Reds and Nazis clash as vast fronts rage across Europe
Western front reports say German forces retreat toward the Siegfried line as Allied air power hits Navoi oil plants. Eastern front describes a 600 mile front from Budapest to Memel with Russian offensives in seven sectors. Southern front notes Allied success below the Reno, while Pacific and Asiatic fronts report peninsula actions and Tokyo hints of government instability.
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Lon
Budapest
Hungary
Memel
Baltic
Poland
East Prussia
Carpathians
Western Front
Belgian Bulge
Siegfried Line
Navi
Reich
Thirimont
Daylight Raids Pressed on Nazi Oil Centers
In London reports the daylight raid by U S Eighth Air Force bombers and RAF fighters struck four southern German rail yard targets with minimal German opposition. The campaigns hit Leuna Merseberg Culmont and other oil facilities as Allied air power continued its heavy offensive, with hundreds of bombers taking part and high German fighter activity noted.
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London
U. S
Eighth Airforce
Germany
R.A.F. Heavies
Leuna
Merseberg
Culmont
Air Ministry
Belgium
Paris
Carl Spaatz
U.S
Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Eighth Air Force
Hemmingstedt
Helde
Magdeburg
Berlin
Hermann Goering Steel
Hallendorf
Brunswick
Derben
Emmen
Bold Daylight Air Strikes Hit Japan From Forts
American B 29s conducted two daylight raids on Japan with over 100 planes each. One force targeted Formosa while another struck Honshu including Nagoya, with no enemy losses reported. Japanese claims admitted fighters over Honshu with limited damage to targets.
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Washington
America
Japan
Formosa
Philippines
Honshu
War Department
Nagoya
Tokyo
H. H
Hap
Arnold
Curtis E. Lemmay
20Th Airforce
H. S. Hansell
21St Bomber Group
Saipan
Tokyo Radio
Aha
U. S. Pacific
Americans Break Through Luzon Beachhead Advance Bayambang Damortis
General MacArthur reports Sixth Army crossing the Agno river near Manila and overrunning scattered Japanese as they push from Lingayen Gulf. Western spearhead at Mangatarem advances eight miles, while Damortis falls and Port Sual is seized in a westward sweep toward Alaminos. Minimal enemy resistance concentrated in northeast hills near Pozorubbio.
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C. Yates McDaniel
MacArthur
Luzon
Sixth Army
Agno River
Manila
Lingayen Gulf
Douglas MacArthur
Agno
Bayambang
Gulf
Mangatarem
Catablan
Damortis
Alaminos
Benguet
Winchester Recreation Plans Living Memorial Meeting
The Winchester Recreation Department will meet Tuesday January 16 at 8 in the George Washington Hotel to discuss postwar recreation. Proposals include a living memorial aiding welfare through a community building for athletics concerts dances and wholesome entertainment with options for swimming fishing and golfing.
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George Washington
France
Italy
Islands
Pacific
Winchester
Eastern Front Burns Brighter Than Ardennes Says Ehrenburg
Ilya Ehrenburg quoted Pravda noting the Allied Ardennes battles pale beside the Eastern Front. The Germans allegedly called the Belgium fight an Ersatz offensive, underscoring Russia's harsher war stance.
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Moscow
Ardennes
Vosges
Ilya Ehrenburg
Pravda
Belgium
High Court Rules on Insurable Interest in Life Policy
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, in a 5-2 decision, holds a beneficiary must have an insurable interest in the insured's life to receive proceeds, even if the insured pays all premiums. The case stems from a $25,000 policy on E. G. Heflin sold to Mrs. Ruby S. Burton, with $16,000 toward debts to Farmers and Merchants Bank. executors seek recovery as Burton’s estate beneficiary died in 1942.
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Richmond
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Virginia
Ruby S. Burton
Fredericksburg
Burton
Heflin
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Preston W. Campbell
Airborne 17th Division Shines With Third Army Role
The 17th Airborne Division led by Maj. Gen. William M. Miley has joined the U S Third Army in action after a January 1 deployment from England. Activated in 1943 at Camp Mackall and trained at Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, the unit nicknamed Snowbound faced a blizzard near Flamierge west of Bastogne yet endured, with Col Willard Liebel of Cincinnati noting the weather and German opposition posed little disruption.
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U. S. Third Army
17Th Airborne
William M. Miley
England
Camp MacKall
N. C
Fort Bragg
Fort Benning
Flamierge
Bastogne
Willard Liebel
Cincinnati
Ohio
Hitler
Pfc Purtlebaugh Wins Bronze Star In Leyte Fighting
Private First Class Virgil H Purtlebaugh son of Mrs Laura B Purtlebaugh Route No 1 Winchester has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritous achievement during the Leyte campaign He is a member of Major General J L Bradley s 96th Deadeye Division His citation says he led a patrol through enemy territory to secure vital information while under accurate sniper fire and pressed his men onward enabling a successful attack the next day
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Virgil H. Purtlebaugh
Laura B. Purtlebaugh
Winchester
Leyte
J. L. Bradley
96Th “Deadeye
Purtlebaugh
Pfc
Poultry Meeting In City Tonight
Frederick County Poultry Committee holds 7:30 session in the county courthouse to appoint a committee to study forming a local poultry cooperative. Chairman C Irvine Cather leads the meeting with specialists including S M Cox and Tom Heitz. Dr Gordon H Ward outlines cooperative steps and I Fred Stine offers 1945 poultry production recommendations.
