Peace at Christmas: local readers answer what they want
The Red Cross funds a Christmas appeal as residents share wishes. Mrs. Gresham asks for peace and safe return of troops, Mr. Gresham desires care for service members, Mrs. Rutland wants children to have a good Christmas, Ellen Donovan seeks rest after helping soldiers, Tex Thornton longs for the war to end, and Janet McNeil favors inner and global peace. Pulse Feeler offers $1 per question used.
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C. W. Gresham
Route 2
Canyon
Globe News
Jack Rutland
Maryland Street
Ellen Donovan
Santa Claus
Tex -Thornton
Florida
Janet McNeil
Fillmore Street
Allied heavy bombers hit German west and Italian targets
American bombers from the West struck Northwest Germany in daylight, supporting raids on Innsbruck and Augsburg near Munich. Mediterranean-based units bombed rail yards and ports in central Italy and Adriatic harbors, with numerous enemy fighters shot down and several Allied aircraft missing or believed to have landed in friendly territory.
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London
Auch
Germany
Innsbruck
Augsburg
Munich
Brenner Pass
Hitler
North Sea
Algiers
Brenner
Foligno
Peruoia
Arezzo
Italy
Terni
Adriatic
Civitavecchia
Rome
Pasman Island
Split
Fighters Protect Bombers Reach Long Escort Range
Allied air power in Britain now can escort bombers to distant targets and stay over the area long enough to usher in waves of Flying Fortresses and Liberators. The Eighth Air Force did not reveal Monday raid targets in northwest Germany but reported the longest fighter penetration yet with fighters escorting bombers from coast to target and back. Other fighter relays ferried bombers to rendezvous points and back home. Christmas closures: county rationing offices will shut at noon Friday and reopen Monday at 9, with most county and district offices closing then except enforcement agencies.
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London
U.P
Britain
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Rendevous
Hanged Nazi Officers In Kharkov Trial Sparks Crowd
In Kharkov, about 50,000 spectators watched as four Ford trucks carried to the market square three German officers and a Russian traitor convicted of mass executions. The men were hanged at 11:15 A.M. after a trial that drew applause from residents.
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Kharkov
U.P
Red Army
Gestapo
Storm
Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov
William Langheld
Hans Ritz
Reinhardt Ratzlaw
A. N. Myasnikov
Bulanov
Myasnikov
Col
N. K. Dunayev
Moscow
Russia
Britain
United States
Red Army breaks southern Kherson bridgehead in Dnieper front
Soviet forces push from Kherson as the Dnieper crossing is evacuated by Germans amid heavy ice. In the north, Nevel sector drive nears Polotsk and Vitebsk with 20 000 German casualties and 2 000 captured. Soviets close on Riga within striking distance as major rail lines loom.
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Judson O’quinn
London
Red Army
Adolf Hitler
Kherson
Dnieper
Berlin
Nevel
Bug River
Odessa
Polotsk
Crimea
Nikopol
Moscow
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Vitebsk
Gilmore
Riga
Leningrad
Chinese Forces Report Japanese Retreat in Central China
Chungking dispatch says Chinese troops inflicted heavy casualties as Japanese forces retreated through the rice bowl region of Central China. Japanese rear guards counter-attacked while retreat continued from Changteh.
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Chungking
U.P
China
Changteh
Ousted Bolivian Leader faces coup and arrests
In La Paz on December 20 a coup led by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement toppled President Enrique Penaranda and arrested key officials including Gen. Miguel Candia and Gen. Antenor Ichazo. Victor Paz Estensore reportedly leads the movement seizing the governor's palace. Newspaper plants are under guard as unrest follows inflation and wartime shortages. Separately in Bombay Mrs. Mohandas K Gandhi, 71, suffered another heart attack while interned with her husband.
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Julio Valdez
LA Paz
Bolivia
Enrique Penaranda
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
United States
Penaranda
Miguel Candia
Antenor Ichazo
Pedro Arce Zilvetti
America
Roosevelt
Detroit
United Nations
Republic
Allies Close On Rome After San Pietro Victory
American forces push toward Cassino from San Pietro with strong gains in the Liri Valley while San Vittore falls and French troops gain near Venafro. Eighth Army advances on Orsogna front as the campaign tightens along the Adriatic. German resistance fades under heavy Allied artillery and air power, with Salerno and Cassino milestones cited.
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C. R. Cunningham
Algiers
U.P
Liri
Rome
San Pietro
Salerno
San Vittore
Fifth
Venafro
Fifth Army
Adriatic
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Orsogna-Ortona
Consalvi
Orsogna
Vittore
Cassino
Italy
U. S
Eighth
Ortogna- Ortona
Nazis Expect Defeat Yet Hope to Bargain for Peace
An unnamed German official in Ankara says Nazi leaders now accept defeat but aim to hold fronts in the east and Italy to force favorable terms. Berlin believes they can deter Allied invasion from the west long enough to secure surrender conditions and counter any cross-channel attack. Bodies of Berlin residents continue to be recovered after the RAF raids as authorities discuss a possible 100 percent evacuation.
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Ankara
U.P
Berlin
Italy
Alps
Germany
Balkans
English Channel
France
Britain
United States
Russia
Stockholm
RAF
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Continued fair with slight temperature change tonight. Tuesday will be warmer. Panhandle low 23 to 28 degrees, near to slightly below freezing in South Plains and north Pecos Valley tonight. New Mexico generally fair today tonight and Tuesday with little change. High 38, low 24, noon 34.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
Pecos River
New Mexico
German Secret Weapon Flops in First At tack Report
London reports eye witnesses describe a German rocket powered glider bomb used against a large Allied convoy. Eight bombers released gliders about 25 feet long with 15 foot wingspan, all misses noted by two British Marines, while German staff reportedly planned immediate deployment.
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London
Spain
Robert Daley
Homer Rice Passes Navy Physical in Lubbock Report
Amarillo businessman Homer Rice wired the Globe News with a brief communique from the Lubbock Induction Headquarters. The note states he passed his physical for Navy service today. Also mentioned is John Maynard Lumber Co. at 806 West Fifth.
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Homer Rice
Navy
Amarillo
Globe News
Lubbock
Allied air power nears Rabaul as New Britain invasion expands
Allied forces hammer the Rabaul region from Bougainville and New Britain with 80 fighters downing up to eight Japanese planes. U S bombers hit Cape Gloucester and Cape Hoskins while Gen MacArthur reports rapid inland advances from New Britain beachheads toward the Arawe field. Marines and Army units push along the Torkina River on Bougainville, widening the assault to eight miles amid heavy artillery fire.
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United Press
Rabaul
Southwest Pacific
New Britain
Bougainville
U. S
Cape of Gloucester
Cape Hoskins
Douglas MacArthur
U. S. Sixth Army
Arawe
Bougainville Island
United States
Torkina River
McNulty Wins News Tip Award in Local Contest
Gene McNulty of 2101 North West First Avenue wins this week’s news tip contest with a tip about a boy who mistook a skunk for a rabbit and faced his mother’s refusal to let him in the house. He receives a $5 prize. runner ups and other entrants are listed with addresses and tips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene McNulty
North West First Avenue
E. S. Westerfield
North Johnson Street
Will Pieper
North Taylor Street
Texas Seabee
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Asernia
John Maynard Lbr. Co
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Russell Stationery Company
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Capitol Hotel
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van Burer
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