Manila Liberated as 5,000+ Japanese Prisoners Found
General MacArthur announced the liberation of Manila with more than five thousand Japanese prisoners captured in three wars of subjugation. Paratroopers of the 11th and First Cavalry divisions breached defenses, freeing Santo Tomas inmates and Corregidor veterans. Japanese forces in Luzon were driven back, with 25 tanks destroyed as Tokyo acknowledged limited military value of Manila.
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Associated Press
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MacArthur
Tokyo
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Pineau
Manila’ Bay
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Corregidor
Bataan
Japan
First Cavalry Division
Santo Tomas
Tori Bataain
Caseahigeel Jim
Janenese
Cagayan Valley
Luzon
San Jose
Cagayan Highway
Balete Pass
Munoz
Leyton Island
Philippines
Balikpapan
Borneo
William cC. Chase
U. S.first Cavalry Division
De Gaulle Demands Voice in Postwar Plan for Europe
PARIS Gen De Gaulle declared France would not be bound by inter allied decisions unless she helps frame them. The postwar program for Europe stresses France seeking a say in shaping any collective actions. Two die in fire at Modletown as Burton 53 of Rushville and Anna 49 perished in a late night blaze that damaged the residence of Mr and Mrs Charles A Jones on Yanker Road.
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Paris
Charter de Gaulle
Europe
France
Burton
Rushville
Tie
Anna
Charles A. Jones
Yanker Road
American Prisoners Are Denied Good Food by Jap Japs
Santo Tomas Manila report describes starving internees watched by Japanese guards as a mission doctor claims food trucks were blocked. Internees say Japanese could have obtained food for them but refused access, even preventing credit with outside Filipino helpers.
Work-or-Jail Bill Prospects Diminishing in Senate
Washington dispatch reports prospects for work-or-jail legislation sinking as Senate hearings face doubt and opposition. Senate Military Committee may hold hearings. Majority Leader Barkley remains hopeful a bill or form will pass. House panel debates nurses draft bill as Stimson and Forrestal prepare to testify on manpower. Fifth Army troops advance along the Serchio River Valley near Bologna, erasing December gains, with Allied air forces targeting Regensburg rail yards and Brenner Pass lines.
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Senate Military Committee
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Senate
House ‘Committee
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Rural Electrification Administration
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Maybank
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Serchio
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Air Force
Regensburg
Germany
Austria
Brenner Pass
Dulles Criticizes Partisan Talk on Foreign Policy
Detroit speech by John Foster Dulles, adviser to Dewey, urged that national foreign policy must be nonpartisan and not shift with party power. He warned policies tied to party politics are unlikely to succeed and stressed national unity in diplomacy.
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Detroit
John Foster Dulles
Thomas E. Dewey
The
Economic Club of
Dulles
Pilot Lands Fighter On State Highway Near Higgins Port
An Army pilot escaped injury when he force landed his single engine fighter on State Highway 52 a half mile outside Higgins port Brown County. The plane en route from Romulus Michigan was damaged but did not burn. Bernard Miller of Lima a veteran and former Am sherst College student died after being struck by an auto in Amherst Massachusetts.
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State High Way
Higginsport
Brown County
Air Transport Command
Romulus
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Lima
Northampton
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Bernard Miller
West Point
Amsherst College
Amherst
Soldier's Wife Seeks Mercy for Death Sentencing
In Vancouver Washington a soldier, Pvt Henry P Weber, 27, is sentenced to death for refusing to bear arms. His wife, on hearing the ruling, supports his stance as a conscientious objector and pleads for leniency, saying he sought noncombat service. She questions Army notification and recalls his wish to join a medical unit to avoid fighting. She notes she learned of his troubles from a noncommissioned officer.
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Vancouver
Wash
Henry P. Weber
Camn
T Son
Jess
Webner
Labor Party
2200 U S Planes In Raid On Reich On Saturday
A large air assault hammered Germany with about 2 200 American planes targeting Leipzig Magdeburg and Chemnitz near the Czechoslovak border. The mass raid included over 1 300 Flying Fortresses and Liberators forming a 250 mile sky train divided into three sections. Escorts of around 850 Mustangs and Thunderbolts accompanied the formations. Reports say Berlin area was behind the action and Mosquito strikes on Berlin and other central towns followed preliminary raids.
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Germany
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Chemnitz
Berlin
Betsete
Ferther
Vandenberg Urges Major Allies to Demilitarize Axis
Senator Vandenberg in Detroit urged America to join a hard and fast anti Axis treaty with major Allies. He argued future Axis aggression spurs alliance trends and that presidential power to arm forces would not require a new declaration of war, existing under constitutional authority. The remarks were broadcast on a national network during a Variety Club of Michigan event.
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Detroit
United Nations
Vandenberg
Mich
America
Germany
Japan
Senate
Oid
Poland
Congress
Variety Club of
Michigan
Five County Conservancy District Outlined in Hocking Valley
A proposal to form a five county conservancy district in the Hocking Valley was discussed. A competent engineering firm would prepare a comprehensive report to assess feasibility and cost. Lancaster Logan Athens Nelsonville and Glouster likely to bear major preliminary survey expenses. Guests included D W Codding and Charles Walker of Nelsonville and Logan Mayor Denzil Weltmer.
