Allied push in Pacific gathers pace amid Japan setbacks
Gen. George C. Marshall returns to U.S. after Cairo Tech talks as Allied leaders plan a broad offensive. Air actions over the Southwest Pacific claim new targets at Rabaul and Maloelap while Japan evacuates parts of Bougainville and weakens New Britain defenses. Allied air raids sink merchant ships and damage others near New Ireland, Cape Merkus, and surrounding waters.
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Associated Press
George U. 8
Conpacific
Japan
New Britain
Bougainville
Oth
Marshall
New Guinea
United
New
Cairo
Douglas
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Admir William F. Halsey
South Pacific
F. Harmon
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Robert C. Richardson, Jr
Central Pacific
Ftch
New Ireland
Cape Merkus
South
Dog Saves Family From Monoxide Gas Fumes
Cincinnati report says a spaniel named Tillie woke Elmer F Sieh and his two children when deadly fumes from monoxide built in the basement. The dog’s whine and scratch triggered investigation, revealing a death in the fume-filled room.
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Dog
Cincinnati
Elmer F. Sieh
Tillie
Utah ordnance plant closes after wartime production
Salt Lake City report says the Utah ordnance plant, once employing over 10 000 workers, shut down as War Department deems stockpile of small arms ammunition sufficient for future needs. The closure affects nearly a third of the women workers who chose other jobs.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Dec
Ex Congressmen Mouser Dies At 48 In Ohio
Former Republican congressman Grant E Mouser of the Eighth Ohio District from 1928 to 1932 died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 48.
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Marion
Grant E. Mouser
Ohio
5 Point Park Ration Bonus Is Announced
Washington OPA introduces Spare Ration Stamp No 1 worth five points for pork and substitutes to move meat to housewives. The bonus lasts until January 2 with families of five able to buy about 20 pounds weekly in pork and up to 40 pounds in cheaper cuts. Hog supply floods markets stressing facilities.
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Washington
OPA
Much Colder Weather Forecast for Thursday
The weather forecast for Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia calls for colder conditions Wednesday and a much colder trend by Thursday. Temperatures rise slowly Friday and Saturday before turning colder again Sunday. Snow flurries are expected Wednesday with light snow around Saturday.
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Columbus
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Sisson Remains in Serious Condition in Columbus Hospital
U. S. Marshal Charles H. Chob Sisson of Nelsonville and Columbus is reported in serious condition with pneumonia at a Columbus hospital. In Lancaster, Samuel Williamson, 54, died after being gored by a bull on his farm 12 miles south of town while en route to a tar.
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Columbus
Charles H. (Chob) Sisson
Nelsonville
U. S
Southern Ohio District
Lancastetf
Samuel Wiliamson
Here
Plan Rides For Soldier
New York businessmen form the Servicemen's Travel Canteen to help soldiers get home on furloughs without spending carfare. They coordinate trucking routes from New York to Chicago, matching men at nearby camps with trips, letting G I Joe save money for a pickup to see his girl.
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New York
Chicago
G-I Joe
Money pasted on Willow Run bomber goes to war orphans fund
Workers at the Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan posted over $1,000 on a Liberator fuselage as it moved along the assembly line. A penny found on the floor started a drive with a note asking money pasted on the ship go to an aviation engineers company in England. Bills up to twenty dollars were added.
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Detroit
Willow Run
War Orphans Fund
Stars and Stripes
Army
Aviation Engineers
England
Richest Girl Obtains Reno Divorce Decree
Doris Duke Cromwell, 31, billed as the richest girl in the world, wins a default divorce decree in Reno from James H. R. Cromwell former U S minister to Canada. In Newark, Cromwell seeks to have the decree declared null and void.
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Reno
Nev
Doris Duke Cromwell
James H. R. Cromwell
U. S
Canada
Newark
N. J
Cromwell
Chauncey Pvt Virgil McNabb Relates New Georgia Pocket Rescue
Chauncey soldier Virgil McNabb recounts four and a half days trapped with hundreds of infantry in a New Georgia valley ringed by Japanese. The group lacked food water and medical aid while under constant machine gun fire until a platoon broke the siege on the fifth day. He landed at Guadalcanal last April amid near continuous raids and humorously notes air raids foil his movie plans.
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Charles
Bradfield Messenger
Chauncey
Virgil McNabb
Ernest
Agnes Covert McNabb
New Georgia
McNabb
Guadalcanal
Pride of the Yankees
Allies Push Ahead Along Italian Front In Ortona and Rome
Canadian forces in Ortona press the Adriatic front as tanks join a heavy artillery assault 11 miles from Pescara. In Italy, the Fifth Army gains snowbound heights toward Rome while air raids hammer German positions. Russian and Balkan fronts surge, Tito reports 40,000 October November casualties, and German counterattacks intensify in Ukraine and White Russia.
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Eighth Army
Ortona
Pescara
Vitebsk
Italy
Amerian Fifth Army
Rome
France
Germany
Hamels
Polotsk
Kiev Bulge
Korosten
White Russia
Zhiobin
Berezina
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Moscow
Algiers
Italian Adriatic
Fifth Army
Terracina
Yugoslavia
Salamis
Greece
Marshal Tito
Tito
Berlin
Jajce
Balkans
Fanco
U. S
Valencia
French Committee of National Liberation
Jean Darian
Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle
Axis
Ardent de Gaullist
Lefty Gomez Arrives in Algiers for Army Camp Tour
Former major league pitching star Lefty Gomez arrived in Algiers today to tour Army camps and was admitted to a hospital for treatment of a throat infection.
