Joe Mask Chosen City Police Head by Council Today
Joe Mask, a longtime city patrolman, was selected as police captain by the City Council to replace Earl C. DeMoss. Tia Moran was named emergency patrolman, transferring from the fire department, with immediate duties. H. C. Haller was granted dismissal from the Fireman Civil Service Commission amid ongoing cases. Captain Mask, native to the county, has 14 years in policing in Taylor County and previous service as deputy sheriff under Herbert Evans. He returns to the city police for a fourth consecutive year.
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Proctor
Captain Mask
Taylor County
Wilson Oil Company
Herbert Evans
Major Battle Update on Rommel Losses and Allied Progress
Front reports indicate Rommel lost 10 to 15 divisions with 60,549 captured and 8,094 buried. Allied estimates suggest 45,000 Germans wounded on the American front as British attacks resume near Troarn and Caen. German authorities claim a quiet day with no improvement over last night. Hitlerization whispers link frontline moves to Germany's purge of its military clique.
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Owers
Erwin Rommel
Troarn
Caen
Sir Bernard Mongomery
Supreme Headquarters
Germany
War agencies outline postwar conversion plans and egg assurances
War food administration says shell eggs bought for producer support will not flood the market. It reports purchasing about 10,500 carloads and disposing of 3,500 carloads for school lunches hospitals and other institutions. War Production Board moves ahead with postwar conversion of products including new materials and wartime design improvements for refrigerators airplanes vacuum cleaners and radios.
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War Food Administration
War Production Board
Rationing roundup notes stamp validity and gas coupons
The report lists wartime ration details with stamp books for meats fats and processed foods, plus new period coupons and gasoline allocations through August to September. It also mentions ongoing Allied operations in northern Italy near Cassino, citing German garrison at a monastery and continued bridge and rail destruction with Allied aircraft losses.
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Associated Press
Segar
Ubaldo
Gubbio
Cassino
Mitchells
Thunderbolts
Italy
Fifth Army advances along Arno and Tiber front
Allied forces from the Fifth Army pressed along the Arno south of the river, shelling Livorno and Pontedera while Poggibonsi units seized Tavernelle and Mount Morocco. The Eighth Army pushed north of the Arno, clearing Terra Smrenova toward Mount Marciano, and British troops advanced in the upper Tiber valley after taking Citta di Castello. German losses included 90 killed and 30 found on a hill beyond.
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Arno
Fifth Army
Livorno
Pontedera
Cascina
Poggibonsi
Tavernelle
Mount Morocco
Strada
Florence
Eighth Army
Terrasmenova
Mount Marciano
Arezzo
Tiber
Citta di Castello
Saint
Tojo Cabinet Resigns. Hirohito seeks new government
Emperor Hirohito requests Marquis Koichi Kido assist in forming a new government after Premier Tojo and his entire cabinet resign. Kido, 85, a civilian and former Home Minister, serves as chief adviser to the emperor.
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Tojo
Hirohito
Koichi Kido
Kido
Emperor
German advance stalls as Russians push front lines
German forces swept forward with no setup by swift Red units leaving Lwow and Brest Litovsk more than 60 miles behind Russian columns on a 950 mile front. Germany claimed counterattacks between Brest Litovsk and Kaunas in Lithuania, losing two generals, while Russia reported capturing the 361st Infantry division commander Maj Gen Lindemann and killing Maj Gen Doidler of the 340th Infantry, as Lt Gen Scheller and Maj Gen Von Treschow were also dead.
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Lwow
Brest Litovsky
Stalingrads
Brest Litovsk
Kaunas
Lithuania
Scheller
von Treschov
Kommander
Lindemann
Doidler
Goodbye to Pullman Group Shows Split of Firms
The Philadelphia federal court ordered the Pullman parent to dispose of a property while the manufacturing arm is kept intact. The trend favors single and duplex roomettes with private wash basins and enclosed doors, with air conditioning and aluminum steel construction.
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Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia Federal District Court
Pullman Company
West Virginia Farm Bureau delegates chosen for Jackson's Mill meeting
B L Bosley Jr and C R Kinsey named official delegates to the West Virginia Farm Bureau conference at Jackson's Mill August 7 8 and 9. C C Batson head of full membership drive also a delegate. About 350 leaders from 49 county groups expected for 26th annual convention with speakers from national and state farm groups.
