Ice coats county highways after sleet storm
A thick ice cover from one to two inches clamped roads across the city and county after the season's worst sleet storm. Cinder crews worked to clear streets while buses faced cancellations and motorists urged to stay home. Pedestrians moved carefully as freezing rain iced pavements and utilities feared damage. A man slipped on ice and was hospitalized with a hip injury.
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Blue Ridge Lines
Cumberland
Weather Bureau
Frederick
Here
Cold Valley
Buckstown
Pittsburgh
Robert E. L. Putman
State Police
Roads Commission
Uniontown
Hagerstown
Culler Lake
Mlls
ICE City Police
Nathan Warren White
South Marmet Strec
Food Only Thief Loots Provo Store Items
After Food Only, burglars target a Provo Utah shop seizing sir T-bone steaks butter eggs cigarettes chocolates and bee. They rifled the cash register leaving little cash and valuables.
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Provo
Utah
Nazi Troops In Budapest Are Doomed
Soviet forces pounded Budapest with Red Air Force dominance as Russian troops crossed the Danube east of the city and pressed fighters back into Buda. The 3,000 Germans and Hungarians killed were reported by a Soviet communique amid house to house fighting and airport evictions.
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Moscow
Budapest
Berlin
Londan Sald Ety Tadey
Red
Pest
Danube
Buda
Szentendrei
Red Army
Celles
Tast
von Rundstedt
Major Long on Mindoro in Philippine theater
Major Alan Long, a Leyte veteran from the 104th Observation Squadron, is believed to be on Mindoro as American forces push Japanese opposition. He was wounded near the face and neck by flak in a September raid and has since returned to flying status.
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Alan Long
Leyte
Philippines
Mindoro
Mary McComas Long
New Guinea
Long
Major Long
104Th
Maryland National Guard
Detrick Field
Col. McCubbins
Balltimore
Pacific
Misa
Long View
Rockwell Terrace
Moscow radio claims German use of 10009 workers on Austria frontier
London dispatch reports Moscow radio stating Germany employed 10 009 civilian workers to fortify the Austrian frontier against Russian forces moving across Hungary. The claim links German manpower to frontline defenses amid wartime movements.
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London
Moscow
Hungary
Farm Bureau Asks County Home Rule and Reforms
Frederick County Farm Bureau members in a morning session at the State Armory approved a resolution urging Maryland Farm Bureau to back legislation placing county powers in county hands. The meeting also amended by laws on term limits and quorum, discussed abolishing the tangible property tax, correcting Clover seed price differentials, and compulsory motorist insurance with penalties for drunk driving.
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Frederick County Farm Bureau
State Armory
Miavyland Farm Bureau, Inc
Legislative Council
General Assembly
Frederick
Resolutions Committee
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
O'Conor
Maryland
Ignal Rationing Board
OPA
Abel
Ao Wek
Armory
Alvie M. Etzler
Thomas M. Anderson
Thomas P. Culler
Federation of Rural Women’s Clubs
Herbert Duvall
National Farm Bureau
Dan Wight
Iscal Rationing Board
Von Kluge Death Attributed To Action On Normandy
AP confirms a German high command order stating Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge resigned as Western Front commander and then committed death by own action. The German order notes responsibility for Normandy outcomes and bans further comment. Von Rundstedt later returned to command.
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Associated Press
OWL
Oder
Shal Guenther von Kluge
Rai Nolal Uself
Normandy
von Kluge
Weeera
Field Marshal
Karl von Bundstedt
Gero
Western Front
von Rundstedt
Army Seizes Ward Stores Amid War Production Drive
The Army seized Montgomery Ward and Company properties in seven cities under an executive order of President Roosevelt to prevent interference with war production. The action followed CIO protests over Ward’s leadership and noncompliance with War Labor Board directives. A federal injunction petition sought to restrain officials and authorize government seizure.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
Roosevelt
Ward
Detroit
Kansas City
CIO United Retail
Sewell Avery
War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward
Joseph W. Byron
Army
Special Services Division
Oeder
Avery
Beecal Pituschiki
Siuun
Justice Department
Washington
St. Paul
Denver
Jamaica
N. C
Portland
Ore
San Rafael
Calif
Housewives Cheated By Stamp Cancellation
Washington reports Representative Anderson accuses Fred Vinson and OPA chief Chester Bowles of conspiring to cancel unused Red and Blue stamps. He says the War Food Administration was bypassed while the government issued a Christmas ration move harming thrifty American housewives amid record food production.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Fred Vinson
Anderson
R-Minn
Vinson
OPA
Chester Bowles
Congressional Food Study Committee
Department of Agriculture
Superforts Drop Incendiaries Over Japan Report
An Associated Press report states B 29s dropped incendiaries on Tokyo area targets with Japanese broadcasts noting air raid activity north of Tokyo. FCC monitors tracked a Japanese radio station on Wehu island sounding alarms as fires and raids continued across Kyushu and Saipan based forces.
