Germans in full retreat near Sangro as Cassino action grows
Allied reports say German forces are abandoning the winter line near the Sangro and Cassino. Heavy Allied air raids supported by Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth Army press the retreat, leaving behind prisoners, wreckage, and collapsed defenses as Rome looms.
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Algiers
Italy
Adriatic
Cassino
Via Casiliina
Rome
Mark Clark
Fifth Army
Magano
Sangro
Montgomery
Internal shakeup at OPA under Bowles shifts color of agency
Washington officials report Chester Bowles reshapes the Office of Price Administration with Frank E. Marsh moving from West Coast leadership to a close assistant role. Marsh opposed consumer participation and rent enforcement, favored unions, and fired key enforcement staff, drawing resistance from enforcement chief Tom Emerson.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Frank E. Marsh
West Coast
Bowles
Marsh
West
Federal Workers’ Union
CIO
Barbara Armstrong
San Francisco Bay Area
John McTernan
Tom &Merson
Emerson
Allied ships shell New Guinea and New Britain bases
U S warships shelled Man dang in northeast New Guinea and the Gasmata airbase in New Britain. Bombers hit Cape Gloucester and dumped 146 tons on Alexshafen and Empress Augusta Bay. A destroyer was attacked off Gasmata, with cautious reports of damage. The operations aim to widen beachheads and prep for a Rabaul assault.
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Southwest Pacific
Mandang
New Guinea
Gasmata
New Britain
Rap
Cape Gloucester
Alexshhafen
Empress Augusta Bay
New Britain Island
Rabaul
Liscome Bay Destroyed in Gilbert Islands Action
The U S escort carrier Liscome Bay was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub during Gilbert Islands operations. Rear Admiral Mullinnix and Captain Wiltsie are reported missing. Casualties not yet disclosed. The loss marks the first American escort carrier sunk in the war and the first carrier lost to date.
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Washington
United States
Liscombe Bay
Gilbert Islands
Navy Department
Pacific
Henry Mullinnix
Irving D. Wiltsie
Liscome Bay
Navy
U. S
Heavy tank battles churn in western Ukraine
Allied and Soviet forces clash as German divisions push near the Dnieper bend Anamenka and Kremenchug while claims of Soviet breakthroughs near Cherkassy shape a renewed battle line. Both sides deploy large tank forces and mobile guns in forested terrain west of Kiev as river bridges funnel reinforcements.
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Associated Press
Ukraine
Moscow
Dnieper Bend
Anamenka
Berlin
Kremenchug
Cherkassy
Krrchev
Smolensk
Kiev
Leningrad-Odessa
Dnieper
Regular City Council Meeting Tomorrow Key Stock Quotes
New York December 2 closing quotes show Alaska Juneau mine at 5 percent American Can at 80 percent Bethlehem Steel 554 Harvester 672 Kennecott 29 New York Central 154 Northern Pacific 1241 United States Steel 504 and United States Dollar at 4.04. Dow Jones averages industrials 131.66 rails 52.16 utilities 21.12. The session at City Hall begins at 8 o'clock with Mayor Harry S. Lucas announcing the stock movements and related finance notes.
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Harry S. Lucas
Alaska
Juneau
Bethlehem Steel
Chambers
City Hall
Curtiss Wright
Internationaling
Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Dow, Jones
Mrs MacISAAC Here From Skagway At Baranot Hotel
Mrs Caro MacIsaac arrives from Skagway and is staying at the Baranot Hotel in Baranot. Clyde R Jones arrives from Ketchikan and is also at the Baranot Hotel, Ketchikan’s Baranot branch.
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Macisaac
Skagway
Caroline MacIsaac
Baranot Hotel
Ketchikan
Clyde R. Jones
Hetchikan
Baranot
Hiram Johnson Still Packs Gallery When He Talks to Senators
Senator Hiram Johnson of California returned to the Senate floor after a long illness to deliver a brief speech that drew a full gallery. Once a leading noninterventionist and voice against the League of Nations, Johnson spoke with a wavering voice but a strong presence, apologizing for past stances as observers called the moment a remarkable political comeback.
