Nazis Make New Stand on Polish Frontier
Nazi forces under Field Marshal von Mannstein retreated to the Pripet Marshes and reorganized for a new defense along the prewar Polish frontier west and south of Olevsk as Soviet General Vatutin’s First Ukraine Army presses toward the Dniester and the Romanian border after Berdichev’s fall. The front dispatches note von Mannstein drawing favorable defensive positions with marshes on the left, while the Soviet thrust toward stronger positions continues.
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Associated Press
von Mannstein
Pripet
Olevsk
Kiev
Warsaw
Vatutin
First Ukraine
Dniester
Berdichev
Zhitomir
Washington Merry Go Round on FDR’s health in 1944
Roosevelt entered 1944 in exceptional health and remained steady in weight around 184 to 191 pounds with Admiral McIntire noting a 189-pound reading after Tehran. The piece credits his health to environment changes, sound sleep, and sensible dieting including occasional skipped meals.
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Washington
FDR
Cairo
Teheran
Ross T. McIntire
Sory
Casablanca
Quebec
Churchill
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Potomac
Marines In Bigdrive Cape Gloucester Pushes East
London report from January 6 cites a Berlin broadcast of a DNB dispatch from Tokyo claiming Australian troops landed on Cape Gumbi in New Guinea. Advanced Allied HQ says U S Marines at Cape Gloucester New Britain drove east three miles with tanks and guns, repelling counter-attacks and opposing forces.
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London
Berlin
DNB
Tokyo
Cape Gumbi
New Guinea
United States
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
U. S. Sixth Army
Bergen Bay
Saidor
South Pacific Air Force
Kavieng
New Ireland
Koepang
Timor
Huon Peninsula
Cape King William
Ketchikan City Council Votes On Clerk Leah Bradley Honeymoon Plan
KETCHIKAN Alaska Jan 6 The city council approved a two week vacation for City Clerk Leah Bradley for honeymoon purposes with leap year caveat and conditions to remain with employer this year while changing her name and leaving the WACs WAVEs chain. Bradley, a former teacher from Coquille Oregon, would take the time under the plan.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Congress
Leah Bradley
Harry McCain
Miss Bradley
Coquille, Oregon
Paramushiro Island Blasted by American Planes
American raiding planes bombed Paramushiro Island on New Year’s Day in a night attack by the North Pacific Task Force. Sixty six hundred twenty five pound bombs were dropped as crews braved extreme cold and Japanese anti aircraft fire. One bomber and a night fighter were hit by searchlights but escaped, all planes returning safely.
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Norman Bell
Associated Press
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Jai
Paramushiro Island
North Pacific
Aleutians
Navy
Army
Paramushiro
Japan
Aleutian
Gehres
Joseph Peter Weibler
Tarbell Dean of Women Authors Dies at 86
Ida Minerva Tarbell 86 longtime dean of American women writers dies of pneumonia in Bridgeport Conn Her muckraking fame centered on John D Rockefeller Sr and Standard Oil later she was celebrated as a Lincoln biographer and authority on women in business Her life included humanitarian feminist and sociological pursuits born November 5 1857 on an Erie County farm her work began with McClure's Magazine and culminated in A History of the Standard Oil Company.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Ida M. Tarbell
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Abraham Lincoln
Ida Minerva Tarbell
Erie County
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt Shakes Off Grippe Amid Message Prep
President Roosevelt remains in White House quarters as he works on his annual message to Congress to be delivered next Tuesday, likely in person, while continuing to shake off grippe symptoms.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Grippe
White House
Congress
Shipboard Sabotage Rumors Spark Liberty Ship Probe
Seattle January 6 The investigation into nine cracking Liberty ships in the Pacific centers on claims by union officials that mariners kept quiet to avoid sabotage accusations. Sen Wallgren Magnuson and others seek halt in ship conversions as cracks appeared on the John P Gaines Valery Chkalov James M Whistler John C Ainsworth Chief Washakie Henderson Luelling and Joseph Henry with Captain August Eckholm giving a statement.
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Seattle
Sen
Mon
Wallgren
Pacific
James Greathouse
Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Withers Association
Sen. Wallgren
John P. Gaines
Alaska
Valery Chkalov
Adak
Pmips
James M. Whistler
John C. Ainsworth
Chief Washakie
Dutch Harbor
Warren G. Magnuson
Henderson Luelling
Magnuson
August Eckholm
U. S
Joseph Henry
Belgians Warned On Invasion Broadcast Plea
The BBC radioed Belgians to stay home as Allied invasion operations begin to avoid obstructing air forces targeting enemy communications. The warning came in the name of the High Command of the United Nations and urged Belgians to remain indoors during military actions.
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London
United Nations
British Broadcasting Company Today
Major Boyington Ties Foss With 26th Nip Plane
GUADALCANAL Solomons June Major Gregory Boyington of Okanogan Washington officially credited with 26th Nip plane tying Maj Joe Foss for the Marine record. At 30 he a former Flying Tigers member. In a Rapopo raid he downed six of twenty intercepting Zeros with five more probable and two Corsairs lost.
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Boyington
Foss
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Gregory Boyington
Okanogan
Washington
Maj
Joe Foss
Blying Tigers
China
Rapopo Wirdrome
Congress Took Recess By Letting Nation Go Bump
Washington report notes a holiday recess left major bills unresolved. Tax and service pay issues, wage boosts for railroad workers, crude oil prices, and social security reforms stalled amid filibusters and committee delays. Congress praised foreign policy shifts but produced no new laws, with the next session looming.
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Congress
Jack Stinnett
Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Selective Service
Executive Department
Bombing Raid Targets Stettin and Berlin in Night Attacks
London reports RAF and Mosquito raids strike Stettin Baltic port city and Berlin, aiming to disrupt emergency Russian front lifeline. Attacks also hit western Germany and northern France with 15 aircraft lost and 95 Nazi planes downed in coordinated operations.
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London
Germany
Baltic
Stettin
Royal Air Force
Berlin
France
Stockholm
Fifth Army Breaks Into San Vittore In Offense
Allied forces led by the Fifth Army and British troops press on a ten mile front in wet sleet as American ground forces break into San Vittore, fighting German positions in the pillbox maze. Dive bombers support with waves of bombs on gun positions, advancing about a mile on the first day. The thrust runs along the Via Casilina toward Cassino and Rome, with British gains in the southern sector.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
San Vittore
Via Casilina
Cassino
Rome
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Charles Edward Russell
Soldiers of the Common Good
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