Record-Breaking RAF Bombardment Over Berlin Reaches Heaviest Load
The RAF dropped over 2,800 tons of bombs on Berlin in a thirty minute raid by about 1,000 bombers. The attack, part of Operation Elimination, also included feints on Frankfurt and Mosquito raids on western Germany and Holland. Reports describe widespread destruction in Berlin with claims of 2,000 dead at one hotel ruin and damage to the Chancellery and Charlottenburg.
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Berlin
Frankfurt-on-Oder
Germany
Holland
RE. A. F
Reich
Stockholm
Malmoe
Swean
Schoeneberg
Bristol
Unter den Linden
Hitler
Charlottenburg
Grunewald
Ban on Spanish Oil Shipments Extended Likely
Washington dispatch reports decision on extending the suspension of oil shipments to Spain from February to March, with a strong possibility of continuation. The Franco government has yet to satisfy American requests tied to halting tungsten ore exports to Nazi Germany, while the US holds firm on demands without offering concessions.
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Washington UP
Spain
United States
Argentine Cabinet Vacancies Filled Amid Crisis Compromise
President Pedre Ramirez filled cabinet vacancies with three appointments. Vice-admiral Benito Sueyro became acting foreign minister, J Honorio Silguira was named minister of justice and education, and Lieut Col Domingo Cortese was appointed executive secretary in a bid to defuse tensions. The moves postpone a clear policy direction.
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Montevideo
Pedre Ramirez
Benito Sueyro
J. Honorio Silguira
Bar Association
Domingo Cortese
Alarm clocks arrive to boost Australian war work
Melbourne reports thirty thousand alarm clocks have arrived from the United States with forty thousand more on the way. These early postwar hearing devices for essential industry workers aim to offset wartime absenteeism and add hours to production as war industries face labor shortages.
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Melbourne
Australia
United States
Senate Moves to End Subsidy Payments in Food Stabilization
Washington reports the Senate quickly approved legislation outlawing subsidy payments aimed at holding food costs. The move marks a major setback to the administration’s stabilization program, removing one of its key tools in curbing price volatility.
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Washington
Senate
Allies Hit Kavieng in Heavy Pacific Raid
Allied headquarters report a large assault on Kavieng New Ireland leaving the town in flames and eight Allied planes down. The operation sank enemy ships and damaged several craft while a Navy Catalina crew rescued fifteen airmen under heavy shore fire. The Green Islands landings proceeded with little resistance and were consolidated without incident.
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Southwest Pacific
Kavieng
New Ireland
Green Islands
United States
New Zealand
Douglas MacArthur
Catalina
Bombers Strike at Carolines in First War Air Attack
American heavy bombers attacked the Caroline Islands, led by Admiral Nimitz, dropping 55 tons of bombs on Ponape and Truk from the U S Pacific Fleet. The raid, the farthest west by land based bombers, reported no losses and no interceptions, catching Japan by surprise. The operation marked a significant western penetration toward Japan's inner defense ring.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Caroline Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Seventh Army Air Force
Ponape
Truk
Fourth War Loan Nears Final Total, Fifth Campaign Soon
Washington reports the Fourth War Loan has raised 14.191 billion dollars with a final total likely over 16.25 billion. Treasury officials forecast a 3.0 billion goal and plan a Fifth War Loan, with a Sixth possibly starting in June to fund the remainder of the year.
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Treasury
Ted Gamble
Gamble
Flywheel shatters roof at Talbot mill causing damage
A 25 ton flywheel on the Talbot woolen mill engine in Billerica Massachusetts exploded yesterday. A 5 ton fragment flew 75 feet into the air and through the roof and two floors of the mill. No workers were in the engine room. Iron pieces damaged machinery and spinning machines inside the mill.
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Billerica
Mass
Talbot Woolen Mill
Vandals Desecrate Bayside Episcopal Church
Queens police sought vandals who entered the Bayside All Saints Episcopal Church and wrecked utensils, tore Bibles and hymn books, damaged ten organ pipes, and scrawled profane words on the walls. Estimated damage $25,000. only the crucifix remained undamaged.
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New York
Queens
Bayside
All Saints Episcopal Church
Sled Borne Soviets Cross Lake Peipus
Soviet forces pushed toward the western shore of Lake Peipus on sledges with reports they reached the water’s edge a day after driving down from the north. Berlin radio claimed Russians were halted by German defenders as fighting tightens around remaining Nazi units in Ukraine.
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Peipus Andoskov
Pskov
Estonia
Moscow
Ukraine
Berlin
Lake Peipus
Bombs Drop on Helsinki Again
Stockholm dispatches report two waves of Russian planes bombed Helsinki last night causing fires and damage. Fifty planes in the first formation kept the city on alert from 5 to 10 p.m. The heavier second attack began at 11 p.m. and ended before midnight as heavy anti aircraft fire forced some bombers to drop their loads outside the city.
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Stockholm
Helsinki
Survivors Of Maine Shipwreck Identified In Photo
Five of twenty survivors of a British freighter wrecked off York Maine are pictured in a Portland hospital. L to R: Thomas E Williams Verner Christensen Carl Sorensen Helge Milesen Stanley D Wood. Story on Page four.
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York
Portland
Thomas E. Wiliams
Verner Christensen
Carl Sorensen
Helge Milesen
Stanley D. Wood
Peace Now Group Condemned as Seditious by Dies Committee
The Dies Committee labeled the Peace Now Movement unAmerican and clearly seditious, saying its actions could aid treason and hinder war efforts. New York secretary Miss Bessie Simon said officials would comment only after official notification. The panel highlighted letters urging church leaders to call followers to lay down arms and end wartime support.
