Neck and Neck Dewey Roosevelt Race Forecast
President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey race toward Election Day with many polls split. Pennsylvania is seen as a pivotal state with Philadelphia city influence and a key to the Keystone State. Forecasters cite New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland as battlegrounds affecting the national outcome.
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Dewey
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Pensylvania
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Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maryland
Result Of Election Not To Affect Yanks' Aim To Get War Over With
Marines overseas cast ballots in the first overseas voting day. Voters want the war finished and to return home, regardless of whether Roosevelt or Dewey wins. Pacific island ballots mirrored home voting scenes as men vote for president and commander in chief.
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U. Marines
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
Pacific Islands
Russian forces close on Budapest suburbs in World War II report
News dispatch from Moscow and London say Russian tank formations and infantry columns were closing in on Pest suburbs as Budapest faced panic. Reports claim Red forces entered the southern outskirts after capturing Alsonemedi seven miles south, with Hungarian radios admitting some repulse.
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Hungary
Moscow
Budapest
Pest
Danube
Alsonemedi
Japs on Leyte strive to form counterattack
Japanese forces on Leyte's west coast race to organize a counteroffensive after Allied landings near Ormoc. Fresh reinforcements push north in a motorized column as American fighters harass the convoy, leaving numerous casualties and burning vehicles in the Ormoc to Valencia route.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Japan
Ormoc
Ormoc Bay
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Valencia
Continard
Allied Forces Reach 27 Miles From Cologne In WWII Update
Allied forces push toward Cologne with American troops closing to within 27 miles while Walcheren Island defenses tighten. Canadian units extend beachhead on Walcheren and seize Welberg near Steenbergen as German resistance slows a three day Aachen sector offensive. Ground action concentrates on the Mark river bridgehead and renewed pushes against German lines.
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Dwight D
Halloween stirred street scenes and veteran aid drives
The column notes Dick Tracy style graffiti and many cars around town as Halloween crowds moved through. High school girls collected poppies for Poppy Day while veterans’ efforts drew aid from the Ameri Legion Auxiliary and Marine Corps League. Weather data show year to date precipitation 3.15 inches under normal by November 1.
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Ameri- Legion Auxiliary
B. F. Johnson
U.S. Weather Observer
Daily Weather Report Summary
United States weather statistics for the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. show a maximum temperature of 72 and a minimum of 43 with no precipitation. River stage stands at 4 feet. Year ago see highs of 43 and lows of 31 with 0.03 inches of rain.
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United States
Expect Heavy Vote In County Next Tuesday
Lawrence County anticipates a heavy county vote next Tuesday November 7 with civilian registration at 41 693 including about 5 000 service members. An estimated 31 000 civilian ballots and about 3 000 military ballots are expected, with military voting occurring on November 22. The ballot will be simplified due to past changes.
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Lawrence County
Acteu
All Of Greece Is Liberated All Of Greece Is Liberated
Rome reports the virtual liberation of Greece from Nazi control as British patrols press northward toward the Yugoslav frontier. RAF recon teams in Greece say no German columns remain north and northwest of Salonika and that rearguards likely crossed into Serbia and Albania on Thursday night.
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Greece
Adriatic
Royal Air Force
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Salonika
Serbia
Albania
Tragedy Strikes Family Near Eton Village
Mrs. Delores Patton 26 died and her husband Melvin 34 was hospitalized after a car struck them on a highway near Eton village as they returned from a family party. Their eight year old daughter escaped injury. Ches ter Orsulak 25 of Port Vue was driving the other car.
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Mckeesport
Delores Patton
Melvin
Eton Village
Chester Orsulak
Port Vue
Photographer Attacked After Picture Taken, Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh police report Phyllis Sciarretti 24 East Liberty nightclub photographer was assaulted early today by a man who claimed You took my picture once He dragged her to a vacant lot nearby and beat her She was treated at a hospital for facial and head abrasions and did not recognize her attacker.
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Phyllis Sciarretti
East Liberty
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Jap Bombers Attack U S Carrier Group in Philippine Waters
Navy reports Jap dive bombers and fighters damaged a Third Fleet carrier group in Philippine waters with light personnel losses. Ten enemy planes were shot down, six by anti aircraft fire and four in aerial combat. Additional strikes hit recently captured airstrips at Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas with four Americans killed and one seriously wounded.
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Pacific Fleet
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Saipan
Tinian
Marianas
Gigantic Air Raids On Nazis
Allied air forces battered synthetic oil plants refineries rail yards and other key targets inside Germany with nearly 2000 aircraft. About 1100 bombers and fighters were supported by 800 Thunderbolt and Lightning fighters targeting Hamburg Harburg Hannover Saarbrucken and Gelsenkirchen in the battle area.
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Hamburg
Harburg
Hannover
Saarbrucken
Gelsenkirchen
Six Are Killed in Auto Crash Near Kankakee
A sailor and his 22 year old fiancée were among six killed when a car collided with a parked trailer-truck four miles north of Kankakee. The victims included Loren Book 44 of Cabery and Mary Heenan 40 with children Elaine 7 and Louise 10, plus James G McGinnis 22 from Kempton and Miss Ethel Resident 22 from South Wilmington.
