Explosion Of Torpedo Hurts County Boy Near Emmitsburg
A 12 year old boy from near Emmitsburg Maryland is hospitalized at Gettysburg Army hospital with ruptured eardrums severe eye burns and a leg wound after a torpedo exploded in a field during a youth experiment. Two other youths were nearby but escaped with brief deafness. Army investigators arrived and the boy's condition was stated as improving though eye injury could be permanent.
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Emmitsburg
Army Warner
Glass
W. R. Cadle
Army
Roosevelt De Gaulle Talks Possible Before Long
Washington reports a possible Roosevelt Churchill meeting may occur soon as policy toward De Gaulle's National Committee of Liberation shifts. Churchill divisions linger over recognition while De Gaulle gains de facto civil authority, supervised by Eisenhower. In New York, buyers hunt bargains amid cautious stock bids.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Charles DeGaulle
DeGaulle
National Committee of Liberation
London
Foreign Office
France
Britain
General de Gaulle
Eisenhower
September 6 Set As Date For Opening Of Schools
The county Board of Education announced the opening date for the next fiscal year schools on Wednesday. Several resignations were accepted and new appointments made by Superintendent Eugene W. Pruitt.
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County Board of Education
Eugene W. Pruitt
Arvin P. Jones
Brunswick High School
Margaret Motter
Margaret Besant
Frances Culler Fales
Frederick
Ruth Hoch
Thurmont
Victoria DiDomenico
Walkersville
Alberta Duvall
Brunswick
Middletown
Mary Mack
Washington Street
Hagerstown
Edith Nicodemus
Lord Van Sittart calls jailing Gestapo members after war
London reports Lord Van Sittart urged in the House of Lords that 50,000 Gestapo members be imprisoned after the war until Allied decisions on their fate. An ex Foreign Office official estimated 260,000 Gestapo members exist, proposing a quarter as a first installment.
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London
Lord Vansittart
House of Lords
Gestapo
Secret Police
Devil's Island
Foreign Office
Herriot Death Rumor Denied
reports from Berlin and Paris claimed Edouard Herriot’s death but Vichy radio and U S monitors said the death notice was erroneous Herriot a former French premier and longtime Lyon mayor had been questioned about illness and custody by German forces after the fall of France.
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New York
Vichy Radio
U. S
Edouard Herriot
London
DNB
Berlin
Associated Press
Herriot
Vichy
France
North
Africa
Lyon
Germany
Basil O'Connor Named Head of Red Cross
President Roosevelt appointed D Basil O Connor head of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis as chairman of the American Red Cross central committee succeeding the late Norman H Davis. O Connor will serve the remainder of a term expiring December 11 this year. Davis died several days ago.
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Washington
Roosevelt
D. Basil’ O'Connor
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Central Committee of the American Red Cross
Norman H. Davis
O'Connor
New York
Davis
Beaverbrook’s Washington talks cited in Commons
Emanuel Shinwell urged the House to ensure Lord Beaverbrook would not give away too much in the Washington talks. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden pledged that any arrangements would be submitted to Parliament for approval.
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London
Emanuel Shinwell
Commons
Lord Beaverbrook
Washington
Anthony Eden
U S Forces Gain In St Lo Attack
Allied dispatch reports American forces advancing from the Cherbourg peninsula made several gains around St Lo. Units near Carentan captured St Andre De Bohon and Gournay while Bradley’s columns reached La Barre De Semilly.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Eisenhower
Carentan
First Army
St. Andre de Bohon
Gournay
St. Lo
Omar Bradley
la Barre de Semilly
Caen
Colombelles
Second Army
Rome Faces Ongoing Chaos Six Weeks After Occupation
Rome struggles six weeks after Allied entry as Iva Bonomi prepares to form government. power shortages persist due to damaged northern hydro plants. two coal plants barely meet a quarter of needs. bread ration remains low but better quality. black market continues. inflation rises as occupation money circulates. unemployment approx one hundred thousand. dancing and theaters revive amid a city of stark contrasts.
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Rome
Naples
Great Force Of Heavies Hits Munich For 3d Day
A thousand Flying Fortresses and Liberators bombed Munich for the third straight day and struck Saarbrucken as part of a widening campaign threatening German transport. Munich has received about 9,000 tons of American bombs in three days, and rail centers in central France were hit by RAF heavies. London reports German opposition light at altitude through 25 below zero weather with flak and rocket shells.
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Munich
London
Saarbrucken
Germany
Italy
France
Europe
Berlin
Brescia
Kotka
Helsinki
Paris
Ruhr
Tours
Coulmont-Chalndey
Rain Delays Frederick Sprinkling Ban and Pool Closures
Heavy storms drenched Frederick with 1.15 inches by 1 p.m. today, delaying a sprinkling ban and temporary pool closures. Mayor Hugh Gittinger said rains will save hundreds of thousands of gallons and the pool will stay open two more weeks. Residents reported water damage from wind and rain.
