Hard Winter Campaign Looming On West Front
Russian forces crossed the Danube near Orsova in Yugoslavia and invaded, while Soviet analysts called the German retreat from Riga hopeless. Red Army advances pushed toward eastern Slovakia and the Carpathians as German defenses hold, with heavy fighting and rearguard actions reported west of Riga and near the Hungarian border.
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Associated Press
London
Yugoslavia
Danube
Orsova
Berlin
Moscow
Dalian
Riga
Excape Gaud
Dblv
Gayman
Capital Front
Lithuania
Uxe
Tyan Petrov
Trene
Carpathians
Petrov
Hank Pass
Volosutajon
Iit
Czechoslovakia
Liokow Pass
Taal Pass
Hine
Eapth
Red Army
Slovalin
Farm equipment removed from ration list nationwide
Washington September 2. The War Food Administration released from rationing and distribution controls all farm machinery and equipment except pickers. The list includes combines, harvesters, mowers, hay balers, tractors, planters, potato diggers, irrigation gear, milk coolers, water systems, and related items.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Yarni
Finns Press Drive Against Germans
Finnish forces press a multi column advance in northern Karelia from Oulu toward Komand Tornie and Sijoki River, while another column moves from Pudanka toward Pudasjarvi and a third from Fuplanka toward Kailkositi near Pudasjarvi. Germain defenses retreat, railroad bridge blown at Sijoki.
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Tehvinu
Ther
Opeedlumm
Bownenil Gulf
Oulu
Komnd Tornie
Sijoki
Pudanka
Pinland
Pudasjarvi
Fuplanka Furtheast
Cail Kositi
Erie survey of merchants concludes locally
Corry visitors from the Erie Chamber of Commerce conferred with Dana Taggart about a county wide survey on merchant and non manufacturing establishments. The plan aims to map equipment needs and postwar activity for the Committee on Economic Development.
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Shiels
Erie Chamber of Commerce
Corry
Dana Taggart
Golden Brite Chuir
Tauwart
Galeen Rule Club
Treasury Report Washington Sent 28 Position of Treasury
Treasury report shows receipts 201,958,569.80 and expenditures 400,173,455.19 with a net balance of 15,280,508.73. The figures reflect a deficit for the period ending September 26, as reported from Washington.
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Treasury
Washington
Churchill warns war may extend into 1945 and cites Allied strength
Prime Minister Churchill told Parliament that victory over Hitler may take into 1945 with no guarantee of early end. He cited Allied strength in northwestern Europe, Britain’s casualties in France at about 9,000, and American losses rising to 145,000. He praised American advances and warned against premature expectations of an end.
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Associated Stress
London
Churchill
House of Commons
Hitler
Ims
Quebec
Uys
Germany
Churchils
Europe
Holland
Phe
France
Rewess
Arnhem action hits two American Airborne divisions hard
Transocean news agency praised the British 1st Airborne in Arnhem, claiming heavy losses for two American Airborne divisions. German officers said British paratroopers resisted fiercely as the siege tightened, with the 101st and 82nd reportedly sustaining severe casualties and the British commander wounded before surrender. No confirmation of American participation was provided.
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Arnhem
Transocean
Guenther Weber
Associated ‘Press
Weber
101St
United States Airborne
Hanson Sielly
PENELEC Announces Rate Cut Across Western Counties
Harrisburg Sept 29 The Pennsylvania Electric Company filed with the Public Utility Commission a new rate schedule effective Oct 28 1944. It promises annual savings of about 595054 to 194869 customers in 18 western counties with no rate increases for any customer. Residential users total about 121671 with estimated savings of 200200 and 13194 commercial consumers at 236. The plan reduces rates for about 10 percent of customers and aims to simplify and lower the overall rate structure while potentially reducing company revenues. The timing of future steps depends on wartime factors expansion of service and inflation trends.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Electric Comune
Johnstown
Public Utility! Commission
E. T. Cherry
Jir Corry
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Penelec
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Cherry
Peneilic
Isl
Selex
Fifth Regains Heights in Italy After Fierce Attack
American Fifth Army troops retook heights lost days earlier near Castel Del Rio and Mount Carnevale, seizing strategic positions along the Himmi Bologna highway. British and Dominion forces expanded the Rubicon bridgehead to two miles in depth along a ten mile front and advanced on Suvasiano. Canadian units of the Eighth Army captured Hellaris near Rimini as Italian partisans held Bellaria, while Fifth Army forces in the central sector secured Castiglione Del Pelago and Burscott three miles east.
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Eres
Rome
Fifth Army
Mye
Castel del Plo
Tmola
Himmi-Hologna Highway
Mount Carnevale
Castel del Rio
Adriatic
Rubicon
Republicans Hold Lead in City Enrollment
Registration day in Corry drew heavier than expected activity with Republicans maintaining a preponderance. About 143 people enrolled across five county districts, totaling 972 new registrations, up 82 from Democrats. District tallies show First Ward through Fourth Ward enrollments, with independents suspected but not confirmed.
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Corry
Carty
Uney
Gorsy Distriets Sie
Lps
PAC Drives Democratic Registration in Erie City
The CIO Political Action Committee led a vigorous registration drive in Erie yesterday ahead of the Democratic organization. District registrars reported crowded lines and thousands enrolled, predominantly Democratic, while concerns remained about duplications and cross-registration with Republicans. County officials brace for tallying, noting late-night work by local boards and that many Cory district registrants may not meet current eligibility.
