Germans Strike Back With Five Major Blows
Adolf Hitler warned loyalists that defeatists would be crushed and that the end of the war will not come before 1946 unless Germany wins. He called the conflict a merciless struggle for existence and vowed to destroy anyone not contributing to the war effort. The radio address ended a five month silence, with many London monitors convinced it was his voice.
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Associated Press
London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Louis P. Lochner
As- See
Doughboys adopt Indian tactics in Leyte mop up
General MacArthur reports Doughboys using night ambush and dawn strikes to annihilate Japanese on Leyte. He says 117,997 Japanese dead in the campaign, with small bands still roaming as U.S. forces control the Ormac valley and main roads.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Douglas MacArthur
Ormac
Nippon
Berlin
Associated Press
Doughboys
Meuse
United States
Bastogne
Alsace Lorraine
United States Front
Bitche
German Broadcasters Tell People How They Think The War's Going
Enemy attacks were repelled on the main fighting line. Our bombers and fighters effectively attacked enemy traffic in north France and Belgium. Liege and Antwerp were shelled by long range weapons. Reconnoitering thrusts in central Italy were repelled. British movements were shelled by artillery. Bolshevist attacks in Hungary remained overall unchanged from the Drava to the Slovak frontier, especially around Budapest. The focal fighting point was in the Slovak frontier area between Gran and upper Bipel.
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Tront
France
Belgium
Liege
Antwerp
Italy
Tmola
Romany
Hungary
Drava
Budapest
Gran
Upper Bipel
Crash on Great Salt Lake Causeway Kills Fifty
In Ogden Utah on a foggy Sunday a Southern Pacific mail Express and a slow passenger train collided on the Great Salt Lake causeway. About 60 persons died and another 60 were injured as cars piled and slid into the water. Debris cleared slowly as authorities searched wreckage across nearly a dozen cars and two sections.
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Ogden
Utah
Southern Pacific
Great Salt Lake
Trés Ue
Theatre Ticket Present This Offering for Admission Tonight
The Grafton Sentinel invites Miss Lucille Payne to attend tonight’s theatre presentations. At the Strand theatre Greenwich Village with Carmen Miranda Don Ameche and William Bendix is offered, or Tall in the Saddle with John Wayne and Ella Raines at the Dixie theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Lucille Payne Yates
Greenwich Village
Carmen Miranda
Don Ameche
William Bendix
Strand Theatre
FDR Named No 1 Newsmaker Of 1944 In AP Poll
Franklin D Roosevelt topped AP News features editors poll as the Man of the Year and Politician of 1944 while Dwight Eisenhower Patton and others trailed. The wartime president earned standout status for leading the nation through war with broad cross field recognition.
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Warren H. Bennett
AP News
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
AP Newsfeatures
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight. D. Eisenhower
Adolf Hitler
Eisenhower
George 8. Patton
Douglas MacArthur
FDR
Thomas E. Dewey
Sidney Hilman
Clare Booth Luce
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothy Thompson
Henry J. Kaiser
Eric Johnston
Charles E. Wilson
Hillman
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
Labor board orders union election at Sylvania Huntington plant
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a collective bargaining election within 30 days for maintenance workers and other staff at the Sylvania Electric Products plant in Huntington, West Virginia. Workers will decide whether to be represented by CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, the AFL, or neither. Edwin Eugene Maxwell, 17, of National near Morgantown, was noted in Morgantown news after a fall.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc
Huntington
W. Va
CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
New Seventy Ninth Congress To Enter Capitol Wednesday
A new Congress arrives to face war aftermath and propose issues including compulsory military training, war finances, broader social security, tax adjustments, and industrial reconversion. Democrats hold a stronger majority, but Roosevelt faces intraparty opposition on a year of compulsory service as lawmakers prepare for potential early battles.
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NEW Seventy-Ninth Congress
Capitol
Howard Flieger
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
United States
House Military Committee
Hitler Defiance Signals German Resistance in War Outlook
The War Today analyzes Hitler's New Year defiance claiming end of the war by 1946 with German victory unlikely. The piece notes Germany’s intent to resist to the last ditch, while German scientists push wartime weapons like V bombs. Von Rundstedt’s breakthrough, delaying Allied victory, is highlighted as evidence of delaying tactics rather than winning.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Germany
Rhineland
G Man
von Rundstedt
Fuehrer
United States recognizes Polish exile government in London
The United States continues to recognize the exile Polish government in London despite Soviet sponsored claims at Lubin to be Poland's provisional government. Secretary of State Stettinius stated the diplomatic front was busy on New Year's Day with developments including Henri Bonnet presenting credentials to President Roosevelt as France becomes the 36th United Nation.
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Washington
United States
London
Lublin
Poland
Stettinius
Henri Bonnet
Roosevelt
France
United Nations
Bonnet
United
Elks to hold services for Brother French Wilmoth
Notice says funeral services for French Wilmoth are at Bartlett’s funeral home this evening. Gather at lodge hall at 7:30 with cars.
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French Wilmoth
Bartlett
Lodge Hall
Germans Press Major Onslaught Near Bitche In Europe War
Paris dispatch reports German forces on a ten mile front around Bitche attacked in five waves, two battalion strength, as Von Rundstedt presses a Christmas offensive. Patton divisions push northeast from the Salient to blunt the thrust, with heavy counterattacks near Bastogne destroying 18 tanks and delaying gains. Details unclear as battle develops.
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James M. Long
Paris
Bitche
von Rundstedt
Luxembourg
Belgium
Zweibrucken
Bavarian Palatinate
Belgian Bulge
George 8
Patton
Bastogne
Red Army drives deep into Budapest amid heavy fighting
Soviet shock troops have ousted Germans from roughly two thirds of Buda and pressed into central Budapest near the Danube embankment. In Pest the eastern half, three miles into inner defenses, while the Danube front widened with advances toward Slovak border towns.
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Buda
London
Budapest
Danube
Stalingrad
Red Army
Pest
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