Soissons and Chateau-Thierry Siege Ends for Germans
Allied forces report capturing Soissons and Chateau-Thierry as German forces, about 122000 strong, were killed or captured. British Second Army HQ says Von Kluge’s Seventh Army shattered. 92,000 prisoners and 30,000 dead in the Seine pocket south and west of Rouen.
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Soissons
Chateau-Thierry
Seine
The
Lower Seine
von Kluge
Second Army
Seine River
Rouen
Vernon
Norway
Louviers
Joan of Arc
Miles C. Dempsey
Second
Vernon Crossing
Tilly
15Th Army
Pas de Calais
Tokyo radio urges Japan increase aircraft production
The Tokyo broadcast, recorded by the FCC, warned the war is nearing the homeland and urged greater aircraft output. OWI said the appeal stressed Japan's steel heart defense depends on planes, while Premier Koiso prepared to propose boosted aircraft, munitions, and food output to the Imperial Diet next week.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Office of War Information
OWI
Japan
Federal Communications Commission
Kuniaki Koisos
Imperial Diet
Southwestern France Near Normal Says U S Ambassador
U S ambassador to Spain Pierson Carlton Hayes said conditions in southwestern France were quiet and approaching normal after a visit to Biarritz. He warned Toulouse faced starvation and that Maquis leaders reported armed patriots could force German troops to surrender in Landes. Spanish authorities aid moving 10,000 tons of American Red Cross food to southern France.
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San Sebastian
Spain
Carlton J. Hayes
U.S
Biarritz
France
Toulouse
Hayes
Landes Department
Solid Buffer Formed By 7th Army In France Pushes Germans Back
Seventh Army troops sweep west of the Rhone in southern France reaching Uzes and Nimes to form a solid southern buffer against the German 19th Army cut off by an American thrust. French columns move toward the Spanish border from Nimes while others push west and northwest of Avignon toward the Uzes area. Gen. Frederic Butler’s flying column near Montelimar continues operations with roads strewn by destroyed German transport. American forces on the eastern coast drive into Cagnes and Vence near Nice, five miles from the coast and 20 miles from the Italian frontier. Marseille and Toulon surrender gives the Allies ample port facilities for operations and rehabilitation.
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Rome
Seventh Army
Rhone
France
Uzes
Nimes
Avignon
Montelimar
Frederic Butler
Cagnes
Cannes
Vence
Nice
Marseille
Toulon
St. Mandrier
American Troops Repulsed at Bougainville Landing?
Berlin radio reports a Tokyo dispatch claiming U S forces were driven back from a Bougainville beachhead near Cape Torokina in the Solomon Islands. The account says landing occurred August 10 east of Torokina on the Jaba river, followed by a Japanese counterattack that cleared the beachhead by August 20 after heavy fighting.
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London
Berlin
Tokyo
Cape Torokina
Bougainville
Solomon Islands
Equatorial
Torokina
Jaba River
State Board Gives $8,000 For Fair Premiums
The Maryland State Fair Board has allotted $8,000 in premiums for the Frederick County Fair to be held September 1 to 30. The 60 classes span cattle, horses, poultry, crops, and 4-H and FFA contests. Tickets go on sale September 18 with 5,500 catalogues mailed to residents and open distribution through the week.
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Frederick County
Maryland State Fair Board
Future Farmers of America
Edison
Louize
Baizer Sisters
Frederick County Agricultural Society
Mutual Insurance Office
North Market Street
News-Post
Road To Berlin distances from key fronts listed
The Associated Press provides a summary of positions: Russian front 22 miles from Warsaw eastern suburbs. Northern France 495 miles from near Chateau Thierry and Troyes. Southern France 545 miles from Perry. 100 miles from northern outskirts of Florence.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
France
Chateau Thierry
Troyes
Perry
Florence
General Agreement At Dumbarton Oaks
The Dumbarton Oaks conference announced general agreement on the form of an international security organization. A council of major powers and smaller nations would oversee peace, with assemblies of all peace-loving nations, an elected council, and an international court for jus ticiable disputes. Details on small powers’ authority remain under discussion. Endorses aspects of the American peace plan as reflected in a prior Roosevelt statement.
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Washington
Dumbarton Oaks
International Organization For Peace and Security
International Court of Justice
Edward Stettinius
Stettinius
American Peace Organization
Roosevelt
Alexander Cadogan
Andrei Gromyko
Emmitsburg Maintains Polio Precautions As Schools Near
County health officer Dr E C Kefauver reports no new polio cases in Frederick County and a single case Betty Hobbs of Thurmont has been moved to Sydenham Hospital Baltimore for treatment. Emmitsburg keeps ten day ban on gatherings by Burgess Hoke to end before the new school year starts next Wednesday.
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E. C. Kefauver
Frederick County
Betty Hobbs
Thurmont
Sydenham Hospital
Baltimore
Emmitsburg
Burgess and Commissioners
Joseph R. Hoke
Burgess Hoke
Death Confirmed for Cpl Claude Ramsburg in France
War Department letter to Mrs. Ethel M Showe Ramsburg confirms Cpl Claude T Ramsburg was killed August 9 in action in France with the Twenty Ninth Division. He left Frederick in 1941, served in anti tank units, broadcast from England in 1943, and missed only three nights writing home. He and his wife married in 1942 have a young daughter, with survivors including his parents and several siblings.
