Double Funeral For Thurmont Mother and Son
Thurmont mourns Mrs. Ray Keeney 53 and son Ira Keeney in a trolley crash near West Chester Pennsylvania. Funeral services set for Sunday at Thurmont United Brethren church with interment in Blue Ridge cemetery. Surviving relatives include Mildred Wachter Walter Keeney Merritt Henning and Charles Lindberg Keeney plus fourteen grandchildren. The trolley operator was 17 year old Mary Driscoll held on $1000 bond as coroner's inquest proceeds.
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Ray Keeney
Ira Keeney
Thurmont
West Chester
MM. OL. Creager and Son Funeral
Mildred Wachter
Walter Keeney
Merritt Henning
Merrle E. Keeney
Fort Monroe
Charles Lindberg Keeney
Elmer G. Shook
Hagerstown
Daniel E. Shook
Coshocton
Associated Press
Mary Driscoll
Fishing Creek Reservoir Near Full as Rains Run On
Frederick's Fishing Creek reservoir stood within two feet of full this morning, the fullest since summer drought. Caretaker Frank Weddle said levels rose steadily with heavy rains, unlikely to reach full before Saturday. In two weeks the dam gained over 10 feet, adding millions of gallons while four inches of ice remained on the surface. Yesterday's drizzle pushed the rise. January totals about three inches, more than last January but short of normal. Light snow flurries and freezing temperatures were forecast as colder air moved in.
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Frederick
Fishing Creek
Frank Weddle
Weather Bureau
Stock rally stalls as profits flow check market gains
New York traders see light profit taking halt the stock market rally with scattered issues extending the recovery while most readings slip to moderately lower ground.
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New York
Ida Tarbell Dies Dean of American Women Writers
Miss Ida Minerva Tarbell died today at Bridgeport hospital from pneumonia at age 86. Her death marks the loss of a leading figure in American letters as the nation mourns the passing of a prominent biographical and investigative writer.
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Ida Tarbell
Bridgeport
Conn
Ida Minerva Tarbell
American Women Writers
Bridgeport Hospital
Duck-Hunting Season Extension Is Denied
Baltimore January 6 State Game Warden E Lee LeCompte said the U S Fish and Wildlife Service refused an extended duck hunting season in Maryland this year. The open season ends January 10 despite requests from the Baltimore County Fish and Game Protective Association to extend to February 1 due to scarce waterfowl and bad weather limiting hunter access to blinds.
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Baltimore
E. Lee LeCompte
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Maryland
LeCompte
Baltimore County Fish and Game Protective Association
Hearing For Mills Here Tomorrow
Silver Spring Army deserter Raven Mills will face a preliminary hearing before Justice Alton V Bennett on Friday morning after a dramatic cross state manhunt. Civil charges include a $43 theft at a Ridgeville garage and larceny of a 1942 Plymouth owned by D C Winebrewer and Son Inc. Detainers from Montgomery and Prince George counties loom as authorities tie the case to a pattern of auto thefts during Mills escape. The pursuit caused multiple police crashes and vehicle damage totaling about $400 as Mills’ car was halted near Havre de Grace.
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Raven
Lee Mills
Silver Spring Army
Frederick County
Alton V. Bennett
Mills
Harford County
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Susquehanna River
Camp Meade
Army
Charles V. Main
W. L. McElfish
Clyde B. Tucker
Ridgeville
Plymouth
D. C. Winebrewer & Son, Inc
Montgomery County
Prince George County
Liberty
Havre de Grace
Gereby
Italian Troops Revolt Near Fiume Amid German Train Departure
Travelers from northeastern Italy report about 2,000 Italian soldiers in German uniforms staged a revolt on December 30 near Fiume. In a five hour engagement 500 held off German officers while others fled to hills near San Pietro. About 100 were killed and 300 captured. the insurgents later joined Croat Italian guerrillas with seized arms.
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Barcelona
Italy
Fiume
Bosnia
San Pietro
British Subs Sink Eight German Ships
British submarines have sunk eight German or German controlled ships in the Mediterranean, including a large tanker, and damaged two others in recent operations, the Admiralty announced.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Stettin Hammered in RAF Blow on Baltic Port
London reports a heavy RAF raid on Stettin the Baltic port of 260,000 people and a key Baltic fleet and rail hub. Berlin was bombed again by Mosquitoes in a joint strike on Germany and northern France. Fifteen aircraft were lost in the long 1300 mile raid. Other targets included Berlin Kiel and western Germany.
