City Considers One-Cent Power Rate for Three Months
Frederick seeks to buy half its current needs from Potomac Edison for three months at a flat one cent per kilowatt to save fuel oil during the emergency. Mayor Culler presented the idea to the War Price and Rationing Board after a special Aldermen meeting.
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Frederick City
Potomac Edison Company
Lloyd C. Culler
Frederick County
Board of Aldermen
Robert L. Smith
R. Paul Smith
Jocal
City of Power
The
Louis L. Wilson
Davis Warns Public Not To Be Over Optimistic
Washington January 6 Elmer Davis director of war information warned the public against over optimism about an early war end. He stressed casualties and losses are inevitable and said he has no information to back Admiral Halsey’s prediction that the war will end this year. London January 6 British patrols were testing Rommel's defensive positions near Mersa Matruh about 120 miles southeast of Tripoli.
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Davis
Washington
Elmer Davis
War Information
Meniace
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
London
Morocco
Marshal Rommel
Misurata
Tripoli
British Run West of Mateur Breaks Hills Resistance
Allied forces attack 13 miles west of Mateur driving enemy from strategic hills on the northern Tunisian front. RAF Hurricanes and fighters support. RAF bombers claim hits on Sfax port area and power station. U S Marauders strike Kairouan airfield and Sousse docks. No reported Rommel pursuit or major Libyan front operations.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Jan
Mateur
Bizere
Raf
Esnalesemen
Sfax
Ormoor
Kairouan
Sousse
United States
Cairo
Rommel
Libya
Bombers Hit Mandalay Rail Yards and Ship on Irrawaddi Route
US and RAF forces struck Burma targets, delivering direct hits on Mandalay railroad yards and a 15,000 ton vessel on the Irrawaddi river. Fires could be seen for miles as bombers pressed a drive to disrupt Japanese troop and supply movements. The sortie followed attacks on Monywa airfields and railway lines, with RAF river and coastal shipping targets also reported. DEAN FOR AUKER St. Louis, Jan. 6 Paul Dean, Dizzy Dean's brother, moved to the St. Louis Browns in a deal sending Elden Auker to Washington.
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New Delhi
United States
Mandalay
Burma
Naba Junction
U. S
Monywa
Tenth U. S. Army Air Force
Arakan
Pagode Point
Mit
Jan
Royal Air Force
Irrawaddi
Rangoon
Tenth Airforce
Comunique
Dean
Auker St. Louis
Paul Dean
Dizzy Dean
St. Louis Browns Today
Elden Auker
Washington
U S Task Force Bombards Munda Airfield in Solomons
Washington reports a U S surface task force successfully bombarded the Japanese air field at Munda on New Georgia Island. Four Wildcats intercepted dive bombers, shooting down four and probably two more, while Marauder bombers attacked installations. Our fighters repelled Japanese zeros with three shot down and two destroyed.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Munda
New Georgia Island
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Grumman
South Pacific
Ailetomuy
Boeing Bell
Buin
Bougainville
Shortland Island
Mount Austen
Guadalcanal Island
French Fleet At Dakar To Support Allies
An authoritative source reports that following Admiral MeL tro Deuceau Ledge's death France's pro Allied stance remains firm. French sailors stay morale high and prepared to sail against the Axis. unity among anti Nazi leaders Giraud and De Gaulle is urged, with no principled differences, only method.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Algeria
Jean Mel Tro Deuceau
Dakar
United States
Aais
Henri Giraud
West Africa
Charles Dr Gaulle
Special car hauls workers to Camp Ritchie from Thurmont
The Hagerstown and Frederick Railway runs a special Thurmont car for Camp Ritchie laborers, carrying 50 to 80 men daily, with a regular car leaving earlier. Trucks shuttle workers from Thurmont to the camp. A petition to restore Montevue trolley service and a Wilson Avenue Rosemont request is circulating, but details remain unclear and dependent on demand.
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Hagerstown and Frederick
Thurmont
Montevue
Wilson Avenue
Rosemont
Ola
Oze
Six Dead After South Side Bowling Alley Fire
A 9354 South Ashland Avenue blaze in Chicago’s Gresham district left six people dead and over 100 injured as patrons fled through doors during the hours long fire. Fire Marshal Anthony Mullaney put damage at 150000 dollars. the structure, built for 250000, was tied to a syndicate once including Ray Schalk.
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Chicago
Aire
Ganekartio Hefara Test mlAanroht
Joseph R. Bingham
Anthony Mullaney
William Gutrich
Ferdinand Gutrich
Gresham Holice Station
Asnland Avenue
Gresham District
Little Company of Mary Hospital
Marshal Mullaney
Ray Schalk
Chicago White Sox
Schalk
Congress opens with party swing on speaker vote
Washington reported the opened 78th Congress saw two new Republicans, Beall of Maryland and Barrett of Wyoming, initially back Sam Rayburn for speaker. They quickly reversed, casting their votes for Republican Joe Martin of Massachusetts after colleagues corrected them.
