Potomac Freight Lines plans merge and expansion
The Potomac Freight Lines filed articles of incorporation with the State Tax Commission seeking authority to issue 250000 in capital stock and operate in motor freight. Francis H. Urner heads the new firm and says it has purchased the Busey Motor Line with negotiations underway with other large trucking companies. The plan aims to consolidate lines to curb unsound competition and stabilize trucking, noting four lines between Hagerstown and Baltimore use four trucks when one can suffice, with a modern storage building planned here once feasible.
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Potomac Freight Lines
State Tax Commission
Francis H. Urner
Busey Motor Line
Urner
Hagerstown
Baltimore
Chennault declares Japanese defeated in China's rice bowl drive
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, commander of the U S 14th Air Force, said Japanese forces are decisively defeated in the Tungting Lake area and are trying to withdraw about 10,000 troops. He credited strong air support for inflicting casualties and hindering the retreat, noting limited Japanese penetration beyond 100 miles and successful protection of the rice harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S.S. Army Air Force
China
Claire L. Chennault
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Free China
Rice Bowl
Tungting Lake
Chennault
Changteh
U S Forces Secure Arawe Peninsula In New Britain
United States Sixth Army troops have occupied the Cape Merkus peninsula in the Arawe sector of New Britain Island and are advancing. The move completes control of the three mile neck to Arawe harbor, with Pilelo island overrun earlier the first day of the attack. A headquarters spokesman said fighting is intermittent as they expand positions against scattered Japanese resistance.
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MacArthur
New Guinea
United States
Sixth Army
Cape Merkus
Arawe
New Britain Island
Arawe Harbor
Big Island
Pilelo
New Britain
Southwest Pacific
Walter Krueger
U. S
6Th Army
Arawe Peninsula
Rabaul, Jap Base
Byrd to Speak at Concord Club Jackson Day Dinner
The Concord Club announced Senator Byrd of Virginia will be the principal speaker at the Jackson Day dinner at the Lord Baltimore Hotel on January 8. Maryland Democrats Governor O Conor Senators Ty dings and Radcliffe Mayor McKel din and Representatives d Alesandro Baldwin Lass eer and Ward will attend with Howard W. Jackson as toastmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Concord Club
Byrd
D-Va
Lord Baltimore Hotel
O’conor
Tydings and
Radcliffe
Maryland
Theodore R. McKeldin
d'Alesandro, Baldwin, Lasseer and Ward
Howard W. Jackson
Churchill Will Stay In Saddle
Prime Minister Churchill remains in control of Britain’s war effort while recovering from pneumonial illness in the Middle East. He keeps contact with the war cabinet and reads dispatches as his condition improves, though officials say it will be days before he passes the crisis.
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London
Churchill
Middle East
Britain
Daily Mail
England
No. 10 Downing Street
Ralph Dorand Granted Absolute Divorce
Ralph Dorand of this city has been granted an absolute divorce from Mil dred Dorand by Judge Joseph D. Mish.
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Ralph Dorand
Joseph D. Mish
Mildred Dorand
Peace For This Generation Seen By F D R
President Roosevelt says peace for this generation may come from the Cairo Teheran talks after his 36 day, 25000 mile trip. He describes the meeting with Churchill Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek and promises more details in a world broadcast next Friday before Christmas.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Churchill
Stalin
Chiang Kai-Shek
EWT
Congress
Influenza Deaths In England Rise To Record Weekly Toll
London report shows influenza deaths reached 1148 in the week ending December 11, the highest since late January 1937, an increase of 439 from the prior week’s 709. The Ministry of Health noted cases may be declining but warned the peak death figure might not yet be reached.
