Allied convoy slips through Mindanao Strait amid Luzon raids
Allied carrier planes blasted Luzon air fields while a powerful convoy moved westward through Mindanao Strait toward the Sulu Sea. Nimitz said 91 enemy planes were destroyed, with ships damaged, as MacArthur listed Japanese casualties at Leyte and Samar.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio Today
Mindanao Strait
Sulu Sea
Japan
Luzon
Philippines
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
Luzon Fields
Domei
Manila
James
Admiral Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Nimitz
Subic Bay
Leyte
Samar Island
MacArthur
Atlantic Charter Controversy Over Poland and Prussia Boundaries
Churchill urged a three powers meeting as he outlined Poland's western frontier along the Curzon Line in exchange for Danzig and East Prussia. He warned of heavy spring and summer battles and urged Roosevelt and Stalin to convene soon while noting mixed U.N. unity on Poland.
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Poland
Churchill
Lwow
Ukraine
East Prussia
Danzig
Germany
Commons
Roosevelt
Stalin
United Nations
Russia
Curzon Line
Konigsberg
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
London
Polish Committee of National Liberation
East
Prussia
Amaryllio Weather: Mild Tonight Then Colder Saturday
The Amarillo area sees fair skies and mild conditions tonight, turning partly cloudy and colder Saturday with winds 32 to 38 mph. West Texas remains fair with little temperature change, lows 24 to 28 and 36 to 40 in the Del Rio Eagle Pass area. Panhandle and South Plains will be colder Saturday with snow flurries in the Panhandle. New Mexico shows increasing cloudiness this afternoon into Saturday with highs around 55 today and 60 in the past 24 hours, low around 20 to 30 tonight.
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Amarillo
West Texas
del Rio
Eagle Pass
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Roosevelt Creates New Fleet Admiral and General of Army Ranks
President Roosevelt signed a bill creating the ranks of fleet admiral of the Navy and general of the Army. He nominated Admirals Leahy King and Nimitz for fleet admiral and Generals Marshall MacArthur Eisenhower Arnold for general of the Army. Pershing holds a separate rank. One more fleet admiral position remains possible.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William D. Leahy
Ernest J. King
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Ocean
George C. Marshall
Army
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
John J. Pershing
United States
Congress
Big Three Put Off Meeting
Washington reports no Roosevelt Churchill Stalin conference before end of January with February as earliest. Roosevelt must address Congress in early January and attend inauguration January 20. Some Anglo American friction over Italy noted, but signs of improved cooperation appear alongside unresolved issues on Germany governance Poland leadership and Dumbarton Oaks security. Grand jury reconvenes in Potter County with four cases ready for deliberation.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Associated Press
Washington
United Nations
State Department
London
Roosevelt
Congress
Churchill
Russia
Stalin
Britain
United States
Sforza
Germany
Poland
Potter County
Grand Jury
District Attorney’s Office
Governor Still Working to Name UT Regents
Governor Coke R. Stevenson said he is holding his own in the effort to name regents for the University of Texas. He noted he thought he had secured a choice but the candidate withdrew. Stevenson added no resignation had been received and an appointment announcement would not be made before next week.
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Churchill
Roosevelt
Poland
United States
Britain
Russia
Austin
U.P
Coke R. Stevenson
Regents
University of Texas
Stevenson
Potter County Leads in Series E Bond Drive Short by $454,673
Potter County reports Series E bond sales of 1,295,848.25 toward a 1,265,000 quota, with total county bond sales reaching 5,685,326.75 against a 6,140,000 goal. Notable progress includes American Telephone and Telegraph Company buying 25,000 in War Bonds and Amarillo High School students, led by Bernice Nussbaum, driving local campaigns with 48 applications and rapid progress prior to school hours.
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Potter County
Potter
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bernice Nussbaum
Amarillo
Bernice
Amarillo Bus Company
Thomas Haynie
Sybal Brierley
Amarillo High School
Cold Air Moving This Way No Storm Warning Given
Cold air approaches with fresh to strong winds and no storm warning. Temperatures rose to 60 yesterday and will fall to the 40s tomorrow. Snow flurries may reach the eastern Panhandle edge but not here. Dinner at Thomas and lumber from John Maynard Lumber Co.
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Panhandle
U S Seventh Army Enters Germany Near Karlsruhe
The U S Seventh Army crossed into Germany from Alsace driving toward Karlsruhe and Mannheim, within seven miles of Karlsruhe and 35 miles from Mannheim Ludwigshafen. Allied forces push through the Siegfried Line as multiple armies advance and seize towns along the Rhine front.
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Paris
U. S
Germany
Alsace
Bavarian Palatinate
Karlsruhe
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Rhineland
Roer River
Aachen
Saarland
Eisenhower
Geilen“kirchen
de Wyler Forest
Kleve
Siegfried Line
Allied First Airborne
Rhine
Strasbourg
Switzerland
Wissembourg
Eifel Yange
Bienwald Forest
Hermann Black
Colmar
Jacob L. Devers
Palatinate
Devers
Sarreemines
U. S. First Army
Roer
Duren
Birgel
104Th
9Th Divi
Heidelberg
Bavaria
Patch
West Wall
The
Roer Front
Mullenack Castle
Mariaweiler
Fifth Armored
Gey
Kufferath
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Comet
Federal Communications Commission
Clark Field
Laon
Visayan
Radio Tokyo
Nagoya
Guam
Burma
Thailand
Pacific
Old Poland
Conservative
Alan Graham
Ivor Thomas
Polish National Liberation Committee
House of Commons
U. S. Weather Bureau
U.S
Count Carlo Sforza
W. J. Morris
Insurance
Dial
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Russell Stationery Co
University
Thomas
John Maynard Lbr. Co
French Riviera
France
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Luneville
Sions
Shophoven
Cologne
Sixth Army Group
Lauterbourg
Riedseltz
Sambach
Munchhouse
Schaffhouse
Wintzenbach
Neewiller
Haguenau
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