Roosevelt Realist Stresses Practical Foreign Policy Vision
The author reflects on President Roosevelt's emphasis on realism in dealing with Stalin Churchill and postwar planning. He notes the need for practical policy over hollow slogans and recalls the press conference’s modest revelations. The piece also discusses a reporter's role to seek truth, avoid partisanship, and report what is observed rather than what is wished.
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Union
Washington, D
Sevelt
White House
Washington
Jin
Stalin
Roosevelt
Ican
Ted
Roose
Churchill
Republican Party
Make Do and More Guides Britons on Thrift and Craft
A Bankhage seller in Britain promotes a booklet “Make Do and …” offering methods to stretch clothes and household linen to the utmost. In Melbourne, two hundred Australian girls attended a club meeting for those married to or engaged to American servicemen to ease future cross‑country ties.
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Britain
Melbourne
America
Australia
Letters From Servicemen From Maynard Thanking Citizens
A Maynard Citizens Committee collection of letters from service members expresses deep gratitude for Christmas gifts and checks. Recipients include Lt Grant R. Denniston at Annapolis Ruth Cuttell Stanley Stefanowicz and Bill Murphy among others thanking Maynard residents for remembrance and morale boost. Many note longing for home Italy and overseas postings with warm holiday wishes and hopes for a swift end to the war.
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Maynard
Grant R. Denniston
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Maryland
Ruth Cuttell
Citizen’s Committee
Stanley Stefanowicz
Italy
U.S.A
John Doe
Plot to Smuggle Gold By U Boat Is Revealed
CHICAGO. Secret Service agent Harry Schaetzel testified at the federal trial of Elbridge Gaities of Chicago Kurt Otto Schimkus a German alien metallurgist and Frank Smith a rare coin collector charged with buying gold for Germany. Schaetzel said he posed as a mining magnate and joined the trio as a ringer awaiting a German submarine off the East coast to smuggle gold to Germany. The submarine never appeared and no contact with German agents was made. Arrests followed last April by secret service and FBI agents after Smith identified as an agent for a foreign government.
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Chicago
Harry Schaetzel
Secret Service
New York
Germany
Schaetzel
Harry Dexheimer
Elbridge Gaies
St. Louis Electrical
Kurt Otto Schimkus
Frank
Smith
Secret Service Ad FBI
American Armored Column Moves Toward Palermo Sicily
A Northbound American armored force follows a go ahead signal after a heated exchange with Lieut. Gen. George Patton Jr. Dozens of tanks advance toward Palermo the Sicilian capital as the drive to seize the island gains momentum.
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George
Army plans use plane to kill coyotes in Texas
In Dallas, The News reports the U S Army plans to deploy an aircraft to eradicate sheep-killing coyotes. The plan, tied to wartime needs for wool and mutton, envisions night starts on ranches with dogs chased by the plane at dawn, using automatic shotguns with slugs.
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U.S. Army
Dallas
Texas
Noble Upper Indie Women Don Nose Rings
Noble women of Upper Indie wear nose rings described as huge and as large as their heads, with some reaching about 90 in size. The item notes the prominence and custom of oversized nasal ornaments among the community.
Lidice fugitive Horak vanished in France likely Gestapo target
A Czech intelligence account traces Kari Horak, a Lidice survivor who fled across Europe, vanishing in France after crossing into German-held territory. He witnessed Lidice’s massacre from a hill near the village, losing family and racing through forests toward England, pursued by the Gestapo.
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London
Lidice
France
Europe
Kari-Horak
Czechoslovakia
Iidin
Gestapo
Germany
Horak
St. Martin’s
Prague
Krivoklat
Father Stemberger
Otomansky
Seifelder
Suchy
Silhar
England
Boy Lost for 40 Hours Tells of Wanderings
Eight-year-old John Coover, recovering in Carlisle hospital, described wandering for 40 hours in the rugged South mountains before being found four miles from home near Newville. He entered the woods Thursday afternoon for firewood and subsisted on apples found in an orchard Saturday morning. Scratches on his legs were the only injuries. doctors expect several days more of recovery.
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Carlisle
John Coover
South Mountains
Newville
Hero Parachutist Earns Medal for Rescue Attempt
Lieut. John M. Donegan of the Fifth Air Force earned the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster after a daring rescue attempt in the Southwest Pacific. He tried to save a navigator from a Mitchell bomber after a parachute foul, but the navigator fell to his death. Donegan survived and is from Phoenix, Arizona.
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Pacific
John M. Donegan
Fifth Air Force
Iso
Donegan
Phoenix, Ariz
Hit and Run Victim Turns Robber in Chicago
Mrs Harriet Gill, 28, a war worker, stopped to aid a man she thought a hit-and-run victim. The man, pretending to be wounded, drew a gun and robbed her, taking two rings and 80 dollars after she stopped to help.
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Samaritan
Chicago
Harriet. Gill
Maynard Grange 840 Plans Busy 1944 Program
Maynard Grange No 840 organized in 1918 lays out a busy 1944 schedule with events each month. Highlights include educational aid meetings, a January installation, February home service night, March safety discussions, May mother’s night, June and August social events, September booster night, and annual Christmas tree and New Year party.
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Maynard
Maynard Grange No 840
Alving
Holmes
G. Whitney
Biks’ Hall
Dorothy Warden
Auburn
State Grange
Irma Aldrich
Elks’hall
Lincoln
Washington
Eva Smith
Fernando Smith
Adelaide Sims
Conservation Committee
Creighton
G. Rourke
Finocchi
Brothers Ed Whitney
H. Whitney
O. Tucker
J. Farrell
A. Palmer
Sudbury
Actoy
Roy Hawes
Mass
Sam
Ethel Burgess
Penny Sale
Edwards
Esther Sims
Anne Dora
Mary Sullivan
Myrtle Kelley
Mariano
Tucker
Kytola
Hanson
Hayward
Kelley Kytola
Case
Sisters Maginnis
Robinson Pauline Sims
Elizabeth Farrell
Florence Staton
State Grange Committee
Waltham Framingham
Concord
Myrna
Sisters Evers
Parsons
Mary A. Jones
Nellie Twombly
Efreshments
Dorothy Alving
Ile Jula Tains
Wwe
Tarkins
Dhe
Pew
Bustigab
Sim Nell Lodge
Lake Boon
Herbert “Fulton
Duclos
Woodworth
Castelluect
Horstkotte
Dora
Messier
Playde
Ray Jones
Alf Bourke
D. Sullivan
L. Simsi
Lil Holmes
Grang
Hazel Bumpus
Mary G. Jones
Ida Lever
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Brooks Street
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Howard Marsden
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MH Budge
Czech Village
Grange
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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New England Trust Company of
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Suffolk
Cambridge
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Esquire
Loring P. Jordan
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