Ring that refueled Nazi subs smashed by intercepts
Washington reports Capt Ellis M Zacharias told the Senate judiciary committee a ring refueling Nazi submarines off the Atlantic was broken by intercepted messages. He said sub activity subsided though not sure if due to the crackdown. Price led the censorship office credited with enabling arrests and broader spy detection across Alaska Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
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Washington
Atlantic
Office of Censorship
Ellis M. Zacharias
Naval Intelligence
Senate Judiciary Committee
United States
Congress
Byron Price
Army
Navy
Biddle
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Price
FBI
McCarran
D-Nev
Sharon Man Dies in Mercer County Defense Leader
Sharon December 14 Captain G F Fischer longtime chairman of the Mercer county council of defense died after a heart attack two days earlier.
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Sharon Man
Sharon
G. F. Fischer
Mercer County Council of Defense
Gelder Replies to Attack of Greg Dealers
Harrisburg dispatch reports Pennsylvania liquor control board chairman Frederick T Gelder defending state policy amid liquor shortage claims. He cites distiller rationing and plant shifts to war production plus a 35 percent sales rise as causes, noting October sales of 16 million versus 5 million year earlier. Governor-elect Edward Martin says no word on board changes.
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Harrisburg
Frederick T .Gelder
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
Gelder
Edward Martin
Indiantown Gap
W. Worrell Wagner
Philadelphia Restaurant and Liquor Licensees Association
Vendsurg
Martin
Liquor Board
William S. Rial
Wagner
Maren
Convict Woman of Freight Loot Involving Interstat e Shipments
A federal jury convicted Mrs. Clive Pearl Hill of Greensburg on receiving and possessing stolen goods from interstate shipments handled by a Pennsylvania railroad subsidiary. Her husband Charling H. Hill and Michael Gerard Howard pled guilty. sentence for all three postponed until Monday.
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Pittsburgh
Clive Pearl Hill
Greensburg
Pennsylvania Trucking Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Charling H. Hill
Michael Gerard Howard
R. M. Gibson
Milwaukee Mayor Reported Missing In Action
Lieut Carl F Zeidler Milwaukee mayor on leave to join Navy is missing in action his parents said tonight He became mayor April 16 1940 after defeating Daniel W Hoan and took leave April 14 1942 after being commissioned lieutenant junior grade in the naval reserve
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Milwaukee
Carl F. Zeidler
Navy
Michael W. Zeidler
Zeidler
Daniel W. Hoan
Naval Reserve
County Trust Cited For Bond Sales
The County Trust Company of Somerset is highlighted in the American Banker war anniversary edition for its role in supporting the war effort. The bank sold about $30,000 in bonds from December 1 to December 12, with denominations from $25 to $5000, contributing to the nationwide Victory Fund campaign.
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The
County Trust Company
Somerset
Roosevelt
Main Street
Wall Street
U. S
Victory Fund
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Pearl Harbor
America
Charles J. Harrison, Jr
R. T. Wolff
Gunther Named Judge in Allegheny County Court
Governor appoints Blair F. Gunther a 39 year old Pittsburgh attorney to fill the unexpired term of Judge Frank A. Piekarski who resigned for health reasons. The term ends the first Monday of January 1944.
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Gunther
Harrisburg
James Today
Blair F. Gunther
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Frank A. Piekarski
German retreat cracks Rommel line at El Brega in Libya
British forces led a vast fighter bomber assault across Tripolitania pursuing Rommel's retreat. El Brega fell, exposing 50,000 to 60,000 Axis troops as Rommel withdrew westward toward Misurata, while weather limited fighting in Tunisia and air operations continued along the coastal corridor.
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Stephen Barber
Cairo
E Agheiua
Tripolitania
Marshe
Erwin Rommel
Gulf of Sirte
el Brega
el Aghella
Rommel
Africa
el Agheila
Tunisia
First Army
U. S
Mateur
Bizerte
Medjez-El-Bab
Tunis
Eighth Army
Berlin
Rai
Zaua En Nafilia
el Agheil
Sirte
Misurata
Tripoli
Libya
Africa Corps
Bernard L. Montgomery
Sicily
Palmero
Sousse
Mussolini
Allied forces press Rommel retreat in North Africa blitz
British and American troops drive Rommel’s Africa Corps back in Libya as air power pounds Tunisian bases. Allied artillery routs a German motorized column near Medjez El Bab and bombers hit Tunis Bizerte Sousse and Sfax while French forces breach an Italian column near Faid.
