Successes Scored on War Front by French Troops in Italy
Allied headquarters in Algiers reports French troops entering European mainland for the first time since 1940, fighting in Central Italian mountains alongside British and American forces. Communique notes aerial assaults on German lines in the Alpine region, with rail facilities at Padua and Cologna damaged, while Fifth and Eighth Armies consolidate gains.
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Algiers
Italy
Alled
Tunisia
Alpine
Padua
Gillette Rejects 1944 Senate Run at Private White House Luncheon
At a Capitol luncheon Democratic leaders pressed Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa to run in 1944. Gillette declared he would not seek reelection on the Democratic ticket under any circumstances, citing past clashes with the White House and doubts about his party loyalty. The confrontation highlighted intra party tensions over the 1944 slate.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol
Frank Walker
Marvin Jones
Guy Gillette
Iowa
Gillette
Walker
Jones
Tommy Corcoran
White House
Frank
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Middle East
Congress
Sam Rayburn
Germans and Russian Stand Trial for Mass Murders
A military tribunal in Moscow opened the trial of several German soldiers and a Russian ally charged with mass killings during the Nazi occupation of Kharkov. Prosecutors say thousands died, many in gas-chamber trucks, with 623 bodies examined and 523 confirmed killed in specially built vehicles.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Submarine raids sink eight Japanese ships in Pacific
U S submarines roaming the Pacific sighted and sunk eight Japanese cargo ships. The toll since war began reaches 374 vessels sunk. The latest losses include two large transports, two large tankers, three medium freighters and one small freighter. Submarines have sunk or damaged an estimated 524 Japanese vessels total.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Human Wealth Not Financial Drives Future Needs
Ernest Beam told delegates at the Ninety First session of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office that Britain is better prepared for peace than in the last war. He urged viewing prosperity as human wealth rather than money, arguing national well being depends on the people.
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London
Ernest Beam
International Labor Office
Great Britain
Duncan Robertson Becomes First Lieutenant in Medical Service
Carlisle Barracks Pa December 11 a large class of Medical Field Service School graduates is now ready for field duty after six weeks of training Among them is First Lt Duncan Robertson son of Mr and Mrs R E Robertson Ju neau who earned an MD from University of Stanford The course prepared officers for military medical duties including preventive care and treatment of the sick and wounded in war conditions
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Carlisle Barracks
Medical Department
Medical Field Service School
Duncan Robertson
R. E. Robertson
Juneau
University of Stanford
National Medical Department
Churchill Improves. War Cabinet May Name Acting Leader
London reports a general improvement in Prime Minister Winston Churchill's condition after a second pneumonia attack in ten months. Physicians' radiogram indicates a long recuperation ahead, suggesting Britain’s War Cabinet may appoint an acting leader during his absence. Mrs Churchill travels to join him in the Middle East.
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London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Britain
Food Subsidy Issue Delayed by House and Senate
Washington reports the House voted 103 to 27 to extend the Commodity Credit Corporation life to February 5, delaying a showdown on outlawing food subsidies. The Senate approved a 60 day extension beyond January 1, deferring full wartime subsidy decisions.
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Washington
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate
COC
Roosevelt signs repeal of Chinese Exclusion Laws
Washington December 17 President Roosevelt signed the measure repealing the Chinese Exclusion Laws and rectifying a historical mistake. All Chinese are now eligible for naturalization and immigration barriers are lowered permitting 105 to enter the U S annually on that quota basis.
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Washington
U. S
Roosevelt
Weather Report and Arts Officer Departure
Weather report notes a maximum 44 and minimum 34 with .58 inches of rain. H. W. Starling, Supervisor of Arts and Crafts for the Office of Indian Affairs, departed by steamer for Haines and Kivenan to continue departmental work.
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Starling
H. W. Starling
Office of Indian Affairs
Haines and
Kivenan
Russians Gain Ground Near Kiev Amid Battle for Territory
Russians report first Ukrainian Army firm near Kiev after five weeks of heavy fighting with Germans. Vatutin’s forces retake several settlements in the Teterev River sector, threatening Radomysl amid plans to advance northwest. In Alaska, the Democratic Convention opens in Union Hall with Betty McCormick as Acting Chair and Fred Hanford named temporary chairman, while attendees discuss credentials and possible statehood resolutions ahead of a Territorial Convention in Fairbanks January 24 to 26.
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Fred Hanford
Wrangell Dnieper
Battle
Moscow
Vatu
Kiev
Teterev River
Vatutin
Radomysi
von Mannstein
Koro
Sten
Zhitomir
Betty McCormick
Union Hall
Wrangell
Roy Peratrovich
Juneau
Hanford
E. L. Bartlett
Charlie Miller
Louis Lemieux
M. E. Monagle
John Walmer
Gutroftown
Fairbanks
Bombardment of Marshall Islands Extends Western Pacific War
Pearl Harbor reports a new 50 ton bombardment of the Japanese Marshalls, with daily attacks resuming after five weeks. Targets include Taroa airfield on Maloelap and the fortified Wotje base. Thirty enemy planes engaged over Taroa. two shot down, eight destroyed or damaged. no clear disruption over Wotje. Fires started at Wotje.
