Russians Drive After Riga as Jelgava Offensive Expands
Russian forces press the Jelgava region 25 miles southwest of Riga and claim to have halted German counterattacks with heavy armor. Berlin reports say the Red Army nears Riga in a three day push intended to crush two German armies in Latvia and Estonia.
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Moscow
Jelgava
Riga
Berlin
Latvia
Estonia
Red Army
Free Germany Committee
Warsaw
Vistula
Praga
Bor
Urea
Transylvania
Hungary
Satu-Mare
Cluj
Csap
Associated Press
Thole
Truman Bricker Outline Views For Returning Vets
The rival vice presidential candidates Harry S. Truman and John W. Bricker addressed veterans at the American Legion 26th annual convention in Chicago. Truman praised the GI Bill and small business role, while Bricker urged freeing industry to create jobs and stressed proper placement for returning servicemen.
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William J. Conway
Chicago
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Colliseum
American Legion
Truman
Congress
Bricker
War Investigating Committee
Formal Finnish War Declaration Seems Imminent
Stockholm reports a Finnish declaration of war against Germany looms as Finnish fury grows over German scorched earth withdrawals in northern Finland. The cabinet met in Helsinki amid talk of war, with Russians pressing for a share of Finland and air bases.
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Stockholm
Germany
Finland
Helsinki
Russia
Suomisaalmi
Kuusamo
Arctic Circle
Gunnar Mullern
Finnish Gulf
Transocean
Kandalaksha
Slow But Steady Gains In Palu Islands War Report
U S Pacific Fleet reports rapid beachhead expansion on Angaur and early Marine gains on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. The 81st Division secured northeast Augaur while Marines push north from Peleliu airfield amid heavy Japanese resistance and mortar fire.
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Palu Islands
San Francisco
Peleliu
William Ewing
Western Pacific
Ewing
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Angaur Island
Navy
Palaus
81St
Wildcat
Augaur
Pacific Fleet
Ma Winchester Urges Early Christmas Parcel Mail Overseas
Ma Winchester reminds citizens to mail Christmas parcels to armed forces overseas now through October 15. Parcels must be packed in strong containers and marked Christmas Parcel, with a limit of one per week per sender, under 5 pounds and 15 inches in length, girth counted. The note cites last year’s twenty million parcels and an estimated seventy million this year in the 30 day window.
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lIength
Public text of citation for 116th Infantry made public
War Department released the Presidential citation for the 116th Infantry National Guard from western Virginia. The regiment earned the honor for extraordinary heroism during the Normandy assault on the heavily fortified northern coast near Vierille Sur Mer, where D-Day losses exceeded 800 officers and men. The citation appears in General Order No. 73 dated Sept. 6, 1944.
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Staunton
United States
War Department
116Th Infantry
National Guard
Virginia
Normandy
France
Vierille- Sur- Mer
Jap Saboteurs In Kweilin Reported Seizing City
Hundreds of Japanese saboteurs in plain clothes were reported to have entered Kweilin China and were being rounded up and shot. The advance included positions about 50 miles from Kweilin as U S air forces hit bomber and fighter bases nearby. The Japanese drive into Guangxi threatens American military efforts in China.
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Kunming
China
Kweilin
DE A. Farnsworth
China Front
Kwelin
U. S. 14Th Airforce
Ae Miles Taohsie Ana Oes Csiane
Hunan-Kwangsi
Kwangsi
Pacific
U. S S
Peleliu
Lt Com McGuire To Return To United States
Dr H H McGuire announces son Lt Cmdr William P McGuire has orders to report back to the United States for duty at the Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in Philadelphia. He has served the past year on a hospital ship in the Pacific and should arrive within three weeks.
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H. H. McGuire
William P. McGuire
Navy Department
United States
Philadelphia
McGuire
Pacific
Wanted House Cleaner by the Hour
Help needed for hourly house cleaning at 326 Amherst Street. Posted as a classified want ad with location and work type.
