Germans Admit Setback
London dispatch reports the Red Army broke the southern Russian front anchor at Kherson, forcing German retreat from the Dnieper bridge head. Soviet offensives push from Nevel toward Polotsk, within 57 miles of the Latvian border, as German positions near the Bug river and Odessa weaken.
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London
Red Army
Adolf Hitler
Kherson
Dnieper
Berlin
Nevel
Bug River
Odessa
Polotsk
Thie
Crimea
Italian Girl Held As Plotter In Allied Area
Sixteen Italians including Maria d Aili a Rome University law student from a wealthy family face trial in Trapani Sicily on charges of financing and planning to sabotage the Allied war effort and rebuild Fascist cells. Cataldo Grammatico 19, a former Fascist youth chief, led the group and admitted cutting communication lines. Pietro Cardi ll o 28, chief clerk of the Fascist organization in Trapani, confessed plans for an armed revolt.
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Allied
Algiers
Trapani
Sicily
American Counter-Intelligence Corps
Maria d’Ali
Rome University
Italy
Counter-Intelligence Corps
Cataldo Grammatico
Viovenzo Italiana del Littorio
Pietro Cardillo
Will Be 85 Tomorrow Dean Doub Turns 85
Daniel W. Doub, dean of the Washington County Bar, will be 85 years old tomorrow. He suffered a broken hip months ago but has recovered enough to move about in a wheelchair and remains in good health.
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Daniel W. Doub
Washington ‘County
Doub
Postmaster Simpson Stricken By Sinus Attack
Postmaster Thomas M. Simpson remains confined to his Oak Hill Avenue home after a Saturday sinus attack and is not much improved.
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Thomas M. Simpson
Oak Hill Avenue
Typhoid Epidemic in Harrodsburg Kentucky
Harrodsburg, Kentucky reports a 57th typhoid fever case with the first new case in 72 hours. Mercer county health director Dr. J L Tanner warns more cases may appear as diagnosis takes 10 days to two weeks. The Red Cross has sent nurses and hospital supplies to assist the outbreak response.
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Harrodsburg
J. L. Tanner
Mercer County
Tanner
Red Cross
Plans To Repair Bellevue County Home After Fire
County Commissioner circles report repairs will begin once insurance is adjusted and materials gathered for the Bellevue county home. Damaged wing will be rebuilt while undamaged sections house inmates. Superintendent Fred Long says insurance coverage is adequate and repair can be sped. Fire started in a wing, spread up a staircase, 4 inmates were moved out. All Hagerstown fire units plus a Fairchild company fought the blaze about three hours, discovered at 4 50 p.m.
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Bellevue
Fred Long
Hagerstown
Fairchild
Long
Restaurant price claims denied by Ration Board official
Chief Clerk Thomas Bittle of the Ration Board said restaurant owners in Hagerstown overclaimed that meat and food prices rose since April 1943. He noted wholesale prices for eight meat items were actually lower than in April. He cited OPA reports showing fewer business failures in Maryland in 1943, with 43 failures in the first nine months, down from 58 in 1942 and 70 in 1941, and said many proprietors had warned they would close if prices rose.
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Hagerstown
Thomas Bittle
Ration Board
OPA
Maryland
OFA
German secret glider bombs used in convoy attack
London reports describe eight German rocket powered glider bombs released from bombers in a head on assault on a large Allied convoy. All missed their ships though one was shot down nearby. Gliders reportedly zigzagged toward the water, trailing white smoke as they plunged.
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London
Spain
Robert Daley
Daley
Four War Criminals Hanged in Kharkov Public Square
London dispatch reports 40,000 Russians witnessed the execution of three Germans and a Russian traitor in Kharkov after a Fourth Ukrainian Front military tribunal convicted them of war atrocity crimes. Langheld Ritz Ratzlaw and Bulanov died within minutes. Ratzlaw lingered on the gallows. The broadcast noted mass executions and cited Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin in framing the trial as a milestone toward justice for wartime crimes.
