Russians Break German Winter Line Near Vyazma Bryansk
Moscow reports on the central front say Soviet forces breached a new German water defense line between Vyazma and Bryansk. The midnigh t communique claimed recapture of Lyudinovo north of Bryansk and seizure of Tikhonova Pustyn near Kaluga. A midday update spoke of 2700 German officers and troops killed and several batteries destroyed in two days.
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Moscow
Vyazma
Bryansk
Lyudinovo
Tikhonova Pustyn
Kaluga
Hitler
Smolensk
Adolf Hitler
Stockholm
London
Smol
Wickard Warns Nation on Food Supply And Prices
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard warned Americans not to panic over prices or supplies as wartime demands grow. He asked Congress to empower him to set ceilings on farm products, a move the Senate endorsed in a price control bill. He stressed that Pearl Harbor changed the food situation and urged calm despite new pressures.
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Washington
Wickard
Congress
Senate
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Warn Firemen To Be Alert In Elkton Sabotage Threat
State police warned Elkton area fire companies after 1200 feet of hose from the Singerly volunteer unit were ruined by sulphuric acid. Chief Richard Masemore said bottles stored in the fire house dumped acid into the hose, likely after midnight when no one was on duty. A 24 hour guard was ordered and the alert extended to other volunteers in the region.
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Elkton
Richard Masemore
Singerly Fire Company
Masemore
Five Held For Hearings Tonight In Williamsport Brawl
Local men Harry Stains Ernest Smith Hoyer Barger William McNamee and Charles Sullivan were arrested Saturday midnight by Deputies Stangle and Miller on disorderly conduct charges and will be heard tonight before Magistrate Shipley in Williamsport Sullivan faces an extra charge for speeding over fifty miles per hour.
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Stangle
Miller
Shipley
Williamsport
Harry Stains
Ernest Smith
Hoyer Barger
William McNamee
Charles Sullivan
Kemp's Mill
Sullivan
Victory Garden program to urge urban food plots
The Office of Civilian Defense plans a victory garden program in response to Agriculture Department warnings about wartime food needs. Gardens will be divided into plots worked by individual families, with surpluses to feed school lunches and meet emergency needs.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Defense
Agriculture Department
America
OCD
Ever Normal Granary Tapped for War Supplies
CHICAGO Jan 12 The nations ever normal granary, tapped in the war emergency, is disgorging corn from surplus crops of the past three seasons. Corn flows into consumption channels in record volume from steel tanks once bulging with stocks for the peacetime livestock program. This does not mean a corn shortage but offsets the 1941 surplus. Corn tops grains in Americas food for freedom drive as distilleries widen use to produce smokeless powder for war.
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Chicago
Food For Freedom
Uncle Sam
Attorney Rutledge Assigned to Edgewood for War Course
Irvin Rutledge a well known local attorney now at Fort Meade Md has been assigned to the Officers Candidate School at Edgewood Arsenal Md for a three months course in gas and chemical warfare upon completion of which he will be commissioned a second lieutenant
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Irvin Rutledge
Fort Meade
Edgewood Arsenal
Washington County defense drive posts record totals
Official figures show final defense savings drive totals of 210503 for stamps and 236212.25 in bonds. Harrisburg area officials praised the county’s per capita support, noting sixfold the $35000 goal and Hancock leading with 5925.05 in stamps.
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Robert H. McCauley
Washington County
McCauley
Walter N. Ruth
Defense Savings
Buffalo
N. Y
Hagerstown
Hancock
Ross Shives
Mayor Attends Two Day Conference Meeting
Mayor Richard H. Sweeney, Washington County Civilian Defense director, joins the U S Conference of Mayors in Washington for a two day session chaired by President Mayor LaGuardia. About 200 mayors are expected with speakers including Navy Secretary Knox, Attorney General Biddle, and federal officials.
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Richard H. Sweeney
Washington County
U. S. Conference of Mayors
Washington
LaGuardia
Hagerstown
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Francis Biddle
Malcolm MacDonald
Canada
Donald E. Nelson
O.P.M
Floyd Qodlum
Thomas Parran
Sidney Hillman
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve System
Wendell Ll. Willkie
Commissions of Officers Authorized for Potomac Edison Guards
Commissions for A Ju Stevens E R Shank W W Mentzer D E Mellett and P E Coble as special policemen were received from Annapolis. The men are expected to guard Potomac Edison Company plants.
