Mrs. A. L. Boyce Dies In City Rites Friday
Mrs. A L Boyce, 62, dies in the city from complications after a three month illness. Born March 1, 1882, she married Winchester businessman in 1906 and lived here 18 years. Survived by husband, two sons Raymond and Robert, daughter Sarah, two brothers William Clark and D Lafay Clark, three sisters, and other relatives. Funeral from her late residence Friday at 2 pm, Mount Hebron Cemetery burial. Body to be moved from Jones Funeral Home to the residence Thursday afternoon.
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Jonathan M
Hannah Clark
Frederick Coun
Boyce Winchester
Emman Methodist Church
Stephm
Huns To Wage Guerrilla Warfare
German propaganda minister Goebbels says Allies have launched an all out offensive and that the Nazis will wage guerrilla warfare to the deaths. He claims Allies seek a quick victory before winter and before US elections in November.
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London
Aned
Paul Joseph
Germany
DNB
Berlin
Goebbels
Europe
United States
Seven Register In Clarke Co
Clarke county youths reached eighteenth birthday in September and registered with their local Draft Board. Names listed include William F Fowler Laurence F Locke Robert MacD Craighill Stanley Singhass Jack L Owens Russell B Lloyd and Robert L Cook colored.
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Béven
Clarke County
Cholera, Bombers, and War Notes From Zamboanga Front
Reports describe American planes operating near Linchow and nightly Japanese bomber activity at a Southwest Pacific base. Cholera spreads among refugees fleeing northeast Japanese advances, with many arriving by train from the Kweilin area. President Roosevelt notes 20,000 tons of Chinese-bound military supplies flown monthly. Tokyo cites a decisive upcoming battle.
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Zamboanga
Linchow
China
Nobumasa Suetsugu
Tokyo Radio
Ration Calendar Updates for Stamp Validity Across Items
The notice lists indefinite validity for several ration stamps across meats fats and foods, with specific book and stamp ranges. It notes expiry extensions and new issue timings for shoes and oil periods, including forthcoming November 1 shoe stamp and period four and five oil coupons.
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Northeast
York
Doughboys Press Metz Fort After Fierce Night Battle
Third Army troops broke into Fort Driant in Metz and clung to surface positions as German counterattacks surged from tunnels. Americans cleared main fortifications with oil fires and hand to hand fighting, while bunkers echoed with machine gun fire and concealment smoke.
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Third Army
France
Hure
U. S
Metz
Record of Allied Air Forces Destroy 1200 German Planes
The Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces together destroyed more than 1,200 German planes and dropped about 60,000 tons of bombs on military and industrial targets in Europe last month. Over 35,000 tons hit Germany proper, the heaviest monthly tonnage ever released on the Reich by American air forces.
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London
Eighth
15Th Air Forces
Europe
U. S
Strategic Air Forces
Germany
Reich
Rumely Surrenders to Federal Court in Fraud Case
Edward A. Rumely executive secretary of the committee for constitutional government surrendered to the Federal District Court in Washington and posted 500 bond for arraignment October 13 on willful default of a subpoena from the House campaign expenses investigating committee. He was indicted after refusing to provide a list of contributors to the organization founded in 1937 by Frank Gannett of Rochester New York.
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Washington
Edward A. Rumely
Committee For Constitutional Government
Federal District Court
House Campaign Expenses Investigating Committee
Frank Gannett
Rochester
N. Y
Lancaster bombers hit Tirpitz in RAF raid report
London reports a 12,000 pound bomb direct hit on the German battleship Tirpitz by Russian based Lancaster bombers of the RAF. The dispatch notes the strike was disclosed tonight.
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London
RAF
Tirpitz
Invasion War Bond Drive Continues Strongly
Citizens urged to buy war bonds as patriotic effort expands nationwide. Officials report steady demand and public support for financing national defense.
Maryland Editor Back In The News
Mary land publisher Rives Matthews 37 filed a peace warrant against State's Attorney Harry C. Dashiell after a post office altercation. Dashiell 58 said he attacked Matthews for personal remarks in the Somerset News. Matthews had been acquitted previously of criminal libel involving remarks about Comptroller Millard Tawes.
