Yanks and Aussies Trap Japanese at Saidor New Guinea
American amphibious forces landed unopposed on the northern New Guinea coast, capturing Saidor harbor and airfield and trapping Japanese troops between MacArthur’s men and advancing Australians along Huon Peninsula. Brig Gen Clarence Martin and Col Slade N Bradley led the ground push, meeting light resistance as surprise landings cut off the enemy near Finschhafen and Madang.
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Associated Press
New Guinea
Saidor
Huon Peninsula
Douglas MacArannel Deal
Papua
Bradley
British See Unemployment No Problem
London reports Conservative postwar reconstruction proposals frame unemployment as a world problem needing UN master plan. A private enterprise plan for Britain calls for currency stabilization, credit for needy nations, and higher living standards, with industry and government to cooperate to raise the trade balance and productivity.
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London
United Nations
Britain
Churchill
Ndustry
Eiffel Tower Guides a Nazi Plane Chase Over Paris
London reports a dramatic air chase above Paris as RAF Typhoons pursued German Bucker 131B training planes circling the Eiffel Tower. A German aircraft was shot down by a Canadian pilot during the pursuit.
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London
Dominion
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Air Ministry
Eaffel Tower
Four U S Airmen Captured After Bailout Near Canton
Tokyo radio reported that two American officers and two non commissioned officers were captured December 27 after bailing out of their transport plane near the Pearl River by Canton.
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Tokyo
U. S
Associated Press
Pearl River
Canton
Canadians In Range Of Pescara In Italian Campaign
Allied reports say Canadian forces on the Adriatic coast have seized a long hill and are within nine miles of the port of Pescara after a 24 hour battle in snow wind and sleet. San Tommasso, two miles west of Ortona, also fell as fighting widened coastal control. Big guns of the Eighth Army can now shell Pescara while storms hinder land and air activity across Italy.
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Algiers
Adriatic
Pescara
San Tommasso
Ortona
Fifth Army
Garigliano
Castel Forte
Gulf of Genoa
Berlin
Augusta
Sicily
Arielli
Eighth Army
New Mexico Sets First G O P Convention Date
Washington P state party reports New Mexico will hold the first Republican convention to select eight delegates and eight alternates to the 14th presidential nominating convention. The meeting is set for February 12, ahead of the New Hampshire primary on March 14. Delegates and alternates to the Republican and Democratic national conventions will be decided at January meetings.
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Washington
Postwar Naval Bases Sought in Philippines
Philippine Vice President Sergio Osmena declared yesterday that maintaining adequate naval and air bases in the islands after the war will assure mutual protection of the Philippines and the United States.
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Chicago
Nsergio Asmena
Philippines
United States
Troy Council Roll Call Awaited
For the first time in 16 years a Republican administration has taken over Troy under Mayor John J. Ahern. The key question is control of the Common Council, where Democrats hold a one seat edge. Tonight the 17 aldermen will organize after results show 9 Democrats and 8 Republicans. Democrats seek reelection of James M. McGrath as city clerk, Republicans propose George R. Goodwin, a County Welfare Department clerk. Republican leaders plan to appoint Edward Schulze, a former Undersheriff now state employee, to a clerkship in the county Board of Elections. Adelbert E. Kendrick is set to become deputy welfare commissioner in Rensselaer County under Douglas Hudson of Castleton. Continued on Page Seven.
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George
Goodwin
Schulze
Edward Schulze
County Board of Elections
Adelbert E. Kendrick
Rensselaer County
Douglas Hudson
Castleton
Troy
Editor Finds No Justification For Postal Ban
Philadelphia editor Dan iel A. Poling of The Christian Herald declares there is absolutely no justification in the Bill of Rights for the Post Office Department to withdraw second class mailing from Esquire magazine. He warns the move is dangerous, though he did not like Esquire and urged a New Year’s resolution to observe food taste. The action followed a hearing where portions of the magazine were deemed indecent.
