Christmas It's War Time Across Nations and Seas
Christmas in wartime Europe and Britain blends hope with hardship. The article notes peace expectations tempered by conflict, Red Cross aid, and charity drives for soldiers and civilians. It describes turkey dinners, parties, and visits for service members, alongside shortages and travel amid Boxing Day holidays.
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Sels
Rome
Red Cross
U. S
United Seamen's Service
Srortline
London
England
Report details Nazi concentration camp atrocities and victims
The commission cites mass killings and torture at camps in Nazi territory. Victims named include Ukrainians Poles Czechoslovaks Yugoslavs Americans Britons Dutch Italians and Jews. French witnesses describe water deprivation overcrowding and executions with thousands dying of dysentery and typhoid.
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Leon Cantpe
Singa
Geom
Red Army
Nesriy
Pontine
Ote
Chette
Bertenher
Heinrich Hiwerter
Saelite
Seamed Keteman
Civil War Turmoil Reaches Piraeus Athens Region
Amid damage to a major terminal and feared losses at the capital’s meat supply plant, Greek and Allied forces clash north of Kallipolis peninsula. Indian troops consolidate a Piraeus harbor bridgehead as ELAS and EDES factions maneuver and evacuations unfold under British pressure.
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Piraeus
Ellisos River
Fiscarium
Stadium
Sappion Park
BE. L. A.S
Napoleon Zervas
EL. A. 8
Stephanus Saraphia
E. D
Loannin
Zervas
Tamaras
Ioannina
Epirus
Caserta
Scobies
L. A
BR. M. Scobie
EL A. S.S
Scobie
Stamues Mercuris
E A. M. Parts
Great Britain
EL. A
German Counteroffensive Around Stavelot Reported
German commentators claim a continued counterattack near Stavelot on Von Rundstedt’s northern flank as Allied tank assaults persist. Sertorius notes winter offensive pressure forcing Allied retreats, calls the thrust a daring enterprise but warns of an intact west wall for a fallback.
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Stavelot
von Rundgtedt
Sertorius
Charleroi
von Rundstedt
Good Fellows Aid Through Local Drive and Donations
The Good Fellows organized a week long drive to locate worthy cases and provide food and clothing stockpiled in a large room at Hotel Monroe. Community groups including Georgia Tucker School Mitchell School Kiwanis Club L B Price Morcantile Sears Roebuck and Company May and Guthrie Hardware and Perryville Missionary Circle contributed. The note thanks donors and wishes a Merry Christmas and a brighter New Year while noting polygamy as a form of marriage with multiple wives.
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Hotel
Monroe
Santa
Deaths in Louisiana and nearby towns toll five funerals
The obituary notices record the funerals of Mrs. Sarah A. Neal 89 of Pleasant Hill La and W W Buckalew 36 of Monroe La. Also Newell M Johnston 55 of Bastrop and Henry Garton 78 of Monroe with services in Pine Grove Baptist Church Riverview Burial Park St Matthew Catholic Church and Mulhearn Funeral Home among the arrangements.
