German Flank Sags Under Yank Assault In Mindoro Raid
American bombers hunted surviving Japanese warships after a raid on Mindoro sunk three ships and damaged two. U S planes struck Iwo Jima and an enemy air base 750 miles south of Tokyo as a Pacific fleet force withdrew largely unscathed. The Japanese attack on Mindoro ended with heavy losses.
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Mindoro
U. S
Philippines
Tokyo
Saipan
Manila
Clark
Leyte
Morotai Island
MacArthur
Honshu Island
Mitsumasa Yonai
William McDowell
Brady
Tex
Washington
Musashima
Yank
Clark Field
Borneo
Leyte Island
U S
Rochefort
Celles
Associated Press
Marche-Manhay
St. Huebert
Beauracing
St. Hubert
Salient
Humain
Havrenne
Marche
Liemeux
Bulge
Bonnal
Inseneborn
Eschdorf
Linge
Bastogne
Berdorf
Echternach
Roer River
Duren
Cologne
Hertogenbosch
Intelligence Fails As German Force Surges
Washington reports say intelligence broke down as German troops massed unseen, with 200000 men near Richmond, while U S forces claim several naval losses and successful strikes in the Philippines. Mindoro, Iwo Jima, and Tokyo targets are described amid ongoing air and sea actions. Casualties include ships sunk and damaged, with 827 Japanese troops killed on Leyte.
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Washington
Peyton C. March
Richmond
Potomac
Ohio Education Association Assembly Opens With School Reform Proposals
Columbus notes a proposal to add junior colleges to Ohio’s Public school system is among recommendations slated for consideration at the Ohio Education Association assembly opening in Columbus. The plan aims to expand higher education access within the state’s public framework.
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Columbus
Ohio Education Asso— Assembly
Allied Planes Defy Weather On German Raid
British and American heavy bombers pressed raids on Germany despite a sleet storm that iced runways and cut visibility. RAF Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped about 2,500 tons of explosives on the Opladen rail workshops near Cologne while U.S. Eighth Air Force conducted a separate daylight bombing mission. Official reports say Allied aircraft destroyed nearly 2,000 pieces of German rail and road traffic and downed 90 fighters in heavy operations involving about 4,000 Allied planes.
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London
Germany
Opladen
Cologne
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Meat shortage grips New York City shops during holiday protest
New York City faces tightening meat supplies as retailers observe a four day holiday in protest of OPA rules not requiring livestock ceilings. A police count found 2142 of 6088 shops closed, some due to meat shortages. War Food Administration said wholesale houses closed for lack of supplies, a claim City officials and industry spokesmen denied.
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New York
New York City
OPA
War Food Administration
Ohio Supreme Court Grants New Trial for Hagert Murder Conviction
Henry William Hagert an 18 year old Cleveland youth convicted of first degree murder in the August 12 1943 slaying of 12 year old twins James and Charles Collins was granted a new trial by the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday.
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Columbus
Henry William Hagert
Cleveland
James
Charles Collins
Ohio Supreme Court
Greek Regency Approved Amid War Crisis
A Greek regency plan was approved at an all party conference. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin planned to address the Greek question at a future meeting. A sniper narrowly missed Churchill outside the British Embassy as the regency issue unfolded in London.
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Churchill
Roosevel
Stalin
Seizure Ordered of Montgomery Ward Property
Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron designated to seize Chicago properties of Montgomery Ward and Company under presidential order amid a labor dispute. Ward chairman Sewell Avery was previously carried from his office by soldiers as the Army seized the property. Strikes were called in Chicago, Detroit, and other cities, with plants in Denver St. Paul Portland San Rafael and Jamaica under potential seizure for failing to follow War Labor Board directives.
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Chicago
Joseph W. Byron
War Department
Montgomery Ward and Company
War Labor Board
Byron
Sewell Avery
Ward
Washington
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employee Cio Union
Detroit
Kansas City
Montgomery Ward
Denver
St. Paul
Portland
Ore
San Rafael
Calif
Jamaica
N. Y
WLB
U S Income Sets Record in Wartime Year 1944
Washington reports wartime activity pushed national income to 159 billion dollars in 1944, a peak that shattered records. Commerce Department notes 1945 may see cooler activity with income payments to individuals near 155 billion, consumer spending about 96.6 billion, non-war government outlays 13 billion, and war purchases 85 billion.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Ice Storm Strains Ohio Roads With Snow and Wind
Port Columbus reports partial clearing with colder air as crews battle the crippling ice across highways. High winds and snow showers complicate recovery efforts, with forecasts predicting flurries in the northeast and later rain and snow mix as a warmer front advances.
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Columbus
Ohio
Highway Department
Port Columbus
Dismiss Indictment on Income Tax Evasion
Federal Judge Ralph E Jenney dropped an indictment accusing William Bioff former Hollywood union representative of evading about 85000 in 1936 and 1937 taxes. A Biddle letter said prosecution should end as Bioff’s 1941 New York conviction for extorting money from film firms rests on essentially the same facts making a second trial unnecessary.
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Los Angeles
Ralph E. Jenney
William Bioff
Hollywood Union
Francis Biddle
Bioff
New York
Fear Sub Is Lost Seawolf Overdue From Patrol
The U S submarine Seawolf is overdue from patrol and presumed lost after a dangerous rout, with crews aboard facing uncertain fate as search efforts continue and officials assess the incident and sea conditions.
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Washington
U U. S
Seawolf
Methodist conference on Christian education opens in Nashville
In Nashville Tennessee delegates from six commissions of the Methodist conference on Christian education begin a six day meeting tomorrow to discuss the denomination's work under current world conditions.
