Unions Cancel Rail Walkout After White House Talks
Leaders of firemen conductors and switchmen cancelled strike orders in telegrams to regional chairs citing federal control of railroads. White House talks with James Byrnes and Somervell followed as efforts to end the wage dispute advance. Trainmen and engineers had previously agreed to wage awards and travel costs in a separate contract.
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Washington
H. M. Fraser
White House
James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
War Department
Brehon B. Somervell
Somervell
WAC establishes four Montana recruiting districts
The Women's Army Corps will open four permanent sub recruiting districts in Montana serving Great Falls Missoula Helena and Billings from January 1 Lt Betty Taylor announced. Each district will be led by a lieutenant with respective corps and technical staff assigned to post offices and local offices. Eligible WAC members may apply for medical department physical therapy aide training with the opportunity to become a second lieutenant upon course completion.
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Montana
Women's Army Corps
Betty Taylor
WAC
Great Falls
Missoula
Helena
Billings
Norma Anderson
Corp. Tech
Prudence E. Ornburg
Kathryn E. Cummings
Sgt. Tech
Frances A. Twaddell
Virginia C. Cornell
Kalispell
Kathryn Borg
Corp
Jessie C. Claxton
Margery E. Malone
Bozeman
Laura H. Mack
Tech
Mary M. Weiss
Miles City
Lucille G. Crane
West Galena
Butte
Taylor
Medical Department
Women’s Army Corps
Army
R. L. Hendee
State Recruiting and Induction Center
Wacs
British Navy Sinks German Destroyers in Biscay Battle
British Royal Navy units with US Libera tors sank three of 11 German destroyers in a two day Biscay battle. An air escorted operation near December 28 also sank a home-bound blockade runner carrying rubber tin quinine edible oils and tungsten. Both sides reported no confirmed losses as fighting continued.
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London
Bay of Biscay
United States Navy
R. A. F. Coastal Command
Glasgow
Enterprise
France
Biscay Bay
Scharnhorst
Northcape
Admiralty Air Ministry
Biscay
Coastal Command
Far East
Ministry of Economic Warfare
D.N. B
Canadians Push Past Ortona After Eight Day Fight
Allied dispatches report Canadian troops breaking through Ortona after an eight day battle, advancing along the Adriatic toward Pescara amid snow, sleet, and German resistance. British and American units fight near Cassino, San Vittore, and the Garigliano river as plans unfold.
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Allied
Algiers
Ortona
Adriatic
Italy
Pescara
Eighth Army
Villa Grande
Chieti
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Ponta Fiume
Garigliano
Catenella Degli Mainardi
Atina
San Vittore
Cassino
Clark
Ednesday
Czechoslovak Leader Benes to Visit Algiers Soon
Prague announced that Dr Edward Benes president in exile will visit Algiers within a week for an official state visit to Gen Charles de Gaulle head of the French Committee of National Liberation. Czech officials indicated the talks will focus on Allied war coordination and postwar matters.
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Algiers
London
U.P
Eduard Benes
Charles de Gaulle
French Committee of National Liberation
Butte Weather Forecast and Continental Divide Details
Butte area tops a forecast with partly cloudy skies and continued cold Thursday and Wednesday. West of the continental divide expects continued cold with snow flurries in extreme north Thursday into Thursday night and fog in mountain valleys Thursday night. east of the divide shows mostly unchanged temperatures and partly cloudy skies.
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Montana
Continental Divide
Russians Drive Toward Polish Border in Big Red Army Advance
Moscow reports a 24 hour assault across flat steppelands as the Red army pushes to within 48 miles of the pre war Polish frontier west of Kiev. Russians take 250 communities including Korosten and Byelopole, with gains along a 110 mile arc and new railway captures.
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Poland
James M. Long
London
Red Army
Kiev
Bug River
Korosten
Moscow
Vygov
Ushomir
Novograd
Volinsk
Zhitomir-Korosten
Berdichev
Byelopole
Nekhvorosch
Berdichevkiey
Leningrad
Odessa
Chernykhov
Zhitomir
Turchinka
Fassovo
Kvira
Kiev- Zhmerinka
Bombers Hit Nauru Aimed to Disrupt Japanese Base
United States Navy reports Vega Ventura bombers attacked Nauru 400 miles west of the Gilbert Islands. Ammunition dump damaged fires lit on the phosphate island and several American planes were damaged. A Liberator reconnaissance flight damaged an enemy tanker in the Marshall Islands last Monday.
