Nips Took One of World's Worst Naval Whippings
U S Pacific Fleet reports a decisive victory in the second battle of the Philippine Sea off the Philippines. Nimitz confirms sunk or damaged 58 Japanese warships including four carriers and two battleships. 500 000 tons of ships lost. Casualties among American forces noted as considerable with damage to the Australian cruiser Australia. Tokyo reports raids by U S carrier planes against Manila and Clark airfield.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Manila
Tokyo
U. S
Inclu
Philippines
Chester W. Nimitz
Ince
Japan
U. SS
Nimitz
Australia
Tokyo Radio Today
Manila and
Clark Airfield
Lamon Bay
Luzon
Philippine Sea
Pacific
Formosa
Samar
Surigao Strait
Leyte
Girl Scouts Observe Sunday Services at Christ Church
At a morning service the Winchester Scouts celebrated Girl Scout Sunday opening National Girl Scout Week. The Girl Scout Choir led by Mrs. Andrew Babb sang special selections. Leaders and many local council members attended the service. An evening radio address at 6 30 p m will feature Mrs. Robert Barton Miss Sara Hamilton Mr Wendell Barney and Mr Sam Preston introduced by Commissioner Mrs Herbert Solenberger.
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Christ Episcopal Church
Winchester
Andrew Babb
Winchester Girl Scouts
Robert Barton
Sara Hamilton
Wendell Barney
Sam Preston
Herbert Solenberger
York Inn Costume Dance Hallowe'en Oct 31
A Halloween costume dance will be held at York Inn on October 31 with a prize for best costume. No stag entries accepted. Admission price matches that of Saturday night.
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York Inn
Ada Hallowe
Wanted Cider Apples for Ridgewood Fruit Industries
Help wanted male for cider mill at H. J. Heinz Co. on Valley Pike. Ridgewood Fruit Industries in Albemarle County Virginia seeks applicants. contact via local listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgewood Fruit Industries
Albin
H. J. Heinz Co
Valley Pike
Beers By the Case at Del's Place in Ridgeway
Advertises beer by the case and bottles with nightly dancing at Del's Place Ridgeway West Virginia, formerly Chuck and Rays. Contact Inwood 25 F 22.
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Del’s Place
Chuck & Ray's
Ridgeway
W- Va
Inwood
29th Division Breaks Siegfried Line In Major Western Front Push
The U S 29th Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. Charles H Gerhardt helped breaching the Siegfried line near Aachen and Brest operations. They joined Second Armored and 30th Infantry divisions to seize Birren and Kreuzrath and capture 13 000 prisoners. The unit then moved through France Belgium and Holland toward the German border.
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U. S. 29Th
Brest
U. S. 29Th Infantry
Second Armored
Siegfried Line
Germany
Aachen
Charles Hunter Gerhardt
U. S
Normandy
D-Day
St. Lo
Isigny
Vierville
Vire
France
Belgium
Holland
Siesfried
Birren
Kreuzrath
Gerhardt
One Man Rampage Wins Medal of Honor
Pvt. James H. Mills of Fort Meade Florida earns the Congressional Medal of Honor for a front line action in which he advances under heavy fire. He kills multiple Nazis, saturates a draw, and forces surrender of several enemy troopers while firing from the hip with a Girand rifle.
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Rome
James H. Mills
Fort Meade
Fla
Mills
Surender
Mils
Changes In Postal Rates Take Effect Wednesday
Washington reports new postal charges with Special Delivery and C O D fees rising while postal money order and insurance costs fall. Special delivery stamps for letters under two pounds rise to 13 cents, and for nonletter materials in the same weight class to 17 cents. other special delivery fees stay the same as the post office department says the changes make these services self sustaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Dewey To Step Up Campaign As Election Nears
In Albany and later Buffalo Dewey plans a high speed push toward election day. The Republican nominee will extend voting hours to 9 PM in New York and deliver a sequence of 18 speeches in two months. Bricker calls for tax rate reductions in Michigan as campaign events continue.
