Mindoro Shelling and Pacific Naval Blasts Wallop Japanese
Japanese and American naval forces traded blows across bases 1500 miles apart. Three Japanese destroyers sunk and a battleship with a cruiser damaged, while two US warships took minor damage. Mindoro shelling by Japan reported, as US bombards Iwo Jima and Volcano Islands.
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General MacArthur
Philippines
United States
Mindoro
China Sea
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Iwo Jima
Volcano Islands
Pacific
U. S
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Nouthwest Mindoro
MacArthur
Duck
Copper and lead shortages threaten civilian supplies
War metals copper and lead shortages risk civilian comfort in 1945. Rising Army needs for bullets and artillery may force half of copper allocations back to military use next quarter. Lead curtailment to protect stockpiles hits storage batteries paint gasoline and other vital items. Copper deficit may affect hooks eyes fasteners shotgun shells used by farmers and livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Warsen Board
West Virginia law clerk to resume private practice
Mose Boaksky longtime law clerk for Supreme Court Judge James B. Riley will resume private practice in Charleston after January 10. Cedar Grove liquor store burglaries continue with three cases ten bottles of whiskey and five of Scotch stolen in Kanawha County. West Virginia road commission offers county maps showing roads streams railroads mines and more for public purchase. Funeral services were held for Charles Ernest Breckendrige 62 longtime chief auditor at Monongahela West Penn Service in Parkersburg. A $30 871.67 settlement in the West Virginia CPA district was reported in the Natonal Beverage Company suit.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
Mose Boaksky
Supreme Court
James B. Riley
Cedar Grove
Liquor Control Commission
Kanawha County
The
Road Commission
West Virginia
Parkersburg
Charles Ernest Breckenridge
Monogalia West Penn Service Company
CPA
Natonal Beverage Company
Meat shortage grips New York as price controls stall
In New York City the meat supply tightens as retailers protest OPA rules, halting profit, with 2,142 of 6,088 shops closed and wholesale houses reporting scarce stock. Chicago proposed a 17.50 per hundredweight live cattle ceiling, while OPA officials weigh details after meetings with producers.
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New York
New York City
OPA
Chicago
John J. Madigan
Kansas City
War Food Administration
Joseph Cohn
New York Council of Wholesale Meat Dealers
Water rent due for January quarter by January 1 1944
Citywater users are notified that the January quarter rent must be paid by January 1 1944 and failure to pay within fifteen days will result in water being turned off. John A Newcome City Collector.
Greece agrees on regency to pave peace in Athens
Amid renewed fighting British reports say ELAS withdrew from Athens to routes into the city. Archbishop Damaskinos announced a majority favored an immediate regency with others preferring postponement. Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin planned to discuss the Greek question soon.
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Athens
ELAS
Damaskinos
Athens Elas
Piraeus
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Marshal Stalin
Attica
George Papandreou
NUTS TURNS THE NAZIS AWAY AT BASTOGNE FRONT
In a dramatic response to a German surrender ultimatum, the Bastogne garrison repelled attackers as Pvt. Leonard Candelora of Charles Town Mass reported intense defense with artillery machineguns and mortars. U S forces lifted the siege after seven days, linking with relief troops and inflicting heavy German losses, including 87 tanks.
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Edward D. Ball
U. S
Bastogne
Pvt
Leonard Candelora
Pleasant St
Charlestown
Mass
Supreme Headquarters
U.S
Candel
Ora
President Orders Government To Take Over
Montgomery Ward and Company faces government seizure of Chicago properties after rejecting war labor board directives. Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron to serve the presidential order on Sewell Avery as federal action looms. A strike by CIO union employees followed the 5 a.m. hour set for action.
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Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Joseph W. Byron
War Department
Montgomery Ward and Company
War Labor Board
Byron
Sewell Avery
Ward
Justice Department
Washington
U.S
Avery
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes Cio Union
Russia May Recognize Lublin Group As Provisional Polish Government
Washington reports indicate Russia plans to recognize the Lublin committee as the provisional Polish government as tensions rise on the eastern front. Britain and the United States still back the Polish government in exile in London while pressing unity with Moscow over Poland.
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Russia
Lublin
John M. Hightower
Washington
Lublin Committee
Poland
Moscow
London
Towering Fires Hit Tokyo Industrial Area From Superforts
In Saipan on December 28 a formation of Superfortress bombers relayed a one and a half hour air strike over Tokyo targeting the Musashima Nakajima Aircraft plant. Early photos indicated multiple bomb hits across a 50 acre site. A returning crew reported a pattern of explosions two blocks by seven long. One B-29 was lost in the raid. The heavy bombardment aimed to cripple Japan's aircraft production as new photos suggested heavy damage at the works.
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Vern Haugland
Bomber Command
Saipan
Tokyo
Musashima
Nakajima Aircraft Company
Ohe
Vance Black
Fairfax
Okla
Lster
Japan
The War Today by Dewitt MacKenzie analysis
The author assesses the year end military position, noting Allied progress overall despite German counter offenses and Japanese setbacks. He warns the war remains a bloody, high effort struggle, with duration dependent on Dieppe-like offensives and Von Rundstedt’s counter thrust, urging continued total mobilization.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
United Nations
Europe
Orient
China
Marshal von Rundstedt
Eisenhower
German Units Continue Serchio Valley Attacks
Rome reports German counterattacks in the Serchio valley on the western Italian front. Fifth Army withdrawals amid the fighting. The town of Barga, captured a month earlier, was enveloped by the German assault on a six mile front near the Serchio. Barga lies about 15 miles north of Lucca. The Nagi drive through the valley flatlands and the flanking actions are noted.
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Rome
Serchio
Fifth
Barga
Fifth Army
Lucca
Lucca Province
American Troops Hold German Line From New Thrust
Paris dispatch reports that Von Rundstedt’s southern flank along 35 miles to the German border sagged under a doughboy and armored attack. American tanks and infantry crossed the Sure river at four points and held a corridor to Bastogne. Allied forces near the Meuse railroad a potential junction to sever the German salient. outcome uncertain as counterattack faces strong resistance.
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James M. Long
Paris
von Rundstedt
Belgian Bulge
Sure
Bastogne
Echternseh
Fall of Budapest Imminent as Regimes Drive Hard
Soviet forces pressed toward Budapest as German and Hungarian defenders lose control of one of two airports and evacuations falter. Red Air Force domination enabled only night operations from the Pest field while Moscow’s push split the city’s defenses and forced many troops toward Buda.
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Budapest
Reg Aanies
Moscow
Red
Pest
Fainous
Great Bend
Buda
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WPB
Strand
Dixie
Grafton Sentinel
Robert Love Pearl Street
George Linda Darnell
Dixie Theatre
Basilica of
St. Peter's Cathedral
Vatican City
Pius XII
OWI
West, Virginia
John A. Newcome
C Ity
Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Barry
Carol Ann
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