Americans Reach 2500 Yards From Duren On Roer Front
Allied forces push along both banks of the Roer River from Linnich toward Duren with 2500 yards remaining to besieged Duren and near Cologne as units drive across the river area. Meanwhile First Army troops seize Wichhofen near Julich as fighting presses German positions east of Rollesbroich.
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Paris
Ninth
Roer
Linnich
Besieged
Duren
Supreme Headquarters
Cologne
First Army
Kesternich
Rhine
Rollesbroich
Bickerath
Simmerath
Wichhofen
Julich
Lend-Lease probes watchlisted by U S Congress
Washington sources report growing interest in investigating Lend-Lease amid British re export plans and alleged misuses. Rumors say Italian work battalions altered goods, while Iraq sought 100 trucks and tractors, later obtaining them from Britain due to American shortages.
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Washington
Lord Keynes
Congress
Italy
State Department
Iraq
U. S
Allied Allied Conference Shapes Aleutian War Outlook
United States Army and Navy chiefs from the Central Pacific and Aleutian theaters met with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor to discuss future operations against Japan. Attendees included Lt. Gen Delos C. Emmons and Lt. Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr along with Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher, signaling plans for strikes toward northern Japan and Kamchatka.
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United States Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Central Pacific
Aleutian
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Alaska
Hokkaido
Jajian
Kamchatka
Délos C. Emmons
Alaskan Department
Frank J Fletcher
North Pacific
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Red Forces Edge In On Budapest In Heavy Soviet Drive
Russian siege guns battered Budapest suburbs including Ujpest Rakospalota and Kispet as Soviet armored units advanced seven miles north and 10 miles east. The Second Ukrainian Army announced the capture of Kisalag and Isaszeg as the push nears Pest, with Vienna and Austria’s fate framed as the next outcome.
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Moscow
Budapest
Ujpest
Rakospalota
Kispet
Pest
Danube
Kisalag
Isaszeg
Malinovsky
Ukraiian
Red Army
Bratislava
Austria
Tavestia
Vienna
Threshhold
Yankee gains on Leyte Isle and MacArthur HQ reported
American troops advancing north of Ormoc Leyte Island inflict heavy losses on Japanese efforts to land supplies. The 77th 7th and 32nd Divisions press the northwestern sector while three small ships are sunk near Ormoc with Catalina Mitchell and medium bombers aid. Coastal vessels and oil facilities in Sandakan North Borneo are damaged by Allied air power.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Ormoc
Leyte
Sandakan
North Borneo
Nazis Introduce Silvery Bell Device in Air War
Allied reports say Germany unleashed a new device described as silvery bells that float in the air over the Western Front. Pilots observed them both singly and in clusters during raids on the Reich, with unclear purpose possibly an anti aircraft defense. The dispatch was heavily censored by Supreme Headquarters.
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Paris
Reich
Supreme Headquarters
Sailor on Leave Visits Relatives in States
Radio Technician 1/c Ralph Peyton, son of E A Peyton of Juneau, is visiting relatives in the States. Peyton has just returned from 20 months of duty in the South Pacific.
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Ralph Peyton
E. A. Peyton
Juneau
Peyton
South Pacific
Canadians Expand Lamone River Bridgehead Near Faenza
Canadian troops of the Eighth Army widened their Lamone River bridgehead north of Faenza after repelling German counterattacks. They advanced from a 6000 yard front west of the river, with tanks seizing the Ravenna Ferrara highway northwest of Mezzano and establishing a new crossing at Mezzano. Fifth Army forces moved southwest of Imola on the Logna Rimini highway into Tossignano amid stiff German opposition.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Lamone River
Faenza
Ravenna- Ferrara
Mezzano
Imola
thelogna-Rimini
Fifth Army
Tossignano
Train marooned in West Virginia ends with 24 home
Twenty four passengers on a Baltimore and Ohio train were trapped for about a day by West Virginia’s blizzard. The stalled train, halted by snow and fallen trees forty five miles from Charleston, waited for a relief train and finally pulled into Grafton last night.
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Graron
West Virginia
Baltimore & Ohio
Charleston
Grafton
New OPA Ruling Affects Alaska Caught Fish Pricing
Seattle district OPA administrator A J Krauss announces an amendment to OPA rules allowing transport costs to be added to the price of fresh Alaska caught fish moving south. Applies to halibut ling cod sablefish and trell caught salmon from Alaska with margins kept comparable for westward shipments via Prince Rupert B C. Retail prices remain unchanged.
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Seattle
OPA
A. J. Krauss
Alaska
Krauss
Prince Rupert
B. C
Lupe Velez Found Dead in Beverly Hills Home
Coroner says Lupe Velez 34, Mexican film actress, was found dead in her Beverly Hills residence. Police report an apparent sleeping powder overdose and a note was found beside the body. Autopsy ordered amid notes of a tempestuous private life and recent romance with Harold Ramond former husband Johnny Weissmuller context.
