Russians Push Toward Warsaw in Deep Polish Advance
Russian columns with tanks and planes drive 40 miles in 24 hours, splitting German armies in Poland. Lublin and Lukow fall as Warsaw nears, with Vistula crossing a potential threat to the Polish capital. Other Russian groups threaten Brest Litovsk, Kaunas, and Daugavpils as the advance nears Silesia and Ploesti.
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Moscow
Warsaw
Poland
Lublin
Lukow
Red Army
Siedlce
Wisla
Vistula
Germany
Silesia
San
Red
Bug
Berlin
Marshal Stalin
Liublin
East Prussia
Brest Litovsk
Riga
Bialystok
Leningrad-Warsaw
Lwow
Moscyshka
Daugavpils
Latvian Republic
Kaunas
Lithuanian Republic
Estonia
Pskov
Belzhitse
Stanislawow
Carpathian
Czecho-Slovakia
Krakow
Lodz
Radom
Iasi
Romania
Ploesti
Japanese Fleet Holds Back as U.S. Task Forces Maneuver
The Tokyo radio quoted naval commentator Masanori Ito saying Japan will not attack now, noting the combined fleet is weaker in aircraft. He cited factors for victory as fleet strength, follow-on power, geography, morale, and technique, with a possible return to home waters if the American fleet attacks Japan.
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Associated Press
United States
Marianas
Tokyo
Domei
Ieee
Masanori Ito
Ito
Japan
Togo
Tsushima
Local Captain Schmitt Wounded in Action in France
Capt. Waldo E. Schmitt, officer in Company A who joined the 115th Infantry in early 1941, has been wounded in action in France, according to his Takoma Park parents. He led Company A during training at the State Armory before troops departed for Fort Meade.
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Waldo E. Schmitt
115Th Infantry
France
Takoma Park
Schmitt
State Armory
Fort Meade
Two Engines Battle Massive Farm Straw Stack Fire
Firemen and residents battled a tremendous strawstack near Bal lenger Creek on the Buckeystown pike at the Bussard farm after 11:30 AM. The stack, containing straw from about 90 acres, threatened a barn but did not ignite it. Fire could smolder for hours or days despite abundant water and efforts to extinguish it.
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C. Lease Bussard
Buckeystown Pike
Ballenger Creek
Independent Hose Company
Used War To Hide Parley
Herbert Brownell Jr charges President Roosevelt cloaked a wartime meeting with a high Democratic leader in Chicago during the West Coast trip. He names no person but notes Robert E. Hannegan rode the president’s special train five days before the convention. Brownell calls the meeting a misuse of wartime regulation and objectionable to the American people.
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New York
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Roosevelt
Chicago
West Coast
Brownell
Pacific Coast
Robert E. Hannegan
Casualties on Saipan total 16,463, Navy says
Secretary Forrestal announced 16,463 American casualties in the Saipan campaign, including 3,049 killed and 13,049 wounded with 365 missing. He noted over 5,000 wounded have returned to duty and joined the Tinian operation, while enemy losses were tallied at 20,720 dead and 1,707 POWs. Japanese civilians totaled 14,192 interned. Moderates on Guam.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Saipan
Western Pacific
Marianas
Tinian Island
Shakeup In Germany Readies Total War Mobilization
London reports Adolf Hitler named Hermann Goering Reichsmarschall and chairman of the Council for Defense of the Reich with a decree to mobilize Germany and occupied territories. Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels named Reichs Commissar for the total war effort, as Heinrich Himmler is cited as home army commander after the bomb attempt. A purge of Prussian military leadership is described as underway. Goering is said to claim authority to direct top Reich authorities and possibly Hitler or Himmler, signaling a de facto dictatorship.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Council For Defense of the Reich
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Reich
Heinrich Himmler
Home Army
Hitler
Goering
Goebbels
Himmler
River Dragged as Search for Missing Woman Continues
County and State Police dragged the Monocacy river below Gas House Pike Bridge after a pocketbook and later a wristwatch and rings belonging to Mrs. Marion Tracey were found on the bridge. Despondent over ill health, she left home yesterday morning, and authorities led the search with Sheriff Horace M. Alexander and State Police Sergt. Charles V. Main in charge using a boat in muddy water. A hearing was scheduled this afternoon for Mrs. Laura Eiker in Emmitsburg on a separate home brew case.
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Monocacy River
Gas House Pike Bridge
Frederick
Marion Tracey
South Carroll Street
Tracey
Charles V. Main
State Police
Frederick to stake site for municipal airport near river
Engineers of the Civil Aeronautics Authority will stake ground east of Frederick within two weeks for the proposed municipal airport near the Monocacy River. Airport Day is planned in August with U S senator Millard E Tydings and Representative J Glenn Beall attending to thank them for a 150000 federal appropriation and discuss future funding. The project will be supervised by the CAA with land acquisition once location is fixed. The Airport Committee, led by Roger B Wolfe, takes over the effort from the prior advisory panel. goals include confirming exact boundaries and moving forward with purchases.
