Allied pincers close on Cassino area in Italy drive
Allied forces pressed a hard fight in central Italy with the Eighth Army closing on San Pietro near Cassino after heavy tank battles that left 13 German tanks destroyed and two captured. New Zealand units pressed north of Orsogna while air forces bombed targets in Greece and Yugoslavia.
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Algiers
San Pietro
Cassino
Eighth
Lungo
Rome
Cassino Plain
Lagone
Filienano
Venafr
Eighth Army
New Zealand
Orsogna-Ortona
Orsogna
15Th Strategic Air Force
Athens
Alpine
Italy
Austria
Yugoslavia
Albania
Coastal Command
Pping
U. S
East
Orsongna-Ortona
Company 115 Ordered Out Tomorrow
Capt W A Baker of Company 115 Virginia Protective Force ordered all members to report at the armory in uniform at 1 o clock Sunday afternoon.
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W. A. Baker
Virginia Protective Force
Trianon Restaurant Introduces Holiday Filet Mignon Dinner
The Trianon Restaurant announces a Special Complete Filet Mignon Dinner offered during the holidays from tonight through January 1 1944 inclusive for 1.25 dollars. The meal includes shrimp or soup, filet mignon on toast, two vegetables cheese with pastry or any dessert beverage. Reserve at 4243.
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Trianon
Volunteer Firemen Meet at Friendship Firehouse
Monday night at 7 30 p m the Volunteer Firemen s Association will meet at the Friendship Firehouse Captain W Argenbright presiding Christmas trees cedar and California firs offered for sale. G W Clowser handling transfer duties.
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Volunteer Firemen's Association
Friendship
Cedar
California
Urs
G. W. Clowser
Laborious Task Of Removing Bodies From Wrecked Trains
In Lumberton North Carolina after a collision of two Atlantic Coast Line trains emergency crews fought through wreckage to recover bodies. The Red Cross warned the death toll could reach eighty with over fifty injured. Military police and wreckers toiled to clear debris and resume traffic as officials tallied on with a list of twenty eight soldiers killed.
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Lumberton
N. C
Atlantic Coast Line
Red Cross
War Department
Washington
Plans Launched for President's Birthday Ball
Mayor C R Anderson announced the Junior Board of which Ed Molden is president will plan local participation in activities for National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mrs Allen Bond is Frederick county chairwoman. Forrest E Sirbaugh named JBT committee chair. Drive opens January 17 with a national birthday ball. A local ball in Winchester is tentatively planned this year.
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C. R. Anderson
Ed Molden
Allen Bond
Frederick County
Molden
Forrest E. Sirbaugh
JBT
Winchester
Fruit Cares For Sale at Sears Roebuck
For sale at the Sears Roebuck and Co. Order Office in Loudoun Street 2 pounds in casserole priced at 1 dollar 79 cents.
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Sears Roebuck and Co
S. Loudoun St
Railway Unions Told How To Start Strike
Cleveland December 18. Rail union leaders from five operating brotherhoods will meet President Roosevelt in Washington to avert a nation wide strike set to begin December 30. The White House session is at 2 30 p m eastern war time replacing a National Mediation Board Chicago conference. Attending will be A F Whitney D B Robertson and Alganley Johnston with possible attendance by H F Fraser and T C Cashen. The strike plan would hit major systems in vital industrial areas.
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Cleveland
Raiload
Ryoosevelt
Washington
Brotherhood of Railroad
A. F. Whitney
White House
National Mediation Board
Chicago
Whitney
D. B. Robertson
Alganley Johnston
H. F. Fraser
T. C. Cashen
Brotherhoods
Eisenhower May Direct Invasion From London
The Army and Navy Register reports that revised plans place General Dwight D. Eisenhower in charge of the western Europe invasion with General George C. Marshall remaining as U.S. Army chief of staff. It notes General Sir Harold Alexander could take command in the Mid Mediterranean.
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Washington
Army and Navy Register
Dwight D Eisenhower
Western
Europe
George C. Marshall
U. S. Army
the Register
Roose Ma
Church
Marshall
Eisenhower
Invason
London
Harold Alexander
Mid-Mediterranean
Alexander
Patton May Lead Allied Balkan Invasion Prediction
London dispatch reports Ankara radio claiming large Allied landing barges in Sicily and predicting Lt Gen George S Patton Jr would lead a Balkan invasion. It cites Turkish press and notes Rommel’s Denmark visit as an invasion hint amid weather concerns and bombing impact on German war plants.
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London
Ankara
Sicily
George S. Patton, Jr
Seventh Army
Balkan
Balkans
Corsica
Britain
Erwin
Rommel
Denmark
Germany
Berlin
Sweden
Germany- Ibly
U. S. Seventh Army
George S. Patton
Ukrainians Tighten Ring Around Kirovograd
Soviet forces under Gen. Ivan Konev tightened encirclement of the industrial city of Kirovograd, claiming 800 German counterattacks beaten. Reports from Moscow spoke of heavy fighting in White Russia and a potential winter push toward the Baltic as the Kiev and Dnieper regions saw renewed tank battles and rail hubs changing hands.