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Princess Anne
Rives Matthews
The
Somerset News
Harry C. Dashiell
Dashiell
Matthews
State
Millard Tawes
Crisfield
Mathews
Board of Election Supervisors
War Production Impaired as Detroit Maintenance Strike Spreads
Detroit news reports a broad maintenance workers strike in over twenty plants, with 3000 workers idle and 11 plants closed by noon. The walkout, tied to wage demand procedures, threatens disruption of war production for tens of thousands more workers in the area.
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Detroit
War Labor Board
Extension Class At John Kerr
Dr. Almont Lindsay of Mary Washington College teaches History of Civilization at John Kerr school. Class meets Wednesday 4 to 6 30 pm. Credit toward degree or teaching certificate renewal. Ten already enrolled. late joiners welcome. Stop by before class.
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Almont Lindsay
Mary Washington College
University of Virginia At
Fredericksburg
John Kerr School
Grain prices in Baltimore report wheat values
Baltimore market notes wheat No 2 red winter priced at 1.63 at local delivery with rail transit at 1.67 per bushel for domestic sale. The report is dated October 4.
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Baltimore
Notes on Axis leaders wealth moves reach neutral nations
The United States and Britain sent notes to neutral countries urging measures to prevent Axis leaders from preserving loot or finding safe havens abroad. A department statement said enemies seek to salvage assets as defeat nears to sustain economic influence and future aggression. Argentina was spared from the requests despite being seen as a concern.
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Washington
United States
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Dunkerque Truce Allows Civilian Evacuation
A 48 hour 6 a m truce began at Dunkerque to permit evacuation of civilians. The arrangement was between the German garrison and the attacking Canadian commander, confirmed by Allied First Army Group dispatch via Reuters.
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London
Dunkerque
Reuters
First Army Group
Report on Crete Invasion Heavily Damaged German Forces
Algiers radio said about half of the German occupation troops on Crete were killed wounded or captured by Allied forces. Morocco radio reported Allied landings on Crete yesterday but there is no official confirmation yet.
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London
Algiers
Crete
Morocco
Tanks Support Yanks Drive Advances Across Europe
Allied forces press the offensive as the U S Seventh Army seizes three villages northeast of Epinal and gains northwest of Belfort while the First Army pushes toward Aachen and the Siegfried Line. German strongholds remain but defenses are described as weakened and scattered.
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Hodges
U. S. First Army
Siegfried Line
Aachen
Cologne
Luxemburg
Third Army
Chambrey
Nancy
International
First Army
Septem
Allies Repulse German Attacks Near Aachen Front
Allied lines report halted German thrusts west of Hurtgen and around Stolberg. Ubach Wedge widens as Merkstein falls nearby. Patton’s Third Army repels a counterattack near Angl ament and advances in the Parroy forest while Seventh Army liberates towns near Epinal and edges toward the Belfort gap.
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Aachen
Stolberg
Ubach
Merkstein
George S. Patton
Third
Anglemont
Baccarat
Parroy
Nancy
Vosges
Seventh Army
Grandvillers
Devcimont
le Panges
Epinal
Belfort Gap
Berryville Council Drafts 1944 45 Budget Plan
Berryville town budget committee drafted a tentative annual plan starting Sept 1 1944 through Aug 31 1945 forecasting revenues and expenditures over 28000. A public hearing was set for Monday Nov 13. Mayor Bell appointed Roy E Potts to the county wide Post War Planning Commission.
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Berryville
Blue Ridge Mountain
Leonard H. Bell
Roy E. Potts
War Bonds Drive Promotes Victory Frontline Support
Promotion urges public to buy war bonds to fund military efforts and support allied forces. Public notices emphasize patriotic duty and collective sacrifice to sustain national defense during the conflict.
Seven Clarke Men Inducted Into Service at Roanoke
Seven Clarke county men left at 5 30 this morning to be inducted at the Roanoke service center. They are Cletus D Elsen Thomas E Fowler James E Pyne Jacob B Vorous I Alvan White Everett O Fowler and William H Ritter Pyne led the group.
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the Star
Clarke County
Roanoke
Cletus D.elsen
Thomas E. Fowler
James E. Pyne
Jacob B. Vorous
I. Alvan White
Everett O. Fowler
William H. Ritter
Pyne
Answers to the Daily Quiz Evien Are the Correct Answers
The page lists quiz items with direct answers: Dick Powell, Battle of the Coral Sea, Immediately, Canada, Columbia University New York City, George W Norris, Finland, September, Four inches, Revelation.
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Dick Powell
Immediately
Canada
Columbia University
N. Y
George W. Norris
Finland
Revelation
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