Real Air Battle Of Japan Opens In The Pacific
Nov 23 dispatch notes signs the real air battle of Japan has begun as B 29s target the Japanese air force alongside the Philippines invasion. The plan aims to destroy the fleet, devastate air bases, and sever Japan’s empire by conquering Luzon and invading China or Japan. A- flight operations escalate with counter moves by Japan including the Leyte action and raids on Kyushu. Sergeant Harvey Eiler, 19, earns the Air Medal in England aboard a B 17, son of Thurmont residents Newton and (illegible) Eiler.
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Europe
Eighth Air Force
England
Harvey Eiler
Thurmont
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Newton E. Eiler
Route No. 1
Army Air Forces
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Frederick High School
Fort Myers, Fla
Two Indicted on Bribery Charge in Baltimore
A Baltimore couple, proprietors of a David Avenue confectionery, were indicted on charges of attempting to bribe two FBI agents. They allegedly offered 200 to influence the agents to suppress a report on theft and disposal of cigarettes shipped to Camp Detrick. Two other suspects faced charges of stealing the cigarettes during shipment.
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Churchill Boosts U.S. as World’s Greatest Military Power
London November 23 Prime Minister Churchill hailed the United States as the world’s greatest military power and predicted allied victory with God’s aid. In a surprise Thanksgiving speech at Albert Hall before about 8,000 attendees including many American servicemen, Churchill praised Allied unity and urged a lasting Anglo American alliance. U.S Ambassador John G. Winant attended, while John Barbirolli conducted the concert.
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Churchill
United States
Albert Hall
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John Barbirolli
New York Philharmonic Symphony Voerhaeten
Edtory
U. S
John G. Winant
Americans Take Limon On Leyte In Major Breakthrough
General MacArthur reports a heavy river drive toward Ormoc as 22nd and 32nd divisions push through shell battered Limon and Pinamopoan. The Japanese First Division is described as practically destroyed and the Yamashita Line is at risk of collapse. American bombardment hits supply dumps at Ipil while Leyte air and sea forces harry enemy lines.
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Ormoc
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Caripara
Ipil
Valen
Japanese advance isolated near Limon amid shelling
Naval units on the Camotes islands and off Leyte coast sank a small freighter two luggers and three barges loaded with enemy troops ammunition and fuel. Air action was light. Yank patrols shot down one plane. Battle conditions persisted around shell battered Limon as advance Japanese forces were isolated by pressure against the town and a road block south of it.
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Army Officer Is Found Not Guilty in Edgewood Court Martial
Edgewood Maryland November 23 A court martial acquitted Col Jesse A Rogers Jr on charges tied to a gasoline shipment from West Virginia to Edgewood The Third Service Command spokesman said the acquittal order will be filed with the Judge Advocate General Rogers former Edgewood ordnance plant commander Samuel Rouges is now at Frankford Arsenal Philadelphia Gov O Connor delayed extradition proceedings noting the full story remains untold In a separate matter the Orphans Court struck from inventories two estates a painting titled Madonna and Child valued at 500 reflecting a prior transfer to Constance Harding and routed through Miss Bertha and Miss Florence Trails estates.
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Jesse A. Rogers, Jr
West Virginia
Third Service Command
Selouel Rouges
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Philadelphia
Phillip Hayes
Judge Advocate General
Washington
Herbert R. O'Conor
Maryland
Otho Hawk
Rogers
Columbian Carbon Company
Ripley
W. Va
O'Conor
Bertha
Florence Trail
Charles B. Trail
Bertha Trail
Theresa Trail Mathias
Constance Harding
Moves To Half Rise In Clothing Prices
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration launched a drive to curb cost increases in low-cost infants and children's garments. Price Administrator Chester Bowles announced dollar and rent ceilings and a regulation to reduce over-finishing of fabrics, aiming to halt the rising cost of living as programs take effect.
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Post War Expansion In China Foreseen
Baltimore report quotes Rev. E Pearce Hayes a Maryland born Methodist missionary who recently returned from the Orient. He says China will expand education agriculture manufacturing and natural resources and plans to seek 5000 agricultural experts from the United States Great Britain and Soviet Russia after the war with families to be brought at government expense to assist development.
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Rabbit Show To Be Held In Baltimore This Weekend
The Maryland State Rabbit and Davy Breeders Association will stage its annual fall show at Baltimore community hall on Saturday and Sunday with over 700 entries. Judges are James Blyth of Pittsburgh and L T Ritter of Ellicott City. Louis S Heim serves as association president.
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Rabbit and Davy Breeders’ Association
James Blyth
Pittsburgh
L. T. Ritter
Ellicott City
Louis 5
Heim
Belgrade After Liberation Seen By Western Reporters
Belgrade staffers describe the bomb scarred metropolis after a three and a half year Nazi occupation. Soviet emblems and Tito portraits are common as Allied air power inflicted heavy damage. Citizens face high prices and transportation challenges as winter nears with railroads largely destroyed.
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Red Army
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
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Tito
Stalin
Belgrade wartime fate of 15000 Jews described in fragments
The article recalls the fate of about 15,000 Jewish residents in Belgrade during World War II. Men were rounded for forced labor by September 1941, women and children detained in concentration camps in January 1942, then disappeared. A reunion in York Pa honors Cpl. Jean Marnold Main returning from overseas after 55 months.
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Lula Main
York
Jean Marnold Main
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John Harold Main
James Renner
Calvin Renner
William Boone
Jesse Renner
William McClain
William Anders
Billy
Earl
Bobby Lee Renner
New Midway
Wilbur Miller
Richard
Frizeniburg
Junior Miller
Taneytown
Charles Files
Lancaster
Roy Bohn
Jimmy
Theodore Renner
Mildred
Paul Weber
New Market Girls 4-H Club Meeting Heard Plans
Mary Catherine Hahn presided at the New Market Girls 4-H Club monthly gathering in the New Market Grange Hall basement. Members discussed past year's work and upcoming plans including an exhibit at Wilma and Tary Anna Mantz home. The group voted to meet on the second Monday night in December at Grace and Marie Harshman’s home.
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New Market
Mary Catherine Hahn
Shipping raids sinking six vessels in Southwest Pacific
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today that lightning fighter planes sank five small freighters and probably a 6,000 ton vessel during strikes on Makassar in Celebes. A float plane was destroyed as aerial patrols continued neutralization attacks across the Southwest Pacific theater.
One Charge Is Dismissed But Another Filed
Charges of felonious assault with intent to carnally know and abuse a six year old Frederick girl were dismissed at a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Alton V. Bennett. Perry Grove was rearrested on an assault and battery charge. Bond was reduced from 1000 to 250. hearing set for November 29.
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Alton V. Bennett
Perry Grove
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Hear
Marion Feaga
Cecil Blackburn
Piedmont
W. Va
Oscar Daniels
Baltimore
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Frederick Daniels
Thompson
Thomas Robertson
Uniontown
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Amos F. Hoff
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Everett Pa
Frank E. Taylor
New Cumberland
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