Allied Drive Above Aachen Halts German Push In Belgium
Allied forces resume the winter offensive with the British Second Army striking above Aachen along the Maas Meuse corridor while American units seize Houffalize and push toward St. Vith. Patton’s Third Army advances in the Moselle valley clearing German pockets. Houffalize falls as Meuse reach in zone narrows. German losses exceed two to one in manpower as Eisenhower’s front lines tighten near the Ruhr and Saar.
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Paris
Hisenhower
Second Army
Maas
Meuse
Sittard
Houffalize
Aachen
Fieldarshal von Rundstedt
Belgium
Eisenhower
Rhur
Sear
R.A.F
Maestricht
Maeseyck
Rhineland
Dusseldorf
Belgian Ardennes
Bulge
George S. Patton
U. SS. Third Army
Siegfried Line
Moselle
Luxembourg
Bort
Tettlingen
Honuffalize
Hell On Wheels
Second Armored
Holland
Germany
Gellenkirchen
Roarmond
Roer
Courtney H. Hodgey
Cherain
St. Vith
Salm
von Rundstedt
Hitler
Great Britain
Ernest M. Marmon
Houtfalize
Bastogne
Strasbourg
Rhine
Fuehrer
Fall of Schlossberg drives alarm in East Prussia
Russian forces spearhead a major advance into East Prussia 13 miles inside German territory as Stalin announces a broad winter offensive. Soviet columns push from Vistula bridgeheads, capturing Warka and nearby towns while threatening Warsaw and Kielce in the widening front along 600 miles.
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East Prussia
London
Warsaw
Nouthern
Poland
German Silesia
Krakow
Stalin
Schlossberg
Vistula River
Warka
Pulawy
Grojec
Jedlinska
Radom
Gregory Khukov
Kielce
War Food Administration Sets 1945 Farm Goals Across Nation
Washington reports War Food Administrator Marvin Jones unveiling final 1945 production goals. State targets expand over 1944, including crops, cattle slaughter, spring pigs, pork, and dairy output. Price-extension for hogs runs to March 1946 amid war needs and new acreage aims for wheat corn potatoes and beans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marvin Jones
WFA
Jones
W.F.A
WEA
Farm Accounts Clinic Set by County Agent
Farmers and others are invited to a farm accounts clinic on Thursday afternoon January 18 at 1 30 in the Community building classrooms second floor. Speaker Paul Griffith Kansas State college farm management department will discuss setting up farm budgets and keeping 1945 accounts with emphasis on filing final 1944 farm income tax returns due March 15.
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Deal Six
Paul Griffith
Manhattan
Kansas State College Farm Management Department
Youth in Crisis film discussed at Junior High PTA meeting
Parents gathered to view the March of Time documentary Youth in Crisis which won an Academy Award. William Sommerville led a postfilm discussion on local problems and solutions while Rev. Harold Barr and Miss Jeanne Scott opened with group singing. Officers and a nominating committee were chosen. A health meeting in Kansas City January 24 was announced with a PTA delegation to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Sommerville
Harold Barr
Jeanne Scott
H. B. Latimer
S. W. Gilchrist
Clarente Stewart
Nettie Wismer
Sam Ferguson
Kansas City
P.T.A
Injured Opening a Jar at Home on Rhode Island Street
F L Brown of 1130 Rhode Island street sustained a badly cut left hand when a jar of canned peaches broke during removal of the lid about 7 PM. Emergency hospital treatment required sewing a severed thumb tendon. Brown is a bulk agent for the National Marketing company and will be out of work for several weeks, though a driver accompanied him today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island Street
F. L. Brown
Advance of Yanks South Unimpeded
The press dispatch describes Sixth Army motorized columns advancing toward Manila from Lingayen Gulf across Pangasinan and Tarlac, reaching Camiling and Urdaneta while facing Japanese hill positions near Rosario and Damortis. Air and naval bombardments disrupt enemy moves as MacArthur’s forces push along the Manila north road toward Baguio, with several Japanese planes shot down.
