Plans Advanced for New Catholic Church and Rectory
A committee of laymen has been named to push architectural planning for a new Catholic church and rectory after the war. The project may use the Governor Hamilton home site on Prospect Street as the church location, expanding the parish facilities significantly. The existing church will become an auditorium and gym for the school, with construction hoped to begin soon after the war.
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Governor Hamilton
St. Mary's
Frost But No Damage To Crops In Keedysville
Keedysville reports another light frost with no crop damage as temperatures fell to 35 overnight. Observer J A Miller notes small temperature variation these days, with 64 degree high yesterday and 56 at sundown last night matching the prior evening. Rainfall for September is 2 inches, near normal, while seasonal springs hold steady despite drought. The 1944 rainfall deficit sits about 4 inches below normal.
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Keedysville
J. A. Miller
Miller
Puzzled Golfer Questions Nazi Germany Visit
Pvt. George Rowbothem writes from Germany that he cannot understand why the Nazis fight to keep the country as he has not seen a golf course there. His lighthearted note reveals civilian life contrasts amid wartime.
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Philadelphia
George Rowbothem
Germany
Memel siege widens as Red drive nears Baltic Sea
Russian troops push toward Memel from the east and south after severing land routes to Latvia and Lithuania. The Red Army drives along the Niemen river, threatening to trap several German divisions near Taurage and Kirishishaff, while overran Baltic beaches 15 miles north of Memel.
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Moscow
Memel
Tilsit
Baltic Sea
Taurage
Kirishes Haff
Ivan C. Bagramian
Baltic
Red Star
Palange
Memel-Tilsit
Niemen
Former Maid Held In Baby Abduction
Detroit detectives report four month old Robert James King abducted by a nursemaid in September has been returned to his parents. A woman identified as Eleanor Smith is held on an open charge after fingerprints confirmed she is the suspect. her husband Eugene is detained. The King family confirms ownership and officials say Smith may have fabricated a hoax claiming pregnancy.
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Detroit
Paul H . Wencel
Robert James King
Eleanor Smith
Wencel
Clarence King
Smith
Helen Rosman
Eugene
Smiths
One Punch Fracas on Set Affects George Sanders
Hollywood report says actor George Sanders argued with producer Robert Bassler over lines read on set. Sanders claimed he was not knocked down after a brief altercation, saying they shook hands and settled the dispute. Sanders offered no further comment.
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Hollywood
George Sanders
Robert Bassler
Sanders
Germany's Greatest Night Ace Is Killed
London reports the death in action of Lt. Col. Helmut Lent Germanys leading night fighter credited with 102 aerial victories. Hitler orders a state funeral while Reichsmarschall Goering praises him as a pioneer of German night fighting, in a Berlin broadcast.
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London
Germany
Helmut Lent
Berlin
Hitler
Reichsmarshal Goering
Ithe
Not Superstitious At Swan Island Yard On Friday 13th
Henry J. Kaiser’s Swan Island shipyard vows to defy superstition by launching the 13th tanker from shipway No 1 on Friday. The event features 13 people on the launching program and 15 diners at the sponsors table in Portland Oregon.
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Portland
Ore
Henry J. Kaiser
Swan Island
Shipway No. 1
Germans Evacuate Frontier Bastion Near Taurage
London report says two major Russian attacks north of Warsaw prompted a German evacuation of Taurage frontier fortification in Lithuania near East Prussia. Berlin claims the autumn offensive is in full swing, with thrusts past Lomza toward Allenstein and Danzig and moves from Memel toward Tilsit and Koenigsberg.
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London
Warsaw
Taurage
Lithuania
East Prussia
Berlin
Lomza
Poland
Allenstein
Danzig
Memel
Tilsit
Koenigsberg
Growth Here Of Business Is Far Above Average
The Sales Management survey shows Hagerstown contributes heavily to the national metal food market of 17 billion dollars, with local food expenditures at $8,962,000. From 1939 to 1943 total retail rose 113 percent, far above the national 50 percent gain, with gains across food, general merchandise, apparel, and drug stores. Expansion is expected after the war as savings rise and demand rebounds.
