Anglo Allies Plan Broad Campaign For 1943 Victory
United States and Great Britain reportedly reached a preliminary agreement on a broad land air and sea strategy to defeat the Axis in 1943. Representatives of major Allied powers were to work out execution details in a near-term conference. Canada’s Prime Minister Mackenzie King arrived in Washington for talks as part of the allied planning.
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Inebriated Motorist Fined In Michigan City Traffic Jam
A drunken driver was fined in Michigan City city court after a police officer halted a line of parked cars during a lengthy traffic jam described by the motorist as the worst he had experienced. The incident occurred on December 20.
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Ind
Gosh
Fisher
James Shelton
Australians Look After Selves in Pacific War Policy
Prime Minister Joan Curtin states in a Melbourne Herald article that Australia’s closest wartime partner in the Pacific is the United States. He rejects any view that the Pacific struggle is a subordinate theater and says Australia seeks U.S. aid and a joint Pacific plan with Britain, China, and the Dutch forces.
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Australia
Joan Curtin
Melbourne Herald
Pacific
America
Grafton Sentinel Announces Dual Theatre Openings Tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs French Swisher of 782 Pearl Street to attend tonight's Strand theater premiere of Bixth of the Blues and Her First Beau. Riding the Wind is the Dixie theater double feature showing for its last day.
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Grafton Sentinel
French Swisher
Pearl Street
Bixth of
Strand Theater
Dixie Theater
Nazi claims four vessels sunk and more damaged
Berlin reports German bombers and dive bombers sank four Russian transports totaling 7 000 tons and damaged five other transports and smaller vessels in the Straits of Kerch. The high command says British losses include one aircraft carrier and five merchant ships totaling 37 000 tons sunk, with further damage to a merchantman in British waters.
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Black Sea
Sea of Azov
Crimea
Caucasus
Libya
Atlantic
Gibraltar
England
Dutch Bombers Sink Japanese Vessel Off Kuching
A Dutch communique reports that Dutch army bombers sank the largest ship in a Japanese concentration off Kuching Sarawak. A lighter was also sunk and six or seven bombs caused a massive blaze with flames smoke and steam. The sinking continues the Dutch pace of one ship per day.
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Netherlands East Indies
Kuching
Sarawak
Borneo
SOVIETS SEEK TO END SIEGE AND LIBERATE AREAS
British and Argentine sources report Sir Robert Leslie Craigie and staff safe in Tokyo embass y. Soviet forces claim heavy German losses near Leningrad, 32 villages retaken, and advances beyond Volkhovo and Kaluga as part of a broader counteroffensive. Izvestia notes ice crossing on the Oka to seize fortified outposts. British radio cites Kaluga or Kliasma recapture.
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Kaluga
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Volga
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Ugra
Kliasma
Overtime for Santa Claus story of Truelove Timms
In Los Angeles 27 year old girl Truelove Timms, daughter of migrant cotton workers, gains a Christmas visit from Santa after a tonsil operation at Children’s Hospital. She learns of others like her with limited means while 80 more hospital children await similar gifts as the holiday season arrives.
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Truelove Timms
Santa Claus
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Truelove
San Joaquin Valley
Betty Schweickert
Children's Hospital
James A. Teel
Santa
San Joaquin
Peva Rae
Nation Faces Tire Famine Under New Rationing
Washington dispatch reports a sweeping tire shortage as the Office of Price Administration imposes new local rationing to date January 5. Crude rubber from Far Eastern plantations is cut off, affecting 32 million motorists and crucial service vehicles. Only seven categories may receive new tires or tubes, led by essential health, safety, and industrial services including physicians, ambulances, fire and police fleets, garbage trucks, and public utility and school buses.
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Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
Okeh
Lewis County Lad Loses Life in West Fork River
A 12 year old boy Raymond Dean slipped from a suspension bridge and drowned in the West Fork river near Brownsville community Weston. Ernest Marsh a WPA worker recovered the body 15 minutes later.
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Weston
Raymond Dean
West Fork
Brownsville
Ernest Marsh
WPA
Hollywood kissing champ counsels against rationed romance
Hollywood December 27 Tan Wyman honorary top sergeant of Battery F Third Coast artillery proclaims not to take Britain's wartime suggestion too literally. He urges soldiers and sailors to keep love letters discreet while defense officials say the rule aimed to prevent coded information leaking through kiss crosses.
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Tan Wyman
Third Coast Artillery
British War Office
Pownall Named Far East Army Chief to Halt Malaya Invasion
London dispatch says Gen Sir Henry Pownall, 53, artillery expert, becomes commander in chief of British forces in the Far East with acting rank of full general from Dec 5. He succeeds Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham as British defense of Malaya faces heavy Japanese advances, amid criticism over the Malayan campaign.
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Henry Pownall
Malaya
Far East
Pownall
Robert Brooke- Popham
British Malaya
War Office
Agwnall
Imperial
Singapore
Henry
State Rallies to War Effort
West Virginia moves to mobilize industrial resources for the war effort with new OPM contract distribution offices opened in Charleston and Wheeling under John A. Kennedy. A third office will follow in Clarksburg as Charles Snyder of Fairmont becomes Charleston manager. Snyder will survey 1,130 plants to assess contract readiness and explore 24/7 production potential.
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West Virginia
OPM
Wheeling
John A. Kennedy
Kennedy
Office of Production Management
E. C. Drake
Clarksburg
Charles Snyder
Fairmont
Snyder
Monongahela
U.S. Pledges Fair Treatment for Japanese POWs
Washington reports the United States will treat all Japanese prisoners in line with the 1929 Geneva prisoner of war convention. Japan signed but did not ratify, while Germany and Italy have ratified and observe the terms, according to Red Cross reports.
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United States
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Germany
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International Red Cross
Judge Lovins Ready for Call to Active Duty
Charleston dispatch reports WV Supreme Court member William Tecumseh Lovins 54 has volunteered for active Army duty and is fit for service. A WWI veteran, he was discharged as a captain in 1918 and is now a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. He applied at Fort Hayes in Columbus and awaits orders, likely seeking a court leave if summoned.
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West Virginia Supreme Court
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Fort Hayes
Columbus
British seize large stores in Libya mopping up raids
Cairo December 27 report from British general headquarters says several hundred Axis prisoners captured and a large ammunition dump seized in mopping up south of Benghazi. Despite rain, British forces harass Axis in Agedabia near Gulf of Sirte, clearing pockets in Benghazi-Ghimes-Soluch triangle. Air force hits enemy concentrations and transports with good results.
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