Lingayen Gulf Beachhead Expanded Forty Five Miles
U S Sixth Army crossed the Agno River near Manila and pushed to Lingayen Gulf, expanding the beachhead to 45 miles as combat moved south. Damortis fell, pinning Japanese on the northwest coast. Port Saal secured. Alaminos neared. 82 Japanese and a few Americans killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lingayen Gulf
Agno River
C. Yates McDanife
MacArthur
Sixth Army
Ango River
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Baygebarg
Gulf
Yeey
Mangatarem
Gerties
Catablan
Damortis
Alaminos
Baguio
Philippines
Port Saal
Associated Pres
Fred Hampson
Luzon
Hampson
Agno
Pangasinan Plain
U. S
Eoping
World War II Fronts Rubble In Western and Pacific Sectors
AP dispatch summarizes heavy German resistance on the Western Front near Siegfried Line with Allied air strikes on oil plants, plus large-scale battles around Thirmont. It notes advancing Allied forces in the Pacific toward Formosa and Nagoya and cautious British gains on the European front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Siegfried Line
Reich
Thirmont
Superforts batter Honshu and Formosa in daylight raids
Tokyo reports American superfortresses hit Honshu and Formosa in separate daylight attacks. About 60 planes struck Honshu including the Nagoya aircraft plants, with 9 shot down over Nagoya. Formosa faced 50 bombers. Casualties and damage described as light to moderate. Major General Curtis LeMay led the Formosa raid from China bases. H.S. Hansell commanded the Honshu run from Saipan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Japan
Tokyo
Formosa
Philippines
Honshu
China
Curtis E. le May
20Th Airforce
Bog
HS. Hansell
Saipan
Nagoya
Tokyo Radio
Connally proposes interim advisory council for world issues
Senator Connally drafts a plan to form a provisional council under United Nations leadership to settle urgent international issues among Allies before the peacekeeping treaty is ratified. The idea aims to curb unilateral decisions and is slated for briefing Secretary Stettinius and discussed for inclusion in meetings with Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell Washington
United Nations
Provisional Council
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stettinius
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Ball
R.-Minn
United Nations Organization
World Security Organization
Government Paying War Damage Claims
The General War Damage Insurance Corp disclosed examples of paid claims in the United States. A Hempstead building damage from a falling Army airplane during an alert is cited, along with claims from the Turner destroyer explosion in New York Harbor on January 3, and several Los Angeles Long Beach area losses from anti aircraft shell fallout. The insurer notes these were damages incurred while resisting enemy attack or during active war operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Hall
Hempstead
Long Island
Turner
New York Harbor
Los Angeles-Long Beach
No. Is. Fase
Fifty-Four Arrested Over Past Week End
City and county police records show 4 arrests over the week end with 36 by the City and 18 by the county. City cases include 25 for public drunkenness and various offenses. county cases include several for public drunkenness and related charges.
Census Enumerators Struggle With Farm Survey Details
Alabama farmers face questions on land value acreage and crop outputs as 1945 Census of Agriculture begins. Supervisors urge husbands to provide accurate farm data to wives for enumerator interviews. Data aims to map wartime agricultural changes and guide farmers and buyers. confidentiality promised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Smith Deal
Alabama
Dothan
Decatur
Oneonta
Anniston
Marion
Mobile
Montgomery
Houston
Henry
Dale
Coffee
Geneva
Barbour, Lee
Bullock
Macon
Russel
Clyde D. Watson
United States
Allies Launch Major Aerial Blitz Over Reichland Rail Yards
Allied air power led by 1,300 bombers and fighters hammered four southern German rail yards Freiburg Augsburg Ingolstadt Reuttingen to disrupt troop movement as massive operations continued. Spaatz warned German fuel reserves were critical while a record daily loss of German planes was reported amid heavy Allied bomber and fighter actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Germany
Freiburg
Augsburg
Ingolstadt
Reuttingen
Eighth Air Force
Supreme Headquarters
Paris
Carl Spaatz
U. S
Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Itsir
U.S
Eigth Air Force
Hemmingstedt
Heide
Magdeburg
Ousting Koiso Hinted By Domei In Japan
Domei news agency hinted at possible ousting of Premier Koiso amid military reversals. Report notes factions demand bolder reforms and a second political renovation to meet wartime crisis. Radio Tokyo had Koiso cabinet scheduling two special meetings as Diet reconvenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Domei News
Kuniaki Koiso
Japan
Domei
Radio Tokyo
Koiso
Hideki Tojo
Pacific
Pomei
Seizo Kobayashi
Houston Inductees Leave For Exams
Three groups of Houston County Selective Service registrants depart for pre induction physical exams. White registrants go to Fort McClellan, Negro registrants to Fort Benning. Names listed by boards include Grady Wilson James, Terrell Hurt, Daniel Hodges, Noah Knox, James Humphrey, Amos Boykin, Johnnie Dean, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
Selective Service
Fort McClellan
Fort Benning
Grady Wilson James
Terrel! H. Hurt
William Theodore Nichols
Harold Sanford Murphy
Daniel Chris Hodges
Lonnie Glenn Yater
John Washington
Silas Moat
Harold Reynolds Capen
Amos Oscar Boykin
