Frederick mayor eyes City Hall siren for general fire alarms
Discussion follows a Sunday general alarm and a Saturday collision on South Market street as Mayor Hugh V. Gittinger urges Aldermen to reconnect City Hall air horn for general fire alerts. Fire chief notes OCD rules kept United engine house siren disconnected, risking delayed warnings.
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Frederick
United Rescue
South Market Street
Hugh V. Gittinger
Board of Aldermen
City Hall
OCD
Rinehart's Alley
United Engine House
Wacs
Charles Kinna
Charles Bell
Sergt. Sanders
Kinna
Bell
Gittinger
Uniteds
Eighth Army Breaks Adriatic Nazi Line at Ortona Front
Allied reports say British Eighth Army seized elevated ground near Ortona, widening river bridgeheads and tightening control along the Adriatic coast. German counterattacks stalled as 6,000 prisoners were taken since the Italian landings and Alpine units aided defenses guarding Ortosa Orsagna and Guardiagrele amid harsh winter mountains.
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Dee
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Ortona
Pezcara
Chici
Moro
Orsogna
Guardiagrele
Maiella
Ortosa
Orsagna
Pescaro
90Th Armored Grenadiers
26Th Armored
Vicin
6314
Bernard L Montgomery
Roosevelt Franco Salazar Meet Reported in Gibraltar
Stockholm dispatch cites unconfirmed report that President Roosevelt met with Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain and Premier Antonio Salazar of Portugal in Gibraltar. Budapest bureau notes discussions centered on Spain and Portugal amid anticipated Allied invasion of Western Europe.
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Stockholm
Ankara
Budapest
Roosevelt
Gibbraltar
Francisco Franco
Spain
Antonio Salazar
Portugal
Tidningen
Europe
Heights Property Sold On Jefferson Boulevard Braddock Heights
The frame dwelling and adjoining lot at Braddock Heights on Jefferson Boulevard, once Mary M M Fulmer’s property, sold at a public sale Saturday afternoon to Mrs Edna Fulmer Harwood for 3100 dollars. Personal property including antiques also sold at fair prices, conducted by executor Holden S Felton with Emmett R Bowlus as auctioneer.
375 RAF Pilots to Be Enshrined in Westminster Abbey
London December 13 The names of 375 RAF pilots who died in the Battle of Britain will be enshrined in Westminster Abbey after the war. The tribute follows Prime Minister Churchill’s remark that so much was owed by so many to so few.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Westminster Abbey
Red Cross seeks 600 apron kit bags for Army
The Red Cross Production service aims to assemble about six hundred apron kit bags for soldiers to be packed and shipped in January. Bags include hard candy a tablet envelopes playing cards cigarettes pencils shoe strings cloths razor blades and other small items. Frederick oversees the project with home sewing and pickup at the Francis Scott Key hotel basement headquarters. Magazines must be under a month old and donations may be left at Red Cross headquarters along with vases badly needed for Army hospitals.
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Red Cross
Frederick
Francis Scott Key
Camp Detrick
Terrible Loss in Kansas City Newswire Memoir
Maurice Rice, former Kansas City newspaperman now with the OWI, reports from the Middle East that golf balls cost eight dollars each. He recalls a vivid scene of a man losing a ball, dropping to the turf and crying for an hour in toil and hardship.
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Kansas City
Middle East
Maurice
Rice
OWI
Nine Criminal Appeal Cases Set For Trial in Circuit Court
The December term opens with Associate Judge Patrick M Schnauffer on the bench. Nine criminal appeal cases are listed for Thursday and Friday. An appeal by Charles W Marker of Foxville from a $500 fatal accident conviction was returned to the docket after prior staking. Marker was found guilty in a central county accident that killed Charles A Toms of Foxville. Witnesses are available. the case is moved to the current docket. E Austin James represents Marker. Thursday hearings include Eliza H King for stealing a tire, Jasper Britt for drunken driving, Harry E Phebus for assault on a city officer, M M Weinberg for the appeal, and John W Lawson in two appeals for drunken and reckless driving. Friday hearings include J Marshall Staub over a $10 sewer hookup fee, Jacob Rohrback for Shipley, two appeals by Mary C Shipley on drunken and reckless driving, Walter S Andrews for assault and battery, and John C Campbell on a failure to yield right of way. Some cases continued or dismissed. a jury in the Smith case was discharged. Lewis L Kline’s cases toward murder accessory charges were started, including indictment for accessory after the fact.
