Red Army Breakthroughs Reported Across Eight Front Sectors
Berlin radio cited mass Soviet attacks denting German lines in eight sectors from the Dnieper Bend to Smolensk and Cherkassy, with Transocean Agency noting gains near Dnepropetrovsk Krivoi Rog Cherkassy Gomel and Rechitsa. German communique claimed counterattacks foiled the drives as the fighting continued amid fluctuating situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Transocean Agency
Dnieper
Dnepropetrovsk
Krivoi Rog
Cherkassy
Zhitomir
Kiev
Rechitsa
Gomel
Smolensk
Orhsa
Transocean
Farmer perplexed by hog slaughter rules for own meat
A 64 year old farmer struggles with regulations on home slaughter and feeding hogs, fearing technical violations for not feeding them 60 consecutive days and for not owning pigs from birth, while ration concerns loom.
Yorktown Mine Depot Blast Kills Six at Navy Facility
An explosion in a warehouse at the Norfolk naval mine depot in Yorktown killed about six civilian workers and injured 20 to 30, with two seriously. The blast at 12:25 a.m. disrupted lighting, triggered fires, and sent shock waves through Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News. Captain Kirkpatrick described extensive damage while rescue efforts continued. The event began with a red yellow flash lighting the area and rising about 200 feet into the air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Nash
Yorktown
Naval Mine Depot
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Newport News
R. D. Kirkpatrick
USN
Thomas Kammerer
Jamaica
N. Y
Child Injured Seriously While At Play
Cecil Artrip nine tomorrow son of Mr and Mrs W F Artrip RFD 1 Winchester suffered a fall from a hay mow onto a pitch fork piercing his upper thigh and abdomen He was taken to Winchester Memorial Hospital in serious condition with internal hemorrhages and given oxygen and transfusions He remains critical while a Shenandoah Valley Academy student recovers at home on Bufflick Road near the municipal airport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Artrip
W. F. Artrip
RFD
Winchester
Artrip
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Cecil
the Younster
Shenandoah Valley Academy School
Bufflick Road
Chinese High Command says Yangtze front breaches reach Ichang area
The Chinese High Command announced that forces along the Yangtze Valley broke into Japanese lines at many points south of the river and pushed toward the outskirts of Ichang and Tangyang. Severe fighting was reported near Ichang and Tangyang, with claims of recapture of Hawkow and ongoing combats at Shih men. An attack on Linyang near the Peiping Hankow railway was also claimed with recapture of Sintien and disruption of Lingyang communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Yangtze Valley
Ichang
Tangyang
Yangtze
Hokow
Shihmen
Hankow
Peiping-Hankow
Hunan
Linyang
Sintien
Lingyang
Wanted Helper at Conoco Station Cameron and Gerrard
Help wanted at Conoco Service Station Cameron and Gerrard streets. Good wages. See Guy A. Webber.
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Conoco
Cameron and
Gerrard Streets
Guy A. Webber
War Fund drive reports strong local response in Winchester
Winchester residents show near full participation in the United War Fund campaign aimed at aiding service members. Miss Ruth Solenberger leads the home division, with Ed Molden directing the drive begun yesterday. The industrial division under Steve Sammis expands outreach as county reports vary and a coupon plan will run in The Star to boost contributions. Letters praising USO and related groups flow to Mr Molden daily.
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Winchester
Ruth Solenberger
Winchester and
Frederick
Steve Sammis
Special Gifts Committee
Star
USO
Merf Tommending
United War Fund
Molden
Soldier Killed In Car Crash Near Henderson North Carolina
Pf C Chancey 27 of Camp McKall died in a two vehicle collision on U S Highway No 1 south of Hendersonville. Pf James Wonders and his wife of Johnstown Pa survived with minor injuries. D Ray Fox of Harrisonburg Va suffered a fractured skull in the crash. Galen Fox also injured. A return ticket from Elmira N Y to Hamlet was found in Chancey pocket.
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Henderson
N. C
Pfe
Joe E. Chancey
Camp McKall
U. S. Highway No. 1
Here
Chancey
James E. Wonders
Johnstown
Wonders
Washington
Camp Davis
Galen Fox
D. Ray Fox
Harrisonburg
Bond sales progress in November drive for wartime bonds
War Bond sales in Winchester and Frederick County total $38 734 75 so far this month with two weeks left to meet the $110 000 quota. Bond slogans such as Buy Bonds for Christmas and The Present With a Future are used by the War Finance Committee. The Blue Star Brigade continues promoting the prize bond for the mother or next of kin of a service member with the best selling record this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Frederick County
Wendell Barney
War Finance Committee
Blue Star Brigade
Reed Apartments Offered In Two Parcels At Court House Sale
Real estate listing invites bids for Reed Apartments Nos 25 and 2514 27 and 27 West Cork Street to be sold in two parcels and as a whole in front of the Court House on Saturday November 20.
