Yanks Advance Toward Manila From Central Luzon Front
American forces跨 advance on Manila from Capas to Santa Monica and Tarlac as Maj. Gen Griswold’s 14th corps pushes through Pampanga toward Clark field. Beightler 37th and Brush 40th keep rapid tempo with Ranger units and air support shaping the Lingayen Gulf approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar W. Griswold
14Th Army Corps
Pampanga Province
Clarkfield
Bougainville
New Britain
Capas
Santa Monica
Manila
Tarlac
la Paz
Griswold
Lingayen Gulf
Robert S. Beightler
Rapp Brush
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Luzon
Solomons
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Henry Mucci
Might
Santago” Island
Bataan Peninsula
Infanta
Dasol Bay
Zambales Mountains
14Th
Hanford MacNider
Leonard F. Wing
Baguio
Senate Votes Investigation Into Priority Dog Incident
The Senate Military Committee moved to probe a priority seating system after Col. Elliott Roosevelt's dog, traveling with an "A" priority, was allowed to fly while three servicemen were removed from an army cargo plane in Memphis. Roosevelt, now back with the air forces in England, denies ordering the order. The panel approved a subcommittee inquiry covering the priority policy and related actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Military Committee
Col
Elliott Roosevelt
Memphis
Tenn
Roosevelt
Faye Emerson Roosevelt
England
Mexican Unit Graduates From United States Training
The 201st Mexican fighter squadron, about 300 officers and men, will graduate February 20 at Majors field Greenville Texas. The unit trained in the United States since entering the war, receiving technical training at bases before regrouping at Pocatello for collective work. A specially made squadron flag will be presented to Francisco Urquizo, Mexican under secretary of national defense, by a senior air force officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Majors Field
Greenville
Texas
United States
War Department
Francisco L. Urquizo
National Defense
Air Force
Pocatello Army Air Base
Pocatello
Lawmakers Complain of Sign Display at Boise Eatery
Idaho legislators protest a nearby restaurant for displaying a sign that highlights their $5 daily salary, calling it excessive and intrusive in public view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Finns Struggle With Returning to Normal After War
Helsinki shows few scars while Leningrad bears siege damage. An Allied tour notes a controlled occupation by Soviet experts and five British officers near Porkala. Finland faces economic strain from hostilities and a large evacuee population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Leningrad
Helsinki
Porkala
Russia
Finland
Karelian
Soviet Union
Temperature Stays Above Zero Mark
Old Man Winter allowed the temperature to crawl to five above zero last night amid a grudging rise. Lows of three above were reported Saturday and Monday. After daytime sun, the mercury rose to 29 above, still below freezing but an improvement. Forecast promises little change with clear nights and valley cloudiness.
Gunmen Kill Publisher in Minneapolis Slaying
Arthur Kasherman 43, weekly publisher, was shot to death by gunmen in a black sedan as he stood near his car after leaving a cafe with an unidentified woman. Police hold the woman as a material witness. Kasherman had recently predicted his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Arthur Kasherman
Kasherman
the Tribune
Western Bill On Way
Senate commerce committee approved a riv ers and harbors bill to fund postwar navigation hydroelectric power and irrigation works near 500 million dollars. Key items include 58.6 million for Snake river development spanning Idaho and Oregon while several controversial provisions and a surplus electricity disposal plan were dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Congress
Snake River
Idaho
Oregon
Secretary of Interior
Today's a Rare Day 1 23 45 in Century Date Quirk
The note highlights a peculiar calendar coincidence where January 23 1945 mirrors the digits of December 3 1945 and will recur only rarely. It jokes about reprinting the story on future matching dates and notes the long interval until the next January 23 2045.
Japs Receive Bombs on Home Islands
American warplanes hit targets from Formosa to Honshu as the 14th army corps nears Manila. Marianas based Forts attacked Nagoya while Liberators and Lightnings from the Philippines raided Formosa. Carrier planes swept toward Japan with heavy aerial activity and claims of plane losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Formosa
Japan
14Th Army Corps
Manila
Nagoya
Honshu
Curtis E. le May
Tokyo
Philippines
U. S
Okinawa
Ryukyus
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Oder Defense Takes Shape At The German Frontier
Berlin reports say German High Command met at supreme headquarters to bolster the Oder line on the Russian front and to consider saving the Silesian industrial region even if eastern Pomerania must be sacrificed. Rumors spoke of Norway unit transfers and new withdrawals from Italy and the western front. In Breslau area miners were drafted into the volksturm amid arrests and hostage executions.
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Pfeld
von Rundstedt
Oder
Berlin
Poland
Pomerania
Hitler
Italy
Norway
Prankfurt
Oder River
Breslau
Volksturm
President Fulfills Hat Bet From 1919
President Roosevelt pays off a 26 year old election bet with a battered grey Fedora sent by a White House courier to J Creswell Young, a real estate broker and former chief engineer in the superintendent of buildings office. The note recalls Young’s 1919 prediction and Roosevelt’s remark that if elected he would give a hat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
J. Creswell Young
Young
Teddy Roosevelt
Local Paratrooper Missing in Action
Second Lt. Douglas I. Saunders son of Mr and Mrs J W Saunders of 435 South Grant has been missing in action in Belgium since December 23 while serving as a paratrooper in an airborne division. A 1939 Pocatello High School graduate, he has served since Pearl Harbor and trained at Ft Benning and Camp McCall. He went overseas in April first to Sicily and was reported missing by the war department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas I. Saunders
J. W. Saunders
South Grant
Belgium
Pocatello High School
Saunders
Pearl Harbor
Ft. Benning
Camp McCall
North Carolina
Sicily
War Department
Bombs Smash Rail Yards in Ruhr Area Night Blitz
Allied air forces hammer Neuss rail yards on the Ruhr frontier in a large night raid. American Ninth air force dive bombers earlier struck Neuss and Duisburg oil targets, with subsequent heavy bomber strikes across Sterkrade Gelsenkirchen and Hannover. Two bombers failed to return.
