Vital Metal Mines in Norway Blasted by Flying Forts
Large formations of American heavy bombers crossed the North Sea in heavy snow to strike Germanys essential metal supply, hitting a molybdenum mine at Knaben Norway and a power station at Rijukan near Oslo. The raid followed a Fifteenth Air Force attack near Athens. Fortresses bombed Dueren earlier, part of continued blows at German metal production.
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North Sea
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Norway
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Oslo
Fifteenth Air Force
Athens
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Trondheim
Heroya
Kristiansund
Ministry, of Information
Dueren
Cologne
Algiers
U S Share Of Relief Bill Is Largest
Atlantic City N J The United States will be asked to contribute 1 500 000 000 as its share of the 2 500 000 000 United Nations relief and rehabilitation program UNRRA spokesman said last night Other member nations would be asked for 320 000 000 for the United Kingdom 90 000 000 for Canada 340 000 000 for Australia 8 000 000 for New Zealand 12 000 000 for South Africa 25 000 000 for India and 495 000 000 for Latin American countries and Egypt The figures based on preliminary work by committees indicate wartime controls of food raw materials and transport may remain in effect for 18 months to two years while UNRRA rehabilitates areas freed from enemy domination.
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Tension In Lebanon Is Relaxed
London reports predicted immediate French action to ease Middle East tensions over Lebanon. Gen Georges Catroux arrived in Beirut with powers to settle disturbances after arrests of Lebanon's president premier and legislators seeking independence. Cairo says Lebanon remains quiet but tense as France hints at restoring sovereignty through negotiation.
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Middle East
Lebanon
Georges Catroux
de Gawle Committee
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Catroux
United States
Britain
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
French Consultative Assembly
Syria
Jean Helieu
Helley
Cairo
De Gaulle vows Lebanon policy upheld amid tensions
General Charles De Gaulle told a special session that the Lebanon incident is moving toward settlement with France preserving Arab world ties and Allied relations. He said Lebanon's future freedom will come under an international agreement and a League mandate France cannot renounce unilaterally, and rejected Premier el Sahi's push for an independent Lebanon as provocative and destabilizing.
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Algiers
Charles Deaulig
French Consultative Assembly
Lebanon
France
de Gaulle
Middle East
League of Nations
Riad el Sahi
Buffalo Woman Fatally Burned in Oven Gas Fire
Buffalo resident Emma Cranmer, 45, died yesterday after her dress caught fire from the gas flame of an open oven. Police Lieutenant Lawrence F. B. Doherty reported the accident.
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Emma Cranmer
Lawrence FB. Doherty
MacArthur Still Needs Men Supplies in Southwest Pacific
Southwest Pacific headquarters says the area has less than five percent of American military resources and receives under ten percent of overseas shipments. Col. Lagrande Diller notes air resources are slightly lower, but adds troops, equipment, and efforts are being optimized amid ongoing operations. Admiral Young’s remarks on supply obstacles are acknowledged but not elaborated.
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Douglas MacArthur
America
Lagrande Diller
William Brent Young
Admiral Young
U. S. Navy Bureau of Supplies
London
Diller
Allies Sink Large Jap Cargo Ship
General MacArthur announced Allied planes bombed two large Japanese cargo ships. One, a 3,000 ton ship, was sunk at Rabaul. another 9,000 ton merchantman was beached after bomb damage near New Britain and another large merchant ship damaged off New Britain near New Ireland. Japanese planes raided Allied airfields in the Ramu valley, with twenty planes shot down on the northeastern New Guinea front.
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Allied Headquarters
MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
New Ireland
New Guinea
Ramu
Senate probes liquor hoarding by distillers
Senate approve a $10,000 investigation by a judiciary subcommittee into alleged hoarding of liquor by large distilling interests. Van Nuys said the move aims to curb monopolies and stop bootlegging while ensuring tax revenue from whisky held in government storage ahead of Christmas.
