Mindoro Invasion Secures Southern Mindoro for US Forces
American troops hold the southern Mindoro area with airfields under construction and a beachhead nine miles inland. General MacArthur declares the hold secure as the 77th Division outflanks Yamashita’s line on Leyte and Mindoro engineers prepare captured airstrips 150 miles from Manila. Japan notes the Mindoro invasion.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Mindoro
San Jose
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Tokyo
Many To Testify For The Defense In Grove Arson Case
Sheriff officers summon witnesses as Richard Cecil Grove faces arson charges. Defense lists 25 witnesses with potential for more. Grove is represented by D Angle Wolfinger, former State's Attorney. He is indicted on six counts linked to a string of recent fires.
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Richard Cecil Grove
Grove
D. Angle Wolfinger
Fire Truck Delayed By Fire At Firehouse
A coke transport fire near Hancock and Clearspring was put out by Clearspring firefighters who were alerted ahead by the truck driver. The burning load was brought to the firehouse and hoses quickly extinguished flames shooting into the air.
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Hancock
Clearspring
Tips On Golden Eagle Albino Deer Winners
Two news tips last week yielded two top stories. A Mapleville resident phoned in about a Boonshoro garage operator shooting a large lam i stealing golden eagle and earns $3.50. A Hancock resident reported an albino buck felled after three bullets, winning $2.50.
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Mapleville
Boonshoro
Daily Mail
Hancock
Sees Japs Still Fighting In 1946
Pacific commander General Harmon predicts Japan will be on its feet again in 1946. He leads the Pan-Pacific air campaign with B 29 raids from bases in the Pacific. He warns Tokyo cannot be destroyed by incendiary bombing and notes weather as a major obstacle.
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Pacific
U. S. Army
Millard F. Harmon
Japan
Harmon
Strategic Air Force
Pacific Ocean Areas
Tokyo
Yule Mailing Is Setting Record
Postmaster Thomas Simpson reports peak Christmas mailing as cancellations run all morning and over 100000 cards and letters passed through Saturday. Lobby crowds formed before daylight as parcel and stamp windows stayed busy with two clerks each. Officials expect record package volumes due to scouts and service, urging mail by Friday to close Saturday noon for weekend rest.
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Thomas
Simpson
Parcel Post
Corder Woman Is Given Six Months for Parole Violation
Ethel Corder, 30, of North Foundry Street, was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction by Judge Joseph D. Mish in Circuit Court. Police testified she was present in a raid on a house on George Street where liquor was seized, and she had previously faced an assault with intent to kill charge after triggering a revolver that misfired.
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Ethel Corder
North Foundry Street
House of Correction
Joseph D. Mish
Miss Corder
William McSherry
George Street
One Dead In Five Kimball Fire Tragedy
A fire destroyed the Carswell Clubhouse of the Koppers Coal Division in Five Kimball West Virginia. One 16 year old, Douglas Crowder, was found dead in the ruins. Two others were reported missing and three injured. Officials say John W. Bragg and George Washington Lowery were believed to be in the clubhouse at the time but not yet located.
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Kimball
W. Va
Carswell
Koppers Coal Division
Douglas Crowder
Koppers
John W. Bragg
George Washington Lowery
Missing In Action Pvt William L Messersmith
Private William L Messersmith 22, son of Mr and Mrs Ellis Messersmith Hancock Rt 1, has been missing in action in Germany since November 91. A former Fairchild Aircraft worker.
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William L. Messersmith
Ellis Messersmith
Hancock, Rt. 1
Germany
Fairchild Aircraft
County plans raise to fund teachers salaries
County Commissioner circles indicate the 1945 tax rate will rise, possibly by 12 cents, to meet teachers salaries and other needs. Board members back increases as recommended by the Board of Education. A survey shows teachers are underpaid for comparable roles. The total levy could reach $1.34 with state and county rates combined. Building has stagnated over the past year.
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Board of Education
Draft Rule Hits Farm Workers in County Report
County Agent Mark Miller says new Selective Service orders reclassify farm workers as well as industrial workers. He notes farm labor shifts and unpermitted job changes complicate programs, citing a youth who left a farm job, then faced reclassification and Army deployment. He adds boards may grant changes for justified reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Miller
Miller
Army
Conn and Boxers Rescue U S Pilot in Italy Crash
Dec 18 CP Corp reports boxer Conn and his troupe touring Army bases in Europe aided by others in a jeep to rescue an American fighter pilot from a burning plane in Italy. The aircraft crashed into a swamp and the crewman was pulled from the flames unconscious.
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U.S. Atrservice Commani
Europe
CP. — Corp
Rily Conn
Britain
France
Italy
Conn
Army promotes Carl Dennis Hicks to captain
Carl Dennis Hicks of 714 Potomac Avenue Hagerstown has been promoted to captain in the Army according to today’s Department announcement.
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Carl Dennis Hicks
Potomac Avenue
Hagerstown
200 Superforts Batter Hankow Nagoya Again
Washington reports up to 200 B-29 Superfortresses struck Nagoya on the Nipponese mainland and Hankow in Japanese-occupied China. Photographic recon at Nagoya on December 15 showed greater damage to the Hatsudoki aircraft factory, with four large assembling buildings and 22 smaller structures hit.
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Washington
Nagoya
Hankow
China
United States
Saipan
Hatsudoki
H. H. Arnold
20Th Air Force
Thailand
Bangkok
Rangoon
Burma
Japan
Yank’s Bible Saves Soldier in Brittany Battle
Pvt Gaylord Martin of Craigsville Virginia, serving with the Eighth Infantry Division, was struck in the chest by a German bullet that pierced his jacket and shirt but lodged in the Bible worn in his breast pocket. The bullet damaged the Bible but did not injure him and stopped at Galatians chapter four verse twelve.
