Army advances amid blizzards and naval air raids in Pacific and Europe
American carrier air power and China based B 29s assaulted Formosa and Okinawa in a bid to quicken the Philippines battle, while German counterattacks and Allied advances continued around the Belgian bulge. Reports cite heavy weather, air strikes, and stubborn combat as Allied and Axis forces push in multiple fronts.
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Associated Press
Formosa
Okinawa Islands
Philippines
Comei
Philippine
Imperial
Federal Communications Commission
Okinawa
Pacific Fleet
Domei
F.C.C
Sulu Sea
U. S
Mindoro
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Tokey
Honshu
Tokyo
Shizuoka
Nagoya
Sumatra
Medan
China
Chester W Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
5Th Air Force
14Th Air Force
Greek cabinet formed by Plastiras faces ELAS reaction
The ELAS left awaits reaction to the common confidence cabinet led by Gen. Nicholas Plastiras as Greece seeks peace. Plastiras keeps war, navy, air and merchant marine posts, with several positions held by liberal and some rightist figures. Foreign affairs go to John Sofianopoulos, founder of the Agrarian party. Other appointees include Sideris, Colyvas, Rallis, Glavanis, and Sakelaropoulos with undersecretaries named for war, navy, and air.
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Associated Press
Athens
E.L.A.S
Nicholas Plastiras
Plastiras
John Sofianopolous
Greek Agrarian Party
Popular Front
John Metaxas
Sofianopolous
Paris
Greece
Italy
Agrarian
Union of the Left
Agrarian Socialists
George Sideris
Nikolas Colyvas
Pericles Rallis
John Glavanis
Lucas Sakelaropoulos
Leonidas Spais
Navy
Theodore Conduriotis
Peter Cilos
George Melas
Michael Mavrocardatos
Airport Memorial Group To Reorganize 352 Acres Sold
Reorganization of the committees guiding a drive to purchase 1400 acres at Piney Gorge for a Class Three CAA airport memorial to World War II serves as the plan. Dorsey E. Biggs says busy members hampered soliciting, noting 352 acres sold by midnight as effort continues toward the 500 acre goal with more sales expected today.
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Piney Gorge
Dorsey E. Biggs
Dorsey
Elks Club
Beckley Area Men Wounded in World War II Release
Three Beckley area men are listed as wounded in action in today’s War Department release. Private First Class Rick Bailey of Packsville Private Tony Sinozich Jr of Skelton and Private Andrew Green of Hazy were wounded in the Central Pacific and Mediterranean theaters respectively.
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Rick Bailey
Lydia L. Bailey
Packsville
Tony Sinozich, Jr
Mary Sinozich
Skelton
Andrew Green
Little Green
Hazy
War Department
Bailey
Sinozich
Central Pacific
Green
Mediterranean
Germans Ready for Months of Resistance Says Berlin Reports
Information from several Reich sources indicates German forces equipped with new weapons can sustain fighting for months. They believe Allies missteps may help Germany win a deal, with ample gasoline, evolving secret weapons, and large troop reinforcements. Non German informants say Berlin was surprised by Allied surprise over the von Rundstedt offensive.
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Associated Press
Bern
Germany
Reich
Berlin
Luftwaffe
Czechoslovakia
von Rundstedt
Greece
Belgium
France
Allied Bombers Hit Reich for 13th Day
Allied air forces pressed a 13th straight daylight raid on the Reich with U S 15th Air Force Fortresses and Liberators from Italy. British Lancasters and Halifaxes joined in attacks on Dortmund fuel plants while Mosquitos carried raids in western Germany. Casualties included several RAF and American aircraft and crews, with rail targets across Italy and Yugoslavia also hit.
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London
U. S
15Th Air Force
Italy
Reich
Germany
Eighth Air Force
Britain
Western Front
U. S. Army
R.A.F
Dortmund
Ruhr
Yugoslavia
Po Valley
Brenner Pass
Padua
Zidani
Ghedt
Brescia
Man Power Urge Discussed Here
Raleigh county draft issues spark comments from Aubrey Smith president of Draft Board No 1 about how Washington will affect registrants under the Byrnes call to draft more deferred farm workers ages 18 to 25. He doubts local deferments for farmers exist and notes reclassification by local board No 3.
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Raleigh County
Selective Service
Washington
Aubrey Smith
Raleigh County Draft Board No. 1
News Dispatch
James F. Byrnes
Smith
Weather West Virginia cloudiness and cooling
Considerable cloudiness tonight and Friday with colder air moving in. Forecasters expect lingering overcast conditions and a notable drop in temperatures across the state.
