Labor row ties Marshall to Allied warning
General George C. Marshall was linked to a New Year warning that labor troubles harmed the Allies. William Green challenged Marshall to prove the claim, while White House aides avoided naming him as the source. The issue drew swift reaction in Congress with calls for investigations.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
United States
Roosevelt
A. F. of
William Green
Marshall
Green
America
White House
Stephen Early
Early
Congress
Senate
Plane Production Sets Record
New York reports the aviation industry produced about 9,000 planes in December 1943, totaling nearly 86,000 for the year. Output rises 80 percent from 1942 and 342 percent from 1941 as wartime demand dominates. Outlook for 1944 suggests little rise in plane production per War Production Board vice chairman.
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New York
C. E. Wilson
War Production Board
Jap Bases Raided in North Pacific by US Catalinas
Four Army Catalina flying boats hit Japan north Pacific bases at Paramushiro and Shimushu around midnight December 31. The mission from an Aleutians base marked the first combat flight against the Curiles since September 11. A night fighter challenged the bombers but caused no damage. all planes returned safely after delivering over 5,000 pounds of fragmentation and incendiary bombs.
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Eleventh Air Force Command
U.P
Army
Japan
North Pacific
Paramushiro
Shimushu
Aleutians
Kuiles Island
Butte Weather Forecast Tuesday Outlook
Butte area remains partly cloudy with little temperature change and light snow in mountains. Monday highs near 27 and lows around minus 12, with continued cold and patchy snow flurries in western Montana. East of the continental divide looks mostly fair on Tuesday with slight cooling and colder pockets northeast and far east. Tuesday night turns fair and colder.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
West Point ties mark new U S command in Asia
Major General Daniel Isam Sultan, 58, once on the same West Point football squad as General Eisenhower, has been named deputy commander in chief of U S Army forces in China Burma and India under Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell.
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New Delhi
Daniel Isam Sultan
West Point
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States Army
China
Burma
India
Joseph W. Stilwell
Inductees from Silver Bow draft board announced
Names of men from Silver Bow county draft board No. 1 who passed physical and mental examinations for induction into the armed forces were released. Army selectees depart January 24 with three week furloughs. Marine Corps inductees January 17. Navy January 10. relatives seen off at the depot as new soldiers headed to Fort Douglas.
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Silver Bow County
Bayard
Valentine H. Carlow
Stewart
M. F. Poole
South Washington
John William Burns
Shields
W. C. Simard
Bremerton
Wash
S. S. Smith
Florence
Army
Matt Cassick
Plum
John Predovich
Helena
William Patrick Cooper
East
Mercury
Fred Vivian Bull
Dewey
Marvin L. Hansen
Galena
Raymond Thomas Lewis
Broadway
Marine Corps
Wilbert Joseph Seymour
Colorado
J. G. Bailey
Illinois
R. G. Fitzwilliam
Butte
Navy
Marine Corp
Draft Board No. 3
Fort Douglas
Sam
Children to Collect December Waste Fats on Wednesday
Public and parochial school children will collect December waste fats this Wednesday under the supervision of Miss Gertrude Gilmore. The December meeting was moved from the last Friday to midmonth due to holidays, and housewives are asked to have fats ready or call the nearest school for a child to pick up salvage.
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Gertrude Gilmore
Plant Closes Due to Waste Paper Shortage
The Robert Gair company plant in Nawanda, N Y, closed because of a lack of waste paper used to manufacture paperboard for war containers and boxes.
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Nawanda
Robert Gair Company
Allied invasion council form in London as Montgomery arrives
London reports Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery arrived to take command of British land forces for western invasion. He declared no slow campaign in Italy and noted the army has advanced over 700 miles since September 3. Air chief marshal Leigh Mallory and Gen. Carl A. Spaatz were already in England with others set to join.
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London
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Western
Europe
Trafford Leigh- Mallory
Strategic Air Force
Carl A
Eighth Army
Italy
el Alamein
Egypt
Adriatic
Weather Favors Ills For Italian Front Combat
Allied reporters say snow sleet and rain, driven by a cold gale, halted Fifth and Eighth armies on the Italian front. Some action occurred about nine miles from Pesaro on the Adriatic as Canadians push toward the port while German positions hold along the Tesore river and nearby high ground. The Garigliano crossing and shelling near Pescara were uncertain and limited.
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Algiers
Fifth
Eighth Armies
Pescara
Adriatic
Cairo
Fifth Army
Garigliano
Eighth Army
Tesore River
Standard Oil Receives First Expropriation Payment
The Standard Oil Company of California said it received a check for $1,913,997 as the first payment on $3,589,158 owed by the Mexican and United States governments for expropriated Mexican oil properties in 1938.
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San Francisco
Standard Oil Company of California
United States
General Arnold vows unprecedented aerial assaults on all fronts
General H H Arnold, head of the U S Army Air Forces, declares that the end for Germany and Japan has arrived as Allied air offensives will open on every front. He cites rising U S plane production from 117 in 1939 to 8800 last November and plans for 145000 planes in 15 months, stressing heavier aircraft and a major turning point in the war. He credits 130 million Americans for the air force’s growth to 2,385,000 personnel, noting the force’s origins with three men.