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London
Ministry of Health
Berlin Broadcast Quoted US Air Power in China At 400 Planes
A Berlin broadcast quoted a Japanese army spokesman in Nanking saying the United States Army Air Force in China now totals 400 planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Associated Press
Nanking
United States Army
China
Rising Sun Egg On Pearl Harbor Day Hen Lays Mystery Egg
Harold Green, a Hagerstown High School science teacher, raised 100 barred rock hens and saw a charred rock hen lay a distinct rising sun egg on Pearl Harbor Day, again on December 7, 1942, and Easter 1942. Only one other similar egg appeared, with a lone red-headed hen continuing to lay. Green preserves the unusual hen and notes the repeated symbol during wartime anniversaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Harold Green
Hagerstown High School
Funkstown
Green
Badoglio Regime Would Get Control
The Allied councils in Algiers recommended to General Dwight D. Eisenhower that control of most of southern Italy Sardinia and Sicily be turned over to the Badoglio government under Allied supervision. Eisenhower was expected to approve the move. The December 15 meeting included representatives Murphy Massigli Vishinsky and Makins. The Badoglio government would hold authority across the defined area as it already does in three southeastern Italian provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Allied Advisory Council For
Italy
Dwight D.hisenhower
Sardenia
Sicily
Badoglio
Hisenhower
Allied Control Commission
Robert D. Murphy
United States
Rene Massigli
Freezing Water Pipes Reported Across City
With the frost line eight inches below ground many exposed water pipes have frozen and some have burst. A pipe burst flooded a filling station at Pennsylvania and Belle vue avenues last midnight after a war worker alerted the water department. Unheated cellars and a six inch frost depth also froze water mains. Weather remained cold with a 10 degree above zero low, three degrees below yesterday, Keedysville's J A Miller notes.
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Water Department
Pennsylvania
Bellevue Avenues
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Lane Construction low bidder for Martinsburg airport project
The Lane Construction Company of Meriden Connecticut was named the low bidder for the Martinsburg municipal airport improvement project. Although the bid amount was not disclosed, officials indicated the project would exceed 1 million dollars and include concrete surfacing of runways and related improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
W. Va
Lane Construction Company
Meriden, Conn
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Frederick attorney Robert Bright dies in Richmond hotel
Robert Southall Bright, 71, a prominent Frederick, Maryland attorney, died in Richmond at the Hotel Jefferson from a heart ailment. He had been stricken in November last year while traveling from Maryland to Florida and never recovered enough to be moved.
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Richmond
Robert Southall Bright
Frederick
Hotel
Jefferson
Bright
Maryland
Florida
Fifth's Pincers Close On Nazi Stronghold
Allied forces tighten surround on San Pietro seven miles southeast of Cassino as American troops reach the village outskirts. In separate actions, Eighth Army reports 15 German tanks destroyed or captured, with Mount Lungo assault and Lagone seizure highlighting a coordinated push on the Cassino front amid stiff mountain fighting.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
San Pietro
Cassino
Eighth Army
Lungo
Rome
Cassino Plain
Lagone
Filignaon
Venatro
Italy
Ger
1943 Crops Below 42 Yield But Greater Than 5 Yr Avg
National crop figures show 1943 harvest six percent below 1942 but nine percent above the five year average. Total food production including livestock and by products up four percent from last year. Maryland notes include corn wheat oats potatoes sweet potatoes apples soybeans and tobacco with specific acre yields and totals.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Maryland
May Slow Up R R Men Draft
Railroad replacement schedules filed with State Selective Service headquarters should halt only orderly induction of railroad workers. Only draft age workers who cannot be replaced are drafted, and employers must confirm a trained replacement. Railroads delaying schedules contribute to crew shortages, officials say.
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Selective Service
Fall Of Aged Man Proves Fatal Today
George Edward Anderson S87 of Williamsport died today at Washington County Hospital after a fall six days earlier fractured his arm. He belonged to Odd Fellows Lodge and was the last member of his family. Funeral Monday at 2 p m Leaf Funeral chapel Rev H C Kettler officiating. Interment River View cemetery with Odd Fellows pallbearers.
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Washington County Hospital
George Edward Anderson
Williamsport
Odd Fellows Lodge
Leaf Guneral Chapel
H. C. Kettler
River View Cemetery
The
Odd Fellows
Pallbaarers
Russians Close On Kirovograd As Winter Drive Looms
Moscow reports heavy fighting around Kirovograd as Gen. Ivan Konev's 2nd Ukraine Army tightens encirclement and claims 800 German counterattacks killed. Berlin cites fierce battles in White Russia with potential start of a Baltic winter campaign. Gen. Nikolai Vatutin’s 1st Ukraine Army scores a decisive tank offensive victory in the Kiev bulge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ivan Konev
2Nd Ukraine Army
Kirovograd
Moscow
White Russia
Krivoi Rog
Germany
Berlin
Baltic
Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
Nikolai Vatutin
1St Ukraine
Fritz von Mannstein
Kiev Bulge
Berlin Munitions Factory Blown Up In RAF Raid
Stockholm reports Berlin munitions plant at Babelsberg was destroyed in a RAF raid. Swedish engineer Karl Erikson, passing through Berlin, described fires lighting streets and a major blast that devastated the area near Anhalter station. He noted windows shattered at Hotel Excelsior and long bombs dropped during the attack.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Babelsburg
Reich
Karl Erikson
Excelsior
Erikson
Italy
Sweden
Genoa
Anhalter Station
Hitler Storm Trooper Blames Hitler for Soviet Cruelties
Hans Ritz, a Nazi storm troop commander, testified at a Kharkov court that Adolf Hitler bore responsibility for the cruelty on the eastern front and that Heinrich Himmler issued orders to execute according to Aryan beliefs. The trial, conducted under Soviet and Allied war crimes pledges, drew crowds as prosecutors and Russian attorneys presented the case.
