Expansion at Camp Detrick For the Chemical Warfare Service
Col. Martin B. Chittick reports ongoing expansion at Camp Detrick including new warehouses on state leased land totaling about 82 acres. No definite ground acquisitions announced. recreational facilities and an athletic field planned. permanence of the camp remains unconfirmed. Roosevelt vetoes a Pearl Harbor memorial resolution citing no holiday observance while praising Allied production and wartime gains. The narrative surveys U S military growth, battles from Wake Island to El Alamein, and turning tides in World War II.
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Camp Detrick
Chemical Warfare Service
Martin B. Chittick
Detrick
Col. Chittick
104Th Observation Squadron
Maryland National Guard
Chittick
Washington
Roosevelt
America
Pacific
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Pearl Harbor
Axis
Wake Island
Manila
Bataan
Corregidors
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Coral Sea
South Pacific
Midway
Aleutians
Mountbatten
India
Germany
High Command
Atlantic
Rommel
Egypt
Britain
United States
Africa
el Alamein
Russia
Sevastopol
Stalingrad
Alexander
Montgomery
Tunisia
U. S
French North Africa
Red Army
Italy
Europe
Soviet Press Hails Results Of Tehran Meeting
The Soviet newspaper Izvestia declared full approval of the Tehran talks between Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill. Stalin returned safely to Moscow after a 1700 mile hazardous trip as editors praised four days of discussions at the round table leading to agreement on war and postwar peace. The editorial ran three columns with the leaders’ photographs across the front page. It was available from the front lines to the Pacific.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Teheran
Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Pacific Ocean
Tokyo radio cites imperial comm unique Allied losses claim
AP records a Tokyo imperial HQ communique claiming Allied forces in the South Pacific and Aleutians suffered 193000 killed or disabled and 2728 planes destroyed plus 158 ships sunk from Dec 1942 to Nov this year while Japanese losses were 32962 killed and 313 planes lost. Chinese losses also cited.
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Associated Fress
Tokyo Radio
Imperial Headquarters
South Pacific
Aleutian
Associated Press
Alles
Wounded Are Brought Home From Pacific Casualties
Wounded are brought home with the 7th U S Air Force in the Pacific from the Gilberts. Ambulances on the seaplane ramp wait as officers, pilots, and medical corpsmen prepare for a night of work. Casualties, walking or on litters, bear sunburned faces and wounded bodies as they are moved, cigarettes passed, and quiet takes hold amid the overhead bells of Catalina and Coronado craft.
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U. S. Air Force
Pacific
Gilberts
Tarawa
Makin
Catalina
Coronado
Orders Cut In Price Of Swiss Watches
The Office of Price Administration ordered drastic cuts in retail ceiling prices for lower priced imported Swiss watches. Under the revision watches selling for 39.50 under the old formula drop to 17 in extreme cases. New ceilings range from 18.50 for certain ladies' watches to 850 for pin lever movements, reflecting a response to shortages and abuse of prior limits.
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Washington
Det
Office of Price Administration
Price
U. S
Recruitment booth prompts bold choices at Portland station
At the armed forces induction station in Portland on December 7 a recruit asked for his name and service. A man says I am Wild and wonders if he should join the Navy. The next applicant quips Wilder and requests the Marines.
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Portland
Ore
Armed Forces Induction Station
Tm Wild
Navy
Wilder
Marines
Japan vows to crush United States and Britain
Tokyo radio reports Teheran declaration does not change Japan's resolve to defeat the United States and Britain, signaling a hardline reaction in the first official Japanese response.
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New York
Teheran
Comei
Tokyo Radio
Japan
United States
Britain
Gay Christmas At Canteen Brightens Homeward Spirit
The American Women's Voluntary Services in Frederick plan a festive Christmas at the canteen. The Garden Club will decorate 123 East Patrick Street, and women volunteers will staff the site to support service men and women on duty. Gift packages are being prepared for all visiting personnel, with letters of appreciation pouring in from overseas.
