Mindoro Invasion Advances From Leyte to Mindoro
Allied forces pressed ashore on Mindoro near San Jose after a 600 mile Leyte to Mindoro invasion. U S troops faced limited resistance with initial objectives seized within 90 minutes. MacArthur said the operation splits the Philippine archipelago, isolating Japan’s Sea and air routes to the China coast.
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HDQ
Philippines
Leyte
Manila
Mindoro
Comet Agency
San Jose
Tokyo
Sulu
Panay
Négros
Cebu
Bohol
Mindanao
Bataan
Philippine Archipelago
China
Douglas MacArthur
Philippine
Gen. MacArthur
Negros
Smuggling Ring Over the Hump Nets Dozens Nabbed
An Army led probe exposes a three year international smuggling syndicate moving contraband into China over the Hump. Scores of American service members and civilians face court martial or arrest, with cooperation from British Chinese and Indian officials. The operation involved stolen lend lease gear gold and other goods, yielding over 4 million dollars in profits. Names of suspects were withheld.
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New Delhi
United States Army
China
India
Waying Tigers
China National Airways Corporation
Red Cross
Burma
Porter Tells 3 Day Fight Sans Sleep
Lt Col Roy V Porter of Cedar Rapids Iowa led a sleepless 79th Division battalion across the German border as part of a rapid river crossing effort near Scheibenhard and Wissembourg. The unit seized and held bridges while under heavy fire, enabling a three-division advance toward Germany in a race to enter first.
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Thoburn Wiant
79Th Division
Germany
Roy V. Porter
Cedar Rapids
Scheibenhard
Wissembourg
Alexander M. Patch
79Th
Col. Porter
China Based Yanks Sink Jap Warship
CHUNGKING AP Bomb carrying fighters of the United States 14th Air Force sank an enemy destroyer in Hongkong harbor Dec 8, American army headquarters announced. In a Dec 7 13 review, American planes destroyed 42 enemy aircraft, probably destroyed 10 and damaged 22. Six were shot down in air combat. No American planes were lost.
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Chungking
United States
14Th Air Force
Hongkong Harbor
Porter earns Bronze Star for action in France
Lt Col Roy V Porter 1934 Coe College graduate and former ROTC cadet colonel was employed by Prudential Life Insurance in Cedar Rapids before joining the service in May 1941. He went overseas last May, has been on the continent since June, and his wife Catherine Montillon and two sons James and Bruce reside at 211 Twenty seventh Street NE.
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Roy V. Porter
Coe College
R.O.T.C
Cedar Rapids
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Catherine Montillon
James
Bruce
Twenty-seventh Street
Porter
France
Germans Try to Pull Fuse on Bomb on Mine Bridge
At a battalion post, soldiers eating fried chicken watched as five Germans attempted to detonate a 500‑pound bomb on a heavily mined bridge. Lt Vernon L. Hayden and a 57‑mm crew fired on the attackers, who sheltered in a house as shells fell about 200 yards away. The bridge could explode and delay the 79th Regiment if wrecked.
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Porter
79Th
Vernon L. Hayden
Tyler
Texas
Citadel Falls as Burma Road Opens to China
American-trained Chinese forces captured Bhamo in north central Burma after a 28 day battle, ending Japan's last major resistance in the area. The fall clears the Irrawaddy stronghold and opens the Burma road nearly entirely, resuming Allied traffic from India to Chungking. The Japanese garrison once numbered about 1000, with some escaping prior to the fall.
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Hugh Crumpler
Bhamo
Burma
Irrawaddy River
Burma Road
China
38Th Division
Li Hung
Mandalay
India
Chunging
Wool Halted for Civilian Clothes War Production Board freezes wool use for five months
Washington WPB announces a five month halt on processing wool for civilian clothing to prioritize military needs. The restriction covers worsted yarns used in suits sweaters and similar garments, ending June 2. Officials say civilian shortages are not expected as current stocks should meet demand until next fall.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Continued Cold Forecast With Likely Snow For Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect continued cold weather with snow likely by Sunday. Tonight will be fair and cold with lows around 10 degrees. Sunday will be increasingly cloudy with rising temperatures and a probable snow Sunday night. The day saw a low of 9 degrees and a high near 34, with overcast skies and 5 to 10 degree readings expected tonight statewide.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mason City
Chambers
Council Bluffs
Ottumwa
Dubuque
Bombers Hit Ludwigshafen in Rhineland Raid
A large force of about 500 British heavy bombers attacked Ludwigshafen in the Rhineland near the American Seventh Army front. They dropped hundreds of tons of bombs and fire bombs, setting many fires and focusing on the I. G. Farben chemical works.
