Allies Hunt Reds Could Bring Early End to War
Washington reports a major Allied belief that a Russian offensive on Germany could end the war sooner. Soviet drives in Hungary and toward Warsaw are seen as crucial, with Antwerp supplying the Western front and Churchill’s forecast tied to eastern front momentum.
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Europe
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Hungary
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Belgium
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Roosevelt to Wed Screen Actress Faye Emerson
Elliott Roosevelt 34 and actress Faye Emerson 27 plan a weekend marriage in Beaumont Texas according to family sources after meeting in Hollywood and prior marriage histories are noted. Emerson a film actress since 1941 has a son and Roosevelt recently became a colonel in the Army Air Forces.
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Cal
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye | Emerson
Taver
Miss Emerson
Jean Young
San Diego
Beaumont
Tex
Hoilghood
William Wallace Crawford, Jr
Willam “Wallace Crawford
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Elzabeth Donner Roosevelt
Minden
New
Hite Bey
Ruth Goggins
Fort Worth
Army Air Forces
Allied Photographic Service
Africa
Sicily
Churchill to mark birthday by working as wartime leader
London reports say Prime Minister Churchill will observe his tenth wartime birthday by working, as in past years, with a private family dinner planned at Downing Street. Public tributes in London will be limited to a hall event to raise funds for twelve war charities.
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London
Churchill
Downing Street
Ncle
Charcoil
Sixth War Loan Scoreboard Shines for Schenectady State Lead
Sixth War Loan Scoreboard reports Schenectady County leading the state in a percentage of quota for Series E bonds. County percentages follow with Albany, US Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington, and Columbia listed in the county-by-county tally amid wartime prosperity.
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Schenectady
Albany
Renswesser
Saratoga
Washington
Conmbis
Arnold Says B-29 Raids Start of Japan Destruction
Army Air Forces General Arnold told a Veterans of Foreign Wars gathering that early B-29 raids are only preliminary. He said Japan's industry will be smashed as bases move closer, destroying war machine heart and nerves, with German prisoners noted as well equipped and defiant as the war continues.
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HH Arnold
Army
W Air Forces
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Germany
Japan
Met ‘S
Four U Planes Lost In Day-Long Air Tilts Against Germany
More than 2000 American planes pressed a day long aerial offensive against Germany with attacks on Hamm Misburg and other targets in northwestern Germany. Heavy bombers began with predawn strikes on Essen and Neuss. Poor bombers were lost and fighter planes returned. Weather limited later heavy bombing.
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Hamm
Misburg
Essen
Neuss
Frefonrz
Canada Says Draft Riots On West Coast Under Control
Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Defense Minister McNaughton urged calm as dis orders among draft troops on British Columbia camps were watched and controlled. A Terrace unit clash with an English speaking unit highlighted tensions while mutiny was rejected as mislabeling by King.
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Canada
Mackenzie King
House of ‘Commons
British Colima
King
McNaughton
West Coast
Balking Senator Delays Stettinius Nomination Vote
Senator Langer stalls the Stettinius nomination for Secretary of State in the Senate foreign relations committee by objecting to unanimous consent. The delay interrupts swift passage as Connally seeks an immediate floor vote, while Hurley’s appointment to China also awaits action. White pleads for withdrawal amid conflicts between Republicans and Democrats.
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Kawara
Stettinus
Senate Foreign Relations
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D-Tex
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Patrick J. Hurley
China
Swift
Cordell Hull
White
Meine
Actig
North Dakotas
Adament
R A F Hero Missing in London After Dam Buster Feat
Gibron, 26, described as a hero of the R A F attack on Germany's Mobrie and Eder Dams in May, 1843, was officially reported missing last night in London.
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Guy
Gibron
R.'Ale
Germany
Mobrie
Eder
U S Bombers Sink 13 Ship Leyte Bound Jap Convoy
Allied air forces attacked a Leyte bound Japanese convoy Thursday and Wednesday, sinking ten transports and three destroyers and wiping out about 4 000 enemy troops. Fighters also struck additional ships near Ormoc and Cebu, with further destruction reported as the battle extended over a wide area.
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MacArthur
Philispines
Auve
Leyte
Ormocia
Ormoc
Tomoyeki Yaoyashita
Camoies Sea
Cebu
Ormos
Reds Outflank Budapest as Soviet drive advances toward Vienna
The Red Army widened its southern Hungary breakthrough to 93 miles and neared the Austrian border. Premier Stalin announced the gains, with Pecs Mohacs and Balaszek cited among notable captures as Budapest faced a widening encirclement and a looming threat to Vienna.
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Hungary
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Budapest
Austria
Moscow
Berlin
Stalin
Yugoslavia
Pecs
Mohacs
Balaszek
Joss
Harze
Lake Balaton
Vienna
Io Anglria
Gut
War Loan Push Reaches Billion Mark in Series E
Treasury reports Series E War Loan sales totaling 31,074.00 with November 2 to December 36 drive set at 3,003,600,000. Bond buyers led gains as other securities outpace bonds, keeping sales near target and ahead by about 4000.00. Washington officials attribute improved performance to strong demand and market conditions.
