Massive U S Air Strike Hits Manila Targets in Second Day
U S Pacific Fleet chiefs report hundreds of carrier planes in action against Japan and flash attack across Manila Bay including Clark Field, Nichols Field, Cavite, and Subic. Losses were minimal for the U S as 15 planes missing, while Japanese ships and airfields faced heavy damage as commanders Halsey Mitscher and Nimitz hailed a major success.
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U. S.- Pacific
Pearl Harbor
America
Manila
U. S
Corregidor
Clark Field
Nicholas Field
Cavite Oval
Subic
Philippines
Uder Martiabion
United States
Adm
William F. Halsey, Jr
Marc A. Mitscher
Captain Leroy Weddle Returns to United States
Captain Leroy Weddle of Company B arrives at Bolling Field Washington after serving in the invasion of France and the battle of St Lo He was wounded and hospitalised in England and will undergo operations at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington His family plans a reunion and notes his leadership during the attack on St Lo with casualties among Company B members
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Leroy Weddle
France
St. Lo
Basion
Hagerstown
Weddle
Bolling Field
Washington
Walter Reed Hospital
Samuel Weddle
Concord Street
West Antietam Street
St. Lotold
Former Rome Police Chief Executed For Collaboration Acts
Pietro Caruso, Rome police chief under German occupation, was executed for Nazi collaboration, delivering 550 hostages for execution and other acts. The first war crimes trial in Italy sentenced him to die and rejected mercy pleas. Prince Umberto reportedly denied clemency.
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Rome
Pietro Caruso
Caruso
Italy
New York
Umberto
Pietro Czuruso
Allied Army Drives Deep Into Po Valley After Rimini Win
Allied forces widened the Adriatic offensive with a rapid drive into the Po valley after capturing Rimini seaport. American Fifth Army seized Firenzuola as Gothic line defenses buckled, threatening Kesselring’s positions. The push signals a severe setback for Nazi defenses and tightens the corridor toward Bologna.
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Rome
Rimini
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Firenzuola
Albert Kesselring
Bologna
Tomorrow Final Day To Register Before Election
Tomorrow is the last day to register. The Board of Election Supervisors office will stay open tonight and tomorrow evening to accommodate eligible voters and transfers. The office has processed over 100 new registrations and numerous transfers this past week, with more than 200 new voters registered this month.
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Board of Election Supervisors
James Fenton Houck Granted Divorce from Eugenia Houck
James Fenton Houck has been granted a divorce from Eugenia Houck. The complainant was represented by attorney Calvert K. Hartle.
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James Fenton Houck
Eugenia Houck
Calvert K. Hartle
Local Boy Wounded In French Action
Staff Sergeant Vernon B Barr was slightly wounded in France on September 1. He is in an English hospital after reporting wounds to his mother Mrs Mamie Barr and father Nevin Barr at 147 South Locust Street. He says his injuries affect his right hand and forearm.
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Vernon B. Barr
France
Mamie Barr
South Locust Street
Nevin Barr
England
Two Youths Held For Larceny Here
Two youths accused of stealing 640 dollars from concessionist John Craburr at the Fairgrounds were arrested in Harrisburg after a station operator reported a large roll of bills. David Jones, 16, of Smithsburg, and James Horsley, 22, of Louisiana, confessed and planned to travel to Louisiana in an Oldsmobile, have 275 dollars on hand, and await trial in Harrisburg before being returned to Hagerstown.
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Fairgrounds
David Nathanial Jones
Smithsburg
James Horsley
Louisiana
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Verbeki
William H. Peters
Pittsburgh
John Craburr
Peters
Craburri
Jones
Horsley
Hagerstown
Reds Near Hungarian Frontier
Moscow reports Russian forces advancing rapidly from the east and from Riga toward Tallinn and the Hungarian border. Gen Bor claims contact with Polish Partisans inside Warsaw after crossing the Vistula and delivering supplies. Riga is besieged as Red Army presses toward Arad and Tapa while Carpathian fronts push at Dukla Pass.
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Moscow
Tallinn
Bor
Warsaw
Vistula
Estonia
Arad
Hungary
Tapa
Latvia
Riga
Baltic States
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Dukla Pass
Accused Slayer Spirited Away
A Preston Maryland business owner was shot and killed and a tavern owner described as black was arrested and taken to Baltimore by state police to escape a mob at Denton. Troopers patrolled Preston as unrest spread after the incident. The Hance Hall tavern burned during a storm. police could not confirm lightning as cause. Calm returned but bands remained in evidence.