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MacArthur
Luzon
Sixth Army
Manila
Manila North Road
Tokyo Radio
Philippines
Kuniaki Koiso
Imperial Headquarters
Pee
Douglas MacArthur
Pangasinan
Lingayen Gulf
Tarlac Province
Camiling
Paniqui
Manila North
Baguio
Tomoyuki
Yamashite
Urdaneta
Lingayen Town
Damortis
Rosario
San Fabian
Enem
San Fernando
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Tarlac
Fred Hampson
Associated Press
Mangatarem
Bayambang
Far Eastern Air Force
Central Plains
Clark Field
Batangas
Cloged
Uilinya
Lugon
Kansas cash farm income up in first ten months of 1944
Topeka report shows cash income from live stock products reaching 601,986,000 for the first ten months of 1944, up nearly 30,000,000 from 1943. Crop income totaled 236,090,000, while livestock and products stood at 365,000,000, with 1944 prospects buoyed by sorghum and wheat sales.
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Topeka
Wropa
Kansas
H. L. Collins
Collins
Navy League forms Lawrence Council to aid U S Navy
A Lawrence council of the Navy League of the United States has been organized and will receive a charter from the national group. Seventeen charter members, led by Hovey Hanna, will join the national effort to secure civilian cooperation with the Navy. Admiral Carpenter will present the charter at a Topeka dinner on January 30. a Lawrence dinner will follow. Charter members include Deane Malott and George Docking among others with national officers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Lawrence
Navy League of the United States
Hovey Hanna
Harry Darby
Kansas City
Kan
Darby
Kansas City Shipbuilding Company
Navy
Naval R.O.T.C
Lawrence
Topeka
Carpender
Ninth Naval District
Hanna
Roger Allen
A. B. Weaver
Irvine Hill
Dolph Simons
Mike Getto
H. B. Ober
S. E. Schwahn
Sheldon Clark
Chicago
New Jersey
Charles Edison
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Eric Johnson
E. M. Catlins
Weather Map Shows Mixed Conditions Across Regions
Nationwide weather map reports a mix of mild and freezing conditions. Below zero cold belt spans New England and Rochester Minnesota La Crosse Wisconsin. Snow sleet fall along the eastern seaboard and mid Atlantic while rain prevails from Washington southward.
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Associated Press
New England
Wisconsin-Minnesota
la Crosse
Wis
Seaboard
Mid- Atlantic
Washington
Midwest
Wisconsin- Minnesota
Rochester
Minn
LaCrosse
Caribou
South
Mountain
Pacific Coast
Roosevelt pledges aid to Greece in postwar rehabilitation
Washington reports President Roosevelt pledged American aid to Greece in collaboration with allies in a message to Prime Minister Nicolas Plastiras. The note promised end to hostilities without reprisals and outlined steps toward free democratic processes to resolve civil strife.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Greece
State Department
Nicolas Plastiras
Plastiras
Stock Market Index Holds at 59.3 After Day
The index lasts at 59.3, matching yesterday’s level as trading closes with no change. Market activity remains steady with little fluctuation observed across the 60-stock sample.
Churchill Stands By Greek Policy and Unconditional Surrender
Prime Minister Churchill defends Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter as still valid and vows the war will be prolonged until unconditional surrender is achieved. He praises Lt Gen Scobie’s Greek operations, faces Labour questioning, announces a full war statement for Thursday, and reports Greek casualties to January 1.
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London
Churchill
Roosevelt
House.of Commons
Hitler
Ronald N.scobie
Greece
William Gallacher
Scobie
Nicholas Plastiras
ELAS
Tham
Pres
Emis
British Empire
India
Rhys Davis
Germany
Fire kills fourteen at General Clark hotel in Chicago
A spectacular blaze at the seven story General Clark hotel on North Clark Street in Chicago killed at least fourteen people and injured five others. Firemen hunted for bodies among the ruins as smoke billowed over the Loop, with hundreds gathering as 33 pieces of equipment fought the blaze until after 3 AM.
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Chicago
UPA
General Clark
North Clark Street
Loop
Maddie
Sad
Inaugural Invitations Sent for Roosevelt Ceremony
Washington January 16 invitations have gone out for President Roosevelts inauguration set for Saturday noon. About 5000 official guests expected. ceremony will last under 20 minutes and be broadcast nationally and abroad. It includes Hail to the Chief on the south portico, and oaths by Vice President Truman and Chief Justice Stone.
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Washington
White’ House
Roosevelt
Sie House
Sie
White House
Angus Dun
Episcopal
Truman
Missouri
Seomh
Walace
Harlan F. Stone
John A. Ryan
Social Action Department
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Chamber of Commerce Drives for New Members
A one day drive by two teams of eighteen businessmen met at Hotel Eldridge to recruit members. Captain Ship Winter and Mike Getto led the effort with J G Quigley and Roger Allen organizing. Teams competed for a dinner prize. many prospects to sign up.
