Russians Push Toward Mogilev From Propoisk Front
Soviet dispatch says Red Army forces fought through rain mud and fog to overrun three Nazi strongpoints in the Propoisk region while advancing northwest of Propoisk toward Mogilev. Rokossovsky’s troops reportedly penetrated deep along the White Russia defense line as German sea-borne forces at the Dnieper mouth were wiped out by Soviet counterattacks.
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London
Red Army
Gomel
Zhlobin
Rogachev
Propoisk
Mogilev
Moscow
White Russia
Constantine Rokossovsky
Ukraine
Kremenchug
Dnieper River
Cherkasy
Get Out Now Soviet Warning to German Satellite States
The Soviet trade union journal War and the Working Class urges Finland Hungary and Romania to exit the war quickly or face harsher fate. An editorial recalls the Moscow foreign secretaries conference aim and warns that continued participation in the Hitlerite coalition will deepen Soviet hatred and risk.
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Moscow
Germany
War and
United Nations
Vassels
Finland
Hungary
Romania
Hitler
Runaway Plane Scatters Feathers From Pet Canary
A U S Army fighter plane crash near Daly City killed Flight Officer George Criswell, 22, of Birmingham. The unmanned plane demolished a house and damaged four more while exploding and spewing gasoline. No civilians were injured. in two homes occupants watched debris tear through walls. A canary owner's witness described a feather loss from the bird during the crash.
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San Francisco
Upi
Daly City
George Criswell
Birmingham
Ralph Carboni
Harold Adby
Dinah Shore Weds Former Actor Cowboy in Las Vegas
Dinah Shore and George Montgomery, former actor with the Army Signal Corps, were married in Las Vegas Nevada yesterday. They left Los Angeles after Shore’s radio appearance and wed yesterday morning under the names George M Letz and Frances R Shore. Shore is 26 and Montgomery 27.
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Hollywood
George Montgomery
Army Signal Corps
Dinah Shore
Las Vegas
Nev
20Th Century Fox Studio
Miss Shore
Montgomery
Brady
George M. Letz
Frances R. Shore
Tara Is Good For You Ad Urges Call Norin
An OCR fragment promotes Tara as beneficial and urges readers to call Norin at a partial contact number 10 ac, implying a purchase or advisory notice despite missing full details. The piece reads as terse editorial style advertising with limited context and no clear source attribution.
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Tara
Norin
Parley Report Is Due Today
London reports that Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin met at Teheran and that Cairo talks at the Mena House confirmed war strategy and plans for peace. A press protest over conference press coverage was signed by virtually every world correspondent in Cairo.
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Cairo
Mena House
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Teheran
Moscow
United States
Britain
Russia
Eclosa
Sphinx
The
OYVI
Washington
World War II Allies To Broadcast Tehran Cairo Conference
At 1 p m eastern war time an official version of the Tehran Cairo conference outcome will be broadcast. The Allied leaders Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin reportedly laid the basis for a postwar world without war and eye Turkey with interest. Cairo hosts Saud and Imir Fahad, nephew of the king, amid expectations of a broader conference.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshall Stalin
Teheran
Iran
Turkey
Europe
Hitler
Fort Myers Gas Truck Explosion Injures 75
A truck carrying 5,000 gallons of aviation gasoline exploded in Fort Myers injuring 75. Eleven treated at Lee Memorial Hospital, others released. A 14 month old Darrell Williams among the injured. Bucking ham air field soldiers aided the scene. Sergeant Lucian H. Rogers credited with saving the driver. Fireball scorched communications, oil rained down, and flames reached 400 feet high.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Lee Memorial Hospital
Stella Williams
Darrell Conrad Williams
Buckingham Air Field
Sergt
Lucian H. Rogers
Rogers
Senate May Decide Rail Pay Tomorrow
The Senate could act tomorrow on an eight cents per hour wage increase for 1,100,000 non-operating railroad employees. Senator Truman plans to push a resolution to record Congressional support for the raise, after Interstate Commerce Committee approval. Administration leaders remain split on a compromise between eight cents and a sliding 4 to 10 cent scale proposed by Vinson.
