British Eighth Army Advances Four Miles Beyond Sangro
Allied forces push four miles past the Sangro River on the Italian front in a 36 hour drive. Montgomery’s Eighth Army routs German defenders at Mezzagrognia while Fifth Army units seize Castelnovo northwest of Montaquila. Bombing raids accompany ground advances as Allied air power targets German lines and supply hubs.
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Sangre River
Associated Press
Eighth Army
Sangro River
Sir Bertr L. Montgomery
Saningrag
Land
Mezzagrogna
United States
Fifth Army
Castelnovo
Montaquila
New Zealand
Introops
65Th Infantry
Germany
France
Holland
Bremen
Montgomery
Saraya
Yugoslavia
Albania
Rome
Gros- Airdrome
Giulianova
Sarajevo
Grosseto
Russia
Ukraine
Zhlobin
Ured Gomel
Contine Rokossovsky
Gomel
Red
Lobin
Leper
Kiev
Emenchung
Tman
Tle
Itomir
Korosten
Italy
Greece
Adolf
Victory Not Just Around Corner
Former president Soochoe University urged caution about Allied victory status at Ohio Wesleyan University. He argued China is not yet weaker and that progress is hampered by Japanese entrenchment and external aid for Japan.
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Delaware
Orner
Pan
Germany
Ne Yang
Soochoe University
Ohio Wesleyaniversity
China
Japan
Liquor Bonus Promised for Ohioans This December
Liquor Director Don Fisher announced Ohioans will receive a December bonus with their rationed liquor. The regular allotment includes whiskey or brandy, while gin rum and cordial move to bonus. The period runs tomorrow through January 15, aiming for 240000 cases with whiskey making up about 60 percent.
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Columbus
Fisher
Wounded Reach Hospital Cambridge After Long Campaigns
After a month of travel 84 wounded veterans of campaigns in Italy Sicily and North Africa arrived at Fletcher General Hospital on Sunday. Most men are from Ohio and West Virginia.
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Cambridge
Italy
Sicily
North Africa
Fletcher General Hospital
Ohio
West Virginia
Heart Attack Fatal To Middleport Railroader
Harold Root aged 51 a New York Central Railroad conductor died at his Middleport home after a heart illness. The funeral will be at Rawling Coates Funeral Home time to be announced. Survived by wife and son Clarence in the Navy in the Pacific and sister Miss Mary Root a Middleport schoolteacher.
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Middleport
Harold Root
New York Central Railroad
Rawling-Coates
Mr. Root
Clarence
Navy
Pacific
Mary Root
Aviation Gasoline Plant Planned To Meet War Demand
Cleveland reports Standard Oil of Ohio will build an 8.5 million dollar aviation gasoline plant at its No. 1 refinery. Navy Lieut Alistrum says Army and Navy face shortages as warplane production and pilot training rise, while losses fall.
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Cleveland
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Navy
E. T. Alistrum
Sohio
Army
Secret weapons promise new U S air and sea firepower
Washington reports reveal U S Army Air Force pilots can fire 75 mm cannons from B 25 Mitchell bombers and sink a Japanese destroyer with five direct hits. Navy ordnance advances include secret weapons comparable to German radar guided bombs and acoustic torpedoes as Rear Admiral Blandy notes.
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Tom Reedy
Washington
Hitler
U. S
U.S. Army Air Force
Navy
Army
Russia
South Pacific
North American Aviation Inc
W.H.P. Blandy
Ordnance
Refuses To Let Jap Sniper Interfere With His Meals
Marine Pfc. William R. White of East Springfield Ohio weighing 240 pounds killed a Japanese sniper after a tank crew led by White tried to reach the galley amid sniper fire. White fired with a tommy gun and five shots ended the threat, then returned to the chow line. He later said he feared he would not eat after the kill.
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South Pacific
William R. White
East Springfield
Ohio
Trencherman White
White
UNRRA Starts Real Relief Work Weeks Ahead of Schedule
Atlantic City AP UNRRA opened its relief and rehabilitation programs a week early after 43 nations reached policy consensus on $2.0 to $2.5 billion relief funding. Nations to pay by invasion status and foreign exchange balances. Axis countries to cover looted assets and costs. US expected to contribute about $1.356 million, to be drawn over two years.
