Martin warns against hasty action on peacetime draft
House Republican Leader Joe Martin cautioned against rushing a universal peacetime draft and tax revision, urging mature consideration and noting returning soldiers may weigh in. He supported some form of peace time training but urged scrutiny of war-related spending as Congress opens.
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Washington
House
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Germany
Martin
Congress
Roosevelt
May
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Army
Navy
Rayburn
Texas
Elas Delegation Fails to End Athens Strife Talks
A Greek Elas delegation met Lt. Gen. Ronald M. Scobie in Athens to end the fighting and restore normal order but failed to reach an agreement. Brit and Greek forces tightened grip, controlling two thirds of Athens and half of Piraeus as shops reopen amid talk of a new government.
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Athens
U.P
Elas
Ronald M. Scobie
Greece
Piraeus
John Nixon
London Daily Telegraph
Hearing Dates Set For 1945 Sugar Beet Rates
The War Food Administration announces 1945 sugar beet crop hearing dates and locations. Berkeley California January 8 Salt Lake City January 10 Greeley Colorado January 12 Billings Montana January 15 Fargo North Dakota January 17 Lansing Michigan January 19.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Berkeley
Calif
Salt Lake City
Greeley
Colo
Billings
Mont
Fargo
N. D
Lansing
Mich
Nimitz predicts very unhappy year for Japs
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz forecast a very unhappy 1945 for Japan after returning from Pacific fronts. He said the United States must be prepared to invade Japan and secure bases on the China coast to deploy its large forces, aiming for complete defeat at the earliest moment. He added the Japs may fight to the last ditch as the U.S. plans to occupy territory to win the peace.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U.P
United States
Japan
China Coast
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Nimitz
China
Forest P. Sherman
America
Pacific War Summary Reports Major 1944 Gains
Air and sea victories are tallied by Pearl Harbor and fleet command as American forces push toward Tokyo. Nimitz backs possible Russian aid and MacArthur cites deep strikes in Luzon and Mindoro with sinking of Japanese ships. Iwo Jima and Saipan face continued air raids as 1944 box score chronicles 550 ships sunk and 6,650 aircraft destroyed.
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Associated Press
Philippines
Central Pacific
Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Lingayen Gulf
Manila
Luzon
Batangas
Mindoro Island
Saipan
Iwo
Pacific Fleet
Marianas
Pacific
State Officers Are Given Oath
In Helena on New Year’s Day Chief Justice Howard A. Johnson administered the oaths of office to two new Montana Supreme Court associates E. K. Cheadle Jr of Shelby and Albert H Angstman of Helena. They replace Justices Leif Erickson and Albert Anderson welcomed by Attorney General R. V. Bottomly. Only families court staff and Bottomly’s aides attended. Cheadle begins his first term while Angstman was newly sworn in.
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Helena
Howard A. Johnson
Montana
Sungay
State Supreme Court
E. K. Cheadle, Jr
Shelby
Albert H. Angstman
Peter Meloy
Frank Murray
Leif Erickson
Albert Anderson
R. V. Bottomly
Bottomly
Cheadle
Supreme Bench
Angstman
Byrnes Proposes Plan to Force A F s Into Military Tasks
War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes proposed drafting 4-Fs into military or war support roles if current manpower measures fail. He urged stronger War Labor Board powers and new laws to enforce rulings, warning that production must meet front-line needs and that reconversion should wait until victory. The plan would use 4-Fs in limited service or redirected to war industry if Congress acts.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
James F. Byrnes
War Labor Board
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Congress
Office of War Mobilization
WLB
Montgomery Ward
Ward
Sewell Avery
Avery
Battle for Budapest Intensifies as Red Army Advances
Moscow reports the Red Army surrounds Budapest with heavy street fighting. German Hungarian defenders lose 1 000 plus, 24 tanks knocked out, 13 armored troop carriers, 429 prisoners. Soviets claim over 7 300 enemy killed in three days and expect fall of Buda within 24 to 36 hours. Rail hub Rakos captured. Losone near border also seized.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Budapest
Red Army
Moscow
Buda
Danube
Cairo
Pest
Rakos
Losone
Lucenec
Pilot chases enemy supply train in tunnel
Lt. Paul C. Harold of Galesburg Kansas, a Thunderbolt pilot, spotted an enemy supply train hiding in a tunnel. He knocked out the tail and sealed the tunnel with a 500 pound bomb, then strafed and destroyed the locomotive at the north end. He said he could not do much about the cars inside the tunnel.
