First Army Advances in Heavy Snow Near Siegfried Line
Allied forces push through heavy snow across the Ardennes region and toward the Siegfried Line. US Ninth and British Second Armies reach the Roer and advance near the Rhine. Third Army drives toward Saarbrucken. Colmar area contested as snow slows operations. Linz and Dorscheid captured. Colmar Canal approaches Colmar.
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Paris
First Army
St. Vith
Germany
Siegfried Line
First
U. S. Ninth
Roer
Ruhr
Rhineland
Third Army
Saarbrucken
Eisenhower
Holland
Saarland
Ardennes Bulge
West Wall
Ardennes
Seventh Army
Algace
Colmar
Strasbourg
Rhine
Patton
Our River
Luxembourg
Wiltz
94Th
Linz
Saarburg
17Th Airborne
Dorscheid
Rader
Clervaux
Potscheid
Diekirch
Upper
Alsace
Publisher Urges A Postwar Business Plan Ahead
Springfield speaker Arthur H. Motley publisher of the American Magazine told the Rotary Club that postwar employment depends on aggressive pre-tested plans. He argued peace rests on a sound domestic economy keeping the United States on top globally.
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Springfield
Arthur H. Motley
American Magazine
Rotary Chuir
United States
Kent Man Questioned After Slaying Of Clerk Mae Wick-Tine
A 57-year-old Kent man was questioned by police today in connection with the slaying of Mae Wick-Tine a drug store clerk. Police Chief F R Grubb said the suspect admitted scuffling with the woman the night of her death but denied striking her. Wick-Tine's body was found Wednesday morning with a fractured skull.
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Kent
Mae Wick- Tine
F. R. Grubb
Grubb
J. P. Turner
Ohio Soldier Sentenced In Black Market Trial
Paris report says Pfc. Edmond E. Sweringen from Wellsville Ohio received a 15 year sentence after ten enlisteds were convicted in a U S general court martial over railway battalion black market activity. They were found guilty of bootlegging trains of cigarettes and Army supplies valued at hundreds of thousands of francs and selling them on the black market.
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Paris
Edmond E. Sweringen
Wellsville
U. S
Sweringen
Sumatra Oil Refineries Hit By U S Planes
Allied air operations report heavy strikes across Asia. US B 29s target Iwo Jima Tokyo and Palembang oil refineries, with raids on Hachijo Island and Formosa later. Ground forces near Manila advance toward Bataan, while Red Cross notes Ohio workers abroad in France Hawaii and the Middle East.
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Associated Press
San Fernando
Manila
Iwo Island
Tokyo
Singapore
Sumatra
Palembang
Hachijo Island
Sixth Army
Bataan
Secot
Rosario
Luzon
Baguio
Philipihes
Mexico
40Th
Arayat
Angeles
Iwo Jima
Saigon
Indo-China
John S. McCain
Formosa
Ryukyu Islands
Takao
China
Canton Radio
Shanghai
Hainan Island
Japan
Ohio
Alexandria
Red Cross
France
Hawaii
Middle East
American Red Cross
Vinson Hinted As FD Choice For Loan Post
Washington dispatch reports talk that Federal Loan chief job may go to Senate, if Wallace is removed. Wallace nomination for Secretary of Commerce to be reported this week with a bill to split lending from Commerce. Confirmation for combined posts appears headed for defeat amid at least 45 adverse votes.
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Washington
UPI
Capitol
Stabntention
Fred Vinson
Roosevelt
Senate
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Secretary of Commerce
Department
Italian Front Patrols and Bombers Strike In North
Patrol thrusts by both sides on the snowbound Italian front mark limited activity. Heavy bombers strike German lines in the Brenner Pass area in the north. Large fires blaze behind the Senio River line on the Adriatic sector, though their significance remains unclear.
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Rome
Brenner Pass
Senio
Adriatic
Seals Broken State Brandy Unsalable in Ohio Warehouse
Cincinnati reports that Victoria Brandy recently publicized by Gov. Frank J. Laische as a 50 year state supply has become unsalable. An undetermined amount in a Cincinnati warehouse lost federal seals when corks popped, said Arthur W. Berger, manager for the state warehouse.
