Trains Crash in North Carolina Wreck Kills Dozens
In icy Southeastern North Carolina two crowded streamliners derailed in snow and froze the region. Rescuers rushed through cold to hospitals in Lumberton and Fayetteville as 50 bodies were reported at Red Springs morgue and estimates of the dead range up to 100 with over 100 injured.
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Lumberton
Atlantic Coast Line
North Carolina
Fayette
Red Springs
W. F. Barnum
Southeastern
American Red Cross
Atlanta
William Wood
Small Homes Guide Magazine
Tampa
Fla
Rocky Mount
Red Cross
New York
Miami
G. Sibley
Wilmington
Red
Rail Unions Set Dates For Strike
Cleveland dispatch reports rail unions timetable a nationwide walkout in two weeks. Mediation at Chicago is set by the National Mediation Board with officials optimistic a settlement is possible. Union leaders voice belief no strike will occur and warn of government seizure concerns amid the dispute.
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Cleveland
National Mediation Board
Bb Brotherhoods
Chicago
Brothe
H. F. Fraser
Order of Railway Conductors
John J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Joseph B. Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
Daniel Loomis
Western Carriers
Aiverage
Fraser
Pelley
Eastman
Loomis
A. F. Whitney
D. B. Robertson
Alvaniey Johnston
T. C. Cashen
Congress
Robert Crosser
Ohio
German Raid On Bari Port Kills 1,000
Seventeen United Nations merchant ships including five American vessels were sunk by German bombers at Bari Italy on December 2. About 1,000 people were killed or injured. Secretary of War Stimson stated the loss of ships and casualties at a press conference, noting the raid as a severe blow to Allied logistics in the harbor.
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Washington
United Nations
Bari
Italy
Stimson
Pearl Harbor
War Department
Invasion Of Arawe Imminent In Southwest Pacific
Allied bombers dropped 856 tons of explosives on Arawe after a massive raid on New Britain as General MacArthur announced an imminent invasion. He described the attacks as heavy and coordinated in a pincers air assault, using Bougainville air support in the Solomons.
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Southwest Pacific
New Britain
Japan
South Pacific
Arawe
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Bougainville
Solomons
Yanks Raid Brenner Pass Advanced Allied Operations Across Italian Front
Allied forces report concentrated air raids on Innsbruck Bolzano and Trento while the Fifth Army seizes Castel San Vincenzo hill south of Alfenda and the Eighth Army advances along the Adriatic coast toward Pescara. Canadian Indian and American units push toward Ortona, taking hundreds of prisoners as the port burns after bombardment.
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Pescara
Castel San Vincenzo
Alfenda
Ortona
Berrati
Innsbruck
U. S. Airforce
Brenner Pass
Germany
Austria
Bolzano
Avisio River
Trento
Munich
Avisio
Balkans
Dalmatian
Eighth Army
Orsogna
Sangro River
Prime Minister Churchill Stricken With Pneumonia
Prime Minister Churchill, who marked his 69th birthday at Teheran, is ill with pneumonia in the left lung. Deputy Prime Minister Attlee said Churchill is in the Middle East as bulletins indicate his condition. A Downing Street bulletin noted his general condition as satisfactory despite growing concern.
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Roger Greene
London
Churchill
Teheran
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
Middle East
Attlee
Downing St
Liverpool
England
Wales
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Britain
Stalin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Inonu
Turkey
Cairo
Jap Pilots Grow Less Skillful On U S Carrier
Commander Oscar Henry Dodson of Waco Texas reports from the Pacific front that Japanese navy pilots are generally less skillful and less determined than a year ago. He notes varying abilities among groups and cites recent attacks off Tarawa Kwajalein and Rabaul as examples, contrasting with the 1942 Hornet engagement.
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U.S
Mid-Pacific
Oscar Henry Dodson
Waco
Texas
Alfred E. Montgomery
Battle of Midway
Marshal Islands
Dodson
Edgewater
Tarawa
Gilberts
Kwajalein
Marshalls
U. S
Hornet
Santa Cluz Islands
Rabaul
New Britain
Trench Mouth Outbreak Warns Baltimore Dental Society
Kyrle W. Preis, president of the Baltimore City Dental Society, warns residents to avoid kissing the boys goodbye to escape the trench mouth outbreak spreading in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Kyrle W. Preis
Baltimore City Dental Society
McNair Says War Not Going Fast Enough
Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, commanding general of the Army Ground Forces, told an interview that the war in Europe is not moving quickly enough. He blamed tough German resistance and stressed that final victory requires a ground force invasion despite heavy bombing.
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San Francisco
Lesley J. McNair
Army Ground Forces
Germany
Russian Artillery Halts Nazi Tank Charges In Ukraine
Gen. Nikolai Vatutin drives a Ukrainian offensive with rapid counterattacks along the Teterev river salient. Russian artillery decimates German armored divisions 55 miles west of the Ukrainian capital, halting large Nazi tank thrusts.
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Henry
Cassidy
Nikolai Vatutin
Kiev
Teterev River
Mannstein
Vatutin
Red Army
Ivan S. Konev
Dnieper
Kremencug
Cherkasy
West Bank
Konev
Byelozere
Smela
Invasion Timing and Patton Sighted Amid War News
Reports weigh Allied invasion timing as air power targets Germany's industry around 60 of prime targets. Patton appears in the Middle East amid speculation he may join Balkan operations. Berlin concedes Soviet counter moves slow German Kiev drive, with Red Army gains along the Dnieper.
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Western
Europe
Washington
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
Middle East
Henry Maitland
Patton
Balkan
Hitler
FS Capo
Josif
Tito
Veterans service council urged for every community
Washington December 16 Millard W Rice national service director of the Disabled American Veterans urged immediate formation of a veterans service council in every community to assist returning service men.
Roosevelt Returns to United States from Middle East
President Roosevelt has returned to the United States and is safely back home. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said reporters he could not provide details on when he would reach Washington and had no further information about the trip from his conferences in the Middle East.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
White House
Stephen Early
Early
Middle East
Germanys Home Front Failures Led To Armistice Insight
The piece argues 1918 Germany fell when the home front cracked under total war pressure and draws parallels to WWII. It notes Allied air campaigns target industrial capacity, while stressing modern German society’s regimentation limits dissent and maintains a grim war stance.
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Dwight L. Pitein
New York
Germany
Imperial Germany
United Nations
Anyother
Hamburg
Berlin
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Iae
Aoa
Malta
Dwight Eisenhower
John Boettiger
Army Air Forces
Russia
Rumania
Kremenchug
Dnepropetrovsk
Elbow
Kirovograd
Malin
By John M. Hightower
Fifth Army
Height
Trench Mouth
Gen. McNair
Associated Presse
Kiev See-Saw
Ovik
Lord Halifax
Leven
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