Soviet Paper Chides Willkie for Political Gambler Claim
Pravda accuses Wendell Willkie of muddying waters to gain US support and sympathy from opponents of the Soviet Union. The piece criticizes his New York Times remarks on Poland and the Baltic states, saying such interference is unnecessary for the Soviet Union. Willkie’s Moscow visit and Stalin dinners are noted with no comment from him in New York.
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Moscow
Wendell Willkie
Russia
Communist Party
Pravda
Dmitry Zaslavsky
Willkie
Soviet Union
New York Times
Poland
Baltic States
Baltic
Finland
Balkans
Zaslavaky
Hussia
Zaslavsky
Stalin
New York City
Railroads Open Campaign for Part time Labor
War Manpower Commission and Railroad Retirement Board launch a drive to recruit over 5,000 full and part time railroad workers in New York and New Jersey. Colonel Frederick E. Williamson of the New York Central announces the effort to cover holiday freight buildup and push for regular weekend staffing to aid the war effort.
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New York UP
War Manpower Commission
Railroad, Retirement Board
Frederick E. Williamson
New York Central Railroad
War Department
Williamson
New York
New Jersey
Three Officers Die In Army Plane Crash
Washington United Press report says three Army Air Force officers were killed when their small transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Bolling Field. They were en route from Mitchel Field New York to an Army base in Richmond Virginia, crashing in a southeast Washington vacant lot. The dead are Lieut Col R W Hale Guilot Capt Walter R Johnson and Capt Robert L Garrard.
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Washington
Army Air Force
Bolling Field
Richmond
Mitchel Field
N. Y
R. W. Hale
Guilot
Second Street
Walter R. Johnson
North Latrobe Avenue
Chicago
Robert L. Garrard
R .D
Gibsonia
Star Collapses on Set in Hollywood Health Scare
Barbara Stanwyck collapsed on a movie set yesterday the second time in ten days. Her physician said she had influenza and overtaxed herself and must remain at home for another week.
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Hollywood
Barbara Stanwyck
State Surplus Earmarked For Postwar Use
Washington Navy officials disclosed 268 survivors from the escort carrier Liscome Bay after the November 24 Gilbert Islands operation. Casualty totals were not released, but Captain Lovette said overall losses in the campaign are likely under previous estimates.
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Washington (S
Navy
Liscombe Bay
Suok
Gibert Island
Leland P. Lovette
Bureau of Public Relations
Gilberts
Nazis Forge West Wall In Italy Near Cassino
Allied and German reports describe German engineers rushing a new Italian defensive line akin to the West Wall. Lieut. Gen. Sir Oliver Leese takes command of the British Eighth Army as Canadians seize Point 59 near Quona, while Germans reinforce with mobile units and elite mountain regiments in a prolonged Italy campaign.
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Allied
Algiers
Siegfried Line
Europe
Oliver Leese
Comand
Eighth Army
Italy
Adriatic
Rome
Cassino
Fifth Army
Pescara
Fritz Tout
Juent
Leese
Eighth
Point 59
Quona
Montreal Mayor Seeks to End City Hall Strike
Montreal Mayor Adhemar Raynault flew to Quebec to meet Premier Godbout and cabinet members in a bid to settle the 16 day old strike by 2,000 white collar city workers who walked out December 21 for annual salary increases around 500 dollars. Union leaders said they would stick to their position, and a settlement plan could be presented for workers’ approval around Christmas as government offices close for the holiday. Picket lines around city hall restrict access to top officials.
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Montreal
Adhemar Raynault
Quebec
Adelard Godbout
Gerard Picard
Catholic Confederation of Labor
Civic Employees National Syndicate
Strke
Naples Typhus Cases On Upgrade
Typhus in Naples rises from 250 to nearly 350 in ten days as a U.S. typhus commission arrives to work with Allied military government health officers in the fight against the disease No infections reported among Allied Fifth Army personnel.
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Naples
U.S
Fifth Army
Irish Immigrant Bridget Maloney Dies at 107 in Scranton
Mrs. Bridget Maloney, who claimed to be 107, died yesterday in Scranton. An immigrant from Ireland, she arrived about eight decades ago and resided here since.
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Scranton
Bridget Maloney
Ireland
Dewey Opposes Tax Cuts as War Needs Grow
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey urged New York legislators to hoard surplus funds and avoid tax reductions or extra spending. He cited a $140 million cash reserve to ease postwar burdens and praised state finances. Dewey warned of 100000 servicemen returning this year with 20000 seeking jobs, urging unemployment provisions. Continuous enactment of his recommendations seems likely as Republicans maintain control.
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Edward McDonald
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
New York State
Dewey
Joe R. Hanley
Benjamin F. Feinburg
Washington-Warren-Essex-Clinton
Hanley
Oswald D. Heck
95 German Planes Shot Out of Sky
United States bomb ers and escorting fighters blasted 95 German planes from a wide 800 mile front. Targets included Kiel shipyards airfields at Bordeaux and Tours in France and western Germany. Duesseldorf was among the objectives. The raid marked a major daylight operation with heavy losses for the Germans and significant Allied air force action.
