Americans Strike Back as German Breakthrough Enters Belgium
American doughboys and tanks counterattacked a German armor offensive that pushed into Belgium to within about 20 miles of Aachen. 1st Army and 83rd Division patrols crossed the Roer near Duren, while air power claimed heavy German losses.
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Paris
Belgium
Roer
Duren
Luxembourg
Cologne
Ukraine
Kharkov
Red Army
Avranches
Falaise Gap
U. S. 9Th Air Force
Standing Firm On State Office Nominees
The Senate debate over six state nominees continued as President Roosevelt signaled he would renominate the same names if blocked by the session end. Senator Pepper leads a challenge, while leaders planned a possible late session to push confirmations amid partisan fights and accusations of dollar diplomacy.
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Senate
Pepper
D-Fla
Roosega
Congress
Long
Ation
Relph C. Grew
Archibald Mac- Nelson Rockefeller
W. L James C. Dunn
Brig
Julius Holmes
Roosevelt
Florida
Newsrse
MacLeish
Pep
Welt
Hill
D-Ala
Ge i
Ac- MM
Connally
D-Tex
Sida
CIO
Sena
D-Pa
Fea
America
Wheeler
D-Mont
United States
Russia
Balkans
The
Finland
Vandenberg
R- Ia
Brooks
R-Ii
Acas
D-11
Roosevelt Returns From Warm Springs Georgia Trip
President Franklin D. Roosevelt completed a three week stay at Warm Springs Georgia and returned to Washington aboard a special train via Camp LeJeune North Carolina. He inspected the Marine base, met with officials, signed over 75 bills, and planned a news conference while resuming his White House duties.
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Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Macy
Congress
Va White House
Georgia
Camp LeJeune
New River
Jacksonville
N. C
The
Maj
John Marston
Warmac
Cordell Hull
Associated Press
United Press and International News Service
Pine Mountain
Warm Springs Foundation
State Department
White House
Foundation
Wards grant pay boost sparks Detroit strike action
Montgomery Ward & Co. sets a 46 cent basic hourly wage in Detroit, retroactive to 1942 per wage board orders, while CIO unions press for full retroactivity and compliance. WLB says action falls short. potential seizure looms as Vinson reviews non compliance in seven cities amid an 11 day strike.
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Detroit
Montgomery Ward & Co
War Labor Board
R. W. Rosevear
Detroit Area
United Atail
CIO Oh
WLB
Washington
Montgomery Ward
William H. Davis
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward Company
Avery
White House
Fred M. Vinson
New Yank Bomb Uses 465 Pounds TNT Fragmentation Warhead
A new American fragmentation bomb is described as containing 265 pounds of TNT wrapped in wire to maximize deadly fragments per square inch. Disclosed by GL Philip Schwartz, armament auditor of the U S air service command.
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Philip Schwartz
Armamentait
U. S. Air Service Commandments
Allies Push Toward Akyab Southeast of Maungdaw
Allied forces advance along the coast toward Akyab as reported from the Southeast Command area. Vanguard units operate near Kandy and Ceylon, moving southeast from Maungdaw with gains noted in the push toward the strategic coastal town.
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ST Asia Command
Arters
Kandy
Ceymb
Maungdaw
Akyab
Ce&Mmmunique
Weather Update Promises Slight Warmth Shift
Local forecast indicates temperatures move toward parity with a warmer trend, with cloudy conditions tonight. Minimum temperatures are near 16 degrees as the high remains uncertain.
Allied Air and Land Offenses Rule Pacific Front Mindoro Mindoro and Leyte Invasion Progress
Mindoro reports show heavy air and sea operations with Adm. Nimitz citing 461 enemy aircraft destroyed or damaged in three days near Manila Bay and Luzon. MacArthur notes 28 ships sunk, 66 damaged, Leyte gains by the 77th Division, Mindoro airfields nearing completion, and fierce but controlled advance as U S forces press toward Ormoc and Mindoro corridors. Major Bong earns his 40th victory while Mindoro air superiority accelerates Manila reach.
