Roosevelt Makes Historic Malta Visit During Cairo Talks
President Roosevelt touched down in Malta aboard a four engine troop transport after talks with Churchill in the Middle East. He presented an illuminated scroll praising Malta's defenders and declared US support with the British Empire and Allies after the war. Eisenhower Leahy Hopkins Spaatz and other aides accompanied him on the visit.
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Valletta
Malta
Roosevelt
United States
Churchill
Middle East
Acris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William D. Leahy
Harry Hopkins
Carl A. Spaatz
Northwest African Air Forces
Ross T. McIntire
John Boettiger
Walter B. Smith
Eisenhower
Cairo
Fifth Cracks Nazi Mountain Defense at Mienano Italy
Allied reports say the Fifth Army breached German defenses around Via Casilina and captured Mt Samucro in a nine day offensive known as the battle of the clouds. Canadians and British American forces drove toward Cassino while expanding the Moro River bridgehead along the Adriatic.
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Edward Kennedy
Albiers
Fifth Army
Via Casilina
Mienano
Max
Mt. Samucro
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Ward
Moro
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Rome
Cassino
Mediterranean
Eneyay
Tunisia
Allied forces curb November merchant ship losses in Atlantic
In a joint Roosevelt Churchill statement from London and Washington, Allied sea and air forces report reduced November merchant ship losses, praising anti submarine activity and the Azores bases. They note U boats sunk exceeded losses, with official October tally of 150 subs only partly reflecting the full result. Estimates suggest Hitler lost about 300 of his 600 subs since March while few new boats entered service.
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London
Atlantic
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Azores
Portugal
Britain
Youth Bitten By Coral Snake Improves in Hospital
In Ky BANK New Zealand Dec hospital authorities said 13 year old Fred Were bitten by a deadly coral snake in a school biology class showed the chance of recovery was 100 percent better after two doses of serum but remained on the danger list. The bite occurred shortly after school opened when he uncapped one of two jars containing venomous southern snakes.
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Ky Bank
N. Z
Fred
Stratton Named On Legion National Committees
Dan Colleran commander of the Sioux Valley Post is named to the Legion National Veterans Preference committee. Other South Dakotans named include Walter H. Burke Pierre Dr Ray A Stratton Huron Harry Judd Opida L L Long Parker and William J Kane Aberdeen on various committees.
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Dr. Stratton
Legion
Sioux Falls
Dan Colleran
Sioux Valley
American Legion
South
Nauru and Pacific Battles Reported by Allied Forces
Allied naval bombardment of Nauru and air, sea attacks in the Pacific are described alongside Chinese and Australian offensives. Reports detail Japanese losses at Chang and continued offensives on Wareo, Taroa, Mili, and Jaluita with American air support and advancing Allied ground forces.
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Associated Press
Nauru
Gilbert Islands
Jong Marshall Group
New Britain
Rabaul
Huon
New Guinea
Wareo
Chan
Hunan
Chang
C. C. Tseng
China
Shanghai
14Th Air Force
Berlin
Bome
Japan
Equatorial
Atoll
Truk
Seventh Army Air’ Force
Taroa
Mili
Jaluita
Marshalls
Ja’ Ee
Finschhafen
Butter Substitute Tax Decision Meets Prompt Appeal
Pierre December 10 Tax Director Roy A Nord said Circuit Judge R C Baxtwell Plankinton ruled butter substitute use tax unconstitutional and will be appealed to the state supreme court The decision calls out no meaningful distinction between butter and substitutes and says the 1943 law imposes a tax and burden on interstate commerce and is unconstitutional in federal and state terms The suit was brought by George S Zuver and Melissa A Zuver Mitchell to halt enforcement by state and county officials
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Melissa
A. Zuver
Mitchell
Ace Combat Pilot Missing In Action
Navy fighter Lt. Comdr. Edward H. Butch O Hare, celebrated as a Medal of Honor recipient for the Coral Sea battle, is reported missing in action on a flight mission in the South Pacific. Notification reached his mother in Phoenix and his wife in San Diego.
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Fhoenix
Ariz
Navy
Edward H
Butch) O'Hare
Roosevelt
St. Louis
Coral Sea
South Pacific
Selman O'Hare
Phoenix
San Diego
Nalif
Artesian Trucker Fined for Unpermitted Hire
George Rubendall of Artesian was fined 250 dollars plus costs after pleading guilty to operating a truck for hire without a Public Utilities Commission permit. He appeared before Justice Lloyd Webster in Woonsocket on Monday following a complaint signed by A N Johnson, fieldman.
