Yank Barrier Crushes Japanese Air Power in Philippines
American forces pinned most of Japan’s air fleet in the northern Philippines, destroying 91 planes and damaging ships. Four B-29s over Luzon dropped incendiaries, while Admiral Nimitz announced heightened patrols and forward HQ moves as US and Australian units push operations from Pearl Harbor toward advancing fronts.
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Associated Press
Philippnes
Barrer
Ang. Qa. Frei Radio Tokyo
Capiat
Douglas MacArthur
Cos
Tae Dee
Rillind
Wentrateal Wuel
RIM
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nunits
Adiesi Nimitz
Korsber James
Philippines
Luzon
Janes
Admiral Nuits
Nimitz
Petition Seeks Zoning Change in Pannaway Area
Petition by John R. B. Crocker and signers asks Portemouth to change zoning on Colter development at Sherburne Road to permit brick commercial building and waiting room. City council referred to planning board and a public hearing will be required before action.
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John RB. Crokter
Panneway Manor
Sherburne Road
Colter
Portemouth
Planning
Civ Hall
Gia
Mythter
Planning Board
Hetel
Galter
Sherburne Rege
Greenland Road
Weather Chronicle Recaps Snow and Cold Conditions
A weather note reviews the past 24 hours with cloudy skies and snow. Highs reached 32 degrees while the low hovered near 2. The report mentions noon conditions and a continuing cold trend in the region around New Hampshire.
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Times
THE
Herald
Almanac Style Page Teaser From The Day's Herald
A condensed almanac style page lists sections like amusements cartoons ads comics personals and sports. It references towns such as Kittery New Castle Newington and Newmarket with generic notes on events and public forums and radio items.
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Herald Amusements
Kittery
Kittery Point Clas
Urgal
New Castle Cross
Peale
Newington
Newmarket Events
Gunnin
Hampton
Flere & There
Britain Backs Reds Would Yield in Poland
Prime Minister Churchill signaled Britain would back ceding parts of Poland to satisfy Russian demands. He proposed compensating Poland with East Prussia and Danzig taken from Germany, and urged a meeting of Roosevelt and Stalin at the earliest moment. Churchill noted high Allied losses and lamented the difficulty of American policy clarity.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Old
Poland
Lwow
Ukraine
East Prussia
Danzig
Germany
Roosevelt
Stalin
United Nations
Associated Press
Washington
Sumer
United States
N E Ski Conditions Fair for Weekend
Northern New England reports generally fair skiing after a storm left six to 12 inches at upper slopes. New Hampshire notes Cranmore eight inches on summit six on base, Cannon six on eight base, Monadnock five inches. Vermont notes Snow Valley six to eight windpacked powder on 12 to 16 base, Rutland Peak twelve windpacked powder on six base, Stowe, Mansfield four inches new powder on eight base. Massachusetts Berkshire Mount Greylock two windpacked powder on eight to 10 settled base, good on upper trails.
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Boston
New England
New Hampshire
Cranmore Mountain
Franconia Nnich
iCannon Mountains
Monadnock Rerion
Temple Mountain
Vermont
Robot Bombs Fly For 30th Night
On December 13 the Germans launched V bomb attacks on southern England for the 30th night in a row. The Air Ministry reported damage and casualties, while London papers showed scenes of devastation and ongoing repairs to ease housing shortages. German radio defended the weapon as strictly military, not a terror tool, noting few fatalities.
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England
Air Ministry
London
Labor Corps
Szalasi Wounded in Budapest? Assassination Attempt
Paris radio reports Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Szalasi seriously wounded in an attempted assassination in London. A week earlier Szalasi was said to have visited Adolf Hitler at the Führer’s secret headquarters.
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Szalasi
London
Paris
Ferenc Szalasi
Adolf Hitler
The
Tuéhrer
Mrs Dondero Seeks Recount After Narrow Mayor Loss
Mrs Dondero, Nempecrat, defexted for mayor by eight votes to Ira A. Brown, Republican, announced she would formally request a recount of the ballots. She cited hundreds of calls and letters and said she seeks fairness to her supporters.
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Mary €. Dondero
Ira A. Brown
Mrs. Dondera
Calls Out More Greek Militiamen
Athens reports a new class of Greek militia called by Premier George Papandreou as ELAS forces press into the city amid stalled ceasefire talks. RAF operations struggle as Plastiras suggests a broad government plan, while relief efforts falter with limited trucks and fuel shortages.
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Athens
George Papandreou
ELAS
Papandreou
Piraeus
RAF
Nicholas Plastiras
Plastitas
Papandreot
Harold MacMillan
Mediterranean
Red Cross
Urge Direct Air Routes To New York
Civil Aeronautics Board heard a push for direct air service from northern New England to New York. Park of New York authority traffic chief Jon W. Moore said New York intervened in 14 company hearings for postwar feeder routes. Vaughan for Northern Airlines proposed flights via Boston or Worcester and Springfield ending in Laconia, with pickup for mail and freight linking New Hampshire and Vermont.