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Frederick City
Hugh ¥. Gittinger
Fishing Creek
William J. Davis
Singanore Creek
Frederick
Shark Catch Near Fredericksburg At Potomac River
A shark measuring 82 feet and weighing 360 pounds was caught in the Potomac River near Fredericksburg Virginia yesterday by Carl Harrell and FE Balderson, commercial fishermen.
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Potomac
Fredericksburg
Potomac River
Carl Harrell
FE. HH. Balderson
Russians Advance Toward East Prussia Near Suwalki
Russian forces reach within 30 miles of East Prussia after a 19 mile drive in the Suwalki region of western White Russia. Other columns push toward Kaunas and Grodno, with Warsaw within 150 miles as Baltic front tensions rise. Yeremenko’s Latvia drive expands, gobbling villages as Bagramian’s army holds the north front.
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East Prussia
Suwalki
White Russia
Old Poland
Lithuania
Kaunas
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Estonia
Latvia
NBC
Sweden
Grodno
Germany
Bialystok
Warsaw
Brest Lugvsk
Bug
Pripyat
Chugavpils
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Riga
Wilno
Andrei T. Yeremenko
Ivan Bagramian
Fifth Army Takes Town Lajatico in Italy Breakthrough
Fifth Army forces break through German defenses in the upper Era valley and seize Lajatico about 17 miles inland from the west coast. Doughboys mop up remaining enemy, take 150 to 206 prisoners, then push toward the Arno valley as French units seize San Donato 25 miles southwest of Florence.
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Omar N. Bradley
Paris
St. Lo
Caumont
Cherbourg
Lessay
Maltot
Caen
Orne
Odon
la Boulaye
St. Lo-Bayeux
No-Man’s-Land
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Vire
Rome
Fifth Army
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Italy
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Free Exchange of News After War Advocated
The New York Times reports the United States will urge Allied nations to remove restrictions on postwar news exchange. Britain would join talks this fall to discuss cable and radio rates and a convention safeguarding reporting and transmitting truth worldwide.
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New York
New York Times
United States
Washington
the Times
United Nations
Great Britain
Tech. Sgt. Gosnell Wounded Again in New Air Raid
Tech. Sgt. Larry Gosnell Jr. was wounded again on June 23, six months after a Christmas Day raid over Rabaul. The War Department telegram to his Baltimore mother gave no details on the wound, place, or manner. He recently won the Air Medal and three Oak Leaf Clusters for meritorious aerial achievement as an engineer on a B-24 of the 13th Air Force. He is the grandson of Mrs. Minnie Barnes and resided with her at 417 East Patrick Street.
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Rabaul
Tech
Larry
Gosnell, Jr
War Department
Ethel Sherald
Baltimore
Gosnell
13Th Army Air Force
Minnie Barnes
East Patrick Street
Production of Army Equipment Behind Schedule in Q2
Acting Secretary Patterson said Army equipment and weapons production was 400 million dollars behind schedule in the second quarter. He rejected published statements claiming schedules were being met, calling those reports untrue.
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Washington
Patterson
Japanese Vice Admiral Hasegawa Killed in Action
Berlin radio reports Vice Admiral Kiichiro Hasegawa of the Japanese Navy has been killed in action. He served on the fleet air arm technical staff since 1942 and possibly died around Saipan in the Marianas where Japanese aircraft suffered a major defeat.
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London
Kiich
Hasegawa
Berlin
Yokosuka
Fleet Air Arm
Saipan
Marianas
Hit High Pressure Sales Of Vitamins
Baltimore doctors urge changing eating habits instead of rushing to vitamin pills. Health officials condemned high pressure vitamin sales, calling it a $5 million annual racket in the city. Johns Hopkins experts warn vitamins are overplayed while urging a well balanced diet for optimum health.
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Baltimore
Food Control
Ferdinand A. Korff
Health Department
W. Halsey Barker
Johns Hopkins Medical School
E. V. McCollum
Hopkins
Outbreak of Polio Spurs Cross-State Health Orders
Health officers in the southern states act to curb polio spread from an outbreak centered in North Carolina reporting 270 cases and 13 deaths. Kentucky adds 129 cases and four deaths while Georgia enforces a 21 day home quarantine for returning children and requires joint approval for return. Nine polio cases are noted in Georgia.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Kentucky
Georgia
Raleigh
N.C
Flying bombs attack U S troops in France
Nazi flying bombs used against American forces on the beachhead in France. June 19 delayed report notes at least one identified by ordnance officers and parts of another found. Difficult to distinguish a flying bomb from a heavy shell under heavy fire.
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France
London
Six destroyers lost in France landing ops
London reports that six destroyers from the American and British navies were sunk during landing operations in France. The U S Navy Department and the British Admiralty announced the loss tonight, detailing damage to the vessels and acknowledging the heavy casualties.
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London
France
U. S. Navy Department
British Admiralty
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