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Lewis Hawkins
London
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Bernard L. Montgomery
Libya
Medjez-El-Bab
Tunis
Bizerte
Sousse
Sfax
Rommel
Tunisia
Tripoli
Eisenhower
Medjez el Bab
Unisiang
Faid
Monore Giraud
Berlin
el Agheila
Desert
E Agheia
Montgomery
Hundred US fighters join big Africa air offensive
Nineteen forties dispatch reports one hundred American P-40 fighter planes joined British and Australian units in a major air assault against Axis forces in the El Agheila area. The raid struck at low level over enemy columns and supply dumps, with fires started in the dumps as Axis lines cracked. A Ninth U S Air Force official noted the operation as the largest fighter bomber push to date in Africa.
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Cairo
Marshal Rommel
el Agheila
Africa
Ninth
U. S. Air Force
Don Whitehead
Associated Press
Eighth Army
el Brega
el- Agheila Line
theuna-Gona
Buna
Bun Mission
Kokod
MacArthur
Owen Stanley Mountains
Port Moresby
Buna-Gona
Torikawa
Alliet
Germans Push Southwest Of Stalingrad In Bitter Winter
Moscow dispatch reports German forces driving toward Stalingrad from the southwest while Russians mount counterattacks. The communique says Germans lost about 1 000 men in the southwest Stalingrad lunge and 600 near Voronezh, with Russian forces clearing blockhouses and inflicting tank losses. Weather- driven expectations foresee harsher winter aiding Soviet offensives.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Stalingrad
Voronezh
Eutran
Volga
Red Army
Rzhev
Tuapse
Don
Finland is War Weary Amid Peace Talk Hints
Swedish and Finnish observers say Russia's winter push boosts peace talks in Finland where manpower strains and fatigue fuel calls for settlement. Helsinki notes U S envoy Schoenfeld will depart for home Thursday but motive unspecified.
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London
Russia
Finland
Helsinki
U. S
H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld
Allied victory at Buna village in New Guinea push
Allied forces report capturing Buna village and repelling a Japanese reinforcement convoy at the Buna area in eastern New Guinea. The communique notes heavy bombardment and air strikes sinking or disabling enemy ships while Japanese positions near Buna mission were held.
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Australia
Buna
New Guinea
Coun
Enem
Mambare
Kumusi
Bombers Hit Japanese Air Field at Munda
U S bombers pounded the Japanese air field at Munda on New Georgia Island for the third straight day. The navy report notes no Japanese fighter opposition and suggests air supremacy. Guadalcanal operations remained routine with a lone enemy aircraft over the area.
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Washington
Dec
Munda
New Georgia Island
Navy
Guadalcanal
Bom
Solomons
South Pacific
Allies Slam Axis Docks in North Africa Blitz
United States planes struck Axis docks and ships at Bizerte and Tunis with heavy bombers while B 25s hit Sousse docks. Lightning fighters destroyed a locomotive and bomb carrying fighters hit the rail lines at Sfax. Fortresses at Bizerte clashed with Messerschmitts, three enemy fighters were shot down.
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N:s Africa
United States
Bizerte
Tunis
Sousse
Sfax
Baltimore Transit Strike Ends After War Labor Board Appeal
Baltimore transit workers vote to resume work after a day long tie up of about 26 percent of city street car and bus service following an appeal by Waldo C. Holden of the War Labor Board.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Transit Company
Waldo C. Holden
War Labor Board
Weather Summary for Somerset Period
Daily observed temperatures report a maximum seven and a minimum three for the 24-hour span from 5:30 p m Sunday to 5:30 p m Monday. Temperature reference shows prior year minimum twenty two degrees.
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David Grove
U. S. Weather Observer
West Virginia and Mid‑Atlantic Snow Likely Tuesday
Weather forecast tracks rising temperatures in West Virginia with snow or rain on Tuesday. Western Pennsylvania sees milder cold with snow Tuesday afternoon. Eastern Pennsylvania expects snow in the north and rain or snow in the south late Tuesday, with easing cold. Maryland anticipates snow or rain in the west.
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West Virginia
Pennsylvania
South
Maryland
West
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Ellis M. Jacharias
Greg
Somerset Lodge No. 358
Charles H. Brallier
Josiah Swank
G. Alan Smith
County Trust
Gene Kelly
ALY
George Murphy
March OF
EL Agheila Sans Battle
NO. Africa
Sim
A. D. Graham & CO
Beserged
Owen Stanley
Jap Air
Axis
Somerset Weather
U. S. Weather Bureau
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Cleveland
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Miami
New York
Philadelphia
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