Seek Compromise On Food Subsidy Amid Senate Action
The Senate Banking Committee created a subcommittee to craft a compromise on food subsidy policy while delaying immediate action on a bill to halt subsidy payments starting January 1. Taft proposed a limited subsidy linked to support price payments. committee members include Barkley and Bankhead.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Banking Committee
House
Taft
Ohio
Barkley
Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate
McCormack
D-Mass
Congress
Roosevelt
Price Administration
Interior
Harold Ickes
House Interstate Committee
House Agriculture
Paper Wins War in Winchester Sage
MA Winchester extols paper’s role in wartime logistics from drafts to discharges and daily supplies. A separate note seeks a used truck for orchard work, listing John Livengood’s Berryville number 130-W-1.
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John Livengood
Berryville
Influenza Wave Reports Few Fatalities Across Regions
Absenteeism rises in war plants, offices, and schools as mild influenza like illnesses spread in the East and Midwest. Washington DC and New Jersey report large case numbers, while New York City and Buffalo show notable increases in absenteeism. officials urge calm despite crowded hospitals.
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Associated Press
United States
Washington
D. C
Weather Bureau
New England
New York
Tennessee
Philadelphia
Toledo
Louisville
Indianapolis
New Jersey
New York City
Buffalo
N. Y
Marvin McIntyre Dies In Capital
Marvin H. McIntyre longtime secretary to President Roosevelt died at 65 at his daughter's home in Washington after a long illness. A Louisville and Asheville veteran newspaperman, he served Roosevelt as publicity representative since 1920 and remained his secretary through ten years in the White House.
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Washington
Marvin H. McIntyre
Roosevelt
White House
McIntyre
Fred Warren
la Grange
Oldham County
Louisville
Asheville
N. C
D. C
Secetary of the Navy
A. J. Bowen Named Red Cross War Fund Campaign Manager
Mr. C. P. McVicar announces the appointment of A. J. Bowen of the Northern Virginia Power Co. as campaign manager for the 1944 Red Cross War Fund Drive in Winchester and Frederick County. Bowen will organize the campaign for the March 1944 drive.
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A. J. Bowen
Red Cross War Fund
C. P. McVicar
Winchester
Fredercck County
American Red Cross
Northern Virginia Power Co
Red Cross
Bowen
Frederick County
Draft Officials Eye 4-F Pool for Possible Induction
Washington December 13 draft officials discuss the 3 400 000 men in the 4-F category as potential new manpower if Army and Navy physical standards are lowered under the recently signed draft bill. A commission will study standards but there is no plan to induct fathers by age groups.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Congress
Rep
May
Congressional
Ruling Against Inducted Father Goes Unchanged
The Supreme Court left in effect a ruling supporting a draft board’s reclassification of a registrant from 3-A to 1-A after he became a father. Mrs. Stanziale contended the action was unlawful and arbitrary, but the Court declined to review the lower court’s reversal of a discharge order. The issue centered on federal review of local draft classifications and related dependents’ allowances in 1942.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Adolph Stanziale
Essex County
N. J
Fort Dix
Stanziale
Federal District Court For
New Jersey
Third Federal Circuit Court
Circuit Court
Selective Service Board
Justice Department
Department
Stanzaire
President Roosevelt Visits Seventh Army in Sicily
President Roosevelt toured American Seventh Army troops in Sicily during his Mediterranean trip. He flew from Malta to Castelventrano with 12 fighters, rode with Eisenhower past troops, and decorated officers before traveling to Eisenhower's Tunisian villa.
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Allied
Algiers
Roosevelt
Sicily
Mediterranean
Seventh Army
George S. Patton
Malta
Castelventrano
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patton
Eisenhower
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Italy
Tunisia
Secret Service
Cold Wave Warning Picks Up In Ohio Valley And Atlantic States
A cold wave warning covers the Ohio Valley and the middle and north Atlantic states tonight. Temperatures plunge with the season’s lowest expected early Tuesday from 15 below in parts of New York and New England to zero in northern Ohio and Pennsylvania and 15 to 20 above in Tennessee. High winds will ease tonight and cold persists Tuesday.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Middle
North Atlantic
New York
New England
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Tennessee
Bulgaria on edge as invasion fears rise across Balkans
Dispatch from London reports Bulgaria trembles under Allied invasion fears and Nazi pressure amid signs of German troop movements and political wavering. Lord Strapelgi likens the coming 100 days to Waterloo as the Balkans brace for pivotal conflict. Tito calls for broader resistance in Yugoslavia.
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Judson O’quinn
London
Balkans
Bulgaria
Hitler
Waterloo
Lord Strapelgi
House of Lords
Luton
Napoleon
Germany
Russia
Balkan
London Times
Europe
Hungary
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz
Tito
Medical Society Meeting Tuesday in Northern Virginia
Two Charlottesville physicians Dr J Edwin Wood and Dr Lehman will speak at the Medical Society meeting in Sarah Zane Fire Hall at 11 tomorrow. Reports on cases will be given by Dr Leslie Bell and Dr Whitworth with talks by Dr H S Pifer on transverse incision in a tramotomy. Luncheon to follow. officers include Charles O Dearmont and J E Harris.
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Charlottesville
J. Edwin Wood
Fee Eee
Tomorow
Medical Society
Northern Virginia
Wood
Lehman
M. Kipps
Front Royal
Saat
Sarah Zane Fire Hall
Leslie Bell
Aon Barlow
Whitworth
Elizaati ‘Aan
Dee 'O O
Charles O. Dearmont
White Post
J. E. Harris
Winchester
Public sale announced for dairy herd and farm items
D A Cole advertises a public sale on Mon Dec 20 at 10:30 am two miles east of Winchester Berryville Pike. Sale includes 35 head Bangs tested dairy cows and heifers farm implements two Chevrolet trucks and holiday items from Sears order office and Christmas greeting cards.
