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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1944
Page
1
Acting Manager Phil Martin Jr notes a pending auditor's report for six months and surplus receipts may enable a city wage increase dating to July 1. Workers push for about 4 percent to 10 percent with retroactive start, tying to the fiscal year kickoff and council timing.
Capt Hope Harrin of Conway Ark is declared world champion for 1944 by the Burlington Liars' Club in Wisconsin. Investigations show Harrin serves in the Women's Army Corps overseas, ironically fueling suspicions about his claimed tale.
Moscow radio said Soviet emissaries sent into Budapest under a truce flag yesterday were killed by German forces delaying Soviet advances toward the city.
German propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels extols Adolf Hitler in this week’s Das Reich calling him the Miracle of Germany and the greatest of personalities. He notes Hitler’s hair turning gray from war worries and describes a simple life in a small dugout with maps and memoranda.
U S seizure of Montgomery Ward facilities in seven cities stalls as both sides await action on a government request for the firm to surrender its books. H L Pearson resists until he consults Sewell Avery. Judge Sullivan sets Jan 8 for a hearing on an injunction.
Washington December 30. A conference among western livestock and Economic Stabilization agents led by Fred M. Vinson was postponed due to weather. Planes grounded by storms delayed talks on proposed price ceilings for cattle, with Vinson aiming to settle disputes among cattlemen present. One farmer warned that price cuts would force feedlot liquidation if bureaucrats persist.
Tokyo and Domei reports claim an American convoy reached Mindoro after sailing through the Philippines toward the Sulu sea under Japanese air attacks that sunk many ships. Allied flights claim major strikes against Japanese shipping, with progress toward Mandalay and renewed invasion talk of Japan.
Athens says King George appoints Archbishop Damaskinos regent to lead Greece amid civil strife. Damaskinos, recently ill, is likely to be sworn in soon as Churchill presses for stability during wartime resistance to occupation.
Bob Hilgeman 39 on leave from the University of Arizona agricultural staff suffered third degree burns when his family home near Seventh and Northern avenues burned in Phoenix. He worked on the federal guayule rubber project and was burned on hands and face. Cause of the fire undetermined. Loss estimated at 6000 dollars.
Allied columns near a junction in north central Burma push toward Mandalay with a four corps drive. Kanbalu fell and Tangyin was reached as forces closed on Kinu junction south of Mandalay while Allied planes attacked ships near Akyab. Chinese units moved toward the Burma border occupying Taulongchai and Yuka along the old Burma road.
A mother Grace Morrissey 46 and her children Robert 15 Mary 13 and Mary Frances 11 Morrissey perished as flames swept a three story home in Haverford. Two other occupants were injured including Robert Morrissey 46 a Philadelphia broker with burns and shock.
Allied defense tightens along Serchio river as German pressure intensifies near the Ligurian coast. US forces hold high ground south of Gallicano after early withdrawals while patrol activity increases across the Serchio and Faenza sectors.
Police statewide searched Imperial county for two men with German accents suspected of fleeing from a government POW camp near Phoenix. Sheriff Ware linked them to the escape and noted a report that Manuel Ortiz's mother gave food to two armed men with German accents in Imperial County. Six of the 25 escapees had been captured in Arizona.
Radio Tokyo stated it would take from fifteen to twenty years to burn Tokyo out of existence through bombing alone. The broadcast was recorded by the FCC.
William K. Groesbeck 45, executive of Guggenheim & Co., dried fruit processors, was arrested near his Santa Clara County home after a five mile chase. He faces embezzlement charges possibly totaling $500,000 and is jailed on $100,000 cash bail or $250,000 bond. Sheriff William Emig, District Attorney Edmund Brown, and Bert Katz coordinated the arrest.
War analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes continuing American underestimation of German military capabilities. He cites past miscalculations against U boats and unrestricted warfare and questions why Nazi initiative appears underestimated despite lessons from history.
U S spearheads press the German bulge in Belgium to 12 miles or less as a Rundstedt decision looms. Elmer Davis on radio says victory comes first and warns against premature claims of postwar before victory.
A nationwide forecast predicts a wet New Year across much of the United States with rain in the Mississippi valley and along the Atlantic coast, while pacific weather turns to snow in higher elevations. Concurrently, Allied forces under Patton push into the German Ardennes, threatening Bastogne and the bulge as German defenses buckle and 36 hour news delays persist.
Washington December 30 The war manpower commission withdrew all employment ceiling authorizations for track operators effective January 3. Following James F Byrnes order tracks including dog trotting and horse racing facilities may not hire workers or maintenance staff until war conditions permit reopening.
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