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11 cos summoned for failure to receive red stamps from customers; Woolley plans action against restaurants on red points
WPB cuts civilian goods output to speed arms
A day no one expected to arrive is here. It's the day of the National Football League's championship play-off game between the New York Giants, Eastern titleholders, and the Green Bay Packers, holders of the Western crown.
Stockholm newspaper repts Allied planes fly over Berchtesgaden, probably to take photographs; Ger offensive opens in 2 major sectors; Gers hurl armored div at US 7th Army and infantry attacks against 1st Army; attacks in Monschau, Krewinkel and Echternach areas and against 9th Army north of Lindern repulsed; Gers shell all 4 US armies in Ger heavily; 7th Army takes Wissembourg, Berg and unspecified town in Ger; forges 2 Lautern River bridgeheads near Lauterbourg; 6th Army Group holds positions against Ger attacks in Colmar area but loses ground near Selestat; US 3d Army gains in western Saar Basin; makes new entry near Erching; pushes deeper into Ensdorf; 1st Army takes Berzbuir and more of Roer west bank; from eastern Netherlands come repts of heavy Ger transport movement in Ruhr; Gers attempt to raid outpost near Venray; map
A City College quintet that missed enough shots to alter the complexion of the struggle suffered its first defeat last night at Madison Square Garden. Their own worst enemies, as it were, Nat Holman's Beavers fell before the taller Razorbacks of the University of Arkansas, 59 -- 47, after St. Francis College of Brooklyn had succumbed to Muhienberg College, 56 -- 18.
1944Jack L. Chalker, American author and educator (died 2005)[†]
Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring during 1978 to write full-time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
1944Carlo M. Croce, Italian-American oncologist and academic[†]
Carlo Maria Croce is an Italian-American professor of medicine at Ohio State University, specializing in oncology and the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer. Croce and his research have attracted public attention because of multiple allegations of scientific misconduct.
1944Bernard Hill, English actor (died 2024)[†]
Bernard Hill was an English actor. He was known for his versatile performances in both television and film, and his career spanned over fifty years.
1944World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.[†]
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive or Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. The offensive was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy each of the four Allied armies and force the western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor.