Eisenhower predicts Allied victory in 1944 invasion plan
The Associated Press reports General Eisenhower confirming confidence in victory in Europe in 1944 as invasion plans move from the Mediterranean to Britain. Soviet and Allied offensives intensify with German retreats near Kiev and Zhitomir while Romantically, Italian surrender aids allied gains in Italy and naval fortunes shift with Scharnhorst sunk.
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Associated Press
Dwight Eisenhower
Europe
Britain
Arctic Ocean
Murmansk
Italy
Taranto
Bari
Nhower
Kiev
Itebsk
Oma
Fifth
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Ortona
Eighth
Villa Grande
Drvenik
Split
Florence
Zagreb
Canadian General McNaughton Leaves Post in Britain
Lt. Gen. A G L McNaughton commander of the Canadian Army in Britain has left his post due to ill health and will be unable to lead Canadians in the invasion plans in the near term.
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England
A. G. L. McNaughton
Scharnhorst Destroyed in Arctic Battle Off Norway
Allied naval units sank the 26,000 ton German battleship Scharnhorst in the Barents Sea near North Cape after a long engagement with British forces. About 1,400 aboard. no survivors confirmed. The blow cripples Hitler’s battle fleet alongside Tirpitz and Gneisenau.
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London
Scharnhorst
Arctic
Norway
Murmansk
Hitler
Gneisenau
Barent
North Cape
U. S
Berlin
Nazis Seek to Hide Vital Targets with Fog Pot Defense
London reports Allied airmen describe Nazi use of barges converted to fog pots to screen targets in Britain. Portable smudge pots create haze while the Germans craft fake towns and airfields to lure bombers away, with deceptive lakes and phony airports observed across Germany and occupied regions.
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London
Britain
Woodlands
Germany
France
Low Countries
Veteran Calls for Mail From Ailing Soldier
Atlanta newspaper prints a veteran’s plea for mail from Mountain Home Tenn. hospital. C L Dunlap, patient in Veterans' Hospital Annex No 2, says he would pay a dollar for letters and requests a writing helper as mail floods in after his plea. The Journal reports six telegrams and over sixty letters received.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Journal
C. L. Dunlap
Veterans’ Hospital Annex No. 2
Mountain Home
Tenn
Journal
Dunlap
Vacation Cut Short as FDR Returns to Capital
President Roosevelt cut short the Hyde Park Christmas weekend and returned to the White House to address labor disputes threatening steel and rail industries. He faces drafting an annual message for Congress and the 1945 budget to be delivered in coming days.
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Washington
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Capitol Hill
Newspaper group membership grows to 625
Linwood J. Noyes president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association announced today that 38 daily newspapers were elected to membership since the April convention, raising the total to 625 the largest in its 57 year history.
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New York
Linwood
J. Noyes
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Holiday Death Toll Hits 339
New York reports 339 violent deaths across the Christmas weekend, with traffic fatalities at 216 up 16 from last year. A sleet and rainstorm in the East contributed, as Washington logged 725 injuries but no fatalities, with 615 from icy streets and 300 cars abandoned.
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New York
Washington, D. C
Nelsonville Seaman to Be Buried Wednesday
Funeral services for Seaman Second Class Robert Thompson who died last week in a California naval hospital will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Pilgrim Holiness Church Chestnut Street with Rev. B A Awe in charge. Burial will follow at New Marshfield Cemetery. Friends may call at the Riverside Drive residence after 3 p.m. today.
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Nelsonville
Robert Thompson
California Naval Hospital
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Chestnut St
B. A. Awe
New Marshfield Cemetery
Riverside Drive
Polish Premier Mikolajczyk to Visit Roosevelt in Effort to Repair Breach
London report states Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish Government in exile is en route to the United States to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt in an effort to mend the Polish Soviet rift and restore alliance unity.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Roosevelt
Nazis Forecast Western Europe Invasion As Weeks Pass
Berlin commentators nervously voorspoden a possible Allied invasion of Western Europe this week or before year’s end. Reports from Berlin through Stockholm note ongoing aerial bombardment of Channel fortifications and flag Germany’s loss of the Scharnhorst as a setback. No official Berlin comment on Eisenhower or Montgomery has been issued, though they were linked with Allied operations in earlier campaigns.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Europe
Sweden
Cena
Germany
Scharnhorst
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eisenhower
Montgomery
Marines land at Cape Gloucester in New Britain invasion
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports two simultaneous Marine landings at Cape Gloucester on New Britain to establish a second invasion front against Japan in the Southwest Pacific.
