Christmas Program Cancellation Urged by Health Officer
Dr Kefauver, county health officer, urged local churches and Sunday schools to postpone Christmas entertainments due to a rising grippe influenza epidemic. Several church events were already canceled, while regular services would proceed. He noted pneumonia cases and widespread illness among students and workers, predicting a quieter Christmas with many children confined to bed and missing their trees.
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C. Kefauver
Kefauver
Presbyterian Church
Evangelical Reformed Church
Charles W. Willis
Frederick High School
Grippe
Super Bomber Soon Ready Says Sparkman
Washington reports Rep. Sparkman declares a new super bomber is nearly ready and will go into large scale production, likely for extensive Pacific use due to its long range. He cites progress from aviation plants in eight states and notes monthly combat aircraft output already near 9,000 and projected to reach 10,000 in 1944.
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Rep
Sparkman
Ala
House
Military Aviation
Army Air Force
Spark- Man
Army
Pacific
Alabaman
Georgia
Alabama
Texas
Louisiana
California
Utah
Michigan
Kansas
Chinese Pursue Japanese Near Sungtze After Lake Victory
Chinese forces press the retreating Japanese toward Sungtze a Yangtze port between Shasi and Ichang after clearing Japanese from the Tungting Lake area. High command reports advance and pursuit continuing tonight.
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Chungking
Tungting Lake
Sungtze
Yangtze
Shasi
Ichang
Roosevelt Christmas gifts for White House staff
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave White House office staff a combined paperweight and magnifying glass as a Christmas gift. Each four inch square glass bore the inscription Christmas 1943 and from F D R. The gifts were in their original carton to save paper with only a red ribbon and a greeting card as wrapping.
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Washington
Roosevelt offers arbitration in wage dispute
Washington December 23 President Roosevelt offered to arbitrate the wage dispute between railroad management and operating brotherhoods if they would accept his decision. The joint committee reported no agreement and scheduled a reply by 3 p.m. today if possible. Both sides then went to the White House seeking guidance as a strike deadline looms.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Soviet paper attacks U S labor leaders over unity
The Soviet labor weekly War and the Working Class accuses AFL leaders of anti Soviet acts and of opposing national and international unity. It denounces John L. Lewis as a fascist sectarian and labels Woll Hutcheson Nagler and Dubinsky as reactionary readers and political saboteurs in a push against AFL CIO unity.
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Moscow
United States
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
CIO
AFL
Matthew Woll
William L. Hutcheson
The
Carpenters Union
Isadore Nagler
David Dubinsky
Ladies Garment Workers Union
William F. Green
Society For Soviet-American Friendship
Wolf-Hutcheson-Dubinsky
N. Alexeiev
Soviet Union
Germany
Woll
Hutcheson
Dubinsky
Toj
Vatican announces Pope to celebrate Christmas Eve Mass privately
London reports the Vatican radio announcement that Pope Pius XII will conduct the Christmas Eve mass privately at 5 p.m. tomorrow instead of 7 p.m. due to Rome curfew under German occupation. The time change aligns with 12 noon Eastern War Time.
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London
Vatican Radio
Pope Pius XII
Rome
Cold Wave Sweeps City With Subfreezing Christmas Prospect
A brutal cold snap pushed the city below 10 degrees as temperatures dipped near zero tonight and forecasters warned of more wintry weather for Christmas Eve. Ice could form on Culler Lake, skating may resume by tomorrow, and many shops plan early closings for the holiday. Christmas trees sold out at the Singapore filtration plant, and toy gifts remain in short supply. Baskets for the needy, run by the Police Department and Salvation Army, will be distributed to about 190 applicants.
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Weather Bureau
Singapore
Culler Lake
Police Department
Salvation Army
Relief From Cold Sweeps Nation as Warmth Forecast
A cold wave hit much of the northeast as winter arrived with subzero records in places like Canton New York and Milwaukee Wisconsin. Forecasters in Chicago warned of continued cold tonight with gradual moderation expected tomorrow from the upper Mississippi Valley to the North Dakota Montana line.
