State Accepts Return of Lepke
New York officials accepted the offer by U S Attorney General Francis Biddle to surrender Louis Lepke Buchalter the convicted head of Murder Inc to New York for a state clemency hearing while agreeing to return him to federal custody if the death sentence is set aside. Governor Dewey demanded Buchalter’s release from federal custody and details show the state attorney general Nathaniel L Goldstein informed Biddle that Kings County would arrange custody so he could be dealt with under New York law. Continued on Page Eleven. BUCHALTER
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Albany LLP
New York
U. S
Francis Biddle
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
Murder, Inc
Dewey
Buchalter
Nathaniel L Goldstein
Biddle
Kings County
Goldstein
Thomas Craddock Hughes
Brooklyn
United States
New York City
Nathaniel Goldstein
Murder Inc
Thomas E. Dewey
San Juan Quake Death Toll Estimated High
Rescue teams recovered 600 bodies as San Juan, Argentina, faced a quake toll potentially reaching 1,600. Injuries surged to over 13,000 with international aid flowing, including 5 million pesos from Buenos Aires residents and food and medical supplies from other nations.
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Buenos Aires
San Juan
Germany
Argentina
U. S
Norman Armour
Red Cross
Cordell Hull
Settlement of OPA suit against G L F Expected
The Office of Price Administration seeks treble damages of 300000 from G L F Farm Products Inc in a case now in conferences. Federal Judge Knight ruled Dec 31 the co op violated ceiling price rules by selling cuts to New York Central Railroad at retail. OPA estimates overcharges at about 100000 as accountants work to compute exact figures.
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Buffalo UP
Office of Price Administration
Grange League Federation
Farm Products, Inc
OPA
David A. White
John Knight
New York Central Railroad
U. S. Rushes Plasma Drugs to Partisans in Balkans
The U S Medical Department announced shipments of blood plasma and drugs to guerrilla groups across the Balkans. About 250 000 Tito partisans in occupied Yugoslavia receive supplies, with the rest sent to Greek mountain bands. Each package holds over 300 units including sulfa drugs dextrose tetanus antitoxin serum morphine and a gas gangrene antitoxin.
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Cairo
Balkans
U. S. Medical Department
Josip Broz
Tito
Greece
Pravda cites rumor of Britons seeking separate peace with Nazis
Pravda reports, citing Cairo dateline, that two British officials allegedly met with Joachim von Ribbentrop to discuss a possible separate peace with Germany. British and Allied officials dismissed the claim as untrue, with London and Washington denying any such talks or censorship passage. No identities or details were confirmed.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Cairo
Britain
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Lord Haliifax
Washington
London
Bern
Ankara
Ribbentrop
Postwar Fund Bill Passed In Albany Legislature
Albany lawmakers approved Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's postwar measures amid minor verbal fuss. The bills create a postwar reconstruction fund with the state surplus of 140 million dollars, move the spring primary to March 28, expand commerce to a full state department, and end elections for lieutenant governor vacancies. A warning from Democrats targeted the succession bill pending judicial determination after Lieut. Gov. Wal lace's death. The Senate and Assembly acted swiftly, sending the measures back to the governor within two weeks of introduction.
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Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas W. Wallace
Schenectady
Senate
Assembly
Division of Commerce
British Denounce Pravda Peace Rumor as Insult to British People
London reports dismiss the Moscow gossip as false a canard born to sow mischief amid wartime unity. The foreign office and major papers condemn the claim insisting Britain will fight to finish and uphold the 20 year alliance with Russia.
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London
British Foreign Office
Pravda
London Daily Mail Today
Britain
Moscow
Cairo
Foreign Office
Daily Mail
the Mail
British marriage rate hits postwar low in 1943
Marriages in Britain totaled 81,454 in the third quarter of 1943, the lowest for that period since 1918. The marriage rate was 156 per thousand population, the lowest since 1917. The birth rate stood at 16.2 per thousand, the highest for the quarter since 1926.
