Byrnes Takes Over Control Of All Home Front Agencies
Washington reports Byrnes will direct production, manpower and economic war policy, consolidating War Production Board and related offices. A White House session will set up an expanded OWMP with four top aides to run planning, manpower, future and munitions output.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
A. Unt
Hoard
Ladly
OWME
Roosevelt
White House
Oder
O. Max Gardner
North Carolina
OWMP
War Production Board
Wsics
Charles M. Hay
Congress
Lucius 9. Clay
Army Service Forces
War Programs
General Administration
Willig Haber
J. B. Hutson
Ulure
Fred Searis
Russia and France Sign New Alliance
The text describes a Franco Soviet alliance treaty signed in Moscow after de Gaulle met with Stalin. It commits both nations to mutual defense against Germany and to joint measures to safeguard Europe after the war. The agreement mirrors Britain and Russia’s earlier 20 year entente and aligns with Britain and the United States in a broader wartime framework.
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Upi
de Gaulle
Russia
France
Baku
Black Sea
Willy
Germany
Europe
Britain
Soviet Union
United States
Paris
Btalin
Moscscow
Adolf Hitler
Rhineland
Cziechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Streamlined State Department Reorganization Nears Completion
The State Department plans a major reorganization to speed policy work with broader decision lines. Nomination delays may postpone official disclosure as Undersecretary Grew and five assistants await Senate action. New structure to assign geographic and economic portfolios under several assistant secretaries.
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Washington
State Department
Actup
Senate
Joseph C. Grex
Stettinius
Win Clayton
Nelson Rockefeller
James C. Dunas
Julius Holmes
Archibald MacLeish
New York Meat Dealers Vote to Strike Over OPA Rules
About 3 500 New York City meat dealers at a mass meeting voted to take a holiday from Christmas Day until Office of Price Administration rules are adjusted. A NY State association head estimated 18 000 stores would close, with others unaffected. OPA officials pledged efforts to avert a citywide closing and would seek factory adjustments.
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New York
New York City
Office of Price Administration
Albery T. Wendel
Resional
OPA
Duell BP. Woottey
Rezional
Chealers
Shot Fired at Auto Carrying Cardinal Fumasoni Biemdi
A shot was fired at the car carrying Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni Biend as it returned to Rome from Tuscany. The windshield was struck but no injuries were reported.
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Rome
CPI
Christian Democrat
If Popdig
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni
Tuscany
GOP Lays Plans for Four Year Party Machinery
Washington reports that Republicans discuss reorganizing party machinery on a four year basis. Senator Wherry Nebraska minority whip urges a full time national chairman elected for four years to maintain a ready campaign operation. Senators Vandenberg Weeks and Brewster echo calls for a continuous party leadership presence.
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Washington
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
National Committee
Havig
Vandenberg
Michigan
Weeks
Massachusetts
Brewster
Maine
2000 Planes Hit Coblenz Rail Terminal
Allied airpower saturates Coblenz and Bingen rail yards with 1500 tons of explosives amid freezing weather. U S Eighth Air Force losses were seven bombers and one fighter missing in raids on Stuttgart Coblenz and Bingen, with one enemy jet shot down.
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London
UPI
Wat
Coblenz
Bingen
Raine
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Reion
Stuttgart
Codlenz
Final Federal Tax Installment Date Change Notice
Washington announces a change in the final federal estimated tax payment date. Commissioner Joseph D. Nunan Jr. recalls Congress moved the deadline from December 15 1944 to January 15 1945 affecting farmers who deferred filings and those who wish to revise estimates and all taxpayers owing the final 1944 installment.
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Washington
Ithe ‘Treasury
Lncome
Itheir
MacArthur Captures Ormoc Port in Leyte Island Hub
General Douglas MacArthur announced that American forces have captured Ormoc Port as part of a rapid advance in the Leyte sector. American divisions converge south of Ormoc trapping a large Japanese force, while air attacks hit Cebu Negros Panay and Masbate airfields.
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Ormec
Ormoc
Douglas MacArthur
Cebu
Negros
Panay
Masbate
Philippines
MacArthur
Burauen
Albuera
Fouthern
Yamashita Line
Arthur
Leyte
Nobel Prizes Awarded in United States for First Time
New York reports Nobel prizes were presented in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel for the first time due to wartime travel limits. Five American citizens and one Dane received awards totaling 120,000 dollars, with no peace prize this year. President Roosevelt and King Gustav V offered hopeful remarks on science serving humanity.
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New York
Roosevert
Gustav V
Sweden
United States
Stockholm
Waldorf-Astoria
Wollmar F. Bostroem
Bostroom
Storkholm
Roosevelt
Juncheon
Gustav
Great Republic
Atlantic
Ami Ry
Hotel Astori
Nobel
Scientisie
Martha of
Norway
Norvesian
W. Munthe Morgenstiermme
Benrik, Kauffmann
Thor Thork
New Italian Cabinet Formed By Bonomi
Premier Ivanoe Bonomi forms a new government with two vice premiers P. Togliatti and Diredtino. Portfolios go to Liberals, Christian Democrats, Labor Democrats, and Communists, while Specialists and Actionists stay out.
