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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
4
Canadian units of the British Eighth Army seized newly formed bridgeheads on the Lamone River northeast of Frenza and Faenza, driving a wedge about three miles deep into German defenses. They established 12 bridgeheads across the swollen river and stretched a continuous 6000 yard front.
The St Hooper report for the week ending November 21 shows Benny leading Nate by nearly three to one in listener ratings. Fred Allen returns east from Hollywood where he shot a film.
Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, presents a layman’s three point long range solution to the farm problem at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. He calls for high home purchasing power, expanded foreign markets, and far greater production of farm goods to feed the industrial economy, noting his personal stance as not a farmer and his routine between New York and Boston.
The passage lists remedies for coughs using household ingredients. Donala vougiee and Ezio Tinza are noted for lemon syrup and warm lemon juice with sugar. Helen Traubel favors pulverized raspberries mixed with hot water as a drink.
Local social notes cover visits by Mr and Mrs Truman Eschenaur and son from Harrisburg to James Brashears, travel to York for a cousin’s death, Christmas party plans at Trinity Lutheran and Ladies Democratic Club, plus updates on wounded Pvt Harry Hull in France and hospital visits at Waynesboro and Westminster. Several residents attend or plan gatherings at churches, hospitals, and homes, with scattered mentions of relatives in Baltimore Reading and Charles Town.
Mr and Mrs John F Keesecker and son Gilbret visited Rev and Mrs Wm Jackson at New Cumberland Pa Pfc William Eugene Kauffman son of Mrs Alice G Kauffman is among six county men named by the Fifth Army in Italy and serves in the 338th Infantry Regiment The unit is credited with killing and wounding Nazis and taking about 700 prisoners in four weeks along the Gothic line Also notes that the origin of silk fibres was kept secret by the Chinese until 419 AD and that an ordinary goat yields a quart of milk daily and lives ten years.
Washington reports a Navy Bureau of Ordnance statement that rocket production will rise nearly 300 percent in coming months. Rear Admiral George F. Hussey Jr cites the Pacific war’s demands for amphibious operations and the rockets’ crucial role in landing assaults.
Mrs. William Tillett has received the Purple Heart awarded to her husband, Sgt. William W. Tillett, for wounds suffered in France. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Tillett of May Street, this city.
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