WPAY Plans Bond Show Ishmael With Army Unit
WPAY and the Scioto war finance committee promote a war bond broadcast for Wednesday night from 7 to 8 featuring Sgt Vernon Ishmael as a guest singer. The LaRoy theater will host a Monday night show with Ishmael among the featured performers. A live telephone ordering option will let listeners place bond orders during the program with delivery the next day. Special reports from war correspondent George Hicks and insights from navy pilots Lt JG J B Russell and Lt Jg Edward L Glockner accompany the broadcast amid ongoing bond sales in the sixth war loan drive.
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Flying Varieties
Vernon Ishmael
Portsmouth
G. I
LaRoy Theater
WPAY
Sciotoco War Finance Committee
B. L. Ishmae
Sgt. Ishmael
Patricia Hooley
George Hicks
Sis ‘Ang U.S. First Army
Germany
Hurtgen Forest
A. L. Berndt
A. L. Brooks
J. B. Brooks
Waller St
Navy
J.g
J. B. Russell
J. G
Edward L. Glockner
Pacific
H. Glenn Duis
Sci
Congress To Support State Department In Reshuffle
The senate foreign relations committee approved four state department nominations including Joseph C. Grew as undersecretary of state. Archibald MacLeish, Nelson A. Rockefeller and W. L. Clayton named as assistant secretaries faced mixed votes while Senator Gray opposed MacLeish and White indicated a two extra assistant secretaries bill. Page 2.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Joseph C. Grew
Sen. Clark
Missouri
Grew
Senate
Clark
Archibald MacLeish
Library of Congress
Sen. White
Maine
House
Joseph Clark Grew
Stettinius
Cordell Hull
Mr. Grew
Boston
Japan
Uniformed bus driver earns Kindness Honor in Lewis Co
In ANCEBURG on December 5 Thomas Towland Lewis Co School Superintendent praised Salt Lick school bus driver Steagall for politeness and courtesy. Once known for disruptions on the route, pupils and parents now praise conduct after Steagall adopted a liveried coachman uniform. He learned kindness works better than harshness, noting a uniform leaves a strong impression on children.
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Anceburg
Thomas Towland
Lewis Co
Roller Steagall
Salt Lick
Steagall
Two Scioto Veterans Die in France War Deaths Reported
War department notified families that Corporal Arden W. Brady 28 was killed in action in France on November 22. He had worked for Wheeling Steel in Portsmouth before enlisting December 1942 and trained at Fort Jackson. Also Private Kenneth Moore 19, of Portsmouth, killed in action in France on November 3 after serving at Camp Blanding and Camp Meade and a July Italy deployment. Moore’s family details and prior employment are listed. another local sergeant, Staff Sgt. Russell E. Moore, is returning from duties in England.
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Arden W. Brady
Third Army
France
War Department
Betty Brady
Farnegav
Sciotoville
Cpl. Brady
Ralph Brady
E. N. Brady
Grab Ieway
M@Jites Davies
Dayton
Portsmouth
Wheeling Steel Corp
Army
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Frederick Brady
Army Medical Corps
Joyce Ann
Cole’s Park
Kenneth Moore
Orin Moore
Pvt. Moore
McDermott
Selby Shoe Co
Camp Blanding
Filia
Camp Meade
Italy
Russell E. Moore
Tampa
Fla
England
Germany
Pvt
Moore
Russell Moore
Bertha
James Bourne
Ruby Dillon Bourne
Third St
Co. S. Bourne
Coleav
Pensions Assured for World War I Widows and Orphans
Washington report says widows and orphans of World War I veterans are virtually assured government pensions. The Senate passed an administration bill providing up to 74 dollars monthly for families of deceased veterans, with House approval already granted last May and Senate amendments to liberalize benefits pending action.
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Washington
Senate
House
Canada conscription clash troops moved to Camp Shilo
Canada reports the bringing of drafted home army troops who joined regulars and civilians at Fort Frances Ontario in the recent conscription crisis. Advices direct said three hours of fighting Saturday night left six people injured before the group was moved today to training center at Camp Shilo Manitoba.
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Ottawa
Ft. Frances
Ontario
Camp Shilo
Manitoba
Deer season record kickstarts hunt in Roosevelt area
The Third Army reports a Monday deer harvest surpassing previous marks as 1,000 plus hunters pursue white tails near Saarlautern. A 180 pound buck and several private land kills boosted totals, with 850 checked at the main station and 800 permits soon issued. Notables include Jasper Rogers, 1943 grand American handicap winner, among others listed from Ohio and Indiana.
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Ohio
Roosevelt
Boy Scout Camp
Oyo
Hayden Olds
Conservation Department
Jasper Rogers
Northridge
Dayton
N. L. Mahaffey
Buena Vista Pike
J. M. Peed
Friendship
Route 125
Mr. Olds
Rev
R. L. Boggs
Coal Grove
Mather Anson
Toledo
John Engleman
Tiffin Rt 2
Harold Swearingen
Russellville
John Cameron
Columbus
R. H. Hopper
Chill
Egbert Reid
Middletown
Stanley Geiller
Summerville
China’s Unity Efforts May Be Too Late
Dewitt Mackenzie argues China’s late unity push against Japan risks failure after Jap advances cut American air bases and sever lines from Manchuria to Canton and Indo China, raising whether a united front can still avert defeat.
