Red troops said to enter Kecskemet in Hungary
Berlin broadcast reports claim Russian forces crossed into Kecskemet the fourth largest Hungarian city near 50 miles southeast of Budapest. The German news agency cites a major Danube Tisza front battle with nine Russian and three Romanian divisions plus armor massing for a push toward Budapest.
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London
Kecskemet
Budapest
Berlin
Danube
Tisza
DNB
Moscow
Geneva
Ferenc Szalasi
Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Latvia
Warm Weather Forecast for Regions Four and Five
Region four expects fair unseasonably warm midweek then cooling with light rain in the north Friday. Weekend brings warmer conditions and rain from Sunday. Region five remains unseasonably warm Wednesday then cooler with showers Thursday night and Friday, followed by a warm Saturday and rain late Saturday ending Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Del's Place advertises beer by the case in Ridge Way WV
An old classified ad lists beer by the case and bottles at Del's Place formerly Chuck and Rays on Ridge Way in West Virginia with a contact phone Inwood 25 F 22. The notice also mentions a help wanted ad for a male at H J Heinz Co Valley Pike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Del
Chuck & Ray's
Ridgeway
W. Va
Inwood
H. J. Heinz Co
Valley Pike
Costume Dance at York Halloween Night
A Halloween costume dance will be held at York's on October 31 with a prize for best costume. No stag will be admitted. Admission matches Saturday night price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
York's
Hallowe’en
Notice to Frederick County dance hall operators
The Sheriff alerts that no person or firm may operate a public dance hall without a Circuit Court permit. permits may be revoked by the Judge. Dances for charity or under religious civic educational or military auspices are exempt. Violators face misdemeanor penalties of 50 to 500 dollars per offense and arrest after December 1, 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Circuit Court
Nippon Reduced To Naval Runt After Pacific Defeat
Japan suffered a crushing setback in the second Philippines battle, leaving the fleet a mere naval runt unable to oppose the American China bound offensive for months. Losses reached about 60 ships and 35,000 men killed, with Halsey confirming dramatic damage to Luzon force.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Philippines
Nippon
America
William F. (Bull) Halsey, Jr
Rembert James
Associated Press
Halsey
Yanks Advance In Leyte Under Typhoon Battle
American infantry pushed toward Leyte's northwest coast amid a fierce typhoon and Japanese delaying tactics. Gen. MacArthur reported 24,000 Japanese casualties on Leyte and Samar with 3,221 American losses. Reinforcements from Cebu landed at Ormoc as 4,000 to 6,000 Japanese retired toward Carigara Bay under heavy rain and mine threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte Valley
1St Cavalry
Carigera Bay
Jaro
Douglas MacArthur
Leyte
Samar
Cebu
Ormoc
Carigara Bay
Carigara
Burog
Girl Scout Week Observed Across United States
The birthday of Juliette Low marks National Girl Scout Week. More than a million Girl Scouts honor their founder, tracing back to a 24 girl group in Savannah, Georgia. In Winchester, 21 scouts highlighted a year of service in radio addresses by civic leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juliette Low
Girl Scouts In
America
United States
Savannah
Winchester
Robert Barton
Gertrude Barton
Sam Preston
Fellowship Club
Wendell Barney
Sara Hamilton
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Army halts recruitment of civilian doctors
Washington October 31 The army stops recruiting civilian physicians while the Navy and other services push to add medical officers. McNutt of the manpower commission cites a need for about 3 000 more doctors. Public Health Service and Veterans Administration continue hiring. Army now lists about 47 500 physicians on duty versus roughly 13 000 in the Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Paul V. McNutt
Manpower Commission
Navy
Public Health Service
Veterans Administration
Newspaper backs Dewey in fall election
The Christian Science Monitor endorsed Governor Dewey as best for U S welfare after weighing presidential campaign issues. The paper critiques two term tradition and argues Roosevelt cannot become a dictator, noting past endorsement of Wendell Willkie in 1940 but now clearer support for Dewey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Christian Science Montitor
Dewey
United States
Franklin Roosevelt
Erwin Canham
The
Monitor
Wendell Willkie
Local State Guard Banquet Notice
W A Baker captain of the State Guard announces Winchester unit Company 115 Virginia State Guard will assemble at the Golden Glow Shoppe 48 North Loudoun street Friday evening November 3 at 7 30 promptly instead of the Armory Dinner will be served and a discussion will follow. Members should wear uniforms and attend as officers report on a Alexandria conference outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Baker
State Guard
Wanted Experienced sales lady for permanent employment
Buzzella's Shop advertises for an experienced sales lady in a permanent position. The notice gives no further details on qualifications, hours, or contact information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buzzella’s
Japan's Premier warns of unfavourable war situation
Premier Gen Kiun aki Koiso told Osaka rally that Japan's armed forces, fighting a passive defense since Guadalcanal, must withdraw gradually and face an unfavorable situation due to material shortages. He claimed naval victories off Formosa and the Philippines and urged greater production to support troops.
