Unprecedented War Drives In Coming Year
London dispatch predicts Hitler faces a numerically outmatched Wehrmacht as Allied air, sea, and land power intensify. Estimates put Germany at about 320 divisions and 5.5 million troops plus 3.5 to 4 million support personnel while Soviet forces may total 350 divisions with over 6,000,000 combat personnel.
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Lewis Hawkins
London
Germany
United States
Britain
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Mediterranean
Stalin
Low Countries
France
Norway
Finland
Italy
Balkans
Greece
Farm Folk Hope For Peace Through World Farmers
Edward A. O Neall president of the American Farm Bureau Federation told the opening session of the annual convention that farm people can do more to preserve peace than any other group. He urged farm representatives elected by the people to meet regularly to discuss mutual problems and work them out.
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Chicago
Edward A. O’neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
O'Neal
War Is Going Well Says Churchill
Prime Minister Churchill told the Fourth Queens Hussars the war is going well but the enemy remains tenacious. CBS commentator James Fleming relayed a Cairo broadcast noting Churchill hopes to finally get the foe at bay in 1944.
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London
Churchill
Fourth Queens Hussars
CBS
James Fleming
Cairo
Mrs J B Smith Killed In Crash Near Vaucluse
Mrs Geraldine Smith 40 of near Vaucluse died from a skull fracture after an automobile truck collision on the Valley Pike. Two children, Mary 16 and Jack Allen 2, were seriously injured and treated at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Driver Hoyle Gilbreath faced a manslaughter charge, bond set at 1000, with December 20 hearing. Deputy DeHaven reported the car entered the highway as the trailer truck descended the hill, the car struck the truck’s right front fender and was dragged 50 feet, then crushed against a bridge wall.
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Geraldine Smith
Vaucluse
Valley Pike
L. C. Tollen
R. L. DeHaven
Smith
Sawmill Worker Ira Mills Dies in Accident Near Winchester
Ira Mills about 42, of Hardy county, West Virginia, was killed when a board in a sawyer's mill kicked back and fractured his skull. He worked for Lou Eaton north of Winchester near L. A. Clarke and Son yards, and died en route to care. Coroner Dr. H Pifer ruled accidental. Survived by mother Mrs Mollie High Mills and a Keyser half-brother. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Ira Mills
Mills
Moorefield
Hardy County
W. Va
Lou Eaton
Winchester
L. A. Clarke and Son Lumber Yards
Eaton
Friendship Fire Company
H. Pifer
Mollie High Mills
John Mills
Keyser
Jones Funeral Home
Gift Suggestions and Notes From Page
Handlines sweaters facina a scarfs hose and handker iefs listed as gift ideas. Mary S Yeakley seeks ten more wood cutters while Earl Shade appears in a brief line. The text presents fragmentary notices likely from a society or personal column.
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Mary S. Yeakley
Farmers Reject General Price Increases Urges Flexible Control
Ezra T. Benson told the Senate banking committee that farmers oppose broad price hikes and seek flexible controls to handle rising costs. He claimed the OPA could adjust ceilings but has not used authority, and warned that continued subsidies threaten farm ownership and American enterprise. Leon Bosch disputed claims of meat spoilage in Washington warehouses, saying the stock remains saleable and fit for consumption.
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Washington
Ezra T. Benson
National Council of Farm Cooperatives
OPA
Benson
Senate Banking Committee
Downey
Calif
Leon Bosch
Bosch
Lawmakers Fault Brewster Plant Loafing in Johnsville Visit
Members of the House Naval Affairs Subcommittee returned to Washington after touring Brewster Aeronautical Corp in Johnsville Pennsylvania. They described open loafing and a slow work pace affecting plane production while noting groomed female workers at fuselage chalking jobs. Rep Hebert Maas and Grant urged scrutiny but did not outline immediate action.
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Washington
House
Naval Affairs
Johnsville
Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
Hebert
D-La
Brewster
Maas
R-Minn
Grant
Dind
Henry J. Kaiser
Allies Chart Three Pronged War Strategy for 1943
The High Command at Teheran backed a belief that Germany could be beaten within a year of American entry, while Japan would require longer, with Cairo agreements guiding a three-pronged attack. The plan envisions offensives from the east, west, and south, potentially including a European invasion across the Channel as Russian advances influence timing.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Germany
High Command
Teheran
Japan
Cairo
Britain
America
China
Roosevelt
Churchill
Russia
Balkans
Turkey
Marshal Stalin
Europe
Eith
Turkish Cabinet Called Inonu Talks With Roosevelt Churchill
A conference involving President Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and President Ismet Inonu of Turkey was reported in North Africa. The talks focus on Turkey's future role with the Allies and may reflect the 1939 Anglo Turkish pact. Berlin said the Cairo meeting concluded and Inonu returned to Ankara as Allies pressure Turkey to join the war.
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London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Ismet Nnonu
Turkey
North Africa
British Press Association
Ismet Inonu
Cairo
Teheran
Berlin
Tuanu
Ankara
Samuel Bean Killed in Action in Italy
Samuel M. Bean 18 son of John L. Bean of Winchester Virginia was killed in action in Italy. A telegram dated December 2 informed his father after a prior letter from Samuel dated November 1 describing a breather from front lines. Bean had training in Texas and served with infantry in North Africa. He is survived by his father two brothers and four sisters and a grandfather. His mother died in 1929.
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Samuel M. Bean
John L. Bean
S. Kent Street
Winchester
Italy
Beulah Miller
Boyds
Malissa J. Kesster
Hanging Rock
W. Va
Tina McDonald
Ridgeway
Wilda A. Bean
Samuel Punk
Hardy County
Red Army drives toward Kirovograd in blizzard offensive
Soviet forces under Gen. Rodion Malinovsky severed the Smela Znamenka rail line in central Ukraine and pressed toward Kirovograd through a raging blizzard. In heavy fighting near Tsibulevo and Olimpiadovka, 20 towns were overrun as 900 Germans were killed and 17 tanks destroyed.
