Hospital Acknowledges Junior Red Cross Menu Covers
The U S Naval Hospital at Key West Florida thanks Mrs Susan Kabler executive secretary of the local Red Cross for receiving 39 Navy Year Menu Covers sent by the Winchester Frederick County Chapter of Junior Red Cross. The menu covers are described as high quality and dated greatly.
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Susan Kabler
Red Cross
Junior Red Cross
U. S. Naval Hospital
Key West
Fla
Winchester-Frederick County
Four Die In Truck Crash After Basketball Game
Four older riders and two children were injured when a truck overturned after a curve on a highway. The group had just left a Gordon High School basketball game in Marvin with Miss Mutter and Otis Stinson among the passengers. Pvt. McGlothlin was visiting at Otis Stinson’s home.
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Guy Mutter
Miss Mutter
Clarence Stinson
Otisa
Marvin
Gordon High School
Pvt. McGlothlin
Otis Stinson
Berryville Dispatch Reports Local Events In Briefs
The Star records daily notes from Berryville Boyce and Clarke Counts covering local happenings. Short items include community updates, meetings, and notable occurrences across the region. Local residents are urged to follow forthcoming notices for details.
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Berryville
Boyce & Clarke
LaGuardia Rejects Food Subsidy Cut Inflation Fear
Washington reports Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York opposes ending food subsidies. He warns repeal could trigger nationwide inflation and high living costs, noting a 39 percent rise in New York City food prices since 1941 based on local residents.
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Washington
Fiorello H. Peltedag
New York City
Senate Banking Committee
LaGuardia
Senate
la Guardia
Labor Department
Gore Students Hear About WAC
Gore High School hosted a showing of the film We're In the Army Now about the Women's Army Corps on December 2, 1943. Lt Hazel Johnson spoke on WAC work and recruitment while Sgt Gene Lacko and Claude Hinkle operated the projector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAC
Gore High School
Hazel 3. Johnson
Women’s Army Corps
Gene E. Lacko
Claude Hinkle
Johnson
Complacency Concerns Prompt Regional Military Visits
A high ranking official warned that complacency could end the fighting early. He planned to visit military installations across Maryland Virginia and Pennsylvania soon and would meet with the three state governors and city mayors to coordinate efforts.
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Stary
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Allies Press Italy Advance In Fierce Frontline Battles
Allied forces push deeper into Italy as Fifth and Eighth armies drive through towns and blow bridges behind them while facing stiff German resistance. Gen Clark is briefly under fire during a frontline tour as P-40 and A-36 aircraft fly 300 sorties dropping bombs on German positions. Air and naval raids extend from Marseille to the Yugoslav coast with several ships damaged and a railway bridge at Chieti attacked.
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France
Fifth Army
Salerno
Clark
Marseille
Yugo- Slav
Chieti
Arezzo
Rome
Florence
Editors Lodge Protest Over News Leakage
American editors protested to the White House and the Office of War Information over Reuters reporting a Roosevelt Chiang Kai Shek meeting more than 24 hours before U S release. OWI Director Elmer Davis pressed British officials to tighten censorship and avoid premature disclosures. Reuters defended the Lisbon report as journalistic enterprise, Davis rejected the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Office of War Information
Reuters
United States
Elmer Davis
Brendan Bracken
Roy A. Roberts
Kansas City Star
American Society of Newspapers
WOT
OWI
Roberts
Bracken
Davis
Tkeine
Lisbon
Allied Ultimatum and Big Three Meeting Rumors Rise
Reported Allied ultimatum to Germany and possible Big Three meeting in the Middle East stir speculation. Turkish and British outlets debate surrender terms, postwar governance, and how a potential conference would affect German demobilization and Allied aims.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Cairo
Chiang-Kai Shek
Turkey
Germany
Cumhuriet
London
Stalin
Middle East
Daily Express
Washington
Istanbul
Ankara
Stockholm
Budapest
News Chronicle
MOI
British Ministry of Information
United States
Axis
Plot to assassinate President Roosevelt uncovered in Michigan
Detroit December report says Walter Best, 38, a Pontiac man, plotted to kill President Roosevelt. Secret Service chief William A. Carlson said Best, deemed sane after arrest, had a gun found in his Washington hotel room and described electrodes in his brain and a plan to seize a soldier's gun near the White House. Best's wife alerted authorities after receiving his letter. Best, a Nelson Wisconsin native, had worked various jobs in Michigan since 1928 and has two young children.
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Detroit
William A. Carlson
Secret Service
Michigan
Pontiac
Mich
Roosevelt
Walter Best
Carlson
Gallinger Hospital
Washington
Best
Oakland County
Washington Street
Nelson
Wis
United States Army
Italy
Steel Workers Fight For Raise Yet Keep No-Strike Pact
The United Steel Workers plan a 117 cent an hour raise to break the Little Steel formula but will honor the no strike pledge. They urge 485 steel companies to keep current contracts and submit disputes to the War Labor Board while pressing for negotiations. President Philip Murray notes price ceilings are not policed in steel towns.
