Superforts Strike Nagoya and Hankow In Big Raid
U S bombers struck Nagoya and Hankow in waves, with about 70 aircraft claimed to have participated. Photographs from Saipan showed damage at the Hatsudoki aircraft factory, including four large assembling buildings and 22 smaller structures ruined or damaged.
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Hankow
China
United State Docks
Lingatches
Saipan
Nagoa
Hatsudoki
Fierce battle on Mindoro as Yanks secure southern end
General MacArthur reports airfields being prepared on Mindoro's southern coast now in American hands. Yank infantry reach 11 miles from initial beachhead with scant resistance cited. Forces hold strategic high ground six miles beyond San Jose while Ormoc corridor advances threaten Yamashita line from Leyte. Air cover supports Mindoro invasion from 150 miles from Manila.
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Japan
Ormoc
Mindoro
Manilas
Tokyo
Asahi
Carter
Manila
John
McCain
Philippines
U S Flying Forts Fly Daylight Raid On German Lines
Hundreds of U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators cross the English Channel in a daylight strike on Munich Duisburg and other rail hubs. RAF heavy bombers delivered about 7 000 tons while American fighters escorted the raid and engaged in air combat with German forces.
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U.S
Howard Cowan Qondon
U. S
English Channel
Munich
Duisburg
Theatre Listing Teases Ruth Steel at Strand or Dixie
Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Ruth Steel Pruntytown to tonight's presentation featuring Esther Williams in a beauty themed show at the Strand or Dixie theatre. The clipping hints at other acts including Marine with Pat O’Brien and Rob Bond, Ruth Hussey.
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Grafton Sentinel
Ruth Steel
Pruntytown
Red
Esther Williams
Pat O'Brien
Ruth Hussey
West Virginia electors cast votes for Roosevelt Truman
West Virginia's eight electoral votes were formally cast for President Roosevelt and Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman in Charleston. Mrs. William E. Chilton Sr. of Charleston led the Democratic elector slate with 392,777 votes in the November 7 election. Other items note a January Martinsburg meeting with leaders from the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce and state Jaycees, a West Virginia Dairy Farmers short course at WVU January 12 focusing on efficiency, and Christmas spirit at Newton Baker General Hospital with cookie donations from area housewives.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
M. M. Neely
William E. Chilton, Sr
Martinsburg
Mearns Gates
U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Morgantown
Dairy Farmers
West Virginia University
H. O.henderson
Department of
Dairy Husbandry
Virginia
Maryland
Newton D. Baker General Hospital
German thrust seeks to delay Roer crossing at Duren
The German counteroffensive along the U S First Army front in the Rhineland aims to stop an early American Roer crossing at Duren, delaying the Allies move toward Cologne. Eisenhower reportedly eyed another major push over the Roer as Von Rundstedt works to unsettle the line. abandi
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Associated Press
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Rhineland
Roer
Duren
Cologne
Eisenhower
von Rundstedt
Belgium
Europe
Aachen-Duren
Hodges
Simpson
Interurban Tree Car Crash Near Fairmont Injures 23
Thirteen hospitalized after two trolley cars collided near Fairmont, with the smaller car telescoped 12 feet. Twelve-foot collapse, 23 injured, three critically. Northbound Clarksburg car rammed southbound Fairmont car at White Rock passing point. Ambulances ferried victims to local hospital.
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Fairmont
Steve Herron
Monongah
Stephen Montgomery
Worthington
Miles Sullivan
Fourstates
City Lines, Inc
Germans Shoot Down American War Prisoners
War front dispatch recalls a deadly Nazi assault as German tanks trapped an American artillery observation unit of about 150 men. Disarmed and ordered into an open field, many were executed with pistol fire by German non commissioned officers while others attempted to move or groan in pain. A survivor from Glenville Virginia, T-5 William Summers, described the sequence and the fear of the long wait before the shootings. Summers narrowly escaped by feigning death as Tiger tanks and marching troops blasted the trapped Americans. See Germans page 3.
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Hal Boyle
Belgium
Renue
Doughboy
T-5
William B. Summers
Glenville
W. Va
Summers
Russian Big Guns Near Budapest Drive Offensive Deepens
Soviet artillery pounded Budapest defenses as Red Army units breached toward the Slovak border at a point northeast of the city. The drive expanded the eastern front, with 40 towns seized and a 15 mile advance northwest of Miskolc, while German forces fought back with Luftwaffe- and gunfire counterblows.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Budapest
Red Army
Pataba
Pravda
Dec
Russia
Teheren
Pot
Magyorod
Wales
Slovakia
Suse
Miskolc
Japanese Allowed Back Home After Early War Removal
Japanese removed from Pacific coast early in the war will be permitted to return to former homes in California Oregon and Washington after January 1 Maj Gen Henry C Pratt chief of the western defense command announced the department had revoked its security order and evacuated Japanese ancestry unless they are deemed personally dangerous The decision followed progress in the Pacific and other developments Municipal and state leaders offered varied reactions with Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron urging protection for returning residents while Gov Earl Warren noted the military situation and called for an attitude discouraging violence
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
California
Oregon
Washington
Henry C. Pratt
Western Defense Command
Department
Pratt
Pacific
Los Angeles
Fletcher Bowron
Bowron
Earl Warren
Sacramento
Students Will Strike To Protect Their Rights Of Campus Woo-Pitchin
Louisiana State University faces a threatened student strike over the reinstatement of Giorgia Jean Heller a coed who wrote a leaflet on sex and campus kissing The student council decried her departure as a violation of its code and urged prompt action President Hatcher agreed to meet with the council to discuss the crisis with veterans and student leaders backing the protest
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Giorgia Jean Heller
Havana
Cuba
W. B. Hatcher
Miss Heller
Hatcher
Lloyd Wheat
Joe Simone
Kaplan
Campus Veterans’ Association
Allied Forces Strike German Columns in Belgium and Luxembourg
Paris dispatch reports Lt. Gen. Hodges' U.S. Third Army halting a German push in Belgium and Luxembourg. Allied command imposes blackout on details as Luftwaffe supports a broad winter offensive. German paratroopers and a new V-weapon are noted amid intense, fluid front conditions with numerous German aircraft losses.
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Paris
Courtney H. Hodges
U. 3
First Army
Belgium
Luxembourg
Karl Rudolf-Gerd von Rundstedt
Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Normandy
9Th Army
9Th Air Command
Pu Ig
Connally vows Senate vote on six State Department nominees
Washington December 18 Senator Connally pledged to fight for a Senate vote on six State Department appointees led by Joseph Grew, saying it may take all winter. Senate Foreign Relations chair said a vote could come this week, despite threats of a filibuster to force recess nominees. Connally warned he would keep the chamber in session until action is taken, while opponents move to table a Pepper resolution to send nominations back to the White House for reconsideration.
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Senate
State Department
Foreign-Relations Committee
Joseph C. Grew
Roosevelt
Con
Pepper
Fla
White House
Guffey
D-Mont
Pro-Wis
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