Pressing Need For More Men In South Pacific
Special correspondent Marlin Spencer reports from MacArthur's Southwest Pacific HQ that despite claims of growing aid, only limited reinforcement provides reason for optimism. He notes the October raid on Rabaul by Kenney's Fifth Air Force, using around 300 planes to drop 350 tons, but emphasizes that overall manpower and supply increases remain insufficient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
Marlin Spencer
General MacArthur
MacArthur
United States
Spencer
Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters
San Francisco
New York
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific Command
Rabaul
George Co. Kenney
Fifth Air Force
New Britain
Germany
Britain
Truk
South Pacific
Empire
Associated Press
India
Tokyo
Winchester Soldier Praises War Fund and USO Support
Pvt. Douglas A. Cather at Camp Lee writes Ed Molden that the Winchester and Frederick County War Fund will meet its $20,000 quota and surpass it. He extols USO services for troops, noting reading rooms, a cafe, radio and movie stars, and visits from loved ones to lift morale.
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Douglas A. Cather
Camp Lee
Ed Molden
War Fund
Winchester
Frederick County
USO
Cathern
Williams Appeals For USO Support In Drive Next Week
Williams, seventh district campaign chairman, urges Virginia War Fund support for USO, POW relief, Russia aid, China relief, and refugees. The local drive starts Monday in Winchester and Frederick County with a $20,000 target. Governor Colgate W Darden Jr backs the effort as honorary president.
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Williams
Drive
USO
Legion of
Russia
China
National War Fund
Winthrop Aldrich
Virginia War Fund, Incorporated
Virginia War Fund
Winchester
Frederick County
V. War Fund, Incorporated
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Virginia
Russians Capture Zhitomir Cutting German Rail Line
Russian forces seized Zhitomir 90 miles west of Kiev, severing the Odessa to Leningrad rail corridor. The capture threatens German south north alignments, foreseeing a Soviet push toward Poland and the Balkans as German forces retreat near Zhitomir.
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London
Zhitomir
Odessa
Leningrad
Joseph Stalin
Kiev
Stalin
Nikolai Vatutin
Ukraine
Bessarabia
Romania
Russia
Poland
Balkans
Krivoi Rog
Dnieper
Closer To Old Poland By Henry Cassidy
Russian forces push toward Poland and Romania as Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army nears Zhitomir on the Odessa Leningrad line. German counterattacks west of Kiev retreat. Cossack units aid. weather turns cold. rail centers and towns fall in a day’s advance.
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Moscow
Odessa-Leningrad
Samond
Poland
Rumania
Zhitomir
Kiev
Berlin
Krivoi Rog
Dnieper
Perekop
Crimea
Vatutin
Korostyshev
Odessa
Rechitsa
Gomel
Pripet
Berdichev
Ukraine
First Army
West Virginia Pushes Plan for Frederick County Road Link
West Virginia officials pressed for a cross county highway to connect Route 45 into Martinsburg, urging a direct route through Frederick County. No decision was reached at a Richmond meeting with Virginia officials. cost would be high due to mountainous terrain and extensive grading.
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Frederick County
Ernest L. Bailey
West Virginia
Virginia Highway Department
Richmond
West
James A. Anderson
Virginia
Bailey
Frederick
Strasburg
Wardensville
King Street
UNRRA council begins work on relief plans
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Council starts its main relief strategy after hearing dire warnings from delegates. Poland reports 8.6 million displaced and needs seeds and farming gear to aid itself and others, while Yugoslavia notes 400000 homeless children and seven percent population loss. Belgium, Canada, Chile also weigh funding and long term rationing. Ethiopia offers resources for reconstruction.
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Atlantic City
N. J
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Jan Kwapinski
Poland
UNRRA
Kwapinski
Yugoslavia
Constantin Fotitch
Raoul Richard
Belgium
Brooke Claxton
Carlos Davila
Chile
United Nations
Blatta Ephrem
Ethiopia
Italy
War Labor Board in spat with AFL leader Green
The War Labor Board clashed with William Green head of the American Federation of Labor over whether the government should gain more powers to enforce union orders. The dispute centers on the coal wage case and the Lewis Ickes agreement, with Board members questioning authority while Green protests the Board’s stance.
