Three Candidates to be Interviewed for Bret Harte Principal
Hayward Elementary board meets this afternoon at Markham School to consider three candidates for Bret Harte principal. William Dresbach, Herbert Roberts, and Ruf are listed. Dresbach is interim at Ashland School and active in local civic groups. Roberts teaches in Garberville and Ruf teaches in San Jose. all are San Jose State or San Francisco State graduates, with limited further details available.
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Bret Harte School
Hayward Elementary School
Markham School
William Dresbach
Herbert Roberty
Ruf
Harold F. McCarter
J. Bounds Christan
Dresbach
Ashland School
Hayward Area
Congress Plans To Study Bill Demobilization
Washington awaits the late summer return as Congress eyes demobilization and reconversion measures ready for action once the European war nears end. With conventions past, members plan a light August schedule and many intend to stay home until after Labor Day. A pending amendment by Senator Green would allow service members missing absentee ballots by October 1 to vote the Led ballot, a provision long debated.
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Congress
Europe
Theodore Francis Green
Privileges and Elections Committee
Allies Shift For New Attack On Normandy Front
General Montgomery massed Allied forces in Normandy as activity waned since D‑Day. German broadcasts warned of another push possible at any time. Navy noted better weather aiding supply buildup, though conditions later worsened. A German counterattack reportedly breached a US bridgehead near Le-Periers, with SS Panzer corps now led by Sepp Dietrich in Normandy.
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Supreme Headquarters
ARF
Eir Bernard L. L. Montgomery
Normandy Tront
Montgomery
Navy
Normandy
Leves River
Periers
Sepp Dietrich
Munich
Marines Storm Tinian Island Invasion Push Advances
U S Marines stormed ashore on Tinian after landing from newly secured beachheads while nearby Guam operations closed in on Orote Peninsula and its airfield. Admiral Nimitz reported light opposition but warned of tougher inland fighting as Japanese garrison defenses awaited. Guam forces captured Agat and threatened eastern installations. American casualties over three days reached 1500 wounded and 110 missing.
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U. S
Tinian Island
Maranas
Guam Island
Orote Peninsula
Tokyo
Tinian
Marianas
Japan
Philippines
Chester W. Nimitz
U.S
Guam
Livermore Canning Center Hours Named
The Livermore Canning Center announced a summer schedule for the canning school at Amador Valley High School. Week of July 31 to August 4 lists lessons on string beans apricots chickens rabbits peaches beets and carrots with daily times.
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Amador Valley High School
Livermore
Margelt. Holman
Yarn Home
King George Arrives At Naples Sunday Apricot Harvest Update
Approximately 2,000 apricot pickers are working in the Hayward area two weeks late, with labor adequate for now unless a hot spell hits. A slight shortage exists in the drying yards. More cutters are needed if available, as the season could extend into August and risk labor gaps if workers move to peaches and pears too early.
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Hayward Area
T. A. Perkins
Farm Labor Office
Perkins
Meyers Receives Yen From Saipan II
J T Meyers assistant county farm agent at UC Agricultural Extension Hayward received a $10 Japanese yen from Saipan sent by his nephew James Mackey of Petaluma. Meyers notes the bill resembles a greenback with green and grey print and the numeral 10 in each corner. the idol image is shown in one corner. Marine Mackey, previously a state highway patrolman, served in Saipan and wrote of being thankful to be alive. Mrs Mackey welds during wartime at a Sausalito shipyard.
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J. T. Meyers
University of Calfornia Agricultural Extension Division
Hayward
Saipan
James Mackey
Petaluma
Meyers
Marine
Tohe
Marine Mackey
Petiluma
Marine Corps
Mackey
Sausalito
Job Commission Fires 52 Employees in California Update
Sacramento California Employment Stabilization commission announced a $538 000 cut to the state unemployment insurance budget for the current fiscal year. The action forces the postponement of most postwar unemployment work and will remove 52 staff and leave 149 vacancies unfilled. Chairman Homer W Buckley noted national agency budgets total $33 million with a $2 million cut from the budget bureau and another $2 million by Congress, with California absorbing about 1% of the national reduction.
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Sacramento
U.alt
California Employment Stabilization Commission
Bureau of the Budget
Congressional Action
Department of Employment
Homer W. Buckley
Buckley
Budget Bureau
Congress
California
On To Berlin By United Press
The piece lists shortcut distances to Berlin from the Allied frontlines, with Russia 370 miles, Italy 010 miles, and Franco 623 miles, reflecting tactical travel and supply bearings as pursuit of Berlin continues.
