Two Women Feared Dead After Helena Fire
A five story unemployment compensation building in downtown Helena burned Sunday. Two elderly women on the fourth floor, Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke and Mrs. Laura Clarke, were missing and believed dead. Eight others injured, including firefighter William Staniger with possible critical injuries.
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Helena
Montana National Bank
State Unemployment Compensation Commission
Elizabeth Clarke
Laura Clarke
William Staniger
Thomas Williams
Williams
Staniger
Congress Meets for New Session
Washington begins the 78th Congress second regular session after a vacation with a heavy workload ahead. Party leaders promise nonpartisan wartime cooperation while elections loom, as House and Senate seats are at stake and President Roosevelt weighs delivering the state of the union in person.
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78Th Congress
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
House
Senate
Sea
Veteran Winnipeg Editor John Dafoe Dies at 77
John W. Dafoe, 77, editor in chief of the Winnipeg Free Press and a newspaperman over five decades, died Sunday in Winnipeg Manitoba.
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Man
John W. Dafoe
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Winnipeg Free Press
Helena child burns heroic fire rescue at bank blaze
Norman Edden, 10, lay near death after reentering a burning Montana National Bank building to save his sisters, while sister Patricia Deconia 14 and Irma June Edden 4 escaped with injuries. Other relatives also suffered burns and broken bones in the blaze.
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Norman Edden
Montana National Bank
Norman
Patricia Deconia
Irma June Edden
Patricia
Tito issues call to Yugoslav forces around Banja Luka
Marshal Tito urges all Yugoslav officers and men serving Germans or allied puppet leaders to report to partisan posts. The communique describes five German columns attempting to break into Partisan territory around Banja Luka with heavy losses and several clashes across eastern Bosnia and Croatia.
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London
Yugo- Slavia
Josip Broz
Tito
Banja Luka
Nedic
Pavelic
Rupnik
Croatia
Banija
Slovenia
Stalin Receives Italian Decoration Supposedly From Rome
Berlin radio quoted a Rome dispatch claiming King Vittorio Emanuele conferred the Order of the Annunziata on Marshal Joseph Stalin, making him a cousin of the king. The broadcast offered no source for the information and noted the decoration is Italy's highest honor.
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Rome
Vittorio Emanuele
Joseph Stalin
Allies Break One Third Through Cassino Defense Line
Allied infantry have penetrated about one third of the six mile Nazi belt guarding Cassino in Italy. American and British troops captured the hamlet of Hiusto and reached a mountainside below Cervaro, with fierce mountain fighting continuing as Germans throw in reserves. Fifth Army presses toward Cassino from San Vittore, seizing Giusto and advancing near Monte Le Chiara, Mount Maio, Mount Porchia, and Mount Cedro as air and ground operations continue across northern Italy and beyond.
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Algiers
Cassino
Hiusto
Cervaro
Albania
Rome
Fifth Army
Reggio Emilia
Italy
Yugoslavia
France
San Vittore
Giusto
Mark W. Clark
Second Polish Division Joins Red Army For Front Action
The Second Polish division leaves for the front to join the Red Army shouting on to Warsaw. It forms an infantry unit with its own tank aviation and artillery and a women battalion and will be in action within days. The division and the First Polish division under Gen Rokossovsky fight on the White Russian front as part of Gen Berling's Polish army corps.
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Moscow
U.P
Red Army
Warsaw
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Sigmund Berling
Marines Battle for an Important Observation Point
U S Marines on New Britain clashed with Japanese remnants south of the Cape Gloucester airdromes while fighting for Hill 660 near Sili mati point and securing the Gloucester area. Liberator bombers hit Bergen bay positions as air and ground forces prepare for the final Rabaul assault amid ongoing New Guinea and Solomons air operations.
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New Guinea
New Britain Island
Cape Gloucester
Bergen Bay
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Silimati Point
Rabaul
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Cape St. George
New Ireland
Saidor
Huon Peninsula
Uenaja
Dallman River
Gloucester
Vunakanau
Lakunai
Tobera
Russians Close on German Gap in Ukraine Front
Moscow dispatch reports First and Second Red armies nearing a junction west of the Dnieper to trap German forces in the Smela gap. Vatutin and Konev push through Polonnoye and Kam enets Podolsk as they advance toward Shepetovka, triggering fear of a pocket 80 miles deep.
