Two Rail Escape Routes of Nazis Slashed
The Red Army cut two German escape railways in the Dnieper bend halting 8,000 Germans and closing on Kirovograd. Vatutin’s forces seized Yorovatka and Voronovista, nearing the Bug River and aiming to trap up to 500,000 Nazis in southern Russia. The fronts stretched within 70 miles of each other as units moved to join and seal the Dnieper bend.
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London
Red Army
Dnieper
Kirovograd
Warsaw- Odessa
Russia
Old Poland
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Sarny
Moscow
Red
Ivan S. Konev
Dnieper Bend
Konev
Vatutin
Germany
Smela- Kanev
Smela-Khristinovka
Yorovatka
Smela
Khristinovka
Vinnitsa
Voronovista
Bug River
Dniester River
Rumania
Bodies of Fire Victims Found in Helena Blaze
The charred bodies of Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke and Mrs. Laura Clarke were found in the ruins of the Montana National Bank building. Fire officials said both died of suffocation before flames. Norman Edden and seven others were injured. the building, owned by Wellington Rankin, valued at 75000, largely saved records from unemployment and labor services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
U.P
Elizabeth K. Clarke
Laura Clarke
Montana National Bank
Alex Miller
Robert Entz
EF. R. Munger
Norman Edden
Erma June Edden
Esther Edden
William Desonia
Patricia Desonia
Philomenia Belgrade
William Staninger
Thomas E. Williams
Wellington D. Rankin
First National Bank
Rankin
Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission
U. S. Employment Service
Daisy Ray
China Clarke
Minneapolis
William
Dave Clarke
Wallcott Raymond
Sheridan
Mosquitos Blast French Coast In New Luftwaffe Skirmish
London reports small formations of Typhoon and Mosquito bombers struck northern France coast aiming at military targets. Four Allied fighters did not return, while a Nazi JU-88 was shot down over Belgium. The lull in Allied heavy raids continues since Friday.
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London
France
Hitler
Germany
Belgium
Ludwigshafen
Jap Auxiliary Oiler Is Sunk
Navy Liberator planes over Wotje atoll in the Marshall islands sank a Japanese auxiliary oiler and a small vessel during the night of January 9. The strikes hit Wotje Jaluit and Kwajalein, damaged two enemy aircraft on the ground, and damaged shore installations with no American losses.
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Pearl Harbor
Wotje Atoll
Marshall Islands
Marshalls
Chester W Nimitz
Wotje
Jaluit
Kwajalein
Seventh Army Air Force
Willkie Expected to Declare Soon
Reports say Wendell L. Willkie will formally announce his 1944 candidacy within two weeks and open campaign HQ in New York City with Ralph H. Cake in charge. He must declare by February 14 to be on the New Hampshire primary ballot March 14, with talks of a potential third party ticket if he loses the GOP nomination.
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Chicago
Wendell L. Willkie
New York City
Ralph H. Cake
Oregon National Committee
Willkie
New Hampshire
Butte Weather Forecast Shows Little Temp Change
Butte area to see minimal temperature shifts Tuesday and Tuesday night with a high near 24 and a low around minus 15. West of the continental divide clouds or fog in valleys, otherwise fair elsewhere with continued cold. East of the divide fair but colder, while the southwest has little temperature change and the west portion grows more cloudy and not as cold.
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Continental Divide
Count Ciano Sentenced to Death by Nazis
Berlin radio reported Count Galeazzo Ciano Mussolini's son in law and former foreign minister was sentenced to death for treason along with 17 other Fascist leaders by a Verona trial. The broadcast cited a D N E dispatch noting the 13 grand council members were tried in absentia.
