Man Dead Six Weeks Found By Hunter
The body of Fleet Manahan, 66, a Chambersburg high school janitor, was found in an old shed on the Brown farm near Camp Ritchie in Frederick County by hunter Paul Hopkins on the first day of game season. Autopsy planned. death date estimated five to six weeks earlier. Manahan disappeared Oct 15 after walking from home. authorities link the missing man to the found body and note ill health prior to disappearance.
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Fleet Manahan
Chambersburg
Brown Farm
Camp Ritchie
Frederick County
Paul B. Rhoads
Horace M. Alexander
Creage
Thurmont
Alexander
Rhoads
Paul Hopkins
Waynesboro
Manahan
Maurice Manahan
Chambersburg High School
Highway Department
Blue Ridge Summit
Deerfield
Indebtedness Cleared For Former Middletown POW
A former Middletown man Lynwood Zecher, now in Hagerstown, may receive a $500 check held by Farmers and Mechanics National Bank toward the Ebert Ice Cream Company debt. Zecher, listed as missing in action then prisoner of war, was contacted via his mother Nora Zecher after the bank learned of the $50,000 total debt repayment. A letter from the bank, cleared through the War Department, asked his disposition of the check but no reply had been received.
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Middletown
Germany
Ebert Ice Cream Company
Lynwood Zecher
Hagerstown
Ebert
Zecher
Nora Zecher
Fairground Avenue
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
Benjamin L. Shuff
War Department
10000 Soviet War Prisoners At Murmansk Arrival
Moscow reports from Murmansk say ten thousand former Soviet war prisoners and civilians arrived by two transports from England. The group includes children whose parents were executed by Germans and women forced into slave labor in enemy factories. Tass notes they were freed by Allied invasions. Recovery Tendencies show selective recovery after early heaviness in New York trading.
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Moscow
Tass
Murmansk
England
Europe
Heavy Fighting For Long Time In War Fronts
London reports Prime Minister Churchill, back from French battlefronts, warned in Parliament that extremely heavy fighting will last for a long time. He rejected calls to release men over 40 from static stations, saying these posts are essential for continuing the war given manpower shortages.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
James Duncan
Cunaehill
Giles
Mayor Proposes Widening Wisner Street at Patrick Intersection
Mayor Hugh V. Gittinger will urge the Board of Aldermen to buy property at East Patrick and South Wisner to widen Wisner from Patrick to the bridge. The plan aims to ease daily traffic jams in a main industrial area aided by potential bridge upgrades and future budget funding. The Blair property on East Patrick east of Wisner may be acquired and razed to allow expansion.
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Hugh V. Gittinger
Asy
Board of Aldermen
East Patrick
South Wisner Streets
Patrick Street
Kiwanis Club
Wisner Street
Patrick
Union Manufacturing Company
Carroll Creek
Lovettsville Soldier Dies Of Wounds In Italy
Sgt. Phillip A. Frye 22 son of Mr and Mrs Eppa Frye Lovettsville Va died in an Italian hospital October 22 of wounds from action War Department notified his parents. Entered service December 12 1942 at Fort Meade trained at Camp Howze Texas stationed briefly at Shreveport and Fort Dix went overseas January 1 1943 survived by brother Pvt Clarence Frye wounded in Pacific and home on furlough and two sisters Blanche and Lillie.
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Phillip A. Frye
Eppa Frye
Lovettsville
Italy
War Department
Peel
Frye
Fort Meade
Camp Howze
Texas
Shreveport
Fort Dix
N. Jd
Mt. Olivet
Lovellsville
Pvt
Clarence Frye
Pacific
California
Blanche
Lillie
Rockville drug store robbed. $1300 seized in narcotics theft
Thieves jimmied the safe at Peoples Drug Store in Rockville last night taking $1,300 in cash and narcotics. Montgomery County police reported. In Boston, Nov. 15, a wholesale level cigarette rationing scheme was announced by at least one distributor.
