Sunk German battleship Scharn horst on Murmansk convoy route
The German battleship Scharn horst, a 26 000 ton warship, was sunk off North Cape in the Barents Sea on Sunday by British Home Fleet units guarding a Russian convoy. The German News Agency DNB confirmed the loss in a Berlin radio dispatch.
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Associated Press
Scharnhorst
Murmansk
Barents Sea
North Cape
Home Fleet
Admiralty
DNB
Berlin
Airports for Senators: secret appropriation steers funds
Washington charges reveal that $9.9 million was slipped into a deficiency bill to build seven new airports in states of Appropriations Committee members. The effort followed attempts to finish 24 WPA airports, with critics noting Army Navy and White House opposition. Several named senators backed new sites and money was set to remain available until expended.
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Washington
Senate
Army
Navy
Civil Aeronautics Board
White House
Appropriations Committee
House
Budget Bureau
Missouri
Cannon
Appropriations
Louisiana
Overton
Opelousas
North Dakota
Nye
Valley City
Holdenville
Okla
Thomas
Full
Russell
Winder
Georgia
O'Mahoney
Sheridan
Wyoming
McCarran
Battle Mountain
Nevada
Tydings
Cumberland
Maryland
Senator Lodge
Boston
Maas
Treasury
Story Behind Free Government Ads in Aiding War Efforts
Washington editor recalls how Uncle Sam gains about 500 million dollars in free advertising through newspapers magazines radio billboards and posters. Government uses unpaid coverage from individuals groups and outlets across Treasury OWI and War Departments to push war effort messaging during the crisis.
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Washington
Det
OWI
Uncle Sam
Treasury Department
OWT
War’ S and Navy Departments
War Production Board
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Morigenthau
Invasion Feared This Week Amid Berlin Bombardment
Berlin commentators, anxious over the Allied invasion timing, anticipate a possible blow nightfall this week or after the New Year as German fortifications endure relentless air raids. A Swedish reporter noted Berlin’s heavy Christmas bombardment and widespread evacuation, with few children seen playing.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Europe
Sweden
Alaskans Aato Two Millions In Income Tax
In Washington on December 27 a report shows Alaska Nevada and Connecticut had high income tax return rates last year. Alaska filed 25,807 returns totaling 2.42 million dollars. The national average filing rate was one in five.
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Washington
Alaska
Nevada
Connecticut
Hutu River Reached by Chinese Forces in Central China
Chinese high command said victorious troops pushed to recapture Kungan and reached the Hutu River where it joins Lake Tungting and the Yangtze. Mopping up continued as operations began yesterday against Japanese forces on the east bank at Kungan, taken Christmas Day. Chiang Kai-Shek’s Central China forces regain more than four fifths of the area. Dan Russell departed Saturday for the fut with Brattle as his destin
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Chungking
China
Kungan
Lake Tungting
Yangtze River
Chiang Kai-Shek
Central China
Rice Bowl
President Returns to White House to Tackle Labor Strife
President cuts short Christmas at Hyde Park to return to Washington and confront labor disputes disrupting war production. Key issues involve steel and rail transports, risking paralyzed output.
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Washington
Hyde Park
White House
Papi
Canadian Army Chief in Britain Quits for Health
Lt. Gen. McNaughton, commander of the Canadian Army in Britain for over four years, has left his post due to ill health. He will return to Canada for rest, with Lt. Gen. Kenneth Stuart acting as commander until a successor is named.
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England
McNaughton
Britain
Europe
Canada
Kenneth ‘Stuart
Ottawa
Fifth Army gains two positions in Italy drive
Allied reports from Algiers say Fifth Army troops in heavy rain seized two high points on Mt. Capuzzo road to Cassino and pushed toward San Vittore as British Eighth Army massed tanks for Ortona fighting. In Ukraine, Vatutin’s First Ukrainian Army advanced within 20 miles of Zhytomyr, while fighting raged around Vitebsk and near Zhitomir as Soviet forces pressed the front against German lines.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
Ero
Cassino
San Vittore
Eighth Army
Ortona
Italy
Stalingrad
Véllara
Moscow
Red
Ukraive
Biev-Zhitomir
Vatutin
Zhitomir
Vitebsk
Vichy
Kieven- Hient
Vavutin
Vitebsk Front
Berlin Mill
Paris
1300 Planes Hit One Area in Pas de Calais
In Pas de Calais, more than 300 aircraft of the Eighth United States Air Force attacked a special military installation. The force included the largest number of heavy bombers ever dispatched by the Eighth U.S. Air Force.
