Local Pilot Reported Missing Is War Prisoner
Lieut Leo Francis Waterman, a B 24 Liberator pilot and UVa graduate, was reported missing in action since August 22 and later listed as a prisoner of war by the German government. His parents in this city and wife in Roanoke were notified by telegram from the War Department through the Red Cross. Waterman’s father manages Giztrid stores in this area.
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Leo Francis Waterman
Leo T. Waterman
West College Terrace
Vienna
Waterman
Louise FP. Waterman
Roanoke
War Department
International Red Cross
Lieut. Waterman
Peoples Service Drug Stores, Inc
University of Virginia
Haly
Hood Campus Day 26th Annual Show Set For Saturday
Hood's twenty sixth annual Campus Day celebration will be held next Saturday at 2 30 in the afternoon in Hudson Memorial Theater. Four classes will present themes with original costumes and songs. A silver cup gifted by the Alumnae Association goes to the winning class. Miss Fannie Magee will present the prize. Each class theme centers on Hood and remains secret until the show. Judging considers theme significance to college life costume quality song and group teamwork. Two songs may be chosen for future use. Class leaders include Miss Evelyn Stup Miss Frances Lee Toombs Miss Helen Rathmell and Miss Margaret Whitehead. Class advisers assist preparation with faculty and staff support.
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Hood
Hudson Memorial Theater
Fannie Magee
Evelyn Stup
Harry E. Stup
Frederick
Frances Lee Toombs
Hackensack
N. J
Helen Rathmell
Prospect Park
Margaret Whitehead
Upper Montclair
Lillian O Brown
Miriam Apple
George Hardy
Ihe
Nellie K. Blocher
Elizabeth B. Bower
Grand Prix de Deauville Reopens Near Paris
Horse racing resumed near Paris with the Grand Prix de Deauville at Le Tremblay track outside the capital. A large crowd gathered despite poor transportation and chilly weather, reviving summer race traditions after disruptions.
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Paris
France
Deauville
le Tremblay
Trusting Their Public Gas Meters In Kansas City
Kansas City gas company patrons will read their own meters due to a manpower shortage. The first 19,000 of 96,000 users have received return postcards with dials to mark readings. Company meter readers will alternate with users every other month.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Gas Company
City’s Gift To Victory Ship Is Delivered
Frederick's contributions plaques books and recreational equipment to the Victory ship bearing its name were delivered to Capt. E. C. Peterson by Mayor Hugh V. Gittinger. The equipment included 5 plaques 201 books 20 games 33 decks of cards a phonograph and five photo albums.
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Frederick
E. C. Peterson
Hugh V. Gittinger
Baltimore
Sergt Daniel Swomley
Peterson
S. S. Frederick Victory
W. A. Riddell
Edward S. Delaplaine
Fifth Army Advances Toward Bologna After Gains
Fifth Army troops push two more miles toward the Po valley base at Bologna, within 12 miles as German retreating forces yank material northward. Doughboys clear Loiano and reach two miles north on the Florence Bologna road. British and South African units secure Monte Vivese while a spearhead nears Castel San Pietro along the Bologna Rimini highway.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Po Valley
Bologna
Reich
Loiano
Florence- Bologna
Monte Vivese
Pistoia-Bologna
Sassoleone
Castel San Pietro
Prisoner James Murty Sparks Police Search
State Police continued morning search for James Murty a 41 year old from Baltimore who reportedly escaped the State Penal Farm at Roxbury around nine o clock Friday night authorities issued alerts and urged public vigilance as the hunt extended.
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James Murty
Baltimore
Roxbury
R S Bright Estate Appraised At 744445 In Virginia Claim
The estate of the late Robert Southall Bright, once a Frederick county resident, is appraised at 744445.86 in an inventory filed in Richmond Virginia. The report shows real estate at 92500, tangible personal property 228, current money 28689.27, and stocks bonds and other intangible property totaling 602128.66 with 10785.23 of income accrued to date of death. The executors are Mary McCaw Bright and J Gowen Roper. The Maryland claim to administer the estate locally continues amid political staffing delays and tax concerns estimated over 530000.