Charles Ray Willams
Eugene Byrd
Johnie Smith
Jess Holloway
Dewey Norton
Abb Bindred
Four Airmen Killed In B-24 Crash At Courtland Base
Four Army airmen including three officers and an enlisted man were killed when a B-24 bomber crashed three miles northwest of Courtland Field. The base commander Col Walter W Gross identified the deceased as Capt Saul Fineman Second Lt William W Miller Jr Second Lt Theophil C Polnkie wisexz and Cpl Irving E Barrington with next of kin listed in Providence Stamford Riverhead and Coastal counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtland
Courtland Army Air Base
Walter W Gross
Courtland Field
Saul Fineman
Annie Hartiet
Providence
William W. Miller, Jr
W. W. Miller
Stamford
Tex
Theophil C. Polnkiewisexz
Riverhead
Red Forces Surge Onward In Poland
Congress pressed to replace the War Labor Board wage freeze with higher industrial wages to ease labor shortages. AFL and Socialist reps argued wage boosts in war plants would speed production with limited inflation risk while opposing compelled 4-F labor drafts. Albert Hamilton of Vienna, Va endorsed the Socialist stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Socialist Party
House Milivary Committee
Lewis G. Hines
AFL
War Labor Board
Hines
Albert Hamilton
Vienna
Hamilton
Norman Thomas
Gov Furs
Russians Hammer Poland Front In Heavy Winter Push
Soviet forces, fighting in sub zero temps, pushed across seven sectors toward Warsaw and Krakow. Marshal Konev's drive forged a bridgehead near the Nida and penetrated toward Szpilki and Kielce while other columns seized Pinczow and rail hubs in southern Poland and southern Slovakia as German resistance stiffened in East Prussia and along a broad front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Budapest
Hungary
Baltic
Poland
East Prigete
Carpathians
Memel
Pulawy
Warka
Warsaw
Vistula-Bug
Narew
East Prussia
Ebenrode
Schlossberg
Krakow
Slovakia
Ivan S. Konev
Nida
Moscow
Germany
Silesian
Associated Press
Red Army
Ivan &. Koney
Warsaw-Krakow
Konev
Vistula
Ruslana
Kielce
Konstantin Rokossovsky
the Vistula
Pinczow
Chmielnik
New Poland
Miasowa-Brzegl
Losonc
Lucence
Houston County Youth Charged With Murder: Of Daleville Student
Houston County sheriff held 17 year old Howard Spence on a murder charge in the slaying of 7 year old Daleville High School pupil Jack Tice. Tice died from a knife wound outside Riverside Inn near the county line. Funeral services were set for Wiggins Church near Midland City. Surviving family members include the mother Detla Tice and numerous siblings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Dykes
Ozark
Howard Spence
Houston County
Jack Tice
Daleville High School
Dothan
Tice
Spence
Vicksburg
Justice of the Peace
Sumter Smith
Sheriff Dykes
Dale County
Riverside | Inn
Tfe
Tie
Ife
Pie
Young Tice
Wiggins Church
Midland City
Strozier
Church
Searcy Funeral Home
Enterprise
Detla Tice
Daleville
Mattie Low Childree
Mattie Low Childree, Ozavik, Mrs. Raymond Morris, Kaysville, Fla., Mise
Mavis Tice
Mins Jewell Tice
Columbus
Auto Collision Injures Woman at Lena and Crawford
Early today at about 8 a.m. a collision at Lena and Crawford streets injured Mrs. G. Bentley of 105 Morgan Street. She was taken to a hospital. the extent of injuries was not determined. The other driver, Femmet Hollis of near Daytona, was uninjured. Poor visibility cited as the cause. Officers Ed Chesry and Fiwell Jones filed the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena
Crawford Streets
Ed Chesry
Fiwell Jones
G. Bentley
Morgan Street
Femmet Hollis
Dathan
Negro Arrested On Prohi Charge In Dothan Raid
Confiscation of moonshine whiskey followed a raid late Saturday night by Alcoholic Beverage Control investigators. Hattie Mae Finn was jailed on prohibition charges after officers L C Easterwood W S Allsup and J L Kendricks seized liquor at a Keyton Alley residence in the western Dothan area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Mae Finn
Sheriff's Office
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
L. C. Easterwood
W.S. Allsup
J. L. Kendricks
Dothan
Keyton Alley
Allies Close In On Houffalize In Battle Of The Bulge
Allied forces push toward Houffalize in the Belgian stage of the Bulge as First and Third Armies tighten their grip around the German salient. Fog and snow slow progress while German reinforcements and counterattacks test the pace of advances near St Vith and the Ourthe line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SY James M. Longparis
America
First Army
Houttalir
Bulge
Talient
Houstalize
Third Army
St. Vith
Witz
Houffalize
Laroche
Feld Marshal von Rundstedt
Siegfried Line
Eisenhower
Normandy
Supreme Headquarters
Ourthe
Salm
Karlsruhe Camer
France
Tth
Hattem
Haguenau
Gachting
Maginot Line
Tiche
Rhine
Malmedy
Zina
Third
Presting
Tettingen
Germany
Saarland
Luxembourg
Middle
Saar
Cigarette Dealers Hold Conference On Rationing Plan
In Chicago the National Association of Tobacco Distributors opened a conference to address a nationwide cigarette shortage. Executiv secretary Joseph Kolodny said a rationing system for retailers may be adopted to fairly distribute limited supplies, with details to be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Association, of Tobacco Distributors
Joseph Kolodny
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Nimitz
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Baperfowa
Pecmece
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Hammer Jap
INDO
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U. S Third
Indo-China
Reichland
Spaatz
Red
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