Nazis Trapped In Budapest as Reds Close In
Moscow reports eight to ten German and Hungarian divisions trapped in Budapest with escape routes narrowing. Red Army advances to the city limits cut off roads except a single nighttime corridor toward Esztegom. Bombers and storm troops bombarded two airports as panic rose inside the besieged capital.
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Moscow
Budapest
Red Army
Stormoviks
Buda
Esztegrom
Danube
Broader Food Rationing Plan In Use Now
A broader and tighter food rationing program took effect today. Butter points rose from 20 to 40 per pound and red and blue stamps good before December 1 are canceled. Canned vegetables and sugar stamps face new limits while home canning certificates See sugar stamp No 34. Al Jolson, 36, was reported in fair condition in Beverly Hills after malaria relapse from last year’s tour.
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Washington
OPA
Beverly Hills
Calif
al Jolson
Police In Nine States Search For Missing Girl
Baltimore police and nine states intensified a search for Jane N. Hildreth age year old missing since December after returning from the Northampton School for Girls. The bureau reports no progress and her mother Elizabeth M. Hildreth says the girl left a note stating no one will ever see me again. She is described as five feet two inches, brown hair and brown eyes.
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Baltimore
Jane N. Hildreth
Northampton
Mass
Baltimore Police Department
Elizabeth M. Tildreth
William &. Hildreth
Ae Bank of
Charlottesville
Georgia Seeks Supreme Court Probe Of Freight Rate Structure
Georgia asks the U S Supreme Court to uproot the entire freight rate system in a suit against 20 railroads. The state contends the case targets anti competitive conspiracy to remove rate competition. Gov Ellis Arnall is among the state attorneys filing the brief ahead of the January 2 hearing.
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Atlanta
Georgia
U. S. Supreme Court
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Jurisdat Atia
Ellis Arnall
Child Killed On Way To Meet Santa At Base Runway
Nine year old Owen Penick, son of Capt. and Mrs. Herbert M. Penick, ran to greet Santa at Cherry Point Marine Air Base when a plane’s wing struck him. He died instantly and will be buried in Booneville, Missouri, home of his parents.
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Cherry Point
Owen Penick
Santa Claus
Marine Air Base
Herbert M. Penick
Booneville
Civilian Tire Quota Trimmed Considerably
U S government cuts civilian tire allocations for January sharply below December. The OPA sets passenger tire supply at 1,800,000 units, down from 2,000,000. small truck and bus tires at 216,000 down from 280,000. heavy truck and bus tires at 110,000 down from 120,000 amid military demand.
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Washington
OPA
Black Market Probe To Unfold More Details In February Trial
Paris reports a senior American officer predicting February trials will reveal more about U S soldiers involved in black market activities. He notes widespread thefts of gasoline and cigarettes behind front lines with truck drivers hijacked or coerced, payments up to 6000 dollars, and the supply loss affecting war effort.
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Paris
U. S
Amon
Japs Suffer Worst Defeat In History At Leyte
Allied forces completed the Leyte operation with the capture of Palompon as the U S 77th Division stormed ashore. MacArthur announced total Japanese losses exceeded 112 thousand with thousands more killed or captured in the Leyte and Samar campaign.
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Associated Press
Posili
Japan
Leyte-Samar
Arthur
U. S
A. D. Bruce
77Th
7Ith Infantry
Leyte
Pon
Philippines
MacArthur
Saamr ~ Ison
Cold Weather Heads South Snow Forecast
The south braces for a forecast cold wave sweeping from the Dakotas and Minnesota. Kentucky and Tennessee expected to hit fifteen to zero degree weather, with snow in parts of the Middle Atlantic states. Remaining South to see cloudy cool conditions with showers and thunderstorms in Alabama, while other locations report warm shirt sleeve weather spanning several southern cities.
