Tank led Assault Smashed Allied Front Across Italy
Allied and axis forces clashed along the Italian front with heavy German counterattacks repulsed. Eighth Army extended the Moro River bridgehead as Montgomery push slows near Pescara and Chieti. Fifth Army repelled infantry thrusts west of Filignano and San Pietro while Cassino approaches faced fortified resistance. One Allied pilot missing and one enemy plane downed.
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Italy
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Pescara
Chieti
Bernard L. Montgomery
Moro River
San Leonardo
Eighth
Fifth Army
Filignano
Mount Samucro
Mignano
San Pietro
Cassino
Brazil to send expeditionary forces to Europe or Africa
Gen Mascarenhas da Morais announced Brazil will dispatch ground and air units to join Allied forces in Europe or Africa. A 13 officer Brazilian delegation met Allied HQ ahead of the first Latin American expeditionary force abroad. Details on destination, timing, size, and composition were not released.
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Algiers
Mascarenhas da Morais
Brazil
Europe
Africa
Mascarenhas
Allied Force
Sunday Shutdown Ruled For Shipyards
The Maritime Commission ruled shipyards to close on Sundays effective January 1 marking a milestone in war production and the end of the big push on cargo ship construction. Rear Admiral Howard L Vickery said the move would not necessarily cut current output as the country is over the hump in merchant ship production.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Howard L Vickery
Commission
Browder Urges Fourth Term for Roosevelt in 1944
Earl Browder urged Americans to demand a Roosevelt run for a fourth term in 1944. The Communist Party leader said the central issue of the campaign would be support for the Teheran declaration. Browder spoke in Bridgeport Connecticut last night.
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Conn
Earl Browder
America
Roosevelt
Communist Party
O Daniel predicts Roosevelt to seek fourth term
U S Senator W Lee O Daniel of Texas says Roosevelt may run again with a New Deal dynasty and a controlled Democratic convention. He warns that anything can happen including a Republican victory in the coming election.
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New York
United States
W. Lee O'Daniel
D.-Tex
Roosevelt
Reds Take Offensive In Kiev Bulge Fight
Russian defense forces lash out against German forces pounding Kiev area. They retook hamlets south of Malin, killed 1,600 Germans, and wrecked 35 tanks. Russians captured Chigrin, eight more populated places near Kremenchug bridgehead, fought in Cherkasy, and reported heavy losses for the Germans including 1,000 more killed and 28 tanks.
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London
Kiev
Moscow
Malin
Tass
Chigrin
Kremenchug
Kirovograd
Cherkasy
Monitor
Klev Bulge
Fritz von Mannstein
Red Army
Soft Coal Agreement Inadequate for War Time Peace
The United Mine Workers and industry spokesmen agreed yesterday on a two year wage contract for soft coal but attached conditions are numerous and unlikely to assure mine peace for the war’s duration. The pact mirrors the Ickes Lewis terms yet requires three further actions before binding and allows reopening. Secretary Ickes will convene the joint operators and miners conference Friday to act on a subcommittee drafted agreement representing 67 percent of the industry.
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Washington
Allies Beat Off Counterattack on Bougainville
Allied forces repelled a sharp counterattack on the northeast sector of Empress Augusta Bay Bougainville Island in the Solomons. Marines and soldiers have expanded holdings and built an air strip since seizing the beachhead on November 1. Liberator bombers are operating northwest of Australia against Japanese oil and supply centers in the occupied Netherlands East Indies.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Netherlands East
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Prohibitionist Watson Denied Air Travel Priority
Claude A. Watson the Prohibition party’s 1944 presidential nominee says he has been denied air travel priority for campaign purposes. The attorney and minister notes Col. R. W. Terland told him air travel is reserved for war related missions, prompting questions about a general policy for nominated presidential candidates.
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Los Angeles
Claude A . Watson
Prohibition Party
Watson
Col
R. W. Treland
Washington
History In The Making London 2
Lord Strabolgi, the House of Lords labor whip, spoke in Luton saying the next 100 days will shape world history like Waterloo. He warned only bombing German cities and a western invasion will count, while Stalin’s Teheran plan remains decisive.
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London
Lord Straboigi
House of Lords
Luton
Bedfordshire
Napoleon
Hitler
Italy
Yugoslavia
Strabolgi
Germany
Stalin
Teheran
Aussie Cavalry Battle Japanese In New Guinea
Australian cavalry charged into New Guinea fighting near the Ramu Valley as Allied forces push toward Madang. Liberator bombers attacked Japanese oil wells in Borneo while Australian tanks advance on the Huon peninsula. Japanese forces resist and counterattack on Bougainville and in China. Bougainville counterattack repulsed.
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Associated Press
Borneo
New Guinea
Ramu
Madang
Huon Peninsula
Pacific
Bougainville
Solomons
China
Sabotage Hits Danish Steel Works Reported by Swedish Radio
Swedish radio quoted by Reuters said armed saboteurs blew up sections of the Varde steel works in southwest Jutland Denmark. The report notes damage to facilities and raises questions about potential broader unrest in the region.
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London
Reuters
Varde
Jutland
Denmark
Rubber Nose Aids War Wounded In Algiers
Twenty doctors examined a British soldier for physical defects but missed the rubber nose. He lost his original in Italy when a shell exploded. Capt. Carl D. Clarke and staff at a University of Algiers lab make artificial noses and other prosthetics for maimed soldiers. The man now has three rubber noses in shades to match skin tone as seasons change.
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Allied
Algiers
Italy
University of Algiers
Carl D. Clarke
Baltimore
Captain Clarke
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Bulgars Fear Air Attack
Reports from Stockholm and Cairo said Bulgaria rushed more troops to shore up its government as Allied air raids and propaganda target Nazi allies. U S air force chief Arnold warned of heavy attacks on Germany Hungary and Romania while Hull urged allied responsibility for wartime defeats. An Ankara note claimed Bulgaria’s foreign minister resigned amid bomb scares and political shifts linked to actions at Cairo Teheran and Moscow.
