Dealer Charging $5 Pound For Turkey Arraigned
New York January 11. Senator Byrd criticized the Office of Price Administration over a high turkey price. An OPA inquiry led to charges against Abraham Citran Madison Avenue delicatessen operator for exceeding ceiling prices in bologna instead of turkey. Citran pleaded innocent at arraignment as his lawyers seek an adjournment awaiting a Washington witness.
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New York
Harry F. Byrd
Office of Price Administraon
Byrd
Chester Bowles
OPA
Abraham Citran
Madison Avenue Delicatessen
Citran
Bologna
Turkey
Ciran
Washington
President Roosevelt Faces Cool Reception for National Service Plan
Washington January 11 President Roosevelt's national service proposal drew a cool response in Congress. Senate Military Affairs Chairman May and Senator Johnson both doubted passage, while War Manpower head McNutt declined comment and indicated unsure reopening of hearings. Rev Andrews a Republican ally supported the idea but doubted committee approval.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Johnson
Senate Military Affairs Committee
May
Dky
House Military Committee
McNutt
Paul V. McNutt
Manpower Commission
House
Rev. Andrews
New York
Annual Meeting of Winchester Red Cross Friday
The Winchester Frederick County Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its annual meeting Friday at 8 p.m. in the George Washington Hotel with chairman C. P. McVicar presiding. Officers for the coming year will be elected and Robert Sandberg of Eastern Area is set to speak. Reports on 1943 activities will be presented. the public is invited.
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Winchester
Frederick County
American Red Cross
George Washington Hotel
C. P. MccVicar
Robert Sandberg
Eastern Area
Reds Bring Great Winter Drives Nearer Rumanian Soil
Russian spearheads press toward the Odessa Warsaw railway threatening severance of the line. Konev and Vatutin forces claim heavy German losses as they drive toward Sarny and Vinnitsa, with advances near Smela and rail junctions. Continued on Page 2. Col. 2
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Moscow
Rumania
Odessa-Warsaw
Ivan S. Korainenev
Dnieper Bend
Smela
Kirovograd
Kerch
Crimea
Berlin
Ision of
Sarny
Old Poland
Ison
Gap
Bereznoe
Laidvspol
Old Pol
Konev
Vatutin
Red Army
Mans
Rovno
Opera
Voronovitsa
Nemirov
Vinnitsa
Warsaw-Odessa
Kane
Dnieper Vv
Bend
Voronayitsa
Voronovitsa-Khristinovia
Hog Producers Given Warning
Chicago January 11 continued congestion at the Union Stockyards led Charles Rice president of the Chicago live stock exchange to urge producers to stop shipping swine to Chicago for the week. He said hogs shipped now would go unsold as packers have sufficient stock for slaughter through Thursday and fresh arrivals would cover the rest of the week.
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Chicago
Union
Charles Rice
Chicago Li Exchange
Allied Bombers Continue Raids In German Area
Allied heavy bombers and fighters renewed daylight raids across the English Channel with reports of attacks on central Germany. British observers noted heavy bomber presence near the Serenata coast while U.S. daylight raids on Ludwigshafen and Schweinfurt were referenced for past actions. Two Allied planes were lost and one German aircraft was shot down during night patrols over northern France.
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Henry B. Jameson
London
English Channel
RAF Rapoenttes
Berlin
Germany
United States
Ludwigshafen
Schweinfurt
Air Minisman Viane
France
Vichy
Fifth Army
Balkans
Skoplje
Yugoslavia
San Benedetto
Pescara
Eighth
Adriatic
Rome
Villorba
Venice
Bordeaux
Toulouse
Jervis
Tonbridge
Civitanova
Ancona
Patton Receives British Medal and Honor
Allied Headquarters in Algiers reports eighteen generals including George S. Patton Jr and Mark W. Clark were decorated by King George VI for merit. Patton earned the Knight of the Order of the Bath after a recommendation by Gen Sir Harold Alexander. The ceremony was led by Gen Sir Henry Maitland Wilson.
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Algiers
Jan
Reighteen
George S. Patton, Jr
Mark W. Clark
We VI
Mediterranean
Patton
Ee v. Seventh Army
Order of the Bath
Harold Alexander
Italy
Henry Maitland Wilson
General Clark
U. S
Chicago Nominates Convention Details For June Gathering
Chicago was chosen to host the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominating convention beginning June 26 with a $75,000 bid. The selection followed a National Committee vote supporting absentee voting access for service members.
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Chicago
National Committee
William Stern
North Dakota
Pargo
N. D
Henry A Wise
Virginia
Argentine Flag on Nazi Ship Sunk in South Atlantic
The German blockade runner sunk last week was camouflaged and flew the Argentine flag with several Argentine seamen aboard. It was scuttled by its crew January 3 during a chase by U.S. and allied forces between Ascension Island and the African coast. Ninety five crewmen were interned in Brazil.
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Rio DE Janetro
O Globo
South Atlantic
U.S
Ascensionland
Brazil
Japan
Germany
Major Fifth Army Drive on Rome Reported
London dispatch says a Berlin radio broadcast claims the American Fifth Army launched a major drive on Rome. The report notes the action may trace to a drive that began several days earlier.
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London
Berlin
Fifth Army
Rome
Special Commissioner’s sale on Ross Street by court house
Special Commissioner’s sale notice for Jerry M Clem and Landora Clem on Ross Street in front of the Court House at noon Saturday January 8. Includes sale details and location.