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London
Stettin
Germany
Baltic
RAF
Berlin
Air Ministry
France
Russia
Hitler
Leipzig
Switzerland
Rostock
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Germans Driven From Croatian Base Amid Fierce Fighting
The Yugoslav Army of Liberation announced that Tito forces continued pushing the enemy from Banja Luka as six days of street fighting raged in Croatia. It said German troops were collapsing block by block under stubborn resistance and that trapped Germans attempting to breakout from Novo mesto in Slovenia were repelled, with more than 50 killed.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Yugoslav Army of Liberation
Banja Luka
Croatia
Novomesto
Slovenia
Civil suit targets Du Pont Remington and ICI cartel
The Justice Department filed in New York a civil suit accusing E I du Pont de Nemours Remington Arms and Imperial Chemical Industries of maintaining an international cartel in violation of the Sherman Act. Attorney General Francis Biddle said the complaint covers restraint of trade in chemical products firearms and ammunition.
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Washington
E. I. du Pont de Nemours
Remington Arms Co
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd
United States
British Chemicals and Arms Industries
Justice Department
Francis Biddle
United States District Court
New York City
New Britain Forces Inferior Tokyo Admits
Tokyo admits its forces on New Britain are inferior to enemy landings. Reuters reports American troops advancing inland after securing two bridgeheads on the island s western end while the crucial Japanese base at Rabaul lies at the opposite end.
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London
Tokyo
Reuters
New Britain
Rabaul
Nelson urged to halt burning waste paper reports
Donald M. Nelson chairman of the War Production Board is urged to take immediate action regarding reports that federal agencies in New York City have been burning waste paper in the Sanitation Department incinerator.
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New York
Donald M. Nelson
The
War Production Board
Earth tremors recorded by Fordham seismology team
New York January 6 seismologist Rev Jozeph J. Lynch of Fordham University said the university seismological observatory recorded two fairly severe earth tremors about 10 000 miles away in the general direction of the Dutch East Indies.
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New York
Jozeph J. Lynch
Fordham University
Seismological Observatory
Dutch East Indies
Equal Access to World Oil Promised in Lend-Lease Report
President Roosevelt forwards the thirteenth lend-lease report to Congress outlining postwar plans for all nations to have equal access to global oil supplies based on need. The document warns gasoline rations for Americans will stay tight and stresses coordinated production, removal of trade barriers, and fair access to petroleum from all regions for the victors in the war effort.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
United Nations
Trenepost
Fie Ee
United States
Marine Officer Shoots Down 26th Jap Plane
Guadalcanal, Jan. 6 Major Gregory Boyington of Okanogan Washington was credited with his 26th Japanese aircraft tying the Marine record set by Major Joe Foss. Boyington, once with the Flying Tigers, achieved the kill in a raid on Rabaul New Britain three days ago as over 60 fighters swept Rapopo airfield area. Six of 20 interceptors were shot down with five more listed as probables. two Corsairs were lost.
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Guadalcanal
Gregory Boyington
Okanogan
Wash
Joe Foss
Boyington
Flying Tigers
China
Rabaul
New Britain
Rapopo
Allies Open Offensive In Italy Makes Gains
Allied forces led by American and British troops launched a Fifth Army offensive on a 10 mile front near San Vittore, advancing about a mile on day one. They broke into the fortress town amid sleet and rain, fighting hand to hand as German resistance and fortified positions yielded to bombardment and infantry assault.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
San Vittore
Via Casilina
Cassino
Rome
Rocca
Venafro
Mark W. Clark
Posthumous Purple Heart Award For Pfe Al bert Walch
The Purple Heart is awarded posthumously to Pfe. Albert R. Walch of this city who has been missing since the day the North African invasion began in November 1942 and is now listed as dead by the War Department. A letter from Secretary Henry L. Stimson announcing the award was received by his brother Carl Walch, noting Walch sacrificed his life defending his country. Also noted, more canned tuna and mackerel are en route as of January 1944, with record production through November 1943.
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Pfe
Albert R. Walch
War Department
Carl Walch
Henry L. Stimson
Pfc
Walch
Washington
Jan
Harold Lockes
600 Mile Aerial Route Becomes Burma Road Substitute
An American Air Transport Command effort forms a new 600 mile aerial supply route to China, replacing the Burma Road. Flyers face jungle dangers and long recoveries, with cases of bailouts, jungle hikes, and rescue missions aided by a developed air rescue system and native interactions.