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London
Galeazzo Ciano
Mussolini
Italy
Berlin
Ciano
Grant Fascist Council
Emilio de Bono
Ethiopia
Carlo Pereschi
Giovanni Marinelli
Gotthardi
Tullio Cianetti
Edda
Grand Council
Dino Grandi
Chamber of Fasces and Guilds
Verona
Sweden Germany Sign Trade Pact Reduces 1944 Exports
Sweden and Germany sign a trade treaty to ease exchanges in 1944 and lift the blockade on Swedish ships to the Americas next Saturday. Germany backs down from safe conduct suspension for Swedish vessels, restores safe conduct, and increases iron ore exports to Germany while cutting coal and coke imports. Sweden to ship 7,000,000 tons of iron ore in 1944, down from 1943.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
South
America
Washington
Widener Art Collection Valued at 7.14 Million in Washington
Collection appraised at seven million one hundred forty one thousand dollars by Dr A S W Rosenbach, Philadelphia dealer, for display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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Norristown
Widener
National Gallery of Art
Washington
A. S. W. Rosenbach
Philadelphia
Allied Air and Ground Offensives Press German Forces
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports heavy air strikes across New Guinea, Rabaul, Kendari, and surrounding islands. Marines push the Bergen bay front at Cape Gloucester as bombers hit Alexishafen, Madang, and Toekangbesa targets while ships destroy barges near New Britain.
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New Guinea
New Britain
Dutch East Indies
Bismarck Archipelago
Rabaul
Cape Gloucester
Bergen Bay
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Kendall
Celebes
Tomea
Binongko Islands
Toekangbesa
Kendari
Lakunal
Tobera
Matupi Island
Cape Star
Cape St. George
New Ireland Island
Keip
Guma
Wide Bay
Lindenhafen Plantation
Gasmata
Alexishafen
Madang
Halsey Meets Roosevelt. Weather Topic Quips Emerge
Admiral William F. Halsey, U S Navy commander in the South Pacific, called on President Roosevelt for a brief discussion on Monday. When asked what they talked about, Halsey grinned and said they discussed the weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Roosevelt
Judy Garland to Seek Divorce From Sgt. Davis Rose
Hollywood January report says Judy Garland plans to file divorce proceedings from her husband Sgt. Davis Rose a former film studio composer and musical director. Garland aged 21 has been separated from Rose since 1943 and Rose was previously married to Actress Martha Raye.
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Hollywood
Judy Garland
Sgt
Davis Rose
Miss Garland
Rose
Martha Raye
Berlin Destruction Mounts After Allied Bombing Surveys
London reports new air ministry findings show extensive damage in Berlin after six raids through December 21. Key sites including Goebbels and Goering offices, Gestapo HQ, central government offices, rail and industrial plants sustained heavy destruction across the Tiergarten district, with 8 000 acres of built up area affected.
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London
Hitler
Berlin
Nazi War Administration
Air Ministry
Fuehrer
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Reichmarshal
Herman Goering
The
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Foreign Office
Treasury
Ministers of Justice
Transport
Food and Agriculture
Army Records Office
Tiergarten
Kroll Opera
Reichstag
Lehrer
Potsdamer
Rhein-Metall Borsig
Alkett
Siemens Electrical
Dornier- Heinkel
Argus
Soviets Declare Western Ukraine Joins Soviet Russia
Radio Moscow via Tass announced Western Ukraine and Western White Russia have become parts of Soviet Russia and Soviet White Russia. The Polish government was urged to join the Czechoslovakian U S R pact, signaling no further negotiation on these territories.
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London
Radio
Moscow
Ukraine
Russia
Tass
Czechoslovakia
U. S
Solons Awaiting F. D. R. Message on State of Union
The 78th Congress opens its second session awaiting President Roosevelt's annual State of the Union address to be read at the Capitol tomorrow. The budget request for 1945 totals about 95 billion dollars. The House backs an early vote on the social security tax freeze and the rival veterans and soldier vote issues loom.
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Washington
U.P
78Th Congress
Roosevelt
White House
Capitol
Stephen T. Early
Congress
Walter F. George
D.-Ga
Finance Committee
Sam Rayburn
House
Foreign Pigeons Now Controlled
Washington January 10. The War Production Board placed foreign pigeons under import control fearing return with secret war information. Pigeons were added to restricted commodities and barred from free entry for shipments coming over land by air or inland waterway from Canada Mexico Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Washington
War Production Board
Canada
Mexico
Guatemala
el Salvador
Plane Crashes Near Cheyenne. Pilot Killed
Captain W D Emery of Cheyenne, an Army Air Force representative, said a single engine pursuit ship from a Romulus Michigan ferry group crashed east of Cheyenne Monday. The pilot was killed when the aircraft struck the ground three quarters of a mile from the Cheyenne airport.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
W. D. Emery
Army Air Force
Romulus
Mich
Emery
German Blockade Runner Scuttled in Atlantic Chase
Rio de Janeiro reports a German blockade runner was scuttled January 3 after pursuit by American and Brazilian forces. Fourteen five crewmen were captured and held at a Brazilian base. The vessel, blamed on joint U S and Brazilian action, was en route to Japan with contraband when sunk between Ascension Island and the African coast.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
O’globo
Japan
Germany
O'Globo
Ascension Island
African
Packineau Faces Lesser Charges in Murder Case
The judge dropped first degree murder charges against Richard Wilson Packineau in the death of John ONeill in the city jail last June 18. The jury will now consider only second degree murder or manslaughter as the trial resumes, with Packineau testifying about drinking with Indian friends and his March volunteer service.
