Attack on China Coast Demonstrates U S Naval Supremacy
The Third Fleet under Admiral Halsey shows American naval superiority as carrier planes strike Japan’s oil routes along the China coast. In two weeks, US forces sunk 107 Japanese vessels and damaged 203 more, with rapid operations into Indochina and Saigon increasing pressure on Japan. The mission disrupts oil imports and weakens Japan’s capacity to reinforce the Philippines, signaling a major setback for the Nipponese war effort.
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Ching Coast
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Leyte Island
Philippines
Jamerican Supmatines
Pacific
China
Hal Sey’s
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Indo-China
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Saigon
Pres
Taxi Firms To Get Cabs In San Antonio
Applications for 12 more cabs in San Antonio were issued to five negro taxi services. City taxicab inspector Frank Vogler announced approval after Monday hearings amid protests by Yellow Osbe’s attorneys. Operators named include W D Hartfield, HH Williams, John Mahaley, Robert Tease, and Kim Hartfield, with three additional cabs each. Vogler will hear Black Cat Taxi’s request for five more cabs Tuesday. Earlier, Hell Taxi and White and Blue Cab were granted 10 additional cabs each.
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San Antonio
Frank Vogler
Randle Taylor
W. D. Jenkins
Yellow Osbe Company
W. D. Hartfield
HH. Williams
John Mahaley
Robert Tease
Kim Hartfield
Vogler
Black Cat Taxi Company
Hell Taxi Company
Texas Co-Ops Back Wickard Administration Says Satisfied
Willei C. Church, San Antonio counsel for the Texas Power Reserve, declares Texas co-ops are solidly behind the REA administration under Secretary Claude Wickard. A. C. Thomas of Comanche presides over the Texas Rural Co-operatives, speaking at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association convention in the Municipal Auditorium. Church notes news reports misrepresent co-ops as withdrawing from national bodies.
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Rural Electrification Association
Claude Wickard
Willei C. Church
San Antonio
Texaslower Reserve
A. C. Thomas
Comanche
TPR
Texas Rural
Church
Texas Power Reserve
Iastion
Texas
National Rural Electric Co-operative Association
Ist GI Faces Old Bailey in Murder Case
Karl Gustav Hulten a 22 year old paratrooper from Boston Massachusetts and Elizabeth Marina Jones an 18 year old stripper pleaded innocent at Old Bailey on charges of premeditated murder in the fatal slaying of George Edward Heath a Kensington taxi driver. The American soldier testified he faced the court in his army uniform and declared innocence as the case opened with both defendants facing trial for murder.
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London
George Edward Heath
Kensington
Snow Calms Italy Front
Heavy snow reduced visibility across the Fifth and Eighth Army fronts in the Apennines and Po Valley, producing only limited patrol clashes and artillery fire. The Mediterranean air force flew about 1800 sorties, striking Austria and northern Italy, targeting communications and troops in north Italy, and hitting gun positions in Yugoslavia.
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Eighth Army
Apennines
Pai Valley
Mediterranean Air Force
Austria
Italy
Medi‘umg
Yugoslavia
Three Gls Sentenced For Rations Theft
Paris dispatch reports three American soldiers of the 716th Railway battalion were sentenced to long terms at hard labor for profiteering by selling rations from front-bound army supplies. Frederick H. Schultz of Detroit received 40 years, James J. Cupp of Maline 35 years, and James T. Rocke of Kenosha 20 years.
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Paris
Western ‘Front
716Th
Frederick H. Schultz
Detroit
Midh
James J. Cupp
Maline
James T. Rocpke
Kenosha
Wis
Luzon Front Peaceful Early Front Report By Fred Jan
On the Agno River front in Luzon January sixteenth sevent one the war seems unusually quiet. A correspondent notes idyllic farms and crowds shouting Victory as engineers rebuild the Agno bridges with ferry systems set up while Filipino onlookers watch. Evidence of Japanese presence appears only as scent of abandoned defenses on a hillside.
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Luzon
Fred
Agno River
G.I
First Enters Nazi Bastion Behind Luxembourg Front
A German battalion penetrated into German territory near Tettingen opposite Luxembourg but was repulsed by American forces. The 1st Infantry Division moved north in Luxembourg, capturing Niederwampach five miles east of Bastogne amid stiff resistance. Berg faced another border assault in the morning.
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Germany
Tettingen
Luxembourg
Berg
1Ith
Niederwampach
Bastogne
Bonds Set in Trousers Thefts in Federal Case
Three men charged in a federal case over theft of army trousers from the quartermaster on East Houston Street were bound on $100 bonds each by United States Commissioner A. W. Knight. Defendants Abelardo H. Gonasles Antonio Laix and Joe Rocamontes posted bonds. Juan Trevino Garza faced a separate charge for failing to register under the selective service act and received a $1000 bond.
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A. W. Knight
East Hous
Lincoln Avenue
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