Court Sets Office Plan and Sheriff Appointment Details
Officials discussed office setups for the next term and confirmed personnel for the sheriff's department including two field deputies and a cook while planning to move the sheriff's office to the courthouse second floor. Delinquent tax duties and lighting upgrades for the clerk’s recording room were reviewed and a home supervisor and matron-restroom were appointed.
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Ed Whitley
Cook
Whitral Times
Shuler
Judgeley
Kansan Receives Medal for European War Heroics
A shy old Kansan and former soldier Lt Walter Ehlers of Manhattan received the Congressional Medal of Honor after combat in Europe. The citation notes he single handedly killed 18 enemy soldiers in France last year and showed calm under fire during critical moments with the 8th Infantry Division.
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John C. H. Lee
Walter
Ehlers
Manhattan
Kans
Ile
France
Coldest Weather Reported as Winter Struggles
Partial OCR notes show a cold snap with minimum 21 degrees and a morning reading of 23 degrees at 8 am. Forecasts suggest warmer temperatures may return later in the day according to the weather bureau.
Navarro Club Fire Destroys Downtown San Antonio Stores
A downtown San Antonio fire gutted the Navarro Club and the Mantels and Lords stores on ten street after a macular blaze of undetermined cause. Damage is estimated in the fire’s early report.
Trouble Never Comes Singly
In Dallas Ralph Green waited for an operation when his Dowdy Ferry road home burned. As friends provided clothing for his family, the last batch of garments was stolen from a car parked near the hospital.
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Dallas
Tex
Ralph Green
Dowdy Ferry Road
Fifteen Die As Midwest Snowstorm Winds Down
The first severe snow storm of the season killed at least fifteen, mainly in traffic crashes across Missouri Kansas Illinois Indiana Michigan and Colorado. Snow and ice linger on highways while temperatures fall to the low twenties and below. Affected cities include Birmingham Atlanta and others as the storm retreats toward the Atlantic Coast.
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United Pregs
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Missouri
Atlantic Coast
Kansas
Chicago
Indiana
Michigan
Colorado
Birmingham
Ala
Atlanta
14th Air Force Sinks 30000 Tons Japanese Shipping
Chungking December 12 The U S communique says the China based 14th Air Force sank over 30000 tons of Japanese shipping in November. It lists 9 vessels totaling 23100 tons and 13 vessels at 22950 tons damaged or sunk plus 57 fighters and 8 bombers destroyed.
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Chungking
U. S
14Th Air Force
Police Seek Slayer of Car Dealer in Texarkana
Police pursue a gunman who lured W. L. Curtner a Texarkana used car dealer to demonstrate a car, shot him in the head, robbed him of 600 dollars, and threw him from the vehicle. Curtner died at a hospital after the Saturday night robbery.
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Texarkana
Tex
U.P
W. L. Curtner
Curtner
Prospects for Jones Field Move Remain Positive
Bonham council heard from city attorney Lipscomb that talks with Speaker Rayburn and Veterans Administration officials keep a permanent Jones Field setup possible. The group plans to wait for January legislative action on related matters while Mayor Abernathy studies Kilgore’s Imhoff gas plant. The council also authorized a city map purchase and received thanks from school officials for public safety help at football events.
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Jones Field
R.T. Lipscomb
Bonham
Sam Rayburn
Lipscomb
Rayburn
Veterans Administration
Raleigh Abernathy
Kilgore
Imhoff
J. B. Golden
T. E. Anderson
Fire Departments
Greeks shell Athens amid ELAS action and prisoner claim
ELAS troops shelled central Athens in retaliation after RAP bombed Leftist positions in the outskirts. Greek regulars captured about 200 ELAS prisoners, with a battalion wiped out as British tanks and armored cars formed a cordon and the Greeks attacked from the front near the Acropolis. A Salonika report claimed a proletariat dictatorship over the city with thousands under patrol or in reserve, while a government communique noted limited progress in Piraeus as rebel forces infiltrated Athens and RAF planes dispersed a Sunday concentration east of the city.
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Athens
ELAS
Bembers
Atehns
Acropolis
Salonika
EAM
Piraeus
First Army Drives Through Seven German Towns Near Duren
Paris dispatch reports the American First Army pushing through seven German towns to within half a mile of Duren on the Roer river and advancing eight miles southeast through Maginot pillboxes in northeastern France to Seltz, two miles from the Rhine.