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Dewey
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
New York
Buffalo
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
New York City
Bricker
Michigan
Flint
Mich
John W. Bricker
Search For Colored Man Accused In Incident Case
Portsmouth police continued the hunt for a Black man accused of assaulting a young white woman in her Crawford street home Saturday night. A suspect detained earlier was released after she failed to identify him. The victim reported the intruder entered her bedroom and harmed her. she had not noted the man as her husband had left the door unlocked during a trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Crawford Street
Bootsie the 300 Pound Bear Escapes in Richmond Exhibit
Bootsie a 300 pound female black bear broke from her cage at the Thalhimer Department Store parking lot in downtown Richmond and charged through spectators. Keeper M C Wade was scratched but not seriously hurt as workers subdued the animal with ropes and a wooden box enclosure.
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Bootsie
Black Bear
Richmond
M. C
Tex) Wade
Thalhimer Department Store
Seventh and
Grace Street
Texas
Wade
Blackie
MacArthur controls Leyte and Samar after fast advance
Gen Douglas MacArthur reports control of two thirds of Leyte Island and a stranglehold on Samar ten days after landing. He says 1,500,000 Filipinos are liberated with civilian life normalizing, while remaining Japanese garrisons on Leyte and Samar are isolated and can be destroyed at will. American PT boats patrol Ormoc Bay and sink barges believed to carry enemy troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Leyte
Samar
Paurpee Aera
Ormoc Bay
Ormoc
Mayor Endorses Scout Drive Kickoff in Rock Enon Campaign
Mayor endorses Frederick Clarke County Boy Scout Fund urging support for training youth and securing a permanent Camp Rock Enon Springs. Fund drive opens with a Golden Glow breakfast. Winchester sets a $6,000 quota to expand camp facilities and continue the local scout program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Anderson
Ronald Wilson
Frederick- Clarke County
Boy Scout Fund
Boy Scout Movement
Rock Enon Springs
America
Golden Glow
Winchester
Camp Rock Enon
Trucks for hauling apples in Berryville
Advertisement lists trucks available for apple hauling with contact John Livengood in Berryville and a phone number 75.
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John Livengood
Berryville
Army and Navy Rings At Hodgson and Browns
Just received the army and navy rings. See them at Hodgson & Browns. The note is dated October 30, 1910 to 1921 on the card.
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ARMY
NAVY
Hodgson & Brown's
Pfc Clyde Houston Killed in Action in France
Pfc Clyde H Houston, attached to the infantry, was killed in action in France on September 21. He entered service August 5 1941 and had been overseas since March 1944 after stints at Camp Croft and Fort Woodbine. He was a native of Statesville North Carolina and son of Mr and Mrs A P Houston. He is survived by his parents four brothers and three sisters.
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Camp Croft
S. C
Fort Woodbine
N. J
Infantry
North Carolina
Pfc
Houston
A. P. Houston
Statesville
N. C
Euclid Avenue
O’sullivan Rubber Company
Troy
Oren
Roby
L. G. Houston
Irene
Ruth
Margaret Houston
Pfc Isaac Moore Reported Missing In France
Mrs Marguerite Moore of Arlington is advised by the War Department that her husband Pfc Isaac H Moore aged 24 has been missing in action in France since October 6. The family note his last letter said it had begun to snow.
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Marguerite Moore
Arlington
War Department
Pfc
Isaac H. Moore
I. H. Moore
Hayfield
France
Moore
Last Rail Escape Route In Hungary Is Seized By Reds
Russian field dispatches report the Germans losing their last rail escape line in northeastern Hungary as Csap on the upper Tisza falls to Gen. Ivan Petrov's Fourth Ukraine Army after street fighting that left hundreds of Germans dead. Berlin meanwhile claims Soviet advances in western Latvia near Liepaja and Auce.
