Nimitz Sees 1945 Hard for Japan and Seeks Soviet Help
Fleet Admiral Nimitz said Russia could join the Pacific war and that Japan must be invaded to end the war. He warned of a harsh 1945 for Japan as Allied plans push toward the China coast and homeland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrie Landsberg
Associated Press
Pacific Fleet
Honolulu
Chester W. Nimitz
Apan
Japan
China
Ene
Nimitz
Guam
Saipan
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Mindoro
Occu
Aerial Offensive Fails To Check Allied Momentum
German Air Force losses reach 241 planes as Allied air power holds. Luftwaffe aims to cripple Franco Belgian Dutch fields but fails to halt the surge of over 6,000 Allied aircraft on New Year’s Day, with Eighth Air Force, Ninth Air Force, RAF, and First Tactical Air Force all contributing to heavy German attrition.
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John A. Parris
Associated Press
Ondon
France
Belgium
Holland
Continent
Eighth Air Force
Eighth Air
Army consolidates defense commands into two regional authorities
The War department announces the Southern Defense command is absorbed by the Eastern command effective today. Lt General George Grunert will head the merged command with HQ in New York City. Pratt transfers to Western command. McQuillan acts as Pratt's successor. Absorbed states include Alabama through Florida west of the Apalachicola river. The Eastern command covers all states except eight in the West.
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Washington
Army
Southern Defense Command
Eastern Command
War Department
Department
George Grunert
Eastern Defense Command
New York City
Pratt
Western
Southern Command
Henry C. Pratt
Western Defense Command
Raymond H. McQuillan
United States
Central Command
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Florida
Apalachicola River
Mrs Katie Record Dies in Dallas Sanatorium
Mrs Katie Cross Record 84 of Fort Worth died in a Dallas sanatorium at 10 30 p m She was a Kentucky native who had lived in Fort Worth since 1919 Survivors include a daughter Mrs J M North Jr three sons James R Record Phil C Record and Tom Record all of Fort Worth and three grandchildren Maj Phil North with General MacArthur headquarters in the Pacific Phillip and Tony Record of Fort Worth
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Fort Worth
Katie Cross Record
Dallas
Kentucky
J. M. North
James R. Record
Phil C. Record
Tom Record
Maj
Phil North
Negro singer Clarence Tisdale dies in New York
Clarence Tisdale a 65 year old black ballad singer died in New York today. Over more than thirty years he sang in Australia London Paris and New York.
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New York
Clarence Tisdale
Australia
London
Paris
Cattlemen Warn Against Ceilings On Beef Prices
Cattlemen and area senators warn price ceilings would cut beef production and fuel a beef black market if enacted. After a four hour session with Vinson the group opposed flat ceilings like 17 dollars and 50 cents per cwt saying they discourage feeding and reduce beef tonnage. Senator Wherry notes a page 11 continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vinson
Office of Price Administration
New York Area
War Food Administration
Paul Thompson
Clinton
Ind
OPA
Thompson
Wherry
R-Neb
Koiso pledges victory in 1945 to occupied Asia
Japanese Premier Koiso declared in a broadcast that Japan would drive foes from Greater East Asia in 1945. He noted intensifying battles in the Philippines and warned that each enemy ship sunk increases enemy desperation and recklessness in their invasion efforts.
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Kuniaki Koiso
Occupied
Asia
Japan
Greater East Asia
Philippines
Tokyo Domei Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Koiso
Taft Visits Son in Dallas While Son Serves at Camp Bowie
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio spent Saturday and Sunday in Dallas with his son Sergeant Horace D. Taft who is stationed at Camp Bowie in Brownwood. The visit highlighted a wartime family connection as Taft met with relatives and toured the area. The Taft party traveled by train and car, stopping at local facilities and speaking with civic leaders during their stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Dallas
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Sgt
Horace D. Taft
Camp Bowie
Brownwood
Chiefs Warn That Tokyo Road To Be Rough And Long
American commanders at Pearl Harbor warned the road to Tokyo would be rough and long after a year of victories in 1944. Gen. MacArthur reported deep strikes into the Philippines blasting shipping near Lingayen Gulf and Mindoro, with several ships sunk or likely sunk. Iwo Jima and other Pacific raids continued as the fleet reviewed wartime gains and warned of forthcoming decisive battles.
