Leyte actions widen as destroyers shell Ormoc
General MacArthur releases reports of Pacific fighting around Leyte and the Camotes Sea. American destroyers and patrol torpedo boats engage Japanese forces while U S warships and air power strike targets in Leyte Gulf. Heavy rain hampers ground advances as naval actions continue around Ormoc and nearby waters.
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MacArthur
Arters
Philippines
Leyte
U. S
Leyte Gulf
Heada
Pacific
Little Tai Island
Sunda
Toko
Saipan
Kkyo
Dougla MacArthur
Amecan
Aittleship
Pac
Camotes
Japanes
Ormoc
Ornic
Tokyo
Morotai
Nazis Retreat Pressed As Allied Forces Push To Cologne
American tanks and infantry punched deep along the Roer river driving Germans from five towns including Langerwehe Hurtgen Kleinhau Jungersdorf and Koslar as Patton’s forces reached near Saarbrucken. The French trapped Germans between Mulhouse and Belfort while the Ninth Army seized Kosar and bridges at Inden and Altdorf.
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U. S. First Army
Hurtgen
Kleinhau
Jagersdorf
Roer
Duren
Ninth
Kosar
Sna Es Se
Inden
Altdorf
Winchester seeks volunteers for Nurses' Aide class
The notice calls on women ages 18 to 50 to join a new Nurses Aide training class at Winchester Memorial Hospital starting January 8. Volunteers are urged to contact the local Red Cross secretary to enroll and support homefront efforts.
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Winchester Memorial
Red Cross
Rouss Fire Co. Notice for December Meeting
The Charlie Rouss Fire Co. calls a regular monthly meeting Friday evening at Bo'cock. All members urged to attend. President David F. Hottle signs the notice.
Fresh Poultry Offer with Free Delivery
Chickens of all sizes freshly dressed with free delivery. Dial 5231 for orders. The notice runs from Wednesday to Thursday and Friday.
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Dia
American Planes Over Tokyo Rise Again
Radio Tokyo reported that American bombers again flew over Tokyo today at 8 30 a m Pacific War Time. The FCC recorded the broadcast noting a minor formation of enemy planes penetrated Tokyo before noon on November 29 and that Japanese defenses gave a hot reception to the raiders.
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Associated Press
Radio Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Tokyo
Deer Kills Horse Near Highview in West Virginia
Mrs Seldon heard a deer charge the horse near Henry Seldon farm and witnessed multiple attacks. The 1 000 pound work animal collapsed after a third strike while the deer retreated into a pine thicket. The farmer’s wife alerted her husband who returned with helpers.
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West Virginia
A. C. Oates
Mr. Oates
Henry Seldon
Pfc. Leslie Fries Reported Killed in Training Event
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Fries of 510 North Loudoun street report their son Pfc. Leslie Paul Fries of the U S Army Air Corps was killed last night while training with a B 29 Bomber group at Salina Kansas His wife Lucille Karicofe formerly of this city is mentioned no further details were released
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Leslie E. Fries
North
Loudoun Street
Pfc
Leslie Paul Fries
U. S. Army Air Corps
Salina
Kansas
Lucille Karicofe
Winchester approves 1945 city budget with school increase
The Winchester Common Council in special session approved the 1945 budget totaling 364 869 dollars including a 10 000 increase for city schools. The council also unanimously approved 800 and 500 for Friendship and Sarah Zane ambulances and passed third readings on license sewer and water ordinances. Andrew Bell of the Chamber urged restoring a 600 dollar annual appropriation and outlined need for maps and folders despite reduced tourist activity after the war.
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Winchester
J. H. Henry
P. D. Miller
Lee Coble
Friendship
Sarah Zane
Finance Committee
Fred L. Glaize
Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
Bell
Thanksgiving Day Observances Set Across Winchester Area
A range of events marks Thanksgiving with church services in Winchester Frederick and Clarke counties. The Martinsburg Handley Turkey Day game headlines sports, while a football dance at the Winchester Armory draws major crowds. Stores banks and offices plan holiday closures and classes pause until Monday.
