Gilbert Islands Air Victory Amid Pacific Progress
A U S Pacific Fleet spokesman reports steep Japanese losses in the Gilbert Islands with 34 enemy fighters, nine bombers and three four engine patrol planes shot down by a single carrier division. American losses were three fighters and one bomber. Mopping up on Makin, Tarawa and Abemama nears completion as Betio airfield work proceeds for future raids.
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Pearl Harbor
Gilbert Islands
U. S Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
Nimitz
Makin
Tarawa
Abemama
Gilberts
Mill Airfield
Marshall Islands
Mill
Gilbert
Maloelap
Ambassador Train Wreck Near Youngstown Kills Two
The B and O Ambassador passenger train collided with a freight wreck near Newton Falls Ohio killing two trainmen and injuring 30 passengers. Train service resumed after the 11 hour delay with witnesses noting a Pennsylvania freight struck the B and O freight about 11 15 p m E W T yesterday derailing the freight cars.
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Youngstown
Baltimore and Ohio
Newton Falls
Pennsylvania
B&o
Revealed As Soldier Slapped By Patton
The ambassdor’s train en route from Detroit to Washington struck wreckage from a Pennsylvanian freight crash. Two men from Cleveland engineers and fireman Lawrance Fladgarten and Guy McGowan died. Eighteen were hospitalized. none in critical condition. About 40 others treated and released. The B&O freight caboose caught fire after the collision.
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Vania
Detroit
Washington
Lawrance Fladgarten
Guy McGowan
Cleveland
Pennsylvana
Warren
B& O
Mishawaka
Ind
Charles Herman Kuhl
George 8 Patton
Sicily
Loretta
Kuhl
Massacre of 54 Italians in Bellona area by German forces
Allied headquarters in Algiers reports that 54 Italian men and boys from Bellona near Naples were executed by German troops after a failed abduction of a girl, Maria Cafaro. The victims were selected at random and shot at a quarry, with dynamite used to bury their bodies. two families mourned as women searched for missing husbands and sons. The incident follows a prior attempt by villagers to rescue the girl, who survived with injuries.
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Algiers
Bellona
Naples
Allied
Maria Cafaro
Gabriel Cafaro
Cafaro
Franklin St
Rutland Vt
United States
Wnd
Het
Ihim
Osfeer
Randon
Light Travel For Holiday Travel in Maryland
Maryland saw lighter holiday travel as of Thanksgiving Eve with about 20 percent fewer travelers than a normal Saturday traffic overall. Penn Central and Greyhound notes reflected subdued demand while Baltimore and Ohio reported average weekday levels and satisfactory results. Rail and bus officials urged continued caution and warned against optimism for Christmas travel.
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Baltimore
Maryland
oMctals
Pennsylvania Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Official warns against treating Christmas like Thanksgiving travel
An official urged the public not to judge the coming Christmas season by Thanksgiving travel. He warned that Christmas will be very busy and that those with no business reason to travel should stay home. He warned of a terrible situation if people assume Christmas will be as easy as Thanksgiving for travel.
Pilgrims' Shrine Draws North American Visitors
Annually about 720 000 pilgrims travel to the Shrine of Ste Anne de Beaupre, located 22 miles from Quebec City in Canada, for spiritual visitation and devotion.
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North America
Ste Ann
de Beau Bre
Quebec City
Canada
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Kemp's
Bennett's
Sears, Roebuck
Peoples Service Drug Stores
Rotary Club OF
Frederick
C. E. Cline & Son
Patton
Marvin
Beige Breen
C. C. Carty, Inc
Fast Patrick St
Frederick, Md
Farly Bird
Fred'k
South Market St
Yardley
Tepilft
Ae Wane
Lavender
Y Yardley
England
USA
Bennett
Bennett’s
Chinomine
Holiday Giving Gay
Robes
Coats
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