Parents of Teddy Colebank Receive Son's Purple Heart
Mr and Mrs W A Colebank of 308 Kirby street receive posthumous Navy Purple Heart for son Richard Theodore Teddy Colebank who died in action March 17 1943 aboard a torpedoed ship in the mid North Atlantic. Navy records show ship sank after torpedo strike with few survivors. Teddy a 1942 Grafton High School graduate known for model airplane building.
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W. A. Colebank
Kirby Street
Richard Theodore
Teddy” Colebank
Navy
Teddy
United States
Young Colebank
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Colebank
Grafton High School
Howard White Appointed as City Police Emergency Officer
Howard H. White of Christiana street has been assigned to the City Police force as an emergency officer per Mayor C. O. King’s announcement this week. White, a former guard at the nearby Tygarts Valley dam, fills a vacancy created when acting Chief Joe Mask replaced former captain Earl C. DeMoss.
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Howard H. White
Christiana Street
C. O. King
White
Tygarts Valley Dam
Joe Mask
Earl C. DeMoss
District conservation effort expands to wet bottomlands
Dr Galpin and Mr Smith working with Tygarts Valley District on drainage studies began a project on the Howard Dillon farm Knottsville road to guide management of wet bottomlands in the state. Barbour Upshur counties push farm pond construction with four ponds finished in Upshur and plans for more, while a state soil conservation bulletin on erosion is available through county agents. The note ends with a Post cereal breakfast promotion.
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Galpin
Smith
State Soil Conservation Committee
Koiso
Yonai
Getce
United States
Tojo
Federal Communications Commission
Associated Press
Tojo’s Power Waning Amid Japanese Leadership Shuffle
The Mikado period advisor system is cited with Koicho Kido as privy seal bearer guiding a reshaped government. Koiso and Yonai named to form a new cabinet after Tojo’s resignation, signaling a shift after Pearl Harbor and suggesting Tojo's loss of real control, as Domei reports.
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Koiso
Yonai
Tokyo
Kido
Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Domei
Red Army advances near Lwow threaten Nazi front line
Front dispatches report Russian forces pushing south of Lwow after crossing the Bug, with army tanks and riflemen entering Polish territory 45 miles north of Lwow. The drive focuses on a wedge between Bialystok and Brest Litovsk as Warsaw appears within reach. only eight miles northwest of Lwow, reports indicate the Red Army holds four to five miles of advance as of the latest消息.
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Containea
Lwow
Bialystok
Brest Litovsk
Warsaw
Sokal
Red Army
Ex-Police Chief Fined and Placed on Probation
Earl C. DeMoss former City Police head was fined 100 dollars and placed on three years probation by Judge Arlos Harbert in Clarksburg on charges of unlawful wounding. The case stemmed from a scuffle with Lester Post a city prisoner at Taylor county jail after Post insulted a clerk at Malone's Drug store and refused to leave. Post was later arrested after a blackjack assault by two patrolmen and jailed. DeMoss allegedly later used a blackjack on Post at the jail prompting the transfer to Harrison county for a fair trial. The sentence was delayed from July 13 due to probation officer illness.
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Earl C. DeMoss
Arlos Harbert
Clarksburg
Lester Post
Taylor County
Post
Malone's
DeMoss
Harrison County
DeMose
Soviet gains sweep along 600 mile front near Kaunas and Dvinsk
Premier Stalin’s high command reports gains across the front with Kaunas Daugavpils and Litovsk near Red Army grasp. Lwow hub of rail lines appears to be lost as German defenses retreat over 13 miles in 24 hours. Maslennikov front near Latvian border says 700 villages liberated in two days. Konev’s Ukraine army crosses Bug river near Sokal and Krystynopol, with Prusnov and Ostrov also captured. About 350,000 Americans use glass eye. Volatile oils kill moth larvae in cedar chest.
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Brody
Stalin
Kaunas Daugavpils
Dvinsk
Rest Litovsk
Red Army
Lwow
Europe
Ivan
Ivanovich Maslennikov
Leonid A. Goroyrov
Leningrad
Maslennikov
Ivan 8
Konev
Ukraine
Bug River
Sokol
Prusnov
Krystynopol
Sokal
Boratyn
Ostrov
Soklam
Rationing Roundup Announces Fresh Produce Price Updates
Charleston July 20 The Office of Price Administration lists apricots, cherries, plums, and watermelons under the new flat pricing for Groups 1 and 2 stores in Codar Ridge and several counties. Prices: apricots 22.5¢ lb, sweet cherries 46.5¢ lb, plums 24.5¢ lb, watermelons 5¢ lb. Changes include cucumbers 9.5¢ lb, lettuce 15¢ or 12¢ per head, onions under 3 inch 3 lb for 27–29¢, grapefruit California-Arizona 13¢ lb, sizes 68 11¢, 80 9¢. All other prices unchanged.