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United Press Staff
Washington
U.P
H. H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Germany
Japan
Allied Air
Luftwaffe
Europe
Henry L. Stimson
China
Tential
Air Arm
Pearl Harbor
Arnold
Air Force
United States
U S Carrier Planes Hit Japanese Ships at Kavieng
US carrier planes from the South Pacific command struck Kavieng New Ireland destroying two heavy cruisers and two destroyers while blasting others. The raid coincided with Saidor landings by the Sixth Army 32nd division as Wisconsin and Michigan veterans seize harbor facilities. Eleven to thirteen Japanese planes were shot down in the operations.
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Dean Schedler
New Guinea
South Pacific Command
Kavieng
New Ireland
Douglas MacArthur
Sixth Army
Saidor
Wisconsin
Michigan
Buna
Papua
Bombs Ravage Berlin in Tenth RAF Raid
Berlin was hit again by 1000 tons of explosives and incendiaries in a dawn RAF attack. The chancellery lay in ruins with hundreds feared trapped, while Templehof and the factory district suffered fires. City traffic halted, only subways ran and newspapers printed but not delivered.
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Robert Sturdevant
London
Berlin
Hitler
Templehof
Stockholm
Pere Sons
U. S. Shipyards Set Record in December 1943
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that U S shipyards produced 208 merchant vessels in December 1943, boosting total output to 1,896 ships and 19,238,626 deadweight tons. The year included 118 Liberty ships, 22 tankers, 15 frigates, 13 Liberty tankers, and five escort carriers. A 1944 goal of 20,000,000 tons focuses on speed and Victory ship output.
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Washington
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Roosevelt
Land
Draft Boards to Get Assistance
Three local welfare workers Frances Kennedy Louise McIntyre and Veronica Smith are designated to assist Silver Bow county selective service boards under a new state plan to gather medical social and educational histories for inductees. Local principals and teachers will also assist to insure careful classification of each individual.
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Silver Bow County
Selective Service Boards
Frances Kennedy
Louise McIntyre
Veronica Smith
BBC report says Gestapo chief Berkelmann shot by German officers
A BBC Europe broadcast cited by U S monitors said General Berkelmann, Gestapo chief for western Poland, was shot dead by four German officers. The report claimed he had ordered the arrest of Colonel General Blaskowitz for plotting against Hitler and was killed by Blaskowitz subordinates in revenge.
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New York
BBC
Europe
Berkelmann
Poland
Berlin
U. S
Johannes Blaskowitz
Hitler
Blaskowitz
Public debt rise halts for December as tax receipts soar
The December debt end month total stood at 170.108 billion dollars, a yearly rise of 57.637 billion but a drop from earlier month highs. War bond cash-ins and lower December outlays slowed the rise though Fourth War Loan nears, with December war outlays at 6.718 billion.
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Washington
Treasury Daily
Argentina Recognizes Bolivia as Bolivian Government
Argentine Foreign Minister Gen. Alberto Gilbert announced that Argentina formally recognized the revolutionary Bolivian government, the first American nation to do so. Under-secretary Ibarra Garcia delivered the recognition note to Bolivian Ambassador Costa do Reis.
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Buenos Aires
U.P
Alberto Gilbert
Argentina
Ibarra Garcia
Costa Do Reis
Oscar Cerrato
la Paz
Telephone links with Bulgaria severed amid cabinet crisis
ISTANBUL Jan 3. Telegraph and telephone lines to Bulgaria remain cut with no explanation amid reports that Premier Dobri Bosilov’s pro Nazi government has fallen. Unconfirmed word says the Bulgarian regency struggles to form a new government as Allied air raids on Sofia boost peace sentiment and Axis domination fears grow.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Bulgaria
Dobri Bosilov
Hitler
Balkan
Teheran
Cairo
Balkans
Russia
Sofia
Russians claim surrender of German units by whole companies
Moscow reports Red Army advances west of Kiev with border towns Novograd-Volynsky and Olevsk retaken. Soviet gains push toward the old 1939 frontier as Germans reportedly surrender in large groups and equipment floods to Soviet forces. Stalin issues day-of-order amid rapid Ukrainian front developments.
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Ortona
Italy
Eighth Army
International Radiophoto
Moscow
Red Army
Kiev
Novograd - Volynsky
Olevsk
Kiev- Warsaw
London
Old Poland
Novograd-Volynski
Stalingrad
Nikolai FP. Vatuetin
First Ukraine
Poland
Pripet
Purdy Named to Fill Montana Board Vacancy
Governor Ford selected Fred B. Purdy of Havre to replace William E. Rae on the state board of equalization. Purdy, 62, rancher and former banker, will face Senate confirmation in the 1945 session. Rae resigns to return to private business after a year on the tax commission and as War Production Board wage committee chair. Rae is state manager for an insurance firm. Purdy has long been active in civic and fraternal work since moving to Montana in 1917.
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Fred B. Purdy
Helena
Sam C. Ford
William E. Rae
Havre
State Board of Equalization
Purdy
State Senate
Rae
War Production Board
Montana
Tax Commission
Gildford
Kremlin
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Board No. 1
U.S
Gestapo
Bolivia
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Joseph Stalin
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