Allied Drive Captures Hill 660 in New Britain Campaign
Gen Douglas MacArthur's communiqué details a series of Pacific actions including American Marines taking Hill 660 at Cape Gloucester New Britain and securing Bergen Bay east of the cape. U S Navy air forces at Rabaul bombed ships and vessels while Raabual airfields faced heavy Allied strikes. Australian troops seized Sie and advanced toward Saidor, with Japanese air activity noted. A Swedish report mentions a liquid air bomb under German study for use against Britain with tentative test claims.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Sicon Huon Peninsula
Rabaul
Douglas MacArthur
Bergen Bay
Cape
United States Navy
Solomons
Simpson Harbor
South- West Pacific Command
Vanakanau
Lakunai
Rapopo
Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
Rapaul
Guadalcanal
Sie
Saidor
Sio
Dumpu
Stockholm
East Front
Great Britain
Stockholms - Tidningen
Stockholms
Tidningen
Austria
Boden Lake
Britain
French
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Hitler
Six Die As Bomber Crashes In Blizzard On Rich Mountain
A four engine Army bomber crashed in a WV blizzard near Wymer Harman about 20 miles east of Elkins. Only one of seven aboard survived with a fractured leg. Four bodies recovered at dawn. two others missing. Troopers battled snow for eight hours before locating remains. Bergdoll to be released from Fort Leavenworth in about a month.
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Elkins
W. Va
Rich Mountain
West Virginia
Wymer
Harman
Elkins Army Maneuver Headquarters
Jay Rowe
Bergdoll
Washington
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Fort Leavenworth
Eas
Army
Compulsory Military Training Gains Bipartisan Support in Congress
Washington reports growing congressional attention to compulsory military training as a peace time defense measure. Bills by Rep. May and Rep. Wadsworth call for one year of training for males 18 to 21, with hearings planned in spring and potential links to national service proposals.
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Washington
Navy
Frank Knox
Rep
May
D-Ky
Wadsworth
R-Ny
Senate Military Committee
Congress
Vouth
Lebanon Valley College Campaign Meeting Here
Lebanon Valley College will host a campaign meeting on Tuesday evening January 23 at the Centennial United Brethren Church in Frederick. The effort seeks 550000 for a new physical education building and increased endowment, with 150000 as the Pennsylvania Conference share. Speakers include College President C A Lynch and Campaign Director G A Williams among others.
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Lebanon Valley College
Centennial United Brethren Church
Frederick
Annville
Penna
United Brethren College
Pennsylvania
Church of the United Brethren In Christ
J. H Schmitt
Thomas Steffey
Thurmont
Richard F. Kline
C. A. Lynch
The
College
G.A. Williams
Ernest Williams
Churchill And De Gaulle Talk In Marrakech Conference
Allied leaders Churchill and De Gaulle met in French Morocco to discuss Franco British cooperation for a common victory. They reviewed questions of French troop participation in Europe, provisional government after invasion, arming guerrillas, and the handling of treason trials. Churchill indicated Allied command would decide arms supplies to anti Nazi forces in France.
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Algiers
Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Marrakech
Morocco
Europe
France
Britain
de Gaulle
French
Middle East
Iead Iers
Weekend Arrests Flood Police Blotter In Frederick Scene
Twelve weekend arrests cited for drunkenness or disturbing the peace. Names include Ridgley King James Pendleton Webster Lubery Robert Milberry Joseph Ferguson Dehaven Toms Maggie Smith William May Sambo Jones and James Overstreet with officers Dorsey Hoffman Trump Phillips Phebus Butler Boone and Haugh listed. Also mentions Vienna hosting Europe’s largest artificial ice skating rink.
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Ridgley King
James Pendleton
Webster Lubery
Robert Milberry
Frederick
Joseph Ferguson
West Friendship
James Roberts
Harry Winpigter
James Overstreet
Liberytown
Dehaven Toms
Maggie Smith
William May
Sambo Jones
Frank Dorsey
George Hoffman
Norman Trump
Harry Phillips
Ben Phebus
Charles Butler
Sherman Boone
Haugh
Postwar Readjustments for the Catholic Church
Washington reports a Foreign Policy Association survey foresees difficult postwar readjustments for the Catholic Church with a possible anti clerical movement at home. It notes Vatican concern for peace and justice while papal relations with Fascism in Rome are colored by Italian nationality of popes and patriotism. The report predicts grave Papacy problems ahead as Russia’s atheistic communism grows and Western dependence on the Vatican increases, affecting policy dynamics in the United States and Britain.
