Yanks Bomb Luzon Aims and Mindoro Raids Expanded
American land based bombers on Mindoro struck toward Luzon 150 miles from Manila, sinking or likely sinking three destroyers and several transports at Lingayen gulf. Japanese ammunition trains on southwest Luzon near Mindoro were attacked while Batangas rail lines faced raids by Corsairs and aircraft.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Mindoro
Luzon Island
Manila
Lingayen Gulf
Luzon
Lingayen
Batangas
Mindoro Island
San Jose
Leyte
Aerial Bombing Marathon Marks Day Eleven in Europe
London reports 11th day of heavy bomber activity over western Germany as Allied forces claim at least 221 German planes destroyed and 427 Allied aircraft losses cited by Berlin. Daylight raids hit Coblenz and an oil plant near Hannover. night blows targeted Dortmund and Vohwinkel. About 6,000 Allied planes, including 1,600 U S eighth air force heavy bombers and fighters, engaged.
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London
Germany
Berlin
RAF
Coblenz
Hannover
Dortmund
Voehwinker
Dusseldorf
Eighth Air Force
Navy reports four losses in wartime naval toll
The navy announced the loss of four vessels including the 1 525 ton submarine Harder overdue from patrol and presumed lost. A landing ship LSM 318 and PT 300 were lost to enemy action in the Philippines while PT 311 disappeared in the Mediterranean. The Ormoc shelling on December 7 sunk the landing ship.
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Washington
Harder
Philippine
Mediterranean
Ormoc
United States
Railroads Place Orders for 2000 Box Cars with Mt Vernon
Western railroads announce orders totaling 2000 box cars from Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing, a division of H. K. Porter in Pittsburgh. Union Pacific orders 1000, Southern Pacific 800, Santa Fe 600, all for delivery in the yard quarter of 18.
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New York
Western Railroads
Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing Company
H. K. Porter Company
Pittsburgh
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe Railroad
Germans Club And Shoot 100 Civilians In Belgium
In Stavelot area Belgian civilians were killed by Nazi SS troops during the breakthrough. Captain Handville confirmed 63 killings and warned of broader atrocities. American troops suffered likely 150 dead in Malmedy and other incidents. The State Department protested the massacre of Americans.
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Stavelot
Belgium
S.S
Hitler
Melvin H. Handville
Syracuse
N. Y
State Department
Malmedy
Social Security Board cites workers age 65 plus on the job
The Social Security Board reported that over 700,000 Americans past 65 continued working and did not claim benefits. It noted about 170,000 former retirees temporarily paused benefits to rejoin the workforce, arguing work remains strong.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Rexburg Ceremony Honors Williams
Lt. Gov. Arnold Williams was sworn in at the Madison county courthouse in Rexburg in a Democratic ceremony honoring the first Rexburg or Madison county native elected to state office. Mary Smith administered the oath as Mayor J. B. De Mott praised Williams’ 24 years as a Rexburg businessman and his prior service as county commissioner and state representative. He is expected to go to Boise to preside over the senate when the legislature convenes January 8.
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Rexburg
Arnold Williams
Madison County
Mary Smith
Boise
J. B. de Mott
Williams
Congress
Senate
Admiral Nimitz Open to Soviet Aid in Pacific War
At Pearl Harbor Admiral Chester W. Nimitz indicates he would welcome Soviet participation in the war against Japan. He notes continued planning for China coast landings and invasion of Japan, while British naval involvement gains impact. A 1944 war review cites heavy Allied and Japanese losses and asserts Japan’s vulnerabilities in Saipan and beyond.
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U.S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Pravda
Nimitz
Saipan
China
Great Britain
Pacific Ocean
Douglas MacArthur
Truk
Rabaul
Weather report for Pocatello area January first period
The U S Weather Bureau reports for Pocatello Municipal Airport 24 hours to noon January 2 high 37 low 26 mean 32. Normal 20s. Monthly departure to date 16. Precipitation 0 inch. total this month to date 0.08 inch. Tonight and tomorrow partly cloudy with little temperature change. Nearby stations Idaho Falls 28/18 trace, Dubois 38/4 trace, Butte 33/18 trace, Burley 38/21, Boise 00/21.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Norma
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Trace Dubois
Trace Butte
Trace Burley
Boise Coecerveree
Utah Toll Toll 48 Dead 83 Injured In 1944 Rail Crash
Ogden Utah reports the 1944 Pacific Limited wreck killed 48 and injured 83 as Navy Army and civilian victims are named. Coroner to hold inquest January 9 with autopsy planned for engineer James McDonald.
