Snow Buries City as Transportation and Mines Stagnate
About 27 inches of snow blanketed the city locking roads and halting transit. Power lines fell and were repaired while most mines idled due to outages though Pocahontas Fuel sites stayed operational. Two feet reportedly fell by dawn with a further three inches later, worsening closures in Mercer and Tazewell counties.
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Bluefield
Princeton
Athens
Mercer County
Bluefield College
Geryhound
Consolidated
Pocahontas
Weather Upsets Bond Sale Plans in West Virginia
The snowstorm disrupted communications and highways in West Virginia hampering sixth war loan sales especially Series E. An army show was canceled at West Union and remaining caravan stops and a bond rally at East Bank were affected. State Chairman A C Spurr reported WV sales surpassed the 39 million individual quota at 41.1 million and total securities sales reached 97.3 million while EB bonds lagged at 11.0 million.
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Chavleston
W. Va
West Virginia
War Finance Headquarters
West Union
Harrisville
St. Marys
Sistersville
New Martinsville
Snow Storm Paralyzes East and Midwest, Death Toll Rises
A winter gale dumped up to 36 inches of snow on the East with 18 inches in the Midwest. Forty-nine Americans and 18 Canadians died as storm conditions hampered war plants and transportation. Florida citrus crops faced cold, while Jacksonville reported 31 degrees and Mobile 27. Winds reached 73 mph along parts of the coast.
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Midwest
United States
Canada
Florida
Texas
Macon
Jacksonville
Fla
U. S
Mobile
Ala
Winter Tightens Grip on Virginia
The Associated Press reports brutal winter conditions across Virginia with heavy snow six to eight foot drifts in Roanoke and Marion and widespread closures. Schools mail and road service disrupted. Route 11 and Smyth Wythe lines blocked. Greyhound service altered. airports snowbound as life slows.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Marion
Smyth County
Smyth- Wythe
Greyhound
Bristol
Roanoke
Woodrum Field
Roa
Bluefield
State Highway Department
Blizzard Wallows Through West Virginia Closes Schools
A severe December blizzard cripples West Virginia, shutting schools statewide with few exceptions and halting intercity bus service. Randolph and Kanawha counties report heavy snow with Pickens at three feet and Bluefield at 24 inches. Roads blocked by six foot drifts strand communities across the state.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Kanawha
Randolph
Pickens
Tucker County
Pendleton
Bluefield
Senator Stuart Marooned at Home by Snow Drifts
Lebanon Virginia December reports state Senator Harry C. Stuart, stranded 3 miles from the highway, faces missing the Richmond special session. Snow drifts 15 to 20 feet block mail and access. he relies on telephone news and eight farm mules with sleds as a possible transport to the capital.
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Lebanon
Harry C. Stuart
Richmond
General Assembly
Elk Garden
Stuart
Capital Square
Montgomery Ward Strike Hearing Set in Detroit Stores
The War Labor Board will hold a show cause hearing Thursday at 2 36 p m in Detroit to explain why Montgomery Ward and the CIO mail order union ignored board orders on membership checkoff and back wages. A Friday 10 30 a m session requires Ward to explain noncompliance in six other cities.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward Company
Cio-Mail Order
Detroit
Sewell Avery
Chicago
War in Brief: Allied Offensives Across Fronts and Pacific Actions
Western Front reports the first army breaking within half a mile of Duren on the Roer east bank while the seventh army advances northeast from Haguenau toward Seigfour from the German border. Third army makes minor gains against German defenses near Saarlautern. Bomber forces pound Frankfurt in a major raid. In the Pacific MacArthur says U S airmen destroy a Japanese convoy near Leyte, with heavy losses to Japanese reinforcement attempts. U S troops hold positions in the Ormoc corridor as Russians push on in Europe and Japanese retreat from Kweichow into Kwangsi after costly battles.