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Associated Press
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Germany
Bulgaria
Balkan
Stockholm
Cairo
Hungary
Paris
Sofia
Henry H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Rumania
Arnold
Mediterranean
Washington
Cordell Hull
Romania
United Nations
Nazi Germany
Ankara
Teheran
Josip Broz
Drug Tito
Yugoslavia
Bomber Collision Kills Marines in Maui Training Incident
Navy reports two divebombers collided near Keili Point Maui during training off Oahu. Twenty Marines and two Navy radio men died. 29 others injured. Pilots parachuted to safety. radiomen killed. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced the details.
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Pearl Harbor
Maui Island
Oahu
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz Oid
Keilii Point
Maui
Military Service No Bar To Running For Office
Washington circles discuss whether officers may run for political office. Senator Vandenberg obtained from War and Navy Departments a ruling that no regulation bars an officer from nomination or election. The issue involves Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Lieut. Harold E. Stassen as possible draft candidates.
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Washington
Senate
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
War and Navy Departments
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Philadelphia
Douglas MacArthur
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Michigan
MacArthur
Stassen
Nebraska
Wer Stimson
Navy
Knox
Roosevelt and Stalin Photographed on World Tour
A crack U.S. Air Force combat camera crew accompanied President Roosevelt on a North Africa Cairo Teheran and Malta tour. They ranked Roosevelt as the world's most photogenic leader with Stalin close behind while Churchill was third. The crew spoke of roving assignments and a surprise call that yielded iconic images.
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Roosevelt
U. S. Air Force
North Africa
Cairo
Teheran
Malta
Stalin
Maj
George H. Reinerking
Los Angeles
Cal
Frank Burgess
Hollywood
Churchill
Ray van Dan
Rochester
Sergt. van Dan
Lieut
Cashmere Karas
Marble Dale
Conn
Din
Henry Ludwig Ma
Os Tenn
Jender
Remeking
Northwest African Air Force
Ismet Inonu
Turkey
Poland May Join Czechs And Soviets Sign Friendship Pact
The Kremlin sealed a twenty year friendship and mutual aid pact between Soviet Russia and Czechoslovakia with Premier Stalin and President Eduard Benes. Poland was invited to join to curb any German eastern advance, potentially expanding the alliance after Teheran. The agreement mirrors the British Russian accord and promises non Bolshevization of smaller European states.
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London
Europe
Poland
Kremlin
Marshal Stalin
Eduard Benes
Moscow
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Teheran
Benes
Russia
Czecho-Slovakia
Chinese Chase Japs In Retreat Near Changteh
Chinese and Japanese forces clash in the Changteh region as retreating Japanese units pull northeast toward the city under Chinese air attack. Independent reports confirm a major Chinese victory after a forty day battle in the rice bowl area, with mop up operations extending northeast beyond 13 miles and speculation about a broader Allied engagement.
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Chungking UP
Chengteh
China
Changteh
Shanghai
Hunan
Changsha
Harkow
Hankow
Satur
Stoll Kidnaper Sentenced Today
Thomas H Robinson Jr was convicted by a federal jury which recommended the death penalty for the 150000 ransom kidnapping of Mrs Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville Kentucky He is to be sentenced at 10 am in Louisville Federal Judge Shackelford Miller will decide whether to follow the jury or impose life imprisonment or another term U S District Attorney Eli Brown indicated he would support execution by hanging
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Louisville
Thomas H Robinson, Jr
Alice Speed
Stoll
Shackelford Miler
U.S
Eli Brown
Ifi
Brown
Robinson
Miller
Seabee Identified for Treasury Islands Pillbox Kill
Firemen First Class Aurelo Tassone from Milford Massachusetts has been identified as the Seabee who killed 12 Japanese in a pillbox during the Treasury Islands landing on October 27. Tassone used a twenty ton bulldozer to smash the bunker from behind, then cleared earth and repeated the tactic to destroy the position amid the coconut logs and debris.
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Treasury Islands
Solomons
Aurelo Tassone
Milford Mass
Sergt
Gordon
Marston
Stoneham
Mass
Tassone
Tito Urges Yugoslav Partisans to Rise and Strike
Tito issues a dramatic appeal from Liberation Army HQ urging dispersed Yugoslav guerrilla units to launch offensive actions against strategic targets. He orders attacks on bridges rail lines and factories to disrupt German operations as the Sixth Nazi drive presses to crush the guerrillas. Cairo authorities estimate Tito now commands a loosely Yugoslav force.
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Londoni
Josip Bros
Drug Tito
Army of Liberation
Liberation Army
Yugoslavia
Tito
Cairo
Bombing Raid by Mosquitoes Open Western Front Fray
British Mosquito bombers struck western Germany on Saturday night with no losses, intensifying the air offensive as American heavies battered Emden and claimed victory in a sky battle that downs 138 Nazi fighters. Vichy radio reported Allied leaflet drops over Paris urging worker revolt as Germans brace for further air clashes.
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London
Germany
The
Reich
Emden
Addf
Hitler
Paris
Berlin
Voice prompts youth to shoot mother in Le Roy case
A 16 year old Le Roy resident ex sailor will be examined by psychiatrists after admitting at the police station that a voice told him to shoot his mother, Mrs Frances Babinski. Genesee County DA James L. Helley said the gun slaying is under investigation as officers report the youth surrendered muttering I had to do I had to kill mother.
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Edwin Bab
Frances Babinski
Genesee County
James L. Helley
Bobi Tae
Gues
le Roy
Fred J. Rider
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