Soviet rail line cut and war outlook tightens across fronts
Soviet troops damaged the Vitebsk Polotsk line signaling intensified pressure on German rail networks as Allied plans shift. Roosevelt hints at coordinated European and Pacific campaigns with Eisenhower now leading Western efforts, while Quebec discussions reshape Allied command and strategy for a broad push.
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Vitebsk
Polotsk
Japan
Presii Roosevelt
Axis Fellowship
Europe
Pacific
Cnd
Ftern
Germany
South East
Eisenhower
Cits
Marshall
MacArthur
Iel Nimitz
Jim
Asia
Apd
Quebec
Rusentower
Bane
Azores
Four Auto Crashes Hit Men Parish Weekend
Police report four separate crashes in Men Parish within a six hour period over the weekend. Dr D E Prilien of Ferriday and a passenger in the Purk car were taken to St Francis sanitarium. Bonnie Holloway and Mrs John Johnson were treated for facial lacerations. Gremillion and a Buick driver were listed as patients with head on collision injuries. Dan Gremillion resided at 1103 North Third Street. A separate incident involved W M Stark reporting striking a man named T Pong on the new traffic bridge Friday night.
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Informa
Dixie Funeral Home Balance
Bonnie Holloway
Buick
W Bennett, Jr
John Johnson
Pine Street
Pamenger
Gremillion
North Third Street
Dan Gremillion
St. Francis Sanitarium
W. M. Stark
West Monroe
T Pong
Fire kills two in Philadelphia apartment blaze
A Christmas morning fire swept a three story brick building in Philadelphia killing two residents and injuring twelve. Bertha Harmon Wallace and Martin Mahoney died in the blaze, Mildred Maynard was seriously injured as residents fled the 38 unit structure in extreme cold and chaos. The cause was not determined and no estimate of damages was given.
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Philadelphia
Bertha Harmon Wallace
Herbert A. Wallace
Reading Company
Martin Mahoney
Mildred Maynard
Canadians Battle Germans as Ortona Struggles Persist
Allied forces report fierce fighting around Ortona as Canadian troops fire Molotov cocktails and grenades to dislodge German defenders in basement strong points. The American Fifth Army secures two hill positions east of Acquafondata while advancing against the Nazi winter line.
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Algiers
Ortona
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Iusly
Cairo
Pescara
41 000 Men in Steel Walkout
Pittsburgh reports a Christmas day steel strike by over 41 000 workers amid stalled contracts with United Steel Workers of America demanding a 17 cent per hour raise. Pickets appeared at Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube in Ohio. several mills idle in Cleveland Detroit and West Virginia. A Monday showdown was anticipated as mills planned to resume schedules.
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Pittsburgh
Cain
United Steel Workers of America
War Labor Board
Ohio
Cleveland
Youngstown
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Corrigan-McKinney Works
Republic
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Detroit
Wheeling Steel Corporation
West Virginia
Austin Predicts National Labor Draft Law
Senator Austin of Vermont said Congress will soon face a national labor draft law to boost home front manpower for a higher war tempo. He cited a confidential study by the Senate military affairs committee and signaled action after Congress reconvenes January 10 on compulsory service legislation co sponsored by him and Representative Wadsworth.
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Washington
Roosevelts
Austin
Vermont
Congress
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Lewis Sanders
Military Affairs Committee
Military Committee
Wadsworth
Republican
New York
Japanese fighters shot down over Rabaul
London reports that 30 Japanese fighter planes were shot down over Rabaul in a World War II air action. The piece notes an ominous Christmas lull on the European front with RAF raids and bomb tonnage reaching 200000 tons since the war’s start, including the Berlin attack and earlier Pas de Calais strikes.
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Rabaul
London
Europe
Pas de Calais
Berlin
Britain
Brittany
Lorient
Air Ministry
RAF
Germany
Img
U. S. Army Air Force
French
England
Easault
Belgium
Ho Hatred
Roosevelt Family Christmas Observed at Hyde Park Home
At Hyde Park on December 5 the Roosevelts kept an old fashioned Christmas with seven children opening gifts early beside a tall tree grown on the estate. The Roosevelt library living room looked toward the Hudson with neighbors visiting, preserving family Yuletide traditions since 1933.
