Allies Push Four Miles In Counterattack Near Bastogne
Paris dispatch reports powerful U S armored and infantry divisions driving into the Belgium Luxembourg bulge. Advances tagged four miles with gains around Bastogne and Monschau, and German attempts to counter, while Allied air forces continue pressure on enemy lines and communications.
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Paris
U.S
Belgium-Luxembourg
Bastogne
U.S. 1St Army
Monsctou
Warnack
Chaumont
Martelange
Stourmont
Stavelot
DNB
U. S
Belgium
Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
Libremont-St. Hubert
Marche
Capeital
Brussels
Namur
Food Ration Regulations Tightened Up This Holiday
Washington reports tightened civilian rationing as canned vegetables join the list and butter sugar and meat rules are revised. Red point values rise for butter and 35 percent of meat moves under rationing next week. Changes cancel many old stamps and validate new ones with kept point values, while sugar and industrial use cuts take effect.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Aiia
House GOP Urges Naming Food Czar
Washington December 25 Republicans renewed their push for a food czar with broad power over pricing and distribution. Rep Jenkins of Ohio chaired the 44 member House group advocating one person free of administration influence to coordinate all food industry aspects and improve shortages and distribution. The czar would work with experts in wheat corn fruit and vegetables to direct handling and policy.
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Washington
Det
Jenkins
Ohio
OPA
Ohioan
Leyte campaign closed as Japanese defeat sealed
General MacArthur declared the Leyte-Samar campaign ended after American forces captured Palompon in a waterborne assault, destroying Japan's last escape port on Leyte. He cited Yamashita as suffering perhaps the greatest defeat in Japanese military history with 112,728 killed and 493 captured in 67 days.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Dee
Leyte-Samar
Palompon
Jatin Faland
Ing
Tomoyusi Yamashita
Kamnshita
Manila
Tokyo
Leyte
Yamashita
Malaya Peninsula
Singapore
Palmpines
Tragedy at Cherry Point Christmas Party
At Cherry Point Marine Air Base a fatal accident during a children’s Christmas party injured nine year old Owen Penick. The boy, son of Captain and Mrs Herbert M Penick of Booneville, Mississippi, dashed onto the runway as Santa arrived and was struck by the aircraft’s wing, dying instantly.
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Cherry Point
N. C
Owen Was
Herbert M. Penick
Booneville, Ma
Floods disrupt holiday travel across West Virginia
Heavy rains and melting snow swelled creeks and rivers causing road closures on Route 18 at West Union and U S 33 between Weston and Glenville and Weston and Buckhannon. Expected closures on Route 20 and Route 4 loom. Elk and West Fork rivers rise with widespread damage and six deaths reported during the long weekend.
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West Virginia
Road Commission
West Union
U. S. 33
Weston
Glenville
Buckhamon
Stout
Webster Springs
West Fork
U.S. 10
Clarksburg
Throng of 100000 Hears Vatican Midnight Mass
In Rome a crowd of about 100000 packed St Peter's for Pope Pius XII to celebrate the midnight mass on Christmas Eve. Allied personnel, diplomats, and many from the Ethiopian college attended. A notable moment included the Japanese ambassador's wife receiving communion. The event marked only the second public Christmas Eve mass in 73 years, a break from the private service traditionally held for cardinals and royals.
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St. Peter's
Pius XII
Pius IX
Col
Joseph. Davidson
Pottsvilln
Gna Ethlagan
Halle Mawam Tesfou
Vatican
Alto
St Peter's
Iiplomathe Corps
Jean
Bafcane Bkins
Sectinn
Inz Vulean
Ilpth
Soviets Encircle Budapest As Forces Push West
London dispatch reports the Red Army sealing Budapest from the west by cutting the last rail escape routes and driving toward Vienna and Bratislava. Soviet communique notes heavy enemy losses including 241 tanks and 100 planes, with thousands of soldiers killed or captured. Advancing units along the Hron river near Leva prepare to storm the barrier before Austria as other columns push northwest of Budapest.
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London
Red Army
Lmits
Budapest
Czechoslovakia
Leva
Levice
Vienna
Bratssava
Comimunique
Ely Dee
de Vroyerdt
Societ
Mibesaba
Pillscsaba
Danube River
Danube al- Teordy Ares
Leva Sinrm
Nodion Y
Malinovsky
Ukraine Army
Hron
Moscow
New Yorkers Face Meatless Holiday
New York City faces a Christmas meat shortage as about one third of Manhattan’s 10,000 butcher shops may close amid disputes over OPA price ceilings. Retail dealers say limits force them from business while a holiday shutdown could occur, with officials warning up to roughly 700 shops might shutter. Mayor LaGuardia and regional OPA leaders held talks seeking a settlement, but prospects remained uncertain.
