Allied Forces Hold Caen Front and Odon River
Allied dispatches report sustained pressure on the Caen sector with German counterattacks repelled along the Odon river. British Second Army makes gains near St Lo as Rommel withdraws armor to France. 142 German tanks destroyed by British forces since D-Day.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Second Army
Odon
Caen
Erwin Rommel
St. Lo
la Forge
Isigny
Carillon
Rommel
Friedrich Dollman
7Th
Berlin
Caen-Evrecy
RAF
Villers-Bocage
River Odon
Miles Christopher Dempsey
Russia
France
Germans declare Florence an open city to protect art
London dispatch cites Oslo radio's report that Germany declared Florence an open city to safeguard its museums and art treasures. The announcement aims to spare cultural assets from damage during wartime operations.
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London
Oslo
Norway
Florence
Peritonitis or Bullet Pioneer Dies in Kobe
Vice Admiral Yukichi Edahara aged 64 a leading Japanese aviation pioneer died in Kobe on Wednesday after an attack of peritonitis. The Japanese Comet agency said in a dispatch monitored by U.S. authorities.
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Associated Press
Yukichi Edahara
Japan
Kobe
Japanese Comet Agency
U.S
Sufficient Coal For Local Use In Winter
A Frederick expert cautions that winter coal supply should be adequate for local users despite slow shipments of stoker and stove coal. He notes bituminous coal remains available and that hard coal will be managed by government agencies. The War Production Board projects national coal demand will exceed production by about 38 million tons this year.
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Frederick City
Pocahontas
Frederick
Great Lakes
Pennsylvania
Service Command
War Production Board
Fifth Army Drives North toward Livorno and Pisa
Fifth Army infantry beat off German tank counter attacks near Cecina and pressed north along the Italian west coast toward Livorno and Pisa while the French advanced another mile toward Siena. In the Adriatic sector the enemy withdrew from the Chienti river as the Eighth Army crossed it in several places and Germans fell back to the Musone river near Ancona.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Cecina
Livorno
Leghorn
Pisa
Siena
Florence
Adriatic
Chienti
Eighth Army
Musone
Ancona
Flying Bombs Hit Southern England Again
German V missiles struck southern England intermittently today. A brief Churchill statement to Commons next week was anticipated but officials expected limited details on districts hit, extent of damage, or defense methods.
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London
Japanese Launch New China Drive
Japanese forces advance north from the Canton area to join units pushing south along the Hankow Canton railway as a new phase of the China drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Chungking
Canton
Hankow-Canton Railway
Police deny docket on morning disturbance at Fourth and Bentz
Police said no docket record exists for a disturbance at Fourth and Bentz early today. Residents described about AQ people awakening sleepers as a patrol wagon shuttled to the section. Authorities say the incident involved service personnel and was turned over to military police.
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Vuity
Fourth
Bentz Streets
German General Eduard Dietl Reported Killed in Accident
London July 1 Transocean Berlin broadcast says Gen Eduard Dietl commander in Finland was killed in an accident details not provided.
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London
Transocean
Berlin
Eduard Dietl
Finland
Battle For Saipan Is Toughest Of Pacific War
AP war report from July 1 describes U S forces pushing to a new line above Garapan as Saipan defenses crumble amid 17 days of bombardment. It notes heavy casualties for Americans and Japanese, intense dust, extensive cave fortifications, and the costly method to seize Saipan through direct elimination of strongpoints.
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Saipan
Joint Expeditionary
Navy
Garapan
Pacific
Raymond Spruance
Philippines
Danish Rebellion Report From Stockholm July 1 4
Free Danish press service says German troops seized Copenhagen town hall national bank central station and other official buildings as a general strike smited. In Baltimore collectors warn all motor vehicle owners to secure and affix stamps to operate vehicles from today, Internal Revenue collector George Hollevert says.