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Winchester
Frederick
Clarke Counties
Market Street Methodist Church
Middletown
Reliance
Stephens City
Trinity Lutheran Church
Martinsburg
Handley
Stonewall
Boyce
Berryville
Strasboro
Winchester Armory
Reds Ford Flooded Streams To Seize 60 Communities
Soviet forces cross flooded streams from the Carpathians and push west across eastern Slovakia capturing more than sixty settlements. The Red Army drives toward the Danube region near Pecs and Mohacs, with advances up to 144 miles on two fronts and a new push toward Hungary’s coal city.
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London
Carpathians
Red Army
Slovakia
Moscow
Tony
Hungary
Tisza
Reds Beach
Danube
Pecs
Mohacs
Budapest
Vysni Svidnik
Dukla Pass
Nyiregyhaza
Tizsa Put
Bond Contest At Virginia Woolen Company Honors Armed Forces
Virginia Woolen Company announces a bond contest among employees in honor of Armed Forces. Each $25,000 in Sixth War Loan bonds counts as one vote for a serviceman or woman, with four top vote recipients getting a $25 war bond. Extra bonds yield more votes and prizes for top sellers. Company employees have purchased $71,400 in war bonds since Jan 1, 1942.
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Virginia Woolen Company
W. R. Armel
Mississippi Snow Dusts Northwest Mississippi Town
The first snow of the winter fell in West Point today as of 9:30 a.m. snowing for about thirty minutes. Ground remained rain soaked with no sticking observed.
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West Point
Miss
Mississippi
Tharp Wood and Coal Yard Ad
Chunk wood kindling wood split wood for stove slabs in 8 ft lengths large economy load More for your money corner Loudoun and Monmouth phone 5928.
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Tharp Wood and Coal Yard
Loudoun
Monmouth
War Front Flash: Allied Advances Across Western Front and More
Western Front sees Third Army within artillery range of Saarbrucken as First and Ninth Armies push toward Cologne. Red Army overruns 60 communities in Slovakia and Hungary while Danube operations begin. Italian and Pacific actions include British push in Italy and Japanese counter moves in the Philippines and Burma.
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Third
Saarbrucken
Berlin
Cologne
Belfort
Mulhouse
U. S
Maguenau
Strasbourg
Maas
Holland
Fresh home crown and fried chickens for delivery
Local ad announces fresh home crowned and home dressed frying chickens delivered on Saturday. Orders due by 9 a.m. Phone 3959. Also notes Turkey Dinners at the Golden Glow and a Thanksgiving holiday closure for Louise Beauty Salon Thursday through Saturday.
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Golden Glow
Thanksgiving Safety Event At Eagle's Home
A Thanksgiving safety meeting will be held at the Eagle's Home on Thursday November 30 from 8 to 12. All members and wives are cordially invited.
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Eagle's
Roast Chicken Dinner at Charlie's Restaurant
A roast chicken dinner is offered on Thursday at Charlie's Restaurant located at 44 E. Piccadilly. The notice highlights a dine-in option and specifies the weekly special.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie’s Restaurant
E. Piccadilly
Fellowship Fire Company to attend chaplain Dudley funeral
Friendship Fire Company members are asked to meet at the hall Thursday at 2 30 PM to attend the funeral of their chaplain the late Rev W D Dudley Marion Anderson Captain
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Friendship Fire Company
W. D. Dudley
Marion Anderson
Thanksgiving Day Closure Notice by The Star
The Star will not be published on Thursday November 30 1944 Thanksgiving Day a national holiday. The Evening Star.
