Yanks Third Of Way To Cologne In Forest Push
American infantry launched a 10 am advance through the Monschau forest south of Aachen and pushed toward Cologne. U S First Army pressed near Beggendorf Ubach and Hurtgen forest while Third Army held Fort Driant near Metz. Seventh Army moved toward Le Thillot as Canadians held a bridgehead west of Antwerp. Allied air power logged over 6 000 sorties as Hodges widened a Siegfried line breach north and south of Aachen.
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Monschau
Aachen
London
U. S
Beggendorf
Ubach
Hurtgen Forest
Germany
Cologne
Fort Driant
Metz
Seventh Army
le Thillot
Belfort
Bussang
Vosges
Lower Holland
Tilburg
Leopold Canal
Antwerp
Ossendrecht
Schelde
The
Reich
Courtney W. Hodges
Yanks Advance Near Bologna Push To 12 Miles From Po
Allied forces in central Italy drive two more miles toward Bologna as Fifth Army, with British and Indian units, expands the salient along the Florence Bologna highway and near Castel San Pietro. Adriatic sector gains include San Martino di Ragnola and Sognano, while weather and air operations limit support.
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Rome
U. S
Po Valley
Bologna
Italy
Reich
Loiano
Florence- Bologna
Fifth Army
Monte Vicese
Pistoia-Bologna
Sassoleone
Castel San Tierro
Bologna- Rimini
Adriatic
Highth Army
Fiumicino
San Martino di Ragnola
Sognano
Rimini
Tezzo
Mediterranean
Greece
Balkan Airforce
Yugoslavia
Albania
Wallace and Truman to Speak From Same Stage
New York news item reports Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Senator Harry S. Truman will share the platform at a Madison Square Garden rally on October 31. The Liberal Party backs Roosevelt for reelection, Truman for Vice President, and Senator Wagner for reelection in its own slate.
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New York
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S. Truman
Dagwood's Actress Daughter Born At Goot Samaritan
Arthur Lake known as Dagwood welcomes baby daughter Marcon Roe to Patricia Van Cleve Lake. The newborn weighs eight pounds four ounces and was born yesterday at Goot Samaritan hospital.
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Dagwood
PAPA
Hollywood
Arthur Lake
Patricia van Cleve Lake
Goot Samaritan Hospital
Marcon Roe
Horse Racing Resumes Near Paris After Liberation Fight
Paris area racing revived with the Grand Prix de Deauville at Le Tremblay near Paris. A large crowd attended despite poor transport and chilly weather after the war interruption. Proceedings mark a return to normalcy for French racing following the liberation struggle.
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Faris
Paris
France
Deauville
le Tremblay
Calvert Apartment House Sold Near Prospect
Sale of the Calvert apartments on West Antietam street near Prospect by the executors of Daniel W. Dowd to Harry E. Eberly was reported today at an indicated price of 30000. The four story brick structure was erected years ago by Mr Doub and contains eight apartments. Sale handled through Ralph A. McCune Real Estate agency.
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Calvert
West Antietam Street
Prospect
Daniel W. Dowd
Harry E. Eberly
Doub
Ralph A. McCune
Kansas City Gas Read Meters By Homeowners Due To Shortage
Kansas City patrons will read their own meters because of a manpower shortage. The first 19,000 of 96,000 gas users have received return post cards with dials to mark readings. Meter readers will alternate with users every other month.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Gas Company
Fishhooks and Razor Blades Help U S Bomber Crew
ADVANCED SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AIR BASE Sept 27. After a forced landing among New Guinea natives, a U S 5th Air Force Mitchell bomber with two engines dead was helped home by fishhooks and razor blades. Capt Leroy F Python of Santonio Texas marshalled six crewmen to safety as natives aided after trading hooks and blades for guides.
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Southwest Pacific Air Base
U.S. 5Th Air Force
New Guinea
Leroy F. Python
Santonio
Tex
Middltown
Ohio
Long-Termers Escape Prison in Michigan Breakout
Seven inmates including four lifers escaped from the southern Michigan state prison in a nighttime break believed staged as a prison movie performance. The fugitives, last seen near Grass Lake about 15 miles east of Jackson, reportedly fled in a stolen car after ditches and fields were used to elude pursuers. Warden Harry H. Jackson said they broke into an tinted cell block using saws a pipe cutter and a spreader and climbed out a window four feet from the ground.
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Jackson
Mich
Michigan
Grass Lake
Here
Harry H. Jackson
Britain Already Has Navy In Indian Ocean Plans To Move More
England Oct 7 V A Alexander First Lord of the Admiralty said the Royal Navy already had a formidable fleet in the Indian Ocean and plans to move warships to the Pacific were advancing rapidly. He told a meeting that the home fleet remained vigilant against any activity by the remaining German fleet. Alexander disclosed 9,000 convoys have entered or cleared UK ports since the war began.
