Reds Sever Vital Road To Vitebsk
Soviet forces cut the Vitebsk to Polotsk highway and advanced within 14 miles of Vitebsk. Gen. Bagramian’s First Baltic Army pushed toward Zaluchye and Kurino 14 miles northeast of Vitebsk while German lines near Gorodok collapsed under a major Soviet assault. German retreates fell into traps as Red artillery and infantry overwhelmed the defense, with heavy Soviet reports of German casualties and disarray.
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London
Vitebsk
Polotsk
Nevel
Gorodok
Ivan C. Bagramian
Zaluchye
Moscow
Bagramian
Vitebsk-Polotsk
Kurino
Novka
Zhlobin
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
White Russia
Western Europe
Red Army
Vitebsk- Nevel
Nevel-Vitebsk
Christmas Not White and Not Cold in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids area saw an atypical Christmas with pleasant weather. By 3 30 p m the high reached 44 degrees and by 8 p m the temperature stood at 34 degrees according to Chambers Inskeep instruments.
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Cedar Rapide
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Wyoming Civil War veteran Morse dies at 102 in Anamosa
Special to The Gazette Mark H Morse aged 102 died in an Anamosa hospital after a brief illness. He was a long time Wyoming resident and one of Iowa's last Civil War veterans a prominent G A R member and the oldest resident of Wyoming and Jones county. He served with the Thirty first Iowa and fought at Lookout Mountain Missionary Ridge and the Atlanta campaign. He will be honored with a Tuesday service at the Wyoming Presbyterian church. He was born in Bradford New Hampshire on October 18 1841 and moved to Iowa in 1854. Surviving are two sons six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Wyoming
Mark H. Morse
Anamosa
Morse
Iowa
G.A.R
Jones County
Presbyterian Church At
Robert Allen
Presbyterian Church
E. G. Steinman
Methodist Church
Mr. Morse
Bradford
N. H
Pleasant Ridge
Maquoketa
Eliza Willis F
Monmouth
John W
William N
Thirty-first
Lookout Mountain
Missionary Ridge
Atlanta
Sherman
Georgia
Presbyterian Church of Wyoming
Milwaukee
Memorial Hall
Clifford Morse
America
Linn War Loan Quota Set at 8.5 Million for 1944 Drive
Linn county's fourth war loan quota is 8.5 million dollars, slightly under the third drive. The plan opens January 18 and runs to February 15 with breakdowns for individual, corporate, and insurance purchases. Perrine urges residents to invest idle funds in war bonds and pledge monthly investments through 1944.
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Cedar Rapids News
Linn County
B. T. Per‘rine
County War Finance Committee
Perrine
Churchill Making Steady Progress Despite Pneumonia
London bulletin from No 10 Downing Street says Prime Minister Churchill is recovering from pneumonia in the Middle East and is making steady progress and gathering strength.
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London
Churchill
Middle East
No. 10
Downing Street
Family Man Fatally Struck in Christmas Tree Hit-and-Run
Edward Farrell 42 worked overtime to support his 11 children. On Friday night he was hit by a hit-and-run driver while carrying a Christmas tree and holiday packages. He died and his remaining money and tree were stolen. Neighbors later received the tree.
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New York
Edward Farrell
Farrell
Farrells
Aircrew Santa Gift Drive Delights Cedar Rapids Kids
Aviation cadets and officers of the Army Aircrew detachment hosted a Christmas party at Coe College gymnasium for about 150 Cedar Rapids children aged 5 to 14. Soldiers in khaki played Santa, distributing toys to families with absent fathers and limited resources, bringing festive joy to the neighborhood.
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Frank Nye
Coe College Gymnasium
Army Aircrew Detachment
Cedar Rapids
Nancy Karen Bear
Delmar Lee
Delmar F. Bear
West Coast
Seabees
Iowa Ideal Service Parents named the Taylors
Cedar Rapids couple Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Taylor were chosen as Iowa Ideal Service Parents at a Saturday event tied to the Iowa premiere of Happy Land. They received a $500 war bond instead of a service camp trip, citing government travel cautions and work commitments. The selection followed a statewide submission process and local judging by the Office of Civilian Defense.
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Cedar Rapids
W. B. Taylor
Ideal Service
Tee Service Parents of
Iowa
Taylor
Paramount Theater
Walter Hoffman
Minneapolis
Twentieth Century-Fox
Tri-States
Paramount
MacKinlay Kantor
Charles H. Grahl
Selective Service
Taylors
Office of
Civilian Defense
O Mahoney Seeks Federal Plan for Soldier Voting
Senator O Mahoney urges a rapid constitutional amendment granting Congress power to insure servicemen can vote in federal elections and have their ballots counted. He argues a superior law would remove state obstacles and protect voting rights for soldiers serving the nation.
