Germans Slow Up After 40 Mile Breakthrough In Belgium
German progress in Belgium slowed after a 40 mile penetration as Allied forces under Dwight Eisenhower pressed to crush the advance. Reported spearheads crossed the Ourthe near Namur and Liege while Rundstedt urged a decisive defeat. Official briefings signaled a 48 hour pause for position updates.
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Paris
Belgium
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ourthe
Butgenbac
Lagleize
Stavelot
Consdorf
Echternach
Waldbilling
Eisenhower
Karl von Rundstedt
Supreme Headquarters
Conti
Bastiadeanadian Army
Rundstedt
Associated Press
von Rundstedt
Mindoro base aids Pacific air reach over Philippines
General MacArthur's headquarters reports American planes operating from a new Mindoro base, 150 miles south of Manila, range across the Philippines. Leyte fighting ends with 2,032 more Japanese dead. Mindoro raids down 11 of 29 enemy raiders with one loss. Mindoro airfield rapidly proves its value as air bases further south strike Negros and Mindanao targets. Additional ships sunk off Mindanao and northwest Leyte as operations continue.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Mindoro
Leas
Manila
Ormoc
10Th
24Th
Palompon
Althe
Uzon
Luzon
Batangas
Negros
Cagayan
Mindanao
Borneo
Pearl Harbor
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Vulcano Islands
U. S
Saipan
Japan
Liberators
Hit Mukden Plant Big Nazi Gamble
American bomber forces hit the Mukden aircraft plant in Manchuria in a heavy raid with two B 29s lost and claims of up to sixty craft involved. The communique cited substantial force and mixed air opposition, while Japanese broadcasts gave different casualty and force estimates. Eisenhower issued a stark order urging Allied troops to press forward to victory amid the German gamble in the last major wartime push.
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Washington
Mukden
Manchuria
Dairen
Algo
Honshu
Bomber Command
Japan
Greater East Asia
Chungking Radio
Hankow
China
Nagoya
Cold Saturday forecast. Topeka weather notes
Weather summary from Topeka indicates a cold Saturday with a northerly wind shift and clear to partly cloudy skies across eastern Kansas. Temperatures ranged from 12 to 20 last night, with highs expected 35 to 40 in the east and south and 32 to 35 in the northwest, and tomorrow’s highs 25 to 30 east and 20 to 25 west. Private Frank Casey of the 19th Infantry Division, Third Army, was injured in action December 5 in Germany.
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Aachen
Luxembourg
Third Army
Thionville
Metz
St. Vith
Topeka
Eeuther
Kansas
Flora
Goodland
Arora
Casey
Pfc
Frank Casey
Germany
19Th Infantry Division
Kaneas
Reedri Sp
Steger
Conscientious objectors not exempt from service ruling
Topeka December 22 In a majority decision U S Circuit Judge Walter A Haxman held that conscientious objectors may be excused from actual service but not from work of national importance under civil direction The ruling came in appeals of Igar Roodenko Donald West Rockwell James Glenn Hutchinson and Everett A White who challenged the act after camp assignments at Mancos Colorado They were sentenced to three years in prison for offenses including refusal to perform camp tasks and desertion The court preserved the right of the government to require work in lieu of combat service
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Topeka
U. S
Walter A. Haxman
Igar Roodenko
D. C
Donald West Rockwell
Ithaca
N. Y
James Glenn Hutchinson
Augusta
Everett A. White
Brooklyn
Mancos
Colo
Circuit Court
Colorado
Federal District Court
Haxman
Russian Soldiers In New Operation Seize Two Centers
Soviet shock troops wedged into southern Slovakia and opened a gateway into the Matra mountains as Malinovsky units advanced toward Losonc and Rimaszombat. Berlin reported 100,000 Soviet troops on a 40 mile front southwest of Budapest while Tolbukhin’s forces push toward Szekesfehervar. Moscow announced gains and mass prisoner takings, with 42,784 captured in 42 days.
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Sian
Slovakia
Budapest
Danube
Budanest
Lake Balaton
Feodor Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Tolbukhin
Second Ukraine
Szekesfehervar
Great Bend
Austria
Berlin
Vienna
Associated Press
Washington
Russia
Red Army
Red Army High Command
United States
Britain
Hungary
Malinovsky
Losonc
Miskolc
Barreve
Hannegan Says Roosevelt Talk Was Free Of Controversy
Washington reports Democratic national chairman Hannegan described a Warm Springs meeting with President Roosevelt as devoid of controversy and said the postmaster generalship was never discussed. Roosevelt declined to comment on the rumored visit amid questions about Hannegan’s political future and Walker’s cabinet status.
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Washington
Robert
Hannegan
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Pearl
Frank C. Walker
Democratic
Stock Market Index Avera Day One Report
Avera records a stock index of 57.7 on day one for 60 stocks. Yester- data appears incomplete with missing components.
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Avera
Yester
Allies See Hope In Clearing Skies
The Allied command reports German offensive momentum waning as Von Rundstedt’s northern arm slows toward a standstill. Clearing skies enable R A F support for American forces with over 100 sorties in the northern sector and German air activity diminished.
