White House Talks End Without Rail Wage Accord
A five hour White House conference on the threatened nationwide railroad strike failed to finalize wage terms but produced a clearer understanding of the issues. President Roosevelt, War Mobilization Director Byrnes, and Economic Stabilization Director Vinson presided as railroad and union officials discussed with carrier and Brotherhood representatives. A further meeting was tentatively set for tomorrow morning with plans for immediate travel to Washington by committees still in Chicago. The Brotherhoods have ordered a strike to begin December 30, potentially escalating tensions nationwide.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Stephen Barry
Chicago
Byrd Committee Pushes to Return Unexpended War Balances
The Byrd led Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures urged returning about $186.8 billion in unexpended balances from the Army Navy Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration to the Treasury. It called for belt tightening to curb wartime costs and outlined ten steps to trim nonessential war activities and peacetime spending. The panel noted roughly $92 million of the funds were unobligated and available for reallocation, with Senator Byrd of Virginia chairing the group.
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Byrd Economy Committee
Treasury
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
Joint Committee On
Senator Byrd
D-Va
Six Zeros Destroyed In Raid on Mills Washington
A Saturday naval report says Seventh Air Force fighters and light bombers attacked the Japanese airfield on Mili Island in the Marshalls, destroying six Zeros on the ground and damaging three more with no opposition encountered. Two American planes were hit by anti aircraft fire.
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Mills Washington
Mili Island
Marshalls
Navy
Seventh Air Force
Gestapo Chief Slain and 100 Executed in Reprisal
British radio reports Dr. Alfred Funk a Gestapo district chief in occupied Ukraine was killed by Russian partisans at Rovno. In reprisal, Germany executed 100 inhabitants of Rovno and deported a large autobey to a concentration camp.
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New York
Alfred Funk
Ukraine
Rovno
San Pietro Falls After Bloody Alpine Battle
Allied infantry report capture of San Pietro near Cassino in one of the war’s bloodiest fights as American forces surge beyond the shattered village. Other units seize San Cerasuola near Filignano. Mount Lungo and the Cassino–Rome road area see heavy fighting with Montgomery praised for gains along the Orsogna–Ortona corridor. Air operations limited by weather as B26s bomb targets in northern Italy and the French Riviera.
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Cassino
San Cerasuola
Filignano
Fifth
Rome
Mount Lungo
Rome Road
Highth Army
Adriatic
Poggio Fiorito
Qortona
Orsogna
Mili
Bernard L. Montgomery
Orsogna-Ortona
Italy
French Riviera
San Pletro
Slavs Make Further Gains Against Nazis in Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Partisans report penetrations around Banja Luka Bosnia and severed the Banja Luka Prijedor railway amid heavy fighting. Tito’s forces claim captures, deaths, and destruction of Nazi transport lines with Allied air support from Italy.
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Bosnia
Prijedor
Cairo
Adriatic
Italy
Josip Broz
Drug Tito
Banja Lake
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Split
Podgorica
Army of Liberation
Croatia
Tito
Djakovo- Osijek
Slavonia
Pleternica- Kapela
Cargo of Ammunition Explodes in Oslo Harbor
A cargo of German ammunition being unloaded in Oslo harbor exploded, killing four and shattering windows across a wide area. Fires broke out in nearby buildings as blasts continued for hours. Authorities reported no sabotage and Germans cordoned part of the harbor while communications with Oslo were delayed by four hours.
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Stockholm
Oslo
Veterans Office Reports on Claims in Present War
The Veterans Administration said it paid over 30 million dollars for disability and death in the present war. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines reported 8.223 million for disability pensions and 8.443 million for death pensions through Nov. 30, plus 13.392 million for national service life insurance claims through Oct. 31. Of 102,444 disability pension claims adjudicated to Nov. 30, 33,742 were allowed.
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Veterans Administration
Frank T. Hines
Veterans Affairs
National Service
Freed Italians May Join Labor Unions
Washington reports fascist labor syndicates in liberated Italy have been abolished and officials authorize free organization of workers into unions of their own choosing. Representatives of new groups express willingness to cooperate with American and British workers to hasten the destruction of the Axis amid wage rises after fascist rule.
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Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
War Department
Wapies
Italian Girl Finances Fascist Plot To Sabotage Sicily
Allied counter intelligence announces a Fascist youth ring financed by Maria d Ail a 22 year old Italian girl and led by Cataldo Grammatico 20 with fifteen youths arrested in Trapani Sicily The group aimed to restore Fascist cells and undermine Allied forces. The scheme surfaced after mimeographed bulletins appeared in Trapani on October 14 1943 denouncing Roosevelt and celebrating revolutionary Sicily.
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Algiers
Sicily
Counter-Intelligence Corps
Trapani
Cataldo Grammatico
Giovento Italiano Littorio
Maria d’Ali
Law University
Rome
Italy
Vice Federale of
Fascist Party
Roosevelt
Enemy Attack Merely Practice off Vancouver Island
A Canadian merchantman off the west coast of Vancouver Island conducted target practice causing Pacific coastal military alerts. No shells hit land and no injuries were reported as planes searched nearby waters. The ship reportedly used a shore landmark to aim short of land near Estevan Point, where Japanese shells once landed.
