German Escape Route Cut by Red Forces
Soviet dispatches report Baltic army forces cutting the vital Vitebsk to Polotsk railway and seizing 30 villages as part of a widening offensive. A second Russian push near Zhitomir-Berdichev overran 100 hamlets and neared the southern escape line to Orsha. Russians advance toward Andrushevka and Zhitomir while threatening Romanian borders and northern Leningrad defenses.
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London
Russia
Moscow
Vitebsk
Polotsk
Ivan C
Bagramian
Orsha
White Russia
Leningrad
Kiev
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Andrushevka
Zhitomir
Berdichev
Leningrad- Odessa
Rumania
Dnieper
Fritiz Erich von
U S Withholding Recognition Delay For Bolivian Regime
The United States will not recognize any Latin American government seized by force until consulting with allied republics against the Axis. Secretary Hull released communications with Alberto Guani of the Western Hemisphere advisory committee. Recognition for Bolivia’s new regime will be delayed following their seizure of power a week ago.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Cordell Hull
Alberto Guani
Montevideo
Uruguay
Hull
U. S
Invasion team shaping up rapidly
London announces Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder will be deputy to General Eisenhower as supreme commander. Gen Sir Bernard Paget is named commander-in-chief in the Middle East at Cairo, signaling intensified Allied air land coordination for Europe invasion.
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London
Arthur Tedder
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gen
Eisenhower
Europe
North
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Sir Bernard (Tolly) Paget
Britain
Middle East
Cairo
No. 10 Downing Street
Marines Land on New Britain in Cape Gloucester Operation
Allied forces spearhead from Cape Gloucester beachheads on New Britain and Long Island as part of a coordinated land sea and air assault. MacArthur reports enemy bombers shot down, several Allied planes lost, and air attacks neutralizing Rabaul and Kavieng nearby.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Guadalcanal
Cape
New Ireland
Long Island
Vitiaz Strait
Tremor Felt in Wurttemberg. No Damage Reported
A D.N.E. broadcast via the Federal Communications Commission said three slight earthquakes were felt in the Wurttemberg region of southwest Germany Monday night with no damage worth mentioning.
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New York
Wurttemberg
Germany
D.N.E
Federal Communications Commission
Enemy Warplanes Fail to Connect Over Kavieng Raid
Eighteen Mitsubishi bombers failed to hit the American carrier task force after raiding Kavieng New Ireland on Christmas. Allied HQ says Japanese losses included 13 planes with others missing or damaged while American aircraft sank a Japanese destroyer and two cargo ships and damaged another destroyer during the Bougainville area actions.
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South Pacific
Kavieng
New Ireland
Halsey
Bougainville
Solomons
Wake Island prisoner dies? No, Gates captured by Japs survives
George W. Gates a Butte construction engineer captured with the Wake Island surrender is reported interned at Fukuoka War Camp on Honshu. The news ends two years of family anxiety. Gates, born 1893 in David City Nebraska, moved to Butte in 1917 and later worked on Fort Peck tunnels before sailing from Alameda to Wake Island in 1941. His son Louis Gates serves with Army Engineers in the South Pacific.
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Butte
Wake Island
George W. Gates
Navy Department
Gates
Fukuoka
Island of
Honsyu
Japan
Associated Press
Mr. Gates
Navy
Wake
Fort Peck
Fort Peck Dam
Alameda
Calif
Louis Gates
Army Engineers
South Pacific
New Guinea
Australia
Montana National Guard
Allied air offensive stalls German lines in Italy
In heavy rain and snow on the Italian front Allied Marauder bombers hit rail yards along the Florence feeder line serving Pisa and Leghorn. Canadian forces push street by street in Ortona while Indian troops seize Villa Grande. Cassino battles continue with reported German repulses.
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Algiers
Italy
Florence
Pisa
Leghorn
Prato
Pistoia
Empoli
Mt. Samucro
Cassino
Eighth Army
Ortona
Adriatic
Villa Grande
Ortona-Orsogna
Tollo
Chinese Wipe Out Japanese Gains In Central China
Chinese forces have reached the Hutu river erasing prior Japanese gains in central China near Changteh. American Lightning fighters bombed Japanese installations north of Changteh, destroying an ammunition dump and causing heavy casualties. Mitchell bombers sank a 5,600 ton enemy freighter off South China.
