29th Division Dedicates New Cemetery
In Normandy a 29th Division ceremony honors fallen officers and men with white crosses. Maj. Gen. Gerhardt leads veterans from Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania as chaplain prayers, hymns, a firing salute, and a band performance mark the dedication amid distant gunfire and aircraft.
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29Th Division
United States Army
Normandy
Legion of Blue and Gray
Col
Blank
Infantry
29Th
Charles Hunter Gerhardt
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Lberty
Gerhardt
John F Kennedy Fireman Second Class Kennedy
John F Kennedy is attending Basic Engineers School in Gulfport Mississippi with address Div 10 Sec K BE School N Tc Gulfport. He received his boot training at Bainbridge.
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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Basic Engineers
Gulfport
Miss
Bainbridge
Three Year Old Dies After Auto Strike Near Mount Airy
A 3 year old, William Wesley Brown of Mount Airy, died Saturday after being struck by a car Friday night. Charles Dodson of Mount Airy faced manslaughter charges over inadequate brakes. Funeral plans set. services Tuesday at Pine Grove cemetery. Oahu alert noted after an unidentified aircraft report proved false today.
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William Wesley Brown
George Robert Brown
Mount Air
Frederick-Carroll County
James N Simmons
Randallstown
Charles Carl Dodson
Mount Airy
Frederick City
Dodson
Vincent A Tubanan
Carroll County
George Robert
Rose Lattice Browns
Mary Jane Brown
Donald
George R Brown
Sykesville
Ecker Crabb
Ralph M Sharpe
Pine Grove Cemetery
Wake
McSpaden Wins Utah Open With Record at Fort Douglas
Harold Jag McSpaden of Philadelphia clocked a 63 in the morning and a par-72 finish to break the Fort Douglas course record by two strokes and win the Utah Open. Byron Nelson of Toledo finished second with a 72 69 for total 173.
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McSpaden
Utah
Salt Lake City
Harold
Jag) McSpaden
Philadelphia
Fort Douglas
Byron Nelson
Toledo
Ohio
Military Funeral For Marlin Lee Keeney
Full military honors were accorded apprentice seaman Marlin Lee Keeney who drowned Wednesday at Mt St Marys College. Funeral services were held Saturday at two from his New Midway home with final rites at Grace Lutheran Church Rocky Hall officiated by Rev Herbert H Schmidt. The church choir sang three selections as officers and personnel attended including Lt R D Mathews Lt R J Richards USN RC Chief Specialist John D Wilson and others. Pallbearers included C B Carpenter M E Barton and J W Weisgerber. Interment followed at the church cemetery. C E Barton, funeral director.
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Marlin Lee Keeney
Mt St Mary's College
New Midway
Grace Lutheran Church
Rocky Hall
Herbert H Schmidt
Clarence Fogle
R D Mathews
R J Richards
U SN R
John D Wilson
Joseph D. Eckstein
P. E Peksa
J Cook
J M Baumgardner
C J. Winkler
C. F
Army Rebellion Rumors Spread From Andorra Across Border
Reports from the Pyrenees read as of July 23 about a possible army plot against the Nazi party. German radio accounts describe reverberations within southern France as forces consider rebellion, with cross border tensions escalating near Andorra.
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Andorra
Pyrennes
France
Eight Maryland men commissioned at Fort Monmouth
Eight men from Maryland were commissioned as second lieutenants in the Signal Corps at Officer Candidate School graduation exercises at Fort Monmouth New Jersey held on Saturday. Among them was Sam W Maples Jr son of Mr and Mrs Sam W Maples Sr of 306 Upper College Terrace Frederick.
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Fort Monmouth
Maryland
Signal Corps
Sam W Maples Jr
Sam W Maples
Upper College Terrace
Frederick
Pacific War Interpreted By Harold Streeter
Harold Streeter reviews last week in the Pacific noting land bomber raids on the Volcano and Bonin Islands, Guam invasion, Tojo cabinet troubles, and Allied advances toward Tokyo. He highlights Adm King and Adm Nimitz near Tokyo, MacArthur’s air offensives in the East Indies, and Japan’s new premier Konoe pledging no policy change.