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London
Ukraine
Kremenchug
Dniper
Red Army
Rodion Malinovsky
Smela
Znamenka
Kirovograd
Tsibulevo
Znamenka-Smela
Alexandriya
Dikovak
Olimpiadovka
Cherkasy
al Nheir
Jap force beaten by sea and air say MacArthur staff officer
A Cairo interview with an unnamed MacArthur staff officer says Japan can be defeated by sea and air power without invading the mainland. He cites heavy Japanese losses of ship and air assets, and notes the Netherlands East Indies as pivotal for Japan’s war supply. Maj. Gen. Richard Sutherland attended the Cairo talks.
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Cairo
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Netherlands East Indies
Joan
Richard K. Sutherland
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Youth Held As Fathers Slayer
Edward Lawrence Hawkins 16, a farm laborer from White Plains Brunswick county, is charged with murdering his father Robert M Hawkins 59. Sheriff H E Valentine said the boy shot his father in the face with a shotgun after a Sunday afternoon altercation at the Hawkins home. The elder Hawkins died after reaching a Roanoke Rapids hospital in North Carolina.
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Lawrenceville
Edward Lawrence Hawkins
White Plains
Brunswick County
Robert M. Hawkins
H. E. Valentine
Valentine
Hawkins
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Wardensville Deer Hunt Tales Open with Oddities
In West Virginia hunters share mixed results with deer, as some bag deer while others lose shirts to bragging rights. A Winchester man notes stacks of colored callicos at White Star Restaurant from those who failed. Bundle Day and the Fellowship Christmas Benefit Show at the Capitol Theatre mark two upcoming events.
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Wardensville
W. Va
Winchester
White Star
Capitol Theatre
Deposed German Officers Seek Peace Overtures
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich cites reliable Bern circles reporting that high rank deposed German officers have approached the Allies seeking peace terms. The suggestion includes collaboration with leading German industrialists and notes earlier reports that defeat is seen as inevitable and that tentative approaches may aim for milder terms.
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London
Reuters
Zurich
Bern
Germany
Tax Returns Prepared and Adjusted by J H Seal
Federal income tax returns prepared and adjusted by J H Seal in Room 10 at 208 W Boscawen St. Available from December 6 to December 9.
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J. H. Seal
Boscawen St
Turkish President Inonu Returns After Talks with Roosevelt and Churchill
Berlin radio reports Inonu back in Ankara after confab with FDR and Churchill, predicting a special Turkish cabinet session. Nazi spokesmen tell Swedish correspondents Allies pressuring Turkey to join the war. Washington officials foresee Germany’s defeat within a year and Japan’s continued resistance for two more years amid global offensives. Fifth Army breaks Nazi defenses toward Rome as Eighth Army tanks cross the Moro River. Soviet troops push to within six miles of Smela in the Dnieper bend amid blizzard, while threatening outer Znamenka. Allied air power mounts heavy blows in the Pacific, signaling possible invasions of Marshall Islands and New Britain as naval operations proceed.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Inonu
Ankara
Roosevelt
Churchill
Turkey
Washington
Germany
Japan
Russia
Znamenka
Smela
Dnieper Bend
Pacific
Marshall Islands
New Britain
Mar
Bougainville Offensives Fail as U.S. Forces Hold
Allied reports say Japanese attempts to break American lines on Bougainville failed twice, with Empress Augusta Bay secured by Marines since November 1. Navy and Army staff call the Bougainville situation satisfactory and improving, while carrier strikes threaten Rabaul’s value as a base.
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South Pacific
Bougainville Island
Ae Alfred Noble
Roy. Noble
Roy S. Geiger
Solomons
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Noble
Robert Carney
William F. Halsey
Carney
Rabaul
New Britain
Southwest Pacific
Yugoslav Partisans Claim Heavy Victory in Slovenia
Yugoslav partisans report a decisive victory over German forces in southwestern Slovenia with over 200 officers and men killed, including a German commander. After a four day battle, Germans retreated. another action near Feliko Lasce saw the German commander slain.
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London
Slovenia
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Feliko Lasce
Turgak
Ljubljana
Lestovec
Konjic
Mostar-Sarajevo
Hercegovina
Allied Drive Deepens In Italy As Tank Backs Break Through
Allied forces report Fifth Army infantry piercing Nazi defenses to seize dominating positions over a five by five mile sector near the road to Rome. British tanks cross the Moro river on the Adriatic front as Montgomery’s units push toward the Sangro. Heavy rains hamper movement as both sides endure floods and muddied terrain along the Garigliano and rivers near Mignano and Orsogna.
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Italy
Fifth Army
Rome
British
Eighth
Moro River
Algiers
Moro
M Camino
Monte Maggiore
Adriatic
Tenth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Sangro
U. S
15Th Air Force
Eleusis and
Kalamaki Oe
Athens
San Vito
Orsogna
Casoli
Eighth Army
Garigliano River
Good Neighbor Policy Praised by Congressional Committee
A Congressional committee returning from a flying inspection of U S bases in Central and South America praised the Good Neighbor policy for mutual benefits in the Western Hemisphere. They warned that bungling tactics by amateur emissaries could jeopardize American standing and urged immediate planning for postwar codes with neighboring countries.
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Washington
U. S
Central
South America
Western Hemisphere
Rep
Merritt
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J. B. Smith
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Nippons
Samuel Bean
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Blue Star
Abe Leven
Vern Haugland
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