Allied drive pushes Germans back on a 400 mile front
Allied armies breach German lines as French reach the Rhine and patton tanks advance near the Saar. American and British forces push across the Vosges and into Belfort area while Cologne Dusseldorf defenses bend under heavy armor. Heavily armed units seize towns and approach key river corridors along a major Rhineland thrust.
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Rhine
Belfort
Saar River
Burgundy
Cologne
Swice
Mulhouse
Ger
Vosges
Holland
Aachen
Rhineland
Dusteldorf
Tpemile
Geilen
Irehen
Atsward
Julich
Oor
U. S.first Army
Esch ‘Iler
Adolf Uller
Comogne
Great Western Front
Japs Report Air Raid on Manila Area
Allied war updates describe American carrier air raids on Manila and Leyte actions with large Japanese casualties. Chinese forces advance toward Mangshih and Bhamo as Chiang Kai-shek reshuffles his cabinet amid war criticism. Coastal bombardments, naval losses, and continued fighting mark the Pacific theater as Tigers in the Philippines and Burma front push for gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Palau Islands
Philippines
Mangshih F
Bhamo
Burma Road
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Manila
Brune
North Borneo
Leyte
Philipines
U.S
Tito Island
Tokyo
Asia Islands
Mapia
AIst_ Division
Ngeregonz Ts- Tan
Saipan
Marianas
MacArthur
Ormoc Bay
Simon
Ormac
Burma
Chungking
Mangshih
Saleen
Tokoyuki Yamashita
Ormoc
Limon
U. S
24Th
Ormoc Road
Frontline Soviet Push Around Budapest Escalates
Soviet and American made tanks advanced toward Lucenec on the Slovak Hungarian frontier as Moscow reports heavy fighting near Gyongyos Hatvan and Miskolc. The Budapest siege widens with 35 infantry divisions and up to 400000 men moved east of the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Budapest
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Lucenec
Gyongyos
Hatvan
Slovakia
Gyangyos
Moscow
Malinovsky
Ukraine
Miskolc
Hungary
Hernadak
Hernad
Baltic
Beitin
Sworbe
Saare Island
Gulf of Riga
Berlin
Gyorme
Eger
Matra
Latvia
FDR as Delegate to Proposed Security Talks
Administration circles consider Franklin D Roosevelt as the American member of an eleven nation peace council. The idea envisions the President remaining in office while serving on the council to lend prestige and weigh in on deliberations. Proponents say the arrangement could speed decisions and garner support at home for the international agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Securty Council
United States
Cton
International Agency
Tive
Scrapping Of Little Steel Wage Formula Urged In Wake Of Costs
Senators urged changing or dropping the Little Steel wage formula after a White House living-cost report. Aiken argued it isn’t fair, citing depreciation and rising costs. Tunnel said profits limit employers but workers deserve enough to live on. Vinson pledged special vigilance to curb further price rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Tunnel
D-Del
India
Pratt Fred M. Vinson
Esterday
Couple Killed in Auto Strike at New York Central Station
In Columbus a passenger rain struck an automobile at Oak land Park Avenue Station today killing a man identified as Robert W. Ferrell 29 of 199 Avondale Ave and a woman named June Webb 18 of 1000 Diedmont Road. Ferrell drove the car before the crash authorities said. Treasury experts and congressional leaders have been quietly drafting an agreed postwar tax plan and are near completion, officials reported today.
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Columbus
New York Central Railroad
Oakland Park Avenue
Tim Webb
Diedmont Road
Robert W. Ferrell
Avondale Ave
Errell
Three Year Old Enjoys Christmas Amid Gift Mountain
A Cheyenne boy of three, nicknamed Nubbins, wakes to a joyous Christmas scene as Santa visits. He smiles through a flood of more than 250 gifts from national donors and family, a day of happiness despite a grave early illness.
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Nubbins
Holtman
Santa Claus
Charles B. Dilbeck
Cheyenne
Gaulle Promises Fast Build Up Of Army And Navy
Paris reports Gen Charles de Gaulle, in a second radio address, pledges France will create a powerful army and navy within eight months and urges public support for a new Liberation Bond issue. Congress moves slowly as a deadly fire claims seven lives in a Chicago apartment building.
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Paris
Charles Veulle
France
Congress
Washington
Chicago
Roosevelt Outlines War Cost of 250 Million Daily
President Roosevelt opened the new War Bond selling drive from the White House. He told the nation the war costs about 250 million dollars each day and reiterated the goal of 14 billion dollars in bond sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
WA Selington
White House
Ray Says Ohio School Outlook Is Not Bright
Columbus report warns of teacher shortages and rising salaries as postwar figures show expected declines in new teachers and enrollment. Ray urges extended programs to train and attract teachers, citing wartime losses and shifting workforce.
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Ray
Ohio
Columbus
Rauca
Tion
Kenneth C. Ray
Salery
Lion
John W. Binder
Armed Services
Chee Loken
Murray Raps Labor Board at CIO Convention
Philip Murray opened the seventh annual CIO convention in Chicago slamming the War Labor Board for evading responsibility to war workers whose wages it froze. He urged continued no-strike pledges for the war and signaled a lasting Political Action Committee. For postwar policy he proposed higher personal exemptions and lower taxes for low earners, while keeping current rates on corporations and individuals earning over 5,000 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Philip Murray
CIO
War Labor Board
Land
Political Action Committee
Murray
850 Yankee Planes Attack Ruhr Valley
Upwards of 850 American aircraft bombed and strafed the Ruhr Valley as four Allied armies press toward Germany. US Ninth Airforce Thunderbolts and Mustangs downed 15 Nazi fighters while destroying trains and rail equipment. A-26 Invaders joined Marauders and Harpoons on tactical missions with losses reported.
