War-Time Discharge Rules Expand Pooled Releases
Changes announced December 19 lower discharge thresholds from 65 to 60 for enlisted men and from 4 to 70 for officers, permitting about 100,000 more Army personnel to be released, with Monday as the target date. At least five troop transports carrying over 22,500 service members were set to arrive Monday on both East and West coasts. U S personnel in Shanghai area forego turkey for Christmas but receive one pound per man for New Year feasts. Quartermasters in China rushed to Washington for fair turkey prices, and additional birds were supplied by Navy from 14 refrigerated ships.
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Tiree
Turkeys
United States Army
Shanghai
China
Washington
Navy
British seal off part of western Jerusalem
British troops sealed off a western section of Jerusalem with armored cars and barbed wire, searching for terrorists, after an outbreak of violence last Thursday that left 10 dead and 12 wounded. the city remained quiet through the night.
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Jerusalem
Riuttiers Bug Ups 56 Riuttiers Face Snakes in Dickens Dig
CHILDRESS Dec 31 H F Hawley a stone mason while hunting for a new red rock deposit near Dickens unearthed a den of rattlesnakes. He killed 58 and said there are still plenty left.
MacArthur Halts Three Japanese School Courses
General MacArthur ordered suspension of three Japanese courses used to spread militaristic ultra nationalism. Textbooks and teachers manuals are confiscated. The courses on history epigraphy and morals will remain halted until headquarters approves their resumption. The morals course stressed Shinto ideas of the emperor's divinity and divine mission.
Beating By Jap Described
An American officer imprisoned in a Japanese camp testifies in an affidavit about being beaten by the camp commander over an alleged escape attempt. Capt Wayne C. Liles of Clinton Ohio recounts the punishment of himself and another officer with belts and a feather, and notes Pvt. James S. Mann died after 14 days in the guard house.
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Yokohama
Dec
Gnnita
Wayne C. Lilies
Clinton, Oka
Ohotaro Purushimia
James 5
Mann
Los Angeles
Liles
Furushina
German generals hanged in Bryants four huts for wartime crimes
Moscow reports a military tribunal found two German generals and a noncommissioned officer guilty of torturing and killing Farsian civilians and Red Army prisoners. Lieut. Gen. Friedrich Gustav Reiphardt Maj. Gen. Adolf Hamman former commandant of Orel Bryansk and Bobruisk and Col. Martin Lemnpler were executed. Col. Karl Theodor Stein received a 20 year hard labor sentence.
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Moscow
Bryants
Red Army
Friedrich Gustav Reiphardt
Adolf Hamman
Orel
Bryansk
Bobruisk
Martin Lemnpler
Karl Theodor Stein
Trial testimony cites prisoner abuse by Kamioka prison commander
Lieut. Gerard Theunissen testified at the war crimes trial that the Kamiokg prison camp commander laughed as American private Robert J. Robinson was beaten until he regained sanity. The affidavit, from Lieut. Oholaro Furushim and Dutch officer, places witness to the brutal incident in Java.
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Yokohama
Kamiokg
Mer
Jay
Oholaro Furushim
Gerard Herman Theunissen
Java
Robert J. Robinson
Filipino girl testifies in war crimes trial in Manila
A young Filipina testified in Manila on December 31 that a Japanese general ordered the execution of three American airmen. The trial, of Liont Gerri Nikolsio Tijima and 12 lower ranks, concerns the beheadings of Americans on Baton Island, north of Luzon. The witness said a lieutenant defendant reported Tijima banished a colonel to Formosa after the colonel refused the executions.
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Manila
Sheauhiftel
Liont
Gerri
Nikolsio Tijima
Baton Island
Luzon
Leutenant
J Gieneral Tijima
Formosa
Back Home Navy Separations List of Names
Navy personnel listed for discharge or separation, including Lieut William Mayfield, Florencio Martinez, Vincent Gonzalez, James Boren, Canuto Torres, Ramon Rodriguez, John Shannon, Teresa Leyendecker, Clyde Nixon, Wille Gonzales, Nicholas Rodriguez, F V Rovello, Arcacio Teller, Jack Campbell, Morris Ridley, Henry Davis, Oscar Reyes, Guadalupe Hernandez, Alexander Travieso. Addresses and ratings shown. list reflects postwar demobilization.