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Amherst St
Notice of Cavalier Cedar Chests Sale
Received from the IEEE Furniture Co a batch of Cavalier cedar chests. Details unclear in OCR. No further names, dates, or locations.
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Ieee Furniture Coo
For Sale Late C B Stickley's English Letter Bitch
Catalog entry describes a dog named English Letter bitch Florendale Sport Blackie, bred by Sports Peerless, with American Field Registration No 274918 and unbroken. Administrators W R Campbell and W E Edwards handle sale at $75.00. (11p-11)
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C. B. Stickley
Florendale Sport Blackie
Sports Peerless
W. R. Campbell
W. E. Edwards
Wanted Seamstress for Pingley and Carper Cleaners
Help wanted for a seamstress position at Pingley and Carper Cleaners. Applications accepted at the shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pingley & Carper
Laborers and checkers win for Winchester Cold Storage Co
Winchester Cold Storage Co. wins in a 9-16-1p-7t scoreline with laborers and checkers playing key roles in the victory.
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Winchester Cold Storage Co
Cruelty Reports From Balkans Include Airmen Ordeal
Nearly 350 American airmen recount brutal treatment by Bulgarian soldiers after bomb raids in the Balkans. Parachute rescues, beatings, theft, and executions are described, including a Brooklyn sergeant shot after bailout and a sergeant who lost a heel to infection.
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Sid Feder
Rome
Balkans
Bulgaria
Brooklyn
Macedonia
New Air Blows on Reich Reported by German Radio
London reports the German radio claiming major air blows on the Reich from north and south after yesterday's Holland landings and a night raid on Bremen. Two heavy bomber formations were said to head toward Pomerania and another to approach from the Baltic, with a second from Mecklenburg.
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London
Reich
Holland
Bremen
Pomerania
Baltic
Mecklenburg
Scant Progress in Italy as Allied Forces Renew Fighting
Allied Fifth and Eighth armies pressed fights along a broad northern Italian front with little gains. Canadian and Greek troops advanced toward Rimini airfield near the city’s rim while a fierce battle raged at San Martino on Monte L'Abate. Brazilian expeditionary force praised for joining the Fifth Army.
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Rome
Italy
Adriatic
Rimini
San Martino
Monte L’abate
Fifth
Eighth
Cain Soldier Killed in Action in France
Cpl. James L. Cain was killed in action in France during World War II, as notified by the War Department. The report lists his father James J. Cain of 400 North Loudoun Street as his next of kin with no further details provided.
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Cpl
James Cain
France
James J. Cain
Loudoun Street
War Department
James L. Cain
Navy Destroyer Warrington Sunk in Last Week's Hurricane
The 1850 ton destroyer Warrington and two 125 foot Coast Guard boats, Jackson and Bedloe, were lost at sea during the recent hurricane. Survivors from Jackson drifted 58 hours off Virginia before rescue. Commander Samuel F Quarles led Warrington, with a crew of about 230 officers and men. Over 150 Cape Hatteras families were left homeless as the storm damaged every home on the Hatteras bank and disrupted telephones between the Atlantic and Pamlico Sound.
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Washington
Warrington
Coast Guard
Navy
Jackson
Bedloe
Virginia
Samuel Frank Quarles
Nathalie
Norfolk
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras Bank
Pamlico Sound
Levine Midgett
Chicamacombo
Hatteras Bank
Alvo
UN relief chief warns of severe shortages for Europe
Montreal Sept 18 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration head Herbert Lehman warned that relief supplies for war torn Europe are scraping the bottom. He cited dire needs in woolen textiles cotton fabrics footwear and food with limited allocations and only 12 million pairs of shoes being produced in North America leaving Unrra to plan tough salvage and reuse efforts.