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Ruhl
Segney
CIO Political Action Committee
Democratic Organiaa Union
Villaits
PAC
Bric Ek
Gerty
Court House
Erie
Cory
Sual
Erte
Hollister Killed in Action in Pacific Theater
Donald M. Hollister, a Corry native employed by Aero Supply Manufacturing Co., was killed in the Southwest Pacific area on August 7. Inducted February 1943, he served in an anti aircraft battalion and departed for overseas last March. His father M W Hollister of Erie and mother Mrs Ruby Hollister of Oregon report the loss.
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Donald M. Hollister
Southiwest Pacific Area
M. W. Hollister
Erie
Ruby Hollister
Oregon
Hollister
Erie County
The
Aero Supply Manufacturing Co
Corry
MRS JULIA AN HOSS FOUND SHOT NEAR HOLLIWAY RIDGE
The body of Mrs. Julia Ann Hoss, 58, was found with a bullet wound in the chest near Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania on September 28. The death is being treated as a potential crime while investigators review evidence and speak with witnesses.
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Hollmaysburg
Julia Ann Hoss
Ohaigh Ridge
Here
Yanks Advance Toward Peleliu Described in Patchy Dispatches
A World War II field report notes U S forces pressing toward Peleliu with faster progress than earlier, amid stubborn Japanese resistance. Communiques from Admiral Nimitz describe intensified operations around the Palau Islands as allied ships and barges push along Mindoro’s shores and nearby routes.
Neutral nations warned by Hull to avoid Axis ties
Secretary of State Hull disclosed that neutral nations were warned they would lose American friendship for years to come if they aided Hitler or Axis leaders. In other dispatches Allied forces pressed Balkan operations and British batteries near Calais reported crushed. Japanese forces shifted directions toward Kwangsi as encirclement of Poaching town neared.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Hull
London
Calais
Dover
Ouungking
Nese
Nui
Kwangsi
Kweilin
1000 Bombers Hammer German War Factories
Annciated Press reports that over 1,000 American heavy bombers attacked Magdeburg Kassel and Merseburg, targeting rail yards and factories. German fighters claimed some air gains but suffered heavy losses. Allied air crews reported 44 heavy bombers and 16 fighters downed. A Lancaster formation struck Kassel from 3,000 feet amid fires still spreading. CAP pilot killed when a small monoplane crashed in Somerset County Pennsylvania. details from Quemahoning township.
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Rhineland
Kassel
Air Ministry
Kauserslaterm
CAP
Somerset
I Air Patrol
Quemahoning Township
Somerset County
Pui O'Mara
No Theft Allegations After Wrecked Plane Incident
Conflicting reports claimed items were removed from a wrecked Army plane at Lawrence Airport. Officials later clarified that Army personnel who spent the night there did not take equipment, and the truth about the incident was being investigated.
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Thelernmrite Ain
Ike Iveay
Lawrence Airport
Middletown Officers Enroute To Investigate Plane Crash
Harrisburg dispatch reports Middletown Army Air Force base personnel, under Captain James J. Dormer, traveled by auto to investigate a trainer plane crash near the station Friday evening. The Middletown office did not confirm the Lake Pied crash and related crew movements.
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Middletown
Associated Press
Harrisburg
Bublic Mulitiany
Army Air Force
Mac
James J. Dormer
T Hat
Wrecked Army plane at airport guarded against looting
Reports from Center street describe pieces of the Army plane removed by visitors while CAP personnel keep a vigilant, unmoved vigil over the wreck. Lieut Jewell and Lieut stewall note dispatch of equipment and men from Middletown depot near Harrisburg to remove the aircraft, with no definite arrival date given.
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Mitchell Pietend
Viney
Curren
Center Street
Jay
Focal Cap
William Jewell
Lieut
Stewall
Te’ Middletown
Harrisburg
Two Men Die In Strip Mine Collapse Near Smithport
In Indiana Pa on September 28, Albert Breath and Warren Bowser, both of Mahaffey, were killed when a section of a strip mine collapsed at Smithport. A coroner said they were working a 2 1 2 foot cut when the material fell.
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Indiana
Albert Breath
Warren Bowser
Mahaffey
Clearfield County
Smithport
Arnhem Loss Ends Hope of Fast Ruhr Push
Dutch corridor reports say forces beaten back after yesterday's advances near Metz and alerts Berlin to strengthening Allied air and airborne activity threatening the Ruhr pursuit. Shared intelligence notes Arnhem loss as a setback for rapid operations, with renewed emphasis on defense and regrouping.
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Arnhem
Metz
Berlin
Allied weather stalls Allied advance near Nijmegen
Allied plans for a quick win over Germany faltered as Arnhem reverses and stiff German resistance widen the Arnhem corridor. British and American units face heavy losses with the Red Devils suffering steep casualties while efforts to widen the Nijmegen to Neder Rhine corridor continue amid uncertain winter campaigning.
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London
Germany
Arnhem
Rhineland
Arnheny
Christnis
Dwight Dr. Eisenhower
Lemares Mitler
Holland
Neder Rhine
Bann
Oss Yi
Hleauehied
Nistelrode
Lebstely
Iljtegen
Nijimyger
Nedee Rhine
Heriveenbosel
Sourthwest
Eindhoven
Nijmegen
Hotosr
Tnstead
First Airborne
Lemuitty
Maas River
Neder
Totellea
Associated Press
Edward D. Ball
TS Third Army
Mokt
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Latvian
Red
Slovakia
Taggart
Golden Rule Club
Ameri
Associated Wheen
Cio-Pac
Erie City
Peleliu
Hiya
U.S Pacific
Hman Quarters
Pear Harte
Palaus
Anesi
Nik
Minton 1
Choytin
W. Nimitz
SMU
Imeritania
Cen
Doulas Macarinny
Iywe
Mindurao
Daviau
Zamboungy
Tama
Magdeburg
Merseburg
James
Hondon
Wulling
Hull
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