Yanks Reach 11 Miles From Reich Border In France
American and British forces push toward the German border from Verdun to the Belgian frontier. Vimy Ridge falls to British troops as German lines withdraw. German defense falters across Pas-de-Calais with reports of departures from Boulogne Calais and Dover buzz in coastal towns.
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Moselle
Verdun
Siegfried
France
Belgium
Vimy Ridge
Flanders
Armentieres
Frerch
Low Countries
Holland
15Th Army
Pas-de-Calais
Hitler
Pas-de-Ca-las
Finis
Pas- de-Calais
Folkestone
Dover
Boulogne
Hkely
Calais
Buffalo Count In Yugoslavia Reaches 28 In 1939
In 1939 Yugoslavia reported a buffalo population of 28 head. The brief note records a small livestock statistic from that year and place.
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Yugoslavia
Garrison Named Equitable Agent for Hagerstown
H. M. Garrison was announced as Equitable Life Assurance Society agent for Hagerstown and area. He will operate from Tae Terrace home. The company also disclosed five million dollars available to local homeowners for mortgage loans.
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H. M. Garrison
Hagerstown
Equitable Life Assurance Society
United States
Garrison
Tae Terrace
Equitable Company
Eequitable
Equitable
Nhot
Red Army makes gains near Praga amid Romanian border unrest
report from Sofia notes riots on streets while Moscow reports Red Army capturing a dominating height near Praga, holding against counterattacks that cost German infantry two companies. Analysts expect a long static eastern front until a major German front is broken. A Bucharest dispatch cited a large demonstration as Red Army prisoners from Stalingrad arrived, with armistice talks looming.
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Red Army
Praga
Warsaw
Moscow
Stelin
Associated Press
Joseph Morton
Bucharest
Stalingrad
Russia
Romania
No New FSA Loans Seen Here This Year
State FSA Director John D. Leatherman said loans will be scarce due to a backlog of applications. Only cases filed last year, about twenty times the loan allotment, may receive action. He noted difficulty locating family type farms at reasonable prices as current price levels exceed long term earnings. Virgil Dolly, FSA representative for Washington county, works from the county agent’s office each Monday.
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FSA
Washington County
John D. Leatherman
Virgil Dolly
Local Quotations of Farm Prices and Commodities
Furnished by Kilme Broe Benevol Local Prices Paid Producers Wheat at barn Butter onions potatoes eggs lard cabbage apples fowl ham chickens and other items listed with unit prices. OPA ceiling prices noted for certain items.
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Kilme Broe
Ordnance Display Opens in City for Aberdeen Proving Ground Drive
A wartime display of captured and American ordnance is set in Hagerstown at the Gas Company Public Square to recruit civilians for Aberdeen Proving Ground. Major Roy Brown announces postwar opportunities, with interviews hosted by A M Tatro at the U S Employment Office September 4 to 9, housing and transport provided.
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France
Aberdeen
Major Brown
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Brown
A. M. Tatro
Civil Service
Hagerstown
United States Employment Office
Pope Defends Private Property and Condemns Capitalism
Pope Pius XII in a world broadcast defended private property as the cornerstone of social order while condemning capitalism for claiming unlimited control over property. He urged a peace based on Christian principles, noted potential force to prevent further wars, and called for global cooperation in security with vanquished nations sharing in civilization’s benefits. The address stressed the war’s end in Europe and rejected unlimited property rights that allow vast riches to dominate economies.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Vatican Radio
Europe
Arlington man dies in trolley collision in Baltimore
John Haney 8 of Arlington Virginia dies from injuries in a collision between a trackless trolley and a car in Baltimore. His mother Harriett Haney 32 is killed. Four others injured and 17 hurt in a nearby trolley trailer crash five blocks away.
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Baltimore
John Haney
Arlington
Harriett Haney
Board defers license decision for CIO club bar
The Washington County Board of Liquor License Commissioners postponed ruling on the DAW-CIO Local 842 club license for a bar in the former Knights of Pythias Building on West Franklin Street. The deferment followed the chairman's absence and testimony review. Protests were filed by Junior Fire Co and nearby residents. CIO officials pledged legal closing time and noise controls, with possible soundproofing for post midnight dances. Attorney D A Wolfinger represented the fire company.