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London
Seventh Army
Rhineland
Ludwigshafen
I. G. Farben Chemical Works
Comix and Courthouse Items in Today’s Index
The page lists sections including Comics Deaths Movies and Sports with scattered mentions of names such as David Lawrence and Drew Pearson. It appears as a rough OCR of a newspaper index pointing to entertainment, obituaries, and athletic coverage.
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Index
Marquis
Enka Seeevagts
Eae
David Lawrence Tee E
Marion
Drew Pearson
Feeed
Betes Ee Radio
Cela Wences Never & Sports
Churchill to broadcast this weekend in crisis
London reports suggest Prime Minister Winston Churchill may announce a world broadcast Sunday night. He may appeal for a Greek armistice an immediate tri power conference and urge the United States to state its stance on Poland. If not broadcasting he will likely speak in the Commons Tuesday on Greece policy. The Guardian warns Britain faces a choice between US or Soviet ties amid the Polish crisis and calls for an Anglo American Russian conference. The Yorkshire Observer notes Stalin may refuse another meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt until Poland is settled.
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London
Winston Churchill
No. 10
Downing Street
Churchill
United States
Greece
Manchester Guardian
Britain
Russia
The
Guardian
Tomasz Arciszewski
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Curzon
Soviet Russia
Europe
Yorkshire Observer
Stalin
Roosevelt
Vandenberg
United Nations
Washington
Welcome Committee Delays Invasion At Mindoro Beach
In San Francisco a group of Filipino welcoming committee members delayed the invasion of Mindoro island by guiding cattle to the water and preventing American ships from firing. The ships were held back for several minutes before bombardment resumed.
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San Francisco
INS
Mindoro
Civvie Goods Are Frozen Indefinitely
Washington AP WPB ordered indefinite freeze of civilian production at present levels to divert labor to essential war needs. The Dec 7 notice allows limited expansion via positive demonstrations or spot plans for noncritical factories, with 17 listed items tightly controlled and manpower checks required before civilian increases in areas of acute shortages. Cedar Rapids among cities affected.
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Washington
WPB
Shmuel Anderson
Office of Civilian Requirements
Cedar Rapids
War Manpower Commission
Prisoner Jails Time After Contempt Charge Remark
Spokane AP reports a prisoner sentenced to jail for contempt of court addressed Judge Ralph Foley with the remark I need a rest. The exchange underscores tense courtroom mood as authorities finalize sentence.
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Spokane, Wash
Ralph Foley
Reinforced Nazis Slug Patch's Men
Allied reports describe heavy Siegfried Line action as a fresh Nazi armored division reinforced the line along a 17 mile front west of the Rhine. U S Seventh Army corps pressed into the Bavarian Palatinate while 45th 79th and 103rd divisions crossed the border near Lauterbourg and Werbrechen, with German counter efforts and intensified artillery fire across the Saarlautern Dillingen and Duren sectors.
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Paris
Siegfried Line
United States
Seventh Army
Germany
Rhine
Bavarian Palatinate
West Wall
Alexander M. Patch
79Th
The
Reich
Lauterbourg
As Lauterbourg
Inva
Mannheim
Eed Laddy
Renan
Nor
45Th
103Rd
Wissembourg
Third Army
Dillingen
Saarlautern
Duren
Cologne
First
Linnich
Bergstein
First Army
Ruhr
Venray
Holland
Ninth Air Force
Saarbrucken
Homburg
Saar
Palatinate
Alsace
Colmar
Roosevelt signs one percent social security tax freeze
President Roosevelt reluctantly signed a bill extending the 1 percent social security tax for another year, criticizing Congress for freezing the tax. The measure keeps payroll taxes at 1 percent, avoiding a scheduled rise to 2 percent, and sets the stage for a broader long term financing plan to be proposed to Congress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Rayburn
House
White House
Doughton
D-N.c
Ways and Means
Czechs Looted by Retreating Nazis in Czechia
Moscow dispatch quotes Czech government envoy accusing retreating Germans of looting food and movable goods across Czechoslovakia and leaving cities in ruins as they pull back from the region.
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Moscow
Czechoslovakia
Vandenberg Urges Plain U S Speak on Russia Britain
Washington watchers note growing diplomatic moves as Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill plan a post inauguration meeting. Senator Vandenberg says the United States must not be the silent partner and warns against Polish postwar decisions made without Washington’s consultation.
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Washington
Sen. Vandenberg
R-Mich
United States
Russia
Britain
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Vandenberg
Moscow
London
Mrs. Carl Nelson Injured in Collision
Mrs. Carl Nelson, 31, of 402 Fourth Street NW, was injured Friday night when her car collided with a gasoline transport truck at Bowling and C streets SW in Cedar Rapids. The truck, driven by James Wells of Bet tendorf, skidded while turning into Bowling. The car, driven by James Fee Jr. of 2424 D Avenue NE, was traveling east in Bowling and turning into C Street when the crash occurred.
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Cedar Rapids
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