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War Department
Ethel M.showe Ramsburg
Cpl
Claude T. Ramsburg
France
Cpl. Ramsburg
Leslie Horne
Frederick
Charles Fogie
Woodsboro
Cpl Ramsburg
Fort Meade
A. P. Hill Military , Reservation
England
Ramsburg
Frederick High School
Braddock Heights
Norman Ramsburg
Lewistown
Elizabeth Metz
Ralph
U. S. Navy
Norfolk
Earl
Esther
Herbert l
Tra
Report Of Officer's Death Is Confirmed
Mrs Bettie Sundergill of Wilson Place has learned former neighbor Captain William F Lines was killed in an explosion at Pearl Harbor on May 21. He served with an outfit moving to Saipan after leaving California in March. Lines was a Soil Conservation technician at Braddock CCC camp in Frederick and enlisting in November 1943 spent two and a half years at camps nationwide. His death was confirmed by the War Department and his commanding officer. The Lines family, with two children, lived at 4524 Third Street Southeast Washington DC, formerly at Lee Place Frederick.
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Bettie Sundergill
Wilson Place
William F. Lines
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Frederick
Lines
Braddock CCC
United States
California
War Department
Third Street
5. E
Washington
D. C
Lee Place
Christmas Packages Begin Overseas Delivery Next Week
The Army will start shipping 90 million Christmas packages overseas next week after completion of a large post office on the former Madison Square Garden site in New York.
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New York
Army
Madison Square Garden Bowl
Grass Fire At Frederick High School Extinguished Quickly
Frederick firemen responded to a small grass blaze in a field southeast of Frederick High School shortly before 1 pm. The fire covered about 30 square feet and was put out in a few minutes with no injuries reported.
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Frederick
Frederick High School
Gasoline Shortage Persists in Cumberland Area
Shortage continues in Cumberland with acute stage ten days ago, though several filling stations report some improvement as of today.
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Cumberland
Red Troops In Sight Of Big Ploesti Oil Fields
Soviet forces push through Romania toward Ploesti and Bucharest with Danube crossings and Danube delta gains. Breteu falls in Transylvania as Malinovsky’s Ukraine army advances. German and Hungarian units retreat, thousands captured, Danube ports, Tulcea and Braila, come under Soviet control.
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Moscow
Romania
Ploesti
Bucharest
Danube
Transylvania
Hitler
Hungary
Carpathians
Red
Bretsu
Black Sea
Rodion
Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Oituz
Poiana-Sarata
Breten
Breteu
Vienna
Sulina
Tulcea
Braila
Galati
Third Ukraine
Chisinau
Price ceilings set for imported cigars in new OPA order
Washington news: The Office of Price Administration announces price ceilings for nearly all brands and sizes of imported cigars, effective September 4. Retail prices range from 17 cents to $1.25 per cigar, matching levels that have prevailed since March 1943 for importers and wholesalers.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
U S Forces Rapidly Advance Toward Belgian Frontier
American units driving north from Paris suburbs to the Marne and Aisne fronts surged through Chateau-Thierry and Soissons, reaching near Verdun and 76 miles from the Ardennes route. The Third Army under Lt Gen. George S. Patton pushed 15 to 25 miles daily, approaching Compiegne and the historic Armistice site as German resistance frayed along the Aisne-Somme line.
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Soissons
Paris
Fismes
Soissong
Upper Marne
Chalons
Vitry
Verdun
Marshal Petain
Seine
Mantes
Vernon
Houen-Paris
Rouen
Joan of Arc
Chateau-Thierry
Cathedral of
Reims
France
George S. Patton
Sedan
Ardennes
Aisne-Somme
Germany
Albert Canal
Belgium
Marne
Marne River
Meaux
Cuvergnon
Forest of Compiegne
Adolf Hitler
Aisne
Fatal Quarrel Over Insurance in Maryland
North East Maryland August 29 William F Lockard 36 of Elk Neck was shot and killed in a family quarrel over insurance money. Leonard S Lockard 40 is jailed at Elkton after allegedly shooting William twice through a window with an automatic shotgun following an argument at their father Henry Lockard’s home. The elder father and Leonard’s material witness status are noted by Cecil County officials.
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North East
William F. Lockard
Elk Neck
Here
R. C. Dodson
Cecil County
Dodson
Leonard S. Lockard
Elkton
Robert Boyd
William Lockard
Henry Lockard
Leonard Lockard
France
Boyd
Leonard
William
Bacteriologist Transferred to Frederick Lab
Theron D. Green, bacteriologist with the State Health Department, is assigned to the Frederick branch laboratory and will assume charge September 5. He has led Elkton’s lab for a year and previously worked at Baltimore’s central laboratory. his return to general bacteriological work will aid physicians and patients. He will also assist at the Hagerstown lab about two days weekly. Green holds a Master’s in bacteriology from Ohio State University and lives with his wife and two sons at 313 Rockwell Terrace.
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Theron D. Green
State Department of Health
Frederick
Mr. Green
Elkton Laboratory
Central Laboratory
Baltimore
Philip C. Harvey
Green
Hagerstown Laboratory
Ohio State University
Conservatives Control Market Reflects Uneven Demand
Conservative elements still held control of the New York stock market as of August 29 with modest bids for peace issue attractions while many leaders faced neglect amid uneven trading.
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New York
Churchill Returns From Italy by Air
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Churchill arriving back in Britain by air today after a visit to Italy. The return follows his wartime leadership during pivotal Allied campaigns and underscores ongoing coordination with allies.
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Churchill
London
Italy
German Monopolies Must Be Broken Said by Biddle
Attorney General Biddle urged Allied powers to break the power of German monopolistic firms to prevent a menace to world peace. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee, he said the goal is not to wreck German economy but to reform its industries to allow independent European growth. He acknowledged the task would be difficult and warned against preserving the current structure.
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Washington
Biddle
Senate
Europe
Germany
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Normandy
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