Bombers Hammer Luzon as Japanese Defenses Strained
United Press dispatch reports American B 29s from China bases hammering Omura On Yoshua and other targets in Japan while carrier air power devastates Luzon for the sixth straight day sinking ships and wrecking planes. Chinese air forces also strike Nagoya Shangai and Nanking. Filipino reports say invasion forces may reach Luzon soon as Mindoro losses rise and Valencia airfield falls. General MacArthur vows cautious advance to limit Allied losses and rely on maneuver and air superiority.
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Onyushu
Mnemyx
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Shangsai
Nanking
Tokyo
Tokus
Uzon
Philippines
Windoal Philippines Islands
Japan
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Sulu
Mindoro
Leyte
Theision
Valencia
Primempal
British Envoy Claims German Influence Ruled Spain
Lord Templewood, once Sir Samuel Hoare, said in the Lords that German influence pervaded Spain during the five years of Nazism. He described Gestapo surveillance of his embassy staff, photographs during riots, and abductions to Germany or allied states for torture or death, undermining Spain's moral life and the king’s integrity.
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Lord Templewood
Madrid
Templewood
Amuel Hoare
House of Lords
Spain
Iis
Norden firm indicted in Navy bombsight case
A U S grand jury charged Carl L Norden Inc and Corri gan Osburn Wells with conspiring to slow bombsight production and to obstruct Navy supervision of manufacture. Four officers plus Cmdr Corrigan were named, with penalties up to two years in prison and 10,000 dollars per indictment. Norden inventor Carl Norden was not implicated.
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New York
Carl L. Norden, Inc
Corrigan, Osburn & Wells, Inc
U. S Naval
Norden
Navy
Remington-Rand, Inc
Elmira
N.Y
Washington
S Asttorner
Francis Biddle
Carl L. Norden
W Norden
Norden Company
Corrigan
Osburn & Wells, Inc
Corrigan and Wells
Navy Department
Pepper Drops Fight On Nominations
Sen Claude Pepper announced after a talk with President Roosevelt that he would drop his bid to delay the senate confirmation of top state department nominees. Pepper said the president warned that if Congress fails to act, the same list would go to the new Congress meeting in January. Pepper had opposed the nominees as too conservative and not aligned with the Roosevelt liberal program.
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D.C
Claude Pepper
Fia
Roosevelt
Senate
State Department
Pepper
Congress
Jane
Fay
Warry
Nie
Nye
Greece
Poland
Daily Mail
Warhiviston
Cordell Hull
Ward RO Stelims
Wards Ups Pay and Defies WLB in Seven Cities
CHICAGO UP United States war labor board orders to maintain union membership and provide wage adjustments. Montgomery Ward rejects directives, citing Detroit settlement as limited, while Sewell Avery says actions reflect noncompliance with WLB. WLB proceedings escalate toward government seizure or continued strikes across multiple stores.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward
WLB
Detroit
Wards
Washington
Ward
Sewell Avery
Sontgomery Ward
War Labor Board
White House
British Troops To Leave Ethiopia
Britain signs an interim agreement with Ethiopia to withdraw its occupying forces from Ethiopian provinces after years of postwar presence. The move aims to return to peacetime conditions, though Britain will retain troops in agreed regions until full withdrawal.
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Ethiopia
Washington
Great Britain
Thiopia
Anis
Beng Downs Downed 40th Plane Over Mindoro
Allied headquarters at Leyte announced Richard Beng of Poplar Wisconsin, top Anglo American ace of World War II, shot down his 40th Japanese plane yesterday over Mindoro in a dramatic air action marking a record milestone.
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Leyte
Richard Beng
Poplar
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Mindoro
Nye predicts third European war within 20 years
Senator Gerald P Nye in a farewell address warned that within twenty years the United States would face another European war to stop Russia from seizing world control. The defeated isolationist reflected on his munitions inquiry, urging restraint and stressing economic interests behind war. He warned of growing isolationist sentiment and the need to mind our own business.
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D. C
Gerald P. Nye
N. BD
Senate
United States
Russia
Nye
U.S
Hitler
Churchill Delays Expected Speech in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill postponed any further statement on the international political and military crisis until after Christmas. He said he would answer questions on an informal motion and offered little formal rhetoric, noting that the great battle proceedings near Belgium and Luxembourg made a formal address undesirable. He disagreed with Arthur Greenwood that Greece was deteriorating, saying the situation had greatly improved.
