Largest U S Convoy Lands In England
The largest American convoy of World War II arrived at several British ports carrying troops and war materiel bound for Britain. Major General J C H Lee led base construction and logistics to absorb the influx, with air force power and Eisenhower commanding ground troops. Notable arrivals included Navajo and Filipino volunteers eager to fight. private Pearce Claude and Private Max P Pabloada shared personal resolve to confront Nazis and Japs.
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Wes Gallaghe
Britain
Atlantic
Naxi
RAF
Germany
England
J. C. H. Lee
Cnet
Air Force
Dwight B. Eisenhower
Churchill
Moscow
Dieppe
Seaboard
Great Southwest
Mark Clark
Clark
Pearce Claude
Gallup
N. M
Max P. Pablada
Los Angles
Manila
Philippine
Defense Forest Fire School To Be Opened
A three day conference school to train in forest fire observation control and extinction opens tomorrow at Blue Ridge College in Westmausstl. Sponsored by Maryland Department of Forestry and Tack s and authorized by the Office of Civilian Defense, the program includes field demonstrations. State Forester Joseph Kaylor, Assistant State Forester Carl Pfeiffer and Arthur E Hungerford, executive comptroller, will coordinate with Giner State and Federal officials. Registered attendees include Blue Ridge College students and others from across Maryland.
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Westmausstl
Maryland
Blue Ridge College
Department of Forestry and Tacks of
Office of Civilian Defense
Arthur E. Hungerford
Joseph Kaylor
Carl Pfeiffer
Giner
Answers To War Quiz Questions On Page Five
The quiz items list three prompts: the shell and flame of the Ordnance Department. Hela commander of the U S Ground Forces in England. It was named for its inventor Maj Henry Shrapnel of the British artillery.
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Ordnance Department
U. S
England
Maj
Henry Shrapnel
Preston Sheets Killed As Auto and Truck Collide
Fatal Route 49 crash near Frederick left Preston Sheets dead and two others injured. Sheets, 19, driven east in a 1935 Ford with Doris Tucker, collided with a westbound Hab Transportation milk truck. Tucker injured. Graser brothers and Harry Graser treated for injuries. Sheets skull crushed. investigation by State Police pending.
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Alet Patrick Street
Leroy Hoke
Frederick
Sheet
Frederik City Hospital
Doris Tucker
Jefferson
Harry Francis Graser
West Seventh Street
William Graser
Harvey Wilf
Graser
Frederick County
State Police Corp
Martin M Puncke
Wilt, McClain and
Basore
Hab Transportation Company of
New Market
Harry Graser
Young Sheets
Miss Tucker
Puncke
Cians
Sheels
Annabelle Duvall Shaw
Ily
Charles Sheels
Tramsville
Leroy C
M. R. Etchison
U S Medium Bombers Attack In Moonlight
Cairo reports that U S medium bombers struck Avis workshops in the western desert under moonlight while RAF medium and heavy bombers targeted enemy bases and munitions dumps. RAF fighters hit communications centers around Matruh and attacked enemy vehicles in southern and central desert sectors as British Middle East HQ noted only patrol activity.
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Cairo
Avis
Western Desert
Enem
RAF
Matruh
Desert Front
Middle East
English towns raided as bombs strike West Midlands
London reports German raiders dropped high explosive bombs near a West Midlands town destroying several houses and causing at least one death. Bombers were also seen over East Anglia with unknown damage.
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London
West Midlands
East Anglia
Two Die In Plane Crash near Rockville Gaithersburg
Rockville August 23 two men died when a training plane struck the fuselage of another in mid air and crashed on Lasson King farm between Rockville and Gaithersburg. Occupants of the other plane landed safely. McCroskey a Rockville flyer and Reiss a New York instructor were identified as the dead.
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Rockville
Lasson
New York
Reiss
McCroskey
Congressional
TWA
Rosalie MacCroskey
Joseph Reiss
New York City
Emerson Preparatory School
University of Virginia
Chi Phi Fraternity
Tamalpais School
San Raphael
Calif
Voluntary Service Of Firemen Is Commended By Dr Weller
Dr Charles Wehler praised voluntary fire service at the Frederick County Volunteer Firemen’s Association memorial in Calvary Methodist Church. Thirteen white crosses adorned the pulpit as officials and families gathered. the sermon urged courage amid troubled times and cited Christ’s farewell address.
