Russians Sweep Toward Poland And Rumania
Russian forces under Gen. Nikolai Vatutin pressed west toward Poland and Romania after a four day battle that drove about 180,000 Germans from Kiev. One spearhead neared Zhitomir within 50 miles of the rail hub, another neared the Romanian frontier. A northern force neared Polotsk near the old Polish border as civilians were evacuated from nearby areas.
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London
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Kiev
Makarov
Zhitomir
Fastov
Dnieper
Black Sea
Nevel
Moscow
Polotsk
Vitebsk-Riga
Stockholm
Fairchild Aircraft appoints counsellor for female staff
The Fairchild Aircraft personnel department creates a new office for female workers led by Mrs. Brewer L. Stouffer. She will study women employees adjustment to industry and jobs, explain recreation division activities, and assist with housing and transportation issues. Headquarters are at plant 15 Oak Hill and Maple avenues, with most time spent at the larger plants where most female workers are employed.
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Fairchild Aircraft
Aircraft Division
Brewer L. Stouffer
Fathers Draft Evacuations Under Way In Maryland
Draft boards in Hagerstown and Washington County report that 25 percent of November draftees are pre Pearl Harbor fathers. First group leaves November 23 for final physicals. Remaining 75 percent includes 18 year olds and defense plant workers whose deferments expired. By October 20, 108 men from Maryland have already been inducted elsewhere.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Pearl Harbor
Maryland
Margarine tax relief bill stalled by House panel
The House Agriculture Committee voted 14 to 11 to lay aside legislation to lift federal taxes and restrictions on margarine for the remainder of the current session.
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Washington
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
Nazi Weather Base Off Greenland Destroyed By Navy
Secretary of the Navy Knox reported destruction of a German radio and weather base on an island off Greenland. The base was small but well built and appeared meant for permanent use, with a radio station, power house, emergency generator and transmitter, machine gun emplacements, and food supplies. A supply ship in the harbor had telephone links to major shore points.
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Washington
Greenland
Knox
Third Victim Of Accident Dead
Miss Jane Frederick a 19 year old from Turryville Pa dies at local hospital after a Route 40 crash with a beer truck. Ruth Donnelly 20 dies from internal injuries and her father Harry Donnelly 50 is killed instantly in the same collision. George Donnelly 54 is injured while Donald M McCauley driver of the beer truck is treated and released. State Trooper Mades probes cause as surviving occupant may be unable to narrate.
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Jane Frederick
Turryville
Hancock
Miss Frederick
Baltimore
Ruth Donnelly
Markinsburg
Harry E. Donnelly
George W. Donnelly
Williamsburg
Washington County
Donald M. McCauley
Hagerstown
Charles Mades
McCauley
Here Seek Job Changes In Local War Plants
About 267 workers in essential war industries filed for job releases in October with the U S Employment Service War Manpower Commission office here. The office granted 81 releases, 33 cases were dropped, and 110 employment authorizations were issued for workers entering private industry. The agency says stabilization rules curb turnover to prevent production slowdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Hagerstown
WMC
Tests Taken by Local Seniors for Army Navy Programs
About 25 former graduates and current seniors at the high school are taking Army and Navy qualifying tests today. The examinations target youths aged 17 to 20, with successful candidates slated for advanced education and training in Army and Navy specialty work.
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Army
Navy
Your Gift To Fighters On Every Battle Front
Editorial urges local War Fund and Community Chest drive running from tomorrow to November 19 with a goal of 123,560 to aid home charities and assist armed forces morale. Funds support eight local agencies Boy Scouts Girls Scouts YMCA Salvation Army Summer Playgrounds Day Nursery Infant and Child Health Center Volunteers of America. Donors may earmark gifts for specific agencies. campaign is unified for all.