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Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee
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Plasma Does It War Wounds Seldom Fatal
The Office of War Information reports in a comprehensive survey that modern wounds have a high survival rate due to plasma transfusions and sulfa drugs. Improved care moves dressing stations closer to front lines and reduces deaths from 1917 18 levels. Army Navy Marine Corps and Navy records show lower death per wounded ratios and faster treatment. Between 50 and 60 per cent of war casualties.
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Washington
Office of War Information
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Navy
OWI
Theavy
Marine Corps
Hull and Moscow Agree War Delays Baltic State Boundaries
Secretary Hull told reporters after returning from Moscow that Europe’s territorial disputes will wait until the war’s end. He said only a complete settlement could resolve thirty or forty such issues, and that Baltic states Estonia Latvia Lithuania and Finland status would not be finalized before hostilities conclude. He noted the delay aligns with British and American declarations from the past two years.
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Europe
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Moscow
Baltic
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Finland
Soviet tribute to Hull marks tenth anniversary of ties
Tzvestia lauds U.S. and Britain for wartime aid and credits Cordell Hull with a large role in U S Soviet collaboration. The front page editorial notes Moscow conference decisions and says Soviet American relations have solidified and widened to aid postwar cooperation against Hitlerite Germany and allies.
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Lzvestia
U. S
Cordell Hull
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Britain
Germany
Hull
Appeal to Nazi Masses Proposed by Allied Leaders
Unofficial reports suggest tri power leaders may urge the German people to scrap the Nazi regime and end the war without further bloodshed. The idea aligns with Soviet policy to separate the masses from their leaders and with efforts to withdraw Italy from combat, while conditional surrender remains non negotiable. A Roosevelt Churchill Stalin summit, possibly by year’s end, was also under discussion.
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Stalin
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Vichy
President's Son Cited for Bravery in Sicily Raid
Lieut. Franklin D Roosevelt Jr the President's third son received the Silver Star and Purple Heart after actions aboard the destroyer Magrant during repeated enemy air attacks in the Sicilian campaign. He earned the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in a raid on Palermo on August 1 as part of 24 awards to 22 officers and men.
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Algiers
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
H. Kent Hewitt
Sicilian
Roosevelt
Palermo
House Passes 15 Percent Increase for Disabled Veterans
The House approved the bill 341 to 0 to raise monthly compensation for disabled veterans and monthly payments to widows and children. The measure adds a flat 15 percent increase over current rates for service-connected disabilities for veterans of the present war and World War I.
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House
Senate
Dewey Predicts Postwar Nation of Strong States
Governor Thomas BK. Dewey said postwar policy should empower private enterprise to drive peace-time production with wartime energy. He urged less reliance on the national government, predicting strong states will endure debt, with 130 million people able to produce and consume if production and consumption channels stay free.
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New York
Thomas BK. Dewey
New York Herald Tribune
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Dewey
Ireland Neutral But Grateful to America
Dublin Prime Minister Eamon De Valera told the Dail Ireland would remain neutral to the end while expressing gratitude to the United States for past generosity. He criticized James Dillon for suggesting Ireland should aid the United Nations and accused him of implying ungratefulness.
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Dublin
Quisling Steps Up Security in Stockholm Report
Stockholm newspaper reports Vidkun Quisling fears assassination and orders daily searches of his servants and chauffeurs. The Swedish paper Stockholms Tidningen relayed the story to the Office of War Information last night.
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New York
Vidkun Quisling
Stockholms Tidningen
Office of War Information
Price subsidies debate heightens milk and meat costs
Price Administrator Chester Bowles warned that abolition of subsidies would raise milk by a cent a quart, cheese by three cents a pound, butter by four and a half cents, and meats by two to six cents per pound. He urged continued subsidies as Congress weighed anti subsidy bills and a price roll back plan, arguing $1.5 billion yearly is needed and subsidies have saved $15 billion in higher costs.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Bowles
War Labor Board
Tf Congress
Marines Widen Bougainville Beachhead
Allied forces on Bougainville pushed around the village of Piva after a Saturday clash with well prepared Japanese positions. Casualties were reported on both sides, with Marines defending at dusk and calling for air support. The next morning Avengers bombed at 1000 feet, hailed as effective, as west flank operations and an Army patrol yielded light casualties against a machine gun post near the Larama River. Sunday air sorties surpassed a hundred, led by Dauntless Avengers and Corsairs in a major strike on Ballale airfield in the Shortlands.
