Jones acquiesces and resigns as Commerce Secretary
President Roosevelt accepts Jesse Jones’s resignation from the Commerce post to be replaced by Henry A. Wallace. The move sparks early cross‑aisle debate in Congress as supporters urge retaining Jones and opponents label the swap a political payoff. Senator Murray praises Wallace as able while Truman foresees Wallace’s aim to boost efficiency in the department.
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Washington
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Jesse Jones
Commerce
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Connally
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Bailey
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Wallace
Roosevelt
O’daniel
D-Tex
Sidney Hillman
Jones-Roosevelt
Gress
South America
Asia
Murray
D-Mont
Truman
Henry Wallace
CIO Political Action Committee
Commerce Department
Morning blackout sparks firemen rush to clubroom
A muffled sky rocket sound preceded a lights outage. Chief Jerome H. Schwaiger and Deskman Herbert J. Bolliger hurried to the firemen's clubroom in the rear as darkness settled over the scene.
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Jerome H. Schwaiger
Herbert J. Bolliger
Yank Armor Rolls Halfway to Manila
Mr and Mrs Frank Boeck of 807 21st street received a government telegram on Saturday stating their son Pvt Bert F Boeck has been seriously wounded in action on December 19 in Belgium A letter dated the same day says he is getting along fine using crutches and in a hospital under good care He mentions having to change a bandage on his foot and includes a Christmas menu from the station hospital
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Frank Boeck
21St Street
Pvt
Bert F. Boeck
Belgium
Boeck
Sixth Army Near Clark Field After Luzon Advances
U S Sixth Army drives through Tarlac to within 22 miles of Clark Field on Luzon as allies press toward Manila. American armored columns seized more airfields and captured islands in the Philippines. Third Fleet strikes Formosa while Superforts photograph Osaka plants.
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Luzon Island
Philippines
Sixth Army
Clark Field
Associated Press
Tarlac
Manila
U. S. Sixth Army
Burma
Rangoon
Singapore
Third Fleet
Formosa
Tokyo
Honolulu
U. S
China Coast
Wake Island
Kuriles
Bonins
Osaka
Japan
Kawasaki
Tarlac Tarlac
Fred Mpson
Luzon
Nazis Falling Back To Siegfried Line and Ardennes Salient
Allied air forces destroyed about 3000 German vehicles in a daylong strike on the Ardennes withdrawal toward the Siegfried Line. German forces retreated toward the Rhine while Allied armies pressed on the western front near Wiltz, Dusseldorf, and the Roer river as snow slowed operations.
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Siegfried Line
Salient
Paris
Ardennes Salient
Rhine
Associated Press
U. S. Third Army
Luxembourg Road
Wiltz
St. Vith
U. S. First Army
St. With
Eisenhower
Belgium
Luxembourg
Dusseldorf
Roer River
Germany
Strasbourg
Monroe Tax Receipts Surge Ahead of 1944
Monroe city tax totals show $100,725 collected in three weeks ending Saturday, far above the $91,876 for the same period in 1944. City Treasurer Charles B. Bolender reported 1,244 receipts issued with $74,822 still to be collected as of Saturday afternoon.
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Monroe
Charles B. Bolender
Bolender
Blanchardville Dad Told Son Is Missing
Pfc Harold Knudson of Perry township is missing in action in Belgium since Jan 1. A war department telegram informed Harold Knudson's father Albert of the loss. Knudson enlisted in Aug 1942, trained at Fort Bragg and Fort Meade, last visited home in September 1944 before overseas service. His mother is deceased.
