Roosevelt urges Congress to expand food price subsidies
President Roosevelt released an 10 000 word review urging Congress to continue and increase the $800 million food price subsidy program to assure adequate food supply and prevent inflation. He warned that abandoning policy would raise living costs and fuel wage demands, comparing inflation to a deadly habit and stressing the need to protect children. Continued on Page 2.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Ecutive
More Pranks Reported On Iron Fence Incident
Oscar Stouffer in the 700 block of Spruce Street complained to police about Halloween pranksters daubing his iron fence. He asked for an investigation and police were advised this morning. Continued on Page 12.
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Oscar Stouffer
Spruce ‘Street
Hallowe’en
Stouffer
Smaller Tire Quota Prompted Near Shipping Shortage
A Washington County tire quota for November runs about 600 tires, 300 less than October's 900. The shortage is labeled extremely serious. A meeting of all county tire inspectors and State OPA representatives is set for Thursday evening at South Potomac Junior High. Attendees will include city and county dealers. William B. Connell, J. A. Ballenger, and Russell S. Copeland will cover shortages, auto conservation, and tire inspections.
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Washington County
OPA
South Potomac Junior High School
William B. Connelly
J. A. Ballenger
Russell S. Copeland
Oil Stove Explodes In Summit Ave Home
Mrs. Jesse L. Harr narrowly escaped injury when a coal oil stove exploded around 9 15 am at 800 Summit avenue. The Antietam fire company responded, extinguished a kitchen fire with little damage reported.
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Jesse L. Harr
Summit Avenue
Antietam
Harr
Ham Sandwich Ration Loophole Stirs Franklin Market
OPA officials in Franklin county face a puzzle over a Chambersburg market attendant selling country ham sandwiches without coupons. Regulations do not require ration stamps for baked ham in a bun even when not eaten on site. The stall is besieged each Saturday.
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OPA
Franklin County
Chambersburg
Yugoslav Guerrillas Repel German Attacks Near Kolasin
Yugoslav Partisans under Tito report repelling heavy German infantry attacks near Kolasin and Berani in Montenegro. The communique notes captures of archives from the Vlastibor Chetnik Brigade, three freight cars, and war materials, with additional German assaults defeated in Croatia and Slovenia.
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London
Josip (Tito) Broz
Kolasin
Berani
Montenegro
Army of Liberation
Free Yugoslav Radio
Tito
Milan Nedic
Draja Mihailovic
Proboj
Vlastibor Chetnik Brigade
Serbia
Croatia
Slovenia
Debar
Escape of Corregidor Flier Circulates Hope for Home
Lieutenant Samuel C. Grashio, an Army Air Force pilot captured with Corregidor's fall, escaped a Japanese prison camp. His wife Mrs De vonia Grashio of Seattle says he is now on active duty in the Southwest Pacific.
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Samuel C. Grashio
Army Air Force
Corregidor
Philippines
Devonia Grashio
Seattle
Wash
Southwest Pacific
Report of Forest Fire Near Pen Mar False
Reports of a forest fire on South Mountain near the Pennsylvania Maryland line were debunked by District Warden Herman Toms who said only controlled brush burning occurred yesterday and no forest fire happened. Residents saw smoke and a red glow overnight, but fire danger remains high in the county’s mountain areas with dry leaves and many trees still shedding. All fire towers are manned.
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South Mountain
Pennsylvania-Maryland Line
Herman Toms
This Soldier Gets Sizeable Pay Boost
DES MOINES November 1. Corp Cyril G Wolfe 42 received a sudden pay rise from 172 to 310 a month after President Roosevelt signed a bill boosting dependency allotments. Wolfe, with a family of 12 including wife ten children and his mother, benefits from the measure.
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Des Moines
Corp
Cyril G. Wolf
Roosevelt
Corporal Wolfe
Book 4 Delinquents Out Of Luck Now
Persons who failed to register and receive their War Ration Book 4 during the three day registration period last week are out of luck for the time being, the local ration office said today. The office said several dozen persons have inquiried concerning ration book 4 but that no instructions have been received and the office is not authorized at this time to issue Ration Book 4 to those who failed to register. When such instructions are received they will be made public.
