United States Lend Lease Aids Allies to End War
The President pledges decisive actions this year with lend-lease aid reaching 18.608 billion through November 30. The report, his thirteenth, says Allied offensives planned at Tehran and Cairo will quicken victory and credits lend-lease with boosting munitions shipments and overall war effort. It also addresses criticism about labeling and civilian gasoline use in North Africa.
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America
United Nations
Ene
Teheran
Cairo
Llend-Lease
Senate
Globe Trotters
North
United States
North Africa
Heart attack fatal to Melvin Green in Richmond hospital
Melvin Green died after a heart attack at a Richmond hospital. He was a longtime Winchester resident and pioneer apple producer who arrived in Winchester in 1902 and owned a large farm on Apple Pie Ridge road. He is survived by his wife Louisa and son Lieutenant Montgomery Meigs Green US Navy Reserve. Funeral will be at Christ Episcopal Church with burial in Mount Hebron. Flowers requested to be omitted due to war.
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Melvin Green
Richmond
Green
Washington Street
Louisa Meigs Green
Montgomery
Meigs .Green
U. 8S
N. R
Montevideo
Uruguay
Robert B. Nelson
Christ Episcopal Church
Mount Hebron
R. A. Wickersham
Josiah Fries
George L. Streit
John
Mr. Green
Rousi Fire Co. to Elect Officers for 1944
Rouss Fire Co. holds its annual meeting on Thursday evening January 6 for the election of officers for the year 1944. All members urged to attend.
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Rouss Fire CO
David Hottle
Fire Destroys Pine Barn Near Berryville
A large pine bank barn on the Winchester Berryville Turnpike burned in the early hours destroying two horses two colts two calves hay corn and farm equipment. Tenant Ben Vorous woke to the blaze around 2 30 am and called J H Enders Fire Company. Insurance will investigate the fire is under inquiry to determine a cause.
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Yville
Winchester
Berryville
Ben Vorous
Vorous
Neal
Oss
Pine
Melvin Green Dies in Richmond Hospital
Melvin Green died in Richmond hospital yesterday and will be buried Friday in Winchester. He was a Harvard Law School graduate and a former New York attorney who settled here to pursue apple farming. He was a discerning reader, traveler, and conservative thinker with compassion for the poor.
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Melvin Green
Richmond
Winchester
Havard
New York
Newman
WFA Backs Stamp Plan to Aid Needy Families
The War Food Administration endorsed a bill creating government food stamps to aid low income families. The plan would help about 18 million people with basic dietary needs at a cost up to 3 dollars yearly per person. A Senate hearing was set as concerns about price control subsidies were raised.
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Donald Hyndman
Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
WPA
Senate Agricultural Committee
Aiken
Rvt
Lafollette
Prof
Grover B. Hill
DuPonts Named in Antitrust Civil Suit in New York
A civil suit filed in U S District Court New York charges E I du Pont Chemical Industries and Imperial Chemical Industries with an international cartel violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. Defendants include du Pont chair Gegen du Pont and ICI leaders Lord McGowan and Lord Melchett with their firms listed as parties and American agent ICT. The complaint alleges restraint of trade in chemicals firearms and ammunition beginning prior to the filing.
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Washington
E. I. du Pont Chemical Industries, Ltd
British Chemicals Arms Industries
Erman
Francis ‘Enedle
United States
District Court i
New York City
du Pont
Imperial Chemical Industries
Gegen du Pont
Wilmiregton
du Pont Company
Walter Samuel Carpenter, Jr
Wilmremington
Harry Duncan McGowan
Lord McGowan
Imperial Chemicals
Henry Mond
Lord Melchett
New York
Allied Air and Marine Actions Report Pacific Advances
A U S Navy communique notes two Japanese vessels and 17 planes shot down as Allied forces push from Cape Gloucester New Britain. Marines extend contact toward Sag Sag and Saidor while MacArthur reports a Japanese cruiser hit. American Liberators and Catalinas strike port and shipping with several enemy losses and one Allied aircraft down.
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Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Bergen Bay
Sag Sag
Cape
Douglas MacArthur
New Hanover
New Anes
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Saidor
New Guinea
Enandemy
Emwagen
RAAP
Huon New
Cape King W
Southwest Pacific
Dutch Timor
New Ireland
U. S
Cape Gilouceser
Nazis Re Form To Make Another Stand In Russia
German forces under Fritz von Manstein retreat to the Pripet marshes and reform for a renewed defense along the pre war frontier west and south of Olevsk as Soviet forces under Vatutin press toward Berdichev and the Dnieper Bend. The drive sharpens with claims of bridges intact and contested crossings near Sluch and Ubort rivers while Red Army advances threaten the German lines.
