Invasion Plans Laid as Berlin Is Blasted Again
President Roosevelt announced Eisenhower to supreme command of Anglo American forces for a second front against Germany. Churchill and Stalin agreed on a massive attack opening a European invasion while British planes and American bombers pounded Berlin and Pas de Calais targets in a Christmas Eve raid.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
George C. Marshall
Churchill
Britain
Eisenhower
Mediterranean
Middle East
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Weheran
Europe
Japan
London
Pas de Calais
RAF
Berlin
England
Pas de Callais
Reich
North Sea
Shmargd
German International Information Bureau
Mer
Channel
France
Rail Engineers And Trainmen Call Off Strike
Chiefs of the Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and Locomotive Engineers announced at the White House that they would call off the strike set for December 30 for their two unions in light of President Roosevelt's proposed arbitration of the wage dispute. War Mobilization Director Byrnes and Economic Stabilization Chief Vinson noted the move while other operating unions declined arbitration.
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Joseph A. Loftus Washington
Brotherhoods of Railroad
White House
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Whitney
Johnston
War Mobilization
Justice Byrnes
Birth of Christ روایت Caesar decree and Bethlehem scene
The story recounts Caesar Augustus decree for taxation sending Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem where Mary bears Jesus in a manger. Shepherds watch fields hear angels proclaim good news and seek the newborn savior, Christ the Lord.
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Caesar Augustus
Joseph
Galilee
Nazareth
Judea
David
Bethlehem
Mary
Christ the Lord
Italian Front Blanketed by Snow and Battle at Ortona
Allied reports say the Eighth Army pushed north and captured Vezzani near Ortona while Canadians battle to clear the city with bayonets. Bad weather hampered air and ground operations as Fifth Army infantry held a high point but lost another. Marauder bombers struck the French Italian Riviera railroad lines.
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Algiers
Eighth Army
Vezzani
Ortona
Fifth Army
15Th U. S
Riviera
Decense
Bernard N. Montgomery
Villagrande
Adriatic
U. S
Merry Christmas and New Year Greetings from Hodgson and Brown
A one page holiday note from Hodgson and Brown extends sincere wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to their friends and valued customers.
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Hodgson and
Brown
Republicans Eye Senate Seats in 1945 Bead on 15 States
Republicans plan to win 15 states to flip the Senate from 37 to a majority of 49, challenging incumbents in Arizona California Idaho Indiana Illinois Iowa Kentucky Nevada New Jersey New York Maryland Missouri Utah Washington and others. They expect wins in Illinois Indiana California and New York with Wagner in doubt, while western states show stronger odds.
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House
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Arizona
California
Idaho
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Maryland
Missouri
Bng
Utah
Thomas
Wagner
Tydings
West
Dlinois
Lucas
van Nuys
Far West
Senator Downey
Clark
Hayden
Bone
Washington
McCarran
Eda Eer
Stor Barbour
Colonial Kitchen Opens Friday Hours 8 30 A M to 6 P M
Colonial Kitchen announces Friday hours from 8 30 A M to 6 P M with location in city listings. The notice marks business operating times for the day.
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Colonial Kitchen
Germans talk of prisoner trials
Berlin radio predicts public trials for captured Allied air crews as war criminals in reprisal for Kharkov atrocity reports. German judges would allow pilots to explain orders and actions while Dietze broadcasts to Britain. FCC notes no German broadcasts mentioned Kharkov trials yet.
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New York
Kharkov
Berlin
Chitdren
Hamburg
Germany
Dietze
Britain
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Americans Join In Pilgrimage To Church Shrine
Americans in Jerusalem and Bethlehem joined a Christmas pilgrimage to sacred sites. Soldiers and civilians toured the way of pain from Pilate to Golgotha, retracing the 14 stations and visiting the Garden of Gethsemane as they prepared for a midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity and a pontifical procession to the Grotto.
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Ralph Royce
Middle East
Gilbert Cheves
Church of the Nativity
Church of Nativity
Christ
Praetorium
Pontius Pilate
Jesus
Golgotha
Bethsemane
Bethlehem
Bombing Blitzes Reported Across Europe Fronts
World War Fronts brief from Associated Press notes RAF heavy bombing of Berlin with fires, daylight raids on the Reich capital, and continued Allied offensives across the Mediterranean and Italian fronts. Red army claims pressure near Vitebsk and Kiev bulge checked. partisan actions rise in Bosnia near Sarajevo. Pope Pius XII pleads for postwar reconstruction.
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Associated Press
Europe
RAF
Berlin
Britain
English Channel
Reich
Balkans
Siemens
Bosnia
Sarajevo
Pope Calls Peace Not To Be Imposed By Force
The Pope pleads for a peace based on justice not conquest and warns against war that destroys morality. He speaks from a tense wartime setting near the Vatican urging sanctions plus reconciliation and a world communion despite suffering and fear.
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Vatican
Bethlehem
Eyday
Red Army advances as Gorodok is captured near Vitebsk
Moscow reports Marshal Stalin announcing the capture of Gorodok as Red Army forces push toward Vitebsk. Russians recapture initiative in the Kiev bulge with heavy tank losses for German divisions and artillery driving gains 55 to 85 miles west of Kiev. Ground advances extend toward Korosten and Zhytomyr along the Odessa Lenin railway.
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Russia
Red
Vitebsk
Moscow
Kiev
Zhlobin
London
Gorodok
Ivan C. Bagramian
Stalin
Moscow Radio
Eddy Gilmore
Nan Ae
Korosten
Malin
Zhitomir
Odessa-Lenin
English Channel Coast Pounded By German Guns
German High Command said naval shore batteries shelled Dover Deal and Folkestone across from Nazi occupied France. The term leuchtgranate meant flare shells not rockets, while British reports noted no damage beyond routine shelling and long range fire from Dover area guns across the Channel. The monster rocket guns to reach London remain unproven beyond theory.
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London
Dover
Deal
Folkestone
France
Berlin
Dover-Folkestone
Associated Press
Carl Crowehurst
Store Closed For Christmas Day Observance
Our store will be closed all day on Christmas Day as Rhodes Co. observes the holiday.
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Gaunt’s Drug
the Star
THE
Evening Star
Rhodes Co
Thanks to friends and customers 1943 Christmas greeting
A year end note from ROUSS and SOUTH END FIRE COMPANIES thanks patrons for 1943. Wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Announces bingo next Friday.
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Oo Rouss
South End
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