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London
Eighth United States Air Force
Pas de Calais
Eighth U.S. Air Force
Ten Die In Blaze At Standard Hotel On 42nd Street
Ten persons died and ten were injured in a 3 alarm fire that swept the Standard Hotel five story building on 42nd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in New York City.
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New York
42Nd Street
Ninth and
Tenth Avenues
Stock Quotations and Dow Averages for New York
Closing quotes today list Alaska Juneau 5 percent and United States Steel 50 41, American Can 64, Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 55, International Harvester 73, Kennecott 304, New York Central 154, Northern Pacific 14, Pound 4.04, Dow Jones industrials 136.14 rails 39.12 utilities 21.79. Last Friday prices show Alaska Juneau 6, American Can 83 ½, Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 55, Curtiss Wright 5, International Harvester 71, Kennecott 30, New York Central 15, Northern Pacific 14 ½, United States Steel 51, Dow Jones industrials 136.24 rails 33 96 utilities 21 93.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Dow, Jones
Curtiss Wright
RAF Christmas Raid Leaves Berlin Still Burning
A private Berlin dispatch reports Berlin still burning after the RAF Christmas Eve raid. Ten thousand bodies were recovered, and a million Berliners have received emergency rations in recent days.
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Berlin
Stockholm
Aftonigningen
Royal Air Forces
Tojo Downplays Allied Offensive in Diet Broadcasts
Premier Tojo told the Upper House that Allied counter offensives have become rest and fierce fighting continues on several fronts. He warned the war may reach a decisive phase and urged total effort to defeat the enemy. An English broadcast quoted him saying Japan is maintaining strategic positions despite minor sector changes.
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Associated Press
Tojo
Tokyo
United State
Tokyo Radio
South Pacific
Japan
Conrad Mann Passes Away
Conrad Mann aged 72 national organizer and financial advisor for the Fraternal Order of Eagles died in Kansas City from pneumonia with heart disease complications.
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Kansas City
Conrad Mann
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Eisenhower predicts 1944 victory in Europe from Algiers
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower, chosen to lead the Western Allied invasion, tells reporters in Algiers he expects to win the European war in 1944. He outlines building a frictionless, unified Allied staff and pledges all-out effort from front lines to home front to ensure victory.
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Algiers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Natly
Britain
Eisenhower
Optimistic Progress Shown in North Pacific Campaign
Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, new North Pacific commander at Adak, says progress is evident though war prospects are not fully committal. He recalls Adak and Amehities becoming major bases, Attu and Kiska retaken, and notes cutting Japanese strength in the Pacific while avoiding future operation details. He adds he is more optimistic than some about overall progress.
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Adak
Aleutians
Frank Jack Pletcher
Japan
Attu
Kiska
Fletcher
North
Central
South Pacific
Roosevelt names Eisenhower supreme allied commander in world war II
In a Friday noon address President Roosevelt announced Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander of Anglo American forces to open the second front against Germany. He outlined plans for encirclement from the south and coordinated air sea and land operations under Eisenhower with Gen Carl Spaatz commanding bombing and noted ongoing plans to press Japan.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
George C. Marshall
United States Army
Winston Urchill
Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Middle East
Churchill
Josef Stalin ii
Teheran
Italy
Africa
Sicily
Carl Spaatz
Mediterrane
Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Cairo
Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Chester W. Nimitz
Hawaii
Invasion New Britain Cape Gloucester Landings Reported
United States Marines landed simultaneously at Cape Gloucester on New Britain to establish a second front against Japan. Gen Douglas MacArthur said beachheads were secured with no TNT losses. Air bombardment accompanied the operation. one ship, seven planes damaged, 36 Japanese bombers and 29 fighters destroyed in defense.
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New Guinea
United States Marine
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Sim
Vitiag Straits
United States
Sixth Army
Duroape
Arewe
Inlind
Long Island
Long Ialand
Witig Straits
Willan Ruperts
Guadalcanal
Cape Glonopaer
Allied air strikes sink Japanese ships near Kavieng and WonDokal base
Allied carrier based planes sunk a Japanese destroyer and two cargo vessels near Kavieng New Ireland and Won Dokal Huon Peninsula New Guinea. They captured an enemy supply base and damaged Rabaul while suffering losses in the Christmas raid on Kavieng Harbor.
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MEAD
New Guinea
Kaiiens
New Ireland
Wondokal
Huon Peninsula
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
Cnest
New Britain
al ‘Hen
Waredokul
Australia
Ade
Halsey
South Pacific
Kavieng Harbor
Baesiddity Akiree
Weenemeta
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Seshaaa
U.S
British Home Fleet
Drew Pearson
Robert
Allen
Jack Stinnett
Archives
Igtet
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Dan Russell
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Kiev
Jap Premier
Pacific
al Adak
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