Charles G Moore birthday notice from Indiana mother
On The Cuff Twice wounded in action and still in combat duty in Italy is T/5 Charles G. Moore who will celebrate a birthday October 4. His mother Mrs Bertha Miller East Main Street hopes he might receive greetings. Miller has been in service longer than any other selectee in the county and has a long combat record from North Africa to the Anzio beachhead. Address may be obtained from his mother. In Terre Haute, Sept 14 AP report follows about a deadly Chicago & Eastern Illinois RR collision killing soldiers and injuring many. The piece recalls overseas veterans, casualties, and hospital rites. A separate item notes Logan Senior High School band under James Gilbert preparing for 1944-45 football season, though not playing the first game.
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Italy
Charles G. Moore
Bertha Miller
East Main Street
Miller
Logan
North Africa
Oran
Tunisian
Algiers
Anzio
Rome
Terre Haute
Ind
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
St. Anthony and Union
Logan Senior High School
James Gilbert
Loganites
Gilbert
Patton Opens New Metz Offensive In France Front Reports
Berlin says Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army launched a fresh attack in the Metz area with an eight mile advance in two hours along the Moselle. Allied air forces pound Siegfried Line as Eisenhower crosses into the Netherlands near Maastricht to flank Aachen.
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Associated Press
Berlin
George S. Patton
Third Army
Metz
France
West Wall
Moselle
Nancy
Siegfried Line
Borgen
Aachen
Patton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Netherlands
Supreme Headquarters
Maastricht
Liege
Reich
Lyon
Lomza
Poland
Praga
Warsaw
Szekler Gap
Transylvania
Hungary
Krosno
Czecho-Slovakia
Seventh Army
Belfort
Germany
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Miners Tackle Many Problems In UMW Autonomy Battle
In Cincinnati on September 14 the United Mine Workers moved through 50 to 60 draft resolutions on labor topics led by the push for district autonomy. Resolutions favoring self government total 198, with 103 unopposed. Twenty-one of 41 districts are led by officers named by John L. Lewis, including Ray Edmundson of Illinois who opposes Lewis and seeks the presidency. the election is set for December by referendum.
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Cincinnati
United Mine Workers Today
UMW
John L. Lewis
Ray Edmundson
Illinois
Lewis
Blast Kills Two at Republic Steel Plant
Two workers died from fatal burns in an explosion at the Corrigan McKinney plant of Republic Steel Corp in Cleveland. The incident occurred yesterday, September 13, with investigations underway by authorities and company officials.
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Cleveland
Corrigan-McKinney
Republic Steel Corp
Reds Fight In Warsaw Suburbs Amid Eastern Front Push
Associated Press reports massive Russian assaults storming Praga the industrial suburb of Warsaw on the Vistula. Russian forces reach the Czecho Slovak frontier in Beskide mountains while patrols cross toward Kosice. Other units advance toward East Prussia as Transylvania falls to Soviet forces and Moscow hints at renewed offensive toward Germany.
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Associated Press
London
Warsaw
Praga
Vistula River
Berlin
Beskide
Carpathian Range
Kosice
Czech-Slovakia
Narew
Lomza
East Prussia
Romania
Szekler
Transylvania
Hungary
Moscow
Stalin
Germany
Nazi Prisoners Allowed To Wander In Fostoria Plants
The Earl Foust Post of the American Legion says German prisoners of war sent from Camp Perry to work in Fostoria plants have been allowed to wander the streets. A protest was sent last night to Camp Perry commanding officers, alleging the issue.
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Fostoria
Camp Perry
Earl Foust
American Legion
Ohio Polio Cases Rise With 25 New Infections
Ohio reports 25 new infantile paralysis cases today raising the year total to 683, far above 1943’s pace. Two more deaths, in Ross and Montgomery counties, bring annual fatalities to 34 versus 12 last year.
