Third Army Drives Into Germany Amid Snowbound Assault
Paris dispatch reports the Third Army pushing nearly a mile into Germany, seizing Werdenhausen and expanding a new invasion bridgehead over the Rhine amid heavy snow. Canadian forces deploy north of the Maas near Kleve as Allied air raids hit Munster, Paderborn, Detmund, Hamm, and Cologne. fighting rages under extreme winter conditions with no decisive gains.
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Tra Miler
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Stupbach
Belgium
Hovland
Hetlin
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Rotterdam
Our Myer
Thier
Slegitlea
Enat-Wesk
Chat
Siegfried Slong
Ardennes Front
Wehrmacht
Third Army
Germnans
Reich
Holland
R. A. PL
Ruhr
Munster
Paderborn
Detmund
Hamm
Cologne
Maas River
Kleve
Antwerp
Eiganhower
Alsace
Colmar
Strasbourg
U. 3
Rhine
Cold Snap Grips Texas Panhandle Tonight
A sharp cold wave travels across the Texas Panhandle and northwest Texas Tuesday night. Temperatures plummet to season lows with 12 degrees at unnamed locations and 21 degrees in Wichita Falls. Readings include Amarillo 16, Galveston 23, Abilene 24, San Angelo 32, Midland 27, Lubbock 27, Midland 27, Dallas 24, Austin 37.
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Axsaeldad
Texas Panhandle
Texas
Parpa
Amirifiin
Galiesville
Ahilens
San Ankelo
Wg Spring
Midland
Wink
Lubteck If
Glarendott
Dalles
Austin
7 Week Old Freezes in Chicago Crib
Chicago police report a seven week old infant, Donny Lawson, died after freezing in an unheated home. The parents Nora and Timothy Lawson, living with four children, had heated the apartment with a small stove in the kitchen and denied the stove being left on after midnight. The surviving children were taken to St. Vincent's hospital for treatment or observation.
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Chicago
Timothy Keady
Today
Donny Lawson
Nora Lawson
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Mra Lawson
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Defeat Looms for Hitler on His Thirteenth Year
London reported signs Hitler's rule nears end as Germany battles in Europe. A Berlin broadcast quoted Robert Ley on work and fight while Paris and Moscow outlets questioned his control and whereabouts. The German high command allegedly lost grip on military filmation amid mounting Allied pressure.
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Europe
Berlin
Robert Ley
Moscow
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Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
German Reich
Russia
Wast
Zhukov
Bertin
Borin
Fomerania
Prussia
Silesia
Koenlesberg
Berlinn
Anvarian
Munich
Alps
Berchtes- Baden
Soenigsberg
East Prussia
Posen
Poland
Geran Gilesin
Carpathian Main Tralts
Landsberg
Frankfurt
Bavaris
Poprad
Slovakia
Rosenberg
Yéermains
Danube
Vienna
Prague
Women and Children Flee Konigsberg Siege
London dispatch reports Besiered Konigsberg in flames as civilians flee through blizzards toward Port Piltua on the Samland peninsula. A radio broadcast cites a war correspondent inside the city describing thousands of women, children, and disabled refugees dragged on sleds amid freezing winds. East Prussian peasants also abandon homes, guiding sleds and wagons toward Pislau amid chaos and urgent orders.
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Bast Brit
Port Piltua
Samland
Sami
Ponlumtla
Pislau
Famished Berlin women fired on in hunger riot
Berlin police shot into a crowd of emaciated women overturning a truck with potatoes. 47 wounded and a foreign worker killed. Hunger and coercion drive thousands of refugees toward the capital as freezing conditions claim lives and benches burn in protests.
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Bern
DiAgis de Neuchatel
Mussan Ddvarice
Childrn
Wittout
Red Star sympathizes with Nazi civilians fleeing Soviet advance
Red Star, the Soviet mouthpiece, expressed sympathy for Nazi civilians fleeing advancing Soviet forces. It contrasted Western agency reports on German refugees with its own view of the mass exodus from East Prussia, noting Germans stranded near Memel and Kursien.
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Red Star
Rusiannemy
Wille Nast
Reuters
Germany
Theyeprlice
Baltic
East Prussia
Yanks Guide Japs In Supply Landing
New York report says American forces landed more equipment on Luzon in three weeks than the Japanese managed in three years of occupation. The CNS correspondent notes the rapid buildup as Allied forces push inland and tighten supply lines.
