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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
1
Argentina severed diplomatic relations with Germany and Japan over an extensive espionage ring tied directly to German and Japanese diplomats. President Ramirez announced the decree on national radio, noting no excuses for actions against national sovereignty.
Secretary Hull praised Argentina for breaking diplomatic ties with the Axis and suggested further measures are required to reorient Argentina's stance. He implied Argentina may act for continental security, noting its past Axis ties and lack of trade restrictions. Hull did not rule out a shift on recognizing Bolivia's revolutionary regime.
In Montevideo Uruguay the arrival of Argentina in the camp of nations cutting ties with the Axis was welcomed but skepticism persisted about a genuine shift in Ramirez regime policy. The rupture was seen as a late bid to placate the hemisphere and avert potential reprisals following Argentina’s divergence from other American nations on foreign policy.
Ezio Pinza, basso of the Metropolitan Opera Association, turned his two Dalmatian dogs Boris and Figaro over to Dogs for Defense yesterday, along with an album of his recordings. He said the dogs are used to hearing him sing at home and will calm with his records if they get lonesome.
Allied forces push across the Rapido River near Cassino establishing a firm west bank bridgehead and advancing through minefields under heavy German artillery and mortar fire. Nazi commanders shift units north to oppose the new thrust as Cassino appears largely abandoned by German forces.
Maritime Commission ship-building chief Emory Land testified to Congress on a 6.776 billion merchant ship fund, warning peace in the Pacific hinges on denying Japan sea-going merchant marines. He urged keeping restrictive controls to prevent conversion to combat ships, and said postwar Japan should be limited to coastal shipping.
Dr Leopold Braddy of the City Corporation Council testified at a Moreland Act inquiry that some New York City doctors deliberately overtreated workers to bill higher sums. He warned patients were kept in treatment unnecessarily, risking neurosis and higher costs. The AF of L proposed removing privately employed physicians from compensation examinations and urged a labor department physician conduct medical reviews instead.
The American Federation of Labor executive council urged Congress to create a reconstruction commission with full authority over policies for all agencies involved. Employers labor and agriculture would be represented, with a presidentially chosen chairman. ALCO announced a $10,000 Carnegie Foundation grant to fund an industry labor agriculture conference on reconstruction, to be held in New York within days.
The Dies committee will investigate the C S C Political Action Committee soon. Chairman Dies disclosed after House approved an extra 75 000 for committee expenses. Created May 1938 to probe alleged un America activities the panel will also examine Peace Now in the 1944 program. House funding now reaches 652 500 since 1938.
German forces, who repelled the first American Rapido bridgehead before being driven back, captured a U S carrier pigeon among their prisoners. Two days after the loss the exhausted bird returned home bearing a message: Herewith your message pigeon is returned. We have plenty to eat. Some German Troops.
An American patrol entered the town but was driven back from key elevated positions that commanded the streets. The defenders held strong from the heights, forcing the retreat as fighting raged around the stronghold.
Allied torpedo planes from New Guinea wreck five Japanese cargo ships at Rabaul on Monday and seriously damaged two more that had to be beached. The raids followed Sunday strikes on the New Britain fortress, with 2% of sixty fighters shot down and possibly two more downed, while light Allied losses were reported. Through three days, more than ninety Nipponese aircraft were shot down. Japanese losses this month reportedly exceed 350 when including planes destroyed on ground and damaged.
Soviet forces report capturing Krasnogvard ei sk a key railway hub near Leningrad and advancing about five miles, with over 40,000 German deaths in 14 days of a northern front offensive. Advances extend toward Vitebsk as Germans withdraw along Moscow Leningrad routes. The operation includes heavy night attacks and street fighting, with numerous German troops killed and supplies seized.
Officials of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said they received an anonymous telephone call about the poison killings of many pigeons. The caller vowed more birds would be eliminated. The A. S. P. C. A. said tracing the call was futile as four more pigeons died yesterday.
The Soviet government declined the United States offer to use good offices to reconcile Moscow with the Polish government in exile in London. Hull announced the reply, written in a friendly tone, while Russia criticized the Polish government. The note avoided proposing mediation on the Russia Poland boundary dispute.
Army reports detail rockets disintegrating enemy positions at Arawe Cape Gloucester and Saidor. Rockets fired from landing craft blasted brush near beaches, smashed gun positions, and aided Marines in close combat. In Saidor rockets over Higgins boats forced troops to crawl, while on land rockets destroyed caves and pillboxes. One Arawe shot killed six Japanese in a cave.
London reports Britain's Foreign Secretary Eden reaffirmed policy of not recognizing wartime territorial changes without free consent and goodwill of parties involved. The stance was seen as an invitation to a friendly settlement of the Russian Polish dispute, though little hope existed for such a solution.
The Navy's Mars, the largest operating airplane, completed its first Pacific round trip from Honolulu to Alameda California, covering almost 2400 miles in 12 hours 17 minutes. Among eight passengers was former heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. The flight carried 20,000 pounds of mail, a potential cargo value of $128,000 at postal rates.
A Polish underground radio station in New York City said yesterday that a Nazi evacuation of Warsaw is underway. It claimed German engineers technicians politicians were taking with them whole factories machinery administrative staffs and workers.
A Soviet special commission and UPI report say 11,000 Polish war prisoners were executed by Germans in 1941 at Smolensk Katyn, not by the Russians in 1940 as Berlin claimed. Evidence shown includes documents on Polish bodies, a June 1941 postcard, and staged Red Army digging squads.
Dr Prozorovsky of the Moscow Institute of Criminal Medical Research notes bodies found in graves likely confined for about two years with soil disturbance evident despite winter conditions. American and British correspondents Kathleen Harriman and John Melby accompanied the embassy party at the Katyn graves.
President Roosevelt pressed Congress for a federal ballot for the Armed Forces as a rival state plan drew charges of fraud. Senator Taft denounced the message as a direct bid for a fourth term while Senator Lucas defended the move as protecting servicemen and their families.
Congress approved a $3 billion mustering-out pay bill for veterans with payments ranging from $100 to $300 for those with overseas service. It excludes those over 38 seeking civilian jobs and those dishonorably discharged. About 70,000 discharges occur monthly and $250 million may be needed for immediate cases.
Government sources say more motor vehicles will be released for civilians and no potato shortage this spring. The Army will release about 20 000 vehicles with many reaching the civilian market. Potato stocks on January 1 totaled 138 million bushels, about 38 percent higher than last year. The Office of Price Administration eased rules on high priced linen garments, restoring access to lower price lines.
London reports that thirty one thousand tons of bombs, an all time monthly record, have been dropped on Hitler's Europe so far this month. Allied Air Forces in Britain account for twenty thousand tons while Mediterranean theater planes dropped nine thousand on Italy and more than two thousand elsewhere in Europe, mostly the Balkans.
An attractive young woman sought translation at the International Institute to decipher a foreign phrase in her boyfriend’s letter from Hawaii. Irma Wagner examined the line evol dna sessik and advised reading it backwards to reveal the message.
German forces reportedly seized Tuzla in eastern Bosnia to guard the Trans national railway. Tito's partisan communique claims over 500 Germans killed in street fighting. Yugoslavs report advances in western Bosnia and the Dalmatian coast amid heavy combat and high casualty figures.
War Production Board announces no new whisky distillation this year. WPB chairman Donald M. Nelson states war demand will absorb full distilling plant output.
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