Allied Ultimatum To Germany Is Indicated In Italy
Allied forces in Italy push forward after a long stalemate as Fifth Army led by Lt Gen Clark breaks through in Calabritto and advances near Lanciano and San Vito on the Adriatic. British Eighth Army drives beyond Sangro Ridge with Castel Frentano captured. heavy air attacks deliver fierce battles and many German planes are shot down.
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Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Calabritto
Eighth Army
Sangro
Castel Frentano
Bolzano
Brenner Pass
Mignano
Rome
Clark
Italy
Castel Frontano
Adriatic
Pescara
Yugoslav
Mayor La Guardia urges wartime delinquency curb
A Senate subcommittee heard Mayor Fiorello La Guardia urge prohibiting transmission of race track information by wire radio telephone mail or newspapers and banning interstate shipment of slot machines. He called gambling a chronic disease that leads parents to neglect their homes and foster juvenile delinquency citing drinking and gambling as contributing factors.
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Washington
Senate
Fiorello la Guardia
New York
Christmas Cheer From Winchester Workers To Soldiers
Mr Winchester notes the festive spirit amid war as Virginia Woolen Mill employees send ten dollar Christmas money orders to workers in the Armed Forces. The community hopes soldiers think of Winchester and home during the season and more support for service members will follow.
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Virginia Woolen Mill
Winchester
Home
Rouss Bingo Tonight Starts Early With Prizes
Rouss Fire Co announces bingo every Friday night starting at 8:00 PM instead of 8:30 PM. Prizes total 250 dollars.
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ROUSS
Rouss Fire Co
Sarah Zane Fire Co Meeting Notice
The regular monthly meeting of the Sarah Zane Fire Co. will be held Friday evening December 3 at 8 p.m. Every member is urged to attend. Loryn M. Crabill, Captain.
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Sarah Zane Fire Co
Owners Act To Protect Swine From Cholera
Hog cholera has broken out near Middletown prompting swine owners to vaccinate and slaughter hogs ready for butcher. Dr. E W Miller recommends immediate vaccination for pigs not yet sick, as cure is unlikely. A state vet notes no known local cases. weather could aid spread if unchecked.
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Middletown
P. H
Lucy Cover- H. Bly
Reliance Road
Charles Miller
Strasac
Wakeman
Winchester
E. W. Miller
Miller
F. I. McClure
New Gas Tickets To Be Issued
Washington December 3 The Office of Price Administration outlines a plan to issue serially numbered T coupons for use by commercial vehicles and taxi cabs starting January 1 to curb black market gas. The move follows criticism in a government report that loose ticket issuance fed illicit sales. Motorists will need to update ration book covers with 1944 license plate data, replacing the old method of changing ration books at the boards.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Office of War
Office of Defense Transportation
OPA
OWI
George Sickness Delays Drew Pearson Senate Hearing
Washington Columnist Drew Pearson postponed his Senate Finance Committee appearance after Sen George Ga chair tested with a sore throat and fever. The delay follows Pearson's claim that Ellsworth Alvord of the U S C of C boasted of having Senator George's tax vote in his pocket.
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Washington
Drew Pearson
Senate Finance Committee
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
George
D-Ga
Capitol
Pearson
Ellsworth Alvord
C. Counsel
Hal Temperature George
1St Aid
Senate
Johnson
D-Ii
Eminent Divine to Speak at Grace Lutheran Sunday
The Rev. William C. Schaeffer D D pastor of St John’s Lutheran Allentown Pa will preach at 11 00 a m and lead the 9 45 a m Men’s Bible Class at Grace Lutheran Church Sunday He is a national figure in the United Lutheran Church and has led an active religious education program The public is invited to all services including 7 30 p m vesper services He also serves on multiple church boards and missions groups and was born in Richmond Virginia
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Grace Lutheran Church
William C. Schaeffer
D. D
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Allentown
United Lutheran Church
Schaeffer
Philadelphia Seminary
Board of American Missions
The
Richmond Va
Apostolic Delegate Cicognani to Visit Shenandoah Valley
His Excellency Most Reverend Anleto Giovanni Cicognani Apostolic Delegate to the United States will join a Sunday luncheon at Sacred Heart Church Rectory and then travel to Harrisonburg Va for the night. He plans a Mass Sunday at New Market for prisoners, announced by Father Julian Bullock and Father John A McGilly of Sacred Heart parish.
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Anleto Giovanni Cicognani
United States
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley
New Market
Julian Bullock
John A. McGilly
Sacred Heart Parish
Momentous Conference Reported in Middle East Area
London paper says a Roosevelt Stalin Churchill summit in the Middle East issued a stark ultimatum to Germany. Connally announced the meeting from Fort Worth as radios carried word of the three leaders meeting, with reports placing the venue in Tehran or Tabriz and a communique expected before nightfall.
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E. D. Ball
London
London Star
Middle East
Germany
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Tom Connally
U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fort Worth
Texas
United Nations
Teheran
Tabriz
Persia
Connally
Washington
Joseph Stalin
Tran
Berlin
Lisbon
Paris
Iran
Russia
Bern
Vichy
Turkey
Bulgarians With Rommel Revolt Reported In Yugoslav Front
A broadcast reports Bulgarians with Rommel revolting as Bosnian Serb forces join the rebellion. Fighting in late November around Pryjepolje Sjenica Nova Varos, southeast of Sarajevo, sees partisans halt German advances and counterattack, disrupting supply lines.