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London
United States
Kiel
Bordeaux
Tours
France
Germany
Duesseldorf
Berlin
Emden
Danish Pastor Kaj Munk Reported Slain by Gestapo
Danish pastor and poet Kaj Munk, 45, famed for anti Nazi writings, was found murdered in a woods near Silkeborg close to German military HQ in Jutland. Dispatches say four supposed Gestapo agents abducted him from his home at Vedersø before his body was found, signaling Nazi inspired political assassination.
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Stockholm
Kaj Munk
Silkeborg
Denmark
Copenhagen
Free Danish Press Service
Munk
Gestapo
Vedersee
Lukeborg
Jutland Peninsula
Naz
Hermann von Hannecken
Navy Reveals Loss of Sub Pompano
The Navy announced the loss of submarine Pompano after a war patrol near Japan. Cmdr Willis M. Thomas of Vallejo Ohio led the crew of about 75 men on a patrol that sunk a destroyer and patrol vessel and damaged an aircraft carrier, with the submarine listed as missing in the Pacific.
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Washington
Pompano
Japan
Pacific
Cmdr
Willis M. Thomas
Vallejo
Cal
Mare Island
Bulgarian Crisis Forces Nazi Dilemma in Balkans
Reports from Washington and London describe a Bulgarian cabinet crisis pressuring Germany to choose quickly between withdrawing to conserve manpower and supplies or risking more losses by digging in. A coup in Sofia is hinted, with a more pro Allied government possible, though unlikely, highlighting the German quandary.
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Washington
Bulgaria
Balkans
Bulgasia
London
Sofia
Bogdan Philoff
Farley’s Daughter Debuts at Waldorf Astoria Society Tea
Eighteen year old Ann Farley daughter of Jim Farley made her formal New York society bow at a coming out tea at the Waldorf Astoria. Wellesley College freshman Ann wore a white net dress with a wide skirt and pink accessories and greeted guests with her parents and sister Betty. Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt a leading figure of the 400 attended early making the event a top social occasion.
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New York
Ann Farley
Jim Farley
Farley
Grampus
Wellesley College
Betty
Waldorf Astoria
Baby Tied To Bed in Flooded Flat
A New York mother Julia Jira 23 told a children's court magistrate her two children Frances 2 and Frank 11 9 months were unattended because she was job hunting. The babies were found by police in a flooded East Side flat with Frances frostbitten feet and Frank's feet tied to a day bed. Horace Youngblood claimed as helper denied care. The court ordered the infants remained at the New York Foundling Hospital with parents to return for further examination.
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New York
East Side
Children’s Court
Julia Jira
Herbert O’brien
Frances
Frank
Horace Youngbrood
Youngblood
Horace Brown Dawson
Columbia
S.C
FBI
Jira
Jiro
Jito
O’brien
New York Foundling Hospital
Drys Backed by Ten Million Dollars Bankroll in Lobbying
Representative Celler declares the drys have a bankroll of ten million for lobbying as he urges defeat of national prohibition in Congress. He warns the bill faces opposition and rebukes the idea of broad social shifts while criticizing youth in uniform and urging caution against moral controls.
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Washington LLP
Drys
Celler
D.N
Congress
House
Sahara
Life of Crime Nipped By Officer in Hotel Robbery Shootout
A Chicago coroner's inquest found Officer Joseph Niewinski justified in shooting Willam Auburn Thompson after Thompson and two accomplices robbed two hotels and held up Sunny Ainsworth. The mother Doris Russell praised the officer, saying she owed him a debt for ending her son’s crime. The jury commended Niewinski and two fellow officers for their courage.
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Chicago
Doris Russell
Joseph Niewinski
Willam Auburn Thompson
Sunny Ainsworth
Tommy Manville
Niewinski
Gambling Losses Blamed for Death in Toledo Hotel
A Detroit advertising executive identified as George D Wilcox was found dead in a Toledo hotel after alleging to the Toledo Blade that he had lost $50 000 to local gamblers. Coroner Frank G Kreft tentatively ruled death by self harm pending autopsy. a letter bearing Wilcox's name praised his effort to expose gambling rackets.
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Toledo
George D Wilcox
Detroit
Mas
Toledo Blade
Frank G. Kreft
Kenneth D. Tool
The
Blade
Wilcox
Soviet claim of annexed Polish lands echoes in Kyiv press
The Soviet embassy issued a bulletin aligning with Soviet troop advances into former Polish territories. It cited 1939 partition gains as liberating Byelorussia and western Ukraine and asserted those regions are now integral to the USSR. The note previews public works plans for areas incorporated in 1939 and notes a gradual reunion of Byelorussia peoples.