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Jerry M
Landora Clemeots
Ross Street
Court House
Roosevelt outlines five point war victory program
President Roosevelt presents a five point quick victory plan to Congress linking national service with mobilization. He asserts no secret Tehran Cairo commitments and argues the program would direct civilian work, shorten the war and set the stage for future security. The package includes a national service act and four related measures to speed war production and stabilize the economy.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Teheran
Cairo
House
Senate
Roosevelt outlines war aims and domestic program in annual message
In his annual message Roosevelt, unable to deliver in person due to grippe, focuses on domestic issues and war progress. He presents a five measure legislative program to mobilize resources, endorsing a national service act as part of total mobilization while aiming to keep a fair economy at home.
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Congress
Grippe
Roosevelt
Heavy Toll Is Taken By Slavs
Yugoslav Partisan forces inflict heavy casualties on German troops in a major offensive across central and western Bosnia. Tito’s war bulletin notes German attempts to break lines from five directions have so far failed.
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London
Bosnia
Josip Broz
Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Associated Press
Army Chaplain Appeals For Blood Donors At Local Theater
Major Rodney Taylor U S Army chaplain spoke at the Capitol Theater urging blood donations for Winchester’s drive. He recounts plasma saved wounded soldiers and warns of potential heavy casualties with the European invasion.
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Rodney Taylor
U. S. Army
Winchester
Capitol Theater
Taylor
C. F P. Schenck
Halsey Sees Tokyo Occupation as Pacific War Goal
Admiral Halsey said the Japanese fleet is crippled and the war aim is Tokyo. He urged the American public to refuse peace until Tokyo is reached, insisting there is only one definite target and that the pursuit will continue with the enemy kept guessing. He claimed American forces have definite superiority in air sea and land.
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Washington
William F. Halsey, Jr
Tokyo
South Pacific
Halsey
Pacific
World At War Highlights From The Long Battle
Russia reports a new Soviet Crimea attack northeast of Kerch while Kirovograd is claimed recaptured with 50 000 Nazis liquidated. Russians strike near Bug river and Odessa Warsaw railway as a main German escape route. Allied planes hit Sofia Berlin and targets in middle Germany as Mosquitos raid Berlin. Pacific theater sees Allied ships and aircraft target Japanese supply lines to deter invasion efforts.
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Associated Press
Russia
Crimea
Kerch
Kirovograd
Bug River
Odessa
Warsaw
Romania
Italy
Sofia
Britain
Berlin
U. S
Germany
Western Auto Store To Close Jan 22
Western Auto Supply Store at 24 E Piccadilly Street will close on January 22 awaiting reopening after manager R W Brockman reports for U S Army service January 25. Brockman says store has operated since April 1942 with owner James E Senseney called into service last August. The firm will remain open through January 22 for customers and service. Brockman and his family left Winchester December 31 to stay with relatives in Charles Town until after the war.
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R. W. Brockman
U. S. Army
Western Auto Supply
E. Piccadilly Street
Brockman
Charles Town
W. Va
Pearl Harbor
E. W. Barron
James E. Senseney
Luray
Eliner
Allied hammer Madang and New Guinea supply centers
Advanced Allied headquarters report heavy sea and air attacks on Japanese bases along the New Guinea northeast coast. Madang base and defense points were struck with 168 tons of bombs, bringing 10 day total to 986 tons on supply dumps, gun positions and air fields. Madang, Saidor area and nearby air strips received substantial tonnage amid barge destruction by medium bombers.
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New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Madang
Douglas MacArthur
Sixth Army
Saidor
Alexishafen
Defense Airger
Bogadjim
Ulangi
Ciano Among Five Executed as Fascists Face Death
Reports say Galeazzo Ciano former Italian foreign minister and son in law of Mussolini along with four other Grand Council members were sentenced to death at Verona for high treason. Eighteen council members were convicted for voting to oust Mussolini last July 25.
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Execut
Ciano
Mussolini
Grand Council
Verona
Emilio de Bono
Giovanni Marinelli
Carlo Pareschi
Luciano Cottardi
Pius XII
DNB
Milan
Corriere del Ticino
Lugano
Castel Vecchio
Mussoini
Shenandoah County Death Probed
Woodstock Virginia January 11. The death of William Grim a 75 year old mountaineer who lived about three miles from town was being investigated today by Shenandoah county authorities Commonwealth's Attorney Ripley Walker said. Grim was found dead early today a coroner inquest would seek signs of foul play. The absence of a large sum of money believed carried on his person was unexplained and may lead to a hearing within days based on investigations.
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Woodstock
William Grim
Shenandoah
Commonwealth’s
Ripley Walker
Grim
Walker
Shady Rest Hill Boys Show Wednesday Night
Local entertainment page notes a performance by the Shady Rest Hill Boys on Wednesday at 9 o'clock with a 25 cent cover charge.
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Hill Boys
Fifth Army closes on Cassino hill bastion in Italy
Allied forces press toward Cassino with Fifth Army pincers nearing Cervaro and Mount Pedro while American troops push toward Mount Rocchio and Mount Di Piperia. British destroyers sink German schooners off the Adriatic coast as air, land, and sea operations expand along the Italian and Balkan fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Cassino
Rome
Cervaro
Balkan
Sofia
Civitanova
Ancona
San Benedetto
Mt. Rocchio
Mount Pedro
Mount di Piperia
Eighth Army
Russia Warns to Hold Ukrainian and White Russian Lands
London January 11. The Soviet government issued a clear warning that Russia will not yield territories in Ukraine and White Russia incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939. The statement also indicated a new line that would keep the USSR in possession.
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London
Soviet Union
US. R. R
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Senator Johnson
Annual Meeting of
Red Cross
By Henry C. Cassidy
National Service
Winchester Evening Star
Western Auto
Shenandoah Co. Death Probed
Shady Rest
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