House Banking Chairman Dies
Henny B. Steagall died suddenly in Washington at George Washington University Hospital after speaking Friday. The Alabama Democrat led the House Banking Committee and fought the administration’s food subsidy program. A widower with three children, Steagall served in the Alabama legislature and 29 years in the U.S. House.
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Washington
Henny B. Steagall
Ala
House Banking Committee
Steagall
Colpton
Dale County
Alabama
Southeast Alabama Agricultural School
Abbeville
University of Alabama
George W. Calver
George Washington University Hospital
Calver
Berlin Claims Fall Of Samos
A German broadcast says Berlin announced the island of Samos capitulated to German forces this morning. Samos, near the Dodecanese and the Turkish coast, had been under attack since Saturday with refugees reported in Turkey. Leros fell to the Germans on Nov. 16 and Cos had been recaptured. four other small islands were claimed retaken.
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London
Berlin
Samos
Aegean
Castelrosso
Dodecanese
Ankara
Turkey
Leros
Balkan
Cos
Tip on Former Local Flier Wins Best Of Week
A tip about a former Hagerstown boy who bailed from a damaged plane over Italy and helped capture an Italian village won first prize of 3.50. Second prize went to news of a Berkeley Springs physician’s fatal accident, with third prize for a tip about last Friday’s railroad wreck. Tips are accepted weekdays 7:30 am to 4:30 pm by the Daily Mail.
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Hagerstown
Italy
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Daily Mail
Nazis Dnieper Bend Under New Soviet Offensive
Moscow dispatches report German positions at Krivoi Rog in the Dnieper bend are menaced by a fresh Soviet thrust designed to divert forces in the Korostyshev sector west of Kiev. Soviet lines claim heavy German losses, including about 1,000 killed in a single sector, as Russians strike at multiple bridgeheads along the Dnieper.
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Moscow
Krivoi Rog
Dnieper
Korostyshev
Giraine
Kre
Korostyshey
Kiev
Zhitomir
Orostyshey
Milk payment program aids over six hundred producers
More than 600 Washington county milk producers have applied for and received monthly dairy feed payments from the county AAA office. An undetermined number have until November 30 to apply for a subsidy designed to offset higher production costs. The payment, funded by the Commodity Credit Corporation, is 40 cents per hundredweight for milk and five cents per pound for butterfat, intended to keep dairy product prices stable.
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Washington County
AAA
Commodity Credit Corporation
Berlin Says Bombers Hit Atlantic Convoy
Berlin radio reported that German bombers attacked an eastern Atlantic convoy yesterday and battered two merchant vessels totaling 18 1 000 tons and damaged others, with presumed sinking of those ships.
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Berlin
Atlantic
London
Urges Trapped German Divisions In Crimea To Surrender
In a Moscow broadcast Maj. Gen. Martin Lattman a captured German officer and radio speaker for the Free Germany committee urged Nazi divisional commanders in Crimea to surrender to avoid further losses He cited Stalingrad and warned of the senseless sacrifice if divisions remain trapped and resist surrender
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New York
Martin Lattman
Stalingrad
Free Germany Committee
Moscow
Crimea
Lattman
Eight Guilty By Own Pleas In Court
Eight prisoners who previously pleaded not guilty at arraignment changed their pleas to guilty during trial opening. Indicted defendants including Samuel McNamee William Bowers Ellsworth Dunn Jr Roy Bowers Harry Sprankle Jr Earl Benner Frank Billman Leo Startzman and Paul Miller shifted to guilty on various charges such as larceny breaking into and non support. Billman and Startzman were ordered to pay weekly support. Miller was found not guilty on non support. About 75 percent of the roughly 20 awaiting trial are youths aged 17 to 25.
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Samuel McNamee
William Bowers
Ellsworth Dunn, Jr
Roy Bowers
Samuel K. Eckis
Harry Sprankle, Jr
Earl Eugene Benner
Sharpspurg
Carnahan
Frank E. Billman
Billman
Leo Startzman
Paul E. Miller
Worth It Rooster Killing Case Opens Court Tradeoff
In Los Angeles on November 22, Ora D. Rock was fined 56 dollars after admitting to killing a neighbor’s rooster. He told the court the act was worth it because the rooster crowed all night and he could not endure it any longer.
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Los Angeles
Ora D. Rock
Washington County Welfare Board Aids 1421 In October
A total of 25336.96 was expended in October by the Washington County Welfare Board for old age assistance aid to dependent children assistance to the needy blind general public assistance and foster home care of children. The October grants aided 1421 persons in Washington county with old age assistance constituting the largest group at 643 recipients. The second largest group was aid to dependent children.
