American First Army drives extend in Ardennes battle
Allied forces including British units join the American assault as the front against the Nazi Ardennes salient grows to about 20 miles. Snow and rain slow progress but the push aims to slice the bulge and trap remaining German forces from Longchamps to Bastogne.
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Paris
Ardennes
Butge
Grandmenil
Third Army
Bastogne
Bulge
Longchamps
First
Jap Shipping In Gen Montgomery Philippine Area
Allied air forces blasted 15 ships and damaged 15 more in the Philippines marking a heavy blow to Japanese shipping around Subic Bay and Lingayen Gulf. A total of 65 Japanese vessels have been sunk or damaged since Sunday, with PT boats sinking additional small ships in southern areas.
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Montgomery
Lee van Atta
In. S
Gen. MacArthur
Philippines
Philippine
Subic Bay
Lingayen Gulf
Douglas MacArthur
Eisenhower Shifts Command as Montgomery Leads Northern Front
Paris January 5 Gen Dwight D Eisenhower announces Montgomery now commands American First and Ninth Army forces on the northern flank of the German bulge in Belgium. Bradley’s command shifted south with Patton continuing in the Third Army. Marshall notes the move as a normal field marshal adjustment.
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Washington
Jan
INS
Roosevelt
United States
Bernard L. Montgomery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Montgomery
Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
12Th
War Department
U.S
Paris
Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Belgium
Ardennes
Field Marshall Montgomery
Bradley
United States Third Army
George S. Patton
George C. Marshall
Army
Western Front
Marshall
White House
Jameson Memorial Hospital Serves Wide Territory
The PA NEWC notes nine of ten admissions and ten of twelve discharges come from areas outside New Castle city. Residents face severe western front cold with six inches of snow and near zero temperatures. Skating begins on Scott street per Mayor Haven and Frank Sargent. Street Director Gibson notes a flooded “natural ice bow” atop Scott street. City council reports detail sidewalk conditions across residential and business districts.
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Jameson Memorial Hospital
City of
New Castle
Scott Street
John F. Haven
Frank T. Sargent
James Gibson
Daily Weather Report Summary
Daily weather report shows a maximum 30 degrees and minimum 10 degrees with traces of snow. River stage at 5.6 feet. Data contrasts with the previous year including a high of 41 and a low of 30 with precipitation noted.
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United States
Allied forces coordinate in Western Front defense
General Courtney Hodge reports the First American Army and British Second Army coordinate to blunt the Nazi push in the western Germany region. He says Nazi southern blows are diversionary and little strategic gain is likely from their efforts against Gen. Patton's Seventh Army.
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U.S
Seventh Army
Paul C. Raborg
International News Service
New York
Courtney Hodge
Nazi Bulge
Second Army
Eisenhower
Africa
Tanace Anwvine Warla Wulax T
Germany
Patch
Carrier Based Raids Against Japs Continue
American carrier based raids against Jap bases on Formosa and Okinawa were reported by Admiral Nimitz's Pacific fleet headquarters. The communique said aircraft attacked January 3 with details of the strike pending. observers speculated the force aimed at smashing enemy air bases between Japan and the Philippines.
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Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Pacific Fleet
Formosa
Okinawa
Philippines
Tokyo
Japan
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
South China Sea
War Prisoners to Work Here at National Radiator Plant
Camp Reynolds will send 50 German prisoners of war to the National Radiator company in New Castle to work in the foundry. They are due January 8 and will commute daily under guard to relieve local manpower shortages.
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City
Camp Reynolds
Greenville. Pa
INS
New Castle
Edward L. Brundage
Camp
Reynolds
Negro Slayer Is Executed By Gas In Oregon
Robert E Lee Folkes 23 year old Los Angeles Negro was executed in the Oregon State penitentiary gas chamber for the January 23 1943 slaying of Mrs Martha Virginia James wife of a Norfolk Va naval officer on a Southern Pacific train. He confessed during the early morning hours of the murder.
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Salem
Ore
Robert E. Lee Folkes
Los Angeles
Martha Virginia James
Norfolk, Va
Folkes
Oregon State Penitentiary
James
Southern Pacific
Gun duel survivor commits suicide in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara California January 5 till report says Major Buell Hammett 45 exonerated three years ago after a gun duel with Major William H Wenstrom in which Wenstrom and Mrs Wenstrom were killed shot and killed himself in his Montecito home late yesterday Coroner E G Dodge to Sheriff Jim Ross revealed today
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Santa Barbara
Cal
INS
Buell Hammett
William H. Wenstrom
Wenstrom
Nazis In Furious Effort To Block Reds At Budapest
Soviet reports say German forces launched a heavy winter counter offensive northeast of Budapest with air support and tanks to relieve the garrison. Russians claimed to have knocked out 131 Nazi tanks and battled near Komarno as the Red Army pressed toward Austria.
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Budapest
Moscow
Red Army
Komarno
Danube
Austria
Six Hour Heavy Artillery Barrage Blasts Germans
Lt General George S Pattons Third Army rained 18000 rounds into a forest east of Bastogne in a six hour bombardment. American forces then pressed into the forest edge with the 35th Division, finding German units scattered among their dead and dazed troops. The action occurred as German probing around Bastogne continued despite heavy snowfall and limited mobility.
