Local Soldier Cited For Bravery
Pfc. James E. Anderson of the 183rd Field Battalion received a commendation signed by Col. Henry Burr Parker for actions on July 28 1944 near Point Brocard France under heavy fire. He entered service in 1943 at Fort Bragg and saw action in Cherbourg and England before D-Day.
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James E. Anderson
Walter O. Anderson
Anderson Avenue
Henry Burr Parker
Point Brocard
France
United States
Pfc
Anderson
Fort Bragg
N. C
England
D-Day
Cherbourg
E Bros
Juanita Massey
Wiso
Eye Witness Invasion Burning Beachhead Drama On Pacific Coast
Allied fleet including American battleships and Australian cruisers blasted the shore as carrier planes from Halsey and Kincaid joined in the assault. Hellcats and Avengers patrolled overhead while 16 inch shells and rockets pummeled coastal defenses. Heavy smoke and Cordite filled the air as ships cruised the beach aiding landings.
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Adm
William F
Halsey
Third Fleet
Thomas Kincaid
Seventh Fleet
San Pedro Bay
Ration Calendar Update on Foods and Fuel Validity
The Associated Press notes ration stamps for meats fats processed foods and sugar with indefinite validity for some items. It lists stamp ranges for shoes gasoline heating season and new book validations with dates through 1945 and mentions canning and household limits.
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The
Associated Press
Berryville Baptist Church Publishes Monthly Bulletin
The Berryville Baptist Church and Sunday Schools issued a new monthly bulletin titled Baptist Bits for local men and boys in the service. The first edition was distributed last Sunday morning and mailed to men serving abroad. changes to addresses should go to Mrs. L. A. Parker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berryville
Bill Barnett
Bill Shackleford
Helen McDonald
Gloria Edmunds
Anne B. Pope
Newton Nicholson Dies In Hospital
Funeral services for Newton Nicholson aged 80 will be held Saturday afternoon. He died in Western State Hospital on Thursday. He was born in Madison county and is survived by his wife Emily and numerous children including Louise Nicholson Shelby John L Nicholson Reva Virginia Andrew Linden Rosa Dodson Callas Southard Elmer Corbin Matildia Dodson Cynthia Shade Willie Dodson and Dennis Corbin. Services will be at A B Scott Funeral Home in Front Royal.
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Newton Nicholson
Western State Hospital
Harmon
Louise Nicholson
Madison County
Emily Nicholson
Shelby
John L. Nicholson
Reva
Andrew and
Ottie
Linden
Rosa Dodson
Winchester
Callas Southard
Luray
Elmer Corbin
Flint Hill
Matildia
Dodson
Cynthia Shade
Willie Dodson
Dennis Corbin
Fytint Hill
A. B. Scott Funeral Home
Front Royal
Canadians In New Offensive Pushes Forward In Vosges
Canadians and Americans reported gains in the Vosges as they pressed through Bruyeres and ridge lines near Ventron. French troops claimed over 250 prisoners in the Belfort area while repelling six German counterattacks. Reconnaissance and heavy bombing accompanied the fighting as Allied forces pressured the Metz-Nancy front and Eisenhower weighed finalizing a northern push from the Antwerp port.
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Bruyeres
Bonhomme
Schlucht
Vosges
Ventron
Belfort
Remiremont
le Thillot
Third Army
Metz-Nancy
George S. Patton, Jr
Luneville
Maizieres Les Metz
Moselle
Metz
Berlin
Eisenhower
Antwerp
Reich
Roosevelt Vows Return as U S Forces Land in Philippines
President Roosevelt praised MacArthur and Allied forces for landing in the Philippines and vowed to quicken the assault on Japan. He noted Leyte as a rung on the road to Japan and pledged to redeem the 1941 Corregidor surrender pledge. He expressed gratitude to Nimitz Halsey and Osmena, stressing alliance and future independence for the Philippines.