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Nippon
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Manila Bay
Luzon
Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Mindoro
Richard I. Bong
Poplar
Wis
U. S
Leyte
Seventh Division
Valencia
Ormoc
MacArthur
Manila
Associated Press
Elmont Waite
Min- Goro
Draft to Be Hiked in Coming Month
Washington reports two new draft developments. The Army will raise selective service from 60,000 to 80,000 monthly in January and February 1945. All men under 30 rejected for the draft since February 1 last year will be re examined in 1945, except those with obvious physical defects.
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Washington
Army
W. C Refuses Greece Talk In Commons Debate
London notes Churchill to speak in a special Commons debate on Greece while he declines a full war review. He defends British troops in Belgium, cites American instructions, and references Eisenhower as a temporary news blackout is imposed. The Greek situation is said to have greatly improved with a potential censure vote looming.
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House of Commons
Greece
Churchill
Commons
Labor Party
Belgium
Eisenhower
Brussels
Parliament House
Sir Richard
Commonwealth Party
Greece regent recommendation sparks Greek crisis talk
Prime Minister Papandreou cables King George II urging Arch bishop Damaskinos of Athens as regent amid Greek political turmoil. In London, the exchange with Labourites and Communists over a potential regency and cessation of hostilities unfolds as Churchill defends British actions in Belgium and cites Eisenhower’s guidance to maintain tranquility.
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George Papandreou
George of
Greece
London
Archbishop Damaskinos of
Athens
London Radio Toon
Emanuel Shinwell
George II
William Gallacher
Churchill
Britain
Belgium
Brussels
Mons
24 000 Worked To Death Building Roads For Japanese
The British War Office said Japan forced at least 60 000 white prisoners to work on the Thailand Burma railway and roads in brutal conditions. About 25 000 died, with fewer than 1 000 being Dutch or Japanese. sick prisoners were carried on stretchers and torture and killings occurred. Sir James Grigg echoed these figures in the Commons.
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London
British War Office
Thailand- Burma
War Office
Joe
Anese
Commons
James Grigg
B 29s Raid Omura Plant Shanghai Nanking
B 29s from China based Superfortresses pounded the Omura aircraft plant on Kyushu and attacked docks and engineering works at Shanghai and Nanking. Weather hampered determining Omura outcome, but Shanghai and Nanking raids reported good to excellent results with clear conditions at targets.
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Washington
Omura
Kyushu
Shanghai
Nanking
China
War Department
Bombing runs hit Kyushu and Nagoya as B 29s strike Japan
The Associated Press reports B 29s based in China attacked Kyushu industrial targets including Omura and Nagoya yesterday. Mitsubishi Kobuki and Hatsudoki plants were heavily damaged with many direct hits. At least 22 ships and a Nagoya power plant were affected while the war department noted about 200 bombers returned from Nagoya and Hankow raids.
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Associated Press
Kyushu
Japan
Omura
War Department
Washington
China
Hankow
Haywood Hansell, Jr
Mitsubishi Company
Nagoya
Honshu Island
Hansel
Nagoya Bay Harbor
John van Trigt
Ottawa
Kokuki Factory
Mitsubishi
Hatsudoki Aircraft Plant
Imperial Communique
Comei
Jyushu
Honshu
Pockets at Lorient and St Nazaire Slow Allied Front
German held pockets at Lorient and St Nazaire on France west coast divert thousands of American troops from Belgium. The forces aim to clear quick jobs before joining the main Allied front, bottling up 50,000 Germans occupying the ports as Brest and St Lo have fallen.
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Paris
Lorient
St. Nazaire
France
Belgium
Brest
St. Lo
la Rochelle
Bordeaux
Nazis Draw Heavily On Gasoline Reserves
The German air force is dipping into its gasoline reserves at about 630000 gallons weekly during the current counteroffensive, and Allied officers warn the German war machine may strain its fuel supplies to sustain operations.