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Gestapo
Moscow
Kharkov
Eastern Front
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Heinrich Himmler
Hans Ritz
United States
Great Britain
Coy
Strikers Return To Jobs At Greyhound Lines
Striking drivers and maintenance workers for the Southeastern Greyhound lines returned to work at 12:01 a.m. and asked the Regional War Labor Board to reconsider its wage contract decision.
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Atlanta
Southeastern Greyhound Bus Lines
Regional War Labor Board
WLB
Plane forced down on a Portertown farm in fog
A pilot en route from Harrisburg to Hagerstown was lost in fog and forced to land on Pete Holmes's farm in Portertown. After a quick fix to engine trouble, he departed again for Hagerstown without injury or damage reported.
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Pete Holmes
Porterstown
Harrisburg
Hagerstown
Draftees With Prior Service Asked To Bring Discharges
Draft boards request all selected men with prior military service to report to the Armed Forces induction station with discharge certificates or letters evidencing discharge. They urge including records from reserve components such as the National Guard or Naval Reserve.
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Armed Forces
National Guard
Naval Reserve
Solstice Brings Winter For Our County Boys
Washington county notes cold weather ahead as winter solstice arrives at 1 30 p m war time on Wednesday with shorter days and weaker sun. Soldiers stationed in Australia New Guinea and the Southwest Pacific will experience summer there as it is the longest day of the southern hemisphere year signaling the season change.
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Washington County
Armed Services
Australia
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Hemisphere
Concentrated Bombings Herald Invasion
London report cites Ankara radio claiming Allied forces concentrate landings in Sicily Corsica and the Balkans. It says Patton's 7th Army will strike soon in a Balkan invasion with German authorities warning of a looming storm and Rommel visiting Denmark as a signal.
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London
Ankara
Sicily
George S. Patton, Jr
Balkan
Balkans
Corsica
Britain
Erwin
Rommel
Denmark
Yugoslav Partisans Seize Initiative Against Germans
Yugoslav Partisans have counter-attacked in three sectors, taking the initiative after repelling heavy German assaults. Tito’s communique reports second corps clearing territory on the Serbia Montenegro border, heavy fighting in eastern Bosnia, and offensives in Crete. Germans suffer 270 dead, many wounded, and large war gear captured.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Serbia- Montenegro
Bosnia
Cretia
Montenegro
Realty Market Slow Week with $40,000 in Sales
The local real estate market showed subdued activity for the week ending today with total sales around $40,000. Transactions included Fred C. Ernst as administrator selling 235 acres near Clearspring for $11,000 and multiple transfers such as John P. Howard to Helen R. Glick for $9,500 along Dewey Avenue, and other parcels on South Potomac, West Washington, and West Church totaling several thousand dollars. Edna G. Martin sold Cearfoss area properties for $2,600 and $1,800. James Lee Stouffer and wife sold West Wilson Boulevard property for $3,400 to Henry R. Rouse and wife. William S. Mumma Jr and wife sold property on West Wilson Boulevard for $3,600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred C. Ernst
Chester G. Ernst
Clearspring
John P. Howard
Helen R. Glick
Dewey Avenue
East Hillcrest Road
Clinton Roger Clagett
Theodore A. Chappelear
West Wilson Boulevard
Police Honor Donation From Dr William J Sullivan
Dr William J Sullivan of Funkstown presented the Police Department with a $100 check this morning in the name of his trucking company Navillus Trane Station Company. The A and P Store gave each officer a sack of nuts prompting Captain Peter to joke that all they need is the turkey and trimmings for a Christmas dinner.
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William J. Sullivan
Funkstown
Police Department
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Poplar
Wis
U. S. Air Force
Air Forces Photo
Motor Freight Lines
U.S
Iilness
F.D.R
Freder
Fifth
R. R
Hitler
Soviet
By Eddy Gilmore
Solstice
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