U S Third Fleet Sinks 25 Japanese Ships
U S Third Fleet attacks Japanese convoys off French Indo China with carrier raids sinking 25 ships and damaging 33 others. Air blows reported near Saigon Thanh-Son Nhut and Qui-Nhon as fleets press inland amid secrecy.
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U.S
Moorie Landsberg
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Indo-China
Adm
Chester W Nimitz
Ching Sea
Luzon Island
Douglas MacArthur
Aleutian Island
Paramushiro Island
Torishima Retto
Marne
Habelthaup
Ukukthapel
Palau
Saigon
Thanh—Son -Nhut
Camrank Cat Lai
Qui-Nhon
Chester W. Nimitz
Britain Sets Full Debate on War Situation
Britain will open a two day full dress debate in the House of Commons on the general war situation starting Thursday. Churchill will present a war review and assess the Greek crisis. The session signals a likely Big Three meeting among Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin soon after, with pressure from Labour and Independent groups over Greece and monarchy fate.
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Britain
James F. King
London
Churchill Willahen
Commons
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Russia
Sattain
Greece
United Party
Elas
Fifth Army patrols near Bologna face heavy German fire
American Fifth Army patrols pushed into the center of the Italian front striking under nine miles from Bologna near Canovetta and San Anzano. They met intense resistance as German rifle grenade and mortar fire halted progress while Eighth Army clashed near the Comacchia Lagoon.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Bologna
Po Valley
Canovetta
Florence- Bologna
San Ansano
Lacesetta
Florence-Imola
Fontanelice
Monte Grande
Eighth Army
Comacchia Lagoon
Adriatic See
Albert Kesselring
Sento
Faenza
Marshal Kesselring
Kesselring
Tactical Air Force
Milan
Treviso
la Spezia
FDR Critics Plan To Reopen Senate Debate On Policy
Senators Wheeler McCarran and Ellender urge full discussion of foreign policy in the Senate as President Roosevelt meets Churchill and Stalin. Critics accuse administration of soft pedaling and seek open debate while Stettinius labels dissenters as the discredited few.
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FDR
Senate
Jack Bell
Washington
Roosevelt
Wheeler
D-Mont
Stetti - Minus
Stettinius
Montanan
Montana
McCarran
D-Nev
Al' 80
Hatch
D-Nm
Fonga
Hall
Rminn
Churchill
Stalin
Connally
Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Ellender
Edender
Lawyers Vote Down New Court Proposal in Dothan
The Houston County Bar Association rejected a plan to create an Inferior Court in Dothan, arguing it not advisable now. Lester Farmer said the committee found suits over 100 dollars would seek juries and move to Circuit Court, leaving Court of Common Pleas for matters up to 100 dollars. Plans would have raised the limit to 300 dollars if approved, with the new court handling County Court criminal cases and all civil actions in the Court of Common Pleas.
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Dothan
Court of Common Pleas
Houston County Bar Association
Lester Farmer
The
Bar Association
American advance on Luzon pins down Manila with light opposition
General MacArthur’s forces on Luzon push inland about 10 miles north of Manila as motorized troops reach 20 miles from Lingayen Gulf. By Friday they have taken Santa Barbara and Matandan, with minimal enemy resistance aside from foothill skirmishes near Pozorrubio. fighting persists in Benguet foothills amid logistical strain.
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James Hutcheson
Macarthurs
Luzon
Luzon Island
Lingsyen Gulf
Philippine
Gulf Coast
Manila
Abrizionds
Bayambang
Santa Barbara
Matandan
Lingayen Gulf
Arlac
Mande
Abriztondo
Gulf
Luzern Plains
Benguet Mountains
Pozerrubio
Telephone workers form local union in Dothan area
Empl oy es of Standard Telephone and Telegraph in Dothan Ozark Andalusia and nearby towns join the Southern Federation of Telephone Workers for collective bargaining. A local union is formed with Fred Lucas as chair from the plant department Pearl Page Do than as vice chair and Elia Trammell as secretary treasurer. About 125 workers have signed in, with plans to expand to 300 including independent companies. Monthly meetings will push wage and condition improvements and closer labor-management ties.
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Standard Telephone and Telegraph Company
Andalusia Telephone Company
South Alabams
Southern Federation of Telephone Workes
Dothan
Andalusia
Ocark
Fred Lucas
Ozark
Pearl Page
Elia Trammell
Smallwood
Southern Belt Telephone and Telegraph Company
Southern Bell System
Lucas
Freterprise
Headland
Brundidge
Abbeville
Elba
Samson
Geneva
Slocomb
Columbia
Martford
Alabama lawmakers eye large postwar spending surplus
Montgomery AP Alabama legislators head into the second interim week amid signals the state can spend four million dollars of unexpended funds with Education Superintendent F E Norton alone saying he could use fifty eight million for school buildings. Committees consider requests ranging from livestock expansion to old age pensions and airport and highway development as postwar reconstruction looms.
