Cambridge Strike Unsettled Enters U S Service
Milk from Carnation plant in Corry continues to serve South Dayton as Cambridge Springs workers strike, though Corry plant remains unaffected. Company cites wage increases granted since March and alleges the walkout is limited to Cambridge Springs with no spread to other plants. Negotiations reviewed, workers seeking 20 cent hourly raise despite contract not expiring until December 1.
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Carnation
Dayton
Cambridge
Corry
Carnation Milk Company
Cambridge Springs
Holt
British Mop Up Benghazi Area
Associated Press reports British forces captured several hundred Axis prisoners and seized a large ammunition dump in mopping up operations south of Benghasi in the Benghazi Ghemines Soluch triangle. The bulletin notes heavy RAF air strikes against enemy columns and armor with 476 Axis planes destroyed or captured by December 23.
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Associated Press
GATRO
Egypt
Ral Benges
Aces
Gulf of Sire
Libya
Bengasi
Bengasi-Ghemines-Soluch
Gift
Air Force
Agedabin
Chrenalca
Blackout Hits Sacramento City. Planes Identified as Friendly
Sacramento experienced a blackout at 1:45 a m as unidentified aircraft were reported over the city. An all-clear followed about an hour later after the Army explained the planes were friendly and identified.
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Calif
Sacramenta
Arry
Nimits Arrives in Hawaii to Assume Pacific Fleet Command
Honolulu report states Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimits has reached the Hawaiian area in preparation for taking command of the Pacific fleet. The Navy announced the move on December 27 as the command transition progresses.
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Nimitz
Honolulu
Navy
Chester W. Nimits
Hawaiian
Pacific Fleet
Ford gifts total 1000000 to Detroit area projects
Detroit December 17 The Ford Crows announced a gift of 1000000 from the Ford Motor Company and the Ford Foundation exclusive of donations from Ford employees. The money is to be expended in the Detroit area.
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Ford Glves
Detroit
Rea Crows
Ford Motor Company
Ford Foundation
Ford Emip
Japanese Reinforcements Poured Into Islands Front
War Department reports Japanese reinforcements pouring ashore north and southeast of Manila as heavy fighting rages southeast of the Philippine capital. Lingayen Gulf area fighting described as desultory with continued heavy air activity over the battle front. Enemys forces reinforced toward Lingayen Gulf and Atimonan. reports say combat in the Mor General vicinity remains very heavy.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
Manila
Philippine
Lingayen Gulf
Lingayen
Mantla
Wie Southw Pst
Jimor Bey
Murphy store manager transferred to Titusville outlet
Willard C. Cox longtime Murphy Co. manager in this city will relocate to oversee the Titusville store early next year. Robert Bumbaugh of Sewickley will assume the Cory position, taking up duties in January. Cox has led local expansion and served Kiwanis, Red Cross, and the First Presbyterian Church.
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Willard C. Cox
G. O. Murphy Company
Titusville
Big Enain
Mr. Cox
Me‘Keesport
Murphy
Pennsylvania
North Center Street
Corry
Robert Bumbaugh
Sewickley
Cox
Bumbaugh
Corty
Kiwanis Club
Cory Chapter
The
Red Cross
First Presbyterian Church
East Wayne Street
Seizure of French Islands Tops Hull Mackenzie Talks
Secretary of State Hull conferred with Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King on Free French seizure of St Pierre and Miquelon near Newfoundland. A Vichy broadcast to residents of the islands promised to restore the status quo after De Gaulle forces took control.
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Somiated Press
Washington
Secretary of State
Hull
W. L. Mackenzie King
Canada
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Newfoundland
VICHY
New York
St. Pierre and
Miquelon
Charles DeGaulle
Britain
France
United States
Oneida fire kills mother and four children
A mother, Mrs. Henrietta Rausch, and her four children Patsy 3 Eleanor 2 in a three room frame house near Oneida Wisconsin perished from a kerosene stove fire. The father Peter Rausch and two older sons Robert 13 Edward 11 were badly burned and transported to St Vincent's hospital Green Bay. Doctors said recovery chances were fair.
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Oneida
Wis
Here
Henrietta Rausch
Patsy
Eleanor
Peter Rausch
Robert
Edward
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Green Bay
Rausch
O Feisis
Ralph
New command in control at Singapore
Sir Tam'y Pownall, 8, named commander in chief of British forces in the Far East to halt the Japanese invasion of Malaya. London papers tempered criticism of the Malayan campaign but warned further reverses are possible as reports show Japanese progress along Kota Bharu coast and lines in Perak and Trenggani.
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Associated Press
London
Tam'y Pownall
Malaya
Far East
Kota Bharu
Keneman
Singapore
Sungei
Centra
Perak
Perak River
Trenggani
Almost Complete Tire Famine Threatens Car Owners
The Office of Price Administration imposes a new tire rationing program as crude rubber from the Par East dwindles. Leon Henderson sets local tire rationing boards to begin January 5th, restricting purchase certificates to seven essential classifications for health safety industry and service needs.
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Ity Street
Washington
Office of Price Administraion
WOU Utes
Leon Henderson
Army officer hopeful C M Howard ordered to Carlisle for exam
Culminating weeks of effort to rejoin the armed forces C M Howard fiscal manager of the Pennsylvania Electric Company is ordered to report Monday afternoon to the U S Army barracks at Carlisle Pennsylvania for a physical examination. He previously served as a captain in Company A of the Pennsylvania National Guard. The move follows war with Japan and is reported as a possible commission as major. Howard declines a promotion at his current job to take the Army appointment.
