Heavy Battle In Southern France Near Drome River
American Seventh Army and German forces clashed along the Drome river near Montelimar, with heavy fighting centered at Loriol. American gains pushed toward the Rhone valley as German columns fled, thousands of prisoners and captured equipment reported, including Maj. Gen Otto Richter and Vice Admiral Ruhfus.
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Rome
Seventh Army
Rhone
France
Drome
Montelimar
Valence
Loriol
Braincon
Hautes-Alps
Nice
Italy
19Th Army
Marseille
Otto Richter
198Th
Rhone Valley
Russia
Ruhfus
Toulon
Bagnols
Uzes
New Command Gives Bradley Equal Status With Montgomery
Washington reports a new France command making Lt Gen Omar Bradley equal in status to Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery as army group commander. The move, initially controversial in Britain, aligns Bradley under Eisenhower with Montgomery remaining overall ground forces commander. The change aims to simplify command as American strength grows and operations advance.
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Washington
France
Omar N. Bradley
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eisenhower
Britain
Bradley
Montgomery
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Supreme Headquarters
12Th Army Group
St. Lo
21St Army Group
London Mirror
Seventh Army
Alexander M. Patch
Rhone
Patch
Army
Army Is Now A Fighting Unit
The Czecho-Slovak underground army declared itself a fighting unit in a London relay communique. It said German forces have occupied Slovakia since Aug 29 and reported the capture of Cadca near the Slovakia–Moravia frontier, with heavy fighting in Zilina Povazska Bystrica and Trencin.
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London
Slovakia
Cadca
Moravia
Zilina
Povazska
Bystrica
Trencin
65 000 Ships Built By U S
Navy Secretary Forrestal announced that the United States has built 65,000 vessels in five years, totaling 9,000,000 tons. About 36 percent are warships, 22 percent landing craft, with the remainder auxiliaries and other naval vessels.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
United States
Army Navy Game At Annapolis Dec. 2
The Army Navy football game will be played on the grounds of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis December 2. Pvt. Austin S. Kelly, inducted February 7, 1944, who completed basic training at Camp Blanding, Fla, has arrived safely somewhere in Italy.
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Washington
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Pvt
Austin S. Kelly
Camp Blanding, Fla
Italy
State Lodges to Meet Here Next Month
Frederick hosts the annual convention of Maryland Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters on September 12 and 13 with about 75 delegates and 150 for the banquet. Francis Scott Key hotel will serve as convention headquarters with events at the Pythian Castle. Delegates arrive Sept 11. officers to be elected and installed Wednesday. Mrs Mae Baker is to become Grand Chief of the women’s group and Mrs Mildred V Seney to assume Supreme Chief.
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Frederick
Knights of Pythias
Francis Scott Key
Pythian Castle
Elizabeth M. Shipley
Ferne Etzler
Susie Ramsburg
Fannie King
Mae Baker
Taneytown
Mildred V. Seney
Baltimore
Supreme Council
Chicago
Seney
Maryland
Sadie Disharoon
David Harris
No Negotiated Peace With Foe
Secretary of State Hull stated Germany shows interest in a negotiated peace but the Allied demand for unconditional surrender remains clear. He warned Hitler and aides may seek refuge in neutral countries and said the US is addressing that risk with neutrals. Hull noted Britain and Roosevelt urged no refuge for Nazi leaders.
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Washington
Hull
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Argentina
Spain
Roosevelt
Kurt Dittmar
Keedysville Service to Continue per Public Hearing
The Public Service Commission of Maryland notified Keedysville Mayor Charles K. Taylor that B and O Railroad passenger and freight facilities will be maintained at Keedysville as in the past. The August 16 Baltimore hearing addressed the railroad's appeal to discontinue passenger and express service.
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The
Public Service Commission of Maryland Today
Charles K. Taylor
Keedysville
B. and O
Baltimore
Five Thousand Planes Sent To Russia By One Route
Russian pilots meeting Army ferrying crews at an Arctic rendezvous have received nearly 5,000 American planes since September 1942. Brig. Gen. Bob E. Nowland announced two new overseas routes Snowball to England and Crescent to India, noting record ton miles and mail flights. By mid September the division would run 27 routes to 63 cities.