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A. Ju. Stevens
E. R. Shank
W. W. Mentzer
D. E. Mellett
P. E. Coble
Potomac Edison Company
Annapolis
Ardent Church Worker Held As A Female Ponzi
Newark January report details Amelia Carr a well regarded church worker and trustee spouse arrested as a confidence woman with a half century of swindling. FBI fingerprint checks show crimes dating to 1891 with aliases, multiple imprisonments across states. Bail set at 50000, the highest for a woman in the county.
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Newark
N. J
Roseville “Methodist ‘Church
Amelia Carr
Essex County
Wiliam A. Machenfeld
F.B.I
Carr
Wachenfeld
F.bi
Washington State
New York
New Jersey State
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Walla Walla
Spokane
Wash
Four Killed in Collision Near Ellicott City Md
Four people die and two are injured in a highway crash five miles west of Ellicott City on Route 40. Victims include John K. Culver Jr and Miriam Culver of Baltimore, and privates Charles Bowers, Harry Rohrbask Jr of Brunswick, with Charles Carroll Jr of Garrison seriously hurt. The deceased had just begun a 10 day furlough from Fort Meade. Mrs Culver was debutante Miriam Beard, daughter of horsewoman E Read Beard.
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Ellicott City
Frederick County
Baltimore
Here
John K. Culver, Jr
Garrison
Brunswick
Charles B. Carroll, Jr
Maryland
Culver
St. Agnes Hospital
Albert G. Dutrow
Frederick
W. M. Bohler
Fort George G. Meade
Third Corps Army
Bohler
Miriam A. Beard
Son Sends Air Mail Letter From Honolulu Safely
Mrs Eleanora Peters received a Saturday letter from her son Theodore Peters an infantryman stationed at Honolulu Hawaii advising her of his safety The letter left Honolulu on December 27 and was sent by air mail
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Eleanora Peters
Theodore Peters
Honolulu
Hawaii
Car theft report cites camera revolver and flashlight missing
Stewart Paxton of 144 East Washington Street reported to police the theft yesterday from his car on East Washington Street of a $25 Argus candid camera a revolver and a flashlight.
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Stewart Paxton
East Washington Street
East Washington
Let Me At Them Japs Says Louis
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis reported to Fort Jay on Governors Island for a pre induction physical. Accompanied by Mike Jacobs and Julian Black, he registered as Joe Louis Barrow and, when asked his occupation, replied fighting and let me at them Japs.
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New York
Joe Louis
Fort Jay
Governor’s Island
Mike Jacobs
Julian Black
Joe Louis Barrow
Thicket of ice grips area after 25 years
Government observer J A Miller said ice thickness on streams reaches a 25 year high with Little Antietam Creek dam at Keedysville freezing to 4 15 inches and skating widespread locally. Sub zero temperatures hit Chewsville with four below zero, Keedysville seeing five above while roads mostly clear except crowded sections between Hancock and Cumberland. Travel remains comparatively safe across Western Maryland.
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J. A. Miller
Miller
Antietam Creek
Keedysville
Chewsville
State Roads Commission
Hancock
Cumberland
Maryland
Hartman Divorce Granted by Judge Mish
Catherine Jeanette Hartman receives a divorce from Charles Mac Cammon Hartman in a ruling by Judge Joseph J. Mish. Representation was by Attorneys Oswald and Oswald.
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Catherine Jeanette Hartman
Joseph J. Mish
Charles MacCammon Hartman
Oswald and
Oswald
German U boats sink British destroyer in Atlantic
Official Broad cast from Berlin reports Nazi submarines sank one British destroyer in the Atlantic and damaged another, signaling a wartime naval action.
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Berlin
High Command
Atlantic
Dutch Allied Assaults Turn Tide On Philippine Front
War department reports heavy artillery battles along the entire Philippines front with fresh Japanese troops advancing. Corregidor and MacArthur’s defenses faced renewed air assaults as American and Dutch forces joined in targeting Japanese ships in a larger carrier task force.
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Washington
Philippines
War Department
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Douglas MacArthur
Department
Chinese Break Japanese Offensive Near Changsha
Chinese dispatches report Japanese forces retreating north of Changsha after a massive defeat. About 1,000 prisoners were taken and large amounts of equipment seized as the main Japanese body was dispersed along the Jaotao river, with casualties totaling tens of thousands.
