Fifth Army Seizes San Vittore After Desperate Three Day Battle
Allied forces led by General Mark W. Clark capture the fortress village of San Vittore six miles from Cassino after a brutal three day street fight. More than 100 German prisoners are taken and equal numbers killed as lines bend toward Rome. Mount Maio’s storm opens routes toward the Cassino plain.
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Algiers
San Vittore
Cassino
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Mount
Maio
Cervara
Garigliano
Mount Maio
Cerraro
San Vittore Taken House By House
American Fifth Army troops fought from house to house for nearly forty hours to seize San Vittore Italy at 3 37 p m Thursday. German defenders were killed or captured as civilians hid in cellars and caves during the bitter battle. The victory moves the line closer to Cassino and ends German resistance in a key winter strongpoint.
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Don Whitehead
San Vittore
Italy
Fifth Army
Cassino
Ban Vittore
Vanderbilt Dies Former New York Central Leader
William Kissam Vanderbilt aged 65, railroad magnate and former NY Central president, died early today of a heart ailment in New York. He returned from Florida for illness and served as director and executive committee member of the railroad at his death.
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New York
William Kissam Vanderbilt
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
New York Central Railroad
Florida
Solution Seen Near in Montreal Strike
Leaders of 2 000 striking white collar municipal workers asked Premier Adelard Godbout for a meeting as indications grew that a settlement was near in the 18 day walkout.
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Montreal
CPI
Adelard Godbout
Excellent Habit Pace a Case of Utica Club Pilaner Beer
Fragmented ad style text promotes a case of Utica Club Pale Ale from grocers. Mentions vows hour and includes nonsensical phrases with unclear dates or places.
Hoover’s Wife Dies Suddenly in New York
Mrs Herbert Hoover 68 wife of former president Hoover died suddenly in Waldorf Towers apartment New York City after a heart attack She returned from California shortly before the holidays and was reportedly in usual health at the time Her two sons Allan Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr were alerted and funeral arrangements were to be announced today
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Ralph H. Boots
Flu Epidemic Shows Sharp Turn In Mortality
A census bureau tabulation of mortality from 89 major cities shows the death rate for the week ending January 1 at 19.4 per 1,000, a 2.3 rise. The 13 percent jump surpasses the 1936-37 rate and nears the 1928-29 peak, though far below the 1918 surge.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Navy Patrol Ship Sinks In Collision
The Navy patrol ship St Augustine, a former $1 250 000 pleasure craft once owned by heiress Barbara Hutton, sank sixty miles southeast of Cape May New Jersey after a collision with an unidentified merchant ship. The vessel carried a peacetime crew of 23, increased after acquisition for $180 000 in 1940, and 29 survivors plus three bodies were landed at Cape May Naval Base Hospital.
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Philadelphia
St. Augustine
Barbara Hutton
Atlantic Ocean
Cape May
N. J
Fourth Naval District
Navy
Coast Guard
Boston Navy Yard
Daniel J. Bergen
Cape May Naval Base Hospital
Soviet Position on Polish Border Not Open to Discussion
Moscow reporter Eddie Gilmore notes the Soviet stance that its borders are non negotiable and not subject to foreign discussion. Pravda dismissed any talk prompted by Wendell Willkie, and maps in use show no border west of where the Red Army fights. The party line treats the conflict as defense of the fatherland against Germany, with no intention of discussing borders.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
WPE
WPBE
Steel Division
Russia
China
Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Wendell Willkie
Soviet Union
California
United States
Sarny
Rovno
Red Army
Soldiers Favor Voting in U S Elections Says Army Poll
The Stars and Stripes editorial notes soldiers polled by the Army newspaper favor participating in United States elections this year. It urges Congress to enact a uniform balloting law and criticizes a Senate approved measure leaving soldier balloting to the states.
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Algiers
Stars and¢ Stripes
United States
Congress
Stars and Stripes
Georgia soldiers win voting rights push in state law
An editorial notes Gov. Arnall signed extraordinary legislation making Georgia first to enact a soldier vote measure. It questions the practicality of complex state voting rules for servicemen and quotes front line soldiers calling for simple equal rights to vote in primaries and general elections.