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Vancouver Island
Pacific
Estevan Point
Russians Crush German Positions Near Polotsk in Baltic Drive
Moscow says Baltic front army under Gen. Ivan Bagramian shattered German defenses on a fifty mile front, driving toward Polotsk. About 20,000 Germans killed, 500 villages and hamlets seized, 2,000 prisoners taken as four divisions reportedly routed. London and Paris broadcasts note German withdrawal to new lines. The same report records the public hanging of three Germans and a Russian traitor in Kharkov after war crimes trial.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Fourth Ukrainian Front
Wilhelm Langheld
Gestapo
Hans Ritz
Storm
Richard Ratzlaw
Mikhail Bulanov
Moscow Radio
Russia
Polotsk
Red Army
Ivan Bagramian
Nevel
Vitebsk
Berlin
Roma
Germany
Prussia
Leningrad
Baltic Sea
Fighter Planes Sweep Rabaul as Allied Air Crushes Axis
Allied fighters from Bougainville won the war’s first sweep over Rabaul while engaging about forty Japanese planes, downing six and losing two. Thunderbolts defended Arawe, shooting down two fighters and a dive bomber amid heavy air activity near Cape Merkus and Cape Gloucester. In other news, William Cape Hoskins airdrome was cited in a murder trial where 56-year-old Julia Keers Browning was acquitted of slaying her mother.
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Bougainville
Solomons
Umtingain
Cape Merkus
Arawe
Cape Gloucester
Little Rock
Ark
William Cape Hoskins
Browning
Ac Rabaul
Thee
Julia Keers Browning
Catholic High School
Allied Planes Raid Germany Prompts Radio Silence
Berlin via D N B reports Nazi fighters engaged US bombers over Germany in daylight raids from a Mediterranean base. Allied announcements not confirmed. Hours after the raid, Luxembourg Paris and some German stations went off air suggesting RAF night-bomber activity.
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U. S
Dolomites
Berlin
Germany
Associated Press
Luxembourg
Paris
Typographers' Strike Halts Capital's Papers
Typographers affiliated with Columbia Local 101 of the International Typographical Union halted publication of one of the capital's two morning papers and curtailed the other. The Morning Post planned a single 10 page edition for home subscribers while Hearth did not publish its morning editions. The union stayed in a continuous meeting during negotiations with the Washington publishers association over wage increases and related issues.
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Capital
Morning Post
A Hearth
Columbia Local 101
International Typographical Union
Lone Nazi Plane Appears Over London
London faced a half hour air raid alert early today as at least one German plane was seen high over the metropolitan area within searchlights. Anti aircraft guns fired along the Thames estuary during the first alert in the capital since Saturday night.
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London
Thames
Invasion Army Assembles Across Atlantic
London papers report a massive American force crossing the Atlantic for a western invasion. Gen. George Marshall is not confirmed as commander in chief, fueling speculation the post may go to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower or Gen. Sir Harold Alexander. The Sunday press claims millions of troops arrive in Britain aboard dozens of transports as critics call Britain a springboard for a UN push on Hitler.
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Atlantic
Washington
George
Marshall
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harold Alexander
Britain
America
U. S
the People
Great Britain
West Wall
Germany
Objected to Heil Hitler Soldier Killed in Bar Scuffle
Pvt Edward W Raslawski 25 of Buffalo on furlough was fatally injured in a tavern scuffle after two patrons gave Heil Hitler and saluted. Quinn E Bugman 25 Buffalo was arrested on second degree manslaughter charges after allegedly striking Raslawski.
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John C. Golombeck
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Raslawski
Bugman
Raglawski
Tax Delay Will Cut Revenue in Wartime Tax Plan
Washington sources say the Treasury would lose 100 million dollars by delaying action on the second wartime tax bill until after January 10. The delay pushes new excises and postal rate increases to February or later, delaying duties on luxuries, cosmetics, jewelry, fur coats, admissions, travel, and related items.
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Congressional
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Strike Bound Plants Start Production
Baltimore resumes vital war work at Western Electric plants after seven hours of talks with union leaders. Brig. Gen. A. A Farmer says operations will begin tomorrow with workers returning to regular schedules and preserving prior benefits and seniority. The strike by the independent Point Breeze Employees Association stemmed from demands for separate facilities for white and Negro workers, rejected by the War Labor Board.
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UPI
A. A Farmer
War Department
Western Electric
Army
Farmer
Point Breeze Employees Association
War Labor Board
Churchill Improves as Temperature Returns to Normal
Churchill, aged 69, shows signs of improvement from pneumonia while under care in the Middle East. The No 10 bulletin says his temperature is normal and pneumonia signs are disappearing, easing London’s anxiety about his condition and pulse.
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London
UPI
Middle East
No. 10
Downing Street
MacArthur Supporters Hopeful Amid Silence on Nomination
General MacArthur backers hail the silence as a sign he may accept a Republican nomination. Senator Vandenberg, called father of the MacArthur boom, pursues the view that the commander will not refuse. He plans to proceed on the assumption that MacArthur would accept unless he states otherwise.
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Douglas MacArthur
Senator Vandenberg
R.-Mich
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Vandenberg
Orlando in Custody Arrest Report Redacted
A native man was arrested by order in connection with an unspecified incident. The report notes the individual is a professor and mentions New York in association with the case. Details remain unclear in the fragmented text.
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Firth E.B.C
Itorio Orlando
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