U S Bombers Raid Germany Reportedly
Mediterranean based U S bombers were said in a Berlin broadcast to raid Germany in daylight Sunday as radio stations cut off, signaling RAF night bombers. The Germans claimed furious air battles with Nazi fighters, while the objective was not stated and Allied confirmation was lacking.
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London
U. S
Dolomites
Berlin
Germany
D.N. B
Associated Press
Luxembourg
Paris
Britain
Straits of Dover
Europe
D.N.B
Adriatic
Northwest governors plan studies on transport fisheries and land
Governors from five Northwest states agreed to form advisory committees to study transportation including highways waterways and railroads, fisheries policy across Oregon Washington and northern Idaho, and federal land acquisition. The move aims to craft a Columbia basin program while opposing further interior land purchases.
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Boise
Idaho
Northwest
C. A. Bottolfsen
Northwest States Development Association
Bottolfsen
Spokane
Wyoming
Montana
Washington
Oregon
Lester C. Hunt
L. C. Bishop
Department of Interior
Transportation Committee
North
Pop Paycheck Request From Son and Composer Carl Busch Dies
Kansas City dispatch reports George W. Catts received 508 from son Rog a Missouri student asking for funds as a Christmas present. Separately Sir Carl Busch 81 famed composer died after influenza worsened a long heart condition.
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Kansas City
George W. Catts
Rog
University of Missouri
Christma
Sir Carl Busch
Weather outlook for Butte Montana Monday night snow
Increasing cloudiness and light snow expected Monday night in Butte with little temperature change. Sunday high 34 and low 5, slightly warmer Monday but much colder in northeast and north central areas. Snow to spread west and central Monday afternoon and night.
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Butte
Montana
Three Germans and Russian traitor pay for war crimes
The Moscow radio reported that on Sunday in Kharkov four wartime defendants were hanged in public, completing the first case of the war crimes trials. The executed were Wilhelm Landheld Gestapo captain Hans Ritz storm troop vice commander Richard Ratzlaw Gestapo corporal and Mikhail Bulanov a Gestapo chauffeur. About 40,000 spectators reportedly witnessed the executions amid applause from workers and nearby villagers.
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London
Moscow
Kharkov
Fourth Ukrainian Front
Wilhelm Landheld
Gestapo
Hans Ritz
Storm
Richard Ratzlaw
Administration Loses Legislative Control
The Seventy-eighth Congress ends its first session with the administration lacking distinct legislative control for the first time since 1933. A coalition of Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats influenced action while Democrats held nominal control. A final Senate vote on the $2.284 billion revenue bill was pending before a three week recess.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Congress
Fascist Youth Plot Uncovered in Sicily
Allied counter intelligence in Algiers reports the arrest of fifteen youths and a university student leader in a Sicily plot financed by Maria D A li a Rome law student from a wealthy Italian family. The group sought to sabotage Allied war effort and revive Fascist cells in Sicily.
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Allied
Algiers
Sicily
Trapani
Cataldo Grammatigo
Gioventa Italiano Littorio
Maria D’ali
Law University
Rome
Italy
Vice Federale of
Benito Mussolini
Five Hour Rail Wage Talks Fail To Reach Accord
Washington December 19 The White House said a five hour conference on the threatened nationwide railroad strike failed to reach a final wage agreement but produced a clearer understanding of the issues. President Roosevelt, with Byrnes and Vinson, led talks between operating brotherhoods and carriers. The groups plan to reconvene Tuesday morning.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Stephen Early
Byrd group urges belt tightening to cut nonessential war costs
The Byrd economy committee vows to push back unspent balances of $186.8 billion across the army navy maritime commission and war shipping administration. It calls for 10 steps to minimize non-war expenditures and boost wartime efficiency, beginning with investigations into large post peacetime and nonwar appropriations deemed nonessential.
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Frances J. Kelly
Washington
Byrd Economy Committee
Treasury
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
Joint Committee On
Mrs Davis resigns from Red Cross leadership
Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, who led wartime Red Cross volunteer expansion from 52,000 to over 4,000,000 members, is forced out by illness. Chairman Norman H. Davis announced her resignation Sunday with deep regret.
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Washington
Dwight F. Davis
Red Cross
Norman H. Davis
Yugoslav Partisans Claim 10000 Nazis Killed or Captured in 20 Days
Yugoslav partisans guided by Tito have killed, wounded or captured over 10,000 German troops in the last 20 days as they counterattack after a German push from Adriatic positions. They report advances near Banja Luka, Gornji Serec, and the Piskavice railway station as the push against German forces in central Bosnia slows.
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London
U.P
Josip (Tito) Broz
Free Yugoslav Radio
Marshal Tito
Adriatic
Yugoslavia
Tito
Bosnia
Banja Luka
13Th Brigade
Gornji Serec
Zagreb
Prijedor
Piskavice
Mighty American Army Streaming Across Atlantic
London dispatches report a huge American force crossing the Atlantic with Gen. Marshall not chosen as commander in chief of the western invasion. Speculation links Eisenhower or Sir Harold Alexander to the post as millions of U S troops arrive aboard 60 Allied ships, turning Britain into a springboard for the UN assault on Hitler.
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London
Atlantic
Washington
George C. Marshall
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harold Alexander
Harold Alexander. the Sunday Press
Britain
America
the People
Great Britain
United Nations
Hitler
the Chronicle
Fire Damages Large Safeway Warehouse in Butte
A Sunday blaze at a Safeway Stores warehouse at Arizona and Platinum streets caused thousands of dollars in damage. Firefighters battled the two shift blaze for nearly two hours. smoke and water wrecked contents including breakfast foods, tissue, soaps, coffee, tea, matches and fruit jars. The metal and wood building spans about 11 220 square feet and was described as a tremendous loss amid wartime shortages.
