Board One Inducts 45 Registrants for Final Examinations
Forty-five local registrants are summoned for final physicals and probable induction into the armed forces, with eight volunteers and more than half from the city. The Aug call includes transfers from Frederick and other boards, many with expired occupational deferments. The list names Roger McCarren, John Hart, Raymond Morgan, James McLaren, Meredith Slane, Charles Harris, Frank Brandenburg, and numerous other residents, some married, some young, including Officer Charles Bell who volunteered.
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Baltimore
Frederick
Charles F. Bell
Roger Edgar McCarren
Hagerstown
John Walter Henry Hart
Hamilton Avenue
Raymond Paul Morgan
Braddock Heights
James McLaren
East Fourth Street
Meredith Smith Slane
Norva Avenue
Charles Albert Harris
North Market Street
Frank Edward Brandenburg
East Sixth
Heh Blatitye
Norwood
Mt. Airy
Eugene Brust Virts
North Market
Vernon Eugene Count
Italian official demands Badoglio clarify position
Giovanni Roveda newly named vice-commissioner of the Italian Confederation of Industrial Workers said he would not accept the post until Premier Pietro Badoglio's government clarifies its stance on labor issues and general politics. Roveda, born in Switzerland on Aug. 11, made the statement to Corriere della Sera in Milan.
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Born
Switzerland
Giovanni Roveda
Ialian Confederation of Industrial Woreers
Pietro Badoglio
Milan
Corriere Della Sera
Roveda
Call For Rationing Of Restaurant Meat
Chicago August 11 The National Retail Meat Dealers Association urged rationing of meat supplies for eating places as beef shortages hit retail. A resolution from the Eighth emergency food council blamed high restaurant ceilings for leftovers disappearing and urged Congress to set livestock ceilings high enough to ensure a fair living for producers slaughterers and retailers while feeding the nation.
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Chicago
National
Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
E8th
Emergency Food Council
Association
Congress
OPA
Italy Nazi ties tighten amid Russia focus
Aug 11 dispatches report closer Italy Germany ties and intensified anti Russia propaganda ahead of Roosevelt Churchill talks. Badoglio seeks time as Milan reports warn of fresh German troop movement through Brenner Pass amid uneasy northern Italy.
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Italy
Germany
Joseph Stalin
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Russia
Berlin
Rome
Milan
Die Tat
Zurich
Brenner Pass
Badoglio
Turin
Genoa
Mussolini
Legion Convention in Baltimore Names Candidates for Markland Commander
Baltimore Aug 11 Dr Herbert C Blake and Joan W Jennings, both Baltimoreans, were named to succeed Daniel F McMullen as Markland commander of the American Legion at the streamlined wartime Maryland department convention opening Sunday in Baltimore. Eight vice commanders, a treasurer, judge advocate Mastorian and sergeant at arms plus 17 delegates to the national convention in Omaha Sept 21 23 will also be nominated and elected.
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Baltimore
Herbert C. Blake
Joan W. Jennings
Mastorian
Omakd
Neb
Hull Denies Welles Is To Be Transferred
Secretary Hull rejected reports that Undersecretary Sumner Welles would be given a roving assignment and replaced by Norman Armour, the U S ambassador to Argentina. He called the tale a repeated rumor, noting previous denials in recent years. The secretary offered no confirmation of any personnel move.
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Hull
Welles
Wachinatan. Aue
Tim
Sumner Welles
Norman Armour
United States
Argentina
Speculate On Impending U S British Conferences
London dispatch reports speculation that Churchill Roosevelt talks will focus on quick Italian campaign end and shifting focus to Germany. Observers cite Britain as likely theatre for major operations with tighter coast restrictions, more Allied troops and air bases, and increased Allied officers and rail traffic. The Times notes Allies’ summer gains outpacing plans.
