Saipan Conquest Declared Finished by U S Forces
Admiral Nimitz announced that US forces completed the Saipan conquest after a four week campaign in the Southern Marianas. About 11 500 Japanese soldiers were killed and losses included 58 ships and 900 planes. Guam and Rota were bombed as Saipan’s strategic value rose.
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Nimitz
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz
Marianas Islands
Central
Western Pacific
Gilbert
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Guam
Rota Islands
Marianas
Yap
Agana
United States
Pacific
Tokyo
dJapang
Philippines
Palau
Rota
French Battleship Beached Off Normandy
German radios claimed an Allied battleship was hit and beached off the Orne estuary in Normandy while Paris radio boasted of sinking ten Allied ships in ten minutes with a new weapon. No confirmation from Allied HQ. spokesman said no knowledge of any new naval weapon. The beached ship was identified as the Courbet, a 1913 21 889 ton vessel in Fighting French service since fall of France.
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London
Orne
Normandy
Paris
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Sai
France
Death Toll in Circus Fire Hits 157 in Hartford
Hartford toll rises to 157 with three more names added to the Rangling Brothers and Barnum and Gailey Circus fire list. Six remain unidentified as prayers and funeral rites unfold in local churches and hospitals. Identified include Michael E. Norris of Middletown and Edith Brown Cortis of Syracuse.
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Hartford
Conn
Rangling Brothers
Barnum and Gailey Circus
Hartford Churche
Sally Lapuk
Laura Travers
Bloombela
Dons Schinkel
Manchester
Michael E. Norris
Middletown
Edith Brown Cortis
North Grosevenordale
Elhzabeth Pomeroy
Syracuse
N. Y
Curtiss
Hartford Hospital
Boy severely hurt in Route 15 bicycle collision near Emmitsburg
A sixteen year old boy, Donald Boland, was seriously injured when his bicycle collided with a southbound automobile on Route 15 about 5 30 Sunday near Emmitsburg. He was taken first to Dr. Cadle’s office and then to Annie Warner Memorial Hospital in Gettysburg with a multiple jaw fracture, facial lacerations, possible skull fracture, and shock. The car was driven by Harry Null of Graceham. Boland rode uphill and left to turn, colliding with the side of the car. He remained in satisfactory condition Sunday night. physicians expect fractures to be nonreducible for several days.
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Emmitsburg
William R. Cadle
Annie Warner Memorial Hospital
Gettysburg
Donald Boland
William Wainebrewer
Young Boland
Harry Null
Graceham
Am Emmitsburg
Yugoslavia Pact Backed by King Peter and Tito Plebiscite Set
London reports that King Peter of Yugoslavia and Partisan Marshal Tito signed a pact agreeing to a postwar plebiscite and granting Tito full command of all military forces in Yugoslavia, per Morovco radio quoting Allied HQ at Algiers.
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London
Morovco Radio
Algiers
Peter
Earle
Tito
Yugoslavia
Trade with Russia and China Seen by Wallace in Seattle
Vice President Henry A Wallace told a Seattle audience that trade with Russia and China will keep American factories busy as postwar development favors the North Pacific and Eastern Asia. He urged permanent national policy for the Northwest and praised Sino-Soviet cooperation, noting plans for international air routes and economic links with Alaska, Western Canada, and the Western United States.
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Seattle
Russia
China
America
Henry A. Wallace
Siberian
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific
Asia
National Broadcasting Company System
Pa‘ersie
Warren G Magnuson
Northwest
Alaska
Canada
United States
Magnuson
Roosevelt
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Orient
U. S
Siberia
Wallace
Pacific
Amenita
North America
Europe
Price ceilings set for used cars effective tomorrow
Baltimore July 9 The State Office of Price Administration reminded used car dealers and private sellers that ceilings similar to January levels take effect tomorrow. Both seller and buyer must file a transfer certificate with local rationing boards under the new rule.
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Baltimore
State Office of Price Administration
Seler
U. S. Agent Operated Radio Foiled Japs
German agency dispatch from Tokyo claims an American agent kept in contact with the United States and Australia via a clandestine radio station overlooking Manila Bay for two years after Japanese occupation. It cites Blanca Jurka a 63 year old Catholic missionary leading a guerrilla corps and Charles Parson an American who organized anti Japanese guerrilla bands with over 100 agents.
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London
Transocean
Tokyo
United States
Australia
Manila Bay
Philippines
Blanca Jurka
Charles Parson
Mindoro Island
Mercury in Nineties for Sixth Straight Day
The county endures a sixth day of temperatures in the nineties with no weekend showers. After a 98 degree Friday high the heat eased to 93 Saturday and 92 Sunday. Crops and gardens suffer while water supplies dwindle. Carnivals in Walkersville and Brunswick did well. Emmitsburg hosts an event tonight by the Vigilant Hose Company and John R Webb Post VFW. Regional Game Warden Phebus notes strong fishing weekend with notable bass catches.
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Mercury
Maryland
Walkersville
Brunswick
Emmitsburg
Vigilant Hose Company
John R Webb Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Benjamin F Phebus
Local man dies after tavern shooting in Clarksburg
Wilbur Alonzo Stanton 17 dies from a head wound after a Sunday night shooting in Clarksburg. Herbert Brown 31 is jailed and likely charged with murder after police say a dispute over a woman led to the shooting. Funeral plans set for Stanton with services at Asbury Methodist Church and Fairview cemetery.
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Wilbur Alonzo Stanton
Clarksburg
Rockville
Stanton
Frederick City
L. R. Schoolman
Montgomery County
Herbert Brown
Joseph F. Stanton
Raymond Whiting
Joseph F. Stanton, Jr
Montgomery G O P To Get Out Big Vote
Montgomery County Republicans organized a large campaign to mobilize voters for the November election. A county executive committee was elected at the Kenwood Club with members from Rockville Takoma Park Silver Spring Bethesda Gaithersburg and three women’s clubs. Committees were named for fund raising publicity and countywide organization with aims to register Republicans and mobilize servicemen to vote.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
Kenwood Club
Ete Tee
Thomas Anderson
John Kauffman
Takoma Park
Roy Tasco Davis
Silver Spring
Earl Shinn
Bethesda
Chevy Chase
William Fulks
Gaithersburg
David Baldwin
Claude Cook
Harry Elkins
State Central Committee
Oover Spring
Leslie Armes
Willard King
Ted Ray
de Witt Zook
Barney Welsh
Wendell Schuh
Howard Foley
Louis A. Gravelle
Morris Bassford
Guy Watkins
Pete Snyder
Randolph Bishop
Democratic Senators push plain foreign policy plank for postwar world
Truman of Missouri and Tunnell of Delaware call for a strong simple foreign policy in the 1944 Democratic platform. They, with 21 others, will meet in Chicago two days before the convention to draft the foreign affairs emphasis. Virginia votes uninstructed on Roosevelt term. Wallace possible running mate amid dozen others.
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Washington
America
Truman
D.-Mo
Tunnel
D.-Del
Chicago
Virginia Balks
Virginia
Roosevelt
Wallace
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
White House
Tunnell
Thomas E. Dewey
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Jpat
29Th Division
Pvt
Francis J. Fraley
Charles E. Shawver
Frederick
South Market
Lady Elaine
Ravon Hose
Raven Hose
League of Nations
13 Nations
Geneva
Says M. Jarema
Lane Lifeboat & Darvit Corporation
Finshing
New York
Ford
Victory
Liberty
Lok
Allen
North Market ST. Æe
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Hendrickson
Pinafores
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