Point Value Of Ham Boosted In January Ration
The Office of Price Administration raised fresh hams to five ration points per pound, while other meat values mostly unchanged. Pork items saw a recent slash to move production, and processed foods may face value reductions. Sugar rations remain through April, with other minor shifts in cheese and butter. WFA plans release of canned peaches and notes increased bean and pea supplies for 1944. Grape juice and jams face modest price bumps.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
War Food Administration
WFA
Barge Disrupts Christening With Quick Champagne Smash
In Savannah, Georgia, a concrete barge began sliding before the ceremony. Loftman Robert Ennis dashed to the platform, broke a champagne bottle on the barge, and startled the launching party from an office window. Crews removed sole plates to allow an even launch.
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Savannah
Lofteman Robert Ennis
Russian Lend-Lease Mostly Military Goods
United States aid to Soviet Russia totaled 56 percent of 33.55 billion dollars in lend lease through October 31, with 7,000 aircraft 3,500 tanks 130,000 submachine guns 159 trucks 25,000 jeeps and 225,000 field telephones. The Foreign Economic Administration released the first full breakdown of shipments. Rome for the Holidays ad notes Utica Club beer.
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United States
Stalin
Teheran
United Nations
Soviet Russia
Foreign Economic Administration
Russia
Rome
Hana
Ady Archive
Cossacks Drive Back Nazis in Baltic and White Russia
Soviet forces push through sixty more communities in winter offensive, seizing Korostishev near Zhytomyr and pressing toward Romania border. A separate Russian strike near Vitebsk repels 18 German counterattacks, killing over 1,200 Germans and capturing several towns. Far south, battles near Kamirovgrad destroy 33 German tanks and 1,000 troops. Izvestia reports cavalry advances disrupting rail lines and German troops fleeing in fear as Cossacks pulse across the frontline.
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London
Teterev
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Zhitomir
Rumania
White Russia
Vitebsk
Moscow
Dnieper
Kirovograd
Ivan Bagramian
Vitebsk-Polotsk
Izvestia
OPA Director Flags Chiselers And Lobbyists
Washington broadcast quotes Chester Bowles denouncing profiteers lobbyists and pressure groups. He urged 1944 cooperation and understanding as the nation wats war, expressing shock at selfish calls for higher prices and profits during the struggle.
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Washington
Price
Chester Bowles
OPA
Canadian Labor Boss Killed in Train Fall
Montreal report states Davald Stein aged 48, assignment director of the International Labor Office, died after slipping from the step of a moving Ottawa Montreal train near Rigaud Quebec yesterday. The accident ends the career of a prominent labor leader involved in international labor affairs and policy. He is survived by colleagues and was active in organizing cross border labor events.
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Montreal
Davald Stein
International Labor Office
Rigaud, Que
Ottawa, Montreal
Steel Workers Back at Work After First Round Victory
More than 125000 steel workers returned to mills across nine states yesterday as the United Steelworkers push for a 17 cent higher wage than the Little Steel formula gains momentum. Philip Murray and the negotiating committee pressed the U S Steel subsidiaries for a new contract while the industry estimates wartime output losses at about 125000 tons. The big steel contract looms as a master plan for hundreds of firms and the War Labor Board timing remains unsettled.
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Pittsburgh
C. I. O. United Steelworkers Union
Little Steel
American Iron and Steel Institute
Philip Murray
U. S. Steel Corp
War Labor Board
Rome Bombing Report Broadcast by German Agency
A Reuters recorded German news agency broadcast said Rome was bombed at noon yesterday with no Allied confirmation. Earlier Berlin reports cited an air battle over northern Italy, claiming Nazi fighters shot down 19 of 25 U S heavy bombers, according to German counts unverified by Allied sources.
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Reuters
Rome
Berlin
Associated Press
Italy
United States
Partisans report Balkan offensive against German forces
Yugoslav partisans claim rapid gains in Croatia and western Bosnia as German reserves rush to the front. Communiques say several hundred Germans killed near Livno and Duvno while partisans strike near Glamoc. Eastern Bosnia sees ongoing offensive around Kladanz and Zivinizar with clashes against German and Chetnik forces.
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Croatia
Bosnia
Josip Broz
Livno-Duvno
Glamoc
Livno
Kladanz
Zivinizar
Army officer uncovers Stone Age tombs near Paestum Italy
Major Lawrence M. Cook of Dallas discovers what Italian archaeologists call one of Italy's most important finds. In gravel engineering work near Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno he uncovered bones, flint knives and pottery fragments. Dr Amadeo Maiuri and Mme Paola Zancani inspect the site, suggesting a large ancient burial ground possibly older than prior Italian discoveries. The Paestum region, famed for Greek temples, predates Roman occupation.
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Paestum
Gulf of Salerno
Lawrence M. Cook
Dallas
Tex
Major Cook
Amadeo Maiuri
Maiuri
Mme
Paola Zancani
Little Steel barrier breached by wage shifts
Washington report analyzes that the Little Steel formula remains intact but has been circumvented by broader wage actions. Coal and railroad cases show multiple avenues to raise pay beyond the 15 percent January 1941 basic wage increment. The policy is misunderstood as a flat cap, yet the scope includes cost of living, sub standards, inequities, and other justifications.
