End of Leyte Campaign Marked by Japanese Defeat
The Allied Leyte operation nears completion as Japanese resistance collapses. MacArthur proclaims liberation of the Philippines with heavy Japanese losses and a vast American victory in ground, air, and naval actions, including 112,728 Japanese dead and 493 captured, alongside substantial Allied casualties and naval losses in the Leyte invasion and surrounding battles.
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Philippines
MacArthur
Samar
Memny
Leyte
Peper
Comae
Inkor
Tomoyuki
Philip Nippon
Malaya
Ion
Pacific
Tomas C. Kinkaid
Minodorn Island
Japan
Clark Field
Man
Mindoro
Commission Holds a'44 Meeting
In the final session the commission cleared its agenda and prepared to start March with the city’s reported financial standing. The brief meeting yielded no items for consideration after reading and approval of the previous meeting minutes.
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Mar
Germans hold the line in bulge as Allies push deeper front
In Europe German forces resist as Allied advances push 4 mile deep and 35 mile wide bulge. General MacArthur announces a major Philippine defeat for Japan, claiming a peak in Leyte and Clark Field. Soviet forces trap Hungarian divisions while continued fighting rages near Athens with foreign policy debates ongoing.
Canned Vegetables Return to Ration List Expanded
Washington AP reports a broader rationing program effective today. Canned vegetables return to the ration list while butter points rise and sugar and red tape rules tighten. About 85 percent of meats will require points next week as shortages drive tighter controls. Red tokens remain valid for ration currency despite rule changes. Blue tokens for processed foods still require groups of ten.
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Washington
OPA
Office of Price Administration
U S Plans for New Offensives Intact Forrestal Declares
Navy Secretary Forrestal said Japanese air attacks have not disrupted American plans for continued heavy offensives in the Pacific. He noted some damage to forces in the Philippines but stressed the United States now dominates waters and air over the Philippines and that the campaign is advancing. He rejected rumors of unannounced losses from the October Battle of the Philippines Sea, stating all losses were announced and the Japanese fleet was beaten and routed.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Philippines
Philippines Sea
Leyte
Mindoro
Luzon
Ortmot
Alr
The
AML
Philippine Sea
MacArthur
Philippine Islands
General MacArthur
Teland
Formosa
Slimy Details Signal US Black Market Trials In February
A high ranking American officer forecast that February trials will reveal more about U S servicemen accused of selling cigarettes gasoline and other military supplies to the French black market. He noted losses behind battle lines and said fuel stocks in combat areas remain ample while drivers have been ambushed and trucks diverted. More than 8 percent of cigarettes reached the black market through the armed forces with many Americans arrested, while ten French civilians are jailed for each American seized. A total of 184 American officers and men from two battalions serving on French railroads await hearings in the new trials set for the first week of February.
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Paris
U. S
Tle
Bunpoinit
Esate
Ilegally
Minister Shoots Son-In-Law On Christmas Day Fatality
In Columbus Georgia a family Christmas dinner turned fatal when Rev S W Noles shot his son in law Mayo a 42 year old brick mason who had come from Laurel Mississippi to reconcile with his wife. Mayo was shot four times in the abdomen as the wife and six children watched. Noles says he acted in self defense after Mayo grabbed a child and lunged at him and his wife. Mayo had been estranged from the Noles family and had threatened them.
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Columbus
C. H. Jones
S. W. Noles
Assembly of God
Swine
Joseph
Mayo
Jones
Laurel
Miss
Georgia
Mayos
Noles
Laurel Miss
Bayo
Mississippi
Miyo
Maya
Cold Wave Forecast For Southern States
The South faces a fringe cold wave sweeping east from the Dakotas and Minnesota. Tennessee and Kentucky may drop to the 15 to 20 degree range with snow expected in parts of the Middle Atlantic. Cooler conditions and showers are forecast for the rest of the South with some remaining shirt sleeve warmth in a few locations.
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Atlanta
Dakotas
Minnesota
Tennessee
Kentucky
Middle Atlantic
Alabama
South
Ashville
M. C
Lite Rock
Meridian
Migo
Miami
New Orleans
Norfolk, Va
Savannah
Richmond
Fire destroys Dana Baker barn near Dothan
Thirteen mules perished and substantial damage occurred when a blaze swept a barn about four miles from Dothan on the Headland Highway yesterday. Dana Baker of Dothan owned the property. a tractor, farm implements and feed were ruined. A nearby resident alerted by a Negro observer as flames started. firemen arrived to find the barn fully involved and could not fight the fire due to an inadequate water supply.
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Dothan
Dana Baker
Grangerburg homicide leaves Eddie Morris dead
Special Investigator Cayton Adams said Eddie Morris of Cottonwood Crosby area died from a sharp object injury during an affray Sunday night near Grangerburg. Fleming Hughes, also from the same community, was charged with the slaying and held on a serious case charge after Morris died at his home early yesterday morning.
