German Offensive Near Meuse In Belgium and Luxembourg
German forces pushed toward the Meuse river with advances near Dinant and Ciney as Allied air power and ground counteractions surge. Ninth Air Force and Eighth Air Force bombed supply routes while German spearheads north and center linked, threatening Liege Namur and Bastogne amid heavy fighting around Monschau and Bastogne.
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Second Army
Belgium
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Monschau
Malmeds
Bulge
Bastogne
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Holiday Death Toll Is 315
United Press survey shows 315 lives lost during Christmas holidays across the nation. Traffic accidents accounted for 189 deaths since midnight Friday, with California recording 31 of its 39 accidental deaths in the weekend. New York had 30 deaths, 18 in traffic, amid icy conditions.
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United Press
California
New York
Trafic
Ration list broadened as food supplies tighten
The government expands ration free vegetables and raises meat points amid shortages. Blue points return for canned vegetables. red points for meat end Sunday. Sugar stamps change. butter points rise. Bowles defends action, cites low civilian supplies. Republicans fault administration and push for a national food regulator.
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Chester Es
OPA
Bowles
Congress
Decorah Banker and Landowner Peter A. Rocksvold Dies
Funeral services planned Thursday for Peter A. Rocksvold age 70 a Decorah banker and Winnishik county landowner found dead in a gas-filled kitchen at his son Dervin Rocksvold home. Death believed accidental son of Norwegian immigrants longtime director at Security Trust and Savings Bank in Decorah who still lived on his farm of birth.
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Peter A. Rocksvold
Winnishick County
Dervin Rocksvold
Thom
Rocksvold
Joad Savings Bank
Weekly Weather and Ration Board Notes
Ouiwein records report bitter cold and shifting skies as winter grips the city last week. Temperatures plunged to minus one degree with a string of partly cloudy days, light spawns of sleet noted on Tuesday, and alternating clear and cloudy periods throughout the week.
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Ouiwein
Winter
Italian Town In Savage Battle On Italian Front
Canadian troops of the Eighth Army occupied Ro Setta near Ravenna after savage house to house fighting on Christmas Day. They advanced toward the east bank of the Senio toward Alfonso, nine miles northwest of Ravenna on the Ferrara road. Snow blankets the sector as temperatures stay below freezing and air forces report 1600 sorties with several enemy aircraft downed on the ground.
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Eighth Army
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Ravenna
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Ferrara
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Erogna
Reveal Ships Hit In Philippines
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal said American naval forces have sustained damage from land based Japanese aircraft in the Philippines since the late October sea battle, but plans remain for future action. He denied reports of unpublished losses and stated all ship and plane losses from the October action have been disclosed.
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Philippines
Philippine Sea
James Forrest Tal
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New Deal for Indians Urged by House Committee
The House committee on Indian affairs urged a square deal for the red man and a program to make Indians better Americans. They called for reorganizing Indian administration, justice for Indian claims, and expanded education for Indian children after ten months of investigation showing disappointing progress over 50 years of government supervision.
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UPW
House Committee On Indian Affairs
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United Staes
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Red Man
Red Army storms into Budapest in major breakthrough
Soviet forces break west into Budapest after encircling German and Hungarian troops, with a new Hungarian provisional government preparing to enter the city behind the Red Army. Germans counterattack multiple times but retreat, as Russians push toward Vienna and threaten a Stalingrad like defense. Malinovsky’s Second Ukrainian Army advances north of Bratislava as a westward push toward Vienna begins.
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Red Army
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Setich
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Salix
Zvo Jen
Malinovski
No Relief from Sub Zero Weather
Sub zero temperatures grip the Midwest with Rockford Illinois at 18 below zero and Iowa towns at 15 below. The Weather Bureau in Chicago warned no immediate relief, with milder weather only temporary as a cool air mass shifts southeast across Michigan Wisconsin Iowa Missouri and beyond.
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United Press
Midwest
Rockford
Federal Weather Bureau
Chicago
Michigan
Towa
Missouri
Towa Civ
Mason City
Iowa
Springfield
Marshall Cedar Rapids Editor Clare R Marshall Dead
Cedar Rapids editor Clare R. Marshall 51 editorial director and treasurer of the Cedar Rapids Gazette died Sunday in Rochester Minnesota. Services will be held Wednesday at 3 pm at Turn Funeral chapel with Dr Harry Morehouse Gage conducting. Burial in Oakhill cemetery. Marshall a Coe College and University of Iowa alumnus served in World War I and was secretary to Lt Gov E R Moore in 1919. He was IA Daily Press Association president and an ASA member, with long Gazette tenure since 1934. He helped postwar rehabilitation efforts and was once business manager of the Iowa Legionnaire.