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Washington
Dies Committee
Special
House Committee
Hartman
George W. Hartman
Christ
Ickes Takes Control of Jap Internees Relocation Agency
President Roosevelt shifted supervision of the War Relocation Authority to Interior Secretary Ickes. The WRA runs ten relocation centers housing about 92,000 residents, with nine centers for evacuees deemed loyal or law abiding and one for those loyal to Japan. An additional 20,000 evacuees are placed in communities outside the Pacific Coast security zone.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary of Interior
Ickes
War Relocation Authority
White House
WRA
Pacific Coast
Japan
Pacific Coast Security Zone
Wraa
Weakest Link Greatest German War Production Challenge
Edwin Shenke reports Germany struggles to sustain war output amid Allied air raids. Describing factory redeployments, material shortages, and worker absenteeism, Speer and Ley demand maximum effort. A New Year message warns no one may rest on gains as air raids test factory loyalty. Continued on Page Thirteen.
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Edwin Shanke
Stockholm
Germany
Albert Speer
Labor Front
Robert Ley
Speer
Lev
Hamburg
Chaplin Faces Mann Act Charge in Los Angeles
Charles Chaplin remains charged under the Mann Act and with conspiracy to deprive Joan Berry of her constitutional rights. Blood tests show he is not the infant’s father, though the case against him and six co-defendants continues, with arraignment set for Monday.
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Los Angeles
Charles Chaplin
Joan Berry
A. S
Joan
Sarr
Chaplin
Miss Berry
Beverly Hills
New York
Hershey Calls Postwar Civilian Army Plan Urgent
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey urged a postwar universal military training system to keep the United States ready for conflicts every twenty years. He said many 18 year olds now deferred by occupation would likely serve, though later noted youths turning 18 could supply most of a postwar army.
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Philadelphia
Lewis B. Hershey
United States
Hershey
Nazi Angel Killed Madrid by Allied Bombing
German champagne maker Karl Henkell aged 55, an early Nazi financier, died of injuries from an Allied bombing of Wiesbaden. The report notes his prominence in German political funding and ties to the Nazi movement as of yesterday's newspapers.
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Madrid
Karl Henkell
Wiesbaden
Alexander Says Allies Will Hold Beachhead At Anzio
Allied commander General Sir Harold Alexander says American and British troops are winning the second round at Anzio and will reach Rome without Cassino aid. Rome’s rail yards bombed and Bari radio urged Italians to sabotage roads and bridges to hinder German movements. A-36 Invaders and P-40s targeted Mount Cassino while monastery ruins were left after bombing.
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Bari
Rome
Anzio
Garigiana
Tyrrhenian
Adriatic
Alexander
Ku Kluxers Freed of Conspiracy in Pittsburgh
Judge A Marshall Thompson dismissed five Ku Klux Klan conspiracy charges in Allegheny County criminal court after defense demurred, citing free speech rights. He warned the organization must not incite religious or racial unrest and stressed that the ruling does not endorse the Klan. The defendants included James A Colescott of Atlanta and four Pennsylvania associates.
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Pittsburg
Ku Klux Klan
A. Marshall Thompson
Allegheny County
Europe
William G. Negley
Rural Electric Line Activates Co-op Power in New York
Cherry Creek marked a historic milestone as New York's first cooperative rural electric line became energized to boost farm production. REA coordinator C. W. Briden hailed farmers now directing power distribution and operating at cost. The nine mile line runs through Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties.
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Cherry Creek
New York
Rural Electrification Administration
New York State
C. W. Briden
REA
Chautauqua
Cattrafagus
Wind and Snow Ravage New England
Storm damage in New England leaves four dead as engineers repair telephony and transport networks under clear skies. Snow and rain alternating create slick roads and drifts. eight inches fall in the north. high winds shatter windows in Boston and hurl a steel water-tower cover in South Hadley.
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Boston
New England
South Hadley
GOP Farm Experts Trim Platform Plank
Republican farm experts began preliminary talks yesterday to craft a detailed agriculture plank for the national convention. The draft calls for increased farm production decentralization of federal control and treating agriculture as a non partisan economic issue.
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Washington
Republican Party
Wendell Willkie Named as Flying Eagle by Blackfeet Tribe
Wendell Willkie became a member of the Blackfeet Indian tribe by ad option yesterday in Great Falls. Chief Bull inducted him into the tribe and gave him the name Flying Eagle during a colorful ceremony.
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Great Falls
Wendell Willkie
Bull
Flying Eagle
Marshall Hails Allied Unity At Yale Ceremony
General George C. Marshall praised complete accord between American and British forces as the key to victory at Yale University honors for Field Marshal Sir John Greer Ditt. He called the Howland Memorial Prize award a positive omen for the war’s near future and warned the Nazis’ efforts to sow discord.
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Conn
George C. Marshall
Yale University
Yale
Sir John Greer Ditt
Joint Staff
United States
Marshall
Germany
Public Warned of Phony Tax Experts
Representative OToole urged Treasury Secretary Morgenthau to warn the public about tax "quacks" posing as income tax experts. He called for an immediate public statement and for a government exam and registration system for anyone preparing tax reports for others.
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Otoole
D-Ny
Unon
Treasury
Morgenthau
New Yorker
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