Nazi Defense Fortress Falls to Reds
The Red army captured Radom, a major German fortress 55 miles south of Warsaw, in a three day advance that pushed 38 miles on a 75 mile front. Stalin announced the offensive began Sunday and Germany claimed advances in East Prussia as the front widened across 11 sectors.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Red Army
Radom
Warsaw
Poland
Stalin
East Prussia
Schlossberg
Berlin
Moscow
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Germany
Gilmore
Butte Soldier Edward P. Walsh Wounded in Belgium
Pfc Edward P Walsh son of Mr and Mrs John Walsh is seriously wounded while serving in the US Army in Belgium on December 29 He is hospitalized in Europe and wounded during the Ardennes break through He previously worked at Hansen Packing and Mountain Con mine and trained at Camp Swift and Camp Breckinridge before going overseas in October 1944 He has a Navy brother and two sisters with brothers in law in Butte
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Edward P. Walsh
Butte
John Walsh
Massachusetts
Army Infantry
Belgium
War Department
Walsh
Europe
Pfc
Ardennes
St. Ann
Creighton J. Walsh
Navy
South Pacific
Richard Barry
Francis Holland
Weather Outlook For Butte And Montana Regions
Butte remains cloudy with light snow flurries and little temperature change. Highs around 40 F, lows near 10 F. Montana west of the divide stays cloudy with scattered flurries and similar temps. eastern areas partly cloudy with modest changes. Thursday brings scattered flurries in western mountains and highs near 38 to 45 F.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Bataan Survivor Leads Guerrilla Force to MacArthur
Rob ert Lapham of Davenport Iowa, a Bataan survivor, arrived with 2 500 armed guerrillas in central Luzon and claimed to have killed over 1 000 Japanese between January 4 and 13. He organized guerrillas after arriving in the Philippines in 1941 and planned to report to Gen Douglas MacArthur.
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Lingayen
Luzon
Philippines
Robert B. Lapham
Davenport
Bataan
Lapham
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
F D R Avoids Foreign Affairs Questions at News Conference
President Roosevelt refused to discuss foreign policy beyond saying he would confer with Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin. He noted no new details on an interim United Nations council and highlighted a pleasant talk with a Senate subcommittee. He deflected comments on Wheeler's policy speech and press reports about Stettinius and Hopkins.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Anow
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Connally
D-Texas
Council of the
United Nations
Russia
Senate Foreign Relations
Pepper
D-Fla
Wheeler
D-Mont
Stettinius
Mexico
Harry Hopkins
Germans Increase Fire on Yanks in Italian Sector
Rome report says German artillery mortar and machine gun concentrations intensified Tuesday against American troops in the snowbound mountains south of Bologna. Ground action was limited elsewhere with patrol clashes and weather hampering Eighth and Fifth Army operations amid heavy snowfall and thawed skies.
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Rome
Bologna
Eighth Army
Fifth Army
Reno River
Vergato
Bombers Reported Over Tokyo as Hirohito Talks War Effort
American B-29s were claimed by the Japanese Comei News agency to appear over Tokyo while Emperor Hirohito met with provisional governors of Hokkaido Tohoku Kanto and Chugoku districts to pledge greater war production. Domei said single B-29s from the Marianas flew over Tokyo Sunday night without bombs. An air raid siren sounded as Hirohito listened, remaining calm. Premier Koiso addressed governors at his residence amid ongoing fighting reports.
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Washington
U.P
Comei
Tokyo
Hirohito
Federal Communications Commission
Marianas
Domei
Hokkaido
Tohoku
Kanto
Chugoku
Kuniaki Koiso
Record prices set at National Western Stock Show
Two Hereford bulls sold for $50,000 each in Denver setting a world record. TT Triumphant, 29th, moved to Richard Riggs Fox Hall farms in Catonsville Maryland for $50,000 while TT Regent fetched the same sum from E L Fisher of Romeo Michigan.
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Denver
Richard Riggs Fox Hall Farms
Catonsville
E. L. Fisher
Romeo, Mich
Regent
Spanish Release Italian Warships From Balearic Islands
The Spanish government freed the Italian cruiser Attilio Regolo and four Italian destroyers held in the Balearic Islands since the 1943 Italian armistice. They have sailed for an Allied port, announced Tuesday.
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Madrid
Attilio Regolo
Beleares
Balearic
Jap Attack Fails in Nip Losses Heavy 92 Miles from Luzon
U S Pacific Fleet reports a three day carrier air strike on Canton Hong Kong and China ports sank or damaged at least 104 000 tons of Japanese shipping. MacArthur notes Luzon counterattack pushes inland to 32 miles from Lingayen as American forces widen the front and cut road behind the Japanese positions.