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Penus
Glouster
D.W. ‘Codding
Charles Walker
Nelsonville
Denzil Weltmer
Logan
Codding
Sunday Work Sought To Up Output Of Coal
The Sotia Fuels Administration announces negotiations with eight steel and coke firms in the Pittsburgh Youngstown Wheeling region to add Sunday work on Feb 11 and Feb 25. Twenty one bituminous river mines will operate with miners already agreeing to extra hours. River mines ship coal by barge. Double time pay will be provided under an agreement between SFA and the United Mine Workers.
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Washington
Sotia Fuels Administration
Pittsburgh
Youngstown-Wheeling
SFA
United Mine Workers
Fear 40 Dead In Ship Blast In New York Bay
Navy men and police estimated a death toll of 40 as they surveyed charred hulls and flotsam in New York Bay after a collision between the tanker Springhill and the Norwegian vessel Vivi. The 16,000 ton tanker carried 120,000 barrels of high octane gasoline causing a blaze that killed 17 and injured 122 by the prior count.
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New York
New York Bay
Vivi
Defense Minister Is Defeated in Canada
London broadcasts report Sir Walter Citrine that the Big Three meet as Canadian politics reel from General McNaughton losing his Commons seat to Garfield Case of the Progressive Conservatives in Owen Sound. The by election shifts Canadian balance as Tokyo eyes Russia’s possible entry into the war and Berlin radio notes missing troops after the McNaughton defeat.
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Japan
W. L. King
McNaughton
House of Commons
Garfield Case
Runnning
Progressive Conervatives
Case
Socalistic
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Declare Food Crisis Likely To Increase
Washington reports the Agriculture Department lists many critical farm labor shortage areas and warns that an early European war end will not ease tight food supplies. Farmers will need part time help from at least 4,000,000 non farm workers in towns and cities to approach 1949 production goals set by War Food Administration. Victory in Europe would not quickly free men for farm work due to demobilization delays.
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Agriculture Department
Europe
War Food .Administration
Japan
Department
Armed Services
Redistricting Proposal Sparks Senate Hearings in Ohio
A plan to divide heavily populated Ohio counties into subdistricts for state legislature votes was aired before the Senate Elections Committee. Senator K. M. Kirkendall of Dayton proposed the idea after critics condemned a bill to split Cuyahoga County as discriminatory.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate Elections Committee
K. M. Kirkendall
Dayton
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
End of Gas Crisis Declared in Ohio by Gas Company
The gas company announced this afternoon that the Ohio gas shortage has ended and emergency restrictions on gas use are lifted. The statement indicates resumed normal supply and an end to the crisis that had affected residents and businesses across the state.
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Ohio
Three Bridgeheads Across Last Barrier to Berlin Reported
The Berlin radio said Russian troops crossed the Oder River at three bridgeheads east of Berlin as Soviet forces push into Silesia. Steinau fell to Soviet troops while fighting continued near Furstenberg and Frankfurt Kustrin area with another bridgehead wiped out.
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Ivan Konev
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Zellin
Austria
Kuskin
Allied forces push through Siegfried Line toward Schmidt
British American and Canadian operations intensify as First and Third Armies advance from the Roer toward Cologne with heavy fighting in the Brandscheid region. Northward, First Army seizes Boer dams near the Rhine while Mosquito raids hit Berlin amid a 1000-bomber strike.
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Bradley
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Bernard L. Montgomery
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Siegfried Line
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Prum
First Army
Westwall
Schmidt
Brandscheid
Reich
Rhine
Thhe
Alsace
Vosges
German Spies Go on Trial
A U S military commission, behind closed doors, convened for a spy trial of William Curtis Colepaugh, 26, from Niantic Connecticut, and Erich Gimpel, 35, a German-born engineer. They allegedly landed near Hancox Maine on November 29, after being brought by a German submarine to commit espionage and sabotage as Reich agents. They have been held at Castle Williams on Governors Island for two weeks.
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U.S
William Curtis Colepaugh
Niantic
Conn
Erich Gimpel
Maine
Hancacx
Castle Williams
Governors Island
Mead Group Urges Inventory of Surplus War Goods
Mead Committee members urged a government surplus inventory as the first step to curb profiteering in war goods. Air force officials say only one plane in six to seven for all warplanes built since Pearl Harbor is serving with the RAF, underscoring the need to funnel new aircraft to war theaters.
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Mead Group
Washington
Mead Committee
Air Force
Pearl Haribor
Ohio Wheat and Corn Stocks Rise on Jan 1 Report
Ohio's January 1 stocks show wheat and corn higher than Jan 1, 1944. Wheat in mills and warehouses totals 1 976 000 bushels, eclipsing 1 038 000 last year. Shelled and ear corn stocks reach 1 836 000 bushels versus 1 760 000 a year earlier.
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Columbus
JPI
Ohio
Ohio Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Japs Converted Bilibid Prison into Prisoner of War Chambers
Report details at Bilibid Prison where Japanese guards used the old Spanish facility for war internees. The conditions were dire as prisoners endured harsh treatment while some internees were liberated in segments by advancing Allied units. Local guards and inmates faced severe hardship amid ongoing operations and partial liberations described by observers.
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AEA
Otras
American Freedom
Santos Fomas
Nonth
First Cavalry Division
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