Gorman Sentenced to Three Years for Perjury in Fake Will
Jacob H. Gorman 66 of Frederick was sentenced by Associate Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer to three years in Maryland Penitentiary for perjury in connection with a fake will of his late wife Mrs Ida Gorman. A second count for forgery incurs another two years, to run concurrently, with stay granted until Wednesday.
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Patrick M. Schnauffer
Jacob H. Gorman
Frederick
Maryland
Ida Gorman
Schnauffer
Gorman
South Market Street
Tag
Register of Wills’ Office
Eleven Soldiers Die In Storm Off Florida Coast
Tampa dispatch reports eleven soldiers from the New Orleans port of embarkation apparently drowned yesterday near Bradenton as a tropical hurricane swept ashore. The crash boat carrying 11 crew members departed New Orleans for Charleston and was last heard from when it checked in at Panama City on Tuesday.
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Tampa
Fla
Third Air Force
New Orleans
Bradenton
Charleston
Panama City
Tobacco Industry Plans Similar Domestic Cigarette Output
New York Oct 20 The National Association of Tobacco Distributors and trade sources outlined expected U S cigarette production for domestic use in 1944 nearly matching 1943 totals. Output could reach as high as 262 billion cigarettes, trimmed by manpower shortages, with overseas tax free shipments around 63 billion. Popular brands face tighter supply due to military demand overseas.
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New York
National Association of Tobacco Distributors, Inc
British occupy Thebes near Athens after push from Greece
Rome reports British troops have occupied Thebes thirty two miles northwest of Athens. German forces, harassed by Greek guerrillas, are speeding withdrawal from northern Greece toward Yugoslavia, Allied headquarters announced today.
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Rome
Thebes
Athens
Greece
Yugoslavia
MacArthur Urges Filipinos to Rise and Strike for Victory
General Douglas MacArthur in a broadcast over Voice of Freedom urges Filipinos to strike the Japanese. He proclaims divine guidance, revival of government on Philippine soil with President Osmena, and calls for patriotic mobilization to defend homes and future generations. He invokes Bataan and Corregidor to rally support.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Nere
Voice of Freedom
Office of War Information
General MacArthur
Sergio Osmena
Manuel Quezon
Philippine
Costa
Bataan
Corregidor
Farm Youth Killed Under Tractor
Maynard K. Keyser age sixteen was killed on the Kohlenberg farm near Urbana when a tractor overturned crushing his neck and chest. Deputy Sheriff Paul B. Rhoads and Trooper Myers reported Keyser, employed by tenant John DeGrange, was harrowing during seeding when the machine tipped and trapped him. The medical examiner confirmed the fatal injuries.
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Maynard K. Keyser
John W. Kohlenberg
Otar Urbena
AE Lee Ghee Abe
Paul B. Rhoads
Swhce
Myers
State Police
Young Keyser
John DeGrange
Kohlenberg
DeGrange
Fatal Casualty Sgt. Lee in Asiatic Theater
Sgt. Lee, about 25, of Hope Hill near Adamstown, died October 8 in an Asiatic hospital from meningitis. He enlisted December 8, 1941, and had served in India about two years. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Lee, two sisters, and seven brothers in New York, Washington, Towson, Frederick, Buckets town.
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Mchrl
G. Lee
Wesley Lee
Hope Hill
Adamstown
War Department
Lee
India
Hudson Supply and Equipment Company
Bucketstown
Ida Bundy
Helen Long
New York
William Albert
William Osburn
Raymond W
Herman
Washington
James
Towson
Robert
Paul Lee
Frederick
Bomber Sinks Jap Warship Off China Coast
A U S 4th Air Force unit based in China scored a sinking of a destroyer from the Mutsuki class fifty miles southwest of Hong Kong during a night attack in the South China Sea. A first bomb run and a follow up targeted a cruiser and a large freighter, expanding the combat record after previously knocking out a Japanese cruiser.
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U.S 4Th Air Force
China
Aly
South China Sea
Hongong
Roosevelt says Philippine operations on schedule with light losses
President Roosevelt announced that operations in the Philippines are proceeding on schedule with light losses. General MacArthur reported to General Marshall that Philippine landings had extremely light losses and the enemy was caught unawares, with Mindanao forces no longer an immediate factor and practically cut off.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Philippines
Douglas Mac‘Arthur
George C. Marshall
Stat
MacArthur
Philippine
Mindanao
Leyte
Marshall
$3,599.30 Verdict In Thomas Farm Case
A Federal Court jury awarded $3,599.30 for NT acres of land at Frederick condemned for Detrick Field expansion. The tally splits $2,696.30 to Austin K. Thomas and H. Irving Thomas, with $903 to Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Frederick as mortgage creditors.
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Baltimore
Frederick
Detrick Field
Austin K. Thomas
H. Irving Thomas
Farmers and Mechaniccs Bank of
Japanese Admiral Killed In Torpedo Plane Attack Off Philippines
Berlin radio reported Tokyo dispatch that Vice Admiral Nashaharu Arima of the Japanese Navy was killed on October 13 when his torpedo plane attacked and hit a large U S aircraft carrier off the Philippines. The reason he rode a torpedo plane was not disclosed.
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London
Nashaharu Arima
U. S
Philippines
Berlin
Tokyo Dispatch
Middletown and Myersville Bus Plan Faces Hearing
Potomac Edison seeks PSC approval to abandon the Middletown to Myersville electric railway, replacing with bus service and trucking to Myersville. Residents fear loss of rail, petition against action continues as hearing set in Baltimore on Monday, October 34.