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Ray Cronin
Associated Press
Idespread
Philippines
Central Pacific
Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Lingayen Gulf
Manila
Luzon
Batangas
Mindoro Island
Mindoro
Leyte
Iwo Jima
Saipan
Iwo
Palaus
Western
Carolines
Marianas
Marshals
Pacific Fleet Review
Fleet Headquarters
Plane crash in Long Beach kills pilot and baby
Ronald F. Bollinger 34 chief test pilot and operations manager for Douglas Aircraft Long Beach plant died when an attack bomber he was testing crashed into a north Long Beach home. A seven month old baby Mary Gai Warner burned to death and her parents Harold and Mary Warner and brother Jerry aged three were burned with the house and plane destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Calif
Ronald F. Bollinger
Douglas Aircraft
North Long Beach
Mary Gai! Warner
Harold S. Warner
Jerry
Warners
Byrnes Seeks Plan to Put 4-Fs Into Wartime Service
War Mobilization Director James Byrnes proposed forcing millions of 4-Fs into military or war-support roles if current manpower measures fall short. He urged stronger War Labor Board laws and manpower edicts, predicted higher draft calls, and argued reorganization of reconversion priorities to avoid shortages for front-line supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Associated Press
Washington
James F. Byrnes
War Labor Board
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Congress
As Mobilization Fieconver
Reds Unleash Fury on Nazis in Budapest Battle
Soviet forces press the siege of Budapest with fierce urban combat. Moscow reports heavy losses for German Hungarian defenders, 24 tanks knocked out, 429 prisoners taken, and more than 7,300 killed in three days as Buda tightens under Red Army pressure. The fall of Buda looms as troops prepare to pivot toward Pest.
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Joe
Seventh Army
W. W. Hercher
Associated Press
London
Budapest
Red Army
Moscow
Buda
Danube
Pest
Rakos
Losonc
Lucenec
Feodor Tolbuchkin
Two Nazi Agents From U Boat Held
FBI chief J Edgar Hoover announced the arrest of two men described as German agents landed from a U-boat near Hancock Point Maine on Nov 29. William Curtis Colepaugh and Erich Gimpel were taken in New York City with a loaded revolver, shortwave radio, fraud documents, and $56524 in US currency.
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New York
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Germain
Maine
Hoover
Hancock Point
Frenchman's Bay
New York City
Boston
William Curtis Colepaugh
Niantic
Conn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erich Gimpel
Merseberg
Germany
FBI
United States Navy
Connecticut
Washington
America
OWI Sets Out Major Tasks For Civilians
The Office of War Information urges citizens in the 160th war week to destroy invalidated food stamps to obey rationing rules. It calls for 5,800 jobs in cotton duck production, 100,000 books for the Merchant Marine Library, and 50,000 workers to curb inflation. Volunteers may join as price panel assistants, and all should stay at their posts to keep supplies flowing to troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Office of War Information
American Merchant Marine _Library
Duce Urges Italians to Work for Victory
Benito Mussolini appealed to Italians not to shirk labor in the new year. A Berlin broadcast quoted the Duce urging citizens to lend increasingly effective aid to Germany’s war effort and to perform manual work as a duty, even if arms are not yet needed.
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London
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Berlin
Germany
Earnings rise 75 percent for factory workers since 1941
Washington reports weekly manufacturing earnings up 75 percent since January 1941. War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes stated the gain today.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Ranking Active Ace in China Is Killed
Lt Col William Norman Reed 27 of Marion Iowa the ranking active ace of the 14th Air Force was killed on a mission in China last night. He shared honors with Capt avid L Hill who has 181 4 victories while Reed had 161 2 and both earned bonuses in the American Volunteer group. Reed’s score will rise posthumously as additional victories remained to be credited.
