Yanks Seize Jap Airbase Four Towns Luzon
American forces opened a Luzon beachhead about 15 miles wide and four miles deep, capturing four towns and an airstrip north of Manila as MacArthur reports rapid progress. Bridges at Calumpit blown, Japanese prepare counter moves while U S air power targets roads and installations to disrupt reinforcements.
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General. MacArthur
Luzon
San Fabian
Lingayen
MacArthur
Uzon
Dighway
Calumpit
Smanila
Ail Luzon
Antimonian
Manila
Bataan
Philippine Victory Will Help Ease Some Shortages
Liberation of the Philippines would reopen to the United States key commodities now scarce including Manila hemp for high grade tops sugar and coconut oil for industrial and food uses. The islands have historically shipped leaf tobacco and have been producers of metals mahogany palm products and ash and shell.
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New York
Upi
Liberation of
Philippines
United States
FBI Holds Couple in $100 225 HOLC Theft
The FBI announced the arrest in Chicago and Toledo of a man and woman on charges of stealing 100 225 of Home Owners Loan Corp bonds from the Bank of America in Los Angeles on May 2. Investigation may link them to four spring thefts totaling 6 780 in cash and War Savings stamps from several banks across the West and Pacific states.
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Washington
UPA
Chicago
Toledo
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Home Owners Loan Corp
Bank of America
Los Angeles
FB. 1
First
National Bank of Arizona
Phoenix
National Bank of Commerce
Seattle
Wash
National Bank of Portland
Ore
Wells Parge Bank and Union Trust Co
San Francisco
Nazis Escape Bulge Trap As Western Front Folds
German forces pull back from the Belgian salient as weather and Allied pressure push the pocket toward disintegration. Rundstedt conducts an orderly withdrawal while St Hubert is evacuated. Front dispatches note shortened German front in the west to conserve reserves and prepare for a wider withdrawal.
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Belgium
von Rundstedt
St. Hubert
Laroche
Samree
Bulge
Marshal Karl von Runds
Stedt
U. S
Bastogne
Berlin
St Hubert
800 Ship Convoy Sailed Directly Under Japs Nose
A vast 800 ship convoy moved from Mindanao through Surigao into the Sulu Sea and toward Luzon. The force included battleships, carriers, cruisers, and destroyers with heavy assault supplies and U S Sixth Army troops. The bulk passed within forty miles of Manila near Bataan as the largest Pacific armada assembled.
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John Kinkaid
Lingayen Gulf
Philippines
Mindanao
Surigao
Sulu Sea
Negros
Mindoro
Ape Pass
China Sea
Luzon
Mies
Manila
Bataan Peninsula
U. S. Sixth Army
Pacific
Man injured by biting cow at St Louis packing house
A St Louis packing house employee was seriously injured while working inside a carcass when a dead cow’s jaws snapped shut. The worker suffered a severely gashed arm as a result of the incident.
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St Louis
Argentina Breaks with Neighbors
Argentina severed ties with American nations by announcing it would not participate in future Pan American Union meetings. Chilean observers view the move as deepening hemispheric divides and harming continental peace, following the Union's postponement of Argentina's consulting meeting.
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Buenos
Aires
Argentina
Pan-American Union
Santiago
Chile
South America
North
Union
Newomen
Edelmire
Fortells
Foreign Office
Curran Favored Over LaGuardia for Mayor
Rup pellt Republican chairman of Rich y announced his organization favored nominating Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran for mayor of New York City and opposed re nomination of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The party cites Dewey support and Staten Island headquarters condemns LaGuardia treatment of Staten Island.
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Curran
LaGuardia
New York
Ruppel
Richy
Thomas J. Curran
Thomas E. Dewey
Ruppell
Staten Island
Staten ‘Isiana
Draft Quotas To Be Doubled In War Labor Draft Plan
The government proposed expanding draft quotas to pull 900,000 new workers into Army and Navy service over six months, by diverting 26 to 29 year olds from essential industries and enforcing national service. Patterson told the House military committee details of the step up, aiming to fill large wartime manpower gaps amid coal and fuel shortages and a push to curb lighting and advertising to save resources.
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Washington
Patterson
Army and Navy
House Military Committee
Army
Navy
Ve Army and Navy Service Ag
Daft
Gwen
Hesisen Pytterson
Sagel Patterson
MansSowest
Ralf Bani
House
National War Service
War Production Board
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Intelior
Ickes
Mpi River
Byes
Solid Fuels Administration
Three U.S. Destroyers Lost in Severe Pacific Typhoon
Three destroyers Hull Spence and Monaghan of the Pacific fleet were lost in a typhoon in the western Pacific. The Navy reported four landing craft a motor torpedo boat a small submarine chaser and a small auxiliary vessel were also lost to enemy action. Survivors include 24 from the Spence and six from the Monaghan. Commanding officers are Lieut. Comdr. James Alexander Muorks of Chevy Chase Md Lieut Comdr. James Paul Andrea of Alexandria Va and Lieut Comdr. Flord Bruce Gesrell Jr of Little Rock Ark. A court of inquiry led by Vice Adm. J H Hoos and Fleet Adm. Chester Nimltz will investigate. The Hull commissioned 1915 the Spence 1943 and the Monaghan built in 1935.