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Middletown
Myersville
Potomac Edison Co
Public Service Commission
Baltimore
Ilalam
Potomac Edison Company
Frederick
Burgess John W. Eldridge
Potomac Hemison Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Decisive Battles Shaped Philippines Clash Warned
Tokyo papers warned readers that decisive battles are shaping the Pacific war as Japan shifts for another frontal clash after Taiwan's defeat. Domei news agency broadcast cited by the FCC quoted Yomiuri Hochi Shimbun saying the Philippines has become a battleground for decisive battles between the United States and Japan.
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Associated Press
Philippines
Tokyo
Taiwan
Formosa
Domei
Federal Communications Commission
Yomi Hochi Shimbun
United States
Japan
Battleship Aground Reported By Tokyo Radio
Tokyo radio claimed an American battleship ran aground Tuesday evening near Samar Island at Bunga Point as it attempted an attack on the Philippines. The English broadcast cited by the FCC said the vessel was submerged with its bow high out of water.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Bunga Point
Samar Island
Philippines
FCC
Hurricane intensity in Carolina decreasing soon
The interior of the Carolinas today felt the rash of the tropical storm which swept inland last night headed northward with decreasing intensity after causing the deaths of possibly 37 persons and heavy property damage in Cuba and Florida.
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Charleston
Carolinas
Cuba
Florida
Russians Press New East Prussia Front Amid Tank Battles
Russian forces moved into another section of the East Prussian frontier south of fallen Eydeka u. Berlin reports say German troops evacuated Debrecen as Russians claimed major tank clashes near Konigsberg. Moscow cited 1628 tanks lost by Germans and a possible decisive battle shaping along the East Prussian front.
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London
Berlin
Eydtkau
Konner
Heide
Kasey Wilhelm EL
Hungary
Debrecen
Budapest
Moscow
Ger Ynmans
East Prussia
Reich
Junkers
Danzig
Baltic
Narew
Warsaw
Konigsberg
Nelgrade
Belgrade
Stuttgart Hit Twice In Night
London reports the RAF conducted a four-hour apart double header on Stuttgart, a major electrical industry hub, using Stairfax and Lancasters. A simultaneous large raid hit Nurnberg, with a lighter strike on Wiesbaden. over 1,000 bombers took part. Previous raids on Cologne occurred months earlier.
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London
RAF
Stuttgart
Germany
Nurnberg
Wiesbaden
Rhineland
Cologne
Japanese Forced From Falam Near Tiddim
Southeast Asia Command reports British pressure from the captured Tiddim area in Western Burma forced the Japanese to withdraw from Falam, 30 miles south of Tiddim. The move weakens Japanese political influence over about 40,000 Chin Hills natives and affects administration in the central Chin Hills region.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Tiddimt
Burma
Falam
Chin Hills
Tiddim
Japs Claim British Carrier Has Been Sunk
Japanese Imperial Headquarters announced that Japanese aviators had sunk a British aircraft carrier and a destroyer in an engagement with a naval task force. The report follows Tokyo’s earlier claim of attacking the Nicobar Islands off Sumatra.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Nicobar Islands
Sumatra
British And Indian Troops Enter Cesena
British and Indian troops entered Cesena, the former German administration center on the Bologna Rimini road, in the Adriatic sector as Allied headquarters announced today.
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Rome
Cesena
Bologna-Rimini
Adriatic
Three Strong Beachheads Seized at Leyte Invasion
Leyte Island landings establish three beachheads on the east coast as MacArthur’s forces drive inland amid heavy shelling. The operation, preceded by bombardment, involves Lt Gen. Walter Krueger’s Sixth Army with units from the Central Pacific, including the First Cavalry, Seventh, and 96th Divisions. Allied air and naval power dominate, aiming to split Japanese defenses and sever Okinawa–style supply lines.
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New York
NBC
Leyte Island
MacArthur
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Leyte Gulf
Corregidor
Sergio Osmena
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Commonwealth
Juichi Terauchi
Roosevelt
Washtutor
America
Philppine
Leyte
Manila
Morotai
Levte
Associated Press
Mindanao
Tacloban
Mow Guiness
Tevte Island
Morotaind
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Visayas
Ove
Luson Islle
Manilal
Terauchi
14Th
Greater East Asia
Dutch East Indies
Borneo
Malaya
Burma
Asia
Formosa
Indies
Singapore
Hawke
Southwest Pacific Air Arm
Adm
Willam F. Halsex
Ryukyus
U.S
Hood War Fund Dinner Raises $879 for Campaign
Eight hundred seventy nine dollars was collected at a Hood College War Fund dinner in Coblentz hall. The funds will go to the Frederick County Community War Fund. Miss Evelyn Stup, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry E Stup Frederick, is a Hood War Fund committee member helping Hood girls pledge $3 to $5 this week. The dinner marked the drive's climax.
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Hood
Coblentz Hall
Frederick County Community War Fund
Evelyn Stup
Harry E. Stup
Frederick
Hood War Fund
Hood Girls
Laval Condemned To Death In Absentia
Paris radio said Pierre Laval was sentenced to death in absentia by a Marseille tribunal. An Algiers radio report named Jean Galliard, former director of Petit Marseille, condemned in absentia at the same time.
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London
Pierre Laval
Marseille
Paris
Algiers
Jean Galliard
Petit Marseille
Abeenila
Flying Bombs Strike South England for Ninth Night
London reports German flying bombs hurtled at southern England and the Lemion area for the ninth consecutive night. A limited number penetrated defenses as night fighters and anti aircraft batteries mounted a heavy barrage.
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London
England
Lemion
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Rhine
Colmar
Strasbourg
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Rosendaal
Rotterdam
Zuid Beveland
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Tobacco Assn
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Public Service Comm
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