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14Th Air Force
China
William Norman Reed
Marion
Iowa
Reed
Avid L
Tex) Hill
Hill
United States
Plane Crash Fatal For Texas Airman
Fort Sumner New Mexico January 1 Flight Officer Adolphus Doring of San Antonio Texas was killed when his plane crashed three miles east of Fort Sumner Army Airfield during a training flight. He was the son of George Samuel Doring of Corpus Christi and his widow Mrs Billy Hazel Doring resides in San Antonio.
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Fort Sumner
N. M
Adolphus Doring
San Antonio
Tex
Fort Sumner Army Airfield
Doring
George Samuel Doring
Ellis Drive
Corpus Christi
Billy Hazel Doring
Ripley
Girl, 12, Gives Birth in Fort Wayne Hospital
A 12 year old negro girl gave birth to a daughter weighing five pounds nine ounces at St. Joseph's hospital in Fort Wayne Indiana. The event occurred January 1 and is reported by local authorities. The case raises questions about the girl's health and social services involvement.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
St. Joseph's Hospital
Nearly 12 Million Men in U.S. Armed Forces
War Mobilization Director Byrnes reported to a Senate committee that the U S armed forces totaled about 11 9 million as of Nov 1 with 8 1 million in the Army and the rest in Navy Marines and Coast Guards The figure is a net estimate after deducting 1 5 million discharged or killed and shows a jump from 700 000 in 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Byrnes
Wisconsin appoints 30th governor Walter S. Goodland
Madison January 1 Governor Walter S Goodland was sworn in as Wisconsin s 30th chief executive and oldest elected governor at 82. He began his first term in office today joining a list of longtime public servants and setting a record for age at inauguration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Walter S. Goodland
Wisconsin
90th Gives Up Bridgehead to Halt Nazi Plunge On Saar
With the 90th division on the Saar near Dillingen, 16 days of fighting ended as troops pulled back to the west bank after blasting 260 Siegfried pillboxes and destroying Dillingen facilities. They killed hundreds, captured 1,200 Germans, and endured severe cold and shortages. A two hour truce allowed enemy casualties to be removed from a tiny area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
90Th
Edward D. Ball
Associated Press
TEIAS
Marshal von Rundstedt
George S. Patton, Jr
Saar
James A. van Fleet
Siegfried
Dillingen
Dullingen
Eerie German Foo-Fighter Stalks Yanks Over Nazis
U S night fighter bases report mysterious foo fighters over the Reich. Ball like lights race with Beaufighters during intruder missions and appear radio controlled from the ground. Pilots describe three types a red ball a vertical trio and a 15 light cluster like a Christmas tree. They view the phenomenon as a potential psychological weapon rather than a direct threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Wilson
Associated Press
U.S
France
Germany
Reich
Donald Meiers
Chicago
Injuries Fatal To Wichita Falls Man
Albert H. McClellan a Wichita Falls plumber died in a Texarkana hospital after an auto truck collision 13 miles west of Texarkana He and passenger John W Krohn Fort Worth were injured in the head nose and limbs Krohn had a deep forehead cut and lacerations McClellan survived by a widow Mary McClellan a brother W W McClellan and a sister Mrs Ralph Caldwell
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Mary McClellar
Wichita Falls
W. W. McClellan
Corpus Christi
Ralph Caldwell
Dallas
Houston Man John A. Shudde Dies at 52
John A. Shudde 52 a partner with his four brothers in the Shudde Eyders clothing store died in Houston today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
John A. Shudde
Shudde Eyders
Weather Summary Western Texas And New Mexico Forecast
Fair and not very cold in West Texas with lighter winds. Tuesday and Wednesday mostly fair, colder in the Panhandle and South Plains. New Mexico partly cloudy with snow flurries in northern mountains and unusual warmth in the far northeast. Readings show variable temperatures through the period with modest highs and cooler mornings across the region.
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West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
H. A. Ap
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U. S. Seventh Army
Katie Record
KFYO
Avelanche-Journal Station
Sion
Brynes
International Typographical Union
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OWI
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