Russians Reach Baltic South Of Memel Invasion Report
London reports say Russian vanguards have reached the Baltic Sea south of Memel severing land routes for about 150000 Germans in Latvia and Lithuania. Moscow said the Kremlin reported 12 miles from Memel as the invasion of East Prussia continues. Berlin radio then claimed a new offensive in the Vistula bend south of Warsaw with a bridgehead near Kielce, but no Moscow confirmation.
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London
Baltic Sea
Memel
Latvia
Lithuania
Moscow
East Prussia
Reich
Hitler
Kremlin
Warsaw
Berlin
Vistula
Kielce
Nimitz Delivers Mock 1592 Communique To Reporters
U S Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor recounts a dramatic press conference in which Admiral Chester W Nimitz reads a bogus 1592 dated communique describing Allied naval victories near Fusan Korea. Reporters misread it as current action before the joke is revealed.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Korea
Fusan
Nimitz
San Francisco
Associated Press
Korean Peninsula
Fusan Harbor
Political Debate Sparks Bureaucrat War In 1944 Race
The Associated Press reports Republican leaders attack federal bureaucracy while Attorney General Biddle defines a bureaucrat as a public worker a Republican would like to have. Bricker decries government “dead hand” as Willkie’s funeral, and Simon and Schuster publish An American Program urging clear stances on international duties and race. Willkie supporters may shift to Roosevelt. Dewey faces mixed independent backing amid funeral coverage and a fatal heart attack at a Baltimore baseball game.
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Associated Press
Biddle
John W. Bricker
Montana
New Jersey State Federation of Labor
Atlantic City
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
New York City
Simon and Schuster, Inc
Willkie
Hui
D-Ala
Washington
Dewey
Tokyo Makes Another Claim Of Ships Sunk
Tokyo radio claimed, without confirmation, that a U S aircraft carrier and destroyer were sunk and others damaged. Intercepted broadcasts said Japanese submarines attacked carriers east of Halmahera and sank one, destroyed another, with a destroyer sunk and a cruiser and destroyer damaged during a clash near Marcus Island. No damage details were given by Adm Nimmo's report on the Marcus Island attack. Also, a Stockholm telephone outage lasting 48 hours drew explanation questions.
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San Francisco
Tokyo Radio Today
U. S
Federal Communications Commission
Halmahera
Tokyo
Marcus Island
Adm
Ere
Nim
Frederick soldiers help wipe out Nazi battalion at Scheirwaldenrath
Frederick county infantrymen participated in the dawn attack on a German battalion at Scheirwaldenrath near the Siegfried Line. Sgt Allen Shaff led a squad that destroyed two groups of surrenderless Germans. several Frederick men, including Sgt Austin Katzel Sgt Glenn Eyler and Sgt Ferrell Hensley, fought with Company A. Buildings were blown, and civilians were not present as Americans cleared the village. Many Germans remained buried or captured with substantial casualties during withdrawal. Mail delays suggest units of the 115th Infantry may be moving near Brest in France.
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Frederick County
Scheirwaldenrath
Germany
Siegfried Line
Stheirwaldenrath
Allen Shall
Frederick
Austin Katzel
Glenn Eyler
Woodsboro
Ferrell Hensley
New Market
Dhe Dispatch
Old First Infantry
Shaffs
Fidin Company K
115Th Infantry
Shaft
Brest
Parents Hear From Lieut Kennedy POW Son Words
Mr and Mrs Francis Kennedy of 219 East Church Street received the first direct word from their son Lieut John R Kennedy a B 24 pilot held as a German prisoner of war. The note says he is well and happy has not been injured and that the Red Cross has been very good to him. He plans to write again soon and gave a temporary address for letters. He was thought to have bailed out during a major raid near Berlin earlier in August. A separate item reports a strike proclaimed across Hungary by a Turkish radio broadcast with few details.
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Francis L. Kennedy
East Church Street
Sir John R. Kennedy
Germany
Tne
Kennedy
Amenst
Berlin
Mom Is Dead
Philadelphia dispatch reports six of Mrs. Anna May Clampfer’s married sons arriving at her home with a War Department telegram announcing their brother Private Robert Clampier was killed in France. Walter Clampfer told his mother Bobby has been killed and the physician then stated Mom is dead.
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Philadelphia
Anna May Clampfer
War Department
Pvt
Robert Clampier
France
Walter Clampfer
Bobby
Walter
Mrs Clampier
British And Greek Forces Occupy Corinth
British and Greek units entered Corinth without opposition as 250 members of the Greek security battalions surrendered. The city lies at the Peloponnesus isthmus. Allied forces also began an assault on Sarande in Albania, quickly reaching the town outskirts and silencing an enemy battery with a parachute company capturing a second battery.
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Rome
Corinth
Peloponnesus
Adriatic
Sarande
Corfu
Growers Protest WFA Choice Apple Price in Martinsburg
Appalachian Apple Service Inc protests to War Food Administration over a $2.25 a box price for choice apples, arguing the figure would break the market. They weigh current market ceiling near $2.75 and urge immediate corrective action to protect growers nationwide.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Appalachian Apple Service, Inc
War Food Administration
Ashley Sellers
Prisoners Taken Since D Day Reported by Allied Armies
London reports that six Allied armies have captured at least 563,928 prisoners since June 6 invasion. U S First Army 192,016. Third 92,690. Seventh 90,000. Ninth 19,312. British Second Army 78,681. Canadian First Army 161,927. French forces of the Interior serving with British Second and Canadian First Armies 72,382. Totals for some armies are three weeks behind.