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Rommel
Army of Liberation
Serbia
Bosnia
Croatia
Pryjepolje-Sjenica
Nova Varos
Sarajevo
Bi Eerpinna
Uvac Ver
Nazi S S Troops Sent To Turin Frontier Action
Brigadier General Zimmerman of the SS has been dispatched to industrial Turin in northern Italy to enforce order after Allied air raids. He pledges food supplies and restoration of order at all costs. The Lugano based Carrier Del Ticino reports raids hit Fiat ball bearing plants, with unknown casualties and ongoing clashes between civilians and troops.
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Germany
Zimmerman
Turin
Italy
del Ticino
Lugano
Switzerland
Fiat
Great Pipe Line springs a leak near Hamilton
A break in the Big Inch trans continental oil pipeline near Hamilton Ohio released a serious oil flow over an area estimated at up to 40 miles of spill. Engineers and repair crews rushed to control and repair as page 5 coverage continues.
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Hamilton
Benes as Possible Mediator in Poland Russia Tensions
Reported interest from Czechoslovak President Benes in mediating between Poland and Russia as Red Army pressure raises severed relations. Benes left London weeks ago and may attend Allied war councils as the Big Three discuss liberating territories. He favors reconciliation and a potential central European federation with Poland.
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Danae
Red Army
Poland
Russia
Benes
London
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Complacency Harms War Effort Says General Hayes
General Hayes, new commander of the Third Service Command, warned in Baltimore that depth of effort is needed from home to front lines. He argued the war is not near conclusion and that slackening now would be a fallible belief. He called every soldier and civilian a key part of a great team for victory.
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Baltimore
Philip Hayes
Toay
Hayes
Milton A. Reckord
Third Service Command
Strike at Riverside Dan River mills prolongs with 2700 looms idle
In Danville Virginia on December 3 the Riverside division strike by over 300 weavers continued. Twenty seven hundred looms warped for government cloth remained idle as union officials await a federal conciliator and the company seeks an approach from the union. Weavers on polo looms replaced forty five earlier looms. Union leaders deem the strike unauthorized.
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Danville
Riverside
Dan River
Russians drive through front as towns fall northwest of Gomel
Moscow reports Red Army advances northwest of Gomel with more than 80 towns captured amid heavy rain slush and snow. In brutal fighting along the Dnieper and Pripet rivers, 2,900 Germans killed and 72 tanks destroyed as Rokossovsky drives toward Zhlobin and Znamenka.
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Moscow
Europe
Cherkasy
Dnieper
Red Army
Gomel
Pripet River
Zhlobin
Znamenka
Kremenchug
Kiev
Zhitomir
Korosten
Smo-Minsk
White Russia
Moscow-Warsaw
Russia
Dneiper Bend
Berlin
Prsha
Minsk
Dneiper
Deputies Ready With Tax Aid For 1943 Returns
Tax aid deputies will tour Mt. Jackson New Market Woodstock Strasburg Berryville Front Royal and Winchester to help farmers and others file 1943 estimated tax returns by December 15 1943. Farmers with net profits above 624 or single farmers above 500 must file. other individuals filed by September 15 1943.
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Internal Revenue
Mt. Jackson
Postoffice
New Market
Woodstock
Office of
Comee of Revenue
Strasburg
Berryville
Office of Commissioner of Revenue
Front Royal
Winchester
Home Beneficial Life moves office to new building room 20
Notice states Home Beneficial Life Insurance Co has moved its office into a building over Peoples Drug Store, room 20, with the address and moving date implied by the public notice referencing the local property details.
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Home Beneficial Life Insurance Co
Peoples Drug Store
Five Building Lots to Be Sold At Court House
At noon tomorrow in front of the Court House a sale of five building lots from the estate of the late Lela M. Miller. The parcels are located 144 miles south of Winchester along the Front Royal Turnpike.
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Court House
Lela M. Miller
Winchester
Front Royal Turnpike
Berlin Bombed Again as RAF Pounds German Capital
Allied heavy bombers struck Berlin with 1000 tons of explosives in a major raid, starting large fires and wounding 41 British planes. The assault followed recent raids, while Mosquitoes hit western Germany and German losses mounted.
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Berlin
London
Air Ministry
Germany
Britain
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Ae Ee Imany
Rene En Deasey
No Short Cut To Victory In Pacific Curtin Says
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin says final Pacific victory hinges on European events after meeting General Douglas MacArthur. He cites the Cairo tri partite declaration and notes Rabaul has become a precarious enemy base as Australian forces shift to an offensive phase.
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Canberra
Pacific
Europe
John Curtin
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest
Curtin
Cairo
Japan
MacArthur
Roosevelt
Churchill
Rabaul
New Britain
Southwest Pacific
Four Die In Truck Upset Near Grundy Virginia
Four youths were killed instantly when a truck overturned near a curve at Marvin two miles south of Grundy. Shirley Mutter 16 Cindy Harman 18 Private Howard McGlothlin 18 Otis Stinson 18 died. Two children were critically injured with skull fractures.
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Otis Stinson
A. J. Stinson
Marvin
Wanted ten more wood cutters Earl Shade
Classified notice seeking ten additional wood cutters. The notice is signed by E Earl Shade and dated December 3. It specifies a hiring request and contact note for applicants.
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Earl Shade
Special W O W Election Offens For 1944
Special business and social hour noted for the lodge. All members urged to attend. Committee report itemized. Also a truck for orchard work offered. Call Livengood at 130 W 1 for details.
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Livengood
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Allied Ultimatium
By Wes Gallagher
Lanciano
Saorian
MR Winchester
Loryn M. Crabill
P. H. Wakeman
Hitler
S. S
Reds
By Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
South Pacific
New Guinea
Finschaf
Sweden
North African Command
Marseille
Mediterranean
Elbe River
Greater
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