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London
Neuss
Ruhr
Reich
U.S. Ninth Air Force
Duisburg
Sterkrade
Gelsenkirchen
Hannover
RAF
Air Ministry
Yugoslavia Crisis Deepens Over Premier and Tito Pact
Dr. Ivan Subasic, with British approval, plans to ignore King Peter's demand for resignation and advance a federal democratic regime with Marshal Tito. Peter names Milan Groll to form a royal government as Subasic consults a dismissed cabinet, amid talk of a fusion government with Tito as premier and Subasic as foreign minister within days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ivan Subasic
Peter
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Milan Groll
Subasic
Bubasic
Tito
Stalin Future Political Economic Accord Reported
An informed American source says an agreement on the political and economic future of Premier Joseph Stalin has been reached. The Shah of Iran offers his royal palaces, including Saadabad, for Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin if they accept a second Big Three conference in Iran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Joseph Stalin
Tehran
Iran
Saadabad
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Nazis Falling Back on Western Line
In Paris the First Army fought house to house in St. Vith as Allied forces tighten the Ardennes bulge. Seventh armored division entered St. Vith, while U S and British air and ground units destroyed hundreds of German tanks and trucks. Casualties and prisoners mount as Germans retreat toward the Siegfried line and Roer crossings.
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Paris
St. Vith
Ardennes
Seventh Armored
U.S
Ninth Air Force
Siegfried Line
Our River
Germany
Luxembourg
Colmar
Strasbourg
Seventh Army
Bitche
Supreme Headquarters
Haguenau
First Army
Seventh Armored Division
Robert W. Hasbrouch
von Rundstedt
Bulge
Ardennes Salient
Nazi Leaders Rush East to Eastern Front
Adolf Hitler has sent Heinrich Himmler and his top army commanders to the eastern front with full powers to make drastic decisions and ensure execution. The Berlin radio quoted Transocean News Agency and Front and Home as saying Himmler and his aides would restore the situation in focal points using iron will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Berlin
Himmler
Gestap
Transocean
Front and Home
Clezie Wounded in France Wording From Letter to Parents
A December 15 letter to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Clezie reports their son Richard Clezie wounded and hospitalized in France after serving since 1941 and overseas since 1943. He trained in the Carolinas Tennessee and Texas and graduated from Pocatello High School. His brother Pvt James Clezie also serves on the western front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Clezie
City
Pie
Richard Clezie
France
Clezie
Carolinas
Tennessee
Texas
Pocatello High School
Pvt
James Clezie
War at a Glance Fronts Report Broad World Moves
A wartime summary notes British gains up to 20 miles north of Aachen and heavy fighting near Echt after nine towns captured. Russians report armored spearheads reaching the Oder with operations in Silesia and advances toward East Prussia while Danzig remains a target. Pacific front highlights include Clarkfield and Manila distances and a new Ledo road convoy from Myitkyina to Kunming.
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Associated Press
Aachen
Echt
Ardennes
St. Vith
Alsace
Strasbourg
Berlin
Oder River
Silesia
Stockholm
Poman
East Prussia
Danzig
Bydgoszcz
Ortelsburg
Clarkfield
Manila
Capital
Japan
Honshu
Myitkyina
Kunming
Ledo Road
British jury convicts American trooper in London taxi murder
A British jury convicts 22 year old American Pvt Karl Gustav Hulten of Cambridge Mass and 18 year old Elizabeth Jones of a brutal murder of London taxi driver George Heath. Both face the death penalty under British law with a potential Home Secretary review for Jones.
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London
Pvt
Karl Gustav Hulten
Cambridge
Mass
George Heath
Hulten
Elizabeth Jones
Ickes Defers Higher Fees Until Committee Hearings
Harold L. Ickes told the senate public lands subcommittee he defers higher fee plans pending further investigation and hearings next month in the west. C L Forsling of Salt Lake City urged a 300 percent increase, while Ickes did not approve the proposal yet and pledged advance notice before any change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold L. Ickes
Senate
Ickes
Public Lands
C. L. Forsling
Salt Lake City
Arimo Teen Enlists in Navy
Richard William Mittelstedt 17 of Arimo has enlisted in the United States Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Richard William Mittelstedt
Arimo
Navy
Russians Cut Route to East Prussia
Soviet forces surged through East Prussia driving toward Konigsberg and probing Poznan and Danzig areas. Stalin announced captures at Bydgoszcz and Ortelsburg while Zhukov’s army moved toward Breslau, threatening Berlin front lines as German defenses buckled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
East Prussia
Stalin
Berlin
Poznan
Bydgoszcz
Saalfeld
Elbing
Danzig
Gregory Zhukov
Poland
Bydboszcz
Stockholm
Dover
Silesia
Breslau
Oppaln
Oder River
Hitler
Heinrich
Bydgosecz
Marshalukov
Warsaw
Bygosscz
Vistula
Ortelsburg
Konigsberg
Willenberg
Germany
Moscow
Flyers Destroy 4158 German Pieces Of Equipment In Day
American pilots report destroying or disabling 4158 heavy German pieces across a 50 mile stretch from the Luxembourg border to Euskirchen. In about 2500 sorties allied air forces claim 22 fighter bombers and two bombers lost to ground fire. German opposition was absent.
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Associated Press
Falaise Gap
Luxembourg
Euskirchen
Bulge
St. Vith
90Th
Neider-Iimmels
Ober-Immels
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