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Hiram Johnson
Senaator Johnson
League of Nations
Senate
Burma Road Reopened Told To Chiang Kai Shek
Cairo December 2 The United States and Britain assured Chiang Kai Shek the Burma Road will be reopened to supply forces for a main assault on Japan. Indications point to the Allied command planning an all out push against Germany first, delaying full force for the Far East until Germany surrenders.
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Cairo
United States
Britain
Chiang Kai Shek
Burma
Japan
U. S
China
Germany
Sartmany
Dimond Not Candidate for Alaska Judgeship
Washington December 2 Alaska delegate Anthony J Dimond announces he has recommended the reappointment of Simon Hellenthal formerly of Juneau as Federal Judge of the Third Judicial Division of Alaska and that he is not a candidate for the post Hellenthal has served as Federal Judge in Alaska for 12 years his term expired last spring and Dimond presses reappointment because he feels he has been a good judge
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Alaska
Anthony, J. Dimond
Simon Hellenthal
Juneau
Third Judicial Division
Dimond
Hellenthal
Asda
Tas
Nazi Naval Bases Under Heavy Attack
London dispatch reports American Fifth Army assaults in Maly with three destroyers supporting. Simultaneous raids target Marseille submarine pens and Toulon dockyard as Fifteenth Air Force strikes broaden Mediterranean naval facilities. Marseille and Toulon raids follow prior November operations sinking and damaging ships and docks.
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Algiers
Dev
Marseille
France
Toulon
Fifteenth Air Force
Mediterranean
Retonnaise Fance Photographe
Foreign Papers Put Over Scoop on U S Papers
Elmer Davis, chief of the Office of War Information, protested to British Minister Brenden Bracken over Reuters premature Cairo conference publication. The foreign papers ran the report yesterday after it had been distributed to American newspapers, with Reuters claiming spontaneous enterprise in Lisbon.
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Washington
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Brenden Bracken
Cairo
Reuters News Agency
Reuters
Lisbon
Cairo conference reports outline war aims against Japan and Europe
A Cairo meeting involving Roosevelt Churchill Chiang Kai Shek outlined unrelenting pressure to force Japan toward unconditional surrender and hinted at a broader plan for a European invasion. The talks, kept secret, suggested major Allied decisions on Mediterranean and Middle East affairs, with Chinese attendees absent for European discussions.
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Japan
Europe
Mediterranean
Middle East
Four-Point Plan Outlined at Cairo Conference
A historic Cairo meeting among Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai Shek produced a four point program to defeat Japan. They pledged to force Japan's surrender and restitution of territories seized since 1914 including the Pacific islands Manchuria Formosa and Korea to be freed and Japan expelled from other occupied lands. The leaders planned to meet Stalin in Tehran as secrecy surrounded the gathering.
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Cairo
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Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai Shek
Associated Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
China
Japan
Washington
Joseph Stalin
Reuters
Lisbon
Portugal
Churchill
Teheran
Iran
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Teherin
United States
Great Britain
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Africa
Pacific
Marshall
Caroline
Mariana
Manchuria
Formosa
Pescadores
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Wake
Guam
Hongkong
Malaya
Burma
Netherlands
Cairo Pact Approved in Congress
Washington December 2 lawmakers hailed the Cairo pact pledging a three power offensive to crush Japan and limit its future role in the region Senator Lister Hill said the declaration means Japan's defeat and ensures it cannot again spread war, drawing solid applause from Republicans and Democrats alike over Chiang Kai Shek’s potential to influence Asia’s settlement.
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Congress
Cairo
Japan
New World
Lister Hill
Alabama
Chiang Kai Shek
Sitka Arrival Hosts Mrs Olson and Daughter in Juneau
Mrs. G. Olson and her daughter arrived yesterday from Sitka and are guests at the Gastineau Hotel in Juneau.
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Sitka
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