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China
New
Burma
Preston Grover
India
Air Transport Command
ATC
1944 To Be Decisive War Year Declared by FDR
President Roosevelt proclaimed 1944 a year of decisive war actions amid lend-lease totals reaching 18.6 billion dollars through November. He cited increased Allied power, planned offensives at Tehran and Cairo, and unity to push toward Nazi and Japanese surrender. The report outlines lend-lease expenditures, exports of 13.844 billion by October, and efforts to counter criticism over labeling and gasoline allocation for civilians.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
United Nations
Teheran
Cairo
Senate
House
Bétlion
Russia
United Kingdom
North Africa
Allied
United States
Bulgarian Premier Reports War Situation to Regency Council
German controlled Vichy radio quoted Sofia reports that Premier Dobri Bojilov met the regency council to brief on Bulgaria's political crisis amid rising opposition to continued Axis war involvement. Berlin denies Turkish reports of his overthrow.
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London
Vichy Radio
Sofia
Dobri Bojilov
Regency Council
Bulgaria
Bojilov
Turkey
Massacre Reported as German Forces Hit Kalavrita
Exiled Greek government says Germans killed more than 1,000 residents of Kalavrita and destroyed Mega Spileon and Agia Lavra. Males over 12 were gathered outside the town for a supposed speech that became machine gun fire. Women and children later perished in a school fire.
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Cairo
Kalavrita
Mega Spileon
Agia Lavra
Kaiavrita
Peloponnesus
Thousands Of Evacuees Flee Berlin After RAF Raid
Stockholm reports fires still burning in Berlin at 4 p m after Monday raid. Thousands evacuate, carrying belongings, jamming trains and highways out of the city. Food shortages develop in the battered capital. Three hundred rescued from an air raid shelter beneath Hitler's damaged Reich Chancellery after 30 hours trapped.
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Stockholm
Berlin
RAF
Affontidningen
Hitler
Reich Chancellery
Thhey
Breach Widens Between Poles and Soviet Union
Washington reports a widening split between the Polish government in exile and Moscow over prewar borders and postwar control of territories. Pravda marks Polish areas as Soviet, while underground Polish forces are urged to cooperate with Russians only if diplomatic ties are restored.
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Washington
Russia
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
Moscow
Ukraine
Pravda
Communist Party Organ
Soviet Union
London
Food Stamp Plan Receives WEA Backing in Senate Push
The War Food Administration endorsed a bill to create government food stamps aiding low income families, estimating 18 million eligible and a maximum yearly cost of 3 billion dollars. WFA urged hearings within a week, citing public health benefits but acknowledged it would not stop price rises.
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Washington
Jas
War Food Administration
WFA
Senate Agriculture
Aiken
LaFollette
Grover B. Hill
Hill
Nazis Brace Make Stand At Marshes On Frontier
German Army under Field Marshal Fritz Von Mannstein retreats into the Pripet marshes and re positions for a defense along the prewar Polish frontier west and south of Olevsk as Gen. Nikolai Vatutin’s First Ukraine Army advances toward the Dniester River. Soviet forces captured Berdichev and push toward Vinnitsa and Zhmerinka, threatening air links from the Dnieper bend while reports say ice is forming on the lower Dnieper aiding pursuit of remnants of the German Sixth Army.
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Moscow
Fritz von Mannstein
Pripet
Olevsk
Kiev
Warsaw
Nikolai Vatutin
Ukraine
Dniester
Berdichev
Zhitomir
von Mannstein
Olevak
Kowel
Gorodnikca
Novogorod-Volynski
Sluch
Vatutin
Stalin
Vinnitsa
Mogiley Podolski
Zhmerinka
Odessa-Warsaw
Dnieper River
Vatulin
London Radio
Berlin
Dnieper
6Th Army
Governor OConor vows action on soldier voting after Congress vote
Maryland Governor OConor said he would take necessary state action to ensure soldier voting once Congress passes legislation requiring the Army and Navy to handle absentee voting. He noted his December request to the Maryland delegation and said subsequent events confirm that stance.
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Annapolis
O'Conor
Congress
Army
Navy
Millard E. Tydings
D-Md
Maryland General Assembly
Maryland
Wreck of Ohio Valley Express near Williamstown
A southbound Baltimore and Ohio locomotive and six cars derailed near Williamstown, West Virginia, at 3 03 a m. A broken rail caused the accident but no one was seriously injured. Thirty-two passengers and crew were aboard. R J A Morris reported a few shaken and bruised, none requiring hospital care. Engineer Charles Harvey of Parkersburg was praised for stopping the train within 400 feet.
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Williamstown
W. Va
Ohio Valley Express
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
R. J. A. Morris
Wheeling
Morris
Charles Harvey
Parkersburg
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DNB
RAF Blow
Ted R. Carback
Brewton
Ala
James King
Eugene
Ore
Corp
Muriel E. Sampson
Oakland
Calif
Allen B. Cook
FDR
WEA
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