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Atle Oo Luzie Wade Nicely Gulf
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Canton
Hong Kong
China
Adm
C. W. Nimitz
Wm. F. Halsey
Nippon
Japan
MacArthur
Luzon
Pozorrubio
Douglas MacArthur
Lingayen
Lingayen Gulf
U. S
Moncada
Bayambang
Manila
Gulf
Dam
Bill to Finance Home for Senile Aged Debuts in Legislature
HELENA, Jan. 16. Legislation seeks $225,000 to establish a home for the senile aged at Dillon and companion bills to close the Dillon Normal School and convert it into an old peoples home. Six measures on transferring senile patients from Warm Springs to Dillon were introduced, led by Rep. Toole. A separate proposal would create a new state hospital, leaving Warm Springs as a home for the feeble minded aged. Nine House bills and two Senate measures debuted, with attention to Warm Springs and statewide hospital needs. Senator Simmons proposed restricting electors voting at party nominating conventions within congressional districts for vacancies, not solving the current issue but clarifying statutes. The House noted the death of Rep. James F. O'Connor of Livingston. funeral arrangements were set for Saturday in Livingston with a five-member committee named to oversee.
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Helena
Dillon
House of Representatives
State
Warm Springs
Rep. Toole
D-Toole
Stout
D-Fergus
Oliver
R-Carter
House
Senate
Simmons
R-Carbon
Congress
Montana
James F. O'Connor
Livingston
Planning Association urges pay raise for Congress members
The National Planning Association recommends boosting Congressional pay to 25 000 dollars a year as part of 14 reforms to strengthen Congress. Other proposals include retirement pay, ending committee seniority, streamlined committees, majority and policy panels, better staff, expanded legislative reference service, cloture limits, and eliminating unrelated riders.
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Planning Association
Congress
Washington
National Planning Association
Robert Heller
Cleveland
Legislative Reference Service
Halsey Controls South China Sea Front
Adm. William F. Halsey leads the U S Third Fleet in the South China Sea with operations from Sai gon to Hong Kong and Formosa. Nimitz reports 41 Japanese ships sunk and 28 damaged while American aircraft destroy 112 enemy planes and damage about 50 as Tokyo faces a strategic disaster.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Jan
William F. Halsey
South China Sea
U.S
Eet
Halsey
Indo-China
South China
Nippon
Saigon
Hong Kong
Swatow
Amoy
China
Formosa
Chester W. Nimitz
China Coast
Rembert James
Associated Press
Indies
Philippine Sea
Son of Former Butte Residents Killed in Action in Holland
Pfc. Robert S. Opacich, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Opacich former Butte residents now in Portland, was killed in action in Holland. The family lived at 910 East Mercury a few years ago and Opacich had been attending school in Miles City when he joined the armed forces.
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Robert S. Opacich
Michael Opacich
Portland
Holland
910
East Mercury
Pfc
Opacich
Miles City
Allied Attacks North of Aachen Press Ahead in Winter Drive
British Second Army launches a new attack north of Aachen as American First and Third Armies push the Belgian salient, capturing Houffalize and advancing in Belgium Luxembourg and Germany. The thrust aims at the Maas and Roer corridor with initial progress reported amid fog and thaw.
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Paris
Eisenhower
Western Front
Ardennes
Aachen
Marshal von Rundstedt
Houffalize
Belgium
Luxembourg
Germany
Sittard
Geilenkirchen
Roermond
Maas
Meuse
Roer
Bernard L. Montgomery
von Rundstedt
Houffalize-St. Vith
American bombers sweep deep into Germany
Nearly 1300 American and British planes struck targets inside Germany in daylight and night raids, blasting an oil refinery, a Mark IV tank works and two railway yards near Berlin. US Eighth Air Force warplanes joined the attack, with substantial force over Leipzig and Ruhland, as signals of continued bombing against German industry and shipping emerged.
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London
Germany
Nak Beit
Berlin
Oslo
Norway
Leipzig
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Ruhland
British Empire war losses exceed one million, Churchill tells Commons
In a Commons report Churchill said British empire forces suffered over 1,000,000 casualties from Sept 3 1939 to Dec 1 1944. Empire deaths reach 282,162 with 386,374 wounded, 294,438 prisoners, and 80,580 missing. civilian toll is 140,675. Canada, Australia, India and other colonies listed with added totals.
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London
Churchill
Commons
United Kingdom
Britain
Canada
Australia
India
New Zealand
South Africa
U. S. Army
Navy
Washington
Army
Stimson
U. S
Roosevelt says national service needed as war demands rise
President Roosevelt declared the need for men in the armed forces and war factories is extreme and voluntary controls will not suffice. He plans to send Congress a communication backing national service legislation, with a Marshall King report on urgent wartime manpower needs and a list of critical jobs guiding draft of men aged 26 to 29.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
George C. Marshall
Army
Ernest J. King
Mr. Roosevelt
Marshall
King
Belgium
Pacific
Philip Murray
House Committee
Murray
War Manpower Commission
Byrnes
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Yank
RED Cross
T . A.A. Pascuzzi
Rochester
N. Y
Albert Rohrbach
Reading
New York Port of Embarkation
Reds
F.D.R
Harry Wilson Sharpe
Warships
By James Hutcheson
Nimitz
Third Fleet
Sixth Army
Damortis
N.P. A
By Austin Bealmear
Roger Greene
George&. Patton
Third Army
Bulge
Charles Chamberlain
British Empire
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