War News From Two Fronts Drives Allied Tone Upward
War wrap reports German forces pressed into Belgium under a winter siege while Soviet and Allied offensives pressure Germany on the Western Front. In the Pacific MacArthur strikes Lingayen Gulf, landing near Luzon as American troops push toward Manila under air and naval support, signaling widening Allied momentum.
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Belgium
Japan
Germany
Geran
Belgian
Euope
Stalin
Polad
Prusian
Bellum
Italy
Pacific
Macrthur
Uizon
Lingayen Gulf
Withi
Lingayen
Manila
Orth
Manila Bay
Americans Push Inland At Two Points On Luzon
Americans advance about 20 miles inland at two locations on Luzon Island as U S forces press inland in the Pacific theater. The dispatch contrasts youth and terrain as decisive factors, noting difficult mountain fighting, scarce open space, and bazooka teams outperforming heavy armor in close ranges.
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Luzon Island
Big Three Meet Likely After War Debate Shift
London sources say a full-dress debate on the general war situation will start a week earlier than planned. Churchill will open next Thursday with a Commons report on the war and Greek crisis, and the debate runs to Friday. With Roosevelt's inauguration on January 20, a Big Three meeting before then seems unlikely, though a late January or early February rendezvous among Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin is anticipated. Britain awaits cabinet and Commons returns from holiday.
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London
Goverment
Churchill
Commons
Roosevelt
Marshal Stalin
Russia
Britain
Waterproof man held in slaying
Webber Atwood of Waterproof, 22, is jailed on suspicion of fatally shooting William Tims, 44, a Tensas parish drag line operator, with coroner attributing the wound to a pistol fired by Atwood. Tims was killed shortly after arriving in Waterproof following a ride from Tallulah. Atwood to face district grand jury in April.
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ST. Joseph
Webber Atwood
William Tims
Tensas Parish
M. D. Harper
D. S. Reardon
Atwood
Joseph Whitaker
Parish
Tims
Elliott Coleman
Waterproof
Tallulah
Congress changes income tax rules for married filers
Washington report notes that in 1944 Congress eliminated the joint $1,260 exemption for couples with two income earners and set individual $500 exemptions. Many taxpayers who filed early in the year found themselves in higher surtax brackets and owing more tax than expected as they adjusted to filing separately. The shift disrupted April estimates and left some couples facing surprises.
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Washington
Congress
Louisiana inmates ordered to face new trial in Angola prison killings
The Louisiana state supreme court ruled Walter Henderson and Charles Frazier must stand trial again Monday for the 12 year old killings of three prison workers at Angola penal farm. Both had previous mistrials in the murder cases of Capt. John Singleton and guards J. W. Fletcher and Arnold Davis. Henderson and Frazier face renewed murder charges. Henderson has served an eight to ld year term from a Shreveport bank robbery, while Frazier has accumulated 199 years in sentences.
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New Orleans
Louisiana State Supreme Court
Walter Henderson
Charles Frazier
Prison Farm
Angola Penal Farm
Henderson
Frazier
John E. Singleton
J. W. Fletcher
Arnold Davis
Singleton
Fletcher
Supreme Court
Shreveport
Germans Continue Ardennes Retreat Near St Vith
Paris January 14. German armies retreating in the Ardennes were pursued by the U S First Army which made up to two mile gains toward St Vith from south of Malmedy and Stavelot. Tanks and heavy artillery supported by Allied air power pressed the retreating forces as they sought the last escape route from Houffalize.
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Austin Bealmear
Paris
Karl von Rundstedt
Ardennes
U.S
First Army
Reich
Malmedy
Stavelot
St. Vith
German Radio Uses Evasive Language in Belgian Salient
London Jan 13 Berlin radio spoke evasively as German armies fell back in the Belgian salient. Transocean said German troops foiled Allied attempts to pierce the salient and that elastic disengaging movements led to the evacuation of Laroche and hive in the last 24 hours. Captain Ludwig Sertorious noted the eastern Ardennes battle remains fluid with ongoing movement. The communique did not mention withdrawal.
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London
Berlin
Transocean
Laroche
Hives
Ludwig Sertorious
Ardennes
Motorman Faces Homicide Charge in New Orleans
Joseph C. Lewis a 42 year old street car motorman was charged with negligent homicide in the death of Mrs Edward Maquar. The action filed by assistant district attorney Henry J Voss says Maquar died from injuries after a heavy garbage container toppled from a garbage wagon that collided with Lewis street car.
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New Orleans
Joseph C. Lewis
Edward Maquar
Henry J. Voss
Maquar
Lewis
Patrols Reach Vicinity Of Urbiztondo And Bayambang
American motor patrols pushed inland twenty miles on Luzon invasion front to Urbiztondo and Bayambang, eight miles farther than the day before. MacArthur reports the towns at road junctions on the Agno river, about 18 and 20 miles from Lingayen Gulf, as Army units press toward Clark Field and Manila with light resistance.
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James Hutcheson
MacArthur
Luzon
Luzon Island
Urbiztondo
Bayambang
Douglas MacArthur
Lingayen Gulf
Luzon Plain
Gulf
Walt Khe
Central Plains
Clark Field
Manila
Bayan Bang
Bodies of slain Americans found near Malmedy field
An American infantry patrol from the 119th regiment of the 30th division discovered the frozen, bullet-shaped bodies of more than 100 U S soldiers in a snow field near Geremont south of Malmedy. Captured and killed by Germans during the December 16 breakthrough, the massacre was confirmed after survivors and patrols located the scene amid mined No Man's Land and ongoing artillery fire.
