Japanese Report American Air Route Planes In Great Number Over Luzon Island
Japanese and American reports conflict over air operations near Luzon and Tokyo. Incendiaries dropped in separate raids at 3:30 a.m. local time. attacks also targeted Osaka Kobe and Iwo Jima areas as Allied forces press Pacific campaigns. General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz fronts combine casualty tallies and retreating Japanese losses through midweek, while Tokyo braces for shelter evacuations and child migration.
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Apanese
Luzon Island
Tokyo
Rvet Oh Engapeee Commission
Yadin
Osaka-Kobe
Honshu
Japan
Ng Thresten
Dev. Id
World Today Reports Russian Forces Advance in Slovakia
The World Today notes Russian troops advancing near the Slovak border with strategic river crossings under control, signaling increased pressure on eastern Slovakia and potential shifts in regional military posture.
Churchill Urges Early Big Three Meeting With FDR and Stalin
London AP report says Churchill pressed Roosevelt and Stalin for the earliest possible three power meeting in Britain or elsewhere. He urged acceptance of Soviet western border gains in Poland in return for German territorial compensation, signaling a potential reevaluation of Poland's frontiers after victory.
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London
Churchill
Germany
Roosevelt
Marshal Stalin
Britain
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Poland
FDR
Russia
United States
Stalin
I Alsa
End Of January May See Parley End Of January May See Parley
The article notes that February is the likely earliest time for a Big Three UN meeting. It contrasts London talk of a conference with U.S. plans including President Roosevelt's Christmas Eve broadcast and the January 20 inauguration. It cites Anglo American tensions and the Italian government shift with Carlo Sforza excluded from the new cabinet.
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Douglas & Cornell
United Nations
London
Roosevelt
Congress
Churchill
Stalin
Britain
United States
Rome
Carlo Sforza
Sforza
Court Dismisses Assault Charges Against Charley Thornton
Judge J Norton Mullins Jr dismisses murder assault charges against Charley Thornton in the Jim Buntin case. Thornton had been held in county jail since Monday on a warrant from Buntin who alleged an ax attack that cut his arm.
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Charley Thornton
Negro
Jim Buntin
J. Norton Mullins, Jr
State Court of Appeals Upholds 25 Year Sentence
The Court of Appeals upholds a 25 year prison term for Tank Reeves in a Houston Circuit burglary case. Reeves was convicted for breaking into a residence on Guillot and related offenses. He remains in custody as the appeal finalizes.
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State Court of Appeals
Tank Reeves
Houston
Tims
Sentence Affirmed In Huey Lee Case
The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed a life sentence for Huey Lee Jr who killed his father, a former Barbour County probate judge, in 1942. The court found no error in trying the case in Barbour County and rejected an insanity defense. The ruling also reversed Joseph Bagley’s Marengo County murder conviction and remanded for a new trial, and affirmed George Simon’s life sentence for Mobile County homicide.
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Barbour
Supreme Court
Marengo County
Joseph Bagley
Easley
George Simon
Mobile
Elvira Shepherd
Weather Update Napier Forecast Clashes with Cooler Weekend
The report notes a 26 degree temperature this morning and a high around 50 to 33 degrees later. It warns of warmer weather after today with a low near 28 degrees and cooler conditions by Saturday evening, based on Napier weather station data.
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Napier 1d
Roosevelt Moves For Promotions Of U S Leaders
President Roosevelt signed bills creating new five star ranks for Army and Navy leaders, naming Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Arnold as generals and Leahy, King, Nimitz as fleet admirals. Pershing could be six star, widow and children pensions extended to war veterans’ survivors.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Aay
George C. Marshall
Army
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
William D. Leahy
Mr. Roosevelt
Ernest J. King
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Pacific Ocean
Sill
John J. Pershing
United States
Budapest Quivers Under Heavy Fire
Russian columns of tanks and motorized infantry clash with German Elite SS near the Ipoly River north of the Danube bend as Malinovsky's Second Ukraine Army advances and aims to outflank Vienna. Budapest endures siege as Red Army pushes toward Bratislava and the Vienna plain with gains nearing the Slovak frontier.
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Daniel Deluce
Moscow
Ipoly
Danube
Rodion
Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Ivan Petrov
Fourth Ukraine
Germany
Slovakia
Malinovksy
Berlin
Polysag
Vienna
Budapest
Spoly
Bratislava
Rwvasian
Red Army
Szendro
Lupe Velez Death by Own Action Shocks Hollywood
Beverly Hills AP reports film star Lupe Velez died at home four months pregnant from an overdose of seconal. Police say two notes found with her indicate premeditation and blame Harald Ramond for the tragedy.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Lupe Velez
Filmdon
Hollywood
Mexico
Tupe
Harald
Harald Ramond - Maresch
Harold Ramond
Civil Strife in Athens Deepens Under Reinforcements
Athens remained a battleground as Premotor George Papandreou ordered three more Greek militamen classes to the colors. ELAS forces infiltrated the city and only a small portion of Athens and the port of Piraeus were under government control, raising doubts over any imminent end to the bloody civil strife. Possible new government figures like Gen. Plastiras were mentioned as potential peacemakers without confirmation.
