Armistice Day Observed In City And Abroad
U S Superforts blasted Nanking Shanghai and Omura while Armistice Day observances began nationwide. In the city crowds paused for a memorial at the Court House with marching bands, prayers, and a service at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. President Roosevelt attended the tomb of the unknown soldier as Meuse Argonne memorial rites resumed in France with Brig Gen Doran delivering the keynote.
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Court House
Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
Ronalds. Wilson
Ramparts
Legion
Fairfax High School
Washington
Roosevelt
Arl
Stimson
Navy
Forrestal
Edwin M. Watson
Holland
Meuse—Argonne Romagne
France
Meuse-Argonne
Charles R. Doran
WAC
Twelveh Army Group
Veterans Should Sit In At Peace
Washington November 11 Veterans of this war should sit at the peace table to assure a lasting peace said Edward N Scheiberling National Commander of the American Legion in Armistice Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery He urged redeeming pledges to widows and orphans and said veterans must help formulate enduring peace not leave it to statesmen alone He noted the sacrifice of two wars and called for correcting hardship faced by widows and children left behind
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Washington
Edward N. Scheiberling
Amercan Legion
Arlington National Cemetery
Scheiberling
America
Het
Home Made Oxygen Mask Death Highlights Dangers
Chicago reports a 15 year old aviation enthusiast, Roland E. Lambert Jr., died testing a home made oxygen mask. The device used an old automobile inner tube as the supply and rubber tubing over a valve. Firemen failed to revive him as he tried to adjust the valve before suffocation.
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Chicago
Roland E. Lambert, Jr
Lambert
Churchill in Paris for parleys with de Gaulle
Paris reports Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden arrived by plane for talks with General de Gaulle on postwar France Britain relations and French military rearmament. The visit aims to reassure France align on European and Pacific war efforts and future occupation roles.
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Paris
Churchill
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
France
Anthony Eden
Union
London
Roosevelt
Stalin
Germany
Eden
Churchills
Mary
Alexander Cadogan
de Gaulle
U. S. Air Transport Command
Yanks 20 Miles From Saar Border Crucial Battle Developing At Leyte
Japanese forces under Yamashita push reinforcements toward western Leyte as 100000 battle lines form near Ormoc. Allied air and naval units hit a 19-ship convoy delivering troops, with heavy rains aiding the Japanese gamble. The clash marks the fiercest fighting since MacArthur’s return on October 20.
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Saar Border
Leyte
Evaniel Gene MM
MacArthur
Philippines
Japan
Tiger
Mayaya
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Ormoc
Douglas MacArthur
U.S
Ormoc Bay
Lightning
Mitchell
Girl Slayer Is Found Dead Near School Stadium
Salem authorities closed the Marie Rose Lacombe murder case as 21-year-old Wilfred J Marquis was found dead by gas poisoning in a Salem lodging house. District Attorney Hugh A Cregg said Marquis, linked to a recent auto larceny case in Illinois, confessed or implied involvement after the killing. The body was discovered after relatives recalled his activities following a night with his father.
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Salem
Mass
Marie Rose Lacombe
Hugh A. Cregg
Cregg
Wilfred J. Marquis
the Common
Salem Common
Blood donor drive appeals for 400 more volunteers
31 people volunteered yesterday for the three day clinic with 61 total to date far short of the seven or eight hundred needed. Lt. William P. McGuire on leave from the Pacific described plasma as a life saver and urged local citizens to donate while hospital ship crew members kept a local blood bank active.
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Red Cross
William P. McGuire
Pacific
Commander McGuire
Rockets Hurl From Movable Sites Near The Hague
Eindhoven dispatch reports that early rockets used movable launch sites near The Hague. A Dutch survivor says civilians were cleared from the area as rockets were towed in and fired, with the peace palace jolted by the blasts. He notes the launch roar exceeded that of hundreds of Allied bombers and describes a massive self propelled launcher.
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Eindhoven
Holland
England
Hague
Peace Palace
Wanted Presser Apply Pingley & Car Cleaners
Classified notice seeking a presser for Pingley and Company Cleaners Bingo Berryville listing a job on Tuesday November 14 at 8 p m with advertisement shorthand showing page and type codes for the item.
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Pingley & Carper
Unsuccessful Prison Break at Lewisburg Penitentiary
Three prisoners in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, attempted to escape the federal penitentiary shortly after nine this morning. Tear gas dispersed the group as they confronted prison staff near the entrance, injuring none. Guards reacted when the men forced a medical officer and a nurse toward the gates, and one assailant released tear gas bombs as they entered the sally port. The prisoners are detained for questioning.
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Washington
Nov. K
Federal
Lewisburg
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Edward Rinck
Miss Ruttkay
Bureau
Public Sale At 1007 S Cameron Street
Public sale Monday November 13 at 1 pm features household and kitchen furniture. Auction held by C L Ritenu r at 1007 South Cameron Street.
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S. Cameron St
C. L. Ritenour
Jack Coffee Shoppe to close Sundays until further notice
The Jack Coffee Shoppe will be closed all day each Sunday until further notice.
