Stalin Launches All Out Drive Against Nazis in East Prussia
Soviet forces push toward Praga and Warsaw area as Berlin reports continued Russian offensives along the eastern front. Moscow claims rapid advances across Lomza and toward East Prussia while heavy fighting rages near Praga on the Vistula.
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Stalin
E. Prussia
London
Warsaw
Vistula
Berlin
Beskide
Carpathian Range
Kosice
Czecho-Slovakia
Lomza
East Prussia
Romania
Szekler
Transylvania
Hunca
Moscow
Germany
Poland
Praga
Suvarovo
Kremlin
Frederick County Citizens Rally Behind Victory Efforts
Ma Winchester highlights that world conflict touches all, praising Frederick County’s wartime record. A Reynolds Store reader I. D. Shade, 72, shares his home front contributions a Victory Garden with extensive canning, dairy from three cows, four 300 pound hogs, tending 120 chickens, kraut, and 80 blooming flowers, showing all ages support the war effort.
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Frederick County
I. D. Shade
Reynolds Store
May Issue Joint Comment On Conference At Quebec
Quebec report notes Anthony Eden traveling from London to join the Roosevelt Churchill meeting as Allied leaders near a formal statement on wartime aims. Eden met with Polish exile premier Mikolajczk to discuss Soviet Poland relations amid the Quebec summit. Military and naval strategy dominated as B 29s loom over Japan.
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Quebec
Anthony Eden
London
Roosevelt Churchill
Ede
Eden
Stanislaw Mikolokajczk
Soviet
Russia
Poland
Hull
Ing
Roosevelt
Churchill
Japan
Doughboys Break Siegfried Line Front in Germany Drive
U S First Army infantry under Capt Kimball Richmond of Windsor Vermont with tanks pierced the first Siegfried line in the Aachen forest sector. They breached a dragon teeth tank barrier, advanced toward a second belt, as German fortifications and dragon teeth works were described in detail. Third Army forces reportedly reached Chateau Salins near Metz and Nancy as the push continued.
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Germany
Siegfried Line
U.s.first Army
U. S. First Army
Kimball Richmond
Windsor
Aachen Town
A.P
William Smith White
White
Botgen
Aachen
Prum
Richmond
Siegfried
Uamaleaias
Chateau-Salins
London
Moselle
Metz
Nancy
Trains Crash Near Terre Haute Killing Soldiers
In Terre Haute Indiana on September 14 a head on collision between the Dixie Flyer and a mail and express train killed at least 25 people and injured about 65, most of them soldiers on 30 day furlough from overseas air force units. The crash occurred at 2 20 AM on a single track three miles northeast of the city.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Air Force
St. Anthony Hospitals
Here
Miami
Fla
Chicago
Lewis, Rause
Evansville
Irving
Ira Hall
Hall
Navy
Winchester Lions Club Observes 20th Anniversary
The Winchester Lions Club marks its 20th anniversary with a banquet at the Winchester Armory at 7 30 PM inviting 15 nearby clubs for about 400 guests. Speakers include W M Black and Ellis Loveless past district governors and humorist Mack Sauer.
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Winchester Club
Richmond
Winchester Armory
Sue Tokes
Opequon
William S. Wheatley
Allen T. Hawthorne
W. M. Black
Lions of Virginia
Lynchburg
Ellis Loveless
Norfolk
Mack Sauer
Leesburg
Ohio
Mary Donegan
Hagerstown
Winchester Lions
Herbert S. Larrick
Co. R. Anderson
Charles J. Summers
Warren Rice
Maxime L. Ducharme
J. H. Seal, Jr
Rev
F. R. Casselman
Konees
G. G. Baker
Dr. Anderson
B. Newlin
Winchester TB Association Elects New Officers
At a recent Winchester Tuberculosis Association meeting, Rev. Dr. E. T. Clark was elected president. New officers include Mrs. H. D. Puller as first vice president and E. W. Argenbright as second vice president. The article traces the society’s 1910 origins and long service in Winchester and Frederick County.
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Winchester Tuberculosis Association
E. T. Clark
H. D. Puller
E. W. Argenbright
D. W. Ritenour
Imogene J. Crockett
Evelyn Dean
Andrew Bell
Gertrude Over
W. V. Bradshaw, Jr
Claude N. Grim
R. R. Sartelle
Robert B. Grove
Eugene R. Branch
R. Gray Williams
D. W. Lupton
Mary P. Farmer
Ellsworth Johnson
L. G. Sjostrom
W. E. Edwards
Emma Parks Robinson
Winchester
Peachy Latane
Love
Latane Tuberculosis Society
Fuller
Emily Weems
Washington, D. C
Ane Carson
B. B. Dutton
Tuberculosis Society
Winchester ‘Tuberculosis Association
Great Hurricane Veers Northward Toward New England Coast
The hurricane roared off the Virginia Capes with winds to 75 mph and heavy rain. Norfolk Weather Bureau said peak fury had passed Hampton Roads by 1 PM and winds to 60 mph would continue hours more. The storm, about 500 miles wide, moved NE at 20 mph from Cape Hatteras, heading toward the New England coast.
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Norpolk
Virginia Capes
Virginia
Norfolk Weather Bureau
Hampton Roads
Cape Hatteras
New England
Evacuation Ordered as Great Atlantic Hurricane Threatens
Lieut. W. H. Weber says Ocean City Maryland residents to evacuate as a dangerous Atlantic hurricane veers northward toward the Carolina coast. The center near Cape Hatteras could move parallel to the coast then cross southeastern New England by Thursday night with hurricane force winds from Hatteras to the Virginia Capes.
