Montgomery Bradley Gain Unified Command On Belgium Front
Supreme headquarters announces regrouping of Western Front forces with Field Marshal Montgomery and Lt General Bradley in charge of operations against the German deep salient in Belgium. Churchill returns to London after talks with Eisenhower and Montgomery as Patton’s Third Army remains strong on the southern flank.
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Associated Press
Supreme Headquarters
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Omar N. Bradley
Belgium
Churchill
London
Eisenhower
Marshal Montgomery
von Rundstedt Salient
Montgomery
Salient
U. S
George S. Patton
von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Bradley
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Alsace
Second Army
First Army
Longchamps
Bastogne
Champs
Gerimont
Tillet
Patton
Stavelot
Allied and German Armies Battle in Belgian Bulge
Berlin radio and field dispatches describe a sweeping Ardennes battle with Lt. Gen. Hodges and Gen. Patton pushing to narrow the Bastogne flank. Allied forces report gains across multiple sectors as German strength and tanks are countered in bitter snow and fog.
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Bulge
Salient
Courtney Hodges
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Bastogne
Grandmenil
George S. Patton
Third
Berlin
Aachen
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Hodges
Beffe
Marche
Bergeval
Stavelot
British Units Join US Forces in Belgian Frontline Squeeze
Allied dispatch reports British troops have entered combat alongside American doughboys in the German salient’s northwest edge. Field Marshal Montgomery directs reinforcements as U.S. First, Third, and Ninth Armies peel off to flank the German spearhead and bolster weak spots in the breakthrough.
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Rochefort
Dinant
Meuse
von Rundstedt
First
Grande Menil
Belgium
Supreme Headquarters
Westwall
U. S
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Second Army
British Capture Akyab In Burma Port Assault
Allied forces seize Akyab Burma in a first amphibious strike on the march to Singapore. In the Philippines area American aircraft and PT boats sink 69 Japanese ships during a three day operation linked to carrier raids on Formosa.
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Associated Press
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Singapore
Philippines
MacArthur
U. S
Luzon
Leyte Island
Convention Ban Imminent to Ease War Transport Strain
Washington officials say James F. Byrnes plans a near total ban on wartime national conventions to relieve rail and hotel congestion. Some regional gatherings may be allowed with possible appeals. travel, occupancy, and logistics officials note practical and administrative hurdles.
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Washington
U.P
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Office of Defense Transportation
Russians Hold Off Panzers Near Budapest Frontlines
Moscow reports grim defense as German Panzer thrust from the Danube presses on toward Budapest. Soviet lines hold in the corridor southeast of Komarom with tanks and air units engaged, while bursts of tank losses and fierce fighting persist around the Hungarian capital.
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Gay
Budapest
Danube
Reich
Komarom
Red Star
Vertes
Marshal Tolbikhin
Badger Ice Company sells Amarillo plant to Corsicana group
The Badger Ice Company sold its plant at 1310 West Sixth and related facilities near the Santa Fe wards to Hugh Crane and associates of Corsicana. The cash deal closed yesterday and Alton Cartlidge of Corsicana will manage the business. Horace Dyer, Badger’s longtime general manager since 1931, remains with the new Palo Duro Ice Company until April. The deal leaves other Badger interests in Amarillo and other states unaffected.
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Badger Ice Company
West Sixth
Santa Fe Wards
Hugh Crane
Yugoslav Partisans Cross Austria Threaten German Arc
Tito announced partisans crossed the border and menaced the Klagenfurt Graz arc. They cut the Maribor Graz railway in many places and destroyed the Maribor Dravograd line along the border over a long stretch.
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London
Klagenfurt
Graz
Marshal Tito
Toda
Tito
Maribor
Wilden
Leibnitz
Hrenhausen
Dravograd
Yugoslavia
Propaganda Claims B-29s Advance Tokyo Master Plan
A Domei News Agency dispatch quoted as saying U S B-29 raids are aiding a master plan for a greater Tokyo. The report claimed the plan is already in execution and that fires burned homes intended as evacuation areas.
