Marines Kill 600 Japs in New Drive
Advanced Allied HQ reports heavy fighting as Marines press toward Bergen bay on New Britain. About 600 Japanese dead cited in the latest assault using tanks and artillery. Air forces strike Kavieng, New Ireland, damaging two destroyers and destroying fighters.
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New Guinea
U.P
Borgen Bay
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
Douglas MacArthur
Bergen Bay
Kavieng
New Ireland
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Panic Develops in Balkans as Antonescu Orders Evacuations
Dispatches from Cairo report Marshal Ion Antonescu ordered civilians to flee Bessarabia amid Russian advances. Rumors say his mistress is sent to Istanbul for safety and refugees move toward Turkey. Berlin warns of a war zone in Galicia and growing risk of anti German action in Romania and Bulgaria unless Germans halt the Russian advance.
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Cairo
U.P
Ion Antonescu
Romania
Bessarabia
Antonescu
Isanbul
Turkey
Stockholm
Germany
Galicia
Poland
Rumania
Bulgaria
Searchers Seek Missing Flyers in Sheep Mountains Rescue
Army search parties trek through snow and ice on the 10,000 foot Sheep mountains seeking two Flying Fortress crew members who parachuted from the disabled plane before the crash. Eleven crewmen were rescued earlier after two nights on the slopes. they received treatment at Las Vegas Army air base hospital.
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Las Vegas
Nev
U.P
Flying Fortress
Las Vegas Army Air Base
Butte Forecast Clouds Snow Flurries and Cold Break
Butte region: Thursday highs near 22 and lows around 6 with partly cloudy skies and snow flurries. West of the continental divide: valleys cloudy or foggy, fair elsewhere with continued cold Friday and Friday night. East of the divide: Friday partly cloudy, slowly rising temperatures in extreme northwest, otherwise cold and fair regionwide Friday night.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Solons Demand OPA Agree to Pork Ration Holiday
Washington, Jan 6. Senator Clyde Reed and farm state senators press OPA to grant a pork ration holiday by mid next week or Congress will move to override the agency. The informal session aimed to curb a pork glut in warehouses after a prior dissatisfactory farm-group meeting demanding remedial steps.
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Washington
U.P
OPA
Congress
Clyde M. Reed
Arans
Witnesses Testify in Packineau Murder Trial at Butte Jail
The trial of Richard Wilson Packineau for the murder of John ONeill opened in Butte with five state witnesses. Judge Downey postponed further testimony until Friday morning as jurors and officers described Packineau’s arrest at the Finlen hotel on a drunken charge and his confinement in the Butte city jail.
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Richard Wilson Packineau
Finlen
Butte City
Wolf Point
T. E. Downey
John
Tip) O'Neill
Butteman
Philip O'Donnell
Frank J. Roe
J. J. McCaffery, Jr
W. B. Prame
Salo
Butte
Finlen Hotel
Packineau
Yugoslav Partisans Report Broad Front Gains
Yugoslav partisans claim to have expelled Germans from the 60 mile Cetina valley and advance in Banja Luka with heavy street fighting. They report killing 50 Germans near Novo mesto and destroying a Zagreb Belgrade armored train, while December raids in Macedonia yield 600+ enemy deaths and major materiel losses.
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London
Cetina
Adriatic Sea
Omis
Split
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Banja Luka
Novomesto
Slovenia
Macedonia
Zagreb
Belgrade
Allies Advance in Renewed Push on Rome
Allied infantry push along a 10 mile front before Cassino, making about a mile of progress amid heavy German resistance and bombardment. American and British troops assault north and south of the Via Casilina toward Cassino and Rome, with fierce counterfire from German pillboxes and artillery.
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Rome
Algiers
Cassino
Venafro
Rocca d’Evandro
Via Casilina
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
Eternal City
French Vote to Form Expeditionary Force for Invasion
The French national committee on Thursday formally voted for a second expeditionary force to join the Allied invasion of Europe from the west or south. The commander was not announced. The committee also decreed mobilization of youths aged 18 and 19 starting February 15.
