Tank Armies Race Toward Germany
Two American tank armies swept through Laon and Reims as Berlin admitted Rouen fell to Allied forces. Armor breached the Aisne at two points and moved toward the Rhineland, threatening the Belgian border within days. Allied planes bombed and strafed retreats as the advance continued through the Aisne and Marne valleys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Pinkley
United Press
Supreme Headquarter
Crommany
Belgium
Laon
Reims
Berlin
Rouen
France
Aisne
Beyind Reims
Chalons-Sur-Marne
Rhineland
Germany
Henry T. Gorrell
Marne
Hayward Sailor Recalls Roosevelt Fishing Trip
Hayward sailor Major Machinist's Mate Light returns from ten months in the South Pacific aboard a cruiser that ferried President Roosevelt to Alaska for a fishing trip. The party included Admiral Leahy and Alaska's governor. Light led the whale boat crew. Fala, the president’s dog, visited the blacksmith shop daily. Light notes no catches by the enlisted men. Light, 25, son of Vic Hubbard, lives at 340 Grove Way, Hayward, with wife Verla. he reports back to his ship after a one day leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fala
Herbert Light
l/c
Hayward
Roosevelt
South
Pacific
Light
Haywardite Jae
Alaskan
Admiral Leahy
Alaska
West Coast
President Roosevelt
San Diego
South Pacific
Gilberts
Marshalls
Saipan
New Guinea
Truk
Palau
Oakland Transit Lines Getting Increased Load
The Office of Defense Transportation reports rising traffic on street cars and buses in the Pacific coast region as a survey shows major increases in Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, and Portland with Seattle following. Peak volumes reportedly stabilize at peak levels in custumn cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Defense Transportation Avartime
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
San Diego
Oakland
Calif
Portland
Oregon
Seattle
Custumn
Weather Forecast for San Francisco Bay Area and Valleys
Cloudy today and tonight then clearing Thursday with normal temperatures. Santa Clara and Livermore Valleys expect high fog nights and mornings, with clearing afternoons today tonight and Thursday and cooler highs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Bay Region
Ocean
Santa Clara
Livermore
Jury Trial Granted In Liquor Case
Hayward Justice Court held the first hearing in the liquor case against Abel Fuentes owner of the Latin Case on Vil Castro street. Judge Jacob Harder granted a jury trial and set October 4 as the trial date. Fuentes, arraigned August 18, pleaded not guilty after police charged him with serving liquor to 11 year old Virginia DeRosa on Sunday night August 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayward
Abel Fuentes
Leo Sullivan
Oakland
Attorne
Fuentes
Jacob Harder
Farth
Meyer
Want Gang Leader Brought To S F On Dope Charge
Joseph "The Eye" Tocvo, 43, former New York gang leader, ordered removed to San Francisco to face charges of possession and transportation of 15 cans of opium. He was arrested Aug 16 arriving from San Francisco. opium found in a suit case. Federal agent testified Tocvo led Santa Cruz operation as part of a national dope ring. Bond set at 25000. lawyers plan habeas corpus defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citicago
U.P
Joseph
Tocvo
New Yole
San Francisco
Triad
U. S
Edwin K. Walker
Tocco
Santa Cruz
Vance Newman
Farcettcs
Pacific Coast
Cifornia
Newman
Chicago
Northwestern
Tocca
Hayward Man Held On Child Stealing Charges
Clarence A. Fuller 41 of 1 Wards of Court Hayward is jailed on child stealing charges after admitting he took a 15 year old employee to Portland Oregon and married her. He left August 10, returning later that night as officers pursued the case filed yesterday afternoon. The girl, a ward of the court, faces proceedings in Leandra justice court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence A. Fuller
Hesperian Boulevard
Hayward
Fuller
San Francisco Chronicle
Portland
Oregon
Abs
Puller
Hail
Riso
Whenile Court
Leandra
Eden Church Anniversary Service Planned Sunday
Eden Church marks its seventeenth anniversary with a morning service led by Rev Milly Low Woolf. Miss Dorinda Neurn at the organ and a choir anthem accompany a children’s hymn. A church potluck follows. At 6:30 p m Young Peoples groups meet for worship and a motion picture program, then barbecue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milly ‘Low Woolf
Dorinda Neurn
Tyas
Bluey
Dorothy Pewres
Grace Wilbur Vanant
Marthng
Godfrey Matthews Wile
Chhurch
Congregation
Fine Mediately
Young Peoples
Jack Hobson
Will
Barbra Curry
J. D. Abbott
Hodtroy Muttiewa
Soviet Ploesti oil field captured by forces
British and American dispatches report Soviet victory at Ploesti the Romanian oil hub as part of a large offensive. Radio Moscow claimed the location 32 miles north of Bucharest and central to operations against Romania. Bulgarian peace mission reaches Cairo ahead of expected armistice with the United Nations. American troops push German 19th Army along the Rhone valley driving toward Valence. U S submarines sink 17 Japanese ships including two destroyers in Pacific and Far East waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cairo
Bulgaria
United Nations
Rome
U.P
Rhone Valley
Chabeuil
Rhone
Valence
Lyon
Washington
U.p-U. S
Pacific
Far Eastern
Stockton Girl Visiting Aunt Disappears in Bay Area
