28 Dec 1942
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1942
Page
1
Governor's secretary Mrs Rose Marie Keifer criticizes advance rationing notices as sowing hoarding. Food officials say rationing must come next year and involve 1.5 million OPA volunteers to enroll for ration book No 2. Henderson urges fair play and explains the large operation ahead.
Allied reports describe German detachments routed near Medjez El Bab Tebourba and a farm west of Tunis as American air forces raid Sousse harbor and surrounding docks. Rommel faces a decision at Misurata whether to stand or abandon Tripolitania.
Forty six men from Winchester have been accepted for military service and must report at city hall to Acting Corporal Edmund P. Spates at 6 15 p m on December 31. They will depart by special bus for Camp Lee Va at 6 40 p m For January 8 ten men will go to Charlottesville for physical examinations.
Violence between white and black sailors subsides in Vallejo California as 400 service members protested in the streets and 200 plus clashed Saturday night. Marine patrols with Tommy guns dispersed disorders leaving the city quiet today and confinement to ships ordered.
Analysis by John Hightower suggests Japanese air strength is stretched across South China Burma and China theaters. In the South Pacific raids have fallen off since mid November with Guadalcanal seeing few attacks and Munda on New Georgia Island reporting heavy losses for Japan as American forces strike back.
M A Winchester cites Richmond Times Dispatch column urging readers to endure shortages with resolve. He praises a cooperative spirit among citizens and the sacrifice of those with sons in the wars, stressing freedom of expression as long as not aiding enemies and noting limited coffee rations as a sign of progress compared to allies.
Allied troops steadily breach bunker type defenses at Buna in New Guinea driving a wedge into Japanese lines and capturing emplacements. P-38 fighters make their first Buna air debut destroying 15 of 40 enemy planes. Allied bombers damage ships off Rabaul and strike warehouses and airfields across Timor and New Britain.
Orange Virginia December 28 Police Chief Fred M Grav es turned over 32 62 to the milk fund for Orange county schools to aid lunches for children unable to provide meals. He managed milking at night and morning, selling milk to a local creamery and sometimes at the Orange livestock market while overseeing cattle at the state experimental station.
Thirty three holiday passengers died and 119 injured when a Canadian Pacific troop train rammed the end of a local train at Almonte Ontario. The crash halted travel as rescue crews, doctors, and hospitals aided victims. one board of transport inquiry was launched.
British communique reports renewed air raids on Calcutta with fewer than 10 casualties and minor damage. Additional strikes hit two eastern Bengal locations, causing slight damage and a small number of casualties.
A. C. Flora of the National Education Association urged a federal minimum education standard funded to ensure equal base levels across all states. He spoke at the Southeastern Regional Conference in Roanoke arguing for state control of education with federal money to sustain a national baseline.
Miss Violet Hounshell 20 of near Middletown dies at Memorial Hospital four miles southeast of Winchester after a Christmas Eve car crash that leaves Edward Clark held on DUI charges. Funeral plans set for Tuesday at Woodstock Christian Church. Other victims include Carl R. Pitta 20 of Berryville and Kenneth Cooper of Capon Springs. multiple survivors listed.
Gen Charles De Gaulle plans a Washington visit to present a blueprint for a new French government before President Roosevelt. He will then travel to North Africa to meet Gen Henri Giraud to unite diverse French factions and mobilize forces, amid rumors about Albert Lebrun.
The Winchester Elks hosted a large Christmas party at the Elks Home with Santa Andy Bell and Rev. R. B. Nelson assisting. The group donated Christmas baskets to the Fellowship Club as part of the celebration.
The report notes Rommel’s flanking position near El Aghelia and the risk of a protracted stand if he retreats toward Tripoli. It highlights the Eighth Army advancing in Tunisia with strong air support, while Axis reconnaissance and air movements shift across Sirte and Libya. French forces report limited ground action, with an advance south of Pont Du Fahs signaling continued combat in Tunisia.
Russian troops press toward a key road junction in the Don region within 90 miles of Rostov. Reports say 300,000 Germans are trapped in the Volga Don area as Tatsinskaya falls and the Soviets advance toward Stalingrad and Rostov, severing a major supply artery.
Service officials urged that 18 year olds must register for military service to avoid penalties. The notice explains that turning 18 obligates registration. At the bingo party tonight at the Home on 211 N. Loudoun, doors open 7:30, with a prize drawing.
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