Yanks Hold To Bastogne In Heart Of Bulge
Allied forces fought to defend Bastogne as two German armored columns pushed deeply into Belgium, reaching the Meuse vicinity and widening a 50 by 35 mile bulge. Eisenhower launched counter moves and air raids while German plans reportedly targeted Paris by mid January amid heavy fighting near St. Vith and Namur.
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Bastogne
Bulge
Ike
Belgium
Meuse
St. Vith
Supreme Headquarters
Hitler
Eisenhower
Arlon
Karl von Rundstedt
Laroche
Granmenil
Liemeux
von Rundstedt
Gerien
Rochefort
March Hotton
Grandmenil
Stavelot
Bullingen
Monschau
Germany
Namur
Liege
Libramont
Two Killed In Area Car Accidents Amid Christmas Fatalities
Traffic crashes in southern Ohio during the Christmas season killed two people and injured several others. In Portsmouth a 27 year old woman and a 45 year old man were injured and a 67 year old West Union man died in another crash. The Portsmouth fatalities marked the year's third automobile death in the city. In a separate report, Gen MacArthur announced Japan’s severe losses at Leyte and in the Pacific, detailing the scale of Allied victories and Japanese casualties. The battles included key landings and the near-total occupation of Leyte, with American air battles and ongoing operations around Clark Field and other locations.
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Ohio
Portsmouth
Alma Henthorn
Isaac Henthorn
Rhodesay
New Boston
Portsmouth Home Telephone Co
Richard Morrison
Ninth St
Jacobs’ Meat Market
Portsmouth General Hospital
Edward Jeffrey
West Union
Associated Press
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Hirohito
Nippon
Leyte
MacArthur
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Gen. MacArthur
Palompon
Puerto Bello
San Isidro
Tokyo
Clark Field
Manila Field
China
Americans Return to Strict Food Rations in December
Washington reports tighter controls as points resume on many rationed items. Price Administrator Chester Bowles announces renewed steps to ensure fairer distribution of scarce supplies. Republicans push for a secretary with broad authority over pricing and distribution amid changes raising butter points from 20 to 24 per pound and canceling red and blue allocations.
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Chester Bowles
House
New rationing changes outlined by OPA for December
New charts on Page 14 show stamps that become valid before December. Sugar stamps and home canning certificates are cancelled except No 34 in book 4. Red and blue stamps retain various values. About 85 percent of meats will be rationed by December 31. Canned vegetables and sugar supplies are at wartime lows while meat supplies decline. Changes were advanced 24 hours to protect shelf stocks. A 10 percent cut for restaurant baking and 15 percent for others. Meat point allowances drop from 60 to 50 per four weeks. sugar quota extended from 10 weeks to three months. Blue quota of 50 per person continues through January. Five new red stamps and five blues will be validated Sunday.
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Bowles
OPA
Wounded Soldiers From Home Town In WWII Actions
Pfc Virgil Spires 19 of Sugar Grove wounded third time on Dec 12 in France and overseas 13 months after Italy and Rome actions. Pvt Clovis Journey 24 of Buena Vista wounded in Germany Nov 17, now in France. Pvt Thomas Williams 19 of Blue Creek wounded in France Nov 15 after enlisting in 1942. Pfc William T Speck of Nauvoo awarded the Purple Heart for shrapnel wound to left arm during Moselle river assault and later transported from field hospital to England en route home.
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Virgil Roberts Spires
France
Pernie Spires
Sugar Grove
Spires
Italy
Rome
Pvt
Clovis Journey
Germany
War Department
Ruth Journey
Buena Vista
Journey
Thomas Williams
Mack Williams
Blue Creek
Daisy Williams
Williams
William T. Speck
Fred Speck
Nauvoo
Army General Hospital
Speck
Moselle
England
Colder Weather Forecast With Snow in Ohio River Region
Weather note warns of sharp drop tonight with temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above zero and rain turning to snow. Ohio rainfall totals reach 0.91 inch, Ohio River rising to 16.9 feet, and Western Virginia reports high river stages. Christmas Day saw widespread rain followed by snow in much of Ohio, with travel hazardous from sleet and freezing rain in Cincinnati. Highs reached 42, while the low dropped to 19 as snowfall accumulations increased in northern areas.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Eviction Ruling Eases GI Joe Home Purchases
Washington December 26 Veterans who buy under the GI bill may occupy homes without the 20 percent unborrowed fund payment. OPA rent rules had barred eviction for occupancy by a purchaser without that payment, but the rule was set aside today for GI purchases.
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Washington
G. I
OPA
G. L
Former Senator Blair Lee of Maryland Dies at 87
Washington dispatch says Blair Lee former U S Senator from Maryland died last night age 87 He served in the Senate from 1913 to 1917 and was a prominent political figure in his state and era.
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Washington
U. S
Blair Lee
Maryland
Sen. Lee
Senate
Sciotoco Native Dies in Christmas Auto Crash
Clifford Floyd Benner 33 of Marion Ohio a native of Sciotoco died at 12 10 a m Christmas when his car skidded off a Delaware highway into a guard rail. Passenger Charles David Narrance 48 died three hours later. Benner born March 16 1911 in Lucasville was married to Megie Seth. Funeral 2 a m Wednesday at McKinley funeral home with burial in Lucasville cemetery.