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Robert Southall Bright
Frederick County
Ava
Richmond
Register of Wills
Roy L. Leatherman
Leatherman
Maryland
Anes
Williamsburg
Ox Fibre Brush Company, Inc
New York
Mary McCaw Bright
J. Gowen Roper
Nicodemus Likely To Be City Register Appointment
Reports in informed circles say Aubrey A. Nicodemus is chosen to replace City Register Mehrt FC Wachter who will resign at year's start. A special board meeting next Wednesday is expected to confirm the appointment with Nicodemus likely to accept. Other candidates have withdrawn and Nicodemus is described as a capable Republican with prior service in the office.
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City Register Mehrt FC Wachter
City Register
Aubrey A. Nicodemu
Nicodemus
Wachter
Ofice
Jesse Shaver
Harry T Radu
Haris T. James
Nazi Horrors Reach Greece And Hungary Killings Seen
Patrot Greece dispatch reports 1300 villages burned and 700 men executed at Kalavryta. Germans tortured and murdered civilians, destroyed towns, and forced mass graves as part of brutal reprisals. Red Army advances threaten Budapest with swift push toward the Hungarian capital as Soviet forces press from the south and east.
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Sid Feder Patrot
Greece
Kalavryta
Here
T . Steve Ds Eta
Dager
Tag
Wounded D-Day Veteran Sgt Irving J Shankie
Sgt Irving J Shankie a D Day veteran and three major battles was seriously wounded in action in France on September 29. His mother Mrs Robert Tracer of 331 North Market street learned of the injury via War Department telegram. His last letters from France came September 28 and 29 describing rest in Paris and return to action with Co 1 214th Infantry. He hoped his mother had received his combat medal and a handkerchief sent from Paris. The handkerchief arrived but the package was tampered with and the medal was missing. He enlisted August 1942, trained at Camp Grover Oklahoma, and was home on furlough before overseas in March. He has a brother in the Navy James E Shankle in the South Pacific and a brother in law Sgt Sidney L Hahn on Guam.
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Irving J. Shankie
France
Robert Tracer
North Market Street
War Department
Paris
Co. 1
214Th Infantry
Tracey
Sgt
Shankle
Camp Grover
Okla
James E Shankle
Navy
South Pacific
Sidney L Hahn
Guam
Bonnie Blink Service To Be Held Sunday
Masonic Homes at Bonnie Blink will host a Sunday afternoon service at 3 o'clock conducted by Lynch and Columbia lodges of Frederick and Philanthronic lodge of New Market. Rev W C Royal of the First Baptist church will deliver the address with Richard F Zimmerman singing. An organ recital by Edward Choate Odell precedes the service. Grand Lodge organist. The chapel service is open to the public.
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Lynch and
Columbia Lodges of Masons of
Frederick
Philanthronic Lodge
New Market
Bonnie Blink
W.C. Royal
First Baptist Church
Richard F Zimmerman
Edward Choate Odell
Grand Lodge
Bonnie Rimk
Roosevelt To Speak in New York Dinner Oct 21
President Roosevelt accepted an invitation to address a Foreign Policy Association dinner in New York on Saturday October 21. The announcement comes from Washington noting the engagement will be in the city.
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Roosevelt
New York
Washington
Foreign Policy
Great Part Of Peloponnesus Freed Of Nazis
Allied head quarters said a large part of the Peloponnesus in Greece is cleared of German forces. British ships bombarded Levitha on Oct 5 and landings seized the eastern half of the island. German commander surrendered at dusk after bombardment. Allied planes strafed airfields near Athens and Salonika, destroying several enemy aircraft on the ground.
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Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyards
Ofhers
Frederick Victory
Gittinger
Bethlehem Fairfield
Freagrick
New York
CBS
London
Athens
Ies
Rome
Pelopondesus
Greece
Levitha
Samos
Uuelius
Salonika
U. SS
W3th Air Force
British Have Formidable Fleet on Indian Ocean
In an Oct 7 briefing at South Shields First Lord of the Admiralty A. J. Alexander said the Royal Navy already fields a strong fleet in the Indian Ocean and that plans to move warships to the Pacific were advancing rapidly. He warned seamen to remain vigilant against any remnant German naval forces. He noted 9,900 mariners have entered or cleared through the United Kingdom since the war began.