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Columbus
State Health Department
Ross County
Montgomery
Tengchung Falls to Allies in Burma China theater
Allied forces captur Tengchung, the last Japanese fortress blocking north Burma supply routes, after two months of stubborn defense by 3000 Nipponese. Chinese infantry and heavy American air attacks aided the victory opening a path toward China. Carrier raids hit Cebu Panay Negros and Koanga, with Nimitz reporting heavy Japanese losses and a broader Palau bombardment by Haleys fleet.
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China
Chungking
Philipes
Tengchung
Burma Road
Philippines
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Cebu
Panay
Negros
Koanga Island
Manila
Nimitz
U. S
Palau Islands
William “Bull” Halsey
Philippine
Japanese claim 816 Allied planes destroyed in August
The Japanese high command boasted that 816 Allied aircraft were destroyed or damaged in August, including 28 B 29 Superfortresses shot down over the Japanese mainland. Washington reports seven B 29s lost.
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Associated Press
Imperial Headquarters
Japan
Washington Announcements
Sugar Shortage Threatens Great Peach Crop Loss
Cleveland report quotes Ralph L Barrick of the Packer forecasting a $300000 loss from a 300000 bushel Northern Ohio peach crop due to a sugar shortage. He says peaches are rotting for lack of buyers as prices fall and demand collapses across Ohio from Central Ohio to Lake Erie.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Ralph L. Barrack
Northern
Packer
Barrick
Lake Erie
174 German Aliens Indicted in U S Conspiracy Case
The Justice Department announced that 174 German aliens including former high German officials have been indicted in New York and New Jersey. They face charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing Nazi party affiliations in this country.
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Washington
Justice Department
New York
New Jersey
United States
Bodies of 35 Removed From Mine Death Trap
BELLAIRE OH Sept 14 Reluctant toll rises as 35 bodies are recovered from the Powhatah mine to bring the total dead to 66 from a July 5 fire. Rescue crews toil through 4.5 feet headroom amid roof falls and toxic gas while some workers faint and are carried out. Marcus Kerr says more bodies may require time.
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Bellaire
Powhatah
Marcus Kerr
Logan
Ohio Division of Mines
Kerr
North Carolina Mainland To Escape Worst of Hurricane
Wilmington North Carolina reports gales along the coast as a tropical hurricane moves northward over the ocean center likely avoids mainland impact, with Cape Hatteras possibly being the farthest point touched. Weather observers watched the center from Wilmington, about 150 miles east, using binoculars.
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North Carolina
Wilmington
N. G
Cape Hatteras
Wilmington Weather Bureau
Atlantic hurricane veers north past Cape Hatteras
A great hurricane described as one of the most dangerous in years veered northward today after menacing the North Carolina coast and roared past Cape Hatteras, Wilmington reports said.
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Wilmington
N. C
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
Coastal Storm Warning Shifts Inland Urged North Carolina
Winds of 30 to 50 miles per hour blew south of Wilmington toward Beaufort as the barometer rose signaling easing danger. The weather bureau urged residents in low lying coastal areas from North Carolina to Virginia to move inland and avoid exposed beaches along the lower Chesapeake.
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Wilmington
Beaufort
Weather Bureau
North Carolina
Virginia
Chesapeake
Fox Killed After Biting Children in Ohio Farmyard
Otho Stanley of Vincent, Ohio, clubbed a gray fox to death after it reportedly attacked his two young daughters, Barbara and Ruth, in the family yard. The children were unbitten, but the fox’s head was sent to Columbus for a rabies test by state health authorities. Sheriff Lindamood investigated the incident.
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Marietta, O
Otho Stanley
Vincent Farmer
Barbara
Ruth
Stanley
W. O. Lindamood
Columbus
Quebec Conference Eyeing Allied War Aims
In Quebec on September 14 the meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill nears its end with talks on Allied objectives against Nazi and Japanese forces. Officials note Pacific command issues settled, hemispheric command not to be considered, and immediate war stages already under official approval.