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Garden Club
Frederick
East Patrick Street
AWVS
W. Bartgis Sterm
E. John Fisher
AWYS
John R. Melkowski
Jury panel chosen for December Circuit Court term
Substitute jurors for the December term of Circuit Court were drawn today before Associate Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer. Buckeystown Thomas P. Scalley replaces J. P. Stallings. New Market Walter J. replaces H. S. Davis. Thurmont Eugene S. Keefer replaces Hugh Eby. Woodville Murray O Day replaces Asa H. Watkins.
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Circuit Court
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Buckeystown
Thomas P. Scalley
J. P. Stallings
New Market
Walter J
H. $. Davis
Thurmont
Eugene S. Keefer
Hugh Eby
Woodville
Murray
Asa H. Watkins
Benjamin Carter in custody after Santa St Helen's scare
Benjamin F Carter 34 faced trial on burglary car theft and forgery charges after handing the sheriff a letter to Santa Claus requesting a dozen hacksaw blades rope and a 16 cylinder car with a full tank. Carter escaped but may have been aided by a waiting vehicle as officers search.
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St.Helen’s Ore
Benjamin F. Carter
Santa Claus
Carter
L. M. Griffin Shot To Death In Baltimore Home
Lloyd M. Griffin a 52 year old vice president of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Companies serving Maryland Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia was shot to death last night at his home Police said his wife reported the gun discharged while he examined a revolver during preparations for a hunting trip The case is under investigation with a verdict expected later today Griffin had risen through several posts within the firm since 1922 and served on the Maryland company board He is survived by his widow a son Capt Lloyd M Griffin Jr USA and a daughter Beatty Jean
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Baltimore
Lloyd M. Griffin
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Robert Lee Graham
Howard J. Malders
Griffin
Maryland General Hospital
Executive
Oregon
California
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Chesapeake and Potomac
Washington Company
Maryland Company
Louise Frizell
Capt
Lloyd M Griffin, Jr
USA
A.F
Beatty Jean
Mussolini Reported Paralyzed in Zurich Dispatch
Italian informants in Zurich report Benito Mussolini is nearly paralyzed and his condition worsens daily due to a resurgence of a long-standing illness contracted in his youth.
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Bern
Switzerland
Zurich
Benito Mussolini
Cobb reported ill in New York hotel
F Irvin Cobb, 87 year old author and radio entertainer and motion picture star, was reported quite sick at his Hotel Sheraton apartment in New York by his wife today.
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New York
Irvin S. Cobb
Sheraton
Bern Dispatch Claims 250000 Die in Berlin Bombings
The Gazette De Lausanne via Basel reports from Basel that Allied bombings of Berlin caused 250000 deaths and many injuries. The source notes the injury total is unestimated and cites earlier unconfirmed Sweden reports of 25000 deaths.
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Bern
Gazette de Laussanne
Basel
Berlin
Sweden
Germany
Beat Japan by sea and sky, not invasion says officer
Cairo dispatch quotes an un-named MacArthur officer saying Japan can be defeated through allied air and sea power. He cites the Netherlands East Indies as Japan's key vulnerability and asserts retaking the islands is feasible. He notes Japan's land forces make mainland invasion costly. Maj. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland attends.
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Cairo
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Netherlands East Indies
Tne
Richard K. Sutherland
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Leave For Camp On Pearl Harbor Day
The second anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day marked by departure of about 64 men from local Draft Boards One and Two for induction into the armed services. Thirty-eight from Board One and 31 from Board Two left for Baltimore for physical examinations to determine acceptance for service. Names of the men had been announced previously.
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Armed Services
Frederick
Board One
Board Two
Baltimore
Reckord Named Provost Marshal General for European Theater
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord of Baltimore has been appointed provost marshal general for the European theater of operations. He succeeds Brig. Gen. Gordon C. Hollar of Sioux City who will serve as Reckord’s deputy director. Reckord previously headed the United States Third Service Command with headquarters in Baltimore.
