Yanks Battle Through Muck And Bitterly Resisting Japs
British and Canadian forces press in Holland and along the Schelde estuary as they squeeze German defenses near Hertogenbosch and Breskens. Canadian units advance on Breskens and Schoondijke while British columns push toward Hertogenbosch. Snow and persistent pressure mark the 476 mile front with no major breakthroughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
S Hertogenbosch
Holland
Antwerp
Schelde
Roosendall
Bergen Op Zoom
Supreme Allied
Paris
Bresgens
Schoondijke
Breskens
Germany
Village retaken by Spanish Army in Aram valley clash
SERIDA Oct. 24 Spanish forces recaptured a frontier village in the Aram valley and blocked the main exit for Maquisards infiltrating from France. Maquisards groups of about 100 face possible execution if captured. some may disband to attempt escape through snowbound passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serida
Aram
France
Paris
Catalonia
Sloquisards
Toulouse
Debated Foreign Policy Divides GOP and Dewey Camp
Roosevelt supporters led by Senator Ball join in backing a stronger foreign policy as Dewey camps in Ball's Minnesota home state. Dewey aims to address the issue from Minneapolis at 10 30 p m with NBC and Blue networks. Truman criticizes isolationist tilt while Democrats seek new Stassen Willkie links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Ball
R-Minn
Dewey
Minneapolis
NBC
Blue
New York
America
Harry Truman
Truman
Senate Chicago
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Bartley Crum
California
Wendell L. Willkie
Stassen-Willkie
Stassen
Victor A. Johnston
Madison, Wis
Harold E. Stassen
Camp Rock Enon to Boost Boy Scout Membership
Rev Ronald S Wilson chairs the Frederick Clarke county Boy Scout fund drive reporting a 38 percent rise in Scout membership and a 3 percent gain in Cub enrollment for this year. Camp Rock Enon offers a three acre lake and a lodge dining hall for about 175 boys as the area’s first permanent Scout camp. Winchester aims for a $6000 quota and hopes for over subscription to meet local youth outdoor program needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Rock Enon
Ronald S. Wilson
Frederick-Clarke County
Boy Scout Fund Campaign
Rock Fnon
Winchester
Train collision injures multiple near New Orleans
An unknown number of persons were injured when the Illinois Central Louisianne rear ended the Southern Pacific Sunset Limited near Shrewsbury Road in Jefferson Parish. No fatalities reported as ambulances transported the injured to hospitals. Fog and swamp-fire smoke hindered removal and delayed wartime workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Illinois Central
Louisianne
Southern Pacific
Sunset Limited
Shrewsbury Road
A. C. Clinton
Jefferson Parish
Chicago
California
First Legion Smoker Tonight at Golden Glow
The American Legion Smoker by Robert Y. Conrad Post 21 begins at 8 PM at the Golden Glow Restaurant. It features a government film on Salerno Sicily and Solomons Pacific landings, followed by sandwiches. Lamar Keen of Capitol Theatre arranged the film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Golden Glow
Robert Y. Conrad Post
U. S
Army
Navy
Salerno Beach
Sicily
Solomons Islands
Pacific
Lamar Keen
Capitol Theatre
Uncle Sam To Make Post Card Poll of the Nation's Pig Pens
Washington reports a semiannual post card poll of pig pens to be conducted by the Agriculture Department with rural mail carriers. The aim is to estimate next year's pork prospects by surveying about 15 farmers per rural route for pigs cows chickens horses sheep and male counts. The effort tracks from sow counts to overall livestock trends with results due shortly before Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Department
Captain Patch Buried in France After Frontline Death
Captain Alexander M. Patch Jr., 24, son of Lt General Patch, was buried in an American cemetery behind the western front after being killed Sunday by a German 75 mm anti tank gun while leading an attack in the Vosges. Brief services were held in a Protestant church before burial. his father resumed frontline duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Seventh Army
France
Alexander M. Patch, Jr
Vosges Hills
U. S. Army
Four Indicted By Grand Jury In Winchester Court
Winchester Corporation Court grand jury returns five true bills. Robert Collier faces first degree murder for the Roy Sisk stabbing on October 7. Lee Riley Franklin indicted as an accessory. Franklin free on bond. Motion hearing set for November 11. trial November 20. Cecil William Dodson indicted for perjury, pled guilty, bond $500. referred to probation. Vendella Jackson, colored, indicted on two counts for breaking and entering with $67.50 and trousers stolen from Edgar Rush. another charge for breaking into Hotel Jack basement aiming to commit larceny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Corporation Court
Robert Collier
Roy Sisk
Lee Riley Franklin
Franklin
Cecil William Dodson
B. P. Harrison
Dodson
John W. Rice
Vendella Jackson
Edgar Rush
Advances Are Made In Italy By Fifth Army Near Castel San Pietro
American Fifth Army troops pushed to within four miles of Castel San Pietro in the Po Valley after capturing Frassineto in heavy fighting. Another force faced minefields and barbed wire while advancing on Monte Belmonte with rough terrain ahead. Eighth Army units met only light resistance amid flood conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
Fifth Army
Apennines
Castel San Pietro
Po Valley
Rimini
Bologna
Supreme Headquarters
Frassineto
Castel, San Pietro
Monte Belmonte
Eighth Army
United States eyes January United Nations conference
Washington reports Undersecretary of State Stettinius announced the U S government hopes for a United Nations conference next January on world security possibly after a Roosevelt Churchill Stalin meeting later this year to wrap up a four power planning stage for hemispheric questions raised by the proposed UN conversion into a peace preserving body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stettinius
United States
United Nations
Dumbarton Oaks
