Armies Close In On Houffalize Amid East Front Breakout
United Press reports First and Third Armies push toward Houffalize as German garrison fights desperate rear guard action. Advances from Liege and Malmedy threaten St Vith. air support limited by weather. British Second Army in contact west of Houffalize. Rundstedt attempting to reform near the Siegfried Line.
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Houffalize
Liege
Hodges
George 8. Patton
United Press
John McDermott
First Army
McDermott
U. S
Wilbrin
Dinez
Neville
St Vith
Karl von Rundstedt
Front
St. Vith
Malmedy-Stavelot
la Roche
Omar N. Bradley
12Th Army Group Command
Second Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Second Armored Division
Grandmenil
Wilogne
Siegfried Line
Wily Rundstedt
Vianden
Berlin
Moscow
Poland
Budapest
Danube Valley
Krakow
Pulawy
Vistula Valley
Warsaw
Magnusze
Vistula-Bug
Narew
Pulatsk
East Prussia
V Bomb Attacks on London Continue for 48 Hours
German radio claimed London faced V bomb raids almost non stop for 48 hours. British air and home ministries issued the standard dawn to dawn report, detailing damage and casualties across southern England.
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London
England
Swedish Architect Predicts Decades to Rebuild German Housing
Stockholm January 15 Werner Taesler a Swedish architect and international reconstruction group member said post war housing in Germany would take 25 to 30 years to rebuild. He estimated at least 13 000 000 Germans have lost their housing.
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Stockholm
Werner Taesler
Germany
Red Cross to Convene Potter County Chapter Meeting
The Potter County Red Cross Chapter will hold its annual meeting at 8 o'clock in the USC Auditorium. All members and War Fund contributors are invited. The program covers community services and POW support with exhibits and talks, plus entertainment by Amarillo Army Air Field musicians.
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USC
Potter County
The
Red Cross
War Fund
Byron Singleton
Amarillo Army Air Field
Mr. Singleton
Heavies Hit Rails In Germany From London Dispatch
More than 600 Liberators and Fortresses escorted by nearly 700 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters struck rail yards in Ingolstadt Augsburg Reutlingen Freiburg as a follow up to RAF night raids on Nazi oil supplies.
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London
U.P
Germany
Strategic Air Force
Ingolstadt
Munich
Augsburg
Reutlingen
Stuttgart
Freiburg
Strasbourg
Over 800000 Nazis Captured Since D Day
Allied armies have captured 844,891 Germans since D-Day. Since Field Marshal Von Rundstedt opened his winter offensive Dec. 16, 1944, 37,894 Germans have been captured, latest figures from the armies disclosed today.
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Associated Press
von Rundstedt
Russians Begin March to Berlin Nine Bitter Struggles Raging
London report describes a major winter offensive stretching from Lithuania to Yugoslavia with up to 3.25 million Russians and Germans in nine linked battles. Moscow cites Konev advancing toward Krakow while Germans warn of a push toward Berlin.
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Berlin
London
Lithuania
Yugoslavia
Red Army
Formosa Raided as Luzon Push Expands in World War II
Allied air and sea operations press against Formosa as U S Fifth Army advances in Luzon seize key road junctions and threaten Baguio Japanese losses cited include locomotives freight cars and vehicles while Liberators strike Nagoya and Formosa in counter moves McCain task force praised for deep carrier penetration and oil and materials disruption in Southeast Asia.
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Lingayen Gulf
Damortis
Baguio
Philippines
Luzon
Alaminos
Bataan
MacArthur
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Formosa
John S. McCain
Indo-China
Betty Balmain Wins First News Tip Prize
Betty Balmain of 903 Bonham wins the weekly News Tip prize of five dollars for the best tip about the crime report where a boy spoke of his stolen kit ten and charges were reduced to kidnapping and assault. Second prize goes to Mrs. R. McNett for a tip about money found in a laundry bag. Other tipsters include Berry Hester and Lyndall White among many listed.
