Britain Clears Coast in Wartime Alarm Amid Invasion Fears
London reports Britain clearing non residents from hot coastal barricaded areas as fear grows of a new German blow to Hitlers war aims. Allied chiefs probe possible invasions while British cabinet remains in session and RAF targets Italian facilities. German planes circling the south coast, one shot down as authorities impose identity checks and curfews.
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London
Great Britain
Britain
Russia
Mediterranean
Balkans
English Channel
Anis
France
Norway
Italy
Switzerland
Chiasso
Maly
LO Lak Deal
Churchill
Quebec
Germania
War Office
Whitehall
The
News Chronicle
Legislative Council Set To Meet Tomorrow in Baltimore
Baltimore Aug 17 The Legislative Council preparing for the 1943 Maryland General Assembly session will meet tomorrow morning in the Public Service Commission hearing room. Chairman James J. Lindsay Jr. says meetings will be monthly until the new session. Lindsay and White noted two vacancies to be filled.
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Baltimore
Maryland General Assembly
Legislative Council
Public Service Commission
James J. Lindsay Jr
Baltimore County
Lisay
Senate
John S. White
Prince George's Democrat
Lindsay
Train 900 derails in tunnel. no injuries reported
Five care at a New York St Louis passenger train section derailed in a tunnel between Pennsylvania Station and Fourth Avenue. Cars remained upright with no injuries though 9 passengers on the second section of the 12 car American were delayed three hours.
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Pittsburgh
New York-St. Louis
Pennsylvania Staton
Fourth Avenue
Rickenbacker predicts Germany won’t crack before 1944
New York August 17 Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, after a 55000 mile inspection tour of war zones, said Germany will not crack before the fall of 1944 at the earliest. He warned it would take at least another year to defeat Japan and called for a miracle for quicker victory.
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New York
Eddie Rickenbacker
Germany
Pacific
Rickenbasker
Asus
Ganda
Sicly
Mussalioi
Palermo
Radio Zeesen
Mediterranean
Experienced Sub Skippers Thought Lost
Washington reports Navy Secretary Knox said Allied bombings and combat losses are forcing Germany to pull back into U-boat reserves. He noted more than 90 U boats were destroyed in May to July and warned that losing experienced skippers hurts Germany more than ships. He recalled an estimate of 400 to 500 submarines including training units and said the daily destruction rate likely exceeds production, compelling use of reserves.
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Washington
Knox
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Churchill
Navy
Baltic Sea
Boys Who Wanted To See Wreck Get Hearing
Two young boys Allen E. Geisbert Jr. and Crittenton H. Walker Jr. admitted placing obstacles on the Baltimore and Ohio tracks near Monrovia to witness a train wreck. They appeared in Juvenile Court before Judge Patrick M. Schnauffer and were released to their parents with supervision by county probation officer Mrs. William C. Roderick. The judge warned that further trouble could lead to placement in a training school. A B and O detective testified the acts had no criminal intent. A train crew spotted the obstructions before damage occurred.
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Allen E. Geisbert, Jr
Crittenton H. Walker, Jr
Baltimore & Ohio
Monrovia
William C. Roderick
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Schnaufer
Crittenton H. Walker
Lena L. Geisbert
Lieut
Milford Magaha
Penicillin Saves Life Of Nine Year Old Patient
A nine year old, Drema Dent of Roanoke Virginia, was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital with penicillin after an infection in her right ankle worsened and spread to the heart area. Doctors credited the drug with saving her life as the hospital grows its own supply from molds and uses it in select cases.
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Baltimore
Drema Dent
Roanoke
Skn
America
Bis
Allies Hit Italy, Turin Bombed As London Watches
Allied air forces renewed heavy raids on northern Italy, hammering Turin while Milan already faced destruction in prior strikes. RAF bombers damaged Turin with many tons of explosives, four British planes lost, and additional raids targeted France and the Low Countries. In London, bombers roared overhead in a rare V for victory pass, as two U S bombers reportedly made a daylight landing in Switzerland after crossing Germany.
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London
Ght
Italy
Dover Strait
Turin
Milan
Mont Cenis
France
Berlin
DNB
Bern
United States
Switzerland
Germany
Associated Press
32 Officers To Be Retired By War Department Order
Baltimore August 174 Third Service Command announced the retirement of 32 Army officers in Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia under a War Department order. Major General Milton A Reckord said 15 colonels and lieutenant colonels will leave active duty due to reaching statutory retirement age. Retirement age for officers is 60 to 62 with relief from active duty by leave. Lae Col Caaries 31 Warton of the ROTC Western Maryland College Westminster will be among those retired. The note ends with a stray line about a safety match.
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Baltimore
Strsg
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
War Department
Milton A. Reckord
Reckord
Third Service
Third Service Command
Col Caaries
Warton
ROTC
Western Maryland College
Westminster
No News Is Good News Knox Says Of Kiska
Washington august 17 4a%-Secretary Knox said today the Navy gave no news on Kiska island meaning no announced action since July The secretary indicated weather may explain inactivity but then repeated the line no news is good news noting ships bombarded the land in July and could operate regardless of weather
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Knox
Kiska
Washington
Navy
Norwegian Police Are Militarized Under Quisling Decree
Norwegian police and Quisling’s personal bodyguards were mobilized into the armed forces as German authorities impose martial measures amid fears of Allied invasion. A state of siege was proclaimed. reports say German troops are reinforced and civil police chief Gunnar Einlifsen was executed for disobedience.
