Russell Rules Investigation by Sulpoena Voided
Supreme Court Justice Pierce H. Russell of Troy voided a subpoena seeking state comptroller Frank C. Moore's grand jury testimony on legislature expenditures since 1935. He sustained a subpoena for retired Assembly secretary A. H. Boyden, while ruling that challenging grand jury composition cannot be used to halt a probe. PROBE INVALID.
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Troy
John T. Delaney
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Frank C. Moore
New York State
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Secret US Weapons Claimed To Shorten War
Rear Admiral Blandy announced to reporters that new secret weapons used by the United States Navy have been in operation for months and are highly effective. He compared them to German devices and said secrecy is maintained because enemy exposure would risk imitation, noting he will depart for active sea duty in December.
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Washington
United States Navy
W. H. P. Blandy
Ordnance Bureau
Blandy
Churchill to Spend Birthday Working
Prime Minister Churchill turns 69 today and will spend his birthday working as usual at No 10 Downing Street. Axis radio claimed he was in Cairo for a tri power meeting. No public celebration in London was planned. last year he addressed the nation on the eve of his birthday.
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London
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Downing Street
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Cairo
Army Nurses Aboard Missing Transport Flight
The War Department said 18 Army nurses and 12 soldiers traveling from North Africa to Italy are missing since November 8. Allied HQ at Algiers reported the plane overshot its destination in bad weather and faint radio contact was received while likely over the Adriatic Sea.
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Washington
Surrender of Nazis May Be Demanded
A UPA predicted declaration by Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin could call for Germany and its satellites to surrender. Reports from abroad note the big three may issue peace principles stronger than the Atlantic Charter. Possible attendance by Chiang Kai-shek and Eduard Beneš is mentioned. Moscow and Berlin broadcasters debate conference significance.
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Eduard Benes
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Sailors Balk At Medical Exam Rule
The War Shipping Administration said Seafarers' International Union and Sailors Union of the Pacific refused to comply with a new medical examination rule. Capt Edward Macauley said the program aims to protect seamen and troops from contagious diseases, despite unions’ objections about displacing older sailors.
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Washington VP
War Shipping Administration
Explosion at Western Electric injures 50 in New York
An early morning blast at the Western Electric Co building 395 Hudson Street in Manhattan injured about fifty people. A catastrophe unit and twenty doctors and twenty nurses were dispatched. Fire and police units battled to reach basement victims as flying debris and shattered windows affected a wide area.
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New York
Hudson Street
New Jersey
Morgenthau Spurred Sales Tax Debate in Washington
The administration pressed for 10.5 billion in new taxes while opposing a federal sales tax. Secretary Morgenthau argued wartime income justifies higher levies, but House Republicans cut the bill to 2.14 billion and signaled little chance for broader tax hikes. He warned taxation during war is a necessary sacrifice, then cautioned against a sales tax.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Senate Finance Committee
House
Congress
George Uw
Treasury
Penetrate Defenses On Sangro
Allied forces under Montgomery press deep along the Sangro River as Eighth Army gains ground near Archi and the coast. German counterattacks, heavy artillery, and air bombardment persist, with tanks and flame throwers seen in action. Rome road defense works monitored, while operations continue east of Rome.
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Bernard L. Montgomery
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Mignano
Cassino
Tom Harmon Safe Again In China
Lieut Tommy Harmon, former Michigan football star, was reported safe after going missing during a dive bombing attack on Kiukiang on October 30. Previously, he survived a bomber’s crash in French Guiana, credited his athletic training for aiding survival, and was guided by natives to safety.
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Tommy Harmon
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Kiukiang
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French Guiana
Russians Encourage Private Enterprise In Restoring Kiev
Soviet authorities seek private shops and small restaurants in Kiev as part of rebuilding after two years of German occupation. Kiev residents borrow money from a central bank to start ventures with no interest, while wages are advanced with no charge. Utilities are scarce with water mains and heating failing. residents fetch water from manholes and the river. Much of the city lies in ruins, especially Shevchenko and Lavra areas, with monasteries and churches damaged by fiery destruction during occupation.
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Shevochenko Boulevard
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Aussies Close In on Bonga in New Guinea Fight
Australian infantrymen supported by waves of B25s and their own tanks press toward the Bonga jungle position northeast of Sattelberg New Guinea. Sattelberg sits five miles northwest of Finschhafen airfield, captured by Allies Friday. A MacArthur spokesman said Pine Hill is taken but a bulge remains on the coastal trail. Bonga assault aims to clear that bulge.
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Sattelberg
New Guinea
Finschhafen
Douglas MacArthur
Pine Hill
Germans Riot London Broadcast Claims City Riots
A Cairo radio report aired yesterday via broadcast recorded by the Associated Press says riots occurred in bomb-damaged Duesseldorf Cologne Hanover and Hamburg in which many people were killed as U S troops fired on crowds.
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Hamburg
Bremen Bombed In Sub Zero Weather
London reports Allied air offensive against Hitler's Europe continued with daylight raids on Bremen and other targets. United States heavy bombers and fighters suffered losses while claiming 85 Nazi aircraft shot down. RAF and bomber escorts pressed the campaign, striking airfields and shipping from Belgium to northern Germany amid severe winter conditions.
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Calais
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Brest
Ing. Low
T. Center
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Chinese Rout Divisions Driven From Changteh Front
The Chinese high command said two Japanese divisions about 30 000 men were routed southwest and northwest of Changteh after a three day battle and are in full retreat. Chinese forces pursued fleeing units eastward while repelling another Japanese column near Changteh. The battered city endured heavy bombardment with incendiaries and gas shells as battles raged.
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Chungking
Changteh
Changsha
Yuan River
Nazi Vandalism Wrecks Churches and Monuments
Soviet-era sites suffer extensive damage as German forces loot statues and marble from churches and public buildings. Saint Saviours Church looted. many statues destroyed. Lenin and Stalin statues removed. St Sophia spared to minor harm. Soviet House of Ukraine stripped of marble radiators ceilings and door handles.
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St. Sophia
Lenin
Stalin
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Ukraine
Peace rumors and Hull warn of propaganda
Secretary of State Hull dismissed a wave of peace rumors aimed at undermining Allied resolve. He warned Nazi propagandists seek to erode confidence and trigger peace talks, citing a Stockholm dispatch about a Swiss paper claiming Germany proposed peace with Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin.
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la Suisse
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Soviet Push Near Bobruisk and Zhlobin Intensifies War
Soviet forces piercing toward Zhlobin and Bobruisk on the Gomel Minsk corridor seized dozens of villages amid a westward push. Rokossovsky’s spearhead neared 25 miles from Bobruisk while eight hundred Nazis fell in heavy fighting. Farther south, Red armies struck between Kiev and Kremenchug, destroying German tanks and killing about 1,500 troops near the Dnieper bend.
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Gomel
Constantine Rokossovsky
Bobruisk
Gomel-Minsk
Moscow
White Russia
Dnieper
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Kiev
Kremenchug
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Chernyakhov
Brussloy
Red Army
Subsidies Or Inflation, Says Ellender
Senator Ellender argues to Senate that removing the 3900,000.WK-a-year subsidy would trigger inflation and surge prices. He warns a repeal would lift retail food prices by seven percent and raise overall costs, impacting workers, pensioners, and war expenses.
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Washington LLP
Senate
Ellender
D-La
Britons Seek New World After War Says Labour MP
British Labour MP James Griffiths told New York reporters that Britons are determined not to return to the prewar life. He said the old order is remote from the war and that Britons hope for social security and a new social compact.
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