Americans Take Off ensive as Icy Weather Hits Zanesville
Sleet turned streets to ice and halted travel with five city bus lines canceled. Traffic crawled as accidents mounted and pedestrians slipped, while police urged caution and motorists stayed off roads unless urgent. Temperatures swung from near zero to 17 above by morning, then to 23 at noon. City and state crews scattered cinders on hills and bridges to ease hazard.
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Zanesville
Columbus
Woodsfield
Marietta
Corning
Lancaster
State Highway Patrol
Cambridge
German Rail Lines Bombed By Allied Air Force
London reports that 1000 no. 8. Eighth Air Force planes from British bases attacked western Germany rail hubs and a key Berlin west rail artery. 600 heavy bombers led 4000 fighters to six yards and a junction, with 1400 Allied sorties on fronts in Europe and 475 Nazi planes destroyed since Saturday.
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Eighth Air Force
Germany
Berlin
von Rundstedt
Bonn
Euskirchen
Andernach
Coblenz
Hamburg
Kassel
Fulda
Austria
Italy
U. S
Eighth Airice
Co- Meng
RAF
St. With
U &, Ninth Air Force
Second Tactical Air Force
Inssrs
Two Soldiers Wounded in Action Report
Pie Walter Allan Mattox of Trinway and Wallace E Reem of East Fullenham were wounded in action. Mattox sustained leg wounds in the South Pacific while serving. Beem was slightly wounded December 31 in Germany while with Gen Patton's Third Army in France.
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Walter Allan Mattox
Dresden
Wallace E. Reem
East Fullenham
Hayreen
Ward
Mattox
Pacifle
Anna B. Mattox
Trinway
Ski. Beem
Germany
Pred Berm
Draft men from civilian work urged by Ohio board
State Selective Service in Columbus informs Ohio draft boards that civilians whose work was once deferment protected must be re evaluated. Col C W Goble says urgent manpower needs in the armed forces require narrowing deferments and local boards must judge essentiality based on local conditions.
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Selective Service
Ohio
Eer
Col
C. W. Goble
Goble
Jenkins to retain staff as Ohio AG selects team
Attorney General elect Hugh S. Jenkins will keep on staff Thomas J. Herbert as special counsel and 19 assistant attorneys general who served under Herbert. Jenkins takes office January 8 and names E. G. Schuesster as chief counsel and John P. Walsh as first assistant. New aides include Walter Beck, Clifford Bernard, A A Cartwright, Joseph Fodor, Samuel Hagans, Ralph Kiapp, Nathan Lefton, William Petro, Gertrude Polecar, Charles Schnurr, and Morris Sokolsky among Cleveland and Cincinnati names.
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Hugh S. Jenkins
Thomas J. Herbert
Herbert
Jenkins
Council of State Governments
E. G. Schuesster
Cincinnati
Toledo
Richard C. Gerken
Robert J. O'Dell
Charles F. Ohl
Youngstown
Frederick J. Drum
Cadiz
Benjamin Patterson
Dayton
Maurice L. Schellenger
Jackson
Edward Aa. Schott
Edgar L. Weinland
Aubrey A. Wendt
Cuyahoga Falls
Alvy T. Witto
John M. Way
Cleveland
Gertrude Polecar
Charles Schnurr
Akron
Morris Sokolsky
Oeictiek
Red army presses toward Budapest amid heavy fighting
Soviet assault forces push toward Budapest as German garrison battles from the Danube river hills. Burned stores and silenced utilities mark the city as tanks strike into the Buda district. Reports say large German forces defend, with roads cut off and fierce street fighting in the capital.
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Moscow
Red Army
Budapest
Danube
Buda
Szekes
Fehervar
St. Stephen's Cathedral
Szekesfehervar
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Yanks Forced Back On Italian Front
Allied Fifth Army says German counterattack drove withdrawal from Serchio river valley near Galliano about 14 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian coast. Fighting was bitter but few details released. The opposing Eighth Army on the opposite coast remained quiet. German air raids continued in the center sector north of San Benedetto and near Bologna and Grizzana, dropping anti personnel bombs.
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Italy
Fifth Army
Serchio River
Gallitano
Tyrrhenian
San Benedetto
Bologna
Grizazana
My Biggest Baseball Day opens series on page six
The sports feature promises a four weekly continuation titled My Biggest Baseball Day with Fred Fitz Simmons recalling standout moments from his career. Tomorrow at 11 a.m. the first installment will appear, detailing a day when several games stood out for the player.
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Fred Fitz~ Simmons
Disey Dean
Large Japanese Carrier Destroyed by American Subs
Washington reports the destruction of a large Japanese aircraft carrier by American submarines along with six more enemy warships and numerous transports in Far Eastern waters. Secretary Forrestal confirmed the hits at a news conference, noting the carrier’s size remains unspecified. The tally includes 99 ships definitely sunk and 16 damaged, totaling over 3.5 million tons.
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Navy
Guay Wy
Far Eastern
Forrestal
Botton
Peace terms clash as Elas and Greek conference fail
In Athens Greek populists reject Elas peace terms saying they are inadmissible and doom the state if accepted. The all party conference at Grand Bretagne ends its second meeting without agreement amid renewed fighting around Omonia square and a fresh British truce plan to protect Elas delegates. Prime Minister Churchill and British reps depart, leaving Greeks to decide Greece’s future as talks continue.
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Athens
Elas
Churchill
Stylianos Gonatas
Confence
Grand Bretagne
Omonia
Piraeus
Greece
Soldier Vote Far Below Estimate
Best estimates from election officials place the service vote in the recent presidential race at around 2.8 million, far below the 3.392 million estimated by state officers before the November 7 election. The census lists males in uniform at 7.86 million as of January 1, 1944, with growth since then and eligibility for women and younger uniformed personnel affecting totals, including in Georgia.
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Washington
cPi
Census Bureau
Georgia
Von Rundstedt Suffers First Setback as Yanks Drive Into Nazi Lines
In Belgium's Stavelot sector and across the Meuse battlefield, American air forces and ground troops press the German offensive. U S armor and infantry regain initiative on the flanks of the Meuse drive while Bastogne remains encircled and heavily shelled. German positions north of La Roche and near Ciney see heavy action as both sides clash and supplies drop to beleaguered troops.
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Stavelot
Belgium
German Bulge
Bastogne
Berlin
Laroche
Marche
Luxembourg
Karl von Rundstedt
Bains
Celles
Meuse
French
Ciney
Namur
Ceilles
Brussels
Supreme Headquarters
Ditiarit
Marshal van Rundstedt
Antwerp
Fifty B-29s Bomb Tokyo Mark New Pacific Push
About 50 B 29s bombed Tokyo interrupting the Japanese diet reading and marking the first mass raid on the capital since December 3. American forces reported 74 enemy planes destroyed over the Philippines and North China as ground combat on Leyte dwindled to mopping up.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Philippines
China
Leyte
Eighth Route Army
Loyang
Hon
Tokyo-Yokohama
Japan
Honshu Island
Haywood Hansell, Jr
Asia
Jup
Indo-China
Malaya
Comei
Mindoro
Life of Tubs to Hoop in The Signal Tomorrow
Gilbert Turner known as Tubs to Hoop was a famous Zanesville colored character famed for calling and replacing hoops on wooden washtubs in a bygone era. His life sketch by daughter Lucy Mas Turner, with three pictures, is slated for publication in The Signal tomorrow.
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Gilbert
Turner
Zanesville
Lucy Mas Turner
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