Japanese Admiral Casualties Rise to 32 in War Actions
The Tokyo Yokosuka base announced 13 more Japanese admirals killed, raising total losses since September to 32. Names include Vice Admirals Tsuji mura Yano Ito Takahishi and Rear Admirals Tonomura Kurosaki Kishigawa Ashina Horiuchi Takeshita Oka Tsuji and Surgeon Rear Admiral Odajima. OWI notes dates not specified and links to battles starting October 12 near Formosa, Philippines operations, and the US-led invasion context.
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Philippines
Yokosuka
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Domei News Agency
Takehisa Tsujimura
Hideo Yano Yasunoshin Ito
Ichimatsu Takahishi
Senzaburo Tonomura
Rinzo Kurosaki
Kakuo Kishigawa
Saburo Ashina
Migi Horiuchi Shigeri Takeshita
Iwao Oka
Masayasu Tsuji
Yuki
OWI
United States
Formosa
77th Division Advances Around Ormoc Amid Fierce Japanese Resistance
US 77th division drives inland from Camp Downs at Ormoc northwest toward Balogo and Tabogas river high ground as 7th division pushes from Palanas. Japanese forces counter along Leyte coast while naval patrols sink ships and air attacks target shipments in Leyte gulf.
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Philippines
Ormoc
MacArthur
U. S. 77Th
Leyte
Roders
Walter Krueger
6Th Army
Carmores
Luzon
Mindanao
Army
Marine
Navy
77Th
Guam
U. S. Army
Camp Downs
Palanas
Balogo
Tabogas
al Copking
Associated Press
Carigara Bay
Leyte River
Limon
Leyte Gulf
German Losses Put At 152,000 in Three Weeks
The Western Front battle intensity continues as Allied advances press along the Saar and Roer. German casualties in the first three weeks of the winter offensive are estimated at 192,000 with 17 divisions destroyed, while remaining German units contest American spearheads near Haguenau and Saarbrucken.
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Paris
U. S
Saar
Supreme Headquarters
Third Army
Sarreguemines
3Rd Army
7Th Army
Haguenau
8Th Army
Roer
Ord
Saar Valley
Saarbrucken
Saarlautern
Siegfried
Nuef Brisach
Rhine
Colmar
Cologne
Duluth
Ines
Hungarian Leaders Flee From Budapest As Soviets Close In
London reports the Hungarian government fled to Sopron as Soviet forces close on Budapest. Berlin radio says Vac fell after fierce fighting and Russians pressed toward the Danube from Astod and Hatvan. Moscow claims heavy losses for defenders and a German Hungarian unit surrendered on the Danube front.
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Budapest
London
Transocean
Sopron
Danube
Berlin
Vac
Hatvan
Astod
Bugee
Vienna
Moscow
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Ukraine
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Brcst
Malinovsky
Csepel
Hungary
Tolbukhin
Kiscsek
Csosz
Szekesfehervar
Lake Balaton
Milwaukee council adopts plan to curb crossing hazards
The Milwaukee City Council approves a plan to reduce delays at Avon and Liberty street railroad crossings. The railroad will reimburse for two watchmen eight hours a day six days a week while school is in session. The city also seeks air pipes to ease freight train blocking and approves a garbage collection bid of 43 000 from J R Keller.
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Milwaukee Railroad
Avon and
Liberty Streets
Milwaukee Railroad Company
W. P. Roellig
J. R. Keller
Rollingstone
Minn
Glenn B. Streblow
Onalaska
Fred Steele
E. H. Derr
Archie E. Downey
Harold Beg
Edward Lueth
Donald J. Lyden
Emil O. Schultz
J. J. Verdota
Civic Center
Local Weather Outlook Cloudy and Colder With Light Snow
Forecast shows cloudy skies tonight with a slight drop in temperatures and scattered snow flurries. Sunday expected to be mostly cloudy and noticeably colder with no relief from the chill and gusty winds inland.
Missing Mustang pilot Davy reported MIA over Germany
Second Lieutenant 217 17th place pilot Davy has been missing in action over Germany since November 20. Parents notified December 5. 21 year old veteran in service 14 months. Brother Maj P S Davy is a post intelligence engineer at Fort Leonard Wood. father with army engineers in Chicago. Davy Wings earned April 1 1944 at Aloe Army Air Field Texas. He left for overseas in September arriving in England. Aquinas High School graduate, attended University of Wisconsin and La Crosse State Teachers College.
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Germany
F. J. Davy
Magnolia Street
Chicago
War Department
Davy
Aloe Army Air Field
Tex
Tember
England
Aquinas High School
University of Wisconsin
la Crosse State Teachers College
Maj
P. S. Davy
Fort Leonard Wood
Army Engineers
Bombers Hit Stuttgart Rail Yards In Multi-Front Strike
American Flying Fortresses from Britain dropped 1 500 tons on Stuttgart rail yards as part of a two ply west south air assault. Berlin said heavy bombers probed Munich from Italy before noon with 400 B 17s and 300 fighters. British Lancasters Mosquitoes hit Duisburg with 3 000 tons of bombs targeting rail yards and a synthetic oil plant.
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London
Britain
Stuttgart
Germany
Berlin
Munich
Italy
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Strasbourg
George S. Patton
Saarbrucken
Duisburg
Rhine
Ruhr
Air Ministry
Second Degree Burns From Heater Explosion At Green Bay Street
A 1911 Green Bay street home suffered a major fire after an oil heater explosion as Philip Ode restarted a hot unit. Richard Ode sustained burns to the face neck head arms and back while Philip had minor facial burns. The Seidel family aided victims and firefighters reported near total loss of contents in the three room house.