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Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Japan
Roosevelt Churchill
Pacific
Hartville man indicted for first degree murder
Canton Ohio dispatch reports Carl Lee Hix forty of Hartville was indicted for first degree murder in the shotgun slaying of Howard Van Camp thirty eight last week.
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Canton
Carl Lee Hix
Hartville
Howard van Camp
Cheers for Frances Langford Seen by 37th Buckeye Division
In the Southwest Pacific Area the 37th Ohio Infantry Division cheered the first white woman seen in 16 months Frances Langford and dancer Patty Thomas as Bob Hope performed for Cleveland troops. Hope praised Tech Sgt Alphonse J. Zydowicz who earned the Silver Star for gallantry.
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37Th
Ohio
Southwest Pacific
37Th Buckeye
Frances Langford
Patty Thomas
Cleveland
Bob Hope
Fiji
Hope
Patty
Frances
Tech
Sgt
Alphonse J. Zydowicz
Ohio Republicans claim restored faith in government
Lt. Gov. Paul M. Herbert told about 2,000 delegates at the state convention that Ohio Republicans had restored the people's faith after Democratic corruption. He contrasted the 1939 GOP era with present surplus and debt reduction, and said Lausche was chosen by New Deal officials in Washington.
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Columbus
Paul M. Herbert
Ohio
Thomas J. Herbert
Albert E. Payne
Herbert
Stewart
Ed D. Schorr
Lausche
Washington
Brothers of Mine Fire Hero Carried From Powhatan Mine
In Bellaire Ohio two veteran miners Joe Emery and Walter Emery carried their brother George Emery from the Powhatan No 3 room to a temporary morgue after a July disaster that killed 66 workers. George, 42, returned toward danger to guide trapped colleagues, telephoning the mine mouth to offer help.
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Bellaire
Powhatan Mine
Joe Emery
Walter Emery
Powhatan
George
George Emery
Urges Labor Action in Politics at CIO Meet
Grand Rapids to September 14. Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee, urged labor to participate in election campaigns. He said there is only one way to get what you want, work for it day and night until November 7. He told United Automobile Workers delegates that in many states they can be decisive and, by applying wartime political action to elections, victory is sure.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Sidney Hillman
CIO
Slaying charges filed in Columbus rifle death
Wayne Jenkins aged 22 and his uncle George ONeill 29 were charged with manslaughter after the rifle killing of Jenkins wife Jean 25 Deputy Sheriff Joseph Sigrist questioned the men and material witness Mrs Gay Logan 24 is being held as a witness in the Columbus Ohio case.
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Columbus
Wayne Jenkins
George O'Neill
Jenkins
Jean
Joseph Sigrist
Gay Logan
Weatherman Brightens Opening mood for Hocking County Fair
Promoters of the Hocking County Fair breathe easier as forecast calls for fair warm weather with no rain. Thursday features exhibits ready for 11 AM gates, 2:30 PM performances by the Allison Group and the International Brownies, a near-cancelled pony race, and a 7:30 PM horse show with local and out of town entries plus a Logan High School band concert. Friday includes 9 AM judging of 4-H FFA Boy and Girl Scout entries, a farm picnic noon speech by Joseph Fichter, and evening acts repeated by professional entertainers with Union Furnace school band providing music.
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Hocking County
Allison Group
Logan High School
Allison
Future Farmers of America
Joseph Fichter
Logan Merchants
Union Furnace School Band
New Plymouth Man Freed by Germans
The War Department announced 233 sick or wounded Army personnel held prisoner by Germans were aboard the Gripsholm en route to the United States. Among the Ohioans returning with next of kin is Robert J Reasoner, a sergeant, with Eugene F Reasoner listed as his father, Route 2 New Plymouth.
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Washington
United States
Gripsholm
War Department
Robert J, Reasoner
Eugene F
Reasoner
New Plymouth
Roosevelt to broadcast nationwide campaign speech
Chicago September 4 AP Roosevelt will deliver his second nationwide campaign speech via broadcast aimed at Democratic meetings across the country Chairman Robert E said yesterday.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Robert E
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