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Washington
Congress
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Wyoming
Congress of the
United States
Allied Air Blitz Blasts Cape Gloucester and Rabaul
Allied airmen pounded Cape Gloucester on New Britain with 360 tons of bombs in the eleventh day of a heavy campaign. In the Rabaul raid, 30 Japanese fighters were shot down while four Allied fighters were lost. Australian forces push up the Huon peninsula toward Wandakai as patrol clashes occur near Bougainville.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Arawe
Rabaul
South Pacific
Douglas Bac
Huon Peninsula
Wandakai
Finschhafen
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Cape Torokina
Bougainville
Airza
East Alerted for Possible Holiday Foe Sneak Raid
The Eastern Defense Command announced protective measures along the Atlantic coast on Christmas Eve after a report of a possible sneak air attack on Christmas Day. The alert was canceled at 9 10 p m.
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East
New York
Eastern Defense Command
Atlantic Coast
EDC
War department denies source while coast defense test is ruled necessary
A war department spokesman could not identify the source of a report on a possible sneak air attack on the East Coast on Christmas Day but said Eastern Defense Command treated it as authentic. New York City is on 48 hour alert after Mayor LaGuardia ordered emergency measures to police, air raid wardens, and patrols amid fears of a Christmas raid.
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Washington
War Department
Eastern Defense Command
New York
INS
F. H. LaGuardia
Lewis J. Valentine
War Goods Destroyed by Fire in Hammond Warehouse
Fire damaged an estimated $300,000 worth of war materials at Riverdale Products in Hammond. Fire officials said tallow bones fat and grease used for ammunition were destroyed and much machinery burned. Firefighters controlled the blaze and averted danger to the nearby Great Lakes Warehouse complex.
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Hammond, Ill
Riverdale Products Company
Great Lakes Warehouse Corporation
Joseph Shere
John Scott
World Court Of 35 Planned For War Trial
A proposed international court in London would try war criminals including heads of state. Thirty-five judges would serve seven-year terms with English as the court language and an international constabulary to enforce orders.
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London
LLP
Adolf Hitler
United Nations Commission
Marcel de Baer
United States
International Assembly
International Court
United Nations
Rigid Milk Rationing May Be Averted by Subsidy and Policy Shifts
Washington AP officials say prospects brighten for avoiding rigid fluid milk rationing next year as corn and feed constraints ease. Government aims to boost dairy production by raising subsidies or increasing the milk consumer ceiling, while hog production may fall about 16 percent in 1944, freeing feed for dairy use.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Nazis Regrouping for Invasion Push in Britain
WASHINGTON and LONDON reports say American troops in Britain are in final training for Eisenhower's impending invasion. Simultaneously Nazi anti invasion forces regroup feverishly in Stockholm advices as Britain braces for the long awaited second front led by Eisenhower and Montgomery with British and American troops.
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London
INS
Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Stockholm
Eisenhower
London Express
Washington
Ed Johnson
Colorado
Europe
America
Bernard L. Montgomery
U S Planes Bombard Nauru and Wotje in Pacific Raids
Ventura bombers of fleet air wing No 2 hammered Nauru at dusk on Christmas Eve, starting fires in Japan s mid Pacific phosphate stronghold. Liberators hit Wotje, fending off Japanese fighters. American losses were one Ventura and one wounded airman.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U. S. Navy
Ventura
Japan
Mid-Pacific
Nauru
Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific
U. S Seventh Air Force
Marshall Islands
Gilberts
Wotje
Fleet Air Wing No 2
Equator
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Wildwood Boardwalk
Flames swept Hunt's Ocean Pier on Saturday in Wildwood New Jersey driven by a southwest wind. One man Frank Dougherty 64 watchman reportedly perished and firefighter Joseph Walto 62 died after collapsing at the scene. Total damage estimated at 1 million dollars. Three boardwalk blocks were wiped out along with three theaters an amusement pier two hotels 25 stores and nine homes most of which were empty.
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Wildwood
N. J
INS
Hunt's
Ocean Pier
Frank Dougherty
Joseph Walto
Wildwood Fire Department
Bolivian Leftist Leader Denies New Government Link
Jose Antonio Arze, Bolivian leftist leader, cabled U S Vice President Wallace and Secretary Hull denying a report he was connected to the new Bolivian government. The message came from Mexico City on Friday and addresses the sensational claim.
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Mexico City
Jose Antonio Arze
Revolutionary Party
U. S
Henry Wallace
Cordell Hull
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