Yanks to Celebrate Yule Overseas With Turkey and Trees
Christmas in war zones brings turkey dinners and trimmings for troops ashore and afloat. Navy Red Cross kits include decorations. radio programs feature stars and greetings. Home broadcasts from Hyde Park and a midnight mass from Italy mark the day.
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Brooklyn Sergeant Repaired Gun In 32 Below War Zone
Sgt Leonard Kaminsky of Brooklyn removed his gloves at five miles altitude in 32 below zero to repair a Flying Fortress gun during a mission against an Austrian plane factory. His hands froze and swelled but he completed the repair and returned to action before being hospitalized for recovery.
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INS
Leonard Kaminsky
Brooklyn
War Department
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Economy Group Reports Saving Of Two Billions
Washington reports the congressional joint economy committee says it saved more than two billion dollars in non essential government expenditures since September 1941. A seven point program aims to cut public debt, review unexpended war appropriations totaling about 186 billion, and shutter non essential personnel. The panel seeks agency consolidations and ending duplicate offices in agriculture.
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Congressional Joint Economy Committee
Department of Agriculture
Byrd-led committee targets cutting waste in public works
A congressional committee under Sen. Byrd vows to curb duplication and excess in public works and similar programs. It plans to review new ventures and to probe franking privileges while reporting notable savings from two years of reductions including abolition of the civilian conservation corps and cuts in Works Progress Administration and rivers and harbors funding.
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Hotel Fire Kills Four in Chicago
Authorities probe cause after a blaze at a Chicago hotel kills four residents and forces fifty others to flee in their night clothes.
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German secret rocket gliders attack convoy described
London reports the first eyewitness account of Nazi rocket propelled glider bombs used against a large Allied convoy. Eight Heinkel bombers carried one glider each, guiding them by radio to strike ships head on. all gliders exploded on water, with several aircraft shot down and no ships hit.
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Robert Daley
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Mrs. Daniels Dies Wife of Navy Secretary
Mrs Josephus Daniels 74 wife of the former secretary of the navy and former ambassador to Mexico died Sunday night after a several months illness in Raleigh North Carolina.
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Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
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