Allies unify on Moscow talks to defeat Hitler in war
Soviet Russia and Great Britain voiced full accord on wartime conduct and postwar plans after Moscow and London meetings paralleling Washington talks. The joint declaration stressed utter defeat of Nazi Germany and measures to prevent future aggression, with U S and Japanese-aligned leaders participating through envoys and diplomats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Russia
Great Britain
Stalin
Eden
Roosevelt Churchill
Washington
London
Kremlin
United States
Germany
Roosevelt
Churchill
Walter Thurston
Kuibyshev
Ivan Maisky
Vyacheslav Molotov
Stafford Cripps
Alexander Cadogan
Archibald Edward Nye
Britain
Chiang Kai-shek
Hughe Knutchbull-lluggeses
Turkey
Reader Bullard
Iran
Four Die in Milwaukee Gas Tragedy at Suburban Home
Milwaukee report of Grace DeRoo 37 and her three children found dead from gas in a suburban Cudahy residence after the husband entered a hospital for surgery. A note suggests the mother arranged the deaths and sleep aids to end their lives, with a stove burner left on. Police found the bodies near beds and a Christmas tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Grace M. DeRoo
Cudahy
Marilyn
Barbara
James T. Barbara
Jimes
Henry A. Theler
Roy i
Jones
Bariniva
Deaths Earl L. Butts of Washington County
Earl L. Butts, aged about years, died last night in Washington County. He was an employee of the gas company for ten years and a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Survived by two sons and several relatives, with funeral arrangements announced for Wednesday afternoon at the Kreiss Funeral Home. Interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, viewing hours held prior to service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl L. Butts
Sam Potomac
Washington County
Ke Mer
Roy Snyder
Johnson
Kreiss
Diane Wire
Wilson
Rose Hi
Kraiss Funneral
Jap Trickery Tracked Down in Broadcast Interference
The navy disclosed Japanese forces disrupted an American shortwave broadcast to the Philippines by false reports of a bombing in San Francisco. Manila listeners were astonished as KGEI's signal was interrupted with mock “flash” bulletins claiming the city burned. Naval intelligence traced the interference to a powerful Japanese station intruding on KGEI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Navy
Philippines
Ptay
Manila
KGEI
Naval
Reclassifying In Full Swing In Maryland Draft Boards
Maryland's sixty six local draft boards are reclassifying registrants to meet higher manpower needs. Lieutenant Colonel Henry C Stanwood says deferments are temporary and classifications are in flux. Two old deferments 1 H and 4 A are eliminated and 1 B will be reexamined. Boards are told to count deferments more cautiously due to dependency and occupation factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Henry C. Stanwood
Selective Service
Local Cows Are Record Winners
Two Guernsey cows owned by J W Howell of Magerstown set new official records in the Advanced Register of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. The four and one half year old Patient Sally of Fox Deceived yielded 1141 pounds of milk and 469.3 pounds of butterfat, while the 1 1/2 year old Fox Deceived Charters, Jette SIM589 produced member W574 pounds of milk and 464.2 pounds of butterfat.
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Guernsey
J. W W. Howell
Magerstown
Sally
Free French to Exchange Views on Occupied Islands
London reports that Free French leaders will exchange views with Allied authorities on diplomatic questions raised by the occupation of St Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland. The United States called the Free French action arbitrary and unconsulted with Washington.
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London
Charles de Chile
St. Pierre and
Mique
Lon
Newfoundland
United States
Warlington
Commissioner Of Labor And Statistics Facing New Problems Due To War
Maryland labor department chief John M. Porshaus notes 56 years of data work and wartime strain as defense production expands. The 1941 year saw few major labor disputes, with several stoppages prevented via arbitration. The office emphasizes mediation duties for disputes involving ten or more workers and cites a 27 percent factory index rise and 52 percent payroll gain from 1940 to 1941, based on 80 firms employing 174,000 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Porshaus
Labor and Statistics
Baltimore
General Assembly of
Maryland
Bureau of Industrial Statistics and Reformation of
Thomas C.] Weeks
Henry Lloyd
Staf
Britain Pounds German Ports In Second Night Raids
London reports RAF airblows target Wilhelmshaven Emden Rhineland docks at Dunkerque and Dutch coast airdromes as coastal command planes strike enemy shipping off the Netherlands. Berlin says British bombers hit western and north western German coastal areas with high explosives and incendiaries. four RAF planes downed and only civilian casualties noted.
