Marines Fight Fiercely At Cape Gloucester In New Britain
In New Guinea and New Britain heavy fighting continues as Marines push from Bergen Bay toward Cape Gloucester. Allied air forces bomb Madang and Kavieng targets while Japanese destroyer losses mount and ship gains shrink as Saidor advances close to Madang.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Bergen Bay
MacArthur
Cape
Madang
Kavieng
New Ireland
Rabaul
Saider
U. S. Sixth Army
Cape Iris
Saidor
Huon Peninsula
Cape King William
Alexishafen
Bogadjim
Adm
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Kavieng- Rabaul
Solomon
Torokina Field
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Japan
OWI Predicts Some Cut-Backs
The Office of War Information forecasts 1944 cuts in small arms ammunition non combat planes and anti-aircraft gear while alum in um production drops nearly 40 percent. Gains in warplanes and other munitions offset losses with civilian resumption only temporary unless the European war ends by June.
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Washington
Office of War Information
OWI
Production Of Bomber Planes At High Point
Detroit January 6 production of the giant four engined B 24 bomber planes at the Ford operated Willow Run plant near Ypsilanti is at the highest level yet attained Company officials say output is considerably in excess of the nine a day rate cited in War Labor Board testimony by an attorney for the Foremen's Association of America Walter M Nelson argued the board lacked jurisdiction to settle foremen disputes but Ford officials note output has been mounting steadily Late December an army air forces announcement said more than 109 of the bombers had been flown from Willow Run in the prior year and substantial numbers had been shipped in knocked down sets for final assembly elsewhere.
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Detroit
Willow Run
Ypsilanti
War Labor Board
Foremen’s Association of America
Walter M. Nelson
Ford Company
Army Air Forces
Wiltow Run
Dr Wickey to Speak at Anniversary Service Sunday
Dr Wickey general secretary of the National Conference of Church Related Colleges will deliver the address Sunday evening at the Young Men's Bible Society anniversary service at 7 30 o clock in Centennial Memorial United Brethren Church He will also speak at the Vesper service at Head College Sunday afternoon He resides in Washington DC and has held multiple church and education roles including executive secretary of the Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church in America.
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Wickey
National Conference of
Young Men's Bible Society
Centennial Memorial United Brethren Church
Head College
Conference of Church
Board of Education
United Lutheran Church In America
Council of Church Board of Education
Wickes
Cartiage College Carthage
Washington, DC
Big Pay-Off For Sailors
Baltimore reports sailors returning from long sea service received sizable wartime pay. A Liberty Ship crew got at least 3800 dollars each, including base pay, voyage bonus, area bonuses for Murmansk duty, and an attack bonus. Union bond deductions and family allotments left total purchases between 11000 and 12900 dollars in bonds.
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Baltimore
Murmansk
Mediterranean
Inheritance Tax Payable On U S Bonds
The Attorney General of Maryland rules that State inheritance tax applies to United States bonds at death. Tax is 1 percent for lineal heirs and 7.42 percent for collateral heirs, with full value taxed in sole or co ownership cases and half value taxed when a beneficiary is named.
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Maryland
United States
Register of Wills Boys
L. Leatherman
Frederick County
Hal Hammound
D Heyward Hamilton, Jr
Frank E Hudson
Register of Wills
Worcester County
United States Defense Savings
John A. Jones
Ohn A Jones
Ella C Jones
Mary E. Jones
Treasury Department
Atttorney- General
William C. Walsh
Rocket Plane Is Developed By Allied Teams
Washington reports a new rocket plane from British American labs. The joint statement by the US Army Air Forces and the RAF claims jet propulsion enables extreme speeds at high altitude without propellers. Ten years of British research under Group Captain Whittle preceded successful 1937 testing.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
RAF
Luftwaffe
Allied Air Chiefs
Great Britain
Frank Whittle
May Open Razor Blade Production Under Relaxed WPB Controls
War Production Board officials announced lifted curbs on razor and razor blade manufacture. Safety razors could again be produced beyond military and export needs, with limited straight razor output restored. WPB retained some controls via the controlled materials plan, allowing use of any extra steel and non CMP governed materials for production.
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Washington
Jan Glyn Ale
War Production Board
WPB
Emmitsburg Gunner Sergt Wivell Reported Missing in Action
Sergt Charles Wivell, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Wivell of Emmitsburg, was reported missing in action over Greece on December 14. A former Emmitsburg high school student and mechanic, he served 18 months in the Air Corps and had been overseas three months with Middle East Air Command.
