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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1944
Page
7
The Tokyo radio reported Allied planes raided Bangkok for over an hour last night and hit only non military facilities due to swift Japanese interception. The broadcast, monitored by US F B I S, said it followed a three hour raid on January 10.
At Camp Claiborne Louisiana Corporal M W Smith lacking a bass fiddle improvised with an empty time drum a shelter half tent pole and a drum rope. He stretched the rope through a hole in the drum head and varied pressure to produce bass tones. A contraption of two wood strips and a foot kept it steady while delivering a series of witty renditions that stole the revue.
A sequence of farm sales announced for Clarke county near Berryville Boyce Millwood Hayfield and nearby in Jefferson and Frederick counties Virginia. Items include stock implements machinery household goods and farm equipment with dates from January to March and locations at farms and rural properties.
Chin a foreign correspondents and observers report Chinese resolve remains unbroken despite shortages in training equipment and supply. They highlight courage of common soldiers along the northern Hunan front and describe Changteh as a stark symbol of Japanese limitations and Chinese perseverance.
Hollywood actress Martha Raye sues for divorce from Captain Neal Lang in a Juarez Mexico civil court across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Judge Javier Rosas Cevallos was told the suit was filed January 3 with no children and a decree expected within three weeks. The couple wed November 24 1941 at Las Vegas.
London dispatch cites Moscow’s Soviet information bureau claiming Spanish troops remain in Russia aiding the German war effort. The bureau alleges Spanish volunteers, masking neutrality, still serve Hitler and that Spanish forces on the Russian front were recalled to Spain, while noting ongoing Spanish complicity.
A fragment references the Spanish Legion C in Russia and a claim that it cannot be concealed in a bag. The readable text shows a cryptic note about containment and exposure of the item in question.
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