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Montreal
One
United Nations
Herbert Lehman
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Conference
Unrra
Pla
United States
Germany
Brazil
Canada
Lehman
Europe
House Tackles Post War Plans
Washington dispatch reports the House moving toward a Friday recess while tackling postwar reconversion and surplus property bills. Key points include unemployment compensation for federal workers and travel expenses for war workers, with prospects of stripping these provisions before conferees. The House also aims to approve machinery to dispose of up to 100 billion dollars in surplus war property. Senate action included calls for world news freedom study and debates over postwar tax levels and a food stamp plan for low income families.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate House
Senate
Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
World News Freedom
Russell
D-Ga
Aiken
R-Vt
Allied Military Government in Reich Established
A spokesman for General Eisenhower announced in a broadcast that an Allied military government has been set up in occupied Reich territory and will begin destroying Nazism. The statement targets western and southwestern Germany and signals immediate administrative action.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Germany
Reich
World At War Highlights Across Fronts In Global Conflict
Highlights report Allied advances on the Western Front with air drops in Holland and Schelde-Meuse progress, Soviet and Balkan fighting, and Fifth and Eighth Army actions in Italy. Pacific theater notes include Peleliu progress and Japanese saboteurs in China.
Allied Airborne Army Resupplied in Holland Invasion
London reports a large armada of bombers and transports supplied the Allied airborne army that invaded Holland. The force destroyed 27 of 60 German fighters, with two Mustangs lost. About 250 Liberators and hundreds of C-47s and gliders aided Lt. Gen. Lewis H Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army.
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London
Holland
Messerschmitts
Lewis H. Brereton
Bitterest Fighting Since D Day In Germany
American troops pushed toward Aachen amid the bitterest fighting since D Day. German counterattacks faltered under heavier artillery and air power with fresh Russian front reserves aiding the defense, while Allied advances continued to inch forward in and north of Aachen.
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Germany
France
Belgium
Aachen
Seven New Polio Cases Reported in State
Seven new poliomyelitis cases raise the state total since June 1 to 519 and since September 1 to 165. The seven day period ending today shows 35 new cases, compared with a prior peak.
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Richmond
Allied airborne operations progress in Netherlands and Aachen fights
Supreme Headquarters reports airborne reinforcements landed in Holland and the first Allied Airborne Army operations progressing. Pockets of resistance near Aachen are cleared outside the fortress city, with heavy fighting inside.
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Supreme Headquarters
Nether
Aachen
Allied Air Army wins round in northern Germany invasion plan
Dispatches report continuous Allied air and ground operations across Holland and northern Germany as the First Allied Air Army penetrates toward the Rhine. Second Army pushes from Schelde-Meuse bridges aiming to join air corps. U S Seventh Army advances toward Belfort and the Rhine region, with Patton’s Third Army pressing east from Nancy toward Metz.
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Holland
Sky Army
Second Army
Schelde-Meuse Canal
U. S
First Army
Seigfied Line
Third Army
Moselle
Vosges
Metz
Seventh Army
Belfort Gap
London
Supreme Headquarters
Germany
Siegfried
Mediterranean
Lure
Belfort
Upper Rhine
Pont de
Montbelard
Paris
Rhine
Switzerland
Cider mill positions offered by H J Heinz Co
Help wanted notice seeks a male worker for full and part time jobs at a cider mill run by H J Heinz Co located on Valley Pike. The item appears as a brief classifieds line.
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H. J. Heinz Co
Valley Pike
Eagles Tre Aerie Meeting Notice
All members urged to attend Tre Aerie meetings held Tuesday night at 8 p m. Refreshments served in buffet after the secretary session.
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Tre Aerie
Ness
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By Eddy Gilmore
Border
26Th Legion
Bulletin
Vern Haugland
Winchester
Courtney Hodge
Official
Signal Corps Radiophoto
International
Com. McGuire
Fifth Army
By Sigrid Arne
The
Lativa
Bulletins
Great Air Armada
William Smith White
Siegfried Line
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expedi
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Miles C. Dempsey
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Aacher
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Loire
George S. Patton
Voges
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