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Atlantic City
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Germany
United States
United States Treasury
Triple Slaying Investigators Still Baffled
In Washington C H a $2000 reward from Fabetee County commissioners fails to reveal new clues about the McCoy murders. Sheriff Seenhower says neighbors offer few new details as officials probe why the body of Mrs. McCoy was moved and whether the daughter saw it.
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Washington C.H
Fabetee
W. H. Seenhower
McCoy
E. H. McDonald
Price Control System May Collapse Without Higher Farm Returns
Albert S. Goss of the National Grange warned at an Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative dinner in Philadelphia that the government price control system could collapse unless farmers gain a fair return. He cited risks of a shortened food supply and a widened black market.
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Philadelphia
Albert S. Goss
National Grange
Goss
Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative
German Weapons Deteriorating in Quality
Aberdeens Proving Ground officers report captured German materiel deteriorating in quality due to Allied bombing of industrial targets. Japanese weapons show some deterioration but to a lesser degree, credited to attrition from U S Navy and Air Force actions against enemy shipping.
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Washington
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Maryland
Toda
Ohio Liquor Stores Move to Unlisted Phone Numbers
In Columbus the state's 232 retail liquor stores have changed public numbers to private listings after clerks faced harassment from prospective customers seeking whiskey. The director said all numbers are now unlisted and declined further comment.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bricker and wife ill with intestinal flu at home
Governor John W. Bricker and his wife are ill at home with intestinal flu but in good condition, according to the governor's office.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Two Die as Leaking Hydrogen Explodes in War Plant
A hydrogen tank explosion at a lower West Side war plant injured thirty plus swing shift workers. Two men died at Beekman Hospital including guard Robert Hiller of Brooklyn who had helped rescue two coworkers, and Antonio Gangarallo of Brooklyn died later in the same hospital.
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New York
Lower West Side
Robert Hiller
Brooklyn
Beekman Hospital
Antonio Gangarello
De-Scented Skunk Pet Joins Army in Florida
Topsy a de scented skunk and pet of 16 year old Eldon Pickett joined the Army today as mascot for aerial gunnery students at Tyndall Field Panama City Florida. The unit said they need a skunk to lend authenticity to their training area named Skunk Hollow.
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Covington
Topsy
Eldon Pickett
Tyndall Field
Panama City
Fla
Skunk Hollow
Peace Talk In Washington Foresees Prolonged War Endgame
Washington reports indicate high level discussion of an approaching climactic phase of World War II. Senators project tough land fighting before Nazi defeat, with figures like Lodge and Truman forecasting a long campaign into 1945 and beyond.
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Washington
Senator Blender proposes $1.25 billion subsidy cap plan
Senator Blender of Louisiana advances a proposal to cap annual government food subsidy outlays at 1.25 billion dollars and tie continuation of subsidies to the Little Steel wage formula. Ellender offers a peace plan amid House approved moves to abolish subsidies and extend the Commodity Credit Corporation life while ending price control subsidies January 1.
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Washington
Blender
D.-La
Ellender
Senate Banking Committee
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Vandegrift Named Marine Corps Commandant
Lt General Alexander A Vandegrift is appointed commandant of the Marine Corps effective at once in succession to Lt General Thomas Holcomb who retires due to age.
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Marines
Washington
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Marine Corps
N. 1
Thomas Holcomb
Thanksgiving in a Frontline Foxhole Visual
Pvt. Don Finholm of Ludington Michigan sits in a frontline foxhole in Italy on Thanksgiving Day. He balances a fat drum stick on his knee and holds a messkit filled with the rest of a hot turkey dinner. The scene captures shared rations amid war.