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21St Army Group
Belgians Stunned By Turn Of Events
London reports German forces drive back into Belgium as Belgian civilians hastily scrub derogatory Nazi slogans from walls. A correspondent describes a man washing away a caricature of Hitler in the pants, illustrating stunned reaction to the rapid shift.
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London
Belgium
Hitler
Allied and German Fronts Update From Western Front Today
U S Ninth Army captured Wurm and Mullendorf and cleared Beeck near Geilenkirchen while weathering heavy artillery and V bomb barrage. U S First Army halted a German counteroffensive denting lines and pushing wedge into Belgium as Roer pressure continues. U S Third Army moved east of Dillingen with gains near Saarlautern. Seventh Army seized two villages in Palatinate. French Front unchanged with action nearby Wissem bourg. 14th Armored north of Wissem bourg.
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Wurm
Mullendorf
Beeck
Gielenkirchen
3Rd Army
Dillingen
7Th Army
German Palatinate
Wissem
Nieder-Schlettenbach
Bundenthal
Germany
U. S
Duren
Roer
Ninth Army
Geilenkirchen
Wedge
Belgium
von Rundstedt
Roer River
Saarlautern
Palatinate
14Th Armored
Wissembourg
35Th
Saar Basin
Reich
Berg
Karlsruhe
Forts On New Type Mission
Three hundred Flying Fortresses carried nearly 1 000 tons of explosives on supply lines behind German counterattacks. British heavy bombers hit three rail and five road junctions from Trier to Gemund in daylight. Earlier, 300 RAF Lancasters attacked ships in Gdynia and struck Nurnberg and Munster.
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London
Trier
Gemund
Baltic
Gdynia
Danzig
Nurnberg
Munster
Estates Divided Among 53000 Peasants in Lublin Province
In Poland's Lublin province authorities report the division of the estates of 683 former landlords among 53 000 peasants on Tuesday.
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Moscow
Lublin
Poland
Von Rundstedt Reported Slightly Wounded Says Swedish Paper
The Stockholms-Tidningen stated on Tuesday that Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt was slightly wounded in a dispatch to OWI. It quoted the paper noting his dissatisfaction with the German west offensive due to large reserves being lost from the start.
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Berlin
Hitler
Bern
Aachen
Stavelot
Liege
Malmedy
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Stockholms-Tidningen
Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
OWI
von Rundstedt
Draft Groups Leave Today for Milwaukee Inductions
Draft boards Nos. 1 and 2 sent pre induction and induction draftees to Milwaukee on Tuesday. Draftees will be housed and fed at the Hotel Medford in Milwaukee Wednesday. Board No. 1 leaders were LaVern J. Bergenson and Edwin C. Bergrud guiding induction and pre induction groups, while Board No. 2 was led by William P. Schultz and Walter E. Ruud for pre induction and immediate induction groups.
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la Crosse
Selective’ Service Boards
Milwaukee
Hotel Medford
LaVern J. Bergenson
North 22Nd Street
Edwin C. Bergrud
North Ninth Street
William P. Schultz
No. 2
Walter E. Ruud
Liberty Street
Demand Still Exceeds Nation's Diaper Supply
Washington officials report 1944 diaper cloth production at 34 yards per infant up from 24 yards in 1939. Population growth for under twos adds about 40 percent more material per child, but the War Production Board notes demand still outpaces supply.
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Washington
War Production Board
8th Army Front Engaged in Heavy Fighting Near Imola and Faenza
Allied reports say heavy combat continued on the 8th army front around Bagnacavallo about 10 miles into the Po valley above Faenza. Polish troops pressed toward the Senio River about five and a half miles from Imola as patrols stayed active on the U S third army front.
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Rome
8Th Army
Bagnacavallo
Rimini-Bologna
Faenza
Senio
Imola
McNutt Heads for Western Battle Front Inspection
War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt will depart soon for Europe to make a first hand study of the western battle front, it was learned this day.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Europe
Western Battle Front
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