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Utah
Ogden
Southern Pacific Railroad
Pacific Limited
Navy
Idaho
Pablo Fonseca
Rexburg
Coast
Armed Services
Harry Madden
Oakland
Calif
Rock Causeway
Great Salt Lake
San Francisco
Auburn
Reno
Elko
Nev
Dee Hospital
Army
Bushnell Hospital
Brigham, Utah
James McDonald
Army, Railroad and Family
M. E. Hardman
Hardman
Weber County
Blaine Peterson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roy Porter
Southern Pacific Brakeman
Margaret
Mary
Peggy
Sparks, Nev
Porter
Delpha Francis
John Robert Francis
Carlin
Fall of Buda Nears as Soviet Forces Press Thru City
Moscow reports say German and Hungarian garrisons in Buda have been crushed in fierce street fighting. Soviet troops claimed 200 more blocks seized, 600 under red control, 24 tanks and 13 armored carriers knocked out, 429 prisoners taken, with Katusha rockets used to breach fortifications. A new offensive against Austria was anticipated once Budapest fell.
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London
Buda
Danube
Budapest
Moscow
Cairo
Katushas
Red Army
Losong
Lucenec
Austria
Vienna
Governor Gossett Hosts Nervous Idaho Marriage Ceremony
Idaho Governor Charles C. Gossett, newly installed, conducted a civil marriage in the Capitol official offices. Bride Willie Pearl Bennett, 20, Gulfport Mississippi, and groom Staff Sgt Carl Kitchen Jr. 22, Boise, were married before the fireplace as Gossett joked about the groom’s nerves. Kitchen is a former schoolmate of Gossett’s son, Ens Robert M. Gossett.
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Boise
Charles C. Gossett
Gossett
Idaho
Carl Kitchen, Jr
Willie
Pearl Bennett
Gulfport
Miss
Capitol
Kitchen
Ens
Robert M. Gossett
American Citizen Turns Spy Landing From German Sub
FBI reports thwarted Nazi sabotage by two men who landed November 29 near a Maine fishing village. William Curtis Colepaugh, 26, a U.S. citizen from Niantic Connecticut, and Erich Gimpel, 35, a German radio engineer, carried 60000 in American money, pistols, draft papers, and forged Navy documents aboard U 1230. The pair landed at Hancock Point Frenchmans Bay after a 54 day voyage from Kiel.
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New York
F.B.I
Maine
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Navy
William Curtis Colepaugh
United States
Niantic, Conn
Erich Gimpel
South America
Hancock Point
Frenchman's Bay
Atlantic
Colepaugh
Gimpel
Connecticut
F.bi
Dana Hodgkins
Harvard
Hodgkins
P.B.I
Oregon
Montana
Survivors of Crash Reported In Fair Condition
Burley area survivors of a Sunday evening plane crash were listed in fair condition. The pilot, Fritz Brannen, 40, former Bennett Flying Service chief, operated from Burley airport and was landing when the craft crashed a quarter mile from the field. Also aboard were Dan Howarth, his brother Thomas Howarth from Nebraska, and William Moore Jr., 18, a Burley high school student.
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Burley
Fritz Brannen
Bennett Flying Service
Pocatello
Brannen
Dan Howarth
Thomas Howarth
Nebraska
William Moore, Jr
Byrnes Maps Work or Fight Plan For Home Front
War mobilizer Byrnes proposes 4-F men be drafted for war jobs if manpower controls fail and urges Congress to back war labor board orders. He warns larger draft calls may come in months and reconversion work be paused until military needs are met. The plan, Byrnes first as OWMR director, remains a threat awaiting congressional action.