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Associated Press
United States
Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Portland
Albany
North Dakota-Montana
Berlin youths claim Santa Claus killed on East Front
Berlin youngsters tell younger siblings that Santa Claus has been killed on the East Front, according to Ivar Vesterlund Stockholm Dagens Nyheter Berlin correspondent on his way home for the holidays.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Santa Claus
Ivar Vesterlund
Dagens Nyheter
Russians Repel Massive German Tank Offensive On Front
Soviet dispatches report heavy artillery and mobile guns blazed as a gigantic German tank assault hit a 4400 mile front from White Russia to the Dnieper bend. Red Army forces held fire then damaged at least 148 attacking tanks while Gen. Ivan Bagramian’s Baltic Army pressed toward Vitebsk Polotsk rail lines and Vatutin’s Ukraine Army steadied positions in the Kiev bulge area.
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Moscow
White Russia
Dnieper
Red Army
Vitebsk-Polotsk
Ivan Bagramian
Korosten
Kiev
Marechal
Fritz von Mannstein
Nikolai Vatutin
President Roosevelt Confers With Marshall in White House
President Roosevelt met with Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and Adm. William D. Leahy in the White House study. Secretary Stimson joined later. Marshall had just returned from a world tour via Cairo Teheran Australia the Solomons and Hawaii and was rumored to be slated for a European second front command.
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Washington
Roosevelt
George C. Marshall
Army
Cairo
Teheran
Australia
Solomons
Hawaii
William D. Leahy
Marshall
White House
Stimson
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
War Department
Europe
Tells Why It Cut Treasury Revenue
Washington reports the Senate Finance committee justified reducing the extra revenue sought in the new tax bill, citing the Budget Bureau’s action that cut $11 billion from current year deficit estimates. The notice also mentions a settled estate dispute for Anne Winebrenner and reports on Wang Ching-Wei undergoing surgery after a long life threat.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Budget Bureau
Ephraim B. Zimmerman
Walkersville
Anne Winebrenner
Benjamin F. Shuff
F. Ross Myers
Holden S. Felton
William Traitor
Knife M. Storm
de- New
Landing Reported By Berlin On Madeira Expedition
Berlin radio reported today that British naval forces have landed in the Madeira Islands west of Morocco. The claim centers on a landing operation in the Atlantic island group, with details not independently confirmed.
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London
Madeiras
Atlantic
Morocco
Berlin
Rocket Gun Coast Hit by U S and RAF Bombs
Allied air forces struck northern France and the Pas de Calais coast as RAF and American bombers joined a four day offensive. Night raids targeted rocket gun emplacements and German fortifications while mines were laid in the English Channel and North Sea areas.
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London
France
RAF
Berlin
Pas de Calais
England
Germany
Air Ministry
Secret 50 Ton German Rocket Projectile Reported
Allied officials deem Germanys secret weapon no bluff. Reader's Digest says a 50 ton rocket type projectile could be shot from the French coast into England. After a RAF raid on Peenemunde, 5000 workers killed and blueprints destroyed. The weapon has not yet been used.
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New York
Germany
Allan A. Michie
Reader's Digest
Michie
London
French
England
Peenemund
Worldwide Radio Hookup For Roosevelt Address
President Roosevelt will deliver his address to the nation and armed forces tomorrow. The speech will be carried by a worldwide radio hookup through American networks and the British, Australian, and New Zealand systems, with stations in Algiers, Palermo, Bari, Naples, and India broadcasting at 3 p.m. Eastern War Time from Hyde Park, New York.
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Washington
Roosevelt
British Broadcasting Corporation
New Zealand
Algiers
Palermo
Bari
Naples
India
Hyde Park
N. Y
Baltimore OPA official McCormick reclassified 1-A for draft
Leo H. McCormick of Baltimore director of the Maryland Office of Price Administration has been reclassified 1-A in the draft and ordered to report for induction on December 29. McCormick, 35, is married and has one daughter.