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Boston
Aps
New England
New York
Civil Aeronautics Board
Jon W. Moore
Air Transport
the Park of New York Authority
Moore
A. D. Vaughan
White River Junction
Northern Airlines
Lacania
N. H
Vaughan
Worcester
Springfield
Laconia
New Hampshire
Vermont
Agitation Grows for Polish Provisional Government
In Moscow a crescendo of support builds for the Soviet sponsored Committee of National Liberation to form a Polish provisional government. Polish leaders return to Lublin after Moscow conferences as Russian press covers rising demand in Polish territories for governance by the committee.
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Moscow
Committee of National Liberation
Lublin
Death by own action ends Lupe Velez life in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Calif Dec 16 AP Lupe Velez a vibrant film figure died in her home age 34 from an apparent self inflicted drug overdose while four months pregnant. Police report two suicide notes found in her pillowcase addressed to Harald Ramond Maresch reveal motive and premeditation. The actress rose from a Mexico shopgirl to Hollywood star and recently spoke of marrying Harald Ramond.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Lupe Velez
Filmdon
Hollywood
Mexico
Lupe
Harald
Harald Ramond-Maresch
Harold Ramand
Ramond
Bavald
Line
Beulah Kinder
Seventh Army Invades Germany Frontline Advance
The 7th U S Army led by Lt General Alexander M Patch crossed into Germany today marking the fourth American army to penetrate the German homeland. The Associated Press reported the bold move as Allied forces push toward key German borders.
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Alexander M. Patch
U. S. Seventh Army
Germany
Associated Fress
Allied Forces Advance Across Rhine Front Near Karlsruhe
Lt Gen. Pateh's Seventh Army pushes 35 miles of front west of the Rhine to within seven miles of Karlsruhe and 35 of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. Devers' Sixth Army Group reaches 105 miles along the Rhine, from Lauterbourg to the Swiss border, while French towns fall to the 79th Division. Russian forces clash along the Ipory river north of Bratislava as German defenses rush reserves. In Italy, Canadians hold a bridge west of Ravenna near Bagna Cavallo after crossing the Lamone, threatening Faenza.
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Lembach
Maginot Fortress
Bitche
Mannheim
Rhineland
Alexander M. Pateh
U. S
Rhine
Karlsruhe
Ludwigshafen
Sixth Army
Saarland
Palatinate
Jacob L. Devers
Sixth
Lauterbourg
Seventh
Siegfried Line
Berlin
Kearlsruhe
Sembath
Maginot
Meginot
Ipory
Danube
Bratislava
Deringer
Faenza
Po Vale
Sicilians Rebel At Call to War
Riots erupted in Catania Sicily after a government decree calling the classes of 1921 and 1922 to arms. Guards fired on a crowd at recruiting HQ amid student participation and reports said one student was killed.
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Fiame
IAPI
Catania
Sicily
Time Churchill Retired Says Wells
Novelist H G Wells says Prime Minister Churchill has outlived his fighting role and should retire. He criticizes Churchill's Greek policy as discreet to the nation and labels him a would be British fuehrer with pro royalty views and a limited range of ideas. Wells calls for Churchill to go in the article entitled Churchill must go.
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London
H.G. Wells
Churchill
Britain
Weekly Tribune
Fuehrer
Wells
Greece
BU Head Opposes Peace Conscription Plan
Boston University President Marsh criticizes universal peacetime conscription while the nation is at war. He says public opinion will not tolerate compulsory military training now, urging waiting until after the war to avoid enforcing wartime fear and endangering American democracy.
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Buster, Reo, Ly Tary
Uamer Ob. Marsh
Boston University
Congress
Council Ok's Purchase of Trade School
The city council authorized the mayor to buy the Morley plant building housing the federal defense school and to sign papers for the purchase. Expenditure not to exceed 35 thousand dollars. The move follows a long process involving the school board and committees since last spring. The city plans to retain $175,000 worth of machinery and equipment by offering a location to house and use it.
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Federal Defense School
Ken
Ward E. Goldsmith
Morley
Morley Company
Charles M. Dale
Ty J. Downs
Board of Education
State Department of Education
Hitler Insanity Debate Sparks Journal Talk
A fragmented New York note from December 15 raises questions about Adolf Hitler’s sanity dating back to 1933 and ponders fate of Hermann Goering. It mocks wartime communication limits, Japan's operators, and skeptically references legendary celestial lineage and earthquake warnings amid general war talk.
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New York
Hitler
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