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Green Bay Street
Philip
Richard Ode
Stina Ode
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Richard
Walter Seidel
Seidel
Rich
Ard
Rihard
Bond sales lag in La Crosse County during war bond drive
War finance committee urges all La Crosse County residents to buy E bonds at local issuing stations. Saturday sales reached 476 147 dollars in E bonds, 42 percent of a 1 119 000 quota, with county totals at 5 155 847 dollars and corporate purchases at 3 070 086 dollars.
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la Crosse County
War Finance Committee
City of
la Crosse
Chiang Kai-shek agrees to communist participation in government
Chiang Kai-shek has in principle agreed to the Communists joining the national government and directing China's military affairs. The move follows recent government changes including T. V. Soong becoming acting premier and is viewed as the most significant development in China's current crisis. The Communists could field capable forces for diversionary offensives in North China if properly equipped.
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Chungking
Chiang Kai-shek
China
T. V. Soong
Two or Three Killed In Nitro Blasts At Plant
An explosion of nitroglycerin at the Orcules Powder Plant in Pinole California Saturday demolished two wooden buildings and sent debris high into the air. Sheriff James Long of Contra Costa County said two or three people were killed and at least 25 injured. Four doctors and eight nurses were sent by the Richmond American Red Cross to treat victims at the scene.
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Pinole
Calif
James N. Long
Contra Costa County
Richmond
American Red Cross
Don Cramer
Pacific Area
Rift Deepens as EAM Ranks Split in Athens Crisis
In Athens a rift widens within the seven party EAM coalition as British reports say a fifth of the city is cleared of armed bands. Askoutsis and other former ministers break with EAM, seeking mediation. Heavy fighting and sniping persist around the capital with leftist cells active and a British ambulance driver killed on the Athens Piraeus road.
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Athens
EAM
Stephanos Serafis
Elas
R. M. Scobie
Greece
Askoutsis
George Papandreou
Svolos
Anghelopoulos
Elias Tsirimakos
Hassia
Piraeus
Eleusis
Oslo police chief shot by terrorists in home attack
Berlin radio reported Reidar Voigt head of the Norwegian police force was shot and killed at his Oslo home on December 4. The attackers fled. A British made pistol and parachute rope remnants were found near Voigt's body.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Reidar Voigt
Oslo
Voigt
Chinese Forces Regain Shangssu and Clear Tahshan Sector
Chinese high command reports Shangssu, 18 miles south of recaptured Tuhshan, regained as part of the Kweichow campaign. Tahshan sector cleared of enemy remnants with pursuing operations to the south ongoing. Shangssu sits 82 miles southeast of Kweiyang near the Kwangsi border.
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Chungking
Shangssu
Tuhshan
Kweichow Province
High Command
Tahshan
Kweiyang
Kwangsi Province
Kweichow
Kunming
Dairyman Edward Pfeifer Dies in Ladysmith Wisconsin
Edward W. Pfeifer 65 a prominent dairyman and former state agriculture department member died Friday in Ladysmith Wisconsin Pfeifer was widely known in farming circles and public service serving in the state department of agriculture.
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Ladysmith
Wis
Edward W. Pfeifer
State Department of Agriculture
Bombers Raid Tokyo and Inland Sea Area Reported
Associated Press reports American B-29 raids over Tokyo and the Seto Naikai coastal area. Tokyo broadcast said one plane dropped incendiaries while a second raid lasted about an hour. No damage figures were released.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Inland Sea
Federal Communications Commission
Seto Naikai
Honshu
Shokoku
Kyushu
Kure
Senator Bankhead proposes land loan fund shift to agriculture dept
Senator Bankhead proposes that the agriculture department administer a $68,272,000 land loan fund instead of the interior department. The fund would be created under committee amendments to a bill aimed at abolishing land grant rates for government freight shipments.
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Washington
Bankhead
D-Ala
Agriculture Department
Interior Department
Senate
Tokyo Quits Minimizing Quake Shows Casualties and Damage
The Associated Press reports Japan's Osaka and Nagoya centers suffered factory damage and casualties from Thursday's quake. Domei said overall damage was light though hamamatsu and Shimizu areas saw injuries. Tokyo may have felt tremors as seismologists compare it to 1923. Reconstruction began at once.
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Tokyo
Japan
Osaka
Nagoya
Honshu
Shizuoka
Domei
Federal Communication Commission
Tokai
Hamamatsu
Shimizu
Riots Reported in San Salvador Capital Strike
Guatemalan radio said armed civilians and police clashed in San Salvador on Friday with many killed and wounded though the Salvadoran government appeared to regain control. A Guatemalan traveler said Salvadoran oppositionists in Guatemala City were heading toward the border. Taca Airlines suspended flights to the capital while Pan American continued landings.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
San Salvador
el Salvador
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Taca Airlines
Panamerican
Superfort Destroyed As Japs Raid Saipan
Japanese bombs destroyed an American B 29 at the U S base on Saipan early today. The ground crew escaped injury as fire and explosion consumed the aircraft and its full load of fuel and bombs. Bulldozers cleared debris and prevented the blaze from spreading.
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U. S
Saipan
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