Sunk German battleship Scharnhorst in Arctic battle
London reports the German battleship Scharnhorst was sunk near the Murmansk route after a long fight with British Home Fleet units protecting a Russian convoy. The ship, armed with nine 11 inch guns and 12 5.9 inch guns, reportedly expended all ammunition in a heroic struggle, leaving no details on convoy losses.
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Russia
London
Scharnhorst
Murmansk
Barents Sea
North Cape
Home Fleet
Admiralty
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Helgoland
Brest
Berlin
Qiong
Murmansk Ganga
Frederick Soldiers Hear From England Baltimore
Frederick soldiers and Maryland residents heard voices of servicemen in a radio broadcast from Somewhere in England. Warrant Officer William Fisher of Frederick was a master of ceremonies, with Lieut. Col. Ben Lyon and Corps. Jean Lowenthal also hosting. Pvt. Melvin Carbaugh and his bride spoke live, and Sergt. James Albright told his parents he hoped to be heard next Christmas. Fisher conducted the broadcast and led his band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Marrland
England
William Fisher
Frederick
Baltimore Sunpapers
Ben Lyon
Melvin Carbaugh
Women's Land Army
Sergt
James Albright
Fisher
Home Staff Sergeant Lakin Visits Mt Pleasant During Leave
Recently Home Staff Sergeant Lakin son of John Lakin of Jefferson was home on a fifteen day furlough and visited Mrs Charles Nor of Mt Pleasant. He is stationed at St. Fla.
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Lakin
John Lakin
Jefferson
Charles Nor
Mt. Pleasant
St . Fla
Firemen Busy Over Weekend in Frederick County
Over Friday to Sunday three county fires and two city blazes taxed Frederick fire companies. Buckingham School henhouse blaze near Buckeystown destroyed a large poultry complex. water tower and nearby houses damaged. Cromwell residence at Yellow Springs burned from an overheated stove pipe. $500 loss. A chimney fire at Liberty Pike caused minor damage. another lamp fire at 8 West Sixth Street damaged a sofa cushion.
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Frederick
Buckingham School
Buckeystown
Curtis Cromwell
Yellow Springs
Independent Hose Company County Fire Engine
Millard Brust
Lewis Kline
Joel Willard
Independent County
Cromwell
Clarence Albaugh
Liberty Pike
Libertytown
United Rescue and
Citizens Truck
West Sixth Street
Holiday Arrests Rise With Drunken Brawls in City
Over the double holiday week twelve people appear on the police arrest list. Christmas day saw more than half the arrests. Names include Woodrow Bradley of North Bentz Street jailed for disturbing the peace with $5 bond. Other offenses involved drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
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Fightin’ Likker
Police
Woodrow Wy. Bradley
North Bentz Street
Sergt
Frank Dorsey
Virginia
Harry Phillips
James Marks
Charles Booth
Phobus Avenue
Thomas Chefauver
Jefferson Street
Norman Dietz
Charles Crummiltt
Frederick
Harry Quinn
Claude Haglar
Louis Rymer
Baltimore
Sidney Grant Scott
Charles Crummitt
Dietz
William Cromwell
West Patrick Street
Madey
Marks
Trene Tompson
Ben Phebus
Marshall Baker
O. Avenue
Lloyd C Culler
Dorsey
Ralph Potts
Baker
Culler
Baltimore shipyard worker freed after whiskey theft inquiry
Frank Runt, a Baltimore shipyard worker and former bartender at the local club, was released from jail Friday after being questioned in connection with last week’s robbery of a quantity of whiskey from the Elks Lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Runt
Baltimore
Elks Lodge
Flint
Auto fire at parking lot behind Ration Board office
The Independent city engine and United Rescue truck responded to a 3 43 p m fire alarm on Christmas Eve to extinguish an automobile blaze on the parking lot behind the local Ration Board office. Slight damage was reported.
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Independent City Engine
United Rescue
Ration Board
Jap Destroyer And Two Cargo Vessels Sunk
Allied carrier planes sank a Japanese destroyer and two cargo vessels at Kavieng New Ireland and captured a base at Wandakai Huon peninsula New Guinea. Rabaul raids cost Japan many planes. Australians seized near Finschhafen and found enemy ammo and artillery. other ships damaged and a small air base raid continued.