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Biockholm
Vidkun Quisling
Quisling
London
CBS
Reuters
Norway
Dagens Nyheter
Quisting
Gunnar Exlifsen
Germany
48 Hour Week For Miners May Be Approved
Washington August 17 With President Roosevelt's approval Interior Secretary Ickes may order a 48 hour work week for coal mines under government seizure Acting on grounds of threatened coal shortage War Mobilization Director Byrnes announced The measure could affect about 25 million tons of coal lost during last spring mine stoppages and extend miners hours by six a week Also noted was extensive aerial photography for military purposes by the Army covering over 1 6 million square miles in ten months.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ickes
Byrnes
Eisenhower May Attend Conference In Canada
Washington reports Secretary Hull indicated he may travel to Quebec to join Roosevelt and Churchill for war council talks. The Quebec gathering aims to intensify Axis nerves with a formal sixth meeting, as secrecy erodes and press access increases.
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Eisenhower
Canada
Washington
Seere
Lins
Hull
Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Don Iddon
London Daily Mail
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United Nations
Atlantic
United States
Britain
Sardinia
Corsica
English Channel
Norway
Stowlands
Haiy
That Juicy Steak May Be Unobtainable This Winter
Livestock observers predict a very short supply of long fed cattle as prime cuts like tenderloin and ribeye become scarce. The Agriculture Department notes shifts in slaughter timing with more cattle fed later and fewer ready for December. Farmers report lower feedlot numbers, and the trend could push prices higher in luxury markets versus standard consumption.
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Department of Agriculture
Ines Aun
Iss
Agriculture Department
Taitel
Gdzne
Wit
Electrical Storm Strikes Crisfield Causes Property Damage
A severe April storm in Crisfield with high winds damaged a seafood establishment, tore two chimneys from a building of KR Caron Company, toppled trees, and ripped boats from moorings, leaving scattered wreckage across the Hopewell area.
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Crisfield
Apri
Revere
Jersey
Wnd
1. KR. Caron Company
Hopewell
Miss Fulmer Dies at 100 in Braddock Heights Home
Mary Fulmer a Braddock Heights resident died at her home about 4 15 this morning at age 100 after a four day illness. Born September 7 1842 in Frederick County she lived through five wars and raised five children though never married. She received Roosevelt’s birthday greetings last year and kept in touch with newspapers as a keen reader. Funeral set for Thursday at two at Mt Zion cemetery near Faysville Michigan with interment there.
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Mary Fulmer
Braddock
Frederick County
Miss Fulmer
Roosevelt
Addig Myers
Tee Hemework
Fulmer
Frederick
Khen
Braddock Heights
United States
Ein Fiogk
Cordelia Sinais Ann
D. C
Kate Adams
Bucktown
Fannie Fulmer
Axis Loses 2000 Planes in Sicily Drive
Allied North West African Air Forces disclosed that the Axis lost nearly 2,000 airplanes in a futile effort to defend Sicily as the campaign neared its end.
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AXIS
North Africa
Sicily
American Third Division Enters Messina as Sicily Falls
Allied reports say American Third Division stormed Messina after reaching the city outskirts last night, engaging in hand to hand combat in the bomb scarred streets. British Eighth Army pushed to eight miles south, while demolitions on the Malian toe indicate a further withdrawal from Sicily to the Italian mainland.
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North Africa
Messina
Sicilia
Sicily
Europe
Americas
Italy
Stormeid
Dwight D.eisenhower
Palermo
Eighth Army
Santa Teresa di Riva
Sicilian
Milazzo
Gerhardis
Messsina
Strait of
Africa Corps
Tunisia
Propaganda Exposed Again on Sicily Invasions Claims
A compilation of wartime radio and newspaper broadcasts from 1942 to 1945 asserting Sicily’s impregnable defenses and expected Allied failure. It quotes Mussolini, Radio Zeesen, Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, and Transocean, noting coastal batteries, fortress status, and limited invasion likelihood.
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Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung
Axis
Mediterranean
Transocean
Srely
Denmark
Stcily
Sicily
England
Sland
Few Infantile Paralysis Cases Develop In State
Baltimore August 17 GP Although infantile paralysis has reached epidemic proportions in parts of the country Maryland has escaped this year with only three cases, state health officials reported. Dr C W Halliday, chief epidemiologist, said two cases had been reported from two counties so far, both in Montgomery County, one in the first six months and one later.
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Baltimore
Maryland
C. UW. Ualliday
State Health Department
Montgomery County
Sicily Victory Moves Ferocious Axis Withdrawal Confirmed
Allied forces push through Messina as German and Italian troops reportedly retreat from Sicily by sea, withdrawing with equipment and supplies. Berlin radio claims all Axis troops have left the island and reached mainland Italy, while U S forces advance into Messina with light resistance and heavy artillery bombing.
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Berlin
Sth
Staves
Hyrelman Morin
London
Associated Press
Sicily
Italy
Hube
Alarm Clocks Arrive In England For War Workers
Sixty thousand alarm clocks arrive in Britain from the United States, a Board of Trade decision on distribution to stores is pending to ensure war workers have access to the devices.
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England
London
Britain
United States
Board of Trade
Stocks Show Gains Amid Mixed Market Activity
Rail and utilities provided support as stock trading opened fairly active. Gains were modest overall with few large blocks moving slowly near the mid session, while several main issues posted fractional improvements.
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South Coast
General Reckord
Radio Zeeson
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