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Philadelphia
Daniel A. Poling
The
Christian Herald
Post Office Department
Esquire Magazine
Poling
Baptist Temple
Europe
Africa
Far East
Esquire
Prepare for Reconversion Warns Commerce Secretary
Commerce Secretary Jones warned yesterday of postwar wealth and power concentration danger and urged daily growth as imperative for all American business to prepare for reconversion. He said victory could come suddenly leaving little time to plan a smooth peacetime economy and noted wholesome signs of postwar plans among topflight members of the free enterprise system and civic and business organizations.
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Washington
Commerce
Jones
Debate on Private Initiative in Postwar Economy
Jones argues that thousands of small firms lack group ties and managerial planning, risking private initiative. He contends the war generated an abnormal economy where major production and profits have shifted to large businesses, framing this as a natural outcome of the wartime system.
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Jones
Bombs Set Fires In Berlin And Hamburg
RAF Lancasters pounded Berlin with over 1000 long tons amid ninth major raid toward dawn while diverting on Hamburg. Berlin burned, smoke obscured ground troops, and crews reported few German night fighters. The attack raised total Berlin bomb weight to about 14,000 long tons since November 18.
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London
Berlin
Hamburg
Stockholm
R.A.F
Boulogne
Germany
Thirteen Flyers Die As Plane Explodes Near Sacramento
A B-17 from McChord Field exploded in flight over McClellan Field and crashed near Sacramento, killing 13 of 14 crew members. Only Ma James Z Wergen survived, parachuting to safety. McClellan Field authorities worked to identify the dead as next of kin were notified.
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Sacramento
Cal
I Army
Los Angeles
McChord Field
Tacoma
Wash
McClellan Field
James Z. Wergen
Kingman Field
Ariz
Next of Kin
First Lady Franklin Roosevelt Rejects Personal Program
First Lady Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said she never had a personal program and would not have one in 1944. She explained that as wife of the president she cannot advance a separate agenda, recounting 1943 moments when the President shared plans for Cairo and Teheran and suggested she visit troops in the Southwest Pacific.
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Washington
Franklin B. Roosevelt
NBC
Casalanca
Cairo
Teheran
Southwest Pacific
WAC Reveal Mr Marked Chief Phone Switchboard Honor
Allied Headquarters in Algiers disclosed at a press briefing that WAC telephone operators who handled the Catia conference switchboards were commended for their work. A sign reading Mr marked the President’s line and Sergeant Mary B Broadhead of New York City noted Hopkins’ line was busiest while the President’s call signal occurred only once, by mistake.
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Allied Headquarters
Algiers
WAC
Catia
Roosevelt
Mary B. Broadhead
New York City
Harry Hopkins
Congressman Emanuel Celler Urges Immediate Palestine Immigration
Congressman Emanuel Celler denounces Britain for the 1939 white paper and calls for immediate Palestine immigration for Jews. Speaking to about 4,000 at a Hope Committee rally in New York, he warns Europe could become a massive Jewish sepulchre if bars aren’t dropped. He also criticizes the State Department for resisting urgency.
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New York
Britain
Palestine
Emanuel Celler
Brooklyn Democrat
Hope Committee
Europe
U.S State Department
Censorship of Mail To Soldiers Proposed
Philadelphia musician Andy Arcaris urged censorship of letters to and from fighting men after his 35,000 mile tour of New Guinea and Australia with Gary Cooper Phyllis Brooks and Una Merkle. He said soldiers in foxholes packed twenty to a space four could hold while home folks complain about crowded wartime trolleys.
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Philadelphia
Aswell
Andy Arecari
New Guinea
Australia
Arcaris
Gary Cooper
Phyllis Brooks
Una Merkle
Foxholes
Veteran School Bill Outlined
Washington A billion dollar annual outlay for education of the veterans of this war is projected in a revised measure likely to get Senate consideration this month. Disclosing that a subcommittee which he heads had completed work on major provisions of a measure to make 50 monthly available to veterans, Chairman Thomas of the Senate education committee predicted early congressional approval of the legislation so that its terms could be applied to 75,009 men being discharged monthly from the armed forces. As outlined by Thomas, the bill would provide 50 monthly for subsistence of veterans who elect to go back to school after the war. Their tuition would be paid by the government, which also would underwrite book costs, laboratory fees and the expense of student activities. Married students would be allowed 25 additional for a dependent spouse and 10 for each dependent child. The committee chairman said that training from the primary grades through college would be available for the veterans, with any person eligible who had had 9 days active service unless he voluntarily separated himself from the...