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James F. King
London
Britain
Italy
Presiagen
Germany
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Times of London
The
Times
Invasion of Kiska Hinted as Pacific Tension Rises
Washington reports rising speculation on a pending invasion of Japanese held Kiska island in the Aleutians. The last actions were July 30 and July 31 with shelling and air raids, while Allied commanders reportedly gather forces for a final campaign. Tokyo may learn of events only from Kiska itself as Japanese communications have suffered heavy damage.
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Washington
North Pacific
Kiska Island
Kiska
Aleutians
Tokyo
Juset
New York Aquarium Removes Five Electric Cells
New York officials announce that five electric cells at the New York Aquarium have been removed from public view and are being used in related research. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions are involved in the study under the direction of Christopher W. Coates.
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New York Aquarium
Christopher W.con
Paes Lees
Johns Hopkins
Coates
Polish forces in USSR gain major general Zigmund Berling
Premier Stalin signed a decree promoting Zigmund Berling, commander of Polish forces in the Soviet Union, to major general. The action was announced today with the Aug 11 date noted in the dispatch.
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Kroscow
Stalin
Zigmund Berling
Soviet Union
Engineers Build 12 Mile Road in Three Days In Sicily
American combat engineers under Captain Alex T. Forrest forged a 12 mile supply road from Capizzi to Mount Camerato in three days. They crossed 13 mountains and a river bed every half mile, using bulldozers and debris clearing to bypass cliffs and enemy fire. The improvised route enabled artillery moves and flanking Cesaro to San Artato, forcing German withdrawal near Cesare.
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Harold V. Boyle
Seventh Army
Sicily
Gersman
Cesaro Gates
Randazzo
Mountais
Alex T. Forrest
McKeesport
Capizzi
Mount Camerato
Cesaro
San Arta
Forrest
Ty Tres
Lucles
Avert
Cesare
Keep Fleet Intact After War Is Ended
Milledgeville Georgia August 11 Rep Carl Vinson chairman of the House Naval Affairs committee urged keeping the American fleet intact after the war as a world peace guarantee He warned against postwar scrapping of useful ships saying a balanced navy is essential and that a quick victory over Germany is unlikely He emphasized employing all branches of service and noted the distance to Japan.
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Milledgeville, Ga
Carl Vinson D.-Ga
House Naval Affairs Committee
Georgia
United States
Vinson
Japan
Paris Sector Made Into Fortress Report
Bern reports Paris has been turned into a fortress with cement blockhouses and fortified streets. Civilians are forbidden, many houses evacuated, Kleber avenue fortified, and a four story underground tunnel linked by a small gauge underground railroad forming a defensive network through an entire city quarter.
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Bern
Switzerland
Tribune de Geneve
Marine Ministry
Paris
Kleber Avenue
City Not On Contemplated Air Routes
Pittsburgh Aug. 14 An integrated postwar air transport network for the Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan industrial belt is planned by Pennsylvania Central Airlines. President C Bedell Monro disclosed the routes to provide easier access to markets and expand the belt’s development. One route would link Pittsburgh to Washington and the Eastern Shore via Hagerstown Chambersburg York Baltimore Easton Salisbury and Rehoboth. A second would run Pittsburgh to Washington via Cumberland Winchester Martinsburg and Charleston. Service would also connect Pittsburgh to Washington at Annapolis.
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Pittsburgh
Michigan
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
C. Bedell Monro
Monro
Washington
Maryland
Hagerstown
Chambersburg
York
Baltimore
Easton
Salisbury
Rehovoth
Cumberland
Elberta Peaches Bring 6 50 Bushel in Olmsted Market
Cobden Aug 11 Top grade Elberta peaches sold for 6 50 a bushel today across the southern fruit belt. Prices were markedly higher than prior years in a seller's market. Packing grades and for canning fetched four dollars per unit as growers face below normal harvest prospects.
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Cobden
J. R. Cluus. Com
Osalesman
Holcomb To Continue As Marine Commandant
General Holcomb will remain as commandant of the Marine Corps past the retirement age of 64. White House press secretary Stephen Harper said the president supports keeping him in command due to his excellent performance and past achievements.
