Fall of Budapest nears as Soviet drive tightens
Western Budapest falls under pressure as German defenders crumble under Soviet assault. Katushas and American trucks aid the Red Army amid fierce street fighting. Reports claim German losses include 24 tanks and 13 armored cars with 429 prisoners. Red forces advance toward Losnoc and Slovak frontier, while Vienna faces evacuation as new Austrian offensive plans emerge.
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Indon
Danube- Budapest
Moscow
Cairo
Buda
Red Army
Losnoc
Lucenéc
Budapest
Austria
Vienna
Ward Employes Face Induction Into Service
Chicago dispatch reports Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron says Montgomery Ward and Company personnel who refused army operation of seized properties in seven cities are being replaced and reclassified. Sewell Avery and other reps are named as resisting seizures. Army also seized two Detroit warehouses, bringing to 16 the total properties under control, including 10 stores, 3 mail order houses, and 3 warehouses.
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Chicago
Joseph W. Byron
Montgomery Ward
Sewell Avery
Avery
Byron
Detroit
Ward
Allocations Of Tobacco Are Given Increase
The War Food Administration announced higher allocations for barley and flue cured tobacco for cigarette makers. Barley shipments rise 12 percent from the previous year, with December at 491,600,000 pounds. Flue cured tobacco increases are limited to existing allocation holders and no large percentage rise is expected.
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Washington, Dan
War Food Administration
WEA
American Ace Raises Victory Total in Europe
Lt. Col. John C. Meyer of Forest Hills New York topped his wartime score with two German aircraft shot down in seconds, bringing his total to 37 with 74 of those in combat. Gallagher reported Meyer's latest two kills and his overall record.
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London
Dan
John C. Meyer
Forest Hills
Long Island
Associated Press
Gallagher
Meyer
Nimitz Welcomes Russian Aid in Pacific War
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports Admiral Chester W. Nimitz would welcome Soviet participation in the Pacific war and noted planned landings on the China coast. He praised British naval units already operating in the theater and said rough going lies ahead as Japan resists.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Adm
Srer W. Nimitz
Pacific
Pravda
Nimitz
Saipai
China
Great Britain
Casualty Wires During Year 1944
Official 1944 casualty figures show 82,634 Americans killed in combat, 318,157 wounded, and 94,261 missing or interned. Army losses dominate with 70,676 combat deaths and 288,312 wounded. Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard combined account for 11,958 combat deaths and 29,845 wounded. A total of 95,052 notices were sent to families.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Yank Bombers Raid Western Germany In Heavy Air War
London reports American heavy bombers attacked western Germany before noon as the 11th straight day of heavy bomber activity. Revised counts show German losses at least 221 planes, while Berlin claimed 427 Allied aircraft destroyed, mostly on the ground.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Mindoro Air Strike Sinks Three Warships
General MacArthur reports land based American bombers operating from Mindoro struck near Luzon, sinking or probable sinking of three destroyers and several freighter transports. The communique notes enemy counteraction and Japanese ammo trains active on southwest Luzon north of Mindoro.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Mindoro
Luzon Island
Manila
Lingayen Gulf
Luzon
Raid on Mindanao Island Reported by Tokyo Radio
The Tokyo radio said today that about 10 B 7s raided southern Mindanao island in the Philippines. The report aired December 30 Japanese time and was intercepted by the Federal Communications Commission. No Allied confirmation was available.
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Associated Press
Mindanao Island
Philippines
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Marine Corsairs Hit Philippine Rail, Rail Yard Attacks
Saturday air raids from Batangas to Lingayen continued the push against Japanese supply lines in the Philippines. More than 50 Marine Corsairs strafed, bombed, and destroyed ammunition trains and locomotives while Nip aircraft faced anti aircraft fire and fighters. The Lingayen raid marked a deep penetration by American bombers into the Philippines network, targeting reinforcement and supply bases.
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Manila
Lingayen
Batangas
Mindoro Island
San Jose
MacArthur
Mindoro
Philippines
Leyte
San
Luzon
British Troops 86 Miles From Mandalay
Allied forces reported progress in Burma with British spearhead in Kaduma 16 miles from Yeu and a pincer drive reaching northern Burma. Yeu lies 70 miles from Mandalay as Mountbatten announced. Other units along the Bay of Bengal coast took Rathedaung with little opposition while a Japanese defense coalesces around Namkam southeast of Bramo where a new American task force engages.
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Southeast Asia
Mandalay
Burma
Kaduma
Yeu
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Bay of Bengal
Rathedaung
Namkam
Bramo
Exiles puzzled by Hitler New Year speech recording
German refugees in London react to a Berlin broadcast claiming Hitler delivered a New Year message. They debate whether Hitler spoke, if the voice was authentic, or a composite ghostwritten by Goebbels, noting the style and possible manipulation of the message.
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Hitler
Loves & Lochner
Associated Press
Berlin
London
Fuehrer
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbel
Goebbels
Nazis Fire Balls Of Fire To Harass Yank Fighter Pilots
American night intruder missions report the nazis deployed mysterious balls of fire or foo fighters that race beside U S planes for miles. pilots suspect radio control or magnetic attraction with glow and gas creating buoyancy and interference with radio signals.
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US. S
France
Germany
Vank
Donald Meiers
Chicago
Ill
C. E. Butterfield
Speakership Race Holds Limelight in 1945 House
Raleigh January 2 Two majority candidates Oscar Richardson of Union and George Uzzell of Rowan entered the day confident of victory in the speakership race. A House caucus was scheduled for tonight though events could derail the process as supporters filled separate downtown campaign headquarters.
