Winterization for War Vehicles Keeps Engines Thawing
The Army explains winterization kits issued for all vehicles from motorcycles to light tanks. Heating systems, radiators, and engine priming aid cold starts and keep transport ready in freezing conditions. Tanks use large heaters, tarpaulins, and heated cabins. auxiliary starting gear helps frigid motors. President Roosevelt pledged no winter lull in Europe, underscoring preparedness.
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Vermont
Army Service Forces
Roosevelt
Europe
Winterization Kits Sustain Lull in Winter Combat
A fragment notes that the life of winterization kits is extended by a process required of all officers and men handling equipment, as it continues during any lull in winter combat.
Britain to aid Japan war with navy power only
Melbourne Dec 12 Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser commander of the British Pacific fleet said Britain's best wartime contribution against Japan would be sea power with air support rather than troops. He noted Japan depends on sea power and transport for Burma supply and predicted the Pacific war could shorten if a strong naval arm is marshalled. Fraser expects to coordinate with Admiral Nimitz and await his guidance on detachments to support General MacArthur.
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Pacific
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England
Japan
Sir Fraser
Burma
Bruce
Chieter W. Nimitz
MacArthur
Engineers Asked to Study Flood Control at Ottawa
Washington reports Representative Scrivner urged Army engineers to quickly study a flood control project on the Marais des Cygnes river at Ottawa. He noted three floods in 1944, 11 since 1940, and 30 in 40 years, challenging earlier cost assessments based on pre-1940 data.
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Washington
P—Army
Scrivner
Marais Des Cygnea River
Ottawa
Iver
Alyha
Leaves From A War Correspondent Notebook
Hal Boyte recalls frontline scenes with the Second Infantry Division inside the Siegfried Line. Stories include Pfc James Sligar tracking Nazis with smell, Lt William Maxwell in a captured pillbox, Tech Sgt Edward Perry mistaking a colonel for a prisoner, and Pvt Fred Torres enduring dye like purple skin after a bomb hit. The prose blends humor with wartime danger and small victories.
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Siegfried Line
James Bligar
Farragut
Sligar
Santa Land Voyage for Ruth and Louis
Louis a little boy of Cameroon and Princess Ruth journey toward Santa Land to seek Santa's aid for the Magic Box of the Witchen of Poly drex. A magic basket carries them over seas to the Island of Lost Toys where toys and bears abound, as Ruth hopes the box will restore her smile before Christmas. Tomorrow: A Talk With Santa.
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Aittle Boy
Cameroon
Princess Huth
Santa Land
Santa
Ruth
Lost Toys
Death in Union Pacific diesel accident at 225 o'clock
A Sunflower Oriance Works diesel locomotive accident near Eudora left a steelworker dead after a fall. The man, born January 7, 1920, lived near Eudora with wife Norma. services set for Thursday at Hesper church with burial in Hesper cemetery. The plant’s inquiry board gave no cause, driver uninjured, crew unharmed.
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Sunflower Oriiance Works
Plant
Steelmaker
Eudora
Norma
Roy Kauris
Akeris
Bearcat
Bor
Hesper
Arrival in Santa Land and the Island of Lost Toys
Louis and Princess Ruth sail in a flying basket to lands beyond maps. They find vanilla cones and peppermint on trees, then reach a City of Pigs with pig residents, schools, a library, tea parties, and law enforcement, where pigs act like people. In a paper town the streets and homes are all paper due to a past mill accident and flood.
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Louis
Ruth
Santa Land
Island of Lost
You and I
Book fund drive aids European children hit by bombs
Junior high students are invited today and tomorrow to donate to a fund for buying books for European children whose libraries were destroyed. Each homeroom is asked to collect contributions, with every student urged to give what they can. The campaign runs through the English departments.
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Europe
Kansas Farm Income Up in 1743 Tins Eight Percent
Federal state statistician said yesterday that Kansas farm income rose about eight percent. Total farm income reached 782,913,000 dollars, reflecting gains across crops and livestock in the latest survey.
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