Quezon Dies of Tuberculosis in New York Home
Philippine leader Quezon, exiled after the February 1942 fall of Manila, died at 10 05 am at his Asheville residence. He leaves widow and two daughters Aurora and Maria Zenai and son Manuel Jr. He supported U S action against Spain and Japan and urged resistance as a wartime ally.
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AC Lake
N. Y
Philex Iippine
Juen Quezon
Philippines
Asheville
N. C
Iia Aurora
Maria Zenai
Manuel, Jr
Quezon
Spain
Ince
United States
Ena
U.S. Senate de América
Harry Peddicord Dies In Frederick
Word comes of the death yesterday in a Frederick hospital of Harry Peddicord age about 58 who lived at 689 Na Avenue Winchester for many years. He had ill and was a hospital patient for several months. Peddicord, originally from Frederick, ran a poultry business here and in Martinsburg for about ten years. Brother Charles of Frederick survives. Funeral services will be held sometime Wednesday.
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Harry Ped
Na Avenue
Winchester
Peddicord
Frederick
Martinsburg
Charles
Hammer Rites Held For Alvin Hummer At Macedonia Church
Funeral services were held Sunday for Alvin Hummer a retired farmer of Frederick County. Rev T J Hawkins conducted the service at Macedonia Church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers were Frank Kremers Hugh Carper Carroll Solenberger Cecil Bailey Orie Bailey Olen O Roach. Hymns included The Old Rugged Cross Roll Call Up Yonder and The World Is Not Home. Hummer son of late James and Caroline Ritter Hummer is survived by two children Caroline Allen Turner Bowen Carroll and Alfred Hummer. He was the last member of his immediate family.
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Alvin A.er
Frederick Co.n“Farmer
T. J. Hawkins
Frank Kremers
Hugh Carper
Carroll Solenberger
Cecil Bailey
Orie Bailey
Olen O’roach
Tfig
Republicans Attack Byrd and Roosevelt in Virginia Row
A Roanoke Times editorial criticizes I R Dovel and State Republican actions amid a Virginia Senate vacancy dispute. The letter questions Byrd’s public remarks on Roosevelt, notes Wass’s salary and hotel living, and laments the party’s “coarse and tempered action” as misjudged by Virginians.
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Loss
Dovel
Ofvirginia
Tom Onwealth
Byrdat
Otter
Roosevelt
Wass
Roanoke Times
State Reblican
I. R. Dovel
Glass
Ted States Senate
Ration Calendar Overview from Associated Press
A historical ration calendar fragment notes indefinite validity for several Book four stamps covering meats fats and processed foods, with stamp groups A8 through Z8 and Ab ugh C65. It lists sugar stamps 30 31 and 22 as valid indefinitely for live ds, stamp 40 for home canning through Feb 28 1945, and gasoline rationing notes including 10 A coupons valid through Aug 8 in the northeast and west regions.
Playgrounds Plan Special Events For August Programs
The city playground schedule expands with Dress Up Day at Virginia Avenue on Thursday at 6 30 PM and a parade at 7 PM, plus Handley Playground events Friday afternoon August 4. Awards for costumes, a flower show, a pet show, and a final picnic roundup are planned. Douglas events to be announced as leaders arrange activities. Visitors included Dr. John town and Prof. Powell Gibson with croquet games won by Gibson. Douglas enrollment rose to 128 last week, led by Effie McKinney and Zelma Pinkett.
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Virginia Avenue
Handley Playground
Handley
Douglas
Playoand
Johntown
A. T. Gaskins
Powell Gibson
Jasper Long
Seaman
William Grimes
Spotswood Brown
Prof
Gibson
Douglas Playground
Effie McKinney
Zelma Pinkett
20 Mile Hike No Terror To Daniel B. Wilson
Daniel Boone Wilson, 84, Spanish American War veteran and Paris Va citizen, walked 20 miles to his city on business and planned to return that evening for exercise. He volunteered for army service after Pearl Harbor but was turned down due to age.
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Daniel Boone Wilson
Paris
Mr. Wilson
Pearl Harbor
Wilson
German Marshal Ernst Busch Allegedly Killed Self
Aftonbladet reported from Basel that Marshal Ernst Busch, commander of German forces retreating from White Russia, killed himself after alleged torture at Hitler’s headquarters following a plot against Hitler. He had been missing from the Russian front after a severe mauling.
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Stockholm
Aftonbladet
Ernst Busch
White
Russia
Adolph Hitler
Basle
Switzerland
Hitler
Possible Hitler assassination boosts German leadership fears
The piece argues the late attempted attack on Hitler seems genuine and suggests Himmler used the moment to purge suspicions. A Soviet Embassy bulletin quotes the Allies relying on tanks and shells, not German mutinous generals, and predicts Hitler will die soon, potentially by rope.
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Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Himmler
Germany
Ilya Ehrenlowe
Europe
Answers to the Daily Quiz
Answers to the daily quiz are listed with the correct choices. The page note mentions a printed quiz entry from New York with one question and solution.
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E 4
Russians Press Assault on Warsaw and East Prussia
Soviet forces under Rokossovsky direct a major assault on Warsaw while Cherniakhovsky drives toward East Prussia. Red armies overrun hundreds of localities, split the Baltic states, and push toward Memel as German defenses retreat across the Vistula.