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Algiers
French National Committee
Europe
Reds Drive Toward Rumania Imperil Thousands of Nazis
R A F bombers struck at Stettin in a 1300 mile round trip as heavy Lancasters and Halifaxes pounded the Baltic port. The raid followed a feint at Berlin to draw German fighters away, with the lesson that Berlin came first and the rest of Germany lagged.
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Rumania
London
Europe
Berlin
Germany
Baltic
Stettin
France
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Sweden
Tojo Warns Officials Of Rising Unhappiness in Japan
Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo told top officials that unhappiness and cheerlessness are growing among the public as wartime hardships mount. He urged officials to communicate with the people in a spirit of self sacrifice to avoid spreading fear.
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New York
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Office of War Information
Tojo
Tokyo Radio
Youngster Receives Medals For Fallen Father Honor
A one year old, Leonard A. Gionet Jr., receives four medals on behalf of his missing father Technical Sergeant Leonard A. Gionet in a Museum hall ceremony at Montana School of Mines. The Air Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart were presented as military representatives and civilians watched. The child, unaware of the war heroism, smiles while held by his mother Mrs Della L.
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Leonard A. Gionet, Jr
Leonard A. Gionet
Della L. Gionet
Butte
Floyd J. Gudgel
Great Falls Army Air Base
War Department
Museum Hall
Montana School of Mines
Della L
Cutbacks Foreseen in Small Arms and War Supplies by OWI
The OWI forecast cuts in small arms bullets non combat planes and anti aircraft gear with a nearly 40 percent drop in aluminum but offset by boosts in warplanes and other munitions. Civilian production may resume only temporarily and if Europe war ends by mid year. Navy cutbacks total 2.856 billion but 1944 program rises to 16 billion with continued high ship and plane output. 1945 47 plans call for hundreds of combat vessels and thousands of landing craft, while some civilian goods may return only if metal supply remains favorable.
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The
OWI
Washington
Office of War Information
War Production Board
Navy
WPB
United Nations
Europe
Revolutionary Jet Propelled Fighter Planes Revealed
The United States Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Force announced a revolutionary jet propelled fighter plane designed for high altitudes and extreme speed. After hundreds of successful tests with no mishaps, production plans target both U S and Britain for training and trials. first U S maiden flight occurred October 1, 1942 with Bell aircraft pilot Robert R. Stanly at the controls.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Royal Air Force
Great Britain
Frank Whittle
H. H. Arnold
British Air Ministry
Gloucester Aircraft Company, Ltd
Ministry of Air Production
General Electric Company
R. A. F. Material Command
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Bell Aircraft Company
United States
England
Arnold
Navy
Robert R. Stanly
Bell Company
Marine Flying Ace Missing After Raid Over Rabaul
Washington dispatches report Major Gregory Boyington missing in action after a raid over Rabaul in the southwest Pacific. He had just tied the wartime record with his twenty sixth kill, matching Major Joe Foss and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. His mother expressed guarded optimism.
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Boyington
E. J. Hallenback
Soviets Push 10 Miles Into Poland
Soviet forces drove 10 miles into Poland with the capture of Rakityno and a battle tally showing heavy enemy losses. The advance reached near the Warsaw Odessa rail line as Berlin reported Vatutin and Konev armies closing a pincer, while Axis broadcasts feared the southern Dnieper bend push.
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London
Old Poland
Rakitno
Warsaw-Odessa
Berlin
Germany
Nikolai FP
Vaetutin
Ivan
Konev
Poland
Rumania
Dnieper Bend
Vatutin
Dnieper
Zhmerinka
Russia
Moscow
Romania
Polish Patriots publish five point program for Poland
The Union of Polish Patriots in Moscow urged no Polish underground to resist Germans and outlined a five point plan including cession of western Ukraine and western White Russia to the Soviet Union and westward frontier expansion to Poland. The program calls for a democratic regime and unification of all Poles excluding émigré elements abroad.
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Moscow
U.P
Russia
Poland
Geremanys
Red Army
Ukraine
Union of Polish Patriots
Union
Wolna Polska
Soviet Union
London
Jugoslavia
Josip (Tito) Broz
Wojna Polski
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Agia Lavra
Katerini
Ayios Demetrios
R.A. F
W. W Hercher
Air Ministry
Leningrad
Nippon
U. S
Britain
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