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Corregidor
Japan
MacArthur
Bataan
Philippine
Roosevelt
Philippines
Pacific
Leyte
Osmena
Family of Nations
War Worker Fatally Stabbed in Baltimore
Evelyn Acker a 26 year old war worker and former WAAC member was found fatally stabbed on a Baltimore sidewalk suffering five stab wounds and two wrist slashes. She named a man before dying and police seek a suspect believed connected to a prior Mercy Hospital visit. The purse near her contained money and other items.
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Baltimore
Evelyn Acker
WAAC
Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Inc
Katherine Brady
Brainerd Hails MacArthur Invasion News From Bataan T
Brainerd Minnesota greeted news of General MacArthur’s invasion of the Philippines with jubilation. The town hosts 85 service members captured at Bataan, and Mayor Frank B. Johnson said residents had awaited the development for two and a half years as many locals count friends or relatives among the prisoners.
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Brainerd
Minn
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Frank B. Johnson
Brainard
Wounded On Same Date As Father
Richmond report notes Major Rice M. Youell, state corrections chief, wounded in France on Oct 4, 1918, and his son Second Lieutenant Rice M. Youell Jr. wounded in the south Pacific on Oct 4, 1944. Both Youells are VMI graduates.
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Richmond
Rice M. Youell
Corrections
France
South Pacific
Youell
Carolinas Hit by Tropical Storm With Floods and Tides
A tropical storm moved through the Carolinas bringing heavy rain and gusts up to 40 miles an hour in Florence and flooding in Charleston. No fatalities reported in some cities, while others reported deaths and damaged service. Norfolk weather chief said winds would stay moderate with rain through the night as the storm weakened inland.
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Florence
S. C
Florence Air Base
Southport
N. C
Virginia
Norfolk
F. B. Whitney
Norfolk Weather Bureau
Carolinas
Virginia Beach
Whitney
Cape Henry
South Carolina
Answers to the Daily Quiz on Page IS
The page lists quiz answers including prop erty arson by 2 Holland. Emile Zola is 4 and Celebes Sea 5. Tuberculosis 6 and Germany 7. Eagle 8. The Popes from 1870 to 1929 9. Corot 10.
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Holland
Emile Zola
Celebes Sea
Germany
Eagle
the Popes
Corot
Dewey Says New York Trip Signals Republican Victory
Governor Thomas E. Dewey told a Pittsburgh news conference that President Roosevelt s NYC tour and speech show Democrats trying to reverse a trend he says favors a Republican win in November. He announced plans to speak tonight from 9 to 9 30 p m ET on white collar workers becoming the forgotten man.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
New York City
Dewey
United States
Japs Evacuate Town of Falam
Southeast Asia Command reports Japanese forces withdraw from Falam town, 30 miles south of Tiddim, a move said to weaken Japanese influence over about 40,000 Chin hill natives and to affect administration in the central Chin hills.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Tiddim
Barma
Falam
Chin Hills
Laval sentenced to death by Marseille tribunal in absentia
Paris radio reports Pierre Laval has been condemned to death in absentia by a Marseille tribunal. A warrant was issued for his arrest two weeks earlier, and he would be tried whether present or not. Algiers radio adds Jean Galliard, former director of Petit Marseille, was likewise condemned in absentia.
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London
Pierre Laval
Marseille
Paris
Algiers
Jean Galliard
Petit Marseille
Russians Press Attacks Across Front as War Rages
Izvestia reports heavy fighting near the capital with German forces dug in while Russian troops advance elsewhere. Red Star notes grave Budapest conditions as Hungarian officials flee and rail workers strike, with allied successes claimed in Czechoslovakia Transylvania Hungary and Yugoslavia.
