Yanks Press German Bulge as Bastogne Holds Firm
Allied forces continue to drive into the German salient as Bastogne remains in American hands. Reported fighting near Beaufort and Celles details tanks and infantry clashes while Germans withdraw toward the center of the bulge and prepare defenses around St Hubert.
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Celles
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Situation in southwest Germany salient shows limited enemy activity
The report notes the southwestern tip of the German salient remained quiet with small groups of enemy tanks roaming the triangle near Beauraing, St. Hubert, and Rochefort, yet no large thrust was forming in that sector.
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Beauraing
St. Hubert
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War Board Seizes Ward Company Properties In Strike Action
The War Department designated seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company plants amid long running labor disputes with unions in seven cities. Strikes were active in Chicago, Detroit, and Kansas City with police presence and federal control expected for plants in Denver St Paul Portland San Rafael and Jamaica New York. Also reports sales of over $105000 in Series BE war bonds at the local post office during the Sixth War Loan.
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Greece Regime Talks Set as Leaders Eye Greek Question
Churchill says a meeting of Roosevelt Stalin and himself will tackle the Greek question as Elas sniper fire rings the embassy. He defends intervention in Greece and denies British aims of base rights or restoring King George II.
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Anthony Eden
Reginald W. A. Leeper
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George II
Greece
Worst Sleet Here In Years
A severe sleet storm crippled Baltimore and Southern Maryland with icy roads, 30 minute streetcar delays, and flooded lines. Bus routes canceled. an Eastern Amateur Hockey League game between the Balti more Blades and the Boston Olymp ics was postponed to January 24 due to travel hazards. Meteorologist Joseph Bily cited a Texas-origin disturbance. near zero temperatures forecast overnight as flurries hit Pittsburgh.
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Allied Outposts Are Driven Back In Italy
The Fifth Army announces a counter attack in the Serchio valley near Gallicano pushing Allied outposts to prepared positions. The assault came from both sides of the road town and progressed under heavy artillery with withdrawals described as bitter fighting.
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Serchio
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Gallicano
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Deadline Feb 15 for 1944 Agriculture Conservation reports
Los Angeles reports closing date of February 15 1945 for filing 1944 Agriculture Conservation program performance reports. County AAA details noted.
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Los Angeles
Veteran baseball publicist Henry Edwards injured in fall
Henry J. Edwards longtime manager of the American League Baseball Service bureau and former Cleveland sports writer is in St Francis hospital with a fractured kneecap after a fall on an icy street near his home in Evanston Illinois. He retired in 1942 as the league's publicity director and underwent hospitalization over the Christmas holidays.
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Henry J. Edwards
Baseball Service Bureau
Cleveland
St. Francis Hospital
Edwards
League
Fang
B.C
County tax on beer faces local opposition
County officials discuss a proposed tax on bottled beer prompting opposition from retailers and consumers. The plan would require a new collecting and enforcing department and additional office holders. A tavern operator argues it shifts costs from automobile owners to working men.
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Ing
Nazis Use Students and Faculty as Workers
Moscow radio said Germany employed 10 000 civilian workers to fortify the Austrian frontier as Russian forces push across Hungary. The University of Vienna faculty and student body are among the workers with more helpers arriving from Moravia and western Austria. The U S Army uses more radio equipment than was made for the entire nation in peacetime.
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London
Moscow
Hungary
University of Vienna
Moravia
Austria
U. S
Bastogne Allied Reply Nuts Not Surrender
Amid encirclement by German armored forces at Bastogne, the German demand for surrender led the American commander to reply with a single word nuts, delivered in under two hours. The exchange followed a December ultimatum and highlighted the rout of German advances near Mourtheville and St Hubert.
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U. S
Bastogne
Mourtheville
St. Hubert
Homeres-Libret-Tillet
Libramont
Belgian Fascist DeGrelle Sentenced to Death
Brussels officials sentenced Leon DeGrelle, chief of the Belgian Rexist movement, in abstentia to be shot. He has been in German hands since before their departure from Belgium. Charges include supplying soldiers and arms to the Germans, fomenting civil war, bearing arms against Belgium, and promoting the Walloon Guard.
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Brussels
Leon DeGrelle
DeGrelle
Belgium
Washington County Farm Bureau Plans Banquet Saturday
Plans for the annual Farm Bureau membership banquet will be laid Saturday afternoon at 1 30 in the county agent's office. Officers for 1945 will be nominated, delegates to the state meeting in Baltimore will be chosen, and income tax return services for members will be announced. Brazil history note follows.
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Washington County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Baltimore
Lead arsenate used heavily in apple orchards nationwide
About 35 million pounds of lead arsenate are applied each year to protect apples from codling moths. Costa Rica enacted a social security law in 1943, reflecting progressive reform in Central America.
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Costa Rica
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