State Dept Nominees Confirmed Amid Senate Vote
The Senate confirmed Joseph C. Grow as Under Secretary of State and four assistants for a reorganized State Department after Roosevelt intervention. Archibald MacLeish won approval as Assistant Secretary in charge of cultural and public relations amid partisan opposition. Rockefeller, Clayton, Dunn and Holmes also cleared, with some opposition from Southern Democrats and others over policy and how the department should be run.
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Creagerstown Soldier Wounded in Germany December 3
Mrs. Adeline Plumer of Creagerstown notified War Department that her husband T Wilfred W Plumer Sr was slightly wounded in Germany on December 3. He served since December 5, 1942 and went overseas in October. The couple reside with his parents near Creagerstown. Plumer is a son of Mr and Mrs Edward Plumer. his brother Guilford is a navigator on an Army B 29 and stationed in California.
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Adeline Plumer
Creagerstown
War Department
T. Wilfred W. Plumer
Germany
T 5 Plumer
Guilford
California
Pilot Rolph Award Nomination Notes Wat Uberdiet Raid
Lt Rolph logged 390 combat hours across 660 missions with the Fifth Ai Force unit before reassignment. He earned a Castrogurpaed Flying Cross for a raid near Palau as his wife Ada Hildebrand Rolph of 113 West Third Street is listed as next of kin.
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Fifth Ai Force
Palau
Ada Hildebrand Rolph
West Third Street
White House Gets Dispute Over Montgomery Ward Case
Washington dispatch reports War Department and WLB probes into Montgomery Ward non compliance with wage and union security orders. White House involvement anticipated as Lloyd Garrison and William Davis confer with Fred Vinson on possible seizure actions. Also notes POW status of Rube Bloom missing since September and later declared prisoner of war in Germany.
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Montgomery
White House
William H. Davis
WLB
Lloyd Garrison
Fred Vinson
Ward
Gypsum Fil
If 8 Gypsiumn Company
Sewell Avery
Vhirman
Montgomery Ward
United Mie Workers of America
Boston
Los Angeles
U.S
Vinson
Detroit
Roosevelt
Overseas Cpl Mattie Arrives at Base In Mid November
Overseas Corporal Mattie, son of Mrs Rose C Mattie of 13 East AN Saistregt, arrived at an overseas base in mid November. He is one of five children in the Army and Navy. An elder brother, Conder Dominic Mattie, recently returned from the Pacific and is stationed at Annapolis.
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Rose C. Mattie
East AN Saistregt
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Army
Navy
Conder Dominic Mattie
Pacific
Annapolis
78th Congress Ends Session Adjourns Washington
The 78th Congress adjourned at 7:50 p.m. as the House and Senate finished business. Few members remained in the chamber, and Speaker Sam Rayburn received a tribute from Rep. Michener. Hutson of Green Bay hinted at retirement but remained unsure. Romanian officials were ordered arrested on war collaboration charges as the government blamed authorities for placing the country at war.
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Texas
Rep. Cox
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ACCU
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Crmina
Freer Pinistees Anc
Uty
Romania
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Rey
Carriers Split Jap Fleet In Luzon Preview Of Bigger War
McCain and Thach led the fast carrier force in a bold operation over Luzon that routed Japanese air power, pinning enemy planes and threatening the empire. Admiral Halsey lauded the plan as brilliantly executed, while Lt Anne Hoffman returns home from 32 months in the South Pacific awaiting reassignment after service in Australia.
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Philippines
Navy
Luzon
Japan
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Wei
Empire
William F. Halsey
Mindoro
McCair
Mississippi
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Fordyce
Ark
Tellcat
Luzon Island
Pacific
Army Nurse's Corps
Australia
Anne Hoffman
William E. Hoffman
Woodsboro
Asheville
N.C
Hoffman
Frederick High School
University Hospital
Baltimore
Avetealia Enith
Johns Hopkins University of Maryland Medical Unit
No Formal Charter He Says In Roosevelt News Briefing
President Roosevelt in Washington said the Atlantic Charter is not a formal signed document but was signed in substance. He spoke at a news conference after returning from Warm Springs, addressing Poland Greece and a possible Roosevelt Churchill Stalin summit with cautious, noncommittal replies. Poison powders ground very fine are typically more effective as insecticides than larger particles.
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White House
Warm Springs
Poland
Washington Evening Star
United States
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Star
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Times-Herald
Greece
Ernest Bevin
Quebec
State Department
Mec
Congress
Loss Of U. S. Tanker In Pacific Announced
Washington reports the loss of the U S tanker Mississinewa in the central Pacific due to enemy action. About 60 percent of the 240 aboard were saved. Next of kin have been notified. An unidentified Navy float plane pilot rescued at least 20 men amid flames, towing them to safety. Charles F Hartman of the city qualified as administrator of his mother Mary C Hartman’s estate with real estate valued at 5000 and personal property of 5500.
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Central Pacific
Navy
Phillip George Beck
Fast 29Th Street
Brooklyn
New York
Kenwood Street
Norfolk
Rick Skipper
Mississinewa
Charles F. Hartman
Four Girls Find They Didn't Marry After All
Alliance Nebraska four young women learned last August that their weddings were faked by a man impersonating an Army chaplain at Alliance Army Air Base barracks believed to be an Army chapel. No marriage certificates were filed in Box Butte County. The man and paratroopers left for overseas, and no further contact was made with the women. County Judge Penrose E Romig said government allotment checks revealed no records of marriages. Air base officers denied knowledge of the case and noted the base had moved from Troop Carrier Command to the Second Air Force.
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Box Butter
Troop Carrier Command
Second Air Force
Tokyo losses rise as Luzon air sweep sinks ships
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports "additional destruction of 14 ships and small craft" in carrier plane sweeps over Luzon on December 13 14 and 15. Communique revised enemy vessels sunk to 61 from 64, with U S combat losses at 27 planes. Strong entities include Luzon dates and Adm Nimitz.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Luzon
U. S
Christmas Party Held By Frederica Kiwanis Club
Rev W M Weaver spoke at the Frederica Presbyterian Church Christmas party and Ladies Night at the Francis Scott Key Hotel noting wartime optimism. The event drew about 80 attendees with carols, solos by Richard Zimmerman, and a poinsettia donation from Edward H Sharpe raising 25 for the Underprivileged Child Fund. Ransom R Lewis won the War Stamps prize. Richard Bowlus spoke on Spirit of Christmas. Also listed is a divorce: Melvin L Pottorff divorced from Lena F Pottorff with custody pending.
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Frederica
Cnoureh
Kiwanis Club
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Francis &. Sappington
Charles K. Taylor
Richard E. Zimmerman
Sperry L. Storm
H. O. Lchroecer
Edward H. Sharpe
Charles W. Lough
Ransom R Lewis
Richard 5. Bowlus
Ox Fiere Company
Weaver
Wilmer Eye Institute
Harriet Lane Hospital
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