Record Bomb Load Dropped On Iwo Jima In Coordinated Attack
A sizeable force of B-29s dropped a record load of bombs on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands, coordinated with Navy surface ships and other aircraft. The strike aimed to neutralize air fields used for raids on Saipan, about 750 miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iwo Jima
U. S. Navy
Washington
Bonin- Volcano Islands
Volcano Islands
Saipan
20Th Air Force
20th’Air Force
Hansell
21St Bomber Command
Navy
Seventh Army Air Force
Wa Fleet Airwing
31St Bomber Command
Central Pacific
Pearl Harbor
United States
Army
Tokyo
Little Volcano Island
Tinian
Winchester Fellowship Club solicits help for needy families
The Fellowship Club asks Winchester and county residents to adopt a needy family. Headquarters in the American Legion Building will open Monday with a master list. Donations of food clothing and cash are invited. Baskets for packing contributions are especially needed. People with extra apple baskets may deliver them to the headquarters next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Fellowship Club
American Legion
Main Street
City Police Crack Down On Traffic Violations
Chief C W Hollis announced a 30 day campaign yielding over 300 warnings to curb lax driving. 279 warnings covered parking on red, wrong angles, driveways, restricted areas, double parking, and other minor infractions with first offense warnings and prosecutions on second offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Hollis
Secong
Hollis
Toy Matinee At Capitol Saturday
The Fellowship Club hosts a benefit show at Capitol Theater with food toys and clothing donations for admission. Doors open 9 o clock, show begins 9 30 featuring a newy cartoon Our Gang Comedy Donald Duck cartoon and Rookies in Burma as the main feature. Aiming for full audience at the benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fellowship Club
Capitol Theater
Burma
Dance at Winchester Armory Features The Fire Crackers
Square and round dancing at Winchester Armory on Saturday December 9 from 9 p m to 1 a m. Music by The Fire Crackers with Smitty calling the figures. Listen to WINC at 12 15 p m Saturday. Admission fifty cents plus tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Armory
Fire Crackers
Smitty
Notice of partnership at East End Texaco Station
A notice announces a business partnership between the sender and Earl E. Dycus at the East End Texaco Service Station located at National and Berryville Avenues. Patronage is appreciated by the new partners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl E. Dycus
Texaco
National and
Berryville Avenues
German Pressure Presses Toward Budapest On Danube Front
Soviet forces under Tolbukhin and Malinovsky push a wedge toward Budapest from the west and northeast as German and Hungarian units resist. Szekesfehervar and Drava river areas see renewed fighting while Yugoslav and Italian units support actions.
Moling Sr. Dies at 88 in Winchester Home
John Henry Moling Sr., a longtime Winchester businessman born in Frederick County in 1856, died at his residence on North Loudoun Street at noon. He started in retail in 1878, helped found Moling and Seal in 1910, and later brought his son John Moling Jr. into the partnership.
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John Henry Moling
N. Loudoun Street
Mr. Moling
Oling
Frederick County
John
Margaret Clark Moling
Winchester
Smithfield
Winchester Seminary
Henry Baetjer Company
W. M. Seal
Moling and Seal
Moling
John Moling, Jr
Churchill Defends Government Policy in Greece and Italy
Prime Minister Churchill defended Britain's Greece intervention and Italy policy in a heated Commons session, winning a 279 to 30 confidence vote. He asserted the aim was to prevent gangsters from seizing power and to support free elections while denying trust in Count Carlo Sforza. The debate highlighted tensions with Labour, U.S. positions, and the broader European intervention question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
Britain
Greece
Italy
House of Commons
Carlo Sforza
United States
Commons
Athens
Commbons
Sforza
Stettinius
Tom Driberg
Driberg
Europe
Laborite
Friends of Democracy
Seymour Cook
George Papandreou
EAM
Emanuel Shinwell
Spain
Canadian Troops Break Through in Italy Advance Near Ravenna
British and Polish forces push through rain and fog to enlarge the Lamone bridgehead southwest of Faenza and seize Castel Raniero Olmatello and Pideura. The First Canadian Corps under Lt Gen Charles Foulkes is in action on the Eighth Army front and helped achieve the Ravenna breakthrough as Allied spearheads reach the Senio water barrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Lamone River
Faenza
Castel Raniero
Olmatello
Pideura
Charles Foulkes
Eighth Army
lLamone
Montone
Ravenna
Tokyo quake damage admitted after days of denial
The Domei agency admitted Tokyo was shaken and tidal waves inundated homes in Hamamatsu Shizuoka Nagano and surrounding areas. Damage was generally slight with some broken windows and inundated houses while production facilities remained largely intact.
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Associated Press
Domei
Tokyo
Federal Comunications Commission
Hamamatsu
Sea of
Enshu
Shizuoka
Nagano
J. J. Shaw
West Bromwich
Japanese Convoy and Forces Routed in Leyte Landings
Veterans from the 77th Division land behind enemy lines at Ormoc Bay in Leyte, aiding a push toward Ormoc. Allied air and sea strikes wipe out a 13 ship Japanese reinforcement convoy and 4,000 troops, as Leyte operations surge on Pearl Harbor day anniversary.