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Clifford Floyd Benner
Marion
Sciotoco
Delaware
Charles David Narrance
Lucasville
Benner
Clifford Benner
Belle Cutlip Benner
Megie Seth
Ross Dunlap
Portsmouth
Jt 3
Fred
Charlotte Dougherty
Columbus
McKinley Funeral Home
John Kemper
Lucasville Cemetery
Desperate Nazi Break Attempt Near Budapest
The article reports three U.S. Army airmen killed over the weekend due to missing identification facilities at Portsmouth. Tech. Sgt. Ralph W. Heckler of Cleveland survived an A-26 crash near Mt. Crab on Sunday night after the crew, four in total, failed to determine their location during a midair explosion. Army officers at Ft. Thomas identified the plane as the one flying over Portsmouth between 5 and 6 p.m.
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Portsmouth
Ralph W. Heckler
Cleveland
Mt. Crab
Ft. Thomas
Ironton Sailor Among Five Killed In Navy Plane Crash
Specialist Third Class Baker L. Kinney of Ironton was one of five dead when a navy transport plane crashed near Indianapolis while attempting to land at Indianapolis Municipal Airport in dense fog. The aircraft, en route from Olathe Naval Air Base to Columbus, overshot the runway.
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Ironton Navy
Indianapolis
Baker L. Kinney
Columbus
Olathe
Eas
Plane crash scare near Raven Rock airport as crew seeks guidance
An army plane en route from Florida to Cleveland became lost south of the Ohio valley and circled Portsmouth trying to locate an air field. Emergency squads set flares at Raven Rock to guide the aircraft in murky weather before heading toward Cincinnati after failing to sight the airport or flares.
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Raven Rock
Sgt
Heckler
Florida
Cleveland
Ohio Valley
Portsmouth
Florida- Cleveland
Army Air Field
Scott Field
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Weather Report for Ohio Valley Partly Cloudy Night
Partly cloudy conditions continue tonight with a low around 10 degrees above zero. Wednesday will be partly cloudy with temperatures rising. Observer Schirrman records show 11 am today at 21 degrees, today’s low 19, yesterday’s high 42, and a year ago today high 46, low 34.
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Ohio Valley
Schirrman
Panic in Moscow as Germans seize vehicles near Budapest
Reported panic inside Budapest as German forces commandeer cars and buses and troops guard routes. Soviet advances push toward the city limits with a 15 mile drive toward western Budapest while bombing runs target two airports, and a broader Red Army surge moves toward Vienna and Bratislava, with thousands of German casualties cited in recent days.
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Moscow
Budapest
Red Army
Buda
Esztergom
Danube
Czecho-Slovakia
Hron
Garam
Leva
Levice
Vienna
Bratislava
Robin Hood Employer Kills Self In Gotham
New York, Dec 26 Oscar H. Gropper, 57, owner of a leather goods firm, killed himself in a ninth floor hotel suite after notes to his wife and attorney stating Thefts have ruined me. A secretary at Gropper Inc. was accused earlier of stealing between $30,000 and $40,000 and Madeline Dunnigan, 22, is under arrest on grand larceny charges.
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New York
Oscar H. Gropper
Gasoline ration coupons expire December 31
Washington reports that gasoline ration coupons B-4 C-4 and fourth-quarter T will expire on December 31 per the OPA. The agency announced the end date for these coupons as part of wartime controls.
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Washington
OPA
184 U. S. Army Men Face Trial
A high ranking American officer says February will reveal many details as the army prosecutes another group of U S servicemen for selling cigarets gasoline and other military supplies to the French black market. He notes tanks sit empty while soldiers peddled fuel by the gallon and says scores have already been sentenced to prison terms from one year to life.
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Paris
U. S
Churchill Tries to End Greek Civil Strife in Athens
In Athens Prime Minister Churchill made an unheralded visit and urged a conference of opposing political leaders to halt three weeks of brutal civil strife. He met with Greek Premier George Papandreou, Harold Macmillan, and Field Marshal Harold Alexander as ELAS clashes continued and British troops supported government forces. The plan aims to unify Greek political opinion and restore Greece to its UN standing.
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Associated Press
Athens
Churchill
Greece
Anthony Fden
ELAS
Harold Alexander
Mediterranean
Harold MacMillan
Minster
George Papandreou
United Nations
Frontline Distances to Berlin and Other Fronts
Road to Berlin shows 301 miles from near Duren on the Western Front. The Russian Front distance is 304 miles from north of War saw. Hungarian Front stands at 368 miles from Leva. Italian Front measures 649 miles from north of Mezza no.
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Duren
Warsaw
Leva
Mezzano
Allied push in the Bastogne area drives gains across Belgian front
Allied forces press along the southern flank of the German bulge near Bastogne gaining one to three miles in 24 hours. U S troops seal off la Gleize and Stavelot area with 200 Germans captured and 15 tanks seized. Fighting rages around Chaumont and Neuenhausen as Americans recapture Heiderscheid and advance toward Diekirch and Vianden while German attacks are repulsed near Kehmen.
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Stavelot
Staumond
U.S
la Gleize
Bullingen
Beaueraine
Eisenhower
Bastogne
Echternach
Bulge
Chaumont
Arlon-Bastogne
Bigonville
Arsdorf
Neuenhausen
Heiderscheid
Diekirch
Kehmen
Mostroff
Vianden
Rundstedt's Army Renew Westward Drive
DEWITT Mackenzie reports that German forces show a renewed westward push with heavy fighting and frequent casualties. Allied lines hold firm under Eisenhower, with no debacle and gradual gains despite German counter thrusts, as the war enters a costly and ongoing offensive phase.
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