Russians Break Warsaw Krakow Defenses In Major Winter Offensive
A Red Army of about 1,000,000 shattered the Warsaw Krakow line in Poland on the third day of the winter push, crossing the Nida river on a 37 mile front and nearing Krakow. Soviet spearheads advanced toward Silesia as Berlin reported fresh attacks around Magnuszew and Pulawy and along the Narew, with distances to key targets shrinking and claims of destroyed German armor rising.
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London
Warsaw- Krakow
Poland
Russia
Nida River
Karkow
Silesia
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Warsaw
Vistula
Danzig
East Prussia
Baltic
Budapest
Ruhr
Ivan
Konev
Ukraine
Nida
Magnuszew
Pulawy
Narew
Tass
Moscow Radio
Warsaw-Krakow
Pinczow
Chmielnik
Proposal to rewrite parity formula faces Senate opposition
Chairman Thomas seeks a bi partisan move to set a new parity formula using 1919-29 as the base and include farmer and family labor costs. Senator Ellender and others worry changes could disrupt the price structure and inflation, while Senators Willis and Bourne back the plan.
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Washington
Thomas
Dokla
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sen
Ellender
D-La
White House
Sens
Willis
R-Ind
Bushfield
R-S. D
Italy Calls Up 11 Military Classes
Rome reports Premier Ivanoe Bonomi’s government mobilizes 11 classes from 1914 to 1924 to reach about one million soldiers. Authorized by the Allies, the decree targets men aged 21 to 32 who have basic Fascist training and will receive Allied equipment and advanced instruction for extended warfare.
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Rome
U.P
Ivanoe Bonomi
Superfortresses Hit Formosa and Nagoya in Daylight Raids
U S Pacific Fleet reports bold daylight strikes by B 29 crews on Formosa and Nagoya without losses. Formosa targets hit with good results and little AA fire. Nagoya defense included moderate fighter opposition. Gen Henry H Arnold announced the attacks by 20th and 21st Bomber Commands.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
U.P
Formosa
Nagoya
Tokyo
Honshu
China
Philippines
Marianas Islands
Henry H. Arnold
20Th
Air Force
Curtis E. LeMay
21St Bomber Command
Marianas
Haywood S. Hansell, Jr
United Press
London
Ribbentrop Reported Injured in Nazi Plot
Stockholm January 14 report in Aftonbladet cites a free German radio saying Joachim von Ribbentrop German foreign minister was severely injured in an alleged assassination attempt ordered by Heinrich Himmler. No details of the attack were provided.
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Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Free German Radio Sunday
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Heinrich Himmler
Yanks Extend Beachhead by 30 Miles
Gen Douglas MacArthur announced a 30 mile extension of the Sixth Army beachhead in Lingayen gulf bringing total progress to 45 miles. Tank spearheads crossed the Agno river at Bayambang as western gains reached Alaminos road junction and Damortis rail hub opened. Manigatarem and Catablan captured as fighting continues near Pozorrubio.
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MacArthur
Luzon
United States
Sixth Army
Lingayen Gulf
Douglas MacArthur
Manila
Agno River
Bayambang
Alaminos
Port Sual
Damortis
Benguet Mountains
Philippine
Baguio
Central Plains
Mangatarem
Catablan
Pozorrubio
De Gaulle Seeks Invitation to Big Three Meeting
Paris reports France seeks Britain and United States to invite Gen. De Gaulle to join the forthcoming Big Three conference. French officials say Stalin promised Soviet backing for De Gaulle in UN councils in exchange for French support on eastern Europe readjustments and Rhineland supervision.
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Paris
France
Britain
United States
Gen. de Gaulle
London
Washington
de Gaulle
Moscow
Marshal Stalin
United Nations
Stalin
Europe
Rhineland
Stephen
Roosevelt
Italian Premier Names New War Minister Gasparotto
In Rome on January 14 Premier Ivanoe Bonomi appointed Luigi Gasparotto to the post of war minister after the resignation of Carlo Scialoja due to ill health. Gasparotto had served as war minister in Bonomi's 1921 cabinet.
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Rome
U.P
Ivanoe Bonomi
Carlo Scialoja
Sunday
Luigi Gasparotto
Bonomi
Pioneer State Resident Marvin Trask Dies at 92
Deer Lodge Montana January 14 Marvin W Trask 92 longtime pioneer resident died Sunday morning after a brief illness He was born May 28 1852 in Janesville Wisconsin moved to Deer Lodge in 1869 and remained there He was an honorary member of the Society of Pioneers of Montana and with his wife a former president attended the society’s annual meeting He later ran a hardware business with his brother in law Richardsons and their firm Zenor and continued in Deer Lodge past years Continued on Page 3 Col 4.
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Deer Lodge
Marvin W. Trask
Mr. Trask
Janesville
Wis
Society of Pioneers of
Montana
Trask
Senator Proposes Provisional World Council for Peace Issues
Senator Connally proposes forming a provisional council under United Nations to advise on international disputes during the renovation of a world security system. He says the body would have no force but could press Greece and other parties toward bloodless settlement, backed by major powers.