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Clilen M. Howard
Third Corps
Baltimore
Helle
Carlisle
Howard
U.S. Army
Sio
Cherry
Alton
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Air Mail Pickup Reaches One Million Miles Milestone
All American Aviation reports completing its first million air mail pickups with no serious mishaps to personnel, equipment, or cargo. The service, started August 1940 by the Civil Aeronautics Board, operates five routes across 112 cities in Pennsylvania Delaware New York West Virginia Kentucky and Ohio delivering mail and express by airplane. It has made 60 783 pickups and deliveries and moved 307 000 pounds of freight during its operation.
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All American Aviation
Corry
Singer
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New York
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
Pirmall
Hull condemns Japan barbaric methods in Manila bombing
Secretary Hull said Japan uses the same barbaric cruelty as Hitler in Europe. He cited Manila bombing and Japan's 1937 invasion of China as evidence of a consistent pattern of violating international law and harming civilians.
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Washington
Hull
Japan
Hitler
Europe
iManila
Nazi Transport Attacks Reveal New Red Drive
Soviet and German forces clash across multiple fronts as Red Army operations push toward Sevastopol and Kerch. Reports claim Soviet bombers hit Soviet transport ships in the Kerch Strait while Leningrad siege efforts continue and Moscow fronts see gains, with German casualties mounting in heavy winter battles.
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Berlin
Kerch Straits
Leningrad
Moscow
Volkova
Burreau
Moscow Radio
Rusalena Uits
Volkhovo
Oka River
Naratominsk
Tavestin
Oka Lriver
Volga
Mosow
Adal Hitler
London
Kaluga
Oka
Ugra
Baltic
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Man Found Dead at Warren State Hospital
Samuel G. Walker 27 of Fayette County was found dead in his room at the Warren State Hospital. Coroner Ed Lowrey said Walker died by strangulation, with a sheet end tied to a wall ventilator and the other around his throat. He is survived by his mother in Brownsville Fayette County.
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Warren Warren
Samuel G. Walker
Fayette County
Warren State
Ed Lowrey
Lowrey
Walker
Brownsville
Fayetten County
Dutch Sinking Jap Ship A Day At Batavia
A Dutch communique reports six or seven bombs hitting a Japanese ship off Batavia with a huge column of smoke. Dutch warships and harbor craft were damaged in the attack near Kuching and Morne. One civilian was killed and several wounded in a separate raid on an area in Borneo by enemy bombers.
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Russia
Crimean
Kerch
Sevastopol
High Command
Hullelin
Straits
Tion
Trdbating
Theigh
Black Sea Mysl
Associated Press
Batavia
Netherlands
Ion Wissue
Army
Harbers
Kuching
Sanukonie
Morne
Alreiame
Borneo
Wounder
U S and Britain signaled broad war strategy unity
The United States and Great Britain reportedly reached a preliminary agreement on land air and sea campaigns to win in 1943 with plans to detail execution steps immediately. Major Allied powers including the Soviet Union China the Netherlands Canada Australia and New Zealand were to participate in a joint conference possibly starting today. Prime Minister Mackenzie King arrived in Washington signaling Anglo American cooperation while Sir John Dill may stay to coordinate efforts and a postwar federation idea gains attention.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
China
Netherlands
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Roosevelt
Chuvenutl
White House
W. L. Mackenzie King
Priar
John Dill
Britishmy
Ass Aise
Radio Tells Of Havoc Wrought In Jap Attack
NBC Manila correspondent Bert Silen describes heavy casualties and fires as Japanese bombs strike Manila. Santo Domingo church and the Philippine treasury building are hit and set ablaze. He notes open city status, noncombatant ships in the bay, and calls for American help as casualties rise and civilians shelter.
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Associated Pres
New York
Bert Silen
National Broadcasting Company
Manila
Manin
Sllen
Santo Domingo
Istepors
Ares
Bay
Pasig
Sten
Silen
Philippine Treasury
NBG
Tombers
Chamber predicts tax cut possible in next biennium
The State Chamber of Commerce committee on taxation and government expenditures led by E M Elkin of Pittsburgh forecast a 60 to 75 million dollar tax reduction during the next biennium starting June 1 1943 if conditions materialize. The panel notes potential effects from war program priorities and employment shifts and contrasts with calls by Representative Adler to hold a special session to cut taxes by 100 million dollars.
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Commerce
Chan
Associated Press
Harrisburg
State Chamber of Commerce
E. M. Elkin
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric and’ Manufacturing Company
Leo A. Achterman
McR
Iber
House of Representatives
James
Adler‘ Nan Y
Japanese raid on Manila shocks world with massive destruction
A brutal Japanese air assault on Manila killed many and left a stunned 125,000 population, as the capital had been declared open and undefended. Reports indicate minimal opposition in return fire and widespread devastation across the city.
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Associated Press
Japan
Manila
Pilippine
Pearl Hithor
Tokyo
Japanese drive toward Manila reported in Philippines
A Reuters telegram from Manila said Japanese forces advancing from Lingayen Gulf have reached about 84 miles north of Manila, with a total push of two miles or more southward toward the capital. Atimonan on Lamon Bay and surrounding areas remain contested. bombardment and heavy artillery exchange continue near Manila and Cavite as U.S. and Filipino forces defend positions along the Agno river and at Lingayen Gulf.
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Philippines
Manila
Manin
Damortis
Lingayen Pulf
Far Eastern Command
United States
MacArthur
Manil
Baguio
Lingayen Bay
Tralian Stefani
Tokyo
US War Department
Pilipinas
Agno River
Ini
Lamon Bay
Ares
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Suji
Iingo
Hirohito
Cavite
Mayili FE
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