Americans slugging way in Saarlautern bog
U S forces fight through blinding rains in Leyte campaign as ground actions stall near Ormoc. Japanese aircraft raid Carigara bay and Morotai while American bombers strike Legaspi and other central Philippines targets. Allied progress north and south of Ormoc advances slowly amid relentless rain and stiff Japanese resistance.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte Island
Ormoc
Carigara Bay
Leyte
Morotai Island
Moluccas
Imperial
Legaspi
Luzon Island
Visayan
Davao
Mindanao
U. S
Stage Set For Another Social Security Fight
A divided House Ways and Means Committee reported the social security issue as the likely final clash with the White House. The panel split 17 to 17 over a non-opposed plan to block a scheduled tax hike to 2 percent on Jan 1 unless Congress freezes it. The debate shifts to the House floor Monday as lawmakers weigh a freeze to avert a veto amid an expiring Congress.
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Washington
House
Ways and
White House
Congress
Senate
Crisis In Italy Still Unsolved After Cabinet Fall
Rome reports the Italian political crisis remains unresolved a week after the Bonomi cabinet fell. Ivanoe Bonomi faces weak prospects persuading the left to join a new government as efforts stall.
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Italy
Rome
Bonomi
Ivanoe Bonomi
More Cigarettes Made Available To Troops
London based post exchanges will allow American combat troops and army hospital personnel in the United Kingdom to buy seven packs of cigarettes per week. Other personnel may purchase five packages weekly as announced by base headquarters.
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London
United Kingdom
Powell Elected Negro Representative From New York District
The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr was newly elected as Negro representative from New York's 22nd district. He won the Democratic Tam many hall endorsement and captured Republican and American Labor Party nominations.
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell
Powell
Tammany Hall
American Labor Party
Local Weather Outlook for Sunday into Monday
Increasing cloudiness and warm conditions on Sunday with a high near 35. Sunday night brings light rain or snow by Monday morning marking a chilly start to the workweek.
Grew May Be Stettinius Aide
Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan and veteran diplomat, was reported as top candidate for under secretary of state. No final decision by Secretary Stettinius, but Grew reportedly has the inside track.
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Washington
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Stettinius
Roosevelt
Grew
Disi
Turkey
Hull
Sectory
inter-American Affairs
State Department
FEA
Germany
Nazi Overseer Polmann Hangs Self Amid Trial Delays
London A Soviet dispatch from Lublin, carried by Moscow radio, reports Edmund Polmann, a Nazi overseer at Majdanek accused of killing thousands, hanged himself in his cell. The trial of Polmann and five others was in its third day when the news arrived.
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London
Edmund Polmann
Majdanek
Lublin
Moscow Radio
Polmann
Moscow
Europe
Blue Network
Close Pen Plant For Violating Fire Rules
CHICAGO police closed the Eversharp Pen and Pencil plant after Fire Prevention Chief John L. Fenn filed 15 complaints citing Chicago fire ordinance violations. He said large quantities of a plastic nitro cellulose based product were stored in the building where about 1,800 workers are employed. Plant officials were unavailable for comment.
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Chicago
Eversharp, Inc
John L. Fenn
Chicago Fire Prevention Bureau
Fenn
Steamer Kong Haldan Sunk by Torpedo Off Goteborg
The Kong Haldan en route from Trondheim to Hamburg was torpedoed and sunk off Goteborg Sweden on Saturday. Twelve Norwegian and four German crew members of twenty six were rescued by Swedish ships sailing from Goteborg.
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Stockholm
Kong Haldan
Trondheim
Hamburg
Gotenburg
Pearl Harbor Probe Seen Likely to Confuse Issue
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina argued a congressional inquiry into the Pearl Harbor disaster would confuse the issue and cannot be completed before Christmas adjournment. He expected Senator Ferguson's proposal for a Senate inquiry to fail, while Ferguson urged investigation as evidence remains unclear about military or naval personnel.
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Washington
Reynolds
D-Nc
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Pearl Harbor
Congress
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
War and Navy Department
Allied Advances Push From Faenza Through Apennine Front
Ground positions north and south of Faenza fell to Allied forces as German withdrawal continued toward the Po plain. Indian troops seized Alberto, capturing 100 prisoners, while U S Seventh Army took Monte Giornetto near Faenza.
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Rome
Faenza
8Th Army
Alberto
Lamone
Monte Giornetto
Apennines
Bologna
Lamone River
Massa
Bombiano
Fifth Army
Strasbourg
Alexander M. Paich
Rhine
28 Nazi Planes Shot Down By Fighters Over Coblenz Raid
American escort fighters with 550 Thunderbolts and Mustangs defend bombers over the Bingen area near Coblenz as 28 German planes are shot down. 250 American bombers target the Coblenz railroad yards while Dortmund benzol plant endures a 3000 ton bombing.