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William
Mayfield
Camdenalreet
Florencio Martinex
South Colorado Street
Wlcalar Rivera
Ste
Vera
Grut Street
Vincent Gonzales
Soldana Street
John W. Shannon
Pmicc
Harrian Place
Tiarace Leyendecker
Clyde Nixon
Stribling Street
Wille
Gonznies
Coxawed
Trinity Street
Childress
Nicholas Rod
Viguez
Teresa Street
F. V. M. Rovello
Spe
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Salinas Street
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Eller
Vera Cruz Street
Jack D. Campbell
Sie
Morris Ridley
North Center Street
Henry Daviln
Arbor Place
Oscar Reyes
Rosita Place
Guadahupe Hernandes
Durango Street
Alexander Travieso
Mary Street
New Year’s Eve Dances Announced Citywide
Multiple venues list New Year’s Eve dances including Majestic and Bye Bonnet Ramblers with $90 programs, Danee Kentucky Ill Dec 2, Apache and Friesenhahn orchestras, Niemeyer orchestra with Miss Sally Simms at 102 W Crockett, Short’s Corner in Citsday, and Wernelt’s Garden Castroville with Joe Hartroatin Orchestra. events span Monday Dec 31 into night.
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City News
Hill Top
Majestic
Friesenhahn Orch
Niemeyer Orchestra
Sally Simms
W. Crockett
Wernelt's Garden
Castroville
Joe Hartroatin
New Photo Plane XF-1 Revealed for War Surveillance
PARMINGDALE December Si a Republic AviationCorporation disclosed a new reconnaissance plane named XF-1 designed to outpace enemy bombers in speed and range. It features three camera stations and a built in dark room for loading and developing film midflight. The war department has not released performance data. The XF-1 spans 129 feet and measures 98 feet in length and is powered by four Pratt and Whitney 28 cylinder engines with an emergency rating above 3654 horsepower.
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Parmingdale
Dec
Iti
Republic Asia
Ton Corporation
War Department
Pratt and Whitney
Hunter Killed Near Laredo
Herbert Dannie aged 48, a tuck operator from Mirando City, was shot while hunting north of Aguilers in Webb County. He was pronounced dead by Justice Francisco Lopez as an accidental death. Dannie and two companions were separated when he was mistaken for a coyote in the early morning fox hunt.
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Undeao
Bec
Herbert Dannie
Mirando Cuty
Aguilers
Webb County
Fing
Paice
Francisco Lopez
Danmiey
Hee
Lopez
Danmier
Happy Ending Hacking Happy Ending Bollywood Couples
Hollywood’s year ends with many high profile divorces and breakups. The article lists couples like Constance Bonarth with Gilbert Roland, Barbara Hutton with Carey Grant, Jennifer Jones with Robert Welker, and Ella Raines with William Trout among others, signaling a turbulent film industry romance scene.
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Hollywood
Timmtons
Constance Bonarth
Gilbert Roland
Barbara Hutton
Carey Grant
Jennifer Jones
Robert Welker
Jobyna Ralston
Richard Arlen
Estelle Taylor
Paul Small
Hattie McDunie
James Lloyd Crawford
Ella Raines
William Trout
James Tillon
Galina Hilton
Dale Evans
Robert Dale Butts
Alice Joyce
Clarence Brown
Roy del South
Olive del Rutty
Bandits Raid Sicily Police Outpost At Monreale
Bandits using grenades dynamite rifles and machine guns attacked a police outpost at Monreale. They overpowered and bound three guards after a gun battle and seized arms. It followed another weekend Sicily incident where a policeman was killed and four others wounded by attackers believed to be separatists seeking secession.
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Pransilima
Svuily
Monreale
Sve
Sicily
Italy
Mine Sinks U S Ship Off Kyushu Island
The U S S Minivet struck a mine Saturday off Kyushu, Japan, with nine officers and 82 enlisted aboard. Initial reports spoke of moderate loss of life and injuries as aircraft and surface ships searched for missing crewmen amid mine sweeping operations in the Tsushima strait.
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Kyushu Island
Japan
Tsushima Strait
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