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Raleigh
Jan
Oscar Richardson
Union
George Uzzell
Rowan
Mica Firms Seek Pact With Justice on Industry Probe
Attorneys for nine North Carolina mica producers seek a satisfactory agreement with the justice department by tonight to end the investigation. If no deal is reached, a hearing is to be held at Shelby, North Carolina on January 5. FE P Hodges said subpoenas have been revised as ordered by Judge Yates Webb.
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Washington
North Carolina
Department of Justice
Justice Department
Shelby
N. C
FE. P. Hodges
Yates Webb
Thomasville Boys Capture Nazis And Bread In Germany
Hal Boyle tells of Lt. Dillard E. Boland of Clinton DC fighting in Normandy and Brest where a snip of shrapnel cut his last packet of cigarettes. In the same dispatch American troops mock German hunger with a tale of four German cooks surrendering their bread to U.S. lines.
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Hal Boyle
Germany
U. S
Dillard
Boland
Clinton
D. C
Normandy
Brest
France
Ainsworth
AEF
No - Man's Land
Walter H. Zeims
Chicago
Charles ¢. Allen
Colonial Drive
Thomasville
N. C
Kamerad
700000 Refuse To Relinquish Their Positions
The social security board said more than 700,000 Americans over 65 remain on the job and do not claim benefits, countering claims that social security fuels idleness. About 70,000 formerly retired workers have temporarily returned to work to forgo benefits.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Loss of Four Yank Ships Reported by Navy
The navy announced the loss of four U S vessels including the 1 525 ton submarine Harder overdue from patrol and presumed lost a landing ship LSM 318 and PT 300 lost to enemy action in the Philippine area and PT 311 lost in the Mediterranean area The air attack off Ormoc sunk the landing ship The Harder carries 65 men The total US submarines lost at 35 since the war began and total naval losses rise to 243
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Washington
Navy
Harder
Philippine
Mediterranean
Ormoc
United States
High Point Chosen for North Carolina Grange Youth Convention
North Carolina State Grange youth selected High Point for their next annual convention to be held December 28 29 and 30 1945 in Caldwell county. Austin Brown of Trinity Grange Randolph county was elected president replacing O J Howell Jr Wayne county. Resolutions called for returning to eastern standard time and continuing the most representative girl boy contest with merit certificates. The youth urged cooperation with the State Grange on expansion and to send a youth convention newsletter to members in service.
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Winston-Salem
Jan
North Carolina
N. C. Grange
State Grange
Grange
Four Children Hurt As Chimney Falls
Rocky Mount North Carolina January 2 high winds toppled bricks from a chimney at Benvenue High School in Nash County injuring four students Dorris Tiller Mabel Daughtridge Gloria Frye and Mary Frances Fuller who were treated at a local hospital. The school will close for repairs until Thursday.
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Rocky Mount
Benvenue High School
Nash County
L. S. Inscoe
Dorris Tiller
Mabel Daughtridge
Gloria Frye
Mary Frances Fuller
Inscoe
Senator Hoey Guests at Raleigh Hotel in Capitol Visit
Senator Clyde R. Hoey checked into the Raleigh hotel in Washington on January 2, noting Raleigh as the capital of North Carolina. He said he chose the hotel for its name and was greeted by Tar Heels from Winston-Salem who wished him happiness in Congress. His office had not yet been assigned.
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Washington
Clyde R. Hoey
Raleigh
North Carolina
Winston-Salem
Congress
Ellison D
Cotton
Smith
Jack Spain
Carolina
Counterblows Of Germans Are Repulsed
Paris Jan 2 United States forces widened the Belgian bulge north of Bastogne pushing a salient back as American infantry tanks and planes hit German positions. German commander Rundstedt reportedly lost about 110 tanks 200 aircraft and numerous war materiel in the fighting.
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Paris
Bast
Third Army Advances in Belgium Bulge Heavy Attacks
The U S Third Army pushed two miles into the southern Belgian bulge under heavy fighting and press reports say units are extracting themselves from the blaze. The Ninth Air Force attacked a German column near St Vith and bombed a wedge of armor near Abeleve, five miles east.
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Paris
Dan
U. S
Third Army
Belgian Bulge
Ninth Air Force
St. Vith
Ableve
Patton pushes beyond Bastogne in widening front
Allied forces under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. widened the corridor north of Bastogne by capturing Houment and Chenongo while Third Army pressed to run lines past the German salient. German counterattacks along the St. Rhine front yielded little gain as air and artillery strikes continued. front activity quiet elsewhere with British and Canadian sectors maintaining a broad arc during the night.
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Bastogne
George S. Patton, Jr
Houment
Chenongo
Third Army
U. S. First Army
Supreme Headquarters
V Rundstedt
Linni
Stavelot
Bulge
Kapelle
Holland
Quitos
Two Nazi Agents Arrested by FBI in New York Area
FBI director J Edgar Hoover announced the arrest of two Nazi agents William Curtis Colepaugh and Erich Gimpel tied to espionage and sabotage plots since landing by U boat off Hancock Point Me They were found with automatic revolvers compass camera secret inks draft papers and a stash of about 860000 in American money with 85457486 remaining.
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New York
Dan
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
William Curtis Colepaugh
Niantic, Co
Erich Gimpel
South America
Hancock Poin
Frenchman's Bay
Navy
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Belgium
U. S. 4Th Armored Division
L. F. Alexander
Newcomerstown
101St
Paul Hammond
Webb
West Va
Albert Scarlett
Signal Corps Radiophoto.— (International
Bay
Reds
Western
Mica
Thomasville Boy
Cyrus Ainsworth
Grossback
Tex
Zeims
High Point
Senator Hoey
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