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Washington
Senate
Thomas
Utah
Senate Education Committee
U S Launches French Escort Senegalais
The destroyer escort Senegalais, US first contribution to the French Navy, was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in a colorful ceremony. Rear Admiral Diaemel praised the ship as a symbol of France and America’s determination to fight until victory. Vice Admiral Raymond Fenard accepted the vessel as the Navy band played both the Star Spangled Banner and the French national anthem.
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Philadelphia
United States
Philadelphia Navy Yard
M. F. Diaemel
Fourth Naval District
France
America
Raymond Fenard
Red Army Within Ten Miles of Poland Advance
Red Army forces under Gen Nikolai Vatutin advanced toward the prewar Polish frontier within ten miles, killing about 4,000 Germans and freeing 150 villages. Moscow said the Russians were likely to cross into Poland today. On three fronts they have recovered roughly 7,000 square miles and pushed toward Romania while outflanking Berdichev and pressing near Kalinovka. The Baltic front also reported Russian gains as the front widened to about 250 miles.
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London
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ukraine
Old Poland
Moscow
Germain
Agaun Rey
Suimeinz
Rumania
Geremansscic
Zhitomir
Berdichev
Fritz von Mannstein
Kalinovka
Kiev Zhmernka
Ivan C ‘Agramian
RED Army
Chiang Says 43 Decisive Victory in War Effort
Chiang Kai-shek told the Chinese army and people that Roosevelt approved his plan to wipe out Japanese militarists and purge their political system. He said the Cairo decisions will intensify pressure on Japan and encircle it on the Asian mainland with China taking the main role. He credited American support in 1943 as pivotal in turning the tide and foreseeing peace and justice.
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Associated Press
Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
Roosevelt
Cairo
Chiang
Soviet Union
China
Japan
China Theater
Scharnhorst Sunk After Long Battle Off North Cape
London reports a British torpedo officer described the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst after a long night action off North Cape on December 26. The damaged ship lay on her side, ablaze from stem to stern, as British forces pressed the assault with torpedoes after 12 hours of pursuit.
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London
North Cape
Chavasse
Jamaica
Bruce Fraser
Fieeammander
Senumamhorst
Unis
York
Shell Sniniers
Bear Craw
Tito Disputes Nazi Capture Of Mljet
The Associated Press reports Tito refutes Germany’s claim of capturing Mljet, an Adriatic island off Yugoslavia, while Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito says guerrilla forces remain strong in Bosnia Herzegovina and Montenegro as fighting continues amid German assertions of advances toward the Adriatic coast.
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Associated Press
London
Mljet
Adriatic
Yugoslavia
Dalmatian
Geremany
Balkans
Josip Broz
Tito
Hercegovina
Bore
3 TOA Ares Weicore
Tad
Ndset
Coatimed
Invasion Alarm Stirs London as U S Troops Arrive
American troops flood London streets amid rising invasion talk from Nazi analysts. Paratroopers, airmen, infantry, and engineers mingle with holiday crowds as General Eisenhower departs North Africa for Britain. Goebbels pushes Germany’s claim of a coming strike within weeks. Eisenhower bids his North African forces farewell, promising reunion in Europe.
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London
Dwight D Eisenhower
Atlantic
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Eral
New York Post Office Reports Best Year Yet
Post master John W. Lynch announced a record year for the New York post office noting higher mail volume and improved receipts for the seasonal period. Officials attributed the gain to robust activity across districts and increased efficiency in processing.
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New York
John W. Lynch
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New Mexico
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Nellie Kraus
Mary L. Zobel
Ahern
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Dean P. Taylor
Troy Council
Scharnhorst
Eisenhower
New York Post Office
Pearson
Pulse of the People
Nieve
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