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Hyde Park
N.Y
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Oldsters
Roosevelt Home
New York
Hudson River
Roose
Arrest Made in Soldier's Death on Red River Bridge
Lynn Beck 39, driver for Twin City Cab, held in Shreveport for investigation into the death of an unidentified soldier after an altercation on the Red river bridge. Beck chased the serviceman, waved a hammer, and collected fare for a trip from Alexandria to Shreveport. Detectives Crabtree and Smith brought him to the city jail. Pineville police officers aided in the arrest.
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Shreveport
Lynn Beck
Twin City Cab Company
Alexandria
Barksdale Field Hospital
New Highway
Red River
Beck
Pineville
Ryan
Charles Crabtree
L. V. Smith
Allied air gains batter Rabaul and Cape Gloucester grows
Allied forces report heavy air blows in New Britain. MacArthur’s communique notes a raid on the Rabaul airdrome with the loss of four American planes and claims Soviet style numbers of enemy aircraft. meanwhile Cape Gloucester bomb tonnage exceeds 3000 this month as RAF and American bombers press the invasion area.
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New Guinea
New Britain
Rabaul
Arawe
Cape Gloucester
MacArthur
Associated Press
mid-Pacific
Marshall Island
Gilbert Islands
New Britain Island
Solomon Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo Radio
Duck hunter drowns in icy Ouachita river
R J Wills grocer at 197 South Grand street drowned in the Ouachita river during a pre dawn duck hunting trip. The party's boat capsized and only Jules Parks Jr. reached shore to summon aid as fog and icy waters hindered search efforts. Morroe firemen planned to resume Sunday dawn search with emergency truck lights in dense fog.
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R. J. Wills
South Grand Street
Ouachuta
Morroe
American Legion
Lock Lorand
Willy
Ro J. Wills
T. H Hobbs
Jules Parks, Jr
Parks
Eisenhower Named Supreme Allied Commander for Europe
New chief Eisenhower chosen to lead the planned cross channel assault on Hitler's Europe. The move sparks questions on invasion timing as American troops prepare for what officials term a major western blow within about 90 days. US forces to provide roughly 73 percent of assault troops, with Allied staff arranging the operation from North Africa and Britain.
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London
Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hitler
Europe
Eisenhower
Johnson
Washington
United States
West Wall
Germany
Moscow
West
North Africa
Sac “Lye
Algiers
Henry Maitland Wilson
Briteh Press Association
Tunisa
Sicily
Italy
Selec
Soldiers In European Theater Get Christmas Turkey
Every American soldier in the European theater from private to general had a Christmas dinner today in London. The basic menu included cream of tomato soup, pineapple salad, roast turkey, cranberry sauce and dressing, mashed potatoes, creamed corn, celery, pumpkin pie and coffee. Each London mess featured a Christmas tree, some decorated with colored paper, but food remained the main attraction.
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London
Turkey
Good Fellows Aid 235 Baskets in Monroe and West Monroe
The Good Fellows fund reports 235 baskets of food and clothing delivered to Monroe and West Monroe areas including colored districts. Donations exceeded prior peaks by about 400, with toys for children and warm clothes for winter. The letter from B. B. Martin to Wilson Ewing explains funds were used for the needy and thanks partners like Captain Hesketh of the Salvation Army and the Twin City Printing Co.
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Agencieke
Twin Cities
True
Christian Brotherhood
B. B. Martin
Hesketh
Salvation Army
Twin City Printing Company
Good Fellows Fund
Martin
Wilson Ewing
News- Star World
Ewing
Monroe
West Monroe
H. H. Brinsmade
George Loften
B. B
Rail wage talks extend as deadline nears
Washington December 25 The wage dispute between railroad management and unions moves toward a strike deadline next Thursday with conferees resuming talks tomorrow. Bert M Jewell says Sunday actions possible while leaders stay in the capital. Roosevelt plans to run government operations 24 hours before any stoppage to avert a tie up. both sides express hope for a settlement.