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London
Hungary
Csap
Tisza
Berlin
Baltic Sea
Ruthenia
Ivan Petrov
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Latvia
Priekule
Baltic
Liepaja
Auce
Leipaia
Kaunas-Konigsbere
Moscow Commuique
Arctic
Balkans
FDR Returns From 2000 Mile Campaign Tour
President Roosevelt ends a 2000 mile push for votes visiting seven states including Delaware New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois and West Virginia. He plans one more major speech in New England before returning home to cast his ballot and aims to correct Republican misrepresentations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New England
Boston
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Philadelphia
Chicago
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
West Virginia
New York
South
Commandos Game Thought to Cause Boy Death
In New York on October 30 a four year old, William Drach, strangled during a so called realistic commando game. His eight year old brother Robert bound his brother with a clothesline and gagged him in the dumb waiter shaft while their father, John Drach, a Bronx building superintendent, found him. Police later concluded the death was accidental rather than homicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John J. O’ Connor
William Drach
John Drach
Bronx
O’connor
Robert
William
Arthur Carney
Dr Anderson Bids $15 000 For Kenilworth
Dr. C R Anderson bid 15000 dollars the top offer Saturday afternoon as Thaw estate Kenilworth near Stephenson was set for public sale. The sale awaits Thaw approval within five days. Among attendees were attorney Sidney Warner and auctioneer Stephen McDonald. Thaw did not attend. many out of town visitors found the property too large for interest.
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C. R. Anderson
Kenilworth
Stephenson
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Anderson
Joseph Day
New York City
Pittsburgh
Sidney Warner
Stephen McDonald
John and
Joseph Jolliffe
Erick County
Bong Extends Victory String To 33 In Philippines
Richard Bong, famed American ace, shoots down three Japanese planes at Leyte Field. He claims his 31st and 32nd in hours and destroys a third aircraft after a dogfight, keeping his record on a rising arc in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Bergholz
Leyte Airfield
Philippines
Richard I. Bong
America
Poplar
Wis
Bong
Leyte Field
Roosendall, Last Link In Hun Defense Line Taken
Allied columns faced tanks and planes racing for Maas and Hollandse Diep bridges as German resistance buckled. Roosendaal, a 25 000 population city 12 miles south of Willemstadt, fell within reach as American armor pressed to Moe Bridge and British and Canadian forces pushed through Walcheren and Beveland pockets. The German line in southwestern Holland and northern Belgium fractured into four pockets amid floods and dikes, with Schelde approaches to Antwerp nearing a conclusion after tough fighting.
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London
Maas
Hollandseh Diep
Holland
Berlin
Rotterdam
Roosendaal
Willemstadt
Diep
Moe Bridge
Europe
Geertruidenberg
Oosterhout
Fallen Breda
Beveland Island
Walcherent
Beveland
Belgium
Schelde
Antwerp
Walcheren
Ven
Flushing
Midleburg
Breda
Shorten Odds On Roosevelt
The Roosevelt odds were cut from 3 to 1 to 17 to 5 while Dewey’s lengthened from 1 to 2 1 2 to 1 to 3. Be Commissioner James J. Carroll released a state odds list showing Roosevelt favored to win 32 states and 370 electoral votes to Dewey’s 16 states and 161 electoral votes.
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ST. Louis
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
James J. C
Dewey. Carroll
Dewey
Carroll
Washington
Montana
California
Arizona
Utah
New Mexico
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Florida
Virginia
Nevada
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhodes Island
West Virginia
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Massachusetts
North and
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Indiana
Vermont
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
Michi- Minnesota
Wanted prized crate or packing shells Orchard
Notice advertises a request for a rare picked crate or packing shells in Orchard. The ad directs readers to Sam Giffin's Sale on page 5 for more details and terms dated 10-30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Giffin
Cider Apples From H J Heinz Co at Valley Pike
Winchester Virginia reports sale of cider apples by H J Heinz Company at the Valley Pike facility with details indicating a trade or shipment arrangement dated October first quarter. Local sources note involvement of regional distribution and pricing terms.
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Girl
Yank
Gov. Bricker
By Jack Bell
Philly
Germantown
Quaker City
Shibe Park
International Soundphoto
By C. Yates McDaniel
Melbourne
Carigara
Carigara Bay
Cavite
Dagami Road
Troy Houston
Clyde Houston
Issac Moore
Reds
Red Army
Barents Sea
Hitler
Truman
By Howard Flieger
Dr. Anderson
Richard Bong
Roosendall
William Frye
H. J. Heinz Coy
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