Marines Invade Cape Gloucester Advance Inland From Beachheads
Allied forces move inland from Cape Gloucester beachheads at New Britain with light opposition, seizing air strip targets at Target Hill and Bergen Bay, supported by tanks and artillery. Marine veterans from Guadalcanal push into jungle to secure the interior of the island as 3,500 tons of bombs have hit the area since December 31. Long Island at Vitiaz Strait also occupied. continuation noted.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Guadalcanal
Cape
New Ireland Island
Bergen Bay
Target Hil
Long Island
Vitiaz Strait
Marine Luck Holds Out on New Britain
In New Britain at Cape Gloucester on December 26 Associated Press war correspondent Marlin Spencer reports Marines landing with little resistance pushing inland toward Target Hill. General Rupertus praises Marine luck and urges disciplined fire, predicting another victory as troops advance.
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Marlin Spencer
Associated Press
U.S
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Guadalcanal
Target Hill
Adj
William H. Rupertus
Rupertus
Montgomery’s Son Free. Gen Sir Montgomery’s Stepson Escapes
British radio said last night that Dick Carver, stepson of General Sir Bernard Montgomery who was captured in Libya, has escaped and is now his stepfather’s aide de camp, per the general’s mother Lady Montgomery.
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New York
Navy Hell Diver Debuts in Pacific War Zone
Navy press announces the SB2 Hell Diver entering combat in the Pacific. It flies as fast as a fighter, carries two bombs, lands on a baby flattop, and earned praise from Rear Admiral Dewitt Clinton Ramsey after a November 11 baptism of fire at Rabaul. The remodeled craft features 889 changes and compares with Hellcats and Corsairs, with a U.S. Army version in development.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Dewitt Clinton Ramsey
Bureau of Aeronautics
Rabaul
Russians Attack in Kiev Bulge Near Warsaw-Odessa Rail
Russians pierced toward the Romanian frontier with a Kiev bulge, threatening the Warsaw Odessa rail network and trapping German forces. Moscow claimed retreats near Zhitomir Berdichev and Kazatin while Baltic forces neared Vitebsk, cutting escape routes and threatening broader Axis lines.
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London
Russia
Ukraine
Warsaw-Odessa
Dnieper River
Moscow
Berlin
Kiev
Zhitomir
Berdichev
Kazatin
White Russia
Soviet First Baltic Army
Vitebsk
Moscow Broadcast
Soviet Monitor
Polotsk
Ivan C. Bagramian
Orsha
Leningrad
Mrs Champ Clark Dies After Illness at Washington Home
Mrs Bennett Champ Clark wife of Senator Clark a Democrat from Missouri died last night at the Washington home after a period of illness. The passing ends her years as the spouse of a prominent public figure and reshapes social circles in political circles.
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Wisshinetorm
Bennett Champ Clark
Senator Clark
D-Mo
Clar Washington
Boy 8 crawls a mile for help after horse crash
Eight year old Jackie Lee Tedford was thrown by a horse, pinned for over an hour, and dragged himself nearly a mile to a farmhouse on a country road in Kankakee Illinois. The horse tumbled and could not rise, while the family dog nipped at it. He reached a home, was taken to hospital, and X rays showed a fractured pelvis. He thanked bystanders and wished the horse Baby and dog Captain were with him.
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Kankakee
Jackie Lee Tedford
Rh Farmhouse
Jackie
Baby
Captain
British Suffered Minor Damage in Scharnhorst Sinking
The Admiralty said two British Home Fleet ships suffered only minor damage in the sinking of the 26,000 ton Nazi battleship Scharnhorst, while the convoy escaped unmolested. Germany admits heavy action and says Luetzow also took part and was damaged. The engagement began Sunday after Nazi scouts spotted a Murmansk-bound convoy and continued into the evening.
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London
Admiralty
Scharnhorst
Hitler
France
Algiers
Luetzow
Norway
Radio France
Bey
War Labor Board rules retroactive steel wage rise end strike
Philip Murray announces full compliance with a War Labor Board directive to keep steel mills producing until new contract terms are settled. The board, in a divided 8 to 4 vote, ordered retroactivity for any wage increases to the old contract expiration date, reversing prior positions.
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Pittsburg
Philip Murray
C. S. O-United Steel Workers of America
War Labor Board
Labor
Prublic
John Brophy
WLB
Murray
National War Labor Board
United States
Americas Postpone Bolivian Recognition
The Inter-American Emergency Committee for Political Defense proposed delaying recognition of any new government set up by force in the hemisphere. The United States approved, with Argentina excluded, and agreed to consult with other republics before recognizing regimes that come to power through force.
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Washington
United States
Inter-American Emergency Committee
Montevideo
Argentina
Hull
Alberto Guani
United and Associated Nations
Enrique Penaranda
Bolivia
President Lands Navy Sea Bees Anniversary
President Roosevelt praised the Navy Sea Bees on the second anniversary of their first regiment. He cited their threefold mission to build fight and repair, commending their record at home and on fronts and wishing them luck and God speed.