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Associated Press
Western Front
First Army
Duren
Roer River
Seventh Army
T. Haguenany
Third Army
Saarlautern
Frankfurt
Pacific
MacArthur
Leyte
U. S S
Ormoc
Soviets Break Through Near Budapest in Major Advance
Soviet forces opened a wide gap northeast of Budapest and captured the rail fortress of Godolin as bayonet fighting continued in the eastern Budapest suburbs. The war bulletin notes 400 German dead near Godolin and lists ten more towns including Sajoszent Peter as the drive northwest up the Saja river advances past the Kassa region.
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London
Red Army
Budapest
Godolin
Moscow
Sajoszentpeter
Berente
Slovakia
Saja
Kassa
Greek civil strife in Athens prompts peace feeler
In Athens and Piraeus fighting rages as Field Marshal Alexander and Minister MacMillan visit. The British deliver terms to Miltiades Porphyrogenis demanding the Elas arm cease resistance and lay down arms as a prerequisite to settlement. Gen Scobie said steps will follow to restore peaceful liberties.
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London
Harold Alexander
Harold MacMillan
Athens
Eam-Elas
Piraeus
British
Foreign Office
Miltiades Porphyrogenis
Eame
Scobie
Alexander
Mediterranean
Greece
Series E Bond Sales Improve Toward Goal
Washington reports gradually improving series E bond sales reaching 1.408 billion dollars in the sixth war loan. Field director Robert W. Coyne says the 2.5 billion dollar E bond quota should be reached, as payroll deductions drive December totals even after the drive ends. Total war loan sales reach 15.496 billion with 11.982 billion by corporations and 3.514 billion by individuals.
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Washington
Robert W. Coyne
Treasury
War Finance Division
Japanese convoy sunk near Philippines in Leyte battle
General MacArthur reports a 36 hour clash off Leyte where three Japanese destroyers and four transports were sunk. One destroyer and two transports were lost, fifty Japanese planes destroyed while eight American planes fell. remaining enemy ships retreated toward Palompoa as PT boats sank a 5,000 ton cargo ship.
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C. Yates McDantel
MacArthur
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Army
Marine Corsairs
Leyte
Leyte Island
Ormoc
U. S
Conon
Ormoc Valley
Visayan Sea
Palompoa
Fallen Ormoc
Navy
Air Attack On Reich Continues In Major Allied Strike
London reports ongoing Allied air assault on Germany with RAF and American bombers targeting rail facilities in Frankfurt area. U S Eighth Air Force dropped over 3,000 tons of explosives during the day. nine bombers and nine fighters listed missing. RAF strikes hit Essen and Osnabruck with Mosquito escort.
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London
Germany
RAF
Britain
Italy
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Frankfurt
Essen
Osnabruck
Ruhr
Cars derailment to avert explosives crash in yard
Freight cars were purposely derailed in the west yard to prevent a collision with explosives laden cars. No injuries were reported and the yard sustained damage. Railroad workers warned of the danger and recalled that the explosives could have wiped out the area.
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West End
Evacuation Ordered for Civilians in Tokyo Amid Bombing
Berlin reports mass evacuation of non essential civilians from bombed Tokyo as American B-29s strike twice in one day. Japan says 20 000 people ordered from the capital while workers in essential industries may not depart.
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London
Tokyo
Berlin
Transocean
Japan
Hirohito
Liberal foreign policy promised before Senate panel
Washington reports the Senate foreign relations committee questioned Secretary of State Stettinius and six nominees about a liberal foreign policy. Senators asked about Greece and Churchill, but Chairman Connally limited probing as confirmation proceedings continued.
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Washington
Serttinius
Senate
Wall Street
Archibald MacLeish
State Department
Churchill
Connally
Joseph C. Grew
Consolidated Opposes Tri-City Bus Route Permit
The Consolidated Bus company protests Tri-City Traction's plan to use U S route 1921 for substituting bus service between Bluefield and Princeton. Bluefield officials back trolley service while arguing no need for an extra bus, and a 20 minute time gain is claimed by Tri-City witnesses.
