Civil Service Commission Hearing On Acting Police Chief
Municipal Employees union protests plan to appoint J Forrest Ingle as acting police chief at a session tomorrow at 2 p m in the municipal building. The meeting will be closed to the public and the union says civil service rules should be enforced. The commission will hear the protest and decide whether to waive qualifications as the union urges. City officials say city action is not involved and civil service rules apply.
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E Civil Service Commissi Ld
Munic
Municemployes Union
J. Forrest Ingle
Albert Hesselberg
C. Cooke
Ernestard
Civil Service
Posicon
Eir
Esselberg
Martin
Phil J. Marjr
Ingle
W Wallace Shoots Self Near East Lee Street Intersection
W Wallace of El Encante apartments shot himself in the right temple with a .32 caliber revolver and died shortly after. His body was found slumped on a car near East Lee Street and North Martin Avenue by Officer J Wilson shortly after 7. Mrs Wallace, widow of six months, reported her husband missing since midnight and said he complained of a headache before going for a walk.
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W. Wallace
el Encante
Sixth Street
East Lee T
North Martin Avenue
Northmont Avenue
Trolman J. Wilson
Wal
Wilson
Allace
Wallace
Churchill Agrees To Greek Regency Crisis Reported From Athens
Athens dispatch says Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden depart for London to urge King George II to appoint a three member regency after Greek peace talks. Papandreou resigns and potential regent Archbishop Damaskinos is favored to lead a new government as civil war rages.
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James E. Roper
Athens
U.P
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
London
George
Greece
George Papandreou
Churchill
Eden
Papandreou
Damaskinos
Great Britain
Elas
Harold R. L. G. Alexander
Mediterranean
Ronald Scobie
Scobie
Piraeus
Omonias Square
Edes
Preveza
Greens
Tokyo Plane Plant Bombed Hit 12 Times
Twelve direct hits from B 29s battered the Musashino aircraft plant in Tokyo suburbs in the third raid since late November. Photos show 12 bomb bursts in the factory area. officials suggested some disruption to Nakajima and Mitsubishi facilities. Brig. Gen. Haywood S Hansell Jr announced earlier that some buildings had been destroyed and production possibly interrupted.
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Lisle Shoemaker
21St Bomber Command
Saipan
Navy
Munshino Aircraft Factory
Tokyo
Tokyo Radio
Honshu Island
Ibaragi
United Press
San Francisco
Musashino
Nakajima Aircraft Company
Mitsubishi Works
Haywood S. Hansell, Jr
Submarine Seawolf Declared Overdue and Presumed Lost
The U S Navy announced the submarine Seawolf, a 1 500 ton craft with 62 crew, is overdue from patrol and presumed lost. Commanded by Lt Cmdr A M Bontier of White Plains York the number of casualties was not disclosed but next of kin were informed. This loss raises the wartime submarine total to 28 overdue and presumed lost, 4 sunk or destroyed, and marks the 239th naval vessel lost since the war began.
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Washington
Det
U. S
Seawolf
Navy
Cmdry A M. Bontier
White Plas York
United States
Minneapolis Woman Seeks 25000 In Bus Collision Suit
Victoria Nawrocki of Minneapolis sues Tucson Rapid Transit for 25000 damages claiming injuries from a Dec 30 1942 bus collision. She alleges nervous shock and permanent disability from the wreck in Tucson at North Campbell and East Speedway while a passenger. Medical costs reached 1000 and she seeks a jury trial in federal court due to diversity of citizenship.
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Minneapolis
Tucson
North Campbell
East Speedway
Victoria Nawrocki
Minnesota
Arizona Corporation
William A. Tarrioges
Leslie B. Allen
Defenders Flee as Red Army Pushes on Budapest Front
Soviet forces under Tolbukhin attack west of Budapest in a broad front driving German Hungarian troops back toward the Austrian border. The push reaches beyond Sutto and Felsogalla as Tank units advance toward Vienna, with fierce counterattacks along the center and southern flank near Banhida.
