City Hits Deep Freeze as High Point Falls to 10 Above
King Winter grips the region with subzero readings locally as the High Point weather observatory notes the coldest of the season at 10 above around 7 am. A light snow flurry coated streets yesterday with sleet in intervals and one traffic crash at English and Lindsay streets causing damage but no injuries. The wreck involved Herbert Mitchell and Eugene Jester, drivers in routes One and Two.
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King Winter
Weather Observatory
High Point
English and
Lindsay
Herbert Mitchell
High Point Route One
Eugene Jester
High Point Route Two
Libyan farms fall to Libyan rulers after Italian exit
In a vacant colony near Alamein, Libyans led by the grand senussi seize farmsteads abandoned by Italian colonists. Natives describe camps and camps, with camels and donkeys plowing, as Libyan independence gains support under the Atlantic charter influence.
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el Alamein
Mussolini
Cleopatra
Libya
Italy
Green Uplands
Marshal Graziani
Green Belt of
Plenty
Roosevelt Churchill
Broadway's Only Woman Night Club Owner Since Texas Guinan
Louise Reid at 39 runs Monte Carlo on 48th Street and is grandmother to Patsy Ann Sager. She emulates Texas Guinan, rejects that comparison, and hires generously, greeting sailors and backing entertainers while steering a profitable club with Texan ethics and genuine care.
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Broadway
Texas
Guinan
James Thrasher
NEA Service
New York
Louise Reid
Monte Carlo
48Th Street
Fefe
54Th
Patsy Ann Sager
Texas Guinan
Reid
Miss Guinan
Mrs. Reid
Louise
South
Bill
Merchant Marine
Grandma Louise Reid
Grandma
Patsy
William Sager
Donna Lee
Eileen Brennan
Gasoline measures discussed with WPB leaders and mobility cautions
Byrnes planned a full briefing with Henderson Ickes and Eastman on fuel oil and gasoline implications. War Production Board Chairman Nelson warned that consumer mobility would be sharply restricted by necessity and choice, with automobile travel to be limited more than today and common carrier travel becoming increasingly inconvenient or forbidden in some cases.
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Byrnes
Henderson
Ickes
Joseph B. Eastman
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Gaan -Murrye
Allies tighten grip in Tunisia and Bizerte fighting
Allied HQ reports French troops and American planes recaptured Pichon near Sousse and halted German counterattacks near Kairouan while extending north and central positions. Bombers hit Sfax yard. six American planes lost. Eisenhower says part of French merchant fleet will aid Allied efforts amid Libya advances and Rommel’s retreat faces mine and booby trap obstacles. German losses include 20 tanks 30 guns and 500 prisoners as forces escape in small units.
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Tunis
Bizerte
Tunisia
Pichon
Sousse
Medjez-El- Bab
North Africa
Kairouan
Tunnisia
Sfax
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North
West African
French Africa
Rommel
Matratin
Fl Agheila
Zeaker
Bombing Raid Over Northern France Continues
British and American forces press air campaign on the German homefront as 300 Allied aircraft sweep from Le Havre to Graveline, facing little opposition. Mosquito bombers strike targets amid the ongoing offensive.
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Allied
France
le Havre
Graveline
Allied bombers hit rail and air targets in Europe
Air ministry reports strikes on railway and canal targets in northwest Germany and Holland. One Mosquito bomber was downed and two Coastal Command aircraft are missing.
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Germany
Holland
Air Ministry
Coastal Command
Allied airmen hammer Japanese on New Guinea front
Associated Press reporter Bill Boni describes ongoing Allied air strikes on Madang, near the Vitiaz strait, where Japanese forces are believed to have landed on December 19. Consolidated B-25s bombed the wharf area, caused fires, wrecked a warehouse, and downed three of eight intercepting fighters.
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Cape
Associated Press
Bill Boni
New Guinea
Madangorth
Vitiaz Strait
Wire and cable fraud indicted in Anaconda case
Justice Department indicts Anaconda Copper officials for conspiring to pass defective insulation and untested wire to the armed forces. The scheme reportedly used a hidden transformer device to inflate insulation resistance readings, with Russia reporting half of shipped wire was defective.