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Pearl Harbor
U.P
United States Navy
Nauru
Chester W. Nimitz
Gilbert Islands
Truk
Nimitz
Marshall Islands
Marines Advance on New Britain from Cape Gloucester
Allied forces on New Britain push inland from Bergen Bay as Marines on the western flank break stiff resistance and advance about a half mile toward the airstrip. MacArthur reported heavy action with artillery flame throwers clearing pillboxes and pockets of resistance. Maj. Gen. Rupertus cited at least 200 Japanese killed along a river unnamed in the field reports.
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New Guinea
Cape Glouster
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
William H. Rupertus
Marine Corps
Rupertus
Bergen Bay
Nazis Predict Allied Invasion Within Two Weeks
Dagens Nyheter quoted a Berlin Wilhelmstrasse spokesman saying well informed persons expect an Allied invasion of Europe within two weeks. He noted British press is invasion conscious and morale could suffer if invasion does not occur soon. German authorities also believed invasion imminent though date uncertain.
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Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Berlin Wilhelmstrasse
Europe
London Daily Express
Geneva
Adolf Hitler
Erwin Rommel
the West
WFA Seizes All Cold Storage Chickens for Government Use
The War Food Administration ordered all frozen chicken stocks set aside for the government effective December 30 194? The measure prevents removal or sale of frozen poultry until the government collects 70 million pounds. It covers dealers and all holders with fresh poultry unaffected.
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WFA
Washington
War Food Administration
War Shipping Administration
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Germans Sound Alarms as Invasion Nears in Fortress Europe
London dispatch reports double alarms as Allied invasion of Nazi Europe nears. German outlets claim British commando raids on Sark island near Normandy and heavy shipping movements at Gibraltar. Vichy radio notes 58 merchant ships in harbor and a large 77-ship convoy arriving from the Atlantic. Swiss and Paris radios cite German troop movements and costly coastal defenses.
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Hitler
Europe
London
Channel Islands
French
Normandy
Gibraltar
N. B
Sark Island
Sark
French Channel
Atlantic Wall
Berlin
Vichy
Atlantic
France
Paris
Americans Bomb Rome Airfields
American Mitchell and Marauder bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force struck three Nazi airfields east of Rome, destroying at least five enemy planes. Mitchells hit Ciampino, Guidonia, and Centocelle as heavy bombers resumed raids after rain. Targeted rail yards and bridges along the Rimini line and near Ferentino, Castello, Civitavecchia, Anzio, and Metton. Weather hindered some flights but high numbers of cars and ships were reported destroyed or damaged.
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Algiers
Fifteenth Air Force
Rome
Guidonia
Centocelle
Ciampino
Mitchell
Italy
Rimini
Adriatic
Ferentino
Castello
Civitavecchia
Anzio
Metton
Air Force
France
Yugoslav Partisans Cross Into Italy to Attack Nazis
Yugoslav partisans crossed the Italian Yugoslav border to a depth of 25 miles and struck two German garrisons in a renewed guerrilla push in northeastern Italy. Under Marshal Tito, operations expanded after halting the previous German winter offensive, routing a garrison near Gorizia near the Trieste region.
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London
U.P
Free Yugoslav Radio
Gorizia
Trieste
Roosevelt Stalin congratulate Churchill on Scharnhorst sinking
London reports messages from President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin to Prime Minister Churchill praising the British navy for sinking the German battleship Scharnhorst. The dispatches were announced at 10 Downing Street Wednesday night.
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London
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Scharnhorst
Downing Street
Raid on Berlin Marks Eighth Since Nov Eighteenth
London reports R A F bombers struck Berlin again last night in the eighth raid within six weeks. The German radio said large formations hit the city with high explosives and incendiaries, intensifying destruction that has already left millions homeless in the capital.
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Judson O’quinn
London
Berlin
Stockholm
Ludwigshafen
Germany
Montana plans postwar works program for revival
The Montana planning board drafted a 70 million dollar postwar public works program to aid private industry and create jobs for returning veterans. Four goals include highway construction irrigation of semi arid lands rural electrification and new state buildings. Governor Ford cites over 17500 on site job years and possible double that indirect work. He notes two federal water projects Hungry Horse dam and Canyon Ferry dam costing about 75 million with unknown employment impact. Road work estimated at 7.4 million ready after war end plus an annual 10 million highway program for three postwar years focusing on rehab and completion of main highways.
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Helena
Montana Planning Board
Sam C. Ford
Hungry Horse
South Fork
Flathead River
Kalispell
Canyon Ferry
Missouri River
Ford
Howard Holmes
Highway Department
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