Houffalize Capture and Greek Politics in War Tides
Dewitt Mackenzie discusses how Greece's political climate shifts amid World War II turmoil. The piece notes Britain’s stance on self-determination versus communist influence, the potential plebiscite to decide Greece’s government, and King George’s contested regency amid Metaxas dictatorship.
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Churchill
England
Britain
Balkan
Mitch- 1 Field
New York
Hether
Thenarchy
George
London
Anne of
Romania
Furlough Limits Lifted for Soldiers Returning Home
The War department removed all limits on 30 day furloughs for soldiers. General Marshall told Rep. Brooks the number of airmen returning from war zones on furloughs will rise markedly in the coming months. Theater commanders may release men for one month plus travel time without central approval.
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Washington
War Department
George Carshall
Rep
Rooks
D-La
Churchill affirms Atlantic Charter unity with Roosevelt
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons he fully agrees with President Roosevelt on the Atlantic Charter and that its objectives remain valid since 1941. He said the war will be prolonged until unconditional surrender is achieved and rejected calls to detail immediacy of charter provisions.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Roosevelt
Commons
Rhys Davis
British Empire
India
General MacArthur's Ride Reads A World War II Marker
General MacArthur and his aide Lt. Col. Roger Egebert paused near Lingayen Gulf to read a roadside marker noting Major Logan, killed in 1898. MacArthur recalled Logan was his father's aide when he landed at Lingayen, prompting a quick move as the jeep continued through the combat zone.
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Lurvon
Dan
Douglas Mac-Arthur
Lingayen Gulf
Logan
USA
Roger Egebert
Cleveland
Arthur MacArthur
Lingayen
Egebert
Douglas MacArthur
Blaze at General Clark Hotel Kills 14 in Chicago
A fast moving fire at the seven story General Clark Hotel on Clark Street in Chicago killed at least 14 people and injured five others. Fire crews searched the ruins six hours after discovery as investigators worked to determine the blaze origin.
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Chicago
General Clark
Jim North Clark Street
Michael J Corrigan
Nation Braces for Varied Weather Across Regions
The Associated Press reports a mix of conditions nationwide with snow and sleet on the eastern seaboard and mid-Atlantic, rain from Washington to the south, and mild Midwest weather. Rochester Minnesota records four below and La Crosse three below, while Buffalo logs 27 inches of snow and NYC crews work to clear streets amid more snowfall forecast.
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Seaboard
Mid- Atlantic States
Washington
Midwest
Wisconsin- Minnesota
Rochester
Minn
la Crosse
Wis
New York
Buffalo
New York City
Virginia
Mountain
Pacific Coast
Davidson Bills Approved By House Committee in Raleigh
Raleigh January 16 The house committee on counties cities and towns approved ten bills. Proposals include keeping the 1945 Fayetteville primary under prior law with a voter option on alderman nomination, restoring Polk county commissioner terms, adding deputies in Davidson county, reappointing drainage district No 2 commissioners, extending Belmont town limits in Gaston county, and changing Mecklenburg tax prepayments to collector only with a $1000 bond funded by the county.
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Raleigh
House Committee On
Fayetteville
City Board of Elections
Board of Commissioners
Polk County
Davidson County
Davidson County ‘Superior Court
Belmont
Gaston County
Mecklenburg County
Schlosberg Capture Reported as Soviet Offense Rages
London dispatch says Schlosberg fell 13 miles inside East Prussia as Russian forces split Nazi lines along 600 miles of front. Nazi broadcasts claim major penetrations north of Warsaw in the Vistula triangle and south near the Narew bridgeheads as Stalin presses a winter offensive aimed at a decisive war turning point.
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London
Schlosberg
East Prussia
Warsaw
Vistula
Narew
Stalin
Norwegans Capture Key German Air Base in Finnmark
Norwegian troops opened their first major assault against Germany in Finnmark driving 80 miles through deep snow. They captured one of the two main German air bases in northern Norway and expanded the liberated area to 8,684 square miles, nearly half of the county.
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London
Jan
Finnmark
Norway
Konev's First Ukrainian Army Pushes Toward Krakow Front
Marshal Ivan Konev's forces pressed west in southern Poland toward Krakow and Kielce, breaking into outer salients along the Krakow Warsaw railway. The supply artery linking Warsaw with Silesia’s coal and munitions centers faced disruption as fog and winter hindered air support. The Berlin radio said a new offensive aimed to guard the left flank of the Warsaw Krakow drive, with the thrust advancing about 20 miles wide.
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Krakow
Poland
Krakow-Warsaw
Europe
Silesia
Warsaw
Onev
Kielce
Warsaw-Krakow
Konev
Berlin
Jaslo
Food Shortage Triggers Shootings by German Captors
German captives report Nazi officers ordered American prisoners shot amid severe food shortages in Germany. A lieutenant allegedly told troops the food shortage meant no more feeding prisoners. Accounts from Volksgrenadier division recount executions after surrender, including 40 GIs killed near Habschied around December 19 or 20.
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U.S. First Army
Belgium
Rman
Germany
Volksgrenadier
Ond
Habschied
Japs Lose 69 Ships as Yanks Hit Indo China Coast
U S Third Fleet carriers bombed Hongkong Swatow and Amoy in a first full scale raid on the China coast. Adm Nimitz said ships sunk and damaged totaled 69 with 41 sunk and 28 damaged in a later action off Indo China.