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Baltimore
Preston
Denton
Hance
J. Philip Wright
Wright
Civilians Get All Butter After Oct 1
Washington glucose: The War Food Administration announced that from October no butter production will be set aside for government purchases until spring. The entire October output will go to civilians, with low seasonal production likely keeping dairy supplies below civilian demand for the rest of the year. Since April, 10 to 50 percent had been reserved for lend lease and military use. WPA indicated no dairy surplus when the war ends due to continued needs of armed forces and allies and few reserves.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
WPA
Germany
Bombers Hit Kassel Rail Center in World War II Action
Allied heavy bombers estimated at 700 attacked Kassel, a key Prussian rail hub, behind the Siegfried Line. The Kassel raid followed an assault by forces pushing to outflank German positions in the Holland theater amid ongoing strategic bombardment.
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London
Kassel
Holland
Willkie aide cites Dewey weakness in policy leadership
Rus sell W Davenport, Willkie's 1940 personal representative, argues in American Mercury that Dewey will lose several million liberal Republican votes for failing to present a firm policy line. Davenport says such leadership contradicts liberal Republican expectations for the party.
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New York
Russell W. Davenport
Wendell L. Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Davenport
Mercury
Women Invited To Hear Casey Here Tonight
The Democratic rally at Grice Building Headquarters Club will open to women and all attendees. Eugene Casey, Roosevelt adviser on farm issues, will speak on administration policy for agriculture. Daniel F. McMullen, candidate for Congress, also will speak. President Wm. Preston Lane Jr. will preside as the campaign gains momentum.
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Brewer L. Stouffer
Democratic Organization
Women's Club
Roosevelt- Tydings-McMuhen
Eugene Casey
Roosevelt
Daniel F. McMullen
Congress
Spead
Wm. Preston Lane, Jr
Grice Building
Democratic Organization Club
Baltimore
Mr. Lane
Sale Reveals Plans for Forte Building Site
The Forte building at 1a West Washington street will be occupied by People’s Clothing Company from the Newberry building while Newberry plans a new store after the war. Frater Realty of New York bought the Porter property for 45000 dollars. The three story structure fronts 20 feet on West Washington with offices above. J Newberry Company owns the store site and the People’s Clothing Company property and plans construction on the same site.
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Forte
West
Washington Street
Higerstow: Realty Company
Thom McAnn Shoe Company
People's Clothing Company
Newberry
Newberry Company
Frater Realty Company of
New York
Washington
J. J. .Ewberry Company
Accopies
Peoples Clothing Company
Banner Day Seen As Hagerstown Fair Attendance Booms
Great Hagerstown Fair thrives under ideal weather with Friday expected to break attendance records. President A. K. Coffman thanks patrons as exhibitors note strong business late into the night. Rain and a thunderstorm disrupted events yet grandstand shows drew capacity crowds. The 1944 exhibition ends tomorrow labeled School Day with free admission for school age children.
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Hagerstown
A. K. Coffman
Costly Tip For Young Dickie Howard
Nine year old Dickie Howard was crossing a Funkstown street when a driver in a light green car stopped and asked for the ten dollar bill that had blown out. Dickie picked it up and handed it over for 50 cents, later learning at the store that the ten dollars had fallen from his own pocket and that the driver had witnessed it.
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Dickie Howard
Funkstown
George H. Howard
Sheriff's Office
Dickie
Finnish Roundup of Germans Ordered by Armistice
Helsinki reports a roundup of Germans begun yesterday as required by the Russian armistice terms. Minister K. A. Fagerholm called the terms hard but said they would be fulfilled.
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Helsinke
Finland
K. A. Fagerholm
Inventions Feature Monogrammed Waffle and Gopher Burrow
The Official Gazette of the U S Patent Office lists new civilian inventions after wartime advances. Giovanni Frova of Jackson Heights N Y patents an automatic cherry de clustering and distribution device while Ernest Alfred of San Francisco yields a multi purpose clothespin. William W Garstang of Indianapolis designs a monogrammed waffle iron with removable monogram plugs. Clayton B Falmer of Harvard Massachusetts describes a sheet metal artificial burrow with weatherproof features.
