White House May Seize Railroads
The President directed Attorney General to prepare papers for government seizure of the railroads after three of five operating brotherhoods rejected arbitration on rail wage, while two operating unions agreed. Government operation would echo World War I control, dimming hopes for a holiday “present” to avert Thursday’s strike. Continued on Page Eleven.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Biddle
White House
United States
Tito's Army Cuts Nazi Rail Line In Croatia
Tito's partisan army reports continued offensive across Croatia and Bosnia with heavy fighting. They claim advances in Banja area and cut a subsidiary railroad toward the Sarajevo Mostar line, plus recapture of several frontier towns and settlements.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Croatia
Bosnia
Baniya
Sarajevo- Mostar
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Hospital Goes on Interracial Basis in New York
Sydenham Hospital in Harlem announced its plan to become the citys first interracial hospital with a mixed board and staff of Negro and white physicians awaiting Negro trustees additions. The expanded board will likely admit Negro private patients first as 30 percent of free patients and many semi private cases are Negro.
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New York
Sydenham Hospital
Joseph Martinson
Martinson
Harlem
Sacred Relics Saved In Church Blaze In North Bangor
St Augustine's Church and rectory burned yesterday with damage estimated 15 000 to 20 000 dollars. Rev Louis Brisson pastor, ill in bed, tried to fight the blaze from the rectory basement but was hospitalized for shock at Alice Hyde. Sacred articles were removed from the church. firemen could not save rectory furnishings.
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North Bangor
St. Augustine’s Church
Louis Brisson
Alice Hyde Hospital
Malone
Rocket Gun Area Bombed by Allies Near Pas de Calais
British and American bombers struck Pas de Calais area in France for a fourth day, aiming at targets tied to a suspected Nazi rocket weapon. American Thunderbolt fighters attacked Gilze and Rijen in Holland while RAF bombers hit Merlimont and two French railway junctions. one bomber missing.
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London
Berlin
Pas de Calais
France
England
Britain
Gilze
Rijen
Holland
RAF
Merlimont
Boulogne
Marshall's Renomination Proposed by Army Journal
The Army and Navy Journal urged President Roosevelt to renominate Gen. George C. Marshall as chief of staff to show confidence, keep him in place, and signal to the world that he represents a united American stance. The editorial argues the Senate would confirm swiftly and publicly reinforce allied strength.
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Washington
Army and Navy
Last Hight
Roosevelt
George C. Marshall
Marshall
General Marshall
Senate
Baltic Army Draws Near Vitebsk
The Soviet Baltic Army presses toward Vitebsk amid a winter offensive entering its 12th day. Moscow claims 800 German deaths and progress in the Zhiobin area while reporting several populated places captured and new positions gained.
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London
Vitebsk
Berlin
Moscow
Iit
Ivan Bagramian
Soviet Monitor
Zhiobin
White Russia
Koroster
Kiev
Jap Ships Reinforce Marshalls in Last-Ditch Pacific Action
Navy reports bombers from the Seventh Air Force sighted about twenty enemy vessels at the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. Japanese fighters shot at Liberator bombers but caused no American ship damage. Also, a high altitude raid hit Tarawa, while Imieji Island saw a bombing run. one enemy vessel and a medium cargo ship were damaged, and one American plane was slightly damaged.
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Washington (P
Marshall Islands
Pacific
Navy
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Group
Seventh Air Force
Fleet Air Wing
Tarawa
Gilbert Islands
Imieji Island
Jaluit Atoll
Navy Dauntless
Clare and Wallis Named Best Dressed of Wartime
New York UPI reports Clare Bonvide Luce Connecticut congresswoman and the Duchess of Windsor were chosen as the best dressed women in wartime by forty American fashion experts. They tied with the same votes. nine others followed in ranking including Mrs Byron Foy Mrs Walter Hoving Mrs Harrison Williams and Mrs Andre Embiricos all of New York Mme Chiang Kai-shek Lily Pons and several others.
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New York
UPI
Clare Bonvide Luce
Connecticut
Duchess of Windsor
Byron Foy
Walter Hoving
Harrison Williams
Andre Embiricos
Mme
Chiang Kai-shek
Lily Pons
Harold Talbott
Philadelphia
Lawrence Tibbett
Burlingame,Cal
Rosalind Russell
Water main break cuts Buffalo water supply for hours
Virtually all of Buffalo’s water system was cut off for two and a half hours when a sixty inch Walter main ruptured at Jersey Street. Pressure gradually returned with the west side and business district most affected. Fire protection remained in service and the Grattan fire boat stood by as a precaution in case of fires.