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London
Kharkov
Moscow
Fourth Ukrainian Front
Wilhelm Langheld
Gestapo
Hans Ritz
Storm
Richard Ratzlaw
Mikhail Bulanov
Langheld
Ratzlaw
Bulanov
Ritz
Moscow News
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Europe
Learning First Hand About Conservation
JOHNSTOWN N Y Dec 20 Fifty chilled local board officials attended a district O P A fuel conservation conference in the county supervisor chambers Speakers from the Albany district office E J Elliott and William Haas urged fuel savings The room was heated to 66 degrees above O P A requirements Haas admitted it was the first time he had experienced that part of the department s rules.
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Johnstown
N. Y
O.P.A
E. J. Elliott
William Haas
Albany O.P.A
Haas
City To Pay Out 46 675 Interest
Hagerstown will pay 46 675 on January 1 in interest on its bond indebtedness as announced by the city auditor. Interest on multiple municipal bonds including electric light plant and sewer Department series is listed, with water department Series A. For 1944 the city expects over 300 000 in interest and bond retirements, surpassing annual tax revenues.
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Hagerstown
Sewer Department
Water Department
Army Flier Drowned In Leap From Plane
Langley Field Va Dec 20 One Army flier drowned after parachuting into the sea off Hoopers Island Md another remains missing as four of ten crew members jumped when engine trouble hit. Six men stayed with the plane and landed safely at Camp Springs air base near Washington. One engine caught fire triggering the jump.
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Langley Field
Hoopers Island
Camp Springs
Washington
CAP Here To Get Army Plane For Maryland District
CAP announces six RAF Liaison L-2 planes assigned to the Maryland District of Columbia CAP. Two go to Washington and Baltimore each, one to Hagerstown, one to Cumberland. Aircraft to support Army aviation recruiting and cadet orientation flights with pilots holding hundreds of hours. Major Arthur C. Hyde outlined a state wide CAP gathering planned for February in Hagerstown.
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Maryland District of Columbia
Civil Air Patrol
U. S. Army
Arthur Lyem
Cumberland
Western Maryland Squadron 331
Lyem
Frederick
Washington
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Arthur C. Hyde
CAP
Ice On River Breaks Up After Skating on Conococheague
Ice on the Potomac river began to break up on Sunday as warm weather arrived. At Williamsport the Conococheague River and the stream under the bridge held thick ice suitable for skating, and many enjoyed the sport.
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Tee
Potomac River
Williamsport
Record low rainfall and drought grip Kee dysville area
In the last 30 days only .06 of an inch of rain has fallen, an all time monthly low noted by J A Miller government weather observer at Keedysville. The drought follows a record dry summer, drying underground streams and even the Potomac near Pinesburg at its lowest this season. A northwest wind brings a cold wave with highs near 48 and a low around 25.
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J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Keller Banzhoff
Pinesburg
County Site For War Prisoners Considered
A site between Hagerstown and Hancock is under review by the Forestry Service and the War Man power Commission for a prisoner of war camp. Another potential location is in Green Ridge Allegany county, Rep. J. Glenn Beall reports. If a camp is deemed needed, the Army would grant final approval and select the site to use prisoners in pulpwood cutting amid the mountains.
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Hagerstown
Hancock
Forestry Service
War Manpower Commission
Green Ridge
Allegany County
J. Glenn Beall
Beall
Army
Last Jury Trial Being Held Today
The last jury trial of the November term is held today in court. After a verdict the jurors will be paid and dismissed, subject to recall before February term. The case concerns a real estate commission.
Germany Hit by Dual Air Armadas From West and South
Allied heavy bombers struck northwest Germany in daylight from the west and the Mediterranean bases. The raids targeted Uboat yards and shipbuilding ports along the North Sea while facing fierce German opposition. Thirty seven Allied planes were shot down and 22 probably destroyed as 16 Mediterranean aircraft were lost. Some missing pilots were believed to have landed in friendly territory. The Innsbruck railway yards were reported as a major target.
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London
Germany
Innsburck
Augsburg
Munich
Brenner Pass
Hitler
North Sea
Innsbruck
U S Takes Over W E Plants In Baltimore
Army officials who took over the Baltimore plants of Western Electric under a presidential order aimed to resume full production as union and management remained deadlocked on labor policy. A noticeable rise in day-shift workers reported, while the company cited about 50 percent idle and unions claimed up to 95 percent idle. Union and company reps conferred with the Army to break the deadlock.