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Civil Aeronautcs Administration
Frederick
Roger B. Wolfe
Wolfe
U. S
Millard E. Tydings
J. Glenn Beall
Senator Tydings
Congressman Beall
Tydings
Beall
CAA
Monocacy River
Hugh V. Gittinger
Joseph H. Himes
Willard H. Markey
Paul S. Michael
Benjamin L. Shuff
T. Edgie Russell
Allies Reach 10 Miles From Florence Front in Italy
Allied forces drive steadily toward Florence, tightening to within ten miles as German resistance strains. Reports say fighting slowed but Germans relinquish ground along the Arno north bank between Florence and the coast, with counterattacks near San Miniato failing to halt Fifth Army eastward advance.
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Rome
Florence
Arno
San Miniato
Fifth
Engineer Of Health Dept To Probe Fish Killing
George L Hall chief engineer of the State Department of Health will visit Frederick Thursday at the city's invitation to investigate a fish kill in the Monocacy river below the disposal plant. Mayor Hugh V Gittinger voiced opposition to new municipal filtration unless needed, doubting the disposal plant caused ongoing fish deaths and noting only a small recent loss of fish. He said tests are conducted near the plant and that Hall will be accompanied by Frank L Bentz to review the situation.
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George L Hall
State Department of Health
Frederick
Hugh V. Gittinger
Frank L. Bentz
State Game and Inland Fish Commission
Bentz
Hall
Long-Distance Rocket Site Attacked By RAF
British heavy bombers attacked a site the Air Ministry said appeared linked to the enemy threat of long distance rockets. Germany claimed ten ton projectiles would reach across the Atlantic, a claim dismissed by most military experts.
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London
Air Ministry
German Generals Call Troops to Renounce Hitler
Moscow broadcasts and air-dropped leaflets carry an appeal from 16 captured German generals urging officers and soldiers to break with Hitler and end the war. They say the struggle is hopeless, cite 30 divisions destroyed, and urge immediate denouncement of orders to stop the bloodshed.
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Hitler
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Velkers
27Th
Frederick Flyer Lost in Action War Dept Report
Staff Sgt. Preston D. Angleberger son of Mr and Mrs Harry E Angleberger of 7 Hamilton Avenue reported lost in action over Europe. The War Department telegram said he had been missing since July 9. Angleberger, radioman gunner and flight engineer on a B 24 Liberator, had recently been promoted to staff sergeant and flew missions across Germany the Balkans Italy and southern France. He graduated Frederick High in 1941 and worked at Sears Roebuck before joining the Air Force in 1943.
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Preston D. Angleberger
Harry E. Angleberger
Hamilton Avenue
Europe
War Department
15Th Aaf
Italy
Angleberger
Simeria
Romania
Germany
Balkans
France
Frederick High School
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Air Force
Baltimore
Florida
Miami Beach
Tyndall Field
New York
Maly
Poland Seen As Friendly By Moscow Radio
Moscow radio declared the Soviet Union views the Red Army march into Poland as entering a friendly country and denies any Soviet organizations in Poland. The statement says Poland has no territory for Russia and places the Curzon line as a boundary. The Red Army nears Warsaw within 50 miles as Poland partitions continue. London notes the Polish government in exile faces challenge from the Moscow backed Polish Committee of National Liberation. Russia says it will sign an agreement with the Committee rather than the exile government, on relations with liberated Polish areas.
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London
Moscow
Red Army
Poland
Russia
Warsaw
Peoples Commissariat For Foreign Affairs
Soviet Union
Bug
Polish Committee of National Liberation
Small Gains In Allied Normandy Offensives Across Front
British Canadian and American forces push south of Caen and around May Sur Orne Verrieres and Tilly La Campagne amid savage close quarters fighting. AirSupplies include 3000 bombers and 4000 warplanes. St Martin De Fontenay and Verrieres captured with ongoing battles near St Lo and May Sur Orne. Falaise drive parts of pushing toward Paris and open ground after days of stalemate.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
United States
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
St. Martin de Fontenay
Verrieres
May-Sur-Onne
Caen
Roger Greene
Orne River
May- Sur-Orne
Tilly-La-Campagne
Fallen St. Lo
Lessay
Berlin
U. S
St. Lo
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
Falaise
William the Conqueror
Paris
Montgomery
Service Photos From World War II Chronicle The News
More than 1600 photographs of men and women in Frederick city and county and nearby areas have appeared in The News since World War II began. The number of photos remains high with ongoing submissions though the pace has slowed in recent weeks.
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Frederick City
Inductions Slow, County Names On List
New York reports Mrs. Alice Mead Swing, 84, mother of radio commentator Raymond Gram Swing, died of pneumonia. She is survived by son Herbert. The article notes slowed inductions and that county lists include both white and colored, with pictures used only once.
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New York
Alice Mead Swing
Raymond Gram Swing
Herbert
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Word Says
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134Th Infantry Regiment
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