Chinese leaders meet Roosevelt and Churchill in Cairo
Reuters dispatches from London report Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei arguing for continued Chinese resistance against Japan. They meet with U S President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Cairo to discuss allied planning and support.
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Chiang Kai
Thes Lezilar
Janans
Waident
Roosevelt
Prime Minster Churchill
Cairo
Reuters
London
Stalin
Iran
Winston Churchill
Egypt
Chiang Kai-shek
Madam Chiang
Churchill
Josef Stalin
Ussr
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War insights and wartime commendation noted
The article ponders immediate peace versus ongoing total war, citing Allied calls and German stakes while weighing long term risks for future generations. It also reports Ensign Eart D. Bronson of Giants Pass Oregon receiving a commendation for duty aboard a United States submarine.
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Eart D. Bronson
USN
Giants Pass
Org
United
C. A. Lockwood
Psn
Tee
Pasific
Bronson
Thomas Withers
Routh Navy Yard
Fragmentary 18th century notice from New Hampshire Gazette
Fragmented OCR text references MEG Tow 22 and a dated entry for The New Hampshire Gazette, with scattered phrases about colder conditions, restorations, and personal items. The readable bits mention Kittery Point and Newmarket, plus radio rationing language and social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meg
Tow
New Hampshire Gazette
First Deer of Season Goes to Epping Man
The opening of the season brought many hunters to Rockingham County forests. Louis LaPlante, a Portsmouth Navy Yard worker from Epping, reported the first successful kill, taking a 150 pound doe within half an hour after sunrise just over the Epping town line in Nottingham.
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Rockingham
Louis LaPlante
Epping
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Nottingham
War Fund Over Top Portsmouth Drive Surpasses Goal
Portsmouths United War Fund exceeded its $5,000 goal in a campaign announced by general chairman Mrs. C Waldo Pickett after taking over following the death of William W Cromie. The drive ended yesterday and aimed to support war relief efforts. Gripsholm docks Jersey Oil reports the diplomat exchange ship Grips holm arriving with about 1,500 Americans freed from Japanese captivity after nearly two years.
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Portsmouth
United War Fund
Avive
C. Waldo Pickett
Pickett
William W. Cromie
Gripsholm
Jersey Oil
Rater Pier
Reuters Reports Climax Rumors Resulting OWI Controversy
British agency Reuters circulated a claim that a high level meeting among Roosevelt Churchill Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek had occurred and that results would be released later this week. The OWI broadcast the dispatch across Europe citing censorship authority while Elmer Davis condemned Reuters for spreading unverified rumors. The German radio picked up the report as Tehran based outlets echoed the claim provoking cross channel reaction.
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Lisbon
Reuters
Portugese
Ita¢ Gao
Roosevelt
Churchill
Inan
Csiro
Office of War Information
Office of Censorship
Elmer Davis
OWI
Washington
Europe
Queenfish Launched At Yard By Navy Yard Ceremony
The USS Queenfish was launched at Portsmouth Navy Yard yesterday afternoon. Sponsor Mrs. Robert A. Theobald and assisting sponsor Mrs. Rufus G. Thayer received flowers and a silver bowl from Navy yard workers. Lt. Cig Liore F. Shephard offered the prayer as the Portsmouth band played. Notables including Rear Admirals Theobald and Withers watched with Captains Grady and Mitchell among others. Continued on page five.
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Portamouth Navy Yard
Robert A. Theobeld
Theobald
USN
First Naval District
Rufus G. Thayer
Thayer
Orton L. Souler
Navy Yard
Adin
Thomas With- Sese
Cig Liore F. Shephard
USNR
Portsmouth Navy Yard
William H. Sorrell
Marine Guard of Honor
W. B. Brackett
USMCR
Mers. Withers
R. ©. Grady
Cane Tein
Boston Navy Ford
Grady
D. Wi. Mitchell
Obert A. Theobald
Thomas Withers
Gust Fe Hight
Sirs R G. Thayer
Admiral Theobald
Admiral Withers
Portsmouth Herald
Discharged Veterans Slow to Claim Pay
Concord reports only 54 unemployment compensation claims filed in nine months for honorably discharged veterans awaiting weekly checks. The state unemployment insurance division released the figures today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Rye Man Missing in Sub Action
Richard Pickering Goss, motor machinist’s mate in the U S Navy submarine service, is missing in action. He is a Knowles corner Rye native who enlisted in March 1942. His mother last heard from him in September. He leaves two brothers, Lawrence and Philip, and his family lists his Portsmouth origins.
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Gilman P. Goss
Knowles Corner
Rye
Richard Pickering Goss
U. S. Navy
Goss
Portsmouth
Navy
Lawrence E. Goss
Bernardston
Mass
Philip Goss
Hampton Academy
Merrow Blasts U S Regimentation in Congress
Rep Chester B Merrow Republican from New Hampshire tells the House that excessive regulation from federal agencies hampers oil milk corn and feed production He urges lifting price rulings and ending bureaucratic red tape while backing meritorious measures including a Disney bill to place petroleum matters under the Petroleum Administration for War
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Washington
Chester B. Merrow
D-N
House
Merrow
Congress
Disney
Petroleum Administration
Somersworth Seaman Missing After Tanker Collision
Durard Roy, 18, Seaman Second Class USN, from Somersworth, is listed as missing after the oil tanker Altair collided in fog with the Bostonian about 60 miles off Delaware coast on November 20. Roy enlisted at 17 after training at Newport and Little Creek. a St Martin’s Academy graduate, he worked at a local factory before joining the Navy.
