Soviet Forces Make Big Gains In First Week
The Red Army, six days into its winter offensive, has advanced about 75 miles along the 300 mile Vistula front in central Poland and pushed beyond 100 miles in some areas. It cracked the Vistula line and captured Warsaw and Krakow, Poland’s capitals, and Lodz, a major industrial center.
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Red Army
Vistula
Poland
Warsaw
Krakow
Lodz
Industria
Pittsburgh
Huge Soviet Drive Aimed At Berlin Surges Ahead
Soviet Fourth Ukrainian front advances in a three pronged push through occupied lands. Troops overrun key Polish cities and threaten East Prussia isolation as Stalin’s force of about two and a half million men and heavy armor push west toward Berlin. Germans report chaotic retreat along a 600 mile front with Soviet tanks entering East Prussia from the south near Gilburg.
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Ukraiian Front
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Nazi Germany
Europe
Atlantic Wall
Berlin
Joseph Stalin
East Prussia
East
Baltic
Carpathians
Stalin
Germany
Lower Silesian
Reich
DNB
Gilburg
Tannenberg
Weather misfire and pipe talk in New Castle
Pa Newc notes a chilly morning with ten above zero and no rain despite forecasts. Roads suffer from winter chains and street wear, while a quirky anecdote tells of a man using his own butter for breakfast toast. A skater also complains the shanty’s sop isn’t cold enough.
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New
Newel
Daily Weather Report Summary for United States
The 24 hour period ending at 9 m today shows a maximum temperature of 38 and a minimum of 9. Precipitation is 0.10 inches. River stage is 49 feet. For the same date a year ago, maximum reached 40 and minimum 32 with no listed precipitation.
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United States
Just And Durable Peace Promise Of President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt, sworn in for a fourth term, pledged a just and durable peace after total victory in World War I. He spoke briefly from the White House steps, with Chief Justice Stone administering the oath as 5,000 spectators watched on the snowy grounds. The inaugural address stressed seriousness and the need to win the war and secure lasting peace.
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William K. Hutchinson
International News Service
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Harlan Fiske Stone
Supreme Court
Great Formations Of Heavy Bombers Batter Germany
Great formations of American heavy bombers and fighters carried nonstop bombardment over Germany today. U S aerial headquarters did not name targets, but observers heard the motors as the formations headed toward the continent. German radio warned of approaching spearheads over the Reich.
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London
Germany
Reich
U. S
Britain
English
New York
FCC
Roosevelt Takes Oath for Fourth Term in Cold Inauguration
President Roosevelt, coatless and shivering, took the oath of office for a fourth term at the White House shortly after noon. About 5,000 spectators endured the frigid January weather as he eschewed his navy cape and proceeded with a brief ceremony on the south portico.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Loss of Two Salvitti Brothers in Foreign Wars
Philadelphia couple confirms two sons from south Philadelphia died in separate fronts within one week. Pvt. Vincent Salvitti, 31, killed January 8 in southern France, and Alfred Salvitti, 27, a Navy seaman, killed January 2 in the Pacific.
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Philadelphia
INS
Anilicare Salvitti
Pvt
Vincent Salvitti
France
Alfred
Pacific
Inauguration Day Snow Closes Washington Roads
Washington on inauguration day sees heavy wet snow turning to freezing slush. Temperatures dip to the low thirties as traffic slows across the District and thousands of government workers are delayed. Residents recall worse weather in earlier inaugurations in 1909 and 1937.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
District of Columbia
Taft
Jap Positions In Rosario Area Are Crumbling
General MacArthur's headquarters report heavy artillery in the Rosario sector northwest of the Lingayen beachhead. Japanese positions were crumbling as tanks failed against the assault while Allied forces pushed toward Tarlac and its strategic airport along the Manila highway.
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Luzon
Bininuleo
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Lingayen Gulf
Rosario
U. S
MacArthur
Tarlac
York
Manila Highway
Jap Air Plant Badly Riddled By U S Attack
Photos from U S bomber crews show the Kawasaki aircraft plant near Kobe hit by a surprise raid. At least 315 bursts blanketed a 4000 foot radius, with long B 29 formations parading over the target and smoke obscuring further hits.
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Bomber Command Headquarters
Guam
Navy
Kawasaki Aircraft Plant
Kobe
Truman Becomes Vice President
Harry S. Truman, a 60 year old United States Senator, is sworn in as vice president beside Franklin D. Roosevelt. He vows to support the president, aims to help save American kids in the war, and seeks to influence Senate relations and Roosevelt's program.
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Washington
INS
United States
Harry S. Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Franklin D Roosevelt
Truman
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Senate
Nazis threaten Strasbourg area as Allied advance resumes
American troops pushing from Belgium toward St. Vith close within three miles of the objective. In the Strasbourg sector along the Rhine the German thrusts against the Seventh Army included three tank and infantry assaults. Allied reports claim 22 enemy tanks knocked out and four more possibly destroyed, with later counts indicating at least 27 armored units lost.
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International News Service
Paris
Belgium
St. Vith
Bulge
Strasbourg
Rhine
Seventh Army
Supreme Headquarters
Seventh Army Battles German Offensives Near Strasbourg
American Seventh Army forces defending the Maginot Rhine line in northeast France fought to stem bitter German assaults aimed at Strasbourg. British troops northwest of Aachen and U S troops in the Ardennes also advanced modestly as weather hampered operations and fronts showed little change.