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Ship Winter
Mike Getto
Chamber of Commerce
Eldridge
J. G. Quigley
Roger Allen
George Hedrick
Altho
Repos
Quigley
Chamber of Commerce 8
Twin Killed in Action in Holland
Lt Frederick G. Humphrey, University of Kansas alumnus and member of KUKU, Scabbard and Blade, and Phi Kappa Psi, was killed in night action in Holland September 21 while leading his 508th parachute infantry platoon. He received the Purple Heart posthumously. His twin, William F. Humphrey, wounded on a 1944 Germany mission, is hospitalized at Battle Creek with multiple injuries and has earned the Purple Heart and Silver Star.
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Frederick G. Humphrey
University of Kansas
Holland
William F. Humphrey
Kansas City
508Th Parachute Infantry
82Nd
Humphrey
Kuku Club
Scabbard and Blade
Phi Kappi Psi
Ft. Benning
Percy Jones General
Battle Creek
Mich
Germany
Meddy
Go Red to Death by Bull in Kansas Dairy Farm
John Wesley Urton, 48, died after being gored by a 2,000 pound bull at the I. F. Tyson dairy farm where he worked in Clathe Kansas. He was a World War I veteran living at the Wadsworth veterans facility and is survived by a brother Shelly Urton of Lawrence and two sisters.
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Clathe
Kan
John Wesley Urton
I. F. Tyson
Wadsworth
Lawrence city schools plan second semester start week
Classes for the second semester begin Monday in Lawrence, as students finish first semester finals this week. Senior high will dismiss Friday for Easter vacation after exams, with classes resuming Tuesday, April 3. Graduation events and board meetings are noted, along with basketball games for the senior and junior highs.
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Lawrence City
University of Kansas
Board of Education
Peco
Lions
Shawnee Mission
Kansas City
Manhattan
Lawrence
Junior High Assembly
Northwest Junior High
Karsan City
Gymnagium
Light rain or snow forecast across Kansas today
Topeka reports light rain or snow expected in northeastern and north central Kansas with clear skies in western and southern parts. Snow was falling lightly in Concordia Kansas City and St. Joseph with traces only. Temperatures vary. Dodge City reported 43 yesterday as warmest, Coffeyville 23 lows last night.
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Topeka
Kansas
Concordia
Kansas City
St. Joseph
S. D. Flora
Dodge City
Coffeyville
Four Red Cross men land on Luzon to aid Lingayen push
Washington reports four Red Cross field men landed with U S troops on Luzon to serve coffee and snacks as operations expand the Lingayen gulf beachhead. They are Charles Blackwell of Memphis Tennessee Marshall Warner of Atchison Kansas Ray Thrasher of Birmingham Alabama and Robert Dixon of Waverly Pennsylvania. Judge Helvering improves at St Luke's hospital in Kansas City after December 14 admission with arthritis his condition described as improved today.
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Washington
Red Cross
Luzon
Cane
Lingayen Gulf
Charles Blackwell
Memphis
Helvering
Kansas City
Guy T. Helvering
Federal District Court For
Kansas
St. Luke’s Hospital
Weather District Forecast Jan 16 18 for Four States
Forecast covers Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska with moderate to heavy precipitation in Nebraska Kansas and Missouri. Lighter precipitation in Oklahoma turning to snow in north areas and rain in south. Colder mid period with below normal readings in north and above normal in south. Kansas sees rain or snow north and rain south tonight.
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Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Kansa
Portland
Peisbali
Porte Lon
Gag
Foley
Ran Ui
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Bulce
Supreme Headquarters
Mandalay Kandy
Ceylon
William J. Slim
14Th Army
Burma
Mandalay
Shwebe
Southeast Asia
Andrew Schoeppel
Stormont ‘Hospital
Cordeil’s Drug Store
Ottawa
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Baldwin Junction
U. S. Highway 59
Commuter Transportation Company of
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Ottawa Hospital
Roy Tayior
William Morrow
Earl Price
C. S. Ellis
Daniel Showalter
William Moore
Guy Potts
Fred Coon
State Highway, Patrol
The
Navy League
K. U
F.D.R
Atlantic Charter
Finks Mortuary
Frederick Humphrey
John “Wesley Urton
Shelly Urton
Melvin’ Hill
New York Street
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