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Tris
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Charles W. Marker
Foxville
North County
Marker
Wiliam J. Stoner
Thurmont
Charles A. Toms
Fox
William M. Storm
Edward S. Delaplaine
E. Austin James
Elizha H. King
Alfred R. Jones
Brunswick
W. J. Offutt
Jasper D. Britt
Alton ¥. Bennett
Britt
Offutt
Harry E. Phebus
House of Correction
Bennett
Martin Kanede
M. M. Weinberg
John W Lawson
Edward J. Smith
James
J. Marshall Staub
Jacob Rohrback
Appelllant
Smith
Municpality
Mary C. Shipley
Mr. Offutt
Walters. Andrews
Emonth House of Correction
Andrews
John C. Campbell
Campbell
L. Edgar Beton
Sherman P. Bowers
Adam Wm. South
B. B. Rosenstock
Kline
U S Heavies Again Blast Northwest Reich Target Here Tonight
American heavy bombers carried out a daylight raid on northwest Germany, targeting major cities including Hamburg Wilhelmshaven Bremen and Emden. The raid marked the fourth heavy attack this month as P 47 and P 38 escort fighters protected Liberators and Flying Fortresses amid anti aircraft fire and German fighters.
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U.S
Northwest Reich
London
Germany
Eighth Air Force
Reich
Hamburg
Wilhelmshafen
Bremen
Emden
Doughs
Cty
Solingen
France
Japs In China Forced Back
Chinese high command announced fresh gains in the Changteh area driving Japanese from Xiupitan and a stronghold at Panlungkiao. Villages northwest of Changteh were retaken and about 2000 Japanese encircled with over 500 killed. Japanese reinforcement counterattacks were reported northeast of Changte.
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China
Chungking
Changteh
Panlungkiao
Changtei
Ansiang
Changih
Masons Attend Service At Grace Reformed Church
Members of Columbia Lodge No. 58 and Lynch Lodge No. 163 A F and A Masons attended the 11 o clock service at Grace Evangelical and Reformed church. Rev Dr Ralph E Hartman preached on The Three Fold Cord, urging faith courage and selfless service. Worshipful Master Frank H Lewis and Harry O Smith led their lodges with John P Engelbrecht as marshal.
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Columbia Lodge No
Lynch _ Lodge No
Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church
Ralph E. Hartman
Hartman
Frank H. Lewis
Columbia Lodge
Harry O. Smith
Walkersville
Lynch Lodge
Visitation
John P. Engelbrecht
Hanoi Hit Again Bombers Return View from Hanoi
London reports Tokyo radio says 12 China based American bombers returned to Hanoi in French Indo China. No details on damage given. Indictments include murder, burglary and larceny charges. Russell A. Robertson previously pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Washington County Court and got 12 years. Edward D. Robinson facing larceny and receiving stolen goods. case continued. Civil dockets reviewed. December term noted. jurors assembled.
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Hanoi
London
Tokyo
China
Secret weapon urged by Munich meeting for Nazis
London dispatch reports German scientists urged at a Munich gathering to devote full effort to a super weapon for the Reich. Propaganda backfire shows German public demanding immediate use, with growing belief that development has hit a setback.
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London
Daily Mail
Germany
Munich
Reich
President Roosevelt May Report To Congress On War Conferences
Washington December 13 The possibility arose that President Roosevelt will deliver a first hand report to Congress on his wartime conferences abroad. Secretary Stephen Early said Roosevelt would naturally anticipate an invitation and respond if law makers invite him, following Secretary Hull’s return from Moscow.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Cordell Hull
Moscow
Early
No Rules Bar Officers From Being Candidates
Washington on December 13 the War and Navy Departments ruled that no rules bar officers from Army or Navy service from being nominated for political office. Senator Vandenberg urged drafting Gen Douglas MacArthur for the presidential campaign and obtained the ruling to support the effort.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Vandenberg R.mich
Douglas MacArthur
War and Navy Departments
Sheriff Sale Leads to Creagerstown Property Transfer
At a sheriff s sale held at the Court House Saturday the real estate of Everett R Stull and Grace S Stu on the northwest corner of the public square in Creagerstown sold to W R Seiss for 4025 dollars. The property includes a frame weatherboard house with a large store room Emmett RB Bowlus acted as auctioneer.
