Leyte Campaign Moves Under Heavy Rain and Losses
Weather and mud slow American advance as Troops of the Seventh face stiff Japanese resistance at Ormoc and Limon on Leyte Island. Air and sea support target Japanese supply lines while casualties mount, with near 100 000 Japanese dead or missing in the regional campaign and 26 000 lost at sea.
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Leyte
Philippines
Ormoc
Era Leyte
Niphave
Ith
Leyte Shting
Ameri
Pearl Harbor
Navy Coute
Liberator
Iwo Jima
U.S. Super Fortress
Marianas
Nine Killed As 2 Autos Collide Near Morganton
Nine residents of Morganton Rt. 1 and nearby Glen Alpine died when two cars collided eight miles west of Morganton early today. The dead include Thomas Shuping Virgil B Merrill Raymond Shoupe Doris Shook Mattie Hoyle Harold Mull and Benfield Mayfield Richard Mull. Five others were critically injured.
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Morganton
Rt. 1
Glen Alpine
Thomas Shuping
Virgil B. Merrill
Raymond Shoupe
Doris Shook
Mattie Hoyle
Harold Mull
Benfield
Are Mayfield
Richard Mull
James Powell
Clayton Shook
Pressure On Budapest Is Increased
Russian forces push from the Mecsek mountains toward Austria, widening the offensive west of the Danube. Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian army overran 60 towns and moved toward Pest, with German reinforcements beaten back. Budapest’s defenses and bridges face heavy pressure as the siege tightens.
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Moscow
Mecsek
Budapest
Austria
Feodor I. Tolturkhin
Danube
Pest
Berlin
Buda
Reo
Tolbukhin
Trroes
Pecs
Svekszard
Lake Balaton
Sasd
Osikostottos
Haber Canal
Mesck
Dumbovar
Nazis Claim V-3 Ready for Use Against New York
A Stockholm dispatch quotes Nazi leader Albert Speer saying the V-3 weapon would be ready to fire on New York by the end of December. New York City officials respond that protective services are prepared and urged refresher training as a precaution amid the wartime threat.
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London
Stockholm
Albert Speer
Germany
New York
Arthur W. Wallander
Protectie Fevice
Speer
F. H. la Guardia
Europe
Roer River Bastion Falls To Americans
U S Ninth Army troops pressed into Linnich in the Roer river bastion and pushed back into Roerdorf and Flossdorf as German countercharges failed. First and Seventh Army units advanced toward Duren and Haguenau, with Saar river fronts extended by Third Army armor and Saarbrucken within eight miles. Strasbourg endures heavy shellfire as Strashough bridgehead tightens.
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Paris
U. S
Ninth Army
Roer
Linnich
Cologne
Rhineland
Rheydt-Munchen Gladbach
Roerdorf
Flossdorf
Duren
Third Army
Saar River
Merzig
George S. Patton
Saar
Saarbrucken
Seventh Army
Lorraine
Haguenau
Reich
Strasbourg
Rhine
Strashough
Colmar
Seventh
GI soldiers in France face high costs from exchange rate
Paris reports show American troops receiving about five times the local franc value for their 50 dollar monthly pay due to the exchange rate. The Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. House urged quick action by Congress to consider peacetime military training to address overstretched manpower overseas.
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Paris
Military Fairs Committee
U. S of Representatives
Rep
Thom
R-Nj
Cherbourg
Brooks
Congress
Martin murder trial set for December in Boonville
Edward Jewett Martin 24 of Charlotte is charged with second degree murder in the slaying of his wealthy grandmother. Circuit Judge Charles M. Jackson set the trial date after reviewing two counts. The case involves alleged driving theBooneville man’s car over the Boonville woman, then transporting her body to North Carolina and dumping it in a lake.
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RY Martin Jan
Boonville
Edward Jewett Martin
Chary
N. 2
Charles M.eckson
Harlotte
N. C
Edward M. Jewett
Younh Carolina
Enraged Shark Sinks Fishing Boat Off Florida Coast
West Palm Beach, Fla. December 2. P. Moree and a companion fished for mackerel when a massive shark weighing about 2000 pounds pursued their catch. Moree struck the shark with an oar, the shark rammed the skiff creating a hole and it sank. Nearby fishermen rescued them before the shark returned.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Moree
Daniels Urges Majority Vote to Ratify Treaties
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels told the House Judiciary committee that the two thirds Senate rule endangers world peace. He urged amending the constitution to allow ratification by a majority of both houses, arguing that a small minority in the Senate can veto the popular will and threaten national policy.
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Washington
Dec
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
Daniels
House Judiciary Committee
Damocles
Raleigh N.C. News and Observer
Mexico
Rosevelt
of Nations
Congress
Mother Says Son Did Right Thing in Custody Case
Philadelphia dispatch reports Mrs Anne Whitehouse praising her son Pfe Arthur Whitehouse for offering to keep his 10 month old granddaughter Geraldine. He sought divorce so he could marry the infant’s mother, a Newfoundland hospital worker, who chose neither parent or child. The soldier returned from Newfoundland with the baby this week amid widespread adoption offers from across the country.
