Three Large Jap Freight Ships Sink in New Guinea Raid
Allied headquarters report in the southwest Pacific that three 7,000-ton Japanese freighters were sunk and a fourth damaged or ablaze after a dawn raid on the WeWak harbor New Guinea. The convoy defense failed as planes and ships were struck, with several small craft sunk and eight enemy ships damaged.
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Southwest Pacific
AlSenes
Wewak
New Guinea
Werox
Selamansa
Val Sane Veedel
Francisco River
Bayern Bay
Wewalk
MacArthur
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Eve Beer
New Ireland
Vitiaz Strait
Huon Peninsula
Cape
Gloucester
New Britain
Solomons
Japan
Kahili
South Bougainville
Australia
Hoover urges patience as war ends and warns against haste
Former President Hoover argues that the world should cool off after victory and cautions the United Nations against rushing final peace by 1919 standards. He says leadership must distinguish long term aims from immediate reactions and recalls past treaties to stress慎慎.
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P. Hoover
United Nations
Otis
Eta
Hoover
Vienna
Mothers of Presidents Noted Across Early U.S. Leaders
The passage highlights the mothers of Washington Madison Polk Grant Garfield McKinley and Franklin D Roosevelt as foundational figures in American history, noting their influence on sons who rose to the presidency.
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United
Washington
Madison
Polk
Grant
Garfield
McKinley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Local draft board orders 51 to report for examination and induction
One volunteer and 12 selectees from Ue County are ordered by Locast Draft Board No 2 to Baltimore for physical examination and induction. A Baltimore resident John Wake felt McGull joined the group at the induction center. Edward L Heckert acts as corporal in charge of the detachments left by bus. Selectees include Hay Franklin Biddinger York PA John Leslie Antarrow RED 3 Emmitsburg Roger Cleveland Raensburg Haserstown Harry El Walter Mt Charles Edwant Miller Armstead Garden Baltimore Henry Jacob Sensal Carlton Atlee Toms Frederick Earl Henry Hewitt RED 2 Thurmont Milton Were bam TU kee George Ernest Rice Lewistown Trying Etienne bean Mt t. 3. The Frederick group has been 49 left from home Guasama District Cavey Puerto Rico. Beard One Selectees also this morning 38 selectees from Frederick County Hoard 1 went to Baltimore for examinations and induction. They are Clayton Keiffer Orrison Brunswick Anthony full 214 Di ave Geng Hevener 820 North Alarkes x AON z Edgar Staley 121 North prcond St Eugene ek St mn Readers 3 Brown East Patricks M 1 On St City Woodrow Wilson Bowe Work Sourth St John J Middle Leon the yer Tat Car Bus- TTA Soyer C y Toye de x 2 Trad Ave Cal MWARDED.
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Ue County
Locast
Baltimore
John Wakefelt McGull
Edward L. Heckert
West Thirds
Hay Franklin Biddinger
York
John Leslie Antarrow
RED
Emmitsburg
Roger Cleveland
Raensburg
Haserstown
Harry el
Wilthie Frederick Group
Beard
Guasama
Cavey
Puerto Rico
Frederick County Hoard
Clayton Keiffer Orrison
Brunswick
Anthony Full
Geng Hevener
North Alarkes
AON
Edgar Staley
North Prcond St
War Interpreted By Hamilton W. Faron
The article discusses expected battles in Italy after an invasion, potential German resistance, and possible Allied invasion moves toward southern France, Corsica, Sardinia, and the Balkans. It weighs the likelihood of delaying Nazi operations, the feasibility of bypassing islands, and strategic shifts to the Adriatic and Greek territories.
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Italy
Marshall Badoglio
Hitler
Haly
Germany
Messina
Sardinia
Corsica
France
Recast
Crete
Greece
Balkans
Adriatic
Hawey
Seavid
Optiabon
Prucks Contents Damaged By Fire In Freight Truck
Firemen battled a blaze damaging about one third of a fully loaded truck at the western city limits near Route 4. The fire destroyed cartons of cigarettes caps and other merchandise. The origin was unknown and a monetary loss could not be estimated.