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Ethel
South Wilmington
James G. McGinnis
Kempton
Loren Book
Cabery
Mary Heenan
Elaine Heenan
Louise Heenan
Chicago
Northern Norway Evacuation Reported
The German trans ocean agency reported the evacuation of civilians from Tromsoe Finmarken and Hammerfest in northern Norway. Civilians were moved under Jonas Lie Quisling police minister guidance as fishing vessels and vehicles departed from northern islands and districts to assembly points.
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Finmarken
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Norway
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Transocean Agency
Jonas Lie
Quisling
Fall Is Fatal Tarentum Death in Box Car Fall
Austin Rupp aged 52 of Kittanning died in a hospital from injuries suffered when he fell from a box car at Schenley Pennsylvania the prior Thursday. He passed away on November 4 at the hospital.
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Dewey to Speak Tonight in New York City
Governor Thomas E. Dewey plans a nationally broadcast speech from Madison Square Garden in New York City as the closing campaign event before Election Day. The talk slots between 10:30 and 11 p m EWT and aims to rally voters before the polls open. He will stay in New York City overnight then return to Albany to await results.
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Allied Casualties on Italian Front
Allied casualties on the Italian front from May 11 to date total 116,150, announced by Gen Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The figure reflects fierce engagements before Rome’s liberation and ongoing battles along the Gothic line. Nazi losses in the same period were about 194,000.
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INS
Henry Maitland Wilson
New Deal Must Be Defeated Warned by Sen Wherry in Kewanee
Sen Kenneth S Wherry of Nebraska warned in Kewanee that the New Deal must be defeated to save hundreds of thousands of small businesses and returning veterans. He, a member and former chairman of the senate small business committee, claimed regimentation and bungling have eliminated 549000 small businesses since the war began.
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Ill
Kenneth S. Wherry
Senate
Small Business Committee
Wherry
Allied air offensive hits many German targets across Reich
London reports a large American air armada with more than 1100 bombers and 800 escort fighters pounding oil plants rail yards and strategic sites from the Ruhr to the Saar Basin in a new wave. Allies claim steady gains as bombers and fighters press the nonstop sky campaign.
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Reich
Germany
Saar Basin
Ruhr
Hitler
Arthur Travers Harris
Bomber Command
Death notices for four area residents sharing addresses
Four death notices list Gus Martin age 56 of 34 North Beaver street and three others: Margaret Jane Sutton age 83 of 14 East Winter avenue. Lilla M. Spurrier age 74 of 619 North Cedar street. Joseph Butera age 65 of West Pittsburg. and KE C Snyder age 78 of Edenburg R. D. 1.
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Margaret Jane Sutton
East Winter Avenue
Lilla M. Spurrier
North Cedar Street
Joseph Butera
West Pittsburg
KE. C. Snyder
Edenburg
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Over Six Million Yanks Overseas
Martinsburg West Virginia November 4 Undersecretary of War Robert T Patterson disclosed that more than six million American soldiers sailors and marines are now stationed overseas He said we have an obligation that cannot rest until the task is completed and warned against slackening of support He praised the hospital airport built to receive wounded for the Newborn Baker hospital as part of the army medical corps performing a medical feat little short of a miracle.
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Martinsburg
Robert T. Patterson
Patterson
Fireman Killed In Wreck Near Ridgway
In Ridgway Pennsylvania a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck a stalled car driven by Ella Mae Dush then toppled onto an adjacent track and was hit by a freight train. Fireman J F Deveraux age 27 of Salamanaca New York died trapped beneath wreckage. Mrs Dush and passenger George Moore escaped unharmed as workers worked to recover the body two hours after the crash.
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J. F. Deveraux
Salmanaca
Ella Mae Dush
West Ridgway
Dush
George Moore
Johnsonburg
Roosevelt Heads for Final Speech at Fenway Park
President Roosevelt travels through lower New England en route to Boston for a 9 p.m. EWT address from Fenway Park to cap his wartime campaign for a fourth term. He stops in Bridgeport Hartford and Springfield and spoke extemporaneously as he nears Election Day. He also visited Clare Boothe Luce’s Bridgeport home district.
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Bridgeport
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Mass
Three Men Dead in Halifax Hotel Fire
In Halifax Nova Scotia three hotel employees died in a blaze at the Canadian Legion War Services hotel. About 150 guests fled as flames raged before daylight causing more injuries and substantial property damage reported over 100000 dollars.
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Canadian Legion War Services
Bad Weather On Italian Front
Allied communique says activity on the Italian front was limited to patrolling. British forces in Greece neared the Yugoslav frontier as bad weather curtailed air operations. A small Allied force attacked German and Austrian targets yesterday while fighters hit communications in the Po valley Yugoslavia and Albania. An airfield near Zagreb was strafed and two Allied planes did not return.
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Austria
Po Valley
Yugoslavia
Albania
Zagreb
PRR veterans reunite in snow and sun ride home
Arthur Mometer recalls relics of link and pin and wooden cars as engineers brakemen conductors chase a final run. Vets of the PRR system gather for a reunion on a damp fifty seven day, sharing memory of long hauls, short hauls, and switching.
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