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Charleston
W. Va
Consolidated Bus Company of
Bluefield
Public Service Commission
Tri-City Traction Company
U. S
Princeton
Traction Company
S. J. Evans
Princeton Road
Evans
Albert 8. Kemper, Jr
Consolidated Bus Company
Electric Trolley
Ernest R. Burks Dies Suddenly at Home
Ernest R Burks a prominent businessman and president of Bluefield Hardware died suddenly last night at his Bland road home due to a heart attack He had been ill for over a year He is survived by his wife two sons Sgt Jack Burks overseas and Burks Jr with the venaheden Puel y at Portland Maine Charles Burks of Thonville Tenn and two sisters Mrs Margaret Stroud and Mrs Cornelia Dillard of Athens Ga Funeral arrangements were incomplete last night
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Ernest R. Banks
Bluefield Hardware Company
Bland Road
Kas
Sgt
Jack Burks
U. 8. Ay
Burks, Jr
Venaheden Puel — Y
Portland
Maine
Charles Burks
Thonville Tenn
Margaret Stroud
Cornelia Dillard
Athens
War Work Edict Extension Urged by Official
Col. Francis Kessling urged broadening the wartime work edict to stop 18 to 37 workers from quitting wartime plants without draft board approval, extending it to 38 to 45. He backed pressuring 4-Fs to take war jobs and using local draft boards to fill vacancies, aiming to mobilize 300,000 more workers.
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Washington
Francis Kessling
Senate War Investigating Committee
James F. Byrnes
Selective Service
Kessling
Byrnes
Americans face poor Christmas warned by Tokyo radio
A Japanese controlled Singapore radio broadcast reported by OWI says rich America will have a very poor Christmas due to shortages of liquor, cigarettes and sugar. It portrays Americans suffering cigarette shortages and notes women who once smoked now chew gum.
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Associated Press
Singapore Radio
America
OWI
Seventh Army Breaks Through Maginot Line Northward
Allied front reports the U S Seventh Army advancing more than eight miles north of Haguenau while the First American Army nears Duren. Third Army crosses the Blies River near Sarreguemines and pushes a new edge toward the German border as French forces gain in the Vosges. Air power bombs Ruhr targets. many German towns fall as Allied troops close on the Reich’s borders.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Maginot
U. S. Seventh Army
Haguenau
Duren
Roer River
Cologne
Third Army
Blies
Sarreguemines
First Army
Vosges
Britain
Ruhr
Germany
Reich
Alexander M. Patch
Langenscullosen
Mattstall
Hagenau
Wissembourg
Merkwiller
Trainman Killed Four Hurt In Wreck In Snowstorm
Two crashes involving three trains in a snowstorm left engineer Claude Baxter Beales of Alexandria dead from burns. Four trainmen including Williams of Baltimore, William Smith of Alexandria, Raymond Menker of Upper Darby and Charles Sweeney of Philadelphia were injured. The incidents touched Southern Railway and Baltimore and Ohio trains across Virginia and Maryland with no hospitalized passengers reported.
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Washington
Claude Baxter Beales
Alexandria
Southern Railway
Potomac River
Virginia
Williams
Baltimore & Ohio
William H. Smith
Southern
Raymond Menker
Upper Darby
Charles Sweeney
Philadelphia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Ceiling Price Of Wheat Increased
The Office of Price Administration announced a four cent per bushel increase in the ceiling price of wheat effective tomorrow. The raise aims to meet the Stabilization Extension Act of 1944 and reflect parity to producers. Bread prices remain unchanged.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
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Mountain State
The
Road Commission
Senator Stuart
Montgomery Ward
Asiatic Front
Kweichow
Kwangsi Province
Rip Gap
Joe Page
Apanese
James H
Saipan
Marianas
Tokyo Radio
Diet
Tri-City
Ernest R. Burks
Haguenay
Blies River
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