Encirclement Drive Near Budapest Prompts Allied Push
Russian and Yugoslav Partisans push 25 miles west of the Danube in southwestern Hungary aiming to encircle Budapest, while advances threaten northern Yugoslavia and the Balkans. Soviet and partisan forces break into Eger and approach central Slovakia as Western Allied units storm the Roer and push toward the Rhine. heavy fighting rages along multiple fronts including Merzig and Hagenau.
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Fed‘er al. Communications Commission
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Marshal Malinovsky
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Eger
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Matra
Slovakia
Petrov
Dukla Pass
Poland
Irmén
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23 Yank Divisions on the Roer
General Omar Bradley commands a 275 000 plus men force with the Third First and Ninth Armies on the Roer. The First Army digs German positions near Merode thirty five miles from Duren asYard advance. North of Grosshall the Americans push forward about half a mile and the Ninth Army opens a new attack northeast of Gielenkirchen.
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Grosshaw
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Germany
Je Wyler Forest
Kleve
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Grosshall
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Gielenkirchen
AFL Seeks Reopening of Labor Peace Talks With M U W and CIO
Washington reports the AFL moved to resume negotiations that collapsed in 1943, with Green offering resignation to aid unity. The plan faced strong opposition as Allied bombing and Siegfried Line fighting continued on the European front, with Patton and Bradley’s forces advancing and German defenses tightening along the Cologne Plain.
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Jonn J. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
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New Orleans
William Green
Labor Unity
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Tokyo Raiders Bomb Tokyo Radio as War Rages Across Pacific
Allied air forces report night raids on Tokyo and other industrial targets along the Nippon coast. Japanese claims of damage are downplayed by U S officials who emphasize strategic strikes aim to destroy Japan’s war machine. Reports note losses and air battles over Leyte and Iwo Jima as operations continue in Saipan.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
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Chester W. Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Say Johnson Act Blocking U S Trade Sparked by Acheson Call
Dean Acheson disclosed that the United States has received loan requests from several foreign governments and urged expanding Export-Import Bank credit. He also called for repeal of the Johnson Act and related prohibitions on private and government loans to defaulting governments to aid international trade. The lend lease program for 1945 was cut nearly in half to 5.6 billion dollars, with Britain to receive fewer free shipments as reconversion begins.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
United States
Acheson
House
Postwar Economic Committee
Britain
Stettinius
Treasury
Morgenthaw
Leo T. Crowley
Bricker Accused by State Workers of Breaking Promise
Ohio Civil Service Employes Association, with about 10 000 members, says Gov. Bricker broke a pledge to call a special session to raise state workers' salaries if the salary study commission did not include the issue. Bricker said he rejected a special session but will present the commission's report to the 96th General Assembly starting Jan. 1.
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Ohio
Civil Service Employes Association
Ays
John W. Bricker
Nelson Watkins
Bricker
96Th General Assembly
Nazis Recapture Three Fifth Army Strongholds Near Bologna
Allied headquarters said German troops retook three Fifth Army strong points southeast and southwest of Bologna. Fifth Army forces abandoned Monte Castellaro north of Monte Grande in the area below the Bologna Rimini Highway near Castel San Pietro.
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Rome
Bologna
Monte Castellaro
Monte Grande
Bologna-Rimini
Castel ‘San’ Phetro
Actress To Be Elliott Roosevelt's Third Wife
Beverly Hills actress Faye Emerson said she and Col Elliott Roosevelt will marry within a week. Emerson is 2 and has been previously married. She has a son four or five years old. He is to be Colonel Roosevelt's third wife. Meanwhile in Washington Leon Henderson is in line to influence church community patterns in Germany and at home. Dr Mark Dawber, executive secretary of the Home Mission Council of North America, spoke of a widening gulf between church and community as a major Protestant problem. In Washington President Roosevelt fired Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell for subordination in a Justice Department matter.
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Beverly Hills
Califo
Faye Emerson
Col Elliott Roosevelt
Miss Emerson
Colonel Roosevelt
Dawoer
Washington
Roosevelt
Justice Department Tow
Norman Littell
Current Point Values Likely To Be Extended
Washington reports current point values for food likely to be extended indefinitely. The disagreement between OPA and the War Food Administration may be settled in time for point revisions next month.
