Cartoonist Looks At 1944s Record Yanks Mop Up Japs On Leyte Island
General MacArthurs communique reports 2191 additional Japanese killed in 24 hours on Leyte as organized resistance ends Christmas Day. Doughboys pursue scattered Nippon remnants, control Ormoc Valley, and strike Mindoro airfield targets from liberated Philippine island.
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Leyte Island
General
Ormoc
Fall
MacArthur
Nippon
Mindoro Island
Comei News
Mindoro
Leyte
Luzon Island
Lingayen Gulf
Bor
Les Philippines
Chase Seeks Nine Month Elementary School Term
Sullivan County elementary schools should extend the term from eight to nine months to reduce failures and boost funding efficiency. Superintendent Chase told the county court that 940 failures last year cost $36,923.20 and that a longer term would attract better trained teachers and improve outcomes, despite the financial impact.
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Blounteille
Sul County
Lewis
Selivan
Chase
Sullivan County
Chiang Kai-shek promises change amid war weariness
Promises constitutional democracy and a peop le s congress, says end of the war should come with upheaval avoided, as military stance stabilizes to enable a counteroffensive. Report includes stray street scene observations and anecdotal impressions from daily life.
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Chungiing
Generalisamo
Chiang Kai-shek
Peoples’ Congress
Central Executive Committee
The
Koomintang
City Files a Year Without Local Traffic Deaths
Kingsport closed the year with a full 12 months without a local traffic fatality, the first time in eight years per police records. December 34, 1944, marked a death in the city. 18 highway fatalities occurred in Sullivan and nearby counties, with July and December the worst months. Safety director L. Lineback notes the 877th day without a freak accident on East Sullivan.
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Eien Crawford
Kingsport
Wayne Castle
Lynn Garden
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Sullivan County
Sullivan
Hawkins
Lee
Scott
Bristol
Knoxville
Yiding
Biuie City
Lee County
Wnich
Lee Highway
Lebanon
Fewer Cars Co. L. Lineback
East Sullivan
Train Crash on Great Salt Lake Kills Fifty, Wounds Sixty
A fog shrouded causeway crash on the Great Salt Lake involving a Southern Pacific mail express and a slow passenger train killed about 50 people and injured 60. Rescue workers toiled to recover bodies amid mangled cars as officials called it one of the Wests worst rail accidents.
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Veden, Utan
Southern Pacific Mail
Saler
Great Salt Lake
Steel firms prepare fight for higher prices
Washington AP reports steel companies marshal forces for a price increase after wage boosts approved for 400,000 United Steel Workers. OPA says costs rise to about 20 million annually, with industry estimates up to 150 million. firms plan to press prices to cover wage hikes, while avoiding a Montgomery Ward style clash.
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Washington
CSO
United Steel
Fred Vinson
Office of Price Administration
War Labor Board
Vingon
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward
OPA
Hitler says war will not end before 1946
A London broadcast attributed to Adolf Hitler warned that defeatists would be destroyed and that the war would not end before 1946 unless Germany achieved victory. The speech, aired after a five month silence, described the conflict as a merciless struggle for existence and urged total commitment to the national effort.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Louise P. Lechner
Associated Press
Berlin
Lechner
Slams
ELAS British Talks on Truce Amid Greek Crisis
ELAS and British officers led by Lt Gen Scobie held discussions on a possible truce as Archbishop Damaskinos became regent after Premier Pandreou and the cabinet resigned. Fighting continued in Athens and nearby areas as political realignments stirred speculation on a new cabinet and war ministries.
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Athens
ELAS
R. M. Scobie
Damaskinos
George Pa- Pandreou
Gree
Pirseu
Alexander Svolog
HAM
Wasinsi
Fifth Recaptures All Ground Lost In German Attack
Fifth Army troops push along the Serchio River area recapturing ground east of the river lost in the German offensive. From Barga they advanced a mile and a half, seizing Sommocolonia, a hill town once among the first to fall. Eighth Army moves north of Faenza with several local gains amid stiff resistance.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Serchio River
Barga
Sommocolonia
Po Valley
Eighth
Faenza
Serchio
Gallicano
Hojogna
Gre
Rigola
Patton Forces Strike Northeast To Narrow Belgian Bulge
Allied and German actions mix as Third Army troops push northeast to reduce the 13 mile Belgian bulge near Bastogne. Rochefort retaken. Germans strike at Chenogne and Letrebos. VS forces report progress south of Wiltz and near Diekirch as censors release details of renewed tank and infantry drives.
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Paris
AP Third Army
Bastogne
George S. Patton
Bulge
von Rundstedt
Chenogne
Bestogne
Letrebois
Supreme Headquarters
Ardennes Salient
Patton
Wiltz
Third
Reisdorf
el Sure Rivernand Imir
Diekirch
101St Airborne Division
Saarland
Rochefort
Third Army
St Hubert
Moircy
Western Frent
Tennessee Legislature Opens 74th Session Without Governors
Washville Tennessee begins the 74th General Assembly in wartime with Gov. Prentice Cooper at the Rose Bowl and Gov elect Jim McCord away from the capital. The session faces a push to raise the governor’s salary from 4000 to 34000 annually and to advance highway plans and other measures. Cooper’s term ends January 16, with McCord due to be inaugurated that day.
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Prentice Cooper
Pasadena
Calif
Tennessee
Southern California
Jim McCord
Cooper
Lewisburg
General Assembly
Reds Hurl Nazis From Two Thirds Of Buda Section
Soviet forces report progress around Budapest as Red Army units push into Buda two thirds cleared and streets burn. Across Pest eastern districts Soviet spearheads advance three miles into inner defenses while fighting rages in the Danube area.
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Buda
London
Budapest
Danube
Stalingrad
Red Army
Pest
New Congress Faces War Aftermath And Pay Raise Talks
Washington reports a new Congress arriving amid concerns over postwar problems and the prospect of a pay increase for servicemen. Draft-era rhetoric suggests readiness for continued military service and training for young men between ages 18 and 21.
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Congress
Allied Leaders See 45 As Vital Year For Victory
The Associated Press reports New Year messages from UN leaders, including De Gaulle and Masaryk, urging steady effort in 1945 as a vital war year. Polish government leader Radzińewicz called for sympathy and support amid distress.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Charles de
Gaulle
Progres
Masaryk
Wladyslaw
Radinjewica
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