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Blanchardville
Times Special Service
Harold Knudson
Perry Township
Belgium
Albert Knudson
War Department
Knudson
Fort Bragg
N. C
Fort Meade
Anti-Closed Shop Amendment Clears House Committee
The House Military Committee added an anti closed shop clause to manpower legislation and refused to designate agriculture as critical. The 14 to 10 vote in a closed session barred draft board workers from being forced into unions. Debate centered on potential violations of existing closed shop contracts.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Andrews
Stewart
D-Okla
Selective Service
Tydings
Five Great Armies Drive Across 800 Mile Front
Russian troops push west and south in a broad offensive from the Baltic toward Germany. Stalin reports Cherniakhovsky's Third White Russian army capturing Insterburg and Allenstein while Rokossovsky advances toward Deutsch Eylau. Zhukov threatens from the Warsaw-Berlin axis as German defenses, including Breslau, brace for a prolonged clash.
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Poland
Germany
Warsaw
Krakow
Carpathian Mountains
London
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Insterburg
Stalin
Junkers
Konigsberg
Moscow
Cherniakhovsky
Kurisches Haff
Berlin
Reich
Marshall Stalin
Baltic
Budapest
Silesia
Breslau
Adolf Hitler
Tannenberg
East Prussian
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Deutsch Eylau-Allenstein
Deutsch Eylau
Red Advance Triggers Panic In Berlin As Russian Drive Surges
Berlin broadcasts reveal anxiety as Soviet forces push through Silesia and threaten the capital. Reports say refugees flood Danzig Poznan Warthegan corridors while the volkssturm is mobilized and women are called to rapid military training. The front line’s rapid shift fuels confusion and fear across eastern Germany.
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Associated Press
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Reich
Silesia
Berlin
Poznan
Poland
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
East Prussia
Germany
Danzig
Warthegan
Volkssturm
Nazi Do or Die Stand On Banks of the Oder River
City police chief J H Schwaiger submits a 1944 year report showing 135 arrests with about half linked to intoxicants. Key counts include 38 drunkenness, 9 disorderly conduct, 11 minors in taverns, 11 minors driving, 1 dangerous weapon, and 4 firecrackers violations. The note cites broader Nazi eastern front concerns and a potential spring action east of the Oder.
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Oder River
J. H. Schwaiger
London
Eastern
Reich
Poland
Silesia
East Prussia
Oder
Hitler
Moscow
Red Army
Holcombs' Grandson Missing in Action in Germany
Sgt. Donald Head 21 grandson of Mr and Mrs Reuben Holcomb Monroe is missing in action in Germany since December 21 government information relayed by his parents Mr and Mrs D H Head Dubuque Head a Dubuque high school graduate and former University of Dubuque student has served since March 1943 and went overseas last fall with the 106th Infantry Division after being in England Belgium and Germanyခ
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Donald Head
Reuben Holcomb
Monroe
Germany
D. H. Head
Dubuque
Head
Trella Holcomb
Set. Head
Dubuque High School
University of Dubuque
106Th Infantry
England
Belgium
Road distances to fronts listed for Berlin campaign
The notice presents three distances from key reference points to major fronts: 195 miles to the Eastern front west of Sampoino, 310 miles to the Western front in the Linnich Juli sch Duren region, and 544 miles to the Italian front from the Reno river.
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The
Associated Press
Sampoino
Linnich-Julich-Duren
Reno River
Babler Promoted to Captain in Eighth Air Force
Leon H. Babler a former Monticello man and navigator on a Flying Fortress in England has been promoted to captain. He has completed his tour and is expected to return to the United States on leave. His mother Mrs Florence Babler resides in Madison.
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Leon H. Babler
Monticello
England
Babler
Eighth Air Force
States
Florence Babler
Madison
University to Open Job Placement Bureau
The University of Illinois will open a personnel placement bureau with offices in Chicago and on the Urbana campus. Officials say the bureau will seek employment for returning war veteran graduates or students and later for undergraduates or graduates in postwar fields.
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Urbana
University of Illinois
Chicago
University
Winslow Paratrooper Wounded in Belgium Action
Mrs. Elsie Mani of Winslow received a War Department telegram stating her son Pvt. Wallace Mani, a paratrooper, was slightly wounded in action on December 29 in Belgium. A hospital letter with more details was to follow.
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Winslow
Elsie Mani
War Department
Pvt
Wallace Mani
Belgium
Mani
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