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London
Churchill
Commons
Hiard
Greece
Cary
Belgium
Luxembours
Arthur Reenwood
Navy Oiler Sunk in Pacific by Enemy Action
The 23,600 ton naval auxiliary Massissinewa was sunk recently in the central Pacific by enemy action with about 86 percent of the crew saved. The ship's complement is near 250. Survivors include Skipper Captain Philip G. Beck of Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Massissinewa
Central Pacific
Navy
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Philip G. Beck
Brooklyn
N.Y
Last Budapest rail line cut as siege tightens
Moscow reports say Budapest's last rail link to Vienna is under Soviet artillery fire and the Danube city is sealed under heavy shelling. Russians push toward the Austrian border as German defenses hold along the Slovak frontier and a Hungarian retreat begins.
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Vienna
Austria
Red Army
Slovakia
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Kosice
Poland
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Pest
Danube
Berlin
Street Blocked Off For Coasting Area
City authorities designate First Avenue Northeast as a children's coasting area. From 1st Street to Northeast Street, the block is closed to normal traffic for youth coasting. Moment announced the measure urging youngsters to coast only on these blocks.
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First Avenue
Ley Moment
Emv Martall
Moment
President Roosevelt ends three week rest at Warm Springs
President Roosevelt returns to the White House from a three week vacation at Warm Springs Georgia. He resumes full duties amid a heavy agenda including foreign affairs, finance, and a January inauguration while coordinating with allies and managing domestic crises. The trip marks his first public disclosure of his whereabouts in three weeks and follows a strenuous campaign period.
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Roosevelt
White House
Warm Springs
Rooswelt
Congress
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Ross T
Wuit
Mn Rooservelts
Georgia
Deiore
Pearl Harbor
Recover Stolen Sumner Car Here
Local police recovered a 1940 Bhue Plymontis coach belonging to Mr. Huchner of Sumner after it was stolen in Sumner. The vehicle was found near the CGW depot with one tire ruined.
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Western Front Casualties In Month 57 775
War department reports western Europe ground forces suffered 8,259 dead 43,330 wounded and 6,186 missing in November increasing total U S casualties since D Day to 252 124. January and February selective service calls rise 60 80 thousand with 80 thousand air force transfers to ground forces. Des Moines notes draft calls up 60 percent and February up 100 percent. Grahl warns boards may pull more men from 26 to 30 and even over 30 if essential in agriculture.
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Belgiu
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War Department
Des Moines
Charles H. Grahl
Selective Service
Grahi
Grahl
Hess Breaks Leg In Brainstorm Incident
London reports Rudolph Hess, former deputy to the Nazi party, fractured a leg after leaping over a bannister during a brainstorm. The British press agency notes his deteriorating mental and nervous condition in recent months and erratic behavior. Hess, who parachuted into Scotland in May 1941, has been examined by nerve and mental specialists and is reportedly kept in various locations.
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British Press Association
Rudolph Hess
Depu Fyehrer
Nazi Party
Hess
Scotland
Press Association
Tower of London
McCormick Chicago Publisher to Wed McCormick
CHICAGO UP Col Robert Ormick publisher of the Tribune and Mrs Mary Marmison Hooper, prominent California producer, will marry Chauncey M McCormick, 14 year old publisher's cousin. Mrs Hooper, mother of two girls separated from husband Henry Hooper last May and won a divorce decree in Mexico Nov 30. A second degree was granted in Chicago last Saturday. Only a few close friends and family, including Mrs Eleanor Patterson publisher of the Washington Times Herald and Capt Joseph M Patterson publisher of the New York Daily News, will attend.
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Robert Ormick
Go Tribune
Mary
Marmison Hooper
Chauncey M McCormick
Hooper
Henry Hooper
Mexico
Eleanor Patterson
Publiher
The
Washington Times-Herald
Joseph M. Patterson
New York Daily News
Allied push drives 20 miles into Belgium amid Belgian front tense
American tanks guns and troops advance to probe German armor twenty miles inside Belgium as Lt Gen Hodges first army lines stabilize along a 70 mile defensive front. British radio notes the counteroffensive is in full swing while air forces hit Nazi panzers and infantry and Patton’s Third and Seventh armies pressure the Saarland and Rhine frontier.
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Belgiam
Courtney H Godges
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Gerd von Rundstedt
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Belgium
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Tunisia
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Rhine
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U.S
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Third Army
Robert W. Richards
Saarland
France
Patton
Alexander Paich
Seventh Army
Rhenish Palatinate
Bitche
Man Appeals Iowa Kidnap Case After Habeas Ruling
Lester Thoman’s attorney files appeal to the state supreme court after District Judge Toby Chalmers denied a writ of habeas corpus in Dubuque. Thoman, accused of kidnapping Richard Bahl whom he says is his son, is free on a 1500 dollar bond. Proceedings included an earlier move for transfer to Wisconsin and arguments by Kiarzinger and three witnesses.
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John Rintzings
Lester Thomen
Wisconsin
State Supreme Court
Toby Chalmers
Thoman
Richard Bahl
Richard
Mileaykes
Lavina Bahl
Dubuque
Go. Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Thomas Bar
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