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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of December 16, 1944

#1 – “I’m Making Believe” – Ink Spots, with Ella Fitzgerald
#2 – “The Trolley Song” – Pied Pipers
#3 - “Don’t Fence Me In” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#4 - “Dance with a Dolly” – Russ Morgan, with Al Jennings
#5 – “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” - Ink Spots, with Ella Fitzgerald
#6 - “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine” – Stan Kenton, with Anita O’Day
#7 - “Together” – Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
#8 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#9 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Dinah Shore
#10 – “I’ll Walk Alone” – Martha Tilton

Foe is Surprised (Kluckhohn) – 2-3
Troops Land Fast on Mindoro Beach (Hewlett) – 4
Nimitz Fliers Hit Luzon Fields Again (Horne) – 4
Chinese Threaten Hochih in Kwangsi – 4
Chinese Burma Push Wins Bhamo; British Gain 17 Miles in Arakan – 5
Smugglers Infest Air Run to China – 5-6
Hurley Says China is Unconquerable – 6
3 Japanese Areas Visited by B-29’s – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Planning a Liberator-Thunderbolt Strike at Japanese (photo) – 7
Filipino Guerrillas Join Americans (photo) – 7
Curzon Line Basis (Daniell) – 8
Caprices in Purge Disturbing France (Archambault) – 8-9
7th Army Enters Germany at Three Points in South (Middleton) – 9-11
Alsace, Lorraine Favor Integration (by Dana Adams Schmidt) – 11
Resistance Lists Demands in Paris (by Harold Callender) – 11
U.S. Bombers Rip German Railways – 11-12
Senate Votes New Five Star Rank for 3 Admirals and 4 Generals (by Sidney M. Shalett) – 12
Blow at Luzon Indicated (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-15
Pre-Holiday Mass for Armed Forces (by Rachel K. McDowell, first-time contributor) * – 16
Religious Services – 17-18 *

*The religion page is in each Saturday edition of the Times but I never posted it before. Today it fell on the same page as the movie reviews so I decided to present a sample along with the news since I was printing it out anyway – HJS.