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Los Angeles
Lupe Velez
Beverly Hills
Nanne
Miss Velez
Harold Ramond
Johnny Weissmuller
Christmas Tree Delivered for City Holiday Display
The Community Christmas tree was cut down and brought into town today by the City Street crew. It will be placed in the vacant lot next to the Juneau Transfer Company and the Electric Light and Power Co crew will decorate it with lights. The tree was donated by Roy Cox of the Northern Vegetable Farm.
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City Street
Juneau Transfer Company
Electric Light and Power Co
Roy Cox
Northern Vegetable Farm
Senate questions nominees for State Department posts
Washington December 14 Acting Secretary Stettinius and six proposed assistants testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee outlining a liberal forward looking foreign policy. The committee approved five of six nominations but deadlocked on Archibald MacLeish by a 10 to 10 vote. Senators Wagner Nye and Glass were absent and to be asked for votes.
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Washington
Dec
State Department
Archibald MacLeish
Wagner
Nye
Glass
Drc
Edward Stettinius
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Otder
Senate
Stettinius
Heroic Coast Guard Action Revealed in Arctic Engagement
Four Coast Guard cutters fought German efforts to establish fortified bases in Greenland. One armed trawler sunk, another captured, a third abandoned. sixty prisoners taken and a radio station destroyed. A bomber attack was repelled. Northland towed 3,000 miles for repairs. Council to meet tomorrow at City Hall.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Arctic
Greenland
Navy
Additon
Northland
Indian Rights in Alaska To Be Decided by Congress
Secretary Ickes says no reports on Indian fishing and land rights hearings in Alaska and no action before January. Hearings in Alaska and Seattle examined ownership of lands and waters. judge Hanna will file recommendations late January 1945, with Congress to decide, not the Interior Department.
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Congress
Dept. of Interior
Washington
Dec
Harold L. Tekew
Alaska
Seattle
Banna
Ickes
Hanna
Tekes
Alanka
Coast Guardsman Rescues Two From Cordova Dock
Cordova witnesses a dramatic rescue as radioman 3/c Herrell Hammette dives into icy waters to save Mrs. J. Dahl and her brother Leon Larken after a gale lifts them from the city dock. Dahl loses her purse and citizenship papers but both survivors are hospitalized and recovering.
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Cordova
J. Dahl
Leon Larken
Coast
Mrs. Dahl
Cordova Community Hospital
R. L. Stricker
Battle in Athens Slows as 12-Day Turmoil Eases
ELAS forces in central Athens show signs of halt and the fiercest phase has passed. British leaders report that heavy fire has subsided to sporadic bursts, while rumors rise of possible ELAS talks with Maj. Gen. Scobie on evacuating Atteal, surrendering arms, and disbanding private militias.
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Athens
ELAS
National Liberation Front
Scobie
Atteal
Community Tree Singing Sunday Tradition In Juneau
The Juneau Woman's Club sponsors an annual Christmas carol sing around the community tree at Front and Seward streets. The event starts at 4 o clock next Sunday afternoon and invites Girl Scout carolers and all residents to join in the tribute to the Christ child.
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Juneau
Nine Passengers Board Pan American Flight to Seattle
Vera Donahue Myrtle Converse Harold M Thompson Geraldine Monroe Mrs Minnie Edson Paul Meyer Mrs Alice Marchbanks and daughter Patricia and Captain Roland Lemke departed this morning for Seattle on a Pan American Airways plane.
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Vera Donahue
Myrtle Converse
Harold M.thompson
Geraldine Monroe
Minnie Edson
Paul Meyer
Alice Marchbanks
Patricia
Roland Lemke
Seattle
PAA
Mild Front Brings Warmer Air Across Midwest
Associated Press reports agreeable winter weather returned to the Middle West as a warm front moved across the continent. The four day surge of high winds followed the season's first heavy snow, retarding traffic and slowing industrial and agricultural activity from Colorado to the East Coast.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Colorado
Fred Ayers Visits Juneau on Brief Official Tour
Fred Ayers of the Northwest Service Command based in Edmonton, arrives in Juneau from Whitehorse for a brief official visit. He plans to return to Edmonton tomorrow and soon take furlough with his wife, visiting many regions before departure.
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Jar Fred Ayers
Northwest Service Command
Edmonton
Jopegn
Whitehorse
Wake Bonds
Big US raids hit Nagoya factory complex in Japan
Advices from the Twenty first Bomber Command report direct hits on the Mitsubishi Hatsudashi aircraft factory at Nagoya with photos showing at least 47 hits across plants and assembly areas. Also notes a new Superforts raid on Thailand and Bangkok Rangoon targets plus casualties and missing planes.
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Associated Press
Twenty-first Bomber Command
Saipan
Mitsubishi Hatsudathi
Nagoya
Washington
Thailand
Rangoon
Burma
Tokyo
Japan
Thomas Kunning
New Bremen
Ohio
Haywood Hansell, Jr
Ters
War Department
Twentieth Air Force
Mitsubishi
Bangkok
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Elliott
Baye Emerson
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Witephoto
Upe Velez
State Dept
Heroic Coast Guard
Aleutians
PAN American
Midwest
Fred Ayers
Greslin
Fred Geeslin
U. & Indian Service
Hoonah
Fenng Xlvanta
James A. Wagoner
Gastineau Hotel
Barnes~boro, Pa
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