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London
France
U.S. First Army
U. S. Third Army
U. S. Seventh Army
U. S. Ninth Army
Second Army
Holland
U. S
Cambridge Driver’s Reduced Sentence In Bus Crash Case
Cambridge October ruling lowers a three year manslaughter sentence to a 500 dollar fine for Guy Marshall, the Cambridge driver in a fatal bus crash on October 3. Marshall was convicted yesterday by Trial Magistrate Wilbur R. Dashiell and also fined 30 dollars on reckless driving.
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Cambridge
Wilbur R. Dashiell
Guy Marshall
Colonel Executed Over Defense of Pignan In Kwansi
Chinese high command announced Col. Tsao Cheng, a regimental commander, was executed on October 7 for failing to carry out his orders in the defense of Pignan, a west river town in Kwangsi recently captured by Japanese forces.
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Chungking
Tae Chinese High Command
Tsao Cheng
Pignan
West River
Kwangsi
Assault With Intent To Rape Charge Before Court
The State presents circumstantial evidence at Circuit Court in a bid to convict Morris Skinner, a 2 year old suspect, of assault with intent to rape a farm girl near Broad Run. Skinner pleads not guilty and denies entering the bedroom. The trial, heard without a jury, may not finish today due to an absent FBI chemist critical to paint analysis linking shoes to a porch roof.
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Circuit Court
Morris Isaac Skinner
Broad Run
Skinner
Assoute Jsudnes
Patrick M. Sehnauther
Stedman Prescott
J. 2. Tagan
Hagans
Wien Len
Sheas
Ihr
Corp
W.W. Corbin
State Police
Hagan
Flagan
Corbin
Cobin
Charles V. Main
Petersville
Early Blows Dealt Reich By Numerous Allied Craft
Allied air forces launched a daylight offensive against the Ruhr and western Germany. British heavy bombers attacked Bovbwun while Mosquito night fighters aided the operations. About 1,100 airmen from Britain and the US, supported by 900 fighters, targeted Schweinfurt, Coblenz, Mainz, Euskirchen, and Wilhelmshafen, with several aircraft reported missing.
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London
Det
Ostiierse
Bovhunn
Bovbwun
Chinaping
Nawis Jihad
Haates
Boehung
Aachen
Ruhr
Wilhelmshafen
Air Ministry
Euskirchen
Britain
Schweinfurt-Coblentz
Mainz
Germany
Admiral Kirk Takes Command of U.S. Naval Forces in France
Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk is named commander of United States naval forces in France by Admiral Stark. The 36 year old Annapolis graduate from Philadelphia previously led the Western Force in Normandy and a Sicilian task force, served as naval attaché in London, and holds the Legion of Merit and the British Order of the Bath. His home is Black Point, Connecticut.
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London
Alan G. Kirk
United States
France
Harold R. Stark
Kirk
Order of the Bath
Annapolis
Philadelphia
Black Point Conn
Rescue Heroism Cited for Maryland Flood Rescue 1942
A citation signed by Governor O Connor and Colonel Ober honors Ralph G Kline for saving Mr and Mrs Smallwood and their six children from the Potomac River flood on Heater's Island near Point of Rocks Maryland on October 16 1942. The act involved three dangerous trips in a light skiff to evacuate the family after their home was submerged. Also reported London October 1 sized.
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Herbert R. O'Conor
Beverly Ober
Tt. 1 Stata Pritinn
Charles V. Min
Frederick
Ralph G Kline
Howard Smallwood
Heater
Kline
Harry A. Holsinger
Speech Restored London Get If P
The German radio cited Hiller praising German will to sacrifice in danger to their country. The message aired by the official German News Agency DNB is the first reported chancellor utterance since the July 20 assassination attempt.
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London
Get If
Hiller
Beuudeast
DNB
Jon
Aachen Ultimatum Threatens City Surrender Or Destruction
American forces tighten siege of Aachen with Lt Gen Hodges declaring unconditional surrender or merciless bombardment. Leaflets warn civilians, while surrounding units push from Duren toward Cologne as Patton’s Third Army closes the bulge and Canadian forces push along the Schelde pocket.
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Aachen
Aughen
Courtney H. Hodges
Leafers
London
Courtney St. Hodges
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Whitehead
Bulge
George
Patton
U. S. Thid
Nancy-Metz
Edward D. Ball
Presnes-en-Sautnois
Nancy
Cheminnt
Duren
Julich
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Train Crash Hurts Dozens In Philadelphia Station
Philadelphia Oct 10 A Pennsylvania railroad commuter train crashed into a string of parked coaches at an underground suburban station during the morning rush. About 450 passengers were shaken. four were hospitalized. Engineman E E Schultz, 38, said brakes failed as the train neared the station opposite Resburn Plaza. Seats torn loose, no cars derailed. The Chestnut Hill line served Germantown and Chestnut Hill residential areas.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
E. E. Schultz
Resburn Plaza
Qbet Alte Pt
Germantown
Chestnut Hill
Dotown
October Temperature Hits Lowest Mark So Far
The city recorded a 42 degree low for October signaling near frost with a prior 39 degree reading in August. A .03 inch precipitation fell yesterday morning and afternoon, marking seven straight days of rain as fieldwork remains hindered by wet soil in 136 feet plots.
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Howver
Tito reports Nazi communications cut in Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito's headquarters reported that German communications heading west from Serbia and the Sandjak area have been cut. The communique notes Yugoslav patriots are fighting hard as German troops evacuate Greece.
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Tito
London
Serbia
Sandjak
Marshal Tito
Greece
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