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Washington LLP
Senate
Truman
D.mo
Congress
Interstate Commerce Committee
Fred M. Vinson
Propeller free flying wing may emerge from lab soon
Dr H L Dryden of the U S Commerce Department notes speed limits in current planes and discusses a propeller free airship using jet propulsion. Three funded groups report weight distribution challenges while Italian tests hint at feasibility. He cautions propellers work up to 400 500 mph and war pressures delay rapid radical change.
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H. L. Dryden
United States Commerce Department
Dr. Dryden
Night Bombers Hit Nazi Targets in Occupied France
American and British air forces renewed daylight raids on occupied France with United States heavy bombers and fighters taking a leading role. The mission marked the first sustained France strike in over two months, destroying Nazi fighters bases while Thunderbolt and Lightning fighters supported the Fortresses. One fighter was reported lost and two damaged bombers crews were safe.
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London
France
United States
Eighth Air Force
Rheims
Thunderbolt
Lightning
U. S
R.af
Planes Raid Mili Atoll in Marshalls
Navy reports Liberator bombers raided Mili atoll in the Marshalls dropping about fifty tons of bombs, starting fires and destroying an enemy bomber on the ground. Navel chief Admiral Nimitz said no enemy fighters appeared and five American planes were damaged. In Nauru raid Liberators set fire to an oil dump with no opposition.
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Washington
Army
Central Pacific
Mili Atoll
Marshalls
Nauru Island
Navy
Mili
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Mill
Tarawa
Nauru
U. S
Lone Plane Strikes Hare Island in Pacific Atoll
U S bombers hit Hare Island in the Kapingmarangi atoll as part of ongoing Pacific operations. A liberator from the Solomons bombed seaplane base facilities December 2, starting fires. This marks the third recent strike on the Nipponese base, with prior attacks believed to have severely damaged the base.
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Pearl Harbor
Japan
Hare Island
Kapingmarangi
Pacific
Solomon, Gilbert, Marshall
Caroline Islands
De Marignys Arrive To Live in Havana
Count Alfred De Marinegny and his wife Nancy arrived in Havana from Nassau seeking Cuba as their home. After his acquittal in the murder of Sir Harry Oakes, they faced deportation fears and traveled on a small freight boat, Nancy enduring two sleepless nights. Marquis Georges De Visdelou, a close friend, also left Nassau for Haiti aboard a sailing vessel on Saturday night.
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Havana
Cuba
Alfred de Marinegny
Nancy
Nassau
Bahamas
Harry Oakes
de Marignys
Georges de Visdelou
de Marigny
Frien
Haiti
New York to Have City Drama Center
Mayor La Guardia announced a new non profit drama and music center will open Saturday in Manhattan at 131 West 35th Street. The New York City Center of Music and Drama will host concerts plays and ballet and will pay the equivalent of property taxes on the building. The initial program features the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society orchestra.
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New York UP
F. H. la Guardia
New York Philharmonic Symphony Society
New York City Center of Music and Drama, Inc
West 35Th Street
Tiny Brooklyn baby weighs less than two pounds and survives nine days
Mary Ann Maceli, born November 27 in Brooklyn at one pound ten and a half ounces, has an 85 percent survival chance after nine days in a borrowed incubator. Dr. DiStefano notes progress, with rye whisky as a heart stimulant and nurses sought to support care for several months.
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New York
Mary Ann Maceli
Brooklyn Hospital
Michael DiStefano
Ann Maceli
Nicholas
Brooklyn
Mary Ann
Dis Stefano
Lewis Kaplan
DidStefano
Stamp For Fat Swap Begins December 13
The salvage program will start December 13 to collect used kitchen fats. Retailers and housewives can turn in one hat pound of fats for each pound, plus a four cent salvage credit. The program aims to supply fats for glycerine and sulfa drug manufacture under the Price Administration.
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Price Administration
Beasts Still Loose in Berlin After Bombing Attacks
Berlin reports say several wild animals remain at large after bombing incidents near the 700 area. Keepers are slowly recapturing them as the city endures ruins and scarce crowds following the blasts last month.
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Berlin
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Postponement Proposed on Subsidy Vote
Washington reports a move to delay a Senate showdown on food subsidies for sixty days while the issue is reviewed by a Democratic caucus. A House approved bill would halt subsidies January 1, with leaders urging Democratic colleagues to delay until February. Chester Bowles says payments are needed to curb costs and inflation.