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Washington
Old Poland
Germany
Russia
Poland
Red Army
Byelorussia
Moscow
Soviet Union
London
Armany
Western Byelorussia
Supreme Soviet
U. S
Yugoslavs Await Second Front Seen By South African Officer
Maj Charles Ballenume of the South African Engineers Corps reports from Yugoslavia that Partisans led by Tito favor crushing Germany from a distant second front rather than immediate Allied landings. Ballenume escaped a German camp after 11 months and traveled from Topluk to Cairo, observing Yugoslav patience amid hard conditions.
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Cano
Germany
Charles Ballenume
South African Engineers Corps
Cairo
Adriatic
Yuros
Beer and Pretzels Urged for Workers
A war era suggestion from John M Baker, regional deputy of the War Manpower Commission, endorses beer and pretzels for industrial workers in moderation to reduce absenteeism around the Christmas holiday. He cites past success, recalling tales of supplying beer to steel mill workers and the positive effect on morale.
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Cinemnatic
Jonn M Baker
Missing Keuka College senior Barbara Lu dragged from Seneca Lake
State police and patrol units near Willard combed the countryside and dragged Seneca Lake last night to locate Barbara G. Lu 9 Keuka College senior daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Lull of 190 Superior Road Brighton She vanished Monday night from Willard State Hospital where she was gaining practical experience for her college work Trooper Robert Coyle said only her parents college and hospital authorities knew she was missing yesterday afternoon
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Willerd GP
Nearbby Sampson Nave
Seneca Lake
Barbara G. Lu
Keuka College
Miss Lull
Benjamin Lull
Superior Road
Brighton
Willard State
Robert Coyle
Ovid
Attacks by Land and Sea Harass Japs
Allied forces pressed the offensive on New Britain with tank led Marines while air forces intensified strikes on mid Pacific bases in the Marshalls and Gilberts. Japanese naval and air activity included hits on Jaluit and raids on Tarawa Makin and Abemama as Nimit reports ongoing battles over airfields and shipping.
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Associated Press
New Britain
mid-Pacific
Marshall
Gilbert Islands
Kavieng
New Ireland
Douglas MacArthur
Truk
Rabaul
Dutch East Indies
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimit
Pearl Harbor
United States
Jaluit
Imperial Command
Mil Atolls
Marshalls
Gilberts
Tarawa Makin
Abemama
Tarawa
Nirmit
Tito Declares Nazi Defeat in Eastern Bosnia and Banja Luka Fight
Marshal Tito announced the German offensive in Eastern Bosnia was crushed and Yugoslav forces had regained territory including Vlašematica near Sarajevo. He said partisans pressed the Western Bosnian front along the Bosanska/Novo- Prijedor Banja Luka railway, with fierce street fighting in Banja Luka.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Vlasemica
Sarajevo
Free Yugoslav Radio
Bosansky Nove-Prijedor Banja Luka
Banja Luka
Italy
Coal Shortage Strands Elevators At Woolworth Building
Ten of the Woolworth Building’s 24 elevators were taken out of service yesterday due to a coal shortage while a building superintendent expected a fresh fuel supply soon. Tenants adapted as four elevators operated efficiently. assistants reported no overcrowding as lift operators noted the impact.
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New York
Woolworth
E Jo MecVeiga
Drama critic Bide Dudley dies after long illness
New York funeral services were held yesterday for Walter Bronson Dudley 65 a drama critic author and radio commentator who died Tuesday after a long illness. The services were conducted by Rev J W Cooper and attended by Dudley s son Bronson Dudley A second service will be held Friday at Leavenworth Kan where burial will take place Also surviving are his daughter Ports Dudley Leahy a stage and screen actress of Hollywood and two sisters
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New York
Walter Bronson
Dudley
Bronson
J. W. Cooper
Leavenworth
Kan
Ports Dudley Leahy
Hollywood
Berdichev Falls as Soviet forces press on Dnieper bend
Soviet troops seized the Berdichev railway junction after five days of combat, a critical German line hub south of Zhytomyr linking Kowel to Kazatin. Stalin announced the victory in a delayed Moscow communique, with heavy German losses and large quantities of captured materiel. The advance opens a broader push toward Rumania, tightening the noose around German forces from Zhytomyr to Nevel as battles raged across the Dnieper region.
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London
Berdichev
Poland
Rumania
Joseph Stalin
Berdiche
Ahitomur
Fritz von Manntein
Stalin
Moscow
Kowel
Kazatin
Kiev-Vinnitsa
Vinnitsa
Zhitomir
Dnieper Head
Nevel
Russian Ukraine
Dnieper
Hitler
Stockhol
Red Army
Berdichey
Lonergan Murder Trial Set for Jan 31 in New York
Wayne T Lonergan, 26, charged with first degree murder in the October Beexaman Hill slaying, has a tentative trial date of January 31. District Attorney Jack Carine announced the date is not yet signed, with a general session to confirm. Lonergan, a Royal Canadian Force cater, reportedly confessed after returning to New York from Toronto.
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New York
Wayne T. Lonegan
Hi Fe
Neral Sessior Feige
George Sir Donnellan
Lonergan
Rton
Sas
H.e Beexaman
A. d
Toronto
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