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Stockholm
Free Danish Press Service
Copenhagen
National Bank
Baltimore
Internal Revenue
George Hollevert
Ship's Narrow Escape Echoes Local Sailor's D-Day Letters
Ph M 3/e Albert M. Scott, Frederick resident and former drug company employee, served aboard a LST in the invasion fleet. His letters to wife Mrs. Caroline Scott describe early June alerts, three close calls from bombs and E-boats, and a severe air attack on June 15. He noted limited sleep, met fellow Frederick men aboard, and recounted morale and chatter of return. Also named are 1st Lt Charles S. Toms and 2/c Henry Eaton, both 18, in U S Naval assault force at invasion France.
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France
LST
Albert M. Scott
Frederick
Ph.m. Scott
Caroline Scott
England
Scott
Riddlemoser
Buxton
Brandenburg
Higgs
Frankie Scott
Eddie Sanger
Sampson
N. Y
Naval Training Station
Bainbridge
Charles S. Toms
Ellwood Toms
LeGore
Henry Eaton
Samuel C. Eaton
Thurmont
U. S
Toms
Walkersville High School
Blue Ridge Rubber Company
Taneytown
Eaton
Frederick High
USO Club No 2 Opens In Parish House Tuesday
Frederick ushers in USO Club No 2 in Saints parish house with opening at seven o clock Tuesday, open to the public later. Furnishings and pipe organ plus grand piano enhance the 40 by 60 foot space, meant for dancing, reading, and relaxation, part of a reciprocal national effort to entertain servicemen.
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USO Club
Ail Saints
Alton Y. Bennett
Frederick
Pythian Castle
Bennett
USO
Japanese beetle invasion eases in Maryland with control efforts
College Park July 14 University of Maryland officials predict beetles will be scarcer in areas where control measures have been used for three years. The annual invasion is underway as researchers note the impact of sustained pest control programs.
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College Park
Maryland
University of Maryland
Germany to absorb Vichy into full independence regime
May exd Vichy rule report from Madrid says Germany may wipe out Vichy independence within a week and govern France directly. Southeast Asia Command HQ in Kandy reports Chinese gains north of Waingmaw ferry road in Burma and an advance toward Ukhrul in India. Allied forces take Sareikhong, per official communique.
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Madrid
France
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Waingmaw
Burma
Myitkyina
Ukhrul
India
Sareikhong
Local Men Seen At Front In Normandy Fight
Sunpapers war correspondent Holbrook Bradley reports Maryland and Virginia soldiers from the 29th Division at the Allied attack on St Lo. Sergt Altone Shafer warned against advancing under fire. Others named include Sergt John R Newton Sergt Ralph Schultz and Pvt Hassan A Sauble. Pvt Wilbur A Davis is listed as killed in action.
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St. Lo
Normandy
Holbrook Bradley
Sunpapers
Bradley
Altone Shafer
Alton Shaff
Frederick
John R. Newton
Ralph Schultz
Richard Fox
Henry Menizer
Middletown
Dennis Pittinger
Hassan A Sauble
Beamare B. Peole
Thurmont
Charles M. Smith
Braddock Heights
Ferrell Jensley
New Market
Samuel Igevalie
Leigh Dorsey
Offutt
Gaithers
County Reduces Bonded Debt by 48000 in Steps
The County Commissioners cut the county’s bonded indebtedness by 48000. They paid 20000 on a 200000 school issue of 1935 lowering outstanding to 180000, paid 20000 on a 422700 refunding issue of 1937 lowering outstanding to 256000, and paid 5000 on a 62000 lateral roads issue of 1923 reducing this balance to 18000.
Two More Frederick Soldiers Reported Wounded
Private William J. Mask and Tech. Sgt. James J. Albright, both from Frederick, were reported wounded or slightly wounded in France and England. Mask, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warry J. Mask, is recuperating in a U S naval hospital after a letter dated June 15. Albright, son of Mr. and Mrs John H. Albright, is in a hospital in England, with a V mail note stating slight wounds in France. Albright served with the 29th Division since 1941, Mask with the same division. Both families await official confirmation. earlier city and county casualties included two slightly wounded men.
