Fred Price Dies in Hinsdale Accident
Former Corry resident Fred Price was fatally injured in an accident in Hinsdale New York on Thursday afternoon. Relatives received word late Thursday and again yesterday that he had died from his injuries. Surviving are his wife Gertrude three sons Robert Norma and Leslie overseas with the armed forces and a brother Robert Price of this city. The family lived on Concord Street for several years.
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Fred Price
Corry
Hinndate
Robert Price
East Main Street
Price
Hinsdale
Concord Street
Drunken Driving Arrest After Erratic City Maneuvers
Harold O. Moffitt of 3% South Center Street was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated after a zigzagging drive through West Malls Street Pitst Avenue and West South Street. He reportedly lost his license years ago and faces a hearing with possible bound over to county court for the next term.
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Pitst Avenue
West South Street
First Avenue
South’ Street
Ato
Moffitt
State police probe death from stabbing
State police investigated the death of Ohanel Kilgore, 30, found stabbed in his apartment on Christmas Day. Franklin Cav ity Gallagher, a Bureau of Death investigation, led the inquiry as investigators sought to determine circum stances surrounding the fatal neck stab wound and related details.
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Mousse Press
Green Castle
Ohanel Kilgore
Franklin Cavity Garoner
D. Shu
Berlin Again Claims Allied Convoy Is Hit
Berlin reports via German sources that 40 000 tons of Allied shipping including a 7000 ton merchant vessel and a tanker were sunk by U boats in the Atlantic. The claim cites a DNB broadcast noting four ships fell to a small convoy near the Natal Brazil and Penal British West Africa route. No independent confirmation available.
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Berlin
Associated Press
DNB
Afica
Pay as you go income tax plan gains support in Washington
Washington December 26 Rep Doughton of North Carolina chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee endorses a pay as you go income tax system. He opposes the Rum plan to wipe out a year’s taxes to meet wartime needs. The discussed proposal would shape the next tax bill as Congress reconvenes.
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Associated Press
Washington
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Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ermin
Ways and Means
Congress
Barden
Federal Treasury
Coughton
Treasury Department
Sen
Clark D-Mo
Fiinance
Train crashes into truck injuring seven at Moscow station
Seven people were hurt when Delaware Lackawanna & Western No. 3 westbound limited crashed into a truck and baggage car outside Moscow station. Four victims were taken to Scranton hospital including Mr. and Mrs. James Gillern and Marie McDonald. The Gillern’s 1 month old daughter Patricia was slightly hurt. Burt Potter and his sister Blanche were treated at the scene.
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Limited
Lick
Moscow
Scranton
James Gillern
Marie McDonald
Joseph Vishesky
Madisonville
Gillern
Patrici
Burt Potter
Blanche
Hollisterville
Navy reports sinkings in North Atlantic amid mid November torpedo attack
Washington bulletin says a medium US merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the North Atlantic in mid November. Survivors were landed at an east coast port. Berlin radio reports another earthquake in Turkey, jolting Istanbul and nearby towns near the Sea of Marmara, including Sumir and Yenisehir.
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Washington
Navy
United States
North Atlantic
Berlin
Turkey
Istanbul
Reuters
London
Sea of Marmaca
Sumir
Yenisehir
De Gaulle Seeks Unity If Giraud Chosen Heir
London reports Gen Charles de Gaulle may declare himself for unity among pro Allied French forces if General Henri Giraud is named successor to Admiral Darlan as head of French North Africa. Reactions from Bern say Darlan’s death could both remove an obstacle and widen French rifts depending on the assassin’s motives. German broadcasts claim Berlin is using the event to drive a rift between Americans and British.
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CBS
Charles Cole Bigwood
New York
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Ah Diallan
Italy
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mark W Clark
Mme. Daxian
Jynd Fain
Imperial Council
Darian
Morocco
Imperial Counei
Jean Marie Bergeret
Henri Honore Chaud
Freeh
West Afries
Pierre Boisson
West Africa
Yves Chalel
Algeria
Auguste Nogues
Morageo
Attios
Henri Honore Giraud
Darlan
Brenen
Jean Marie Hergeret
France
Fresioh
Ssssin
Charles de Gaulle
Himeself
Henri Giraud
Auccessor
Inital
North Africa
Teader
de Gaulle
Bern
Berlin
Paris
Lancaster Bank Robbery Suspect Recaptured After Escape
Charles V. Mills, 27, of Wilmington, Del, recaptured after an eight hour manhunt that included two shootings. He admits involvement in an attempted Denver Bank robbery and other hold ups in Philadelphia and Dayton but says he did not beat bank president Alvin Mentzer or assault housekeeper Louise Ditz Jer. He claimed an accomplice from Reading aided the assault.
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Charles V. Mills
Wilmington
Del
Denver
Philadelphia
Dayton
Ohio
FBI
Mills
J. F. Updyke
State Police
Uyee
Yaitts
W. E. Simpson
Imulis
Alvin W. Mentzer
Mentzer
Tobbers
Simpson
Louise Ditz Jer
Mentacy
Reading
Christmas Dinners Center Busy Community Observance
Christmas observed with family gatherings as students and servicemen return home. Churches hosted midnight services and the Corry High a cappella group led carols before mass. The Salvation Army supplied eighty dinners and local outlets aided families. War casts a shadow but community spirit remained strong.