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London
Germany
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Rhineland
R.A.F
Air Ministry
France
Europe
Dunkerque
Holland
Berlin
Damdee
Atast
Germans Sick Of Hitlerism
ISTANBUL December 27 1941 George H H Ba Tif former US minister to Bulgaria arrived from Sofia describing gloom over Nazi dominated Europe He said Romanian and Hungarian hospitals were filled with German wounded from the eastern front and that German fortunes were declining while death throats could be violently unexpected Farle arrived with his delegation after leaving Sofia following Bulgaria's declaration of war on the United States.
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Istanbul
George HH
Ba Tif
United States
Bulgaria
Sofia
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Farle
Funeral Tomorrow For Sun Editor in Baltimore
Funeral services for William F. Moore managing editor of the Baltimore Sun and chief editor of the Sunpapers are tentatively set for 11 a m tomorrow at Arlington National Cemetery. Burial there pending final plans as brother Judge George H. Moore arrives in Washington. Moore died Saturday in Miami during a brief vacation.
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Baltimore
Bec
William Fe, Moore
Baltimo Sun
Sunpapers
Arington National Geometery
Washington
George H. Moore
UTBS
Westriet Court
St. Tavis
Moore
Miami
Ariing Tom
Italy Slashes Train Service Across Nation
Rome reports drastic reductions in Italian railroad facilities to meet urgent general interest needs. All reduced fares for family tickets and season tickets for journeys over 69 miles, along with other fare cuts, were abolished after a prior decree that cut passenger trains, notably around Milan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Audi
Italy
Eight Die In Mine Blast At Harco Illinois
Eight coal miners died in a gas explosion at Peabody Coal Mine No. 47 in Harco with 17 hours of rescue work. Victims identified by cap numbers. Harold Holden, 30, missing as crews search. Two rescued, listed as noncritical, while officials investigate the blast’s cause.
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Harrisburg
Ill
Peabody Coal Company
Harco
Harold Holden
Mine and Company
McCoy Cobb
Eldorado
Orval Dougherty
Tarca
Wiliam Strange
Harvo
Roy Donaldson
Harea
Charles Pemberton
Marion
H. A. Smith
Galaira
John Fletcher
Thompsonville
Harold Molden
Frank Dietz
Claude M. Phelps
Plebiscite backs Free French rule in St Pierre and Miquelon
Official returns from St Pierre and Miquelon show 98.4 percent support General Charles de Gaulle's leadership in a plebiscite. The Free French information bureau and popular demand tonight declared the question of Free French rule definitively established.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Pierre
Free French Information Bureau
Popnead
St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands
Charles Te Gaulle
Water Service Ad Highlights Age, Phone Ady
An aged water service ad promotes a cleaning or treatment, urging readers to avoid hard water complexion and to contact via the listed phone number Ady for service details.
Full Accord Says Leader in Manila on MacArthur
Presidential Secretary Jorge Vargas declared on behalf of the Philippine government that the Filipino people were in full accord with General Douglas MacArthur's declaration that Manila is an open city. The statement answered Japanese assertions of disapproval and noted Quezon moved government offices to facilitate the declaration.
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Manila
Jorge Vargas
Douglas MacArthur
Vargas
Manuel Quezon
MacArthur
Quezon
Scare Over False Bombs Found at Philadelphia Dock
Five powder filled cylinders found at the city police dock along the Delaware riverfront sparked a sabotage scare. Detective Captain Joseph Kearns called them non dangerous flares used by fishermen while Acting Mayor Bernard Samuel said they appeared incendiary by initial checks and the potential damage could not yet be assessed.
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Philadelphia
Delaware
Joseph Kearns
Bernard Samuel
Colonel Confined for Air Power Remark at Columbus
Col. H. Kress Muhlenberg former commandant of Tlickam Field Hawaii was ordered confined to quarters in Columbus Ohio after an address in which he criticized the U S Navy saying only Japanese SND e Wits saved Hawaii and deploring lack of air power in the Pacific.