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Associated Press
Domei
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Allied Unity Is Given Job
The United States maintained formal diplomatic relations with the Polish government in exile in London while acknowledging Soviet recognition of the Lublin regime in Poland. The move divides the Allies and limits U.S. and British leverage ahead of the Big Three meeting.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Stettinius
London
Gromyko
Moscow
Stalin
Lublin
Poland
United Nations
Russia
Britain
Marshal Stalin
OPA considers job applicant claiming gas fumes reveal fuel card
Jeff Griffin, district information executive, received an application from a man who boasted he could determine if an automobile used A or C card gasoline by analyzing exhaust fumes. The claim was presented as a potential hire opportunity at the Oklahoma City office on January 5.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
OPA
District Information
Jeff Griffin
Child Lost at Dairy Farm Found Safe After Search
Laverta Chrispens disappeared near Palisades Dairy Farm Wednesday morning and spent about three hours away from home. A large community search including Municipal Airport planes recovered her about a mile and a half from home. Her father W C Chrispens said she suffered no ill effects and was excited by the incident. The family had moved from Texline recently.
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Laverta Chrispens
Palisades
W. C. Chrispens
Laverta
Texline
Severe Cold Grips Bemidji and Minnesota Towns
Bemidji Minnesota records 38 degrees below aero early today per weather observer. Other frigid lows include Virginia 32 below Ely 28 below Duluth 22 below. Advertisement notes John Maynard Lumber Co. 800 West Sixth Street.
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Bemidji
Minn
Minnesota
U. S
Virginia
Ely
Duluth
Nazis Increase V-2 Attacks on England
London reports a surge of V-2 rocket fire on Britain with heightened enemy air activity over southern England. The German high command offered no figures on projectiles launched, while a British communique noted damage and casualties.
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England
London
Britain
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas region
Fair today and tonight with mild daytime temperatures. Saturday partly cloudy and cooler. West Texas remains fair this afternoon tonight and Saturday with light rain possible in the Del Rio Eagle Pass area this afternoon and tonight. Panhandle colder Saturday afternoon. New Mexico fair this afternoon tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. High 55 low 26 noon 47.
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Amarillo
West Texas
del Rio- Eagle Pass
Panhandle
New Mexico
We Get Diet Of Pollyanna Information
Frederick C. Crawford, chair of the National Association of Manufacturers, argues censorship keeps America semi ignorant. He cites war correspondents in France and urges a free press in Germany. Crawford, Thompson Products president, recounts disillusionment with French wartime conditions and French attitudes toward Americans and the underground.
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New York
America
Frederick C. Crawford
National Association of Manufacturers
France
Crawford
Thompson Products, Inc
Belgium
A Victory In Athens
British forces cleared about three quarters of Athens and broke into ELAS strongholds after heavy fighting. One column entered the north and armor moved into Peristeri as 224 ELAS were killed 101 wounded and 752 captured. John Sofianopoulos urged ELAS to lay down arms.
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Athens
U.P
ELAS
Peristeri
John Sofianopoulos
EAM National Liberation Front
Greece
Rejected Confederate Veteran Celebrates 103rd Birthday
James T. Archambeau, rejected for Civil War service due to physical fitness, marked his 103rd birthday yesterday in St. Louis. The brief item notes his history and lists local business names connected to the notice.
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ST. Louis
U.P
James T. Archambeau
Roosevelt to deliver radio address to Congress
New York January 5 radio networks announced that President Roosevelt will broadcast a summary of his annual message to Congress from 9 to 9 30 P M Central War Time tomorrow.
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New York
Roosevelt
eCongress
73 Allied Divisions on Western Front Report
A Paris broadcast quoted an official American announcement that the Allies now have 73 divisions on the western front while the Germans have no operational reserves. No confirmation or details of the announcement were available locally.
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Western Front
London
Paris
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