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Washington
Western Pacific
Navy
Pacific
Supply Corps
James Alexander Muorks
Chevy Chase
Std
James Paul Andrea
Alexandria
Liewl
Flord Bruce Gesrell
Little Rock
Ark
Monaghan
H. Hoos
Fleet
Chester Nimltz
Boston Navy Yard
New York Navy Yard
Spence
Gath Iron Works
Bath
Belgian Town Nearly Wiped Out By U S Errors
London UP reports the U S Air Force acknowledged that during a winter offensive mission six Ninth Air Force bombers dropped bombs on Malm, Belgium on December 23 by mistake. The following day Eighth Air Force bombers also attacked Malm in what officials called an error, as operations supported ground forces.
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London
U. S
Strateric i Air Force
Can Libérators
Belgs of Malmeay
Shaiezi i
I Ninth Air Force
Eighth Air Force
Troy
French Call Up More Men for Service
The War Ministry announced mobilization of the Class of 1943 will begin January 15 with deferments for married men with children. Each living child reduces the next class by one level, signaling broader mobilization. Reserve officers from 1931 to 1940 are also called up and prepared for active duty in the near future.
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Paris
War Ministry
Wiley May Exhume Body In Sibley Probe
Dist Atty Earle J Wiley has a court order to exhume Ralph Sibley 53 proprietor of the Beauty Spot on the Troy Hoosick Falls Road whose death is under probe. Sibley died Christmas Day and was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery. The exhumation and permits require state officials and a local coroner.
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Earle J. Wiley
Supreme Court
Pierce H. Russell
Ralph
Sibley
Troy- Hoosick Fails Road
Albany
Wiley
Sibler
John W. Howarth
J Ham D. Cornell
Town of Colonies
Joseph C. Malone
mEr
Reds Smash Relief Drive For Budapest
Soviet dispatches from Moscow report a sustained push west of Budapest. Red army forces surround key Danube rail and communications hubs as German relief columns are driven back. Soviet claims include control of most eastern Budapest suburbs, destruction of dozens of German tanks, and thousands of enemy casualties amid a two week of heavy fighting near the capital.
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London
Budapest
Danube
Komarom
Moscow
Homarom
Sudapest
Budapests
Teeing
Iss
OPA Hints Ban on Miami Night Clubs
OPA district director for Florida James Byrnes says Washington seriously considers closing Miami area night clubs and others if federal manpower needs require it. The plan aims to reduce late night occupancy and conserve labor for war work. OPA has taxi companies commit not to drive fares to night clubs.
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Miami
Fla
James 2
Thomas
OPA
Florida
Washington
Miama
Courie
Are St. Thomas
Byrnes
Alloviace Ab-3 Gm
GE Counsel Charles Appleton Dies in Sleep in Connecticut
Charles W. Appleton, longtime counsel and former vice president of General Electric Co, died in his sleep yesterday at Blythewood Sanatorium. He recently retired five years ago after a long career with GE and was born in the early years of his life.
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Steenwich
Conn
Charles W. Appleton
General Electric Co
Blythewood
Daily Mail Critiques Bradley On Montgomery Talk
The London Daily Mail editorializes that Bradley's Western Front press conference was a slur on Montgomery. It questions Bradley's claim of Montgomery's temporary command of the American First and Ninth armies and notes the paper’s past assertions about Montgomery foreseeing German moves.
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London 1
London Daily Mail
Omar Bradley
Western Front
Monty” Leceuse Sradley
Montgomery
the Mail
Cand
Bradless
Mostgomesy
Little Hope for Butter Price Increases Seen
Government orders producers to set aside 20 percent of February output and 25 percent in March for war agencies. War Food Administration said civilian supplies in February and March will be smaller than January. Government hoped February production could go to civilians.
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WPB
ODT
Byres
Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization
Ickes
Berney
Roosevelt
Gencit
Nes Bess
Amd
War Food Administration
Japs Imitate Secret Weapon Boasts Reported by London Radio
The British and Australian broadcasts quote a Tokyo newspaper describing three secret weapons. A radio controlled plane as large as a Superfortress with a bomb payload claimed to destroy an entire American city, a mortuary weapon, and a radio guided torpedo said to sink a battleship in one strike. A radio detection unit to spot airplanes 3,000 miles away was also mentioned.
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London
Tokyo
Ihése Ihree
Norwegian Parachutists Cut Nazi Lines
Norwegian parachute troops invaded their homeland and damaged Germanys main railways for troop transfers to the western front. The operation disrupted two lines between Trondheim and Oslo, described by a government spokesman as a good size operation. The parachutists had trained in Britain for three years and returned from occupied Norway.
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London CP
Germany
Annanhded
Camou Hage
Norway
Trondheim
Oslo
Davie Moustaire
von Rundstedt
Anso
Yugoslav King Expected to Agree on Regency
A likely statement from the Yugoslav king follows talks with the prime minister and foreign secretary about establishing a regency. Sources describe the King as inclined to accept a regency proposal after discussions last night at the foreign ministry.
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Lozden
Leia Hic
Isaig
Kine
Anthony Seendurite
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