Wartime Outlook Linked to Pacific Shift and Christmas Hope
In a wartime message Pacific commander expresses hope armed forces will be home by Christmas. He notes pressure on Germany will continue into 1944 as plans shift power from Europe to the Pacific. An interview in Glendale quotes Hobart Bosworth advisers on Japan strategy and the Saratoga carrier lure attempts. King says the U S fleet will meet Japan on any terms, ready to engage at any time.
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Pacific
Dwight Wgenhower
Higa
Ays
Germany
Plana
Yare
Vermany
Imain
Japan
United States
King
Saratoga
Truk
U. S
War Analyst Assesses Red Army Advance Near Kiev
William Page of the Associated Press reports a rapid Soviet push west of Kiev with flanking moves north and south. He warns against premature predictions of a Nazi collapse while noting German withdrawals from the Dnieper bend and possible heavy German losses as the Red Army presses toward the Bessarabian border.
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William Page
Associated Press
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Stytin
Dnieper
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Spitals
Red Army
Zhmera
Bessarabian
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Hitler
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Stalin
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Philachew and
Brordinhor Mo
Kazatin
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Luglat
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Rodion Malinovsky
Zaporozhe
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Harold Alexander
Rome
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Berlin
Minturno
Tenth Army
Ponte Fiume
San Vittore
Cassino
Fifth Army
Mignano
Eighth Army
Ortona
Pescara
Pilot Klimchak Earns DFC and Air Medal in Luftjagd Fight
The gunner, son of Mr and Mrs Frank Klimchak of Josephine, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with clusters and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters after a raid over the Ruhr region. He downed multiple German fighters, survived a perilous channel landing, and was rescued by British Air-Sea Rescue launches. His crew engaged targets at Kiel Schweinfurt Wilhelmshaven Bremen Gelsenkirchen Paris Bordeaux and other locations.
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English
Klimchak
Huls
Svara
RAF
Kiel
Schweinfurt
Wilhelswagen
Bremen
Gelsenkirchen
Paris
Bordeaux
Frank Klimchak
Josephine
Points Slashes Dams Marmalades Under Rationing Again
The OPA raised points for six to one pound fruit spreads and reduced frozen fruit juices to zero. Most spreads under 51 0z except citrus marmalade and those for Christmas are rationed again. Holiday season packets return to the point table January 9. Frozen vegetables except corn peas and lima beans are point free. Apples applesauce and rhubarb are ration free while blueberries and huckleberries drop from 12 to six points.
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OPA
Cape Gloucester Lights New Guinea Offensive Tide
Allied forces land at Cape Gloucester on the eastern New Britain coast, clearing beaches and jungle to reach the airdrome while a second Marine unit moves southwest. Japanese defense breaks under concentrated air and sea bombardment as Rabaul comes under heavier pressure from Halsey’s strikes. Air and sea actions extend across Bougainville and the Marshalls with multiple aircraft losses for Japan and several enemy fighters shot down.
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Krueger
Bergen Bay
Cape
Talawe
Cape Gloucester
New Guinea-New Britain
New Britain
Arawe
Bismarck Archipelago
Rabaul
Solomons
Adm
William F. Halsey
Bougainville
Halsey
Marshalls
Mal‘oelap
Mili
Kkwajalela
Plageing raids and rocket targets hit Western Europe
European front reports say numerous raids by RAF Mosquitos struck targets in western Germany and northern France. Allied air forces, including about 500 United States and British bombers with fighter-bombers, pursued military objectives in Northern France with no Allied planes lost.
Remembering Bosworth the early film pioneer and star
The veteran actor and producer Bosworth died at 76 after a long career shaping early cinema. Born in Marietta Ohio he ran away at 12 to join a whaling voyage and rose on New York stages before becoming a key creator and dean of motion picture celebrit ydom. His son George Hobart Bosworth and wife Cecile were at his bedside as he passed from pneumonia after a brief illness.
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Cums
Los Angeles
Jeolony
Bosworth
George Hobart Bosworth
Cecile
Washington, D. C
Marietta
Ohio
Miles Standish
New York
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Julia Marlowe
Service men and women vote urged for primaries and beyond
Senator George of California urged cooperation between federal and state legislatures to enable service personnel to vote in primaries and general elections. He argued governors could call for absentee ballots and that the administration bill's limits were insufficient for universal service voter participation. He favored ballots prepared by states and transmitted by federal agencies.
