Flashes Of Life From California News Briefs
A Pasadena detective questions who stole 150 steak and butter knives from a cafe. In Los Angeles Harry Zacky faces trial for selling a culled hen as a pullet. an egg on counsel table is cited as proof of its status. In Colorado Major Cameron Coffman tests photo reading with a wager, and in Maquoketa bats at Bat Cave vanish from state park.
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Associated Press
Pasadena
Calif
W. O. Kelley
Los Angeles
Harry Zacky
CPA
Tom Howard
Camp Carson
Colo
Cameron Coffman
WAC
Maquoketa
Maquoketa Caves State Park
French troops enter European front in Italy advance
Allied communiqué reports French forces equipped with American uniforms and gear have begun mountain combat in central Italy alongside British and American troops. They captured German hill positions and prisoners as heavy bombers hit Padua and rail links northeast toward Vienna and Munich.
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Allied
Algiers
Dev
Italy
Tunisia
Alpe
Padua
Sdes
Brenner Pas
Athens
Dogna
Venice
Vienna
Germany
Villach
Munich
R A F Bombers Strike Berlin in 41st Raid This Year
British heavy bombers hammered Berlin overnight as the R A F pressed a major assault for the 41st time this year. Stockholm reports Berlin burning with damaged buildings and paralyzed transport as American Liberators and Flying Fortresses joined twilight raids over northwest Germany. The attack follows a long campaign that has dropped more than 15 000 tons of high explosives and incendiaries on the capital.
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London
Berlin
Stockholm
Britain
Germany
Eighth Air Force
Helgoland Bay
Bremen
Delay Seen for Tax Bill as New Year Looms
Senate leaders delayed action on the $2.284 billion tax measure with a recess to January 4. Chairman George and Rep. Van Denberg pushed for a 164 day social security tax rate freeze and funding measures. The bill aims to raise about $2.254 billion from various sources to bolster treasury receipts.
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Ashington
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Barkley
Delew
France
George
Georgia
Legislatve
Vandenberg
Michigan
Treasury
Holcombe denies dissolving restraining order on borrowing poll
Judge Charles A. Holcombe overruled the attorney general on dissolving a temporary order restraining the state board of liquidation from polling the legislature to authorize a 7 million dollar borrowing for teacher salaries and more. The order was sought by the New Orleans bureau of governmental research which argued Act 9 of 1916 unconstitutional.
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Baton Rouge
Charles A. Holcombe
9Th District Court
Attorney General's Office
State Board of Liquidation
New Orleans Bureau of Governmental Research
New Orleans
Strike Halts Greyhound Service Across Southern Routes
Atlanta December 17 The Southeastern Greyhound bus line suspended all service south of Nashville and Chattanooga as 700 drivers and maintenance workers walked out. The regional manager said the strike appears to be spreading affecting about 2,500 workers on 10,000 miles of routes. Service between Nashville and Birmingham and Chattanooga and Jacksonville was stopped, severing a main Florida to Midwest corridor.
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Atlanta
Southeastern Greyhound Businesn
Nashville
Chattanooga
Tenn
W. F. Arington
Ling
Birmingham
Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Germans Relate Atrocities In Kharkov Trial
Moscow papers devote two of four pages to the Kharkov atrocity trial of German Captain William Langheld and Russian accomplices. Langheld, 52, is said to have pleaded guilty to killing civilians and Soviet POWs. The courtroom was packed as prosecutors questioned him about orders for mass extermination.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Wiliam Langheld
Gestapo
Langheld
Justice Department
N. K. Dunsiev
Getepo
Red Army
Roosevelt Returns to Washington After War Conference Tours
President Roosevelt resumed residence at the White House after five weeks away attending allied wartime conferences in the Middle East. He is expected to brief Congress on his talks in Cairo and Tehran and outline postwar plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Maddie East
Bissete
Congress
Cairo
Teheran
Atlantic
Wasselman
Churchill
Marshal Static
Allied War Council
Nazis beaten in Yugoslavia halt German offensive
London dispatch reports Tito's partisans halted a major German drive in Croatia and western Bosnia. The war bulletin cited complete enemy defeats, many German divisions pinned down, and heavy losses on multiple fronts as Tito pledged continued resistance.