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Washington
Paroled for Theft After String of Hard Luck Events
Max Turner 19 faced circuit court after stealing 5000 cigarettes from Pennsylvania railroad. He blamed months of misfortune including a fire destroying his home, his paralyzed wife injuring her leg, and a baby to care for. Judge Mish granted parole, represented by A. S. Allen.
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Max Turner
Turner
Pennsylvania Railroad
High Street
Mish
A. 5
Allen
Shower Buys Sparse Rain But Fails to Refill Reservoir
In a county report the third of an inch of rain aided winter wheat but did not replenish Hagers town mountain water. Edgemont reservoir had previously supplied about a quarter of daily use. 20 million gallons came from the mountain since, with springs not yet flowing. If heavy rain does not return, Potomac pumping may resume. Keedyaville observer notes November total to 2.54 inches, 0.48 above normal.
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Hagerstown
Edgemont
Potomac River
J. A. Miller
Keedyaville
Army Bomber Crashes Near Midland in Maryland
A four engine Army bomber crash landed near Midland Maryland in Squirrel Neck Hollow. All six crew parachuted to safety after mechanical trouble over the Allegheny mountains. Pilot Lieutenant Donald Crist remained with the plane on autopilot before leaping from 12000 feet. The wreckage was described as fairly well destroyed and officials planned an inspection by Philadelphia officers.
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Midland
Squirrel Neck Hollow
Jack Clay
Army
Air Transport Command
Cherry Tree
Allegheny Mountains
Lieut
Clay
Donald Crist
Ths
Allegany County
Philadelphia
Pig Governor Wins Bet Feeds Sailors in Dinner Tale
In Baltimore on November 22 a 250-pound hog forfeited by Nebraska’s Griswold to Governor O Conor for a bet became the main course at a Navy League dinner for 100 sailors and officials. The governor, detained on duty, sent the corn fed hog after Maryland outpaced Nebraska in Third War Loan subscriptions last month.
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Baltimore
O'Conor
Deight Griswold
Nebraska
Navy League
League
O’conor
Maryland
Four Prisoners Escape in Cambridge Breakout
Four young county prisoners escaped today from a truck taking them to work from Dorchester county jail in Cambridge. They leaped from the rear and vanished into nearby side streets, prompting a manhunt as authorities review the security lapse.
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Cambridge
Dorchester County
British Press Nearer Winter Line Of Nazis
Allied Headquarters in Algiers reports Montgomery's Eighth Army advances four miles in the Italian mountain front. Sant Pietro Avellana and Vastagirardi captured, opening more of the Rome road corridor as heavy rains pummel the line. Germans, retreating, set fires in Alfedena and Castel di Sangro to deny shelter. (Continued on Page 2)
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Algiers
Setter
Italy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth
Rome
Sant Pietro Avellana
Agnone
Navy Accepts Father Of Eight Pre Pearl Harbor Inductees
Teathian A Blake of Smiths burg, father of eight, has volunteered for the Navy and will depart November 30 with inductees including pre Pearl Harbor fathers. He earns 78 per month as a machinist mate Yard class and will receive 54, his family will get 220 monthly under new Congressional regulations. Tomorrow, 60 inductees from Board No 2. 10 pre Pearl Harbor fathers depart for finals in Baltimore.
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Teathian A. Blake
Smithsburg
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Blake
Congress
Baltimore
Relics Donated to Washington County Historical Society
George W. Benchoff, a retired railroad employee, donated a tin fat lamp once owned by his great grandfather to the Washington County Historical Society. He also contributed a genuine Currier & Ives print showing Lincoln's death, mounted in an antique frame. The lamp, dating back about 150 years, is in perfect condition.
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Washington County Historical Society
George W. Benchoff
Benthoff
Currier & Ives
Lincoln
Benchoff
Bus Collision Causes Minor Damage at North and Locust
A Potomac Edison Loop bus sustained about a hundred dollars in damage after being struck by a eastbound automobile at the North avenue North Locust street junction Sunday at 9 10 a m. The car driven by Lewis A. Travers a Stevenson Virginia soldier and a male passenger and a girl failed to stop at the intersection and struck the southbound bus driven by Claude Shank. Passengers were shaken but none injured Travers was not held.