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Izvestia
Russia
Sava River
Danube
Alexander Highway
Red Star
Budapest
Moscow
Czechoslovakia
Transylvania
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Debrecen
Bohemian
Winchester youth dies in elevator accident at packing shed
A Shenandoah County youth born in Winchester on April 12, 1930 died when his head was crushed between an elevator floor and a second floor joist at a packing shed. He worked under a permit during the rush season. Survived by parents John W. Barb and Beulah Middleton Barb and multiple siblings. funeral set for Sunday at 3 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home with Mount Hebron Cemetery interment.
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Winchester
John W. Barb
Beulah Middleton Barb
Shenandoah County
Stephens City
Ioan Barb
Iroan Barb
James Edward Barb
Garland Barb
Evelyn N. Barb
Frances L. Barb
Shirley Faye Barb
Jones Funeral Home
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Stephens City Lutheran Church Sunday Service
The Rev. Arthur Carper will preach at the 11 o'clock Sunday morning service at Trinity Church in Stephens Y.
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Stephens City Lutheran Church
Arthur Carper
Trinity
Stephens Y
Representation At Lowest Point In House History
The Democratic party’s representation in the House dropped to its lowest point in 12 years after the death of Agriculture Committee Chair Hampton P. Palmer. Rep. John W. Flannagan will move up to chair the Agriculture Committee under the seniority rule. Rep. Joseph W. Martin indicated the GOP will wait until after the November 7 election to contest control.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Hampton P. Palmer
Agriculture Committee
Joseph W. Martin
Rmass
House
Boston
Fulmer
South Carolina
John W. Flannagan
D-Va
British Enter Cesena In Italy
British and Indian troops have entered Cesena, former German administration center on the Bologna Rimini highway, Allied headquarters said. Eighth Army gains in the mountains southwest of Cesena and Fifth Army advances south of Bologna along the Bologna Florence highway.
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Rome
Cresena
Bologna- Rimini
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Cesena
Fifth Army
Bologna
Bologna Florence
Negro Dies In Gas Chamber In Missouri
James Thomas a 20 year old African American inmate was executed in Missouri’s gas chamber at 12 10 a m for the rape of a 22 year old white woman in a St Louis suburb last January. He was received into the Catholic faith shortly before death and died holding a rosary.
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Jefferson
James Thomas
Missouri
St. Louis
Thomas
To Train Yanks In Street Fighting
London reports Allied troops will train in street fighting in the Battersea District southwest of the city. The congested area of workers’ houses and factories has been heavily blitzed, resembling a German city after bombing.
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London
Hitler
Battersea
British Troops Occupy Thebes Greece Thebes Occupied
Allied headquarters announced British troops have occupied Thebes 32 miles northwest of Athens as German forces withdraw from northern Greece toward Yugoslavia. German acknowledgment of withdrawal followed. The move places British units roughly 75 miles from German columns’ reported retreat area.
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Rome
Thebes
Athens
Greece
Yugoslavia
One-Plane Air Force Sinks Japanese Destroyer Near Hongkong
A B-24 from the 14th Air Force based in China, in a single-plane strike, sank a Mutsuki-class destroyer 90 miles southwest of Hongkong during an early bomb run in the South China Sea. The aircraft also attacked a cruiser and a large freighter before aborting when its bombing gear failed.
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U. S. 14Th Air Force
China
South China Sea
Hongkong
Leyte Landing Signals Large Philippines Invasion
Allied forces including the U S Seventh Fleet and Australian squadron mask a major amphibious operation on Leyte, marking the collapse of Japanese defense lines. MacArthur proclaims the Philippines entry splits Japanese forces and threatens a decisive shift in the Pacific war with hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops engaged.
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Leyte Island
Philippines
Morotai
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Communiqut
Visayas
Leyte
Luzon
Manila
Mindanao
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Third Fleet
Far East
Royal Australian Airforce
Terauchi
14Th Army
MacArthur
Market Quotations Baltimore Produce Poultry and Eggs
Market report notes very firm poultry except Leghorn and small colored fowl with light receipts. Eggs at 553 cases, market firm with light truck receipts. Butter totals 10 719 pounds.