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Hagerstown
America
United States
Jet-Propelled Motor Trucks Envisioned
Ted W. Rodgers, head of the American Trucking association, told a Tennessee motor transportation banquet that jet propulsion, which powers combat planes, could be harnessed to drive a truck after the war, potentially solving the gasoline problem.
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Nashville
Tenn
American Trucking Association
Ted W. Rodgers
Washington
Ip. c
Tennessee Motor Transport Association
Stalin applauds Allied partnership after wartime summit
In Moscow Oct 11 Stalin, Churchill and aides advanced a harmony plan at Spiridonovka Palace banquet. Stalin praised British and American aid to victory, stressed postwar cooperation for security, and thanked the United States and Britain for their military craft and merchant marines.
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Moscow
Churchill
Jennier Stalin
Spirodonovka Palace
Stalin
Russia
Red Army
United States
Britain
U. S
U. S. Ambassa
Swedes Hear Gestapo Has Put Down New Army Officer Revolt
Stockholm newspaper Stockholmstidningen claimed Berlin Stockholm telephone links were cut by the Gestapo as an army officer leftist group sought contact with Allied legations via an industrial representative. It said those suspected were believed arrested. no authority cited. Telegraph lines had failed since last Saturday amid heavy Allied air raids on Berlin.
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Gestapo
Stockholm
Stockholmstidningen
Berlin
Trust Nobody Nazi Soldiers Warned
Rome dispatch describes a Fifth Infantry division order to never ride or walk alone in Patriot territory. It warns deserters are screening Patriots and civilians may have German equipment. The directive urges vigilance, no sleep, and to shoot on sight. Paris reports Ptain estate sequestration by De Gaulle government.
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Rome
Italy
Pfc. Howard J. Bowers Killed In Action
Pfc. Howard J. Bowers, 20, of Funkstown, was killed in action in Germany on September 15. A former M. P. Moller Co. employee, he served since March 5, 1943, and previously earned the Purple Heart after being wounded in the invasion of France. Surviving relatives include his mother Mrs. Eva C. Bowers, two brothers Merie G. and Edwin, and a sister Mrs. Naomi Warrenfeltz.
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Howard J. Bowers
Funkstown
Germany
War Department
Eva C. Bowers
Pfc
Bowers
M. P. Moller Co
St. Paul's United Brethren Sunday School
France
Merie G. Bowers
England
Edwin
Naomi Warrenfeltz
City considers one week paid vacation for street workers
The Mayor and Council will hold a special session tomorrow night to act on the Board of Street Commissioners recommendation granting all street department employees one week's vacation with pay.
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Counc
Board of Street Commissioners
Street Department
Former Silk Mill Employee Killed in France
Samuel Riley, 24, son of Mrs. M. I. Riley of Falling Waters, was killed in action in France on September 21. He had worked at the Federal Silk Mill in Williamsport before enlisting. He entered service in June 1942 and went overseas in May.
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Samuel Riley
M. I. Riley
Falling Waters
France
Federal Siki
Williamsport
Railroad Trainmen Head Here Asks Workers To Unite Behind Roosevelt
Rey T. Miller, chairman of the Maryland Legislative Board of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, urged union and non union workers in Hagerstown to back the Roosevelt Truman and McMullen ticket. He announced a Thursday unity conference at CAW Hall to begin a county wide drive urging workers and families to vote and learn candidates records on labor issues.
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Roosevelt
Rey T. Miller
Maryland
Hagerstown
Roosevelt Truman
McMul
Washington County
Miller
Labor Organization
Discipline Even In Surrender Biak Island Patrol
On Biak Island interior plateau American outposts witnessed eight starving Japanese soldiers marching to surrender. Lieutenant Mans Jensen recounts the scene as the Japanese officer saluted, ordered a left-face, and directed the line toward surrender. A guard offered a cigarette. the officer slapped the reader, then distributed canned rations among his men. One soldier seized an extra can and was struck on the head with it.
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Biak Island
Dutch New Guinea
Biak
Leutenant
Mans Jensen
Anthony Perone
Nassau
Jensen
Union Threatening Strike Threat Seen as Backstab
Cleveland based Mechanics Educational Society of America leaders threaten to halt war plant work in Ohio Michigan and New Jersey if the dispute is not sent to arbitration. National secretary Matthew L. Smith says many workers could be idled as plants pause, while War Undersecretary Patterson decries the move as a stab in the back of American soldiers in combat.
