Holiday travel bans to curb Christmas rail jams
Government limits on extra trains and holiday service, plus a ban on standing room trains, aim to reduce postThanksgiving congestion. Authorities urge staying home over the holidays to free transport for soldiers and essential freight, as railroads report doubled travel days and potential severe jams if travel rises.
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Rajtrock
Office of Defense Transportation
Assamaly’ Abl
Pennsylvania Railroad
Education and Army Struggle Over Student Officers
Washington debates how to keep college students in study while meeting wartime officer needs. Navy education planning contrasts with Army shifts, urging continuity of study and campus-based officer selection to avoid derailing higher education and producing suitable postwar leaders.
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Ats
Army
Navy
General MacArthur
U. S. Army
West Point
West Pointer
Bankers Rally To Sell Victory Loan Bonds Nationwide
Bankers under the Fifth Federal Reserve District Victory Fund Committee organize a drive to market Government securities to all investor classes. The aim is to attract idle funds and savings to finance wartime needs, with Secretary Morgenthau enlisting bankers and dealers to raise funds from nonbank investors.
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Fifth Federal Reserve District
Victory Fund
Semond
Morgenthau
Ail Beareet Mart
Besainter
Wa & Op
Nis
Weiig
Judges and divine aid in darkest extremity
Fragmentary religious reflection cites Judges on deliverance from oppression and affliction. It contrasts human extremity with heavenly succor, invoking mercy as a sustaining force in trial. The source text presents brief, devotional lines without broader context.
Fifty Years Ago Local Plems From The Columns Of The News
Fifty years ago notable items include an important meeting of the Independent Hose Company planning the 75th anniversary celebration with invited contingents from several states. Miss Lizzie Pettingall’s elocution class to perform at Mt Pleasant, Henry Dertzbaugh appointed bailiff for the petit jury, and Hilleary Countee, a famed snack roaster, ill with pneumonia. A large hog weighing 401 to 407 pounds dressed was driven on West Patrick street with a guard injury.
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Lems
the News
Independent
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Lizzie Pettingall
Mt Pleasant
Henry Dertzbaugh
Hilleary
Mears
James P
Quinn
Eas
Piggat
West Patrick Street
Today In History and Birthdays Highlights
Today marks notable births and historical milestones. Asa Whitney and 1813–Ann Preston figures are listed with lifespans, while 1847 Christine Ladd Franklin and 1834 William Hornaday are noted for science and zoology. 1654 Kansas migration, 1862 Lincoln message, and 1911 McNamara brothers confession are among events. Birthdays include Maj. Gen. Ralph P. Cousins and others with ages noted.
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Asa Whitney
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Townsend
Mass
Ann Preston
Philadelphia
Woman's Hospital
Chester Co. Pa
Christine Ladd Franklin
Scientifc
Windsor
Conn
William T. Hornaday
New York
Zoo
Plainsfield
Ind
George Sterling
Sag Harbor
San Francisco
Troy Kinney
Kansas City
Kansas
Congress
John Pratt
Lincoln
McNamara Brothers
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
Wilson
American Army of Occupation
Cob- Jentz
Germany
Capitol
Ralph P. Cousins
Mexia
Tex
Jefferson Caffrey
Brazil
Lafayette
Gerard Swope
iGeneral Bieviri
St. Louis
John J. Cantwell
Treland
George Creel
Lafayette Co. Mo
War Interpreted on Russian Front Threat to Berlin
Analysis notes synchronized Russian drives near Velikie Luki and Nevel threaten Leningrad Odessa rail links and the Dnieper corridor. Reports claim three feeder railways into Moscow cut and a possible two pronged winter offensive toward Estonia and Latvia. Movements hinge on manpower and equipment, shaping Germany’s ability to hold the central and northern fronts.
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Leningrad-Odensa
Levat
Maal
Lake Smen
Pekov
Berlin
Velikie Luki
Valikie Luki
Nevel
Leningrad
Nevel-Bitebsk
Smolensk
Moscow
Dnieper
Peipus Lakes
Pskov
Hitler
Russia
Stalingrad
Don
Leningrad-Oddessa
Dneiper Hne
Leningrad-Oddassa
Velikie Lukis
Lake
Ilmen
Valdai Plateau
Upper
Lovat
Interpe Bbs Beeen
Dneiper
Esthenia
Latvia
Strength For Today: The Second Coming Beliefs Misused
Earl L Douglass argues the church neglects the second coming and warns against dating events or claiming exact timelines. He says readiness is essential and stresses that scripture shows Christ will return at God’s precise, unknown moment.
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Earl L. Douglass
D. D
Christ
God
Babson Newspaper
License Laws Hamper Distribution of Doctors Edson’s column
Washington notes that moving doctors to areas with shortages faces licensing barriers between states and possible political opposition. A uniform temporary license proposal exists, but full adoption will take years. Some propose using U S Public Health Service doctors, though fears of socialized medicine persist. Over 200 doctors have been relocated so far as war production areas show shortages.
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Edson
Washington
Petes Edson
New York
New Jersey
Council of State
U.S. Public Health Service
Howl
American Medical Association
U. S
Prac
Anti-Trust Division
Department of Justice
Federal Security Administration
U. S. Public Health Service
Puths
Washington Bay
Scientifc
Latest Books Tell Of America and Its Defenders
A survey of wartime reading highlights top releases by Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Cooke Macgregor. It cites Hal Borland, Herbert Corey, and David Lawrence, noting works praising the homeland, military forces, and aviation history, plus guides to insignia and a prize anthology for 1942 readers.
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America
Putnam's
Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Cooke Macgregor
Gift selections and river lore books for holiday reading
Ralph Woods curates a treasury of familiar clippings from The Man on the Flying Trapeze to Robert Ingersoll. Robert Hereford’s Old Man River profiles a riverman with river fable and facts from travels along the Mississippi. Horace Lytle’s Gun Dogs Afield recounts field experiences and bird dog work across the country. Charles Goren’s Better Bridge for Better Players offers a handy guide to improve play.
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Ralph Woods
Macmillan
Robert Ingersoll
Robert Herefords
Caxton
Louis Roche
Roche
America
Horace Lytle
Putnam
Lytle
Charles Goren
Doubleday Doran
Jungle changes as Marines curb jungle threats
The article notes jungles once feared by beasts and natives are now challenged by fighting US Marines and other troops trained for jungle warfare. Soldiers crawl through mud to clear underbrush, hoping wildlife regains awe as humans take on the treacherous terrain.
Mixed status Algeria echoes colony and department
A reader asks if Algeria is a French colony. The answer explains its hybrid status: elected deputies like a department, yet governed by a governor general answerable to the French interior minister. The Q&A also covers the United Nations count, Hirohito’s succession, new coat material, honey storage, and a hospital transfer note for Miss Charlotte Keeney.
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Algeria
Departments
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Interior
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