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Baltimore
Baltimore livestock market report from October auction
Baltimore market notes slow steady prices across cattle hogs sheep and calves. Cattle many weights and classes quoted with canners and cutters 5.00 7.50 and top bulls 11.00. calves and weights 100 450 pounds varied. hogs 160 240 pounds 15.05 30. sheep and lambs slow with good and choice lambs 14.00 50 and light weights 5.50 down.
Chicago Livestock Market Report October 20
Salable hogs 4,000 with total 10,500, active and fully steady. good and choice 150-240 lb at 14.75, over 240 lbs and top sows at 14.00. Cattle and calves slow but steady. top steers 16.50, most cows and heifers 8.00-12.00, canners 4.50-6.50, veal calves 10.00-15.00. Sheep 3,000 with total 7,000, active and mostly steady. native lambs 14.25-24.40, medium 10.00-11.50, culls 9.00 down, yearling wethers 12.00, native ewes 5.75-6.00.
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Baltimore
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Chicago Grain Quotations and Early Trade Slips
Profit taking trimmed gains in wheat futures while rye varied and other grains eased in quiet morning trading. Wheat contracts closed lower across December May and July, with corn and rye also showing mixed or softer results in Chicago markets.
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Chicago
Jly
Jly, 1.07 3-8. Gene 64 3-4 To 7-8; May, Rye
Local touch football sponsors pair Wildcats and All Star team
The Winchester Junior Board of Trade takes over The Wildcats while Royal Crown Cola backs the All Star team. They meet Sunday at the local ballpark to start a three game series. JBT Green Waves will wear green. Royal Crown Blue Devils will wear blue.
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Winchester Junior Board of Trade
Wildcats
Royal Crown Cola
JET
Green Waves
Royal Crown
Blue Devils
Stock Market Report Highlights Mixed Day On Oct 20
New York buyers favored select issues as investment demand steadied amid light selling. North American Aviation and Great Northern led with 1944 highs while J I Case International Harvester National Distillers Eastman Kodak Boeing Woolworth and Kennecott gained at intervals. U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors American Telephone Graham Paige Santa Fe Southern Pacific Du Pont Sears Roebuck lagged. Leading gainers included Eversharp American Cyanamid Sherwin Williams Canada on Southern New England Telephone.
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New York
North American Aviation
Great Northern
J. I. Case
International Harvester
National Distillers
Eastman Kodak
Boeing
Woolworth
Kennecott
Scouts Hold Camp Fire Ceremony in Stephens City
The Stephens City Boy Scout troop held a Camp Fire Ceremony with parents and friends in attendance. New Scouts Mason Carbaugh and Edward Ewing joined the troop as Harold Teets serves as Local Scoutmaster. Plans were finalized to march in the Shawnee District Parade in Winchester tomorrow afternoon and the finance drive for the district will be launched.
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Stephens City
Pete Oes
Mason Carbaugh
Edward Ewing
Winchester
Harold Teets
Wilson Conway Dies In Maryland
Wilson Conway a retired farmer died suddenly at his home near Baltimore Maryland yesterday morning He was 78 and survived by his wife Grace White and daughter Miss Mary Conway The funeral cortege will arrive here Saturday afternoon for burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery
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Wilson Conway
Baltimore
Grace White
Opequon
Mary Conway
Mount Hebron
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Berryville Church
Third Air Force
L'Ampa
Miami
Cupa
Charleston
Historic
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Pittsburg
Italy
Negro
Ger
U. S
Central Pacific
First Cavalry
96Th
Southwest Pacific Air Arm
Tacloban
William F. Halsey
Ryukyus
Formosa
Greater East Asia
Dutch East Indies
Borneo
Malaya
Burma
Asia
East Indies
Singapore
Baltimore Livestock
Stock Market Report
Maryland
B. F. Goodrich
Bfgoodrich Stores
E. Piccadilly St
J. W. Grove Furniture CO
S. Loudoun St
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