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United Press
Berlin
Russia
Italy
Franco
Castro Valley Sewer Meeting Extended for Residents
Castro Valley residents will have another meeting Friday July 28 at Castro Valley school auditorium to review the proposed sewer project with the Sanitary Board. The extension of time was granted to let locals study details. 5 percent protests would halt the plan. Attendees reported hearing difficulties as officials answered questions.
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Castro
Lake Chabot Rd
Ernest A. Wilson
Cedric Macabee
Navy to boost force by 383000 men in 1944 1945
The Navy announces a major expansion to 3,006,000 personnel by July 1945 with 383,000 additional sailors. The fleet will reach 1,149 combat ships as of August and total shipbuilding and operations grow through 1944 into mid-1945. Secretary Forrestal cites accelerating Pacific operations and a need to keep pace with war demands.
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Washington U.P
Japan
Navy
U. S
James Forrestal
Pacific
Baseball National League Standings and Scores Fragment
Fragmentary baseball notes list teams Boston St Louis and Washington Cleveland with run totals and partial player credits such as Wilks Cooper Tobin Kopp Hickey Muai Wynn Ferrel Klioman Ropar Hausman Wagner Mancuso and Cas ter. The text presents scattered inning scores and batting lines without a coherent game narrative.
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National
Boston
St. Louis
Wilks
Partes
Galehouse
Caster & Mancuso
E Day Tribute to D Day Heroes Buy More Bonds
Hayward will mark H Day in tribute to D Day heroes with a national level bond drive. Citizens are urged to purchase more Series E bonds, designated the peoples bond, to meet a local quota of 1 486 7BB and support fighting men abroad. Total local bond sales reach 980000 with 309000 in Series F, far from the 600000 goal.
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Hayward
Hayward Area
Spellman Discusses Possible Early European Peace With Pope
In Vatican City Pope Pius XII held a long private audience with Archbishop Francis Spellman of New York, discussing a program aimed at an early peace in Europe. Reports say the Pope sent peace feelers amid Germany’s crisis, signaling consideration of opportunities to end the war.
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Vatican City
U.P
Pius
Francis J. Spellan
New York
Europe
Germany
Spellman
Recreation Benefit For Devoto Wednesday Night Show
A moving picture benefit to raise funds for the Devoto recreation program will be held Wednesday at 8 o'clock in the Devoto grammar school auditorium. Carl Degnan, Hayward deputy sheriff, said the Decoto boys have organized a baseball nine and will play their fathers Sunday at 1 p m on the school grounds. The team, aged 14 to 17, seeks opponents.
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Devoto
Devoto Grammar School
Carl Degnin
Hayward
Decoto
Degnan
Navy OKs Big Alameda Air Program
The Navy Department approves a 22 million dollar construction and improvement package for Alameda air center and nine auxiliary stations including Fallon Nevada. First combat planes to Fallon arrive tomorrow led by Cmdr Harrington Max Drake. Eighty planes fly in formation to the station with about five million spent to ready facilities. Construction includes parking apron, torpedo overhaul shop, training buildings, barracks, radio building, and storehouses totaling 1 077 302 dollars. Pyra mid take torpedo dropping facilities 5 700 dollars.
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Alameda
Calif
U.P
Navy Department
Alameda Air Center
Fallon
Nev
Twelfth Naval Headquarters
Cmdr. Harrington
Max Drake
San Diego
Catholics Celebrate St Anthony's Three Day Fiesta at All Saints
Catholics enjoyed a three day fiesta at All Saints church with large crowds Friday Saturday and Sunday. Over 12 booths offered livestock home made cakes and gifts at the auction. The ham dinner Sunday drew excellent attendance as Father Charles P Hardeman conducted mass marking the 25th anniversary of Father Martins ordination.
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St. Anthony's
All Saints Church
Fred Cook
Charles P. Hardeman
Father Martins
Father Hardeman
Sacred Heart Church
San Jose
Father Marling
Pather Victor
St. Elizabeth's Church
Oakland
Joseph Kenney
St. Thomas’ Church
San Francisco
Edmund Kenney
Providence Hospital
Emmett Manahan
St. Rita's Church
Fairfax
Milton Raber
St. Jarulth's
Richard Barron
Corpus Christi Church
Timothy Galvin
St. Bernard's Church
Landien Hayward
City
Driverless Truck Crashes Into Garage Injures Three
In Livermore a driverless truck rolled from a gas station and crashed into a garage, pushing a car off a lift. Mrs. Wilbur Echeverer of Modesto, her infant, and Harry M. Donnell escaped serious harm as the truck struck the building. Donnell got first aid at St. Paul’s Hospital. driver George H. Grunberg left brakes set but failed after the engine was turned off.