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Rockville
Peoples Drug Store
Montgomery County
Boston
New York
Air Corps
Elliott Roosevelt
Financing Of Peacetime Exports To Be Sought
Washington plans a joint government private financing approach for a peacetime export program, aiming to raise export volumes postwar with possible expansion of Export-Import Bank authority and a new agency to handle postwar lending. France and other nations seek large credits, while the Johnson Act likely must be revised to allow loans to debtors.
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Washington
Novia
Congress
Roosevelt
Europe
France
Russia
China
Relief Ship Arrives For Allied Prisoners
The Hakusan Maru loaded about 2000 tons of supplies for Allied prisoners at Nakhodka, Siberia, and arrived in Kobe. Japanese officials said relief goods would be delivered to American internees in Japan, China, and southern regions as soon as possible.
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Associated Press
Radio Tokyo
Federal Communicattions Commission
Nakhodka
Siberia
Kobe
Sadao Iguchi
Japanese Board of Information
Japan
China
Fined $300 For Demanding Bribe
Baltimore reports traffic patrolman Fa a Wraeninski was fined $300 and costs after being convicted of demanding a bribe from a motorist he stopped for running a traffic signal. Judge John T. Tucker jailed him pending payment of the fine.
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Baltimore
Fa A Wraeninski
Crazy Were
John T. Tucker
Woodsboro Soldier Cited For Opening Path In Mine Fields
The War Department announced Bronze Star awards to Major Harold B. Norwood of Laurel Maryland and Private First Class Richard L Kline of Woodsboro. Norwood planned and oversaw the installation of an Army project and served as battalion operations officer on Bougainville and at New Georgia Island. Kline cleared three mine field paths from a mail road to a river in Italy under heavy fire, using probing methods to expose Teller mines and enable infantry advance.
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Washington
War Department
Harold B. Norwood
Laurel
Norwood
New Georgia Island
Bougainville
Richard L. Kline
Woods
Horo
Italy
Kline
Belson
Massanutter Military Academy
Reserve Corps
156Th
Infantry
Com. VO
Betson
U.S. Assault Training Center
Cline
Carl A. Cline, Jr
Claggettsville
Germany
Maryland
Cherbourg
Paris
Lieut
Casper Jereet Betson, Jr
Visit To Veterans Hospitals Show War Reality
A returning lieutenant from Valley Forge General Hospital urges civilians to visit veterans hospitals to grasp the war's impact. Lieut Casper Belson describes injuries from England D-Day training, including 38 percent hearing loss, eye injuries with vision loss, and hand damage needing skin grafts. He praises hospital patients, Red Cross volunteers, and civilian help in restoring wounded soldiers and urges public support for veterans' needs.
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Veterans
Casper Frost “Frosty” Belson
West West Fifth Street
Valley Forge General Hospital
Phoenixville
Belson
England
Lieut
Betson
Valley Forge
Red Cross
Eighth Army Advances toward Faenza in Po Valley
Romé, Nov. 15. Eighth Army forces pushed across the Montone river more than two miles northwest of Forli on the Bologna road, widening the advance up the Po valley toward Faenza, the next major city on the route, Allied headquarters announced.
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Romé
Eighth Army
Mortonn
Forli
Bologna
Montone
Faenaa
Jones Urges All-Out Farm Production For War Needs
Washington reports War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urges farmers to match or exceed last year’s crop acreage with adjustments by crop. He stresses ensuring supplies for military personnel civilians allies and relief needs while avoiding shortages and notes changes in egg and meat outputs as livestock trends rise and slaughter rates adjust.
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Washington
Marvin Ones
Europe
Jones
Tad
Airmen Describe Brutal Treatment in Bulgarian Prison
Cumberland Gd Sgt Gerald Grady recounts 14 hours of parading wounded Americans through a Bulgarian village after a June 24 downing over Romania. He says they were denied food five days, endured burns, and witnessed a fellow airman die after a guard beating. Grady, a Purple Heart recipient, notes Nazi propaganda influenced Bulgarian guards.
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Cumberland
Gerald W. Grady
Romania
Grady
Bulgaria
Ayer
Six Hurt In Three-Way Pennsylvania Train Wreck
Newport Pa Nov 15 Six men were injured two seriously in a wreck involving two freight trains and a special passenger train carrying troops on the Pennsylvania railroad main line. A foreman bound wrecked train pulled by two locomotives crashed head on with an eastbound train of 103 cars and one locomotive. The impact derailed all three engines and the first two tank cars on each train. A short time later the passenger train sidewiped wreckage.