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Washington
Wpi
Senate
Chester Bowles
Ten Die in Swiss Tribunal Executions
A Chiasso dispatch reports that ten people were shot to death by order of a special Fascist tribunal in retaliation for the fatal shooting of Lieut. Col Cone Bors, a Fascist military chief in the Florence district.
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Bern
Switzerland
Chiasso
Col Cone Bors
Florence
Yanks Roll Forward On Mount Maggiore And Monte Camino
Allied reports say American Fifth Army and British Eighth Army stormed key strongholds along the Mignano Pass in Italy. American infantry seized Mount Maggiore while British forces captured Monte Camino on the southern flank near Rome. San Vito fell on the Adriatic front but Orsogna was retaken after a German tank-led counterattack. Reinforcements for Canada arrived as heavy losses were reported for the German Tenth Army. The battle grew to resemble World War I brutal close-quarters fighting high on rocky peaks aided by artillery and hand-to-hand combat.
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Algiers
Mount
Maggiore
Mignano Pass
Rome
Aled
Fifth Army
Eighth
Offe
Italy
Monte Camino
Mignano
Mount Camino
United Nations Radio
Reuters
London
Adriatic
Eighth Army
San Vito
Pescara
Bernard L. Montgomery
Orsogna
Verdun
Eaid
Britain
18Th Army Group
Harold Alexander
Eisenhower
Tenth Army
Nwe
Royal Navy
Troubridge
Palladin
Teazer
Minturno
Mark W Clark
Mount Maggiore
Army lessons from Tunisia warn of armor underuse
The Army critique of Tunisia operations says the sole armored division arrived piecemeal and was not employed as a unit until late battles for Ma Tet and Bizerte. It notes mass action was limited by the need to cover a long thin front with the only mobile force available, aiming to meet sudden thrusts.
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Washington P
Tunisia
Mateur
Bizerte
Yankee Tuck Crewmen Save Villagers After Bomb Plane Crash
A Flying Fortress loaded with 6,000 pounds of bombs crashed near Deenethorpe Northamptonshire early yesterday. The 1156 villagers fled as crew members shouted evac. five people were injured including the navigator and bombardier. Four crew rescued from the plane faced fire to enter and save others. The four rescuers are Capt Ralph J. White Kingsport Tenn Serets Francis F Snider Seattle Wash Earl K Williams Camp Hill Penn and William N Luna Huntsville Ala. The plane exploded ten minutes after evacuation, damaging about thirty houses. The explosion could be heard ten miles away.
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Ralph J. White
Italy fears neo fascist army rule in south
Naples and Rome democratic leaders warn that neo fascism gains ground under British and American protection. They cite Gen Antonio Basso in Naples as an example of army control over civil affairs, including appointing a judge, which the Allied Military Government quickly blocked. Leaders say such actions reveal army intent to govern and fear a new fascist moral setback.
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Naples
CPI
Ise
Italy
Vittorio Emanuele
Badoglio
Carlo Sfoza
Benedetto Croce
Rudacifo Omadao
Sforea
Croce
Omadao
Antonio Basso
Basso
AMG
House of Savoy
Jasa
Murder Mystery Fan Held for Killing Employer
John M Hewitt, 17, confessed to killing Howard Amidon, 35, Amidon’s body found behind a poultry house. Robbery netted less than $6. Hewitt, described as an avid reader of lurid murder mystery magazines, had worked for Amidon harvesting poultry and farm tasks. Authorities Bradford and Hickey announced the joint disclosure.
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Pomfret
Conn
Edward J. Hickey
Howard Cy .Bradford
John M. Hew
Howard Armdon
Hewitt
Amidon
Flames kill sons of war working couple
In North Tarrytown a fire started by an electric heater swept a bedroom killing two infants, Joan Hernandez Jr. and Wayne Hernandez, aged nearly three and two, respectively. Both parents were away during the tragedy. the children were the offspring of Joan Hernandez and his wife, workers at the North Tarrytown division of a wartime aircraft plant.
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North Tarrytown
Lode
Joan Hernandez, Jr
Hur
Wayne
Joan Henandez
Thastern Aircraft
North
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