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Charles Wivell
U. S. Army Air Corps
Joseph W. Wivell
East Main Street
Emmitsburg
War Department
Greece
Cairo
Associated Press
U. S
Aegean Sea
Serat Wivell
Middle East Air Command
North Africa
Sergi
Wivell
Air Corps
Italy
Bryson Plans War Prohibition Bill Push in Congress
Washington January 6 Representative Joseph Raleigh Bryson a fifty year old South Carolina Democrat aims to lead a national wartime prohibition drive in Congress He expects a hearing on his bill to ban intoxicants and mentions a rumored ten million dollar lobbying fund cited by Representative Celler The Judiciary Committee seems split on the measure while Bryson predicts eventual passage in Congress The article also notes related divorce granted and railway news excerpts.
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Washington
Joseph Raleigh Bryson
South Carolina
Congress
Celler
D-Ny
Bryson
Judiciary Committee
Judiciary
Underground Polish government exists, says Mikolajczyk
Premier Mikolajczyk in a Polish Telegraph Agency broadcast asserted a fully organized Polish government operates underground in Poland led by a President Deputy Premier answerable to the exile cabinet in London. He said the underground exists at all levels of state and will fight Germany independently, awaiting liberation and recognition by Allies.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Poland
Mikolajczyk
United Nations
Polish Republic
Woman Driver Fined After Brunswick Hearing
At a Brunswick hearing Magistrate Howard Marvin Jones dismissed a charge against Wayne F. McKimmey of Lovettsville for failing to slow at an intersection after a two car crash on the Brunswick Point of Rocks road December 28. Mary Louise Remsburg of Jefferson was found guilty of failing to yield and fined five dollars. McKimmey was represented by Stilson Hall and E Austin James. Remsburg by Richard E. Zimmerman. London Jan 6 Berlin radio reports Germany testing a heavy shell battery to shell ships and strike bombers at long range, as AP notes.
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Howard Marvin Jones
Brunswick
Wayne F. McKimmey
Lovettsville
Mary Louise Remsburg
Jefferson
Harold Basore
Brandon Duvall
Brunswick Point of Rocks
McKimmey
Stilson Hall
Leesburg
E. Austin James
Richard E. Zimmerman
Ace Flyer Is Missing Navy Tells Mother
Okanogan Washington January 6 Marine Major Gregory Boyington famed Flying Tiger who downed his 26th Japanese plane in the Southwest Pacific was reported missing in action by the Navy tonight His mother Mrs E J Hallenback expressed confidence he would show up somehow Following Guadalcanal dispatches Boyington tied the World War II record with Maj Joe Foss and Capt Eddie Rickenbacker The official notice warned details would be slow in arriving Boyington known as Pappy joined the Marines in 1935 left to fly with the Flying Tigers in 1941 and arrived in the South Pacific last January Also in Westminster Carroll County reports 2398 influenza cases by physicians with many more not seeking medical care
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Okanogan
Wash
Gregory Boyington
Southwest Pacific
Navy
Guadalcanal
Flying Tiger
Rabaul
New Britain
Joe Foss
Eddie Rickenbacker
Boyington
E. J. Hallenback
Pappy
Flying Tigers
China
South Pacific
Population gains in Baltimore metro area rise sharply
A National Census Bureau report shows Baltimore metropolitan counties expanding by 11.6 percent from April 1940 to March 1943, adding 124,272 residents to 1,197,493. Baltimore City up 8.5 percent to 930,264, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties also post large gains. Inductees leave Frederick County for active duty to Fort Meade.
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Washington
Baltimore
National Census Bureau
Baltimore City
Anne Arundel County
Baltimore County
Anne Arundel
Montgomery
Prince Georges
Washington, D.C
Prince Georges County
Navy builds 65 aircraft carriers and 13 617 planes in 1943
Navy undersecretary James Forrestal announced 65 carriers and 13,617 combatant planes were completed in 1943. Essex type carriers, converted cruisers, and 50 escort carriers formed a vast force, doubling 1943 tonnage and signaling the greatest sea and air striking power.
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New York
Navy
James Forrestal
Atlantic
Beekman
Naval Air Force
Ning
United States Navy
Local Names Listed in Frederick Notice
Sewell New Market and Julian P Turner along with George R Bailey of Knoxville and Harry E Snowden of 164 West Ail Saints Street Frederick are named in the notice with affiliations to Washington D C and related addresses listed.
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Dr. Wickey
U. B. Church
Gould Wickey
U.S
Rocket Plane
Sergt. Wivell
Prohibition
Raymond Cooper
Thelma Q. Cooper
Darby
Equity Court
Patrick M. Schnauffer
E. Auss mm James
Cooper
Sabillasville
Joseph M. Miler
Hagerstown
Elkins
Western Maryland Railway
Australia
Lesting
Berlin
Frederick
Market St
THE
Parsons CO
Westminster
Carroll County
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Fort George G. Meade
Sterling R. Holland
Illamsville
Lester J
Forrestal
Carty
Cafurst
C. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
Frederick Cloak
North Market Street
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