Allied and German Offensives Boost Battle Near Strasbourg
Raging fighting drives U.S. Seventh Army back five miles toward Weyersheim as German armor moves on Strasbourg front. British assault troops cross the Maas below Roermond, expanding pressure toward the Roer line. Advanced U.S. forces push toward Diekirch and Stevensweert amid contested river crossings and diminishing Belgian Bulge operations.
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Paris
Weyersheim
Strasbourg
Rhine
Hageunau
Haguenau Forest
Seventh Army
Maas
Meuse
Holland
Roermond
Roer River
Dusseldorf
Zorn
U. S
Diekirch
Luxembourg
Stevensweet
Roer
Stevensweert
Western apples set aside for government distribution
War Food Administration orders set aside of Winesap Delicious and Yellow Newton apples in Oregon and Washington for armed forces supply. About 3,000 rail cars of Extra Fancy and Fancy sizes 138 to 198 will be used, with smaller sizes possibly added to ease civilian trade disruption. Regional participation is planned. The Newton Baker Hospital Band will perform at York on Saturday January 20.
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War Food Administration
Washington
Oregon
WFA
Northwest
WOOD FOR SALE AT OATES LUMBER YARD STOVE LENGTH
Wood for sale at Oates Lumber Yard. Stove length. Call 6414. Also wanted girl to work in office and wait on trade at Pingley and Carper cleaners. Applications no phone calls.
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Oates Lumber Yard
Pingley & Carper
45 County Men Go For Physicals Next Week
Frederick county men will travel to Roanoke for pre induction physicals on January 24 returning January 25. Listed are James E. Berryman Winfred Crum Gilbert Orntorff Ralph in Jasper T. Baker Aubrey M. Shiley Raymond L. Santmier Brady L. Bur cham Clarence B. Pope Norman E. Winfield Elwood M. Wolfe James M. Haymaker Edgar Brown Whitacre John E. Manuel Jr Paul N. Anderson Chester G. Garrett Lucian R. Preffitt James F. Andrews Clyde Wilson Arthur R. Ritter George Welch. A second group departs January 25 for Roanoke with return January 26. Members include Lewis A. Lamp Leonard M. Wright Reuben T. Fahnestock John T. Rudolph Charles W. Parish Carlton H. Sonner Robert M. Boyd Elmer Lee Strosnider Harry M. Hershman Morris P. Boyer Ralph H. Orndorff LeRoy W. Edmonson John R. Whitacre Nelson L. Carpenter James F. Garrett Robert M. Dailey James H. Vance Maurice W. Keller Ralph en Alfert W. Messick.
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Frederick County
Roanoke
James E. Berryman
Winfred Crum
Gilbert Orntorff
Aes
As. Ralphin
Jasper T. Baker
Aubrey M. Shiley
Raymond L. Santmier
Brady L. Burcham
Clarence B. Pope
Norman E. Winfield
Elwood M. Wolfe
James M. Haymaker
Edgar Brown Whitacre
John E. Manuel
Paul N. Anderson
Chester G. Garrett
Lucian R. Preffitt
James F. Andrews
Clyde Wilson
Arthur R. Ritter
George Welch
Lewis A. Lamp
Leonard M. Wright
Reuben T. Fahnestock
John T. Rudolph
Charles W. Parish
Carlton H. Sonner
Robert M. Boyd
Elmer Lee Strosnider
Harry M. Hershman
Morris P. Boyer
Ralph H. Orndorff
LeRoy W. Edmonson
John R. Whitacre
Nelson L. Carpenter
James FP. .Garrett
Robert M. Dailey
James H. Vance
Maurice W. Keller
Ralphen
Alfert W. Messick
Japanese Open New China Drive Near Hengyang
Chinese field dispatch reports a Japanese offensive aimed at closing the Canton Hankow railway gap south of Hengyang and north of Canton. Japanese columns centered in Leiyang launched a southward advance amid severe fighting, seen as a move to seal the railroad gap ahead of a potential American landing on the China coast.
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Chungking
Canton- Hankow
Hengyang
Canton
Leiyang
Henyang
China
Left flank gains as U S forces smash Japanese tanks
In Luzon on January 20 Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger reports Sixth Army advancing on the left flank. American units knock out twenty Japanese tanks and kill about six hundred while linking a 30 mile line along the Manila Baguio road from Rosario to the Agno river near Villasis.
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Pangasinan
Baguio
Philippines
Manila
Yank Coloumns
Talac
Yanks
Rosario
Manila-Baguio
Sison
Pozorrubio
Binalonan
Free Exchange News Favored by AP Official
Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, urged the United States to lead global free information exchange and said the President should be its chief advocate. He spoke during a Metropolitan Opera victory rally Blue Network address, calling for undiluted news flow and reduced distrust of government, even in wartime.