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Cedar Rapids
Turn
Clare R. Marshall
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Rochester, Minn
Harry Morehouse Gage
Coe College
Oakhill Cemetery
Cedar Rapds
Marshall
University of Iowa
E. R. Moore
Towa
Iowa Daily Press Association
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Iowa Legionnaire
The
Gazette
Iowa R
Jurors Compare Chaplin and Baby in Paternity Suit
Jurors viewed Charlie Chaplin and Jo(an) Barry's baby to assess possible facial resemblance in the paternity case. The scene unfolded as the jury inspected the child while Miss Barry pursued the claim that the infant is Chaplin's.
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Charlie Chaplin
Joan Barry
Miss Barry
Vie Chaplin
Deverh E. Scott
Chaplin
Riler Stewart
Tulsa
Okla
Cattle Bloc Blamed for Price Shortage in Congress Talk
Rep. Emanuel Celler charges the cattle bloc profits harm consumers and says he will push a bill in the new Congress to require price ceilings on cattle. The Office of Price Administration seeks ceilings while War Food Administration supports them. Hearings set for Chicago Wednesday and Kansas City Thursday.
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Washington
Emanuel Celler
D. N
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Chicago
Kansas City
Celler
OCD PREPARED FOR ROCKET BOMB ATTACK ALERT
National civilian defense officials disclosed routine readiness for robot or rocket bomb attacks. Public advised to seek shelter or lie face down with arms protecting head. States reactivated defense units along coasts as warning of possible attacks over the next decade to two decades.
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Washington
OCD
Chicago
Dumbarton Oaks
Edward R. Stell
Stettinius
State Department
Kiwanis
Ihat
Dumbarton
Oaks
Quota Cuts Hit Tires and Vehicles in January
Washington reports a 10 percent cut in civilian quotas for January under OPA. Passenger cars will get 1,609,000 tires, down from 2,900,000 in December. Small trucks and buses drop to 216,000. heavy trucks to 100,000. OPA urged recapped tires and car pooling to ease shortages.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Max McCullough
Fires mar holiday weekend with home and auto blazes
A home on Sprague Street at 193rd Ace NE suffered heavy damage to furnishings and fixtures after a 6 15 p m Saturday fire. The Harold VanDenover family resided there. Smoke and water damage were the major losses. A Knolling Transfer Co truck parked in front of the Masonic Temple caught fire yesterday at noon, with damage confined to its wiring.
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193Rd Ace
Harold VanDenover
Knolling Transfer Company
Masonic Tembte
O'Brien Rites Thursday At Strawberry Point
Funeral for Miss Helen Margares O'Brien will be at Sacred Heart Church Strawberry Point at 2:30 Thursday. She died after a car bus crash at a railroad crossing six miles east of Manchester. Sister Kathryn O'Brien was in critical condition at Willard Hospital. Miss O'Brien, 42, nurse in Dubuque, born Oct 30 1902, is survived by her mother Mrs Catherine O'Brien, a brother Marcus of Strawberry Point, and sister Mrs Gerald Lynch of Dubuque.
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Dubuqne
Mason Sity
Catherine O'Brien
Marcus
Strawberry Point
Gerald Lynch
Dubuque
Pacific War Advances Rally U.S. Forces Across Pacific
American troops sealed Leyte victory in the Philippines as U S air and sea power hammered Iwo Jima near Tokyo. Liberators bombed Clark Field, and Tokyo listed Leyte as the next target after crushing Japanese defenses. Allied losses totaled thousands of dead and wounded, with Admiral Nimitz vowing stronger blows in 1945.
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United Press
Leyte
Philippines
U. S
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Lerte
Lezen
Manila
Clark Field
Samar Island
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Saipan
Marianas
Crester W. Nimitz
Japan
Hirohito
Escape Through 200-Foot Tunnel
Phoenix report says 235 German POWs escaped from the Papso park internment camp via a 200-foot rock tunnel. They dug under the enclosure and irrigation canal, fed by Naval Captain Watten-Ferg. Only six were captured as guards, planes, and patrols searched the desert.
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Phoenix
William Helden
Papsso Park
Christmas Evers
Helden
Jueregsa Watten- Ferg
Dynamite cache found near Athens hotel thwarting plot
A near ton of dynamite was found in a sewer under the Great Britain hotel in Athens as British and Greek leaders prepared for a conference to end the Greek civil war. Explosives weighed about 1680 pounds and were armed with electric detonators. authorities believe criminals traveled via sewer from Elmja stadium area. The incident sparked speculation of a wider three power meeting in Moscow or the Mediterranean next, with Churchill and Eden to lead talks.
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Anthony Eden
British Exchange Telegraph
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Roosevelt
Eden
University Street
Elmjaheld Stadium
Ardittes Hill
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