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London
Britain
Reviewers Pick Random Harvest As Best Film of 1943
Film Daily announced that Random Harvest topped a list of the ten best motion pictures of 1943 in a poll of 439 newspapers and radio reviewers. The MGM drama starred Greer Garson and Ronald Colman and led a ranking that included For Whom the Bell Tolls Yankee Doodle Dandy Casablanca This Is the Army The Human Comedy Watch on the Rhine In Which We Serve So Proudly We Hail Stage Door Canteen. The period covers releases between November 1 1942 and October 1 1943.
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New York
Film Daily
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Greer Garson
Ronald Colman
Paramount
Warner Bros
M-G.-M
Noel Coward
United Artists
Black market rail reservations ring warned by ODT
Washington report says black market in railroad reservations interferes with essential travel. ODT Director Joseph Eastman urges mayors to enforce anti chiseling laws, noting advance reservations resold above face value and that some railroad employees are involved. He calls for immediate enactment of anti chiseling ordinances to aid the war effort.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Joseph B. Eastman
ODT
United States
Eastman
Bradley May Lead Invasion Army
General Eisenhower indicated Lieut General Omar Bradley would head the major American ground force in Britain for the forthcoming invasion while Gen. Montgomery would direct British troops. Bradley’s selection seemed likely though the final overall American ground commander had not been settled. Bradley, seasoned in Tunisia and Sicily, had been in Britain weeks and appeared a strong candidate for a unified western invasion command.
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London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Britain
Omar N. Bradley
U. S
United Kingdom
Eisenhower
West
Bradley
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tunisia
Sicily
Scharnhorst
Bay of Biscay
Noa Knows All Soldiers Discover Mystery Reader
A Marine Corps dispatch from the South Pacific notes Noa, a local, settling a dispute among Marines over the Empire State Building height. Noa asserts 1,250 feet, and a check confirms his calculation. He admits he has never been to New York, only a good reader.
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South Pacific
Empire State Building
Noa
New York
Profiteers Adaid Hitler Says Donald Nelson
Donald M. Nelson charged war profiteers and strike fomenters with aiding would be Hitlers by fracturing national unity. He spoke at a dinner honoring the second anniversary of the War Production Board and his chairmanship, hosted by the British American Canadian combined board.
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Washington
OPA Plans Simplified Rules and Listing Changes
Daniel P. Woolley, director of the regional Office of Price Administration, announced that OPA price lists will be clarified and simplified. He proposed large-face prices for commonly bought foods and small-face prices for less popular items, and urged women to report wholesalers overcharging retailers at a Junior League luncheon.
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New York
Daniel P. Woolley
Regional
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Aj Junior League
Inj
Passenger Traffic Hits All-time Peak at Grand Central Terminal
New York UP reports 1943 total passengers reaching 59,929,493 at Grand Central Terminal, up 17.4 percent from 1942. Christmas Eve saw a record 222,005 travelers, surpassing the 209,272 peak set in 1942. Commute riders totaled 32,665,121 and through full fare passengers 27,264,372.
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New York
Grand Central Terminal
J. H. Hastis, Jr
Hustis
Northern Monopoly Power Enslaves South Says Wallace
Wallace told the Southern Governors Conference last night that the federal government must break the monopoly power of the New York money market to achieve economic equality. He urged western and other governors to support national measures to abolish trade barriers and decentralize financial controls.
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Washington LP
Wallace
Southern Governors Conference
New York
A F L Protests Wage Veto Power
The American Federation of Labor executive council met in Miami to protest President Roosevelt against wage veto power held by Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson and War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes. It plans to mobilize its 6 million members to back federal subsidies to curb food prices while noting a price rollback to 1932 levels seems unlikely. President William Green highlighted Vinson's authority to overrule the War Labor Board, impacting both AFL and CIO representations.
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Miami, Fla
American Federation of Labor Executive Council
Roosevelt
Fred M. Vinson
James F. Byrnes
A. F. of L
William Green
Vinson
War Labor Board
Yugoslav Patriots Drive Toward Zagreb
Dispatches from Budapest report Yugoslav patriots pushing within 25 miles of Zagreb, with Partisan columns driving Germans back near Kocevic, thirty miles northeast of Fiume. Ante Pavelic declares emergency in Zagreb as 3,000 arrested to curb civilian flight to Tito camps.