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Ynoun
Rockefeller aide resigns over State Department interference
James D. Lecrone, head of the Rockefeller coordinator’s food supply division, quits citing interference obstruction and dictation by State Department officials. He says the division, created in June 1942 to boost Latin American food production, faces ham stringing tactics and control by economic operations officials. The State Department offered no immediate comment.
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Washington
Sept
Nelson Rockefeller
Inter-American Affairs
State Department
Rockefeller
James D. Lecrone
Hull
Lecrone
Ulilies
Youths Fined for Late Night Loudness Near Bowling Alley
Magistrate Edward J. Smith fined five Frederick youths aged 15 to 17, $250 each, for disturbing the peace outside a North Market street bowling alley after 11 p m. Police said residents complained of loud talking and laughter near midnight. The fines followed arrests by Norman Dietz and Sgt Frank Dorsey, with several witnesses, including two girls, testifying.
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Ths
Edward . J. Smith
Frederick
North Market Street
Pierce C. String
East Fifth
Vatreet
D C. Grove
Charles A. Fogle
Water Street
Frank T. Bare
Jake Wilts
Norman Dietz
Serge Frank Dorsey
Sergt. Dorsey
Hugh W. Gittinger
Mable S. Bowie
Lincoln Apartments
Thomas E. Bowie
Baltimore
Charles W. Smith
W. Jerome Oftuit
William Lee Caniford
Volunteer Bennett Describes Cairo to Bagdad Trip
In a letter to his parents, William B. Bennett Jr. recalls a convoy of American Field Service volunteers delivering trucks from Cairo to Bagdad. The report covers righthand-drive challenges, sandstorms, cold nights, Suez crossing, Jordan Valley views, a typhus delay in Rutba, and a dusty Bagdad visit before returning to Baalbeck.
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Cine
Bagdad
William B. Bennett
W. B. Bennett
Bennett
News-Post
Middle East
American Field Service
Rountree Bennett
Yeux Booudhela
Suez Canal
Cairo
Pyramids
Fulharm
Mafray
Trans-Jordan
Jordan Valley
Holy Land
Bob Coffey
Magdaleun
Rutba
Iraq
Garden of Eden
Fertile Crescent
Howie Broad
Baalbeck
Local Traffic Fines and Forfeitures Reported
State Trooper McElfish accused Cari ford of recklessly passing city traffic at an intersection. Magistrate Smith found the officer credible and fined Ford $11.45. Two loiterers named Ambush and Goins forfeited $2.50 for failing to appear. Fines by collateral included Stanley Corum $6.45 for speeding, Braddock Heights resident Semler $6.45 for restricted-area overage, and Earl Tobery $11.45 for exhaust muffler violations.
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McElfish
Smith
Cariford
Charles Ambush
Eugene Goins
Clarksburg
Montgomery County
Stanley R. Corum
Ladiesburg
Corp
Elwood O'Hara
Scott Semler
Braddock Heights
Earl T. Tobery
New Market
Thanksgiving Date Set for Fourth Thursday in 1944
An Attorney General opinion settles Thanksgiving as November 23, the fourth Thursday, not November 30. The 1941 law fixes federal Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November, clarifying calendar printers' confusion in St. Louis. A. Townsends, acting Assistant Solicitor General, confirms the ruling.
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St. Louis
Biddle
Fred E. Winsor
Associated Printers and Lithographers
Washington
Newman A. Townsend
Foxville Man Wounded in Sicily War Report
Pvt. Clyde R. Kindle from Foxville was reported seriously wounded on July 12 during the Sicily invasion. His parents were notified by the War Department in a telegram, with no details on the injury. Kindle, 21, enlisted before Pearl Harbor and had been in Africa since last November.
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Sicily
Pvt
Clyde RB Kindle
Foxville
War Department
Clyde Kindle
Kindle
North Africa
Pvt. Kindle
Army
Pearl Harbor
Africa
Lantz
Foxville-Lantz
North African
Pfc
Alvey Smith
Leslie Buhrman
Ty Halforan
New York
Pit
Oden
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