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Clark
Justice Department
Anaconda
Cyrus Shipp
Signal Corps
Indiana
Biddle
Department
FBI
Thor S. Johnson
Anaconda Mills
Frank E. Hart
Marion
Don R. Carpenter
Chalmer Bishop
Frank Kunkle
Ma‘Trion
Tom C. Clark
Russia
Marion Anaconda
Japanese trucks advance on Burma Road near Tengyueh
British forces push through jungles toward the Burmese port of Akyab as planes report light damage in Calcutta. Japanese air attacks threaten the region with dawn bombings while Blenheim bombers strike Magwe with reportedly good results.
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Bay of Bengala
Akyab
Toungoo
Rangoon
Burma
China
Yunnan
Archibald P. Wavell
Calcutta
New Delhi
India
Lanly
Chittagong
Bay of Bengal
Magwe
Irrawaddy River
Soviet Offensive Advances on Central Front and Stalingrad
The front bulletin reports SPEED operations driving on the Zhev area with heavy losses for Germans as 500 killed in one sector. In Stalingrad, fierce counterattacks rattle northwest and southwest while Russians defend gains and push forward. Soviet air forces claim 20 planes destroyed at a German airfield and three more in air battles. Russian troops near the Moscow Rostov railway press toward Millerovo, with the Red Army occupying Mankovo Kalitvenskaya and Degteva north of Millerovo.
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DNB
Middle Don
Rzhev
Velikie Yuki
Velikie Luki
Don
Red Star
Voronezh
Stalingrad
Zhev
Moscow-Rostov
Millerovo
Rostov
Red Army
Mankovo-Kalitvenskaya
Degteva
Twelve More Men Leave For Bragg
Twelve men from local draft board No. 5 depart for Fort Bragg at 8 45 this morning after induction leave. Each man received a utility package from the D A R and the High Point Chamber of Commerce, plus cigarettes donated by Mrs. E B Slack. Names include Thomas E Southern Oma D Pendry Joseph H Hearne Jr Basill Trogdon Walter A Whitaker Jesse R Elliott Robert A Cooper Jr Woodrow Wilson Ar lind L Hayden John W Kivett Jr Troy L Wilson. Three more from board five to meet at the bus station are Lonnie Harris Gene Mathews Archie Fielden.
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Draft Board No. 5
Fort Bragg
High Point Chamber of Commerce
E. B. Slack
Thomas E. Southern
Oma D. Pendry
Joseph H. Hearne, Jr
Basill. Trogdon
Walter A. Whitaker
Jesse R. Elliott
Robert
Death of Terence Kimrey in Greensboro
Funeral services for Terence Leo Kimrey 55 die last Wednesday at Piedmont Memorial Hospital after a heart issue at his home 1203 Park Avenue Extension. He worked for S and W Trucking and leaves a large family including mother Mrs We L Kimrey wife and several siblings. He lived in Greensboro about three years and was a St Benedict’s parishioner. Burial in Green Hill Cemetery follows a 10 am church service at St Benedict’s with Father Hush Dalon.
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Terence Leo Kimrey
Greensboro
Piedmont Memorial Hospital
Park Avenue Extension
St. Benedict's Catholic Church
Hush Dalon
Buxlal
Green Hill Cemetery
Kimrey
Randolph County
High Point
Belmont Abbey Preparatory
St. Benedict'’s Catholic Church
We. L Kimrey
High Rose
Marion Kimrey
Baltimore Md
Bernard Kimrey
Aish Point
Mary Ruth Sierney
Clarence
Leslie Kimrey
Hobart Kimrey
Finksburg
Everette Kimrey
Alameds
Calif
E.L. Graver
Mabel Rand
Washington
Promotion of H. L. Wall Announced in Kentucky
Hesier L. Wall Sr. of High Point North Carolina is promoted to corporal by the 98th Infantry Division. He enlisted Oct 7 1942 and has served at Camp Croft Fort Bragg and Camp Breckinridge. He is a mechanic and a member of Headquarters Company 3rd Battalion 390th Infantry in the 98th Division.
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Camp Breckinridge
Hesier L. Wall,Sr
High Point
98Th Infantry Division
Cpl. Wall
AM. H. Wall
North Carolina
Surry County
N.C
Trinity High School
Randolph County
Camp Croft
S. C
Fort Bragg
N. C
Wall
Thet Hq. Co. 3Rd Bn
390Th Infantry
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