Yugoslav Partisans push in Banja Luka battle ends
Tito announces Partisan attack on Banja Luka, base of the Second German Tank Army, ends after six days of heavy fighting with 680 Germans killed, 700 wounded and 720 captured. North of the city, Bosanska Gradiska and Stara Gradiska, and Nova Gradiska, see further Partisan action. Radic Brothers detachment scores combat gains including 25 killed, 40 wounded and captured ammunition dumps and trench mortars.
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Crich
London
Zagreb
K. A. Anderson
Tunisia
George S. Patton, Jr
Sicily
Balkan
Josip Broz (Tito
Banja Luka
Fifth Corps
Tita
Sava
Bosanska Gradiska
Stara Gradiska
17000 Strike At Shipyards Amid Painter Dispute
A strike at shipyards involving 17000 workers stems from a dispute with 42 painters over brush wages vs spray guns. Union officials threaten action to force returns if Navy takes over, while company and naval authorities dispute the lockout claim and arbitration prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Herbert Moyer
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
CSO
Navy Bureau of Ships
Washington, Whitney Co
Colby
William F. Schaffer
Collis
Comdr. J. M. L. Joslin
4Th Naval District
One Injured In Auto Accident Reported
An auto crash on Fairground avenue between Locust and Mulberry streets injured Juanita N. Mayhaugh 22 of North Cannon avenue with lip cuts after Richard A. Wolfensberger 23 struck a pole around 3 a m near West Franklin street.
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Richard A. Wolfensberger
Franklin Street
Fairground
Locust
Mulberry Streets
Juanita N. Mayhaugh
Cannon Avenue
Dwight Walker Elected President of Maryland Horticultural Society
Dwight T. Walker of Mt. Airy Md was elected president at the Maryland State Horticultural Society closing session at Hotel Alexander Hagerstown with about 200 attendees. The 1945 meeting will be in Hagerstown duties included officers Balderston Heaps Vierheller and Fulton with several resolutions urging a National Advisory Council of growers and opposing agriculture subsidies while noting potential fertilizer and packaging shortages and labor issues.
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Dwight T. Walker
Mt. Airy
Maryland State Horticultural Society
Hotel Alexander
Hagerstown
Lloyd Balderston
Colora
Marshall T. Heaps
Cardiff
A. F. Vierheller
College Park Extension Horticulturist
Stanley Fulton
Hancock
J. Andrew Cahill
Fulton
Heaps
Maryland Farm Bureau
D. E H. Rinehart
Smithsburg
Appalachian Apple Service
National Advisory Council
Washington County
E. P. Cahill
Charles Smith
Clearspring
Extension Service
University of Maryland
Baltimore City
I. C. Haut
C. H. Mahoney
University
Haut
Maryland
Marine Ace Missing Amid Guadalcanal Action Recall
A Marine ace missing after a Guadalcanal engagement as family recollections surface. A 1935 enlistment quote shows his resolve to fly despite danger. His letters describe sending men to their deaths and comforting bereaved families as battles raged with 30 fighters, six Zeros shot down, and several probables.
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Marine Corps
Air Service
Greg Royington
Tan
Guadalcanal
Boyington
Blatksherp
Hewey
Papioga
Nazi Propaganda Fails to Quell War Fatigue in Berlin
Jaederlund reports from Berlin that opposition to the regime is suppressed by Himmler’s forces and that despite heavy bombing, Berliners endure. He notes Hamburg quickly resumed production after August raids, with workers returning under threat of eviction and even living in factories and cellars of bombed homes.
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Himmler
City conducts special war bond drive honoring nations
Hagerstown joins a fourteenth war bond drive featuring Greek Czechoslovak Dutch Polish Norwegian and other nations. At Leiter Brothers store buyers receive free color reproductions of Auslander poems plus a biography and nation booklets. Greek Day follows with days for each nation through Saturday.
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Greece
Czechoslovakia
Netherlands
Poland
Norway
France
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Luxenbourg
Denmark
Joseph Auslander
Leiter Brothers
Auslander
Roy Leiter
Treasury Department
Hagerstown
Revisions in Job Release Decisions in Hagerstown Area
Fifty one initial job releases were issued to first time entrants, with 74 sent to essential industries and 16 to non essential work. Washington county permit requests totaled 70 with 60 granted and nine denied. December releases included 15 workers claiming underutilized skills. 11 granted and four denied. Two cases went to the appeals panel, resulting in one denial and one drop. Additional moves placed 28 laid off mechanics from a nearby town into essential industries in Hagerstown. Thirty seven workers were persuaded to return to employment.