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Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
Action of
Georgia
General Assembly
Allies Sink Thirty Jap Barges Near New Guinea and New Britain
Allied airmen hunted and destroyed or damaged thirty Japanese barges in the South and Southwest Pacific, killing or wounding about 100. Operations focused near Sio Sarang harbor on New Guinea coast, Rein Bay, and Rabaul New Britain, with Marine forces holding Cape Gloucester area after a week of savage combat and a recent capture of the Cape Gloucester airdrome.
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New Guinea
South
Southwest
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Sio
Sarang Harbor
Rein Bay
Rabaul
New Britain
Bergen Bay
Cape Gloucester
Joan Blondell to File Divorce from Dick Powell
Hollywood actress Joan Blondell announced she will sue for divorce from Dick Powell after he returns from the east around January 21. The couple, married September 19, 1936 aboard the Santa Paula, honeymooned in New York and have two children Ellen and Norman, with Norman being Powell's adoptive son from Blondell's prior marriage.
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Hollywood (P
Colony
Joan Biondell
Dick Powell
Screen Crooner
Santa Paula
New York
Ellen
Norman
Miss Blondell
George Barnes
Powell
Public works strike halts Philadelphia waste services
Union leaders ended a two day walkout of 3090 public works staff after Mayor Bernard Samuel pledged to pursue a wage increase. The refusal left streets littered with garbage and prompted use of city prison inmates to substitute missing water department workers, creating a public health risk.
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Philadelphia
Overseas furlough plan urged by Senate leaders
Senate Democrats and Republicans urged a furlough system for long overseas service amid reports of troop rotations. Taft proposed short leaves for two years of foreign service with a possible unit rotation. Radcliffe supported furloughs that do not hinder the war effort. The Army reportedly replaced many garrisons in Alaska, the Caribbean, Iceland and other outposts while some Sicily Italy and southwest Pacific servicemen returned home in small numbers.
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Senate
Taft
Ohio
War Department
Radcliffe
D.-Md
Congress
Army
Alaska
Caribbean
Iceland
Sicily
Italy
Southwest Pacific
United States
Reds Piercing Nazi Fronts in Central Ukraine Offensive
Russian forces under Gen Ivan and Konev broke through five German divisions on a 62 mile front near the Dnieper bend, surrounding Kirovograd and nearing a link with Vatutin’s north drive. The operation began January 5, sending about 75,000 Germans retreating and yielding over 1,230 towns captured as the two Ukrainian armies near a junction.
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London
Ukraine
Dnieper
Kirovograd
Ivan& Konev
Moscow
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Klesow
Old Poland
Red Army
Rzhishchev
Kiev
Pereyaslav
Berlin
Ludwig Sertorious
Vatutin
Konev
Belaya Tserkov
Russia
Poland
Rumania
Hull Signals Nonrecognition of Bolivian Revolution
Secretary of State Hull indicated the United States will likely refuse to recognize the Bolivian revolutionary government. He cited outside forces hostile to American republics as the primary influence behind the Bolivian upheaval. Argentina remains the sole country to extend recognition, complicating regional consultations.
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Washington
United States
Bolivia
Hull
Hult
Argentina
Cgualberto Villarrosl
Willkie Supports Chicago for 1944 Republican Nominating Convention
Wendell L. Willkie voiced willingness to hold the 1944 Republican nominating convention in Chicago, smoothing its selection as party members discuss platform and arrangements. Senator Taft warned about potential efforts to push control of the arrangements committee via the national committee. Willkie, a 1940 GOP nominee, had opposed Chicago as isolationist.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Chicago
Taft
Ohio
National Committee
Willkie
Philadelphia
New York
The
Chicago Tribune
Dream Come True Through White House Help for Pup
Ten year old Ann Gilcreast of Stoneham Massachusetts wrote to President Roosevelt asking to lower prices on cocker spaniel puppies. The Roosevelt letter was routed to the OPA which uncovered a federal employee trying to sell a puppy. Ann now has her spaniel and a happy family moment amid wartime shortages.
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Stoneham, Mass
Ann Gilcreast
Ann
Alden C. Gilcreast
Navy
Rozevelt
Best St
Stoneham
Mass
United States
Africa
OPA
Washington
Union Urges Cramp Shipyard Workers Back to Work
Seventeen thousand idle workers at Cramp Shipbuilding Co were ordered back to work by the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers led by John Green and Philip Van Gelder. Local 42 had boycotted to press grievances as the Navy considered control. The stoppage began after 42 painters were dismissed for refusing spraygun use, alleging low premium pay.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
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