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South Shields
England
Alexander
Thg Admiralty
Royal Navy
Indian Ocean
Pacific
Sagacy
Thronch
United Kingdom
Wallace and Truman to speak at Madison Square Garden rally
New York liberal party announced Henry A Wallace and Harry S Truman will share the platform at a Madison Square Garden rally on October 31.
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New York
Qet
Henry A Wallace
Senn
Harry S.teuman D-Mor
Wallace
Madison Square Garden
Liberal Party
Allied Bombers Out In Force
Allied bombers crowded the skies in good weather over Germany today following more than 6 000 flights by bombers and fighters yesterday The Eighth Air Force and the RAF sent up over 3 000 heavy bombers in night and day operations targeting oil and industrial plants and airfields including Berlin Dortmund Bremen Hamburg and Ludwigshafen Additional US and allied air forces conducted missions across the Mediterranean Balkans and Saarlautern where a clash with Messerschmitts left four German planes downed and one American plane lost
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London
Germany
Eighth Air Force
RAF
Berlin
Dortmund
Bremen
Hamburg
Ludwigshafen
Ninth Air Force
U.S
Balkans
Saarlautern
Japs Say They Now Have Enough Planes
San Francisco dispatch reports a Tokyo radio broadcast claiming Japan now has aircraft ready for action and far exceeding the enemy's air strength. The broadcast, heard by FCC monitors, quotes Capt Keio Watamura of the Japanese fleet press section in China waters, noting a qualitative change enabling operations with a stronger air nucleus.
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San Francisco
Japan
Tokyo
United States
FCC
Keio Watamura
China Waters
Rudolf Schnoadt dies from wounds in July 20 assassination bid
German news agency reports Rudolf Schnoadt chief adjutant of the German Army died of wounds from the July 20 assassination attempt on Wither. He was given a state funeral at Tannenberg yesterday as broadcasts aired details of the raid.
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NAAT
London
Rudolf Schnoadt
Wither
Tannenberg
Germans Yield To First Army Drive North Of Aachen
Allied advance across German lines accelerates as American First Army tanks and infantry push six miles into Germany north of Aachen. Prisoners flood out during the breach while air and artillery pressure continue, supported by Patton’s Third Army actions near Metz and advances toward Le Thillot and Tilburg.
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Germany
Aachen
U.S
Beggendorf
Ubach
Herbach
Merkstein
Hofstadt
Aldsdorf
Basewiler
Luftwaffe
London
Siegfried Line
Cologne
Fort
George S. Patton
Third Army
Fort Driant
Metz
Moselle
Seventh Army
le Thillot
Suas
Bussang
Vosges
Tilburg
Lower Holland
Leopold Canal
Antwerp
Schelde
Reich
Courtney H. Hodges
Associated Press
Edward Baill
Thunderbolts
Aring
Ball Calf Stolen From County Pasture
A 800-pound black Angus ball calf was stolen Friday night from Edgar Stunkle’s pasture between Licksville and Point of Rocks. Sheriff Horace M. Alexander said Deputy Paul B. Rhoads is investigating. a reward may be offered for information leading to the calf’s return or thieves’ arrest. A Holstein cow, about 900 pounds, is also reported missing from Ralph Beek’s property, with investigations ongoing.
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Edgar Stunkle
Licksville
Point of Rocks
Horace M. Alexander
Paul B . Rhoads
Stunkle
Sherif
Ralph Beek
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Gop
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Red Army
Moscow
Hungary
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Budapest
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Ida
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Mako
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Capetelly
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Bekes
Se Plincs
Axis
Tisa
Saeged
Sgt. Shankie
Set. Teving
J. Shankle
Peloponnesus
Reynolds
Paul Mason Reynolds
Mary M. Reynolds
Tyamsville
Pvt
Theodore Reynolds
Africa
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