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Nashville
Tenn
Methodist Conference On Christian Education
Absentees in War Industry To Be Inducted
Ohio draft boards to call up chronic absentees among war workers. Col. C W Goble directs local boards to require employers to report 90 days of attendance and to notify if a registrant becomes a chronic absentee. If the report shows not regularly engaged in war work, induction steps should follow.
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Columbus
Ohio
Col
C. W. Goble
Selective Service
Boy Dies in Fire Destroys Family Home
Eleven year old Robert Ochier died from burns after a fire wrecked the Ochier family home near Foraker. A kitchen stove explosion occurred while his parents were at work at the Lima Tank Depot. Five other children were burned in the blaze.
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Ada
Robert Ochier
William Ochier
Foraker
Lima Tank
Unidentified Man Killed at Falconer Crossing
In Falconer a westbound train struck and killed an unidentified man at a crossing. The body was found on the engine pilot after the train reached Meadville Pennsylvania about 60 miles away. Coroner Samuel T. Bowers said the crew recovered a mutilated torso.
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Falconer, N. Y
Falconer Crossing
Meadville
Samuel T. Bowers
Snow and Ice Collapse Destroys Mansfield Theater
The Majestic Theater Building in Mansfield collapsed yesterday due to ice and snow on the roof, with officials estimating $75,000 in damage. The theater has been closed since June 1943 and all equipment inside was destroyed. In Troy, ten year old Howard Arnold died when a Christmas gift shotgun discharged accidentally.
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Mansfield
Majestic Theater
Troy
Howard Arnold
German Hungarian Lines Smashed in Budapest News Card
Soviet forces drove through the Danube Bend and pressed into Buda as the Red army aimed at Vienna and the Hron Ipoly front. Russian gains split German troops west of the Danube with 3,000 killed reported and eight towns seized east of Ipolysag. Over 3,500 prisoners were taken along the Czechoslovakian fronts.
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Red
Pest
Danube i
Budapest
Danube
Buda
Szentendrei
Red Army
Marshall Tolbukhin
First Ukraine
Marshal Malinovsky
Hron
Garam
Austria
Ipoly
Ipolysa
Losone
Navy Reports Sinking Of Japanese Carrier
The Navy said American submarines destroyed a large Japanese aircraft carrier six other enemy warships and 20 more Nipponese vessels. This brings total Japanese ships sunk or damaged to 1,090 since the war began, including 99 definitely sunk, 11 probably sunk, and 16 damaged.
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Washington
Dewey to Deliver First Speech Since Election
Washington report says Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will give a nationally broadcast address on February 8 at the Lincoln Day dinner. It marks his first speech since his November presidential bid failed.
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Dewey
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Polish Lublin Regime To Get Russian OK
Washington reports Russia is close to recognizing the Polish Committee of Liberation at Lublin as Poland's provisional government. Stalin seeks this to support imminent eastern front moves and winter offensives against Germany while London and Washington back the London government in exile and urge compatibility on the Russo-Polish boundary.
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Washington
Russia
Polish Committee of Liberation
Lublin
Poland
Stalin
London
Germany
Lublin Committee
Bricker To Recommend Employee Salary Increases
Gov John W Bricker announced he would urge the Legislature to enact immedi ately raises for all state employees in the lower pay brackets Following a study panel recommendation the plan would reenact a 10 percent raise from 1943 a further 10 percent retroactive to last July 1 and annual 2 percent boosts for up to five years of state service
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Allstate
State
Recording Corporation Buys Cartridge Factory
Recording Corporation, a Columbia Broad-casting unit, bought the Peters Cartridge plant of Remington Arms in Kings Mills. Production of phonograph records is planned for February at the site, which had housed cartridge manufacturing until last summer and has been idle since the shift to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Lebanon
James H. Hunter
Columbia Recording Corp
Columbia Broadcasing System
Peters
Remington Arms Co
Kings Mills
Remington
Bridgeport
Train Hits Stalled Car Killing Woman in Newark
Marie Filkosky, 44, was killed and her son William was seriously injured when a train struck their stalled automobile in Newark yesterday.
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Newark
Marie Filkosky
William
Copper and Lead Shortages Threaten Civilian Goods in 1945
Copper and lead shortages loom as 1945 begins with Army demand for bullets and artillery shells. The War Production Board may cut civilian copper tonnage by half next quarter while lead use for storage batteries paints and gasoline additives faces a 40 percent reduction to protect dwindling stockpiles. Copper restrictions threaten hooks eyes fasteners and shotgun shells for farmers. steel and aluminum supplies are improving with underutilized plant capacity and lower maritime requirements.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Requirements
WPB
War Production Board
Maritime Commission
Office of Civilian
Eeae
Nazi Drive Is Stopped At Stavelot
Allied reports say Von Rundstedt’s southern flank sagged as American armor and infantry broke through to Bastogne ending a seven day siege. Weather sleet and ice hindered German movement while Allied air actions were limited. American forces pressed west of Echternach and Bastogne, routing pockets of German resistance and tightening the corridor to Bastogne.
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von Rundstedt
Stavelot
Bastogne
Berlin
Patton
Third Army
Italy
Serchio
Fifth Army
Barga
Marshal von Rundstedt
Echternach
Sure
Luxembourg
Aachen
Supreme Headquarters
Grandmeni
Manhay
Belgium
St. Hubert
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THE
Korechika Anami
Supreme War Council
Attica
George II
U.S
U. S. Seventh Army
Lauterbourg
Rhine
Man Devil
Hasso Eccard von Manteuffel
Fifth Armored Army
France
Tunisia
Moscow
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
New Mexico
Rockford, AI
Mark Hanna
Navy
O.K
Recording Corporation
Cartridge Factory
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