All Mixed Up About Turkey For Yuletide
A Pulse Feeler question asks if the Allies will have Turkey for Christmas, sparking debate over edible bird or geopolitical Turkey. Residents including George Huston Merle Spence Otto Schrader Mrs D L Carter and Mrs L C Shubert offer views on food and Balkan strategy, while Pulse Feeler offers $1 per usable question.
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Turkey
George Huston
Merle Spence
Otto Schrader
Greece
D. L. Carter
L. C. Shubert
Balkans
Hungary
Pulse Feeler
Partisans push toward Sarajevo in Bosnia offensive
Marshal Tito’s forces report advancing units surrounding Sarajevo as Partisans claim to have occupied territory between Breza and Vares and push back German attempts in Bosnia. Allied air support near Split acknowledged. Berlin claims unconfirmed.
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E. C. Daniel London
Bosnia
Josip Broz
Sarajevo
Free Yugoslav Radio
Berlin
Serbia
Tito
Breza
Vares
Japce
Split
Adriatic Sea
Newspaperboys Get Christmas Money Today
Globe News gives newspaper boys in Ama rilo downtown and Army Technical School a Christmas gift. Boys pay nothing for papers and keep all profits from sales as a merry Christmas gesture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe News
Globe
Amarilo
Army Technical School
Newsies
Navy reports loss of submarine Grayling in war
The Navy said the 1475 ton submarine Grayling is overdue and presumed lost with a crew of 65 under Lt Cmdr Robert Marion Brinker. Commissioned 1941, it is the 16th submarine and 133rd naval vessel lost in the war, with unknown disappearance location likely Pacific or Far East.
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Washington
U. S
Pacific
Far East
Cmdr
Robert Marion Brinker
Park Ridge
Ill
Grayling
RAF Seventy Seventh Night Strike Bears On Berlin
A massive WY day raid by American bombers and RAF night attack on Berlin overlaps with Pas de Calais coastal operation by US heavy bombers. Leaders announce arbitration for railroad wage dispute while London and Washington track decisive wartime moves and government actions.
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Gladwin Hill
London
Pas de Calais
RAF
Berlin
U. S
England
Pas de Callas
Channel
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Manheim- Ludwigshafen
Mannheim-Ludwigshafen
German navy shelling hits Dover area misread as rockets
London reports German high command said naval shore batteries shelled Dover Deal and Folkestone. Berlin translation clarified leuchte granate means flare shells, not rockets. No damage announced from the overnight across channel shelling.
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London
High Command
Dover
Deal
Folkestone
France
Berlin
Allied Planes Press Japanese Defenses In Southwest Pacific
Allied air forces stepped up strikes on Japanese anti invasion defenses in the southwest and central Pacific. Bombing targeted transport ships barges and air facilities while raids on Kwajalein Jaluit and Wewak reported enemy losses. Chinese forces advance in central China as Tokyo convenes the Diet.
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Morrie Landsberg
Associated Press
Southwest
Central
Pacific
Arawe
New Britain
Tarawa
Gilbert Islands
United States
Kwajalein Lagoon
Marshall Islands
Gilberts
Kwajalein
Jaluit
mid-Pacific
Cape Gloucester
New Guinea
New Ireland
Solomons
U. S. Sixth Army
Bougainville
Huon Peninsula
Yangtze
Sangtze River
China
Chungking
Tokyo
Volume of Incoming Mail Increases in Amarillo
The Amarillo post office reports a surge in incoming Christmas mail while outgoing mail has cleared. An employee says mail arrives by freight car load as soon as batches are processed. Earlier mailing this year is expected to speed overall distribution. Seven men and one woman celebrated too early and are in the city jail.
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Amarillo
Eisenhower Named Commander of European Invasion
President Roosevelt announces General Dwight D. Eisenhower as commander of the Allied invasion of Europe. The plan joins Cairo Tehran talks with North Africa leadership and assigns Spaatz to lead the strategic bombing force. Churchill will name a British replacement for Eisenhower in the Mediterranean.
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Eisenhower
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Cairo
Tehran
North Africa
Germany
Mediterranean
Winston Churchill
Carl Andrew Spaatz
United States
Great Britain
China
Russia
Middle East
Churchill
Josef Stalin
Chiang Kaishek
Italy
Africa
Roosevelt Page
British Eighth Takes Vezzani and Advances Near Ortona
Allied headquarters report the Eighth Army seized the village of Vezzani and British units pushed toward Ortona amid snow and rain. Canadians fought to clear Ortona with bayonets as German defenders held parts of the city. Fifth Army infantry gained and lost high ground while Marauder bombers targeted the French Italian Riviera rail lines. Weather hampered air and ground operations along the Italian front.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Eighth Army
Vezzani
Ortona
Anne
Jesnism
Wuay
Fifth Army
15Th U. S. Airforce
Riviera
Bernard L. Montgomery
Orsogna
Villagrande
Acquafondala
Viticuso
Christmas dinners for troops need Amarillo homes
Scores of soldiers from Amarillo Army Air Field face a lonely Christmas unless local families offer invitations. Auditorium USO and Downtown USO will collect last minute meals and invite servicemen, with buses bringing invited men into town. Call 2-5811 or 2-3266 to participate.
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Polk Street
Amarillo Army Air Field
Uso
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy and cold tonight with a warmer Saturday. West Texas mostly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday with rain today except Panhandle and South Plains where snow mix occurs in places. Del Rio Eagle Pass area and east of Pecos River see rain Saturday. Little temperature change expected. high around 26 to 32 degrees and lows near 22.
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Bureau
Texas
Abilene
Big Spring
Amarillo
West Texas
el Paso
Panhandle
South Plains
Big Bend
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Pecos River
New Mexico
Soviet Drive Expands As Red Army Presses Near Vitebsk
Soviet forces launch multiple offensives across White Russia with key pushes toward Vitebsk from Nevel and Zhobin, while German defenses retreat from positions west of Kiev. Moscow reports heavy fighting along the upper Dnieper and around Zhiobin as Bagramian’s army advances on Vitebsk.
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London
Red Army
White Russia
Kiev Salent
Berlin
Upper
Dnieper
Zhiobin
Korosten
Zhitomir
Kiev
Zhobin
Nevel
Vitebsk
Polotsk
United Press
Moscow
Marvin Jones Consults Farmers and Ranchers
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones returned home amid jad weather and feed shortages, telling farmers and ranchers he will likely return to Washington for rest. He plans further talks and may do a Texas radio network broadcast within days.
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Marvin Jones
Washington
Texas
Japan lowers youth age to nineteen amid war pressure
Gen. Suzuki of the Imperial Japanese Youth Corps calls the age cut to nineteen an urgent necessity as the war situation grows fiercer. He says Japan must secure quality and strength, noting the age change aligns with their birth heritage.
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New York
Japan
Gen.Suzuki
Imperial Japanese Youth Corps
U.S
Suzuki
U. S
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White House
A. F. Whitney
Alvanley Johnston
Brother‘hood
Locomotive Engineers
Whitney
Johnston
Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Francis Biddle
Vinson
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Byrnes
French
Aachen
Aix-La Chapelle
Air Ministry
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Russell Stationery Co
Sewell Beery
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