Fragmented World War II frontline fragments reveal shifting combat lines
A garbled wartime dispatch describes Allied and German positions around Aachen Liege and Antwerp, noting counterattacks, German defense near the Rhine and Meuse, and supply routes to northern ports. The text references Cologne, the Cologne pact, and attackers pushing toward Dutch and Belgian towns amid heavy fighting and shifting front lines.
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Duarte
Cologne
Curognie
Cermany
Pal India
Bueren
Uitierios
Lee Co
Karl van Dindstrdt
Pest
Ascher
Ely
Liege
Vilsater
Fortin
Mies
Aachen
Yanks Tighten Leyte Trap Invasion Ends In Airfield Take
American infantrymen spearheaded a push into Leyte center driving into the crumbling Yamashita line. They seized an intact airfield and trapped thousands of Japanese as onslaughts pressed across Mindoro and surrounding Leyte corridors. Allied airpower hit Tokyo and Manchuria targets while Japanese resistance stiffened in China.
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Yamashita
Leyte Island
Transocean
Tokyo
Omura
Japan
Shanghai
Nanking
China
Kwangsi-Kweichow
Mitsuie Hochin
Plan to Form Steward's Club in Portsmouth
A group of about forty union officials from the Portsmouth area met at the Rockingham hotel to discuss forming a steward's club as part of an experimental labor movement. A follow up meeting is planned for Tuesday to report back to locals, with Clark Worman outlining training and national interest in shop stewards.
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Portsmouth
Rockingham
Clark Wormay
Department of Labor
APL
CTO
Allacem
Portsmorh Tay
Altray Cone
Churchill Defends Allied Unity in Greece Debat
London December 20 AP Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Commons in a special Greece debate there was general agreement on the war aims binding Britain Russia and the United States though disagreements on every aspect remain. He said alliance cooperation with the United States and Russia would continue while Labour criticized his handling of Greece.
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London
Winston Churchill
Commons
Greece
Britain
Russia
United States
Europe
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Arthur Greenwood
Labor Party
EAM
Dehart
Cavalry Fists Drive Nazis From Italian Patrol
In Italy near the Fifth Army area, Saidh cavalry reconnaissance troopers led by Capt. Jan F. Turner of Weymouth used hand to hand fighting against a German patrol that breached guard lines. The unexpected defense forced the remaining Germans to retreat and not return.
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Italy
Nec
Saidh Cavalry
Jan F. Turner
Weymouth
Recount Date Shifted To Tuesday In City Election
City Clerk Edward J. Hopley announced the recount of ballots from the recent city election will now occur on Tuesday to avoid holiday weekend conflicts. Councilman-at-large ballots will be tallied at 8 am and mayoral votes at 2 pm. Republican Michael J. Whaien, defeated by Democrat George K. Sanborn by 10 votes for council at large, requested a recount. Democrat Dondero, defeated for mayor by eight votes to Republican Tra A. Brown, requested the other recount.
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Edward J. Hopley
Hopsey
Michael J. Whaien
George K. Sanborn
Mary
Dondero
Tra A. Brown
FDR Says Atlantic Charter Not a Formal Document
President Roosevelt disclosed that the Atlantic Charter does not exist as a signed formal document. He noted the nearest original may be among radio operators who transmitted terms from a 1941 meeting with Winston Churchill, with the Charter created by scribbles from various individuals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tom Reedy
Associated Press
White House
Library of Congress
State Department
Reedy
Albert B. Chandler
D-Ky
Senate
Atlantic
Woman Killed by Truck in Beale and Temple Crash
Mrs Anna Wineberg 76 of High Street was killed last night after being struck by a Brockton driven truck as she stepped from a bus at Beale and Temple streets. Police named Albert Simmons as the truck operator.
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Whitman
Mass
API
Anna Wineberg
High Street
Beale and
Temple Streets
Albert Simmons
Brockton
Ahepa Protests Lend Lease Use Against Greeks
Local Portsmouth N H Ahepa chapter 215 sent telegrams to Sens Styles Bridges and To bey and Reps Merrow and Stearns protesting lend lease material used to subjugate European peoples. The group endorsed Stettinius on Greece freedom and warned that postwar policy threatens Atlantic Charter ideals.
