Crisis Looms in Steel Industry as 100000 Idle Workers
Pittsburgh report says more than 100,000 steel workers idle as wage dispute looms. 350,000 across 214 companies hold contracts expired Christmas Eve. no formal strike called yet. Wheeling Steel and Blaw-Knox plants report shutdowns. Great Lakes Steel in Detroit sees pickets. President Murray urges peaceful settlement. no immediate action from unions or employers.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
U.S. Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel Republic Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
New York
Philip Murray
United Steel Workers of America
Japs Prepare to Intern Germans
In Shanghai a cited observer says Japanese authorities have prepared internment camps for Germans should Hitler fall. Nazis in Shanghai are said to be selling property as Italy’s capitulation earlier led to Italian residents being interned and later released if they swore allegiance to Mussolini.
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Chungking
Shanghai Evening Post Mercury Sunday
Shanghai
Adolf Hiter
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Nazis forecast an early invasion attack
London reports a Christmas Eve British French commando raid against German channel defences with Gen Dwight D Eisenhower potentially striking soon. German high command says commandos landed along the French coast and were wiped out, while Allied confirmation is lacking.
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London
Dwight D. Eisenhower
High Command
United States
Pas de Calais
Combined Operations
Dieppe
Bruneval
Boulogne
le Touquet
C. B.S
Atlantic
General Clark Plays Military Santa on Fifth Army Front
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark conducted a dawn to dusk tour of the Fifth Army front in Italy and presented over 100 decorations promotions and battlefield appointments, acting as a military Santa Claus.
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Fifth Army Front
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Christmas Gifts for Adolf Delivered by Flying Fortress
A Flying Fortress raid on Bolzano, Brenner Pass gate to Austria, yielded heavy flak and a loss as one bomber exploded after a Christmas run. The crew, led by Lt Len Bridgman, fired Christmas greeting messages over the intercom and returned to base, while Sgt Rollie Stamps anticipated a turkey dinner.
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el Almo
Bolzano
Brenner Pass
Benny Ziobro
Scranton
Brenner
Austria
Len Bridgman
Blackstone
Sgt
Rollie Stamps
Tucson
Ariz
Fellows
Bridgman
el Alamo
W. D. Morgan
Long Beach
Calif
Allied planes sink destroyer and ships near Kavieng
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports planes from Adm. Halsey's command sunk one Japanese destroyer and two large cargo vessels in a convoy attack off Kavieng New Ireland. The raid damaged another destroyer and a patrol boat and sank three barges. RAF Raabau base defended with 28 enemy planes downed and 30 fighters shot on Friday. Australian troops seized Wandakai along Huon peninsula, capturing artillery and supplies.
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Kavieng
New Ireland
High Command
Adm
William F. Halsey
South Pacific Command
Rabaul
New Britain
Simpson Harbor
Wandakai
Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Cape Gloucester
Jap Base in Rice Bowl Captured
CHUNGKING Dec 26 Chinese high command said Kungan a central China base used by Japan in the November drive into the rice bowl district fell to Chinese forces on Christmas day. The victory puts Chinese counter offensives back northwest of Lake Tungting and moving northward to reclaim lost territory. Four-fifths of the rice bowl area overrun by Japan was retaken, a spokesman announced.
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Chungking
Kungan
China
Lake Tungting
Mississippi Governor Johnson Dies After Illness at 63
HATTIESBURG Mississippi December 26 Governor Paul B Johnson 63 died shortly after 5 a m Sunday following a two month battle with heart trouble. Lt Gov Dennis Murphree succeeds to the governorship and serves until January 18 when Governor elect Thomas L Bailey is inaugurated.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Paul B. Johnson
Mississippi
C. W.T
Johnson
Dennis Murphree
Thomas L. Bailey
Meridan
Russian forces drive 25 miles in Ukraine front siege
Moscow reported General Vatutin's First Ukraine Army broke through German lines west of Kiev, routing 150,000 troops and killing 15,000 in three days. Russians threaten Korosten Zhitomir railway and overrun 150 towns as another army closes on Vitebsk.
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London
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ukraine
Kiev
Moscow
Korosten-Zhitomir
Korosten
Zhitomir
Berlain
Vitebsk
White Russia
Germans Claim Five Ships Sunk
German U boats have sunk five Allied ships totaling 34 500 tons and destroyed nine destroyers and escort vessels from convoy escorts and submarine chaser flotillas in actions in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean in recent days the communique said Sunday There was no Allied confirmation of the claim The communique also said a British Sunderland flying boat was shot down by German naval artillery over the Bay of Biscay and that a sixth merchant ship was torpedoed.