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Paris
U.P
First
Duren
Roer
Maginot
France
Seltz
Rhine
Weather forecast for north Texas clear and cool
The northern Texas region enjoys fair weather with a cold night ahead. Temperatures dip to the upper 20s to low 30s in the extreme northeast. The rest of the area should see a dry, mild evening with light winds.
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Texas
Ector WAC With U.S. Forces On Italian Sector Set
Geraldine A. Miller of Austin daughter of Mrs Charlie Miller of Kctor is among 35 Wacs from Texas serving with U S forces in Italy Miller has another sister in the Wacs and two brothers in the Army
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Geraldine A. Miller
Austin
Charlie Miller
Kctor
Wacs
Texas
U. S
Italy
Miller
Freezing Weather Grips Texas Across State
The United Press reports a new cold wave across Texas with temperatures dipping to 20 to 30 degrees F from the Panhandle to the gulf. West Texas warms Tuesday as the frost expands eastward, with severe crop damage in the Rio Grande Valley especially to tomatoes peppers and eggplants while citrus loss is light.
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Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Panhandle
Gulf
William Friend
Rio Grande Valley Experiment Station
Mercedes
Weslaco
Harlingen
East
German counter-attacks repulsed near Lamone river fronts
Allied headquarters said large scale German counter-attacks aimed at the Eighth Army lines near the Lamone and southwest of Faenza were repulsed with heavy losses. The 90th Panzer Division attacked a ridge southwest of Faenza but the Allies held the road bend between San Prospero and Piedura. Italian patriots with Canadian and Indian troops retook Porto Corsini, near Ravenna, as Allied forces advanced beyond Ravenna toward the Po valley.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Lamone River
Puenza
Paenza
San Prospero
Faenza
Piedura
Tanna
Vaentoa-Bologna
Porto Corsini
Ravenna
Villi di Comacchio
Fifth Army
Bologna
Commuunique
Reil Town Falls To Chinese Forces Near Kwangel
Chinese troops driving rapidly through southeastern China today captured the rail town of Nacal, two miles inside Kwangel province, within Chungking reported dispatches.
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Chungking
China
Nacal
Kwangel Province
James P. Claborn Bravery earns Bronze Star in England
Staff Sergeant James P. Claborn 22 of Randolph Texas wounded in left hand near Brest is convalescing in an England hospital. He has been awarded the Bronze Star Purple Heart and Combat Infantry Badge for leading a squad during the Brest advance. His mother Mrs May Clathorn lives in Randolph. he was a farmer before the war.
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Claborn
Brest
LST
England
Set. Claborn
Ireland
Normandy
May Clathorn
Randolph
Jap Garrison At Ormoc Wiped Out By Allied Drive
Allied reports say American 7th Division troops eliminated the entire Japanese garrison at Ormoc in a desperate battle. MacArthur said thousands more enemy forces were destroyed as the 7th linked with the 77th Division to trap remaining units southeast of Ormoc amid a broader push along Leyte's coast and mountains.
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Allied Headquarters
Philippines
7Th Division
Ormoc
Douglas MacArthur
Ormoe
Guam
Ormoe Gulf
MacArthur
Archibald W. Arnold
Yamashita
2Nd Infantry
Leyte
Ormoce
7Th
77Th
Motion Picture Strike Ends After Return to Work
In St Louis, the motion picture projectionists and exchange employees ended a strike that had shut 80 percent of area theaters last week. Operators began returning to work as the strike aimed to compel county theaters to hire two union projectionists per non union house.
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ST. Louis
Rebels Infiltrate Into Athens Reported by General Scobie
General Scobie said extensive rebel infiltration now covers the parts of Athens cleared recently and warned that snipers are blocking all routes out of the city.
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Athens
Scobie
Russians Drive Wedge Into German Lines Near Budapest
Red Army tanks and infantry pushed into German defenses northeast of Budapest seizing Veregeshaz and Szanád, with German forces torching the capital. Malinovsky’s 2nd Ukrainian Army advanced along the Ipely River, outflanking key fortresses as destruction mounted in Pest.