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New York
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
United States
Cooper
Metropolitan Opera
Roosevelt Inaugural Promise For Lasting Peace And Democracy
President Roosevelt pledges just and durable peace after taking the oath for a fourth term on the White House portico. He declares resolve to strive for perfection, accept mistakes, and unite with Allies for a global moral effort amid wartime.
War Strips Inaugural Of All Its Pomp and Pageantry
President Roosevelt opened a fourth term with a wartime inauguration held in snow on the South Lawn of the White House. He pledged total victory in war and a durable peace, swearing in before about five thousand officials, with a simple ceremony and a brief inaugural address.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
White House
Harry Truman
Missouri
America
Stone
South Lawn
Winchester Town Meeting To Be On Air Friday
Winchester and Frederick County citizens may listen to the Town Meeting on Post War Planning via WINC from 8 00 to 9 00 Friday with main speakers Dewey Anderson and E J Coil and a local panel on industry small business agriculture and social welfare. A 6 30 p m talk by Rev Dr FE Clark precedes the event.
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WINC
Sarah Zane Fire Hall
Dewey Anderson
U. S. Senate
E. J. Coil
National Planning Association
Windsor
Frederick County
FE. T. Clark
Coordinating Council
Labor Draft Bill Ready For House By First Of Week
The House Military Committee forecast a draft bill with prison penalties for evaders and job assignment rules, aiming to force men 18 to 45 into war work. Byrnes would classify essential jobs, with deferments contested by farm-state lawmakers and labor groups. Senate probes into plant conditions add pressure to push for proper utilization of labor.
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Washington
House Military
House
White House
James F. Byrnes
Farm State
Selecive
Lewis B. Hershey
Lemke
R-Nd
Hershey
Senate War Investigating Committee
Norfolk, Va. Navy Yard
Ferguson
R-Mich
Russians Drive To Cut East Prussia
Russian forces push toward East Prussia as Marshal Petrov reports advances to within 204 miles of Berlin and 62 miles from the Gulf of Danzig. Ukrainian and White Russian units drive toward Krakow and Kepno while German defences slow the onrushing Red Army along a broad 800 mile front.
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London
East Prussia
Gulf of Danzig
Junkers
Zerlin
Moscow
Kremlin
Ivan Konev
Kepno
Kemper
Wielun
Krakow
Volkssturm
Upper Silesian
Berlin
Breslau
Germany
Warsaw
Tin Rokossovsky
Seco Thedenburg
Prussia
Chorzelle
Gregory Kirov
Vistula Warta
Warthe
Vistula Fortress
Plock
Vistula River
Forteress
Pom
Gererman
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Tilsit
Ragnit
Gumbinnen
Insterburg
Ed Krakow
Silesia
Beuthen
Gleiwitz
Hindenburg
Dombrowa
Polish Silesia
Lake Balaton
Budapest
Cigarette Output Shows Decline in 1944 at Richmond
Richmond chamber reports wartime cigarette production fell in 1944 from 95.65 billion in 1943 to 89.93 billion. August was peak with 8.53 billion, while December output dropped to 7.74 million.
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Richmond
Jan
Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Smoked Pork Prices To Fall Across Retail Stores
In Washington on January 20 the OPA announced price cuts for smoked pork loins and loin cuts, effective January 26, due to a high volume of loins smoked for price advantages. The OPA also set new retail price ceilings for Kosher and non Kosher beef briskets, predicting an overall national average reduction of at least 10 cents per pound with briskets priced 30 to 50 cents lower in some cases.
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Washington
OPA
Reading Citizen Receives Outstanding Young Citizen Award
Winchester honors Geo W Reading City’s Outstanding Young Citizen for 1944 at Founders Day Banquet. He served 1118 Red Cross hours, taught 69 classes in water safety and first aid, and led Accident Prevention efforts as assistant chemist with Virginia Woolen Co. Major Whitfield lauded his service.
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Winchester
Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Raymond H. Kerlin
W. R. Strader
Frank Armstrong
Herbert Solenberger
William Wheatley
Reading
Kerlin
Virginia Woolen Company
Winchester-Frederick County
American Red Cross
Susan Kabler
William Allen Whitfield
The
United States Junior Chamber
Belgians Turning Out Allied War Supplies
Paris January 20 more than 300 Belgian factories are turning out supplies for Allied armies. Steel mills forge rails and beams while other plants produce vaseline cans and hospital barracks according to headquarters.
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Paris
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Emerson
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Marshal Petrov
Polish Carpathians
Nowy Sacz
Presov
Slovakia
Stalin
Inxanson
Geo. W
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