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Dnieper River
Nikola Vatutin
Buki
Ivan Konev
Alexandrovka
Smela
Dnieper
First
Kamenetsk Podolsk
Rovno
Old Poland
Red
Polonnoe
Kameenetsk Podolsk
Klesov
Polonice
Zhitomir
Shepetovka
London
Red Army
Russia
Warssaw-Odessa
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ivan S. Konev
Sarny
Mosquitos Raid Western Reich Hits Accen and Kiel Inferno
RAF Mosquito bombers flew a seventh or eighth straight night over Germany, targeting Accen near the Belgian Dutch border as Berlin claimed attacks on Charlemagne’s cathedral. Vichy radio went off air. Kiel harbor was described as an inferno after January 5 strike, while Dover straits saw limited daylight activity.
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Germany
Western Reich
Berlin
Accen
Vichy
France
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Achen
Belgium
Netherlands
Charlemagne
Hitler
Stockholm
Kiel
More Landing Craft Needed for Invasion Operations
Washington brief cites Undersecretary James V. Forrestal announcing a $5 billion program to build 65 000 landing craft, including 450 foot deck ships and amphibian tractors, with 20 000 completed and in action. An additional 45 000 craft are required quickly as invasion dates are set and casualties expected.
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Washington
James V. Forrestal
Europe
Pacific
Forrestal
Invasion Plans Worry Germans Across Europe
Allied preparations to invade Europe from the west heighten German nervousness across regions from the eastern Mediterranean to Belgium. Broadcasts from German-controlled areas and neutral dispatches reflect rising tension as the Nazis fear steps toward invasion. A Budapest dispatch from Morgon Tidningen appeared in Stockholm on January 9.
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Associated Press
Europe
Mediterranean
Belgium
Stockholm
Morgon Tidningen
Budapest
German Army Admits Fleeing In Decisive War Hour
Stockholm dispatch reports German spokesmen acknowledged a chaotic westward retreat in Ukraine as Soviet offensives broke plans. German defenses were extended east of the Polish frontier with fortified lines near the Vistula and Bug, amid fighter plane shortages and aging pilots. American shipments to the Soviet Union reportedly rise, with Russia producing many armored cars domestically.
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John H. Colburn
Stockholm
Ukraine
High Command
Red Army
Berlin
Svenska Dagbladet
Sweden
East Prussia
Germany
Bug River
Vistula
Old Poland
Danzig
Baltic
Warsaw
Carpathian Mountains
Russia
Tokyo Reports Allied Air Mastery Expansion in Southwest Pacific
A Tokyo broadcast via United Press notes the Allies have breached Japanese air defenses in the southwest Pacific by establishing new bases. It warns intensified Allied raids on Rabaul at New Britain and suggests a possible air strip active at Arawe. The report cites enemy numerical strength and fighter use from Bougainville and Bougainville landings in the region.
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United Press
Tokyo
United States Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Southwest Pacific
New Britain
Rabaul
Arawe
New Britain Island
Bougainville
Will Inspect Wacs London
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby head of the WACs arrived in London for an inspection of WAC units in Britain. Maj. Betty Bandel WAC staff director accompanied her on the visit.
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WACS
London
Oveta Culp Hobby
Britain
Maj
Betty Bandel
WAC
Poles Weigh Russian Plan on Polish Frontier
London reports the Polish government in exile is considering a Russian settlement proposal based on the Curzon line. The plan would be used as a basis for negotiations if accepted, with potential redrawn borders affecting Lithuania and Galicia amid Allied diplomacy.
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London
Russia
Moscow
Sunday Observer
Liethuania
Poland
Galicia
Red Army
Weather Forecast For Butte And Missouri River Headwaters
Weather forecast notes little temperature change for Butte and Missouri river headwaters with Monday mainly cloudy and snow flurries especially in the west. Sunday highs near 29 and low near -19, with colder conditions east of the continental divide and continued cloudiness across the region.
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