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Charleston
Codarridge
Harrison, Lewis
Marion Monongalia
Taylor
District Office of Price Administration
Pacific Coast
California
Arizona
Bomb Explodes Wounding Nazi Officials and Aides
Brandt and Borgmann and a collaborator named Berger were listed as seriously injured in the blast. Slightly injured were General Jodl Hitler’s aide Karl Bodenschatz and Guenther Korien among others in what appears to be a targeted attack on high ranking Nazi figures.
Carload shipments rise for Baltimore and Ohio week
Bal timore and Ohio carloads for the week ended July 15, 1944 totaled 78,903 with 48,606 loaded on line and 30,297 from connections. This is 5,690 more than the prior year, when totals were 73,219. Week ended July 8 reported 67,001 total with 39,293 on line and 27,708 from connections. 1930 week totals were 66,044 with 43,839 loaded and 22,205 from connections.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Visiting Here Pe James G Rauscher AAF graduate
James G Rauscher son of Charles E Rauscher of 234 West Francis Street recently finished aerial gunnery training at Harlingen Texas and visits home en route to a new assignment in California. A St Augustine high school graduate class of 1943 he entered service in January and serves as a tail gunner on a B 24 Liberator.
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James G. Rauscher
Charles E. Rauscher
West Francis Street
AAF Training Command
Harlingen
Texas
California
St. Augustine High School
Rauscher
Howara
Pugh
USN
Great Lakes
Seaman Pugh
George Pugh
West Main Street
Bobby
Chicago
Ill
Wehrmacht leaders injured in Berlin broadcast report
A Berlin broadcast said Lt. Gen. Schmundt Lt. Col. Brandt Lt. Col. Borgmann and collaborator Berger were seriously injured after the incident. Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering hurried to Hitler upon learning of events as Buhle Heusinger and Wal ter Scherff Admirals Voss and Von Put kammer stood by. Schmundt, Hitler's former military adjutant, was present at the Brenner Pass conference.
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Schmundt
Brandt
Berg
Berger
Hitler
Edmund Hofmeister
Buhle
Heusinger
Walter Scherff
Fuehrer
County Honor Roll Grows as 15 Die in Taylor County
Kiwanis president Robert F. Gerkin said the Taylor county Service Roll at the local Court House lists 1,909 names with 15 dead. Roy Kirby and William Bolliger were added to bring deaths to fifteen and officials urged public help in collecting more names for the roll. Send names to the authorities.
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Robert F. Gerkin
Kiwanis Club
Taylor County
Roy Kirby
William Bolliger
Gerkin
Grafton
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Ronge
Howard White
Tygari’s Valley Soil Conservation
District News Conservation Farming
Saipan
Germany
Mussolini
Italy
Domel
Dome
Tues
New Post
OPA
V. Miller Reliable Footwear
W. Va
Pouge Head
Malone’s Drug & Chemical CO
Vienna
U. S. Army Air Forces
International Soundphoto
Vanessa
Virginia
Col
Robert E. Pence
Camp Pickett
Helen Shingleton
Yates ‘Avenue
Dean
Mrs. Pence
Fairmont
Sgt
G. J. Steuart
335Th Infan
Benito Mussolini
Try
Camp Butner
N. C
H. W_ Dent
Maple Avenue
Set
Steuart
Los Angles
Calif
Cpl
Howard Dixon
Spencer Dixon
Fort Monmouth
N. J
DNB
France
U. S. Navy
Oops
Wai Wen Ak
Per Proodom' Sabo
Normandy
Flanders
Matie Pail
Kansas City
Frances Holt
Frances Lake
Irene Rohr
Hutchinson
Kan
Columbia
Loar Jewelry Store
Official Watch Inspectors
The
Salvation Army
Callifornia
Malone’s Drug and Chemical Co
Fort Pitt Shoe Stores, Inc
Dixie
Jones & Monod
Clarence E. Mulford
WilLtAm Bord
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