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Betty Balmain
Bonham
Piers
Cleveland
Lyndall White
North Buchanan
FE. W. Sawyer
Harrison
Stewart Bennett
Hayden
C. H. Ray
Tyler
Sabath Attacks Price Hikes From Cigar to Cured Foods
Rep. Sabath of Illinois denounces increased costs and diminished quality in cigars and restaurants, urging Price Administrator Bowles to investigate. He cites 5 cent cigars now 15 cents or 3 for 55. notes poorer tobacco and smaller portions, higher cream and furniture prices, and vegetable costs up to 40 items.
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Chester Bowles
OPA
Sabath
Bowles
Air Transport Command marks two years of European service
The European division of the U S Air Transport Command completed two years of operations flying 30 million miles and carrying 183000 passengers and 22000000 pounds of cargo. The report noted 5000000 miles without a fatal accident and the removal of 14000 American wounded from Europe to the United States in the past year.
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Air Transport Command
London
U. S. Air Transport Command
Europe
United States
Weather Report for Amarillo and Surrounding Regions
Fair conditions continue tonight and Tuesday across Amarillo and vicinity and neighboring areas. Temperatures trend slightly higher on Tuesday with warmer Panhandle conditions at night. Low temperatures range from 20 to 40 degrees, with highs around 60 to 75 degrees, and a 24 hour high of 58 and low of 25 with noon at 43.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Filipinos Refuse Japanese Rule as Luzon Liberated
U P correspondent describes San Fabian residents and American survivor Francis L McCarthy amid MacArthur’s forces landing on Luzon. Mining partner Lt Jack Russell, 29, of Glendale California, returns to aid Hammond, now living among Filipinos. Hammond recalls seven arrests, beatings, and threats by Japanese forces.
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Luzon
U.P
Philippines
San Fabian
Lingayen
Irvang W. Hammond
Hammond
Jack Russell
Glendale
Cal
Caraballo Mountains
Russell
Manila
Baguio
Mindanao
Blame Wages For Shortage
Washington on January 15 Congress was urged to raise industrial wages to solve manpower shortages. AFL and Socialist speakers challenged 4-F draft plans, arguing war production needs higher pay and that freezing wages worsens shortages. They urged breaking the Little Steel formula to speed production and avoid inflation.
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Washington
Congress
American Federation of Labor
Socialist Party
House Military Committee
Lewis G. Hines
AFL
War Labor Board
Socalist
Albert Hamilton
Vienna
Hamilton
Norman Thomas
Nine workers drafted after Newark strike for war jobs
A union official said nine Rubberset workers who walked out over vacations pay and bonuses were ordered drafted for physical exams and approved for induction. The draft action, if linked to the strike, would be the first reported work or fight case noted by Washington officials.
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Newark
N. J
Washington
James Castagna
Brushmakers Union Local 16303
APL
Rubberset Company
War Manpower Commission
Draft Board
Selective Service
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Konevs
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Carpathian Mountains
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Konev
Red Marshal
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Silesian
Ilya Ehrenburg
Pravda
Henry Shapiro
Lublin
Vistula
Shapiro
South Poland
Leonard Milliman
Sixth Army
Comei
Kuniaki Koiso
Domei
Luzon Island
Walter Krueger
Agno River
Bayamban
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Rembert James
McCain
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Kaladan
Lemro
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Rangoon
Pacific
Freeman Motor Co
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R. H. Gilliam
Maryland
Joe Elimer
Amarillo Field
Joe Gibbons
Lincoln
Eugene Johnson
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Kenneth Pair
Buchanan
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North Grant
Jerry Howard
Florida
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South Cleveland
Jimmy Carter
Polk
Earl Fisher
Louisiana
Betty Ruth Fleeck
Ong
J. E. Duckett
Bonnie Craig
A. C. West
Pierce
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Clydine Allen
Bobby Reid
B.H Clemens
North Garfield
Rep. Sabath
Illinois
U. S. Weather Bureau
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
World Globes and Atlases
Russell Stationery Co
Ay Francis L. McCarthy
U.S
Middleboro
Mass
Douglas MacArthur
Is Home
Story
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W. J. Morris
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