War Loan Drive Exceeds Goal Amid Bond Sales Push
Scioto's sixth war loan drive surpassed its goal with a total of 3 139 065 including a 658 995 lift on Tuesday. Large purchases by Norfolk & Western Railway and Wheeling Steel Corp pushed the daily gains, while E bond sales lag at 63 percent of the quota, prompting continued efforts through Saturday.
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Sciotoco
Bondadier
Kiwanis Club
Wilmere
Norfolk & Western Railway
Wheeling Steel Corp
Ohio War Finance Committee
Cleveland
George H. Bachtrup
Sciotoco War Finance Committee
H. Glenn Duis
Sixth War Loan
Pearl Harbor sailor wounded in Pacific action
Lewis M. Piatt Jr, machinist's mate first class, is in Pearl Harbor hospital recovering from a left hand wound received on November 23 while on duty in the Pacific. A Vallejo, California, family reports he has 32 months overseas service and previously served aboard the Northampton when it was sunk in 1942. His brother Edward, in the army, is hospitalized in France with left hand wounds. Mrs Piatt is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Lewis of South Webster.
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Lewis M. Piatt Jr
Pearl Harbor
Vallejo
Calif
Mate Piatt
Pacific
L. M. Piatt
Pond Creek
Mare Piatt
Northampton
Mare Island
Edward Piatt
Army
France
Piatt
W. A. Lewis
South Webster
Capital Looks for Big Three Parley
The Associated Press reports London December 13 that a meeting of Roosevelt Churchill and possibly Stalin is seen as vital. The focus: uniting policy on Germany and Nazification, resolving Dumbarton Oaks questions, and ensuring unity if any power acts against another. Parallel aims cover liberated regions and postwar positions on Japan. discussions include Poland’s provisional government and Polish exile relations.
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Associated Press
London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Germany
Polcy
Japan
United States
Art Critain
Poland
Labor Committee
2Vernment
Furth
Ublin
Weather Update for Valley Towns Tonight and Thursday
Oliver Schirrman reports temperatures in Valley towns with a high of 33 today and a low of 21. The forecast shows a maximum of 46 and a minimum of 20, with conditions continuing into tonight and Thursday.
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Valleys Fair
Oliver Schirrman
Rural Schools Stay Stiled as Frigid Blasts Hold
Rural districts face continued closures as deep snowdrifts and subfreezing temps paralyze travel. Ports mouth reports show streets glazed by melted snow freezing overnight while buses stay idle. State crews work to reopen secondary routes as 12 deaths are linked to the winter storm.
Passenger train stalled in snowdrifts near Elkhurst
A two coach passenger train left Charleston for Grafton at 7 am yesterday and has been stalled in snowdrifts since reaching Elkhurst forty five miles north. A switch run and freight cars dispatched to aid were halted at Rouzer ten miles beyond Elkhurst. Passengers may find shelter in Elkhurst houses. among them Rocco J. Gorman Kanawha County school superintendent assistant.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W. Va
Grafton
Elkhurst
New York Central
Rouzer
Clayton Tells Senate Stance On Cotton Prices
Washington Dec 13 William L Clayton a 64 year old cotton broker told senators he favors a world price for American cotton with inducement payments to domestic growers who switch to other crops He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in its second day inquiry into six department appointments.
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Washington
William L. Clayton
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Reading area plants stay near capacity amid strike
A majority of the 150 Reading-Lebanon area plants on wartime contracts kept near full production while street car and bus workers remained idle for the second day.
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Reading
Reading-Lebanon
City blocks Kendallar for coasting tonight
City officials announce Kendallar will be blocked from 17th street south to create a safe coasting site for boys and girls this evening. The closure aims to provide a controlled space for youth to enjoy the activity.
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17Th St
Snowbound Routes Persist Between Minford and Stockdale
On Tuesday main routes shifted but 335 between Minford Stockdale and Beaver remained blocked. Stockdale was isolated until late Tuesday with only The Times truck reaching Pikeco village. Bread and milk deliveries failed. a state highway tractor aided Beaver to Stockdale progress. Burial services were postponed as weather delayed burials. rites were held for Mrs Los Walker.
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Ing
Minford
Stockdale
Beaver
The
Times
Pikeco Village
Portsmouth
Pike
Beaver-Stockdale
Scioto
Birch Hunt
Jackson
Los Walker
Reds siege tightens as Soviet troops advance on Budapest
Soviet forces pushed toward Budapest from Godollo ten miles northeast as German garrison dug in amid fires inside the city. The fall of Godollo opened a gap in defense lines. 400 Germans killed in the village’s fall. Moscow claimed gains at Sajoszentpeter and ten other towns in central Slovakia. Izvestia said liberation of Czecho Slovakia nears. Red Star noted evacuation of depots and war plants from Austrian frontier districts.
