Will of Bion E Boost Leaves 25 Bequests to Relatives and Institutions
The will of Bion E Boost, who died recently in Buckeystown, provides more than 25 bequests. Calvary Methodist Church and the Frederick County SPCA each receive $200, several relatives receive cash or stock, and remaining assets are to be converted to cash for distribution. The document, dated April 1943, designates executor Holden S Felton and lists beneficiaries by name and address.
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Calvary Methodist Church
Frederick County
Boost
Walter Addison
Wentworth Road
West Forest Park
Baltimore
Melvin Repp
Maple Avenue
Walkersville
Potomac Edison Company
Harry C. Betson
Monrovia
Edward Betson
Mamie Morgan Lantz
Utica
Western Maryland Trust Company
Fredericktown Savings Institution
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
Emory Morgan
Frederick
Lizzie Ways
Marriottsville
Rose Ways Shipley
George Ways
Mabel Ireland Calhoun
Walbrook
Forrest Calhoun
Bion Anderson
Arcana
Nora Stallings
Buckeystown
Mary Brengle
West Seventh Street
Daisy Kline
Charles Esterly
East Sixth Street
Evelyn Dixon
West Fifth Street
Frank R. Smith
Trail Avenue
Beverly Jane Fox
North Bentz Street
Joshua Mahamett
Charles Kline
Bion Cecil
Austin W. Starr
West Seventh
North Bentz Streets
Old Central Trust Company
Harry C. Bean
Frank Bopst
West Sixth Street
Arthur W Myers
Carlton L. Baumgardner
Bopst
Allied front mileages to Berlin reported
AP notes distances of Allied routes to Berlin. Russian front 365 miles direct from Siedlce, 70 miles closer than a week ago. Italian front 610 miles from Ancona and 620 from Pisa. Normandy front 630 miles from Troarn near Caen.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Siedlce
Ancona
Pisa
Normandy
Fron Troarn
Caen
Woman Held On Charge Of Operating Speakeasy
Sheriff and federal agents raided a farmhouse near Emmitsburg and charged Laura Ejiker with manufacturing or possessing home brew for sale. About 300 bottles and 30 gallons of mash were found along with sugar and malt. Two men were found intoxicated on the lawn. no federal charges will be filed. Ejiker will face a hearing before Magistrate Campbell in Emmitsburg.
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Annandale School
Emmitsburg
Laura Ejiker
Horace M. Alexander
F. J. Campbell
Alexander
R. Paul Buhrman
Paul B. Rhoads
Charles Cushna
Eiker
6th Army Holds Half of Pisa
American forces of the Fifth Army held the southern district of Pisa as other units wiped out enemy positions along the Arno from the sea to near Empoli. Columns moved north from Poggibonsi to within 12 miles of Florence. They crossed the Arno canal to Cascina and occupied several towns while reconnoitering Marina di Pisa.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Pisa
Arno River
Empoli
Poggibonsi
Florence
Arno Canal
Cascina
Comparison Of This War With World War One Outlines
Lloyd Stratton notes WWII Normandy battlefront mirrors World War I in outline but differs in scale and methods. He highlights greater troop strength and mobility, intensified air and artillery power, and the absence of animals in Allied service. The report details armor, infantry, navy punch, fortifications, and dramatic air combat near Caen.
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Lloyd Stratton
Associated Press, Ltd
Associated Press
Normandy Battlefront
Associated Press News
Normandy
France
Navy
1918
Caen
Lantz Seriously Hurt in England in War Diary Note
In a telegram Mrs. Merril A. Lantz was told her husband Sgt. Lantz is seriously ill with a brain concussion from an injury July 15 in the European Area. A War Department letter said he is alive, in a hospital in England, likely still there rather than France, with limited details on the incident.
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Merril A. Lantz
East
Patrick Street
War Department
Sgt. Lantz
Set. Lantz
England
Set
Lantz
Home After 30 Years Overseas
Sgt. William L Strathern U S Army, son of Mrs Agnes Strathern of 307 Walnut Street Brunswick, returns home after three and a half years overseas. He served in Hawaii during the attack, then Australia and New Guinea with a cavalry reconnaissance group in two major engagements. He arrived Wednesday for a 21 day furlough before reporting to Camp Butner North Carolina for reassignment.
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William L Strathern
U. S Army
Agnes Strathern
Walnut Street
Brunswick
Strathern
Hawaii
Australia
New Guinea
Camp Butner
N. C
Residence Sells at Public Sale in Point of Rocks Tuscarora Road
The residence of the late Anna N. McCabe on the Point of Rocks Tuscarora road sold at public auction Saturday afternoon. Henry S. Landis bid $3,250 for a six room frame dwelling, summer kitchen, garage and about half an acre. Possession given August 1. Sale conducted by attorneys Benjamin B. Rosenstock and Holden S. Felton for the heirs.
