Reds Tighten Noose Over 200000 Balkan Nazis
Moscow reports round the clock Russian air raids over Yugoslavia as ground forces push along a curving front 70 to 100 miles southeast of Belgrade. Soviets claim 50 enemy batteries silenced, trains destroyed, and trucks and tanks knocked out while advancing toward Belgrade Nisz railway. Hungarian drive toward Budapest is unconfirmed. Warsaw situation described as grim by Polish Patriots.
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Moscow
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Balkans
Balkan
Red Army
Marshal Tito
Belgrade-Nis
Budapest
Turkey
Hungar
Magyar
Hungary
Warsaw
Berlin
Stormoviks
Morava
Meetings Planned to Hear President Roosevelt Address
Washington county and the state organize precinct and district meetings for Thursday night to hear President Roosevelt's special campaign address at 10 o'clock. The Roosevelt Headquarters in the Grice Building will be open with a radio installed for the occasion. The Fourth Ward Democratic Club will postpone its Wednesday meeting to Thursday to hear the speech and elect officers with refreshments planned.
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Washington County
Roosevelt
Wm. Preston Lane
Harold F. Bester
Grice
Fourth Ward
Democratic Club
North Mulberry Street
Bester
Lane
Attorney Hartle To Address Rally At Sharpsburg
Attorney Calvert K. Hartle will address the Democratic Women's Club at Sharpsburg this evening. He promises a strong political speech to Roosevelt supporters in the southern county. The rally is at Mrs. Lillian Thomas home and starts at o'clock. Hartle is regarded as one of the ablest local speakers.
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Calvert K. Hartle
Democratic Women’s Club
Sharpsburg
Lillian Thomas
Hartle
Roosevelt
Radio in tree found during dog training near Reading
In Reading on October 2, Paul Sweyer heard music from the woods and discovered a radio attached to a parachute lodged in a tree with a note directing the finder to return the set to the U S Department of Commerce.
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Reading
Paul Sweyer
U. S. Department of Commerce
Leather Moccasins Will Be Rationed
The Office of Price Administration ordered rationing of leather soled moccasins formerly imported from Mexico and elsewhere. All future imports and sales fall under rationing, while shoes already on the market may be sold without coupons. Domestic moccasins of similar design had been restricted by prior leather sole permissions.
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Washington
Ie Office of Price Administration
Mexico
OPA
U.S
Rainfall totals diverge from 1943 and 35-year average
Rainfall for nine months totals 26.95 inches, 2.83 inches above the 1943 period but 4.76 inches below the 35-year average. September brought 3.42 inches at the Potomac pumping plant, versus 28 inches in September 1993 and a 2.89 inch 35-year average. Keedysville had the heaviest September rainfall in the county. J. A. Miller reported 5.01 inches, above the 40-year norm.
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Potomac
Keedysville
Milkweed Collection Nears End In County
Washington county wraps up milkweed pod gathering as the county agent announces a survey of schools to tally collected pods. County agent Miller notes strong student effort as floss will be processed to replace kapok in life jacket manufacture for the armed forces.
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Washington County
Miller
Truman Announces Speech Itinerary
Vice President Harry Truman of Missouri announced a cross country speaking tour with stops in Caruthersville Missouri on October 7 New Orleans on October 11 and Los Angeles on October 16 Details of the trip beyond Los Angeles were not yet finalized and no additional dates were announced.
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Washington
Notince
Harry Truman
Missouri
Caruthersville
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Truman
Construction Activity Slows. Nine Months Permits Total $282,109
City records show a near standstill in new building with September permits totaling $5,264 and no homes. First nine months amount to $282,109, far below last year’s $285,600 for the same period. Notable items: a 38 by 60 feet concrete block shop addition for Bohman Inc and an 18 by 40 feet storeroom for Potomac Edison on Hood Street. a 14 by 20 foot Sunday school addition for Miller Tabernacle on Lon Valla Avenue.
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Jay's
O. P. Bohman, Inc
West Wranklin Street
Potomac Edison Company
Hood Street
W. A. Miller
Miller Tabernacle
Lont Valla Avenue
Filling Station Robbed Again on Frederick Street
The William Schindler filling station at 285 Frederick Street was robbed last night for about 8 dollars in cash and an undetermined number of gas ration coupons. Thieves broke a glass pane to reach the cash register, without entering the station. Gas coupons were taken in prior robberies. several fire certificates were also reported stolen. City Detective Wayne Seliman leads the investigation with ration officials assisting.
