Army Men Converge On Houffalize In Ardennes Push
U S Army units drive toward Houffalize Belgium as Third and First Armies close in on the last German escape routes. Von Rundstedt retreats to within three miles of the Ourthe river while armor strength remains a threat. Fronts shift in northern Luxembourg and near Vianden as Nazi defenses resist and blunt the Allied advance.
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Aris
Newbound
Houffalize
Bulge
Belgium
Third Army
First Army
Aliver
Sali
Karl von Rundstedt
von Rud
Farng
von Rundstedt
Houfft
Salem River
Luxembourg
Vianden
Ile von Rundstedt
Ardennes Bulge
Alsace
Strasas
Thal
Iman
1St Army
Laroche
Violence Outbreak Nets Arrests in Maryland Shore
State police report an outbreak of violence on Maryland’s eastern shore with a white man shot dead and others assaulted. Two young Black suspects were arrested after a five hour series of attacks involving a boat tampering incident and a packing plant owner shot near his business.
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Ance
Itimore
Maryland
Chesaw Bay
William Weber
Somerset Bo
Deal
Kenneth Willing
Chance
Yester
Peggy Price
Graham, Dea
President May Pay Visit To France In February
Presidential Secretary Stephen Early may visit Europe to confer with Allied public relations officers in Paris. The plan could position him to advise on press coverage and coordination while Roosevelt potentially travels to meet Churchill and Stalin, with duties in France and at supreme headquarters.
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Paris
Stephen Early
France
Roosevelt
Supreme
Europe
White House
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Ankara
Teheran
War Department
Washington
Stephen T. Early
Frank A. Allen
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces
Early
Sheaf
Allen
Stakes High In GI Poker Games in French Loot Trials
Paris January 13. Testimony on high stakes in GI poker games opened as the fourth group of enlisted men accused of looting military supply trains faced an army general court martial. Lt. Robert O Reily testified he saw players paying up to 8 000 francs to view the last card of a seven card stud game amid cash, cigarette cases, and chocolate in the barracks, and he witnessed plans for further looting at casino moments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Robert O'Reily
Army Criminal Investigation Division
O'Reily
Legislators Take Up Local Bills in North Carolina
North Carolina legislators returned for brief sessions as local bills faced consideration. The second week yielded enacted measures and ongoing hearings by the joint appropriations committee as department representatives outlined needs. A petition from state employees urged action to address salary and cost of living disparities.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House
Senate
Joint Committee On Appropriations
Johnston Voices Support for Drafting Nurses
Senator Olin D. Johnston backs drafting nurses and any measures that hasten bringing U S troops home and ending the war. He cites the Presidents call to amend the selective service act to induce nurses as essential due to insufficient volunteer numbers.
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Washington
Olin D. Johnston
79Th Congress
Johnston
Germans Claim Major Soviet Winter Offensive In Poland East Prussia Hungary
Berlin says Russia launched a vast winter attack with three blows across Poland East Prussia and northern Hungary. Reports cite a Vistula bridgehead near Baranow and attacks along a 60 mile front with heavy artillery and armored forces. Moscow silent as Budapest garrison trapped in a five square mile pocket.
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London
Reds
Poland
East Prussia
Hungary
Vistuala River
Warsaw
Naz
Baranow
Berlin
Lucenec
Kassa
Kosice
Moscow
Vistual
Prussian
Rominten
Herth
Stockholm
Ernst von Mer
Budapest
Work or Fight Legislation Predicted to Pass
Washington January 13. House military committee chairman May predicts work or fight legislation will become law after hearings on a national service bill for men aged 18 to 45. He said Congress must act soon to solve the manpower problem, rejecting CIO president Murray’s call for voluntary methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Congress
Philip Murray
CIO
Sixth Army Penetrates Luzon Toward Manila Advance
Sixth Army spearheads push toward Manila on Luzon as they advance about 12 miles from the coast, reaching San Carlos and Malasiqui. Japanese resistance remains light except in foothills where shells and air strikes target American positions. A big freighter transport and 45 luggers were sunk or damaged near San Fernando.
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Yates McDantel
MacArthur
Luzon
Sixth Army
Manila
Agno River
Spencer Davis
Associated Press
San Fernando
Lingayen Gulf
Leyte
Philippines
San Carlos
Malasiqui
Governor Sends New Dimes To Polio Patient
Raleigh January 18. A new dime from Governor Cherry is en route to nine year old Donald Stimson of Winston-Salem a patient at the Hickory polio center. Stimson son of Mr and Mrs H D Stimson asked the 48 governors to send March of Dimes contributions to him to forward to the White House. He has been in the hospital six months and wrote that he is much better now and hopes to write again from Warm Springs Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Governor Cherry
Donald Stimson
Winston-Salem
Hickory
Young Stimson
Stimson
White House
Aldrich Receives Navy Commendation Ribbon
Lt Cmdr Richard S. Aldrich USNR a New York theater figure and husband of actress Gertrude Lawrence won the U S Navy commendation ribbon at an amphibious base in Britain announced by the third naval district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Richard S. Aldrich
USNR
Gertrude Lawrence
U. S. Navy
Britain
Third Naval District
War Today report on Russian Vistula offensive and Turkish aid
The piece discusses a claimed Russian push on the southern Vistula front in Poland and Turkey opening the Dardanelles for Allied supplies. It notes heavy Allied casualties in the Battle of the Bulge, a massive manpower draft in the US, and questions about French and Belgian youths serving abroad. The author finds no support for forced recruitment but acknowledges a complicated situation.