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Anna N. McCabe
Point of Rocks-Tuscarora Road
Henry S. Landis
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
Holden S. Felton
Bomb Deaths Rise to Three in Hitler HQ Blast
Berlin announced Col. Gen. Guenther Korten died of injuries from last Thursday’s explosion at Hitler’s headquarters. Maj. Gen. Heinz Brandt also died, raising the death toll to three. Berlin had previously named the Fuehrer’s collaborator amid name changes for Berger Bergner.
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London
Berlin
Guenther Korten
Air Force
Hitler
Heinz Brandt
Army General Staff
Fuehrer
Double
Berger
Heinrich Bergner
Creamery Butter Ration Raised to 16 Points
Washington July 24 House wives face four point hike per pound for creamery butter as OPA raises ration value to 16 points to curb civilian use. Farm and processed butter stay at eight and four red points. OPA notes creamery butter consumption runs 20 percent above the July allocation of 100 million pounds.
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Washington
Price Administration
OPA
Nazis Drive British Back In Fighting East Of Caen
Allied forces push along the Orne river front near Caen with gains around Maltot and Etavaux while Maltot and Etavaux woods are seized. British and Canadian units widen control south of the Orne as German counterattacks and heavy fighting continue.
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Caen
Roger D. Greene
Orne River
Troarn
le Bon Repos
Esquay
St. Germain
Depot
Noyers
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Omar N. Bradley
Little Leve
Periers
Maltot
Etavaux
Erieville
Paris
Erwin Rommel
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Nazis Continue Robot Attacks On England
London reports the 40th day of flying bomb assaults with new German bases suspected in Belgium. Britain and southern counties endure continued bombings at night as flying bombs cross the channel. Recovery in New York stocks remains weak with only modest gains before stalling.
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London
Britain
Belgium
Himmler Purge and Churchill War Talk Across Europe
London reports detail Gestapo squads carrying out a large purge in Germany as Churchill warns of internal revolution and weakness on the fronts. Reports claim arrests of eight eastern front commanders and possible executions of divisional leaders in France, with Kesselring seized in Italy. Churchill, back in Britain, predicts the war may end sooner than expected while noting dispute within the Nazi leadership. A separate item notes a fatal collision of two attack bombers at a Spokane air show, with four aircrew killed in front of about 100000 spectators.
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London
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Germany
France
Italy
Eastern Front
Albert Kesselring
Johannes Blaskowitz
Bordeaux
Hitler
Blaskowicz
Churchill
Britain
Normandy Front
Berlin
German Home Forces Radio Calls For Urgent Mobilization
An Allied-quoted broadcast from London on July 24 declares that the German home force is to mobilize with the message Whoever fails to do his duty is no longer one of us. The voice, likely directed by Heinrich Himmler under Hitler, asserts no one may live or breathe without bearing or making arms.
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London
Radio Today
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Germans abandon Siedlce and Jaroslaw as Russians near Warsaw
German radio admitted Russian troops were within 50 miles of Warsaw. Nazi forces retreated from Siedlce and Jaroslaw as operations across Poland shifted along a 150 mile front. Reports said Lwow and Lublin became battlegrounds while German losses included generals Scheller and Treschov.
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London
Warsaw
Siedlce
Jaroslaw
Siedce
Berlin
Lwow
Lublin
Brest Litovsk
Moscow
Poland
Stalingrads
Kaunas
Lithuania
Scheller
von Treschov
Lindeman
Doidler
Saipan Aftermath Harsh as War Ends
Saipan is ravaged and heavily littered with Japanese corpses across plateaus and plains from Tanapag harbor to Marpi Point. Civilians, many starving and traumatized, stream from forward areas as Marines Clear Garapan and Charan-Kanoa, preparing Saipan as a future forward base.
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Saipan Island
Pete Zurlinden
Associaed Press
Saipan
Marianas Islands
Tanapag Harbor
Marpi Point
Garapan
Charan-Kanoa
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Thieves Take Safe From Printery In Park Area
Thieves rolled a 300 pound safe from G William Dansberger printery at 173 West Patrick Street to a nearby park by Carroll Creek on Sunday night but could not open it. The safe held only papers and records. no money was inside. Police Lieut. Allen Bartgis and Officer Harry Phillips investigated after Dansberger reported the break in through a rear door and moving the safe toward North Bentz Street.
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G. William Dansberger
West
Patrick Street
Dansberger
Allen Bartgis
Harry Phillips
Hitler salute adopted by German armed forces
The German radio reported that the Hitler salute was introduced in the German armed forces. The announcement followed July 24 in London and reflects a shift in military ceremony and allegiance.
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London
Hitler
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Bion E. Bopst
BY Lloyd Stratton
Brain
Lewes River
New York
Himmler
Huw Hangman
Junkers
Ludwig Beck
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Ankara
Stockholm
Robert Ley
Spokane
Wash
Tech
Pete Zuclinden
Dayton
Hfe
Marine Corps
Annapolis
G. W. Dansberger
Park Area
Heil Hitler
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