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Board of Liquor License Commissioners
Washington County
Daw-Cio
Lcense
Knights of Pythias
West
Franklin Street
Liquor Board
Robert J. McCauley
Junior Fire Co
CIO
CI0
Fire Company
D. A. Wolfinger
Colonel Whitney Is Nazi Prisoner Captured in Germany
War Department spokesman said Col. John Wray Whitney was captured by the Germans with no details given. Whitney, wealthy horse racing and polar enthusiast, linked to Betsy Cushing ex-wife of James Roosevelt, husband of the president's eldest son.
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Washington
War Department
John Wray
Jock) Whitney
Whitney
Betsy Cushing
James Roosevelt
Tito's forces claim Yugoslav gains near Uzica and Montenegro
A broadcast from Marshal Tito's headquarters reports partisan troops captured Ndubei northwest of Uzica on the Sarajevo Nis railway and also took Rerane and Savnik in Montenegro. The communique emphasizes advances by Tito's forces across occupied Yugoslavia amid World War II background.
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Tito
London
Marshal Tito
Ndubei
Uzica
Sarajevo-Nis
Rerane
Savnik
Montenegro
Fragmentary OCR Summary of a Technical Note
The readable text shows garbled phrases about trimming, sizing, patterns, and payment terms. It mentions Aistinetio Na and references for pattern sizing and printing data. No coherent event or persons are identifiable from the fragment.
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Rawaeter
War Production Chief Urges Relentless Push On Munitions
Washington dispatch reports J. A. Krug, named head of the War Production Board, commanding 150 aides to hammer away at production schedules and to stay on until civilian industry is restored. He pledges no major staff shakeup and stresses eliminating wartime controls as soon as feasible.
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Washington
J. A. Krug
War Production Board
WPS
Donald Nelson
China
Krug
WPB
Baureau Chhefs
Bremen Bombed by Mosquito Bombers in Northwestern Port
London dispatch says British Mosquito bombers attacked Bremen, hitting a three mile stretch of docks and the commercial center. The raid followed an August 25 strike that devastated most of Atlaswerke shipyards and twenty Weser dock warehouses.
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London
Bremen
Atlaswerke
Weser
Auto With Baby In Rear Stolen Found
Woodstock police recovered a stolen car on Stratford outskirts less than two hours after it was taken from a local street. A seven month old baby, Michael Gerofsky, slept in the back seat during the theft.
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Woodstock
Ont
Stratford
Here
Michael Gerofsky
David Gerofsky
Rainy day feeds soldiers at Nashville station
Through Union Station yesterday, F S Joes passed and were treated to fried chicken and trimmings free after rain shortened a National Life and Accident Insurance Company employee picnic. President E W Craig redirected surplus food to feed soldiers as they passed through. A skeptical soldier joked about the gesture.
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Nashville
Tenn
F. S. Joes
Aville
Union Station
Yester
National Life and Accident Insurance Company
E. W. Craig
Granted Divorce in Mish from Paulsgrove case
Harry M. Paulsgrove was granted absolute divorce by Judge Joseph J. Mish from Mar and Paulsgrove. John J. Allen served as attorney for the parties. The ruling finalizes the end of the marriage with Mish overseeing the proceeding.
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Harry M. Paulsgrove
Tarlas
Judes
Joseph J. Mish
Mar & Paulsgrove
John J. Allen
Farm Machinery Rationing Set For Maryland 1944
The War Production Board will make initial 1944 45 farm machinery allotments available for distribution to Maryland farmers. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reports a double 1924 25 quota and near 1945 46 levels. Washington county AAA notes an urgent need for 43 tractors. Initial nine machine types receive county quotas with totals: marine spreaders 577 combines 200 corn binders 77 corn pickers 101 mowers 110 side delivery rakes 315 hay loaders 324 pick up balers 73 farm tractors 1 048.