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Thames Heicopb
Atl
White Tinwee
Stephen Earry
Tanneyin
Guns open fire on French coast across Dover Strait
London reports 136 German guns fired on the French coast near the Dover Strait. Fire warnings sounded in English towns as the bombardment began shortly after dawn today.
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London
Dover Strait
Dover
Nuernberg Bombed Heavily by RAF Bombers at Night
British bombers struck Nuernberg late last night hitting a major railway and industrial hub near a Nazi rally point. Sixteen planes were lost, three enemy fighters shot down, marking the second nightly assault on Germany in a week.
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London
Anr
Nurnberg
Germany
Air Ministry
Reachsmarshal Merc Witith Laauenys
Greman Publi
Nuernberg
W Messerschmitt Fighting Manufacturing Plant
Nipponese Making More Wild Claims
London reports a Tokyo radio broadcast quoting the Japanese Navy Department claiming 152 Allied naval units sunk and 48 damaged in the South Pacific since the war began. It lists six battleships four aircraft carriers 44 cruisers 37 destroyers 40 submarines and one special unit. The broadcast also claimed 2 590 Allied planes shot down and 205 damaged on the ground, claims seen as exaggerated compared with Allied records.
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London
Jlpi
Toyko
Japanese Navy Department
South Pacific
Bening
Pasaranthee
Prin
Pacific
Stamp sale boosts motorist postage in Maryland area
Internal Revenue collectors with 200 deputies in Maryland and the District of Columbia sell automobile stamps daily from one to fifteen to motorists. The program uses a peg on the spat system to enforce automobile use. Prosecution faces motorists who fail to display stamps.
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Baltimore
Aus
Rnal
AL Parks Racin
Internal Revenue
Maryland
District of
Columaom
Sotorists
Phillies Triumph Over Pirates In Morning Showdown
In Philadelphia at Shibe Park a crowd of about 8,500 watched the Phillies defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 in the first game of a morning doubleheader. Schoolboy Rowe pitched four hit ball for his 11th win, as Philadelphia held the Pirates to one run.
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oPi
Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Schoolboy Rowe
Warships Shell Shipyards in Bay of Naples Raid
Allied reports say British warships bombarded Italian shipyards in the Bay of Naples while American and Canadian forces near Randazzo and Randazzo fall looms. British advances along Sicily’s east coast approach Taormina, with heavy fighting near Mount Etna as Axis defenses crumble under bombardment and demolition across multiple fronts.
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Sicily
Italia
Bay of Naples
Rome
Mt. Burt
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Taormina
Messina
MG Etna
Pal Bay
Naples
Cape Vallonne
San Giovanni
Tyrrhenian Sea
Seventh Army
Bosmarino
Randagzo
Randazzo
Mountain Lawn
Reuters
London
Cesaro
Cave
Lofty Mt Bina
San Agata-Cesaro
Asie
Jand
Barrow
Snell
Catania
Ripasto
Ingine
War Food Admin May Buy More Food to Prop Prices
Washington officials said the War Food Administration may need to buy more commodities to ensure farmers receive ample prices, while denying plans to buy and resell the entire food supply. They noted production costs and AAA benefit cuts could justify price support increases with ceiling price adjustments, but emphasized a goal to hold or reduce consumer prices.
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WEA
Washington
Marvin Jones
War Food Administration
Congress
Wees
sMcials
Commogiyoni Corporation
Indians Buy Grant from White Sox for 7500
The Cleveland Indians today purchased third baseman Jimmy Grant from the Chicago White Sox at the 7500 dollar waiver price. The deal followed a loss and left the Tribe short infield depth as Ken Keliner moved to third and Russ Petore was shifted elsewhere.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Indians
Jimmy Grant
Chicago White Sox
Ken Keliner
Russ Petore
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