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Shorey Lane
Somersworth
Navy Department
Durard Roy
S/c. USN
Altair
Delaware
Roy
Navy
Tstt
Maren
Newport, R. I
Little Creek
St. Martin's Academy
Yanks Advance and Nazis Strike Back in Russia and Italy
Allied forces push three miles on the Italian front as the Fifth and Eighth Armies gain ground near Lanciano and Pescara. British and American air power hit targets from Fiume to Tuscany while German counterattacks slow but do not stop the Allied push toward Rome.
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Russia
Associated Press
Fifth Army
Italy
Eighth Army
Sangro River
Adriatic
Pescara
Rome
Lanciano
Algiers
Castel Frontano
Casoli
Gasoli
Sangre
Montgomery
Iberators
Fiume
Pescate
Ancona
Tuscany
Montaquila
Moreigh
Korosten
Kiev
Ukraine
White Russia
Zhlobin
Dnieper Bene
Kremenchug
Red Army
Znaman ‘Ka
City Sees Seven Men Off to War
Seven grimy selectees and two Navy volunteers depart from Portsmouth depot headed to Fort Devers and Manchester for training. Corporal for the group is Joseph Etterle Jr of J J Newberry on Congress Street. The group includes married men Nelson Ramstiel Jr Henry Tweadors Yell Fred Currier and single Lewis Spencer plus two navy youths John Morris and Donald Stevens. Bend off committee members include Mayor Charles M Dale and several civic figures who provided mementos and service kits.
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Navy
Portsmouth
Fort Devers
Mass
Manchester
Armed Forces
Artily
Stien
Joseph Etterle, Jr
J. J. Newberry
Congress Street
Everie
Nelson E. Ramstiell, Jr
Navy Yard
Henry Tweadors Yell
Seabrook
Bampton
Fred Currier
Exeter
Oreman
Morley Company
Currier
Lewis G. Spencer
Portsmouth High School
John Morris
Rye
Donald Stevens
Charles M. Dale
Mary G. Dondero
Rose Murray
Mother's Club
William J. Cashman
The
Salvation Army
Clarence ©. Seaborn
Richman P. Margeson
Fhilin 3
Sehdersot
Incal Board
Boston Navy Yard To Build Submarines
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts announced that the navy plans to build submarines at the Boston Navy Yard to take up the slack in destroyer construction, as part of the naval affairs committee examining ship production.
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Washington
Walsh
Massachusetts
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Navy
Boston Navy Yard
Fire destroys staircase and halls at Geraci home
An overheated furnace caused a basement fire at Joseph Geraci’s 37 Maplewood Avenue home in Portsmouth. The blaze gutted the staircase and stalls on the first and second floors, with three fire trucks battling the flames for about ninety minutes. Mr. Geraci had moved in the day before.
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Joseph Geraci
Maplewood Avenue
Portsmouth Fire Department
Sre
Geraci
Kiwanians See Film on War Industry at Rockingham
Westinghouse representative Fred Bacon showed the film The Ramparts We Build about converting industry to war at the Kiwanis meeting in Rockingham hotel. Yeoman Arthur Hopley, USN, spoke on Allied invasions and navy preparations for coordinated landings. John S. Dimock named director-elect after William Wy. Cramie’s death. James H. Bangs Jr to chair Ladies’ program committee for a dinner meeting next Tuesday at Howard Johnson’s.
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Westinghouse Electric Company
Kiwanis Club
Rockingham Hotel
Fred Bacon
Westinghouse
Arthur Hopley
Yeoman
USN
John Www. Hopley
North Africa
Sicily
John S. Dimock
William Wy. Cramie
John W. Hopley
Cramie
James H. Bangs
Howard Johnson's
Bombers Hit Germany Poison Plant and Food Policy Moves
New York reports RAF bombers struck a poison factory in Germany, described as a Reich cultural monument. The administration plans bread price rollback costing nine million dollars monthly, inviting comparisons to ancient Roman largesse. Mussolini’s usefulness to the Nazis is noted, while Germany sends peace feelers and Nipponese naval strategy keeps the U.S. navy guessing about a future showdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Germany
Reich
13 Year Old Named Editor Of Newmarket News
Aristotle Bouras, age 13, becomes editor of the 64 year old Newmarket News. He lists family details, mentions roles in local groups, and notes his duties as youngest editor in the country. He began work as a reporter in 1943 and runs an eight page weekly tasloid edition focused on town and county news.
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Paul V. McNutt
America
Youngs
Newmarket
asSéhe
Aristotle Bouras
the Herald
Nick Bouras
Ellington Field
Tex
George
Helen
Newmarket High School
Happy Workers
Christan
Burbank
Aristotle
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Harold E. Clark
Dover
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USA
Clark
Dover High School
Charles Glark
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Ratder
Hitler
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