Argentina Near Break With Axis Rumors Stir World News
Reports from reliable quarters say Argentina may sever relations with the Axis though President Pedro Ramirez limited his radio address to the San Juan earthquake and domestic communists. Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert hinted at a final step to end espionage, while Buenos Aires police inquiry cites espionage corroborated by British sources.
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Montevideo
Argentina
Axis
Pedro Ramirez
San Juan
Chile
Alberto Gilbert
Buenos Aires
Germany
Gilbert
Trinidad
House approves 1.35 billion UNRRA relief fund
Washington passage overruns GOP objections to fund a world relief kitty for war damaged areas. The bill totals 1.35 billion dollars and expands aid to India, sending it to the Senate after broad support and approval of the UNRRA agreement at Atlantic City.
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Washington
House
United States
Senate
Cordell Hull
India
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Atlantic City
Congress
UNRRA
United Nations
No Whisky for A While WPB Says
Washington reports the War Production Board will not resume whisky production for the duration of the war. WPB Chairman Donald M Nelson presented an exhaustive alcohol supplies study to a full board meeting, showing a continuing deficiency even for war and essential uses. The board decided the public should receive a comprehensive report amid liquor shortages and calls for periodic shut downs of beverage distillers.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Welson
Church Groups Plan Social Action Program
Delegates of the Congregational Christian Churches moved to mobilize their 1,000,000 members in a social action program. The plan targets the pall tax and racial discrimination, aids war-devastated nations, and counters isolationism.
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Cleveland UP
Congregational Christian Churches
Weapons Output Peaks as War Production Board Reports
Washington reports December war production roughly matching November with no 1944 increase. Navy shipbuilding remains high with 1943 totals leading to future plans for 1944, while December shows mixed results across munitions programs. Aircraft tonnage rises 5 percent and heavier planes receive growing emphasis amid shifts in ships and electronics.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
WPB
Nelson
New Army Funds Saving Reported in $14 Billion Add-on
Washington report says a new $14.214 billion appropriation lift plus a total of $27.378 billion expected to be returned to the Budget Bureau reserve. Rep Snyder notes about $71 billion appropriated for the year will see unobligated funds by next June 30 due to price cuts, reduced requirements and personnel cuts.
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Washington UP
War Department
Budget Bureau
House
Representative Snyder
D-Pa
Appropriations
Gideons Defend Foreword Charge In Florida Meeting
The Gideons International denounced Rep Calvin D Johnsons claim that the White House pushed a fourth term through a Roosevelt foreword in overseas Bibles. The group, at its winter convention in Jacksonville, noted World War I forewords by President Wilson and called the charge unfair and untrue.
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Gideons
Jacksonville
Fla. GP
Gideons International
Calvin D. Johnson
RIL
White House
Roosevelt
Gideons Cabinet
Wilson
Grand Jury Indicts Briggs As Forger Of Hopkins Letter
A federal grand jury indicted George N. Briggs, aide to Interior Secretary Ickes, on forgery, false pretense, and mail fraud charges over the Hopkins letter. He allegedly forged Harry Hopkins's signature and helped in an anti Willkie book publication. Bail set at 3000 dollars. conviction could bring 53 years and fines up to 8000.
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Washington
George N. Briggs
Ickes
Hopkins
White House
Wendell Willkie
Briggs
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Clare Briggs
Feller
Olives
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Willkie
WLB Issues First Subpoena For Union Leader
The War Labor Board ordered Woodruff Randolph of Indianapolis, secretary treasurer of the Typographical Union, to testify at a public hearing on a possible no strike pledge violation. Wayne Morse said this is the first subpoena of a labor leader since the Labor Disputes Act.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Woodruff Randolph
Indianapolis
Randolph
Wayne L. Morse
WLE
Butter and Meat Outlook From OPA February Supply Aprrox
Washington February meat supplies are leaner and point values will rise amid smaller stock and higher Army demand. Butter will increase but not enough to cut 16 point per pound meat value. Bowles warned higher meat values likely through spring with occasional fluctuations. Fuel oil remains strained. civilians face shortages if consumption does not fall. Sugar supplies stay tight with no near easing.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
OPA
Bowles
Army
Navy
Black Market Coupon Theft Tied to 20 Million Gallons Loss
OPA officials traced a major theft of ration coupons valued at 20 million gallons of gasoline and fuel oil. Four men arrested. Penn Paper and Stock Co. shredded coupons later sent to Glatfelter Paper Co. in 1943, with 5.7 thousand pounds seized in December. OPA rebutted claims of severe east coast shortages, noting the quota far exceeds stolen value.
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OPA
Price
Chester Bowles
National
District of Columbia
Penn Paper and Stock Co
Washington
Penn
Glatfelter Paper ‘Go
Spring Grove
General MacArthur Turns 64 In New Guinea Return
General Douglas MacArthur marks his 64th birthday at Advanced Allied Headquarters in New Guinea. He shows no halt in his routine, greeting Lieut. Gen. Robert Wichelberger and Papuan campaign veterans, while Australian officials extend congratulations amid his enduring popularity in Australia. Australia Day coincides with his birthday observance.
