Russians Near Bucharest And Ploesti Gates
Russians massed tanks and motorized infantry near Bucharest and Ploesti pressing toward the Romanian capital. Reports say Soviet spearheads crossed passes and advanced within striking distance, with speculation that Moscow’s forces could reach Bucharest by tomorrow as they drive toward Transylvania and Breziu, amid German resistance and Romanian defense lines.
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Bucharest
Moscow
Malinov
Poisna-Sarata
Nari Transylvania
Breiuu
aDej
Can't Keep Grandia in Her Chair
An ad-like blurb touts Doan's Pills for backache and kidney trouble. It claims tired kidneys cause nagging backache and other symptoms, urging readers to ask their druggist for Doan's Pills, used by millions for over 40 years to flush poisons from blood. Contains multiple health claims and endorsements.
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Nature
Pilla
Soviet Forces Drive Through Romania and Besiege Bucharest
Soviet communique reports major gains across Romania with Suvia and Tulcea seized, Danube advances threaten Galați and Bucharest. Prisoners totalling over 23,000, with additional 5,009 and 6,900 captured elsewhere as German forces fall back amid disarray. West and north fronts show encirclements and new bridgehead across the Vistula near Warsaw as Polish and Russian troops press.
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Suivia
Romania
Danube Deia
Tulcea
Danube
E Braid
Galati
Bucharest
Ukraine
Chisinau
Ploesti
Red Army
Masurian
Ostrow-Mazowiecka
Warsaw
Narew
Vistula
Warka
Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
Lublin
Poland
de Luce
Mihail Rola-Zymierski
First American Game Law Sets Deer Closed Season in Massachusetts
In 1694 the Massachusetts colony enacted the first American game law establishing a closed deer season, marking early regulation of hunting to protect wildlife and regulate harvest.
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Massachusetts
Yanks Advance To Outskirts Of Chateau Thierry
Allied forces push toward the Belgian border as American units reach Cavergnon 20 miles from Soissons and Compiegne, nearing Chaions and Vitry. Canadian forces advance toward Rouen while air and rocket strikes disrupt German ferrying and retreat efforts along the Seine and Somme fronts.
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Chateau Thierry
Vitry
Ams
Upper
Marne
Paris
Lorraine
Cavergnon
Soissons
Compiegne
Aisne
Somme
France
Sueather von Khige
Rouen
Dieppe
Seine
Belgium
Helland
Luxembourg
Germany
Meaux
Coulommiers
le Ferre-Gaucher
Sezanne
Montmiral
Epernay
Reims
Troy
Arcis-sur-Aube
Chalons
Local Boy With Brave Glider Unit Triumphs in France
A local regiment in Normandy faced heavy machine gun fire as gliders crashed into trees and hedgerows. Despite losses, within five hours the unit regrouped and crossed rivers, aiding a drive northwest of Ste. Mere Eglise and the Douve crossing at Pont Abbe. In the Hill 131 and Ridge battles, six men led by Sergeant Clarence Rohrbacker of Columbus Ohio captured 42 enemy.
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Ste. Mere Esglise
Douve River
Pont Abbe
Wounded S Sgt Charles Shilling Reported in France
Jefferson street parents Mr and Mrs John Shilling receive War Department notice their son Staff Sergeant Charles Shilling was seriously wounded in action in France on August 7. He is hospitalized in England after two years overseas. A former Victor Hosiery mill employee, he left Hagerstown with Company B then joined an anti tank unit of the 29th Division. Another brother serves in Italy.
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Shilling
John Shilling
Jefferson Street
Staif
Charles Shilling
France
England
Victor
Hagerstown
Italy
German defenders by French farmhouse and Rohr backer actions
German occupants hid in a French farmhouse where a French woman claimed two wounded and one able Nazi remained. Rohr backer suspected the tale and fired on the house with a bazooka. In another action, Sgt. Rohr backer used a feint to draw German troops from a strongpoint, allowing an American battalion to bypass and later capture the German position.
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Rohrbacker
Allied drive reaches Cagnes Nice area as Marseille falls
American forces advanced along the eastern coast near Cannes and Vence pushing toward Nice, capturing thousands of German troops as Marseille and Toulon were liberated. Surrenders on the St Mandrier peninsula ended coastal combat after bombardment by French, British and American ships including Lorraine and Ramillies.