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Washington
OPA
War Food Administration
Norden Light Patent Turned Over to U S Government
New York city report states Norden bomb sight designs have been turned over to the United States Government by Carl Norden. The Dutch inventor announced at the Micelieth Sosaty of Media ee dinner. Gen Eoin O Duffy Irish leader dies in Dublin at 52. Capt Don Gentile wed Miss Isabella Madea in a formal ceremony.
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U.S
New York
United Sates
Carl Norden
Netherlands
Norden
Micelieth Sosaty Ot Media Ee
Dublin
Eoin O'Duffy
Francisco Franco
Don Gentile
Colmbus
Don Gene] Tile
Isabella Madea
Modest Heroine and a Train Torch Incident
In Charlotte a woman acted to stop a passing train by brandishing a flaming broom as a torch. A railroad worker grabbed the broom and the train halted with no injuries reported. The incident follows a separate Fortress landing strip oversight and a public relations note from Morris Field.
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Forey
McDill Field
Fin
J.C. Milton
Ways Means Committee Backs Tax Freezing Policy
Ottawa faces a tense phase as King's Liberal government narrowly survives opposition. Parliament supports freezing the social security tax on payrolls, aiming for a vote this week or early next week. Quebec disturbances follow Montreal protests against the tax plan amid rail and security concerns. Churchill turns 70 with a hearty Commons welcome in London.
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Canada
W. J. Mackenzie King
King
Washington
Treadeg
R. L. Ralston
Vasmand Means
Freteva Eit
Bloc Populaire Ino Prenter
Montreal
de Canada
Liberal Party
Quebec
British Columbia
Father of Ei By 13-Year-Old Son
SYCAMORE Illinois Raymond Kellogg age 42 father of eight children died in a Sycamore hospital last night of a bullet wound in the head inflicted by his 13 year old son Franklin during a quarrel between the families sheriff A M Bieszald investigated the case as a juvenile incident of parental dispute.
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Raymond Kellogg
Cildren
A. M. Biesziald
Franklin
Overseas greetings suspended for overseas personnel
The Army and Navy announced a cable suspension of all Christmas greetings to and from service personnel overseas between midnight December 5 and midnight Christmas Day. The ban does not affect messages of the sender’s own composition other than greetings.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Dewey Wins Ohio by 11 530 Vote Margin in 1944 Election
Official Columbus returns show Thomas E. Dewey with 1 582 298 votes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1 570 763, a 11 530 edge. Cleveland's Democratic Mayor Frank Lausche defeats Cincinnati's Republican James M. Hewart by 112 359 votes, 1 603 809 to 1 491 490.
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Columbus
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Edward J. Hummel
Frank Jaausche
Cleveland
James Garfield Hewart
Cincinnati
Death of Jurist Ends Seven Month Sedition Trial
Washington presiding justice Edward C. Eicher died during the night, reportedly ending a seven month mass sedition trial in federal district court. The 27 defendants faced charges of conspiring to disaffect loyalty to American armed forces and to set up a Nazi form of government. In London, President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz announced a new Polish government with 68 year old Shmase Arclazewski as premier.
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Washington
Edward C. Eicher
Feder
District Court
London
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz
Shmase Arclazewski
Miss Iona Shirle Dies at Home of Son in Hastings
Mrs Iona Shirle aged 16 widow of Joseph Shirley died this morning at her son's home in Hastings Addition after two years of declining health. She leaves three sons Leonard Elmer Lewis and Lewis and one sister Mrs Viola Conant. Funeral services Saturday at 1 pm at Jagers Funeral Home, Rev Gerald Pickey, burial in Coolville Cemetery. Friends may call after Friday noon at the funeral home.
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Jona Dye Shirley
Joseph Shirley
Ewis. Shirley
Hastings
Coolville
War Workers Train Hits Car in Michigan Fatal Crash
Six of seven women workers returning from a plant near Jonia Michigan were fatally injured when a Grand Trunk passenger train struck their automobile at a crossing yesterday. The incident occurred as they headed home from work.
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Grand Trunk
Ossing
House Probers Report On Prisoner Treatment
The Military Committee investigators found no evidence of overly harsh treatment in prisoner camps. They note some prisoners received better care and privileges than U.S. soldiers. At the report's completion, about 1,914 German, 51,632 Italian, and 242 Japanese prisoners were housed in 132 base camps and 334 branch camps. Swiss reps reported Japanese prisoner food outpacing that for Japanese civilians.
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