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January 29, 1944

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Headlines from January 29, 1944

SUPPORT LINED UP FOR A RECORD POLL ON VOTE BILL RULE; House Group Musters Pledges to Force Issue on Question of Soldier Balloting ROLL-CALL BAN SEEN NOW But Backers of Federal Plan Lack Strength to Be Sure of Overruling Committee

By C.p. Trussellspecial To the New York Times

House backers of Worley bill rept they have enough pledges to assure record vote on question of polling House on Fed-State issue; plan similar to Ball proposal offered in House; Sen Bridges sees legis requiring that Pres candidates names be printed on ballots

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RAF Lancasters Fire Berlin; Liberators Rock French Zone; LANCASTERS FIRE BERLIN IN ATTACK

By Drew Middletonby Cable To the New York Times

LONDON, Jan. 28 -- Hundreds of Lancasters of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command made an exceptionally destructive mass attack on Berlin last night, dropping more than 1,680 tons of bombs in twenty minutes and starting vast fires in industrial sections of the city that were visible for 200 miles.

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RUIN JAPAN! IS CRY; Hull Says Tokyo Even Balks Red Cross Aid to War Prisoners BOMBING OF TOKYO URGED Senator Hatch Proposes Isolating Japanese on Homeland Forever RUIN JAPAN! IS CRY OF AROUSED NATION

By John H. Criderspecial To the New York Times

Sec Eden repts on Jap atrocities toward Brit prisoners, Commons

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EDEN DENOUNCES JAPAN'S 'SAVAGERY'; Says Thousands of British Have Been Tortured in Prisoners' Camps EDEN DENOUNCES JAPAN'S 'SAVAGERY'

By David Andersonby Cable To the New York Times

LONDON, Jan. 28 -- The British people were profoundly shocked today by disclosures of Japanese cruelty to civilian and military prisoners made in Parliament by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who explained that the Government felt duty bound to make public the facts of "this unspeakable savagery."

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1944William Allen White, American journalist and author (born 1868)^[†]

William Allen White was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death, White became a spokesman for middle America.

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1944World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.^[†]

Kaniūkai is a village in the Šalčininkai district municipality of Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, its population was 125.

1944World War II: In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid.^[†]

Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, with 390,734 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan province is home to more than 1 million people as of 2025. Bologna is most famous for being the home to the oldest university in continuous operation, the University of Bologna, established in AD 1088.

Headlines from January 29, 1944

SUPPORT LINED UP FOR A RECORD POLL ON VOTE BILL RULE; House Group Musters Pledges to Force Issue on Question of Soldier Balloting ROLL-CALL BAN SEEN NOW But Backers of Federal Plan Lack Strength to Be Sure of Overruling Committee

RAF Lancasters Fire Berlin; Liberators Rock French Zone; LANCASTERS FIRE BERLIN IN ATTACK

RUIN JAPAN! IS CRY; Hull Says Tokyo Even Balks Red Cross Aid to War Prisoners BOMBING OF TOKYO URGED Senator Hatch Proposes Isolating Japanese on Homeland Forever RUIN JAPAN! IS CRY OF AROUSED NATION

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EDEN DENOUNCES JAPAN'S 'SAVAGERY'; Says Thousands of British Have Been Tortured in Prisoners' Camps EDEN DENOUNCES JAPAN'S 'SAVAGERY'

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