50 B-29s Bomb Tokyo Raid Signal Rising Pacific Tempest
American bombers striking Tokyo Yokohama area in a mass raid interrupts the Diet reading. US fighters claim 74 Japanese planes destroyed over the Philippines and North China. Lt. McGuire posts 38 confirmed kills, two behind Bong.
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Tokyo
Japan
Honshu Island
Haywood Hansell, Jr
Nagoya
Masahima
Saipan
Luzon Island
Manila
Clark Field
Maj
Thomas McGuire
San Antonio
Tex
Richard S. Bong
America
North China
Tinah
Shan“ing
Truce Talks Fail As ELAS Rebuffs Terms In Athens clash
Greek Populist Party members reject ELAS peace terms as inadmissible and warn they could dissolve the state. British artillery and SAS units clash near Omonia Square while Churchill appeals for restraint. In Washington, House Democrats plan to retain Sam Rayburn as speaker.
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Athens
ELAS
Churchill
Stylianos Gonadas
SAS
Rayburn Washington
Cannon
Missouri
House Appropriations Committee
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Congress
Ats
House
Real Estate and Insurance Ad by E A Regal Co
E A Regal Co listing services include real estate loans and insurance with contact by dialing 4414 W J Morris noted in the advertisement.
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E. A. Regal Co
W. J. Morris
Insurance
Dial
Nazi Advance Units Halted Near Meuse Front
American troops repelled German armored columns advancing toward the Meuse River as part of a larger counteroffensive. U S forces reported regaining initiative on the flanks of the drive into Belgium and fighting remained fluid in the Hotton to Bastogne area. Allied air power attacked western Germany rail yards and junctions while Bastogne’s surrounded garrison received parachuted supplies.
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Paris
Meuse
Doughboys
Belgium
Celles
Ciney
Supreme Headquarters
U. S
Hotton
Bastogne
Karl von Rundstedt
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Berlin
Field Marshal von Rundstedt
Bonn
Euskirchen
Andernach
Coblenz
Homburg
Kassel
Fulda
von Rundstedt
French
Namur
Brussels
Dinant
Buda
Danube
Szekesfehervar
Budapest
Feodor I. Tolbuskhin
Sis
Supplies Dropped To Yanks In Bastogne Area
Hundreds of tons of ammunition food and medicine were parachuted today to American troops cut off by a German drive in the Bastogne sector of Belgium. A lone transport piloted by Col Joel D. Crouch Riverside CA dropped a pathfinder unit to guide cargo planes.
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Bastogne
London
Belgium
Britain
France
Joel D. Crouch
Riverside
Calif
Crouch
Hitler
Thawing Expected This Afternoon After Sleet Freeze
The weatherman predicts considerable thawing this afternoon after a morning of icy streets in Amarillo. Residents skated to bus stops as sleet left streets slick and some children, new to ice skates, fell. Last night dropped to 30 degrees before clearing and cooling to 23 tonight with cloudy skies tomorrow.
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Amarillo
Weather Outlook For Amarillo West Texas And New Mexico
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures tonight with continued cloudiness and colder conditions on Thursday. The Panhandle should see fair weather this afternoon tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Highs reach 35 in the northeast to 50 in the southwest. lows range from 25 to 40. Temperature data show 24 hour high 31 and low 27 with noon 28. Neely Green hill Lowndes Insurance advertises and Russell Stationery Co. advertised printing estimates.
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Amarillo
Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Analysts Postpone V E Day For Months, Says Hightower
Washington dispatch reports military strategists expect three to six months added to the anticipated victory date in Europe. Eisenhower may still turn the tide on the western front, but confidence is waning as misjudgments and German reorganization behind the West Wall are noted. The age spread and weak units among German forces are cited as factors in the current lull.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chinese Reds Hit Japanese Forces At Heishikkuan
The Chinese Communist Army reports a victory over a Japanese force guarding a bridge at Heishikkuan, 30 miles east of Loyang, and says 2,000 Chinese forced laborers were liberated. The Eighth Route Army outlined five program points including driving out Japanese, rallying anti Japanese forces, and starting relief work.
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United Press
Henan
Heishikkuan
Loyang
Yenan
FCC
Eighth Route Army
Germans In US Uniforms Drop Behind Allied Lines
The Stars and Stripes reports a German parachutist task force in American uniforms behind Allied lines aimed at killing high ranking officers. They carried sulfuric acid vials to spray faces, and numbered about two battalions. Uniforms were taken from captured U.S. troops who were later shot.
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London
Stars and Stripes
Western Front
Soviets Press Into Charred Budapest Amid Heavy Fighting
Red Army troops strike into Budapest as the city endures intense street fighting. German forces burn stores, dynamite utilities, and defend key bridges while thousands of Nazi casualties flood the roads after a regional encirclement.