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Boy Scouts
Girls Scouts
Salvation Army
Volunteers of America
War Fund and Community Chest
United
Hagerstown
Washington County
Campaign Plans Completed Here War Fund Drive Opens Tomorrow
About one thousand residents of Hagerstown and Washington county form teams divisions and committees awaiting the signal to start the local War Fund and Community Chest Campaign tomorrow evening. Organizers predict the campaign will exceed the $123 560 quota by November 19. Continued on Page 8.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
War Fund and
Community Chest
Teenager Runs Midnight Coast Bus Line Untold
Edin Kiedrowski a 17 year old visitor from Chicago operated a private bus night to dawn service between Santa Monica and Port Hueneme charging sailors 50 cents per ride. He used a parked motor coach behind a Santa Monica station and drained its fuel nightly. Police arrested him after bus officials noticed the coach often ran dry. He pleaded guilty to tampering with an automobile with a probation hearing set for Friday.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Edin Kiedrowski
Chicago
Port Hueneme
Kiedrowski
President's Son Praised by Rescued Sailor
Coxswain Anzio Cammarata 19 of Baltimore says Lieutenant Roosevelt Jr. is "a swell guy" after recounting being rescued in Palermo harbor. Cammarata's leg was blown off by German bomb fragments. Roosevelt applied a tourniquet and carried him from a destroyer to another ship.
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Charleston
S. C
Anzio Cammarata
Baltimore
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Palermo
Son
Cammarata
Naval Hospital
Roosevelt
Oran
Legion Parade To Be Largest Armistice Day Event
The American Legion parade in Hagerstown Thursday aims to be the largest yet on Armistice Day. It commemorates the 25th anniversary of World War I’s end and mobilizes support for the War Fund and Community Chest Drive. The procession will include three companies of the 8th Battalion State Guard, 12 Maryland Minute Men companies, and Hagerstown Civil Air Patrol flights. Thirty-two flags will lead the march.
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American Legion
War Fund
Legion
H. M. Garrison
8Th Battalion
State Guard
Maryland Minute Men
Hagerstown
Civil Air Patrol
Rescue by sea for trapped German army reported
Stockholm dispatch says German soldiers have begun sea evacuation from the Crimea to Romania. Hundreds of Black Sea coastal vessels and Danube boats are assembled to attempt a rescue of the trapped Sixth Army, according to Levenska Dagbladet.
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Stockholm
Bern
Levenska Dagbladet
Crimea
Rumania
Black Sea
Danube
Whiskey Drouth Grips New York City
New Yorkers face whiskey shortages as a noted restaurant in Manhattan restricts customers to one drink. Joseph Maguire, head of the United Restaurant Dealers of Manhattan, says about 35 percent of small bars lack whiskey while others run on package goods, signaling a citywide effect of the drought on scotch rye and bourbon.
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New York
the Herald Tribune
Joseph Maguire
United Restaurant Dealers of Manhattan, Inc
Stolen corn from Samuel C. Snively farm near Downsville
About 600 barrels of corn are reported missing from the Samuel C. Snively farm below Downsville. Police say the grain was likely taken over a period and sold for cash. Corn shortages in the county drive concern as owners hold back.
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Samuel C. Snively
Downsville
Warspite Reported Arriving Damaged at Gibraltar
Berlin radio broadcast from La Linea Spain said the British battleship Warspite reached Gibraltar yesterday in a damaged condition with no official reasons given for the damage. The report cited no Allied confirmation.
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London
Warspite
Gibraltar
Berlin
la Linea
Spain
Uniforms Top Doll-Land Fashions In Toy Stores This Season
Mothers seek to shield children from wartime influence as local Toylands feature World War II themed dolls in uniforms and stripes. Red Cross Nurse dolls in white with insignia appear, while a glamorous doll in a fluffy evening gown dominates a shop window. Soldier and sailor dolls also appear for boys, in cotton-stuffed forms.
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Santa Claus
Red Cross
Warns Allies Facing Heavy Casualties Before Victory
U S air power strategy tests Germany with a deadline for success or ground invasion. General Arnold and Air Marshal Harris push the campaign, with Lt. Gen. Baker noting the Eighth Air Force can field up to 1,000 planes daily. The effort may use Russian bases as part of an all-out assault aimed at crippling Nazi war centers.