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Washington
Navy
Roosevelt
Allied Planes Resume Invasion Coast Raids
Allied aircraft were heard crossing the Channel late last night and heavy explosions followed on the invasion coast of northern France. The raid broke a Christmas lull in aerial activity that had persisted since last Friday’s record raid involving 1,300 American fighters and bombers on the same area, where German rocket emplacements may be targeted.
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London
Channel
France
Argentine Officials Duel Over Letter
Buenos Aires figure Armando Verdaguer and former Judge Julio Moreno dueled over a contentious letter. Both fired and missed as the quarrel remained unresolved at noon yesterday.
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Buenos Aires
Armando Verdaguer
Julio Moreno
Deputy Tedder Named Deputy to Eisenhower for Invasion
In London Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder was named deputy to General Eisenhower as supreme commander. The move signals heavy Allied air force involvement and tighter land air coordination for the European invasion. Gen Sir Bernard Paget was appointed commander in the Middle East as Churchill and Roosevelt approved the steps.
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London
Europe
Arthur Tedder
Dwight D. Eisenower
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Sir Bernard (Tolly) Paget
Britain
Tho
Middle East
Cure
No. 10
Downing Street
Churchill
Roosevelt
Jap Attack on Carrier Force Unsuccessful in Pacific Action
Eighteen twin engined Mitsubishi bombers attacked the American carrier task force raiding Kavieng New Ireland on Christmas morning. The Japanese air strikes lasted to nightfall but the task force reportedly sustained no damage and repelled the attackers with fighters and anti aircraft fire. American carrier planes reportedly sank four Japanese destroyers and two cargo ships in the Kavieng raid while damaging another destroyer and other vessels and barges.
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South Pacific
Allied Headquarters
Kavieng
New Ireland
Halsey
Bouganville
Solomons
Troy Workers May Return
Philip Murray urged full compliance with a WLB demand for uninterrupted production at the Republic Steel Troy plant. Union leaders claimed no back-to-work order, though Murray said to resume duties. the WLB decision could end Troy area strike threats affecting 15,000 district workers across multiple plants.
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Philip Murray
WLB
Troy
Republic Steel Corp
Murray
Pyettsburg
Eourlier
Harold B. Curtis
Utica
C. S. United Steel Workers
Troy Record
Republic Steel
District 8
Albany Car Wheel Co
Menands
Lovejoy Patent Specialty Co
Hoosick Falls
American Locomotive Co
Curtis
Slavs Destroy Nazi Air Base Near Zagreb
Yugoslav Partisans under Marshal Tito broke through to the Zagreb area and destroyed a German air base at Velika-Goritza, within ten miles of the Croat capital. They also wiped out a German garrison at Tovarnik near Sid, derailed a Zagreb Belgrade railway train at Oku Cant, and seized grain stores in the Banat with 168 truckloads. In eastern Bosnia German reinforcements were reported, while the Garibaldi division aided in a raid on a radio station and large car stores in Montenegro.
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London
Josip Broz
Zagreb
Velika-Goritza
National Army of Liberation
Europe
Third Front
Tovarnik
Sid
Croatia
Free Yugoslav Radio
Zagreb-Belgrade
Okucant
Banat
Hungary
Bosnia
San Montenegro
Garibaldi
Tito
Quake Shakes Reich New York WP Three Shocks Felt
Three minor quakes were felt in the Wurt tembers region of southwestern Germans last night with no damage reported. The DCN broadcast quoted by the federal communications commission noted the tremors were detected in New York and surrounding areas.
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New York
Wurttembers
DNB
Il Dispatch
Federal Communications Commission
Hitler Declares International Law Invalid in 1941
Maj Bernhard Rechler, a captured German officer, relayed to a Soviet broadcast that Hitler ordered mass murder of Russians and the abolition of military courts to enable Germanization of the East. He described Hitler insisting on determining international law after victory, and outlined plans to wipe out Russian elites.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Kharkov
Moscow
Free Germany Committee
Bernhard Rechler
Russia
Hitler
Bechler iMas
Bolsheyium
Railroads Seized by U S Order Over War Strikes
President Roosevelt ordered seizure of the nation’s railroad system to ensure war materials movement, effective at 7 p m Eastern War Time. Lieutenant General Somervell and Major General Gross take command. Martin W. Clement of Pennsylvania Railroad serves as adviser. Wage settlements set at five cents per hour with overtime and a week’s vacation. arbitration pursued for other unions and operating groups.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Brehon B. Somervell
Army Services
Stimson
C. P. Gross
Martin W. Clement
Pennsylvania Railroad
United States
Rooseveilt
Brotherhoods of
Rail Traffic Sets Record Across United States in 1943
New York reports that American railroads set historic records in 1943. J J Pelley of the Association of American Railroads notes freight traffic reached 725 billion ton miles and passenger traffic totaled 835 million passenger miles. Freight rose over 1942 by about seven percent with gains from prewar years. Projections forecast freight growth of 2 to 6 percent in 1944 and passenger gains of 10 to 20 percent.
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New York
J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Pelley
Ists
Zein Ag
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Marine Luck
Montgomery’s Son
Hell
Champ Clark
Calain Homan
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