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Baltimore
W. H. Weber
Ocean City
Many Nazis Are Indicted Here
The Justice Department announced 174 German aliens including former high German officials were indicted in New York and New Jersey on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing Nazi party affiliations. Federal grand juries in New York Brooklyn and Newark returned 37 indictments sealing them until today. Nazi activities began in 1933 and were operated through German ambassadors and consular officials.
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Washington
Justice Department
New York
New Jersey
United States
Brooklyn
Newark
Se i WANTED amstress Apply Pingley and Carper
A brief classified notice seeks a seamstress and mentions cleaners. The ad lists Pingley and Carper as points of contact with a date string 9 14 Ip 3t, implying deadline or reference for the ad.
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Pingley & Carper
Freshly dressed chickens for delivery
All sizes available freshly dressed with delivery service. Call 5231 for orders. Includes Thursday and Friday pickup days.
Fresh home grown fried chickens for Saturday delivery
Home grown and home dressed frying chickens delivered to your door Saturday evenings. Place orders by 9. Phone 3959.
Buy Laura Bayliss land 11 acres at Front Court House
Notice lists a sale for Laura Bayliss of 11 acres at Front Court House scheduled for Saturday the 16th with a court house location. Also advertises plumbing and heating repairs by J H Riley and prohibits cider apple purchases without an office order for J Heinz Co Winchester Virginia.
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Laura Bayliss
Front Court House
J. Heinz Co
Winchester
Sings Flag Anthem At Fort McHenry
Miss Lucy Monroe sang The Star Spangled Banner at dawn from Fort McHenry in Baltimore to mark the anthem’s writing 130 years ago during the fort bombardment. A Brisbane message from General Douglas MacArthur was broadcast, praising symbols from the cross to the flag and hoping to raise it over Bataan and Corregidor. This is her third year performing the dawn tribute.
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Baltimore
Lucy Monroe
Fort McHenry
Monroe
Brisbane
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Corregidor
Miss Monroe
Francis Scott Key
Pvt Herman Parker Wounded In Italy Receives Purple Heart
Mrs. Charles Parker of Berryville reports her son Pvt. Herman Parker was wounded in Italy on July 2 and awarded the Purple Heart. He is hospitalized in Italy and is said to be recovering.
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Charles Parker
Berryville
Pvt
Herman Parker
Italy
Pvt. Parker
World War Fronts Update From Various Theaters
Western Front reports Ike’s forces thrust toward Aachen and flank from the north with American First and British Second armies crossing into Folland from Belgium and gains in Luxembourg. Russian Front sees heavy fighting around Warsaw and Praga as Red forces clash, while others push across the Czecho Slovak frontier. Allied air power targets central Europe as heavy bombing presses continue in Germany. American air forces claim to have destroyed 200 Japanese planes over the central Philippines.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Netherlands
Aachen
Belgium
Folland
Luxembourg
Warsaw
Praga
Pacific
Tengchung
Burma
China
Central
Philippines
Fifth Army Presses Gothic Line Front In Italy
Fifth Army on a 25 mile front battering the Nazi Gothic line with resistance rising. Clark's forces cross outposts between Pistoia and Lucca while Allied HQ says enemy uses full combined arms and will slow progress. Adriatic sector sees British Canadian and Indian troops expand gains near Coriano San Savino.
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George Bria
Rome
Fifth Army
Italy
Mark Clark
Pistoia
Lucca
Adriatic
Corlano-San Savino
Clark
Chinese Recapture Tengchung Marks Burma Road Push
Chinese high command announces the recapture of Tengchung from Japan near the Salween River. The victory is described as a major step toward reopening the Burma road and linking with Stilwell’s forces in northern Burma. The operation was aided by American elements and air support as Wei Lin-Huang’s forces push toward Mangshih and clear western Salween positions.
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Spencher Moosa
Chungking
Tengchung
Salween River
Burma Road
Yunnan Province
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Burma
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Wei Lin-Huang
Brig
Tively
Salween Bridge
Mangshih
Eagles Aerie Urges Members to Attend Weekly Meetings
All members are urged to be present at regular Aerie meetings held every Tuesday at 8 p m. Light refreshments are served after the business session. Secretary.
Planes Based In Britain Grounded By Foul Weather
Britain based heavy bombers stayed home as deteriorating weather limited flying after a six day run of thousand bomber raids on Nazi war industry. RAF Mosquitoes bombed Berlin for the fourth night, delivering over 10 000 tons in four assaults, while weather limited results to a barge and a train during one attack on communications.
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Eighth Air Force
Russia
Europe
Britain
London
Berlin
Germany
Continent
Dewey Outlines Voters' Choices in Sheridan Visit
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey spoke at Sheridan railway station amid Wyoming GOP events, urging voters to choose between the New Deal path toward regimentation and the Republican path to a free society with security and jobs. He criticized prewar unemployment and defended his campaign as presenting clear issues and a national direction.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Thomas E. Dewey
Wyoming
Valentine
Nebr
Allies Break Through Siegfried Line Near Aachen
James W. Long reports U S First Army seized several German villages near Rotgen as it pierced Siegfried line and undercut Aachen communications hub. Patton’s Third Army advances from Nancy toward Lunéville, 15 miles beyond, signaling a widening Allied push in the Moselle corridor.
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James W. Long
London
Rotgen
U. S. First Army
Aachen
Supreme Headquarters
Maastricht
Holland
Eupen
Belgium
Patton
U. S. Third Army
George S. Patton
Nancy
Charmes
Moselle
Luneville
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W. L. Beale, Jr
Third Army
Don Whitehead
Winchester Lions Club
City
Lower
Wilmington
N. C
Carolina
Marine Corps
Cherry Point
Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Hatteras
J. H. Riley
U. S. Fifth Army
Italianae Pistoria
Maine
Dewey
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