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Algiers
Lefty Gomez
Cold Wave Grips Midwest As Winter Arrives
The Weather Bureau reports a six state cold wave with sub zero readings in Minnesota Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Temperatures range from 13 below in Duluth to plus 20 in southern Illinois and Iowa with winds 15 to 20 mph increasing discomfort. Readings forecast to dip to 15 below tomorrow in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin and new cold continues into Friday with no major precipitation expected.
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Chicago
Midwest
Minnesota
Wisconsin
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Duluth
Great Lakes
Illinois
Iowa
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Mason City
Upper
Michigan
Lower
Indiana
Istanbul War Scare Rises as Troop Movements Spark Anxiety
War scare grips Istanbul as families move across the Bosporus and columns of troops reappear for a field campaign unseen since spring 1941. The Cairo conference fuels public unease while new German faces surface in the city, described by an Allied official as “the usual strongarm boys.”
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Istanbul
Turkey
Strait of Bosporus
Cairo
U S Requisitions Ohio Firm's Cheese Stocks
The Food Distribution Administration has requisitioned 172820 pounds of cheddar from Fisher Dairy and Cheese Company of Wapakoneta Ohio. E O Pollock regional FDA head announced the order under a federal plan requiring cheese manufacturers to set aside monthly percentages of output for government delivery.
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Chicago
Food Distribution Administration
Fisher Dairy and Cheese Company
Wapakoneta
Pollock
FDA
Coast Guards Search Ocean for Two Fliers
Coast guardsmen scour the ocean two miles off San Diego for Second Lts. Ralph Burson of Alliance Ohio and Herman C. Gaddis of Bastrop Louisiana after their P-38 collided and crashed. One flier was seen to parachute, according to the army.
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San Diego
Calif
Coast
Ralph Burson
Alliance
Herman C. Gaddis
Bastrop
Army
Youths Loot Arena Building Cash and Bonds in Cleveland
Two youths robbed three offices in the Arena Building taking 50000 in negotiable bonds including 25000 in war bonds and a 350 diamond ring after holding a 57 year old night porter for four hours. The loot totaled 52500 in cash and bonds, with auditor William J P Brown reporting to police.
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Cleveland
Arena
General Arena
William J. P. Brown
German Native Averts Troop Train Wreck
Eugene Halder a Pennsauken resident and his 15 year old nephew discovered a 55 foot oak tree fallen on a railroad track and alerted police. Officers found a troop train approaching and halted it about 500 feet from the obstruction.
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Camden
N. J
Pennsauken Creek
Eugene Halder
Pennsauken
Germany
Eugene Schneider
Halder
Halder and Schneider
Maple Shade
USES Bureaus To Take Job Insurance Claims
Columbus report says unemployed Ohioans after January 1 can file jobless compensation claims on weekdays at all USES offices through a cooperative plan with the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation. Previously only BUC staff could take claims. under the plan, USES managers in smaller offices will process them for BUC.
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Columbus
Examiner resigns in Cleveland whiskey purchase probe
Joseph M. Edson resigned as examiner for the Ohio State Auditor in Columbus after a published report alleged irregularities in whiskey purchases in Cleveland. The action follows the inquiry into state procurement practices and the governor named a replacement to fill the post.
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Examiner
Columbus
Joseph M. Edson
State
Joseph T. Ferguson
Cleveland
Nazis Threaten Reprisals Over Soviet Executions
German propaganda denounced Kharkov trials and accused Allied airmen of crimes. Goebbels warned of further attacks on Berlin and promised retaliation by Nazi courts against British and American prisoners. The Swiss report cited names painted on bomber fuselages and claimed German brutality was justified by Kharkov proceedings.
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London
Germany
Kharkov
Paul Joseph Goebbels
DNB
Bremen
Berlin
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
Khakov
Foreign Office
Teheran
Roosevelt
Churchill
Workers in Shop Office To Walkout
Washington announces strike orders tightening White House efforts to avert a rail tie up. About 1.1 million office, shop and track workers set a Dec 30 deadline for wage demands, with five operating brotherhoods negotiating over vacations, overtime, and expenses.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Bee
Shipyard Workers Urged To End Cleveland Strike
Chairman Lewis M. Gill of the regional War Labor Board urged about 1,000 workers at the Cleveland yards of the American Ship Building Co to return to their jobs. The WLB warned it may use full wartime powers to enforce compliance if the strike persists past tomorrow morning.
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Cleveland
Lewis M. Gill
Regional War Labor Board
Cleveland Yards
American Ship Building Co
WLB
Auto crash leaves Parma driver with minor injuries
Cleveland report says John J. Satow of suburban Parma had his automobile demolished when it plummeted 60 feet from the Eagle Avenue ramp into the flats. He escaped with a scratch on his nose.
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Cleveland
John J. Satow
Parma
Eagle Avenue
Warner Heads Campaign for Herbert in Ohio Gubernatorial Race
Milo J. Warner of Toledo former national commander of the American Legion will manage Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert's campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Columbus.
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Columbus
Milo J. Warner
Toledo
American Legion
Atty
Thomas J. Herbert
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