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Paul C. Harold
Galesburg
Kans
Thunderbolt
Harold
German Agents From U-boat Landings Arrested by FBI
New York city police and the FBI announced the arrest of two men described as German agents landed from a U-boat off Maine and moved to New York after Boston. William Curtis Colepaugh and Erich Gimpel, both armed, carried a short wave radio, forged papers, and $56,574 in cash. Hoover said they trained in Berlin Dresden and The Hague and studied at the SS school before being sent to the United States.
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New York
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Maine
Hoover
Hancock Point
Frenchman's Bay
New York City
Boston
William Curtis Colepaugh
Niantic
Conn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erich Gimpel
Merseberg
Germany
FBI
United States Navy
Connecticut
Washington
America
United States
Berlin
Dresden
Hague
Netherlands
Colepaugh
Gimpel
Mussolini
Federal Building
Armed Forces Reach 11.9 Million in 1940 Mobilization
Washington reports total military strength rose to 11.9 million as of November 1, 1941, up from 700,000 in 1940. About 8.1 million serve in the Army with the rest in Navy, Marines and Coast Guards. the figure is net after 1.8 million discharged or killed.
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Washington
Senate
Byrnes
25th Montana Legislature Opens With Ford Speech
Montana's 29th legislature met to start a brief session focusing on postwar plans and new legislation. Gov. Ford's inaugural address was set for a joint session as leaders from both parties voiced cooperation and hopes for a productive session.
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John R. Ward
Helena
Montana
Senate
House
Sam C Ford
George W. O'Connor
R-Carbon
H. A Simmons
Carbon County
W. E. Keeley
R Powell
Liberty County
Leonard Plank
David James
Plank
O'Connor
Ernest Eaton
Ralph C. Bricker
R-Cascade
Simmons
Live bombs scattered over Kansas after bomber crash
Twenty live bombs lie scattered about 15 miles northwest of Salina after a bomber crew abandoned the craft and parachuted to safety. The plane crashed near Concordia as civilians are warned that mishandling the ordnance could trigger explosions. Major Alfred Evans of Smoky Hill Army Airfield cautioned the public.
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Salina
Kans
Here
Concordia
Alfred Evans
Smoky Hill Army Airfield
Luftwaffe fails to halt Allied aerial onslaught on New Year
German air force loses at least 241 planes as Reich fields 50 to 75 craft in France Belgium and Holland. Allied air forces—American and British—lose 83 enemy aircraft. 11 fighters downed by escorts. 16 by First Tactical Air Force. Over 337 Luftwaffe planes fallen in 36 hours as 11,000 Allied sorties target Milan and rail hubs. Actor Helmut Dantine is booked on battery charges in Los Angeles following a complaint by Ida Lupino’s secretary.
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London
France
Belgium
Holland
United States
Eighth Air Force
Luxembourg
Ninth Air Force
Dollbergen
Coblenz
First Tactical Air Force
United States Seventh Army
Reich
Italy
Milan
German Forces Attack in Bitche Sector
Paris dispatch reports Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U S Third Army pushes four miles north from Bastogne to near a junction with the First Army. In Alsace Lorraine German counterattacks force U S troops to yield ground southeast of Bitche as Americans gain along a 50 mile front toward the Rhine.
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James F. McGlincy
Paris
Georges. Patton
U. S. Third Army
Belegium
Bastogne
First Army
Alsace- Lorraine
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh Army
Bitche
Luxembourg
Belgium
Rhine River
Patton
Longchamps
United Press War
John B. McDermott
St. Hubert
Motroy
Remage
St. Huebert
Libramont
Brig Gen S H Mitchell Renamed Adjutant General
Brig. Gen. S. H. Mitchell of Bainville was named state adjutant general by Gov. Sam C. Ford. His term runs to Jan. 1, 1949. Mitchell joined the state selective service staff in 1942 and holds the rank of colonel in the regular army. He is a World War I veteran with long Montana National Guard service.
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Helena
S. H. Mitchell
Bainville
Sam C. Ford
Mitchell
Montana National Guard
Weather outlook for Butte and divide regions
Butte sees clouds and cooler temperatures with light snow Tuesday. High near 28 and low around 10. Monday highs about 31 and lows near 23. West of the continental divide expects cloudy skies with light snow flurries Tuesday. East of the divide stays mostly cloudy with scattered snow flurries Tuesday.
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Butte
Continental Divide
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William F. Arbogast
U. S
William F. Tyree
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Kansas
Luftwaffe
John A. Parris
Los Angeles
Helmut Dantine
Ida Lupino
Leslie Forrest
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