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Luzon
C. BB
Bagno
Tokyo
Marianag
Uic Supertaut
Bonnielands
Central
Philippines
Themadera
Borneo
Ryukyu
Joseph W. Stilwell
Washington
Empeyor
Jap -Aircraft Ordnance Bureau
Group Approves Elliott's Raise in Senate Action
Washington reports the Senate Military Affairs Committee approved Col Elliott Roosevelt's nomination to brigadier general in the Air Corps. The move followed indications of broad support with little opposition, and no sustained fight expected amid wartime staffing needs.
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Jan
INS
Styles Bridges
Senate Military Affairs
Col
Eliott. Roosevelt
Peroval
Air Corps
Bridges
Post
el- Holt
White House
Col. R. W. Ireland
Air Transport Command
Roosevelt
Troy
Indy
der Jaying
Anna Roosevelt Hochtiger
Elliott Roosevelt
Elliott
James Roosevelt
Chicago
Ted
Weather man ends talk with nine feet snow total
Jamestown weather observer Gilbard G Olson reports the season's snow has reached nine feet, a blunt total after two words of small talk. The official weather staffer gave the figure while noting the winter has brought record-like accumulations.
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Jamestown
Gilberd G. Olson
Safon
Market woes spark farmers truckers complaint
In a San Antonio setting near Haymarket and Washington plants farmers and truckers protest the city market, claiming unfair prices and disposal hurdles. A farmer recounts shipping to Houston for higher returns while many growers quit the business, calling for a fair market to sustain local agriculture.
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Washington Plaza
Bexay
County
Houston
San Antonio
Keel
Yanks Roll on Manila Corridor
Allied forces push toward Manila from northern Luzon as American and Filipino troops press along the corridor toward the capital. Berlin reports Allied landings near Lingayen Bay while Tokyo cites naval and air activity across the Philippines and Ryukyus. Casualties mount on Luzon as Japanese forces withdraw toward Bataan amid renewed Allied bombardment and air attacks.
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Bataan
Forther
London
Berlin
Tokso
Lingayen Bay
Manila
China
San Manuel
San Fernando
Pimpinos
Ching
Southeast Asia
Kyaukee
Mandalay
Burma
Allied Leaflets Define Surrender
In Patı s January 30 release the Big Three Allies drop leaflets over German lines explaining unconditional surrender. They state surrendering Germans would be protected under the Geneva Convention and would not be at the mercy of victors, while offering normal peaceful development as part of a European family.
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Patis
Gasa‘blanca
Omnions
Guilty Plea Heard in Ruyi Crime Case at Broadway Store
In Criminal District Court Judge McCrory sentenced Roy Deming after he pleaded guilty to burglary at the Sommers Drug Store located at 6401 Broadway. The incident occurred September 90, 194_, and the judge imposed a two year penitentiary term.
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McCrory
Gas Shortage Closes Ohio Public Spaces Amid Cold Wave
In Cleveland and across Ohio a severe natural gas shortage caused closures of schools public libraries theaters taverns and other gathering places. High priority taints curtail gas supplies to Toledo and Columbus industries as the cold wave worsens the coal crisis and gas service is shut to essential operations.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Toledo
Columbus
Invasion of Pomerania Deepens in War Update
New York and London reports describe Soviet forces breaking into Brandenburg and Pomerania east of Berlin, with Zhukov's First White Russian and First Ukrainian armies pushing from Oder lines toward the German capital. Berlin combats, railways, and highways face disruption as heavy fighting intensifies near the Obra, Elbing, and Breslau sectors. Women gain the vote in Italy as Premier Boroni's cabinet enacts suffrage for those 21 and older from December onward.
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Berlin
Moscow
Germany
Brandenburg
Heriin
Pomerania
Zhukov
Oder River
Silesia
Znukay
Obrs River
Schmeidemundt
Lower Silesia
Steinson
Oder
Breslau
East Prussia
Elbing
Koenigsberg
Prankfurt
de Cieth
Uxov
Danelg-Beriin
Tim Zhukey
Birman
Miedaychibd
Driesen
Bern
Obra
Warthe Warta
Forecast for San Antonio Area With Cloudy and Cold Temperatures
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies Tuesday afternoon and night into Wednesday with somewhat colder conditions. Nighttime lows dip to around 13 degrees, a colder spell than expected, marking a record in the Northeast. Details and extended weather coverage appear on Page 2A and Page 3A.
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