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Meetoes
Aeensdiays
Maryland
Vccunu
Washington County
Nazis breach Gothic Line near Pisa in Italy
Dispatches report American troops of Japanese ancestry seizing southwest Pisano massif while Germans retreat along the Gothic Line behind Pisa. Field Marshal Rommel quotes the line as the last stand before the Brenner Pass, with heavy resistance and a three week hold hoped. Allied forces push toward the Po River, about 96 air miles away, and 229 miles from the Brenner Pass.
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Pisa
Pisang
Albert Resserring
Brenner Pass
Bath
Po River
Brenner Dass
Amos Of Comedy Team Of Radio Is Married
Free man Gosden aged 45 known as Amos in the Amos and Andy radio duo married Jane Stoneham daughter of the late New York Giants owner Charles Stoneham. The ceremony took place at a friend's Beatin Casterday ranch with Gosden Jr. as best man and Virginia Gosden as maid of honor. Armas’ radio partner Charl Correll attended with Mrs Correll.
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Hollywoom
Freeman Gosden
Amos
Amy
Jane Stonehant
Charles Stoneham
New York Giants
Beatin
Casterday
Freeman Gosden, Jr
Virginia Gosden
Armas
Charl P. Correll
Military subcommittees say Selective Service will rise
Costello reports the armed services are over the hump and the selective service calls will be reduced thereafter. The statement marks a shift in active conscription policy as Washington observers await further action.
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Washington
Costello
T-Cal
Heleves
Armed Services
Car Recovered After Theft Near Funkstown and Lancaster
The automobile of Howard Grove, taken from Funkstown Monday, was recovered in Lancaster Ohio. Deputies report two youths in possession of the car. identities not learned. They may be returned for trial or charged under the Federal auto theft act. Dean’s list noted for Winters and Krebs from Franklin and Marshall College.
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Howard Grove
Funkstown
Stoten
Lancaster
John B. Kusett
Bravery Of Dieppe Raiders Praised By Nazis
Eyewitness notes from HEPPEL on September 1 describe admiration by German soldiers for the Canadian British and American participants in the Dieppe raid. French cemetery keeper recalls orders to place coffins for each Allied fallen and says locals felt the Allies deserved victory.
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Dieppe
Heppel
Army of War Strength May Long Be Needed
The chief of staff outlines two peacetime military models. One relies on a professional soldier class as in Germany and Japan, which risks political objections. A second, smaller citizen army could be reinforced in emergencies, with four proposals: encourage citizen leadership, minimize peacetime costs, rely on former civilians as wartime leaders, and perfect a traditional non-professional army.
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Tom
Petey
Germany
Japan
Marshall
Improvements At The Fairgrounds
Pols to house several hundred sheep are being erected along the west side of the Poultry Building on the Fairgrounds. A number of other improvements on the vast ground have been made and already everything is in shipshape for the coming exhibition. The main entrance is being retained both outside and in and a number of changes made to the offices. The Boston Long Company has been given the contract to resurface all the drive and walkways, which work will be done next week. President A. K. Coffman is personally supervising the work.
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Boston Long Company
A. K. Coffman
Grant Music Head Leaves To Study For Doctorate
Victor Marietta director of instrumental music in Washington county public schools has been granted a leave of absence for the coming year by the Board of Education to pursue studies toward a doctoral degree at Columbia University. He holds a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania. The Marietta family will relocate from Mulberry Avenue to New York City for the duration.
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Victor Marietta
Washington County
Bar of Education
Columbia University
New York City
University of Pennsylvania
Marietta
Patricia
Mulberry Avenue
New York
Germans Admit Belgium Lost In War Update
Allied advance continues as German forces withdraw from Belgium and northern France. Reports describe unrest in Brussels and flooding plans by Germans to slow invasion. AP correspondent notes brutal killings in Plo mion near the Belgian frontier and coastal gun duels near Dover as the long coastline of Alaska is cited.
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Berlin
Brussels
Belgium
Helland
Low Countries
Associated Press
William Smith White
Plomion
France
Channel
Dover
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