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Col. H. ©. Kress Muhlenberg
Tlickam Field
Hawaii
Columbus
Ohio
U.S. Navy
Pacific
Muhlenberg
Fourth-Rater Japanese on Luzon Say U S Cavalry
A U S cavalry colonel in central Luzon calls the Japanese invaders fourth-rate, noting tanks and planes limited success. In Tayug and Binalonan they fought seven and five hours respectively, with casualties and heroics from two unnamed American officers and a driving crew. Filipino scouts aided by tossing petrol bombs helped break the attack and allow a withdrawal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glare Lee
Usaffe
Luzon
United States
Philippines
Tayug
Manila
Lingayen Gulf
Binalonan
Chicago Grain Market Quotation Report
Market quotations from Mackubin Legg and Co in Hagerstown Maryland show May July and September futures for Wheat Corn Oats and Rye. Prices list high low and last figures with bid and ask ranges across May July and Sept contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackubin, Legg
Fire, Poison And Fall Prove Fatal
New York report details 38 year old WPA worker Mario Paschapto starting two fires in a west side rooming house then swallowing poison. He fell two flights during the blaze and died after saying he had attempted suicide before losing hope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mario Paschapto
West Side
WPA
Hie
Sons and Daughters At Rotarians Luncheon
The Hegerstown Rotary Club will end its year with a lunch for Rotary members' sons and daughters at Hotel Alexander. The program features comedy films instrumental music and group singing plus a North Street school chorus performing carols and negro spirituals under Charles Hodges. The event is led by the Boys Work committee chair William C. Diehl and the Youth Service Committee chair Russell Nelson, now in its third annual Sons and Daughters luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hegerstown Rotary Club
Sons and Daughters of Rotary
Hotel Alexander
North Street
Charles Hodges
Boys Work Committee
William C. Diehl
Youth Service Committee
Russell Nelson
Flagman killed in Delmar yards near Salisbury
Salisbury Md Dec 29 19 William H B Schultz 55 year old Pennsylvania Railroad flagman of Oxford Mich was killed in the Del mar yards early yesterday morning by a freight engine. Adv Saums 21 Jonathan St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
William HB. Schultz
Pennsylvania Railroad
Oxford, MI
Delmar Yards
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Tokyo
Naval Sectionat
Imperial Headquarters
H. O. Spickler
Hagerstown Industrial Savings & Loan Co
Jonathan St
General Ins
Artelde
Arthur FL Petrow
Tas
Smith Furniture Co
W. Franklin St
Tri-State
W. Frankiin $T
U. S. Defense
Beck’s Restaurant
Kenneth Yearns
U. S
Swatow
Hong Kong
C. M. Maltby
Hongkong
Kraiss Funeral Home
N. Potomac St
Cort Asphek
Vals
Strictey Confinentiat
Yulin
Better Homes, Inc
W. Wash. St
Reichard’s
Commissioner of Labor and Statistics
Earle
Sun
Milan
Eseedient
Tayiare
Shane
Hagerstown Business College
Liens
Jack D. Dale
U. S. Army Air Corps
Luzon Island
General MacArthur
JAP Invaders
Mackubin
Lega & Co
Wareham
Sutcling
Hagerstown, Md
Con
Amer
T&t
Wat
Wks
Atchison
BL & OL
Beth. Steel
Case
Chrysler Os
Consol
Crown CK & SL
DuPont Dakaade
Sa. Oe
Motors
Goodyear
North Amer
Loews
Texas Corp
Warner Bros
Sears Roebuck
Rentington Rand
Chicago Grain Market
Potomac Edison
Joseph H. Dagenais
W. Washington St
Phote
Baltimore, MD
Hagerstown
Baltimore Western Maryland Railway Company
Saum’s
Jonathan St. Adv
Hamilton
U. S. Universal Dry Cleaner
Container L. Mills
W. Haltimore St
Thone
Consumers Loan Service 407
Professional Arts
noWestarian
S.M Fuster
Federl Savings
First Federal Savings & Loan Assn
N. Jonathan St
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