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Cincinnati
Frank J. Laische
Arthur W. Berger
Nimitz Establishes Forward Base Headquarters
The United States Pacific Fleet operates from a new forward area base closer to Japan, with Nimitz issuing communiques from this location. Guam and Saipan are cited as forward bases, 3,800 miles west of Pearl Harbor and 1,565 miles from Tokyo. The move aims to accelerate tempo and power of attacks on Japan.
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U. SS. Pacific
Ward
United States
Pacific Fleet
Japan
Pearl
Harbor
Nimitz
Pacific Ocean Areas
Amerii
Guam
Saipan
21St Bom Iber Command
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Associated Press
Leif Erickson
Cincopa
Nimitz Long
Philippines
China Sea
Erickson Sai
Hopkins Leaves Paris for Rome Ahead of Three-Power Talks
London reports Harry Hopkins has departed Paris after a week of censored London conferences to prepare for the Big Three meeting. Diplomatic circles note rising talk of a joint surrender call to Germany from Washington, London, and Moscow as Soviet forces push toward Berlin and Eisenhower eyes a western offensive. Some officials weigh whether Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin would back a surrender now, as British officials revive Churchill’s January 18 warning that surrender would spare Germans from harsher postwar consequences.
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London
Harry Hopkins
Paris
Rome
Germany
Berlin
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Europe
Com Mons
Anti-Vice Crusader Slain in Buffalo
Buffalo police questioned known gamblers and racketeers as they hunted the killer of Edward J. Pospichat, 32, a lone crusader against vice. His frozen body was found on River Street near Buffate Harbor, shot five times with a .32 caliber pistol.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Folice
Edward J. Pospichat
Puaspichat
River Street
Buffate Harbor
Heavy Bombers Hit Reich Rail Centers Across Germany
American heavy bombers with escort attacked German rail centers and fuel plants after RAF raids on Berlin. The Berlin bombings strained shelter capacity while Stuttgart rail yards received about 8,000 tons. Ruhr area including Cologne Duisburg Dortmund faced attacks from both American and British air forces amid renewed bomber operations after weather delays.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Reich
RAF
Stuttgart
Ruhr
sCologne
Duisburg
Dortmund
Nazis Ready to Evacuate Reich Capital Amid Frontline Advances
Russians encircle Schneidemuhl near the German border as German officials move offices from Berlin and evacuate trains. Foreign diplomats and correspondents prepare to depart. reports say Moscow claims advances near Berlin with Zhukov’s tanks crossing into Brandenburg.
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Reich
London
Schneidemuhl
Marshal Stalin
Berlin
Lers
Moscow
London Radio
CBS
Newsprint Shipment to France Protested by Congressmen
Two House committee members protest sending American newsprint to France citing shortages and urging State Department action. They argue 5,000 tons could worsen U S supply and tie up essential shipping, urging Russia to meet European demand instead. Front-line war updates follow from Konigsberg and East Prussia.
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Washington
House
United States
State Department
France
Boren
Okla
Rep. Brown
Ohio
Stettinius
Sweden
Finland
Russia
Commerce Department
U. Ss
Europe
Archangel
Petsamo
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Crack Streamliner Delayed by Roosevelt in Chicago
The City of Los Angeles streamliner was held overnight to allow Col. James Roosevelt and his wife to make connections. The Roosevelt party had arrived in Chicago from Washington on the Manhattan Limited, delayed over six hours by bad weather. E. W. Everson of the Chicago and Northwestern confirmed the telegram request bearing James Roosevelt’s name.
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Chicago
Union Pacific
Los Angeles
James Roosevelt
Roosevelts
Washington
Pennsylvania
Manhattan Limited
E. W. Everson
Chicago and Northwestern
Snow Blankets Ohio Highways Across State
Wet snow 1 to 5 inches covered Ohio with light snowfall ongoing. Highways were slippery and maintenance crews operated as Routes 162 and 511 closed by drifts in Lorain County. Snow depths included one inch in Sidney and five inches in Cadiz as Port Columbus forecast cold, partly cloudy weather ahead. Case School of Applied Science received a $500,000 gift from Mrs. George Ashley Tomlinson in memory of her husband, a Cleveland industrialist.