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Frederick City
William J. Mask
Warry J. Mask
East Fifth Street
U. S. Naval Hospital
Tech
James J. Albright
John H. Albright
North Market Street
England
Pvt
Mask
Albright
France
Frederick
Maryland National Guard
Army
Camp Wheeler
St. John’s High School
Guy K. Motter, Jr
Mirs
Guy Motter
Public sale yields 1940 Pontiac coupe for 790 dollars near Frederick Junction
At a Friday sale of the late William R. Morgan estate near Frederick Junction a 1940 Pontiac coupe sold for 790 dollars amid spirited bidding. Total proceeds reached 839.25 dollars with other items like a heifer and halter. Morgan’s son in Army service overseas and two daughters administered the estate. Authorities found 6400 dollars on the premises.
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William R
Peg" Morgan
Frederick Junction
Morgan
Clarence C. Carty
Sherman P. Bowers
Emmett R Bowlus
Glenn O. Morgan
Sending Money Home In Normandy Soldiers send pay orders daily
Lt. Col. Robert Davies, head of the financial disbursing section for American forces in Normandy, said last night his organization is handling an average of $29,000 daily in money orders for soldiers sending their pay home.
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France
Robert Davies
Normandy
Five Alarm Fire Threatens Historic Church District
A five alarm fire swept the three story Bredt Chemical Co building early today endangering the Old Swedes church and nearby homes before being brought under control.
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Philadelphia
Bredt Chemical Co
Remnants Of Demoralized German Army Pouring Into Minsk
New York reports Allied radio broadcasts that German forces are pouring into Minsk as three Soviet armies converge from the northeast east and southeast to split the city. Red Army advances and heavy losses are cited with claims of hundreds of German surrenders and massed Russian troops near the capital of White Russia.
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White Russia
New York
Minsk
Warsaw
NBC
Moscow
Gestapo
Russia
Hitler
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Third
Berezina
Red Army
Borisov
Red Star
Yakof Miletzky
London
Pripyat
Ivan Bagramian
Baltic Republics
Soviet Union
Old Poland
Disna
Prozoroki
Latvia
Lithuania
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
U S Bombers Hit Formosa Formosa Takao ships hit
US Liberators operating from China joined Admiral Nimitz in a Pacific sweep and damaged a Japanese dock and harbor at Takao on Formosa. Stilwell HQ said the attack damaged installations but did not give details as Japanese operations near Saipan and the Marianas loom. Also notes a Woodville school property sale and a War Department overseas service bar authorization for Army personnel. Miners trapped in Clover Fork coal mine reported. officials in Harlan, Kentucky.
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Chungking
China
Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific
Takao
Formosa
Joseph W. Stilwell
Saipan
Marianas
U. S
Philippines
Harlan, Ky
Clover Fork
Ridgeway Darby Coal Company
Badly Hurt By Binder On Farm Near New Market
Nineteen year old Carlton W. Ridgeley was severely injured when a binder knife struck him as the tractor moved downhill after a brake failed. He suffered a nearly severed right leg and multiple injuries. He was hospitalized in Frederick for surgery. doctors feared for his leg.
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Carlton W. Ridgeley
Frederick City Hospital
Harry R. Ridgeley
New Market
Young Ridgley
Dewey Returns to Albany After Nomination Acceptance
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey arrived in Albany at 11 24 a m after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in Chicago to a loud friendly reception.
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Dewey
Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Chicago
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War Department
Geuysourg
Emmitsburg Road
West Confederate Avenue
U. S. Army Guard
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Gettysburg
Adams County
Harrisville
Woodville
Board of Education
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Eugene W. Pruitt
Emmett R. Bowls
Peru
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Charles Rommel
North Castle Street
Mary Finn
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