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First Army
Malmedy
Geremont
119Th
No Man's Land
Sailor Recalls Two Years Outsmarting Japs in Philippines
Aviation Machinist Mate Charles O. Watkins of St. Petersburg, Florida, tells how he evaded Japanese captors for two years among islands in the Philippines after escaping a camp. Rescued August 31, 1944, he faced malaria and danger, aided by friendly natives, with limited quinine and constant concealment. He earned a Purple Heart for a knife wound and was voted seaman first class at capture after Fort Hughes fell.
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Miami
Fla
Navy
Philippine Islands
Charles O. Watkins
St. Petersburg
Philippines
Corregidor
Watkins
Secrecy Cloaks Attacks At Sea Off Indo China
U S Pacific Fleet reports a major air and naval assault on Japanese convoys off French Indo China with 25 ships sunk and 13 damaged on day one. Admiral Nimitz notes continued operations as allies strike Saigon area, Thanh Son Nhut and surrounding bases with heavy losses for Japan.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States Third Fleet
Indo-China
U. S
Chester W. Nimitz
China Sea
Luzon Island
Douglas MacArthur
Aleutian Island
Paramushiro Island
Torishima Retto
Babelthuap
Urukthapel
Palau
Saigon
Thanh Son Nhut
Sagon Island
Camranh Cat-Lai
Qui-Nhon
Third Fleet
Thompson Named Head of C. of C. in Monroe
Wood H. Thompson, Monroe attorney, elected president of the Chamber of Commerce by directors at Hotel Virginia. He succeeds Lester Scharff, and T. H. Scott leads the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Thompson, a Harrisonburg La. native, LSU law graduate 1909, married with one daughter and one grandson, previously district attorney 1911 1920, constitutional delegate 1920, first assistant attorney general 1924 1932, moved to Monroe in 1992 to join Thompson and Thompson.
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Wood H. Thompson
Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
Virginia
Thompson
Lester Scharff
T. H. Scott
Harrisonburg
Louisiana State University
James Sparks
Fifth Judicial District
Winnsboro
Thompson and Thompson
Youth Killed by Accidental Shot in Bogalusa
In Bogalusa Louisiana on January 13 7 J Amacker Jr 16 died when a 12 gauge shotgun discharged in the hands of his seven year old brother J O Amacker Sr father says the gun belonged to the slain youth who used it on a hunting trip the family believed shells had been removed Survivors include his parents a sister and grandparents N T Ramshur of Bogalusa and Mrs Albert Amacker of Pearl River County Mississippi
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Bogalusa
J ©. Amacker Jr
J. O. Amacker Sr
Amacker
N. T. Ramshur
Albert Amacker
Pearl River County
Miss
Soviet winter offensive pushes 25 miles toward Germany
Stalin announced a major eastern front push on a 37 mile Polish front, with 2.5 million Russian troops moving as Allied forces strike from east and west. Soviet forces broke through near the Vistula to threaten Silesia and Krakow, while East Prussia and Czechoslovakia also see major offensives.
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Richard Kasischke
London
Stalin
Red Army
Germany
Poland
Vistula
German
Silesia
Nida
Reich
Berlin
East Prussia
Czechoslovakia
Memel
Budapest
Hungary
Swan Song Hinted in Perkins Annual Labor Report
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins delivered her annual report to Congress from Washington on January 13. The remarks reflected a retrospective look at her 12 years in office and warned about a robust postwar labor role, signaling a possible near exit as the president searches for a successor acceptable to labor factions.
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Secretary of Labor
Congress
Washington
Frances Perkins
Labor Department
Organized Labor
Davis Defended by Louisiana House Speaker
State Rep Norman Bauer speaker of the house defended Governor Davis amid press criticism of his expenditures saying the constitution grants the executive branch equal discretion with the legislature and judiciary. He noted the governor’s band of seven employees is far smaller than total state staff and that the governor’s appropriation is under one percent of annual state disbursements of about 110 million.
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Franklin
Norman Bauer
House
Davis
Sixteenth Page Fatal Car Wreck Near Minden
Joseph Eugene Jackson 28 of Bossier City and a welder for Jones Construction died in his car after steering into a waterfilled ditch west of Minden Louisiana about 12:15 am. Deputy coroner Dr. T A Richardson said the death likely resulted from a heart attack at the wheel.
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Shreveport
Joseph Eugene Jackson
Bossier City
Jones Construction Company
Heynesville
Minden
Jackson
Dorcheat Bayou
T. A. Richardson
Webster Parish
Proclamation Calls Louisiana Nurses to Aid
Gov. James H. Davis issued a proclamation declaring an emergency to recruit registered nurses in Louisiana and urged nurses to respond promptly to appeals by the president and the chief of staff.
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Baton Rouge
James H. Davis
Louisiana
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U.S. First Army
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Philippine Isles
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Scott
iContinu
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Reich Front
Krakow
Kielce
Warsaw
Sandomierz
Vistula River
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Honev
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Moscow
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