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Paris
Seventh Army
France
Strasbourg
Rhine
Aachen
Ardennes
Horror on Pacific Sea as Japanese Sub Sinks U S Ship
San Francisco reports survivor Lieut Peter Chelemdos aged 22 recounts a night of horror after the Ss John A Johnson was torpedoed between the West Coast and Hawaii. He recalls crewmen hiding in lifeboats and rafts while Japanese gunners strafed, seven of ten who perished in the attack.
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San Francisco
John A. Johnson
West Coast
Hawaii
Peter Chelemdos
Pacific
United States
Heavy Aerial Raids Behind Italian Fronts Hit Targets
Allied headquarters announced heavy bomber strikes against railroad yards and bridges at Brod in Yugoslavia and naval targets in the Dalmatian coast. Fighters engaged enemy aircraft over the Zagreb region while Po Valley traffic and north Adriatic shipping faced disruption. Four Allied planes were lost and at least five enemy aircraft were shot down. Ground patrolling occurred along the Fifth and Sixth army fronts.
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Rome
INS
Mediterranean
Brod
Yugoslavia
Gvor-Zagreb
Po Valley
Adriatic
Liguirian
Dalmatian
Fifth
Fiehth
Youth Faces 20 Years In Prison
Edward Jewett Martin a 24 year old chemist was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of his grandmother Mrs Addie Jewett 76. The trial lasted two days with an insanity defense rejected by witnesses who said he knew right from wrong. The body was found in a lake in Orange County North Carolina last May and prosecutors said he transported it there in his grandmother’s car after a dispute over his drinking.
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Boonville
Edward Jewett Martin
Missouri State Penitentiary
Addie BP Jewett
Charlotte
Jewett
Orange County
N. C
Martin
North Carolina
Death notices from Wampum Ellwood City and Volant area
Miss Olive Lewis aged 20 of Wampum Miss Margaret Fritzman aged 18 of Ellwood City and Mrs Solomon B Dicks of Volant R D 3 are listed among death notices for Saturday January 20 1945 in this Chronicle obituary column.
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Olive Lewis
Wampum
Margaret Fritzman
Ellwood City
Solomon B. Dicks
Volant R. D
Fire in Maine Destroys Bank and Buildings
Fire in Presque Isle, Maine, destroyed the Northern National Bank building and swept through a three story structure including a theater, WAGN radio station, several stores and three apartments. Occupants fled to safety. Loss estimated at upwards of $150,000.
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Presque Isle
Northern National Bank
WAGN
Tokyo Teacher Figures It Out A Shelter Tool
In New York a Tokyo schoolteacher unveils a combined air raid shelter digger with a reinforced umbrella. FCC monitors quoted a Tokyo radio describing the device as a practical safety tool for digging a shelter and protecting the user from falling objects during an air raid.
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New York
Tokyo
FCC
Wou
Strikers Refuse Penobscot Building Fine Protest
About 150 United States Rubber Co employees stormed the War Labor Board offices in the Penobscot Building in Detroit to protest a $18.50 fine and reinstatement fee levied after a wildcat strike last October. The UAW and CLO had ordered payment, and the NLRB later ordered deductions from paychecks due January 22.
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Detroit
INS
United States Rubber Company
War Labor Board
Penobscot
United Rubber Worker's of America
CLO
National Labor Relations Board
Wife Of Soldier Held In Stabbing At Erie
Mrs. Irene Brzezicki, 32, wife of a soldier in Germany, is held by Erie authorities in connection with the fatal stabbing of Boyd Flick. She says Flick fell on the knife during dinner preparation. district attorney says voluntary manslaughter charges will be filed.
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Erie. Pa
Irene Brzezicki
Germany
Erie
Boyd Flick
Brzezicki
Flick
Burton Laub
Conservative Jap Factions May Be Forced Into Power
At Luzon headquarters on January 20, analysts forecast an early peace with Japan driven by swift Japanese defeat in the Philippines and renewed Allied pressure. A dramatic shift in Japan’s government was anticipated, with conservative pro American elements unlikely to seize power immediately.
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MacArthur
Luzon
Japan
Europe
Imperial Japanese Navy
Japanese Airfields Bombed Near Mandalay
London radio reports via CBS say six Japanese airfields about 70 miles south of Mandalay in Burma were struck in the Eastern Air Command’s most concentrated attack. Japanese ground defenses were heavy but no enemy aircraft rose. from a force of 150 British and American bombers and fighters one fighter was reported missing.
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New York
Mandalay
Eastern Air Command
Burma
London
CBS
Sunny Week End Weather Forecast for Western Pennsylvania
Weatherman W Brotzman predicts a sunny week end for Western Pennsylvanians but temperatures remain cool with a high near 32 and a low around 25. A southeast swerved rainstorm had fooled forecasters and moved into the Atlantic, he said.
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Pittsburgh
W Brotzman
Brotzman
Tennessee
Atlantic Ocean
Baseball Season Returns Amid Snow and War Time
Arthur Mometer notes lingering winter as snow remains knee deep but signals baseball coming. The piece speaks of seasonal delay, trains and warm spots hosting games, with players advancing ages while wartime continues. It asserts baseball will rebound as sun returns and play resumes despite frost and conflict.
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