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London
Milton A. Reckord
Baltimore
France
Brg
Gordon C. Hollar
Sioux City
Reckord
United States Third Service Command
Roosevelt Churchill Inonu Meet In North Africa On Turkey
A conference among President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Ismet Inonu of Turkey was reported ongoing in North Africa. It aims to shape Turkey’s future stance with the Allies in the war and reflect on a prior 1939 pact urging Turkish aid if the Mediterranean war expanded.
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London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Ismet Inonu
Turkey
North
Africa
Inonu
Britain
Mediterranean
British Press Association
Cairo
Teheran
Berlin
Inanu
Ankara
Budapest
U. S
Dobri Bosilov
Sofia
Red Army cuts Dnieper bend rail line near Znamenka
In central Ukraine southwest of Kremenchug Soviet forces under Gen Mala inovsky severed the Smela Znamenka railway, threatening Kirovograd as 900 Germans were killed and 17 tanks destroyed. Battle raged amid a blizzard with Tsibulevo and 20 towns overrun along the Znamenka rail axis.
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London
Ukraine
Kremenchug
Dnieper
Rodion Malinovsky
Smela
Znamenka
Kirovograd
Tsibulevo
Znamenka-Smela
Alexandriya
Dikovka
Red Army
Roosevelt returns from Gilbert Islands invasion
Lt. Col. James Roosevelt has returned from service as a Marine Corps observer with forces that invaded Makin Island. A U S Public Health Service spokesman described a rising influenza rate nationwide as a normal seasonal increase.
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San Diego
Calif
James Roosevelt
Gilbert Islands
U. S. Marine Corps
Makin Island
Washington
U. S. Public Health Service
Dominating Heights Fall To U S After Bitter Fight
Allied HQ in Algiers reports Fifth Army infantry broke Nazi defenses to seize dominant hills overlooking the Rome road in a 23 square mile area. Montgomery and Keselring stage tank actions across the Moro river as U S forces advance toward Cassino and Mignano amid heavy rains and intensified fighting on the Adriatic front.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
Rome
Moro
Monte Convine
Monte Maggiore
Adriatic
Tenth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Moro River
Sanfra
U. S
15Th Air Force
Eleusis
Kalamaki
Athens
Pearl Harbor
Albert Kesselring
Cassino
Mignano
Garignano
Filignano
Mount Maggiore
Eighth Army
Ortona
Orsogna
Guardingrele
Infectious Jaundice Cases Here In Maryland City and County
Dr. E. C. Kefauver county health officer reports several infectious jaundice cases in the city and county but says the outbreak is not serious. Most cases are among school children and often trivial. The illness is brief with yellow eyes and skin tingling, usually requiring little treatment. Typhoid cases total two this year from Thurmont and Point of Rocks, traced to carriers. One meningitis case reported in Mt Airy, patient recovering well.
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E. C. Kefauver
Kefauver
Thurmont
Point of Rocks
Mt Airy
Battleship Wisconsin Ready to Slide Down Philadelphia Ways
Philadelphia December 7 The super battleship Wisconsin weighing 45 000 tons stands ready to launch today at the Philadelphia navy yard. The vessel symbolizes the might of the new American Navy born after the Pearl Harbor attack two years ago.
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Philadelphia
Wisconsin
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Pearl Harbor
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Martinsburg
W. Va
J. L. Phillips
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Reuters
Washington, D. C
Jozef Stalin
Winston Churchill
Iran
Order of the Red Star
RAF
12Th Army Air Force
NEA Telephoto
Canteen
Santa
L. M. Griffin
Cobb
North Africa
Russ
Dnieper Bend
Allan C. McBride
Formosa
Gripsholm
McBride
Weather Bureau
Clark
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