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U. S. First Army
Rhine
Bonn
Hurtgen
Duren
Courtney H. Hodges
Rollesbroich
Monschau
Rotget
Bavarian Palatinate
Siegfried Line
Saarland
U. S
Cologne Plain
Hasso Eckardt von Manteuffel
Bizerte
North Africa
Roer
Derichweiler
Gey
Mariaweiler
U. S. Seventh Army
Karlsruhe
S Jed Line
Third Army
Fraulautern
Saarlautern
Dillingen
Blies
Habkirchen
Sarreguemines
Associated Press
Moscow
Budapest
Godolla
Godollo
Sajoszentpeter
Miskolc
Slovakia
Danube
Hungary
Izvestia
Czecho- Slovak Republic
Red Star
Austria
Montgomery Ward Hit by Detroit Strikes
Two CIO members of the regional war labor board joined a picket line at a Detroit area Montgomery Ward store as a four day strike threatened to spread to outlets nationwide. Samuel Wolchok announced an emergency meeting of the Montgomery Ward organizing committee in Washington. A second item reports Brazil sending a third contingent to Italy on December 7.
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Detroit
CIO
Regional War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward
Samuel Wolchok
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employes of America
CSO
Montgomery Ward Organizing Committee
Washington
B 29s Lash Nagoya Hit Japanese Industrial Targets
American B 29s bomb Nagoya on Honshu during midafternoon Japanese time, targeting heavy industry including airplane plants. Reports say about 80 super Fortresses joined raids across Honshu, Shizuoka and Kyushu areas with claims of ground damage and heavy enemy losses by Japanese interceptors. General Doolittle leads air operation context.
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Associated Press
Nagoya
Japan
Honshu
Shikoku
Korea
Tokyo
Aichi
Shizuoka
Jimmy Doolittle
Dar
Congress Hurries Post War Joe Bill
Congress moves to launch a 4.67 billion postwar public works program with a rivers and harbors bill and a three year highway plan. It directs a 1.67 billion federal share on a 3.17 billion highway program and a 1 billion flood control bill, with 1.5 billion state matching funds. The rivers and harbors bill, approved by the Senate, returns to the House for changes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
ELAS and British clash in Athens amid ceasefire talks
Athens dispatch reports ELAS troops launch strong yet unsuccessful attacks on central Athens centering on a British barracks along the Kifissia road while leaders debate ceasefire terms. British reinforcements and RAF activity cited as Scobie presses for surrender terms. Porphyrogenis and Tsirimaktos urged ELAS to accept.
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Associated Press
Athens
ELAS
Kifissia
Piraeus
Ronald M. Scobie
Greece
George Papandreou
Scobie
Miltiades Porphyrogenis
EAM
National Liberation Front
Papandreou
Nazis Use Mysterious Floating Silver Balls
Paris dispatch reports the German army released a new device of silvery balls that float in the air. Allied pilots observed singles and clusters over the Reich as gains were pursued on the western front. The function remains unclear, with theories suggesting an anti-aircraft or weapon system.
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Paris
Reich
Allies divide military burden across allies in war
New York December 13 editors question whether the big three share the military load in western Europe and the Orient. The columnist finds no unjust burden among allies, noting Stimson's claim that all allies contribute fully, and urges keeping political issues separate from military matters.
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New York
Uncle Sam
Europe
Orient
Munich
Stimson
Frontline Distances Across Allied Sectors
Road to Berlin shows 301 miles from near Duren on the western front. Russian front measures 304 miles from north of War saw. Hungarian front stands at 400 miles from north of Szob. Italian front lists 551 miles from north of Raven na.
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Duren
Warsaw
Szob
Ravenna
Allied Forces Drive Toward Palatinate in Europe
A battered night in Mariaweiler cut a U S company off briefly before contact was reestablished. The Hurtgen fighting continued after a long October blood bath as German broadcasts noted Lt General Alexander Patch's push toward the Palatinate region.
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Cologne
Mariaweiler
Duren
Hurtgen Forest
Alexander M. Patch
Palatinate
Nazis Plan Five Years Underground Warfare After Collapse
Information from inside Germany indicates Adolf Hitler’s followers mapped five years of underground warfare against the Allies after a German collapse. Himmler’s plan, developed since late 1943, envisions open combat from mountain headquarters, sabotage and guerrilla acts by district bands, and propaganda by about 200,000 Nazis across Europe. Elite SS units are already in underground fortifications in Austria Bavaria and the Italian Alps, with leaders intending to flee to that region when defeat nears.
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Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
Aldsdorf
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
Himmler
Hitler
Europe
S. S
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Ger
Lewis M. Piatt
Weather Bureau
N. B. Potts
Rural
Washington Rural High School
Nauvoo
Clayton
Italy
Rio DE Janeiro
War Ministry
Vern Haugland
21St Bomber Command
Saipan
Joe Bill
Dewitt MacKenzie
MacKenzie
Berlin
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