Battle Rages Fourth Day Near Metz as U S Forces Press On
U S tanks and infantry surge past the Metz region as Third Army under Lt George Patton advances toward the Saar border. Reports say 600 tanks are in action with units reaching Lucy and Luppy while closing in on the Sarrebourg railway and Chateau Salins area.
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Geo
Patton
Third
Metz
Germany
Saar
Nancy
Third Army
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh
Epinal
Belfort
St.-Die
Migneville
William Frye
London
U. S
Sarrebourg
George Patton
Berlin
Lucy
Delme Ridge
Sixth Armored Division
Luppy
Chateau Salins
Haboudange
Remains Returned for Lt Lindsey After Montana Crash
Mr. and Mrs. Winston Lindsey Sr of near Boyce Virginia received a War Department telegram confirming the remains of Lt Winston S Lindsey Jr were recovered after a May 14 1943 plane crash in the Northern Rockies of Montana He and four crew members were lost in a snow blizzard at Great Falls base the body prepared for burial and shipped east A service is planned at Christ Episcopal Church Millwood with interment in Green Hill Cemetery Berryville Funeral arrangements pending arrival of the casket
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Winston Lindsey, Sr
Boyce
War Department
Winston S. Lindsey, Jr
Rockies
Montana
Great Falls
Mont
Lindsey
Myth of Jap WAC from Wewak debunked by New Guinea patrols
A New Guinea dispatch reports Allied inquiries uncovered the so called Jap WAC from Wewak myth. An Albino Papuan woman allied with the Japanese led rumors of grenades and jungle raids, but patrols confirmed the phantom figure was a rare Albino Papuan woman aiding the Japanese.
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San Francisco
Wewak
Aneta
Dispatch
New Guinea
Iself
Plane Crash In China Fatal To Lt Bradfield
First Lt. George E. Bradfield 24 son of Mr. and Mrs. Mildred Bradfield was killed October 26 in a China crash while serving in the Air Transport Command. A pilot who had flown supplies over The Hump since August 1943 he earned a gallantry citation days before his death. He enlisted in the Air Corps during college at Ohio State and was known for sports at school and Episcopal High School in Alexandria. He is survived by his parents and a brother Ensign James Ely Bradfield in the Southwest Pacific, with numerous aunts and cousins in Winchester and Purcellville areas. The news came as a shock to Winchester.
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George E. Bradfield
Mildred Ely Bradfield
South Stewart Street
China
Secretary of War
Bradfield
China-India-Burma
Air Transport Command
Air Corps
Ohio State
Episcopal High School
Alexandria
Bradford
Gibson Bradfield
Barnesville
Ohio
Mildred Bradfield
Winchester
Ernest S. Ely
Ensign James Ely Bradfield
Southwest Pacific
Joseph Goebbels
Hermann Goering
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hitler
Armistice Day Reflections From 1918 to Hitler’s Fate
On Armistice Day 1918 a shell shocked German corporal Adolf Hitler walked free from a hospital as Franklin Roosevelt Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin began futures shaping. By 1939 they planned to meet after Hitler’s demise while reports say Hitler may be dead or mentally ill and sinking into oblivion a quarter century after the armistice.
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London
Pasewalk
Adolph Hitler
Ape
Adolph Hit
Hitler
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Munich
Stockholm
Germany
Berchtesgaden
Two B 29 raids hit targets in China and Kyushu
A 20th Air Force communique reports 529 aircraft attacked three vital targets in Japanese held China and Kyushu. Omura aircraft factory, Nanking docks and Shanghai facilities were struck with weather hampering results. One B 29 is missing and two enemy planes were shot down.
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Washington
Shanghai
China
Omura
Kyushu
20Th Air Force
Nagking
Shanghei
Curtis E. Lemay
Nanking
Yangtze River
Blast Aircraft Factory
Tientsin
Manchuria
Outflanking Russians Push Toward Budapest Front
Soviet forces on two flanks surround Budapest with a wide outflanking drive from the Tisza region and Danube line. Malinovsky's second Ukraine Army advances west of Tisza river, capturing strong points northeast of Budapest and widening the Budapest–Miskolcz corridor. Units and Tito Partisans move toward Pecs, breaching the Mezokovesd line and edging closer to the Matra Mountains as German and Hungarian positions reel.
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Moscow
Budapest
Rodioie Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Tisza
Oeceina
Budapest-Miskolcz
Tito
Matra
No apples will be received without an official ees
A terse public notice from Winchester Virginia states that apples will not be received without an official authorization from the issuing office. The brief record notes a formal requirement and cites the local authority handling the matter.
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Winchester, Vai
Antique Auction At 10 A M Tuesday Nov Twenty One
Miles B. Dean announces an antique auction set for 10 am on Tuesday November 21 at 29 31 East Water Street West with items listed in the sale catalog.
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East Water St
Miles B. Dean
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Virginia State Guard
McIlwee
M*nicipal
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Prance
Europe
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Russia
Bong
Richard Bong
Ormorc
Grouves Melancourt
Jallacourt
Saarbrucken
Parroy Forest
Berryville
B. F. Arthur, Jr
W. R. Talbot
Mary Wood
Miriam Talbot
Robert McComb. Cous
Purcellville
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Navy Department
Pneumon
Winston Churchill
Trafalgar Square
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Heinrich Himmler
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