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Germany
Gaylord Martin
Craigsville
Brittany
Martin
St Marys Exceeds Bond Sales During War Drive
St Marys School sold 21794.74 in bonds and war savings stamps in the Sixth War Loan drive, far surpassing the 8000 sold in the Fifth War Bond drive. The seventh grade led selling efforts with teachers in each class coordinating the drive.
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St. Mary’s School
Move To Lift Siege Of Athens
British forces launched a full scale drive against Leftwing ELAS in Athens aiming to lift the siege. By dawn they seized a brewery stronghold on the Athens to Kalamaki Airport highway and cleared Kalamaki Airport to 300 yards, with armored units patrolling toward Piraeus. Sibelias Hill near the Acropolis fell earlier as SAS holdings were overcome.
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Athens
ELAS
Phaleron
Kalamaki
Piraeus
Sibelias
Acropolis
SAS
Wife Of Rohrersville Soldier Dies In Arkansas Fire
Mrs Ronda L Miller 23 wife of Tech Sgt Junior Miller Rohrersville was fatally burned December 10 when the Lincoln Arkansas home of her parents burned. She had rescued two children including a daughter and returned through an open window to save belongings but was trapped by flames. Fire believed started from an overheated stove.
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Ronda L. Miller
Tech
Junior Miller
Rohrersville
Lincoln
Ark
Sgt. Miller
S. H. Miller
South Pacific
Students May Strike Over LSU Sex Leaflet Reinstatement
At Louisiana State University a student strike was threatened if Gloria Jeanne Heller 18 who wrote a campus sex leaflet is not reinstated The student council protested President Hatcher ordering her to leave and called the action a violation of the council code Hatcher said she faced resignation or expulsion over promoting free love and campus kissing controversy The leaflet described as a protest against how sex issues are handled led to campus upheaval and debate about disciplinary actions
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Miss Heller
Hatcher
Weeping Doughboys Tell of Nazi Kill, Belgium Front
HAL BOYLE reports from a U S frontline station in Belgium on December 17 detailing how a German armored force trapped about 150 American artillery observers. Survivors describe being disarmed, herded into an open field, and shot at by German noncoms while wounded colleagues groaned nearby. One survivor, William B Summers of Glenville West Virginia, escaped by feigning death. The column faced Tiger tanks as trucks and light armor fell to heavy German guns. The unit surrendered quickly after being ambushed at a road junction and searched for valuables before the execution.
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Hal Boyle
U.S
Belgium
i/P
William B. Summers
Glenville
W. Va
Summers
Yank Airmen Aid Ground Forces As Skies Clear
United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators rushed across the English Channel to hit German targets after RAF bombers pounded Munich Ulm and Duisburg. Allied fighters covered the mission as weather shifts exposed German tanks and troops along American lines, with 48 enemy aircraft destroyed and several Allied planes missing.
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London
U. S
English Channel
Germany
Munich
Ulm
Duisburg
Europe
RAF
Netherlands
First Army
Britain
Italy
Alps
Salzburg
Wels
Blechhammer
Qdertal
Salesia
Moravska Ostrave
Czecho-Slovakia
Rosenheim
Hartle Named Polio Campaign Leader in 1945 Drive
U S Senator George L Radcliffe state chairman of Maryland NFIP announces Calvert K Hartle local attorney as chairman and director of the 1945 drive. Hartle has held the post eight years. A Baltimore dinner features Basil O Connor as guest. The Lingerstown campaign will climax with the President's Hall on F D R birthday downtown.
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U. S
George L. Radcliffe
Maryland
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Toaday
Calvert K. Hartle
Hartle
Baltimore
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation
American Red Cross
Lingerstown
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hitler Reported To Have Visited Front
London dispatch quotes captured German soldiers saying Adolf Hitler visited the Roer front ten days earlier and urged troops to hold the line until December 16 when he promised the Americans would face a nasty surprise.
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London
Daily Mail
Western Front
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Roer River
Santa Gets Pass for St Nick in German Village
In Germany on December 5 aka St Nicholas Day a four-and-a-half year old German boy worried Santa would be arrested for being out after dark and visited the military government office to plead. Lt. Edward F. Steiner of New Orleans promised Santa a one night pass.
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Germany
Edward F. Steiner
New Orleans
Santa Claus
St. Nick
St. Nicholas
Steiner
Rita Hayworth Delivers Baby Girl At Saint Johns Hospital
Actress Rita Hayworth gave birth to a six and a half pound girl by Caesarean section at St Johns Hospital in Santa Monica California. Attendants say she and husband Orson Welles have not chosen a name for their first child. An operation was performed by Dr Blake Watson.
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Santamonica
Cal
Rita Hayworth
Orson Welles
St. John’s Hospital
Blake Watson
Miss Hayworth
Germans Stage Major Western Front Counterattack
German forces launch a large winter counteroffensive on the Western Front with V weapons and heavy air and ground assaults across an 80 mile front from Monschau to near Luxembourg. American forces fuse to blunt the push as portions of the line fall back several miles in critical sectors.
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Paris
Courtney H. Hodges
1St
Europe
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Belgium
Monschan
Aachen
Luxembourg
Monschau
1St Army
Malmedy
Rundstedt Calls Generals Before Drive Near Coblenz
London reports say Field Marshal Rundstedt convened his top generals at Coblenz secret HQ and urged an all out counterattack as Allied air forces intensified in the region. Ground chatter and escape rumors circulate amid the tense buildup ahead of planned operations.
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London
Dees Tsuda
Gerd von Kundstedt
Coblenz
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Stork
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Supreme Headquarters
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Calon
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Weiler
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