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Warsaw
United Nations
Germany
East Wall
Red
Vistula
Hitler
Rokossovsky
Berlin
East Prussia
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Reich
Cherniakhoyvsky
Pilviskjal
Third
Koenigsberg
Prussia
Riga
Baltic Republics
Ivan C. Ba
Gramian
Latvia
Jelvada
Lilence
Baltic
Jegava
Stalin
Altic
Estonia
Vistula River
Pell Méel
Praga
Prudental Life Assurance Skyer
Cathedral of
St.ohn
Red Army
Poland
Radzmin
Wolomin
Otwock
Kaunas
Jelgava
Baltics
Lithuania
Liepaja
Libau
Memel
Tilsit
Caen
Cologne
Ilya Ehrenburg
Red Star
Americans Drive Germans Back In Brittany Breakthrough
Allied forces push deep into Brittany as American units near Avranches threaten a broad southward push while British troops secure positions around the Eveque forest and Fumechon. German resistance hardens with pockets of surrender and continued counterattacks.
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le Bocage
Coumont
English Channel
Ward
Eveque Forest
Torigno-Sur-Vire
Omar N. Bradley
Avranches
Brittany Peninsula
France
Sartilly
Percy
Tessy-Sur-Vire
Miles C. Dempsey
Fumechon
Bois du Homme Forest
Galet
Dewey Promises Best Peace Plan On Campaign Start
Governor Thomas E. Dewey told Springfield crowds at his first train platform speech that if elected in four years the world would see the best peace. He said America would win the war and that government would be restored to the people, criticizing Roosevelt’s mood and pledging postwar jobs and economy.
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Springffield
Ill
Thomas E. Dewey
Springfield
Dewey
America
United States
Bricker Denies Joint Run With Smith for VP
Gerald L. K. Smith is named presidential nominee of the America First party. Governor John W. Bricker says he is a candidate for vice president on the Republican ticket only. Bricker disavows any connection to the America First slate. The convention also named an electoral college slate backing Smith and a full state ticket.
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Detroit
Gerald L. K. Smith
America First Party
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Smith
Bricker
Columbus
Chicago
Take Steps Continued From Page One
Take Steps money refunded and that they would have to leave. Kuy kendall said the owner called to discuss with health authorities and was given until 2 o'clock to do so. The commonwealth attorney warned legal action would close the show if it did not comply. Dr L M Allen urged that the children's swimming pool not be used. The pool has not been filled recently. The city health officer reported no polio cases and outlined precautions for parents to follow with more details to come on radio and in papers Thursday.
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Kuykendall
Commonwealth
Star
L. M. Allen
Allen
Frederick County Schools Set to Open September 7
The school board decided today that schools will open Thursday September 7 in Frederick County. The annual teachers meeting is dated for Wednesday September 6.
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Frederick County
Philadelphia transit stoppage halts buses and subways over Negro hires
Hundreds of thousands of workers were stranded as a sudden stoppage halted buses trolleys and subways in Philadelphia. The disruption slowed production in a city labeled the nation’s second largest war producer by the War Manpower Commission. Officials said drivers quit in protest over hiring of African American operators, a plan pushed by the fair employment policy and restabilization scheme.
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Priladiess
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Tire Transportation
WMC
Transpogg Worker's Union
CIO
Uni
Stilwell Nominated for Promotion to General Status
President Roosevelt nominated Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of Chinese forces in Burma, to be a full general in the U S Army. The move places him among Marshals and generals and signals likely new duties in the Burma China area.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Joseph Warren Stilwell
Burma
Army of
United States
Stilwell
George C. Marshal
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Burma-China
Rommel and Stuelpnagel Reported Dead in France
The French underground and the Committee of National Liberation said Marshal Erwin Rommel and General Otto von Stuelpnagel died in France. Rommel, commander in Normandy, was described as fatally wounded in an air attack on the Normandy front, while German radio denied the deaths.
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Algiers
Erwin Rommel
Otto von Stuelpnagel
France
Committee of National Liberation
Rommel
Normandy
Secrecy on Cloaked Planes Lifted Across Route
Canadian Press reports secrecy ended on the mass movement of fighting planes from the United States to Russia via the Canadian and Alaskan route. U S sources say about 10 000 American planes have been sent to war fronts since 1941 with roughly half flying through Edmonton and Fairbanks Alaska. A stream of 2200 fronts had reportedly gone to the Russian front via this route in 1944 alone.
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United States
Russia
U. S
Claude Stickley Dies at 75 in Vaucluse Funeral Planned
Vaucluse resident Claude Stickley born September 18, 1888, in Vaucluse, son of Edgar A. and Susie Baker Stickley of Frederick. Survived only by wife Pearl Haldeman of Vaucluse. Funeral Thursday August 3 at 4 PM from Jones Funeral Home with U S Navy Chaplain Allen Jones officiating. Masonic rites at burial in Middletown family lot. Pallbearers listed from Middle town Richmond and Winchester attendees. No flowers except lodge dedications.
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Vaucluse
Edgar A
Susie Baker Stickley
Frederick eGuilty
Stickley
Pearl Haldeman
Jones Funeral Home
Allen Jones
U. S. Navy
Middletown
Cage
W. R. Campbell
Julian Kline
Earl Edwards
Winchester
J. B. Beverley, Jr
Mack Hart
Richmond
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Daniel B. Wilson
Lanting, New York
Fae
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Tobruk
Cherniakhovsky
Gollwitzer
Voronezh
Joe Stilwell
Claude Stickley
Berryville
Boyes
Clarke County
Londonderry
London
Derry
Howard Street
San Francisco
Fort Pitt
Fort Pitt Brewing Company
Pittsburgh, Pa
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