War mobilization hints at broader 1945 measures
The Office of War Mobilization and Byrnes signal more controls as civilian spending tightens. Shoe coupons may be halted, two-pair shoe allocations end, and poultry allocations shrink while ammo and recapture rules bite. Regulations also target fuel, travel, and wage practices amid wartime economy shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Office of War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Consideram of
Congress
Byrnes’ Offe
Office of Price Administ
Train Officer Doubts Details of Accident In Japanese Report
A Washington officer reviews a Japanese written report by Yozo Nakagawa describing how the accident occurred. The officer remains uncertain about several parts of the account as translated notes are examined.
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Yozo Nakagawa
Difficulties Ahead Warns Jap Premier in New Year Message
Japanese premier warns of tougher air raids and harsher living conditions in 1945. The Domei dispatch, recorded by the FCC, says war trends will hinge on battles in the Philippines and heavier production burdens loom for the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Domei Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Philippines
Pfc Ervin Hoch Dies In Action In Germany
Pfc Ervin G Hoch 22 was killed in action in Germany on Nov 29 as reported to his parents Mr and Mrs Reinhard Hoch 1203 Badger Street from the war department He trained at Camp Bland ing Fla Winter HOCH Park Fla Camp Swift Tex Fort Dix N J and went overseas last September He has a brother Corp William in India and two sisters He was employed at Eulers drug store before joining the service Mass for Pfc Hoch will be said Wednesday at 9 am at St Josephs Cathedral
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfc
Ervin G. Hoch
Germany
Reinhard Hoch
Badger Street
War Department
Hoch
Camp Blanding
Fla
Winter Hoch Park
Camp Swift
Tex
Fort Dix
N. J
Four Women Die As Flames Sweep Wortz Biscuit Plant
Four women burned to death when a fire gutted the Wortz Biscuit packing and shipping building in Fort Smith Arkansas late Saturday. Firemen probed the wreckage to confirm no other employees were trapped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith
Ark
Wortz Biscuit Company
Nazis Loot Hunters Turned Scout Hike Mystery
San Diego residents believed they spotted 14 German prisoners of war escaping from an Arizona camp on Christmas Day. The FBI later confirmed the group were Boy Scouts on a mountain hike, dispelling the purported POW sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
Arizona
FBI
Chinese Mobile Columns Kill Scores of Japanese Near Hengyang
Chinese units in Hunan province attacked near Hengyang and killed scores of Japanese soldiers. Allied warplanes patrolled across China to raid enemy road, rail and shipping installations as dispatches reported Saturday night.
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Chungking
Hunan
Hengyang
China Theater
Hike In Steel Pay Approved for 400000 Workers
Stabilization Director Fred Vinson approved a war labor board wage rise averaging 5 to 7 cents an hour for over 400000 steel workers in 86 firms. OPA says some steel prices may rise, and the move may affect up to 500000 more workers in related contracts. The raise includes 4 to 6 cent shifts, retroactive to late 1943 contract expirations, with new mandates on inequities and severance plans.
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War Production Board
WPB
Byrnes
War Manpower Commission
Miami Beach
of Defense Transportation
Florida
OPA
William T. Peacock
Washington
Fred Vinson
War Labor Board
Vinson
Office of Price Administration
Iron and Steel Industry
Steel Price
WLB
William H. Davis
CIO
United Steel
Steel Company
Roosevelt
Davis
Churches Plan Special Observances Tonight and Monday
La Crosse churches announce watch night and New Year services with Holy Communion planned at several parishes. Catholic masses on New Year’s Day follow the obligatory day schedule. other holy days rising to six per year. Services span Assembly of God Calvary Baptist Seventh Street Baptist Christ Episcopal St Johns Evangelical and Reformed Bethany Gospel Tabernacle Jehovahs Witnesses and English Lutheran with various evening hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Heaven
Assembly of God
South Third Street
Calvary Baptist Church
Charles and Logan Streets
Seventh Street Baptist Church
Seventh and
Winnebago Streets
D. Tucker
Winnebago Street
Christ Episcopal Church
Ninth
Main Streets
Evangelical Free Church
15Th
St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
West Avenue
Market Street
Bethany Gospel Tabernacle
North Street
Onalaska Avenue
Jehovah's Witnesses
Edward Poss
Ona
Germans Hurl 3 Divisions Against American Salient
London reports a western front Allied command shake-up may come amid improved Allied position. Ike maintains prestige with Eisenhower’s leadership while calls resurface for concentration of Allied forces and clearer command structures in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. W. Jones
London
Western Front
Washington
Russians Demand Budapest Surrender as Push Reaches Danube
Red Army shock troops link up on Danube islands in Budapest while a Soviet ultimatum called for German garrison surrender or annihilation. Moscow said a new Hungarian government has declared war on Germany and that German forces killed officers bearing a white flag.
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London
Budapest
Danube
Moscow
Debrecen
Germany
Feodor L. Tolbukhin
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Ukraine
Timatum
Vienna
Pvt G Seidel Dies In France
Gerald Seidel 20, son of Mr and Mrs Edward Seidel of 1640 Green Bay Street, reported killed in action in France on December 3. He was attached to an infantry division, overseas since September 1944, entered service July 2, 1943, with training at Camp Haan California and Camp Maxey Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Seidel
Edward Seidel
Green Bay Street
France
U. S. War Department
Seidel
Our Duty To Carry War Into Enemy's Country
Nazi leaders urged renewed offensives as Goebbels claimed Hitler ill rumors set Allies up. Goering remained silent while Rundstedt vowed harder effort and victory under Hitler's leadership in a New Year message.
