Ormoc Seized as Japanese Forces Trapped in Leyte Push
General MacArthur reported American forces captured Ormoc on Leyte as three Allied columns closed in on the trapped Japanese along the Yamashita Line. The Seventh Division entered Albuera and he noted heavy fighting continues north and south of Ormoc with Liberators, Lightnings, and Corsairs bombing targets across the Visayas.
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General MacArthurs
Philippines
Leyte
Ormoc
Camp Downes
Leste
Douglas MacArthur
77Th
Fth
Win Tie c Allerying
Tobpes
MacArthur
Yamashita
Limon
Associated Press
al Copking
Visayas
Luzon
Hurauen
Albuera
Yamashita Line
Calingatagan
Sibugay
Emmitsburg Boy Injured Crossing Route 32
A year old boy was critically hurt when struck by a car driven by Pvt. J Benoist of Camp Ritchie while crossing from his home toward a barn on Route 32 east of Emmitsburg. He suffered cerebral concussion and possible skull fracture and was hospitalized in Gettysburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Route 32
Emmitsburg
John William Springer
Glenn B. Springer
Anne Warner Hospital
Gettyspurg
Bruce A Bruchey
Pvt. J. Benoist
Camp Ritchie
Springer
Bruchey
W. R. Cadle
Chevy Chase
Gaithersburg
Lee G. Garnand
Keedysville
Snyder's Curve
Ridgeville
Edgar Snowden Jackson
Leesburg
Howard County
Ellcott City
James N. Simmons
Calvin Winston
Max Davis
Simmons
Jackson
Ellicott City
Hunter Returns $2 Bounty After Confession
A Washington County hunter claimed a $2 fox bounty but confessed he shot the fox in a different county and delivered it for payment. The county received his letter of remorse along with the bounty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Washington County
Montgomery Ward Strike Draws Michigan CIO Backing
Montgomery Ward employees walk out in protest over war labor board directives on union maintenance dues check-off back pay and arbitration fees. Gus Scholle announced support from the Michigan CIO Council and UAW stance backing the strike, with plans to extend picket lines to Chicago and other sites if NWLB directives are not enforced. Roy Scoggins urged swift action, warning non-essential industry employers to obey directives or face continued disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Clo Council
Gus Scholle
CIO
Michigan
United Automobile Workers
UAW
Scholle
Chicayo
United Retail, Wholesale
War Labor Board
Ees
Roy Scoggins
NWLB
October Munitions Miss Target in War Board Report
Washington reports no major munitions category met October schedules with total output valued at 5.24 billion dollars, down 2 percent from reduced monthly plans. While critical programs rose 6 percent, heavy artillery and related items lagged, and substantial improvements were urged to meet 1944 requirements. A meat dealers’ meeting in New York voted to begin a holiday shutdown, with up to 10,000 stores potentially closing. Tillamook Oregon records the nation’s heaviest rainfall at about 120 inches annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
New York
New York City
Office of Price Administration
Albert T. Wendel
New York State Association of Retail Meat Dealers
Russia and France Forge Mutual Aid Pact in Moscow
In Moscow General De Gaulle sealed a Russian French alliance pledging mutual aid against Germany until final victory and joint postwar security steps. The treaty mirrors the Britain Soviet 20 year pact and strengthens Russia westward defenses with a renewed European defense plan.
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Moscow
DeGaulle
Russia
France
de Gaulle
Baku
Black Sea
Kursk
Vyacheslav Molotov
Germany
Europe
Britain
Soviet Union
West
Tokyo Night Blackout Report From Saipan Raid
The Twenty-First Bomber Command reports Tokyo and Yokohama were blacked out at night during dawn reconnaissance after B-29 raids. Weather Superfortress aircraft observed only lights at Chofu airdrome as three planes landed. Lt. John Thomas Garvin notes suburbs were dark with city lights suppressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twenty-First Bomber Command
Saipan
Dec
Navy
Tokyo
Yokohama
John Thomas Garvin
North Bergen
N. J
Chofu Airdrome
Weekend Arrests Report in City Police Batch
Johnnie Tonsil a 50 year old Black man was jailed Sunday night in default of 250 dollars bail after his wife Helen Tonsil obtained a warrant for assault and battery. Eight other people were arrested for drunkenness and public disorder with docketed names including Clarence Smith James Gilmore Millard Sherffie Webster Lubey Frank Patterson Spalding Chase Andrew Simms Lester Chase all of Centerville.
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Johnnie Tonsil
Lincoln Apartments
Helen Tonsil
Iity
Clarence Smith
Winchester Street
James Gilmore
North Benl7
Millard Sherffie
Frederick
Webster Lubey
East Sixth Street
Frank Patterson
Spalding Chase
Andrew Simms
Lester Chase
Centerville
Subasic Returns to London After Yugoslavia Talks
Prime Minister Ivan Subasic of Yugoslavia arrived in London after meetings with Marshal Tito and discussions in Moscow with Soviet officials, signaling ongoing diplomatic engagement during December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Subasic
London
Ivan Subasic
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Emmitsburg Man Recalls Leyte Island Terrain Tale
Emmitsburg diary entries recount a 1990 visit to Leyte in the Philippines by clerk Nunemaker who compared modern U S Army operations to earlier actions in 1900 during the Philippine insurrection. The narrative notes insurgent rumors, rugged travel from Tacloban to Madibago, scarce hostile contact, and a rough expedition with limited gear and rations.