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Cork St
Court House
Bingo Event at Legion Building in Berryville
Tuesday November 16 at 8 p m at the Legion Building Berryville. Door prize of 50 dollars and other prizes offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Bldg
Berryville
Cotton Ed Smith Urges Political Rollback Over Price Subsidies
Senator Smith denounces the administration price rollback subsidy program as a political tool and urges a national rollback at the polls. House foes threaten to challenge OPA authority if Roosevelt vetoes subsidy continuation beyond 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Smith
House
OPA
Roosevelt
Steagall
D.-Ala
House Banking Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Office of Price Administration
Tebanes Asked To Reopen Shops
London reports the French installed Lebanese government urged merchants to reopen stores to restore normal conditions quickly. Gen. Georges Catroux seeks to settle Lebanon sovereignty while other Near East nations lobby.Radio Paris and Baghdad notes reflect cross regional appeals supporting Lebanon and Syria.
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London
Beirut
Georges Catroux
French Committee of National Liberation
Little Republic
Near East
Lebanon
Baghdad
Wendell L. Willkie
United Nations
Iraq
Radio France
Algiers
French West Africa
Dakar
France
Major Miller on 15 day leave from Camp Forrest visit
Major George Miller on a 15 day leave spending time with family on Montague Avenue in Winchester after maneuvers at Camp Forrest Tennessee. He was mustered into the army with Company I and has served at posts across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Miller
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Winchester
Montague Avenue
Miller
Army
Ickes Contests Coal Price Increases Not Sufficient
Interior Secretary Ickes protests to Stabilization Director Vinson that Office of Price Administration coal price boosts are too low to cover rising production costs. Drafts by OPA and Solid Fuels Administration were reviewed, with no figures on the requested increase disclosed. Vinson declined to comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
Fred M. Vinson
Office of Price Administration
Vinson
OPA
Solid Fuel Administration
Chinese Bill Sent To Senate For Immigration Reform
The Magnuson bill moves toward repealing the Chinese exclusion laws with House approval. Senate subcommittee chair Andrews states the policy to aid China and eliminate discriminatory legislation. The bill would set a 105 annual entry quota for Chinese and allow naturalization eligibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Senate
Magnuson
Andrews
D-Fla
Senate Immigration and Naturalization
China
May Strip McNut of Draft Power
Senate and House conferees cleared the way for quick passage of a wartime draft bill that would place pre Pearl Harbor fathers at the bottom of the draft list and strip War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V McNutt of authority over the Selective Service. The plan returns policy control to the President with a requirement to delegate to Maj Gen Lewis B Hershey if delegated.
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Washington
Senate
House
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Winchester minister’s sons serve in the war effort reach record
The Rev J Edward Klingaman of Route 1 Winchester notes four eldest sons already in service with two more sons and a daughter to go. Sons include Lt Leon Carl Klingaman US Navy and Pvt J Edward Klingaman Jr 4th Star Unit AFRPCRP etc. A sister group also has three of four sons serving and Clarence Woods Jr in Navy. Howard W Klingaman and wife visited in Alexandria.
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Edward Klingaman
Route 1
Winchester
Leon Carl Klingaman
U. S. Navy
J. Edward Klingaman, Jr
4Th Star
Raymond Oliver Klingaman
L. E. Co
Robert LeRoy Klingaman
Mr. Klingaman
World War Fronts Report Broad Allied Advances and Luftwaffe Assaults
World War Fronts summarize Allied offensives across the Soviet west toward Gomel and Zhitomir while air forces strike Norway and western Germany. German raids hit southern England as Italy sees counterattacks north of Venafro. Balkans and Pacific theaters note Allied bombers/attacks, with heavy naval damage near Rabaul and ongoing weather delays.
Allied bombers sink or damage over forty Japanese ships
Allied air forces report sinking or damaging more than 40 Japanese warships in the northern Solomons off Rabaul and Havieng. Since Oct 12 a record 350 ton raid hit Rabaul. three destroyers were sunk and numerous cruisers and destroyers damaged including a submarine and corvette. Navy officials say Japan’s cruiser capability is seriously impaired.