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Washington
Oficial Gazette
U.S. Patent Office
Giovanni Frova
Jackson Heights
N. Y
Ernest
Alfred
San Francisco
Cal
William W. Garstang
Indianapolis
Gazette
G. L
Clayton B. Falmer
Harvard
Blast at Chicago School Chief Home Injures Johnson
A dynamite bomb exploded at the home of William H. Johnson, superintendent of Chicago public schools, wounding him and smashing windows within two blocks. His wife and eight year old daughter Patricia escaped unharmed as Johnson aided his child from the bed. Police called it not amateur and linked it to the two week fight over the abolished school transfer system prompting meetings and legal action.
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Chicago
William H. Johnson
Chicago Public Schools
Johnson
Patricia
German General Captured Near Lure in France
Allied dispatch reports Maj. Gen. D Rodowski, commander of the Clermont garrison, captured in a southeast France farmhouse cellar west of the Bel fort gap near Lure. His force was scattered by the 7th Army drive north from the Riviera. only a noncommissioned officer was taken prisoner.
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France
Belfort Gap
Lure
D. Rodowski
Clermont
Pierre Laval
7Th Army
Riviera
Democratic ad urges all to hear Dewey speeches
A paid Vancouver Daily Sun ad urged all voters to listen to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's radio campaign speeches. The Clark County Democratic committee signed the notice, with chairman Edgar Swan stating that more Dewey listeners would boost Roosevelt votes.
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Vancouver
Wash
Vancouver Daily Sun
Thomas E. Dewey
Clark County
Democratic Committee
Dewey
Roosevelt
Edgar Swan
Ringworm Patients Free To Borrow Library Books
Washington County Free Library will allow children under ringworm treatment to borrow books again after Health Department assurances. Previously patients were denied due to contagion caution, but a Health Officer note to librarian Mary Louise Holzapfel stated treated children with closely cut hair are safer to attend public places and schools.
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Washington County Free Library
Health Department
Mary Louise Holzapfel
North Potomac Porch Used by Nightly Couples Claim
A North Potomac resident asked police to monitor her front porch after alleging it is used almost nightly by young couples for immoral purposes. Police report the shaded porch faces the street and provides a convenient trysting spot, and they vow to keep a sharp lookout.
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North Potomac Street
Arm Breaks in Fall at Huyett School Grounds
A student, B. Wallech Emmert, toppled from a whin nelier at near Huyett's on the school grounds this morning, breaking an arm in two places at the wrist and elbow. Also reported, Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard, a renowned British bomber pilot and DSO recipient, was killed in action in London.
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Emmert. B. Wallech
Azed
Huyett’s
London
Percy Charles Pickard
Britain
Allied airborne forces enter Arnhem and advance on Rhine bridge
Allied troops entered Arnhem and pressed near the bridge over the Rhine's main branch the Waal as British and American parachutists shelled German positions. Reports said Arnhem was aflame and German withdrawals were under way, with two miles gained north of Nijmegen and six miles to Arnhem. The push paralleled the larger Allied effort against the Siegfried line and Ruhr works as the 1st Allied Airborne Army held its exposed position since Sunday.
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Rhine River
Nijmegen
Holland
Arnhem
The
Reich
Siegfried Line
London
Ruhr
Rhine
Waal
3Rd
Normandy
Germans Abandon Peloponnesus as Balkans front shifts
CAIRG reports German forces have abandoned most of Peloponnesus, Greece's southern sector, a 8356 square mile area linked to the mainland by a narrow bridge. Towns include Sparta, Patras, Pyrgos and Kalamai. German withdrawals follow Soviet advances in Romania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Baron von Weichs seeks to extricate remaining troops.
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CAIRG
Peloponnesus
Greece
Athens
Sparta
Patras
Pyrgos
Kalamai
Romania
Bulgaria
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Baron Maximilian von Weichs
Balkans
Youth Held In Gasoline Theft Case In City
A fifteen year old Chestnut Alley boy is under arrest amid a theft ring probe. Police seek another youth connected to stealing gasoline from tanks at Central Chemical Company parked at night. Detectives report multiple gallons stolen and ongoing investigations into the suspects.
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Trom Incks
Central Chemical Company
Company & More
Aries
Stampet
Civ
Mitche Lanis Ko
Cenigal Chemical Campray
Hasaline Ie
Leveyty
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Chester W. Nimitz
Co. B’s
U.S
Gothlic Line
Reds
Willkie
Casey
Sky
Hagerstown Fair
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