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Byrnes
Congress
War Labor Board
Washington
James F. Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization
Lublin Moves Toward Provisional Polish Government
War analyst DeWitt MacKenzie notes the Lublin Polish committee of liberation breaking with London and declaring a provisional government with Soviet blessing. He cautions a Soviet offensive could allow rapid Polish territorial control west of the Curzon line, posing a legal challenge to opponents once land is liberated.
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Polish National Committee of Liberation
Lublin
London
Poland
Moscow
Lublin Committee
Red Army
Vistula
Curzon Line
U S Acquires Base in Azores from Portugal
A German dispatch broadcast claims Portugal ceded the United States a naval air base in the Azores. It says the U S fleet air arm took over a field on Santa Maria island in mid December, previously established by Pan American Airways.
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London
Barcelona
Portugal
United States
Azores
U. S. Fleet Air Arm
Santa Maria Island
Pan-American Airways
Allied Commander Sir Bertram Dies Who Led Dunkirk Rescue
Sir Bertram, noted as the man who engineered the Dunkerque rescue of 385000 British and French soldiers, commanded naval parts of the western invasion under General Eisenhower and was regarded as a premier expert on planning vast sea expeditions.
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Sir Bertram
Dunkerque
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Horsfall to Head Idaho Liquor Stores
Gov. Charles C. Gossett announced Boise Riggs as state law enforcement commissioner and E. P. Horsfall of Boise as superintendent of the state liquor dispensary. R. H. Young and G. O. Wright to remain in posts. Alvin H. Reading to stay. Riggs succeeds Charles E. Spoor. Horsfall resumes liquor commission directorship.
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Boise
Charles C. Gossett
Boise Riggs
Gem County
E. P. Horsfall
Bannock County
Gossett
R. H. Young
Agriculture
G. O (Bert) Wright
Idaho Falls
C. A. Bottolfsen
Alvin H. Reading
Wendell
Budget Bureau
J. D. Rigney
Riggs
Charles E. Spoor
Sandpoint
Horsfall
Traffic Leads 253 Deaths During New Year Weekend
The Associated Press reports 253 people died in the United States over the three day New Year holiday period. A Utah train collision near Ogden caused 47 fatalities, while traffic mishaps totaled 96 deaths and fires caused 54. California and Pennsylvania each logged 16 deaths, with Utah leading at 48.
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United States
Southern Pacific
Ogden
Utah
California
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Hunter Killed in Accident Near Salt Lake City
A 17 year old boy Noel J. Barker of Taylorsville was fatally wounded by a shell from his own gun while climbing a fence. Norman Maxfield said Barker was guiding the weapon when it discharged and the bullet struck his head in Salt Lake City. He died at Emergency hospital.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Noel J. Barker
Taylorsville
Norman Maxfield
Barker
Maxfield
Yankees Gain 2 Miles in Thrust North
U S third army pushes two miles deeper into the Bel gian bulge with heavy pressure attacks. Ninth air force reports destruction or damage to 69 armored vehicles near Ambleve. Patton’s force advances north of Bastogne from Longchamps, capturing several towns including Echternach Luxembourg and widening the corridor to Bastogne.
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Paris
U. S
Third Army
Ninth Air Force
St. Vith
Ambleve
George 8. Patton
Bastogne
Longchamps
Bulge
Hubermont
Houmont
Chenonge
Remangé
Wardin
Patton
Mboirey
Bornerie
Tax Revision In Doubt
War Mobilizer James F Byrnes proposed tax changes to spur private enterprise after victory over Germany while warning that broad wartime tax relief awaits Japan’s defeat. Treasury disputed official endorsement and noted Morgenthau was not consulted. Byrnes expected no near term relief for individual income taxpayers.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Treasury
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Congress
Germany
Japan
Morgenthau
Capitol Hill
Rundstedt's armored columns move east amid salient
Paris dispatch reports Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt shifting two armored columns eastward from the Belgian bulge as Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tank units press deeper into the narrowing neck of the salient. In Los Angeles 103 former waiters on Union Pacific Challenger trains face $250 fines for conspiracy to commit theft and six months in jail, suspended for 18 months on railwork prohibition. London reports one house and U S heavy bombers strike.
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Paris
Karl von Rundstedt
George
Patton
Los Angeles
Union Pacific
U.S
Ben Harrison
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Bertram Ramsey
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