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Provisional Council
Washington
Connally
Texas
United Nations
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Stettinius
United States
Silence Shields Third Fleet Actions in South China Sea
Official silence kept U S Third Fleet operations in the South China Sea as American carrier planes heavily hit four Japanese convoys. A Nimitz communique says raids sank 25 Nipponese warships and transports and damaged 13 others, extending into Friday near the French Indo China coast.
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U. 8
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States Third Fleet
South China Sea
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Indo-China
Nazi V B bombs devastate southern England
Reports from London describe a wave of German V bombs causing extensive casualties and destruction across southern England. Among the incidents a birth scene, church and home collapses, several families killed, and rescuers faced grim scenes as air raid wardens improvised to inform displaced children at a New Year party.
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London
England
Mutual Savings Banks Cancel 1945 Meeting
The National Association of Mutual Savings Banks said it will forego its May 1945 business meeting to honor the government request to curtail conventions. The announcement came on Sunday.
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New York
National Association of Mutual Savings Banks
Tokyo Cabinet Upheaval Said Impending
Gen Kuniaki Koiso faces removal as Japan's second war premier amid political storm signals from Tokyo. Analysts agree no cabinet can withstand the loss of the Philippines, with Koiso's fall seen as imminent, following Tojo's earlier reorganization after Allied advances.
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Washington
Japan
Kuniaki Koiso
Tokyo
Koiso
Philippines
Gen. Tojo
Fifth Group of Yanks Charged With Looting Goes on Trial
Paris January 14 The fifth group of 184 American soldiers accused of looting supply trains and diverting goods to the French black market will go on trial Monday before a general court martial. Fifteen enlisted men have already been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 25 to 50 years in four sessions last week. The case concerns thefts of cigarettes and other post exchange supplies diverted to the black market by troops tasked with delivering them to the fighting fronts.
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Paris
Ardennes Bulge Collapses as Enemy Flees
Allied forces push the Ardennes bulge toward collapse trapping thousands of Germans in three pockets. U S First army and British troops advance up to four and a half miles as Patton’s Third Army enters German soil for the first time since the campaign began. Air power tally reaches 4 000 sorties with heavy losses for the Wehrmacht.
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Paris
U.P
Ardennes Bulge
Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
U. S. First Army
Houffalize
Third Army
Bulge
Nisramont
Mousny
Ardennes
Third Armored
St. Vith
Germany
Cens
Third
Bertogne
George S. Patton
Tettingen
Luxembourg City
Patton
Moselle
Trier
Weather forecast for Montana and Missouri regions
Butte area shows partly cloudy and colder conditions on Monday and Monday night with a high around 36 and a low near 1. Sunday’s high near 43. West of divide cloudy with light rain and little temperature change, turning partly cloudy Tuesday. East of divide mostly cloudy with light rain or snow, high 40 to 45. Scattered showers Monday night, partly cloudy Tuesday with light showers east in the forenoon.
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Butte
Montana
Divide
Missouri
Powerful British Navals Units to Join U S in Pacific Blows
Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser stated British naval units will join the U S Pacific fleet for coordinated strikes on Japan. He recounted narrowly escaping death during Lingayen Gulf operations and said newer British ships will participate in forthcoming Pacific actions to press the war.
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U.S. Navy
MacArthur
Leyte
Philippines
America
Pacific
Bruce Fraser
Lingayen Gulf
Luzon Island
William Lumsden
Time Magazine
William Chickering
United States
Gulf
Bruce
Lumsden
Churchill
Southwest Pacific Command
Lingayen
Nippon
Pacific Fleet
Americans Knock Out 232 Nazi Fighter Planes
In a major air offensive, nearly 4,000 Allied warplanes and German resources clashed over Belgium. The U S Eighth Air Force reported 19 bombers and 13 fighters lost. The operation targeted oil plants and depots under Lt General Carl Spaatz orders.
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London
Germany
Belgium
Naai
Eighth Air Force
U. S
Carl Spaatz
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Butte Soldier Patrick J Dennehy Missing in Luxembourg
S Sgt. Patrick J Dennehy 30 son of Mr and Mrs Patrick of 112 East Center street is missing in action in Luxembourg since December 20. Telegram from War Department notified the parents Saturday night. He entered service October 14 1941 and has been overseas since July 1942. He was a blacksmith for A C M company before enlistment. He is one of five Dennehy brothers in the service with Jim in the South Pacific John in California Ed in France Bernard discharged after Alaska service Vincent at Boys Central High School and a sister Mrs George Burns in Butte.
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Patrick J. Dennehy
Patrick
East Center Street
Luxembourg
War Department
St. Lawrence
Boys Central High School
Set. Dennehy
A. C. M. Company
Jim Dennehy
South Pacific
John Dennehy
California
Ed Dennehy
France
Bernard Dennehy
Butte
Alaska
Vincent
George Burns
India
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James Rutcheson
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Greece
European Advisory Commission
Moscow Conference of
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Associated Press
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