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Goering
London
Hermann Goering
Karl von Rundstedt
Ing
Adolf Hitler
Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
West Front
Noon Paper Monday La Crosse Tribune Edition Published
The La Crosse Tribune will publish its Monday edition at noon on New Year’s Day. The classified advertising department will close at 9 30 a m.
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la Crosse Tribune
Mindoro convoy presses on as Leyte war end noted
Gen Douglas MacArthur said Yamashita’s forces drew troops from Manchuria to stop his Leyte advance while a Mindoro bound convoy came under Japanese attack. The communique tallies Japanese losses on Leyte and notes mopping up of remnants continues as Mindoro raids fail to halt American advances.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Mindoro
Manchuria
Leyte
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Yamashita
Bataan
Leytence
Nun
Palompon
Central
Luzon Island
Pilot Bey Declared Dead After Missing Flight 1943
Flight Officer Otto Warren Bey formerly missing since December 17 1943 has been declared dead by the U S war department. He served as A 20 Havoc pilot with missions in Africa Sicily and Italy and was seen to explode after anti aircraft fire during the Alina bombardment. His two gunners survived and are now prisoners in Germany. Bey enlisted March 1941 and earned wings September 1942. He was commissioned January 16 1943 at Will Rogers Field Oklahoma City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Warren Bey
U. S. War Department
Otto R. Bey
Mississippi Street
War Department
Bey
United States
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Alina
Germany
Army Air Corps
Chanute Field
Stanford
Brady
Tex
Kelly Field
Will Rogers Field
Oklahoma City
So You Think You've Had Some Tough Luck
Leroy Kelley, discharged from the army a month ago due to his ill wife, hunts for work with four children. A child broke an arm, a sister-in-law died, and while arranging the funeral, their house burned down.
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Philadelphia
Leroy Kelley
Kelley
Greek Monarch Names Damaskinos Regent Amid Greek Turmoil
King George II appoints Archb ishop Damaskinos of Athens as regent amid strife in Greece as a plebiscite on monarchy looms. Churchill and Eden backed the regency to restore order. Damaskinos opposed dictatorship and helped lead resistance in wartime Greece.
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John A. Parris, JR
London
George II
Greece
Damaskinos
Athens
George II Ors
Churchill
Conv
Anthony Eden
Mextaxas
How the Nazis Broke Through at the Western Front
WES GALLAGHER reports from Belgium on von Runstedt's surprise December offensive. American, British, and Canadian forces faced a 50 mile front with 20 divisions including crack panzer units. Allied intelligence failed to detect movements and overconfidence weakened defensive preparations. The northern spearhead near St Vith advanced ten miles in a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
Belgium
Western Front
Karl Gerd von I
von Rundstedt
Liege
Monschau Forest
Trier
Ardennes
Rundstedt
St. Vith
Nations await 1945 with cautious optimism
December reflections from leaders and observers across the Allies project a mix of hope and hard realities. Churchill foresees victory in Europe, Ehrenburg vows Berlin by year end, Patterson warns Japan will require a hard fight, Mitscher predicts the Pacific fleet weakened by next summer, while others urge steady faith and faster war production.
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Associated Press
London
Churchill
Europe
Russia
Ilya Ehrenburg
Berlin
Pacific
Robert P. Patterson
Japan
Germany
Battle Near Bastogne Powers German Hold
Allied forces under Patton and Hodges push along the Bastogne corridor as von Rundstedt reinforces positions. American gains spread from Moircy to Rochefort with tanks and transport destroyed. Echternach and Wiltz areas show advancing 3rd Army action toward Luxembourg border amid heavy artillery and air strikes.
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von Rundstedt
Courtney H. Hodges
1St Army
Rochefort
Bastogne
Brussels
Patton
Britain
3Rd Army
Associated Press
William F. Boni
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Lake Onalaska
Matt
Wor
Keeal Weather
E.G. Hoch
English Lutheran Church of the
Supreme Headquarters
Eisenhower
North Africa
Normandy
G. Ward Price
Sunday Dispatch
Monty
Price
Montgomery
Engad
Nijemegen
Ruhr
Stimson
Slovakia
Bratislava
Csepel
Buda
Royal Palace
Pvt
G. Seidel
By Spencer Davis
Mopup
Marc A. Mitscher
Philippines Sea
Pearl Harbor
Empire
Ralph W. Lockman
Park Avenue
Christchurch
Methodist
New York
J. A. Krug
Henry P. Rusk
Nazi Bulge
Librament
By Edward Kennedy
Paris
Luxembour
George S. Patton
Eary
Bulge
Sedan
Libramont
Moircy
Aeree Hubert
Lavaselle
Chenogne
Sibret
Luxembourg
Reich
Echternach
Bigelbach
Wiltz
Aeee Ees
Malmedy
Hotton
Marche
Beauraing
Celles
Beau
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