Pittsburgher Gets Op A Job
Alvin J. Williams announces Clifford J. Ryan will supervise the Erie public relations division until a permanent information representative is named. Ryan, with a long newspaper background, will visit Erie Thursday. he has been Pittsburgh district information officer since January 1943 and Duquesne University graduate. Francis A. Chojnawski is acting enforcement attorney.
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Brie
Alvin J. Williams
Erie
Price Administration
Clifford J. Ryan
Pittsburgh
Ryan
Williams
Duquesne University
Francis A. Chojnawski
Erie man denies extortion guilt in federal case
Carl M. Marioana thirty three of Erie pleaded innocent in Buffalo Federal Court to interstate extortion charges for threatening and demanding $1,000 from Carl Spoto president of Brocton Preserving Co. He arranged a drop near Brocton and was captured when he arrived for the parcel. He is free on a $15 000 bond pending trial.
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Carl M. Marioana
Eric
Brocton
Canning Company
Buffalo
Marioana
Carl Spoto
Brocton Preserving Co
Marlosna
Erleman
Spoto
New York State
Chautauqua County
FBI
Failed to Indict Kane Car Driver in Valley Fatality
Gat taraugus county grand jury failed to return a true bill in the case of John R. Chatman 23 Kane charged with criminal negligence in an auto crash that killed Pvt Allen Cosby a Bradford United States Army member. The August accident on Bradford Rock City road saw Chatman’s light truck skid on wet pavement roll over catch fire and burn Cosby beyond recognition.
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Litter Valley
Gattaraugus County
John R. Chatman
Kane
Allen Cosby
Bradford
United States Army
Bradford-Rock City
Chat
Pvt
Cas~ By
Second Polio Death At Ridgway Report
The Riceway town records the second polio death of the current epidemic as 10 year old James Harold Marshall dies at 12:30 AM at home after several days of illness. Earlier victim Theodore Cronk died August 23 in the same epidemic.
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Ridgway
James Harold Marshall
Harold Marshall
Riceway
Theodore Cronk
Fifth Army Makes Slight Gains Amid Stiff German Resistance
Fifth Army infantry gained small advances along a 20 mile front amid mud and strong German opposition near valley roads north of the Apennines toward the Po. Artillery observation improved as skies cleared and German road movements were limited. The Brazilian division with the Fiji army kept pressure along its front.
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Associated Press
Rome
Fifth Army
Apennines
Braailian
Fiji Army
Adriatic
Allied bombers immobilize Ruhr valley communications
Allied air forces continued heavy night raids on the Ruhr area cutting rail and water links to the rest of Germany. Mosquito bombers hit 81 trains 20 barges and 25 transports while 1 000 American daylight bombers targeted southern German industries. Flooding from breached canals and gates worsened by recon photos shows long barges sunk and Siegfried Line rear exposed. Lancasters also breached 120 yards of Walcheren Island sea wall threatening Dutch coast operations.
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Associated Press
London
Hitler
Ruhr
Germany
RAF Mosquito
Holland
RAF Heavies
North Sea
Dortmund-Ems
Air Ministry
Muost
Dee
Siegfried Line
Walcheren Island
British hold Borghi under floodlit Eighth Army probe
Men are strongly entrenched in the flood. Only a few Eighth Army patrols crossed to probe enemy positions. Fighting occurred in Borghi at the inland end of the Eighth Army front across the Po valley. The town remained in British hands.
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Mans
Eighth Army
Borghi
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Color Guard
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Tae Ay Bal
Dragon Seed
Katherine Hepburn
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Akim Tamiroff
Merle Page
Eva Lathro
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Guy Rogers
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Wing
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Maltex Iie
Laurence Hansen
Ralph Hixson
N. First Ave
Waller Fields
Merle Cooper
Co. S. Wallace
Victor Elisart
Nellie Black
Boston House
Betty Lundquist
Nancy Branham
NEW
Bendix
Franz
WILLS
Marie Schramling
Frances Rotelle
Shambaugh
West Bainet
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Eleanor Kinley Mrs
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J.L. Spiesman
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Powell Motor Co
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