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Page
Cagnes
Cannes
Vence
Nice
Marseille
Toulon
St. Mandrier
Gotthold Schaefer
St. Man- Grier
Lorraine
Ramillies
Bellhop Is Given Year For Assault
Strother and Cox described a confrontation on stairs ending with a stabbing after Strother struck first and Cox drew a knife in self defense. Cox, from Middleburg Virginia, claimed he had never before been in trouble and noted an Army discharge for a jet arm injury.
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Cox
Strother
Tobby
Middleburg
Jett
Dog At SPCA Acting Normally After Attack scare
A dog tied to earlier attacks at Pen-Mar has shown normal behavior at the SPCA after weeks of confinement. Health checks show good condition with no signs of rabies despite recent pup loss and hot weather. Rabies reports in Washington county last winter were contained by a voluntary quarantine and swift action.
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Pen-Mar
SPCA
Washington County
Engineer Seeks Police Check On Paving Width
City engineer Charles W. Stump asked police yesterday to check all new paving for width compliance and permit validity. He cited a project found to be only three feet wide, one foot short of the required measure, urging enforcement of proper permits for new paving.
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Charles W. Stump
Paris Restaurants Closed After Welcome to Americans
About ten French grandees toasted American independence at Maxim's in Paris with notable guests including no Germans that night. Five days later German soldiers closed the restaurant, which sits dark and smelling of a shuttered building. The manager hopes to reopen by October 1 as Paris anticipates victory and peace. The Ritz remains the only major Paris tourist hub operating, while other venues clean and prepare for the postwar nights to come.
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Maxim's
Reichsmarshal
Paul Joseph Goebpels
Paris
Ritz
Private Donald Nye Recalls D Day Invasion
Parents in this city report Pvt. Donald Nye a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne who passed through the invasion of France and Carentan without injury. He is on furlough in England. Nye joined in 1941 after training at Fairfield and later joined parachute troops overseas since 1943. His brother Cpl. Gerald Nye serves at Laughlin Field Texas and is also on furlough home. The note adds the Yankee Doodle song origin.
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Donald Nye
101St Airborne Division
Army
France
Carentan
England
Nye
Daniel Menizer
Co. B
Maryland National Guard
Fairchild Aircraft
Cpl
Gerald Nye
Armed Forces
Laughlin Field
del Rio
Texas
Army Air Forces
Barkley Predicts FDR's Re-Election En Route to Capital
United States Senator Alben W Barkley of Kentucky, longtime Senate majority leader, visited Hagerstown en route to Washington. In a brief interview he declined to discuss the war beyond noting Allied gains and predicted Roosevelt’s re election in the fall. He noted his nearly 33 years in public service, with 14 in the House and about 15 in the Senate, and was accompanied by his daughter Mrs Max Truitt.
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United States
Alben W. Barkiey
Kentucky
Senate
Hagerstown
Veteran
Statesman
Roosevelt
Barkley
Millard Tydings
Washington
House
Senator Barkley
Max Truitt
Washington, D. C
Paducah
Tew Schools Set to Open Wednesday Morning
On Wednesday morning September 6 the Tew schools begin at 9 o'clock. A teachers meeting is scheduled for September 5 at Hagerstown High School.
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Hagerstown High School
Registration For Schools Sept. 1
Public schools announce a September 1 registration day for new movers with sessions 10 to noon and 1 to 4 p m. Superintendent Benjamin C Willis says the event helps ten pupils arrange schedules before the school opens on Wednesday.
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Benjamin C. Willis
Radio program schedule flags GOP governors broadcast night
Aug 22 New York radio list outlines NBC CBS plans for a 15 minute Republican Governors program featuring Earl Warren Dwight Green and Raymond Baldwin with Dewey broadcasts to follow from Philadelphia and Louisville. NBC and CBS will carry the events along with Jack Benny in the South Pacific tour and a full evening of programs across news and entertainment slots.
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New York
Republican National Committee
Ramnpaigh
RLU
Earl Warren
California
Dwight E. Green
Witners
Raymond E Baldwin
Connecticut
Thomas BE. Dewey
Philadelphia
Louisville
NBC
CBS
Jack Benny
South Pacific
Cama
Noumea
New Cadonia
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