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Corry
Emmanuel Episcopal
St. Thomas
St. Elizabeth's Catholic
St Paul's Lutheran
Corry High
Chai
H. Lynn Rice
Salvation Army
Boston
Army
Adjt
John Morrison
Cam
Rubber plans lag behind schedule amid chaos fears
Sen Wal said synthetic rubber output is two to three months late and blamed complacency for a desperate situation. Gillette, chairing the agriculture subcommittee, will quiz Rubber Administrator Jeffers and War Production Board officials next month to uncover the impeding force and prevent chaos. Bradley Dewey had warned a one month delay could push rubber supplies below the danger line by late next summer. Gillette supported seeking definite information and backing Jeffers to restore order. Miss Alice Pease of North East visited Mrs J A McLaughlin over Christmas.
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Gillette
Agriculture Sub
William M. Jeffers
War Production Board
Bradley Dewey
Jeffers
Amnesia victim identified by phone number case details
Philadelphia reports that Peter Pompil of Toledo, alias Portpile, was captured after abducting and robbing an oil station operator he claimed to be an OPA agent. OPA and Pennsylvania state police confirmed arrest in Baltimore and transfer to Jennerstown barracks near Johnstown, held on abduction and larceny charges.
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Philadelphia
Peter Pompil
Toledo
Office of Price Administration
British forces beat back two Japanese assaults in Burma
Gen Wavell credited British troops with repulsing two Japanese frontal and flanking attacks in the Chin Lilly region of Burma near Akjub, with losses to the enemy. RAF bombers struck Japanese aircraft at Tome goo airfield and other targets in Burma while American forces hit Moinda air base in New Georgia, shooting down fourteen Japanese planes. In New Guinea, Japanese defenses held a mile-long Buna beachhead as American and Australian troops pressed forward.
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Associated Press
Bit Archibild
Wavell
Tidia
Chin Lilly
Burma
Tie Big
Akjub
Bay of Bengal
India
foeniMé
Arman
Tomegoo
Fan Puebla
Moinda
New Guinea
Bapunt
Buna
Four Die From Gas Poisoning At Bloomsburg
Four people died in a Christmas gas poisoning at the Ohl home in Bloomsburg Pennsylvania. Victims include Clyde L Owl 51 town official and businessman his daughter Dorothy Ruth 24 Boyd T Ohl 83 and Mrs Sarah Kinsey 19 bride of six months. Coroner says faulty furnace fumes caused the deaths with one victim collapsing during Christmas dinner and another dying later in hospital.
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Associated Press
Bloomsburg
Bloomebure
Clyde L. Owl
Dorothy Ruth
Boyd T. Ohl
Sarl Kinsey
Kenneth Ho MeHenry
Ohl
Council
McHeny
Denry
Flying Fortress Downed Attacker in Raid Says Gunner
London dispatch reports Staff Sergeant Jack D. Snell of Sedalia Missouri told Eighth Air Force interrogators after a raid that a Flying Fortress protecting four others broke formation under heavy attack. He described the rear gunner opening fire and the German Focke Wulf 190 breaking apart, noting the raid destroyed at least one enemy plane among six bombers.
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London
Oake
Tsaw
Christmas Holiday Traffic Toll Recalls Safer Year
The nation logged traffic accidents during the Christmas period with 99 fatalities and 431 deaths overall by December 26 last year. Automobiles and other vehicles caused 334 deaths, while the toll suggests one of the safest holidays in years.
Smallpox Epidemic Intensifies in Lewistown Area
Lewistown Pennsylvania reports a worsening smallpox outbreak among Amish farmers in Kishacoquillas valley. Seven preschool children infected, 20 adults previously ill. Local doctors vaccinating 1,200 people, with 1,000 more targeted. Quarantine, state aid, and vaccine shipments from Philadelphia in progress as dairy and war plant activities face disruption.
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Lewistown
Phy
H. E. Miller
Belleville
Russians Forge Ahead as Soviet Front Advances Mark 15-Mile Gains
Allied dispatches report the Soviet army breaking through on the Middle Don and in the Caucasus with 15 mile advances, recapturing settlements, factories, and large numbers of German troops. British and Allied forces push toward Tunis and Sirte, while Tunisia and Gabes near-term targets loom in North Africa.
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Adolf Hitler
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Don Steppes
Russia
Trent
Bernurd L. Montgomery
Amy
Lippork
Sirte
Aghella Ney
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Rommel
Atrita
Tripoli
Libya
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Jetin
Bute
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Tunis
Tebourbs
Tuwnisia
Madrex-El-Bab
Gulf of Gabes
Sousse
Bizerte-Tunis
North Africa
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Nalenil
Caucasus
Red Army
Don
Ukraine
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Stalingrad
IBM
I Chik
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Alaska
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Farmington
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State Department, of Health
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