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New Guinea
United States
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Japan
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Douglas MacArthur
Ees
Vitiaz Straits
U. S. Sixth Army
Rabaul
Arawe
Gloucester
Long Island
Williams
Rupertus
MacArthur
CBS
William 4. Dunn
Dunn
Tojo says Allied drive is serious in Pacific war
Tokyo radio quotes Premier Tojo as saying the Allied counteroffensive is real and fierce fighting rages on fronts. MacArthur reports New Britain landings secured, with Cape Gloucester attacks and Vitiaz Straits control, as Japanese air losses mount.
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Tojo
Allied Drive
Washington
UPM
Hideki Tojo
Tokyo Radio
U. S
South Pacific
Soldier, Woman Found Dead From Gas Fumes
MUNCIE Ind Coroner John W Thornburg reports the deaths of Maxine White 36 and Pfe Ellsworth F Hankinson 35 in Miss White's apartment caused by asphyxiation from two gas jets used for heating. He calls both deaths probably accidental.
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Muncie
Ind
John W. Thornburg
Maxine White
Pfe
Ellsworth F. Hankinson
Elza Hankinson
Lancaster
Miss White
Storm disrupts travel along the Atlantic seaboard
A sleet and rainstorm crippled travel from New England to Virginia, halting bus and auto traffic across Pennsylvania New York and New Jersey. Many motorists chose crowded rail service as roadways iced over and police warned against nonessential driving. In Wilkes Barre and Scranton over 500 servicemen were stranded as schedules were canceled due to icy mountain highways.
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Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Wilkes-Barre
Scranton
Navy medical unit in Bougainville reports low death rate
In a muddy jungle setting on Bougainville, Navy medical staff with Marines treated 115 wounded in seven days and only two died. The operating room is a square dug-out three feet deep, sandbags around the tent, illustrating a hardy, makeshift casualty facility amid adverse conditions.
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Bougainville
Navy
Rubber Shortage Still Acute Says Goodyear VP
Akron report quotes Dr. R. P. Dinsmore of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co as saying the nation’s rubber situation remains acute. He notes progress in converting goods from crude to synthetic rubber after 1943 disruption but warns that all articles must be shifted to synthetic methods under adverse conditions.
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Akron
R. P. Dinsmore
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Eastern Alert Against Sneak Attack Cancelled
New York report says a possible sneak air attack threat kept military and civilian defenses on alert Christmas Eve and Day. The Eastern Defense Command cancelled the alert at 9:05 p.m. Saturday, three hours after noting protective measures were taken. Army officials would not disclose the threat's origin.
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New York
Eastern Defense Command
EDC
Five Cleveland firefighters overcome by smoke in three alarm basement blaze
Five firefighters were overcome by smoke while battling a three alarm fire in the basement of the Leader building in Cleveland. Crews fought the blaze through the night as teams evacuated injured responders and contained the spread.
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Cleveland
Id Borde Lrdte
Strike Ends At American Shipbuilding Cleveland Yard
Production of warships resumed as AFL craft unionists approved a return to work ending a 12 day stoppage involving more than 1000 workers. Company officials said 9723 workers on the first shift reported back. Eleven metal trades unions participated in the stoppage centered on the discharge of a union steward with the Boiler makers Union playing the pivotal role in the vote.
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Cleveland
American Shipbuilding Co
Cleveland Yards
AFL
Metal
Boilermakers
Storm
Wreck Plane Plant Misses Prisoner Huts in Raid
Cleveland report shows four precision daylight bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force hit a large Nazi aircraft plant in Eastern Germany earlier this year. The plant was knocked out but nearby workers’ homes housing prisoners escaped damage. Brig. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay disclosed in an interview.