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Joseph A. Loftus
Washington (P
Little Steel
Franco Recognizes Mussolini Facist Italian Republic
A Berlin broadcast reported that Spain had recognized Benito Mussolini's Fascist republic government after Italy capitulated. The dispatch cited Rome papers and said Franco's gesture followed friendship cemented by Italian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Spain
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Alles
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Rome
Tl Messagero
Italian Republic
Francisco Franco
Watch on the Rhine Wins 1943 Best Picture Honor
New York critics select Watch on the Rhine as best motion picture of 1943. Paw Lukas voted best actor for Watch on the Rhine. Ida Lupino named best actress for The Hard Way. George Stevens named best director for The More the Merrier. Special award to United States Army Signal Corps for Why We Fight series and Report From the Aleutians. Awards to be presented.
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Warner Brothers
Paw Lukas
Ida Lupino
Warner
George Stevens
the Mertier
Jean Arthur
Joel McCrea
Columbia Pictures
United States Army Signal Corps
the Aleutians
British War Relief Returns $2,000,000 Budget Refit
The British War Relief Society of America announced it will return about $2.3 million of its national war fund allotment as relief needs in Britain lessen. President Clark H. Minor said roughly half of the $5.7 million budget for the year ending September 30, 1944, will be used unless emergencies arise. The returned funds may be redeployed to other member agencies domestic and foreign.
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New York
British War Relief Society of America
National War Fund
Britain
Clark H. Minor
Roosevelts Picayune Reply To Fourth Term Question
President Roosevelt dismissed a query on a possible fourth term as picayune while discussing the New Deal and the wartime doctor metaphor. He said no term talk existed, praised the New Deal as dynamic, and noted the doctor will not be cured until victory in the war.
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Picayune
Win-the-War
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Pace
Costa Rica Lifts Ban on Chinese Immigration
Costa Rica’s congress approved a bill abolishing restrictions on Chinese immigration, becoming the first Latin American country to repeal its exclusion law. The measure supports a diac ination against the Chinese, echoing a resolution from the Inter-American Democratic conference held last October in Mexico.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Congress of
Mexico
White Collar Workers Vote to Continue Montreal Strike
Montreal white collar workers backed by a 762 to 527 vote to press for higher wages and present demands to arbitration. A second vote 24 hours later, 411 to 268, decided to stay on strike following a mass meeting Monday night.
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Montresi
Montreal
Hotel Fire Death Toll Rises to Nineteen in New York
The West 42nd Street Standard Hotel blaze on Christmas Eve claimed James Grant, 63, among nine newly identified victims. The total death count increased to nineteen as John Ferrar, 56, was identified among the unidentified dead.
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Troops Advance Toward Cape Gloucester Airfield
Marines push toward the Cape Gloucester airfield on New Britain as Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports a mile and a half range. in the Pacific, Navy bombers hit the Marshall Islands and submarines sink 12 ships. Seven Air Force bombers raid Wotje and Jaluit as Marines fend off counterattacks. Since Pearl Harbor submarines have torpedoed 536 ships.
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Atoll
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Gilberts
Wi Ote
Pearl Harbor
Doolittle Gets New Command as Invasion Looms
President Roosevelt reshuffles top air force leaders as Major General James A. Doolittle takes over Allied air forces in Britain ahead of cross channel invasion. Jacob Devers moves to command American forces in the Mediterranean. Speculation centers on Louis Brereton’s new assignment.
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James A. Doolittle
Tunisia
Britain
Roosevelt
Jacobb . Devers
Vital Base Revealed Sooty Terns Create Hazard To Ascension Island
The War Department disclosed Ascension Island in the South Atlantic as a key Allied base on the air ferry route to Africa. Wideawake Field construction began March 30, 1943, completed in three months amid secrecy. Sooty terns nesting along the runway created hazards before chicken wire blocked nests.
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James P Cnapin
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Roosevelt orders government control of major rail carriers
President Roosevelt, speaking at a press conference, announced that the Army would extend control to all major rail carriers and even use troops to run trains if needed. He expressed hope the railways would return to private operation soon and said government control could last for the emergency.
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Roosevelt
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Fair Employment Practices Committee
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Railroads
Smuts Urges Rigid League of Nations
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts calls for a strict League of Nations that would bar enemy membership until they shed dangerous obsessions. The 73-year-old South African premier proposes the league as a model for the Big Four era, as the United States Britain Soviet Asia and China shape a future world order. He spoke on NBC from South Africa accepting the Woodrow Wilson foundation plaque.
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Britain
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Society of Free Peoples
McNutt Appeals Hangover After New Year Festivities
McNutt of the War Monrowe Commission appealed to American a? .anls te we. Usual on New Yer but aso te fore FR. Suhieteth celebrations the maAhe January L the workers of fuk merits sleep off Exe.
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