Thirty Vessels Sent Down or Damaged in New Guinea Action
Allied airmen in the south and southwest Pacific sunk or damaged 30 enemy vessels in raids on troop and supply barges. Hundreds of enemy personnel were killed or wounded. The traffic, vital for reinforcement, has not surged but conditions now favor continued Allied pursuit. In the Cape Gloucester Bergen Bay area fighting has slowed after a week of heavy exchanges, with Marine lines unchanged as both sides exchange occasional blows.
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New Guinea
South
Southwest Pacific
Bergen Bay
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Rail unions push for wage terms delaying return of railroads
Washington push behind the scenes shows three railroad brotherhood leaders pressing to beat President Roosevelt’s compromise terms with a new strike threat. Talks of keeping railroads under government control loom if wage disputes persist, while Lt. Gen. Somervell names Whitney and Johnston as labor advisers to the Army but they decline colonel commissions.
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Washington
Dave Robertson
Tom Cashen
H. W. Fraser
J. J. Pelley
A. F. Whitney
Roosevelt
Whitney
War Department
B. B. Somervell
Alvanley Johnston
Locomotive Engineers
Army
Somervell
Johnston Henry Hoover
Nazi Bombings Threaten German War Industry Growth
AP Features reports London January 8 that Air Marshal Harris aims to emasculate 90 war production centers and that cities like Hamburg Cologne Kassel Düsseldorf Duisburg Essen Mannheim Ludwigshafen have been heavily destroyed. Berlin has fallen, and RAF night raids with large bomber streams show increasing attack sizes and low losses as Germany’s transport system collapses and civilians flee seeking shelter.
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W. W. Herscher
London
Arthur Harris
Hamburg
Cologne
Kassel
Dusseldorf
Duisburg
Essen
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Berlin
Royal Air Force
Germany
RAF
Mrs Hoover Dies in New York After Sudden Heart Attack
Former First Lady Mrs Herbert Hoover died last night in an apartment in New York Walford Towers following an unexpected heart attack. President Hoover was at her bedside as they had just returned from a concert and her sons Allan and Herbert Jr. were alerted and traveling to join them.
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New York
Jan
Herbert Hoover
Presi
Dent
Waldorf Towers
Hoovers
Allan
California
Herbert, Jr
Red troops pour into Poland in Soviet offensive
Bulletin from London reports Korovograd captured by Soviet forces and Moscow radio confirmation. First and Second Ukrainian armies drive through gaps in German lines, smashing into the city and pushing toward Rovio Province. Front dispatches say Kirovograd fate is near. Farther south, Soviets approach within 18 miles of Dolinovka as the offensive threatens Krivoi Rog.
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Moscow
Kir~ovograd
Dnieper
Klesow
Rovio
Old Poland
Kirovograd
Dolinovka
Krivoi
Ludwig Sertorious
Fire Claims Life Aboard Coast Guard Vessel Prince of Wales
Ketchikan reports one life lost when the Coast Guard cargo vessel Prince of Wales burned and sank near Chatham Strait last Wednesday. Seventeen crew and passengers largely survived thanks to the motor vessel Stormy Petrel's help. survivors landed at Excursion Inlet and Juneau, with several returning to Ketchikan. Explosion likely started the blaze. abandonment followed about 9 a.m. as the boat rapidly enveloped, and Coast Guard officials coordinated public release of details.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Coast Guard
Kenneth A. Kraft
Chatham B Straits
Prince of Wales
Stormy Petre
Juneau
Excursion Inlet
Empire
Icy Strait
Lance Hendrickson
Caro
Lieut
Hendrickson
Aids
Roosevelt Abroad Sees White House Travel as Close Link
The piece notes President Roosevelt’s global travel reaching 290000 miles with the White House effectively along, citing Teheran Cairo Malta and routings. It highlights rapid Washington contact via the Air Transport Command and that he signed bills four days after Congress passed them.
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Washington, Jr
Teheran
Cairo
Figarette
Wilson
Aey
Lindbergh
France
Woodrow Wilson
White
Roosevelt
White House
Pennsylvania
Malta
Washington
Jills
Congress
Air Transport Command
Chiang Huljaiek
Thon
Turkey
Jand
Josef Stalin
Actress Madge Bellamy denied divorce suit in Nevada
District Court Judge George Marshall ruled Madge Bellamy and Albert Stanwood Murphy were never legally married. The decision voids the divorce claim and blocks Bellamy from asserting a marital relationship. The ruling notes no community property exists and includes a restraint on making further references to the claimed marriage.
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Las Vegas
Nevada
George Marshall
Madge Bellamy
Albert Stanwood Murphy
Gas Works City Gets Death Blow
British Mosquito bombers raid western Reich for the seventh night in a row without loss. Stockholm reports say Ludwigshafen’s chemical works were hit and flattened. Mannheim also struck in joint British American raids as over 750 Allied planes attacked the invasion coast during a week of daylong operations.
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London
Germany
Western Reich
Sweden
Ludwigshafen
Stockholm
Mannheim
Furlough Plan Advocated for Men Overseas
Washington dispatch reports Senators Taft and other lawmakers urge a furlough system for battle weary troops overseas. Taft proposes a rotation allowing one in four soldiers to return home for a month after two years in foreign service. Army moves relief troops to remote outposts and has begun replacing garrisons in Alaska and Caribbean areas.
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Washington
Robert Taft
Am Porter
War Department
Congress
Alaska
Carribbean Islands
Taft
Americans Move Toward Cassino Front in Italy
American forces massed around Cassino as San Vittore fell after a 44 hour house to house battle and a Fifth Army advance along the ten mile front. Eighth Army units patrolled Giuste as allied bombers hit Perugia airfield and a Yugoslav railway yard while attacking targets in northern Yugoslavia and Italy.
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Algiers
Jan
San Vittore
Cassino
Rome
Attle Mountain
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
San Vittorio
Fifth Army
Ten Mile
Giuste
Eighth Army
Perugia
Italy
Maribor
Yugoslavia
Plume
Tealy
Yugoslav
German Raider Is Sunk in South Atlantic Ambush
Rio de Janeiro January 6 Brazilian Government News Service reports that combined U S and Brazilian fleets sank four German raiders in the South Atlantic after locating a raider carrying war supplies from Japan. Patrols and aviation units engaged the raider and sent it down following an intensive search.
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Rio DE Janeiro
United States
South Atlantic
S. B. Blaine
Mortat Revipe
Germany
Japan
U. & Neets
Jet propelled aircraft proves its efficiency against Axis
New York January reports Major Alexander Deseversky says jet propelled aircraft shows high altitude efficiency and could become a key tactical weapon against the Axis. He predicts it may double standard plane speed, aid heavy bombers in takeoff with heavier loads, and support carrier catapulting for Western Europe invasion claims.
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New York
Jan
Europe
Alexander Deseversky
Eander
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