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Court House
Everett R Stull
Grace S. Stu
Creagerstown
W. R Seiss
Emmett RB. Bowlus
Secretary McIntyre Dies in Capital After Long Service
Marvin H McIntyre longtime secretary to President Roosevelt died at 63 in Asheville North Carolina after more than two decades in White House public relations and staff roles. A native of Kentucky he served as publicity representative during Roosevelts 1920 campaign and later as presidential appointments secretary. He was known for vast telephone traffic at the White House and dedication amid Depression and wartime duties. He leaves widow Gertrude Kennedy Louisville, a daughter Mrs Frederick Warren and a son Lt Kennedy McIntyre Navy.
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Washington
Marvin H McIntyre
Roosevelt
White House
Melntyre
Fred Warren
la Grange
Oldham County
Phin
View
Prigy Ju Dat Melotyre
Louisville
Asheville
N.C
Uice
Ale Roosevelts
McIntyre
Mae
Aocom
Dtg
Navy
Gertrude Kennedy
Frederick Warren
Kennedy McIntyre
British Mosquito Raids Keep Reich Awake for Third Night
British Mosquito bombers struck western Germany for the third night running in a series of daytime and nighttime raids. The operations targeted unidentifed sites with several aircraft reported missing or damaged, while Canadian Mosquitoes over France claimed further air combat success.
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London
Britain
Germany
Western Reich
Berlin
Air Minister
Besubighiers
Coastal Command
Bay of Biscay
Emden
Eighth Air Force
Thre
Cold Wave Warning Issued for Ohio Valley and Mid Atlantic
A cold wave warning extends across the Ohio Valley and the Middle and North Atlantic states tonight. Temperatures will plunge rapidly to 15 degrees below in parts of upstate New York and northern New England, 10 to 15 degrees above in Virginia, and 15 to 20 degrees above in Tennessee. High winds today ease tonight as the cold continues Thursday.
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Washington
Dee
Ohio Valley
Middle
North Atlantic
New York
New England
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virgina
Tennessee
Casualty toll from British air raid announced
London reports civilian losses from the November air raid with 19 killed and 238 injured. The Ministry of Home Security announced the figures today.
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London
Britain
Murisivy of
Home Security
Patton Report Details Harsh Conduct Toward Soldiers
Secretary Stimson told the Senate Patton had spoken harshly to a soldier who failed to wear leggings due to swollen ankles. He cited August incidents in Sicilian hospitals involving Private Charles L. Kuhl and another case, noting no other similar criticisms found in the theater inspector’s investigation. Eisenhower was informed by correspondents of the leggings episode.
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Washington
Stimson
Senate
George
Patton, Jr
Patton
Senate Military Committee
Charles L. Kuhl
Eisenhower
Roosevelt Reviews 7th Army in Sicily
President Roosevelt toured Sicily during his Mediterranean voyage and, flanked by General Patton and General Eisenhower, reviewed Seventh Army troops at Castelvetrano. He decorated officers, then boarded for Tunisia while secrecy surrounded any Patton discussions.
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Allied
Algiers
Roosevelt
Sicily
Mediterranean
Seventh Army
George
Patton
Matta
Castelgentrang
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Mark W Clark
Fifth Army
Senhoowers Villa
Tunisia
Patten
Secret Service
DSC
Clark
Washington
Cairo
Teheran
White House
Mark W. Clark
Setion
Salerno
Italy
Reuben II
Tucker
Ansonia
Conn
Joseph B. Crawford
Humboldt
Kan
William W. Kellogg
Highlands
Tex
F. Berteau
Chicago
Edwin Edwin F. Gould
Orange
Calif
Castelvetrano
George E. Durno
Tunis
Malta
Middle Mediterranean
Carl Spaats
Oking Pattor Early
7Th Army
Sofia Attacked as Nazi Transports Land Near City
London reports Allied air attack on Sofia followed by 200 German transports landing near the Bulgarian capital. Turkish sources quoted by Radio France in Algiers said the raid occurred immediately after the transports touched down.
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Sofia
London
Radio France
Algiers
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Singapore
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Bishing Creek
Culler Lake
Lail Dreath
Grace Reformed Church
Sheriff's Sale
Marvin McIntyre
Marvin We McIntyre
RAF
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Millard E. Tydings
Service Clubs
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Elias B Ramsburg
Rotary Club
Shackelford Miller
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
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Patton Peesent
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