Missionary Society Meeting Announced in Front Royal
Friday at 10 oclock the Woman's Missionary Society of the Winchester Conference Lutheran Church will meet in the new Good Shepherd chapel Front Royal Virginia Avenue. Mrs Robert R Sterner chairs the entertainment committee and noon luncheon will be served at the First Baptist Church. Miss Lilith Schwab missioner from India will give the main talk morning session.
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Woman’s Missionary Society
Winchester
Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Sixth Street
Virginia Avenue
Front Royal
Robert R. Sterner
First Baptist Church
Lilith Schwab
India
Americans Shape West Wall Advance Across At The Meuse
Allied forces report advancing toward the Rhine from the Meuse Sambre confluence with Halle, Namur and Dinant liberated. U S First Army pushes near Liege as Patton’s line holds against German resistance. Moselle bridgehead near Pont-a-Mousson and Verdun reached. British widen wedge into Gent and press toward Le Havre and Brest in a broad offensive.
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Antwerp
U. S. First Army
Namur
Liege
Supreme Headquarters
Luxembourg
Rhine
U. S
Aachen
Saarbrucken
Germany
Strasbourg
Associated Press
Wes Gallagher
Patton
Moselle
Reich
Meuse
Commercy
Pont-A-Mousson
Nancy
Metz
Verdun
Saabrucken
Religium
Courtney H. Hodges
U.S. First Army
Dinant
Givent
Holland
Brussels
Gent
Belgium
le Havre
Brest
Reds Cross Narew To Peril Prussia
Soviet forces push toward Bulgaria and Hungary as German resistance collapses in southeastern Europe. Russian spearheads near Nis threaten rail junctions while Moscow withholds official word of a Bulgarias armistice request. The Danubian gorge garrison sits within 60 miles of advancing troops.
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Romania
Belgrade
Sofia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Russia
Moscow
Iron Gate
Danubian
Serbia
Nis
Germany
Europe
France
Low Countries
Balkan
Aegean
Albania
Macedonia
Montenegro
Hercegovina
Bosnia
Demobilization Plan Aims Reductions Across Army Forces
The proposal outlines credits for demobilization months since Sept 16 1940 overseas service combat awards and dependents with up to three children. Most cuts target ground forces while air and service units stay needed in the Pacific. Leaders call the plan fair with Navy input and a White House furlough rotation proposal to bring home long foreign service personnel.
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Pacific
House
Senate
Jean A. Brunner
Veterans of Foreign Wars
White House
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Eastern Front and Budapest Drive Amid Carpathian Redoubt
Report describes a harsh clash as Hungarian and German forces fight in the eastern Carpathians near Craiova and Timisoara with the Red Army pushing toward Budapest after the rail line. It also notes Tito's isolation possibly ending as Moscow believes a Russian assault in northern Poland advances toward key hubs near Wysok and the Narew River.
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Geman
Eastern Carpathians
Budapest
Craiova-Timisoara
Red Army
Carpathian
Marshal Tito
Poland
Wyskow
Warsaw
Bug River
Narew River
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B. F. Goodrich Tires
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U. S. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International
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