Yanks Break German Defenses Near Cassino Front
Allied forces report a breakthrough north of Cassino as American infantry and tank units thrust across the Rapido river bottom flooded by the Germans. Air forces claim a record day in Italy with 63 German planes downed in attacks on four bases, while British and American units push from the Anzio bridgehead toward Rome.
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Allied
Algiers
Rapido
Cassino
Italy
Anzio
Rome
Albany Mills
Cisterna
Eternal City
Local Draft Totals Show Strong War Force Loyalty
Hagerstown and Washington County report January 1 1944 totals for draft classifications compared with national figures. Living registrants total 12370 locally versus 22142090 nationally. Class LC 4646 vs 9160000, D F 2276 vs 3459000, 1 A 675 vs 1203000, Unclassified 8 vs 96000, 3 A 1520 vs 3540000, 2A 198 vs 2780000, 2 C 3 D 883 vs 53. Only 69 in 3 D locally against 97000 nationwide. Draft spokesman notes 18 to 37 age range.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
U. S
Act of Congress
Draft Board
Publisher Leona Andris seeks Democratic nomination on Eastern Shore
Leona A. Andris, Queen Anne’s newspaper publisher and dairy farmer, became the fourth aspirant for the Democratic congressional nomination in Maryland’s First District. The Eastern Shore district race gains a new entrant as of January 31.
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Queenstows
Leona A. Andris
Queen Anne's
Maryland
Last Week Prize Tips Split Across Local News
Last week prize tips are divided among stories on a West End fire destroying a building, an arrest of a woman whose dog bark disturbed neighbors, a Chewsville Funkstown pike accident, Hancock orchardists concern over plans for a war prisoners camp, a county boy on a nation wide radio broadcast, and a local boy reported missing in action. Tips are accepted each weekday from 7:30 am to 1:30 pm by the Daily Mail.
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West End
Chewsville
Funkstown
Hancock
The
Daily Mail
Berlin Says Convoy Attacked In Arctic
Berlin reports German radio claims Nazi U boats attacked a Murmansk bound convoy in the Arctic. The broadcast said 16 destroyers and escort vessels and five merchant ships were sunk, raising Allied losses to 12 supply ships totaling 83,000 tons, 14 destroyers and other convoy craft.
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London
Murmansk
RAF Bombers Hammer Berlin In New Raid
London dispatch reports hundreds of heavy RAP bombers hitting Berlin again last night in a massive sustained raid. The attack followed four days of continuous bombing that also hit Brunswick Hannover and Frankfurt with Mosquito craft joining the fire and destruction. Germany's response was silence as communications with Sweden remained disrupted and a second page continuation was promised.
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London
Berlin
Germany
Brunswick
Hannover
U. S
Frankfurt
Sweden
Becomes An Ace In 15 Minute Air Fight
Capt Herschell H. Green 23 of Mayfield Kentucky shot down six enemy planes in about 15 minutes during air battles over northern Italy. Green led a fight where Fortresses Liberators and Thunderbolt escorts claimed 63 enemy planes down with others damaged. He downed four JU-88s a Macchi 262 and a Dornier 217 in rapid succession. Three die in Riverdale crash.
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Edward Kennedy
Algiers
Italy
Herschell H. Green
Mayfield
Green
Soldier Held In Six Slayings At Fort Dix
Five years after a pair of shotgun blasts on Duck Island left two dead, a soldier is being held at Fort Dix in connection with six nocturnal Lovers' Lane slayings. Police seek a shotgun used in the murders and an army mine detector was to be brought in to search a buried area. Authorities said the Army would hand the man over to New Jersey and Pennsylvania authorities upon proper application.
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Trenton
N. J
Delaware River
Duck Island
Fort Dix
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Madison Pearson
Army
Mercer County
Walter D. Dougle
Holding Pair After Wrestler Succumbs
Police broaden murder theory in Charlotte case. Jim Clintstock a 240 pound Indian wrestler died after a towel strangulation in a dental laboratory his removal from S&J Dental Laboratories occurred after witnesses say he went berserk and acted like Frankenstein. Dr Henry C Parker and Lee Sikes face warrants for murder.