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Bert M. Jewell
Washington
Roosevelt
Hopkins Denies Willkie Letter Touching Nomination
Washington records report Harry L. Hopkins denying a letter suggesting Wendell Willkie would be the Republican nominee and that the White House planned to purge certain senators. The Sparks book excerpt cites the letter as a basis for a Senate inquiry proposed by Senator Langer, though leaders expect no probe.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Tee Jarres Beeches
L. Willkie
Connally
Texas
Willkie
Wendell Willkie
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Senate
Langer
Republican
North Dakota
Sparks
Hopkins
Armphrey Lee
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
White House
Rankin
Mississippi
House
Dr. Lee
Lee
Ice melts as rain ends Christmas travel nightmare
Steady rain and rising temperatures melted ice across the Southeast reducing paralyzed highways and communications. In North Georgia and surrounding states ice and sleet made travel nearly impossible on Christmas Day with numerous accidents but few fatalities. Memphis warned motorists to stay off streets after 35 accidents in two hours as Georgia patrol reported many cars skidded. The weather bureau predicted continued rain and warming temps would remove the ice over Sunday.
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North Georgia
Tennessee
North
South Carolina
North Alabama
Atlanta
Memphis
Georgia Highway Patrol
Weather Bureau
Tem
Bethlehem Reenacts Christmas as Bells Toll at Midnight
Thousands of pilgrims from Russia Poland Greece Czech British American and Palestinian backgrounds gathered in Bethlehem for the fourth Christmas since World War II. Latin Patriarch Mar Louis Bourrassiina led the rites from the Jaffa Gate to the Church of the Nativity where Masses and a candlelit display culminated with the Christ child placed in the manger.
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Bethlehem
Mar. Louis Barlassina
Jaffa
Jerusalem
Mary and
Joseph
Patriarch
Church of St. Catherine
Jesus
Mass
Christ
Soldier Vote Amendment Favored by Senator O'Mahony
Senator O Mahony of Wyoming urged a speedy constitutional amendment to give Congress power to provision for servicemen voting in federal elections. He proposed introducing the amendment on the first day of the new session to remove state impediments and ensure counting of ballots cast by soldiers. The plan, he said, would be a superior law under the Constitution and align with protecting soldiers' voting rights.
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Washington
Congress
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Congress of the
United States
Roosevelt
Queen Sees Light of Better Future in Christmas Broadcast
Queen Wilhelmina, speaking to occupied Holland in a Christmas broadcast, notes the current darkness but asserts signs of approaching victory. She says a final struggle remains, after which liberty and justice will prevail against the enemy of all that is sacred.
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London
Wilhelmina
Holland
Reds press toward German base in northern White Russia
Soviet forces widened the advance in White Russia driving toward Vitebsk from Nevel and Gorodok while cutting the Vitebsk Nevel railway and Vitebsk Polotsk highway. Berlin acknowledged breaches as Russians pressed east of Zhitomir with heavy fighting and tank assaults.
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Wiet ‘Treognott
Tad "Viele
White Russia
Berlin
Red Army
Ukraine
Ivan Bagramian
Nevel
Vitebsk
Zaluchye
Polotsk
Moscow
Orsha
Lepel
Bo+risov
Gorodok
Zhiebin
Kiev
Zhitomi
Romania
Poland
Zhlobin
Gormel
Russia
Army sergeant sentenced to five years hard labor
Sergeant Barnes M Taylor of Spring Hill Louisiana was sentenced to five years at hard labor by a general court martial for the December death of a Saluda jail inmate. Staff Sergeant John C Kulick was acquitted. Taylor faces possible transfer after review by General Barton and the War Department.
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Fort Jackson
D. C
James 5. Rodwell
Fourth Infantry
Dvision
Barnest M. Taylor
Spring Hill
Saluda
Rodwell
John C. Kulick
West Augusta Boulevard
Chicago
Taylor
Robert L. Turner
Turner
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