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A. B. Hensley
County Farm Bureau Mem
B. L. Bosley, Jr
C. R. Kinsey
State Farm Bureau
Jackson's Mill
C. C. Batson
West Virginia
B. Denman
National Association of Food Chains
Washington, D. C
Nelson M. Jost
American Farm Bureau Federation
W. C. Hanlan
War Finance Committee
P. C. Turner
Maryland Farm Bureau
Interstate Farmer's Council
W. H. Skees
West Virginia Salvage Committee
W. W. Hibbs
Baptist
Parkersburg
W. G. Wysor
Southern Sta Cooperative
Michmond Va
Sr. W. VanMeter
R. B. Corbett
Jack Shipman
West Virginia Conservation Commission
Police Report Quiet Weekend Two Arrests
War era items fill a quiet weekend police blotter with furloughs and shipboard letters. Names like Pfc Leon Thorp and Pfc Pinky Moats appear, plus Navy seamen and a London England transfer. A Charleston death and a Giants manager note close the page with civic and sports context.
Ruthless internal resistance tests Nazi rule in Germany
Secret reports say the anti Nazi high committee remains intact despite purges with members from military and churches. Beck was captured by accident, while Himmler knows few members. The plot aimed to show Germans it is possible to act against Hitler, not to topple the regime.
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Germany
High Committee
Col
Con
Ludwig Beck
Himmler
Hitler
Thefuehrer
Gestapo
Korten
Hans Jesschonnek
Atlantic Wall
Poland
Warsaw
Anthony Eden
Reich
Obituary for Sarah Katherine Exline of Sandy Creek
Sarah Katherine Exline 52 of Sandy Creek died Saturday after a yearlong illness. She was the wife of Dent Exline and native of Taylor county born January 27 1892 to Isaiah Gus Morris and Rebecca Frye Morris. She was active in Pleasant Methodists Episcopal church with no children surviving. Surviving brothers are Charles Morris Sam Morris and sisters Mrs Hagel Shaffer Morgantown and Mrs Lila Miller Parkersburg. Funeral services at Knottsville Methodist tomorrow at 2 led by Rev Stoneking. Interment Woodsdale Cemetery Bartlett funeral home in charge.
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Sarah Katherine Exline
Sandy Creek
Dent Exline
Taylor County
Tere
Ielave Gus
Rebecca Frye Morris
Sift
Mé. Pleasant
Epi
Charles Morris
Sam Mors
Hagel Shaffer
Morgantown
Lila Miller
Parkersburg
Knottsville Methodist
Stoneking
Woodsdale
Bartlett Funeral Home
German Home Army faces delays from bureaucracy say officials
Reporters cite German leadership admitting recruitment and supply for war fronts have bogged down due to bureaucracy within the German Home Army staff. The claim follows a bomb striking Hitler last week and the assertion that Himmler took command shortly afterward.
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Dningen
Stickworm
Home Army
Himmler
Hitler
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U. S. Army Field Artillery
Camp Barkley
H. L. Thorp
Monroe Street
Pfc
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Clarence Thorp
Army
California
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William Junior Knotts
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Australia
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Rock Lake
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Great Lakes
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Country Club
England
D. D. Miller
Fanny Street
Cpl
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Parkview
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Pinky) Moats
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Earl Curry
Ray Setler
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Menaganda
Iwest
Virginia
Charleston
Emergency Medical Service
Office of Civilian Defense Medical Division
Glen Ray Edgar
Caayleston
Edgar
Nankin
National Lutheran Brotherhood
Mel Ott
New York Giants
Polo Grounds
Fort Pitt Shoe Stores, Inc
Berlin
Jiang Mone
Malone’s Drug and Chemical Co
C. V. Miller
Grafton, W. Va
Save For America
America
Monongahela System
Sandy Credent
Adi
Spriesan Corse
Ian
Walt
Resonal Finance"coy
Deveny Bldg
Fairmont
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Salvation Army
Gospel Tent
George Bennett
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