Shoe stamps to stay valid, OPA promises
Pledge made to halt run on supplies
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MacArthur’s guerillas –
Filipinos take down radio broadcasts and distribute news in cigarette papers
Special issues of Free Philippines magazine placed on desks of Japanese bigwigs
By Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo
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Men 18 to 22 would serve a year –
House gets Legion plan for training Army reservists
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
Well, I just read that the Electoral College is going to count up their presidential votes on Saturday.
Not a very progressive school, if you ask me. Why, the students at Yale and Harvard counted their votes along with the rest of us a couple of months ago.
This got me interested in the college, and I checked up a bit. Goodness, they’re a pretty backward bunch of boys. It’s the only college that has no alma mater song, no school yell, since voting is their only activity.
I thought they should at least have one yell to pop up their school spirit. May I suggest:
Stamp that ballot. Make that X.
Roosevelt. Roosevelt. We elects.
Four and eight and twelve were keen:
Now it’s six-teen, teen, teen.
Völkischer Beobachter (January 5, 1945)
Wir kennen ihre Vernichtungspläne
Manchester Guardian sagt: Man hätte den Wilson-Betrug wiederholen müssen
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Führer HQ (January 5, 1945)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Die Schlacht in den nördlichen Ardennen hat sich gestern noch gesteigert. Im zusammengefassten Feuer aller Waffen Hefen sich die erneut zum Durchbruch ansetzenden amerikanischen Divisionen schon nach geringen Anfangserfolgen wieder fest. Im Raum von Bastogne halten unsere Panzerverbände ihren starken Druck aufrecht. Feindliche Angriffe scheiterten.
Die Front zwischen Saargemünd und dem Rhein ist in Bewegung. Trotz der Gegenangriffe der inzwischen herangeführten feindlichen Verbände sind unsere Truppen, besonders in den Unteren Vogesen, weiter im Vordringen. Neben zahlreichen Orten in Lothringen wurde die Stadt Weißenburg im Elsass vom Feind befreit, die Lauter nach Südteil überschritten. 76 Panzer und Panzerfahrzeuge wurden gestern im Westen erbeutet oder vernichtet, auch zahlreiche Geschütze und Kriegsgerät aller Art fielen in unsere Hand.
In Mittelitalien dauern die schweren Abwehrkämpfe an. Im Raum nördlich Faenza behaupteten unsere Truppen das Feld gegen die feindlichen Durchbruchsversuche. Nordwestlich Ravenna stehen sie in schweren Kämpfen gegen vorgestoßene feindliche Verbände.
Die Schlacht um Budapest geht weiter. Die deutschen und ungarischen Verteidiger schlugen auch gestern starke feindliche Angriffe am Ostrand der Stadt zurück. Um einzelne Einbruchsstellen wird noch erbittert gekämpft. Den zwischen dem Gran und Groß-Steifelsdorf angreifenden Bolschewisten blieben nennenswerte Erfolge versagt. Eine bolschewistische Kampfgruppe, die in unsere Stellungen eingebrochen war, wurde im Gegenangriff durch unsere Panzer abgeschnitten und vernichtet.
Starke Verbände deutscher Schlachtflieger unterstützten auch gestern die Kämpfe des Heeres in Ungarn und setzten 1 Panzer außer Gefecht. 30 sowjetische Flugzeuge wurden vernichtet, davon 26 in Luftkämpfen durch unsere Jäger und Schlachtflieger.
In Kurland scheiterten südlich Frauenburg mehrere örtliche Angriffe der Bolschewisten.
Am gestrigen Tage waren über dem Reichsgebiet nur kleinere Verbände feindlicher Tiefflieger. In den Abendstunden und um Mitternacht griffen schnelle britische Kampfflugzeuge erneut die Reichshauptstadt an.
Das Feuer unserer Vergeltungswaffen auf London wurde verstärkt.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (January 5, 1945)
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Communiqué No. 272
Allied forces in the Ardennes salient continued their attack southeast of Grandmenil. Bad visibility, snow and rough terrain made movement difficult. Slow, steady progress has been made.
In the Bois-de-Tave and Arbrefontaine areas, enemy counterattacks have been held. Southeast of Marche-en-Famenne, we made gains of 1500 yards against opposition.
Fighting continued around the Bastogne bulge, with the enemy making numerous counterattacks. One near Mande-Saint-Étienne was repulsed and another, made by an estimated 35 tanks and a regiment of infantry near Longchamps, was followed by heavy fighting. Farther east, a smaller enemy force made some progress from the direction of Bourcy toward Bastogne, but was forced to withdraw.
South of Bastogne, we are clearing the northeast edge of Lutrebois and have made slight gains east of Harlange against strong enemy resistance.
In the Saar Valley, our artillery broke up a small force of enemy infantry attacking from Geislautern toward Ludweiler, in the area west of Saarbrücken. East of Sarreguemines, our troops repulsed an enemy counterattack south of Bliesbruck. Farther south, the enemy units, which had penetrated to Gros-Réderching and Achen, were driven back.
In the lower Vosges Mountains southeast of Bitsch, the enemy kept up pressure by repeated small-scale attacks and by attempts to infiltrate.
South of Bitsch, our troops regained the village of Meisenthal, which had changed hands several times. Hard fighting continued in the vicinity of Barenthal and Philippsburg.
In the Colmar area, our reconnaissance elements were active. An enemy attack at Kembs on the upper Rhine was repulsed.
Unfavorable flying conditions yesterday confined our air operations to fighter and fighter-bomber missions.
Enemy-occupied factory buildings at Sliedrecht in Holland were hit by rocket-firing fighters. Fighter-bombers attacked rail and road transport and struck at communications in northern and eastern Holland and over the German border to Münster and Osnabrück.
In the area of Bitsch, fighter-bombers attacked gun positions and defended buildings and struck at the enemy’s transport and communications.
Ten enemy aircraft were shot down in these operations. Three of our aircraft are missing.
Berlin was attacked last night by light bombers.
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Communiqué No. 566
The destroyer USS REID (DD-369) was recently lost as a result of enemy action in the Philippine Islands area. The next of kin of casualties have been informed.
CINCPAC Communiqué No. 223
Army Liberators and Lightnings of the Strategic Air Force, Pacific Ocean Areas, attacked airstrip installations on Iwo Jima in the Volcanos on January 2 (West Longitude Date). On the following day, Liberators of the same force bombed the same targets, encountering moderate anti-aircraft fire and one enemy fighter.
On January 2, Army Liberators of the Strategic Air Force bombed enemy installations on Marcus Island.
Fighters and torpedo planes of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing strafed and bombed an enemy power plant, supply dumps and other installations on Babelthuap in the Palaus on January 2 and 3. Marine Fighters also strafed targets on Sonsoral and Merir Islands southwest of the Palaus on the same date.
Aircraft of Fleet Air Wing Two and the 4th MarAirWing continued neutralizing attacks on enemy-held bases in the Marshalls on January 3.