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Weller
Charles FE. Wehler
Presbyterian Church
Frederick County
Tiewattae
Uae Fe
Blackout Along State Coast Held Successful
Ocean City Maryland reports a coastal blackout test headed by Col Henry Barrett Civilian Defense director. A three mile offshore inspection from Coast Guard cutter shows near shore lights dimmed while two miles out only signal lights visible and at three miles out no light. The voyage tested dimout regulations along the Ocean City to Rehoboth coastline.
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Ocean City
Henry Barret
Maryland
Barrett
Coast Guard
J D. Farlow
United States Coast Guard
Farlow
Rehobot
O Daniel Renominated In Texas Senate Fight
Dallas August 23 Wilbert Lee O Daniel led James V Allred in a Texas Democratic run off for a full six year Senate term with 436450 votes to 424840 amid late returns. State races settled Beauford Jester won railroad commissioner and Jesse James reelected state treasurer. Allred alleged isolationism and Roosevelt repudiation. O Daniel campaigned as a common citizens' Senator.
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Dallas
Tex
Wilbert Lee O'Daniel
Texas
United States Senate
Texas Election Bureau
O'Daniel
James V. Allred
Washington
Allred
Bureau
John Lee Smith
Harold Beck
Beauford Jester
Pierce Brooks
Jesse
James
W. Gregory Hatcher
Morris Sheppard
Roosevelt
Railroad man injured at Bruns wick
Albert F. Anderson of Hagerstown and a former state police officer suffered two badly injured fingers while working for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Brunswick on Sunday afternoon. He was hospitalized at Schnauffer Hospital and reported doing satisfactorily with no amputation planned. He was expected to be discharged today.
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Albert F. Anderson
Hagerstown
Baltimore & Omo Railroad Company
Brunswick
Schnauffer Hospital
Anderson
Independent Army Setup In Iraq Iran War Office announces
The War Office forms an independent army command in Iraq and Iran under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The three Middle East commands reflect Churchill's Egypt visit and shift Auchinleck’s role. Wilson, known as Jumbo, previously led British forces in Greece and Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
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London
War Office
Iraq
Iran
Henry Maitland Wilson
Middle
Near East
Churchill
Egypt
Wilson
Harold Alexander
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Russian
Caucasus
Iroq
Auchinleck
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
India
East
Tran
Arthur William Tedder
RAF
Archibald P. Wavell
Libya
Western Desert
France
Greece
Palestine
Trans-Jordan
Syria
Norma Shearer Weds Ski Instructor In California
Norma Shearer, 36, widow of Irving Thalberg, married Martin Arrouge, a former Sun Valley ski instructor, in a quiet Beverly Hills ceremony officiated by Father John J. O'Donnell. Attendants included Mrs. Sylvia Fairbanks and Otto Lang. They signed a pre nup waiving community property rights. estate valued at about 1.5 million remains in trust for Shearer and her two children. The couple will honeymoon at Shearer’s Santa Monica home. Arrouge plans to join the Army soon.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Sun Valley
Idaho
Norma Shearer
Martin Arrouge
Irving Thalberg
John J. O'Donnell
Church of the Good Shepherd
Miss Shearer
Irving Thalberg, Jr
Katherine Thalberg
Film Colony
Sylvia Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
New York
Otto Lang
Arrouge
Santa Monica
Arronge
ALP nominates Dean Alfange in three way New York governorship
The American Labor Party completed a three way lineup for the November governor race in New York. ALP chose Dean Alfange as its standard bearer to oppose Democratic nominee John J. Bennett Jr. and likely Republican hopeful Thomas E. Dewey. The move aims to draw liberal Democrats and shift the race, with Dewey hoping to win a Republican governor for the first time in 20 years.
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New York
American Labor Party
Labor Party
New Deal
ALP Standard
Dean Alfange
Bennett Alfange
John J. Bennett, Jr
ALP
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert H. Lehman
Dewey
Asfange
Bennett
Roosevelt
James M. Mead
James A. Farley
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Preston Sheets
U. S. Army Air Forces
Nea
Gaithersburg
of County Association
St. John
Edward D. Storm
J. H. Schmitt
Henry W. Snyder
H. L. G. Kieffer
Presbyterian Choir
Miriam G. Rhoads
Palonethe
China
Surcy
Bataan
Celes
Camosa
Indies
Philippine Islands
Australia
Tokyo
Tmarcus
Marianas IS
Caroline
Guinea
United Nations
Pacific Ocean
Coral Sea
Townsville
Ashall
Solomon
Islands
Mey Caledonia
Solomons
USS
Pacific Islands
Japan
O’daniel
Carty
Boudoma
C. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
Independent Army
Henry Wilson
Victory Bicycles
Delphey
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Mallan
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