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Cincinnati
Air Transport Command
Bob E. Nowland
North Atlantic
England
Miami
Fla
India
Newland
ATC
China-Burma-India
Taj Mahal
Arctic
Russia
Edmund J. Averman, Jr
Pittsburgh
Fairbanks
Alaska
Nowland
City observes Labor Day closures and selective operations
Frederick prepares for Labor Day with most businesses closed on Monday September 4 while select war plants stay open to finish urgent work. Banks city hall post office and courts observe the holiday but mail deliveries and special services continue. A concert at Baker Park bandshell leads local observances as schools resume midweek.
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Frederick
Baker Park
Seventh Battalion
State Guard
Sperry L. Storm
Court House
Price Brothers Company
Everedy Company
Farmers’ Cooperative Association
Armistice Proposal For Bulgaria To Be Handed In Cairo
London dispatch says a take it or leave it armistice proposal for Bulgaria will be handed to Bulgarian emissaries within days and likely signed in Cairo. Four Bulgarian delegates are suspected but unnamed. Cairo reports avoid any hint of negotiations.
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London
Cairo
RAF Attack Backs Russ In North
London reports large Allied air operations supporting Russian armies in the Baltic and eastern fronts. Over 1,000 heavy bombers struck Stettin and Konigsberg, with 41 planes lost, as Berlin and Hamburg were also hit by fast Mosquito aircraft.
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London
Baltic
Konigsberg
Stettin
Berlin
Hamburg
U. S
France
Pas de Calais
English Channel
Germany
Konigsberz
Air Ministry
September Term Jurors for Circuit Court drawn
Jurors for the September term were drawn this morning before Judge Patrick M Schnauffer at the Court House. The term opens September 18 with lists including Frederick P Luther Rice Henry W Whitehill Robert J Burrall Russell H McCain John T Best Lewis M Sponseller Niemann A Brunk Leonard A Shuff Charles Clifford Doll Page Myers Amos R Keller Edgar M Keller Byron Free Long Moser Fraley Roy V Harshman Loy N Wolfe William J Wilcam Charles Wilkins W Sneadner Robert H Diller Carl Mealey George Runkles Glenn DeLauter Lester Dutrow H Roelkey James Bowers Grayson Angleberger Albert Bussard Elmer Guyton Aaron Rice William Whitmore Melvin Gladhill Clarence Cline Luther Shank Harvey Dudder ar William Dudder ar Luther Leather man Thomas Anderson John W Mentzer John W Cook Harry Brandenburg Guy Dean William Harrington William Keefer Cutsail
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Court House
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Frederick P. Luther Rice
Harry W. Whitehill
Robert J. Burrall
Russell H. McCain
John T. Best
Hanvers
Glenn L. DeLauter
Woodsboro
E. Owen Dorsey
Lester G. Dutrow
Petersville
David H. Roelkey
Mr. Pleasant
James E. Bowers
Grayson C. Angleberger
Jefferson
Albert L. Bussard
Elmer E. Guyton
Thurmont
Aaron F. Rice
William H. Whitmore
Jackson
Melvin O. Gladhill
Clarence W. Cline
Johnsville
Luther F. Shank
Woodville
Harvey B. Haines
Linganore
William W. Dudderar
Prices Stiffen as Peace Items Attract Bids In New York
Stock prices stiffened in today’s market as peace rated issues drew strong bidding. Investors kept a wary eye on tensions and the war outlook while revised quotes reflected cautious optimism.
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New York
Beaten Nazis Flee Last Black Sea Strongholds
Soviet forces close in on Constanta and Bucharest as Romania’s coast port falls and the Red Army advances toward the Dobruja border. Troop movements push toward Ploesti oil fields with Bucharest under pressure from three directions. StrongGerman resistance persists, but hundreds are captured as the German hold weakens.