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Guy Nunemaker
Emmitsburg
Leyte
Philippines
Nunemaker
Aguinaldo
Isur
MacArthur
Tacloban
Madibago
Samar
McKinley
Maryland Men Awarded Distinguished Unit Citation for Normandy Action
Eightteenth Air Force Headquarters France announces a P-47 Thunderbolt group earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for halting two German armored columns near St Lo on July 4. Maryland officers and enlisted men, including Eugene A. Kefauver of Frederick, are cited for heroic action under 1,000 foot ceilings. The fighter group refueled and struck again, destroying most of the tanks and delivering a decisive blow during the Normandy campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8Th Air Force Headquarters
France
Maryland
St. Lo
Bayeaux
Cherbourg
Eugene A. Kefauver
Dill Ave
Frederick
Meeting Held by Calvary Methodist Wide Awake Class
The December 4 meeting at Mrs Ruth Kinsey s Washington pike featured devotions by Mrs Hilda Kiney and member Bible verses. Social hour included a wedding cake and gifts for Miss Jane Boyne, engaged to Sgt Harold Burgess of New Market. A Christmas party is set for December 19 at Mrs Elizabeth Mercer s North Market street, with January plans at Mrs Virginia Firestone s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvary Methodist Church
Ruth Kinsey
Washington Pike
Hilda Kiney
Jane Boyne
Harold Burgess
New Market
Elizabeth Mercer
North Market Street
Virginia Firestone
Bombs Rain On Rhine Rail Hubs Amid Long Allied Raids
London dispatch reports 1,500 tons of explosives dropped on Coblenz and Bingen by 1,500 American aircraft. Despite zero weather, Eighth Air Force hit strategic rail and military targets in the Reich with seven bombers and one fighter missing. Mosquitos bomb Berlin in its 185th raid as allied pressure tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Coblenz
Bingen
Rhine
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Reich
Stuttgart
Berlin
Poultry Diversion To Be Continued In Maryland Area
Baltimore reports that War Food Administration orders diverting all chickens from the Delmarva Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley to the armed forces will continue through March or April to meet an Army quota of 110 million pounds. The measure will close many large Baltimore dressed poultry plants that source from those regions and could lead to overproduction on farms and a future shortage as growers seek to recover losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Maryland
War Food Administration
Delmarva Peninsula
Shenandoah Valley
WFA
Kiwanis Speaker Promotes Car and Tire Conservation
Walter Whiteley Hubbard of the American Automobile Association will address the Kiwanis Club at noon tomorrow on car and tire conservation. Hubbard led the Keep ’Em Rolling tour testing synthetic tires across 26,000 miles on varied highways and temperatures from 19 degrees below zero to 104 above. He is a former instructor at AEF University in Beaune, France, and has a long AAA career studying travel and rationing and the Orient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Walter Whiteley Hubbard
American Automobile Association
Washington
Pearl Harbor
Hubbard
A. E. F. University
Beaune
Cote d'Or
France
AAA
Private Marvin Lowry Promoted in Italy With Fifth Army
Private Marvin D. Lowry son of Mrs Lilly M Lowry of 405 Walnut Street Brunswick Maryland has been promoted to corporal He serves as a squad leader with the 65th Custers Division of Lieutenant General Mark W Clark s Fifth Army in Italy
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Fifth Army
Marvin D. Lowry
Lilly M. Lowry
Walnut Street
Brunswick
Maryland
65Th Custers
Mark W. Clark
Actress mother gives birth to first child Patricia Ann
Hollywood December 10 The couple Lt and Mrs Robert Sterling actor in the Army Air Forces and actress Ann Sothern welcomed eight pound two ounce Patricia Ann at 4 50 a m today both mother and child are doing nicely Dr Benbow Thompson the attending physician said it is the couples first child
Japs Report 4 B 29 Raids Across Asia and India
The Associated Press says three American B 29 missions over Japan and a fourth over Nippon held territories were broadcast from Tokyo. Japan claimed bombs hit Tokyo and Western Japan with fires put out and no damage claimed at Kyushu. A separate Nippon air attack claimed fire at five grounded Superforts near Calcutta. War Food Administration reports 2 million tons of foodstuffs in U S stockpiled for emergencies.
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Associated Press
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Saipan
Nippon Capital
Tokyo
Kyushu
Korea
Domei
Fusan
Imperial Headquarters
Calcutta
India
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Bennett
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North Market
Kiwanis
Walter W. Hubbard
John Marshall
C.C. Carty, Inc
Patrick Street
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