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China
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
New York
Japan
Chungking
Manchuria
Canton
Indo-China
Pacific battles yield draw as Tokyo raid damage limited
American and Japanese forces clash off Ormoc in western Leyte with a destroyer sunk and a second damaged. In the Pacific theater, B 29s face bad weather while liberators bomb Bonin and Volcano Islands. Ground fighting on Leyte remains stalled as U S forces clear passes and seize machine guns and artillery positions near Ormoc.
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Ormoc
Leyte
U. S
U.S
Catalina
Philippines
Borneo
Ormoc Harbor
Tokyo
Haywood Hansell
21St Bomber Command
Musashima
Tokyo Radio
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Saipan
Limon
Dagami
China
Kweichow
Yanks Break Through Saarlautern Front Into Siegfried Line
American forces of the U S Third Army under General Patton pushed through Saarlautern and advanced toward the Siegfried line. Roden Fraulauten and nearby towns lie beyond the Saar river as Patton’s units widen the bridgehead and push toward Merzig and Sarreguemines amid heavy shellfire and German counterattacks.
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U. S. Third Army
Saarlautern
Supreme Headquarters
Roden
Fraulatern
Saar River
George S. Patton
Third Army
Saarbrucken
Forbach
Sarreguemines
Patton
Saar
Lorraine
Merzig
Sarre Union
Germany
Fraulautern
Siegfried Line
Berlin
Associated Press
Draft boards to reclassify men 25 to 30 for quotas
Col. C. W. Goble, state selective service director, said deferred men between 25 and 30 will be reclassified to fill draft quotas. He noted induction applies to men 18 to 38. Local boards have used 18 year olds to fill calls, exhausting the pool of manpower aged 18 to 25.
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Col
C. W. Goble
State Selective Service
Col. Goble
Ohio valley warm with rain tonight and Wednesday
Weather summary reports warmer conditions with rain predicted for tonight and Wednesday in the Ohio valley. Observer Schirrman records show 11 am temperature at 39 degrees, today's low 27, and yesterday's high 45, with a year ago high of 58 and low of 31.
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Ohio Valley
Schirrman
British force to aid Greeks to maintain order
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Britain would use the substantial army in Greece, reinforced, to uphold law and order. He refused to name who started the weekend fighting in Athens and said the Greek government should be accepted, while noting the left-wing EAM ministers resigned over plans to replace police and guerrillas with regular forces. He condemned the general strike that hindered food shipments from Britain and the United States.
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Associated Press
London
Churchill
House of Commons
Greece
Athens
Commons
EAM
Britain
United States
Dollar May Cost Radio Producer Big Income
Hollywood, Dec. 5. Cecil B. De Mille may lose his radio program over a dollar assessment by the American Federation of Radio Artists to fund defeat of state proposition No. 12 on the November ballot. De Mille refuses, saying he cannot afford to lose his rights as an American citizen.
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Hollywood
Cecil B. de Mille
American Federation of Radio Artists
Teacher Bonus To Be Paid Tuesday
Santa Claus was set to deliver bonus checks to all contract employees of the Portsmouth city school district Tuesday December 12 in a regular board session the clerk was authorized to issue the checks at school buildings the date was moved up from December 15 with hopes the teachers would invest all or part of the bonus in war bonds.
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Santa Claus
Portsmouth City
Wesley Ridenour
Ridenour
Red army nears Austria after pushing toward Balaton
Russian forces under Tolbukhin mass along Lake Balaton, about 60 miles from the Austrian frontier, advancing 17 miles in a day and taking many towns. They push toward Kaposvar and Szigetvar while severing enemy lines, with thousands dead or captured in three days of fighting. Mitrovica on the Sava river falls to Yugoslav and Russian troops near Belgrade.
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Associated Press
Red Army
Hungary
Budapest
Lake
Balaton
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Nagybajom
Moscow
Danube
Tolbukhin
Lake Balaton
Austria
Kaposvar
Pecs
Drava
Yugoslavia
Szigetvar
Zagreb
Mitrovica
Sava
Belgrade
Americans Bomb Berlin With Heavy Raiders in Daylight Attack
American heavy bombers and escort fighters struck Berlin, dropping nearly 2000 tons of bombs. The mission claimed 80 German aircraft shot down over the capital, marking the first daylight raid on Berlin in two months.
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London
Berlin
Western Front Stalemate Shifts as Allied Forces Advance
Allied press reports describe a prolonged battle yielding a deadlock in Cologne and Merzig Saarlautern corridor. Gen Eisenhower states the Third Army holds the western Merzig area while the British Second Army clears German forces west of the Maas in Holland, as the enemy withdraws to fortified positions.
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Cologne
Eisenhower
Gaid
Merzig
Saarlautern
Second Army
Maas River
Holland
Map on Page 7 shows river lines and army advances
The Third and Seventh armies pressed advances toward and beyond the German frontier from Holland to Switzerland. Large areas of French Lorraine and Alsace were retaken, leaving only a 60 mile Lorraine strip under Nazi control.
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Holland
Switzerland
Lorraine
Alsace
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Congress
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Texas
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Lewis
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Roer River
MacKenzie
REDS
Europe
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