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Safeway Stores, Inc
Arizona
Platinum Streets
Butte City
M. R. Leslie
Fred Martin
Safeway
Leslie
German Ammunition Explosion Rocks Oslo Harbor
Swedish news service reports a cargo of German ammunition exploded while unloading in Oslo harbor on Sunday, killing four and shattering thousands of windows. The blasts, from 2:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., caused fires in several buildings and prompted German authorities to cordon off part of the harbor. The Germans said damage was considerable with no sabotage indicated.
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Stockholm
Oslo
Gunnery Practice by Ship Crew Triggers Pacific Alert
Pacific coast command says routine gunnery by a coast steamer off Vancouver Island caused an alert along the Washington coast. Shells landed near a military installation but caused no damage. The ship’s identity was not released and reports came in from a coast lookout. Coast defenses bristled within 15 minutes of the first signal. Unconfirmed Ottawa reports say batteries may have fired but distance prevented a hit.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
U.P
Pacific Coast Command
Vancouver Island
Washington
Ottawa
Army Flyers Raid Mili Island
Army flyers attacked the Japanese airfield at Mili Island in the Marshalls destroying six Zeros on the ground and damaging three more. The Seventh air force fighters and light bombers reported no aerial opposition and two of their planes were lightly damaged by anti aircraft fire.
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Washington
Mili Island
Marshalls
Navy
Seventh Air Force
Pearl Harbor
Army
Seventh Army Air Force
Mili
Fleet Air Wing
Kwajalein
Ebon Atoll
Jaluit
Japs Retreat as China Advances in Rice Bowl Area
Chungking Dec 19 Chinese communique reports Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault led American Sky Dragons in bombing Japanese bases and transport routes in the Tungting lake and Salween river areas. Chinese forces recapture villages south of Sinan and push toward Lin river, while battles continue near Ansiang and Nanhsien.
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Chungking
Claire L. Chennault
American
Sky Dragons
China
Rice Bowl
Tungting Lake
Salween River
China-Burma
China Sea
Sinan
Lin River
Lihsien
Ansiang
Nanhsien
Churchill Improves as Pneumonia Recedes in Middle East
London reports from December 19 say Prime Minister Churchill, 69, shows signs of recovery from pneumonia. A mid afternoon bulletin announces his temperature back to normal and pneumonia receding. The absence of pulse irregularities noted on Saturday adds to the cautious optimism. Churchill remains under care of a heart specialist in the Middle East.
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London
Churchill
Middle East
Statesman
Army takes over Western Electric plants near Baltimore
The Army announced on Sunday under a presidential order it has assumed operation of all strike bound plants and facilities of the Western Electric company in and near Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Western Electric Company
Troops Drive on Toward San Vittore
Allied forces in Italy push from San Pietro after a brutal three day fight, breaking into the Liri valley and advancing toward San Vittore and Cassino. American units clear mines from the retreat area and prepare for a likely German stand near Carrion as the road to Rome narrows.
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C. R. Cunningham
Algiers
U.P
San Pietro
Cassino
Mark W. Clark
Italy
San Vittore
Carrion
Liri
Food Rations to Be Changed for Eating Establishments
Price Administrator Chester Bowles outlined major rationing revisions affecting more than 400000 restaurants hotels and other eating institutions. Effective March 1 rations will be based on the number of people served with food not just refreshments, reducing soda fountains roadside stands and taverns shares to boost home consumption. Beginning January 1 operators must separate food and refreshment servings and report by January 15 for recomputed allowances.
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Washington
U.P
Price
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Air Forces in Asia Unified Under One Command
In New Delhi on December 19 Adm. Mountbatten ordered a single Southeast Asia air force uniting the RAF and US Army Air Forces. Sir Richard Peirse leads the new force with Maj. Gen. George Stratemeyer as deputy. The Eastern air command combines the 10th US Air Force and RAF Bengal forces under Baldwin and Davidson.
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New Delhi
Louis Mountbatten
U. S
Southeast Asia
Richard Peirse
U.S
George E. Stratemeyer
Richard
India
Bomber
Stratemeyer
Henry H. Arnold
U. S. Air Forces
Eastern Air Command
10Th U. S. Air Force
R. A. F. Bengal Command
Sir John Baldwin
Soviets Push 20 Miles Toward Polotsk In Baltic Front Drive
Soviet First Baltic Front troops under Gen. Ivan Bagramian surged 18.6 miles and pressed toward Polotsk, breaking German positions along a 50 mile front. Five hundred villages fell, 2,000 prisoners captured, and the Vitebsk Polotsk railway reportedly cut as Moscow announced gains near Nevel and Vitebsk.
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London
Russia
Baltic Front
Polotsk
Moscow
Red Army
Ivan Bagramian
Nevel
Vitebsk
Hamelets
Cap Tured
Baltic States
Obol
Yezerishe
Bichikha
Virovlyo
Germany
East Prussia
Leningrad
Baltic Sea
Americans Pound Japanese Positions in New Britain and Bougainville
Advancing U S forces bring artillery to bear on the New Britain beachhead and push from Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville. Air strikes hit Rabaul area while fighter aircraft down six enemy planes and Liberators destroy a tanker near the Vitu Islands.
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New Guinea
United States
New Britain
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Solomons
Torokina River
Rabaul
Empress Augusta
Arawe
U. S. Sixth Army
Liberators
Macrauders
Cape Gloucester
Cape Hoskins
Bismarck Archipelago
Vitu Islands
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Coalition
Congress Action
Economy Group
By Robert Richards
Tarawa
C. C. Riedel
Chicago
Marine Corps
Atoll
Henri Jolivelin
Mighty American Army
Asia
By James M. Long
Ote
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