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Potomac Edison
North Avenue
North Locust Street
Lewis A. Travers
Stevenson
Worth Avenue
Claude Shank
Travers
Famous Organist Pietro Yon Dies
Pietro Yon 57 famed organist and director of St Patrick's Cathedral and honorary Vatican organist died in Huntington New York after a stroke in April and passing in his sleep at 6 15 am at the estate of his son's father in law Iticardo San Vero trusted reporting by EWT with a Catholic church official announcing the death
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New York
Pietro Yon
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Vatican
Huntington
N. Y
Joseph Flannelly
Yon
Iticardo San
May Soon Name New Councilman
A successor to the late Councilman R. Charles Lamar is expected soon under a new law enacted by the General Assembly at the mayor and City Council’s urging. The mayor may appoint a replacement with City Council consent, needing at least three confirmations, and the appointee must share the former councilman’s party and ward. Previously, vacancies triggered a special ward election.
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R. Charles Lamar
General Assembly
Polish hope for ally status as Red army nears
Polish sources urged that the Russian army enter Poland as an ally not a conqueror, threatening stiff resistance if diplo matic ties with the London government in exile are not restored. As Red troops moved toward the 1921 frontier, Poles pressed for prewar borders and warned against Soviet incursion.
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Washington
Poland
London
Red
Constantin Dumansky
Mexico City
Russia
Will Creates Carile Fund For Hagerstown Poor Relief
The will of Ann G. Carlile probated by the Orphans Court creates a trust named the Carile Fund to aid the city’s poor. The trust, administered by the mayor and city council, directs income for relief of suffering, with substantial legacies to Eva M. and Rachael E. Shulenberger, Edna Lucinda Springer, Rev. Dr. Walter Byron Stehl, St John’s Church, and Daniel W. Donb as executor, from an estate over $40,000. The will was drafted in April 1941 and shows multiple specific bequests before the residue becomes the trust.
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Carlile
Hagerstown
Ann G. Carlile
Orphans’ ‘Court
Miss Carlile
East Washington Street
Summit Avenue
Eva. M
Rachael E. Shulenberger
Edna Lucinda Springer
Carole Home
Randolph Avenue
Walter Byron Stehl
St. John's Episcopal Church
St John’s Church
Daniel W. Donb
Refugees Flee Bessarabia Amid Soviet Threats
Istanbul dispatches report a flood of refugees fleeing Bessarabia into Romania due to Soviet advances in southern Russia. Romanian authorities ban heavy rail baggage transport as Hungary and Romania start withdrawing troops from the Russian front. Rumanians aim to recover seven divisions in the Crimea.
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Istanbul
Bessarabia
Rumania
Russia
Hungary
Crimea
Pugilist Leads Private War With Germans In Italy
In Italy, a New Jersey amateur boxer turned lieutenant commands a Canadian assault troop behind front lines. His unit, tasked with mop up pockets, after a striking raid near Potenza killed 59 Germans. Kennedy operates amid shattered roads and bridges and relies on improvised wireless links.
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Daniel de Luce
Eighth Army
Italy
New Jersey
Scotland
Jack
Kennedy
Potenza
Tarawa and Gilberts Invasion Battles Rattle Pacific Front
American forces attacking Tarawa and Makin in the Gilberts faced strong Japanese dug in defenses with naval and air support as Nimitz, MacArthur, and Halsey presses in the Pacific. Bougainville and New Guinea actions widen the push toward Rabaul, with heavy bombardment of Gasmata and renewed Japanese resistance on land and in the air.
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Makin
Tarawa
Gilbert Islands
Central Pacific
Tokyo
Gilberts
Japan
Britain
Chester Nimitz
General MacArthur
Admiral Halsey
Southwest Pacific
Bougainville
Solomons
U. S
Empress Bay
New Guinea
Ranxe
Sattleberg
MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Tmk
County Farmers To Vote Dec 3 In Eleven Washington Areas
Farmers in eleven Washington county communities will vote on December 3 in town hall meetings to elect community committeemen and delegates for county agricultural conservation associations of the triple A. Delegates meet December 4 at county AAA headquarters to elect county chairmen and officers, with eligible voters including farm owners operators share tenants or cropper in the community participating in AAA programs.
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Washington County
Agricultural Conservation Associations
AAA
Treasuseer
Association
Excusable mistake at San Francisco hotel leads to mix up
In San Francisco on November 22 1944 Eimer Davis head of OWT checked into a hotel room he already had received. A flustered desk clerk stalled for time while Elmer J Davis of Los Angeles sat nearby and was mistakenly seated earlier in the day.
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San Francisco
Eimer Davis
OWT
San Francisc
Dimeter
Elmer J. Davie
Los Angeles
Ube
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Henry B. Steagail
House Banking
Solon
Tip
Welfare Board
Anthony Matuski
Setauket
Caribbean
U.S. Navy
Teathian A
Cutrier & Ives
Geo. W. Benchoff
New York City
W. W. G. Danning
Toronto
Ontario
Richard McMurrayap
A.A.A
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