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Harold Streeter
Associated Press
Tokyo
Volcano
Bonin Islands
Saipan
Tojo
Guam
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Ernest J. King
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Japan
Philippines
China Coast
Gil
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
East Indies
Ceram
MacArthurs
Kuriles
Australia
Konlso
Forty Are Injured In Collision Of Buses
Forty people were injured when a Greyhound inter city bus collided with a local bus on Bladensburg Road Washington near Mt Rainier Md Ambulances from nearby communities aided transport to hospitals Passengers Edna Stull 40 Taneytown Md and Mrs Margaret Hoover Westminster Md among the injured Ashland Ky July 23 a CIO United Steel Workers work stoppage halted operations at the American Rolling Mills Ashland plant idleing about 2500 employees since midnight
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Washington
Greyhound
Bladensburg Road
Mt Rainier
Edna Stull
Taneytown
Margaret Hoover
Westminster
Ashland
CIO
United Steel Workers of America J
American Rolling Mills Company
Juvenile Delinquency Declines In Baltimore
Judge Moylan reports a 23 percent drop in Baltimore juvenile delinquency for the first six months of this year from 1943 figures. 1,097 under 16 were charged in six months ending June 30, with 1,431 appearing in 1943. Social agencies and groups aided the decline. Moylan notes fewer repeat offenders and praises probation staff.
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Charles E. Moy- Tan
Frederick Countian
Division For
Baltimore
Moylan
Division For Juvenile Causes
Circuit Court For
Baltimore City
Bear Completes Primary Flying Training in Georgia
Learning to fly aviation cadet Bear son of Mr and Mrs Ernest P Bear from Ridgeville completed primary flying training in Albany Georgia. He now begins basic flight training in Greenwood Mississippi and plans to advance to complete training to become a fighter pilot as a second lieutenant or flight officer in the Air Corps.
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Bear
Ernest P. Bear
Ridgeville
Albany
Greenwood, Miss
Air Corps
Garden State Park Sees Million-Dollar Betting Days
Camden New Jersey July 23 Garden State Park, the racing plant near here two years ago, has graduated to the big-time with million-dollar betting days. Figures show the first 50 days of the meeting have seen bettors wager $15,308,941, for a daily average of $1,093,495, with larger days expected.
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Garden State
Camden
N. J
Garden State Park
Jap Ship Sunk By U S Off the Philippines
Far Eastern Air Force bombers sank a 100-foot Japanese coastal vessel 70 miles southeast of Mindanao. The operation marks the first Far Eastern Air Force attack on the Philippines and is noted in a MacArthur communique after Corregidor’s fall. Mindanao lies about 800 miles west of Noemfoor.
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Aled
New Guinea
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Far Eastern Air Force
Corregidor
Mindanao
MacArthur
Noemfoor Island
Dutch New Guinea
Noemfoor
Philippine Group
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Don Whitebead
Engineers
Meet
Biede
Aycca
Oahu
Honolulu
Oahu Island
Adm
Robert L Ghormley
Hawaiian Sea Frontier
Cutie
Roy J. Virden, Jr
St. Mary's
Wva
Tittle Cleo
Italy
Brushoff
Bing
Bob
Joseph H. Pendleton
Oceanside
Calif
Bing Crosby
Bob Crosby
U.S. Marine
C. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
Mexico
Sen Aa
Gulf
Red Army
U S
Texas
Berlin
San Angelo Tex
Santa Fe
NEW Polish Council
London
Moscow
Polish National Council
Warsaw
Polish Committee of National Liberation
Union of
Veterans’ Re-Employment Survey
Vernon T. Bear
Allen’s
North Market ST
U.S
New American Air Force
John Henry Gray
Baxter Biggs
Denver Watts
Monrovia
Frank McGee
Montevue
James Newman
Joe Bell
Martin Kanode
Harry Philips
Norman Trump
Douglas Stup
Sambo Johnson
East Street
Sherman Myer
Madison Street
Wallace E Kemp
Charles Williams
East Fifth Street
Trump
Stup
South Market
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Hendrickson
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