Bombers Raid Manila Sector Strikes Manila Area
American heavy bombers pounded Clark Field and other targets around Manila for a third day. Escorts reported 39 enemy fighters downed with 15 more claimed. Leyte and Mindanao airfields also attacked as Palompon cut off Japanese escape routes.
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General MacArthur
Philippines
Wednesay
Manila
Far Eastern Air Forces
Clark Field
MacArthur
Esme McGuire
Indoro
Tiacloban
Leyte
Mindanao
Borneo
Dutch East Indies
Palompon
Japanese Raid Targets Marianas Airstrips at Pearl Harbor
United States Pacific Fleet reports 16 to 25 Japanese planes attacked airstrips on span land in the Marianas in an effort to cripple the base used by U S forces in raids against Japan. Three Nipponese planes were shot down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Span
Marianas
Christ- Tas
U. S
Allies Gain on Adriatic Front in Italian Campaign
Canadian British and New Zealand troops advanced toward the Senio river as Rosetta near Ravenna fell to Allied forces. NazI rear guards near Faenza were cleared, with snow and freezing conditions slowing Fifth Army movements south of Bologna. Artillery and mortar fire marked the Christmas Day front actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Senio
Adriatic
Rosetta
Ravenna
Sali- Mi
Faenza
Lamone
Po Valley
Canale Navi
Alfonsine
Ravenna-Ferrara
Fifth Army
Bologna
Sleckna
Holiday meat holiday shuts New York shops
New York on December 26 saw thousands of butcher shops closed in protest against government price controls. A bakery drivers strike cut pie and bread deliveries as deli and meat shops largely stayed shut. Police reported 2,135 of 6,020 meat stores open in five boroughs, with 10,000 stores claimed by counsel for the wholesale dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lewis J. Valentine
Joseph Cohn
New York Council of Wholesale
la Guardia
OPA
Ration rules clarified amid stamp invalidation drive
The OPA urged housewives to destroy all invalid food ration stamps as of 12:01 today to prevent misuse. Red tokens remain valid for meats fats cheese and butter while blue tokens are banned and new point values apply to processed foods and canned fruits starting next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Price Ceiling To Be Set For Live Cattle
John J. Madigan of the OPA expects to announce the proposed new price ceiling for live cattle in Chicago. A news conference will follow a meeting with slaughterers and cattle growers as the agency prepares the schedule for release. The plan was delayed by Fred M. Vinson pending industry consultation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John J. Madigan
OPA
Chicago
Madigan
Fred M. Vinson
Chaplin Denies Barry Allegations as Jury Views Cast
In Los Angeles the paternity trial centered on Chaplin denial of Miss Joan Berry’s charges in the December 1942 period. The court allowed jurors to study Chaplin Berry and the baby as witnesses affirmed conflicts over a hotel stay and relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin
Joan Berry
Miss Barry
Joan
Miss Berry
Tulsa
Okla
Mayo
Henry M. Willis
Carol Ann
Bombers Hit German Lines as Allied Air Push Continues
American and British bombers and fighters hit supply routes and troop concentrations in a fourth straight day of air support for ground forces. About 150 US eighth air force bombers struck Coblenz as 300 escorts engaged few enemy planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U. S
Eighth Air Forces
Coblenz
Bonn
St. With
Tactical Air Force
Italy
15Th Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Ninth’s
Britain
Eighth Air Force
Marshal von Rundstedt
Flood Threat Mildly Lifted In West Virginia
Flood fears eased as a cold wave helped end the thaw but rivers remained high. Ohio River at Parkersburg may crest 24 feet 12 feet below flood level by Wednesday while the Kanawha at Marmet Falls. road conditions improve though ice remains on northern panhandle highways.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Ohio
Kanawha
Parkersburg Weather Bureau
Marmet Lock
Panhandle
Fairmont
Clarksurg
Sutton
Clarksburg
Journalist Jack Frankish Killed on Western Front
United Press war correspondent Jack Frankish 30, of Ontario California, was killed Saturday. He served nearly a decade with UP, worked in London, Belgium, and France, and held leadership posts in Cleveland Miami Columbus and New York bureaus before his death.