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Artesian
George Rubendall
Public Utilities Commission
Lloyd Webster
Woonsocket
Johnson
Balkans Weigh Joining United Nations Amid Nordic Tides
War Today's principal note says Hitler's hold on the Balkans loosens as Bulgaria and other Balkan states waver. The piece notes Turkey's cautious stance and Sofia residents hoping for reduced Nazi influence and possible alliance shifts.
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Balkans
Bulgaria
United Nations
Post Office Extends Closing Hours Here
Post office windows will stay open until 8 p m on Saturday and Monday December 11 and 13 and from 1 p m Sunday December 12 Miss Marin is assistant postmaster says the arrangement follows word from the Washington parcel post department that all parcel mailings must be ready in the next few days before Christmas.
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Marin
Rmiade
Ighe
Expiain
Kitties Department
Washington
Christan
Christal
Red Army Tightens Grip After Znamenka Fall
Soviet forces report the capture of Znamenka and push toward Kirovograd, severing rail lines south of Kiev. German pressure near Chermyakhov is repelled as 350 tanks are destroyed in four days with 5 000 German dead.
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London
Red Army
Znamenta
Dnieper
Kiev
Josef" Stalin
Kirovograd
Red
Krivoi Rog
Stalin
Znamenka
Lower
Fritz von Mannstein
Berlin
Ukraine
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Italy
White Russia
Dnieper River
Korovograd
Mederovo
Nutcracker
Krivoi
Spassovo
Murderer Of Sully County Teacher Is Insane
Governor signs order transferring Howard Christengen to state hospital for the insane after a 1997 life sentence for the slaying of a Sully County teacher. State board of corrections and prison officials supported the transfer amid medical testimony.
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Sully County
President Signs Father Draft Bill to Delay Inductions
President Roosevelt approved the father draft bill designed to delay induction of pre war fathers into the armed services. The White House did not disclose the action location. War Manpower Commissioner Paul V McNutt faced pressure to veto, raising questions about his resignation. The bill removes McNutt’s control of the Selective Service System, transferring authority to Major General Lewis B. Hershey. Officials say the impact on Pearl Harbor era fathers is uncertain, with Hershey claiming about 1,000,000 would need induction by June 30, 1944 to meet schedules. The act aims to delay fathers until all available men and non fathers are in uniform. Congress debates its practical effects.
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Roosevelt
White’ House
Paul V McNutt
McNutt
Lewis
B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
City
Congress
Johnson
D-Cole
Conference Drafting Committee
Mustering-Out Pay Bill Approved By Senate Panel
The Senate military affairs committee unanimously recommended mustering-out pay ranging from 200 to 590 for all service members. A House witness, Tech Sgt Lemuel Hendricks, urged adequate legislation, noting veterans overseas should receive higher discharge pay. The House bill proposes 300 mustering-out pay, hearings wrapped up with a plan for final action aimed at a House vote Tuesday.
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Washington
Armed Services
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Tunisia
House
Senate
United States
Tech
Lemuel Hendricks
Council Bluffs
House Military Committee
Congress
May
Dky
Playwright Edgar Woolf Dies in Santa Monica
Edgar Allan Woolf, 54, noted playwright and screenwriter, died in Santa Monica California after a presumed accident. He was found unconscious yesterday and died a few hours later following an autopsy announcement.
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Santa’ Monica
Calif
Dec
Edgar Allin Woolf
Bio Dome
Air war shifts as Germany braces for ground defense
Washington reports the air offensive against Germany is in the final knockout stage before a land invasion. Col. Ray W. Clifton notes Luftwaffe personnel forming infantry units, signaling aircraft shortages. He cites a 35 percent drop in German manufacturing and a shift from offense to defense amid heavy bombing.
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Washington
Germany
Ray W. Clifton
Army Air Forces
Clifton
Command and General Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
Europe
Berlin
Luftwaffe
Berlin Shows Fear Of Invasion
Berlin broadcasts report German fear of a cross channel invasion by Britain and the United States. Field Marshal Rommel inspected Danish defenses and Nazi commentator Sertorius forecasts a simultaneous British American attack with a Russian winter offensive. He cites about 50 Allied divisions massed in Britain and 26 divisions in the south available for use.
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London
Berlin
Germaany
It Rommel
Denmark
Ludvig Sertorius
Serboris
Associated Press
Britain
Sertorius
War Developments At A Glance
World fronts show Fifth Army breaking German lines at Wig Casilina and Mignano as Allied gains widen. Canadian and British forces push an eight mile Adriatic advance after crossing Mare River. Soviet troops seize Znamenka and push toward crumbling Ukrainian defenses while Kiev’s bulge is halted. Nazi losses mount with thousands of men and hundreds of tanks reported in three days.
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Fifth Army
Wig Casilina St Mignano
Eighth Army
Eight Mile
Adriatic
Mare River
Russia
Znamenka
Ukraine
Kiev
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Erwin” Rommel
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