World Organization
Deputy Ruler to Visit Elks in Virginia District
Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler c Stuart Wheatley of Danville will visit the local BPO Elks and the eight Virginia lodges in Alexandra Charlottes ville Clifton Forge Danville Harrisonburg Lynchburg Pulaski Roanoke and Winchester. Exalted Ruler W W Glass announced Wheatley appears as representative of the Grand Exalted Ruler and Dr Robert South Barrett of Alexandria, Virginia, will join as a Virginian member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Stuart Wheatley
Danville
Order of Elks
District of Virginia
West
P. O. Elks
Wheatley
Alexandra
Chalottesville
Clifton Forge
Harrisonburg
Lynchburg
Pulaski Roanoke
Winchester
W. W. Glass
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the
United States
Robert South Barrett
War Is Ahead Of Schedule
Worcester reports Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs says the war in the Pacific is ahead of schedule. In a Worcester Polytech Institute speech he notes progress to attack the enemy at our choosing and cautions on the unknown costs of victory. He credits training and cites Navy personnel surpassing 3,000,000 with rapid vessel production of about 12 ships daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
Randall Jacobs
USN
Naval
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jacobs
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Americans establish bridgehead on Samar Island
Melbourne Herald war correspondent Blaine Fielder reports American forces crossed San Juanico strait and set a bridgehead on Samar, the second Philippine island invaded, with a tank column ferrying across. MacArthur capitalizes on Tacloban successes as Manila gears for further advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Australia
Melbourne Herald
Tacloban
San Juanico Strait
Samar Island
Blaine Fielder
Philippine
Philippines
Samar
MacArthur
Leyte
Luzon
Manila
San Jacinto
San Bernardino
Leyte Gulf
Leyte Island
San Pedro Bay
Gulf
Pair Held Under 25000 Bond
New York, Oct 24. Marie Hedwing Koedel, 26, an attractive masseuse, held on 25000 bail after pleading innocent in Brooklyn Federal Court to conspiracy to violate espionage statutes. Foster father Simon Koedel, 62, also bailed at 25000 after waiving hearing in Keyser, West Virginia. FBI said the pair gathered shipping and military data for the German consulate between 1939 and 1941 and were paid by Johannes Bischoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Marie Hedwing Koedel
Brooklyn
Simon Emil Koedel
Harper’s Ferry
W. Va
FBI
Justice Department
Washington
Keyser
U. S
George C
New York Harbor
Johannes Bischoff
Harpers Ferry
Koedel
Mary Himes
Russian Army Overruns 400 German Towns in East Prussia
Moscow reports a major Red Army offensive penetrating German territory to at least 19 miles in East Prussia. Gen. Cherniakhovsky and Gen. Bagramian's forces claimed 400 towns and villages seized and advanced toward Memel and the Niemen region as Berlin warned of further Russian gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
East
Prussia
Red Army
Lithuania
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Ivan C. Bagramian
Junkers
Memec Teritory
Memel
Niemen River
East Prussia
Baltic
Jurbarkas
Arctic
Yugoslavia
Cherniakhovsky
Kaunas
Insterburg
Konigsberg
Angerapp River
Fallen Goldap
Berlin
Advance Weather Forecast for October 1944 period
The forecast notes a Wednesday start with clearing then early morning showers and colder air in northern New York. Rain returns Thursday with a warm spell likely Friday, followed by fair and cooler conditions Saturday and Sunday. Interior Pennsylvania and northern New York face freezing mornings and frosts southwestward. Clearing, mild Wednesday, rain Thursday, then clearing and colder Thursday night and Friday. Overall, fair and cool weather with freezing mornings continuation. Weather Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Penna
Weather Bureau
Filipinos Celebrate Freedom As Japanese Leave Tacloban
U S troops enter Tacloban Leyte Island Philippines on October 22 as fleeing Japanese leave behind beer sake and flags. Maj Gen Verne D Mudge says about 500 flags fly in the city and hundreds of cases of beer and sake are carried by jubilant Filipinos. Japanese losses about 300 killed. U S losses ten killed 25 wounded. Col Walter Finnegan leads entering forces. his wife is from Charlottesville Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James“ Hutcheson
U. S
Tacloban
Leyte Island
Philippines
First Cavalry
Leyte
7Th Cavalry
Douglas MacArthur
Mudge
Walter Finnegan
Rugby Road
Charlottesville
Americans Drive Ahead on Leyte in Mud and Fire
American Liberators push through swamp and mud on Leyte island as Sixth Army troops move northward from Tacloban, severing the southern Japanese line near Palo and Dulag. A tank column ferried across San Juanico Straits establishes a bridgehead toward Samar, with fierce counterattacks around Palo gradually subdued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General
Tataloban
Leyte
Philippines
Fielder
Tacloban
Douglas MacArthur
Vision
San Pa Field
King
Sixth Army
Leyte East Coast
Dulag
Burauen
Catmon
Sherman Tanta
San Pablo
Palo
Santa Fe
Flying bombs strafe liberated Belgium areas
German forces retreating in Belgium are reported by Brussels radio to be firing flying bombs at liberated zones. The dispatch notes attacks noted from Belgium and ongoing bombardment as Allied advances continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Belgium
Brussels
Postponed sale of household goods in Brad dock St
The M. M. Bailey sale of household goods at 501 S. Brad dock St has been postponed to Thursday October 26 at 10 o clock. Also listed are help wanted for a cider mill and a packing crate need at Nicode mus Orchard with limited readable details.
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M. M. Bailey
S. Braddock St
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Conference of Nations
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C. Yates McDaniel
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