Three German Armies Crush American Wedge in Center
German forces smashed into the center of the Allied salient, pushing toward the Meuse River as the Ninth Air Force reported 325 sorties by noon, destroying six tanks and damaging five, with 22 German fighters shot down and four American planes lost.
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Paris
Marshal von Rundstedt
Meuse
Dinant
Celles
Rochefort
Ciney
St. Vith
Schaef
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
French
Karl von Rundstedt
von Westfall
SHAEF
Liege
Namur
First Army
Ninth Air Force
Ninth
Death Toll Rises in Panhandle Christmas Car Crashes
Amid sleet and holiday sorrow the Panhandle counts six traffic deaths from Christmas holidays. Three soldiers and three civilians died in two crashes near Shamrock and Canyon. The toll included a 16 year old Pleasant Valley student and Lone Wolf, Snyder residents. Further injuries and hospital updates followed as the region mourned the losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Potter County
Pleasant Valley
William F. Stevenson
Maplewood
L. T. Carter
Stratford
Okla
Clarence Haines
San Jacinto
Cal
Amarillo Field
Lee Russell
Shamrock
St. Mary's Hospital
Cpl
Jack Forrester
Tulsa
George Meatheina
Tex Crabtree
Forrester
Meatheina
Crabtree
Pvt
J. R. Willis
Pauls Valley
Northwest
Texas
Canyon
Wallace McKee
Colorado
J. W. Walker
Central
Charles Holman
South
Cleveland
McKee
Paul Medlin
Amos W. Medlin
Sugarless After Run Grips Amarillo Shoppers
In Amarillo Christmas sugar lines form as OPA restricts sugar stamps and cancels canning certificates. Stores reopen late and stocks are bought privately while butter points rise to 24 and canned veggies return to ration lists. Judge Marvin Jones arrives to assess the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Marvin Jones
Washington, D. C
Mixup in Mails Bring Marine Baby Clothes
A Christmas box intended for Marine Pvt Charles K. Dean of Dallas contained baby clothes for his four month old son Charles R. Dean. The box, delayed, arrived in the Pacific theater and caused embarrassment as the Marine opened it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Marine Pvt
Charles K. Dean
Dean
Dallas
Charles R. Dean
Japanese suffer greatest defeat on Leyte in Pacific war
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced a decisive Leyte campaign finish after a double Christmas amphibious landing and overland advances. He cited staggering Japanese losses totaling 113,221 men and 27 ships, while American casualties reached 11,217 with 2,623 killed. The 77th, 7th, 24th, 32nd divisions and the First cavalry sealed Japanese pockets and pursued remaining forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Hirohito
Nippon
Leyte
MacArthur
Tomoyuki Yamashita
77Th
Palompon
Puerto Bello
San Isidro
Canadians Advance in Italy as Snow Deepens Front
Canadian troops of the Eighth Army seized Rosetta near Ravenna after house to house fighting on Christmas Day and push along the Senio River toward Alfonsine. In Italy snow blankets Bologna sector and temperatures stay below freezing while Allied air forces fly 1600 sorties.
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Rome
U.P
Eighth Army
Rosetta
Ravenna
Savage House
Senio
Alfonsine
Ravena
Ferrara
Fifth Army
Bologna
Mediterranean
15Th Air Force
Brux
Germany
Austria
Tactical Air Force
Italy
Reviso
Alert for Robombs Threat Prompts Civilian Defense Readiness
Washington reports the nation’s civilian defense corps alerted to possible enemy robot or rocket bomb attacks. OCD emphasizes routine preparedness and urges public calm while distributing protection bulletins. Eastern defense units recalled to study extra measures for V bomb attack scenarios.
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OCD
Eastern Defense Command
Pailey Alexander Wins Award for News Tip
Pailey Alexander receives a five dollar prize for a tip about a baby killed in a driveway. Lyndall White earns three dollars for early eclipse calls and Mrs. H L Mauldin wins two dollars for reporting a stalled city bus revived by soft drink. Additional tips list multiple residents and addresses.