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Moscow
Red Army
Budapest
Danube
Panhandle Highway Widening and Lighting Planned
Amarillo city officials plan widening North East Eighth Avenue known as the Panhandle Highway and installing an adequate lighting system. City manager A. P. Hancock said federal aid provisions will fund post war highway work with funds available to municipalities and Amarillo is expected to receive a share based on population. The state highway department has requested detailed post war plans.
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Panhandle Highway
North East
Eighth Avenue
Amarillo
A. P. Hancock
Hancock
State Highway Department
Soldiers Contribute 279 for Child Who Never Existed
Mrs. Pauline Wykoff faced a dilemma over 279 dollars sent by Pvt Harold H Wykoffs squadron mates for a son who would have been born to the dead airman The husband was reported killed in an England crash last August and the chaplain sent the money as a fund for Harold Jr The widow said she would write to the chaplain to return the funds and explain the situation.
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Kansas City
U.P
Pauline Wykoff
Harold H. Wykoff
England
Wykoff
Russell T. Phillips
Phillips
Harold, Jr
Harold
Wykoffs
LaGuardia Promises Meat Shipment Rise After Holiday Lapse
New York Mayor LaGuardia said the city will see larger meat shipments soon as the so called business holiday ends and about half of the 10 000 retail meat stores reopen. He cited suspected black market activity among wholesalers and hinted at possible livestock price ceilings.
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New York
U.P
LaGuardia
Senator Proposes 21 Cent Ceiling on Top Corn Fed Cattle
Sen Edward V Robertson Republican of Wyoming proposed a 21 cents per pound ceiling on top corn fed cattle at Chicago. He urged prices for other cattle grades be adjusted to utility beef. The discussion occurred at a Chicago conference with OPA livestock advisers and officials, with another meeting planned for Kansas City.
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Edward V. Robertson
Wyoming
Chicago
OPA Livestock Advisory
Arval Erickson
OPA
John Madigan
Food Price Division
Kansas City
Jap Official Says U S Running Short of Supplies
Former Japanese minister of commerce Vice Admiral Takuo Godo declares the United States is running out of war materials and eager to avoid a protracted war. He calls on Japan and Germany to strike blows that would end their common enemies America and Britain in a Tokyo Shibun article.
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Associated Press
United States
Japan
Germany
America
Britain
Takuo Godo
Tokyo Shibun
Domei
Federal Communication Commission
Executions of Vichy Gestapo members in Paris
In Paris on December 27 a military firing squad executed Henri Chamberlain alias La Fonte Pierre Bony and six other Vichy French Gestapo members convicted of colluding with the Germans against French patriots during the occupation.
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Paris
Henri Chamberlain
Alias la Fonte
Pierre Bony
Vichy
Gestapo
France
Lloyd George to retire from Parliament in coming term
British statesman David Lloyd George announced his retirement from Parliament when his current term ends. A veteran of 54 years in the House, he is seen as the father of the Commons and said to retire on his physician's advice.
Amarillo Tests New Street Signs At Fourth Avenue Polk Street
Amarillo city officials test enamelled blue street signs attached to White Way standards at Fourth Avenue and Polk Street. City manager A P Hancock notes curb signs are unsatisfactory and costly, and a public fund will buy improved signs, with trials using brown brackets and aluminum dabbed brackets to reduce clash.
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Amarillo
Fourth Avenue
Polk Street
A. P. Hancock
Hancock
Ward's Store Raided by Protesters in Dearborn
A crowd estimated at 75 people raided the Montgomery Ward store in Dearborn, smashing glass and toppling counters during a three week strike. Store manager Roland Easterbrook called the group union goons. no injuries were reported and police said order was restored after about 15 minutes. The Dearborn location is one of three Detroit area Ward stores involved in the same labor action.
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Detroit
Montgomery Wand Company
Dearborn
Roland Easterbrook
Montgomery Ward
Easterbrook
American Submarines Sink Jap Aircraft Carrier and 26 Ships
The Navy reports American submarines destroyed a large Japanese aircraft carrier along with eight additional warships and twenty other Nipponese vessels. Details were limited, but the strike occurred in the Far East with a mix of destroyers, escort vessels, transports, cargo ships, and tankers reported among the losses.
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Washington
Navy
Far Eastern
Forrestal
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China
Leyte
Henan Province
Sugiyama
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo- Yokohama
Grand Bretagne
Bend
Para- Fote
Omonia Square
U. 8 Weather Bureau
Neely-Green hill-Lowndes Insurance
Russell Stationery Co
Asia
Pacific
West Wall
U.S
Llano Cemetery
Randall County
Llano
Sam Houston Junior High School
McKinley School
New York City
John ‘Maynard Lbr. Co
W. 5Th
Ward
Freeman Motor Co
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