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Philadelphia
Anne Whitehouse
Pfe
Arthur Whitehouse
Geraldine
Newfoundland
Meanest Man? Cigarettes Stolen from Red Cross House
Police report 20 cartons of cigarettes stolen from the storage room of the Red Cross chapter house in Greenville D C on December 2. No arrests reported.
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Greenville
D. C
Red Cross
Only 43 New Autos Available For Dec
The uPA quota limits North Carolina to 43 new cars for civilian use in December. Raleigh OPA district director Theodore S. Johnson urged motorists to preserve existing vehicles and drive cautiously as new car supply remains scarce. He noted the national stockpile dipped below 20 000, a less than two day prewar equivalent.
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Raleigh
Upa
North Carolina
Theodore S. Johnson
OPA
Johnson
Alberto Taken By Allies on Italian Front
Indian troops of the Eighth Army seized the village of Alberto five miles northeast of Faenza after bitter German resistance. Monte Giornetto fell to the Fifth Army as withdrawal continued. West of Faenza German counterattacks near Bombiano were repulsed while infiltration efforts were smashed.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Alberto
Faenza
Monte Giornetto
Fifth Army
Apennines
Bombiano
Bologna
Allied northern flank may launch key Cologne plain attack
Berlin commentators argue General Eisenhower assigns 271st Army Group under Montgomery to strike the Nazi defenses on the northern wing. A sharp flanking move is seen as the likely high point of the Allied offensive. Weather and mud may determine Ike’s timing as war coverage continues.
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Berlin
F Eisenhower
Montgomery
271St Army Group
Cologne
Han
Ike
Soldier Held After Charlotte Highway Robbery Chase
Pvt. William M. Black of Camp Mackall was jailed in Charlotte on a highway robbery charge after a late night chase through city streets and county roads that ended on the Man.
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Charlotte
William M. Black
Camp Mackall
City
Chinese Forces Capture Cheiang Near Burma Road
Chinese high command reports Cheiang, near the Burma Road last Japanese-held town in China, has fallen to Chinese forces. American liaison units of the China training and combat command assisted in the operation.
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Chungking
Cheiang
Burma Road
China
Chinese High Command
Five Tokyo Raiders Return to U S From Soviet Internment
The five Doolittle Raiders who landed in Russia after bombing Tokyo in 1942 escaped internment and made their way to the United States. They were held in Penza, then Ohansk, Ashkhabad, and finally Meshed before vanishing into the wider war effort. Admiral Standley and the U S embassy coordinated their difficult, hidden path home.
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Washington
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Russia
United States
Russian
China
Soviet Union
Vladivostok
William H. Standley
Far East
Penza
Moscow
Kuibyshev
U. S
Joseph T. Michela
Edward Page
Stalinggrad
Central
F Ssia
Ohansk
Kama River
Molotov
Admiral Standley
Kama
Ashkhabad
Caspian Sea
Meshed
Mackenzie King Near Victory In Parliament Row
Ottawa December reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King poised for easy victory as Parliament adjourns debate amid a week of crisis over partial overseas conscription for Canadians in the armed forces. Draftee disorders on the Pacific coast and Quebec demonstrations eased under military authority and political appeals. A confidence motion remains pending.
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Ottawa
W. L. Mackenzie King
Pacific
Quebec
King
Allied air raid sinks 22 German planes over Coblenz
In a daylight operation the American Eighth Army Air Force and escort fighters attacked Coblenz rail yards, dropping over 1 000 tons of explosives. More than 250 American heavy bombers targeted southern Germany as weather allowed, with at least 22 German planes shot down amid air battles over Coblenz, Cologne, and Saarbrucken.
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London
Coblenz
Berlin
Italy
Germany
Cologne
Saarbrucken
Moselle
Rhine
Allies Deny Nazi Hostages Threatened
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Paris Dec 2 Maj Gen Jacques Leclercs anti sniping proclamation threatening to execute five German hostages for every French soldier shot in Strasbourg was never carried out and hostages were never taken. The proclamation drew German radio protests but was deemed closed. Leclercs French armored division moved to further field operations with Strasbourg under military district and civil administration control.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Jacques Leclerc
Strasbourg
Leclerc
Exoneration of Kimmel and Short by Inquiry Boards
The Army and Navy said no grounds exist for court martial of US personnel over Pearl Harbor. Inquiry boards found errors in judgment and skill in Washington and Hawaii but cleared Admiral Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Short, while detailing the surprise attack remains partly secret.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Army
Navy
United States
Boards of Inequiry
Hawaii
Congress
Walter C. Short
Dallas
Tex
Navy Forrestal
Admiral Kimmel
Charles B. Rugg
Husband E. Kimmel
Boston
De Gaulle Arrives in Moscow for Talks With Stalin
Gen. De Gaulle arrived by train at Kursk station in Moscow for talks with Marshal Stalin. The station was decorated with French and Soviet flags as the Red Army band played the French national anthem and then the Soviet hymn.
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DE Gaulle
Moscow
Kursk
Marshal Stalin
Red Army
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