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Charlotte
N. C
Jim Clintstock
Henry C. Parker
Lee Sikes
S. & §. Dental Laboratories
Parker
Sikes
Local Soldier Urges Letters From Home To Help Morale
Cpl. Lafayette Eller appeals his mother Mrs B Eller to write often, describing the damnefest town where Leonard is stationed. He notes beggars, cigars and soap in town, asks for cigarettes, and recalls old carriages while reporting warm days and freezing nights as fields stay green.
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Cpl
Lafayette Eller
B. Eller
Leonard
German Food Pantry Menaced By Russian Thrust Into Poland
Lisbon reports the Russian advance into Old Poland threatens Germany’s food supply. German efforts in the government general area built livestock and poultry, improved breeding, fish stocks, and new dams, linking Germany with its eastern satellites and sustaining the home front.
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Poland
Lisbon
Old
Germany
Balkan
Krakow
German Colonists Flee Baltic States as Red Army Advances
German colonists fled the Baltic region as Soviet forces drove toward Kingisepp and the Estonian border. Reports say the Red Army seized rail junctions Veimara and Kotly, progressed toward the Leningrad-Pskov line, and broke the Moscow Leningrad trunk line, with more than 2,000 Germans reported killed at Novosokolniki.
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Baltic States
London
Red Army
Gulf of Finland
Lake Peipus
Kingisepp
Hue
Narva
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Veimara
Kotly
Gulf
Moscow
Lake Ilmen
Pskov
Veliskoe Selo
Liga
Batetskaya
Luga
Novosokolniki
Markian M. Popov
Second Baltic Army
Latvia
Moscow- Leningrad
Kastyenskaya
Yeglino
Leningrad- Novgorod
801 Bond Buyers At Local Banks
John D. Holliday, chair of the local war finance committee, urged residents to buy more Series E war bonds for the Fourth War Loan. Only 801 individuals had purchased bonds in the county of about 70,000, with over 5,000 in service, as the drive total neared $1.4 million.
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John D. Holliday
War Finance Committee
Hollyday
Fourth In Family To Enter Service Fourth In Family To Enter Service
The Mumma family adds a fourth service member as Robert G. Mumma begins army training at the New Cumberland induction center. Miss Margaret A. Mumma serves as a sergeant in the WACs at Fort Meade. Richard G. Mumma serves in the Navy in Washington and Charles E. Mumma works with the Coast Guard near Baltimore. The father, manager of Consumers Credit Service in Harrisburg, registered for the draft and will report on February 1.
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Allen H. Mumma
Robert G. Mumma
Mumma
New Cumberland, Pa
Margaret A. Mumma
Wacs
Fort Meade
S. G
Richard G. Mumma
Navy
Washington
Charles E. Mumma
Coast Guard
Baltimore
Consumers Credit Service, Inc
Harrisburg
Draft Board
Prowler Reported Near Mrs Funkhouser Home
Mrs Lizzie Funkhouser of the 400 block of Jefferson street reported a prowler in the vicinity of her home. Police will investigate the incident and gather facts.
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Lizzie Funkhouser
Jefferson
Soldier Vote An Issue In Civil War Days Here
Williams History of Washington County notes a Civil War era parallel when soldiers pressed for the vote and won, amid national disputes over federal election suffrage for soldiers and a county border county dynamic with Union and Peace parties reflecting North and South aims.
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William
Washington County
Soldier Vote
Union Party
Peace Party
Williams
Quick action on road after article
Mt Lena Baytown road where a school bus was stuck in mud last week forced children to wade home. Residents praised the Daily Mail for prompting county officials to repair. Within 24 hours the road department sent truckloads of stone to fix the mud clogged route.
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Mt. Lena-Baytown
County Road Department
The
Daily Mail
Final Day To Save Discount On City Taxes
Today is the last day to save all discounts on city and county taxes. The city four percent discount ends today and the county five percent drops to four percent after today. Taxpayers crowd the offices of the city and county collectors to secure the savings before deadlines.
Denies Forging Hopkins Name in Letter Case
George N. Briggs pleaded innocent to charges of forging the Hopkins letter and using the mails to defraud. The former Interior aide to Ickes asked three weeks to file motions, with a $3,000 bond continued. The indictment alleges he faked a White House stationery letter bearing Marty Hopkins’s name to imply a pact between Hopkins and Willkie.