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Bougainville
Larama River
Dauntless Avengers
Corsais
Ballale
Shortland Islands
Dairymen's League Urges End to Subsidies Policy
The Dairymen's League board of directors urged elimination of subsidies yesterday and backed a seven point national food policy. President Fred H. Sexauer of Auburn said the policy should be known, nonpolitical, and non social and developed by governmental agencies with farm organizations to create a basis for sound farm operations.
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Albany
Dairymen's League Board of Directors
Fred H. Sexauer
Auburn
John Kapps Dies, Noted Local Politician and Official
John A R Kapps longtime Fourteenth Ward Alderman and Emma Willard School buildings superintendent died at his home 2217 Fifteenth Street after a week of illness. A native of Albany he moved to Troy 31 years ago joining W L Gurley before becoming Emma Willard superintendent of paintings. He served as a Republican and first won office in 1913 taking oath January 1. He planned retirement in April 1938.
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Church Council Praises Moscow Declarations
New York United Press report says John Foster Dulles, chairing the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace for the Federal Council of Churches, calls the Moscow declarations a notable step toward world order and a great development from the Atlantic Charter. He notes cooperative efforts with Britain, Russia, and China and stresses the need to turn words into functioning institutions guided by Christian fellowship.
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John Foster Dulles
Commission On A
Federal Council of Churches
Moscow
United States
Dulles
Great Britain
Russia
China
Gas Still a Threat General Waitt Warns
General Alden H Waitt of the Army Chemical Warfare Service, returning from European and African theaters, warned New York officers that gas remains a threat of terrifying potentialities in this war.
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New York uPi
Alden H. Waitt
Army Chemical Warfare Service
New York
Chemical Warfare Procurement District
Hull Traveled Calmly on Secret Moscow Flight
Nashville based UPI report quotes crewman describing Cordell Hull's 17 day Moscow mission aboard a four engine transport. Hull remained healthy while doctors worked ashore. he read studied papers and slept as Russian weather shifted from sun to snow and rain. A Russian operator guided the final leg into Moscow.
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Nashville
Tenn
UPI
Cordell Hull
Moscow
Joseph Davies
Hull
Nazi Supply Lines Out Near Kerosten As Soviets Close In
Moscow reported that Vatutin’s Ukrainian army pressed toward the key Kerosten railway junction now within artillery range from three directions. A southward column neared Zhitomir and reached Turchenka, while forces from the southeast reached Chepovichi and Obikhodi within 15 to 17 miles of Korosten and Odessa. German rail links east and north of the junction were rendered nearly useless. The drive near Korosten netted 60 towns, over 1,000 German deaths, and tank losses. fighting in Fastov and Zhitomir sectors produced heavy losses, with soviet air power destroying dozens of tanks and hundreds of trucks. The campaign stretched toward Kalinkovichi as recon solidified links with Rechitsa.
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London
Nikolai Vatuetin
Kerosten
Moscow
Zhitomir
Turchenka
Chepovichi
Obikhodi
Korostea
Gomel
Dnieper
Horosten
Korosten- Zhitomir
Fastov
Korosten
Rechitsa
Kalinkovichi
That Man Is Back Again With the Dough
Canadian philanthropist Harry F. McLean of Merrickville Ont visited Toronto’s Christie Street Military Hospital with two friends distributing over 35,000 in $100 and $200 bills to ped ridden patients on the third floor and in the west wing. He noted he had only 11 cents left before leaving. Earlier this month he gave away more than 45,000.
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Toronto
Harry F. McLean
Merrickville
Ont
Christie Street Miliary Hospital
Gripsholm Sails For New York
The Gripsholm, a Swedish repatriation ship, sailed for New York carrying 1,502 Americans and other Western Hemisphere nationals from Japanese interment camps. It arrived Monday, having spent eight to 21 months in camps.
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Gripsholm
New York
Americas
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