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Washington
Italy
Foreign Policy Association
Vatican
Rome
Sherman$. Hayden
International Relations Research Organization
Papacy
Russia
Hayden
United States
Britain
Women in WACs may choose first assignment by camp
May select their initial WAC assignment at any camp within tri state Third Service Command, Brig. Gen. Philip Hayes announced. The new Station and Job Assignments Recruiting lets women enlist at posts that request specific job types and stations, with recommendations based on prior experience for Army Air Forces or Army Ground Forces roles.
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Baltimore
Women's Army Corps
tri-State
Third Service Command
Philip Hayes
Tojday
Army Air Forces
Army Ground Forces
Army Service Forces
Sandy Hook Man Killed in Virginia Barbershop Shootout
Howard William Keyser of Sandy Hook, an electrician for Virginia Public Service, was fatally shot in a Glasgow barbershop amid an argument. David M. Garrett, 30, of Glasgow, is jailed without charges as Rockbridge authorities probe, with a hearing planned after the investigation. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Sandy Hook Methodist Church.
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Howard William Keyser
Sandy Hook
Virginia Public Service Company
Glasgow
Associated Press
Lexington
Dispatch
Sandy
Commonwealth
Daniel W. McNeil
Rockbridge County
E. P. Tompkins
Keyser
Mary Keyser
Margaret
Blanche Keyser
Ethel Nelson
Pearl Phillips
Weverton
Luella Russell Washington
Marie Keyser
Baltimore
A W. Keyser
Elmer Keyser
Sandy Hook Methodist Church
W. E.nelson
Fire damages third-floor apartment on East Patrick Street
A general alarm fire at 2 30 Sunday morning caused over 1 000 dollars damage to the third floor apartment at 14 East Patrick street occupied by the Robert K Kennedy family. A short circuited wire is believed to have ignited a Davenport. The Kennedys escaped with their child to the Buckey apartment on the second floor and called the alarm. Smoke damaged two upper floors. loss insured.
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East Patrick Street
Robert K. Kennedy
D. Princeton Buckey
Montgomery Ward Co
Kennedy
Independents
Uniteds
Foreman
Benjamin Rosenour
State Police Take Over Air Raid Signal Duty
Effective at midnight Saturday the Maryland State Police will flash air raid signals across 23 counties using the state radio network. Barracks B near Frederick will notify Frederick City Police and OCD HQ in Westminster, which will relay signals to other stations. Signals originate with the First Fighter Command in Philadelphia as civilian air raid protection shifts to police and fire agencies.
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Maryland
Frederick
Frederick City
OCD
Westminster
Philadelphia
Mystery Posters Spark Berlin Guesswork Over Shadow and Question Mark
Posters appeared overnight on bombed Berlin ruins and newspaper fronts showing a shadowy figure in a slouch hat and a large question mark. Goebbels silent, with Aftonbladet noting it could signal an anti spy campaign opening.
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Stockholm
Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Aftonbladet
Farm chief urges postwar push to raise US food output
Washington Jan 16 Secretary Claude A Wickard proposed a peacetime goal for American farmers to expand food production beyond peak wartime levels. His plan outlines 11 points from parity income and diet goals to rural services, land tenure, drainage and irrigation, and a freer trade policy to help market abundant farm products.
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Washington
Claude A. Wickard
Department Inter-Bureau
More Unskilled Labor For Farms This Year
College Park and the University of Maryland Extension Service forecast increased reliance on unskilled labor for 1944 farm production. They note 21 percent of June 1943 Maryland farm workers were women and urge farms to mobilize women, youths, older residents, townspeople and foreign workers to improve harvest efficiency and exchange labor and equipment.
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College Park
University of Maryland Extension Service
Maryland
In Service
Insecticides Improve for Farmers and Gardens This Year
Insecticides for farmers and Vic tory gardeners likely to be more plentiful this year due to larger rotenone supplies from Latin America and the development of satisfactory U. S. substitutes.
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Latin America
U. S
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H. Brooks Kirk
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Vienna
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
H. W. Keyser
R. K. Kennedy
Blaze
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C. C. Carty, Inc
Patrick St
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