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Richard Wilson Packineau
T. E. Downey
Downey
Packineau
John
Tip) O'Neill
Russell Young
Charlie Bear
Fort Belknap Reservation
Ella McGrady
Great Falls
Clyde Scott
Ottawa
John Moore
Joseph J. McCaffery
Anne Packineau
Frank J. Roe
Butte
Selective Service
Allied U boat losses fall as Atlantic shipping dips
A joint Anglo American statement says 1943 shipping losses to U boat action fell by 60 percent from 1942, with the enemy more cautious in operations. It cites about 200 U boats accounted for, while United Nations vessel construction rose and December losses remained low despite extended operating areas.
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Atlantic
Washington
U.P
Office of War Information
United Nations
Allied push breaks German lines near Cassino
Allied Fifth Army under Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark drives into Cassino defenses 70 miles from Rome. Armor and infantry press through the six mile zone between San Vittore and Cassino as German artillery position on heights shapes limits for the final assault. Freezing weather hampers troops but favors armored units advancing on the Cassino plain.
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Algiers
Cassino
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Rome
Herman Goering
Clark
San Vittore
Naples
Induction Of Local Draft Board No 2 Members Into Armed Forces
Men from board two passed medicals at the Montana Army Recruiting Center and were inducted into the Navy Army and Marines. Names include John Ambrosett John Stenson Miera Candido William Kirke Patrick Thomas McGarry Richard Webb John Gentry Gaylord Atkins William Pesantt Daniel McGonagle Jerome Horgan William Roose Emmett Sullivan Lester Madelena Frank Randall Donal Walker John Kurtz. Army duty men chose three week furlough or Fort Douglas travel. Navy option one week furlough. Marine one two week furlough. Most opted for furlough, says Army officers.
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Navy
John E. Ambrosett
Anaconda Road
John M. Stenson
Bennett Street
Miera Candido
Hamilton
William M. Kirkepatrick
North Alabama
Thomas H. McGarry
West Quartz
Richard H. Webb
Mullen Street
John E. Gentry
North Main
Gaylord O. Atkins
Missoula Avenue
William A. Pesantt
Walkerville
Daniel E. McGonigle
Woolman
Marines
Jerome J. Horgan
Silver Bow Homes
William G. Roose
Zarelda
Emmett E. Sullivan
Supreme Court Rules on Negro Porters Right to Choose Union
The Supreme Court in Washington on Monday refused to decide a case involving 45 Negro railway porters in St. Paul barred from joining a railway brotherhood yet claimed by the union to represent them in labor talks. The ruling was criticized as depriving the men of a right to collective bargaining and leaving them in involuntary economic servitude.
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Washington
Supreme Court
St. Paul
Navy identifies two pilots killed in Tennessee crash
Pensacola reports the Navy names Lt. Sherman D. Lockwood of San Francisco and Carmen Joseph Cardene of Bound Brook as the two airmen who died in a Grassy Grove Tennessee crash about two weeks earlier.
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Pensacola
Fla
Navy
Grassy Grove
Tenn
Sherman D. Lockwood
San Francisco
Carmen Joseph Cardene
Bound Brook
Novelist Elizabeth Payne Dies in New Jersey
Elizabeth Staney Payne a prolific novelist of East Orange New Jersey died Monday at her home. She authored many short stories and 17 published novels leaving a notable literary legacy.
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East Orange
N. J
Elizabeth Staney Payne
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Count Ciano
Pozzilli
U.S. Army Signal Corps
International Soundphoto
Halsey
Solons
F.D.R
Mr. Roosevelt
Barkley
Wallace
Rayburn
John W. McCormack
Finlen Hotel
Montana Army Recruiting and Induction Center
Armed Forces
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