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West Virginia
Dies group wins house majority on opening day
Washington reports the 79th Congress opened with a Republican Democratic coalition overruling Democratic leaders to establish a permanent Dies committee on un American activities. The vote was 207 to 186 in a noisy session as preelection Democratic gains were noted.
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Washington
Congress
House
Dies
MacCormack
Massachusetts
Republican - Democratic
Foreign policy session Linked Connally and Stettinius
Secretary of State Stettinius and Senator Connally arranged a direct talk on international problems to gauge the administration stance. They plan to share views on European boundaries and future peace steps while exploring a possible Roosevelt meeting with Connally and leaders. Ball and Hatch press for a US role in a postwar security organization, wary of power politics and Poland partition.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Stettinius
Connally
D.-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Roosevelt
United Nations
Ball
R.-Minn
Hatch
D.-N.m
Dumbarton Oaks
Poland
United States
Kilgore urges replacing civilian workers with 4-F soldiers
Washington Senator Kilgore of West Virginia urged replacing civilian army and navy employees with uniformed 4-Fs to free manpower for war. He argued thousands of noneligible civilians could shift to industrial work or be put in uniform to release fighting men from desk jobs. He cited personnel in England and the Southwest Pacific as examples.
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Associated Press
Washington
Kilgore
D.-W. Va
Army
Navy
Byrnes
Senate War Investigating Committee
West Virginian
England
Southwest Pacific
Turkey Drops Ties With Japan and Espionage
Ankara announces severing relations with Japan effective January 6 marking a Turkish contribution to the Allied cause. Foreign Minister Hasan Saka told parliament that about twenty Japanese agencies had been active in the Middle East monitoring Allied shipping and gathering intelligence since Turkey broke relations with Germany last August.
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Associated Press
Ankara
Turkey
Japan
Middle East
Germany
Hasan Saka
Grand National Assembly
German Quizical On Meaning Of Nuts Go To Hell
At Bastogne Brig Gen Anthony C McAuliffe refused to surrender. An officer relayed McAuliffe s one word reply to the German negotiator who asked for favorable terms. The German asked the meaning and was told it means go to hell. He saluted and left.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
State of the Union
Capitol Hill
Paris
Anthony C. McAuliffe
Bastogne
McAuliffe
Patton Presents Distinguished Service Cross to McAuliffe
Lt Gen George S Patton Jr visited December 30 with the U S Third Army to honor the 101st Airborne Division heroes of Bastogne and awarded Brig Gen Anthony C McAuliffe the Distinguished Service Cross for his defiant Nuts reply to a German surrender ultimatum.
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Paris
U. S
First Army
Bulge
Grandmenil
George S. Patton
Third Army
Bastogne
von Rundstedt
Associated Press
U.S. Third Army
George S. Patton, Jr
U. S. Third Army
101St Airborne Division
Anthony C. McAuliffe
UMW Grievance Cases Settled In Favor Union
Two district 29 UMWA grievances were settled with payments totaling 27000 to 226 miners over a Gauley Mountain Coal mine portal dispute in Ansted Fayette county. An umpire, Frank Fries, oversaw the case begun in 1943 and finished in 1944 with backages. A second case at Crane Creek Mercer county cut shell costs from 45 to 35 cents, reducing annual district-wide shell costs potentially saving over 200000 dollars for miners.
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U.M.W.A
Beckley
George J. Titler
Gauley Mountain Coal Company
Ansted
Fayette County
Frank Fries
Illinois
American Coal Company
Crane Creek
Mercer County
Titler
Pocahontas Coal Operators’ Association
Committee Urges U S Health Standards Rise For Armed Forces
A senate subcommittee under the labor committee recommends immediate action to raise wartime health standards. It cites about 4.5 million men rejected by the armed forces and states that of 22 million military age men at least 40 percent are unfit for general duty.
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Washington
Senate
Labor Committee
Public Records Withheld By Circuit Clerk Office
Raleigh Register reports ongoing withholding of chancery case files by Raleigh County Circuit Clerk office under Deputy Clerk John Ward and Circuit Clerk Van Hunter. Ward cites private memorandum book and rules file as nonpublic, denying access for publication of parties to suits, while promising access to lawyers or suit initiators. Hunter away at Charleston meeting, Raleigh Register maintains policy of equal treatment and full disclosure of divorce suits.
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Raleigh County
John Ward
van Hunter
Ward
Raleigh Register
Hunter
Chancery
Charleston
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