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London
Red Army
Budapest
Vereeg¢haz
Szadna
Rodicn Y. Malinevsky
Goecoco
Moscow
Danube River
Lake Velencei
Malinovsky
Ipely
Hout
Bratishheva
Vienna
Berlin
Acros
Slovakia
Miskolc
Budapest-Lake Balaton
Stockholm
Pest
Conditions In Paris Not As Bad As Feared
Rep Clare Luce of Connecticut said in Paris that conditions there are not as severe as expected. She compared Paris privations to those faced by Londoners during the Blitz and stated that the British are living on the edge amid bomb damage.
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Paris
Clare Toothe Luce
R.conn
Ocay
London
Stettinius Seeks Fast Senate OK For Six State Nominees
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. urged prompt Senate confirmation of six top State Department nominees to speed postwar organization and peace machinery formation.
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Washington
Edward R. Setetinius, Jr
Senate
State Department
Rail Targets In Frankfurt Area Blasted by Yanks
U S air forces blasted rail targets in the Frankfurt area with 4000 tons from 1600 bombers and 800 fighters. The raid also hit Hanau Giessen and nearby lines feeding German troops on Fronts from the Suez basin to the Ruhr. Italy based forces reportedly attacked Vienna with 500 heavies and 350 fighters.
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London
U. S
8Th Air Force
Britain
Frankfurt
U. 58
Reich
Hanau
Giessen
Suez
Ruhr
Italy
Vienna
Chinese drive clears Japanese from Kweichow recaptures Liuchai
Chinese high command says forces rushed from the northwest have cleared the Japanese from Kweichow and recaptured Liuchai near the Kwangsi border. Japanese retreats continued toward Nantan as Chinese pushes aim at Kwaiyang and maintenance of main communications.
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Chungking
Kweichow
Liuchai
Kwangsi
High Command
Nantan
Lipo
Tahshan
Fort Worth Livestock Prices Reported
Fort Worth livestock list shows cattle 4500 calves 3000 with slow steady trade. Good slaughter steers and yearlings 14-50, good fat cows 11-50, fat calves 1225-13. Hogs 1200 active steady tops at 1455 with good and choice 180-270 lbs. Pigs dull. sows 1325-50.
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Port Worth
Restitution Demanded by British Labor Party
London December conference adopts resolution calling for full reparation and restitution for victims of German and Japanese aggression. The plan seeks compensation and accountability for wartime harms.
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London
British Labor Party
World War II Situation Rapidly Worsens Across Fronts
Reports indicate Tokyo evacuations as American air raids intensify. In the Philippines the 77th and 7th Divisions close a trap near Ormoc, while German defenses collapse in Hungary and Soviet troops push toward Vienna. In Greece leftist forces surround British in Athens as ELAS seizes Salonika. Allied air raids peak with 4000 planes in night operations.
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Leyte
77Th
Ormoc
Europe
Third Army
Roer
Duren
Saar
Blies
Blesbruck
Budapest
Moscow
Rad Lic
Hungary
Germany
Vienna
Reich
Athens
Greece
Salonika
ELAS
Liberator raids hit Iwo Jima airstrips in weeklong campaign
Army air forces and Pacific fleet units blasted Iwo Jima in a double attack from Pearl Harbor. The operation targeted the B-29 and fighter bases on Saipan to Tokyo aerial front while extending to Haha Island and other Pacific targets including Babelthuap Pagan and Marshall islands.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Iwo Island
Volocano
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Littl Island
Iwo
Two
Saipan-to-Tokyo
Navy
Haha Island
Bonins
Babelthuap
Palaus
Pagan
Marianas
Marshalls
Heavies Bombard Nazi Oil Plants Across Germany
More than 1,250 American heavy bombers escorted by 900 fighters attacked the Leuna synthetic oil plant at Merseburg and rail yards at Hanau Aschaffenburg and Darmstadt in a broad daylight Allied strike over Germany.
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London
Merseburg
Hanau
Aschaffenburg
Darmstadt
Germany
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James P. Claborn
Bronze Star
Ormoc 'S
Yamashita Line
Stettinius
Tuherhan
Limingkwan Mountain
Pachui
Kweiyang
Limingkwan Dee
Kwelyang
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