Crippling Steel Strike Looms As Workers Quit
More than 40 000 steel workers across Ohio vote to strike as contracts expire at 214 plants with no settlement between employers and United Steel Workers of America. Wage demand 17 cents an hour above 78 cents risks upsetting war labor steel formula. pickets form at Cleveland Youngstown mills and Corrigan-McKinney works while other plants idle due to weekend. A showdown expected Monday as mills resume.
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P.ttsburgh
Ohio
Nar
United Steel Workers of America
CIO
War Labor Board
Cleveland
Youngstown
Republic Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Corrigan-McKinney Works
Youngstown Sheet and
Ihe
Great Lakes Steel Corp
Detroit
Wheeling Steel Corp
West Virginia
Millis
Red Army drives toward Vitebsk resumes west Kiev offensive
Soviet troops reopen the Vi wolotsk supply route and drive west of Kiev. Gen. Ivan Bagramian's forces reach within 15 miles of Vitebsk, capturing Zaluchye as Berlin reports a broad front push toward the Polish border. Moscow says the Vie tebsk Polotsk highway was cut amid counterattacks.
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Baltic
Vitebsk
Red Army
East Prussia
James M. Long
London
Ukraine
Gehigh Command
Zhitomir
Berlin
Ivan Bagramian
Zaluchye
Nevel-Vitebsk
Gorodok
Moscow
Vietebsk - Polotsk
Polotsk
Ice Glaze Paralyzes Central North Carolina on Christmas Day
A treacherous ice glaze across central and western North Carolina on Christmas Day halted highway travel and disrupted bus schedules. Accidents were minor, but travel was largely at a standstill with many homeward travelers delayed. warmer conditions were hoped to thaw the ice, though forecasts warned of continued freezing rain.
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North Carolina
State Highway Patrol
Rocky Mount
Goldsboro
Duke Power Company
Ins
Portios
Mounains
Wilmingon
Rockingham
Coal output dips as demand softens in early winter week
OAL reports Washington coal production at 1 175 000 tons for the week, down from 78 000 000 earlier. Interior Secretary endorses the port project amid the blunt downturn in output and energy demand. Two killed and twelve injured in a Philadelphia fire that drove residents from their icy tenements on a frigid Christmas morning, 18 degrees.
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Washington
Interior Secretary
Philadelphia
Thirty Japanese Planes Downed In Rabaul Attack
Allied headquarters report a 50 ton raid on Rabaul by Liberators from the Solomons with Corsair and Hellcat escorts. Thirty Japanese planes were shot down, 28 by fighters and two by bombers, as the assault targeted Sakunai airdrome and other Luft base positions.
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Allied
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Solomons
Tokyo
Boston
Gasmata
Cape Gloucester
U. S. Sixth Army
Arawe
Aramwe
Huon Gulf
Finchinnie
Sakunai
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Liberators Retaliate With Attack On Japs
U S Liberator bombers escorted by fighters retaliated Thursday for a Japanese raid on a major 14th air force base. They struck the White Cloud airfield at Canton in south China, bringing enemy losses to 25 planes destroyed in two days with 28 probably shot down and 20 damaged.
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U. S. 14Th Air Force
China
14Th Air Force
Canton
Germans Pour Fresh Troops In Yugoslavia
London dispatch reports Germany sending new reinforcements into Yugoslavia as Tito’s Partisans claim to resistance against the sixth Nazi offensive. Tito says 14 German divisions facing Partisans across Bosnia Hercegovina Dalmatia and Croatia, while five fresh divisions arrive from Greece and Albania.
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London
Germany
Yugoslavia
Army of Liberation
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Hercegovina
Dalmatia
Croatia
Bulgar
Greece
Albania
Kladanj
Livno-Duvno
Lapac
Berlin Coast Left In Ruins by Yanks RAF
The air front over Europe shows continued Allied pressure after Fridays all day assault on Pas de Calais and Berlin. German fires burn in a shattered capital as RAF Typhoons and bombers press the offensive.