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Pearl Harbor
Marshalls
Taroa
Maloelap Atoll
Wotje
Yugoslav Guerrillas Repel Nazi Offensive, Tito Says
A wartime bulletin from Marshal Tito reports Yugoslav guerrillas repelling a major German assault with enemy forces pushed back in multiple sectors. The dispatch notes widespread Nazi setbacks and retreats as part of a launched operation against Tito’s fighters.
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London
Marshall Tito
Naz
Pullman
Watch
Yale
Theodore J. Smith
Juneau
Alaska
Lee H. Territory
Washington State College
Tito
Army Air Forces
Comple ;Ion
Flying Training Command
Trains Crash Toll Mounts With 70 Dead
In Lumberton North Carolina the death toll from the Southwest rail disaster reached 70, including 47 soldiers en route home for the holidays. Rescue crews still battled to reach bodies trapped in four stacked steel passenger cars on the Atlantic Coast Line mainline between New York and Florida as wrecking crews faced difficulty moving the pyramided coaches.
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Lumberton
North Carolina
Atlantic Coast Line
New York- Florida
Former Alaska airman cited for relief work
Seattle December 17 Clayton A. Scott of Seattle has been commended by the War Department for organizing relief after a Flying Fortress crash in an English village. Scott, a leading Northwest airman a decade ago, first flew to Cordova Alaska and pioneered Alaskan airways. Beatt first landed a plane on Crater Lake in Oregon.
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Seattle
Clayton A
Scott
War Department
Northwest
Cordova
Alaska
Alaskan Airways
Beatt
Crater Lake
Oregon
Abandonment of Canol Project Recommended, Truman Reports
Washington dispatch reports War Investigating Committee chair Harry S. Truman says War Production Board and other federal agencies urged dropping the 130 million Canol oil project in Canada. He noted General Somervell will be given a hearing on his reasons for ordering construction while the panel weighs the project’s value against the facilities, manpower and costs already invested. The committee was told by December 9 that the project is not worth completing despite about 100 million spent.
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Washington
Hary 5
Truman
War Investigating Committee
War Production Board
War Department
Canada
Trusman
Somervell
Berlin Bombed Again in 41st Night of War
Berlin endured a heavy air raid by hundreds of Royal Air Force bombers for the 41st time this year, with fires lighting the sky, telephones failing, and transport paralyzed. The attack followed American raids on northwest Germany and involved substantial damage to Bremen and other targets. More than 15,000 tons of explosives have fallen on the city, and RAF seeks to complete its destruction despite losses.
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London
Berlin
Royal Air Force
Stockholm
Britain
Germany
Helgoland Bay
Bremen
RAF
Senate panel seeks 60 day pause on food subsidy showdown
The Senate Banking Committee recommended a 60 day postponement for the Senate showdown on the food subsidy issue to allow attempts at compromise. The panel rejected both a flat subsidy repeal favored by the Farm Bloc and Taft's compromise proposal.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Farm Bloc
Robert ‘Taft
Sixth Army Storms On Arawe Invasion Front
Sixth Army troops invaded the Arawe Peninsula on New Britain Island, consolidating positions after brief skirmishes as Australian and American forces push inland near New Guinea. Allied air forces repelled several Japanese attacks, while naval gunfire and destroyers pounded the area before landings. General MacArthur announced the operation, noting the objective was achieved and aiding positions secured along the southern entrance to the Wittox and Dampier Straits.
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Douglas
Arawe
Twame
Danas
Japan
Vulag Straits
Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Lakona
Nord
Sixth Army
Idét
Bite
Julian Cunningham
Wittax
Dampier
New Brital
United States
Twy Islands
Arawe Harbor
Stock Quotations from New York Market Today
Closing quotations show Alaska Junewu mine at 6s American Can at 4 Auscoud a 24 Bethlehegn fier 57 Curtiss Wright 5 International Harvester 72 Kennecott 30 New York Central 16 Northern Pacific 14 United States Steel 51 Dow Jones averages Industrials 13544 utilities 21.78 Market text notes minor OCR errors but lists key stocks and index levels.
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New York
Alaska
American Gan
Auscouda
Bethlehegn Fier
Curtiss Wright
International Harvester
Kennecotta
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Dow, Jones
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Weather Report
U. S. Barean
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Diplomata
China
Russia
Turkey
Iran
Egypt
Dakar
Intelligence Service
French West Africa
Admiral Leahy
P.M. Keays
Am Farillo
Texas
Chris Ellingen
Keays
Elingen
States
Livenia Stevenson
Baranof Hotel
Nippon
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