Dark Cloud Over German Drive Offers Narrow Silver Lining
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes Stimson and Eisenhower see a potential to inflict a decisive defeat if the German counter-offensive stalls. He recalls 1918 offensives and argues a similar outcome could shorten the current war. Also, Navy Seaman W H Taylor returns from two years overseas with five battle stars and malaria fought off, while his brother prepares for induction. The piece compares Hitler’s bold push to past Kaiser offensives and warns of uncertain outcomes.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Stimson
Eisenhower
Ike
Channel
Armentieres
Marne
W. H. Taylor
U. S
Guadalcanal
Saipan
Guam
Myrtle Martin
Elwood Taylor
Westerners
Jap Steel
Seaman Taylor
Avalanche- Journal Publications
Warning on Slowing Freight During Holidays
Aay slows unloading of freight cars could delay shipments of food clothing guns tanks and shells during Christmas and New Year. ODT director Nelson urges workers to stay on duty and report after Christmas to prevent vessel sailings and idle cars amid rising wartime cargo. Anableps dowei is a fish with two frog like eyes, each split in half.
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Eisenhower
MacArthur
N. F. Nelson
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
War Production Board
Nelson
Germany
North Atlantic
GIs Visit Bethlehem Amid War's Shadow for Christmas
American soldiers flowing from front lines arrive in Jerusalem and travel to Bethlehem to witness the Church of the Nativity birthplace and midnight mass. An estimated 500 to 600 GIs, aided by Red Cross and Army transports, will hear Polish choirs and Bethlehem bells as part of a Christmas pilgrimage.
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Jerusalem
Western Front
Prince of Peace
Red Cross
France
Italy
North Africa
Mideast
Persian Gulf
G.I
Bethlehem
Japan protests sinking of hospital ship Maru Maru
Japan protests to the United States over the alleged sinking of the hospital ship Maru Maru by American planes in a raid on Manila harbor on December 13. Domei said the ship was bombed and sank hours after, and noted the U S government was notified earlier that the vessel was a hospital ship under the Geneva convention.
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iBy
Associated Press
Japan
Domei
United States
Manila Harbor
Federal Communications Commission
U. S
Gibson Girl Creator C D Gibson Dies at 77
Charles Dana Gibson, 77, famed artist behind the Gibson girl ideal of the 1890s, died of a heart attack in New York with wife Irene Langhorne at his bedside. He had myocarditis, painted at Dark Harbor Me, and was born in Roxbury MA on Sept. 14, 1867. Funeral plans not announced.
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New York
Charles Dana Gibson
Gibson Girl
Irene Langhorne
Virginia
Lady Astor
Alvin R. Haines
Gibson
Dark Harbor
Maine
Roxbury
Mass
Garfield
Woman Held After Baby Falls To Death In Downtown
Mrs Marian Johnson 26 was booked on suspicion of murder after her three week old baby boy fell from an 11th floor downtown building. Capt Thad Brown said witnesses described a woman with a baby on the 11th floor. An hour later she reported the infant missing, later identifying the body at the county morgue.
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Los Angeles
Marian Johnson
Thad Brown
Police Homicide Bureau
Five Men Killed in Bomber Crash Near Meridian
A B 26 bomber from Barksdale field Shreveport Louisiana crashed near Obadiah eight miles northeast of Meridian Mississippi killing five men and critically injuring a sixth. The dead include Cpl Lynn Travis Nelson age 20 of Leachville Arkansas and the seriously injured Cpl John Robert Reisen age 20 of Ardmore Oklahoma who was taken to Keyfield Station Hospital. A board of qualified air officers was appointed to investigate the accident.
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Meridian
Miss
U.P
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
Obadiah
Here
Lynn Travis Nelson
Eunice Nelson
Leachville
Ark
John Robert Reisen
Mary G. Reisen
Ardmore
Okla
Keyfield
Farmer Turns Tables On Liquor Dealer
A Tennessee tax department employee recounts a farmer who outwitted a liquor dealer who required a bottle of brandy to buy whiskey. When the dealer wanted a turkey, the farmer offered a four year old rooster instead. The dealer refused the rooster, and the farmer insisted he would buy it if the turkey was purchased. The farmer sold the rooster.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Tax Department
Allied convoy repels Nazi E-boat attack near Antwerp
German E-boats attacked an Allied convoy en route to Antwerp last night but were beaten off with losses. At least two E-boats sunk, two possibly sunk, and five damaged in a battle lasting until daybreak off the Schelde river mouth. British ships and coastal forces repelled the attack.
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Antwerp
Admiralty
Schelde
Musket Hunt Ends With 180 Pound Deer Near Brunswick
Irving Barnes felled a seven point deer weighing 180 pounds with a 117 year old black powder musket and a home made ball within 800 yards of his Brunswick home. Fermented palm wine is noted as a yeast substitute in Liberia bread making.
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Brunswick
Irving Barnes
Barnes
Liberia
Nazi Women Chutists Dropped In U S Lines
London dispatch reports English speaking German women equipped with knives being parachuted into American lines near the first army front. Telegraph quotes Paris correspondent citing reports from the area. Seven are said to have been dropped.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Paris
1St Army
Police Seek Missing Woman In San Antonio Case
Police search for a missing woman who allegedly admitted plans to seduce American soldiers and kill them before leaving for San Antonio. Her husband was informed on November 23 and the missing driver’s car was later found abandoned on the Pacific Highway. no further word has reached her family.
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San Antonio
Tex
Tomlin
Paul
Pacific Highway
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