Fighting At Kokoda Grows Heavier
Allied headquarters report intensifying ground fighting near Kokoda as Japanese forces push overland from Buna toward Port Moresby. Allied air support strafed enemy positions while jungle combat continues east of the Owen Stanley range and Milne Bay patrols note guerrilla activity seeking to blunt the Japanese push.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Gunea
Port Moresby
Kokoda
Owen Stanley
Buna Ta
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Buna
Allied air and ground push in New Guinea hurts five Japanese hubs
Describes Allied attacks smashing planes and destroying supply dumps to choke Kokoda and Milne Bay operations. Japanese bases at Salamaua and Lae hit. patrols remain outside Salamaua as Gen MacArthur's air force grows stronger. Milne Bay airfield attacked with no damage, 400 miles north at Salamaua skirmishes inconclusive, and corps drivers report captures and casualties. Baron Rothschild dies. Horace Snowden charged with assault.
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Kokoda
Milne Bay
Salamaua
Lae
New Guinea
MacArthur
Fuel Oil Quota May Be Cut 25 Percent
President Roosevelt signaled a possible 25 percent cut in fuel oil for parts of the country as winter approach. He noted no specific national appeal to curb heating and warned some regions may endure reduced supplies. War Production Board chair Donald M Nelson confirmed rationing decisions, with rationing likely in the Midwest and the East.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Donald M Nelson
War Production Board
Mid -Western
East
Frederick County Elections Board Names Noted Officials
The Frederick County Maryland Board of Supervisors of Elections lists Robert H. Routzahn as president with Grover C. Stewart and Joseph R. Harp as members, detailing their roles in county election oversight.
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Office OF the Board OF Supervisors OF Elections OF
Frederick County
Court House
Maryland
Board of Supervisors of Elections
Robert H. Routzahn
Grover C Stewart
Joseph R Harp
Treasury sets September war bond quota at 775 million
Washington reports the Treasury announced a September war bond quota of 775 million dollars aiming to approach a January goal near two billion, with film stars driving the campaign. Officials note past September weakness and plan monthly averages of one billion while planning higher winter quotas to compensate for slack months.
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Washington
Treasury
Treasurys
Enrolment of student nurses rises in Hagerstown area
Hospital superintendent Charles J Cotter reports a 50 percent rise in student nurse enrollments since 1942, with young women from Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia. The hospital plans a dormitory and notes defense industries drawing nurses. Killer whales are not hunted and kill sperm whales for food in a discussion of marine life.
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Hagerstown
Youkee Pete Fes
Nuva
Charles J Cotter
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Cote Fer
Tesst S Bowrre
Inc Eresee
Eprallmiant
Cotter
Alteady
Army and Navy
Veterans’ Hospitals
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Charles W. Smith
Manuel M. Weinberg
Snowden
Theodore Roosevelt McKeld
Baltimore City
Pinkney West, JR
Baltimore County
United States
J. Glenn Beall
Frostburg, Maryland
Henry C. Triesler
Hagerstown, Maryland
Roy L. Leatherman
Paul B. Rhoads
Abraham
Dear
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U. Grant Hooper
Samuel H Young
Orphans’ Court
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Alexander Earl Martin Lowell
Ruskin Loy
Thomas E Cook
John Kennedy
House OF Delegates
WM A Russell Bell
Stephen B. Peddicord
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Wilbur Ross Freeze
Harold U. Frushour
George V Arnold
H.S Bales
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Robert E Clapp, JR
Leslie N. Coblentz
Amon Burger
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John S Bowlus
Elmer AS
Davis
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John C. Dear
Reno Sharp
Harry W Legore
H Kieffer Dilauter
Manuel M Weinberg
John W. Null
Grayson H Mercer
Herbert Schroeder
Cleveland
G. Ernest Lipps
Gary Lutterback
Charles S Houck, JR
J G McCollister
John W Mentzer
Thomas R Saylor
Caida
Pepeter
Louis V Keyser
Een J Welty Fahrney Merhl F
Moberly, Sreee Pinkney
A Richardson T Clyde Boutson Ea
Sixth Judicial Circuit
Charles G Geisbert Aint Lien Crane
John W. Grove
Maurice C Smith
John W Thomas
Joseph B. Payne
Robert L Grove
Tyson Lee
Jerom F. Offiutt
Benjamin
Rosenstock
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Alfred R Jones
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LE Richart
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Edwin IF
Nikirk
Lee
State Central Committee
Edward D. Stormi
Register OF Wills
Alton Y Bennett
Mataintey
Lema Eneeamnl
Joseph E Chew Ne Ee
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JR Aie Er
Denver J. Shook
Quaker City
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North Market Street
Hospital
Democratic
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France
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