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London
Josip Brea
Tito
Liret
Cairo
Adriatic
Bagutite
Croatia
Bosnia
Zijebeou
Rogatita
Kladanj
Yuseslevie
Free Yugoslav Echo
Wie
Associated Press
Kordun
Baniya
Livno
Duvne
Balkans
Sandiak
Bjelo Polje
Brondarevo
Ivan Ljubljana
Kecevie
Slovenia
1Th
Churchill Improves as Pneumonia Recovery Continues
London reports a bulletin from No 1 Downing Street states Prime Minister Churchill’s general condition has improved with no pneumonia spread. Lord Moran Brigadier Evan Bedford and Lt Pulvertaft sign the note noting a likely long recuperation and possible acting leader amid ongoing war cabinet considerations. Churchill remains in good spirits but pale and fatigued after lengthy talks and conferences with Eden Inonu and Chiang Kai-Shek.
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London
Churchill
No 1
Downing Street
Lord Moran
Evan Bedford
Pulvertaft
Britain
Anthony Eden
Inonu
Mid-East
Chiang Kai-Shek
Thinks oil will last many years
Baton Rouge, La. December 17 P Edwin L. Dennis a combustion engineer in the oil capital says U S oil reserves can span many years despite Ickes view. He cites falling peacetime consumption improving refinery output and new recycling methods plus potential large new fields as keys to longer duration of oil supply.
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Baton Rouge
Edwin L. Dennis
United States
Harold Ickes
Western Petroleum Refiners Association
Dennis
Subside Showdown Moves in House as CCC Extension Debated
Washington lawmakers clash over CCC subsidy extension with the House aiming to shorten the period to February 5 while the Senate backs a longer 60 day extension. Farm bloc leaders vow to revive repeal after holidays as administration presses for an early recess. In a separate note, Pacific patrols report eight more Japanese cargo ships sighted or sunk, raising war losses.
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Washington
Senate
Commodity Credit Corporation
House
Martin
CCC
Senate Finance Committee
Banking Committee
Bankhead
Alabama
United States
Pacific
Jubentsu
United States Air Force Repels Japanese Attacks in New Guinea
General MacArthur's headquarters reports American air forces repelled several Japanese air attacks as U S troops consolidate on the Arawe peninsula in New Britain during the New Guinea operation. The Sixth Army has established a hold with few casualties amid the sweeping southwest Pacific action.
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General MacArthur
New Guinea
Arawe
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Mainnland
Southwest Pacific
Sixth Army
Texas
Ukraine Army Gains Control West of Kiev in Bold Push
Soviet forces under General Vatutin and Konev drive west of Kiev and toward Smela and Kirovograd after five weeks of heavy fighting. They claim 900 Germans killed, rail targets hit, and villages seized as Germans report counteroffsensives in White Russia and ongoing battles on three fronts.
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Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Ukraine
Kiev
Teterey River
Vatutin
Radomyas
Smela
Kirovograd
Red Army
White Russia
Nevel
Krichev
Mogilev
Zhlobin
Berlin
von Mannstein
Teterev
Radomysl
Malin
Good Fellows seek aid as Tuesday deadline nears
The Good Fellows fund invites requests for aid with a Tuesday receipt deadline. No campaign or solicitation. dollars come from voluntary offerings. The fund has operated 12 years aiding families for a merrier Christmas, supported by B. B. Martin and Captain Jack Hesketh of the Salvation Army.
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Good Fellows
B. B. Martin
Jack Hesketh
Salvation Army
Death Toll Rises in Southeast Rail Crash at Lumberton
In Lumberton North Carolina December 17 the death toll from the southeast region's worst railroad disaster climbed to ten as wreckers cleared tangled tele scoped cars on Atlantic Coast Line double track from New York to Florida. Eight more feared dead remained trapped. one civilian body recovered. as many as 30 injured.