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New York
Manhattan
New York City
OPA
Tyla
Hvestwek
OVA
Daniel 2. Woalley
Florelia II LaGuardia
American Bombers Hit Swiss Border Town
An American squadron bombed Thayngen on the southwest German border, damaging frontier facilities and factories, with several ships dropping heavy bombs. One German was reported injured. A twin engine bomber was shot down over Würenlingen. eight crew bailed out, seven survived, one drowned.
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London
Nec
Thayngen
Swis
Radio
Thayngey
Schaffhauxen
United States
Wuerlinzen
Aargau
Commounique
Tn Baltert
Agr
Churchill Eden Reach Athens To Set Up Parley
Athens dispatch reports British Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden arriving in Greece to calm the crisis. A conference with ELAS members was planned for Tuesday, with Archbishop Damaskinos named as possible regent. British and Greek posts faced renewed fighting as Beaufighters bombed ELAS positions in Athens suburbs and central areas.
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Churchill
Eden
Athens
Haitlin
Anthony Eden
Inchiethr
Mediterranean
Marold MacMillan
Servent
Condition of John F. Waters case intermediary unchanged
From New York December 25 a family spokesman said Julie Condon of New York was said to be fit after pneumonia. The condition of John F. Waters, noted educator and intermediary in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, was reported unchanged.
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Julie’ Condon
York
John F. Watsies Comley
Meyear Oll
Tay
Condon Wix
British King George VI Christmas Message Broadcast
King George VI in a Christmas address to Britain and the Allied world expressed hope that liberation and triumph will be complete before next Yuletide while warning that defeating the Axis is only half the task. He called for a world of free men untouched by tyranny and noted a rekindling of lamps across Europe as the war continues.
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Londo
Dec
USI
George VI
Germany
Japan
Elizabeth
Europe
German War Prisoners Escape Arizona Camp
Twenty three German prisoners escaped Papago Park camp near Phoenix yesterday afternoon. 17 remain at large. FBI cannot confirm full details due to army control but aids in a large manhunt. Escapes occurred between 5:30 and 6:15 pm. six recaptured, others unknown. Most at large are officers.
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Arizona
Wasitiington
Papago Park
Phoenix
Ariz
Federal Bureau of Ineestigation
FBI
FBT
Horatius Stand Hero Lt Col Riggs Guards St Vith
Lt Col Thomas Riggs, former University of Minnesota football captain from Huntington West Virginia, halts a German armored thrust at St Vith near the Belgian road. With ten antitank guns and ten engineers he delays the advance, organizing a defense under heavy shelling to save American armor and infantry.
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Mints
Ata St. Vith
St. Vith
Tius
Schonbers
Wilbur R. Wenstes
Freeeport
N.Y
Itis
Clark
Snowfall Hinders Front Action in Italian War Theater
Heavy snow of three to eight inches blankets the Italian battle fronts around Bologna and Monte Ramici as U S Sth Army patrols to the north while a single clash near Monte Ramici yields no position changes. Canadians with the British Eighth Army push along the east bank of the Senio near Castel Bolognese amid stubborn resistance. Polish troops on the left wing of the Eighth Army press patrols five miles below the Bologna highway near Castel Bolognese as German artillery intensifies on forward positions.
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Rome
Monte Ramici
Bologna
Sigien Truscott
Senio
8Th
Bologna Highway
Castel Bolognese
8Th Army
Allotments Sharply Reduced by OPA for January Tires
Washington Dec 25 The Office of Price Administration announced sharp cuts to January civilian tire quotas and urged more recapping and car pools. New passenger tires drop to 1 800 000 from 2 000 000 while small trucks and buses get 216 000 from 280 000 and heavy trucks and buses to 106 000 from 110 000. Tractor and implement tires unchanged. The cut aims to free tires to meet 2½ ton truck demand amid wartime rubber shortages and 1 650 000 fewer passenger tires in Q1 1945 versus late 1944. Heavy bus and truck operators face backlog of 100,000 high priority tires.
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Washington
Ins
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Max McCullough
War Production Board Rubber Buccoon
McCutloush
WPD
Ship Builders Work Christmas Holiday at Brunswick Yard
In Brunswick Georgia more than 1,500 shipyard employees volunteered to work without pay on a cargo vessel, with an additional 500 joining the night shift. The voluntary effort, part of 1,000 ruiplages of hg J A Jones Construction Co, aimed to speed the seventh merchant vessel built at the yard this month as other Brunswick workers joined in.
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Brunswick
Dee
Hg. J. A. Jones. Construction Co
Shipyard workers donate meals as Santa torch incident unfolds
Workers at the shipyard cafeteria donated meals with E. J. Kraft and other officers among the volunteers. Government rules require payroll handling, so sponsors asked for a separate payroll for today’s labor to endorse checks to the Treasury. A Brunswick resident dressed as Santa boarded the vessel to congratulate workers, then brandished a torch.
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E. J. Kraft
Treasury Department
Brunswick
Santa Claus
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