Allied Fifth Army closes on Cassino in bold advance toward Rome
Allied forces push on multiple axes around Cassino and San Vittore as American spearheads reach near Cassino while Montgomery’s units advance toward Ortona. Attacks claim tanks and paratroopers captured, with heavy artillery and air support reported.
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Adriatic
B. L. Montgomery
Consalvi
Ortona-Orsogna
Liri
San Pietro
Mark W. Clark
San Vittore
Venafro
Eighth Army
Montgomery
Italy
Air Offensive Against Marshalls Intensifies From Pearl Harbor to Mili
The Pacific air war widens as Seventh U. S. air force bombers destroy at least five Japanese planes and strike Mili atoll with 30 tons of explosives. Naval search planes raid western Marshalls and a Catalina hits a large transport near Kwajelein, with two American planes lost. Japanese raids on Tarawa cause no damage.
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Pearl Harbor
Marshall Islands
U. S. Airforce
Mili Atoll
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Army
Mili
Gilbert Islands
Navy
Marshalls
Kwajelein Atoll
Nimitz
United States
Tarawa
Gilberts
Draftee’s Finger Sore Declares Deferral Request
In a Fort Leavenworth report a draftee wrote he should be deferred from active service due to convalescence from a traumatic petrosynovitis of the finger joint. Investigators found the ailment to be a sore finger, yet he was not deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Leavenworth, Kas
London air raid alarm sounded at 2 a.m.
An air raid alert was activated in the London area at 2 a.m. today, signaling potential danger and prompting precautionary measures across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Americans Bomb Bremen and German Defenses Fight Back
American heavy bombers attacked Bremen in northern Germany as part of December aerial offensives, with 25 bombers missing and large areas left devastated. German defenses claimed many Allied planes shot down while U.S. escort fighters reported losses and continued raids on the port city and northern France targets. Captain James Stewart led Liberator sorties over Bremen in his second European mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Bremen
Germany
Europe
Britain
United States
U. S. Eighth Air Force
France
James Stewart
Stewart
Russians Push Near Vitebsk as Germans Evacuate Kherson
Soviet forces led by Gen. Ivan Bagramyan smash toward Vitebsk with 1,800 German casualties reported and 70 inhabited points seized. Berlin claimed Kherson bridgehead evacuation while Moscow says Germans abandon arms amid counterattacks on the Nevel and Korosten fronts.
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London
Vitebsk
Berlin
Dnieper
Kherson
Martin von Hallensleben
Kerson
Moscow Radio
Nevel
Korosten
Kiev
Kirovograd
Ivan Bagramyan
Stalingrad
Moscow
Don River
Red Army
Polotsk
Montana Navy Vet Returns After Eight Months in Solomons
Montana pharmacist mate first class Wood Goble tells of combat in the Solomons after eight months with Marines. He describes close calls with Jap bombs, desertion of health under field rations, and a flight that downed 108 enemy planes. Goble, a former Great Falls druggist, is from St Ignatius and Polson. His father, Harry G. Goble, is Lake County undersheriff.
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Helena
U.P
Wood Goble
Montana
Solomon Islands
Goble
Great Falls
Navy
Solomon Island
St. Ignatius High School
Montana State University
Harry G. Goble
Polson
Lake County
Vital New Britain Airstrip Is Captured by American Troops
Yugoslav Partisans push along the Balkan front in heavy combat as reports from Berlin note grim battles. Nazi officials claim over 3,000 Partisans killed and 2,668 captured in late fighting, with Yugoslav losses totaling 5,668 casualties in eastern Bosnia. Tito’s columns advance with Allied air and naval support amid snow and rugged terrain.