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Lumberton
N. C
Southeast
Atlantic Coast Line
New York
Florida
Red Cross
Congressional Limited
Philadelphia
Southeastern Seaboard
Rockmart
Nashville
Tenn
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Wilmington
Freeze Returns Dark with Rail of Frost Across Deep South
The weather service forecasts continued freezing conditions for Louisiana and Mississippi tonight with relief by Saturday. Below freezing temperatures are listed for Mississippi coast and northern zones of both states, with record lows recorded in Jackson Mississippi and New Orleans. Fires from overheated stoves or fireplaces claim at least eight lives across Mississippi and Louisiana, including three children in Laurel and a grandmother and grandson in Soso, with prior fire deaths in New Orleans.
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Associated Prensa
Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Baton Rouge
Crowley
Shreveport
New Orleans
Laurel
Whistler
Soso
Virgil Ray
Joe Calvin
Rodney Earl
Virgil Douglas
Mobile
W. T. Welch
Rex Moreland Welch
Mercury to 23 Degrees Forecast on Friday
The civil aeronautics administration weather bureau at Selmanfield reports a high of 23 degrees Friday. The 24 hour low was 23 at 4 30 a m Friday with freezing expected Friday night and a rise anticipated Saturday. The season’s low to date was 16 degrees on Thursday.
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Civil Aeronautics Administration
Weather Bureau
Selmanfield
Newsmen Held By Military Police At Lumberton Wreck
Army public relations officers and military police blocked photography at a train wreck near Lumberton North Carolina. AP photographer Bill Belche of Fayetteville was arrested for attempting to snap pictures without approval from R G Murchison district superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line. Belche said he was escorted from the scene and later returned with permission not granted.
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Lumberton
W. C
Army
Associated Press
Bill Belche
Fayetteville
N. C
A. P
R. G. Murchison
Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Belche
Murchison
Harold Tyler
Fourth Service Command
Service Men's Vote In Doubt In 1944 Ballot Plan Debate
A survey by the Associated Press examines whether U S servicemen can cast ballots in large numbers during the 1944 election. Debate centers on federal ballots mailed by the government versus state ordered ballots.
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Washington
Nec
Associated Press
Uncle Sam
Senate
House
Seaman First Class Basil Izzi Survives 88 Days At Sea
Basil Izzi of South Barre Massachusetts lost 65 pounds while adrift in a wooden liferaft for 88 days after his ship was torpedoed on November 2 1942. He survived with a small crew until rescue on January 24 and later spoke to industrial plant workers with Lieutenant Nance.
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New Orleans
Basil D. Izzi
South Barre
Mass
Atlantic
United Nations
James Maddox
George Beasley
Nick Hoogendam
Cornelius van der Slet
Beasley
Maddox
South America
A. A. Nance
Industrial Incentive Division
Navy
Orange
Tex
Nazis Promise Each Child a Toy at Christmas
December 17 report from Stockholm notes Goebbels and a propaganda machine aim to buoy German morale with a homemade toy and a home, amid wartime ruins. Newspapers across the Reich acknowledge a grim outlook with many families displaced and unable to light trees or celebrate as in peacetime.
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Stockholm
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Himmler
Gestapo
Reich
Voelkischer Beobachter
Rheiisch West-Faeclische Zeitung
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Goebbels
Nagi Party
Prayerful Jurors Convict Robertson on Bigamy Charge
Kansas City Kans December 17 jurors who began with a prayer for guidance found Thomas Robertson guilty of bigamy on his eighteenth birthday. Three wives testified during the trial as sentencing was set for today. Wife No 2 hid her face and Wife No 3 weighed waiting to see if the maximum five year term would be imposed.
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Kansas City
Kans
Divine Guide
Thomas Robertson
Mina Frances Pugh Robertson
Lucille Emily Mileler Robertson
Katherine Norrig Robertson
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John Miller
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Virginja Mitchiner
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