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Newport
Pennsylvania Railroad
Andorra Occupied By French Gendarmes
French gendarmes occupy Andorra marking a preventive move to secure the territory. The Foreign Office said Gen. Chace De Giaulle announced a new prince of Andorra and that the action aims to maintain order during the term. Andorra covers 81 square miles along the French Spanish frontier, with shepherd communities and mountainous terrain.
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Paris
Andorra
A. Spokesoran
Chace
DeGiaulle
Andora
Anderra
Tieh
Omanes
Red Army liquidates Danube bridgehead near Budapest
Moscow reports the Red Army has liquidated the Danube east bank bridgehead south of Budapest and advanced on the city. Soviet divisions pressed toward Monor area, seized Solt and Dunaegyhaza, with about 50,000 Germans and Hungarians captured since the Budapest drive began. German evacuation of Jaszbereny, 35 miles east of Budapest, also noted.
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London
Red Army
Danube River
Budapest
Moscow
Hodlon
Malinovsky
Monor
Uri
Peters
Uiree
Solt
Duna Egghaza
Danube
Berly
Sane Buying Seen As Cure
Washington reports that Price Administrator Bowles backs "sane buying" as the cure for cigarette shortages and rejects rationing as impractical. He cites hoarding fears and distribution issues as driving shortages while urging no forced limits and noting Food Administrator Marvin Jones agrees.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Marvin Jones
Hnard
De Gaulle to Visit Moscow on Invitation of Stalin
General Charles De Gaulle will shortly depart Paris for a Moscow visit at the invitation of Marshal Stalin, announced by the government.
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Moscow
Paris
Charles DeGaulle
Stalin
Metz Forts Fall To U S Third Army In Key Push
Allied forces press toward Metz as Forts Wubert and Jussy fall two miles from the city while other forts surrender or are captured. British and American units drive across canals near Roermond and Nijmegen area to pierce the German defense bulge, with evacuations and renewed German counter-attacks reported.
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London
Metz
Third
Wubert
Jussy
95Th
Thion- Ville
Furtange
L'Aisne
Lysser
Roermond
Plame-throwers
Petre-Pouilly
Alliance
Sixth Armored Division
Nied
Germany
Berlin
Koenigsmacher-Trignville
Third Army
Wheeling
Fourth Armored
Guchling
Dicure
Boorder Canals
Meijel
Nederweert
Kind
Fifteen Local Recruits Report For Armed Services
Fifteen men from local Draft Board One near Frederick report for induction in the November call. The all white group, including four fathers and one volunteer, was sent to the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore to be assigned to their service branch. Names listed include Richard F. Weddle and Raymond L. Smith among others.
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Frederick
Armed Services
Fifth Regiment
Baltimore
Richard F. Weddle
Raymond L. Smith
Marion J. Whitter, Jr
Lewis E. van Steinburg
Harold M. Staley
Emory B. Fogle
Robert C. Thomas
Allen ©. Wiles
Heavy Snow Buries Wyoming Towns as Storm Moves East
In Cheyenne on November 15 Wyoming faced winter with Lander recording 1 inch of snow and a nine degree low at Big Piney. Casper reported six inches while Sheridan and Cody had four inches as the system crossed Montana and Wyoming and moved toward the plains.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Lander
Big Piney
Casper
Sheridan and
Cody
Montana
Kotas
Nebraska
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South Wisner
Himmler
Zurich
Switzerland
la Suisse
Heinrich Himmler
Mitler
Ith
Woodsboro
Pfc. Kline
Veterans’ Hospitals
Africa
WEA
U.S
Cumberlander
Pennsylvania
Monocacy River
Jug Bridge Hill
Nazin
Jaszbereny
Maryland Office of Price Administration
OPA
J. W. Ward
E. C. Richards
Ward
Richards
War Labor Board
Wright Aircraft Supervision Association
New Jersey
U.S. Third Army
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