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William Schindler
Frederick Street
Wayne Seliman
Ration
Practically Dressed Poultry Prices Explained in Colorado
In Colorado Springs on October 2, an OPA clerk clarified two ceiling prices for poultry: one for five dressed birds and a higher one for dressed poultry. A caller insisted on the dressed poultry ceiling, humorously noting neighbor’s dog had swallowed six of her chickens, still claiming they were practically dressed inside.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
OPA
Populace In Occupied Germany Cooperating With Allies
A Plan officer in the first Military Government unit in Germany says civilians show cooperation with Allied troops and notes no civilian violence against Americans. Minor sniping blamed on Nazis near front lines. Six enemy civilians faced summary court. four women fined for entering combat zones, two German men charged with coal theft remanded to higher court. Curfew and movement restrictions aim to protect troops. story continues.
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Hal Boyle Kornelimunster
Germany
Shale L. Tulin
East
Norwalk
Conn. Tulin
Kurt L. Walitschek
Oakland
Cal
Yulin
Walitschek
Allies Capture Big Underground Airplane Plant at Algrange
In Algrange France on October 2 Allied troops seized an underground plant area planned for 1000 Messerschmitt fighters monthly. U.S. forces found 300 tons of sheet aluminum and millions in gear, with more to inventory from Fontoy. Blueprints indicate completion by October 20 and links to Hitler’s wartime air ambitions.
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Algrange
France
Fontoy
FFI
Mexican Villages Washed Away By Deadly Floods In Mexico
Mexican villages along the Tehuantepec isthmus were flooded after a hurricane caused torrential rains. Rescue boats and improvised rafts were used to reach marooned victims. Officials fear 200 to 300 may have drowned as communications remained disrupted. Survivors clung to trees and rooftops for days. Lieutenant Gonzales Rizo described scenes of hungry, half-naked people awaiting aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
Tehuantepec
Ulano
Godinez Rizo
Vera Cruz
Colored Club To Back Democrats
The Colored Democratic Club met at its North St location and voted unanimously to support the Democratic ticket. Richard C. Miller was re elected president and treasurer with George W. Robinson as general manager Walter Harris as vice president and secretary and Mrs Margaret Beil chair of the Ladies Auxiliary. The headquarters will be open at all times to members.
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Colored Democratic Club
North Sjorathan Street
Richard C. Miller
George W. Robinson
Man‘anor
Walter Harris
Margaret Beil
Maryland to build state fish hatchery in Beaver Creek area
Preliminary plans outline acquisition of 175 to 200 acres in Beaver Creek cross ponds for a state fish hatchery. Gov O Conor says a 286000 project expands the Lewistown plant plans with increased capacity for 250000 two year trout and 540000 yearling bass crappie and sun fish plus research facilities to support biology teaching and fish life study.
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Beaver Creek Cross Ponds
E. Lee LeCompte
State Game and Inland Fish Commission
O’conor
O'Conor
Lewistown
Extermination Of Hitlerism Demanded By Russian Writer
Moscow October 2 Pravda devotes three columns to Ilya Ehrenburg fierce attack on perceived Western weakness in eradicating Hitlerism He derides Andre Gide for mouthing down with Hitler while courting a return of the Brown Fever He warns that in Paris academies justify Petain and a German city under Allied capture has a Nazi mayor He notes an American paper misreports traitor arrests in France Ehrenburg says Soviet writers are not witnesses but creators of European culture awaiting truth from Western writers
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Moscow
Pravda
Iya Ehrenburg
Dinner crash mystery in Grate Falls attic tale
Mrs Frank Rodgers called dinner ready then Frank descended through the ceiling near the dining room table. He wasn’t hungry but fell from the attic in an unorthodox entry that startled the kitchen.
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Grate Falls
Mont
Frank Rodgers
Frank
Jost
Mickey Rooney Weds Betty Kane Rase Brief Honeymoon
Army Pvt. Mickey Rooney returns to Camp Sibert Alabama after a six day courtship and weekend honeymoon with Betty Kane Rase Miss Birmingham 1944. Rooney, 21, says there will be no career for his wife. Rooney was previously married to Ava Gardner in 1942 and divorced in 1943.