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MacArthur
Philippines
77Th
Guam
Leyte
Ormoc
Ormo Harbor
Seventh Fleet
Yamashita
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Richard I. Bong. Poplar
America
Army
San Pablo
Tacloban
Navy
Prisoner totals rise as Western Front offensive continues
German POW counts surge with 70,375 taken today and totals since D Day reaching about 752,000 across U S and Allied armies. Armies report new prisoner tallies including U S Ist, 9th and 3rd, along with French, British, Canadian units. figures may rise as some armies lag in reporting.
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Associated Press
U. S
U.S
Gaines Reported To Have Offer
Richmond December reports say Dr. Francis Pendleton Gaines president of Washington and Lee University may be offered the presidency of Rice Institute in Houston Texas. Gaines declined to comment noting such a move would originate from Rice Institute. No decision or official word has been received from Rice Institute. He is W and L chief executive and former Wake Forest president and Virginia War Finance Board head.
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Richmond
Francis Pendleton Gaines
Washington and Lee University
Rice Institute
Houston
Texas
Gaines
Lexington
Texas Institution
Oat Penile
Messer
Wake Forest College
Es State
Virginia
War Finance
Educational Forces
Third Hammering Home In Attacks
Allied forces report quiet fronts in Holland while British and American units push near Venlo and Roer. U S Ninth Army concentrates against the Roer as Third Army probes Siegfried Line near Saarbrucken and Saarlouis. Seventh Army advances toward Saar and Colmar with French forces closing on Colmar. Fifth Infantry drives toward Saarbrucken. 26th and 35th Infantry push from Etting toward Sarreguemines. 90th makes deep penetration. 95th hammers Siegfried pillboxes.
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Associated Press
Canadian First Army
Holland
Venlo
U. 8
Ninth Army
Roer River
U.S
Roer
Rhine
Third Army
Siegfried Line
Saarbrucken
Saarlaucern
U. S
Seventh Army
Saar
Colmar
U. S. Seventh
Etting
Sarreguemines
Reichy
World At War Highlights on Western Front and Beyond
Western Front reports show American artillery pounding Saarbrucken as the Third Army pushes on the vital center, Seventh Army shifting toward Endeberg near Colmar, while northern flanks fade toward the Cologne plain. Front line forces clash as German units counter, and British and Polish troops widen the Lamone bridgehead in Italy. In the Pacific, U S forces destroy a Japanese reinforcement convoy for Leyte, suffer plane losses while the U S claims two ships lost, Tokyo notes a tidal surge and quake, and Japan reports renewed air patrols over the capital as B 29s strike the Bonin Islands.
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Saarbrucken
Third Army
Seventh Army
Noth
Endeberg
Colmar
Cologne Plain
Pacific
Leyte
U. S
Tokyo
Bonin Islands
Bond Booth To Be Open Nightly During War Bond Drive
The Winchester Junior Board of Trade will run the Lou doun Street War Activities Booth nightly for two weeks before Christmas as a war bonds issuing agency. From Monday December 11 the booth will operate 6 to 9 30 p m through December 23. The committee includes the chair and will use a large bulletin board near the booth. It will have a record player and possibly a radio hookup. Orders may be placed in person or by telephone.
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Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Loudoun Street
Colder Weather Forecast For December 9 13 1944
The five day period December 9 to 13 1944 forecasts colder weather with snow flurries in interior New York and the north portion on Saturday. Sunday and Monday will be quite cold with a warming trend Tuesday and Wednesday and temperatures below normal overall.
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New York
West Virginia
Allied push in Saar area deepens as contacts grow
Decisive surge in Saar region as George Patton Jr and Third Army hammer Siegfried defenses In Saarbruck and Dillingen industrial belt American artillery blast lines The Local 71 Textile Workers set December meeting at Union Hall 221 N Cameron St with officer elections to follow The notice closes with a social square and round dance at the Armory each Saturday.
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United Textile Workers of America, A. F. of L
Union Hall
N. Cameron
Ernest A. Carper
For Sale Chicken Platter and Beer by the Case
Classified item offers freshly dressed chickens with free delivery and beer by the case. Contact numbers 5231 for chickens and 6946 for beer appear with dates in print.
Baking Hen For Sunday Dinner Ready To Deliver
Fresh home dressed baking hen ready for your Sunday dinner. Plump juicy and tender. Delivered by phone order at 3959.
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Capitol
Tharp Wood
Loudoun
Monmouth
Virginia Tavern
McCrory’s
Crawford
Workingman’s Store
Budapest
By Dani
Moscow
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Danube
Vienna
Szekesfehervar
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Tobulkhin
Hungary
Drava
Zagreb
Aus- Croatia
Red Army
Marshal Tito
Yugoslav National Liberal Army
Tacna Sebelkhin
J. H. M. Moling, Sr
Staud
Amercans
Yates McDaniel
Patton
The
Geruinenna Pty Davancing
Lamone
Bond
James M. Long
Paris
George
Patton, Jr
Germany
Saar Valley
Strens
Dillingen
Forbach
Hitler
Lantern
Harry L. Twaddle
95Th
Saarlautey
Vor Neunkirchen
French
Lorraine
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