Delinquency Held In Check By Judge Miller In City
Judge Harvey M. Miller stated there has been no six month rise in juvenile delinquency locally, though Allegany county saw a 30 percent increase previously. He urged parental cooperation and better home conditions to maintain control, noting local six-month totals exceed Allegany figures and court collections average about $5,000 monthly.
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Harvey M. Miller
Hagerstown
Washington County
Miller
Allegany County
Tions
Idle Coal Miners Await Verdict Of Policy Group In Wage Dispute
United Mine Workers leaders convened in Washington for a decisive policy meeting as 374,000 soft coal miners sit idle in West Virginia Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. A return to work order seems likely but timing and extent are uncertain amid fears of unauthorized stoppages and potential government actions to ration coal and power.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Washington
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Pfc Angus Reedy Dies In Italy
Pfc Angus L Reedy Jr son of Mr and Mrs Angus L Reedy 417 Singanore avenue paratrooper with American Forces in Italy is dead War Department telegram said Saturday night A former Hagerstown High School student He enlisted February 1941 at 17 served in Military Police and 29th Division He took part in the Sicily invasion Survived by parents sisters and brothers including Linwood in the Aleutians
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Angus L. Reedy, Jr
Angus L. Reedy
Singanore Avenue
Italy
War Department
Hagerstown
Maryland National Guard
Fort Benning
Sicily
Reedy
Albert Seward
Washington
Carrie Price
Soda Disiti
Betty
Marvin
Donald
Raymond
Eugene
Linwood
Air Corps
Aleutians
Record Year Seen for Hagerstown Post Office Receipts
Postmaster Thomas M. Simpson estimates 1943 totals will surpass $300000 for the first time in Hagerstown history, nearly doubling 1933's $161,146. Ten months show a $38484.69 year over year rise. October gains over 1942 were $5462. War Savings Bond sales and War Stamp sales in October lagged, at $61893.75 and $9072 respectively.
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Hagerstown
Thomas M. Simpson
Simpson
Salamander Captured In Leitersburg Yard
Mrs. Rodney Tucker found a small lizard like creature in her Leitersburg yard and it was identified as a salamander at the Daily Mail office. She plans release it after noting the animal feeds on pest insects and once helped raise a lizard bought at the Hagerstown Fair.
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Rodney Tucker
Leitersburg
Daily Mail
Hagerstown Fair
Tucker
Morgenthau Returns From Mediterranean Tour With Allies
Secretary Morgenthau arrived at the Treasury after a three week air tour of Mediterranean battle fronts. He met with Allied military leaders to discuss fiscal problems. accompanied by Harry D. White and Fred Smith, Treasury aides, on the trip.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Mediterranean
Harry D. White
Fred Smith
Boy to discard crutches after horse kick heals wound
William J. Cahill a 15 year old Hancock resident was injured in soccer last year. The leg wound festered and left him on crutches. During a buggy ride a horse kicked the same leg dislodging a bone fragment that X rays had missed. The doctor said the kick will allow him to discard crutches soon.
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William J
Billy” Cahill
J. Andrew Cahill
Hancock
Billy
Fairchild Official Denies Cost Plus Plane Manufacture
Fairchild planes are not made on a cost plus basis except experimental ships Paul J Frizzell assistant general manager told a group of employees He outlined income distribution 42 cents wages 45 cents materials 9 cents taxes 2 cents depreciation 0.5 cents war emergency costs and 11 cents kept by the company for future needs He said rumors about Fairchild profits under cost plus plans are unfounded and he wished to end them.
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Fairchild
Paul J. Frizzell
Frizzell
Fingerprint Ties De Marigny to Oakes Slaying
A New York police expert testified that a fingerprint from the room where Sir Harry Oakes was killed matches Alfred de Marigny’s right little finger. Frank Conway of the New York Bureau of Identification said the marks are identical to those made when Marigny was fingerprinted after his arrest.
