US First Army Pushes Through Roer to Duren Near Cologne
U S First Army patrols cross the Roer River reach Duren about 20 miles from Cologne as German counteroffensive seeks to push into Belgium. Allied air and ground forces strike back destroying tanks and armor while German losses mount in a major battlefront sweep from Monschau to near Aachen.
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U. S. First Army
Roer
Duren
Cologne
Belgium
Roer River
Belg Mile
First Army
Monschau
Yesteray Saat US
Eve Monschau
Luxembourg
Japan Factory Targeted as Superforts Hit Philippines
Allied air and ground actions report heavy bombing of Japanese plane production centers in a campaign aimed at halting aircraft supplies to the Philippines. American ground forces advance on Mindoro, with Mindanao and Leyte combat noted as intense as U S forces claim decisive blows to Japanese divisions and new airport gains near Valencia in the Ormoc Valley. Dozens of B 29s also conducted strikes across western China and southern areas, targeting Kyushu industries.
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Associatedress
Philippines
Mindoro
Teyte
MacArthur
Leyte
Valencia
Ormoc
China
Kyu- Shu
United States backs Poland partition frontier plan via Curzon line
American officials weigh a Poland eastern frontier settlement as Allied leaders push for a stable transition. Roosevelt and Churchill discussions hint the United States will not oppose a Curzon line based solution, while Britain presses Poland to accept a London government and the Lublin Committee’s status. Meanwhile in Asia the war widens with Japan suffering heavy losses. American air and sea forces report significant strikes on Japanese targets, including Kokuki factory and Nagoya power, as Mindoro operations prepare for the invasion.
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Washington
Poland
Russia
Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
United States
London
Russia National Committee
Lublin
United ‘States
Stettinius
Lublin Committee
Japan
Tokyo
Omura
Hankow
Mitsubishi Aircraft Company
Nazoya
Honshu Island
U.S. War Department
Haywood Hansell Jr
Saipan
Kokuki
Nagoya
Philippines
Vict Adm
John McCain
Mindoro
Manila
Associated Press
T Elmont Waite
China
Chin
Cheng-Kiang
Golden City
U.S
Liuchow
Kwangsi Province
Navy Department
Admiral Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Manla Bay
Luzon
Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Richard J. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Jailed After Idren Are Rescued In Fire Event
EAST LIVERPOOL Mrs Hubert Cline of Wellsville mother of three and grandmother of two is charged with contributing to children's delinquency after Mayor Clarence H Peters said five children were rescued from a burning home by a passing train crew. Also charged is Lulu Galento daughter of Cline and mother of two of the children. Both pleaded innocent at a hearing where Cline testified she had been shopping while Galento worked at a tavern.
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East Liverpool
Hubert’ Cline
Wellsville
Clarence H. Peters
Lulu Galento
Cline
Heinz Ad Budget Plans Landmark Newspaper Push
Harrisburg report notes Heinz Company plans a newspaper advertising budget for 945 times greater than last year. The Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association cites H J Heinz Company president stating the firm will discontinue sponsorship of the radio program Information Please and scrap future newspaper ads.
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Heinz Company
Harrisburg
H. J. Heine Companie
Pennsylvania
Pulishers’ Association
PNPA
H. J. Heing
Advewspapers
Coldest winter weather grips the state with ice and snow
Colu mbus region reports plummeting temperatures marking the season’s low as a fresh layer of ice and snow coats the area. Forecasters warn of more snow and continued cold with poor outlook.
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Columbus
Rioting Verdicts Shake Fort Lawton Italian Service Unit
In Seattle a riot trial found more than 200 soldiers involved as officials report 27 Black soldiers found guilty of rioting during an attack on an Italian service unit at Fort Lawton on August 14. The body of Pvt. Guglielmo Olivotto was found hanging amid the incident.