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London
Ruhr
Germany
Berlin
Aa Sa
U.S. 15Th Air Force
Ninth Airforce
Belgians May Seek Allied Aid After Demonstration
Brussels reports Premier Pierlot may ask General Eisenhower to create a temporary protective government for Belgium. A day earlier about 15 000 marchers demanded Pierlot's resignation while Belgian police with rifles patrolled the capital. The protest followed demands to surrender firearms and criticism of the government for not seizing suspected German sympathizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Pierlot
Eisenhower
Belgium
Woman Burned To Death In Delaware Car Crash
Ruth Ehrgood, 43, of Liberty Center Henry County, died when her car burned after colliding with a tank truck in Napoleon Delaware yesterday. Her husband Keith Ehrgood is in the armed forces overseas. Army reports 40 million tons of war material shipped overseas in the last fiscal year, over double prior year.
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Napoleon
Ruth Ehrgood
Liberty Center
Henry County
Pfe
Keith Ehrgood
Joanaué
Army Service Forces
U S Court Martial Sentences Private for Murder in Tyrone
In Belfast Ireland a U S court martial at Cookstone Tyrone sentenced Pvt William Harrison age 22 of Havers Hill Ohio to death for the murder of seven year old Patricia Svyile.
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Belfast
Ireland
U. S
Cookstone
Tyrone
William Harrison
Havershill
Patricia Svyile
Allied Push Cracks German Lines Near Aachen and Rhine
Allied forces press the push into Germany with unopposed advances to within miles of Venlo and Strasbourg, seizing key passes through the Vosges and approaching Cologne. Ninth and First Armies move through the Saar border area while Dusseldorf and the Ruhr come into range, as Eschweiler bears the brunt of a savage defense.
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Venlo
Germany
Aachen
Saar
Ndt
Third Army
Vosges
Rhine
Strasbourg
Colmar
Mulhouse
Third
Metz
U.S
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Ruhr
Reich
Geilenkirchen
Berlin
Stockholm
Eschweiler
26 Yanks Killed in Transport Plane Crash
London reports twenty six American soldiers killed and four injured when a C-47 Skytrain transport carrier crashed last night en route from England to France. The disaster occurred near an 810 foot high lake north of Brighton, South England, according to air force headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
France
Air Force
Brighton
Plane crash kills eight airmen near Tampa
Two Ohio men among eight airmen killed in a Flying Fortress crash about 20 miles southeast of MacDill Field during a rain flight. Commanding officer Lt. Lowell E Smith of Oak Hill and Lt. Alonzo Le Winder of Oakwood were named among the dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida
Tampa
Fla
Telephone strike to spread to Northeastern Ohio towns
A telephone operators strike expanding from Columbus to Akron Canton and other Northeastern Ohio centers is expected to reach tomorrow. Earl Culp editor of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers Bulletin says operators maintenance men and other workers will join the walkout in the three day spread across the state.
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Columbus
Ohio
Earl Culp
Ohio Federation of Telephone Worke Bulletin
Akron
Canton
Ohio River Pollution Suit Is Turned Down
Cincinnati rejects a Pittsburgh proposal seeking $100 million from Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for Ohio River pollution. Hudson Biery of the Chamber of Commerce calls for river sanitation action and backs the Ohio Valley Compact to coordinate regional efforts among eight states.
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Cincinnati-Ud
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Allegheny County
Ohio River
Hudson Biery
Chamber of Commerce
Carey
Allegheny County ‘Sportsmen's League, Inc
Snather
Dows
AFL delegates seek broad worker representation at New Orleans meeting
In New Orleans the American Federation of Labor delegates aimed to represent 618 400 American workers. The executive council released its annual report and said CIO affiliates could return to the AFL. It denounced CIO leaders and their postwar raid strategy, but noted the movement was divided and fighting itself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Amercan Federation of Labor
Executive Council
CIO
AFL
Labor Board Rules In Cleveland Wage Case
The Cleveland area wage dispute case is decided by the labor board. Officials ruled on wage issues affecting workers in the city and potential penalties or remedies were outlined. Local businesses may need to adjust pay scales accordingly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ar Labor Board
Cleveland
Ional “War ‘Labor Board
German troops re capture Monte Fortin near Faenza
Allied headquarters announced German troops re captured Monte Fortin five miles southeast of the Bologna Rimini highway town of Faenza after fighting with Polish units of the Eighth Army. New York desk reports Allied bomber and fighter attacks on the Rangoon estuary in Burma were noted by the Japanese Domel Agency.
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Rome
Monte Fortin
Bologna-Rimini
Faenza
Bite
Eighth Army
New York
Sittang
Rangoon
Burma
Domel Agen
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National Catholic Welfare Conference
Washington, D. C
Pope Pius XI
Columbus, O
Ready
Cleland
Frontier
Jong
Galgacheviz
FDR
Suilt Front
Ousach
Brand
Cstr Army
Rhi Hurtgen
Bein Lanning
Washington — Treasury Xperts
Cvongressional Teadere
Gaulle
Murray Raps
Labor Board
Ruhr Valley
Don Gentie
RCA Victor
Camden
N. J
Rman Retreat
Luxembourg Bore
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