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Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
American Federation of Labor
APL
William Green
WLB
William H. Davis
George P. Taylor
Frank P
Defiance
Lewis
Interior
Ickes
Green
Detector Favors French Count
Nassau Bahamas November 13 Alfred De Marigny answered no when asked on a lie detector if he killed Sir Harry Oakes. Private criminologist Leon ard B. Keeler said the machine showed truthfulness and the 22 day trial ended with an innocence verdict. The defense challenged the fingerprint on a screen as forged or obtained accidentally.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Leonardo B. Keeler
Keeler
de Marigny
de Marizny
Harry
Colored Man On Jury At Lake Predecent Trial
Floyd Finley became the first colored man in years to qualify for jury duty in the Corporations Court. He was drawn to try Harvey Lake, charged with knowing apples sold to him were stolen. Earlier, Jack Oliver and Weaver Welsh pled guilty to stealing 40 boxes of apples valued at $110 from Green and Earle of Warren County.
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Corporations
Floyd Finley
Finley
Harvey Lake
Jack Oliver
Weaver Welsh
Oliver
Welsh
Green
Earle
Warren County
Nazi Beachheads Are Reinforced
German forces on Leros Island in the Aegean are strengthening beachheads despite heavy casualties. RAF long-range fighters and bombers supported the British garrison, striking German positions and island bases. Rhodes Maritza airfield and Cos Antimacchia air field were attacked, and a convoy near Antikythera was hit. Two vessels damaged and Suda Bay harbor at Crete bombed.
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Cairo
Leros
Aegean Sea
Middle East
Germany
Maritza
Rhodes
Antimacchia
Cos Island
Antikythera Island
Crete
Suda Bay
Social Security For Britons
London reports the British government will adopt a greatly modified cradle to the grave social security scheme. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison said a white paper would outline changes and that the plan, inspired by Beveridge, aims to comfort the country without full acceptance as proposed. He cited postwar goals of jobs, food, and homes and promised a major experiment toward full employment in a non totalitarian society.
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London
Herbert
Morrison
Bolton
Beveridge
Winston Churchill
Britain
Mrs Willis 28 Dies Near Vaucluse After Ill Health
Evelyn Virginia Willis 28 wife of Charles T Willis died at home yesterday evening near Vaucluse after two years of ill health from complications. Born May 19 1915 in Clearbrook she lived in Frederick county all her life and married in 1932. Survived by husband mother three children and four siblings. Funeral Monday 2 PM from Jones Funeral Home with Rev R B Moore officiating. Interment Mt Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers named George Genkey Charles Shaffer Granville Snapp Owen Snapp Leonard Snapp Lee Fawcett.
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Evelyn Virginia Willis
Charles T. Willis
Vaucluse
Willis
Herbert Penn
Frederick County
James Penn Baecher
Clearbrook
Methodist Church
Kathleen May
Charles Willis, Jr
Dorothy Lee
Paul Penn
Winchester
Holmes Penn
U. S. Army Air Corps
Fort Joseph
George Gentry
Baltimore
C E. Shaffer
Jones Funeral Home
R. B. Moore
Grace Methodist Church
Middletown
Mt. Hebron
George Genkey
Charles Shaffer
Granville Snapp
Owen Snapp
Leonard Snapp
Lee Fawcett
Hunting Season Opens November 20 in Local Counties
Frederick county will open hunting season on November 20 and Clarke county follows five days later on November 25. Authorities note a brisk demand for hunting licenses at the county clerk’s office as hunters prepare for opening.
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Frederick County
Clarke
Clarke Nimrods
British May Send Force To Beirut
London reports indicate Britain is prepared to take control of Lebanon if French actions fail to end disorders and resolve the crisis. Paris denies serious disorder and blames enemy propaganda. British ministers stress military considerations in Near East while Gen. Catroux works toward settlement and travels to Beirut.