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Washington
House
Reps
Beall
Maryland
Barrett
Wyoming
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
King Vittorio Emanuele Tours Sicily Amid Air Raid Alarms
Rome radio reports King Vittorio Emanuele completed a morale boosting Sicily tour. He faced an air raid alarm in Palermo while crowds hailed him, signaling that Malani sentiment remained unshaken despite British and American bombardment.
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New York
Rome
Vittorio Emanuele
Sicily
Palermo
America
War Message Is Given To Legislature By Governor
Governor O Conor outlined wartime aims to aid the war effort and urged immediate income tax reductions tied to 1942 incomes. He cited a $10,000,000 treasury surplus and pledged to submit a detailed tax cut plan, with a 23 percent target, to the 1943 General Assembly.
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Annapolis
O'Conor
General Assembly
Treasury
States
Republican Party
Maryland
House of Delegates
Senate
Spadial Pyente
Jas
Pearl Harbor
State Council of Defense
29 Coal Firms Indicted by U S Jury
A federal jury indicted 29 anthracite corporations and 26 officers for Sherman Act price fixing. New York markets opened with mixed price trends as investors watched Congress.
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U. S
York, Dan
War Congress Enters Upon New Duties At Noon Today
The 78th Congress convened amid war footing as Democrats retained the Speakership with Sam Rayburn of Texas. The opening session featured a formal oath for nine new members in the Senate and House, a near full attendance, and a tense atmosphere highlighted by air raid warnings as Vice President Wallace struck the gavel.
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Annapwiix
House
Maryland
Senate
Arthur H. Brice
D-Kent
Congress
Washington
Democrate
Sam Raybern
Texas
T&th
Roosevelt
United States
Henry A. Wallace
South Trimble
Diplomatic Corps
Carter Glass
D-Va
Lynchburg
Ellison D
Cotton Ed" Smith
Dean
Ramspeck
Georgia
Thore
Wiley
R-Wis
Gen Giraud Arrives in Dakar for Talks With US Mission
General Henri Honore Giraud, high commissioner of French Africa, arrived in Dakar with staff to confer with the U S mission led by Vice Admiral Will A Glassford Jr and Gov Pierre Boison of French West Africa. Boisson said the De Gaulle faction deal should be handled entirely by Giraud.
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Dakar
Henry Honore Giraud
North and West
Aleca
United States
Will A. Glassford, Jr
Pierre Boison
Russians Continue Sweeping Advance in Caucasus Front
Soviet Red Star reports a full German retreat in the Caucasus as Russian forces seize Nalchik Prokhladnenski Kotlyarevskaya Maiskoye and other towns. Russian pushes threaten Rostov and the Grozny oil region with over half a million German troops in retreat. rail hubs Morozovskaya Nalchik and Tsimlyansk noted.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Red Star
Mozdok
Nalchik
Rokhladnenski
Kotlyareeskaya
Maleskoye
Ocellia
Ordzhonikidze
Red Banner
Terek River
Lower
Don
Tsimlyansek
Rostov
Kamensk
Donmouth
Reuters
London
Adolf Hitler
Middle
Cauessum
Yerek
Prokhlladnenski
Prokhladnenski
Rosloy
Baku
Tsimlyansk
Morozovskaya
Kotlyarevskaya
Maiskoye
Grozny
All Pleasure Driving On A B C Cards Out
The Office of Price Administration outlawed all pleasure driving by holders of A B C gasoline ration cards on the Atlantic seaboard and canceled fuel rations for nonresidential use in the east. Law enforcement in 17 eastern states and DC urged to report violations. Driving to social engagements banned. heating oil rations to be cut substantially in 24 hours.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Atlantic Seaboard
District of Columbia
CFA
OFA
OPA
Harvard's President Emeritus Lawrence Lowell Dies at 86
A. Lawrence Lowell, 86, former president emeritus of Harvard University, died at his Boston home after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at the Harvard Memorial Church in Cambridge on Saturday at 11 a.m.
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Boxton
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Boston
Old University
Harvard Memorial Church
Cam
Enemy Suffers Heavy Losses In Mediterranean
The Admiral announced that a large enemy troop transport and supply ship was destroyed and two other ships were hit and probably sank by British sea power in the Mediterranean.
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Mediterranean
London
Admiralty
Mrs Stahr Appointed Acting Director of Student Personnel
Mrs Alice S Stahr wife of Dr Henry J Stahr of Hood College is named to fill temporarily the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Alberta Fr Brown director of student personnel. She will serve as acting director effective January 6 and has a long record in education and alumni work with Welleston College and Wellesley clubs.
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Alice S. Stahr
Henry J. Stahr
Hood College
Lion
Alberta Fr. Brown
Stahr
Activit
Welleston College
Lancaster
Mize Stahr
Shippen School For
Aiwmontiab
Weitester College
Stabr Wan
Beers
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Atlek.w
U.S
Shortlands
Darlan
O’conor
Gen. Giraud
Harvard
Hood
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