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Livermore
Wilbur Echeverer
Modesto
Harry M. Donnell
Stax
Donnell
St. Paul's Hospital
George HL Grunberg
Grunberg
Patched Man Fought Off By Police After Stone Cold Pursuit
Police hunted Lee Rey Antrin after a break in at A and Meekland gas station. He fought Officer Frank Tapia and W H Sloan during transport, then vanished from Parrmont hospital. Antrin has a missing persons report out across the region.
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Lee Rey Antrin
70Th St
Oakland
Frank Tapia
W. H. Sloan
A and Meekland
Tapia
Sloan
Antrin
Pairmont
Hayward
Police and Sherif Department
Bodies Wash Ashore Near Port Chicago
Twenty five victims from last week’s explosion are being recovered as a Navy board of inquiry resumes secret hearings. Coast guard boats and shore recoveries, fingerprints set up to aid identification, with fourteen bodies to the county coroner and others to the Port Chicago station. Deputies warn the public not to touch loose explosives after a live bomb was brought in.
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Port Chicago
Sun
Coast Guard
Navy Board of Inquiry
Navy
Contra Costa County Coronet
Ashers
Contra Costa
Stimpson to Speak on War Trip Across Europe
Secretary of War Henry L Stimpson will address the nation over the Blue and Mutual Radio Networks at 8 15 p m EWT tomorrow the War Department announced He will discuss his recent trip to Italy Normandy and Great Britain and related war matters.
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Washington
Tate
Italy
Normandy
Great Britain
Weather Forecast for San Francisco Bay Region and Valleys
Clear afternoon with high fog at night and early morning today and Tuesday. Little temperature change. Livermore and Salinas Valleys: clear today and Tuesday with high fog in the early morning and little temperature change.
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San Francisco Bay Region
Livermore
Salnas
King George Begins Italian Tour in Naples Visit
King George of Britain arrived in Naples by plane to start a tour of Italy. He was greeted by British dignitaries and hosted at a historic villa, spending Sunday night with Admiral Sir John Cunningham, the British naval commander in the Mediterranean. He left England Saturday night.
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Rome
U.R
George of Britain
Naples
Italy
Sir John Cunningham
Mediterranean
England
Mother Receives Purple Heart for Joseph O Keefe
The Purple Heart awarded posthumously to Joseph O Keefe, Signalman Third Class, U S Naval Reserve, is sent to his mother Mrs Axel Peterson of 634 Poplar Street Hayward. The certificate cites military merit and wounds received. O Keefe died in the Atlantic near February last year. His brother George Petersen, a Marine, remains on active duty in the South Pacific.
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Hayward
Atlantic
Joseph O'Keefe
U.S. Naval Reserve
Axel Peterson
Poplar St
Phc
George Petersen
United States Marines
Worried House Hunter Stops Hiccuping
Lawrence Schone a 31 year old mechanic in Los Angeles was treated for a two week hiccuping siege. Physicians announced he was cured after a second electrical sheet treatment following a first ineffective session. He had struggled to eat and sleep during the episode.
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Los Angeles
Lawrence Schone
Schone
21 Day Old Twins Bumped Off Plane
The 21 day old twins, the youngest to travel coast to coast by air, were bumped from a priority flight in Kanine City and arrived in St Louis with two maternal aunts and a five year old sister Autumn Ann. They traveled with specialized milk, refrigeration, pins and diapers as their father Lynn Bair sent them to live with his brother in Elkhart where they would stay indefinitely due to the mother and father's inability to care for them currently.
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ST. Louis
W.h.Stephen
Sharon Ball
Long Beach
Kanine City
Los Angeles
Autumn Ann
Lioy¢ Bair
Lynn Bair
Alk Hart
Elkhart
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Buf
Bret Harte
Dr. McCarter
Clyde EB. Lawson
Vaught Seldel
San Jose State
AURI
Normandy Front
Dietrich
SS Panzer Corps
Virgil F, Pinkley
U.S. War
Virgil Pinkley
Livermore Canning Center
King George
Saipan II
Castro Valley
Pope
Continental
United States
Stimston
Purple
O'Keefe
San Jose Teachers College
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