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London
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Bay of Biscay
Yugoslav Partisans Break German Lines in Balkan Push
Yugoslav partisan bands smashed German tanks guarding the Zagreb Belgrade railway cutting the line at Jorjane and other points. Four tanks were destroyed and about 223 prisoners and war material were captured as fighting continued in Serbia Bosnia and Macedonia with a 100 foot Kupa river bridge torn and Macedonian communications disrupted.
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London
Zagreb-Belgrade
Germany
Balkan
Army of Liberation
Josip Broz
Tito
Jorjane
Serbia
Duvno-Livno
Bosnia
Botlj
Emperor Hirohito Warns Diet War Situation Is Most Serious
Emperor Hirohito, opening the eighty fourth session in Tokyo, warned the war situation is most serious. The imperial rescript, cited by OWI, praises fighting troops and urges the people to crush the enemy with total national effort.
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Hirohito
Tokyo
Associated Press
Japan
United States
OWI
Scharnhorst Sunk by British Home Fleet off North Cape
The German battleship Scharnhorst, 26 000 tons, was sunk by the British Home Fleet near the North Cape while protecting a north Russian convoy. Adm Sir Bruce Fraser led the fleet as the ship went down amid Arctic waters off Norway, the admiralty said.
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London
DNB
Scharnhorst
Norway
Russia
U.P
Admiralty
North Cape
Arctic Circle
Bruce Fraser
Grim North Cape
Early Defeat of Nazis Forecast by Wallace
Vice President Henry Wallace predicted German war power would collapse within a few months after the cross-channel invasion. He said a coordinated Allied drive with Soviet offensives and an Italian push would force Germany into an impossible position. Wallace urged greater civilian sacrifice next year and warned partisanship aside to sustain peace.
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Washington
Henry Wallace
Germany
Europe
Italy
NBC
Wallace
Flyer Killed in Liberator Crash at Pueblo Base
One flyer was fatally injured and five others suffered minor injuries when a Liberator bomber crashed at Pueblo Army Air Base during a combat training flight. Lt. Col. Carl T. Goldbenberg announced the Saturday night accident. the deceased was Sergeant John W. Morris Jr. His wife, Mrs. Mary I. Morris, resides in Ridgley Tennessee.
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Pueblo
Colo
Pueblo Army Air Base
Carl T. Goldbenberg
John W. Morris, Jr
Mary I. Morris
Ridgley
Tenn
Americans seize Mount Samucro and attack forts near Cassino
Allied headquarters reported the Fifth Army captured Mount Samucro, dominating the San Vittore village six miles from Cassino, as two Nazi hillforts on the Cassino front were pressed. Eighth Army widened the Crecchio ridge gains and seized Ariella near Ortona while bombing Bolzano, Vicenza, Pisa and surrounding rail yards.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
Rome
San Vittore
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Ortona
Ortona-Orsogna Road
Crecchio
Ariella
Bolzano
Italy
Brenner Pass
Vicenza
Venice
Pisa
Porta Nuova
Samucro
Cassino
San Pietro
Butte Forecast: Cloudy to Snow Showers Monday
Weather forecast for Butte with cloudy skies and scattered snow showers. Sunday highs near 34 and lows around 12. West of the continental divide expects mostly cloudy with light snow flurries. eastern areas turn warmer with increasing clouds and some drizzle Monday night.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Violent Deaths Hit Christmas Weekend Nationwide
As Christmas two day observance ends, at least 265 violent deaths are recorded since Friday 6 p.m. Traffic crashes account for 173 deaths, fires 34, and other violent causes 58. Illinois leads states with 29 total deaths.
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Associated Press
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Washington
Troops Move Overseas Faster Than New Inductees In 1943 44
War department data show American troops moving overseas outpacing new inductees as 3.8 million serve abroad and 5 million expected by July. Production shifts focus to combat plants and heavy trucks while anti aircraft and tank output decline.
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Washington
Europe
Pacific
War Department
5 000 000 Men to Be Overseas in July
The department notes 5 million men to be overseas in July with an 18 percent drop from January figures. Heavy truck production advances to support lengthening supply lines. Greater combat plane output is needed as air fleets grow and divisions move swiftly. Signal corps equipment up 80 percent from January to November with more increases expected.
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Signal Corps
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