U S Forces Advance Two Miles on Guam
American troops pushed two miles inland on Guam under heavy Japanese resistance. Adm Nimite reported the line reached a southern road junction north of a ridge, with carrier air support bombing northern targets. The island flag soon followed on Tinian as operations expanded in the Pacific theater.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Adm
Chester W. Nimite
Marianas
Tumon Bay
Sassayan Point
Caroline Islands
Marshall Islands
Skeen elected president of Lions Clubs at international meeting
D A Skeen of Salt Lake City Utah was elected president of the International Association of Lions Clubs at the closing session of the 28th International annual meeting in Chicago August 4. The association added 368 clubs and 28 000 members during the year ending June 30 bringing total clubs to 4 500 and 180 000 members in fourteen countries. Skeen previously served Lions International as 3rd 2nd and 1st vice president and led the Lions Club of Salt Lake City as director and president.
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Chicago
D. A. Skeen
Salt Lake City
Utah
International Association of Lions Clubs
Skeen
Lions Internatonal
Lions Club of
Lions Clubs of
Brunner Stationed in New Caledonia Before Induction
Pfc. Brunner son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Brunner Route 4 is now stationed in New Caledonia. Before his induction on August 11 1943 he was employed by Potomac Edison Co. Grange Meets Approximately sixty subordinate and juvenile New Market Grange members held a meeting at the Crums home July 26. The next meeting will be a watermelon social at the Quinns home on August 9.
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Pfc. Brunner
Charles W. Brunner
Route 4
New Caledonia
Potomac Edison Company
Grange
New Market Grange
Bruce E. Crum
Howard A. Quinn
Intentional spread of disease by Nazis in Slavuta hospital
Ukraine State Atrocities Committee reports that during the Nazi occupation of Slavuta, 150,000 patients died or were left to die in a German hospital as typhoid tuberculosis spread. Only 525 survived when Soviets retook the town. accusations describe patients starved, buried alive, and housed in rooms with dying others.
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Moscow
Slavata
Ukraine
Slavuta
Kiev
Red Army
Court News Property Deeds and Transfers List
Court notices record numerous property deeds and transfers among individuals and couples in various locales. Notable exchanges include Lloyd Culler to Ernest C Webb and wife for $10 and Lorena Y Lohr executors to George Wilbur Brown and wife for $600 plus many other county level deeds totaling ten dollars per tract.
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Lloyd €. Culler
Ernest C. Webb
Fannie M. D. Brandenburg
Avery Browning
Hannah L. Gomboroo
William E. Wagner
James H. Grove
Meredith
Howe
Harvey H. Werking
Nina E. Crum
W. Clinton McSherry
Minnie Virginia Shuff
Mamie E. Peamroy
McMullen to speak at Allegany County kickoff
Democratic nominee for Congress Daniel F. McMullen will make his first campaign appearance in Allegany County with an address before the Democratic Cosmopolitan Club. He faces incumbent Republican J Glenn Beall in Maryland Sixth District race. The program includes a report by Attorney General William C Walsh on the Chicago Democratic convention. A birthday party was held at the Hawaiian Night Club for Louise Price on her eighteenth birthday July 29 with cake and gifts. James W Ridge was and his spouse recently married attended.
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Cumberland
Daniel F. McMullen
Congress
Maryland
Allegany County
McMullen
J. Glenn Beall
William C. Walsh
Chicago
Louise Price
James W. Ridge
Seaman Covell On Leave After Service In Africa and England
Seaman Covell, son of Mrs. Neda Minnick of 185 East South Street, spent a short leave here after serving in Africa and England for two months. He joined the service on March 6 and was employed by Tidewater Co. before enlisting.
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Seaman Covell
Neda Minnick
East South Street
Africa
England
Tidewater Co
Distinguished Flying Cross for Charles T. Kerns
Technical Sergeant Charles T. Kerns of Keedysville Maryland an engineer gunner on a 8 24 Liberator bomber has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in bombing missions over Germany and Occupied Europe. Baylor a prisoner Hagerstown August 3 Mr and Mrs C Neill Baylor of Hagersstown
Soldier Missing in Italy Declared POW to Germans
The town was informed that Pvt. Charles N. Baylor Jr. had been missing in Italy since May 31 and was a German prisoner of war. The family learned on June 22 that he had been reported missing four days before Rome fell, amid war casualty notices.
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Pvt
Charles N. Baylor, Jr
Italy
Baylors
Rome
New Principal Named For Bladensburg High
Bladensburg Maryland August 3 Tru man 8. Klein formerly of Johns ville Frederick county has been supplanted as principal of Bladensburg High School by C. Paul Barnhart principal at Greenbelt High School announced by Prince Georges County Board of Education. Mr Klein resigned after several requests by parents for his removal. Patrons charged the Bladensburg principal with inefficiency and favoritism and claimed that it had not placed proper emphasis upon social and athletic programs at the school.
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Bladensburg
Truman
Klein
Johnsville
Frederick County
Bladensburg High School
C. Paul Barnhart
Greenbelt High School
Prince Georges County
Northeastern Gas Stocks Reported Low
Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies denied rumors of severely depleted gas stocks in the northeast. He said Atlantic Seaboard supplies are tight but sufficient for day-by-day use through October, unless many motorists fill tanks rapidly. Military needs for the European invasion remain higher than earlier estimates.
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Washington
Ralph K. Davies
Atlantic Seaboard
Davis
Davies
Union Designated as collective bargaining agent in Maryland
The National Labor Relations BoardDesignated Local 472 United Furniture Workers of America CIO as the bargaining agent for Colonial Hardwood Flooring Co Inc employees in Hagerstown Maryland. Thirty four of about thirty nine eligible voters favored the union. The glider was first flown successfully in 1810.
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Washington
United Furniture Workers of America
CIO
Colonial Hardwood Flooring Co., Inc
Hagerstown
National Labor Relations Board
Furniture Workers Union
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Dietz
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Yellow Springs
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Court News
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Marceline Perkins
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Miriam Mercer
William Brawner
Frederick City Hospital
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Frederick, Maryland
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