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London
Germany
Balkan
Berlin
Bosnia
Josip Broz
Tito
Europe
Adriatic
Montenegro-Serbia
Croatia
Congress Ready to Start Anew
Washington reports the Seventy-eighth Congress heads home for Christmas after a year of anti administration votes on taxes subsidies and rail wages. The GOP House coalition with conservative Southern Democrats left the Democratic majority razor thin as the chamber prepares to face a crucial election year.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Senate
Finance Committee
Congress
House
Leaders eye strike date to press rail wage demands
In Washington leaders of about one million non operating railway workers consider setting a strike date for Tuesday or Wednesday to back wage demands as five operating brotherhoods prepare a nationwide tie up starting Dec 30. President Roosevelt seeks settlement while government officials warn of war impact.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Transportation
Joseph E. Eastman
Eastman
White House
James Byrnes
Bolivian coup toppled Penaranda regime
In La Paz early Monday a revolutionary junta of young officers seized power, ousting President Enrique Penaranda after four hours of street fighting. Major Gualberto Villarroel named president as Victor Paz Estenssoro leads the new government promising liberation from oppression and renewed ties to the United Nations.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
U.P
Enrique Penaranda
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
United Nations
Penaranda
Washington
Invasion Day Nears as Europe Sparks Resistance
Across Europe underground resistance intensifies as patriots from France, Holland, and Denmark clash with German forces amid reports of imminent Allied invasion. British officials signal major rail transport buildup while Russia launches winter offensive in the Nevel area and Turkey notes Red Army activity.
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London
U.P
Europe
France
Holland
Denmark
Hitler
England
Second Front
Russia
Nevel
Turkey
Red Army
Germany
Bolivian coup echoes Argentine uprising in Buenos Aires
U S officials said Monday night they feared a Bolivian political coup by a nationalist group using the pattern of the Argentine rebellion that toppled Buenos Aires, with support from young army officers and Victor Paz Estenssoro as a leading opposition figure.
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Washington
U.S
United States
Buenos Aires
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Chamber of Deputies
Falange Militia To Be Dismantled In Spain Reform
Jose Luis Arrese announced after a Falange chiefs meeting that the party militia would be dissolved. He said the move accompanies a pledge to grant press liberty and to modify party organs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
U.R
Jose Luis Arrese
Falange
Arrese
Liberty of the
Spain
Morgenthau Blasts Congress Over Tax Bill Proposals
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau condemned Congress for slashing his 10.5 billion tax bill to 2.284 billion and for renegotiation clauses he says invite war contractor profits. He warned the changes threaten social security funding and could prompt a presidential veto while accusing lawmakers of sowing a national scandal. He cited retroactive exemptions and standard article exclusions as flaws.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Congress
House
Senate Finance Committee
Slight Decrease Predicted for Winter Wheat Harvest Next Year
The Agriculture Department projected a small drop in next year’s winter wheat yield to about 526.96 million bushels from this year’s 529.61 million. Estimated yield is 11.2 bushels per acre with 21.9 percent of seeded land not harvested. State totals include Montana 17.39 million, Wyoming 1.30 million, Colorado 8.84 million bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Six Mile Gain Is Made by Invaders
American troops seized the Arawe air strip in southwestern New Britain as part of a broader advance in the New Guinea theater. Allied planes bombed Cape Gloucester amassing over 1,600 tons since December 1. Australians rout Japanese on Huon peninsula while sinking or damaging 25 barges used for troop movement.
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New Guinea
Arawe
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Cape Merkus
Cape Gloucester
Huon Peninsula
Masawang River
Rabaul
South Pacific
Adm
William F. Halsey
Bismarck Sea
Press resumes as union calls off 24 hour strike
Washington four daily newspapers will resume publication after the Columbia Typographical Union agreed before the War Labor Board to end a 24 hour walkout. The stoppage had forced the News Star and Times Herald to suspend after the Post and Times-Herald printed smaller editions earlier in the day.
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Washington
U.P
Columbia Typographical Union
War Labor Board
WLB
News, Star
Times- Herald
Post
Times-Herald
Weather Outlook for Montana Regions Tuesday
Butte and Little's area expect small temperature shifts with fair Tuesday and Tuesday night, clouds or fog in the valley, Monday high near 39 and low around 9. West of the divide expects cloudy skies with occasional snow flurries Tuesday and Tuesday night with little temperature change. East of the divide sees partly to mostly cloudy skies with snow flurries near Missouri headwaters and much colder conditions in the east Tuesday.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Missouri
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Cassino
Tiny Atoll
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Atoll
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