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Atlanta
South
Dakotas
Minnesota
Kentucky
Tennessee
Middle Atlantic
Alabama
Asheville
Birmingham
Galveston
Churchill And Eden In Athens To Study Greek Problem At First Hand
In Athens Churchill and Eden arrived to seek an end to the Greek civil war. A British patrol reported dynamite under hotel streetcar lines near the Grande Bretagne as meetings were arranged with Alexander and Papas. A conference aimed to unite Greek political opinion and restore Greece to UN ranks was planned for 4 p.m. local time.
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Churchill
Eden
Athens
Primeister
Hotel Grande Bre
Ronald Scobie
Anthony Eden
Ees Elas
Harold Alexander
Mediterranean
Harold MacMillan
Greece
United Nations
Damaskinos
Two Tar Heel Soldiers Sentenced in Black Market Ring
In Paris on December 26, 14 soldiers were convicted for black market operations diverting American supplies to the French front. Among them were white Pvt. Humber B. Cardwell of Durham with 25 years, and three Negro soldiers from North and South Carolina, all AWOL or trafficking rations, cigarettes, and PX goods.
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Paris
Carolinas
de Turner Harris
Pendier Street
Wilson
Humber B. Cardwell
Pearl Street
Durham
Efrid King
Page Street
Columbia
D. C
Jasper Avenue
Hartville, & C
Carolina
U. S
Army
Pastor Shoots Son-In-Law At Dinner Table
In Columbus Georgia a family quarrel at a Christmas dinner escalated to a fatal shooting of a father of six. The incident led to the arrest of his father on a murder warrant as police investigate the family dispute and motive.
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Columbus
C. I
German Drive Falters as Allied Forces Hold Line in War Today
The column notes renewed German counter thrusts but reports Allied defenses holding with small gains for the Nazis and no debacle for Allied forces. Eisenhower’s leadership is trusted as decisive counterattacks loom, with heavy casualties on both sides and preparations for a major Allied assault ongoing.
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Eisenhower
Cman
Paris
Roosevelt
Ams
von Rundstedt
Tosenaka
Allied Planes Continue To Blast Germans
U S bombers and fighters for a fourth day attacked German communications and supply lines in support of American troops. Targets included Coblenz area railroad yards and bridges between Coblenz and Bonn. The strike involved 150 Liberators and Fortresses with 300 Mustangs and Thunderbolts. Supreme Headquarters reported 78 enemy planes destroyed. U S losses numbered 13 heavy bombers, seven medium bombers, and four fighters.
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London
U S
U. S. Strategic Air Force
Coblenz
Bonn
Supreme Headquarters
U.S. 15Th Air Force
Aly
Peat Brux
Thun
Brenner
Former Senator Blair Lee Dies in Washington
Former U S Senator Blair Lee of Maryland dies at age 91 in Washington D C He served in the Senate from 1923 to 1933 according to the obituary notice from Washington dispatches.
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Washington
U.S
Blair Lee
Maryland
ST. Lee
Large German push surrounds American forces near Belgium
German armored columns penetrated deep into Belgium, reaching near the Meuse after crossing into Allied lines. Eisenhower’s counterattacks slowed Rundstedt’s west front offensive, with US forces holding key ridges and stemming advances toward Liege Bamberg and the Aachen corridor.
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Paris
Belgium
Supreme Headquarters
Hitler
Welf
Liege
Aachen
Aleady
Eisenhower
Rundstedt
Meuse
Arion
Bam Togne
Hed
Karl von Rundstedt
Laroche
Gra
Liemenx
Half Million Southerners On Payroll
Washington report shows more than 500000 residents of the 11 Southern states work for the federal government. Texas leads with 144,910 workers, followed by Virginia 109,170 and Florida 13,170. Mississippi and Arkansas are lowest among the Southern states. Total federal employees nationwide numbered 3,918,233 with 270,019 in the Washington metro area.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Texas
Virginia
Mississippi
Arkansas
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Maryland
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tennes
Louisiana
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Branford Fla
Troop Carrier Command
James P. Flanagan
Sangor
Army Air Forces
Jolson
Nippon
Mindoro Island
Stephen Barber
Dewitt Mackenzie
Hotton
St Hubert Libramont
France
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Rocha
Germany
Meuse River
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Siege
Namur
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