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New Guinea
Kavieng
New Ireland
Wandakai
Huon Peninsula
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Alles
Finschhafen
Adm
William F. Halsey
Kavieng Harbor
Cape Gloucester
Dampier Strait
Solimali Point
Tauali
Arawwe
Arawe
Marshalls
Pearl Harbor
mid-Pacific
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Kwajalein Atoll
Taroa
Watje
Mili
Navy
Kwajalein
Nimitz
Seventh Air Forces
Wotlje
Seventh Air Liberators
Polish Premier Enroute To Capital For Mediation Talks
Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish Government in Exile is reportedly traveling to Washington for talks with President Franklin D Roosevelt on mediating the Soviet Polish dispute. He leaves after briefings from Foreign Secretary Eden on the Tehran Conference and Russia’s terms for restoring relations.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Washington
Roosevelt
Mikolajczyk
United States
Anthony Eden
Teheran
Russia
Kremlin
Smolensk
Sozevell
Britain
Soviet Union
Sunday Times
Poland
Moscow
Marshal Stalin
Eduard Benes
License A marriage license issued in Ellicott City
A license was issued in Ellicott City for Kenneth Lee Haines of Mt Airy aged 18 and Thelma Irene Hopkins of Woodbine aged 16.
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Ellicott City
Kenneth Lee Haines
Mt. Airy
Thelma Irene Hopkins
Woodbine
Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson Dies at 63
Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson died at his farm near Hattiesburg after a two month battle with heart trouble. Lieutenant Governor Dennis Murphree assumes governorship until January 18, with Governor elect Thomas L. Bailey to be inaugurated in Meridian. The late governor had been unconscious since Christmas Eve and was 63. His sons, Lt. Paul B. Johnson Jr. and Lt. Patrick Johnson, are in the armed forces.
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Johnson
Dennis Murphree
Thomas L. Bailey
Meridan
Hattiesburg
Jackson
D. C. Lea
Paul B. Johnson, Jr
San Diego
California
Lt. Johnson
Armed Services
Patrick Johnson
Nashville
Tennessee
Panama Passage Time Through Canal
The Panama Passage reports average ship transit time from seven to eight hours with a record passage of ten hours and ten minutes.
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Panama Passage
Panama Canal
Funeral Services For Late Judge Offutt Today
Judge T Scott Offutt aged 71 of Towson dies after long illness. Former Maryland Court of Appeals member and Third Circuit chief judge inactive since a stroke. Survived by widow, a son and a daughter. Funeral at Trinity Protestant Episcopal church at 3 30 p m.
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Towson
T. Scott Offutt
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church
Maryland Court of Appeals
Third Judicial Circuit
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Four Fleeing Prisoners Recaptured After Bold Escape
Four of five inmates who fled Frede jail with Raymond Mills were recaptured after the break was detected. Mills remains at large as a statewide search continues. Dinterman Repp Phelps and Dean were returned to custody while Minnick Burris aided in early alerts. Mills reportedly smuggled blades into jail and used a river boat to breach the wall.
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Fredeie
Horace Alexander
Raymond Lee Mills
Silver
Fort George G. Meade
Mills
James Leroy Dinterman
Joseph Repp
John Dean
Brunswick
Harry Thomas Phelps
Frederick
Harry William Minnick
Harry T.burris
Roy Mumford
Marion Kehne
Kehne
Dinterman
Repp
Phelps
Dean
Put On Committees
Washington December 26 two Frederick educators were named to National Education Association committees. E W Pruitt Frederick county school superintendent and state NEA director joins Legislative commission while Miss Mary E Rhoads of 13 East Second Street serves on the New Voter Preparation and Recognition committee.
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Washington
Frederick
National Education Association
Edith B. Jaynes
NEA
E. W. Pruitt
Frederick County
Legislative Commission
Mary E. Rhoads
East Second Street
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Ottawa
J. L. Ralston
H. D. G. Crerar
Ralston
Andrew G. L. McNaughton
Crerar
Henry Wallace
Germany
Europe
Italy
John G. Lakin, Jr
Hennery
Robert W. Carey
Pfc. Carey
Sheeley Carey
Co. G Infantry
APO
New York
N.Y
Carey
Ruby Fink
East South Street
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Francois Darlan
de Gaulle
Eugene Bonnier de la Chanelle
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Balkan
Iloniks
Solonike
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Bulgaria
Rust
Aegisland
Hason
Samo
Thrace
Aegean
Tugoslavia
Hunge
Southeastern
Kiskloratt
Clynsed
Flet Coast and
Kina
Black Sea
Sea of Marmora
Danube
Maritsa
Near East
Hungary
Cpl
Charles H. Nickens
Clarence J. Nickens
Lord D. Nickens
R. L. Nickens
West All Saints Street
Pic
Joseph R. Wood
Roland T. Wood
James W. Wood
Los Angeles
Calif
Los Angeles Calif
Camp Picket
Elsie Wood
Mississippi
Miss
Paul B. Johnson
Offutt
Wilmington
Del
Marocain
Dravo Shipbuilding Company
Fourth Naval District
Anne Moor Bullitt
William C. Bullitt
France
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Wayne
Thomas Clinton Peats, Jr
The
Presbyterian Historical Society
Department of History
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the
Quintent
Market St
C. E. Cline & Son
Uncle Sam
C.c.carty, Inc
E. Patrick ST
Carty
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