Churchill wins confidence vote over Greek Italy intervention
In London the 70 year old prime minister defended Britains intervention in Greece and Italy and won a convincing 279 to 30 vote of confidence in the house of commons. He asserted Britain acted to avert gangster rule and pledged support to the Italian government of Marshal Badoglio for the duration of the struggle.
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London
Churchill
Urchill
Reece
Britain
Rlo Sforza
U.S
Sforza
Ign
Ottimus
United States
Unt
Julians
Dreed
United Tes
Italy
Churchillown
Tom Driberg
Serle
Driberg
Greece
Churchill Ie
Pietro Oglio
Oglio
Eisenhower
Belum
Brussels
Pierlot
Orza
Gaulle
de Gaulle
Count Orza
Arizona-Trained Yankees Trap Nipponese On Leyte
Veteran 77th division Yanks landed by Navy behind 25 000 trapped Japanese and moved north toward Ormoc in Leyte Philippines. The Arizona trained unit struck Thursday in Ormoc harbor under Seventh Fleet guns and fighter planes. The surprise assault split the Yamashita defense line.
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C. Yates M’daniel
MacArthur
Philippines
77Th Division
Guam
Leyte
Ormoc
77Th
Arizona
Seventh Fleet
Yamashita
Sevens Aid Landing of 77th at Ormoc Dec 7
Major General Andrew D. Bruce led the 77th Division in a landward assault at Ormoc on December 7 at 7:07 a.m. Manila time. Allied forces reported minimal ground losses as Navy ships and airstrikes disabled a 113-ship enemy convoy and about 4,000 troops. The Leyte drive, ongoing since Pearl Harbor day, featured heavy air and sea action and featured Medal of Honor recipient Major Richard Bong as the war effort continued.
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Spencer Davis
Ormoc
Andrew D. Bruce
77Th
Arizona
Manila
Bruce
Strom Temple
7Th Division
Leyte
Pearl Harbor
Philippine
Sxty
U. S
Army
Richard [. Bong
Poplar
Wis
America
San Pablo
Tacloban
Navy
Temple
Tex
St. Louis
Japanese War Losses Admit 168000 in 1944
Tokyo radio admitted 1944 casualties reached 168000 for Japanese forces. The imperial communique cited 226000 American and 78000 British casualties, while Japan reported sustaining 168000.
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United Press
Tokyo Radio
San Francisco
Twin Russian Assaults Roll Over Germans
German lines in central and southwestern Hungary buckled as 40 000 Nazi reserves were cut to pieces while twin Russian drives aimed at Budapest and the Austrian frontier surged. Tolbukhin and Malinovsky's armies pushed toward Pest. Hatvan and Szirak areas fell as defenses collapsed.
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Robert Musel
London
U.P
Hungary
Moscow
Budapest
Austrian
Italy
Western Front
Germany
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Lake Balaton
Tolbukhin
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
United Press
Malinovsky
Hatvan
Capital
Szirak
Danube
Pest
East Bank
Western governors push postwar public works plan
The Western Governors Conference urged Congress to outline postwar public works and aid veterans. A minimum 5 000 dollars yearly state fund is proposed to finance a postwar industrial committee. Governors Dempsey Osborn Ford Maw Carville urged rapid federal clarity and local enabling laws under Public Law 208.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Western Governors Conference
Congress
Dempsey
New Mexico
New Mexico National Guard
Philippines
Sidney P. Osborn
Arizona
Southwest
Sam C. Ford
Montana
West
Herbert B. Maw
Utah
Nevada
New York
Pennsylvania
Maw
E. P. Carville
New State Department Nominees Face Open Hearings
Washington Dec 8 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to hold open hearings on President Roosevelt’s state department appointments. Senator Douglas (D Mo) said nominees Joseph Grew named under secretary and three others would be questioned in public.
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Washington
Nate
Roosevelt
Our State Department
D-Mo
Mders
Joseph . Grew
B 29 Drops Record Bomb Load On Japanese Rail Center
A single unescorted B 29 Superfortress bombed Shizuoka, a Japanese rail hub on Honshu’s east coast, early today. The raid set four major fires in the city as Command Pilot Lt. John Scott Pickerel reported fires burning for about 200 miles after leaving the Honshu coast.