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Chungeking
China
Changsha
Laotao
Milo
Hunan
Jaotao River
Yangtze River
Yochow
Health officer says measles scarce locally this year
The Health Department reported little sickness here and that measles, epidemic in several Maryland cities, are scarce locally. Dr. W. R. Willard, health officer, noted that last winter had many measles cases but this year appears unlikely to see an outbreak.
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Health Department
Maryland
W. R. Willard
Tax official Gantz stricken at office taken to hospital
Guy G. Gantz East Washington street Washington county supervisor of tax assessments was suddenly stricken at his office this morning and taken to Washington County Hospital for treatment.
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Guy G. Gantz
East
Washington Street
Washington County
Kuala Lumpur Fallen as Japanese Push in Malaya
Singapore Jan 12. British communique reports Kuala Lumpur loss with troops retreating to positions near Seremban 35 miles southeast. Tokyo broadcast said Japanese entered Kuala Lumpur Sunday. Battlelines shift to within 150 miles of Singapore as Malaya falls to invaders, with Selangor not entirely surrendered and Singapore subjected to several light attacks.
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Singapore
Kuala
Lumpur
Federated Malay States
Seramban
Tokyo
Kuala Lumpur
Malayan
Selangor
Twenty-two youths ordered into army service January fifteenth
Twenty two local youths have received induction orders for January 15. They will depart for Fort Meade after passing final physicals. Names include Robert Stillwell, Charles Alvin McAuley, Clarence Ellsworth Armstrong, Ralph Hall Harbert, Herbert McKinley Coberly, Elkins West Virginia, Charles Austin Henson, Arnold Norman Fleagle, Frederick Thomas White Jr, Bernard Leo Koerner, Earl Victor Springer, Dominick Louis Aceto, John Jay Mullenix, Tilghman Ellsworth Price, William Alden Crumbacker, Edgar Hammond Dellinger, Joseph William Swope, Willie Charles Grossnicker, Paul George W. Highbarger, Marvin Sigens Holmes, Harold Albert Sigafoose, Walter Byron Stehl Jr, Frank Llewellyn Miller Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Meade
Robert Stillwell
Potomac Hotel
Charles Alvin McCauley
North Locust
Clarence Ellsworth Armstrong
Salem
Ralph Hall Harbert
South Potomac
Herbert McKinley
Coberly
Elkins
W. Va
Charles Austin Henson
Arnold Norman Fleagle
Peonage Law Invalidated by Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court held unconstitutional a 1993 Georgia statute challenged by the Justice Department for creating peonage. Justice Byrnes wrote the 8 to 0 decision with Justice Roberts not participating. The law punished anyone who contracted for personal services with intent to obtain money in advance and then refuse to perform.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Georgia
Justice Department
Byrnes
Roberts
Netherlands forces strike back in Timor and Celebes
Dutch and Allied air actions hit Japanese shipping during invasions of Tarakan and Celebes. Allied planes bombed a cruiser and two large transports in the Celebes Sea with undetermined results. Australian fighters supported operations, as Japanese paratroops and sea forces pressed efforts to hold Tarakan and Celebes.
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Batavia
N.E.L
Netherlands
Tris
Borneo
Celebes
United States
Depent
Washington
Minahassa
Germany Battles Typhus Epidemic On Eastern Front
Berlin report cites National Zeitung that Germany has rushed hundreds of doctors and nurses to the eastern front and set up an anti-epidemic center at Warsaw. A battle against lice, chief typhus carrier, is under way as Nazi soldiers endure heavy clothing and poor washing.
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Bern
Germany
Warsaw
Berlin
National Zeitung
Russian Fleet Shelling Germans in Crimea
London reports say Russia's Black Sea fleet based at Sevastopol shelled retreating German columns in eastern Crimea today after Nazis failed to destroy or seize the base.
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London
Russia
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Crimea
Keitel Sidelined by Sudden Illness Report
London reports a Moscow broadcast stating Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel chief of the Nazi high command has suddenly fallen ill. The claim, from the London Star, notes no further details or confirmation.
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London
London Star
Moscow
Wilhelm Keitel
Steel Production Record Shown For December 1941
United States Steel Corp subsidiaries shipped 1,846,936 net tons of steel in December 1941, a monthly record. December shipments were 221,356 net tons higher than November, and 301,413 more than December 1940.
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New York
United States Steel Corp
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Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Ukraine
Nation
J. Clarence Carr
Edson R. Leach
Gar
Louis
Philippine Front
U. S. Fleet
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