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Athens
George Papandreou
Aghtera
ELAS
Papandreou
Piraeus
Athen
Nichols Plastiras
Moss Found Guilty of Slaying Bride Ten Years
A Houston Circuit Court jury found John Peter Moss guilty of second degree murder in the July death of his wife, aged 56. The defense plans an appeal. The case centered on toxicology tests and claims the death was due to manual strangulation, with bruises and a bloodstained shirt presented as evidence.
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Moss
Houston
John Peter Moss
State
Witnexsey
Cottonwood
Moan
Moun
Toxicnlagista
Mose
Keener Baxley
Nelson Returns From China to Washington
Donald M. Nelson has returned to Washington from a second mission to wartorn China. The White House expected him to report to President Roosevelt today, though details remained polite and vague. The former War Production Board chairman, now a presidential assistant with cabinet rank, had been in China to stimulate war production and aid through Australia.
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Washington
Ponadd M. Nelson
China
Jouse
Roosevelt
Don
War Production Board
Australia
Nazi Commander Rushes New Troops Patch Advances 500 Miles In Four Month Drive
Allied forces push across the Rhine into the Bavarian Palatinate while Seventh Army races toward Karlsruhe Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. U S Third and First Armies press Siegfried Line defenses along the Roer and Saar regions as portions of Colmar and Strasbourg pockets yield.
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Paris
Sealenth
Germany
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Palatinate
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Ludwigshafen
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French Riviers
France
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Seventh Army
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Rhine
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Hermann Halck
Firat
Colmar
Strasz
Jacob L. Devern
Devers
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Lauterbourg
U. S. Third Army
George §. Patton, Jr
Saarland
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Dillengen
Aix
Surregamines
U. S
First Army
Duren
Birgel
Yeas
104Th
Sih
Marianweller
Shophoven
Cologne
Alexander Mr. Patel
Sixth Army Group
Leuterbourg
Heidelberg
Bavaria
Siegfried Line
West Wall
Winselle
Wiarembourg
Santhech
Munchhiause
Kuithoupe Wintzenbach
Neewillee
Karlambe
Wissermbawra
Soll Nytus Knerift Celal
Sevenih
Populous
Industral Arcur O
Fist Ann
Mullenack Castle
Murlawechler Factory
Pugbeoe Dua
Gey
Hopi Tor Inte Kufferath
Houston County Goes Over Top In Sixth War Bond Drive
Dothan and Houston County exceeded both the EE and overall quotas in the Sixth War Loan drive. County Chairman Pat Poyner announced the county surpassed its targets with 882 dollars for EE bonds and a total of 2 189 000 dollars across all series. He thanked the public and volunteers, noting the drive ends tomorrow and a War Bond Cup will crown the top selling committee.
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Houston County
Dothan
Pat Poyner
County War Finance Committee
Solomon Motor Company
Jin
Aged Houston Farmer Ends Life at Home
Aaron Martin, an aged Houston County farmer, died from self-inflicted pistol wounds early today at his Headland Highway home. The body was found in the yard by a family member near the house. the single-barreled shotgun was discharged against his stomach with a forked wrench. No inquest. he had been ill.
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Aaron Martin
Houston County
B. G. Farmer
Martin
Forme
Waid
Canadian Troops Build Bridgehead Near Buggiavalle
Canadian forces of the Eighth Army established a bridgehead west of a steep Canale Naviglio bank in a night assault northeast of Bugiballe, crossing the Lamone River west of Ravenna. The advance followed a recent breakthrough amid heavy fighting and German counterattacks. In the Fifth Army sector, British troops cleared villages Toswignane and Borgo Togrignano southwest of Tirola as they pushed toward German lines.
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Fifth Army
Tos
Wignane
Borgo Togrignano
Tirola
Heavy Bomber Raid Strikes Hannover Kassel Rail Hubs
More than 450 U S Flying Fortresses pounded Western Germany rail and industrial centers at Hannover and Kassel with over 2000 tons of bombs. The attack, by the U S Eighth Air Force based in Britain, included 550 fighters and was synchronized with a second strike by the U S First Air Force from Italy. Damaging rail lines to the Western front persisted despite cloudy skies following a 48 hour lull.
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U.S
Germany
Hannover
Kassel
U. S. Eighth Air Porce
U. S. 1Th Air Force
Maly
Reich
Western Front
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