Counties To Press For Farm Market Road Funds
A committee led by Frederick County Engineer Roger H Willard was appointed by the Western Shore County Commissioners Association in Baltimore to draft plans for federal funds for farm to market roads. The panel will seek liberalized standards and will tailor specifications to county conditions while involving state and local officials. Maryland would receive 4.013 million dollars annually for three years under the pending federal aid bill, with allocations for federal aid highways farm to market roads and urban highways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger H. Willard
Frederick
Western Shore County Commissioners’ Association
Baltimore
State
Heeds Commission
Keller Shank
Washington County
A. Grant Hooper
Frederick County
Baltimore County
National Association of County Commissioners
House
Commissioner of Public Roads
Maryland
Willard
Hooper
Montevue
George W. Arnold
Charles G. Geisbert
Hugh ¥. Gittinger
W. Raymond Walter
Eugene W. Pruitt
Air Attack Resumes Across Europe From Italy and England
Allied heavy bombers targeted German industrial sites near the Swiss border at Friedrichshafen and in western Germany as dawn raids continued. Berlin claimed intensified attacks through Austria into Bavaria with strikes across France, while weather hampered British operations for a second night. Swiss reports noted overflight by eastern districts with alarm sirens in Zurich and St Moritz, suggesting Munich as a focal objective amid robot bomb component production.
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London
United States
Italy
Friedrichshafen
England
Bavaria
Berlin
Austria
Westtern
Germany
Munich
Ceiling Prices Set For Baltimore Fresh Fruits
The Office of Price Administration issued retail ceiling prices for cantaloupes honeyballs and honeydews in the Baltimore area. Cantaloupes and honeyballs are 10 cents per two pounds honeydews 12.5 cents per pound peaches 15.5 cents per pound and sweet potatoes 23 cents for two pounds.
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Baltimore
Office of Price Administration
Two Wounded In Action In France Crisis
Sgt Ralph Schultz of Shooks town and Cpl Samuel Poole near Frederick Junction were seriously wounded in action in France. Both are sons of listed parents as reported by local observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Schultz
Oscar Schultz
Shookstown
Samuel T. Poole
Charles E Poole
Frederick Junction
France
Montgomery Says Allies Hitting Hun A Good Crack
General Bernard Montgomery spoke near Caumont on the British Front and said progress was excellent while praising American forces. He noted Allied prisoners approaching 100,000 since D-Day and asked the journalist when the war would end, sharing a light joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger D. Greene
Caumont
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Associated Press
Ian
U. S
September Draft Call To Be Smaller
Maryland Selective Service Director forecast a September draft call far below wartime averages with 26 to 38 year olds making up about a quarter of selectees. He said the armed forces needed only replacements for casualties and noted a national draft order targeting men over 25 not contributing to the war effort. Johnsville 4-H Meets. The July Johns ville 4-H Club meeting discussed a joint picnic with Liberty club in Anders meadow on August 3 and a future camp fire plan with F. M. Rogers attending.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Johnsville
4-H
David Dotterer
Liberty Club
Anders’ Meadow
F. M. Rogers
Direct Hits On Jap Ovens Direct Hits On Jap Ovens
War Secretary Stimson reported that B 29 Super-Fortresses struck Anshan in Manchuria hitting coke ovens and factory buildings in an important blow to Japan's war making capacity. The attack targeted Anshan and Tangku on July 29 by a substantial force of the new bombers.
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Washington
Anshan
Manchuria
Stimson
Tangku
Tiensin
China
Japan
McKittrick Leads Clark in Missouri Senate Primary
In Missouri, Attorney General Roy McKittrick held a 20,000 vote edge over incumbent Senator Bennett Clark for the Democratic nomination. With 4,328 of 4,512 precincts reporting, McKittrick had 165,726 to Clark's 145,856. Clark conceded defeat blaming the CIO Political Action Committee.
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St. Louis
Roy McKittrick
Bennett Clark
McKittrick
Clark
CIO Political Action Committee
End Malaria In Civilized Countries
Chicago reports the Journal of the American Medical Association says malaria could be eliminated in civilized nations after the war using the quinacrine substitute quinacrine also known as ata brine. The official report notes quinacrine has all anti malarial properties of quinine and that large scale quinine production is not needed for Army and Navy personnel treatment.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Fifth Folls Nazis Move as Allied Forces Press Across Arno
Fifth Army reports German counter attack efforts across the Arno near Pipa are blocked. Eighth Army advances north of San Michele and La Romola seize La Poggio lie, while New Zealand troops near Florence push toward the city outskirts. West of Florence British Indian troops cross the Pesa river capture Ginestra and threaten the German line south of the Arno.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Arno
Pipa
Italy
Pontedera
Eighth Army
Florence
San Michele
la Romola
la Poggious
Art City
New Zealand
Pesa
Ginestra
Montelupo
Arno River
Union Bridge Social and Community Notes
Union Bridge updates list visits from Mr and Mrs Harry Spielman and family of Washington, Mt St Marys cadet Robert Boone's weekend leave, Mrs Clifford Leatherman healing after a horse fork injury, a Unionville dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Stanley Bury, exterior painting at Elmer Wolfe High School, Boy Scout camp trip to Crouse's Mill, and a doll and toy show by Union Bridge Youth Organization with prizes for Phyllis Alexander Patsy Hartzier Marlene Devilbiss Patsy Lee Bohn and Richard Eckard.
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Union Bridge
George H. Eyler
Harry Spielman
John
Mary
Washington
Robert Thomas Boone
Mt. St. Mary’s College
Emmitsburg
Roger Boone
Clifford Leatherman
Stanley Bury
Unionville
Samuel King
Uniontown
Almer Lindsay
Marshall Singer
Jimmy
Marvin
Richard Lindsay
Joy
Elmer Wolfe
Lavan Bankert
Harry Gernand
Crouse’s Mill
Big Pipe Creek
Firemen's Park
Phyllis Alexander
Patsy Hartzier
Marlene Devilbiss
Patsy Lee Bohn
Richard Eckard
Governors Warn New Deal Risks National Disaster
Twenty six Republican governors say the New Deal mishandles war and peacetime jobs, urging private business under an enterprise system. They advance a 14 point program Dewey plans to use as a campaign document and work toward unanimous agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
New Deal
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Bronze Star Acknowledges Paxson Led 115th Infantry at St Lo
Capt George D Paxson of Emmitsburg commanded Headquarters Company 115th Infantry within the 20th Division. In a letter to his wife he recalls storming St Lo on July 18 and praises American valor, noting his unit earned the Bronze Star and his own pride in the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Paxson
Emmitsburg
115Th
Fantry
St. Lo
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