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Ferriday
Sarah A. Neal
Pleasant Hill
Young's Funeral Home
Neal
W. L. Entekin
Nola Poole
Rosalie Enterkin
Lillie Boyd
Jena
Rastus Neal
Men Neal
Jonesville
Ransom Ness
Langston Neal
Oliver Neal
Millard Neal
James W. Crumpton
Natchez
Miss
Lee Brooks
Rinehart
John T. Walton
Ruston
W. W. Buckalew
Richmond Street
Monroe
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Mulhearn
LT. Hastings
First Baptist Church
Riverview
Doris Sue Buckalew
Alice Marie Buckalew
A. A. Puckett
Richmond
Calif
Mre
F. J. Speller
R. M. Buckelew
Detroit
Mich
S. E. Buckalew
Pine Bluff
Ari
Bastrop
Newell M. Johnston
Pine Grove Baptist Church
EB. C. Aycock
Urania
H. M. Bennett
W. Braswer
Croasett
Ark
Pine Grove Cemetery
Claude Warner
Mex Broadnax
Sherman Grubbs
Claude Kelly
Fred Carpenter
C. & Griffin
Mr. Johnston
Drereburg
Tonn
Pine Grove
Baptisl Church
Leroy Johnston
Shreveport
Elmo Johnston
Hunter Field
John
Johnatori
Fort Meade
Herald Johnston
H Eilisa
Ellie
Selman Field
Rosemary Ellis
Betty Jean Elli
Haheed Ellis
Lythe
Mary Ellie
Morrvee
Ellis
Knights of Pythian
United States
DeSiard Street
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
H. W. Hubley
Mulhearn Purchal Home
Ed Cannon
N. Thomas
Ed Rowland
W. Mansour
Abe Sherman
Louis Tonore
Sam Toney
Philip David
Henry Garton
Texas Avenue
Chapel of Hall Funeral Home
Ernest Holloway
Riverview Burial Park
Gaston
Claude Causey
Sally Toler
Tom Spruill
Rayville
Milton Coverdale
Flore
Paratroopers Move West in Leyte Campaign
The 11th airborne division under Maj. Gen. Joseph M. Swing joins the Leyte fight, dropping paratroops to defend mountain guns near Ormoc. The operation involved 10 missions, precise drops, and a single C-47 supply plane. Japanese air and ground forces continue to press in Mindanao to the Rhine front.
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Palompon
11Th Airborne Division
Leyte
Joseph M. Swing
Ormoc
77Th
Ith
Yamashita
Jake McAllister
Seattle
Kay Waggoner
Jeffersonsville
Ind
Seffner
Fla
Jack L. Nason
Poland Spring
Mindoro
Cebu
Panay
Negros
Mindero
U. S
Visayan Sea
Mashate Island
Mindanao
Philippines
Solomon Lslands
Borneo
Moluccas
Lesser Sundas
New Guinea
New Britain
Allied Air Strikes Aim to Disrupt German Troop Movements
RAF Lancasters bombing the Rhineland and US Eighth Air Force heavy bombers hit railyards near Trier and Mannheim to disrupt German troop and supply movements along main German rail lines from Coblenz to the Belgian border. German fighters and Luftwaffe planes contested the skies over Belgium Luxembourg and Germany.
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Belgium
Luxembourg
Eighth Tactical Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Trier
Itsel
Coblenz
Bingen
Rhine
Germany
Mannheim
Eighth Air Force
Moose-deer sighting costs Detroit inventor his ration
Detroit December report describes William Patterson, a 19? year old inventor, bagging a 250-pound hybrid animal dubbed a moose-deer during a hunting trip. Patterson loses his A gasoline ration for a year after traveling 1190 miles to exhibit the animal, aided by furlough gas from four soldiers and six gallons carried. OPA officer Charles A Rogers will seek museum input in Cleveland for more details on the strange creature.
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Detroit
William N. Patterson
Charles A Rogers
OPA
Cleveland
Patterson
Jackson
Mitch
Fairhorn
Mich
Wisconsin
I Ilinos
Indiana
Rogers
Providence
Museum of Natural History
Canadians Advance Front Along Senio River Northeast of Faenza
Allied headquarters report Canadian forces of the Eighth army pushing forward against stiff opposition to establish a front over five miles wide along the east bank of the Senio river northeast of Faenza. American troops made local gains near Monte Belmonte south of Bologna.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Senio River
Faenza
Monte Belmonte
Bologna
Italy
Five Killed in B-26 Bomber Crash Near Meridian
A B-26 medium bomber from Barksdale Field Louisiana crashed near Meridian early today killing five crew members and injuring one critically. Cpl John Robert Reisen 30 of Ardmore Oklahoma is in Key Field hospital in critical condition. An army board will investigate the crash.
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Meridian
Barksdale Field
Harold G. Peterson
Key Field
John Robert Reisen
Mary C. Reisen
Ardmore
Okla
Peterson
Arthur Leroy Haughland
Arthur G. Haughland
San Diego
Calif
Howard B. Beatty
Evelyn M. Beatty
Shreveport
Harold H. Brush
Marian S. Brush
Rochester
N.Y
Stewart E. Hazelgrove
Marie J. Hazelgrove
Richmond
Lynn Travis Nelson
Eunice Nelson
Leachville
Ark
Army
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