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Winchester
Berryville Pike
Reds Launch Offensive in Kiev Sector and Reach Kirovograd
Soviet planes resume action after weather delays and attack south and southwest of Malin as Red Army pushes to retake the Kiev bulge. Forces seize Chigrin and advance toward Kirovograd inside the Dnieper Bend while German defenses retreat under encirclement threat.
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Reds
Kiev
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Moscow
Malin
Kiey Bulge
Roosevelt decorates Clark and five Fifth Army officers
President Roosevelt awarded Distinguished Service Crosses to Lt Gen Mark W Clark and five Fifth Army officers after war conferences in Cairo and Teheran. Clark earned the DSC for extraordinary heroism at the Salerno front, where he directed actions saving tanks and inspiring frontline troops amid enemy fire. The recipients include Col Reuben By Tucker, Col Joseph B Crawford, Lt Pane, Lt Thomas Berteau, and others named in the dispatch.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Sicily
Cairo
Teheran
White House
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Clark
Salerno
Italy
Reuben By Tucker
Ansonia
Conn
Joseph B. Crawford
Humboldt
Kan
Pane
Pa Mes
Highlands
Tex
Thomas Berteau
Toys For Sale By W. B. Snider and Son
A local toy sale listing from W. B. Snider and Son advertises assorted playthings. Items include children's toys and seasonal selections offered by the shop in its listings.
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W. B. Snider & Son
British Eighth Army gains near Ortona in Adriatic line break
Allied headquarters report the British Eighth Army seized elevated ground overlooking Ortona as they pierced a 15 mile Adriatic line. Canadi an forces and other units widened river bridge heads and counterattacks by German divisions including the 90th Grenadiers, 26th Armored, and 65th Infantry were repelled. About 6 000 German prisoners have been taken since the Italy invasion.
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Algiers
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Ortona
Pescara
Chieti
Moro
Orsogna
Guardiagrele
Maiella
Bernard L. Montgomery
Fifth Army
Fifth
Eighth Amies
Italy
90Th Armored Grenadiers
26Th Armored Division
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Filignano
Reuters
Patton Criticized for Harsh Remarks to Soldier
Secretary of War Stimson told the Senate Patton spoke threateningly and with undue harshness to a fatigued soldier who failed to wear leggings due to swollen ankles. He cited two hospital incidents in August and said only these cases surfaced in the theater inspector’s report on Patton’s treatment of enlisted men.
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Washington
Stimson
Senate
George S. Patton, Jr
Patton
Senate Military Committee
Charles L. Kuhl
Eisenhower
Strategic Crisis Looms in Balkans As War Expands
World At War highlights a looming crisis in the Balkans threatening Hitler’s weakened defense in southeastern Europe. Bulgaria may figure in an upcoming development while Allied pressure grows. Italy reports heavy fighting as German counter-attacks fail to hold a faltering winter line. The Eighth Army advances along the Adriatic coast. Moscow claims renewed Soviet offensives west of Kiev with gains along the Dnieper bend. Roosevelt visits Patton in Sicily and reportedly consults with France at Gibraltar. In China, Japanese forces fall back in central China but counterattack near Changteh. In the Pacific, U S troops repel a Bougainville counterattack as Australians push from Huon Peninsula toward New Britain. battleships bombard Nauru.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Kiev
Red Army
Malin
Chigrin
Kremenchug
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Chigirin
Zhitomir
Korosten
Maltn
Humders
Izvestia
Balkans
Hitler
Europe
Bulgaria
Italy
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pacific
U. S
Bougainville
North
Solomons
New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
New Britain
Nauru Island
Chinese Forces Rout Japs In Major Changteh Area
Chinese High Command reports recapture of Niupitan east of Changteh and 10 villages northwest of Changteh, encircling 2,000 Japanese with over 500 killed. Chinese losses include Shihmen. Panlungliao and Panlunekiao captured as reinforcements push northwest. US 14th Air Force says Mitchell bombers hit Ansiang and Shishon. eight Japanese fighters downed.
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Chungking
Niupitan
Changteh
Linh
Shihmen
Panlungliao
Ansiang
Yangtze River
Ichang
Panlunekiao
Chinese High Command
U. S. Army
14Th Air Force
Shishon
Tungting Lake
Maj
Homer Richardson
Butler
Samuel Kinsey
Petersburg
Heavy American Bombers Raid Northwest Germany In Major Daylight Offensive
Strong American heavy bombers and escort fighters attacked northwest Germany targeting key ports and cities including Hamburg Wilhelmshaven Bremen and Emden. The defense lost 138 fighters at Emden as bombers pressed the assault on docks and central city areas. Mosquito bombers conducted night raids on western and northeastern Germany with further operations noted.
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London
Germany
Reich
Hamburg
Wilhelmshafen
Bremen
Emden
Bne
Ameri Solingen
France
Dew
U. S
RAF
Dominion
Schivol
Amsterdam
Britain
Western
Berlin
Air Ministry
Cane
Two Bird Dogs Die In Early Morning Blaze
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a dog kennel and wood shed at the rear of the White Palace Restaurant and Parkway Hotel in Winchester. Two bird dogs owned by Jimmy Chauderis died in the blaze which drew three fire companies. A 50 gallon oil drum stored in the shed did not explode. One dog appeared to struggle to free itself. the other was found curled in straw. Fire Chief E W Argent investigated the cause as firefighters controlled the flames.
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White Palace
Parkway
Jimmy Chauderis
Winchester Fire Department
Chouderis
E. W. Argent
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Gibraltar
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W. W. Hercher
Lomta
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