Germans Leave Stalino After Wrecking City
Soviet and German war bulletins report massive casualties and gains as the Red Army breaches Donets front, capturing Ovchenskina rail junction and dozens of towns. Stalin’s forces advance across northern Ukraine, threatening Stalino and the Dnieper rail hub with potential encirclement before autumn rains.
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Stalino
Moscow
Donets Basin
Staline
Ssriet
Ovchenskina
Dnieperonetrous
Red Army
Ukraine
Kharkov
Bryansk
Rokossovsky
Vatutin
Joseph Stalin
Konotop
Chestnobudka
Kiev
Gomel
White Russia
Pripet
Number Of Buttons Sought By Caller
A young woman asked how many buttons are on a policeman's uniform. A clerk counted with an officer present. The answer for a summer uniform is twenty three buttons. No winter uniform statistics were available.
Officer Promoted Charles Kline to Captain
Boonsboro resident Charles Edwin Kline has been promoted by the War Department from first lieutenant to captain, announced yesterday. The announcement confirms his advancement and continues his military service.
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Charles Edwin Kline
Boonsboro
War Department
Bond Drive To Open Tomorrow In Washington County
The Third War Loan drive in Washington county opens at 10 o clock Thursday morning September 9 with church bells. John D Hollyday is chairman and Robert McCauley vice chairman as plans include theatre talks leaflets and radio broadcasts to reach a $2900 quota by September 30.
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Washington County
John D. Hollyday
Nicodemus National Bank
Robert McCauley
McCauley
Roy Danzer
EL Stuart Bushong
Treasury Department
Hollyday
Rosalind Russell Appears in Third War Loan Film
Rosalind Russell stars in the special Third War Loan film bulletin One Day Sooner at the Maryland Theatre. The drive aims to persuade moviegoers to purchase at least one extra hundred dollar Bond in September. The campaign opens in Hagerstown on Thursday Sept 9 with speakers at local theatres and possibly a World War veteran guest.
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Rosalind Russell
Maryland
Hagerstown
Roosevelt to Speak Tonight on Nationwide Radio Drive
In a description of the campaign efforts, President Roosevelt will address the nation in a special radio talk this evening. The move underscores the intensity of the current drive in the county and marks a high profile effort beyond prior campaigns.
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Roosevelt
G.O.P. Agrees On Post-War Plan
Mackinac Island Michigan September 8 A 1500 word Mackinac Charter urging American participation in a postwar organization of sovereign nations to halt aggression and end civilian control by bureaucratic decree won approval from a broad GOP segment. The two day Little convention backed a two pronged foreign and domestic statement of principles to guide the 1944 platform. Leaders hoped postwar policy remains nonpartisan. The plan calls for responsible participation in a postwar order with organized justice, disarmament of axis forces, and strong home defense.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
Mackinac
Republican Party
GOP
Wreck Toll 78 as Hearings Probe Train Crash
The Pennsy wreck left 78 dead and 95 injured with six in hospitals not yet certain to survive. Marian Berry Mc Cauley, 35, of New York, missing from 541 aboard, prompting anxious searchers for her six year old son Ian. Investigators held a joint hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission to inspect a journal box that ran hot, causing a wheel separation on the seventh car. Sabotage denied by the Washington FBI.
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Washington
New York
Marian Berry McCauley
Ian
McCauley
William Barbour
Marian
International News Service
Tts
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania Public Service Commission
John F. Sears
Washington F. B. I
4-H Members To Make Fair Plans
4 H members meet in County Agent’s office to discuss 4 H participation in the coming Great tingpers town Fair. Vernon Holter Mylo Downey and Mark Miller attend with local 4 H leaders. Properties sold include Charles C Faith tract north of Clearspring 225 acres for 34550 and seven Williamsport pike lots for 1975 sold to Victor Cushwa and Sons.
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Baby
Tingperstown
Vernon Holter
Mylo Downey
State Spoys
Mark Miller
Charles C. Faith
Clearspring
Court House
J. C. Snyder
EB W Ditto, Sr
Williamsport Pike
Snyder
Victor Cushwa and Sons
Williamsport
Contour Plowing Highlighted For Soil Conservation
University of Maryland extension specialist Jon Cotton cited contour plowing as highly effective for conserving soil and moisture during droughts. After touring western Maryland farms, he cited Roy Johnson’s Hancock-area property where contour strip farming reduced erosion and boosted potential corn yields by about 50 percent over neighbors.
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Hancock
Jon Cotton
University of Maryland Extension Service
Cotton
Maryland
Roy Johnson
Johnson
Washington County
M. B. Collins
Soil Conservation Service
Hagerstown
India
China
Sam Abernethy counters rumors with sharp evidence
In town the chief rumor-spiker Sam Abernethy challenges strangers spreading inside news as lies planted by the Axis. He stresses that nine-tenths of rumors about Army camp drinking are unfounded and urges verification before belief.
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Sam Abernethy
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