Third Infantry Marchingest of All in World War Moves
HAL Boyle reports on the Third Infantry division nicknamed Gypsy troops, noting 38 days in Sicily 58 days in southern Italy and 75 days in line in France. The unit endured extreme front line fighting through Africa Sicily Italy and France with heavy losses and notable ambush at Montelimar. The piece links Red Cross needs to a $180 million goal to support troops and postwar transition.
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Third Infantry
Mediterranean
Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Hal Boyle
AEF
Third Infantry Division
Pacific Coast
Washington
Oregon
French Morocco
Gela
Messina
Anzio
Vosges
Montelimar
Rome
Berlin
Red Cross Sets 1945 Peak Goal at 180 Million
Basil O'Connor announced the American Red Cross will reach a wartime peak in 1945 with a minimum March goal of 180 million dollars for the Red Cross War Fund. The Central Committee approved budgets for U S and overseas work, citing increases in services in Europe and the Pacific while keeping 1945 goals just under 1944 totals due to prior oversubscriptions and economies.
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Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
Basil O’connor
Red Cross
Central Committee
United States
O’connor
Colby M. Chester
General Foods Corporation
Europe
Pacific
War Moves Farther From London But Effects Lingering
London endures war’s distant reach as blackout habits linger. Fog cloaks the city’s misty streets and Big Ben, while residents recall a season of danger and the constant sense of the unknown.
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London
Hal Boyle
Jan
England
Casbah
Algiers
Sherlock Holmes
Baker Street
Getting About in London Cab Shortage After Invasion
Postwar London struggles with a taxi shortage as cab-hunting continues to vex locals. Americans often receive priority when hailed, provoking Anglo American friction. A stern elderly Briton grouses that taxis stop for Americans and street walkers.
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London
England
London Nights Beat Paris And Brussels For GIs On Leave
Soldiers on brief leaves find London cheaper than Paris or Brussels and prefer the English speaking city with early shop closings. The article notes nightlife continues as shops shut at 4 p m and soldiers joke about costs back home.
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London
Paris
Brussels
Uncle Sam
Leaders Hope This Year to Be It
United Nations leaders issue New Year messages expecting 1945 to be pivotal. De Gaulle foresees slow but steady progress for France, Masaryk calls 1945 the year of victory, Kaczynski predicts a decisive year for Poland, and Queen Wilhelmina sends sympathy to Dutch East Indies during distress.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Charles de Gaulle
Jan Masaryk
Russia
Wladislaw Kackiewicz
London
Wilelmina
Netherlands
Dutch East Indies
Dengue Epidemic Strikes Tahiti Prompting Closures
Tahiti faces a dengue fever outbreak with the disease spreading to nearby islands. Papeete closes schools theaters and night clubs as health authorities respond. Dengue spreads via specific mosquitoes and causes fever rashes and joint pains though it is rarely fatal. Allied troops in the tropical Pacific also contend with this illness.
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Papeete
Tahiti
Pacific Islands
Questions Pile Up Over Potential Compulsory Military Training
Washington notes that if Congress passes peacetime compulsory training it would affect national safety and millions of youths. The piece outlines key questions on training duration age of service reserve structure refresher programs specialized post training schooling and cost estimates, suggesting a minimum annual cost near one billion dollars.
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James Marlow
Washington
Congress
Army
Navy
National Guard
Yolo County Tops U S Produce Growth
Yolo County California leads the nation as the top produce growing region in the United States, underscoring its fruitful agricultural output and key role in nationwide supply.
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Yolo County
Calif
United States
Problems The New Congress Faces In War Aftermath
Washington January 1 A new congress arrives to tackle war aftermath and pay raises. Key issues listed include compulsory military training war finances postwar policy liberalized social security war tax adjustments industrial reconversion and domestic politics. The 79th congress will be more Democratic yet faces internal challenges for Roosevelt's administration.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Busy Week on Railroads
The Association of American Railroads reported 762,449 revenue freight cars loaded in the week ending last Saturday. This shows a 12,556 car, 1.7 percent rise from the prior week and an 18.9 percent increase from the same week last year, with a 28.9 percent gain versus two years ago.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Vinita man dies in Oklahoma crash
Delmer Clint Smith twenty from Vinita died in an automobile collision near Chelsea Oklahoma. His wife twenty one and his sister Jewell Smith age twenty six were injured in the same wreck reported last night.
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Vinita
Chelsea
Okla
Delmer Clint Smith
Here
Jewell
Spirit of Hitler's Message Signals German Resolve to Endure
An editorial reflects on Hitler's New Year remarks and the German will to resist to the last ditch. It notes the speech’s defiant tone, the Rhineland counteroffensive, and V weapon efforts, arguing the war’s length hinges on Allied striking power and home front effort.
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Hitler
Essen
Furmer
Rhineland
von Rundstedt
Fuehrer
Doughboys Pursue Japanese Remnants in Leyte Island War
General MacArthur reports Japanese dead reach 117,997 on Leyte with 1,191 more killed in 24 hours. Allied forces, though claiming Christmas end of organized resistance, hunt scattered pockets in Indian style, control Ormoc valley, strike 14 of 32 enemy planes, and sink ships off Mindoro Lingayen gulf.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Douglas MacArthur
Ormoc
Mindoro Island
Comei
Liberators
Mindoro
Luzon Island
Lingayen Gulf
Borneo
Mexico City Welcomes 1945 With Nightlife Revels
Mexicans usher in the new year with gay revelry in clubs crowded past dawn. Ciro's and Minuit charged 100 pecos for late suppers while University club turned away hundreds. Club France collected 10 for war relief as revelers exchanged embraces and wished Feliz Nuevo. Some attended church at midnight before returning to parties.