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Grangerburg
Cayton Adams
Riftt
Eddie Morris
Cottonwood
Crosby
Fleming Hughes
Morris
Hughe
Iwo Jima Bombardment and Tokyo Air Raids Reported
Allied air and sea forces pounded Iwo Jima in a second coordinated assault, while Tokyo area bombers struck Yokohama and Shizuoka. Adm Nimitz gave no crew or unit totals. American ships shelled coast defenses and claimed some damage. a Japanese escort destroyer was sunk and a patrol craft destroyed in the action.
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U. S Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Yokohama
Shizuoka Prefecture
Imperial
Saipan
Tokyo-rading
Iwo
Invo
Cane
Shell&rr
Sainan
Encirclement of Budapest Reported Near Complete
Soviet forces advanced toward the western outskirts of Budapest with eight to 10 German and Hungarian divisions cut off. City defenses remained, with two airports still under enemy control and shelling underway as Sturmoviks and bombers pressed attacks. Inside the capital, panic reportedly grew as Soviet units pushed into surrounding hills toward Buda.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Budapest
Red Army
Sturmoviks
Budakest
Buda
Tara
Allied Air Pummels German Lines In Stavelot Sector
Storied battle reports describe eight days of fighting as Allied air forces strike through the Stavelot area. Maj C Sonesifer says the German panzers have been given their worst beating since the Argentan Gap retreat. Tales highlight Private with a smashed hand and Willian Weidner as they defend a barn and chateau, with Germans retreating into a valley town and 130 GI prisoners held in a church cellar. An American 155 mm self propelled cannon hammers the village from a hillside as tank units press the assault.
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Wes Gallagher
Stavelot
Balife
Weidener
William Kellar
Chicago
Christmas Holiday Toll Rises to 332 Nationwide
The three day Christmas holiday period saw at least 332 violent deaths nationwide per an Associated Press survey. Accidents on highways accounted for many fatalities with 148 traffic deaths reported. California led with 31 deaths, followed by Pennsylvania with 27 and New York with 22. State tallies list traffic, fire and miscellaneous casualties across Alabama through Georgia.
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Associated Press
Nation-T Safety Council
Lves
Minneapoli
H.erisiing
Army
Miers
Ina
Ridley
Indiana
Last Rites for B A Adkins Held at Home
Funeral for B A Adkins, 67, of Dothan, who died at his residence on Sunday after several weeks illness, conducted at his home with Sam C. Reever and Rev. Rodgers presiding. Burial in City Cemetery. Survived by wife, a daughter Mrs Charles Rodgers, four sons, eight grandchildren, seven sisters and many in-laws. Ward Wilson Funeral Home in charge.
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W. Mart Steet
Arey
Sam C. Reever
Rodgers
Ward-Wilson
Adking
Dothan
Dothan Jewelry Co
Masonic Lodge
First Baptist Church
Charles Rodgers
Gona
Virgin
John R
Fred
Edgar Adkins
Mra R. A. MrcClinden Jr
Buster Mixon
Ola Johnson
Cleve Rodgers
Manes Lathe
Delia
Minnie Adkins
Enterprise
Q. T. Patioston
C. W. Johnson
Jimmie Jane 1
TL Hanahan
Elson Buey
A D Ussery
Fred Wilhite
T. 1
Seymour
W. H. Strickland
Wot Acree
H. ©. Calvin
R. N. Tin
Milet A Miller
Marvie Harrison
Ae Keener Baxiey
J. ST Liddon
S A Stents
WC King
Roy
Thu
Mose Saliba
Churchill and Eden in Athens to solve Greek row
Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden arrived in Athens amid street fighting between partisan forces and Greek government troops aided by British units. A dynamite cache was found under streetcar lines near the Grand Bretagne, with German markings on the boxes. Leaders in Athens planned a conference with Archbishop Damaskinos presiding to ease tensions and restore Greece’s role in the United Nations.
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Churchill
Grand Bretagne
Ronald Scobie
Anthony Eden
Jefowin Flas
Harold Alexander
Mediterranean
Harold MacMillan
George Papandreou
Aritish
Greecs
Nuon
Damiskinos
ELAS
Lyon
Rae
Nurner
Otheid
Judge Bass Peeping Tom With Shotgun
A drunken trespasser peeped into a window at 114 North Bell Street, prompting J N Mullins to fire a shotgun. The wounded man, Richards, lay in a hedge near the Mullins residence as a judge and homeowner exchanged the evening confrontation.
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Judge Bass Peeping Tom
Mullins
Law Violators Few During Holidays
Records at city police headquarters and the sheriff s office show only a handful of arrests over the Christmas weekend for public drunkenness disorderly conduct and vagrancy. Officers report few violations and a generally sober period, with two notable incidents involving a Negro arrested for disorder and another for taunting to mine der in two serious offences.
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Uie Sheriffs Office
Dothan
Pbs
Germans Press Meuse Front Advance Deep into Belgium
German armored columns pushed into Belgium within striking distance of the Meuse River, forming a wide bulge and threatening American positions near St Vith. Supreme headquarters cited German efforts to break Allied lines, with reports of heavy fighting, Allied countermeasures, and mounting German armor losses as the defense tightened along the Meuse and Ardennes fronts.
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