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New Guinea
Japan
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Robert Wichelberger
MacArthur
Australia
Commonwealth
Food Stamp Plan Termed a Snare and Delusion
Donald Montgomery of the United Automobile Workers union testified before a Senate agriculture subcommittee against a proposed food stamp plan. He called it a snare for low income families and argued Congress will not fund sufficient food subsidies. He accused backers of aiming to destroy the administration's subsidy program.
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Washington
Auction nets $17,000 for nylon stockings at dinner
Two pairs of nylons auctioned at a Hollywood bond battalion dinner on Elmira’s 317,000 street raised $17,000 for the Fourth War Loan drive. The event featured a sale of nylon stockings to support war bonds.
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Hollywood Bond Battalion
Allies Bombard French Coast In Persistent Allied Offensive
The Allied campaign to flatten enemy coastal installations in France continued with Britain based bombers and fighters criss crossing the Channel from dawn to dusk for the third straight day and the fifteenth time this month. American Thunderbolts attacked airfields at Gilzerijen and Leeuwarden in Holland for the second time in three days, and swept over the Zuider Zee area without loss. No fighter opposition was encountered over Holland.
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London
France
Britain
Channel
Thunderbolts
Gilzerijen
Holland
Leeuwarden
Zuider Zee
Bombers Hit Wotje Atoll in Twilight Raid
U S Army Air Force bombers dropped 50 tons of bombs on Wotje Atoll Marshall Islands in a January 23 twilight raid. The attack continued a multiday campaign on the Japanese base. No fighter opposition was reported and results were not disclosed.
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Marshalls
U. S
Washington Pi
Wotje Atoll
Marshall Islands
Navy
Ith Army Air Force
Allied Patrols Reach Cassino as German Stand Threatened
Allied Fifth Army patrols reportedly entered Cassino suggesting a potential German withdrawal from the southern Italian front. Rome area pressure pushed Kesselring to shift units from Cassino to guard supply routes from the capital. Velletri near the Appian Way reportedly bombed and in ruins as American forces advance toward Nettuno.
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Fifth Army
Cassino
Italy
Rome
Albert Kesselring
Cowd
London Radio
C. B
Velletri
Appian Way
Nazis Sink Hospital Ship in Anzio Bay
CBS correspondent John Daly reported from Allied advance headquarters in Italy that three hospital ships in Anzio Bay were bombed by German planes and one was sunk. Daly said a destroyer off the beach intercepted a message identifying the sunken vessel as the hospital ship St. David.
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New York
CBS
John Daly
Italy
Anzio Bay
Daly
Leinster
St. David
Australian Red Cross Rejects US Bride Information Request
The Australian Red Cross declined an American Red Cross request for data on the families and backgrounds of Australian girls seeking to marry American soldiers. They cited no reciprocal means and that such inquiries are outside its charter. US Red Cross said it would continue interviews to dissuade marriages deemed inadvisable.
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Melbourne
Australia
Red Cross Today
American Red Cross
Reds Oust Nazis From 3 Sectors
Soviet reports say Russian forces crossed into Krasnogvardeisk and nearby areas as they push the Germans from a 50 mile front along the Moscow Leningrad trunk line. The advance, aided by air and artillery, left a captured railway train and destroyed stations, with 1,000 German deaths noted.
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London
Krasnogvardeisk
Leningrad
Moscow
Moscow-Leningrad
Volkhov
Kynli A. Meretskov
Krasnozvardeisk
Leonid A. Govorov
Estonia
Latvia
Vladimirskaya
Tosno
Chernovo
Red Army
Leningrad - Moscow
Volkhove
Dewey Seen Willing to Run for President Says Sources
Albany reports a growing belief that Governor Thomas E. Dewey would accept the GOP nomination if offered. The opinion rests on chatter about an off the record interview with three prominent national newspaper writers and a broader simmering political mood in New York.
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Albany
Charles Dickens
Barkis
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Buffalo
Boston
Baltimore
Chicago
Agreement On Tax Plan Seen Likely
The Senate and House conferees approved a plan to raise roughly 2.28 billion dollars via a 3 percent levy on income over 624 dollars a year and abolish the earned income credit and most federal tax deductions. The July 1 family status rule and other provisions aim to simplify the tax code while addressing penalties for underestimates.
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Washington
Senate
House
George
D.-Ga
Commission
Canine Depression Linked to Ennui Says St Elizabeth Doctors
Psychiatrists from St Elizabeth's Hospital report dogs may commit death by own action due to boredom or loss of purpose. They note pampered pets suffer ennui, while cast-away dogs facing life on streets more frequently resort to drowning or starvation, with dogs watching water before the fatal plunge and showing little response to salvation.
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Fido
Southerners Shy at Soldier Ballot in Congress
Washington senators faced resistance from Southern Democrats over a federal uniform absentee ballot for armed forces voters. Senator Lucas vows to block floor changes while Eastland pushes a state rights amendment to require home state voting rules, risking the entire federal ballot plan.
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Washington
Administration
Lucas
Ill
Senate
Uniform
Eastland
Miss
Dixie Democrats
Congress
United States
Democrats Back Rayburn on Ticket
Washington D C. A "Rayburn for Vice President" movement gathers in the House as Southern Democrats push for Rayburn's ticket with governors and senators backing it. Senator Idank signals no pick yet while most southern Democrats delay to avoid harming Texas efforts.
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Wash
Nrton
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