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Moscow
Black Sea
Russia
Bulgaria
Balkans
Constanta
Romania
Bucharest-Ploesti
Wallachia
Ploesti
Buzua
Transylvania
Hungary
Hitler
Red Army
Dobruja
Bucharest
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Danube
Stalin
Tolbukhin
E. S. Oktyabrysky
Says Turkey Harbors Spies Says Turkey Harbors Spies
Pravda accuses Turkey of harboring German spies and breaking with the Nazis into a friendly rupture as Russian troops near the Dardanelles. The report notes German attachés remain in Ankara twenty days after departure. Meanwhile FCC reports a Moscow broadcast urging Spaniards to oust Franco and align with democracies.
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Moscow
Pravda Today
Turkey
Dardanelles
Pravda
Ankara
Batum
Black Sea
FCC
Francisco Franco
Germany
Spain
Franco
U S Forces Reach Reims and Press Toward Paris Front
Allied units on Aug 30 moved to Reims and across the Vesle river, with Patton’s columns crossing the Marne at Epernay and Chalons on the Marne and Vitry captured or nearing mopping up. British troops pushed past the Seine north of Paris while the Allies expand control from Louviers to Paris and advance toward Laon and the coast.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Reims
Vesle
Belgium
United States
Cathedral City
Aisne
George S. Patton
Marne
Epernay
Chalons
Les Grandes Loges
Vitry
Paris
Seine
Etrepagny
Neufmarche
Louviers
Girl Victim Of Polio Dies In Thurmont
Ten year old Betty Lee Hobbs of Thurmont dies at home from poliomyelitis after a week of illness. She recently visited Baltimore and had been treated at Sydenham Hospital but died before transfer. Parents Charles and Helen Hobbs survive with two brothers. Funeral services set for Friday at Thurmont with burial in Blue Ridge Cemetery.
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Frederick County
Betty Lee Hobbs
Thurmont
Charles Bernard
Helen Buhrman Hobbs
Baltimore
Sydenham Hospital
E. C. Kefauver
Charles Bernard, Jr
Richard E. Hobbs
Ada C. Buhrman
Bernard J. Hobbs
Emmitsburg
Charles H. Corbett
Blue Ridge Cemetery
M. L. Creager and Son
Braddock Property Sold in Auction by Widow McDevitt
The 20 acre McDevitt farm one mile north of Braddock was sold Tuesday by widow Tina F McDevitt to Dr W O Sweet of Washington and Braddock for 3900. The tillable acreage includes a seven room frame house barn new double garage and washhouse. Mrs McDevitt then sold personal property for about 2900 amid a large turnout and more than 1000 knock downs. Auctioneer Emmett R Bowlus. clerk R L Kelly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy H. McDevitt
Braddock
Tina F. McDevitt
W. O. Sweet
Washington and Braddock
Allied advance presses toward Pas de Calais after Paris outbreak
U S Third Army pushes northeast of Paris from two Aisne bridgeheads near Soissons and Font-Arcy, closing on Laon within two miles and 38 miles from the Belgian border. Patton’s forces reach Montaigu near Laon as Vitry le Francois falls cleanup proceeds east of Paris. British and American units widen a 33 mile front along the Seine toward Le Havre while Montgomery targets two German horseshoe loops in Bretonne forest.
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London
Laon
Aisne
Rouen
Seine
Paris
France
U. S. Third Army
Soissons
Font-Arcy
George S. Patton
Montaigu
Sedan
Vitry-le-Francois
Upper
Marne
Verdun
Chalons sur-Marne
Vitry
Supreme Headquarters
Chalons
Berlin
Seventh Army
Normandy
Vernon
Longchamps
Marineville
Pas de Calais
le Havre
Caudelbec
Bretonne Forest
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Nazi Paratroops In Italy Smashed By British Advance
Rome reports the first full scale assault on the Italian front in weeks as British and Polish forces strike at German parachute troops. The push aims to drive the enemy from last hill positions before the Adriatic end of the Gothic Line.
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Rome
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Lewistown
Luther E. Leatherman
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Anderson
Burkittsvile
John W. Mentzer
Ballenger
John W. Cook
Harry Brandenburg
Brunswick
Guy C. Dean
William E. Harrington
Walkersville
William Keefer Cutsail
Richard F. Kline
Grove Boulevard
Jefferson Boulevard
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Aisne River
Braddock Property
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