East and West Drives to Hit Germany at Same Time
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie reports a proposed simultaneous Allied push in the west and east. Soviet forces mass on the long front with potential strikes from the Vistula in Poland toward Krakow and Tarnow, while Budapest is a key target on the Danube. Eisenhower tightens a stiffening front as fighting grows near Aachen and in the Hurtgen forest.
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Germany
DeWitt Mackenze
Associated Press
Europe
West
Eisenhower
Marshal Stalin
Reich
Berlin
Duieckesd
Vistula
Poland
Krakow
Tarnow
German Silesia
Naziland
Budapest
Danube
Danubain
Ausriat
Hiler
United States First Army
Aachen
Hurtgen Forest
Third Army advances as Patton drives in Metz sector
The U S Third Army presses toward the Saar valley with operations near Aachen while Lt Gen. Patch's Seventh Army seizes Migneville and Les Baraques near St Die as German forces reportedly regain earlier gains. The push aims to break toward Cologne with key highway routes through Schmidt and Duren highlighted.
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Schmidt
Aachen
Duren
Cologne
Rhine
Patton
Metz
Saar
Germany
Market Report from St Louis Livestock and Chicago Grain
National Stockyards reports cattle and hogs with purchases around 11,000 hogs, mixed weights and values on 180 to 270 pound hogs, steers mostly common and medium slaughter material, trade slow with some steady moves. Grain markets show heavy corn bookings, quick losses in December corn, wheat steady to mixed, rye and oats weaker, butter firm and eggs firm in Chicago.
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ST. Louis Livestock National Stockyards
Ill
Chicago
Barney
Eisenhower vows force to defeat Axis in Belgian parliament
General Eisenhower tells Belgian deputies that the Allies face an enemy who understands only force and pledges full aid within military limits. He is greeted with a tumultuous ovation as he enters the chamber with top Allied commanders including Bradley, Tedder, Ramsey, Coningham, and others.
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Roger D. Grewe
Brussels
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chamber of Deputies
Eisenhower
Navy
Omar N. Bradley
Arhurt Tedder
Bertram Ramsey
Arthur Coningham
W. B. Smith
S. W. E. J. Erskine
F. W. de Guinfan
Governor Addresses Methodist Conference in Hot Springs
Governor Homer M. Adkins was slated to address the 19th annual Little Rock conference of the Methodist Church in Hot Springs. Bishop Paul E. Martin presided as the gathering opened last night with a business session and laymen’s meeting. Speaker Kenneth Spore of Camden was listed for the afternoon and evening sessions. Rev. T. T. McNeal of Pine Bluff was elected statistician.
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Hot Springs
Homer M. Adkins
Little Rock
Methodist Church
Paul E. Martin
Kenneth Spore
Camden
T. T. McNeal
Pine Bluff
Hard Program for Congress Before Xmas
Floor managers laid down a hard pre christmas schedule for the retiring congress to set the stage for 1945 debates on the shape of world organization for permanent peace. The dying 78th Congress convenes for its last sessions at noon Tuesday and gives way to the 79th.
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Francis M. Lemay
Washington
Congress
World Organization
Allied Troops Press Reichwald Front Amid Rough Weather
On the Rhine front Patton’s Third Army fights across sodden ground as Allied air power hits German HQs from north of the Reichswald to Metz. Capt Jake L Abraham of Port Gibson Miss dropped a bomb at a Metz area command post. eight more posts were strafed. Potential jump-off points for two new divisions include Maizieres-Les-Metz and Berg near Metz.
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Bourg
Rhine
Third Army
Patton
Reichwald
Holland
Metz
Jake L. Abraham
Port Gibson
Miss
Maizieres-Les-Metz
Moselle
Berg
Congress Faces Major 78th Congress Agenda Before Year Ends
January 3 briefing outlines key actions including war power expiration on December 31, a social security tax hike debate, and a three year postwar highway program authorizing $1 475 250 009. Planes for crop insurance revival hearings and a revival of coal price controls accompany river and harbor flood control discussions.
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Congress
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Speaker
House
Senate
Japs Close In On Former U S Air Base At Liuchow
Chinese high command reports Japanese spearhead within 15 miles of Liuchow as Tokyo lines up tanks planes and infantry for a broader assault toward Kweilin. Chinese authorities claim large quantities of poison gas used at Kweilin and say defenders hold despite violent attacks around the city and from northeast toward the Hunan Kwangsi railway.
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Chungking
Liuchow
Orient
South China
Tokyo
Kweilin
Kwangs Province
Lutchow
Kwangsi Province
Hunan-Kwangsi
Leader Warns of Belgium Hardship in Winter Shortage
He expresses concern over civilian supply shortages in Belgium where most people face a heatless and hungry winter, warning of severe hardship as shortages persist.
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Belgium
Fire Water Terms and Pockets in the Press
The article discusses the slow congressional process and contrasts it with a simpler method involving a husband’s pockets. It mentions a piece titled Fire Water and explains that the term for whiskey or alcohol does not come from a fiery throat but its ability to ignite decay.
U S Fliers Strike Japanese Positions Across South China Fronts
U S Army Air Force fliers, aiding Chinese ground forces, strafed and bombed Japanese columns moving west on the West River front in South China and along the Salween river front in Yunnan Province, while attacking Japanese positions on the Burma Road.
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U.S. Mth Air Force
West River
China
Yuan, Province
Burma
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35Th Infantry Division
134Th
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