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Associated Press
Tbaraki Prefecture
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Wehu Island
Kyushu
Market Rises as Steels Rails and Stocks Rally
New York December 28 The stock market gains follow a stumble with steels rails and related issues drawing strong bidding today amid renewed demand and cautious optimism for recovery.
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New York
Russia to recognize Polish Lublin government likely this year
Reports indicate the Soviet backed Lublin committee may declare provisional government status before year end. Washington and London have questioned its representativeness while France reportedly exchanged representatives with the group. Stalin aims to leverage a winter offensive against Germany and sees the Lublin council as Poland's future governance in the USSR sphere.
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Shington
Polish Committee of Liberation
Cabin
Poland
Premig
Sta
Waoshington
Laomdoan
Rovernment
Bandon
Assis
Lublin Committee
Washington
Muysean
Russia
London
Czechoslovakia
France
Stalin
DeGaulle
Moscow
Lublin
Germany
Army And Navy Promote V Mail To Save Transport Space
The Army and Navy urge broader use of V mail to save transportation space. They note drops in usage by service members overseas and civilians at home and ask civilians to write four out of five letters on V mail while reserving air mail for long letters or enclosures.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Counter Attacks In Serchio Valley Continue In Italy
Allied headquarters say German forces renew counter assaults in the Serchio valley while Allied troops withdraw from the western flank of the Milan front. Durga, seized a month earlier by French units, was enveloped in German counter efforts along a six mile line on the Serchio’s east bank.
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Rome
Ther Coun
Serchio Valley
Fifth Army
Durga
U S Prisoners Shot by Germans Near Bastogne
A U S Army report states six American prisoners were shot near Bastogne after an ambush. A survivor says a lieutenant and five other men were wounded. one man was kicked in the face as the Germans attacked, then the group played dead and escaped into American lines.
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U. S
Christmas greeting after ration board approval reaches state line
A faded wartime greeting notes a December interaction with the OPA ration board. It mentions forty blue stamps two and a half pounds of sugar and a holiday wish for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, reflecting ration era constraints.
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Portland
Qree
Decus Iy
Frei
OPA
Pouiods
Singag Cvalys
Allies Hit German Rail and Road Transport in Deep Raid
RAF Lancasters and Thornaxes struck near Cologne at Opladen and a sixth straight U S Eighth Air Force daylight raid over Germany. Combined Allied bombing destroyed about 2500 rail and road transports while targeting bridges and supply depots as weather hindered ground support and caused heavy cloud cover over battlefields.
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U. S
Regency for Greece Likely Regency Formed Amid War Moves
London reports Churchill and Eden urged King George I to approve a Greek regency. In Athens factions agreed on a regency as Allied forces withdraw from arteries into the city. An Archbishop supported immediate regency. insurgent units appeared to be evacuating while Elas forces regroup in Piraeus and northern and southern districts.
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London
Churchill
Eden
Athens
George I
Greece
BBC
Dee
Damaskinos
Athens Elas
Piraeus
Cleuims
Elas
Pittsburgh Traffic Hampered by Wintry Weather
Snow and sleet across Pittsburgh crippled transportation. Rain had already fallen yesterday and more snow was forecast tonight. Streetcars and buses were delayed, trains disrupted, and air travel grounded at Allegheny County Airport. The wintry mix disrupted travel across the city with ongoing caution urged.
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Pittsburon
Allegheny Cowry
U S Troops Hold Corridor To Bastogne In War Update
Paris December 28 field reports say Von Rundstedt’s southern flank behind the German border is under a Doughboy and armored assault. American crossings of the Sure river near Bastogne and Massogne press the garrison and trap pockets near Rochefort Beaufort and Celles as German armor depletes and retreats toward Germany.
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Paris
Marshal von Rundstedt
Germain
Amelie
Sure
Bas~ Layee
Meuse
Hort Fier
En«Emy
Echternach
Germany
Our
Berlin
U.S. Third Army
George S. Patton
Bonnal
Eschdorf
Martelange
Houll
Massogne
von Rundstedt
Beaufort
Bastogne
Western Front Still Critical
War Secretary Stimson said the latest news from France is favorable but the Western Front remains critical. He noted German attempts to widen a salient are unlikely to succeed and that Allied forces are containing the threat despite significant German casualties and prisoner reports.
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Weshiedon
Stimson
France
Amery
Seawolf Submarine Reported Overdue and Missing
The Seawolf, a 1 500-ton U S submarine with a crew of about 62, is overdue from patrol. Lt Comdr Albert M Bontier of White Plains New York is listed as missing. The loss raises casualty totals and marks the 229th naval vessel lost since the war began.
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Washington
U. S
Seawolf
Navy
Albert M. Bontier
White Plains
New York
United States
Meat Shortage Strikes New York Amid OPA Protest
New York reports meat increasingly scarce as retailers stage a holiday protest against OPA price ceilings. Chicago discussed a $1.50 per hundredweight ceiling for five cattle. officials say no announcement yet. Police report 6,088 shops surveyed, 2,142 closed, with wholesale houses also affected. city officials deny widespread shortage.
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New York
New York City
OPA
Chicago
John J. Madiman
Kansas City
Pps
War Food Administration
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