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Southwest Pacific
Solomons
Rabaul
New Britain
Havieng
New Ireland
Navy
Knox
Japan
German Pressure Tightens on Slavs in Dalmatia and Balkans
Tito reported heavy German offensives across several fronts from Dalmatia to Macedonia. Partisans claimed 140 Germans killed with two enemy positions captured in Slovenia, and a major clash in Bosnia left over 100 Germans dead. Fighting continued in Serbia with Chetnik-backed forces. Albanian withdrawal noted by Doanau Zeitung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Peljesac
Dalmatia
Macedonia
Yugoslav National Liberation Army
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Slovenia
Nedic and
Mikhailovic
Serbia
Dalmatian
Donau Zeitung
Boy Struck By Auto Succumbs In Leesburg
Douglass Fulcher, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Fulcher of lower Loudoun county, died at Loudoun County Hospital from injuries after being struck by an automobile on the Washington Winchester highway. Sgt Robert Carban, an army NCO at Martinsburg hospital, drove the car and was released on bond for an inquest Thursday. Fulcher was a pupil at Ashburn Elementary School.
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Leesburg
Douglass Fulcher
Hugh Fulcher
Lower Loudoun County
Loudoun County
Washington-Winchester
Robert Carban
Government Hospital
Martinsburg
W. Va
Young Pulcher
Bond
Ashburn
German Attacks Oust Americans From High Hills
Allied dispatches report Fifth Army ground loss north of Venafro on Monte Santo as Eighth Army gains hilltops in eastern Italy. Air activity limited by weather with raids on Eleusis Athens area and Kalamatka airfields. Naples and southern provinces see 537 Fascist officials removed or fled ahead of Allied advance.
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Italy
Venafro
Fifth Army
Eighth
Algiers
Eighth Army
U. S
Monte Santo
Rators
Sangro River
Montazzoli
Sangro
Ancona
Adriatic
Naples
Salerno
Benevento
Avellino
AMG
Germans Execute Many Italians Near Domodossola
Brigue reports in La Suisse say German occupation troops mass executed Italian prisoners after an all day battle with partisans near Domodossola. Most Italians fled to northern Italian hills while violence centered around Villadossola Luino.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Domodossola
Brigue
la Suisse
Villadessola
Domodessola
Luino
Buy a Farm at Your Own Price Ad
Advertisement announces a farm sale by W. B. Sager on November 18 with details inside the issue. The notice emphasizes the chance to acquire property at a self chosen price and invites readers to view the advertisement for terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Sager
Allies Bomb Norway and Aegean as Yugoslav Liberators Join War
American heavy bombers strike targets in Norway amid reports of Nazi warships in fjords. Simultaneously Yugoslav air force Liberators, trained by the U S, join the Mediterranean theater bombing Eleusis and other Greek bases with Allied support. Air operations include Kalamaki and Leros actions with no losses reported.
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London
Hitler
Norway
Athens
Algiers
Mediterranean
Fifteenth Air Force
Eleusis
U. S
Italy
Kalacce
United States
Leagelend
Trondheim
Heroya
Britain
England
Aegean
Leros
Cairo
Rhodes
Crete
Berlin
Greece
Kalamaki
Fifteenth Airforce
Yugoslavia
Paul
Middle East
Seven men accepted at Roanoke induction station
Seven men ordered to report to the Roanoke Induction Station by the Winchester Draft Board were accepted for service. Three will join the Army, two the Navy and two the Marine Corps. Army selections were Weldon Lynwood Hollinger Charles Robert Sirbaugh and Paul Eugene Willey. Navy picks were Elmer Bennett Greenawalt and Maurice Richard Foreman. Marines were Charles Herbert Hodson and Robert Wilson Duvall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Winchester
Armed Forces
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Weldon Lynwood Holl Singer
Charles Robert Sirbaugh
Paul Eugene Willey
Elmer Bennett Greenawalt
Maurice Richard Foreman
Marines
Charles Herbert Hodson
Robert Wilson Duvall
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Moscow
MR Winchester
USC
Agricultural Committee
Feeder
Tebanes
Major Miller
Virginia
McNut
Sue Slack
Salome Crisman
Quota Club
Associated Press
Russia
Germany
English
Balkans
Bulgaria
Sofia
South Pacific
By Edward Kennedy
U.S
Gladwin Hill
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