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Washington
Germany
Europe
H. H. Arnold
U. S
Britain
Arthur T. Harris
Ira C. Baker
U. S Army Air Forces
Eighth Air Force
Marshall Harris
United States
County Sees Rain Beat November Normal Despite Storm Near Capitol
A flash flood and tornado like winds near Washington caused damage in Montgomery and surrounding counties. Rain totals reached 2.21 inches for November with 1.70 at Edgemont reservoir and 1.30 reported by Keedysville observer, while a wind storm near Washington Grove cut power and wires. A pedestrian, Harvey Price, died in a hit and run during the crisis. Soldiers trapped by rising Tom's Creek were rescued. one remained missing as waist deep water forced them to cling to a tree.
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Washington
Edgemont Reservoir
Potomac
Williamsport
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Washington Grove
Gaithersburg
Harvey Price
Tom’s Creek
Tom Moore Distillery declares whiskey dividend per share
Baltimore stockholders received a whiskey dividend of 27 gallons of bulk Kentucky bourbon per share, payable to record holders on November 26. The $25 par value stock yielded $31.59 per share after tax considerations, with shares recently rising on the Baltimore exchange amid favorable sale prospects.
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Baltimore
Tom Moore Distillery
Joseph Krieger
Tom Moore
Baltimore Exchange
Mountain Water Returns to Hagerstown Mains
The municipal water department reports heavy rains refilled the Edgemont reservoir and streams, adding about 40 million gallons to the 30 million in reserve. Tomorrow morning the first mountain water in ten weeks will be cut into the city mains, easing the hard-water wash for households.
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Municipal Water Department
Hangerstown
Edgemont
Hagerstown
Albert Heard
Water Department
School Buildings Sold By County
The Board of Education sold two abandoned schools at public sale yesterday and is holding the sale of a third. The Hancock colored school brought £950 and the Four Locks frame sold for $675. A bid of $1950 was received for the Ridge avenue two room building but was not accepted pending board approval. The Ridge avenue building is stucco over lathes and was erected about twenty years ago. All buildings were abandoned this year due to consolidations.
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Board of Education
Hancock Colored School
Ridge Avenue
Berlin marks Nazi party anniversary without flag displays
A Berlin dispatch says for the first time since 1933 the anniversary of the Nazi party was not celebrated with a broad display of flags in Germany. This report notes a shift in public commemoration as observed by Der Bund.
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Bern
Berlin
der Bund
Germany
Jittery Parisians Hoard For Winter
Madrid dispatches report a Paris panic over imagined Allied invasion jitters fueling a black market buying spree. Prices surge as Parisians hoard goods in anticipation of winter amid rumors of American landings in France.
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Madrid
Paris
France
Sinter
Spain
Churchill declares impending ruin of Germany in 1944 forecast
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Churchill warning that Nazi defeat could not come before 1944. He cites Russian offensives and broken U-boat warfare as factors while urging no time for relaxation and predicting 1944 to be the most costly for the Allies yet fought.
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London
Churchill
Germany
Waterloo
Gettysburg
United States
Reich
Europe
Hitler
Explosions Hit Raritan Arsenal In New Jersey
In Metuchen New Jersey a series of blasts at the Army Raritan arsenal destroyed two magazines without any injuries. The plant, near the Raritan River south of Metuchen and west of Perth Amboy, heard detonations over about 30 minutes with 10 to 20 reports reported by Perth Amboy residents. Col Max A Elser Jr commanded the facility which employed about 9,000 workers, though many civilians were released earlier for improved conditions. No outside aid was requested and the arsenal’s own fire force responded.
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Metuchen
N. J
Army
Raritan Arsenal
Max A. Elser, Jr
Raritan River
Perth Amboy
Fingerprint Debate Highlights De Marigny Trial
In Nassau Bahamas private criminologist Py Leonardo Keeler testified that the fingerprint linked to Alfred de Marigny was not taken from a bed screen in the room where Sir Harry Oakes was beaten and burned last July. The defense witness, employed by Nancy de Marigny, challenged the prosecution’s fingerprint evidence as the trial nears its end.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Leonardo Keeler
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Northwestern University Crime Laboratory
Bahamas Supreme Court
de Marigny
Keeler
Nancy
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Phc
Eugenia Lejeune
Norfolk
Joan A. Lejeune
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Gotham
Snively
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