Masses Of Nazis Leave West Front To Fight Russians
AP dispatch describes a large German withdrawal from the Ardennes as Allied air forces strike trains and columns. British and American pilots report heavy rail traffic disrupted, with several hundred trains and numerous vehicles damaged. German forces retreat under pressure from First and Third Armies, while Soviet and German shifts on other fronts show widening battles.
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World Today war bulletin slides across fronts
Western Front advances toward the Roer River with American troops and air support. St Vith reportedly fell as Germans retreat under Allied bombardment. Russian Front massed troops along the Oder with advances toward Oppelin and Poznan while Berlin claims gains elsewhere. Italy reports patrol activity south of Bologna and limited Allied withdrawal north of Strasbourg. A Jima style note mentions a landing on the West Coast near Akyab.
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U S Seeks Settlement of Internal Yugoslav and Chinese Strife
The United States urged rival factions in China and Yugoslavia to reach agreements and settle internal troubles. Grew offered good offices to China’s Chiang Kai-shek government and noted no US aid had been requested or confirmed for Yugoslavia talks. The Yugoslav crisis and Poland's status remain top Allied concerns.
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Martin Addresses Commerce Chamber On Opportunities
Alabama Power Company president Thomas W. Martin told a Dothan Chamber of Commerce banquet that postwar growth depends on exploiting natural resources, creating new industries, and offering peacetime jobs for veterans and defense workers. He noted Southeastern patent shares are low, urging technical advancement to boost regional wealth.
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Washington
Perkins To Remain Secretary Of Labor
Roosevelt rejected Frances Perkins resignation verbally last Saturday and she will continue as Secretary of Labor. She had prepared to leave Washington after the inauguration, with plans to resign formally, but the president ordered her stay. Perkins, formerly New York State Labor Commissioner for 13 years, faced pressure from AFL and CIO factions over her continued tenure.
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Lear Appointed To New Position In Europe
Paris AP Lt Gen Ben Lear named deputy commander in the European theater with responsibility for American administrative matters of U S troops at Supreme Headquarters The assignment focuses on administration not campaign direction Lear had commanded U S Army ground forces since July 1944 succeeding Lt Gen Lesley McNair who was killed in action
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Dothan Draft Board Scrapes Barrel To Fill Quota
Houston County Selective Service Board No. One reports a heavy pre-induction call for next month. The plan calls for selecting 2-8 and 2-A registrants not in critical war work, with many older men from ages thirty to thirty seven likely to be drafted.
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Eighteen Anglo Americans Executed by Germans
London reports Nazi broadcast that 18 British and American agents were captured behind the front in Slovakia. They were sentenced to death by a military tribunal and executed by shooting for sabotage and espionage in the Anglo American interest.
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Seeret
Reapportionment Foes Face Red-Hot Issue In Alabama
Montgomery dispatch reports the 1945 Alabama Legislature will confront reapportionment amid other topics. Rep. E C Boswell argues Senate size rise to 67 with distribution based on county populations. House stays 108. Proposals include oil and mineral development and constitutional revision. The dialogue includes a tie vote on lowering voting area and calls for a state oil geologist and maps of mineral resources. The piece notes Coosa field coal, Choctaw oil wells, limestone and phosphate deposits, and county shifts under the plan.
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Five American soldiers court-martialed in Paris
Five American Army enlisted men from the 724th Railway Operating Battalion were sentenced to 25 years at hard labor for looting supply trains and selling government property. Pvt Anthony T. Chiaro Sgt Horton Duck T-5 Robert W. Meeger T4 Nathaniel W. Ray and Pet Tony Diomedes were named in the verdicts as the cases highlighted the lure of large profits from cigarettes and rations on transport trains en route to the front.
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Anthony T. Chairo
Horton Duck
Robert W. Meeger
Nathaniel W. Ray
Tony Diomedes
Conjecture on German Last Stand Near Clark Field
The article discusses speculation that retreating German forces may prepare a final stand inside the Reich as Soviet offensives push, citing German losses and front width, with mentions of Moscow reports and assessments of German troop numbers and dispositions. It also covers U.S. observers and allied political shifts involving Wallace and Jones in Washington.
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London
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Bamban Smoulden From Yank Bombs Bamban Smoulden From Yank Bombs
American air and ground forces push toward Bamban in Luzon near Clark Field as Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold surrounds Capas and Camp O’Donnell. Reports describe Japanese defenses, prisoner camp fires, and ongoing operations across Lingayen Gulf with multiple divisions advancing and prisoners of war reportedly transported to Japan.
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American Roadblock Defeats Jap Forces On Burma Road
A Mars Task Force roadblock on the Burma Road about 89 miles north of Sashio held against sixth straight day assaults by Japanese forces. Allied artillery and infantry under Brig. Gen. John P. Willey repelled repeated hill attacks, with Japanese losses mounting as they tried to dislodge the Americans.
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Four Million Workers Needed For Harvest
Washington AP reports the War Food Administration says at least four million emergency workers are needed to meet wartime agricultural demand. Loss of farm labor to the armed services, rural migration to war industries, and other factors shrink the pool to new lows. Appeals will reach city residents with farm backgrounds to volunteer for harvest duties including cotton, grain, peanuts, potatoes, and detasseling corn, with local farm labor offices coordinating.
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Bullet Stops Stolen Car and Fugitives
Montgomery AP. Georgia fugitives Emory Dukes and Willie Witmer Brown, escaped from a Thomasville camp last December, were retaken after police punctured their car tires with a bullet. They admitted robberies in Georgia and Alabama, had gas line coupons and draft cards, and faced possible indictments. Patrol units pursued on the Atlanta highway after a tip from a radio operator. the suspects tried to ram a patrol car before a single bullet halted the fleeing vehicle.
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Emory Dukes
Willie Witmer Brown
Thomasville
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George Bennett
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Harry Nelson
Ed Dasinger
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All That Glitters May Not Be Gold
A fragmentary Atlanta AP report notes tests on metal found near Kufwula by a African American farm hand reveal the objects thought to be gold contain no gold. State Geologist Garland Peyton, Will Person, and the worker uncovered the metal while farming land owned by AS Jones, a lumberman. One side shows a bust and arcaw, the other an Indian head.
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Berlin Reports Civilians Evacuated As War Rages
Berlin dispatches describe Soviet and German forces massing along the Oder and advancing toward Breslau and Opplen. Reports cite bridgeheads across the Oder and a sixth winter offensive in Eastern Europe, with Czestach and Krakow areas seeing heavy fighting and Rim regions threatened by a potential crossing to Berlin.
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