Nazis Now Only 19 Miles From Sirte In North Africa Drive
London Dec 19 The British pursuit of the retreating Nazi forces under Rommel moved westward with vanguards within 19 miles of Sirte 155 miles beyond El Agheila and 240 miles from Tripoli. Allied air and ground blows pressed the Axis, while advances in the Sultan area and near Zauta En Nalilia indicated a rapid momentum in General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s campaign across Tunisia and the North African front.
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London
Rommerl
Morocco
Sirte
el Agheila
Tripoli
Bernard L. Montgomery
Zauta En Nalilia
Eirlime
Sultan
Eighth Army
Rormimel
Zauta En Nofilia
North Africa
Tunisia
Tunis
Bizerte
Milk Situation Stays Serious in Cold Weather
The city faces a continued dairy crunch as cold weather hinders production and dealers report insufficient milk to meet demand. Some cut wholesale trade to preserve retail deliveries, while others see only slight improvements. Sunday sales are being cut by one dealer to save gasoline, and some hope school closures may ease demand. Properties of the late L Eegar Betson were sold at public auction this morning, including a stucco mansion on O'Leary Place bought for $2435 and a brick house on East Patrick Street sold for $2020. In another district, Washington, Montgomery and Prince George's counties join the Washington military district, per War Department.
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L Eegar Betson
Frederick
Coum House
O'Leary Place
Charles P. Staley
East Patrick Street
Gilmore R. Flautt
Catherine A. Betson
Exeduluix
D. Princeton Buckey
Casper Frost Betson
Alton
Bennett
O Conor Declares Next Saturday A Legal Holiday
Baltimore December 1941 Governor O Conor declared next Saturday a legal holiday after consulting with industry banking and labor leaders. He said the move is a defense measure to conserve essential transportation and heating materials and hopes it will not raise war production costs by paying time and a half to workers in plants operating that day.
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Baltimore
Concentrated Cattle Feeds In Short Supply Across Area
A serious shortage of concentrated cattle feeds threatens milk and egg production in the region. P D Koons of the Farmers Cooperative Association reports no available supplies despite calls to Maryland Virginia Milk Producers Association and the Agriculture Department. Relief optimism rests on a 30 day timeline, but dairy and poultry outputs may drop if shortages persist.
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P. D Koons
Farmers Cooperative Association
Koons
Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers Association
Department of Agriculture
Air Force Breaks Through Trench Fire as Front Battles Rage
On the Stalin grad front major air battles mark German attempts to relieve the Don and Volga line with mass bombings. Red Army forces push near Velikie Luki and seize a strategic height for future operations while Germans counter attack fiercely. Axis losses mount as infantry and tanks clash southwest of Stalingrad near Kotelnikovski with no letup on the central front.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Don J
Volga
Velikie Luki
Red Star
Red Army
Kotelnikovski
Gasoline Sales Here Almost At Standstill
Gasoline sales to the public nearly stopped as operators began enforcing the new OPA rules restricting purchases to ration card holders. Stations varied in applying the one coupon for emergency use, with some allowing war workers and those with limited fuel, while others limited to dire needs only. Many motorists bought extra before the change, sparking a temporary lull and wider public confusion as stations awaited official guidance.
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OPA
Yes
Vealeek
Aline
Emmitsburg
Baltimore
Westminster
News-Post
Associated Press
Charles & Hudson
Willis R Taylor
Jap Flyers Decline and Our Flyers Improve Rickenbacker Says
Eddie Rickenbacker, back from a life raft ordeal, reported that Japanese pilots are declining in quality while American flyers in the South Pacific are improving. He cited green, inexperienced pilots and praised Allied bomber and fighter groups on Guadalcanal. He urged home front production to rise, claiming factory labor could double output in 30 days.
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Eddie Rickenbacker
Pacific
Washington
Penant
Ing Ace
South Pacific
Rickenbacker
Wif
Stimson
New Guinea
South
Paci
Guadalcanai Ishin
Dolwadia
Guadalcanal
America
Luge Pua
Named Home Demonstration Agent Here Seeks Frist Week Arrival
Miss Hammerly is expected to arrive in Frederick during the first week of January to assume the position of home demonstration agent for Frederick County. She succeeds Miss Florence E. Williams who resigned in September for dietetic work. Esther Knowles of the Maryland Extension Service staff has been acting agent and will take a vacation. the Winchester Hall office will close until the new year. Hammerly has 12 years as agent in Roanoke County Virginia and has traveled in Canada Nova Scotia and Mexico. She attended the World Conference of County Women in Enalana in 1989 as a Virginia delegate and then toured the British Isles and Europe for two months. She is a graduate of Mary Washington College and holds BS and MA in home economics from Columbia University. She studied at UC Berkeley George Washington University and was a Furman University fellow. Hammerly formerly taught home economics in Alexandria and Covington Virginia.
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Miss Hammerly
Frederick
Frederick County
Florence E. Williams
Esther Knowles
Maryland Extension Service
University of Maryland
Winchester Hall
Knowles
Roanoke County
Virginia
Canada
Nova Scotia
Mexico
Enalana
British Isles
Mary Washington College
Fredericksburg
Columbia Unive
University of California At
Lost Nazi Equipment Covers Large Area
Soviet papers picture the battlefields southwest of Stalingrad with vast swaths of steppe littered by captured Geom mobiles and trucks. Tanks appear banked for a quarter mile and many seem serviceable. A field of seized trucks resembled a massive American junk yard as Soviets repelled a Nazi counteroffensive last week.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Louis
Christmas Price Rise Hits Turkey Ahead of Holiday Feasts
A Chicago report notes Thanksgiving level price increases for live turkeys as Christmas nears. Experts warn housewives face paying similar costs and may struggle to find birds, signaling tighter supply and higher holiday meal expenses.
