Point Values On Rationed Meats Stay Unchanged
Washington reports rationed meat point values hold for the four week period from September 3 to September 30 while some cheese and canned milk costs rise. Group 3 cheeses increase from 8 to 10 points per pound and canned milk costs drop to one point per pound. Creamery butter remains at 16 points. process butter rises from 6 to 12. Overall civilian meat supply up 2.1 percent, but higher grade meat points down 10 percent.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administration
OPA
Theft Nets $30 At Shady Rest Dance Hall
Deputy Sheriff said the theft occurred last night at the Shady Rest Dance Hall near Gore. The intruder broke the cash register and about $30 was missing. owners Arnold Bartley Jr and wife reported hearing someone inside after 10 o clock and called police. no suspect found.
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Robert DeHaven
Shady Rest
Gore
Arnold Bartley, Jr
C. B. Kerns
Russians Drive Toward Bucharest After Ploesti Victory
Soviet forces under Malinovsky say they captured more than 200 towns around Ploesti and northeast of Bucharest, advancing toward the Romanian capital. German losses in the Ploesti defense are described as tremendous as Red Army units push through Dobruja toward the Danube.
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Rodion V. Malinovsky
Ukraiian
Ploesti
Bucharest
Meriuta
Malinovsky
Transylvania
Eastern
Carpathian Mountains
London
Red
Moscow
Heil
Weitzer
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Black Sea
Dobruja
Serbia
Stalin
Squirrel Season Opens September 15 in County
Local hunters are told the squirrel season begins September 15 with a split period through September 30 and a regular hunt from November 20 to January 5. Shell rules restrict use for vermin control on farms and require landowner permission where posted.
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Seee Eeerbons
Pingley
De Gaulle Heads French Provisional Government Amid War Unrest
Paris reports the French National Committee of Liberation naming Gen. Charles de Gaulle as president of the council to head a provisional government. The move aims to guide France until a general election after prisoners and deportees vote. Fighting near Paris continues with clashes around Champigny and arrests of alleged collaborators, including Madame Titayna and Francois Lehideux.
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Paris
French National Committee of Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Germany
Champaign
Madame Titayna
Francois Lehideux
Vichy Automobile Industry
Revolts Flare in Slovakia Sparked by Tito Agents
Berlin acknowledged a revolutionary movement in Slovakia with garrisons deserting and riots in several towns. DNB cited partisan and Tito Yugoslav agent activity, calling outbreaks Bolshevist terror and noting priest murders and assaults on women. Tito appealed for aid, which Germany granted.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Slovakia
DNB
Foreign Office
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Joseph Tito
Germany
Nearly 300 Jap Ships Knocked Out
The report states the United States Navy has about 65,000 vessels including 1 150 aircraft carriers battleships cruisers destroyers and submarines with a building program now over half finished. American bombers pounded Halmahera for the fourth heavy strike in two weeks delivering 514 tons of explosives. MacArthur praised the raid on Halmahera as a hit on Japan’s heart, while other Southwest Pacific bombers targeted Davao. Central and north Pacific air forces maintained pressure on Japan with night Liberator raids near Tokyo and Aleutian actions against Paramushiro.
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United States Navy
Philippines
Halmahera
Bigg Douglas MacArthur
Davao
North Pacific
Japan
Tokyo
Paramushiro
Nazis Lose Heavily Since D Day Invasion
Allied forces in northern France report over 400 000 Nazi casualties since D Day with 25 divisions destroyed and 18 more severely mauled General Eisenhower says Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army have been decisively defeated dragging down large portions of two other armies Heavily damaged are five Panzer divisions 20 infantry divisions and 500 assault guns plus coast artillery losses reported to the War Department
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Washington
France
Eisenhower
Seventh Army
War Department
Local Markets and Market Corrections Note
Local markets update notes accuracy while acknowledging that typographical errors may occur. The Star disclaims responsibility for any such mistakes and urges readers to verify critical figures.
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The
Star
Local Wholesale Flour Prices At Market
Readable items show price notes for flour in 10 lb bags and per 100 lbs, plus entries for mixed feed and butter fat. The fragment suggests standard wholesale and retail pricing in a local market listing.
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Presser St
U S Casualties Near 284000 in World War II Update
Army casualties rose to 284838 as of August 13 with navy losses at 58353, totaling 343191 across services. Patterson cited heavy fighting in northern France late July and noted movement warfare lowers daily casualties. Southern France invasion losses through August 24 add 1247 killed or missing and 5090 wounded but are excluded from the August 13 totals.
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Washington
France
Armed Services
Patterson
Thompson Taken Into Custody for Forgery
Chief of Police C. W. Hollis announced that Robert Thompson had been apprehended and would be brought to Winchester to stand trial. A Corporation Court grand jury returned a true bill against Thompson on four counts of forging checks to Mrs. M. E. Whitney.
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C. W. Hollis
Robert Thompson
Winchester
Corporation Court
Thompson
M. E. Whitney
Buffeting Storms Mosquitos Hit Rail Targets Across Front
American and RAF bomber crews hunted trains and tracks from the fighting front toward German lines. They flew through 500 foot cloud breaks and left rolling stock burning from the Ardennes to Metz and Saarbrucken. At Sedan a mass of railroad cars drew in a Mosquito strike.
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Ers
Ardennes Gap
Metz
Saarbrucken
Sedan
Allied Drive Pushes Deep Into Northern France Front
American, British, and Canadian forces surged toward the Belgian frontier from the Seine to the Somme. Eisenhower said the campaign is running ten days ahead of schedule as Hodges’ First Army and Bradley’s command push toward key towns including Laon, Reims, Rouen, and Amiens.
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Belgium
Dieppe
Seine
le Havre
Rouen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
Courtney H. Hodges
Laon
U. S. Third Army
St. Dizier
Vitry
Germany
Paris
Amiens
Somme
First Army
Abbeville
Dunkeraue
Hodges
Senlis
Crepy
Compiegne
Marne
Ardennes Road
Cathedral
Reims
Vesley River
Aisne
Soissons
Epernay
Les Grandes
German Army Remnants Face Heavier Losses in France Front
Allied dispatch describes German losses including 2000 motor vehicles and 27 anti tank guns as German remnants conduct rearguard actions near Livron Montelimar and the Alps. American and Allied columns press, retaking Clary and pushing toward the Lyon frontier amid heavy enemy retreats.
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Alexander M. Patch
Livron
Drome River
Valence
Chapeuil
Lyon
Liv
Montelimar
Patch
Clary
Alps
Switzerland
Larche
Mt. Genevre
Sor Ivonad
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Russia
J. Henry McIntosh
Palm Beach
Fla
Gap
Signal Corps Radiophoto
International
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de Sas
U. S
Fallen Vitry
Saar
Maginot Line
Verd
Nancy
Maginot
Siegfried Lines
Ardennes Forest
Berryville
Boyce
Clarke County
Brent Suit
Brent
Pi Lncannncey Mill
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