Allied Bombardment and Frontline Battles Reported Worldwide
The RAF bombs Berlin with 1 120 tons causing fires seen 120 miles away. Allied air raids hit Northern France, and German defenses in the Channel contend with convoy actions. Soviet and Western Allied forces clash near Vitebsk Kiev Zhlobin while Italian front activity continues around Ortona. In the Pacific, Japan confronts air raids. MacArthur reports two 6000-ton transports and a 3000-ton freighter hit at Wewak.
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RAF
Berlin
London
France
Britain
Vitebsk
Moscow
Kiev
Zhlobin
Eighth Army
Ortona
Italian Adriatic
Italia Riviera
Imperia
Ventimiglia
Antheor
Middle East
Aegean
Kharkov
Dover
Calais
Goebbels
Central
Pacific
America
Arawe
New Britain
Tarawa
Gilberts
Kwajalein
Navy
General MacArthur
Wewak
New Guinea
Nazi Plane Decorates Army Unit Tree in Mediterranean
Algiers reports Hitler supplied decorations for a U S Army unit’s Christmas tree in the Mediterranean theater. A machine shop used shavings from the propeller of a JU 88 shot down in the area. The item won a merit citation for technical merit. Akron notes Ciem Ikley of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co earned a merit citation for an arctic fire gripping tire.
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Algiers
Hitler
Mediterranean
The
War _ Production Board
Ciem J. Ikley
Goodyear Tire and Rub- Co
Government Prepares To Seize Rails
President Roosevelt ordered Attorney General Biddle to draft seizure documents as the government moves to take over rail management before the December 30 strike. Rail unions split with operating groups accepting mediation while nonoperating unions backed the plan, sparking uncertainty over a potential shutdown.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Biddle
Whitney
Cleveland Police Chief seeks deferment for remaining officers
Police Chief George J. Matowitz said he would ask draft boards to defer the rest of the Cleveland force. He reported 116 policemen are in the armed forces and replacements are not available.
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Cleveland
George J. Matowitz
Nazi Target Press Notices Cite Bremen Shootdown
A NEA telephoto caption cites bombardier Kenneth Williams and three crewmen shot down over Bremen November 20 for wearing flying suits marked Murder, Inc. The notices discuss reprisals tied to Kharkov executions and reference Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Kharkov
Kenneth Williams
Charlotte
N. C
Bremen
Murder, Inc
WLB Decision May Trigger Steel Work Stoppage
Pittsburgh observers hear CIO leader Philip Murray warn that War Labor Board rulings denying retroactive pay and contract gains threaten nationwide steel stoppages. Murray, head of United Steelworkers of America, says 350,000 steelworkers face loss of agreement by midnight December 24 amid a 17 cent hourly demand to overturn the Little Steel wage formula.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
War Labor Board
United States
Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers of America
Ration Stamp Dates Set for New Additions
The Office of Price Administration announced validity dates for additional ration stamps. In Book three Brown Stamp V for meats fats becomes valid January 23, Stamp W January 30, and Stamp X February 6, all expiring February 26. Stamp Y starts February 13 and Stamp X February 20, both valid through March 20. Green stamps in Book four G H and J are valid January 1 to February 20, while existing Green stamps D E F run through January 20.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Trustees Cancel Electric Bills in St Clairsville Gift
In St Clairsville Ohio about 1000 patrons of the municipal electric system will have November bills stamped paid for the third annual Christmas gift from public affairs trustees who oversee utility operations. Superintendent Harry Ruehl estimated about 1000 bills totaling around 4000 dollars would be cancelled under the trustees order.
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St. Clairsville
Harry Ruehl
Bricker Orders Ohio Offices Closed at Noon Today
Gov John W Bricker ordered state offices closed at noon for a two and a half day holiday leaving the Columbus area without full government operations.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Allied leaders offer Christmas messages from war fronts
Eisenhower MacArthur King Knox and Holcomb issue Christmas greetings from Europe the Pacific and Navy HQs praising soldiers sailors and airmen for their duties in difficult campaigns and expressing hope for a peaceful world soon with unity across allied forces.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Italy
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Lord
Jesus Christ
Ernest J. King
Knox
Thomas Holcomb
Marine Corps
King George To Make Christmas Broadcast
King George plans his sixth Christmas broadcast to the empire and the fifth of the war. The address will be relayed to the United States and beamed to friends and foes on every continent starting at 3 p.m. London time.
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London
Britain
Empire
United States
Will Tighten Ration Rules
The Office of Price Administration will require full compliance with gasoline ration coupon endorsement regulations after Jan. 15. District Enforcement Attorney Willard D. Campbell announced amid widespread failure of distributors to require buyers to write their license numbers on surrendered coupons. Credit would be denied to holders of irregular coupons and prosecutions would occur in extreme cases. Endorsements must be in ink or indelible pencil.
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Columbus
Office of Price Administration
Willard D. Campbell
Campbell
Coast Businessman Enlists Three Times in Wars
CAMP SANTA ANITA Calif a Wenatchee Wash businessman says he is the only man in the United States to enlist as a private in the last three wars. He is president of five corporations and belongs to several exclusive clubs in southern California where he winters. He says he simply feels better about being in uniform.