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Japan
Guadalcanal
Kuniaki Koiso
Josso
Formosa
Phillippines
Osakka
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Kaiso
Roosevelt accelerates fourth term bid with radio address
President Roosevelt plans a White House radio address Thursday night and three New England appearances before a final Boston vote plea. He will speak in Bridgeport Hartford and Springfield en route, with a Boston address likely from Fenway Park at 9 p.m. EDT. Republican leaders harshly discount any civil liaison while Dewey campaigns in Buffalo for his 15th speech. Byrnes counters that changing leaders now would delay victory, and Truman warns against substitutes on the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Davis
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
White House
New England
Boston
Fenway Park
Bridgeport
Hartford
Conn
Springfield
Mass
Ohio
Dewey
Buffalo
NBC
Herbert Brownell
Brownell
James F. Byrnes
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Providence
R. I
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Detroit
Police Warn Youths About Halloween Pranks
Chief C. W. Hollis declares zero tolerance for property damage tonight. He pledges extra police in service and asserts that youths taken into custody will face full legal penalties as reports say pranksters have started soaping windows and cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallowe’en
C. W. Hollis
Six Infants Found Dead in Lockport Building
Police in Lockport New York report the discovery of six newborn bodies in a former livery stable building. Detectives say one was in a trunk and two in a bushel basket with earlier finds in an orange crate a cardboard box and another trunk. All infants are believed to be African American and several months to over a year old. Louis Battise a local auto laundry operator connected to the building is identified as dead after Oct. 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lockport
N. Y
Yestead
Benjamin Furlong
Leroy Grover
Purlong
Louis Battise
Lockport City Hospital
Furlong
Potomac Edison Sells Bonds to New York Firm
The Potomac Edison Company sold 16.581 million dollars in first mortgage and refunding bonds to W. C. Langley and Company of New York City at 101.402 percent of par with a 3 percent coupon. Proceeds will retire 11.981 million in five percent bonds at 105 percent and five million in 4.5 percent bonds at 107.5 percent. Five New York firms bid, board met today in Frederick to approve.
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Frederick, Md
Potomac Edison Company
W. C. Langley and Company
New York City
Treasury
New York
Potomac Edison Board of Directors
Frederick
Allies Threaten Forli In Italy
Indian troops of the Eighth Army opened a bridgehead across the Ronco river near Meldola seven miles south of Forli on the Rimini Bologna highway. The foothold was quickly consolidated and held to a depth of half a mile. Other Italian front actions were mainly local yesterday.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Forli
Rimini-Bologna
Ronco River
Meldola
Wanted Trucks for Hauling Apples
Advertisement seeks trucks for hauling apples. Contact John Livengood in Berryville at telephone number 75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Livengood
Berryville
Army and Navy Rings at Hodgson and Brown's
Advertisement notes army and navy rings available at Hodgson and Brown's and includes a date code or catalog reference (10 30 10 21) indicating a sale or inventory marker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ARMY
NAVY
Hodgson & Brown's
Battle for Port of Antwerp Said to Be Over
British and Canadian forces drive German retreat from the Maas river area near Geertruidenberg and Tilburg as the battle for Antwerp ends in Allied favor. Highways teem with German transports amid fog blunting air attacks and efforts to retreat to Holland.
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Antwerp
William Frye
London
Holland
Maas
Geertruidenberg
Tilburg
Lieseel
Walcheren Island
Antenrp
Schelde
South Beveland
Germany
Britain To Issue A New Security Bond 1950
London announced that sale of British national war bonds ends November 6 and a new one and three quarter per cent exchequer bond 1950 will be issued at par repayable February 15 1950. Chancellor Sir John Anderson outlined wartime costs totaling 96 billion dollars in five years with debt rising to about 84.8 billion dollars and 44.94 billion raised by taxation.
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London
John Anderson
Commons
Britain
John Kerr School Plans Parades to Support Red Cross Drive
The John Kerr School will stage a parade along Loudoun street to Piccadilly street and back up Cameron street tomorrow at 2 30 in the afternoon. All students participating in the Red Cross War Drive may march, with the leading room chosen by largest total collected and 100 percent members carrying banners. The drive opens tomorrow, though the school has run it for a week and ends with the parade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kerr School
Loudoun Street
Piccadilly Street
Cameron Street
Red Cross
Japs Closing In On Kweilin
Japanese troops push toward Kweilin in southeast China's Kwangsi province with positions within six miles east and northeast and one near ten miles southeast. Chinese counterattacks target Tungan on the Hunan Kwangsi railway while Mangshih area near the Burma road sees most positions captured by daylight action. U S 14th Air Force fighters strafed a two mile column of Japanese troops and pack horses in a canyon.
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Chungking
Kweilin
China
Kwangsi Province
Tungan
Hunan-Kwangsi
Salween River
Yunnan
Mangshih
Burma Road
West River
Kwangsi
U.S. 14Th Air Force
Churchill warns war may extend to 1946 with coalition rule
Prime Minister Churchill told the Commons the war against Germany could last into the next summer and the war with Japan into 1946. He urged maintaining Britain's nine year coalition government until Nazism is defeated and warned against early elections. He noted uncertain timing and the need to finish the war before a return to party politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex H. Singleton
London
Churchill
Commons
Germany
Japan
Britain
Hitler
Holland
Italy
House of Lords
Greek Guerrillas Help Take Arnissa
Greek guerrillas with British forces captured Arnissa, about 40 miles north of Kozani, wiping out the German garrison. The Nazi retreat route toward the southern border was cut as Allied forces advance in northern Greece.
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Rome
Kozane
Agosta
Arnissa
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Luzon
Manila
Chester W. Nimitz
Big Luzon
Third Fleet
Typhon
Mother
Babe
Battlefield
Boxtel
Signal Corps Radiophoto
International
British Beach
Maas River
Potomac Edison
Eindhoven
Supreme Headquarters
Walcheren
Long
North Sea
Hollandsch Diep
Raamsdonk
John Kerr
Kwelin
Hans
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