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Ahepa
Europe
Portsmouth Parthenon
Order of
Sens
Styles Bridges
Charles W. Tobey
Chester E. Merrow
Foster Stearns
National Organization
William Genimatas
Portsmouth
Arst
Washington
George O. Vournas
Hitler
London
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
U. S
Fighting Lady thrills Navy in DeRochemont film preview
The navy previews The Fighting Lady produced by Louis deRochemont, a 61 minute color-biography of an anonymous aircraft carrier. It highlights dramatic air attacks, fires, crashes, and rescue scenes with vivid wartime realism and camera-work from planes and shipboard footage.
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DeRochemont
Fighting Lady
Thrills Navy
Konywood
sucaPi
Navy
Hollywood
Louis deRochemont
Newington
N. H
Nob
Alfred Mitchcock
Relief recipient collapses after long-lost inheritance news
In Grants Pass Oregon on December 20 1949 a 72 year old relief recipient Ed S Young learned he had inherited 45000 from a Philadelphia grand-uncle. After hearing the news he dropped dead, ending a 14 year search by executors for the missing beneficiary.
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Grants Pass
Ore
Ed S. Young
Philadelphia
Young
Yanks Stand Firm as German Drive Thrusts Deep
American tanks and doughboys held in key sectors while German columns pressed toward supply dumps. First Army retreated no further than several miles in places, with Hodges injecting infantry and armor to blunt the breakthrough. Berlin reports claim 10,000 prisoners, but front dispatches insist the line remains fluid and defenses are hardening around Monschau and Stavelot as Allied reinforcements move to the north.
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Belgium
First Army
Supreme Headquarters
Stavelot
Niese
Aachen
Monschau
Anchen
Colunns
Seid
U.S
U.S. First Army
Luxembourg
Gourtney H. Hodges
Liege
Ninth Army
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rumdstedt
Reich
Germiens
Easing
Stores Meet Demand of Yale Buying
Portsmouth stores continue brisk holiday shopping with merchandise plentiful despite a rush many expect to top last year’s by at least 23 percent. Merchants say Boston shoppers stay local, luxury tax not curbing demand, and late shoppers will still find a wide selection.
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Portsmouth
Boston
Solons Fly Home After Frontline Tour
United States House Military Affairs members return to Baril Italy after a 25 day tour of battlefronts. Rep Clare Boothe Luce stays behind due to car trouble and may spend Christmas with frontline troops. Rep J Parnell Thomas proposes newspapers print Paris and Rome editions to bring home news to doughboys and improve U S image in liberated countries. Rep Charles H Elston backs the plan if paper is available.
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United States
Charles H. Elston
Ohio
Canadian Leaders Urge News Freedom
National leaders of Canada’s four major parties affirmed world wide freedom of news exchange as essential to mankind. Prime Minister MacKenzie King said news freedom protection is under careful government review. Party leaders Blacket Coldwell and Blackmore backed news freedom being written into peace treaties.
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Vuuawa
Zu taPi
Canada
W. L. MacKenzie King
Liberal Party
John Blacket
Progressive Conservative
M. J. Coldwell
C. F
Johny Blackmore
New Democracy
Indict Newark Man As Contact for Spies
Washington reports the Justice Department indicts Carl Emil Jaddwig Krepper of Newark for acting as a contact for German spies. The case, filed in Newark, cites violations of sabotage censorship and foreign agents laws. Indictments stem from a two year FBI probe tracing to a 1942 saboteur ring and allege conspiracy with Walter Kappe and Berthe Krepper to injure and obstruct national defense using censorship devices.
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Washington
API
Justice Department
Department
Newark
N. J
Carl Emil Jaddwig Krepper
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Atlantic
Krepper
Walter Kappe
FBI
Berlin
Berthe Krepper
United States
New York Reflections on Japanese Admirals and War
A 1945 era column laments Japanese naval leadership losses, noting 80 admirals have perished and comparing Japanese tactics to German generals. The piece mocks Tokyo leadership and praises U S naval efforts, claiming ongoing searches to send Japanese forces to their ancestors.
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Hitler
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