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Nassau
Bahamas
New York
Harry Oakes
Alfred de Marigny
Frank Conway
New York Bureau of Identification
de Marigny
Marigny
Theft Reported After Pocketbook Taken at Auditorium
Manda Ferguson of Hagerstown Route 2 told police her pocketbook was stolen last evening from a local auditorium. The bag contained $16 in cash.
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Manda Ferguson
Hagerstown
Reds Tighten Noose About Crimean Foe
London dispatch reports the Red Army advancing toward the Crimea as ChaLINKA fell, leaving German forces boxed near the narrow Perekop land bridge. Russians cut the sole remaining rail exit by Novoalexeyevka, with Genichesk and the Dnieper river corridor shaping the encirclement.
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London
Crimea
4Th Ukraine
Red Army
Chalinka
Perekop
Kherson
Dnieper
Novo- Alexeyevka
Perekop Land Bridge
Genichesk
Tojo Assumes Post As Japanese Munitions Head
Tokyo radio reports Premier Hideki Tojo was installed today as head of Japan's munitions industry in ceremonies with Emperor Hirohito. The move gives Tojo control over most war effort, coordinating production, operations, and administration to bolster munitions output.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Hirohito
Japan
Office of War Information
Tojo
Fruits Of Moscow Parley Announced
Berlin radio said Count Galeazzo Ciano Benito Mussolini's son in law was arrested and imprisoned at Verona. The regime was reported to have demanded the death penalty for Ciano and other Fascist leaders who helped oust Mussolini, with unclear mention of Mussolini's presence at the meeting.
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Ciano
Duce
London
Berlin
Galeazzo Ciano
Benito
Mussolini
Verona
Vittorio Emanuele
Pietro Badoglio
Badoglio
Grand Council
Mosquitos Used As Night Fighters In Defense Of England
London reports that RAF Mosquitos attacked targets in western Germany and are now used on the home front as night fighters. One Mosquito was lost in the foray, but three Nazi raiders were shot down over Britain in the past two nights. The aircraft are credited with countering hit and run raids and contributing to recent German losses in small scale attacks on southeast England and London.
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London
England
Mincemeat Prices to Rise this Holiday Season
The Office of Price Administration announces a new price formula based on rising apple prices and higher costs for raisins and rum. Manufacturers will see about a one cent per unit increase, while consumers face roughly a 14 percent rise per pound of mincemeat this festive season.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Prisoner Flees From Penal Farm
The Penal Farm reports Ralph Fine 19 escaped during the late evening. Balti more born, he wore prison garb and is sought by city police for capture.
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Ralph Fine
Fine
Baltimore
Applejack Returns Sells At Unheard Price Per Gallon
Moonshiners report renewed applejack operations in Washington county as demand pushes fresh from the still brandy to 12 dollars a gallon. Cider costs 50 cents a gallon. five gallons of cider yield one gallon of applejack, typically double distilled. No moonshine rye yet due to sugar needs.
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Washington
International peace pledge from Moscow four power pact
The United States Great Britain and Russia pledged to act in unity to maintain peace and security. The Moscow four power declaration, signed by Eden Molotov and Harriman, outlines a European advisory commission and a council on Italy to coordinate Allied policy and future military cooperation.
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Washington
United States
Brigit
Unitedtions
Moscow
Anthony Eden
Britain
Vyacheslav Molotov
Russiaz
London
Italy
Russia
Japan
Partite
Yugoslavia
Greece
Council On
Cea
Gaid
Bing
Rabaul Staggers Under New Blow
Allied reports from the Southwest Pacific say Rabaul faced a new massive bombing as American and New Zealand troops clash with Japan over Choiseul island. Vanakanau Airfield received a 15 ton airstrike. 45 Japanese planes were destroyed, 25 in combat, marking 820 enemy aircraft down in October in this theater. Four Allied planes were lost and jungle camouflaged landings at two Choiseul points faced enemy resistance.
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Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
New Zealand
Choiseul Island
Vanakanau
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Comba
Choj Little Treasury
Villiers
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Stockholm
Pen Mar
Toms
Angus Reedy
U. S
Naples
Victor Emmanuel
Humbert
Prince of
Fruits of Moscow
Hicya
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