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Washington County
WMC
Hagerstown
Tokyo Facing Berlin's Fate
General Halsey praised American forces in the jungle war against Japan. He highlighted Marines and Seabees achievements at Munda airport and noted 16,000 women employed in U.S. petroleum refineries.
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Halsey
Marine Corps
Seabees
Munda
United States
Ithe Country
Jet propelled rocket plane to enter quantity production
Army Air Forces and Royal Air Force announce a jet propulsion fighter plane has proven successful after hundreds of test flights. The jet powered aircraft, developed from research begun ten years ago by Group Captain Frank Whittle, is slated for imminent mass production.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Royal Air Force
Luftwaffe
Allied Air Chiefs
Great Britain
Frank Whittle
RAF
Revealed Nazis Lack Reserves in 1944 Crisis
London reports show German high command slow to reinforce the Polish border sector and seal the eastern front. Allied strategy at Teheran hinges on pressuring multiple fronts while Soviet forces smash through defenses, highlighting Germany's dwindling reserves and looming defeat.
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London
Norway
France
Red Army
Europe
Germany
Stalin
DOUGHBOY YARN PLAYS TAPS TODAY AT HENRY'S
Evelyn Keyes and Tom Neal star in Columbia's There’s Something About a Soldier at Henry’s Theatre today as the Officer Candidate School story closes its engaging run. The film features a notable cast including Tom Neal Evelyn Keyes John Subhard Bruce Bennett and Jeff Donnell directed by Alfred H Green.
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Evelyn Keyes
Tom Neal
Columbia
Henry's
John Subhard
Bruce Bennett
Jeff Donnell
Alfred H. Green
No Mail To Our Jap Held Men
A wartime report details Japanese prisoner conditions from the Philippines hostages at Kwantung army and local Red Cross observers. It notes brick camps with hospital, canteen, bunks, and 3,800 to 4,120 calorie diets for patients and laborers, plus daily medical exams, inoculations, paid work, and limited mail. Prisoner reps seek books and recreation aids. Vatican donations funded clocks and instruments.
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Philippines
Bataan and
Corrigidor
Kwangtung Army Headquarters
General Army Hospital
Red Cross Hospital
Vatican
Major Hawkins
Red Cross Observer
Mosquitos Bite Germany Again
London January 7 RAF Mosquitos attacked western Germany for the sixth straight night delivering plywood bomber raids to targets undisclosed in Germany while also striking northern France and laying mines in enemy waters. The raids report no losses to German defenses or night fighters according to an Air Ministry communique.
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London
English Channel
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Air Ministry
France
Singer and Lt Walker wed in New Jersey home
Lucille Manners, a concert soprano and radio star, married Lt. William Jackson Walker of the U S Air Forces at her home in Short Hills New Jersey. Walker is a nephew of the late Jacob Ruppert brewer and Yankees owner. Film stars Carole Landis and George Ratt arrived in London to join the USO entertaining troops there.
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Short Hills
N. J
Lucille Manners
William Jackson Walker
U. S. Air Forces
Jacob Ruppert
New York Yankees
England
London
Carole Landis
George Ratt
Great Britain
USO
Savings Accounts Show Great Jump
Baltimore bankers report a large rise in savings among war workers on a $21 million weekly payroll. About half save, pay debts, and plan postwar home purchases in their states. Maryland savings rose from $317,051,000 in 1938 to $389,037,000 by mid-1943, with 80 percent in Baltimore banks. Demand deposits also surged, and unemployment compensation is projected to fall from over $10 million in 1939 to about $900,000 in 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Dan
State Banking Department
Maryland
Toaster and Radio Stolen from Pine Street Home
Police investigate theft at 826 Pine Street reporting a Philco radio and a Toastmaster toaster were taken in a break in yesterday. The resident Mrs H S Munson is moving from 700 Maryland Avenue to Pine Street and notes the items are hard to replace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philco
Pine Street
H. S. Munson
Maryland Avenue
Woman Threatens To Have Baby Over Gas Ration
In Salt Lake City a pregnant applicant, told there would be a slight delay for extra gasoline ration coupons to reach a maternity hospital, threatened to have her baby there. Officials sped up the procedure and she departed clutching coupons.
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Salt Lake City
City Population Has Leveled Off in 1943
City Engineer Charles W. Stump reports in 1943 total sewage treated fell to 1,494,990,000 gallons from 1,695,310,000 in 1942. Decline linked to leveled population, draft outpacing industry gains, and drought conservation. Disposal plant operating costs rose to $31,275.64 from $30,344.49.
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Hagerstown
Charles W. Stump
Stump
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