman T. Kirk
Army
Frank Lahey
McKellar
House Appropriations Committee
1500 Reach Home Today From Orient
About 1,500 Americans held a wartime internment in Japanese camps return from the Orient aboard the Gripsworm as it docked in Jersey City at 10:15 am. They cheered the Statue of Liberty and sang God Bless America. Some were seasick. about 15 were ambulance cases.
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Jersey City
Diplomatic Exchange
America
German Government Moves from Berlin to Breslau
A Svenska Dagbladet dispatch reports the German Foreign Ministry and diplomatic corps have relocated from Berlin to Breslau about 190 miles southeast. The move follows Royal Air Force raids that have destroyed roughly three quarters of Berlin, prompting the evacuation and shift in government seat.
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Stockholm
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Berlin
Breslau
Svenska Dagbladet
Duke and Duchess of Windsor Now Plain Folks on Visits
A Washington observer notes the Duke and Duchess of Windsor have shed celebrity status in the United States. They travel openly, drawing little attention, as the royal couple adjusts to public life. A Canadian editor cites evolving attitudes toward the Windsors and the British monarchy amid widespread and enduring imperial traditions.
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Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Washington
United States
Mayflower Hotel
Don’t Celebrate December 7 Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt vetoed a congressional resolution to designate December 7 as Armed Services Honor Day. He called Pearl Harbor Day in any form singularly inappropriate and said it would be premature to establish a wartime memorial for those serving in the military.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Big Three Enroute Iran Confab in Strategic Talks
Unconfirmed reports say President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill travel to meet Premier Stalin after a Cairo stop, part of a week of Allied leader speculation. Lisbon dispatches claim a Cairo meeting has occurred and the leaders have departed for Tehran, stirring Allied strategy rumors.
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Associated Press
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Winston Churchill
Stalin
Tran
Chiang Kai Shek
Cairo
Lisbon
Middle East
Germans Capture Korosten On Dnieper Front
Moscow, Dec 1. German forces repel early defenses on the Dnieper and seize Korosten after Red Army evacuation. They extend counterattacks in Ukraine and press to stabilize bridgeheads near Zhlobin and Gomel though key rail links to Leningrad and Odessa remain cut at Ovruch and Velsk. Red Army pushes forward on other sectors along the front.
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Gomel
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Interior Department opposes Alaska Governor election bill
Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said the Interior Department opposes an election for Alaska's governor. The department blocked House Territories hearings, noting no report and warning changes to the Alaska Organic Act. He contrasted Puerto Rico governor election approval by Interior with Alaska. Private Laura Odessa Howieson, first WAC in Europe, is cited in the same dispatch.
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Pittsburgh
WAC
Europe
Carnegie-Sinois Steel Corporation
WACS
Howieson
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Alaska
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House Territories Committee
Puerto Rico
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Lewis Bristles Up During Mine Wage Conference
Washington December 1 John Ty Lewis bristled at an operator remark that a wage issue would be decided later He pressed How late This comes as United Mine Workers push coal production after a year of heavy output Ruth Smith and Beulah Dealy of Singway are guests at the Kantineau Hotel in Kagway
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Washington
John Ty
United Mine Workers
Kagway
Ruth Smith
Beulah Dealy
Singway
Republicans in Kentucky Victory in Fourth District
Louisville December 1 Republicans celebrate Chester J O Carrier Leitchfield attorney winning the fourth district seat by 12 600 votes over Bardstown Democrat J Dan Mibot The victory makes Kentucky the second Republican Congressman Rep John Robison Barbourville has served in Washington Chairman Spangler Republican National Committeeman says the nation may see a Republican sweep in the President's term outlook.
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Chester J. O. Carrier
Leitchfield
J. Dan ml Bot
Bardstown
Kentucky
John Robison
Barbourville
Washington
Spangler
Dale Leaves to Visit Angoon and Kake Schools
George Dale, associate supervisor of education for the Office of Indian Affairs, leaves today on an inspection trip to the Angoon and Kake schools to review conditions and program implementation.
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Dale
George Dale
Office of Indian Affairs
Ae Angoon and
Kake
Eighth Army advances on Sangro Ridge amid heavy fighting
Allied reports say the British Eighth Army pushed beyond Sangro Ridge with heavy air support, advancing along a line one to three miles long near Lanciano and Montaquila. Fifth Army troops faced dense minefields and barbed wire west of Montaquila as Liberators bombed Fiume in the Adriatic. German statements claim British forces moved with great strength against Sangro defenses.
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Sangro Ridge
Lanciana
Sangro
Pescarsese Faeniane
Casoll
Rommel
Balkans
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Mounteiy
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Little Mother of the North dies in California
Mars. Margaret Shand, 93, known by Yukon residents as the Little Mother of the North, died at her home near San Diego. She came from Scotland 64 years ago and married Shad during the Yukon gold rush. The Shands operated a hotel on Stewart Island in the Yukon. For 32 years, Mrs. Shand had asked that her body be sent to Stewart Island for burial beside her husband.
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Mars
Margaret Shand
Yukon
North
Scotland
Shad
Shands
Stewart Island
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