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Larry Newman
I. N.S
U.S. Third Army
Bastogne
George S. Patton
Third Army
Patton
Mande
Allied Bombers In Great Force Hit Germany
United States Eighth Air Force bombers attacked targets in Germany by daylight today. British Mosquitos conducted prior night raids while RAF bombers struck troop concentrations and strong points near Royan at the mouth of the Gironde river.
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London
INS
United States
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Berlin
Gironde River
Royan
Bordeaux
France
The
Reich
Continent
Burns Fatal To Perry Township Man At 75
Jordan C Nye aged 75 a Perry township resident died Thursday after burns from sparks from his pipe set his clothing ablaze Emma Harvard his housekeeper extinguished the fire but snow blocked hospital access Neighbor Mr Twentier attempted to move him by sled to the highway for ambulance but Nye died en route The body rests at W D Porter funeral home Ellwood City funeral plans to be announced.
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Jordan C. Nye
Perry Township
Emma Harvard
Twentier
W. D. Porter
Ellwood City
Churchill Returns From Allied Visit In France
Prime Minister Winston Churchill returned from a brief trip to France where he met with Dwight D. Eisenhower Bernard Montgomery Charles De Gaulle and other senior Allied leaders to discuss ongoing operations and coordination.
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Churchill
Allies
France
London
INS
Winston Churchill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard Law Montgomery
Gen
Charles DeGaulle
Armor pushes through Belgian bulge to trap German forces
On January 5 the U S First Army launched a dawn attack through German defenses in Belgium. Armored units driving from Hotton and Grandmenil linked with Bastogne area forces to seal off panzer units and SS guards at the bulge tip. The advance covered over two miles toward La Chappelle Ancomont, seven miles south of Stoumont, while infantry pressed south and west.
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U. S
First Army
Belgium
Bastogne
Bulge
Hotton
Grandmenil
Armored Combat Command
la Chappelle
Ancomont
Stoumont
Three Elderly Women Die in New York Fire
A seven story uptown Manhattan apartment house at Broadway and West 96th Street trapped and killed three aged women as flames and smoke swept the two upper floors. Twenty five others including 17 firemen were overcome while more than 125 residents fled in nightclothes into the freezing air.
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New York
Manhattan
Broadway
West 96Th Street
New Surprise Move In Japan Area Likely
Far East naval activity signals possible new surprise moves against Japan. Tokyo radio reports describe a naval task force and transports approaching via the Sulu sea, while intensified attacks on Formosa and Okinawa heighten Japanese apprehension.
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Japan
Far East
Washington
Tokyo
Sulu
Superforts Make Flights Over Tokyo Japanese Report
Tokyo radio reported four Marianas based B 29 Superfortresses conducted raids and reconnaissance over Honshu during night and morning missions. Bombs were dropped near Hamamatsu Okazaki and Nagoya with no damage claimed by Japan.
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New York
INS
Tokyo Radio
FCC
Hamamatsu
Nara
Okazaki
Nagoya
Hamatsu
Death Notices Move Through New Castle Junction Area
Obituaries list Mike Tosternak of New Castle Junction and Charles S. Huddle aged 65 of Nemo Street, Mrs. Louellia Johnson aged 22 of South Jefferson Street, and Jordan C. Nye aged 74 of Perry Township with their listed addresses.
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Mike Tosternak
New Castle Junction
Harry Atkins
Preston Avenue
Charles S. Huddle
Nemo Street
Louellia Johnson
South
Jefferson Street
Jordan C. Nye
Perry Township
Roosevelt to Attend Big Three War Conference
President Roosevelt announced he will depart Washington after January 20 for a major war conference with Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. He indicated the agenda will differ from Casablanca and Quebec meetings and his Washington talks with Churchill.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Casablanca
Quebec
Seventeen German Counter-Attacks Repulsed by U S Third Army
In the Bastogne area the U S Third Army repelled seventeen German counter-attacks along the southern frontline within 24 hours. The 101st Airborne and 6th Armored divisions bore the brunt as German assaults included up to a regiment of infantry and 18 tanks. American gains included a one mile advance near Heropont while Germans continued to amass above Bastogne despite heavy weather. The Third Army reports 435 German tanks knocked out since December 16 out of an estimated 850 to 900.
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Third Army
Tirce
101St
Sixth Armored
Heropont
Bastogne
Lonechamps
Wardein
Wilby
Saint Hubert
Progress On City Hall’s New West Room
Rapid progress is reported on a new room in the west portion of city hall lower floor facing East Washington street. It will house the delinquent tax office the legal bureau and the assessor’s bureau, replacing crowded third floor quarters. The space cost about 10000 dollars, previously a clothing store.
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City Hall
East Washington Street
City Legal Bureau
Germans Use Last Reserves Reported By Paris Broadcast
The London Evening News cites Radio Paris reporting an official U S statement that the Allies hold 73 divisions on the Western Front in Europe. The broadcast adds that Germany has already released its last reserves into action.
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London
INS
Radio
Paris
London Evening News
Today
United States
Europe
Lady Takes Days Off Amid Holiday Colds
A casual notice notes the lady is away from work for a few days due to a string of illnesses during the holiday period. She suffers wheezes coughs and sniffles, with the cool weather at twenty three degrees prompting caution about heavy outdoor wear and outings.
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Pattons
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Hammett
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