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Seattle
Wash—Up
Fort Lawton
Pvt. Guglielmo Olvotto
FDR Returns From Stay at Warm Springs
President Franklin D Roosevelt returns from a three week vacation at Warm Springs Georgia and heads to the White House for a full day. He traveled by special train and had a two hour Marine corps training area visit at Camp Lejeune North Carolina yesterday. The trip’s details were kept secret for security reasons until his return.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
White House
Georgia
Camp LeJeune
New River
Jacksonville
N.C
Associated Press
United Press
International News Service
Churchill Defense Ties UK Action to American Aims
London prime minister defends British troop intervention in Belgium and Greece, stating actions followed American instructions. He warned the Commons that an immediate Greek review would require a vote of censure, risking government collapse if defeated, while the opposition hesitated to face the challenge.
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London
Commons
Greece
Belgium
Churchill
House of Commons
Army draft calls to be increased in 1948
Washington reports new draft plans raising monthly calls from 60 000 to 80 000 beginning January and February. All men under 30 previously rejected for the draft as of last February 1 will be reexamined in 1948 unless they have clear physical defects.
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Washington
Army
Greek Leftists Drive British From Prison
ELAS attacked Averoff Prison forcing British forces to abandon the site. Jean lis, a quisling ex premier, appeared to have escaped during the disorder. About 205 men and 30 women among 4751 prisoners reportedly escaped. many were awaiting political trials. RAF HQ at Kifissia endured an ELAS siege with noncombatant staff holding out against 600 ELAS troops, as Beaufighters and Spitfires conducted support. British communications noted ELAS withdrawals from the Athens to Piraeus highway as the clash continued.
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Elas
Averoff
Quisling
Jean Lis
RAF
Kifissia
BAS
Piraeus
Approval of Appointees Is Predicted
The Senate fight over six State Department nominations neared collapse as President Roosevelt signaled he would renominate the same names if confirmation is blocked now. Senator Pepper led the opposition while administration leaders predicted votes on Grew Archibald MacLeish Rockefeller Dunn and Julius Holmes. Pepper said the president would remove any appointees not carrying out his policies while in office.
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Washington
Senate
State Department
Roosevelt
Pepper
D-Fla
Congress
Joseph C. Grew
Archibald MacLeish
Nelson Rockefeller
W. L. James C. Dunn
Julius Holmes
Sen
Sesson
Air
R. Stettinius Jr
Sidney Hillman
CIO
Political Action Committee
Guffey
D-Pa
Guffy
Lausche Inauguration Set For Simple Ceremony in Columbus
Cleveland Mayor says Gov Elect Lausche will be sworn in with no pomp in Columbus on January 8. No festivities or elevations planned. official explains times are too serious, vows the simplest ceremony possible.
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Ausche
Cleveland
Fire Kills Two Children in Lima Home Morning Blaze
A fire swept through a South Lima residence early this morning, burning two small children to death, a third child and their nursemaid were seriously injured. In Evansville Indiana the Rt Rev Msgr Henry J Grimmelsman will be consecrated bishop of the newly formed Diocese this Thursday.
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Fir Lima
Tren
South Lima
Murray Green In New Clash Over Labor Unity
Washington report on Philip Murray and William Green clashing over unity for war and peace. Murray reopened the issue with a letter urging a meeting to outline a broad program of action while omitting a merger. Green and AFL delegates favor reuniting CIO with John L Lewis Mine Workers.
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Washington
CIO
Philip Murray
AFL
William Green
Labor Unity
Murray
Green
John L. Lewis
Ward Stores May Be Seized
Washington four) For the second time this year Sewell A ry, chairman of Montgomery Ward Company, today faced possible government seizure of his firm's property.
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Ward
Washington
Sewell A ‘Ry
Montgomery Ward Company
Inm
Venus Moon WLB Crisis Report From Kansas City
A garbled dateline story describes a Labor Board directive clash involving workers and wage orders. The text references Venus, Mars, and celestial imagery to loosely frame a strike and noncompliance, with scattered mentions of Kansas City, Detroit stores, and a 240000 mile distance.
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Avery ‘O
WLB
Ities
Kansas City
UAP
Venius Test 9
Fred M
Vinson
Moon
Securiy
Detroit
Venus
Cleveland bomb sights firm tied to wartime conspiracy
A federal grand jury indicted Carl Norden Inc and a war plant survey firm along with four individuals on charges of conspiring to slow production of Norden bombsights. The case names multiple firms in a broad conspiracy linked to wartime material damage and business disruption.