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Washington
Tdigress
Legisatures
George
D-Ca
Georgia
Senate
Spediai Séesimna
Leglatatirés
Lnhere
Congress
Navy
Sampson
N. C
House
Harrisburg Dec report on Democratic Senate candidate field
In Harrisburg discussions of the U S Senate race outline potential candidates. names include former Philadelphia Congressman James P Ms Granevy and attorney Genaia with ties to Anthony d Brexel Biddle remaining ambassador. party leaders weigh Curtis Bol refusal and support for a Philadelphia justice as organizer backing while Newell and Miller receive a promotion rumor.
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Harrisburg
Dec
Bemocratia Party
Diaftaruts
Erie
Ifad
Teddy
U. S
Senate
James J. Davis
Curtis Bol
Philadelpha Common Plaws Court
Anthony d
Brexel Biddle
James P Ms Granevy
Philadelphia
Genaia
Thomas Kennedy
Treas
Frank
Cfintman
Kurtz
MacDill Field
Fla
Boy found crying names his father and church
A small boy crying on a Norwalk street said his name was Bobby and his father was Daddy. Police soon reunited him with his parents the Rev J Russell Baldy and his wife. Mr Baldy had just been appointed pastor of a local Methodist church.
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Norwalk
Conn
Bobby
Daddy
J. Russell Baldy
Bales
Lydick Rites Set as Meningitis Deaths Reported
Obituary notices report Harold Mugene Lydick born October 15 1940 in Taylorsville died at 4 18 p m from meningitis. He leaves a sister Margaret Couise and grandparents H A Lydick and Obadiah Lydick. Services Sunday at 2 10 p m with Rev Malcolm Harrison officiating. Interment East Mahoning Township.
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Harold Mugene Lydick
Taylorsville
Byron
Martha (Lockard) Lydick
Johnstown
Margaret Couise
H. A. Lydick
Clymer
R. D
Obadiah. Lydick
Commodore, R. D
Che
Malcolm Harrison
East Mahoning Township
New Year Broadcast Schedule Highlights Postwar Era Programs
Radio schedules detail postwar era broadcasts including CBS and NBC lineups on New Year's Day with dramas like Holiday 1944 by Arch Oboler, sports radio bowls featuring Texas A&M vs Louisiana State and Georgia Tech vs Tulsa, plus Navy and government talks and variety shows across afternoon and evening slots.
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CBS
Bill Stern
Ken Carpenter
San Francisco
Ernie Smith
MBS
NBC
Chicago
Denfeld
Washington
Mrs. Roosevelt
Paul Roberson
NBC Symphony
Stokowski
Jack Benny
Chas McCarthy
Phil Spitalny
Lily Pong
Jerry Como
We the People
Wm. McGaffin
Conrad Nagel
Joan Fontaine
Fred Allen
Phil Baker
Sammy Kaye
Burns and Allen
Basin St
Gertrude Lawrence Theater
Pauline Alpert
Bulldogg Drummond
Abe Lincoln
Cleveland
Qualified Striker ceremony at Great Lakes marks new sailors
Recent graduation ceremonies at the U S Naval Training Station Great Lakes saw Bluejacket Kenneth Reed Williams 19 son of Mrs Laura Williams Homer City recognized as a qualified striker for Torpedo man third class The article lists other graduates including Ward Ronald Campbell 19 of Clymer an aviation radioman trainee born in Ham er City June 27 1924 who learned at the Naval Air Technical Training Center Memphis Tenn and completed boot training at Great Lakes IL
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U. S. Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Kenneth
Reed Williams
Laura Williams
Homer City
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Memphis
Tonn
Ward Ronald Campbell
Clymer
Hamer City
Green Township High School
Altoona
President Hoosdelt confined by fever at White House
Washington reports President Hoosdelt's cold escalated to a fever of about half a degree. Rear Admiral Roid T. McIntire, the president's physician, ordered bed rest today with possible continued rest tomorrow. Regular Friday cabinet meeting and morning plan were canceled. New Year's Day observances and Day of Prayer proclamation affected by illness.
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Bee
Hoosdelt
White House
Roid T. McIntire
Wness
Brayer
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