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Associated Press
Twenty-first Army Group
Otienice
von Rundstedt
Meuse
Eisenhower
R.A.F
Roosevelt urges staying on the job to aid war effort
Washington December 22. President Roosevelt told a news conference that Americans should keep working to maintain steady output of supplies for the fighting men. He urged everyone to stay at their tasks to hasten victory, and said the budget for 1946 will proceed without wartime changes. He avoided predicting when the war would end and gave cautious remarks on future Roosevelt Churchill Stalin talks. A front report noted ammunition shortages and enemy momentum, while Roosevelt cautioned against relying on single sources for war assessments. In Emporia Kansas, extra-curricular activities at Emporia State Teachers College were ordered banned from January 3 to 19 to allow students more study time.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Belgium
Europe
Paris
Emporia
Kan
Emporia State Teachers College
Joyce van Gundy
Allied bombers strike Honshu industrial centers in Nagoya assault
Washington reports Saipan based B 29s and B 20s joined heavy raids against Japan's home production hubs. Nagoya suffered major damage with smoke towering and shipyard and power plant hit. Targets included Tokyo Yokohama Nagoya Kyoto Kobe and Osaka as strategic strikes continued across Honshu and Manchuria.
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Washington
Japan
Honshu
Hangell
21St Bomber Command
Saipan
War Department
Omura
Hankow
China
Muk
Manchuria
Nagoya
Students Place Posters In Anti Spitting Campaign
Lawrence Junior High students in civics classes distributed posters from the Douglas County Tuberculosis and Health Association with approval from Dr H L Chambers and Police Chief Clarence Bliesner. Posters target spitting on floors and steps, to be placed in business districts public buildings depots and shipped to Eudora Baldwin and rural schools.
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Deal
Lawrence Junior High
Douglas County Tuberculosis, and ‘Health Association
Douglas
H.L. Chambers
Clarence Bliesner
Health Unit
Eudora
Baldwin
TE Association
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Lawrence
Union Christmas Service at First Methodist Church
The Ministerial Alliance of Lawrence invites all to a 10 o clock Christmas morning service at First Methodist Church. Rev Warren Hile of First Christian will give the message titled The Spiritual Message of Christmas. The junior choir will lead the music. the event may become an annual city tradition.
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Ministerial Alliance of
Lawrence
First Methodist Church
Alliance
Warren Hile
First Christian Church
Trinity Lutheran Church
Massacre Photographs Verify Frontline Kill Scene
Published films from captured German photographer and produced by the Army Signal Corps show American soldiers killed by Nazi machine gunners. Bodies appear stripped of belongings including shoes, indicating noncombat casualty treatment. Associated Press dispatches report the Dec 18 incident, with Hal Boyle sourcing interviews from doughboys.
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Ie Mice Aa Press
First Army
Delage
Nl 8. Army Signal Corps
Evan
Associated Press
Hal Boyle
Repair Under Way After Lawrence Building Fire
Cleanup and repair efforts began at the Lawrence Building and Loan on Eighth and Massachusetts after a fire yesterday. Janitor Oscar White kept the furnace operating overnight, basement water disabled the stoker but wiring is restored and repairs continue. J T Harris Realty at 802 Massachusetts is closed but ledgers are handled from 905 Rhode Island. front rooms to reopen in 3 4 days. Rear shop will take longer due to roof damage. Securities Investment Co at 109 East Eighth moved to 1% East Eighth and operates there. Workmen frame a temporary roof and restoration proceeds rapidly, says Lisle Eby of the Building and Loan.
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Lawrence Building and Loan
Eighth and
Massachusetts
Oscar White
J. T. Harris
Massachusetts Street
Laurence Harris
Rhode Island
Tme
Securities Investment Company
East Eighth
Lisle Eby
The
Lawrence Building and Loan Company
Allied troops seize Bagnacavallo as Rome reports advance
Canadian forces push toward the Senio river breaking strong resistance and capture Bagnacavallo on the Bologna Rimini road. Eighth army expands bridgehead over Canale Naviglio opposite Fusignano while Fifth army south of Bologna conducts patrols.
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Rome
Senic
Bagnacavallo
Botogna
Rimini
Faenza
Ravenna
Bologna
Eighth Army
Canale Naviglio
Fusienano
Fifth Army
Bologna-Rimini
Six Passengers Injured in California Limited Derailment
Chicago reports that at least six people were injured when ten cars of the Santa Fe California Limited derailed near McCook, a western Chicago suburb, after the second sleeper car left the tracks causing the rest to derail. Four victims were sent to a Berwyn hospital. none seriously hurt. Officials cited a broken rail as the cause.
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Chicago
Lest
Santa Fe Railroad
McCook
Chicag
Berwyn
Lupe Velez Laid To Rest In White Cremation Garb
In Beverly Hills on December 22 Lupe Velez lay in a mortuary chapel in a white crepe gown her reddish blond hair gleaming funeral services were planned for this afternoon fans and friends paid final homage as the actress who ended her life last week was remembered with a gold crucifix chain clasped in her fingers and white gardenias on her pillow
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Lupe Velez
War Heroes Call for Home Front Help in Lawrence
About 300 citizens in Lawrence and nearby areas welcomed six war hero envoys from Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. They heard of European and Pacific fighting hardships and the need for all to stay productive until victory. Veterans toured Sunflower Ordnance Works and urged lifelong front-line effort to back the war.
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Lawrence
Dwight Eisenhower
Europe
Pacific
Sunflower Ordnance Works
O.W
Sunflower Village
Britain to draft 250000 more men for army in coming months
London reports Prime Minister Churchill's office announced a larger army call up than planned. A large portion will come from civilian jobs and personnel will transfer from the navy and the Royal Air Force. Administrative services also will be combed for men.
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London
Churchill
Poe
Army
Navy
R.A.F
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Citizens, Emergency War Man Power Council
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