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Washington
Treasury
Tote
Gay
Chiangs Not Separated Denial From Chinese Embassy
The Chinese embassy in Washington dismissed reports that Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek are separated and that she will live in exile. The Daily Mail had published the claim, but the embassy statement, via the Chinese News Service, called the reports entirely false. Madame Chiang is in the United States for medical treatment.
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Felsef
Géneralissime
Madame Chiang
Hai-shek
London Daily Mail
Madame Chien
United States
Superfortresses Bomb Tokyo Third Time In Week
The 21st Bomber Command rained destruction on Tokyo targets from Saipan for the third time in four weeks. The War Department gave no details, noting only targets in the Tokyo area. Tokyo radio claimed minimal damage and reinforced that fires were being extinguished.
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21St Bomber Command
War Department
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List Command
Saipan
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Japs Make Big Gains In China
A U S Eighth Air Force communique relayed through Maj. Gen. Wedemeyer reports Japanese forces advancing toward Kweiyang in Kweichow Province. Chinese troops claim local success at Tashaiang in Kinwangsi as they resist the push. Chinese cabinet spokesman PH Chang cautions China’s capital will not fall and signals ongoing talks with the Communists, though no settlement announced.
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Kweivens
Burma
Chuns- King
Kunming
China
Air Force
Albert C Wedemeyer
Pachai-Tukiang
Kweiyang
Chung- Ring
Kwangsi
Tashaiang
Big Mountain Pond
PH. Chang
Ing
Japs Threaten Flyers Lives in Broadcast
The Associated Press reports a Japanese propagandist on a broadcast ridiculed US flyers and urged retaliation. The speaker said indiscriminate bombing of Tokyo violated international law and called American airmen enemies of humanity, while promising civil justice for pacification. He urged Japan to bring the attackers to punishment as ominous threats followed Nagasaki and Omura raids warnings.
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Associated Press
United States
OWI
Vesterdey
Japan
Tokyo
Sen Jobo
OWT
Nor. Si
Nagasaki
Omura
Mainichi
Nagasaki Prefecture
Ships Need Urgent Repairs Say House Committee
New evidence before the House site committee on Merchant Marine and factories shows about 32 percent of merchant vessels entering U S ports require repairs and roughly 30 percent need drydocking while dockside maintenance lags.
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New York
United States
House
Merchant Marine
Fakories
Soldier Saves Comrade by Cutting Throat in Selfless Act
Private Diane Kinman of Cottage Place Washington used quick thinking during training to save a wounded fellow soldier. He severed a shrapnel wound and opened the airway with a fingernail to keep air passage clear. Kinman, once focused on mechanics, had to perform an improvised life saving procedure under fire.
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Third Army
Pri
Diane N. Kinman
Cottege Place
Wash
Gier
Kinman
Norden Bombsight Sold To Government for One Dollar
Inventor Norden declared he turned over all patent rights models and designs of his bombsight to the United States government for what he called payment of one dollar in each instance. He spoke at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers annual dinner where he accepted the Haley Medal saying the award repaid him with compound interest.
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New York
UPI
Cart K. Norde
United States
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Hailes
Doctors Say Cold Vaccines Of No Value
A joint report by the American Medical Association council on pharmacy and chemistry and industrial health condemns vaccines against the common cold as having no proven value. It states vaccines taken orally or sprayed are not effective and should not be used routinely or widely promoted. Industrial physicians should only use them under strict controls and report results.
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Journal of
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A.M. A Council On Pharmacy and
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Americans Bomb Jap Air Bases in Volcano Islands
American air units bombed air strips on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands in raids Sunday and Monday. The Pacific Fleet reported enemy fighters were shot down, and fires and explosions were started at several targets.
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Washington
Amy
Air Force Liberators
Iwo Jima
Navy
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Pacific Jeet
Bethnap
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Palans
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Pazar
Mariscas
Rain swollen rivers aid Nazis in Germany
The report notes German forces along the Lamone and nearby rivers north of Faenza with a strong east bank outpost. Heavy fighting continues in the Po valley as both sides deploy infantry and heavy artillery while Allied efforts to push the Nazis back face resistance.
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Lamane
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Alboreto
Canadians Press Across From North into the Rhine Front
Canadian forces push across from the north into the Rhine region near Lindzen Linich Geilenkirchen and Julich as German defense buckles. Ninth Army under Simpson advances through mud to envelop Julich key road centers and reach the Roer river line.
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Geilleenkirchen
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Duren
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Liew
Willae
Simpson
U.S
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Hodges
Kaes
Koslar
Fuite Inde
Roer
Foer
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JeHen - AR
Sinking of U S Troop Liner Revealed by Daily Mail
London reports the sinking of a troop-laden liner in November 1942 as German submarines torpedoed the vessel carrying United States troops to Britain. Dramatic photos show the ship listing and plunging, rescue details sparse. The Duchess of Athol sinking is noted with 38 aboard including women and children.
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London
Duchess of Athol
Near East
Skvzia SR
Henderson to Serve In Occupied Germany
Washington economist and former OPA chief A Sean Henderson is scheduled to depart for London next week to assume a role in Randie economic affairs under the ferusiet. The assignment focuses on postwar economic issues in occupied Germany.
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Germany
Washington
Sean Henderson
Econatist
OPA
London
Si Ee
Randie Economic Affairs
de go James a. BF _agissant
Fe Lab
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