Campaign optimism and wartime notes in The Star 1944
The Evening Star lists wartime dispatches from November 25 1944 noting Leyte American superiority, planned Luzon Mindanao campaigns, and MacArthur advances despite stormy weather and Japanese resistance. The article frames the campaign as a path to Manila and a major loss for Japan with General MacArthur’s steady progress.
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Luzon
Mindanao
Manila
Leyte
MacArthur
Japan
Philippine
Tokyo
Philippine Archipelago
Hidden Tuberculosis Threat Seeks Broad X-Ray Screening
Dr. Herman Hilleboe warned at the Southern Medical Association meeting that hundreds of thousands harbor hidden TB in the United States. He cited a 12 percent X-ray sign rate among 750000 war industry workers and urged mass community X-rays to save lives. He warned cases go undetected and a united effort is needed to defeat the scourge.
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United States
Herman Hiulleboe
United Statess
Public Health Service
Southern Medical Association
St. Louis
Hillebos
Hillebee
Editorial on limits of future tech promises
Abundant assurances promise a smarter future via plastics, flexible glass, and electronics. Yet the author warns utopian outcomes are unlikely after war ends and daily life will retain struggles, poverty, crime, and routine challenges despite new inventions.
News of Other Years Summary Highlights
Recaps from various years note events such as a War Fund Drive nearing its goal of 20 000, a man found dead at Star Fort, Handley Judges losing to Martinsburg 32 to 6, and other local incidents and anniversaries. The items span ten, twenty, forty, and forty five years ago with mentions of notable deaths, honors, and community events.
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Star Fort
Sunnyside
Handley
Martinsburg Bulldogs
Strength for the Day C Students on Campus
A college president favors C students for their personality and resourcefulness. The piece argues most people are middle of the road, genial and willing to help, and that campuses and society benefit from a strong presence of C-grade personalities.
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Phi Beta Kappas
Strikes Within Unions Stir Boston Labor Tension
The New England War Labor Board rebuked Boston insurgents in a union feud over wartime strikes. It ordered return to work and upheld constitutional union processes, warning insurgents that strikes against internal leaders lack rescue. Army seizure of 13 tan neries in leather towns remains unresolved.
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Christian Science Monitor Wildcat
Boston
New England War Labor Board
WLB
New England
Ifdisadeas
Quiz Questions From The Page 2 Section
The page lists seven trivia prompts asking for definitions and historical facts. It includes questions on Papua, antonyms of oriental, a presidential candidate Quentin Reynolds backed, biblical figures related to Jesse, textile materials from Japan, the Queen of Flowers, amphibious planes, the meaning of mustang, the Immortal Bard, the capital of El Salvador, and the Trench of Bayonets with a brief wartime description.
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Papua
New Guinea
Quentin Reynolds
Jesse
U. S
Japan
Immortal Bard
el Salvador
Leaves From Notebook Of War Correspondent
Hal Boyle recalls landing with the American Third Division in Morocco two years earlier and rejoining the unit in France. He notes unchanged spirit despite losses and recalls old friends Maj. George Ferell Lt. Col. Grover Wilson and Maj. Hugh Scott, now advanced in rank. The piece contrasts past challenges with current professional maturity.
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Hal Boyle
Africa
Boyle
France
French Morocco
Seventh Army
Belfort Gap
Volturno
Italy
Naples
George J. Ferell
Beaver
Grover Wilson
Bellingham
Wash
Maj
Hugh Scott
Salem
Ore
George
Slim
Grover
Hugh
Morocco
Sicily
Germany
Fedala
Your Pet Habits By Dr Logan Clendening Analysis
This column defends everyday pleasures against critics and argues coffee is not harmful to most, noting it can aid elderly hearts. It contrasts meat with vegetarian notions and recalls the Salisbury treatment, while advising an 81 year old with mitral murmur to choose sedentary work and gentle activity.
Remembering the Third Division and Its Fallen Men
A veteran reflects on the Third Division, once at Fedala and now buried across four battlefields. The speaker notes the division no longer exists except in memory, preserving its history and sacrifices.
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Fedala
Pets and Their Care booklet from The Winchester Evening Star
Government and authoritative sources provide practical pet care guidance covering feeding housing exercise breeding and minor ailments. A 32 page booklet offers veterinary tips and related advice, available postpaid for ten cents from The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau.
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The
Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau
Care of Pets and Military Dependency Questions Answered
The notice discusses sending ten cents for a Pets care booklet and explains family allowance eligibility for soldiers relatives. It notes dependency benefits possible for a soldier's mother and requires using WDAGO Form No. 625 via local Red Cross chapters or War Department offices. Warrant officers in the U S Army are addressed as Mister.
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American Red Cross
Office of Dependency Benefits
War Department
Newark 2
N. J
United States Army
Provisions on Dependents Allowances for Merchant Marines
The dependents of Merchant Marine personnel are not eligible for family allowances under the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942. Under the Federal allotment statute, a sea-
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Merchant Marine
Drue Cable Faces Murder Inquisition In Library Death
In a tense session District Attorney Soper presses Drue Cable as Nugent seeks to secure her testimony. Drue reveals finding Conrad Brent’s revolver and explains she brought it to her room hoping to prove the shooting was not accidental. The case hinges on whether Craig Brent’s death was murder or accident.
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Drue Chble
Nicky
Drue
Conrad
Alexia
Maud
Peter
Craig
Soper
Nugent
Loper
Brent
Senous
Lieutenant Nugent
Miss Cable
Beevens
Volver
Conrad Brent
Mignon G. Eberhart
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Star
Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulation
Cates Ara
Son of Heaven
Philippines
Clifton Forge Review
Laura Virginia Eddy
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Ivan Smith
Abingdon
Congregational Christian Church
Leah E. Crabill Nossett
Edwin Ritter
Star Mechanical Department
J. F. Ward
R. B. Nelson
City Union
Kate McVicar
Weston
W. Va
Henry Bannon
West Virginia Supreme Court
Jack Hotel
Belgian Relief Fund
Winchester Council
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Frank Washington
Thomas Huff
Edgar Arnold
John Kerr School
James Carper
Earl L. Douglass
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