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Don Finholm
Ludington
Mich
Italy
Nea-Acme
Bert Brandt
War Picture Pool
State Control Over Soldier Vote Favored
A group of southern Democrats pressed for state control of servicemen ballots in a proposed bill. Senator McKellar urged distributing ballots printed by state officials to servicemen under their state voting laws, while Senator Eastland denounced a bipartisan plan as a carpetbag measure that loosens eligibility. The leadership halted a party-proposed amendment on presidential appointments to the war ballot commission.
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Washington
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
Eastland
D-Miss
Lucas
D-Ill
Green
D-Rl
Former Sailor Held in School Girl's Death
Irvin McCafferty Cummins aged 20 is jailed in Jefferson Parish on murder charges tied to the strangling of Joan Lewis an 11 year old high school girl. Cummins served in the United States Navy at the Battle of Midway and later received a medical discharge after a nervous breakdown.
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New Orleans
Irvin McCafferty Cummins
Jefferson Parish
Joan Lewis
Cummins
United States Navy
Keystone Box President Misrouted Bond Purchase
Mark Nolan of Keystone Box Co sought War Bonds and mailed payment for five 5000 bonds but received five 500000 bonds by mistake. The Pittsburgh businessman became an accidental millionaire as a result of the mix up.
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Pittsburgh
Mark Nolan
Keystone Box Company
Nolan
Hunter Drops Dead While Guarding Deer
Warren Pa report says Reese Byv ans, 52, of Petroleum and a member of an Ohio hunters party, collapsed and died while guarding a deer he had killed.
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Warren
Reese Byvans
Petroleum
Ohio
Quirked Ickes Lewis Pact Sparks New Coal Crisis
Washington reports a hidden flaw in the Ickes Lewis accord drives coal price increases despite War Labor Board not approving a wage rise. The agreement uses an assumed eight percent production gain from extra work time, yielding only about 56 percent of normal output for the additional hour.
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Washington
Ickes
John L. Lewis
Solid Fuels Administration
War Labor Board
Fred M. ‘Vinson
Vinson
Solid Fuels
WLB
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Allied air and ground drives advance in Pacific theater
Air power met no opposition as Allied forces bombed Japanese positions in New Guinea and the Solomons. American ground troops hunted the last enemy on Tarawa and Australian forces closed in on Bonga. In New Guinea, jungle fighting continued northeast of Sattelberg, which the Allies had captured on November 26.
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New Guinea
Solomons
Jas
Tarawa
Giboeemwerse
Bonga
Sattelberg
Wewak
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Liberators
New Britain
Navy Department
Washington
Gilberts
Tarawa Atoll
Seventh Air Force
Nauru
Marshalls
Pearl Harbor
Holland McTiere Smith
Chungking
Rice Bowl
Central China
Salween River
Luang Prabang
Indo-China
Gulf of Tonkin
Allied Parley Concludes as Leaders Meet Stalin in Iran
A Cairo conference involving President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek ends and they head to Iran to meet Premier Stalin. Allied air forces pound New Guinea Bougainville and Empress Augusta Bay targets while Liberators bomb ships and barges. Gilbert Islands Tarawa airfield and Pearl Harbor comment note strategic maneuvers.
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New York
Reuters
Lisbon
Roosevelt
Churchill
Chiang Kai-Shek
Cairo
Iran
Persia
Stalin
Associated Press
London
Reuter
Britain
Lonslon
Largest U S dirigible handed to Navy on voyage
The M-1 airship the nation s largest non rigid finally left Goodyear Aircraft Corp air dock to be turned over to the Navy. The ship departed yesterday for an un announced destination amid the transfer.
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Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Navy
Goodyear
Christmas Toy and Gift Exchange
Old toys or new bicycles skates doll carriages and pets will find new homes this Christmas to brighten youngsters hearts. Mothers and Dads should phone 0242 to list items in a small For Sale ad and have it appear the same day.
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Munich
UNRRA
Florida
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War Production Board
Austin
Lodge
Mass
Africa
Truman D
Senate War Investigating Committee
Walgren
Wash
Truman and
Europe
Truman
Overton
Naval Appropriations Subcommittee
Brooks
Ill
Appropriations
U.S Army Signal Corps Radiophoto
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