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21St Bomber Command
Saipan
Navy
Shizuoka
Honshu
Tokyo
John Scott Pickerel
Marion
Bombers Hit Iwo Jima Installations From Saipan Bases
A sizeable force of B-29 Superfortresses bombed Japanese military installations on Iwo Jima from Saipan today. The missions used record bomb loads and reported no enemy opposition. All aircraft returned to Saipan, 750 miles away, as Tokyo claimed nuisance raids by B-29s over the city.
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Washington
U.P
Saipan
Iwo Jima
War Department
Tokyo
Radio
Japan
Final Appropriation Bill Sent to Senate for Final Passage
The 78th Congress approved a $392,223,812 catch all supply bill for miscellaneous agencies and sent it to the Senate. Passage was by voice vote after Republicans removed about $16 million for consumer studies and surveys and census expansion. Of the total, $286,626,582 funds the Navy.
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Washington
House
Senate
Navy
Congressmen Enlarge State Department Staff
President Roosevelt signed legislation creating two new assistant secretaries of state and nominated James C. Dunn of New York and Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes of Kansas for the posts. Dunn has led the division of European affairs and Holmes has been assistant to the Army chief of staff at supreme Allied headquarters handling political affairs.
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Washington
Dec
Roosevelt
James C. Dunn
Julius C. Holmes
Dunn
New York
State Department
Holmes
Kansas
Army
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Subduing Nazis on Cologne plain promises heavy losses
Dewitt Mackenzie notes that undersecretary Patterson warns of severe casualties as Allied forces press the battle on the Cologne plain. Eisenhower seeks destruction of von Rundstedt's army, using open terrain to strip the Ruhr and hit Hitler's war industries. The clash is a high-stakes duel of strategy and endurance.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Patterson
Western Front
Cologne
Eisenhower
von Rundstedt
Reich
Ike
Ruhr
Hitler
Berlin
U. S. Is Cheated In Ship Deal
A House committee says the government lost money in a 10 ship purchase by the maritime commission from Southern Pacific in 1941. Total cost reached 7,387,563 including repairs, with vessels formerly in Atlantic coast service as the Morgan line.
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Washington
House
Maritime Commission
Southern Pacific Company
Commission
Morgan Line
Merchant Marine Committee
San Francisco
A. T. Mercier
Southern Pacific
Survivors recount Jap atrocity on sinking transport
Capt. Fred J. Gallagher of Tucson and two other survivors told the National Association of Manufacturers of the massacre of hundreds of weakened American prisoners packed into a 50 by 40 foot hold. He described crewmen dying from exposure and congestion during the Aug. voyage, while a convoy faced submarine attack.
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New York
Fred J. Gallagher
Tucson
Ariz
Gallagher
National Association of Manufacturers
Saarbrucken Falls to Americans in Allied Push
With the U S Third Army news dispatch, Saarbrucken near Metz fell to American forces today after a weeks long resistance, signaling a new advance in the push toward Germany.
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U. S. Third Army
Ft. Driant
Metz
Poles British Take Three Italian Towns
Allied forces advancing through rain and fog widened their Lamone bridgehead southwest of Faenza and captured Castel Raniero Olmatello and Pideura. The Canadian corps under Lt Gen Charles Foulkes joined the eighth army front and scored a breakthrough between the Lamone and Montone rivers leading to Ravenna.
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Rome
Lamone River
Faenza
Castel Rasniero
Olmatello
Pideura
Charles Foulkes
Eighth Army
Lamone
Montone
Ravenna
Castel Raniero
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Itervention
P Remier
Athens
Isserts Count Sforza
A. D. Struble
Surigao Strait
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Nippon
Chate
John J. Dempsey
Saar Valley
Holland
Arn
Olland
Avarnmem
Sth Army
Bastogne
Belgium
7Th Army
France
Belfor
Switzer
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Venlo
Roer River
Third Army
Saar River
Saarlautern
Seventh Army
Ribeauville
By Fred Scherff
Capt. Gallagher
James M. Long
Paris
George S. Patton, Jr
Siegfried Line
Saarbrucken
Saar
Dillingen
Forpach
Pachtener Buchwald
Merzig
Aachen
Harry L. Twaddle
95Th
Volklingen
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