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Chicago
Heavy Bombers Hit Kiska and New Georgia Islands
Army Liberator B 24s attacked Japanese shore installations on Kiska Island in the Aleutians on December 17, causing heavy explosions and fires. Navy communique 225 reports the raid and notes additional December 18 bombing runs by Flying Fortresses against targets near Munda in New Georgia Island. results not provided.
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Washington
Japan
Kiska Island
Aleuitians
Navy
North Pacific
Kiska
South Pacific
Army
Mont Tesa Java
Lee
Munda
New Georgia Island
Rules Relaxed To Aid Users Of Fuel Oil
Washington December 14 The Office of Price Administration today relaxed its fuel oil rationing rules to permit homeowners who have exhausted current heating rations to buy on with coupons valid for later periods. The procedure is open only to householders who have asked their local boards to review their rations and who have exhausted their currently valid coupons.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Focal Boards
City Filling Station Damaged By Fire at Market and Fourth
Fire early afternoon caused considerable damage to the Day and Dutrow filling station office and equipment. A general alarm sounded around 1 30. Fire companies fought the blaze with booster and plug air gags before it was controlled. Occupational accidents killed 18 000 in 1941 in the United States with January 1942 seeing higher deaths.
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Dutrow
Market
Fourth Streets
Buooler
Plug Airgams
United States
Fewer Food Baskets To Be Sent Out This Year
Frederick expects a smaller Christmas basket program as police report a drop in planned distributions from headquarters and agencies. Fewer than 100 baskets may be given through police channels, versus around 300 last year, due to better incomes but higher food costs. Some churches and schools may reduce aid as job gains under wartime programs lessen need, while prices rise.
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Frederick
Exchange AU
Biskels
Social Service Exchange
Heauien
Frederick Best Stop In State for Blood Donor Unit
Merrill L Carroll of Baltimore commends the Army and Navy Blood Donor mobile unit's Frederick Maryland trip. He notes 89 donors Thursday and 91 Friday for an average of 90 per day, praising the committee and planning a return visit in late March 1943 with tentative February dates discussed. Interested volunteers can call 1784 at the Francis Scott Key Hotel.
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Frederick
Army and Navy
Maryland
Merrill L Carroll
Baltimore
Blood Donor Service
American Red Cross
Frederick County
Holmes D. Baker
Dad Toa Cactaindy
Bukee
A C. Stine
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Weetier An
Wavell’s drive toward Akyab opens Burma advance
New Delhi Dec 9 British and American air forces bomb Japanese positions along the Indian border to Akyab as My-Biitiah troops cross into Burma advancing about 40 miles toward Matindaw Buthidaung. The frontal assault began after a terrific aerial bombardment with enemy forces withdrawing. The attack marks the first Allied initiative since Akyab’s occupation last May. No sire of attacking army disclosed.
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New Delhi
Irndian
Akyab
Nuda
Sir Archibald & Wavell
Wavell
India
Stocking Club Plans Christmas Party for 200 Children
The Empty Stocking Club will host its annual Christmas party Tuesday at Winchester Hall at two o'clock. About 200 needy children will receive two stockings, a toy, candy, an orange, an apple and peanuts. The event features Salvation Army music, a reading, a church talk, carols, and Santa Claus with gifts provided by local volunteers.
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Frederick
UAV
Winchester Hall
Roy L Leatherman
Salvation Army
Ernest C. Weddle
Harold C Baer
Evangelical Reformed Church
Robert L. Smith
Santa Claus
County Budget Near Finalization for 1943 Tax Rate Soon
County Commissioners said the 1943 budget expenditures are nearly complete with the tax rate to be set after the County Roads Board budget submission. Welfare Board and Catchen's And Sucwts align with current year totals. Clerk of the Court budget mirrors prior year for court purposes.
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County Roads Board
Welfare Board
Eureka Plant Closes as 1500 Workers Go On Strike
Detroit December 19 1500 employees at the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company plant in Detroit walked out. The workers members of the Independent Mechanics Educational Society shut the plant, halting gas mask production.
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Detroit
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company
Independent Mechanics Educational Society
Om Atria
British push into Burma targets Akyab and Maungdaw
British communiques report forces advancing from the Arakan border into western Burma occupying areas northwest of Akyab as Japanese defenses withdraw. RAF bombed Rathedaung and attacked Japanese positions along the Mayu river while US Tenth Air Force conducted numerous raids from India without losses. Akyab remains a strategic objective due to its proximity to Calcutta and its potential as a launch point for attacks on India.
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Akyab
Burma
RAF
Rathedaung
Maungdaw
Mayu
Bay of Bengal
Clayton Bissell
United States
China
India
United States Tenth Air Forcs
Calcutta
Drop Social Experiments Drop Social Experiments Washington
Washington December 19 A Southern Democratic bloc leader calls for abandoning social and economic experiments and new ventures to fund the war Rep Woodrum says the first aim is financing and winning the war and the public demands curtailing non war spending The coming Congress is expected to push for independent checks on government expenditures via a new appropriations sub committee chaired by Cannes
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Washington
Congress
Woodrum
Woodrums
Cannes D-Mo
House
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Montgomery
Prince George's County
Charles County
Third Service Command
Washington Military District
War Department
Jesse Hammerly
Turkey
City
Police Dept
H.C. Baer
India-Burma
Arakan
Maungdaw-Buthidaung
Ara
Aukwn
Ali Akyab
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