Marshalls raid bolsters U S air campaign in Pacific
The report details the 7th U S Air Force activity against the Japanese held Marshall Islands with bombers downing planes and destroying ground targets on Mili Atoll. Naval search planes hit ships near Kwajelein as carrier planes raided the Western Marshalls and Tarawa faced a Japanese raid.
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Pearl Harbor
Marshall Islands
U. S S. Air Force
Mili Atoll
Chester W. Nimitz
Army
Mili
Gilbert Islands
Navy
Marshalls
Kwajelein Atoll
Nimitz
United States
Tarawa
Gilberts
mid-Pacific Islands
7Th Air Force
Emmitsburg Couple Reside at Harner Apartments
Emmitsburg residents Major J. P. Cameron, his wife and their two children have moved into the Harner apartments at 2 West Main Street. Major Cameron is a medical officer stationed at Camp.
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Emmitsburg
J. P. Cameron
Harner
West Main Street
Cameron
Camp
One Flyer Drowned and One Missing at Langley Field
At Langley Field in Virginia on December 20 two Army fliers parachuted from a disabled craft. One flyer drowned while the other is missing, weather conditions complicating rescue efforts.
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Langley Field
Plane crash on Hoopers Island claims parachutist
An aircraft with engine trouble landed at Camp Springs base while six crew stayed with the plane. A parachutist, Tech Sgt John R Sommers, 25, of Minon Illinois, jumped and died after landing on ice coated water near Hoopers Island. Two local men guided by cries reached him, but ice was too thin to bear weight. The drowned flyer’s name withheld until relatives notified.
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Overa County
Island
Maryland University
Camp Spring
Washington
Langley
Tech
John R. Sommers
Minon
Hoopers Island
University of Maryland December graduations scheduled
Two ceremonies are set for December with 64 seniors from multiple colleges to receive diplomas on December 22 at the Agriculture Building auditorium in College Park and 90 medical seniors to graduate December 23 at the Lyric Theater in Baltimore both at 8 p.m. The list includes Ralph Emerson Stine and Elizabeth Thomas Uhler among others, with some recipients receiving commissions as first lieutenants through the Army specialized training program. Bomb-loads and electric arc welding notes follow in the next items.
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University of Maryland
Colleges of Agriculture Arts
Business and Public Administration
Home Economics
Agriculture Building
College Park
School of Medicine
Lyric Theater
Baltimore
Frederick
Ralph Emerson Stine
Knoxville
College of Engineering
Elizabeth Thomas Uhler
College of Home Economics
Dan Franklin Keeney
Walkersville
Army
Truck Driver Fined After Lewistown Wreck
John H. Moyer of Tunkhannock Pa was fined 25 dollars and costs after being found guilty of reckless driving in a Lewistown railroad crossing crash with an H F Railway Co freight train and a milk transport tractor trailer. The wreck caused about 25 000 dollars in damage and gasoline ignition burned the tractor tanker and freight motor.
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Edward J. Smith
H. & F. Railway Co
Lewistown
John H. Moyer
Tunkhannock
Raymond Linton
Merton Bart
Ollie Rosenberry
Moyer
E. Austin James
William M. Storm
Sergt
Charles V. Main
Frank Scinta
Hits At New U S Tax Bill
Washington December 2043 Secretary Morgenthau blasted the current 2.1 billion Senate tax bill calling it a poor revenue plan and urging a real revenue producing bill over the Christmas break He defended renogotiation actions and praised Army Navy and Maritime recovery of over 5 billion while warning business to avoid further lobbying and investigations
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Washington
Morgenthau
Senate
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Army
Navy
Maritime Commission
Matters Before Local Orphans Court Monday
Mrs Bertha E Hoke Delawter widow of William M Delawter of Mt Pleasant named administratrix of his estate by the Orphans Court. Assets reported total 3600 with 2600 real and 1000 personal property. Richard E Zimmerman qualified as ancillary administrator c t a in the estate of Mrs Margaret Ramsay formerly of Norfolk Va and Blue Ridge Summit reporting a half interest in real estate valued at 1600. The half interest in the bungalow at Blue Ridge Summit bequeathed to sister Alice Ramsay Leigh per will filed here. Parsons Newman executor of the estate of Franklin Alexander Pearce accounted for 14961 7 cents in his first and final account approved by the court. Assets included 14403 02 in debts due and the executor distributed 12235 58 per will. J Howard Taylor administrator of the estate of Mary E Taylor accounted for 668 10 in his first and final account and distributed 330 94 among three sons equally.
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Bertha E. Hoke Delawter
William M. Delawter
Mt. Pleasant
Orphans’ Court
Richard E. Zimmerman
Margaret Ramsay
Norfolk
Blue Ridge Summit
Alice Ramsay Leigh
Parsons Newman
Franklin Alexander Pearce
J. Howard Taylor
Mary E. Taylor
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Pittsburgh
Edward Ohler
George F. Camps
Combs
Lieut Combs
Roswell
New Mexico
RAAF
Kingman
Arizona
George Wilhide
National War Fund of
Maryland
Wilhide
Charles Edward Rowe
Charles Rowe
Nashville, Tenn
Maxwell Field
Alabama
Frances Rowe
Washington, D. C
C. C Combs
E 38, Lefion
Hagerstown
Anna Gillelan
E. L Annan
Michael William
Providence Hospital
Abbot
South Pacific
Annan
Isabel Compher
Ed Allen
U. & Bombers
Germany
Markell & Ford
South Carroll ST
Remington Typewriters
Shipley
U.S
Doll Jewelry Store
South Market St
Frederick. Md
Saio
Sears, Roebuck and CO
West Patrick ST
Carmack
Florida
California
Doz
Ige
Calif
Ward
Glade Valley
U.S. No
Maine
Bee Brand
N. B.C
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