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Mexico City
Ciro’s
Minuit
France
Border watchers monitor New Year's Agua Caliente reopening
OPA inspectors kept border vigil at Agua Caliente as thousands of San Diego area residents traveled to the reopening of the $3,000,000 track for nine races. Officials said they tracked movement of gas ration book holders during the border event.
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OPA
Agua Caliente
Mex
Office of Price Administration
San Diego Area
New Year's Death Toll Rises As Holiday Sees Losses
A Utah train wreck near Okden raised the three day New Year's death toll to at least 168, with traffic crashes causing 57 deaths. Fires claimed 35 lives in Columbus Indiana, including five children and three adults. Miscellaneous causes totaled 26 more deaths. An Associated Press survey shows 242 died last year during New Year’s.
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Associated Press
Utah
Southern Pacific
Okden
Columbus
Ind
New Point Values For Canned Foods And Sugar Allotments
The rationing board announces new point values for canned foods with 2 cans of asparagus spinach and green beans at 20 points and corn at 30 points. Starting Q1 1945 sugar allotments for most industrial users drop from 80 to 70 percent of 1941 use while bread and bakery remain at 80 percent. Provisional allowances for industrial sugar end.
Five Men Killed in Plane Crash Near Houston
Five military airmen died when a twin engine army training plane crashed in a pasture about 25 miles north of Houston. The pilot Lt Everett M Taylor Jr of Baton Rouge and crew members Benjamin N Rosen of Port Arthur Allen W Carpenter of Darnell La Harry R Shepardson of Angleton and Henry B Waller Jr of Houston were identified by Col E V Harbeck Jr Ellington Field commander.
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Houston
Tex
E. V. Harebeck
Ellington Field
Harbeck
Lowry Field
Denver
Colo
Everett M. Taylor, Jr
Baton Rouge
Benjamin N. Rosen
Port Arthur
Allen W. Carpenter
Darnell
Harry R. Shepardson
Angelton
Henry B. Waller, Jr
New Year’s Baby Born at Valley View Hospital
At Valley View Hospital in Pontotoc county a baby boy was born at 5 17 a m Monday to Mr and Mrs Prestley D Morris of 1201 East Eighteenth The infant and mother are reported to be doing nicely Joe Bush superintendent notes the 1945 total babies at the hospital rise to 12 with two sets of twins among them The hospital currently houses 56 patients well under its 80 bed capacity
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Pontotoc County
Valley View Hospital
Prestley D. Morris
East
Joe Bush
Bush
Veteran AP Wire Editor McDonnell Dies at 61
John F. McDonnell, 61, longtime Associated Press wire editor in New York, died of a heart attack at his Bronx home after a full career at AP since 1922. He previously edited the main trunk wire and served as Sunday editor. born Boston August 17, 1883, he worked for the Boston Globe Worcester Telegram Springfield Republican and Buffalo Evening News. He is survived by a widow and two daughters.
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New York
John F. McDonnell
Associated Press
The
Bronx
McDonnell
Boston
Boston Globe
Worchester Telegram
Springfield
Mass
Republican
Buffalo Evening News
Coast Guard Seeks Recruits for Seventeen-Year-Olds
The Coast Guard reopens enlistment to seventeen year olds. Volunteers join as apprentice seamen or ward's mates, train at Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, with full benefits and insurance like other service members. Limited quota. reach Coast Guard Recruiting Office Oklahoma City for details.
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United States Coast Guard
Manhattan Beach
Brooklyn
New York
Coast Guard
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Fifth Army Recaptures Ground on Serchio Front
Fifth Army troops recaptured all ground taken by Germans east of the Serchio River as American forces moved from Barga to Sommocolonia. Eighth Army advanced north of Faenza on the Po Valley front, while small gains occurred west of the Serchio and German fire slowed river crossings near Rivola. The Tyrrhenian coast remained quiet and German mortar fire increased in the central Florence Bologna area.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Serchio River
Barga
Sommocolonia
Po Valley
Eighth Army
Faenza
Serchio
Gallicano
Bologna
Rivola
Florence-Bologna
Sharp limits on shipping racing stock during war
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a one year ban on shipping race horses and dogs by rail or truck, with exceptions only on special permit. The move follows James Byrnes urging the closure of race tracks and aims to curb use of critical transport for racing stock, effective until January 3, 1946.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
James F. Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization
Byrnes
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Tur
IIC
ICC
ICC Bureau of Service
Two Drunks Taken Up By Police Here
Two drunks were taken in by city police, bringing December arrests to 54 for the month. December arrests were below the 60 plus average, while November saw 62 arrests. Police will report soon on 1944 arrest totals and reasons.
Pratt Named Chief of Western Defense Command
San Francisco reports Maj. Gen. Harry Conger Pratt receives permanent assignment as commanding general of the Western Defense Command. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel, who had been filling the post in acting capacity and now takes an undisclosed new assignment.
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San Francisco
Harry Conger Pratt
Western Defense Command
Charlies H. Bonesteel
Defense Command Headquarters
Bonesteel
Gotham Remains Orderly
New York began the New Year with a lively but orderly celebration. Police reported the holiday as the most sobriety observed on record, with Times Square hosting about 750000 revelers at midnight.
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Gotham
New York
Times Square
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