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South Shields
England
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
Royal Navy
Indian Ocean
Pacific
Alexander
United Kingdom
Germans Complain Of Our Canine Sleuths
German officials accuse Allied forces on the western front of deploying special police troops with sleuth dogs to counter German reconnaissance units as a broadcast report reaches London on October 7.
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London
New A Gas Coupons Planned For Washington County
Washington County Ration Board announced plans to issue over 18 000 basic A gasoline ration books to county motorists before November when current books expire. Application form R-524 will be available at 125 OPA tire inspection stations in Hagerstown and the county and at industries with transportation committees.
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Washington County
Ration Board
Earle
Hagerstown
Ration Office
Hancock
OPA
J. F. Omps
Realty Market Posts Banner Week With 150000 in Sales
The bustling local real estate market records a strong week ending today with about 150000 in sales across numerous transactions. Notable deeds include Ralph O Blickenstaff to Howard Gladhill on Georgia Avenue for 301, Property sales involve Fairsteen Acres, Fairplay area parcels, Hancock District plots, U.S. Route 40 frontage, and other sites. Multiple transfers feature names such as Leonard H Martz, Herman Valentine, Benjamin Weller, Lester Martz, Potomac Poster Advertising Corp, Bessie Snodderly, Samuel Lloyd, Adolph Keyser, and Rachel Witsell among others, reflecting broad activity. Page continues with further listings on the next page.
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Ralph O. Blickenstaff
Howard Gladhill
Georgia Avenue
Model Homes, Inc
Paul D. Peterman
Wif
Fairsteen Acres
Floyd Fottel
Leonard H. Martz
Fairplay
Joseph K. Carey
John M. Fuss
George E. Fuss
Hancock
Herman &. Valentine
Benjamin R. Weller
Clarence V. Johnson
Lester R
Potomac Poster
Jonathan Street
Adolph A. Keyser
Linda B. Huber
Lillian A. Perrett
Cavetown Pike
Bridgeport
Rachel B. Witsell
Arthur L. Towson
Vernon W. Hack
Harry Shackelford
Coffman Avenue
Blanche M. Beyard
Huovert E. Jones Et
Fleas Get Break From WPB Order Amid Farm Price Fluctuations
Washington reports a government shift favors fleas over hookworms and woodticks in a price and policy move. Carroll County Maryland dominates wormseed supply, key to Vermifuge production, with producers facing higher costs and regulated prices allowing a $5 per pound sale though oil and disposal remained unprofitable.
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Washington
Carroll County
Maryland
OPA
Willkie Resting Comfortably After Illness
New York October 7 Willkie former Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie was reported by his physician Dr Benjamin Salzer to be resting comfortably at Lenox Hill hospital with a throat infection and slight lung congestion The doctor expected improvement within 24 hours He entered the hospital in September for a physical and treatment of a stomach ailment His present illness developed two days ago.
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New York
Igu
Benjamin Salzer
Lenox Fill Hospital
Willkie
Labor Groups To Back Candidates In Hagerstown
Labor Action committee formed by AFL C10 and Railroad Brotherhoods in Hagerstown plans non political effort to inform workers about candidates records on labor issues. A spokesman said the group will evaluate past performance and attitudes toward labor, meeting details pending for next week.
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AFI
Hagerstown
AFL
University to Honor Ernie Pyle at Commencement
New Mexico Sieinv announces it will confer the degree of Doctor of Letters on Ernie Pyle a nationally known newspaper columnist at commencement exercises October 27. Pyle whose home is here recently returned from the European war front.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
U S Dollar Worth 300 Million Drachma In Liberated Greece
In Patras Greece on October 4 a Nazi currency manipulation reached bizarre levels. One American dollar equals 300 million drachma, and a loaf of bread costs over 18 million drachma. Prewar exchange stood at 125 to the dollar. Local traders report shortages and chaos as American ten dollar gold seals and British occupation notes circulate with no drachma for change.
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Patrat
Greece
John Moustacopoulos
Reverses Decision On Time Spent By Miners Underground
U S Fourth U S Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court ruling that coal miners’ underground travel time was not work time. Judge Parker held mine property travel time constitutes hazardous work necessary to production. The decision, concurred by Judge Dobie, was dissented by Judge Soper.
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Richmond
Circuit Court of Appeals
Las
District Court
John J. Parker
District Court of Western Virginia
Parker
Armistrad M. Dobie
Charlottesville
Morris A. Soper
Baltie Mare
Farewell for Al Smith Draws Thousands at Cathedral
New Yorkers fill St Patrick's Cathedral for the Pontifical Mass of Requiem honoring Alfred E. Smith. Police estimate 600 filed past the open bronze casket as crowds gathered along Fifth Avenue hours before the service. Smith, four-time New York governor and prominent Democrat, lay in state in an extraordinary honor for a layman.
