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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1944
Page
1
The ruling that relaxes requirements for Ingle’s police chief appointment sparks union concerns about fairness and consistency. Officials defend the move as expedient while opponents call for uniform standards across departments.
Local Civil Service Commission faces protests from the municipal employees union led by C. Cooke and Ernest Coward over J. Fingle being named acting police chief. The union argues rules were not followed and the commission should enforce civil service standards, while officials claim the commission can interpret rules and act to keep standards intact. The commission plans a meeting to consider the union’s protest and the scope of its authority.
American infantry drive through Leyte toward Palompon while mopping up pockets of Nipponese remnants. Mindoro reports no ground opposition but air raids continue, with 12,873 enemy dead found in the last week and Allied airfields battered across the central Philippines.
About 3 000 travelers swarmed the Illinois Central station in Chicago last night as trains prepared to depart for holiday trips. Police deployed thirty officers to control the crowd after 200 elders surged the gates before a New Orleans bound train. An estimated 500 passengers were left behind as the train finally left twenty minutes late.
A light pre Christmas snow spread from northeast Colorado through Nebraska and Illinois to Michigan. Snow depths reached one to two inches in several areas while Great Lakes temperatures stayed mild. Low temperatures included Helena 20 below, Montana. Chicago and Lansing 20. Green Bay 13. Houghton 11.
Mayor Henry O. Janstad said the bonding house Stranahan & Harris in Toledo has not reported progress on an $8.5 million deal to sell city utility properties to the Federal Light & Traction Co. The company has until January 8 to complete negotiations. no report has been received to date.
Butte records 36 degrees below zero at 9 a.m. after a 58 degree drop in under 12 hours. Meteorologist A. D. Robb cites Helena as capital shivering at 26 below, with a pilot at 6,000 feet reporting 23 above.
London reports several British newspapers named the newest German secret weapon as V-1. The weapon has been used in the current German offensive as described by multiple papers, though without citing a single source.
Moscow reports 101 German tanks destroyed in a 24 hour period ending Thursday night. Soviet high command notes harsh winter weather aiding their offensives while German reports place 270000 Russian troops moving in snow swept Latvia with about 30 Nazi divisions pocketed near the Baltic.
Santa Anita race track directors said they would accede to the Presidential request and close their 55 day meet opening Dec. 30 on the time appointed likely Jan. 3. The track reopens Saturday after being idle since Pearl Harbor as Byrnes urged war agencies to close all tracks by Jan. 3.
UPI dispatch says a B 29 Superfortress dropped fire bombs on Tokyo at dawn and another soared over Hong Kong for reconnaissance. It marks the sixth straight day of B 29 activity in eastern Asia as part of an intensified campaign against Japan's war potential.
War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes urged tracks to close by January 3 1945 and operators from Gulfstream Park to Santa Anita pledged cooperation. Col Matt Winn of Churchill Downs Empire City and Lincoln Fields echoed obedience while Tropical Park may run to Jan 3 to aid stranded horsemen. About 2000 horses are in Miami area as racing faces a government request viewed as a blow.
On the Western Front near Echernach American cannon company soldiers under First Lt. John Cook engaged German forces amid a muddy field. They repelled the attack with rifles and 105mm howitzers at close range, while Pvt. Lectra Sullivan drove a burning ammunition truck into the field under cover from First Lt. William Roemer.
The government asked all U S horse racing tracks to close by January 3 1945 acting with presidential approval War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes urged shutdowns to conserve manpower and transportation for the war effort He pressed agencies to block racing uses of critical materials and ceasing winter meets across Florida California West Virginia Louisiana and Arizona.
London dispatch notes heavy Western Front snowfall creates a white Christmas for Doughboys but many will face Christmas in battle. Some may eat canned rations while others protect or attack. far from home, parcels have arrived or vanished amid war conditions.
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes Secretary Stimson and General Eisenhower view the 1918 German offensives as signaling a possible turning point. Stimson warns a failed drive could shorten the war while Ike recalls how Allied fortunes shifted after key attacks near Armentieres and the Marne. The piece cites Ike’s order and Stimson’s memories as context for today’s outlook.
Allied air forces hammered German positions as weather favorable allowed mass air strikes. More than 84 Luftwaffe planes were shot down by U S Thunderbolt Lightning and Mustang pilots, while Royal Air Force heavy bombers and escort fighters hit rail yards road junctions and tank columns behind the German counteroffensive.
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