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Montgomery
Alabama
F E. B. Norton
Agriculture and Industries Committee
W. W. Garrett
Urish
Louisiana
Texas
Gav
Chauncey Sparks
Aviation and Highway Group
Ivy Gwin
Birmingham
Appropriations Committee
Wil G. Walton
Lafayette
Welfare Directo Laula Dunn
Finance Committee
Four Negroes Jailed For Resisting Order
Four Negroes were jailed yesterday for resisting officers during a sheriff’s delivery of a court order to seize a mule on a farm in the eastern county. Early D Rich,Legolia Rich, Joseph Collins, and Lucius Hayes were detained after clashes as deputies attempted to enforce the order.
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B. G. Farmer
Iseed
Legolia Rich
Joseph Collins
Lucius Hayes
Sherff J. T. Casey
Clayton
Adamag
Pararisinn
Casey
Wild
Legalia Rich
Karly
Farmor
Sherff
Adams
Allexa
Russian Drive Nets Twenty-Five Miles
Premier Marshal Stain announced the Red Army opened a winter offensive on the Eastern Front. The advance pushed 23 miles toward Germany on a slender southern Poland front, reaching the Nida River and 69 miles from industrial Silesia. About 2.5 million Russian troops were reported in motion as Allied forces pressed from east and west. The drive overran 850 locations and left a crescent of fronts from Warsaw toward Krakow exposed.
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Richard Kasiscue
London
Marshal Stain
Red Army
Germany
Poland
German
Silesia
Nida
Reich
Stalin
Bern
Krakow
Kielce
Warsaw
Sandominerz
Vistula Hill
General Arnold predicts Japan will collapse under air attack
Washington AP dispatch reports General H. H. Arnold declares Japan's industry will not survive ongoing B29 bombardment. He outlines strategic plans to strike factories, harbors, and fields with B29s, Fortresses, Liberators, and fighters as bases close in on the Home Islands. He warns of a long, hard struggle and states air superiority halts German offensives and sets limits on future pushes.
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Washington
Japan
H. OH. Arnold
Pearl Harbor
Arnold
Arc Forces
Marwons
Marianas
Palau
Leyne
Luzon
Arnold Ghid
Germany
Belgium
Armmoid
Napier Field Officer Charged With Theft
Napier Field officer Lt Daly was arrested after a 40 mile chase near Blakely Georgia. Alabama State Highway Patrolmen Earl Henley and Earl Smith identified Daly, suspected of stealing a car from Napier Field officer D W Markson and driving it to Dothan before returning. The vehicle had been reported missing the previous night.
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Napier Field
Dothan
Alabama
Blakely
Daly
Webb Road
Yank Heavy Bombers Smash Rhine Bridges to Cut Nazi Escape
American heavy bombers hit seven Rhine bridges from Bingen to south of Karlsruhe in a planned assault to sever supply and retreat routes. Over 900 Liberators and Flying Fortresses, with 400 Mustangs and Thunderbolts, targeted rail spans at Mainz Worms Mannheim Germersheim and Korkeruhe. RAF Lancasters joined later, dropping heavy bombs on Saarbrucken yards as part of wider actions behind Alsace Lorraine.
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London
Rhine
Bingen
Karlsruhe
Germany
Rudesheim
Worms
Maximilianshau
U.S. Eighth Airforce
Land Owner Explains OPA Violation Fine
Mrs John A Thompson, a property owner and real estate operator, was fined 215 by a US judge for violating OPA rental regulations. She said the charge was innocent and that her long career involved many small down payments, but stricter OPA rules prompted the dispute. She claimed signing statements to settle the complaint, under guidance from OPA officials, did not mean a formal guilty plea.
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Mra
John A. Thompson
Dbaian
Dawner
CBS
Ken Warmer
Toanner Ag
OPA
Thompson
Pettie
March of Dimes Drive Begins in Dothan Monday Morning
The annual infantile paralysis March of Dimes drive starts in Dothan at nine a.m. with a booth at Foster and Main. Ted Bauman, drive chairman, urges public support, noting no direct soliciting. donations may be given at the booth or to Bauman. A bingo event at Country Club planned for January 31 will offer tickets. Bauman emphasizes preparations amid polio fears and vows no victim will be uncared for regardless of background.
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Dothan
Ted Bauman
Chaiman
Bauman
United States
First Army Drives to Trap Retreating German Forces
Allied forces push from south of Malmedy toward St Vith and advance to Mont Le Ban as German troops retreat through the Ardennes. The First Army and British Second Army strike northeast toward Prum and Bastogne, with air power harrying convoys east of St Vith and the Fourth Army pressuring from the west.
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Austin Bealmear
Paris
Karl von Rundstedt
Ardennes Falient
First Army
The
Reich
Maloehy
Stavelot
St Vith
Belgist
Von
St. Vith
Germany
Nord
Prum
Siegfried Line
Third
Bastogne
Gallent
First
Bsek
Linz Inslhe
Ourthe
Houffalze
U. S Ninth Army
Roer River
Monschau
Aathen
Rhine
Strasbourg
U. S
Courtney H. Hodges
Roth
Malmedy
Mille
Mont-Le-Han
Houffalize
Salmchaieau
Second Armored
Petitestayies
Doughboy
Tommy
Ardennes
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Ahad
Casarrayan
Apik
San Fobu
Mabilong
Agno River
MacArthur
Telephone Company
Heart of
Gen. Arnold
Napier
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