Travel Remains Curtailed By Snow and Ice Impassable Roads
Bus service into Bluefield continues to operate on a curtailed basis due to hazardous highways and ice coated roads after a new snowfall. Greyhound Tennessee Coach Reynolds Line and Consolidated Bus lines reported mixed status with some cancellations and limited schedules for War Welch Roanoke and Roanoke routes. Weather recorder C C Keeney noted rain and snow totals totaling about 0.5 inches in 24 hours and roughly 3.6 inches of snowfall since Monday, with temperatures around 22 to 25 degrees. Road officials said all county roads were open but secondary routes still affected.
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Bluefield
Greyhound Bus
Tennessee Coach Company
Reynolds Line
Consolidated Bus Lines
War
Boissevain
Welch
Roanoke
C. C. Keeney
Official
Norfolk and Western Yards
State Road Commission
Princeton
FDR Clarifies Atlantic Charter Not a Signed Document
President Roosevelt, back from Warm Springs, says the Atlantic Charter is not a formal signed document with Churchill but based on its substance. He faced tough foreign affairs questions at a White House conference and avoided direct answers on Poland Greece and other issues.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
White House
Warm Springs
Poland
Washington Evening Star
United States
Washington Times-Herald
Star
Frank Waldorf
Times-Herald
Greece
Ernest Bevin
Quebec
State Department
Pocahontas Man Held After Home Fire Probe
Pocahontas Virginia resident Herman McClanahan about 30, son of Hattie McClanahan, is held in the town jail pending investigation into a morning fire that destroyed four homes. Fire chief John Dennen said kerosene odor linked to the starting home and winds spread flames to three neighboring frame houses. no injuries reported.
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Herman McClanahan
Hattie McClanahan
Church Street
Pocahontas Va
Pocahontas
John Dennen
Dennen
McClanahan
Greeks Fortify Averoff Prison After Siege
Athens reports Elas troops bolstered the Averoff prison following a leftist militia mortar and grenade attack that compelled the British garrison and Greek police to withdraw. A nationwide manhunt is underway for Jean Rallis, a Quisling figure, while UNRRA suspends parts of operations due to the Greek civil war.
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Athens
Elas
Averoff
Eam
Jean Rallis
Quisling
Ger
Ger Who Escaped Out of the Fshting For the Prison. (In London Herbert H. Lehman
UNRRA
Greece
Lieutenant Dale Mutter Killed in Action in Italy
Lieut Dale C Mutter son of Mrs Georgia Mutter of Tazewell RFC was killed in action in Italy a war department message to his mother indicated He served as a tank platoon leader with the Fifth Army in Italy Other details were not available tonight
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Dale C. Mutter
Georgia Mutter
Tazewell Rfc
Italy
War Department
Mutter
Fifth Army
Victory Ship Bluefield Joins Pacific War Effort
The Bluefield Victory, launched May 9 at Terminal Island California, completed seven days of standardized tests and sea trials earning a clean sweep symbol. Delegates request city data on population industries and civic life while noting active service in the Southwest Pacific. Citizens may write to Don Willett for shipmates and Navy correspondence.
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Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
S. Bluefield Victory
Terminal Island
Wilmington
Calif
U. S. Maritime Commission
U. S. Bluefield
Easley
Chamber of Commerce
Don Willett
S. S. Bluefield Victory
San Francisco
California
Bluefield
Willett
Southwest Pacific
Bailey
U. Poms
8th Congress Ends After Record Spending and Debt Rise
The 78th Congress closes amid vast war time spending and a national debt boost to 260 billion dollars. President vetoes overridden on key laws but several nominations were confirmed. The body approved the decade’s largest wartime funding and extended army and navy programs into 1944 and beyond.
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Washington
78Th Congress
Finis
White House
House
Senate
State Department
Congress
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
77Th
War Department
Navy
Four Injured as Car Plunges Onto Streetcar Tracks
Four men from Athens and Princeton were injured when their car skidded onto streetcar rails and was struck, plunging over a 40 foot embankment on Princeton avenue near Morris service station. All treated at Bluefield sanitarium. injuries range from bruises to head and back injuries.
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Princeton Avenue
Morris
Edward Dobins
William Pardue
Carl Edward Foster
Athens
N. H. Flannery
Princeton
Bluefield Sanitarium
Allen Wiley
Hardwood Products, Inc
St. Clair’s Crossing
Dobins
Pardue
Foster
Flannery
Nimitz reports more Jap ships destroyed
U S Pacific Fleet headquarters reports 14 more enemy ships and small craft destroyed in carrier plane sweeps over Luzon on December 13 14 and 15. Total enemy vessels destroyed in the three day attack rises to 41 while the communique lowers the damaged vessels count to 61. U S combat losses are listed at 27 planes.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Luzon
U.S
West Virginia cities report no highway deaths in 11 months
Three WV cities with populations over 10 000 showed no highway fatalities in the first 11 months of the year per the department of public safety Fairmont Morgantown and Sith Charleston led the clean records Huntington tallied 12 deaths the highest Charleston had seven Clarksburg Wheeling Parkersburg and others recorded two or one death each in the period
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Department of Public Safety
Fairmont
Morgantown
Sith Charleston
Huntington
Clarksburg
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Boer
Grafton
Martinsburg
Mourisville
B 29s Hit Shanghai Nanking and Nagoya in Air Strikes
The Associated Press reports over ten B 29s bombed Shanghai and Nanking for four hours. China based B 29s attacked Hankow and Nagoya showed heavy damage from prior strikes. five enemy fighters were shot down and several damaged.