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Cleveland
U. 8S. Army
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Curtis E. LeMay
Eighth
Work Stoppage Spreads Despite Presidential Plea
About 120,000 steel workers idle as nationwide stoppages curtail output across 214 plants. Ohio hit hardest with 30,000 idle at Youngstown and Canton, while Pittsburgh Detroit and Columbus saw pickets. U S Steel reports 6 to 8 percent absenteeism. unions seek retroactive pay within wartime stabilization rules.
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Pittsburgh
Roosevelt
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Cio-United Steelworkers of America
U. S. Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel
Detroit
Columbus
Timken
Republic Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Youngstown
O. Republic
Canton
Massillon
Wheeling Steel Corporation
West Virginia
Cleveland
Republic and Corrigan-McKinney
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Vote Buying Witnesses To Be Heard In January
Senate elections subcommittee will hear charges of irregularities at the 1940 Republican convention. Senator Langer of North Dakota will be called early in January to learn the ban for his resolution. C Nelson Sparks, former Akron mayor, alleged efforts to buy votes by Willkie supporters.
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Washington
Kilgore
D-Wva
Senate
Langer
R-Nd
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Ohio
Wendell L. Willkie
Ickes Sees Philippine Aid After World War II
Secretary Ickes said the Philippines will need sympathetic U S aid and an economic rehabilitation program after the war. He noted independence by 1946, with possible early date if the President approves, and described a proposed General Rehabilitation Commission to manage recovery. He cited loyal islands population and guerrilla activity in major areas.
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Washington
Ickes
Philippines
United State
Philippine Islands
United States
Senate
House
Interior Department
Treasuries
General Rehabilitation Commission
Islands
Commonwealth
Ohioans Die In Christmas Mishap Wave
At least 19 people died in Ohio during Christmas weekend mishaps. Fifteen perished on roads. fires killed two. Helen Tralin, 39, perished in fire, and Richard Tackett, 3, burned. Emil Jr and Glenn Tralin witnessed firefighters remove their mother’s body. Owen Jane, 66, and Schiller Ray Thomas, 43, died in other incidents.
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Columbus
Ohio
Helen Tralin
Cleveland
Richard L. Tackept
Ashford Tackett
Chillicothe
Tralin
Emil Jr
Glenn
Owen Jane
Buchtel
Schiller
Ray Thomas
South Charleston
Clark County
Typhus Strikes Naples Halting City Military Access
Naples endures a typhus outbreak with the city closed to Fifth Army troops except for local units. About 250 civilians are ill, a tenfold rise since October, with mortality around 25 percent of cases. No soldiers have fallen ill, per the Fifth Army chief surgeon.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Two Ohioans Missing After Planes Crash at Sea
Two Leavittsburg Ohio men Glenn Vesey Jr and William Thomas Parry were Navy personnel aboard two planes that collided at sea Friday. They are listed officially as missing according to the Navy announcement.
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Miami
Fla
Leavittsburg, O
Glenn Vesey, Jr
Dorothy Zorn
Aviation Ordnance
William Thomas Parry
Sylvia B. Parry
Navy
Beauty queen to wed Spokane airman next month
A holiday notice states Major Stanley Hume, an Army transport pilot, will marry Marilyn Meseke of Marion, Ohio, 1939 Miss America, early next month in Spokane Washington.
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Spokane
Wash
Stanley Hume
Marilyn Meseke
Marion,c
Husband Killed But Flowers Go Through
A Cleveland widow, Mrs Adelaide Pekar, received Christmas flowers with a card from her husband James Pekar who was killed in the Sicilian campaign last July 25. A florist said Pekar ordered flowers to be sent to his wife and mother last summer and paid for them from an American embarkation point.
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Cleveland
Adelaide Pekar
Jimmy
Pfe
James Pekar
Pekar
Mary Pekar
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