Eighth Army pushes into Po Valley amid town seizures
Allied dispatch from Rome reports British Eighth Army driving into the Po valley, seizing San Silvestro and moving toward San Pietro in Laguna as Canadian bridgehead defenses hold against German counterattacks. New Zealand units advance along the Senio flank. no major shifts on the Fifth Army front below Bologna.
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Eighth Army
Po Val LV
Faenza
Lamone
Rimini-Bologna
Berlin
Bagnacavallo
San Silvestro
San Pietro
Laguna
Senio
Fifth Army
Bolerna
Worker Killed When Hit By Plane Wing
Victoria Texas December 22 1944 A civilian war worker Lewis T Metcalf 17 was struck by the wing of a taxying plane at Poster Field on Thursday afternoon. He was employed as a field worker since August 1941 by Freepers and Whar on Metalf. Surviving are his wife and one child who is in the army.
Reds Threaten Trap Germans In Hungary Near Budapest
London reports the Red Army pressed toward Losone in northeast Hungary after a 20 mile advance, threatening to trap the last German army. Berlin said more than 100000 Soviet troops launched a major offensive southwest of Budapest, with 70 infantry divisions and 16 tank corps engaged. Moscow announced Soviet forces near Budapest closed to 22 miles from encirclement in a 25 mile pocket as Lake Balaton became a strategic focal point for breaking through the Szekesfeherval gap. German outlets cited massive Soviet concentrations in Latvia, East Prussia and Poland as winter offensives loomed.
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Red Army
Losone
Lucence
Hungary
Berlin
Budapest
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Szekesfeherval
Lake Balaton
Velencei
DNB
Lake
Balaton
Latvia
Prussia
Poland
Farmer Kills Neighbor then Commits Suicide Near Centralia
In Centralia Illinois Allen Suddeth 35 killed neighbor Charlotte Frazier 43 with a bludgeon near a beltway then died by suicide after leaving the scene. Sheriff Homer Lewellan said the events followed a round of taverns in Sandoval Illinois.
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Tll
Dee
UPI
Allen Suddeth
Hell Farmer
Charlotte Frazier
Salem
Ill
Homer Lewellan
Sandoval
RAF Bombers Hit German Rail Targets
RAF heavy bombers blasted three German rail towns behind the western front and rail and oil targets in southern Germany. Lancasters attacked Trier and were escorted by US Ninth Air Force. Additional raids hit Cologne and Bonn while other forces targeted northern Germany and possibly Gdynia.
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U.P
Italy
Gemany
Trier
Halifany
Cologne
Bonn
Rhine
G1st Army Group
Trior
U.S. 9Th Airforce
Fichtery
France
Air Ministry
Germany
Gdynia
Sweden
Baltic
Clemency plea denied in Denton death penalty case
In Austin on December 22 the state board of pardons denied a petition to commute the death sentence of Allen Murray. Murray, a Denton county defendant, was convicted in district court for a statutory sex offense against a college girl and was given the extreme penalty.
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Austin
Tex
Allen Murray
State Board of Pardons
Murray
Denton
Denton County
Jatre Affirmed by Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin Hartford
A court ruling affirms Jatre as a world named entity linked to Hartford Conn. The report notes forty insurance costs and describes the largest insurance center in the panies located there.
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Jatre
Court of Criminal Appeals
Austin
Hartford
Conn
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