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Chungking
China
Changteh
Chiang Kai-shek
Joseph W. Stillwell
South China
Eisenhower Predicts Complete German Defeat In 1944
Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters at Algiers that the European war would be won in 1944. He said the only requirement is full duty from all, from front lines to home front, and he would lead the new supreme command for the invasion effort. He warned progress in the Mediterranean would be slow and that Allied strength must match theater needs.
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Allied
Algiers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Roosevelt
Ike
Marshal Foch
Mediterranean
Pre-War Fathers May Miss Call
Great Falls will not see local fathers in khaki in January or February drafts. Indications show few fathers of children born before September 15, 1942, will be called next month.
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Great Falls
Pearl Harbor
Weather report notes cloudiness and cold in Montana regions
Butte area sees increasing cloudiness and fog with colder temperatures on Tuesday after a Monday high of 26 and a low of minus 13. West of the continental divide expects little temperature change with more clouds, light drizzle possible. East of the divide forecasts partly cloudy skies with milder air in the far east, and continued mild conditions elsewhere.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Partisans Claim German Air Base Destroyed near Zagreb
Yugoslav partisans led by Marshal Tito reportedly broke through to the Zagreb area and destroyed a German air base at Velika-Goritza near Zagreb. They also claimed destruction of a German garrison at Toxarnik, derailment of a Zagro-Belgrade train, and seizure of grain stores in Banat.
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London
Josip Broz
Drug Tito
Zagreb
Velika-Goritza
National Army of Liberation
Europe
Third Front
Toxarnik
Sid
Croatia
Free Yugoslav Radio
Zagrob-Belgrade
Okucani
Banat
Hungary
Bosnia
Montenegro
Garibaldi
Tito
Korcula
Split
U S Navy Adds Chief Staff Officer at Londonderry Base
Based in Ireland Londonderry North Ireland Capt M R Holcomb of Pasadena California has arrived from the Pacific to become chief staff officer of the United States naval operating base at Londonderry Commodore C C Baughman the commandant announced Monday night
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Londonderry
North Ireland
M. R. Holcomb
Pasadena
Calif
Pacific
United States Naval Operating Base
C. C. Baughman
Roosevelt Seizes Railroads to Avert Looming Strike
President Roosevelt ordered government seizure of the railroads as three operating unions threatened a December 30 strike. An executive order placed rail lines under temporary government control with Lt. Gen Somervell and Major General Gross directing operations while arbitration proceed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Brehon B. Somervell
Army Service
Stimson
C. P. Gross
Army
Martin W. Clement
Pennsylvania Railroad
Railroads Break Transportation Records in 1943
New York December 27 American railroads set all time records in 1943 according to J J Pelley president of the Association of American Railroads Freight traffic reached 725000000000 ton miles and passenger traffic 85000000000 passenger miles. Freight rose 14 percent from 1942 and 117 percent from 1939 while passenger figures jumped 58 percent from 1942 and were nearly four times 1939.
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New York
J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Pelley
Steel Unions Halt Strike Amid War Labor Board Action
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Philip Murray ordered full compliance with a War Labor Board directive ending a wide steel strike. The WLB voted 8 to 4 to retroactively cover possible wage increases and urged uninterrupted steel production for the war effort.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Philip Murray
United Steel Workers of America
War Labor Board
Washington
Murray
WLB
John Brophy
British fleet sails home after sinking Scharnhorst
British admiralty said two warships sustained only minor damage as the Nazi battleship Scharnhorst was sunk in a battle off Norway. The convoy was unmolested, and reports noted Luetzow was damaged but provided few details. German sources said heavy units encircled the Scharnhorst, with possible losses of Admiral Schniewind’s command group.
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London
Admiralty
Scharnhorst
Hitler
France
Algiers
Luetzow
Norway
D.N.B
Bey
Otto Schniewind
Daily Express
Stockholm
Schniewind
Tirpitz
Hi Wind
Doenitz
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