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Camp Santa Anita
Calif
Wenatchee
Wash
United States
California
Aerial Hitch-Hiker Covers 12000 Miles for Home Leave
Captain D. S. Brookfield of the 14th U. S. Airforce, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal and Purple Heart, hitch hiked 12000 miles over Army routes for Christmas leave. He described it as his toughest mission after 69th flight. At General Tire in Akron, over 1500 workers walked out 12 hours early protesting a new wage schedule amid Christmas gift distribution.
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Bryn Mawr
D. S. Brookfield
U. S. Airforce
Akron
General Tire & Rubber Co
Pope Appeals For Peace in Yale Message
Pope Pius from the Vatican urged a Christmas peace to end war and plan global reconstruction. He called for a just peace not imposed by force and stressed sanctions may be needed, urging a world communion amid present suffering.
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Pope
Yale
London
Pius
Vatican
Holy Father
Goldenrod Crop Shows Potential as Rubber Source
The U S Forestry Service reports its first goldenrod crop near Waynesboro Georgia yields strong dry leaf output. Of 570 acres planted, 500 acres produced 800 to 900 pounds per acre, with leaf rubber content estimated at five to six percent after testing at New Orleans lab.
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Atlanta
United States Forestry Service
Waynesboro
Agricultural Experimental Laboratory
New Orleans
Belasco Stage Manager Carlton Brickert Dies at 52
Carlton Brickert, 52, a noted radio drama performer and former Belasco stage manager, died last night of a heart attack. Brickert previously acted and announced on Treasury Parade programs and later on the Lum and Abner show.
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New York
Carlton Brickert
David Belasco
Brickert
Lum
Abner
Submarine Grayling Reported Lost by Navy
The Navy announced that the submarine Grayling is overdue and presumed lost, marking the sixteenth American submarine reported overdue since the war began.
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Washington
Grayling
Navy Today
Yanks in Near East Join Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Americans from Persia Syria Egypt and Africa join a Christmas pilgrimage in Jerusalem visiting the Church of the Nativity the Garden of Gethsemane and Bethlehem amid war damaged streets. The ceremony culminates with a midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity as U S officials broadcast from there and the Y M C A serves as Red Cross headquarters.
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Jerusalem
Persia
Syria
Egypt
Africa
Prince of Peace
Bethsemane
Golgotha
Bethlehem
Ralph ‘Royce
Ba Cheves
New Fathers
Church of the Nativity
Church of Nativity
Christ
Palp
L. C. Pinkerton
U. S
Y.M.C.A
The
American Red Cross
Roosevelt announces Eisenhower as supreme commander for invasion
President Roosevelt named General Dwight D. Eisenhower to lead Anglo American forces launching a second front against Germany. Churchill and Stalin supported the plan agreed at Teheran, with Spaatz to command American strategic bombing and a British officer to lead the Mediterranean command. The joint offensive aims to encircle Germany from multiple directions while pressing in Italy and Africa.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
George C. Marshall
Churchill
Britain
Eisenhower
Middle East
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Teheran
Italy
Africa
Sicily
Carl D. Spaatz
Mediterranean
Europe
Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Cairo
Hunger Dogs Blamed For Ohio Livestock Losses
Columbus officials say hunger drives more dogs to kill farm animals. Tom Justice of the Columbus Humane Society alleges abandonment and rationing pressures fuel the issue. Franklin County auditors have paid farmers $7,000 so far this year for dog-caused losses, versus $3,814 for all of 1942.
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Columbus
Ohio
Tom Justice
Columbus Humane Society
Justice
Franklin County
Rail Worker Awarded Judgment for 130000 in Accident
Federal jury awards James C. McKinney of Youngstown 130000 after he lost both legs in May accident blamed on defective brakes on a freight car. The judgment is against the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad subsidiary of New York Central.
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New York
James C. McKinney
Youngstown
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
New York Central
Ohio Workers Take Holiday
Ohioans plan a two day Christmas weekend as many service members remain abroad. A statewide flu outbreak disrupts schools and concerns a portion of Ohio’s seven million residents amid wartime mobilization.
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Columbus
Buckeye
Ohio
White Christmas for U S Soldiers in Italy
ALGIERS a white Christmas settles over the Italian front for American and British troops. Snow blankets mountains and hills in the front line zone as a British officer notes American soldiers marching up with their own Christmas trees.
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Algiers
Italy
Army air trainees donate to blind newsboy at Capital University
More than 200 Army Air Forces trainees stationed at Capital University contributed 40 dollars as a Christmas gift for Robert Unkle a blind newsboy and his dog Butch.
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Columbus
Army Air Forces
Capital University
Robert Unkle
Butch
Forgotten Veteran Seeks Letters During Holidays
The Atlanta Journal reports sick veteran Cr. L. Dunlap of Mountain Home Tennessee mailed one dollar to the paper asking for an ad to solicit letters for Christmas. The paper returned the dollar but ran the story about a veteran forgotten at the holidays.
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Atlanta
The
Atlanta Journal
Cr. L. Dunlap
Annex No. 2
Mountain Home
Tenn
Journal
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Associated Press
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Alvanley Johnston
Thegineers
NEA Telephoto
WLB
Sir Arthur Tedder
King George
General Company
Belasco
Near East
George Tucker
Redeemer
Pas de Calais
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
U.S
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