Pilots Rescue Flight After 90mm Hit Over China
Capt. John E. Meyer and Lt. John E. Egan, both American pilots, survived a Christmas morning mission when Meyer's P-51 was hit by ground fire on the Yangtze run. Egan guided Meyer home, keeping within sight as Meyer's vision deteriorated from shell fragments. Meyer is hospitalized. doctors removed multiple metal slivers from both eyes and assess return to combat.
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China
John E. Meyer
Atrachmont—-Road
Birmingham
Ala
John E. Egan
Second Avé
Fort Lauderdale
A. Wing
Egan
Meyer
Apedana Egan
Reconversion Talk A 1944 Casualty As Germany Fought Back
New York reports that by end of 1944 the United States faced a slowing yet solid war production effort. The War Production Board suspended civilian reconversion for 90 days to boost munitions while factories reopened and manpower was redirected from peacetime jobs. Aircraft and ship output remained high with total 1944 aircraft near 96,000 and ship deliveries at 1,680 vessels. War financing edged toward half tax funded, stock prices climbed into year end on optimism amid ongoing conflict.
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New York
United States
Germany
Europe
War Production Board
Faortar
Selective Service
Federal Reserve Board
Pacific
Tokyo
Ins
Treasury
France
New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Local Notes Mention Area Residents and Sheriff Report
Mrs Marion Hill remains patient at Decatur General hospital. Morgan County sheriff reports no arrests over the weekend. Mrs Howard Craft returns home to Bi spending time with her parents Ratliff and Ingham after trial holidays.
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Marion Hill
Third ‘Avenue South
Decatur General Hospital
Morgan County Sheriff's Office
Ingham
Tom
Howard Craft
Bispending
Ratliff
Tom Ratliff
Birmingham
C. W. Craft and Son
Jerry
Cullman
L. B. Hammond
Mary Lou Hammond
Hanceville
Ernest Hestla
Bobby
Don Wells
Bob Bodine
Bob Jones College
Cleveland, Tenn
Lloyd George Is Made Earl in New Year Honors
The London honors list raises George to the earldom amid Britain’s national mood of transition from war and health issues. The piece recalls Lloyd George's long career as PM, his role in postwar taxation shifts, and his lasting political impact from 1916 onward.
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London
David i
Earl
Lloyd Gert
Commons
Ean Lloyd George
Dwyfor
Lloyd George of
Great Britain
House of Lords
Britain
Lloyd George
Neville Chamberlain
Five Degrees All the Way and a Christmas Dinner Token
The speaker recalls five degrees of danger and a near bailout over the home field noting it would delay medical aid. He considers himself lucky. At a prior Christmas dinner Meyer received a baked Chinese five cent piece as a tuck token.
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Meyer
Ardennes Battle Signals Slow, But Forces Press Front
The report details a 38 hour news blackout on the Luxembourg Belgium front with German claims of American positions attacked on a wide front near Bitche. Patton’s forces push northeast between Bastogne and St. Hubert as Von Rundstedt reshapes defenses. fighting grows near Bannstein Dambach and near the Sure river as troops clash around Bastogne and Wiltz. The struggle centers on pinching off the western end of German forces and the 101st Airborne’s defiant stand at Bastogne.
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Bitche
Meuse
Moselle
Seventh Army
Bannstein
Dambach
Bundenthal
German Palatinate
Wissembourg
Colar
Strasbourg
Patton
Bastogne
St. Hubert
Third Army
von Rundstedt
Bulge
Chenogne
Letrebois
Supreme Headquarters
Ardennes Salient
Wiltz
Reisdorf
Sure River
Diekirch
101St Airborne Division
Galient
Battle for Bastogne Area Drives Alliances on Two Fronts
Allied forces press toward Bastogne as Patton's Third Army extends the push northward while the First Army advances south toward the bulge. Recapture of Rochefort confirmed as Gouges, with German forces using tanks and infantry to probe the American lines. The Bastogne corridor remains disputed with heavy artillery and aerial bombardment, and German counterthrusts possible.
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Belgium
Bastogne
Patton
Third Army
Azi- Bulges
First Army
Bulge
von Rundstedt
Wiltz
Saarlautern
Saarland
Supreme Headquarters
Rochefort
St. Hubert
Moircy
Remagne
Arion
Strawberry Run Part of Plane Plan
Farm leaders and government experts foresee airplanes solving farm marketing problems for perishables. They view air freighters as a path to fresher foods with higher vitamin content reaching city tables.
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Ovid A. Martin J. Washington
U. S
Air freight network eyed to move fresh farm produce quickly
Agriculture experts outline a plan for a national air cargo system carrying strawberries tomatoes and lettuce from southern and western producing areas to large cities with return trips carrying industrial goods. Studies with airlines and distributors show potential planes could cut transport time and improve product quality.
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Department of Agriculture
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Washington
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Agriculture Department
Florida
Woman GOP Leader Ruth Simms Dies in Chicago
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms 64, former national Republican committee woman from Illinois and New Mexico, publisher of Rockford Register Republic and Rockford Morning Star, died in Chicago after pancreatitis surgery. Daughter of Marcus A. Hanna, she served as Illinois representative at large (1929–1931), worked for the Bull Moose campaign, and co managed Dewey's 1940 GOP bid. She remained active in politics and attended the 1940 convention as New Mexico delegate.
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Chicago
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
National Republican Committee
New Mexico
Rockford
Register Republic
Rockford Morning Star
Simms
Billings Hospital
Marcus A. Hanna
Ohio
U. S
Medill McCormick
Illinois
Ilinois
Congress
Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
U S Officials Question Lublin Committee as Polish Provisional govt
In a continued page one update, U S officials ask Liettinius if Washington supports the Lublin committee as a provisional government for Liberated Poland. He says the government maintains formal diplomatic relations with the Polish government in exile in London.
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Liettinius
Lublin Committee
Poland
Ing
London
John T. Haggard Claimed by Death
Funeral services for John T. Haggard, 5, who died after two weeks as a patient at Baugh's Infirmary, will be held Tuesday at 2 PM in Oakland Cemetery Limestone County with Rev. L. Toon officiating. Survived by widow and two daughters, among others.
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John T. Haggard
Baugh
Oakland Cemetery
Limestone County
Rev
Harvested Produce Delivers Overnight to Retail Center
A single shipment arrives after harvest and is moved to the arthérn consuming center overnight before being placed in the retail store within hours.
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Arthérn Consuming Center
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Elmore
Decatur
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AP Financial Editor
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Synetic
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SFI
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France Falls
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Sicily
AXIS
Africa
Casablanca
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Leningrad
Tobruk
Marshalls
Romania
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Normandy
Rhineland
Rsaves
Georg
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George
Morgan County
Mattie Vansandt
Decatur 1
Claude Townsend
Hartselle
the Baugh Infirmary
Robert FE. Hatchett
Bikmont 1
Baugh Infirmary
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Decatur, Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Lyons
John A. Caddell
Wak
Mayflower Transit Co
Elliott
Ransfer CO
Pettey’s Cleaners
Bas
Chack Health
Loyd’s
Betty Grable
Roxy Theatre
John Harvey
Martha Raye
Joe E. Brown
Eugene Pallette
Charlie Spivak
William Bendix
Caden
Miranda Cant
Greenwich Village
Princess Theatre
Don Ameche
Vivian Blaine
Loyd’s Drug
GOP
Highway 3
Johnston
San Francisco
Federal Bureau of Inviga
Goode
Morie
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Decatur Transit
Allied van Lenes
Ousenold 301
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