Barbara Jean Carlson, 1 niece of Mrs Muriel Parker, 25131 East 14th, has been missing since Monday. Mrs Parker reported to Hayward sheriff's office. Barbara, visiting from Stockton, planned to return Monday from a trip with friend Marjorie Vincent, 15. Donna Williams, Piedmont friend, said they met at Oakland Greyhound depot but did not arrive. Barbara wore a brown corduroy suit and brown accessories. she is five feet five inches, 110 pounds, with light brown hair and hazel eyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Jean Carlson
Muriel Parker
East 14Th
Plaster Case Is Continued To Sept 28
The $975 damage suit filed by Mrs. Catherine Flier owner of Peatt-Fliert mortuary at 1044 C Street against Macca Construction of Oakland was continued to Sept 28 by Judge Jacob Harder in Hayward Justice Court. Testimony cited building damage from blasting for the Hayward air base in 1942. A related suit by A C Strobel, Hayward constable, claiming $445, awaits hearing after settlement of Flier’s case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayward Constable
Charlene Way
Strogel
Local Man Charged With Being Drunk
William Brown aged 43 of 1010 Melody Lane is jailed on drunk driving and hit and run charges after striking seaman Thomas Bernard 17 on Castro Valley boulevard at 12 morning. Sailor Ashley Campbell, hit a month earlier, remains in Oak Knoll Naval hospital as Brown faces a second hit and run within a month with $1000 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Brown
Melody Lane
Thomas Bernard
Castro Valley Boulevard
Hakward State Highway Patrol
Lowell V. Arnott
Brown Avenue
Oakland
Anthony Enos
Brown
Arnett
Bernard
Fairmont Hospital
Ashley Campbell
East
Ashland
Cartra Valley
Campbell
Oak Knoll Naval Hospital
San Jose Dairy Ordered to Pay $280 and Honor Union Contract
The War Labor Board ordered San Jose Dairy to pay $280.15 to four of five discharged Local 304 union members and to observe their contract with the Dairy and Creamery Employes Union AFL. The dairy, now under Ruby V. Chapman as trustee for Christ's Church of the Golden Rule, had discharged five men and hired nonunion workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palips
San. Vou
Bug “ Fenbicut Ed
Arthur (the Voice
Bull's Mankind United
Wang
10Th Regional War Labor Board
Dairy and Creamery Employes Union
AFL
WLB
Ruby V. Chapman
Christ's Church of the Golden Rule
Cherryland Fire Dept Conducts Paper Drive
Cherryland fire department will conduct an all-out paper drive on Sunday. Residents are asked to place paper on the sidewalk in front of their homes no later than 9 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherryland Fire Department
Commission For County Employee's Daughter In Marines
Mrs. Ethel Ward, director of educational services, reports her daughter Betty Ward has been commissioned second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Ward trained at Lejeune, served in Washington and San Francisco before enlisting, and her brother Sgt. Richard S. Ward serves with the Engineer Corps in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel &. Ward
Betty Ward
Marine Corps Women's Reserve
Camo Lejeune
North Carolina
Ward
Marine Corps
Lejeune
Department of Aeronautics
Washington, D.C
Federal Civil Service Commission
San Francisco
Don Leidig to Speak at War Chest Meet in Hayward
Don M Leidig is slated as a speaker at the War Chest meeting held in Hayward city hall where the local War Chest division outlined a stipulated funding amount. Roger Anderson and Al Frager were named as Alameda county representatives to the California War Chest conclave in San Francisco at the Palace Hotel. Don Leidig will headline as chair of district four with nine Bay Area counties included. volunteers may be recruited to assist with registration. Attendees included Laura Frank Hans Henningsen Alfred Frager Father Rielly Ralph Anderson William Gauten and Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayward
Roger Anderson
Cominunity
Anderson
al Frager
Alameda County
California
San Frisco
Palace Hotel
Frider
Don Keidig
Chairn
War Chest
Bay Area
Laura Frank
Hans Henningsen
Alfred Frager
Kind Close
Father Rielly
Ralph Anderson
William Gauten
Chairman Anderson
Baseball scores and lineups from a tense American league slate
A scrambled OCR of baseball box scores shows teams from New York Boston Chicago Detroit Philadelphia and Cleveland in mixed innings. Players named include ONeill Mausmann Tyba Woods Partee Borany Garbarie Kramer Custer Hollingsworth Lopat Tresh Gorsia Beck Henshaw Richards Leonard Parrell Harn Berry Hayns Pyly Turner Adams Lombardi Tobin Maul Sewell Cuccurullo Lopes Camell Davis Wyse Lynn Willims and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Pyly
Turner
Adams
Lombardi
Tobin
Maul
Tilsburgh
Shiengo
Sewell
Cuccurullo
Lopes
Camell
Davis
Wyse
Lynn
Willims
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Storm Laon
Reims - Rouen
Starmd
Allied
Paris
Hayward Sailor
Beatrice Walfish
Oakland Transit Lines
Detroit
Wwwa
Amerie Tirst
S. F
Eden Church
Crockett
J. T. Crockett
M. Cy
Susette T. Crockett
Barnlett
Army Medical Field Service School
Carlisle Barracks
Tilton General Hospital
Fort Dix
N. J
Ppainisa
Ploesti
Radio Moscow
Bucharest
Romania
Stockton
S.F
Lubin
Arthur Inkpin
Lublin
Poland
Majdanek
Ehuima
Jfas
Comiitee
Pobriary
Faders
Budgin
Budzin
Wang Stilp
Shy
Sqlars Crematorium
Sailor 17
San Jose Dairy
Cherryland Fire Dept
Ward Ding i
Richard S. Ward
Engineer Corps
Don M. Leidig
the National War Chest
Neer
Hoston
O'Neill
Mausmann
Tyba
Woods
Partee
Borany and Garbarie
Sts. Louis
Cleveland
Kramer
Custer
Hollingsworth
Wnyworth
Harder
Hoving Bayby
Punt
Rosar
Lopat
Tresh
Gorsia
Beck
Henshaw
Richards
Philadelp
Ehi
Leonard and
Parrell
Harn, Berry and
Hayns
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