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Nagoya
Shanghai
China
Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Washington
Omura
Kyushu
Nanking
War Department
Japan
Hankow
Hanow
Walter Rundle
Japanese Forced 60,000 Prisoners to Labor in Burma
London reports the British War Office alleges Japanese forces forced more than 60,000 white prisoners to labor under brutal, slave like conditions on the Burma railway and road to Thailand. Monuments mark about 25,000 deaths with many others from among the English Australian and Dutch victims.
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London
Thailan Burma
British War Office
War Office
Tamakan
James Grigg
Burma
Siam
Thailand
Grigg
Singapore
Lost School Time Probably Made Up At End Of Term
Charleston West Virginia December 19 State School Superintendent W W Trent says a decision on making up snow lost days will come later this month or in January He also asks county superintendents to report total days taught and lost He emphasizes liberal policy but notes students must receive full educational benefits.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. W. Trent
Trent
Ensign Claude Shrader Dies in Florida Plane Crash
Ensign Claude Shrader, foster son of Mr and Mrs W L Painter of Tazewell, was killed in a plane collision at Deland naval air station Florida. He enlisted March 14 1943 and earned his wings at Pensacola. His body will be shipped to Tazewell for burial in Jeffersonville cemetery plot. He is survived by his foster parents his mother and two foster sisters D H Walker and W R Bowen.
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W. L. Painter
Tazewell
War Department
Ensign Claude Shrader
Naval Air Station
Deland
Florida
Ensign Shrader
Nannie Helmondollar
Mt. Hope
W. Va
Painter
Air Branch
Navy
Charlottesville
Roanoke
Athens
Memphis
Tenn
Pensacola
Tazewel
Jeffersonville
D. H. Walker
Pearisburg Va
W. R Bowen
Maiden Springs
Nipponese Forge Caught in Trap in Philippine Battles
General MacArthur reports the largest remaining Nipponese force in West Leyte trapped as 77th division troops seize Valencia and its airfield, while U S cavalry drivers reach Lonoy and cut enemy forces rearward near Ormoc. The situation follows new Mindoro activity with no organized resistance yet observed.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte
Mindoro
Soshi Suzuaki
Valencia
77Th Division
Ormoc
First
Carigara Bay
Lonoy
First Cavalry
32Nd
Douglas MacArthur
Chaplin Testifies Amid Heated Exchange In Custody Case
In Los Angeles on December 19 Charlie Chaplin testified in a paternity case brought by Joan Berry. He shouted that he had committed no crime and opposed details of intimate relations. Judges and lawyers clashed as Chaplin described a confrontation at his home involving a pistol and threats of scandal.
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Charlie Chaplin
Los Angeles
Joan Berry
Chaplin
Joseph Scott
Miss Berry
Scott
Joan
Remem
Ber
Henry M. Willis
Carol Ann
Americans Hold Fast as Nazi Breakthrough Moves North
Allied dispatches report the German Christmas counter offensive probing 70 miles from Monschau to Echternach with heavy German armor. General Hodges concentrates all available forces to stem the assault as the front remains fluid and news is tightly controlled.
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U. S S
Luxembourg
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Belgium
Monschau
Echternach
Associated Press
Wes Gallagher
Eaing
Gallagher
Weird Battles Mark Fighting On Northern Front
In Belgium south of Monschau on December 19 American doughboys halted a fierce German attack on the northern flank in a brutal encounter marked by wrecked tanks and casualties. Farther south situational reports were fluid with deep German penetrations, while elite German tank columns were checked in pine forests. The action is among the war’s most dramatic, with infantry standing fast to prevent breakthroughs and a hospital unit overwhelmed by a tank push.
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Wes Gallagher
Belgium
Monschau
Tunisia
Mediex el Bab
Here
Germany
Charles Horner Doyleston
Cazara
Detroit
Ini Toe
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Constitution Square
NEA
FDR
Lehman
Rallis
Wome
Dale Mutter
Victory Ship
City
Victory
William F. Arbogast
East End
Nimitz
Superforts
Step UP Campaign
THE
Claude Shrader
Eupen
Malmedy
Honsfeld
Diekirche
Longwy
France
Miles
By Marlin Spencer
A. H. Risse
Hodges
By Ned Nordness
First Army
William F. Boni
Courtney H. Hodges
Kasserine Pass
Boni
Ae Gium
U. S
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