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Buffalo VP
Buffalo
George E.walsh
Jersey Street
Walsh
Grattan
Dewey Names Jurists To Supreme Court
Governor Dewey appointed George Frankenthaler of New York County and Archie B. Morrison of Bronx County as justices of the State Supreme Court first judicial district. They fill $25,000 a year positions left by Justice Rosenman’s resignation and Justice Bernstein’s death, serving until successors are elected for full 14 year terms in November 1944. Frankenthaler had previously been the judiciary party’s unsuccessful nominee for the court.
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Albany
George Frankenthaler
New York County
Archie B. Morrison
Bronx County
State Supreme Court
Dewey
Samuel J. Rosenman
J. Sidney Bernstein
Frankenthaler
Morrison
Judiciary Party
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Thomas A., Aurelio
Holland Church Closures Reported by Dutch Agency
The Netherlands News agency says all Christian Science Churches in Holland have been closed by German forces and that church property has been confiscated. The report cites reliable information from the agency.
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London
Holand
Netherlands
Ahern Names Key Appointees for New Republican Administration
Mayor elect John J. Ahern announces appointments to several key posts as Tros prepares its first Republican administration in nearly two decades. Martin B. Stack becomes executive. Frank M. Ames is commissioner of public safety. William F. Luby heads public works. W. Frank Leversee leads welfare. Edward J. Fitzgerald oversees taxation. Charles F. Crowley to oversee a municipal survey. corporation counsel pending. Creation of executive secretary role abolishes secretary to the mayor and city purchasing agent posts.
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Tros
John J. Ahern
Appin Aems
Martin B. Stack
Frank M. Ames
William F. Luby
W. Frank Leversee
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Charles F. Crowley
Samuel R. Cooper
Purchase
Stack
State Department of Unemployment Insurance
Senate Endorses Abbreviated Tax Measure
Washington reports the Senate Finance Committee endorsed a $2,275,600,900 tax bill amid Treasury dispute. The panel seeks less than a quarter of Morgenthau’s proposed extra revenue, expects war orders to taper, and aims to narrow inflationary gaps. The plan raises individual income taxes by $664.9 million and corporate taxes by $502.7 million, with the rest from excises and postal rates.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Enator Walsh
D-Mass
Aass
Ox Bow Incident Named Best Film by National Board
The National Board of Review named The Ox Bow Incident best film drama of 1943 and Desert Victory best documentary while Watch on the Rhine was chosen as most popular. The top ten includes The Ox Bow Incident and Casablanca among others. William Wellman and Paul Lukas cited for outstanding direction and acting.
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New York
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
Twentieth Century Fox
Warner Brothers
Air Force
Regents Plan Postwar Art Institutes in New York
Pi-Dr. Ordway Tead, president of the Board of Higher Education, outlined a postwar program to establish four institutes of applied arts in New York City. Two year courses would be offered, likely attached to Brooklyn, Queens, and Hunter Colleges and the College of the City of New York, operating separately from regular curricula as a modification of the junior college plan.
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New York Pi
Ordway Tead
Board of Higher Education
New York Board of Regents
New York City
Institutes of Applied Arts
Brooklyn
Queens
Hunter Colleges
College of
City of New York
Init
Nazis Plan To Try U S Pilots In War Crimes Trial
German radio broadcast claims British and American airmen held as POWs will face public trial as war criminals. Edward Roderick Dietze cited Russia’s Kharkov mock trial and said the Reich would respond with cooler, objective judges examining allied pilots, including mothers and children, in public proceedings.
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New York
Reich
British Isles
Sion
Dieize
Roosevelt to Deliver War Conference Report at 3 P M
Largest hook up world broadcasts Roosevelt's Hyde Park address at 3 PM likely half hour. Networks across domestic and foreign lines carry talk on Tehran Cairo conferences with translations in 30 languages. Shortwave, regional relays, and beamed broadcasts target armed services and regions from Europe to Asia with post noon rebroadcasts planned.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Teheran
Cairo
O +poration
New Zealand
Algiers
Palermo
Bari
Saples
India
South Africa
Atlantic
Office of War Information Plans
Office of Inter American
South America
Roosevelt
Wrfo
Santa Claus Patrol Braved Subzero Cold on New England Flight
Lt. Edward Snow, famed as the fyi Santa Claus, endured frigid conditions while delivering Christmas packages along the northern New England coast. He aims to finish the southern route past Cape Cod and shore up the air cover for ships, continuing his Civil era patrol despite injuries from last year’s bombing raid.
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Boston
Santa Claus
Edward Snow
U.S. A
Winthrop
New England
Oren
Snow
Cape Cod
Caz Gburg
WPB Sets Newsprint Quotas For Newspapers
War Production Board issues official order detailing newsprint quota reductions for newspapers. First quarter tonnage targets set with a three percent allowance based on net paid circulation.
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