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Baltimore
Army
Western Electric Company
Waste Fats Collection Up In First Week Of Ration
Waste fats collection jumped considerably last week the first week of the ration points for the waste fats salvage program two Hagerstown collectors said the increase was four to five hundred pounds about 25 percent large collections were due to housewives saving fats until Monday when they received two red ration points per pound several grocers have not yet joined the program with some not wanting to be bothered the two points plus four cents per pound payment spurred interest in saving and selling fats
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Hagerstown
Two Cycles Are Reported Stolen
A bicycle was reported stolen by Warren Renner of the first block Elizabeth street and a tricycle was taken from Ward Pierce of the 200 block South Locust street during the weekend thefts.
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Warren Renner
Elizabeth Street
Ward Pierce
South Locust Street
Christmas holiday drill cancelation for State Guard
Due to the Christmas holidays, there will be no State Guard drill this week or next, as reported today.
May Soon Evacuate Berlin Ghost City
Stockholm dispatches report Berlin is a ghost city a month after the RAF assault with Nazi authorities discussing a 100 percent evacuation. Bodies are being removed from ruins as demolition squads pull walls with captured Allied tanks. Locals describe nerves frayed and residents crying at the sight of the devastation.
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Stockholm
Berlin
RAF
Oslo hit by German munitions ship explosion
Oslo endured a devastating blast when a German munitions ship exploded in the harbor, destroying much of the harbor area and injuring many. The Hotel Bristol housed the wounded. authorities reported four dead initially as fires raged and German forces battled the blaze amid possible sabotage rumors.
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Stockholm
Oslo
Bristol
Sandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Karl Johann
Nine Fliers Die In Bomber Crash En Route Home
A four-engined Army bomber carrying airmen home for Christmas crashed in heavy fog near the Sausalito hillside, killing at least nine men and a dog. The craft, en route from a Pacific base to Hamilton Field, ploughed into terrain a few minutes from landing. nine bodies were recovered.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
Pacific
Sausalito
Collision near Frederick kills Baltimore woman
A two car crash five miles south of Frederick last night killed Mrs. Pearl Lockhart age 39 and injured seven others. The victim's husband Bryl and his two children were among the injured.
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Frederick
Baltimore
Pearl Lockhart
Bryl
Bolivian Coup Ousts Penaranda Regime In 1940s Era
In La Paz Bolivia a nationalist revolutionary movement toppled President Enrique Penaranda and detained key leaders including Gen Miguel Candia and Gen Antenor Ichazo. Victor Paz Estensoro reportedly led the coup, seizing the governor's palace as gunfire rang out and newspapers halted. Penaranda, anti Nazi, had led Bolivia into war against the Axis and once toured the United States. Estensoro called on citizens to support the revolution as arrests and martial actions followed the takeover.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Enrique Penaranda
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
United States
Penaranda
Miguel Candia
Antenor Ichazo
Pedro Arce Zilvetti
America
Roosevelt
Detroit
Victor
Fifth Pushing Ahead In Italy
Allied reports from Algiers say General Clark’s Fifth Army has taken San Pietro after three days of heavy fighting and moved toward San Vittore on the Casino road. Montgomery’s Eighth Army overran a coastal position, advanced inland about a mile, and captured Consaivi near Orsogna, while destroying German Mark IV tanks and taking fifty parachutists.
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Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
San Pietro
San Vittore
Cassino
Bernard L. Montgomrey
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Consaivi
Orsogna
Montgomery
Sangro River
Italy
Charles F Stevenson Dies In Bradford Hospital
Bradford Pa December 29 Charles F Stevenson 64 vice president of the South Penn Oil Co died yesterday in Bradford hospital after a short illness.
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Bradford
Charles F. Stevenson
South Penn Oil Co
Bradford Hospital
Posts Collateral in Drunk Driving Case
Walter Grumbine, 59, of 944 Salem Avenue, posted £106 and costs late last night on a drunken driving charge. Fin was arraigned by Patrolmen Deanherrer and Krhiman, Phale.
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Walter Grumbine
Salem Avenue
Fin
Deanherrer
Krhiman
Phaele
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