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M. S
Moscow
U.P
Red Army
Vienna
Budapest
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Bakony
Gyur Plain
Tolbukhin
Sutto
Felsogalla
Tatabanya
Banhida
Gyor
Stimson Says Battle Turns Against Nazis
War Secretary Stimson said latest news from France is favorable but overall western front still critical. He noted German forces have pushed about 50 miles west with two panzer armies and the seventh army, warning time is working against the enemy and containment is not yet assured.
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Washington
Stimson
France
Seventh Army
March at 80 Reflects on German Offensive and Intelligence Failures
On his 80th birthday General Peyton C. March says Allied intelligence failed to detect a 200000 strong German force, compares it to Richmond's population, notes underground tips in occupied countries, and questions how long Eisenhower can blunt the attack while criticizing unconditional surrender talk. He also hints Russia's stance on Japan and doubts end of war in 1944.
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Washington
UPR
Peyton C. March
Richmond
Potomac
March
Hitler
Germany
Eisenhower
Europe
Russia
Japan
Army Seizes Ward's Properties in Seven Cities
The Army took possession of Montgomery Ward & Co. properties in seven cities under Roosevelt executive order amid CIO strikes in Detroit Chicago and Kansas City. Maj. Gen. Byron served the order on Sewell Avery in Chicago as justice department sought injunction to stop interference with wartime mail order operations. Roosevelt said strikes cannot be condoned in wartime and urged compliance with government procedures.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward & Co
Roosevelt
Ward
Detroit
Kansas City
CIO United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Sewell Avery
Labor Board
Montgomery Ward
Joseph W. Byron
Army
Special Services Division
Avery
Justice Department
Washington
St. Paul
Denver
Jamaica
N. Y
Portland
Ore
San Rafael
Calif
CIO United
Avery Denounces Army Seizure Of Ward's Facilities
Sewell Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward and company, says the Army seizure of Ward's facilities in seven cities ordered by President Roosevelt is unconstitutional and that Congress has given the President no power to seize the non war business of Montgomery Ward.
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Chicago
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
Ward
Roosevelt
Avery
Congress
Montgomery Ward
Destroyers Sunk As Japs Attack Mindoro
Allied reports from the Philippines say three Japanese destroyers were sunk after an abortive Mindoro bombardment. A battleship and a cruiser were damaged, and Tokyo claimed air strikes on the American air fields at Mindoro.
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William B. Dickinson
Philippines
U.P
Pacific
Mindoro
Tokyo Radio
San Jose
United Press
San Francisco
Allied Military Position At Year’s End Is Good
The Allied cause remains on a broad highway to victory worldwide despite German counteroffensive and Japanese gains in China. Subtractions and setbacks are acknowledged, but the balance favors the Allies who must commit to all-out efforts at home and on the front. The duration of the European war remains uncertain as readers await the WAR SURVEY on Page 5.
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United Nations
Europe
Orient
China
Pfc
Raymond de Rosier
Hartford
Conn
Bastogne
Associated
Hal Boyle
Rescue Yanks In Nazis Trap At Bastogne
Bastogne relief column lifts the siege as American tanks and infantry break through to the encircled garrison. Reports say Panther tanks decimated, ammunition scarce, and soldiers praise air support while wary of renewed German counterattacks nearby.
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Paris
von Rundstedt
Bastogne
Robert Richards
Belgium
U.P
Dominic J. Rochetto
Spring Valley
N. C
Air Corps
Rochetto
Rochetta
Corp
Thomas Mulligan
Detroit
Police Grill Ex-Army Man About Murder
In San Francisco police began intensive questioning of John Lehrman Sumter 22 who told FBI agents he killed heiress Georgette Bauerdorf. Sumter walked into the FBI office claiming the crime and was described as confused by Detective Inspector Frank Ahern. Officials said they had not yet decided if they have the right man.
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San Francisco
U.P
John Lehrman Sumter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Georgette Bauerdorf
Sumter
Georgia
FBI
Miss Bauerdorf
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Gunallace
Hungary
General March
Yankees
Uncle Sam
Ward’s
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
By James M. Long
Salient
Meuse
Marche-Manhay
Luxembourg
Liemeux
Wes Gallagher
Rundstedt
Gallagher
Berlin
George S. Patton
Patton
Vaux Les Rosieres
Salm
Ourthe
Supreme Headquarters
Aachen
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