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Cleveland
Mechanics Educational Society of America
Ohio
Michigan
New Jersey
Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co
Matthew L. Smith
MESA
ASM
Washington
Robert Patterson
Smith
Smion
Gen Ike Chair and Desk Shown by Smithsonian Museum
In Washington the chair and desk used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to command Allied invasion forces are on display at the Smithsonian Institution. The items were donated by Eisenhower and the War Department as part of a new exhibit highlighting the fortress Europe campaign.
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Ike
Wastington
Washington
Dwight PD
Eisenhower
Fortress Europe
Smithsonian Institution
War Department
Encircled Garrison Mystery Near Ninth Army Location
London dispatch notes secrecy surrounds Lt. Gen. William H. Simpsons Ninth Army on the western front. Allied HQ confirms a Sixth Army Group formed by French First Army and American Seventh Army, intensifying speculation that Simpson’s force is part of this arrangement.
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London
William H. Simpson
U. S. Ninth Army
Germany
Simpson
Ninth Army
Geo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ninth
France
Sam Magill
Divorce Suits Set Record High For Month And Year
Five new divorce suits and one decree were filed in court today, bringing the month total to 12 and yearly total to 282, about twice the prewar average. Suits include Gaither E Lewis vs Bertha Mae Lewis and Jean Taylor Moscardini vs Leo Robert Moscardini, with other cases docketed and one decree granted to Pearl C Shank from Russell J Shank.
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Gaither E
France to repay Belgium thirty million pounds
Paris October 11 reports the French government announced repayment of 30 million pounds Belgium entrusted to the Bank of France in 1940 and later handed to the Germans by the Vichy regime.
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Paris
Belgium
Bank of France
Benson Named State Parole Director
F Murray Benson former Baltimore city solicitor was named by Governor O Connor to the post of State parole director succeeding Herman M Moser who yesterday retired with E Paul Mason to fill vacancies on the Baltimore supreme bench. Berlin residents voted to keep the town name Dis t om o a Greek village destroyed by Nazis protest the change as a publicity scheme by Albany Oregon Chamber of Commerce. Warren Hall was fined for riding his bicycle past a phonleyard sign in a county court. Det Tip Atty General James H Tri ip held the legality of a soldier vote cast by a serviceman who may die before the November election.
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F. Murray Benson
Baltimore
O'Conor
Herman M. Moser
E. Paul Mason
Benalls
Ure
Berlin
Distomo
Albany, Ore
Chamber of Commerce
Warren Hall
Harrisablag
Tip
James HL Tri
Massed Big Guns Assault Aachen As City Defies Ultimatum
London dispatch reports massive American artillery and dive bombers striking Aachen after the German commander refused a surrender or die ultimatum. The attack began at noon as 8-inch and 155-mm guns and 105-mm rifles joined bombers, sealing the doom of Aachen and 1500 SS troops. Civilians display white sheets from damaged city windows. about 15,000 civilians remained in cellars of the city’s 165,000 prewar population. Allied forces tightened siege lines north of Aachen, capturing Scharfenberg and Bardenburg and advancing toward Würselen, while German forces pulled back in the south near Haaren.
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London
Aachen
Scharfenberr
Bardenburg
Wurselen
Haaren
Sit
Auen
German Garrison On Corfu Now Isolated
Allied HQ said British troops captured the port of Sarande in Albania, isolating the German garrison on Corfu after a hard battle. About 400 prisoners were taken and the port’s fall jeopardizes any escape to the mainland by the German forces on the island.
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Rome
Albania
Sahrande
Porto Edda
Corfu
Greece
Adriatic
Corinth
Athens
Sarande
P. E. May Seeks Power Group Consolidation
The Public Service Commission approved Potomac Edison to acquire all outstanding stock of Page Power Madison Power and Massanutten Water, uniting under Potomac Edison which serves western Maryland. The four firms run three Shenandoah River plants and about 4400 customers across six counties. A Northern Virginia Power Company merger plan and consolidation talks are noted as potential next steps.
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Public Service Comission
Potomar Edison Company
Page Power Company
Madison Power Corporation
Massanutten Water Corporation
Potomac Edison Company
Maryland
Four Power Companieg
Shenandoah River
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