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Moscow
Fritz von Mannstein
Pripet
Olevsk
Kiev
Warsaw
Nikolai Vatutin
Ukraine
Berdichev
Zhitomir
von Manmstein
Kowel
Gorodnitza
Novogorod-Volynski
Sluch
Sarny
Dnieper
Berlin
Krivoi Rog
Kirovograd
Vite
Izvestia
Vennitsa
Bug
Red Army
Zhmerinka
Odessa
Lwow
Tarascha
Kaneva
Smela
Cherkasy
Nevel
Italians Revolt Against Nazis
Travelers from northeastern Italy report that about 2000 Italian soldiers who had been integrated into the German army staged a revolt on December 30 near Fiume. They allegedly wore German uniforms and seized arms and ammunition from a troop train bound for Yugoslav Partisans in the Balkans.
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Barcelona
Italy
Fiume
Bos
Allies Press into San Vittore in hand to hand fighting
Allied forces led a 10 mile advance on the Italian front as American and British troops broke into San Vittore near Cassino. They fought through pill box fortified blocks in a rain and sleet drenched battle, with heavy artillery and air support. The capture would clear the path toward Cassino and Rome.
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Algiers
Jan
Fifth Army
San Vittore
Via Casilina
Cassino
Rome
Rocca
Venafro
Mark W. Clark
Ans
Italy
Mediterranan battle advances toward Rome and key fronts
Highlights from the world at war report U S forces push on Cassino breaking stalemate on the Italian front while RAF bombers hit Stettin and Berlin Mosquitoes attack in night raids Soviet troops close on the Polish border and threaten 500000 Nazis in retreat Allied air attacks span Dutch Timor to New Ireland sinking ships and damaging a cruiser Yugoslav forces claim gains in Banja Luka Argentine authorities tighten press controls under a colonel government.
Rails' Man Power Shortage Grows
Washington reports a Senate subcommittee hearing on railroad manpower shortages amid wartime transport needs. Senators Reed and Johnson pressed agencies to restore and expand rail workers, warning a strike would be a military catastrophe and urging actions from the Office of Defense Transportation, ICC, Selective Service, and Manpower Commission.
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Washington
Senmittee
Reed
R-Kans
Johnson
Blood donors urged as clinic set for Sam mary 13 and 14
Dr. Leslie M. Bell says donors aged 40 to 59 would help most and stresses urgent need for blood plasma. Red Cross notes about 15 percent of donors will be fourth time, 60 percent second or third time, and calls for many new volunteers to replace those in service or unavailable. The sixth Winchester county Blood Donor Clinic will be held at the Presbyterian Church Annex on Sammary 13 and 14, with a 45 minute to one hour donation process and health screening.
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Leslie M. Bell
Yester
Red Cross
Lsted
Winchester County
Sammary
Presbyterian Church Annex
Stettin Bombed in Heavy Night Assault on Baltic Port
London reports Stettin, Baltic port and German maritime hub, blasted by heavy night raiders in a moonlit attack aimed at crippling supply lines to Berlin and the Russian front. The raid stressed Luftwaffe targets. Berlin also endured Mosquito strikes in a double blow.
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Stettin
London
Germany
Baltic
Berlin
Air Ministry
Telephone employee receives sapphire service award
B R Mallory of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia received a sapphire service award yesterday. The presentation was made by M N Pearman district plant manager at a 1 PM luncheon at the Trianon. Friends and Winchester office colleagues attended.
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B. R. Mallory
Chesapeake and Potomacoe Company
Virginia
M. N. Pearman
Mr. Mallory
Winchester
Pneumonia Fatal To Ida Tarbell
Ida Minerva Tarbell 86, famed dean of American women writers, died of pneumonia at Bridgeport Hospital after long illness. She had been on the danger list since December 27.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Jan. G
Ida Minerva Tarbell
American Women Writers
Bridgeport Hospital
Bingo Night With Door Prize At 8:30 PM
A bingo event offers an $150 door prize and other prizes at 8 30 PM on January 6. A new woman learning optical work is sought for a 40 hour week with good pay. Apply at 478.
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W.F.A
Continent i
Zones
Winchester Evening Star
Pacific
Russia
By Henry C. Cassidy
France
By Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
Mediterranean
U.s
Europe
Balkans
Banja Luka
South America
RAF
Aftontidningen
Stockholm
Hitler
Reich Chancellery
Wharvis Ang An
Ida Tarbell
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