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London
Zagreb
Croatia
Josip Broz
Tito
Kocevic
Fiume
Budapest
Ante Pavelic
Morgenthau Promotes Soviet Eye for an Eye Policy
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau opened the Fourth War Loan Drive with a radio address declaring Russia’s execution of a traitor and three German officers as the answer for war crimes. He cited Kharkov’s recapture and insisted the Axis ringleaders would face justice, while a nationwide broadcast tied to Ike and Nimitz featured a dramatic foxhole scene with Capt. Ronald Reagan and Pvt. Jim Jones.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Kharkov
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
London
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Jim Jones
Ronald Reagan
Jim
Russia
U S Bombers Sink 8 Jap Cargo Ships
Allied communiques report American bombers struck eight Japanese cargo ships from the Marshall Islands to the South China Sea. Navy Catalinas sank a 10 000 ton freighter near Kavieng as battles surged across the area. In New Guinea Saidor air field operations continued with minimal American losses.
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Associated Press
mid-Pacific
Marshall Islands
China Sea
Solomon Islands
Kavieng
New Ireland
Marshalls
South China Sea
Nippon
Douglas MacArthur
Saidor
New Guinea
Monsignor Tiso Retires Amid Slovakia Collaboration
London report via Associated Press says Dr. Jozef Tiso, a priest and Slovak leader aligned with Nazi Germany, retires from the Roman Catholic priesthood citing political activities. A successor is named. Tiso urged German aid during Munich crisis and was decorated by Hitler.
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London
Joseph Tso
Slovakia
Vatican Radio
Associated Press
Tiso
Munich
Hitler
Nazis ban own anthem in Germany amid parodies
German sources report a ban on singing the Horst Wessel song unless special permission is granted for pre arranged assemblies. The measure follows a rise in anti Nazi parodies of the tune. The Wir Fahren Gegen England song is similarly banned.
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Stockholm
Horst Wessel
Germany
England
Pneumatic city trash system to feed incinerator
Morris M. Cohn outlined a postwar model city where homes connect to a network of pneumatic ducts. Waste would be ground up, sucked through airlocks to incinerators providing heat and power, ending use of traditional trash cans and surface collection.
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New York
Morris M. Cohn
Schenectady
Cohn
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Penetrate Deeper In Poland Penetrate Deeper In Poland London
Northern Russian troops push toward the Latvian frontier within seven miles of the Novosokolniki rail junction while far southwest another Red Army thrust nears Rovno. Moscow reports 2,300 enemy killed, 1,206 in reducing five German strongpoints as Germans claim large Russian attacks along a 230 mile front below Leningrad. Soviet forces bypassed Tuchin and, exploiting German panic, seized 300 Hitlerites and captured guns and ammo. Rovno lies inside prewar Poland and is a key railway junction on Berdichev Warsaw and Sarny Lwow lines and near the Kiev Warsaw highway.
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London
Novosokolniki
Red
Rovno
Poland
Moscow
Berlin
Leningrad
Uman
Ukraine
Yarovatka
Smela-Khristinovka
Dnieper
Tuchin
Nikolai F. Vatutin
First Ukraine
Russia
Berdichev
New Shuttle Bomb Route Described
Gen Henry H Arnold said shuttle bombing Germany from Italy to Russia was a probability. At a Poor Richard Club event he linked Althed drive progress in Italy and Soviet advances to plans for planes to take off in Italy and strike targets en route to Russia. British and American air forces previously used shuttle bombing from England to Africa to bypass German fighters.
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Philadelphia
Henry H. Arnold
United States Army Air Forces
Germany
Italy
Russia
Poor Richard Club
Arnold
England
Africa
Halifax Assures Jews of Friendship Across Nations
Washington PI A request that Great Britain abrogate its 1939 white paper on Palestine was hand delivered to Lord Halifax by the American Jewish Committee. Halifax replied that Britain's historic friendship for the Jewish people remains a fact and said Britain now pursues defeat of those cruel to the Jewish race.
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Washington
Great Stain
Palestine
Lord Halifax
Westernay
American Jewish Committee
Halifax
Joseph M Proskauer
Great Britain
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