F D R Invasion of Vote Laden New York City
President Roosevelt appears in New York City as wartime campaign appeals broaden the 1944 effort. He travels with a large press party marking a new public campaign approach and plans further stops in Philadelphia Boston Chicago and Cleveland. Key aides and Mrs Roosevelt join the tour amid a wave of Democratic support and televised radio coverage.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Pearl Harbor
White House
Assocates Press
United Press
Uonal News Service
Iso Im
Presidents Party
Ceasury Henry Morgenthau
Stephen Early
William D. Hassell
Rohert Sherwood
Office of War Information
Ross T. McIntyre
Roosevelt
Stephen Barly
Ebbetts Field
Shibe Park
AFL Teamsters Union
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Senator Wagner
S-Ny
Bronx
Manhattan
Dual highway seen as wartime need near Leitersburg
Photographs document mud and trash along the unfinished dual highway section east of here to Myersville where 250 Myersville residents travel daily to war plants. Rain and ice make the dirt road nearly impassable, bolstering calls for completing the road to Myersville and a potential new Leitersburg bridge over the Antietam.
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Here
Myersville
Middletown
Leitersburg
Antietam
Elgin
Smile Of Victory For Miss Slocombe In Court Dismissal
Miss Lorna Slocombe a Cambridge stenographer smiles as she leaves court after the charge of malicious destruction of property is dismissed. She rose to attention after a tearoom incident when asked if she knew there is a War On and she shouted back leading to nationally publicized headlines.
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Lorna Slocombe
Cambridge
Mass
Miss Slocombe
Banker To Follow With A Bankroll
NEW RICHMOND OH Oct 21 Judge John W Hausserman 76 year old gold king of the Philippines will follow Gen MacArthur back to the islands with a bankroll of millions to aid in restoring then to western world prosperity He plans a personal expenditure of 3 000 000 to 5 000 000 and more if necessary to return his vast gold mine and timber interests to productivity Approximately 10 000 Filipinos were on his payroll with their families probably 60 000 at the time Bataan fell 400 Americans were interned by the Japanese He promised to secure their return to the states and self sufficiency
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New Richmond
John W. Hausserman
Philippines
MacArthur
Islands
Pacific
Ohio River Village
National Bank
Bataan
Haussermann
States
Sharpsburg Social News Notes and Corrections
Oct 18 notes recount visitors from Altoona Roanoke Seattle and Washington along with local social visits. corrections credit omitted names from last week’s Needlework Guild list. a bridge and 500 card party is announced by the Sharpsburg Library Association with local military and travel updates.
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Sharpsburg
Bertie Rohrer Spitsnogle
Altoona
Aimee Whitington
Roanoke
Emma Gloss
M. Taute
Larry Hoover
Aimee Smith
Frederick Schneider
Gratton Smith
Frederick
Martin Norgate
Seattle
Washington
Marecellus Stowe
J. W. Dorsey
Claude Moberly
Mary Mose
C. R. Cox
Austin Cooper
Fannie Lieshear
Elizabeth Smithéeal
John Mose
Alexandria
Var
Wm. A. Wade
Leavettsville
War
Ed. Mose
E.R. Earley and Son
Terry Hay
Ted Neisner
Ballinroe
Sharply Library Association
Warty
At & Delock
Wn Blackford
Waddy
Tuteell
Blackford
South Pacific Theater of War
Miami
Fla
Hugh D. Chapman
Norman Chapman
Mahel Chapman
Yanks Drive Inland In Philippines During Major Invasion
U S forces press inland on Leyte as MacArthur reports consolidating beachhead positions and advancing on all sectors. Air and naval cover limited, yet landings and supplies proceed on schedule amid heavy bombardment and fierce resistance. AP correspondents describe San Jose and Tacloban as largely overrun with advance continuing along inland roads.
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MacArthur
Commmunique
Philippines
Pacific
Marlin Spencer
Normandy
Winston Churchill
France
Cancabato Bay
Asahel Bush
San Jose
Leyte Gulf
California
Pear Harbor
Bush
Tacloban
Leyte
Dog Burial Costs Rise in Clearspring Municipal Fees
A Clearspring official notes rising costs for animal removal and burial after two boys demand 25 cents for a dead dog. He recalls prior interment fees never exceeded 15 cents per animal, while the same town now pays 25 cents to remove two defunct halfgrown cars, as floor blowers similar to amusement park devices are used to dust workers entering defense plants.
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Clearspring
OPA
Berkeley visitors and family updates in brief
Careen and Phyllis and Master Willard Rohrer Jr of Berkeley West Virginia visited last week with Mrs H P Stockslager and Mrs Chas McGraw. Mrs Margaret Howard has been housed at her home by illness. Phyllis Thomas of Hagerstown spent a couple days with her grandparents Mr and Mrs F Gross.
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Careen
Phyllis
Willard Rohrer, Jr
Berkeley
W. Va
H. P. Stockslager
M's. Chas
McGraw
Margaret Howard
Phyllis Thomas
Hagerstown
Rome Hanks' Gold Mined From Dusty Library Files
AP Newsfeatures by Elizabeth Toomey profiles Joseph Stanley Pennell of Junction City Kansas a local writer who spent five years researching and drafting a novel about Rome Hanks in a downtown store building apartment workshop readers learn he pored over more than 1 000 books at the town library and drew comparisons to Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner.
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Elizabeth Toomey
Junction City
Kas
Qet
Joseph Stanley Pennell
Rome
Hanks
Pennell
Stan Pennell
Dewey Attacks Roosevelt on Future Program in Campaign
Dewey challenged Roosevelt to present a real future program as he denounced the New Deal as bankrupt and overreaching. He told Pittsburgh crowds that the president urged working people to obey without questions and warned of a peacetime failure repeat after the war. Dewey planned Albany rest before October 24 Minneapolis and October 25 Chicago campaign stops.
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Dewey
Albany
Roosevelt
New York City
Thomas E. Dewey
New Deal
Pittsburgh
New York
America
Doles
Minneapolis
Chicago
Apples Blown Off By Wind
A Baltimore motorist headed west faced blinding rain and high winds that forced her to turn back. She stopped for gasoline in Ntancock and reported visibility was impossible last night due to the storm.
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Baltimore
Ntancock
Rome Hanks rises to literary fame in wartime tale
A Junction City youth read about 1,000 books before 1940 and, aided by librarian Thelma Baker, wrote five to eight pages daily. He joined the Army in 1942 as a coast artillery lieutenant and found a Scribner's editor who called his work the most remarkable he had seen in years, leading to rapid success with Rome Hanks.
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Thelma Baker
Junction City
Scribner's
Rome Hanks
Severe Storms Hit Baltimore Area with Flooding Delays
Weather reports describe trees blown onto Route 40 near Baltimore causing hours long traffic delays. Cumberland logged 2.4 inches of rain in the last 24 hours ending at 8 am, the heaviest in two years, while the Potomac River rose four feet.
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Baltimore
Route 40
Cumberland
Potomac
Guatemala Revolt Ousts President Led by Officers
Guatemala City reports President Federico Ponce was overthrown in a revolt led by young officers of the Guatemalan Army and university students.
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Guatemala City
Federico Ponce
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