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Washington
George N. Briggs
Hopkins
Briggs
Interior
Ickes
Interior Department
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Ohio
Wendell Willkie
White House
Marty Hopkins
Roosevelt
Willkie
Sparks
Navy reports 14 Japanese ships sunk in Pacific
The Navy said 14 Japanese ships were sunk, with some likely attempting to reinforce positions in the Marshall Islands, as American air and surface forces pound the area.
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Washington
Navy
Marshall Islands
Pacific
Greatest U S Task Force Attacks Isles
Corp. George Horst of the Marines reports on Bougainville Island where at least one Japanese unit surrendered as a means to escape their bind. A Japanese prisoner spoke through a spokesman about Marines pushing them off and the navy not letting them off. A Japanese aviator floated ashore in a rubber raft after an air raid and pleaded that he was not the bomber, merely passing by.
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Kansas City
George Horst
Marines
Bougainville Island
Ray Horst
Horst
Latest Allied Tank Buster Can Pierce A Inch Steel Plate
The Piat anti tank projectile infantry weapon weighs 33 pounds and can be shoulder fired to pierce four inches of armor plate. It is a newer Allied device used by infantry to destroy tanks and machine gun nests, with a history of use in Italy.
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New York
Italy
Aluminum May Return to Civilian Market, WPB Says
The War Production Board closed three more Massena New York production lines, cutting aluminum output by 14 percent though a surplus remains. With production reduced to meet war needs, aluminum may return to civilian use to support steel and other metals. A Shipshaw plant deal with Aluminum Company of Canada continues to supply over half a billion tons annually through mid 1945.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Massena
N. Y
Shipshaw
Aluminum Company of Canada
Otto Schnering Offers Free Candy for Waste Paper
Chicago January 31 Otto Schnering president of the Curtiss Candy Co offered a free candy bar to the first children who bring 19 pounds of wastepaper to his office to spur a paper drive. Hundreds of children many as young as three appeared with bundles averaging 15 pounds each. He planned a repeat of the treat February 32.
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Chicago
Otto Schnering
Curtiss Candy Co
Sechnering
National Park Would Perpetuate Hardy Town
A Sunday outdoors piece notes Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, near the junction of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, as a town in need of preservation. The 1936 flood left the lower town shabby and sparsely inhabited, with many once ornate homes now housing laborers and a ghostly landscape along river streets. Local resident estimates population far below Civil War tourist peaks, with little industry or commerce remaining.
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Congress
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Shenandoah
Potomac
Shenandoah Street
Lee
Jackson
Japanese and American forces clash near Marshall Islands
Tokyo radio reported that powerful enemy units attacked the Marshalls and were met by Japanese army and navy units in fierce fighting. U S monitors recorded another Tokyo broadcast noting dawn offensives and hard fighting. Pearl Harbor notes say a vast naval task force pounded defended islands with heavy explosives as Nimitz reported progress on the assault.
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New York
Tokyo
Marshall Group
North America
U. S. Foreign Intelligence Service
Italy
U. S
Marshalls
Pearl Harbor
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Extra Agents Assist With Tax Rush At Local Office
Two additional agents joined the staff of the local internal revenue office this morning to handle the tax rush. They will stay until the March 15 filing deadline. The crowd clogged the stairs and corridor on the second floor, with another long line forming today. The public is urged to call for help early and bring all figures on paper to speed processing.
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Internal Revenue Office
Aidut
Revenue Office
War prolonged by liquor, says Anti-Saloon head
Geo W Crabbe, head of the National and Maryland Anti-Saloon Leagues, told the 38th annual State Anti Saloon League session in Baltimore that liquor use lengthens the war. He asserted fathers are drafted because alcohol harms men, and criticized Army for sending troops overseas with cold beer.
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Baltimore
Geo. W. Crabbe
National
Maryland
Anti-Saloon Leagues
United States
State AntiSaloon League
Crobie
Awasta of Manpow
Cohol
Jeep Hunters in Italy Serve as Hunters in Georgia
Jan 21 report by Staff writer Sherran Prawdy from Tift County Georgia describes a Jeep patrol in Italy flushing dozens of covey including quail and other birds. The piece notes sergeant and buddies involved and portrays hunting activity linked to the Jeep unit's experiences.
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Atlanta
Sherran Prawdy
Tift County
Italy
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Helen Range
Elizabethton
Tenn
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington, D. C
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Isles
National Park
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