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Frederick County
Rockingham Poultry Cooperative
Timberville
Gordon H. Ward
I. Fred Stine
Pfc Roy Oates Killed In Germany In World War II
Pfc Roy J. Oates, 37, son of the late Mr and Mrs Joshua Oates of Capon Bridge West Virginia, reported killed in action December 22 in Luxembourg. Telegram to his wife Mrs Laura McDonald Oates of Martinsburg WA. Survived by two sisters and three brothers, two in the service, and his wife.
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Roy J. Oates
Joshua Oates
Capon Bridge
W. Va
Haseen
Luxembourg
Laura McDonald Oates
Martinsburg
Town Meeting Speakers Shaped by H R Baukhage
H R Baukhage Blue Network analyst helped select speakers for the Winchester Town Meeting to be held January 26 at 8 00 PM at the Sarah Zane Fire Hall. He discussed plans with Grant Pollock Art Humphrey and met Dr John W Studebaker and Mrs Charles Estes to arrange guest speakers. A gift of apples was given in appreciation.
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H. R. Baukhage
Blue Network
Sarah Zane Fire Hall
Baukhage
Winchester
Winc Ove
The
Grant Pollock
Coordinating Council For Postwar Planning
Art Humphrey
Board of Trade
Leington
Bankhage
Pollock
Humphrey
John W. Studebaker
U. S
Education
Charles Estes
Washington
Roy Cather
Jap Premier May Be Thrown Out Due To Defeats
The Japanese premier Kuniaki Koiso faces possible removal amid military reversals. Domei reports new factions pressing for bold political renovation and a second reformation as the Imperial Diet nears reconvening. Admirals and leaders discuss drastic measures amid war concerns in Luzon and the Pacific.
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Associated Press
Domei
Kuniaki Koiso
Japan
Federal Communications Commission
Radio Tokyo
Koiso
Imperial Diet
Hideki Tojo
Pacific
Seizo Kobayashi
Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society
Luzon
Nippon Officers Leaving Hotels On Luzon
A former Manila Army Navy Club night watchman reports Japanese officers are moving from large apartments and hotels as British Indian guards say civilian movement is banned in the port area. Dewey Boulevard is closed and waterfront walls obscure bomb damage while Japanese run stories of dynamite practice fail to hide American planes painting wings. Continues on page 2 column 6.
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SIXTH
Luzon
Manila Army-Navy Club
Dewey Boulevard
Manila Bay
First American convoy reaches Myitkyina Burma on new road
The first American convoy carrying war supplies overland from India to China arrived at Myitkyina revealing heavy stocks of ammunition jeeps artillery and ambulances. The crossing marks the first overland route through Burma and India with completion of the new cut road to Tengchung anticipated by January 22 despite Japanese resistance.
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Kyitkina
Burma
India
China
Myvyitkyina
Ledo
Kunming
Myitkyina
Tengchung
Namhkam
Wanting
Burma Road
Hunter Hanks
Alexandria
Ala
Leo. Riordan
Pougakeepsie
N. Y
Montsoon
Lewis A. Pick
Auburn
Sgt. Longerbeam Reported as German POW
Word reached here that Staff Sgt. Lawrence C. Longerbeam, son of Mrs Rebecca Longerbeam, is a prisoner of war in Germany while serving from Berryville High School.
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Sgt
Longerbeam
Lawrence C. Longerbeam
Rebecca Longerbeam
Wage Increases Being Asked In War Production
Washington report shows Congress urged to replace work-or-fight with higher wages to boost war output. AF of L and Socialist party spokesmen argued wage boosts are needed where labor shortages exist and would not inflame inflation. Socialist Albert Hamilton and Norman Thomas opposed civil conscription for private profit, while Senate War Investigating Committee chair Mead called for manpower reassessment.
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Washington
Congress
American Federation of and
Labor Socialist Party
House Military Committee
War ‘Labor Board
Hines
Socialist. Party
Albert Hamilton
Vienna
Hamilton
Norman Thomas
Mead
Senate War Investigating Committee
Nazis Are Beaten Back In Italy
Allied headquarters report repeated Nazi efforts to form outposts south of the Reno and east of the Senio along the Adriatic front were thwarted with heavy losses. German forces dig in along rivers from the Adriatic to the Apennines as Field Marshal Kesselring intends to hold the line. In the Fifth Army area German patrols increased in the Serchio Valley while Allied patrols faced heavy artillery. A Polish patrol south of the Senio near Imola penetrated within five miles but withdrew. Bitter winter weather limited operations.
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Rome
Reno River
Senio
Adriatic
Apennines
Kesselring
Fifth Army
Serchio
Bologna-Rimini
Imola
Allied drive nears Houffalize in Belgian Bulge action
Allied forces push toward Houffalize within three miles from three sides as German defenses tighten. First Army units report close contact with enemy lines while large prisoner counts mount for Eisenhower’s troops. Weather hampers movement amid snow and fog. several towns fall elsewhere as the Bulge battle rages. The note ends with an unrelated wood for sale advertisement.
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Houffalize
First Army
Wilitz
Laroche
Marshal von Rundstedt
Bac
Eisenhower
Normandy
St. Vith
U. S
Thirimont
Stavelot
Malmedy
Bulge
Third Army
Laroshe
Tettingen
Germany
Saarlandembourg
Saar An Upper Alsace
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Pulawy
Warka
Warsaw
Vistula
Warsawr
Narew
Ebenrode
Schlossberg
Krakow
Slovakia
Ivan S. Konev
Nida
Silesian
Pilica
Lodz
Radom
Vistula-Bug
Modlin
Bug
Ostenburg
Nimitz
Lutom
Mandalay
RAF
Britain
High Court
Bronze Star
Roy Oates
Pingley & Carper
Nippon
Winchester Evening Star
James M. Long
Amercan First Army
Houffalaize
Rattening
Oates Yard
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