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New York
Alfred EL Smith
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Timansine
New York State
Re Qnem
Fifth Avenue
Paratrooper Sergt Mentzer Killed in Belgium Action
Sergt Daniel A Mentzer age 22 son of Kev and Mrs F G Mentzer of 897 Salem Avenue was killed during the action in Belgium on September. The report notes his service as a paratrooper and confirms his death in combat.
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Daniel A. Mentzer
Kev
F.G. Mentzer
Salem Avenue
Belgium
Police Declare Fire Incendiary Probe Is Pushed
Police progress report on the Spruce Street three story brick furniture warehouse fire that destroyed one building and damaged another with losses estimated between 60 000 and 70 000. Detectives say the blaze was incendiary and have questioned a dozen people including a 17 year old boy who claimed he offered 300 to start the fire but provided an alibi.
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Spruce Street
Wayne Sellman
Garland Groh
Groh
McEwen Furniture Company
Doww
D. A. Stickell and Sons
Former Marine Held In Plot To Unseat Nicaraguan Chief
A U S Marine named Jeremiah Barry was arrested in Costa Rica on charges of aiding Nicaraguan revolutionaries in an unsuccessful effort to depose President Anastasio Somoza. Costa Rican patrolmen captured him in the northern jungles. The U S embassy said it would intervene.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
United States
Jermeiah Franc Barry
U. S
Angstae Moza
Barry
Noguera Gomez
U.S
Kalavryta Massacre Amid Greek Nazi Reprisal Reports
A Greek report from October details Nazi terror across Greece with hundreds of villages burned and many civilians killed. Kalavryta saw machine gun executions of men and boys, while women and girls were trapped in a burning building until an Austrian soldier ended the blaze. Overall, 1.5 to 2 million were left homeless and many died from exposure and disease as German brutality spread to large cities and seaports.
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Sid Feder Patria
Greece
Kalavryta
Kalaveryta
Here
Iwalavryta
Loo Git
McMullen To Speak Monday On Radio Address
Democratic candidate Daniel F. McMullen will deliver a ten minute radio address Monday evening October 9 between 6:20 and 6:40 o clock. The Cumberland attorney campaigns quietly across the district meeting voters individually. A Roosevelt supporter, he says he can serve the Sixth District if elected.
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Daniel FL McMullen
Congress
McMullen
Cumberland
Roosevelt
Washington Center-Lining Held Up By Showers
Center lining work on Washington emmy highways was paused by ice showers and will resume Monday. State Roads Commission plans to erect snow fences in Washington County, with miles of fencing to be installed around October. Canning sugar deadline October SL noted for obtaining special permits for canning purchases. one office said today.
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Washington
State Roads Commission
Commission
Washington County
Qetoher
Miss
Surprising Weather Record Highlights October Frost and Snow
Washington county kept unusual weather notes with no killing frost on October 4 and two inches of snow by October 30. Veteran observer J A Miller cites records showing late migratory birds moving south as swallows and waxwings depart, while the season seems unsettled with shifting spring-like hints and late autumn cold snaps.
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Washington County
Keedysvilles
J. A. Miller
Cossacks Strike from Rear Near Budapest Front
Red army infantry waves push across the Romanian frontier toward the Tisza and Koros rivers on a 75 mile front. Budapest lies about 20 miles away as Kuban Cossacks spread in the rear of Hungarian forces. Soviets report chasing retreating troops and seizing railways and highways into Hungary.
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Moscow
Red Army
Hungary
Tisza Koros
Budapest
Izvestia
Inter Army
Solng
Mako
Szeged
Orshaza
Bekes
Nazis Order Poles Evacuated From Warsaw Massacre Report
London dispatch quotes Polish Telegraph Agency reporting Germany ordered evacuation of Warsaw's one million Poles and intends to send many to concentration labor camps. Polish government in exile appeals to United Nations for help to prevent this mass ensnarement.
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London
Polish Telegraph Agency
Geermany
Warsaw
Gove Crmmnent
United Nations
Chief Adjutant Of Nazis Dies Of Wounds
London dispatch reports the chief adjutant of the German army died of wounds received in the July 2 attempt on Hitler and was given a state funeral at Tinnenbergs yesterday as per the broadcasted agency note.
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London
Pu —Gon
Ruefio Schmid
Tinnenbergs
Democratic Women Set Meeting To Plan Campaign Efforts
Democratic Women will convene Monday evening at nine oclock to map campaign strategy. Key organizers include Stouffer and Leni, aiming to coordinate efforts across local committees and canvassing activities.
Japs Boast Of New Planes To Beat Ours
Amid wartime reports, Japanese sources claim improved aircraft and tactics aimed at defeating Allied forces. The contenders include American and British air defenses as the conflict intensifies over decisive theater regions.
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