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London
Ivan
Konev
Second Ukraine
Kirovograd
Moscow
White Russia
Krivoi Rog
Germany
Berlin
Baltic
Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
Nikolai Vatutin
First Ukraine
Fritz von Mannstein
Kiev Bulge
Kiev
Red Army
Dnieper River
Cassidy
Zhitomir
Korosten
Radomsyl
Hungary Moves Troops Amid Yugoslav Plan Rebuff
An Ankara dispatch reports Budapest considering withdrawing Hungarian troops from Russia and sending them to Yugoslavia to reinforce German forces. The Yugoslav statement claims the plan would back Mihailovic and German troops, with Grebene disarmament cited in the conflict.
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Russia
Yugoslavia
Ankara
Neibacher
Budapest
Germany
Balkan
Josip Broz (Tito
Draja Mihailovic
Peter
Mihailovic
Grebena
Allied advisory council backs Southern Italy control plan
The Allied advisory council recommended to General Eisenhower that most of Southern Italy Sardinia and Sicily be turned to the Badoglio government under Allied control. The plan covers Salerno Potenza and Bari northern bounds while Naples and front-adjacent areas stay under direct Allied military government.
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Algiers
Allied Advisory Council For
Italy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sardinia
Sicily
Badoglio
Eisenhower
Robert D. Murphy
United States
Rene Massigli
Andrei J. Vishinsky
Rome
Churchill presses on as illness steadies during war crisis
London bulletin reports Prime Minister Churchill with irregular pulse and subsiding fever while insisting on directing Britain’s war effort. He remains in close touch with the war cabinet as Mrs Churchill travels to his side amid cautious optimism for a few days before the crisis passes.
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London
Churchill
No. 10
Downing Street
Lord Moran
Davis E. Bedford
Robert J. W. Pulvertaft
Britain
Daily Mail
Sears Roebuck Order Office to Close at 5 30 Pm
Closing notice announces Sears Roebuck and Co Order Office will shut at 5 30 PM from Monday December 20. The notice lists the date and office location as part of the closure.
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Sears Roebuck and Co
U S Troops Expand Beachhead Across New Britain
SOUTH PACIFIC United States forces enlarge the beachhead on Japan's New Britain stronghold while Allied airpower pounds the area. Liberators bomb refineries on Borneo and sink transport and tanker ships as action continues on multiple fronts.
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South Pacific
United States
Japan
New Britain
Borneo
Nazi Storm Troop Commander Testifies at War Crimes Trial
In Moscow Ritz a Nazi storm trooper commander testifies that Hitler bore responsibility for Soviet cruelty and that Himmler issued orders to act on Aryan dictates. The trial includes German defendants and a Russian traitor, prosecuted by Col N K Dunaiev. crowds fill the courtroom as reports describe the proceedings.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Heinrich Himmler
Hans Ritz
United States
Great Britain
N. K. Dunaiev
Justice Department
Ritz
Japanese Beaten In Rice Bowl By J R O'Sullivan
U S Army Air Force Chief Maj Gen Claire L Chennault says Japanese forces have been decisively defeated in Free China’s rice bowl area. He reports about 10 000 troops attempting to withdraw from Tungting Lake battleground and notes 31 Japanese planes destroyed by 14th Air Force fliers during the week ending.
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J. Reilly O’sullivan
U. S. Army Air Force
China
Claire L. Chennault
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Free China
Rice Bowl
Tungting Lake
Chennault
Changteh
14Th Air Force
Italian Forces Not Proving Of Much Value
Allied dispatch from Algiers reports three key factors hindering progress in southern Italy including Italian armed forces' limited land value and negligible guerrilla activity. The piece argues Rome capture offers little military payoff beyond prestige and highlights Foggia air bases as critical for bombing Germany and the Balkans.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Eighth Army
Italy
Mediterranean
Rome
Foggia
Germany
Balkans
Great Plain
Havoc Wrought By Allied Bombs
A traveler through Berlin recounts a recent air raid as the worst yet, with bombs raining for about 30 minutes near Anhalter station. He notes destruction within a third of a mile radius, fires at Tempelhof, and damage to BaBel sberg and Neubelsberg suburbs, while Essen and Kassel are cited as harder hit. Genoa and Milan also report extensive housing damage.
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Stockholms
Berlin
Sweden
Genoa
Anhalter Station
Babelsberg
Neubelsberg
Tempelhof
Phe
Essen
Kassel
Milan
Invasion Advances on Arawe Sector New Britain
General MacArthur’s headquarters report American Sixth Army troops have secured the three mile neck of land at Arawe harbor and overrun Pilelo Island on New Britain. Air and naval units claim continued Japanese air activity with no ground defense yet unnerved. Allied air forces report downing Japanese bombers and fighters while destroying barges and the enemy supply route to New Guinea.
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Asahel Bush
MacArthur
New Gi
Sixth Army
Cape Merkus
Arawe
New Britain Island
Big Island
Pilelo
New Britain
Southwest Pacific
Vitiaz Straits
Huon Peninsula
N Guinea
Aga River
Fifth Air Force
U. S. Sixth Army
New Guinea
Rabaul
Cuinea
Greyhound Bus Drivers Return to Work at ATL
Striking drivers and maintenance workers of the Southeastern Greyhound Bus Lines returned to work at 12 01 a m and asked the regional War Labor Board to reconsider its wage contract decision. They contend the ruling lowered the contract scale in certain categories.
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Atlanta
Southeastern Greyhound Bus Lines
Regional War Labor Board
WLB
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Hungary
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G. W. Patton
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Kirovogord
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