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el Centro
Calif
Jack Frankish
United Press
Western Front
Barbara Frankish
Frankish
London
Belgium
France
Ontario
University of Southern California
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Miami
Ohio Valley
Columbus
Ohio
New York
Red Army seals Budapest encirclement and pushes inside
Soviet forces complete the ring around Budapest and advance two miles into the city from the west. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukraine Army seizes suburbs near the Danube while Malinovsky’s army clears 13 towns in southern Czechoslovakia and nears Bratislava and Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Red Army
Budapest
Feodor I. Tolyukhin
Third Ukraine
Danube
Lipotaiezo
Gar
Thial
Moscow
Tolbukhin
Esztergom
Nazis Escape by 200 Foot Tunnel From Papago Camp
Phoenix reports that 25 German prisoners escaped from Papago Park camp after months of tunneling beneath a coal box to a pair of irrigation canals. Only six have been recaptured as authorities monitor the Mexican border and other inmates study languages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Papago Park
William A. Holden
Holden
Federal Bureau of Invasion
Holdey
Bombs Dropped on Paris in First Air Raid Since Liberation
Unidentified planes attacked Paris in a nighttime raid, the first since August 27. A handful of aircraft over the capital produced multiple blasts, with sirens and an all clear about 20 minutes later. Casualties and damage details were not yet released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
al- Hed Saban
General Aids Stranded GI’s From Fort Benning
Maj. Gen. Frederick E. Uhl of the Fourth Service Command ordered ten army trucks to rescue about 300 GIs stranded in Atlanta on Christmas leaves. With the last bus full, the convoy carried the men back to Fort Benning in time for reveille, avoiding disciplinary action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Fort Benning
Frederick E. Uhl
Fourth Service Command
Benning
Churchill urges end to Greek strife at sewerside talks
At a gray dawn conference near the Grand Bretagne hotel Greek party leaders heard Prime Minister Churchill call for a rapid end to Greece’s political clash. A cache of nearly a ton of explosive was found in sewers nearby as Churchill emphasized Britain's Caserta commitments and support for elections.
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Athens
Grand Bretagne Hotel
Churchill
Greece
Anthony Eden
Britain
America
Ald M. Scobie
Ronald M. Scobie
Japanese Tell War Isn’t Going So Well
The Japanese diet the cabinet and the people received notice from Emperor Hirohito and Premier Koiso that the war is not progressing well. Hirohito said the war situation is becoming more critical as the 86th diet session opens. Koiso urged speed and simplicity in diet business and criticized the home front for not responding fully to the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hirohito
iCuniaki Koiso
Diet
Japan
Federal Communications Commission
Koiso
Radio Tokyo
Kiromasa Matsuzaka
Eastern states face brutal cold wave across region
A sweeping cold wave gripped the eastern states after plummeting to 24 below zero in the Midwest. Chicago reached 7 below, Iowa 22 below at Decorah, and several states prepared for further freezing lows as snow and ice impacted travel from Pennsylvania to New York and Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Midwest
Chicago Weather Bureau
New York State
Pennsylvania
Jacksonville
Yestern
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Iowa
Ilinois
Indiana
Pittsburgh
Louisville
Charlotte
N. C
Memphis
Nashville
Tenn
State Lights New Bond Sales Record in West Virginia
West Virginia war bond drive heads toward a record with five days left in the period. Sixth War Loan total reached 134,377,833 dollars, 195 percent of the 69 million quota, matching the Fifth War Loan peak. E Bonds at 17,117,667 dollars, 81 percent. individuals 60,966,883 dollars, 156 percent. corporations 73,410,950 dollars, 245 percent. State ranks second nationally behind New York. final accounting date January 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
State War Finance Committee
West Virginia
New Queeene
North
Maryland
Fire at Ordnance Plant in South Charleston
A fire in a Navy operated unit at the naval ordnance works along the Kanawha River was contained in under an hour. Production continued with no interruption as firemen from South Charleston and Charleston aided by plant crews fought the blaze. Three workers were treated for fumes and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Big South
South Charleston
Dunn Hospital
German Forces Renew Offensive Near Namur and Bastogne
Paris dispatch reports von Rundstedt’s forces breaking the Belgian front after a 48 hour lull and pushing toward the Meuse while Bastogne remains encircled with American relief efforts closing in. Allied air power and stubborn defense continue as heavy fighting persists southeast of Luxembourg towns.
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Bastogne
Jogne
Arsdorf
Eschdorf
Eppeldorf
Diekirch
Luftwaffe
Former Employer Of Lady Robin Hood Plunges To Death
Oscar H. Gropper 57, owner of Gropper Inc leather goods firm, committed suicide by leaping from a ninth floor hotel window in New York. He left a note saying thefts ruined him as Lady Robin Hood figure Hadeline Dunnigan, 22, the secretary accused of stealing about 30000 dollars to fund pay raises for staff, faced grand larceny charges and sobbed upon learning of his death.
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New York
Robin Hood
Oscar H. Gropper
Clark
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Peter Carrol
S Corps
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Brunt
Siapan
New York City
Charles Chaplin
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Allied
Karl Gerd von Rudstedt
Allied Headquarters
Meuse
Namur
von Rundstedt
St. Vith
Celles
Rochefort
von Rand- Stedt
Marche
Ciney
Dineant
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