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Bailey Alexander
Arthur
Lyndall White
North Buchanan
Venus
H. L. Mauldin
East Eighth
Mattie Lee Smith
Taylor
Yvonne Westberry
Tyler
H. J
Weather Summary Amarillo and Vicinity and West Texas
The forecast notes cloudy conditions with sleet changing to freezing rain in the afternoon and night with icing. Temperatures stay below freezing into Wednesday morning, then rise slightly. Rain is expected in West Texas and New Mexico with snow flurries on the mountains, and temperatures rise Wednesday. The high for the 24 hours ending 6 30 AM is 25, low 18, noon 26.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
Rio Grande Valley
New Mexico
Quiet Christmas for Police in Amarillo Jail
Two inmates shared Christmas dinner as Amarillo city jail ran near empty. Chief Sid Harper called it one of the most orderly Christmases in the history of the police department and noted the department received fewer than 20 calls all day. Stock accounting forms, Russell Stationery Company, E A Regal Co Real Estate Loans.
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Amarillo
Police Department
Sid Harper
Red Army closes on Budapest as Axis troops face encirclement
Russian forces break the German Hungarian line on the western flank cutting railways and driving toward the Danube crossing at Esztergom. Front reports say about 20 000 German and Hungarian troops killed or captured as Budapest braces for a final stand inside the besieged city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
U.P
Red Army
Budapest
Vienna
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Red
Danube
Esztergrom
Icing Closes In as Freezing Rain Hits City
Weather Bureau warns heavy icing of trees and shrubs this afternoon as sleet turns to freezing rain and continues through the night. H C Winburn says no repeat of the November 1940 storm. temps rise from 18 to near 30 as West Texas shares the icy spell.
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Weather Bureau
Weatherman
H. C. Winburn
Mercury
West
Texas
Germans Capture Large American Fuel Dump
Germans seize a major American gasoline dump totaling 85 000 gallons near Bastogne delaying U S forces in Belgium. The capture indicates gasoline shortages as 13 Nazi self propelled guns were taken after running low on fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Belgium
Bastogne
Plot to kill Churchill thwarted by dynamite threat in Athens
A cache of nearly a ton of dynamite was found in a sewer under the Great Britain Hotel in Athens. British and Greek leaders planned a conference with all civil war factions while Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden were expected to attend.
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Athens
U.R
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Forrestal defends Navy after Philippine Sea losses
Secretary of Navy James Forrestal said American forces suffered damage from land based Japanese aircraft in the Philippines after the October sea battle but mission plans remain intact. He declined to detail which ships were hit or recovery timelines to avoid aiding the Japanese.
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Washington
Philippines
Philippine Sea
James Forrestal
Navy
Forrestal
Three Germans in U S Uniforms Are Executed
On the Western Front Christmas morning three German noncommissioned officers were executed by an American firing squad after being caught in American uniforms. They were tied to posts as medics pinned white discs over their hearts. One cried out “Long live our Puehrer” as German women internees sang in the barracks before the executions.
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Western Front
U.P
Puehrer
Destroyed 38 Jap Aircraft Message to Chennault
Christmas Eve raid by U ten Mustang pilots hit an airfield at Tsinan Shantung. The communique to Maj. Gen. Clair Chenault reported destroying 38 Japanese aircraft.
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Chennault
Chungking
Shantung
Tsinan
Gen. Clair
U. S. Air Fo
China
Lumber Supply Ad Mentions John Maynard Lumber Co
Fragment summarizes a lumber dealer reference naming John Maynard Lumber Co and an address 800 W south. The note appears as a small classified snippet likely advertising lumber products or services.
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Death
Eppeldorf
Diekirch
Eighth Air Force
Rhine
Malmedy- Stavelot
J. O. Thorp
Snyder
Signal Corps
NEA
U.S. First Army
Leonard Milliman
Tokyo
Clark Field
Manila
Negros Island
Nanking
Saipan
Freeman Motor Co
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Pailey Alexander
Claudeene Pickett
Western
Betty Ince
Polk
Kenneth Johnston
M. M. Dickson
Lincoln
R. H. Bryan
George Chilton
East Fifteenth
B. E. Sherrill
North Polk
Gary Clark
U. S. Weather Bureau
Russell Stationery Company
E. A. Regal Co
By Henry Shapiro
Stalingrad
W. J. Morris
Insurance
Dial
Lumder
John Maynard Lbr, Co
W. Sth
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