Two More Sudden Incident Days With Army at Arawe
A World War II era dispatch notes two more sudden incident days with the American Sixth Army at Arawe New Britain. The report quips that Japanese air incidents alter phraseology, shortening planning to two days until Christmas. The commentary preserves wartime tone and local urgency.
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Sixth Army
Arawe
New Britain
See Your Lawyer New Tax Bill Just A Mess Of Confusion
Washington reports the Senate Finance Committee released a 190 page 1943 revenue bill but understanding its impact requires consulting a lawyer with up to date Internal Revenue code. The bill mixes titles sections and sub sections and even clarifies gains losses and dep le tion rules for minerals while detailing a 15 percent depletion allowance and a draw back on distilled spirits for non beverage use.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Capitol
Horace
Bel Ow Langean
Prisoners of War from Schweinfurt Raid Revealed
Washington reports 581 air crew missing after the Schweinfurt raid. Of those, 346 are alive as prisoners of war, 18 killed, 217 unaccounted. The mission saw 60 Flying Fortresses lost and 186 enemy fighters shot down with 27 destroyed and 89 damaged. Ballbearing plants at Schweinfurt were critical targets.
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Washington
War Department
Schweinfurt
Germany
Schreinfurt
Europe
It Can Be Done Doerun Courier Editor Runs Paper Solo
Doerun Ga December 23 Editor H W Garrett of the Doerun Courier prints a 20 page Christmas edition alone. He sold all ads wrote news and editorials set type made up formes read proofs operated the press and mailed the papers. He has published the weekly for 24 years.
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Doerun
H. W. Garrett
The
Doerun Courier
Garrett
Courier
New Caledonia Governor Criticizes U.S. Troops
Noumea Dashed by Governor Christian Laigret accused American forces of disrespecting locals, singling out Black troops as undisciplined. He urged restrictions on troops and declared Noumea out of bounds for colored soldiers. American observers defended troops as disciplined and equal to white servicemen.
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Noumea
New Caledonia
Christian Laigret
South Pacific
Laigret
Indo-China
Pearl Karver
Rush Lincoln
Lalaret
Algiers
Lrogps
Lincoln
New York
J. Norman Lodge
Associated Press
Noames
Gifts Hung From Tree In Local Court House
Gifts hung from a brightly illuminated tree in the county court house corridor as officials prepared for a noon holiday gift exchange and carol sing. Under an names exchange plan every official will place a gift for someone else. Tomorrow the gifts will be removed and singing held. a stocking for Court Crier Marion drew attention.
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Court House
Marion
Japs Call For Lowered Conscription Age
New York December 23 Japan lowers its conscription age by one year to 19 to bolster fighting power and ensure complete victory, as broadcast by Tokyo radio.
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New York
Japan
Tokyo
Tanks Fight In Desperate Battle To Take Ortona
Allied reports from Ortona describe three days of brutal house to house fighting as Eighth Army tanks and infantry press the German Tenth Army to seize the Adriatic port. American forces reachMt Cavallo near Venafro while French troops push a mountain pass and Canadian units assault across the same front amid heavy rain and shell fire.
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Algiers
Eighth Army
Ortona
Adriatic
Stalingrad
Fifth Army
Mt. Cavallo
Venafro
Viticuso
Monna Casaie
Cassino
San Vittore
Advance Slow And Bloody In Fifth Army Rome Drive
The Fifth Army advances toward Rome in Italy remain costly and slow. German mountain defenses along highway No. 6 and around Cassino hold, forcing infantry fighting in rugged terrain. Tanks are hampered by anti tank guns and limited tank warfare while German orders to hold at all costs persist.
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Fifth Army
Rome
Salerno
Garigliano River
Cassino
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