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Berlin
W. W
Europe
Pas de Calais
Britain
Ruined Changteh Chooses Death-Stained Ruins
Changteh, once a peaceful city of about 160000, lies in twisted wreckage after a 20 day battle with Japan. The stench of death lingers amid ash piles where dead were burned and graves honor Chinese soldiers. 3000 Chinese under Maj. Gen. Cheng Wan were cut to about 30 before retreating as Japanese took the city.
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Changteh
Changking
Cheng Wan
Yuan River
King George VI Sees New Hope From Strife
King George VI speaks in a Christmas broadcast from his country home urging the British people to find comfort in faith that desolation will yield new hope and that harder work and fighting lie ahead before final victory. He salutes the United States, Soviet Union, China, France, and others for their roles in shared struggle.
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London
George VI
British Empire
United Nations
George
United States of America
Russia
China
France
Allied Warriors Make Bethlehem Pilgrimage On Christmas
Thousands in allied battle dress abandon stations to march to Bethlehem for the Christmas rite. The Latin Patriarch Mgr Louis Barassina leads from Jerusalem along the ancient road to the Church of the Nativity. Mass fills the Basilica as sects honor the Redeemer and the Babe is placed in the manger.
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Christ
Mgr
Louis Barlassina
Jaffa
Jerusalem
Mary
St. Catherine
Jesus
Mass
Redeemer
Christ Child
Joseph
Molotov Cocktails Used By Canadians On Germans
Allied headquarters in Algiers reports Canadian troops used Molotov cocktails against German positions in Ortona Italy as the Fifth Army seized two hill positions near Acquafondola. The Cairo radio says Ortona falls, closing the Adriatic port route to Pescara. The German defense remained tenacious. Additional strikes report the Dalmacija cruiser torpedoed near Silba island.
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Algiers
Ortona
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Italy
Cairo
Pescara
Acquafondola
Dalmacija
Silba Island
Zara
Pola
Niobe
Allied Offensive To Be Stepped Up By Kirkell
Allied leaders press for intensified campaigns across Europe Pacific with Teheran and Quebec plans revised. Roosevelt signals stern offensives. Eisenhower to command in Europe. Marshall reassigned, delaying deployment to western front as Japan faces renewed pressure in Pacific.
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Germany
Japan
Roosevelt
Axis Fellowship
Europe
Pacific
European
Mediterranean
Eisenhower
Marshall
General MacArthur
Nimitzed
Thec
Quebec
Asia
Russia
Teheran
West Front
Atlantic
Churchill
Britain
Cairo
Washington
White House
New Air Unit May Require Separate Head
London observers speculate a new tactical air force could be formed in Britain to work directly with land armies. Spaatz's appointment signals continued strategic bombing while an allied air expeditionary force may include fighters, bombers, transports, and reconnaissance to support a second front. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder is named as a probable supreme air commander if plans are perfected.
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Nt Ba
Brittany
Emar Loment
Air Ministry
RAF
Germany
Berlin
U. S. Army Air Force
Britain
Beret A
London
French
England
Ugese
Azores
Eisenhower
Pacific
Indian Ocean
Japan
Gilberts
Solomons
New Guinea
New Britain
Teheran
Marshal
Europe
Marshall
Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
Carl A. Spaatz
Spaatz
London Sunday
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eighth Air Force
Sir Arthur Tedder
Aet
Allied advances in New Britain strike hard blows
In New Guinea on Sunday December 26 Allied forces hit the Rabaul airdrome as 30 Japanese planes were shot down. A troopship was sunk near the Arawe invasion beachhead and Cape Gloucester bombardment totals exceed 3,000 tons for December.
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New Guinea
New Britain
Rabaul
Arawe
Cape Gloucester
Thick ice blankets Asheville. injuries as slips rise
A quarter inch ice coated Asheville from 3 a.m. to noon causing jams and multiple falls. Police officers J S Allison and Ben Shirley were hurt. a dozen others received treatment. Cars skidded but no serious injuries reported. Temperatures rose to melt ice as rain continued.
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Asheville
J. S. Allison
Ben Shirley
Allison
Mission Hospital
Shirley
Ite
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