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the Star
THE
Evening Star
Polish Group Accused Of Plans To Split Allies
Russia through Pravda accused the Polish government in exile of seeking to split the Allies and start a new war. Pravda suggested Mikolajczyk’s resignation would end hopes for rapprochement with the exile regime and described the Liberation Committee as the Poland governing body with Soviet support. London reports said Premier designate Kwapinski resigned and Areiszewski was tapped to form a new cabinet, with unclear official confirmation.
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Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Russia
Pravda
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Mikolajek
Lublin
National Liberation
Mikolajczyk
Poland
Soviet Union
London
Jan Kwapinski
Tomasz Areiszewski
Socialist Party
Areiszewiski
Kwapinski
Rackiewicz
British Eighth Army Faces Heavy Resistance in Po Valley
Allied dispatch says Eighth Army advances into the Alberto area about five miles northeast of Faenza meet heavy opposition. Fifth Army gains ground north and west of Modigliana while repelling enemy raids near Bologna.
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RCME
Eighth Army
Po Valley
Alberto
Faenza
Albree
Fifth Army
Modigliana
Bolognao
AFL- CIO reaffirm no-strike pledge for wartime production
The AFL reaffirmed its no-strike pledge for the war duration by rising vote at the 64th convention in New Orleans with a proviso urging government and industry to respect workers rights and not misuse the pledge to deny established rights and privileges.
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New Orleans
AFL
Himmler Decrees Mass Shootings in Nazi Germany
A Schaffhausen Zeitung dispatch reports the Nazis order mass shootings to keep workers at armament plants. It claims 300 workers were shot at Gestapo orders after a Mannheim strike, and Düsseldorf saw a massacre of several hundreds when reinforcements arrived.
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Bern
Schaffhausen
Nazi Bomb Wrecks U. S. Hospital in Belgium
A German flying bomb hit a U S Army general hospital in Belgium well behind the front lines. Twelve killed and nearly fifty injured, 1150 patients evacuated. The blast destroyed the laboratory pharmacy section, blew in walls, and collapsed the roof. Fifteen nurses were sent to a rest area in shock.
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Belgium
U.S. Army General Hospital
Thanksgiving Service Order At Market Street Methodist Church
The Winchester Ministerial Association announces a 10 30 a m Thanksgiving service at Market Street Methodist Church with a full program led by pastors from Congregational Christian, Montague Avenue Methodist, Cork Street Christian, and Highland Avenue Presbyterian churches. The offering supports Winchester Memorial Hospital.
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Market Street Methodist Church
Winchester Ministerial Association
Reginald W. Vanderberry
Bach
Charles R. Line
Cork Street Christian Church
Jerusalem
J. H. Maunder
Te Street Methodist Church
R. R. Sartelle
Smith
Alford
Wm. E. Eisenberg
Grace Lutheran Church
Bates
J. S. Duckwall
Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Antwerp Port In Use Prime Minister Churchill Reports
Prime Minister Churchill disclosed that the Belgian port of Antwerp second largest in Europe was in use to supply the 55 or more divisions Eisenhower had thrown into battle. American forces of the First and Ninth Armies fought slowly along a 25 mile front between Linnich and Hurtgen near the Cologne Plain as they pressed toward Cologne through ruined villages and trench systems near Inden Langerwehe Lamersdorf Grosshau. Hurtgen Jungersdorf and Koslar towns on the Roer river line were key positions in the last great barrier before the Rhine with air support aiding slow dawn advances. Public sale notices and a missing dog ad appear in the same edition.
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Antwerp
Churchill
Europe
Eisenhower
Hurtgen
Cologne
Jungersdorf
Duren
Koslar
Julich
Roer
Linnich
Aachen
Inden Langerwehe
Lamersdorf Grosshau
William H. Simpson
Courtney H. Hodges
Ninth
First
Wanted One Apple Grader Ad
WANTED one apple grader. Write us giving make age condition price and description. REISINGER MOTOR SALES CO Uniontown Pa.
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Reisinger Motor Sales CO
Uniontown
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