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Columbus
Ohio
Highway Department
Lorain County
Sidney
Cadiz
Port Columbus
CASE
Cleveland
Case School of Applied Science
George Ashley Tomlinson
Soviet Drive on Berlin Expands Across Poland and East Europe
Allied dispatches report Stalin announcing large Soviet offensives with Zhukov’s First White Russian Army driving across western Poland toward Berlin. Captured towns include Czarnkow and Lezno as forces push to within striking distance, while Czarnkow and Konigsberg front progress blunts German defense. A Cincinnati man faced bond in a related kidnapping case involving a three year old.
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Zhukov
Moscow
Stettin
Baltic
Frankfurt
Oder
East Prussia
Konigsberg
Breslau
Silesian
Poznan
Torun
Poland
Dabrowa
Meme
Bagramian
Stalin
Katowice
Revihen
First
Ukraine
Berlin
Cincinnati
Clarence
Pat- Burdette Wood
Zhutev
Mount Healthy Pniewy
C. B
Wood
Ohio Military Institute
Bydgoszcz
Sepolna
Danzig
Petrov
Kassa
Kosice
Truman Joins Ward Heelers at Pendergast's Wake
Kansas City mourners included ward heelers and Vice President Harry S Truman as they gathered to honor Tom Pendergast, the longtime boss whose political machine aided his rise. Pendergast, 73, faced illness and had served time for income tax evasion.
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Kansas City —i
Ward Heelers
United States
Tom Pendergast
Vialion
Washington, D. C
Harry S .Truman
Big Tom
Pendergast
Girdles Included in WAC Theft Ring Exposed
In San Francisco FBI agents recovered loot from overseas shipments and arrested five Longshoremen accused of stealing two way stretch elastic girdles destined for WACS in the Pacific theater. The pre war items were part of the consignment loans and shipments to military services.
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San Francisco
Califour
WACS
Pacific
Federal Bureau of Investigation
First Convoy Moving Over New Ledo Road
The first Allied truck convoy to enter China over the Ledo Burma Road nears Kunming on a 900 mile journey from India. Chiang Kai-Shek calls it an omen of defeat for Japan as 109 vehicles carry supplies for China. Col. Ed Halsey, secretary of the armies, dies after heart attack following inauguration preparations in Washington.
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Chunagking
China
Ledo-Burma
Kunming
India
Chiang Kai-Shek
Japan
Halsey
Roosevelt
Burma
Mexican American industrial program eyed by Mexico
A Mexican American economic commission reports Mexico aims to spend 383 million dollars on industrial development over the next few years with capital equipment costing about 137 million dollars from 1945 to 1948. Most equipment is expected to come from the United States financed by private American capital and Mexican funds. A street department employee in Phoenix, Arizona, captured Jurgen Wattenburg, a 44 year old German naval captain and fugitive from Papago Park War Prisoner Camp since Christmas.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Phoenix
Ariz—Upi
Jurgen Wattenburg
Papago Park
Here
Restrictions on Gas Lifted in Ohio Amid Coal Shortage
Gas restrictions were lifted in Ohio as normal gas supplies resumed for war plants due to warmer weather and reduced fuel usage. Coal shortages remain critical, with Republic Steel reporting a 40 percent drop in ingot production. A midnigh t coal rail embargo ends tonight, but delivery lags persist. Canton and Cleveland impose closures and curtail public venues to conserve fuel.
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Ohio
Associated Press
J. French Robinson
East Ohio Gas Co
Charles N. White
Republic Steel Corp
Tion
Republic
Stmecken
Cleveland
Cuyahoga Liquor Dealers Association
Canton
James Rhodes
Columbus
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Ardennes Salient
Frier
Tettingen A
Ae Merzig
U.S
Vinson
Forward
John E. Fogarty
Harmony
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Fromer
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Congress
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Schneidenwhl
Berlin-Danzig
Brandenburg
Silesia
Steinau
Memel
Weymertz
Belgium
Frank Schneider
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OMI
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Delree
Ferdon
Truman
WAC
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