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Vistula
Poland
von Rundstedt
Turkey
Dardanelles
Russia
Soviet Vistula Front
Uncle Sam
Belgian Bulge
Europe
Pacific
Washington
France
Belgium
France Plunges Toward War Despite Severe Shortages
Dewitt Mackenzie outlines France’s wartime manpower strain with 780,000 POWs and 750,000 French slaves among those unavailable, while de Gaulle plans to raise over 2 million troops. Roosevelt notes a major arms production push to equip new French forces for combat duty.
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France
Alsace
Lorraine
de Gaulle
Presiden Roosevelt
Congress
WPB Plans Temporary Halt to Reconversion
The War Production Board will propose a short pause to its reconversion order within days, allowing only peacetime printing machinery to be produced while other priority military gear remains restricted. Officials say this marks a second blow to Nelsons reconversion program as civilian goods plans face delay.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
The
War Production Board
WPB
Donald M. Nelson
Army
Navy
Nelson
Profit Taking Continues On Stock Market
Profit taking continued to hamper the stock market today though selected issues led by steels gained some headway. International Telephone surged to a new high in the move. Other notable performers included U S Steel Bethlehem Goodrich Woolworth North American American Can and Standard Oil New Jersey with occasional falters from Southern Pacific Northern Pacific Anaconda Kennecott American Telephone Montgomery Ward and Goodyear.
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New York
Steels
International Telephone
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Goodrich
Woolworth
North American
American Can
Standard Oil
Southern Pacific
Northern Pacific
Anaconda
Kennecott
American Telephone
Montgomery Ward
Goodyear
Trainmaster Struck By Auto In Fayetteville
A. C. L. trainmaster E. H. Powell of Rocky Mount was injured seriously when struck by a car driven by A. L. Nichols of Fayetteville on Hay street near the ACL station at about 7 30 this morning. Nichols was bonded and a hearing set for next week.
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Fayetteville
E. H. Powell
Atlantic Coast Line
Rocky Mount
A. L. Nichols
L. F. Worrell
Hay Street
ACL
Nichols
Battle Off Indo China Still Raging
U S Pacific Fleet reports a furious assault on four major Japanese convoys off the French Indo China coast. Wind Fleet planes bombed and torpedoed, with 38 ships sunk so far, including a 5,000 ton cruiser and several destroyers. No U S losses reported.
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Indo-China
French Indo-China
U.S
Philippines
Luzon
Lingayen
U. S. Navy
Saigon
Camranh Bay
Leif Erickson
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Navy
Pacific
William F. Halsey
Japan
Manila
Camerand Bay
South China Sea
Formosa
MacArethur
Nhon
Nazis Fight Fiercely In North Italy Near Bologna
Allied reports say American Fifth Army patrols probe German positions south of Bologna with stiff resistance. British Eighth Army clashed with Germans around Comeaccio and near Faenza, taking 40 enemy casualties. An American patrol reached Canavetta south of Bologna while another attacked San Ansano, facing heavy mortar and rifle fire.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Bologna
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Rave
Albert Kesselering
Senio
Faenza
Fusignano
Highway Nine
Canavetta
Po Valley
San Ansano
Canovetta
Savena River
Williams Says He Aided Whisky Return In Police Case
In Kinston on January 13, hearing resumed in the recorder's court over charges against former Mayor William F. Stanley tied to illegal possession of a 299% case of tax paid liquor seized earlier. Williams testified he sought to facilitate returning the whisky to an old friend in New York after Paradise Point officers refused the shipment while Williams was a Cherry Point officer who resigned November 1.
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Kinston
Recorder’s Court
William F. Stanley
Dee
Williams
New York
Paradise Point
Illams
Cherry Point
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Ourthe River
James Mvm. Long
China
302Nd Regiment
AP Wivrephoto
U. S. Signal Corps
French Indochina
Binh Orn
Phanrang
de Stature Mney
Hainan
Chine Seo
Pratas
Palawan
Lingaye
Bataan
Taytay
Borneo
Corregidor
Dandakan
Pana
Sarishima Gunto
Apara
Baler
Samak
Pacshie
Hinatuan
Mindanao
Aldrich
By Dewitt Mackenzie
A. C. L. Trainmaster
Halsey
Italy
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