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Pearl Harbor
Indo-China
U. S. Third Fleet
Hongkong
Swatow
Amoy
China
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz
China Coast
Formosa
Nimitz
Third Fleet
Man Found Dead With $360 Stuck In His Mouth
FBI joined investigation in Forsyth Georgia into the death of a man found beside railroad tracks with 360 dollars stuffed in his mouth. Coroner James L Weldon tentatively identified him as Joseph Manley Brown of Miami Florida. A Dixie Flyer train may have caused his death. A railroad ticket stub shows a journey from Hanford. Papers on the body indicate membership in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen and Helpers.
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Forsythe
FBI
Central of Georgia
James L. Weldon
Joseph Manley Brown
Miami
Fla
Hanford
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Death in Action Ends German Captain Bottcher Career
German born Capt Hermann Bottcher who rose from staff sergeant to captain on New Guinea and Buna fronts died on Leyte New Year’s Eve mortally wounded by mortar fire. A former major in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade he earned the Distinguished Service Cross and Oak Leaf cluster and was recommended for a posthumous Silver Star. He outsmarted the Japanese behind their lines and was known as the eyes and ears of the division amid jungle fighting. He left no wife, and his aunt Mrs Alice Bottcher of San Francisco was listed as next of kin.
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Philippines
Leyte
Hermann Bottcher
New Guinea
Buna
Congress
Bottcher
New Gumea
Aitape
Alice Bottcher
Ramesell St
San Francisco
United States
Two Tar Heels Contributors To 1 000 Club
Washington dispatch reports that eighteen South Carolinians and North Carolinians are among 100 Southerners who donated 1000 dollars each to the One Thousand club backing President Roosevelt’s re election. List includes T Graydon Sapp Harrison Arnold Dodson Olin D Johnston Parker St George Boyle Long Long Hughes Chicco Puller Brown Blythe Raleigh Blythe Charlotte.
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Fighteen
North Carolinians
One Thousand Club
Roosevelt
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Claud N. Sapp
J. C. Harrison
Arnold
Hoyle L. Dodson
Olin D. Johnston
Columbia
J. D. Parker
St. George
Edwin Boyle
Sumter
Guy Whitener
Newberry
Mary A. Turner
Spartanburg
Long
L. D. Long
George M. Hughes
Vicent Chicco
Charleston
C. D. Puller
Edgar A. Brown
Barnwell
Joe L. Blythe
Raleigh
F. J. Blythe
Charlotte
WMC Divides Essential War Work Into Critical and Other Lists
The War Manpower Commission splits 35 essential activities into two divisions with a critical core to safeguard war production. Registrants in critical roles will stay on their jobs as long as possible, while workers in other activities are slated for calls to meet a projected need of about 200,000 men by July 1.
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War Manpower Commission
Byrnes
Nota
Ner
Wanting Blocking Opening Of New Road
Burmese dispatch reports Japanese garrison at Wanting still blocks opening of the India China supply road as Chinese forces besiege Namkham. Namkham, last Japanese bastion in North Burma, fell after 30th Division assault ending weeks of bitter fighting for the overland route to China.
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Mystkyina
Burma
India- China
Namkham
China
German Stand On Salm River Collapses
Paris Jan 16 The German defense at Houffalize fell to the American First Army as the 2nd Armored division pressed from the Bulge toward St Vith and the Siegfried Line. The breakthrough shortened the bulge to roughly 15 miles from the frontier and widened Allied advances toward the Meuse.
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Houffali
Belgian Bulge
Second Armored
First Army
Houffalize
Salm
St. Vith
Siegfried Line
Meuse
Bombers Hit German Industry In Wide East Germany Strikes
Six hundred American long range bombers struck deep into east central Germany targeting the Magdeburg synthetic oil plant near Magdeburg and the Krupp works at Magdeberg while escorts of about 650 fighters cover missions to Dresden and Dessau. Some four engined bombers completed round trips over 1000 miles. bad weather forced cancellation of operations last night.
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London
Germany
1Th Air Works
Magurge
Dresden
Dessau
Fighth
Krupp
Magdeberg
German Drive Near Meuse Fails To Break Allied Lines
Reporting on Gen. Eisenhower’s winter offensive, German forces under Hitler pushed into Allied lines near Houffalize and threatened Antwerp and the Meuse. The push cost Germany heavy losses, while Allied casualties rose toward forty thousand in the bulge battle.
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Houffalize
St. Vith
U. S
Strasbourg
Rhine
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Tuehrer
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Meuse
Antwerp
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Dunkerque
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Ruhr
Saar
Washington
Bulge
Supreme Ice
Stimson
Quiet on Italian Front As Snow Envelops Front Line
Deep snow and poor visibility brought calm to the Path and Lighth Army fronts in the high Apennines and eastern Po Valley. Only patrol clashes and artillery duels were reported as both sides clung to positions. Allied forces attacked rail targets in central and northern Italy and struck enemy positions in Yugoslavia.
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Apennines
Poa
Ers
Eetria
Italy
Yugoslavia
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