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London
Coblenz
Dortmund
U. S
8Th Air Force
Bingen
Venlo
Iwo Jima Hit By Liberators Fifth Day Raid
U S Pacific Fleet reports Liberators from Seventh Army Air Force conducted a fifth raid in four days on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands. The attack dropped 57 tons of bombs on the airstrip and facilities, amid continued pounding since Japanese fighters began sweeping Saipan on November 26. Five enemy fighters attacked unsuccessfully. anti aircraft fire damaged some American planes.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Seventh Army Airforce Liberators
Iwo Jima
Volcano Islands
Saipan
Liberators
Iwo Jims
Nippon
Ackack
Chester IE Onl
Kurile
Lau
Babelthuap
Palau
United States and Spain Sign Air Agreement
The United States and Spain signed an agreement granting U S commercial air carriers rights to use Spanish airfields on three routes for passengers mail and freight. The pact ends 18 months of talks and was signed by U S Ambassador Carlton J Hayes and Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Felix Lequerica.
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Madrid
United States
Spain
U. S
Carlton J. Hayes
Jose Felix Lequerica
Foreign Office
U S Spain Pact Aims At Three Air Routes
The United States and Spain announced a weekend agreement to permit operation of three commercial air routes. Officials called the pact the first in a series of similar arrangements between the two governments and other nations.
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Chicago
United States
Spain
Dutch Resistance Warns Germans of Allied Justice in Holland
General Eisenhower's headquarters announced a radio warning broadcast Saturday night in London. Dutch resistance units are described as an Allied army and perpetrators of atrocities against them are promised to face justice.
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London
Eisenhower
Holland
Netherland
Racine Man Dies in Truck Collision. Daughter Hurt
James C. Olsen of Racine was killed Saturday night when his car collided with a truck on highway 38 four miles north of Racine. His daughter Rose Olsen, 49, a schoolteacher, was injured with head and body lacerations and treated at a Racine hospital.
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Racine
Wis
James C. Olsen
Rose Olsen
Highway 38
Olsen
Four Chaplains Posthumously Awarded Distinguished Service Cross
Army announces posthumous Distinguished Service Crosses for four chaplains who died aboard the torpedoed Dorchester in icy Greenland waters on February 3, 1943. Poling Fox Washington and Goode shared acts of valor by giving life belts and praying as the ship sank. The four represented Protestant Catholic and Jewish faiths. next of kin will receive decorations at Fort Myer on December 19.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Dorchester
Greenland
Clark V. Poling
Schenectady
N. Y
Daniel Poling
The
Christian Herald
John P. Washington
Mary Washington
Newark
N. J
Alexander D. Goode
Theresa F. Goode
Washingto
George L. Fox
George Fox
Chicopee Falls
Macs
Poling and
Fox
Goode
Brehon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Fort Myer
Peace feelers hit Allies often but seem phony
Washington reports that weekly peace feelers from neutrals and others reach Allied capitals. Diplomatic authorities say responses are largely to accept unconditional surrender, with most efforts based on rumors and intrigue. No solid German peace initiative is evident, and authorities foresee a piecemeal collapse rather than a single settlement.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Germany
Madrid
Ankara
Stockholm
Relaxing Yankees Have Close Call in German Home
Three infantrymen in a Saarlouis suburb waited in a kitchen when an 88 shell crashed through the window and bounced around the room. They fled to the cellar as the shell failed to explode, with Pic. William Rasmussen from Glencoe Illinois in the doorway.
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Pikard
Germany
Saarlautern
William Rasmussen
Glencoe
Ill
Russians Break Through Western Hungary Front Near Budapest
Russian forces drive a rapid advance across western Hungary reaching 74 miles from Styria and 47 miles south of Budapest along the Danube. Tolbukhin’s 3rd Ukraine Army severed rail lines and pushed toward Lake Balaton while Czech and Slovak fronts threaten key hubs like Satoraljaujhely and Kassa.
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London
Hungary
Styria
Danube
Budapest
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Lake Balaton
Austria
Berlin
Dunafeldvar
Czechoslovakia
Ivan Petro
Satoraljaujhely
Kassa
Kosice
Slovakia
Cemerne
Ondava
Italy
Kapsovar
Nagykanizsa
Drava
Pecs
Pellerd
Harkany
Szekszard
Pakis
Bolcske
Germans Face Real Food Shortage Across War Fronts
New York report from the American Institute of Food Distribution says Germany now suffers its first real shortage of essential foods due to disrupted imports, bombings, and transport failures. If fighting lasts into spring, hunger will curb production and worsen civilian discontent.
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New York
Europe
American Institute of Food Distribution
Institute
Germany
United Nations
Austria
Norway
Holland
Yankees Press Deep Into Saar Lautern In Heavy Winter Battle
American forces under Patton press into Saarlautern and nearby areas as the Saar basin buckles under Allied assault. U S 9th army holds the Roer front while 7th army closes on Strasbourg and the Rhine defenses. Heavy fighting and German counterattacks test the winter offensive.
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U. S
Saar Basin
Edward Kennedy
Paris
George S. Patton
3Rd Army
Saarlautern
9Th
Roer
U. S. 7Th Army
Rhine
Strasbourg
9Th Air Force
Siegfried Line
Saar City
Saar River
Eisenhower
2Nd Army
1St Army
Hitler
Saar
Saarbrucken
Argentina Orders Nationwide Medical Examinations
A new government decree announced in Buenos Aires on Saturday requires periodic medical examinations for all people. The plan aims to standardize health checks across the country and ensure early detection of diseases nationwide.
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Buenos Aires
Ooe
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