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Betty Jane Rase
Mickey Rooney
Birmingham
Ala
Rase
Atlantice City
Army
Betty Kane Rase
Camp Sibert
Atlantic City
Rooney
Ava Gardner
Pythians Buy W C T U Hall In Keedysville
The Keedysville Pythian Association of McClelland Lodge Knights of Pythias has purchased the W C T U hall for 83000. The two story frame building with basement, erected about 50 years ago, was funded by subscriptions from W C T U members nationwide. It served as a meeting place for the temperance group long active in the east in opposing liquor sales. The Pythians had been renting part of the hall.
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Keedysville Pythian Association
McClelland Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Keedysville WC. T. AL
Prthians
Most French Art Treasures Safe Amid War Losses
London dispatch reports that most of France's national art treasures including the Bayeux tapestry the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo are safe. Lt. Col G F Webster adviser to the supreme head quarters monuments fine arts and archives section cites spared destruction of many sites while Chartres and local treasures mostly remain intact despite looting by private collectors in places.
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London
France
Supreme Headquarters
G. F. Webcb
Slade
University of Cambridge
Tine Arts and Archives
Paris
Colt Webb
iChartres
Pierre
Chartres
First Army Presses Siegfried Line In Big Air Assault
Allied air and ground forces pound Cologne and Kassel while the U S First Army drives into the Siegfried line near Aachen. Eisenhower warns island residents in the Schelde estuary to evacuate before bombing. Cologne is a major German arsenal and rail hub near Aachen. Kassel, a key western railroad center, lies 150 miles beyond Aachen.
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London
Cologne
Kassel
Siegfried Lne
U. S. First Army
West Wall
Aachen
Eisenhower
Schelde
Greater Germany
First Army
Rhine
Hitler
Urges No Change In Wage Formula
Robert M. Gaylord of the National Association of Manufacturers urges the War Labor Board to keep the Little Steel wage formula firm, arguing no general wage or price increase serves the public interest. He says the issue is politically charged and notes that Eric A. Johnston of the Chamber of Commerce will testify as hearings continue.
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Washington
National Association of Manufacturers
War Labor Board
Robert M. Gaylord
Eric A. Johnston
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Cousin Killed In Airplane Crash in Pennsylvania
Wilson Scout, cousin of Judge Harvey M. Miller of the Juvenile Court, was killed in an airplane crash last Saturday in Pennsylvania. Scout was a pilot who transported government cargo. Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Stewartstown, Pa., he later lived with Judge Miller’s brother, Dr. Edgar Miller of Wilmington, Delaware. Funeral services are being held today in Wilmington.
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Wilson Scout
Harvey M. Miller
Juvenile Court
Pennsylvania
Miller
Scott
Judge Miller
Stewartstown
Edgar Miller
Wilmington
Del
Bond Sales Fall Sharply in City Post Office
Bond sales in September show a steep drop from $183,362.50 last year to $47,250 this month at the local post office, while post office receipts rise to $20,767.94. Banks begin cashing war savings bonds on presentation of adequate identification to speed urgent purchases.
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Post Ofice
Allied Armies Break Siegfried Line Push Near Aachen
U S 1st Army launches major combined air and ground assault from Aachen area, breaking two week stalemate as Hodges men press toward the Rhine. Heavy bombardment precedes infantry advances through shattered Siegfried line, with American, British, and Belgian towns watching.
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London
U. S
Rhine
Siegfried Line
Aachen
Courtney H. Hodges
Netherlands
Adolf Hilles West Wall
Hollang
Belfort Gap
Nancy
Caen
S-Hertogenbosch
Marshal Mont
Pullman Inc Elects To Dispose Of Its Car Service Business
Pullman Inc. announces it will sell its sleeping car servicing unit and keep its railroad car manufacturing arm, in compliance with an anti trust decree issued May 8 by a special three judge court. The decree requires the group to abandon interlocking interests and bans officers or directors from holding securities across units.
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Pullman, Inc
Puiladelpina
U.S. District Court
Pullman Inc
Pullman Company
Tis
Pullman- Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Pillman Comway
County Faces Ration Shortage Amid High Demand
The county reports a shortage of bread and fuel ration cards as applications exceed the number of eligible items. Ration Office official Tuomas Hig notes demand is far greater than supply, leaving motorists and residents waiting.
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Ration Board
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Treed Music
George VI
Great Britain
Lucian Truscott, Jr
6Th Corps
Truscott
Occupied
Colored Club
Democrats
LeCompte
Beaver Creek
Pythians
W.C.T.U Hall
Big Armatias
Post Office
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