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London
Lebanon
Mediterranean
Britain
Near East
Algiers
Harold MacMillan
Georges Catroux
French National Committee
Beirut
Plans for long range wildlife program in Virginia
Conserving Of Wild Life in Richmond Virginia on November 13 reports lawmakers meet with T E Clarke executive director of the State Game Commission to discuss simplifying complex game laws boosting public education in wildlife protection and developing public shooting areas. Attending include W Burg J H Adams and John Gwathmey of Richmond and representatives of several Izaak Walton clubs.
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Richmond
Izaak Walton League of Virginia
T. E. Clarke
State Game Commission
Virginia
W. Burg
J. H. Adams
John Gwathmey
Izaak Walton
Lt Cather Commissioned Today at Kirtland Field
Wilfred Cather son of Mr and Mrs E W Cather received his wings and commission as Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps in graduation ceremonies at Kirtland Field Albuquerque New Mexico He says he expects to fly east on leave and may reach Winchester tomorrow or Monday He is a bomber and a Handley graduate of three years ago He trained in radio at Scott Field before becoming a bomber He has two brothers Pvt Douglas Cather and Lt Co Leo Cather in service Pvt Cather plans to spend the weekend here Col Cather a West Pointer has served 12 years in the service He is stationed now at Brownwood Texas and has served in foreign stations including the Philippines and has never been posted east of the Mississippi
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Wilfred Cather
E. W. Cather
Army Air Corps
Kirtmond Field
Albuquerque
N. M
Cather
Winchester
Morral
Handley
Scott Field
Pvt
Douglas Cather
Leo Cather
Col
West Pointer
Brownwood Tex
Philippines
Mississippi
Soldier Requests Washboard From Family in Conshohocken
A World War II era note from Conshohocken Pennsylvania dated November 13 19 asks a soldier’s family to send a washboard. After a session with GI clothes at Tacoma Washington he says he cannot clean them with bare hands and needs a washboard to do laundry.
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Conshohocken, Pa
Washboard
Monacilla
G. I. Duds
Tacoma
Wash
Highlights Of World At War
Russia drives toward Romania and old Poland with a major assault on Odessa Leningrad rail hub in western Ukraine. Allied reports say 4,000 Germans killed near Kerch while Halsey’s ships sink a Japanese cruiser and two destroyers around Rabaul. British patrol advances at Sangro. German bridgeheads form on Leros as panic stirs in Bessarabia and Hungary.
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Russia
Rumania
Old Poland
Odessa-Leningrad
Ukraine
Crimea
Kerch
Pacific—Navy
Admiral Halsey
Rabaul
South Pacific Fleet
Bougainville
Europe
Leros
Bessarabia
Hungary
Two More Towns Are Captured By U S Troops
Allied reports say American troops captured two more towns north and northeast of Venafro in Italy. A British patrol crossed the Sangro river on the eastern end of the Nazi winter line as the Fifth Army renewed its advance amid bitter fighting and heavy counter attacks.
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Italy
Sangro River
U. SS
Filignano
Algiers
Venafro
Sangro
Fifth Army
Mignano
A Good Investment Buy the Gordin A Reed apartment house
Auction notice for the Gordin A Reed apartment house at 25 2542 27 and 2742 W Cork St offering 24 rooms to be sold in two parcels and as two wholes in front of the Court House at Noon on Saturday November 20th.
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Gordin A. Reed
Cork St
Court House
South End Fire Company Semi Annual Services
The South End Fire Company holds its semi annual services Sunday night at 7:30 in the company hall. All members are urged to attend. Captain Howard Hart leads the event.
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South End Fire Coo
Howard Hart
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R. Gray Williams
Seventh District
Dnieper Bend
Henry Cassidy
W. Va
Frederick Co
War Work Board
Lake
Air Corps
The
U. S
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