Churchill Seeks End to Greek Civil War Amid Bomb String
In Athens Prime Minister Churchill and British officials pursued an end to the Greek civil war as ELAS forces clashed with government troops. A dynamite cache was found under street car lines near the Grand Bretagne hotel, reportedly old and during the night. Churchill arrived with Anthony Eden as fighting echoed the ancient capital city.
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Stephen Barber
Athens
Churchill
Grand Bretegne
Ronald Scobie
Briish
Anthony Eden
ELAS
Sir Harold
Harold MacMillan
National Compulsory Peacetime Service Bill For Youth
National leaders plan to push a compulsory peacetime service bill for youths ages 17 to 25 in 1945. About 1,000,600 young men yearly would enter a government training year, with costs in the billions and potential disruption to education or employment. Three main options are military training alone, mixed military and civilian training, or a year of studies without military elements.
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James Marlow Washington
Congress
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
West Virginia Coal Output and House Leadership Satire
West Virginia news briefs report weekly coal production at 10,000,000 tons, down 21.3 percent from the prior year. The piece notes 1944 congressional activity may begin early and mocks the three Thrustons as magicians, listing House leaders Roy, Smith, and Miller and stressing parliamentary order.
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Washington
Coal Association
Congress
Bill Roy
George
Kart Miller
Mace
Sam Rayburn
United Mine Workers plan district meeting in Fairmont
In Fairmont on January 13 United Mine Workers locals from district 31 will select representatives for the Appalachian Wage Conference in New York City. The district gets three members on the international negotiators for the new contract replacing the one due March 31. Capt Harry R Anderson of Morgantown is noted as a top medal collector in the Third Army's 11th Regiment in France. He holds the Silver Star with Dal Leaf cluster, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. West Virginia farmers are advised January is ideal to eradicate bats that ruin work horses, per J H Rietz at WVU agricultural station.
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Organtown
United Mine Workers
Fairmont
New York City
Cecil J. Urbaniak
Morgantown
Harry R. Anderson
Third Army
France
Anderson
West Virginia
West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station
J. H. Rietz
Point value muddle stuns West Virginia OPA offices
West Virginian headquarters of the Office of Price Administration were surprised by Washington notices that point values for canned goods and other food categories had been revised. Officials said they learned of changes via newspapers and were seeking details from national or headquarters to clear confusion among grocers and food handlers. A large Charleston wholesale house planned no changes until official confirmation was received.
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Charleston
W. Va
West
Meru
Americans Invade Palompon Fort End Leyte Battle
American forces led by the 77th division landed at Palompon to seal the Leyte campaign. MacArthur hailed the operation as a decisive Japanese defeat with heavy enemy losses and thousands of Japanese killed or captured across Leyte and Samar.
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Associated Press
MacArthur
Philippines
Japan
Palompon
Leyte-Samar
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Ormoc
Leyte
Samar
Nippon
Tokyo
Leyte Gulf
Plane crash kills ten soldiers near Harrisburg
Ten soldiers killed and 17 injured when an army transport plane on a Jacksonville to Minneapolis flight crashed on Retain Mountain near New Cumberland in the early morning. Officials withheld names until next of kin were notified as fire crews cut through wreckage. The crash occurred at 4:27 am in a dense wooded area three miles west of Harrisburg airport.
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Harrisburg
Jacksonville
Fla
Minneapolis
Retain Mountain
Middletown Air Technical Service Command
New Cumberland
William Vogelson
Cumberland Fire Company
Voges
Encircled Budapest Faces German Hungarian Withdrawal Risk
Eight to ten divisions of Germans and Hungarians were trapped in Budapest as the Red Army advanced to the city limits. Airports were shelled and a last escape corridor remained, with panic reported inside the capital.
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Budapest
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Buda
Our Own Service Men Feeding Black Market Of Paris
An American officer predicts further disclosures in February as U S servicemen face trial for selling cigarettes gasoline and other military supplies to the French black market Scores of soldiers have already been sentenced to terms from one year to life The officer notes tanks run dry behind lines while soldiers peddle fuel yet military losses are largely behind the front lines and do not majorly affect frontline supply See OUR OWN Page 3
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Paris
George Tucker
U. S
Chaplin Paternity Case Heads For Rest After Joan Answers Questions
Los Angeles reports that in the Chaplin paternity trial the 14 month old Carol Ann Berry remains the plaintiff. Joan Berry is to answer more witness stand questions today before Chaplin offers his defense to Miss Berry’s paternity assertion. The 55 year old comedian testified he could not be the father and that relations with Miss Berry ended before conception.
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Los Angeles
Carol Ann Berry
Charles Chaplin
Joan Berry
Miss Berry
Carol Ann
Joseph Scott
Oteen A. H
Risse
California
Chaplin
Charles E. Millikan
Getty
War Today analysis on German offensive drive
The War Today column reports renewed German pressure with Allied forces holding gains. Eisenhower is seen as in control though casualties will be heavy. Two German salients threaten Liege Namur and the route toward Paris, risking encirclement of American troops and supply points. Page 3 continuation hinted.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Eisenhower
Paris
Roosevelt
Belgium
Meuse
Liege
Namur
Secdan
Elks Plan Service for Brother Brinkman at Bartlett's
Notice states services for George Edward Brinkman to be held this evening at Bartlett's Funeral Home at 8 p.m. Elks members meet at Elks Home with cars at 7 30 p.m. Secretary
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MOOSE
Lodge
George Brinkman
Bartlett
George Edward Brinkman
Elks
Cara
Germans Drive Deep Into Belgium Create Broad Bulge
Allied reports say two German armored columns pushed 60 miles into Belgium by Sunday night forming a solid 35 mile bulge near the Meuse. Bastogne and surrounding American forces fought to hold key road hubs as the front threatened Laroche and Liemneux.
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Paris
Belgium
St. Vith
Vith
Lochefort
Meuse
Bastogne
Laroche
Menil
Liemneux
Es Bay
Nazi escape at Papago Park camp near Phoenix
Prison camp at Papago Park outside Phoenix was the scene of a disturbance as around 25 Nazi prisoners escaped after a demonstration by about a hundred inmates. Col. Holden said guards used force to end the disruption and that Lt. Col. Wattenberg, 43, was among the escapees. Several were believed to have scaled a barbed wire fence during a rainstorm.
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Phoenie
Oriz
Papago Park
Here
Mans
Col
W Holden
Holden
Jumgen
Wattenberg
Halden
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Indo
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