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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1945
Page
1
American forces under General MacArthur press the Luzon push as Krueger’s troops consolidate gains and raise the U S flag in several liberated towns. Rumors persist that a battered Japanese fleet has been recalled to aid the defense, potentially delaying full invasion success.
Senate Republicans rejected Democratic calls for restraint in international affairs debate. Senator White warned no commitment to silence while Connally urged avoiding discussion that could disrupt allied unity as Roosevelt meets Stalin and Churchill. A presidential imposed silence quieted eight members of the Senate Foreign Relations postwar policy committee.
Pacific fleet carrier planes boldl y penetrated South China Sea waters near Saigon and Camranh Bay to attack the enemy off French Indo China. The operation, linked to Admiral Halsey s Third Fleet, pressed in a region 650 to 800 miles from Singapore and Luzon, with targets not disclosed.
American Sixth Army forces push inland from Lingayen and overrun five towns on Luzon as they march toward Manila. Japanese communiques claim counterattacks as U S troops engage near Pozorrubio.
PA NEWC notes icy conditions along Washington street as bus chains are used for the first time in weeks. Officials announce a statewide program with 12 eastern states to cut pedestrian deaths, led by Revenue Secretary Harris, launching January 15.
The report records a maximum temperature of 40 degrees and a minimum of 16 degrees with 0.03 inches of precipitation. River stage stands at 4.9 feet. A year ago the high was 41 and the low 18 with no precipitation.
U S Third Army reports over 1200 prisoners taken after 24 hours of gains around the Bastogne pocket. Patton forces overran an encircled Nazi paratroop battalion area under fog with German withdrawals noted from the Ardennes bulge southest of Bastogne.
Soviet front line dispatches report the final push against Nazi and Hungarian garrison in Budapest. The dawn assault tightens the pocket, with Nazis described as desperate and prepared to abandon the fight. Prisoners say SS troops urged shooting those who surrendered.
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese commander who vowed to force MacArthur's surrender, was reported by a German DNB dispatch to be personally directing Japanese operations on Luzon near the Lingayen Gulf front line.
Harrisburg report says Gov. Edward Martin regrets he cannot attend President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth term inauguration on January 20 due to a scheduled meeting. He told newsmen he would like to attend but must stay for state business.
Nazi Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt ordered a retreat from the Ardennes salient west of Houffalize as blizzards and rough terrain stalled American armor and aircraft. U.S. forces pressed the Salm Chateau-Duchamps line, narrowing the escape gap while Germans used the weather to avoid a complete encirclement.
Lingayen City reports Manila as a stricken inflation ridden city with hungry people under Jap bayonets yet hopeful for liberation. Supply lines to Japan and the Southern Philippines are severed, leaving both Japanese garrison and Filipinos short of food, relying on camotes and coconuts.
Washington reports the United States will send Randolph Higgs to Helsinki as an observer after the June 30 break in relations He will depart Stockholm where he serves in the American legation The move aims to monitor Finland's March 17 and 18 parliamentary elections for fairness and not a formal restoration of ties
Allied air forces in Italy flew 1,100 sorties exploiting better weather to strike German communications and gun positions along the front. A light bomber sweep hit a northern Italy rail bottleneck. Patrol activity on American Fifth and British Eighth Army fronts increased. five planes failed to return.
January 12. News confirms no new sightings of Japanese “human fish” near Lingayen gulf as MacArthur's forces push Luzon. Some swimmers carried five yard red sashes trailing behind them. theories suggest shark deterrence or religious significance. Plotillas of naked divers used explosives to attack American shipping.
London Jan 12 Japanese Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso has called a supreme war council of the general staff from all theaters for tomorrow, the Nazi DNB agency reported today.
German and Hungarian troops retreat further into Budapest as fighting drives them back toward the city’s eastern railway station. The DNA dispatch says increased enemy pressure confirmed by a FCC heard report.
Allied forces cut the German escape route in the Bastogne bulge to under two miles as US Third Army presses east of Bastogne with British Second Army support. Advances link at St Hubert while continuing final assault in the Ardennes.
American patrols have pushed inland from Lingayen and Dagupan toward Manila with limited enemy contact. Reports note a large Japanese group entrenched in hills southwest of San Vicente while central plains appear clear, and Tokyo radio cites ongoing Allied bombardment and Japanese resistance in Lingayen Gulf.
Secretary of War Stimson said he would release casualty figures from the German breakthrough in Belgium and France at his next news conference. The latest weekly totals show an 7,999 rise from the prior report, with cumulative wartime losses to date totaling 106,952 killed 333,849 wounded 64,283 missing 59,267 prisoners of war 564,351 in all.
Mrs Flora Winters of 1003 Dewey Avenue is recorded as deceased. The notice provides a simple social record of a local death on a Friday in January 1945.
An official predicted a boost in butter ration value from 24 to perhaps 28 due to increased military needs. The new ration may take effect in February with the War Food Administration setting aside 2 percent of February creamery butter and 25 percent in March for government sale under 1945 allocations.
Gov. Harry F. Kelly and lawmakers demanded immediate capture of Hooper's killers after the state senator and chief accuser of Frank D. McKay was found dead in his car. Hooper had been tracked from Lansing to near Springport where the assassination occurred. The Albion Republican reported him as the author of a confession.
County roads and city streets were dangerously slippery as light rain froze into a thin ice coating. State Highway Superintendent Edwin O Reed noted cinder crews worked but labor shortages hampered efforts. Main routes were hindered. drivers were urged to use chains on county roads.
Friday night notes remind residents of Saturday January 13 to place bundled waste paper on the curb or porch for collection in New Castle and adjoining townships. Gather newspapers magazines wrapping paper and cardboard in bundles under 15 pounds to aid a vital war need.
Athens Jan 12. A truce between British forces and the Greek government and ELAS EAM militants ends civil warfare in Greece. Hostilities cease by midnight Sunday with a 1 am Monday cessation time after ELAS orders. Lieut Gen Ronald M Scobi signed for the British. four EAM representatives initiated the truce at British headquarters.
In Duquesne a blaze gutted Charlie Yeo's Chinese laundry killing him. The fire, helped by winds, threatened two nearby frame buildings while Mr and Mrs Christopher O Donnell who lived above the laundry escaped unharmed.
In a rare somber broadcast Tokyo radio said the imperial high command expected a major naval engagement near the Philippines "imminently." Monitors asked if decisive actions were in the making as the normally buoyant outlet offered no war cries or pledges from Yamashita Homma or Koiso.
The speaker recalls a bettor named Arthur Mometer who relied on feed box or bagged dope and loses favor as authorities, led by Mister Byrnes, tighten control. Bets stop, bookies shed hats, and racing halts until wartime conflicts end. Weather described as damp.
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