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Remet
Ivanoe Bonomi
Pailmiro Togliatti
Christian Democrat
Diredtino
Offi Iy
Christian Democrats
Labor Democrats
Bonomi
Soecialists
Actionists
Commmiter of National Liberation
Franco Press Hails Churchill Speech Madrid Coverage
Spanish newspapers from regime outlets and provincial dailies praise Prime Minister Churchill's Friday speech as a sign of a potential break between Britain and Russia. Commentators from Madrid abroad emphasize a shift in wartime alliances and policy outlook.
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Madrid
Spain
Churchill
Britain
Russia
Russians advance toward Budapest amid Danube fighting
The Red Army pushed six miles along the east bank of the Danube and neared Budapest as German and Hungarian forces retreated. Soviet forces reported inside the city gates with German counterattacks near Erd and Ercsi, while bombardment and air raids intensified in Pest and along the Danube.
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London
Danube
Budapest
Moscow
Rodien
Malinovsky
Ukraine
Moscow Front
Hungary
Germany
Austria
Sopron
Berlin
Coh Ernst von Hammer
Erd
Beyong
Ercsi
Festhet
Lake Balaton
Drava
Yugoslavia
Kethely
Marcali
Danube River
MacLeish Viewed as Librarian By Poets League
The New York chapter of the League for Poetry questions Archibald MacLeish’s fit as Librarian of Congress, noting critics doubt his State Department ambitions and mocking his reputed dictum that a poem should not mean but be. The discussion cites a 1925 work and comments that some poets write as if insane.
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New York
League For Poetry
Macist
Congress
Senate
MacLeish
League
Albert. Ra Kom
The
Japs Report Tokyo Fired By Superforts
Japanese radio claimed American Superfortresses attacked Tokyo for a second time over Sunday night and Monday morning Tokyo time, dropping incendiaries and causing fires with no confirmed Allied verification. Reports said two Marianas based planes penetrated to Tokyo and faced heavy defenses before retreat.
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Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Japan
Snowstorm Paralyses Midwest with Fatalities and Heavy Snow
A powerful Midwest snowstorm dumped heavy snow across Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Colorado causing three traffic deaths and hazardous travel conditions. The Weather Bureau warned that more snow and ice could accumulate with up to ten inches possible in southern Wisconsin and additional accumulations in eastern Iowa northern Indiana and eastern Oklahoma.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Weather Bureau
Dea
More Gasoline For Civilian Use Hinges on V E Day
The Petroleum Committee informed the wartime rationing panel that no gasoline relief is possible while Germany remains at war. After accounting for higher military needs, civilian supplies appear barely adequate under current rationing.
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Washington
Bomb Barrage Strikes London Amid Air Raid
Reports state a heavy barrage of flying bombs hit London last night with anti aircraft fire failing to prevent several missiles. Pomposity of targets remains unclear but damage is feared across the east coast approach.
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London
Battle for Athens Still Going Strong
Reports from Athens describe ongoing clashes as Elas forces attack the city with artillery and mortars while British troops defend from the eastern outskirts. Casualties, epidemics threats, and failed rebel ship unloadings add to a tense, unresolved struggle with mediators seeking a settlement.
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LPI
Rae Weillington
Elas
Mornars
Croeps
Grande Bretagne Hotel
Constitution Square
Etts
Peter Garsyafalas
Dimitri Lambrakis
Lberal
E. AM. Ileaders
Japanese Casualties Claimed By Radio Broadcast
An Associated Press report says a Tokyo radio station claimed that Japanese forces sunk two large transports and 16 landing barges and damaged four large transports and one warship in the Surigao Strait Ormoc Bay and Leyte Gulf area. The Federal Communications Commission recorded the broadcast which remained unconfirmed by American sources.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Cacabtion Ite
Surigao Stra
Ormoc Bar
Leyte Gulf
Philippines
Federal Communications Commission
Dyers Dee
Orrive
Four Reich Towns Fall To Yanks
American forces captured four towns along the Rhine while pushing into German positions from the south and southwest. The First Army led a hard assault through snow and freezing temperatures, supporting operations by heavy bombers. French First Army seized Thann as allied forces closed gaps near Colmar, with rail bridges and lines targeted to disrupt German escape routes.
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Heise
Nigattan
Amle
Virte Sarteguestines
Seventh Army
Germany
First Army
Rhineland
Alsace
First
Thann
Mulhouse
Rhine
Colmar
Neuf-Brisach
Ninth Army
Roer
Holland
Courtney H. Hodges
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Nazi Attacks Beaten Off In North Italy
Allied reports say five waves of U S bombers struck German lines around Faenza and along the Lamone River. German counterattacks with tanks were repulsed and the Po road corridor remained open as fighters and bombers hit Bologna outskirts and the Faenza sector.
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Rome
U.S . Mitchelt
Faenza
Guish Eishth Amor
Bologna
Steaner Pass
Germany
Italy
Artaysiman Lamone
High Command
Eishth
Sulletin
Lamone
Faenzal
Three Trainmen Killed in Southern Freight Engine Explosion
A Southern railway freight engine exploded a mile and a half north of Luis, Georgia, killing three trainmen. Chief Dispatcher J F Ayers said thirty eight cars were damaged or derailed.
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Trainvata
Southern Railway
Luis
J.F. Ayers
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