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New York
Indic Carll. Norden, Inc
Cleveland
East Company
Corrigan, Oxburne and
Ohio Gas Co
Relay 1
Buffalo man charged with harboring WAC fugitive
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eugene J. Donnelly said Jake Williams 43 of Buffalo will be tried next month at Elmira on charges of harboring and refusing to surrender WAC Pvt Irene Alice Way 30 formerly of Zanesville Ohio listed AWOL at Selfridge Field Michigan Williams harbored the WAC from April until this month in a case filed in Buffalo.
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Buffalo
U.S
Eugene J. Donnelly Vaid
Jake Williams
Elmira
WAC
Irene
Alice Way
Zanesville
Selfridge Field
Mich
Williams
German counteroffensive stalls near Cologne and Aachen
Allied reports show U S First and Ninth Armies griping pressure west of the Roer near Cologne with advances at Duren Wurm Mullendorf and Bech north of G enkirchen. Third Army pushes to Dillingen Saarlautern while Seventh Army nears Siegfried Line in Palatinate. Berlin claims threat but maps hint at scattered gains for the Allies.
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U. S. First
Ninth Army
Cologne
Roer
Rolsdorf
Fortress Duren
Wurm
Mullendorf
Beech
Genkirchen
U. S. Third Army
Dillingen
Saarlautern
U.S
German Palatinate
Berlin
Bern
Aachen
Thein
Karl Rudolf Jeld von Runstedt
von Hitler
Germans Again Hit Ukraine Front in Kyiv Gap Push
British and American air forces battered German armor as tanks and vehicles were destroyed in ongoing battles near Kharkov. Russian troops crossed the Czechoslovak border toward Hungary while Allied airpower threatened German positions in eastern Europe. RAF heavy bombers attacked Gdynia as earlier raids hit Cologne Mainz and Conlenz.
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U.S
Czechoslovak
Hungary
Jiriny
Avranches
Falaise Gap
Slovakia
Poland
Second Ukraine
Kass
Kasse
Keeske
Brodva
Hernad
Kassa
Heavy fighting near Rimini and advances toward Senio River
A World War II dispatch reports continued heavy combat of the Eighth Army near Bagnacavallo about 10 miles into the Po Valley above Rimini Bolo via Highway Faenza with western thrusts toward the Senio River five and a half miles from Imola Yugoslav Partisans lure Podgorica and an important center in southern Montenegro ten miles from the Albanian border.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Bagnacavallo
Rimini-Bolovia
Faenza
Senio
Imola
Podgorica
Montenegro
Jap Made Free Balloon Found in Timber Area
Kalispell Montana residents spotted a Japanese made free balloon drifting from the west, described as blue and cream with ideographs. FBI officials confirmed the device, 33.5 inches wide with a six inch bomb, could ignite a fire and noted a 70 foot fuse sputtered out without causing damage.
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Kalispell
Mont
West Wie
Cape Flattery
Pacific Coast
Mil
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Owen
B. Hill
Dannister
Manth ‘Ward
Bannister
FBI
Supreme Court Upholds Exclusion Order and Loyalty Ruling
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the 1942 exclusion of Japanese on the West Coast as applied by the Army and revoked only this Monday. In a separate ruling the justices unanimously held that an American woman of Japanese descent was entitled to unconditional removal from a war relocation center as a loyal citizen.
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Vaomungson
Supreme Court
Hhe
Dr Jon Scott 80 Ohio State President Emeritus Dies in NYC
Dr Jon Scott 80 son of Scott, third Ohio State University president and Yale professor emeritus, died Saturday in Presbyterian Hospital New York City. He lived in New Haven after retiring from Yale in 1933. Survived by wife Emily Clark Scott and brother Dr Herbert Scott. The Scott family formerly lived in Athens.
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Ous
Jon Scott
Scott
Ohio State University
Beretha Scott
Westerville
Presbyterian Hospital
New York City
New Haven
Conn
Ince
Yale University
Ohio State Universts Alumni Association
Emily Clark Scott
Herbert Scott
Beason
Til
Athens
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Partition OF
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