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Pittsburgh
United Steel Workers, of America
War Labor Board
Congress
Philip Murray
Steelworkers
CIO
Italian Areas Are Given Inspection
Members of the Inter-Allied Advisory Council on Italy depart for a two week inspection trip. Participants include Robert D. Murphy Harold MacMillan An drei J Vishinsky and Rene Massizli with Greek and Yugoslav representatives to follow the Moscow conference group continues the postwar oversight effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Inter-Allied Advisory Council
Italy
Robert D. Murphy
North Africa
Harold MacMillan
Andrei J. Vishinsky
Soviet
Russia
Rene Massizli
Greece
Yugoslavia
Great Pipe Line Break Threatens Dry Creek Spill
Oil from the 24 inch line of the War Emergency Pipeline Corporation gushed toward Dry Creek in Greensburg Indiana. The spill, measured near 500,000 barrels daily, was halted at Greensburg as crews dammed the creek and salvaged fuel while officials assessed the break and fire danger.
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Dry Creek
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
War Emergency Pipeline Corporation
Cincinnati
Greensburg
Ind
Local Priests Attending Monsignor Investiture Ceremony
Father Julian Bullock and Father John A. McGilly will represent Sacred Heart Church at the 1 30 p m Monday ceremony in St Joseph Church for Very Reverend Fran P Lackey being honored by Pope Pius with the title Domestic Prelate. About 25 Catholic priests are expected in Martinsburg for the event with a 5 30 p m supper in the church basement and a program of entertainment at the school gymnasium.
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Julian Bullock
John A. McGilly
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
St. Joseph Catholic Church
Fran P. Lackey
Pope Pius
Peter Ireton
Richmond
Martinsburg
Father Lackey
Apple crop in 1944 seen high but distribution pains persist
Roanoke Virginia reports good prospects for a 140 million bushel US apple crop in 1944 but orchard owners face continued distribution problems and fruit competition. Carl Wooster of the FDA Fresh Marketing Division told the Virginia State Horticultural Society at its 48th annual meeting. He noted apple production has fallen since 1914 while citrus sales have quadrupled.
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Roanoke
America
Carl Wooster
Washington
Food Distribution Administration
Virginia State Horticultural Society
Hotel
W. S. Campfield
Convention Center
Wooster
United States
Fire destroys 150000 gallons of fuel oil in Norfolk plant
An estimated 150,000 gallons of fuel oil burned after seven storage tanks at the E. L. Fentress and Company plant on Sewall's Point road exploded. Firemen battled the blaze for about an hour with help from Norfolk engine companies and Navy crews aided by seven tons of foam.
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Norfolk
E. L. Fentress and Company
Sewall’s Point Road
Naval Operating Base
Naval Air Station
Navy
Miller Heads VEA Industry Group
Virginia Educational Association selects A Tyler Miller, Warren and Rappahannock counties superintendent, to chair its industrial education sub committee. Dr Dabney Lancaster, B D French, L R Stanley, and Dr Francis G Lankford Jr. are named members with Miss Ethel Spilman and Francis S Chase as ex officio members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Warren and
Rappahan
A. Tyler Miller
Reck
Virginia Education Association
V. E. A. Industrial Education Committee
Virginia Educational and Industrial Conference
VEA
Dabney S. Lancaster
B. D. French
Bristol
L. R. Stanley
Newport News High School
Francis G. Lankford, Jr
Richmond Public Schools
Ethel Spilman
Harrisonburg
Francis 8. Chase
Expects Big Army To Be Retained After War
New York December 3 The United States may keep a standing armed force of 2 500 000 at war’s end. Donald H Davenport chief of the employment outlook branch of the Bureau of Labor Statistics told the Society for the Advancement of Management today. He outlined post war labor program plans noting 8 500 000 veterans would return to the labor market and temporary unemployment of about 8 000 was to be expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Donald H. Davenport
Employment Outlook
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Society For the Advancement of Management
U. S. Department of Labor
Davenport
Notables Survive Tile Roof Collapse at US-Chinese Base
At a base near TERN INDIA a heavy tile roof collapsed during a meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Admiral Mountbatten and other senior officers. Six American officers left the table seconds before the crash and no injuries were reported. An investigation was ordered though sabotage was not evidenced.
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Lord Mountbatten
Stilwell
Baltimore Grain Market Closing Prices
Baltimore market closes with Wheat at 1.6834 spot and 1.7434 rail, Winchester Wheat 1.64, White corn 1.36, Yellow corn 1.15 per bushel. Prices based on mill delivery.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Mountbatten Returns to India for Immediate Command Conference
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Southeast Asia commander, arrived in New Delhi from the Middle East and held an immediate meeting with his military commanders to discuss strategic decisions.
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New Delhi
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
India
White Hall Grange To Meet Monday
George J. Oliver from the State Department of Education will meet with county teachers in Richmond Virginia Monday evening to discuss plans and upcoming activities for White Hall Grange.
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White Hall Grange
George J. Oliver
State Department of Education
Richmond
Will
White Hall Grange Opens Meeting With Oliver Speaker
Grange officials say Oliver will address the open meeting at 8 30 pm with the public invited. Prior to the session the Grange will hold a vote on options for next year.
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White Hall
Grange
Oliver
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