Russian Air Force Pounds German Bases
Moscow reports the Red Air Force launched a major counter attack on German Arctic air bases. At least 40 German aircraft were claimed destroyed in early raids. Norwegian sources in London cited RAF hits on Tirpitz and Admiral Hipper at Trondheim. Soviet forces extended gains from Kalinin to Leningrad, ejecting Germans from favorable positions. The Soviet Air Force claimed 20 German tanks knocked out, five enemy infantry units damaged, and 185 vehicles destroyed along with 23 guns and 40 railroad cars.
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Moscow
Red Air Force
Germany
Arctic
Russia
London
RAF
Trondheim
Tirpitz
Admiral Hipper
Murmansk
Naz
I i
Murmans
Reo
Delp
Red Field
Urmansk Theelf
Junkers
Kola Gulf
Kalinin
Leningrad
Red Army
Brussels
Grain Market Recovery Halted On Chicago Mart
Grain prices drifted as Wheat fell a cent and corn eased amid a stalled market rally. Demand from mills and flour trade, plus Pacific war news, influenced losses. Kansas crop reports and local prospects also affected. July wheat around 1.18 to 1.185, September 1.204 to 1.207. Corn mostly unchanged, oats up marginally, rye lower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pacific
Kansas
Westerday
Lowe
Stallion Bottineau Sold From Monocacxs Farms
Stallion Bottineau 2158-09, former lead sire Perchero, sold to Jacob Bist of Pikesville Maryland. As a two year old he was grand champion at the Maryland State Fair and reserve grand champion at the Great Frederick Fair. In recent Timonium and Frederick fairs he has produced six showings with nine first places three reserve junior championships and two junior championships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monocacxs Farms
Bottineau
Jacob Bist
Pikesville
Maryland
Frederick
Answers To War Quiz Questions On Page Five
Answers to a wartime quiz note a wearer of insignia as aide to a general officer and state the United States declared war on Mexico on May 13, 1846. The fragment mentions Exeter and the Exe river and references a German bombing in the year shown, though the text is incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Xico
Exeter
Former Child Star Virginia Corbin Dies in Sanatorium
Chicago dispatch reports Virginia Lee Corbin a former child film star of the 1920s died of heart disease at a sanitarium near Savage. Born December 5 1919 in Prescott Arizona she appeared in The City That Never Sleeps The Perfect Sap Hands Up and Knee High. Previously married to Theodore Krol they were divorced in 1937 with custody awarded of sons Harold and Robert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Virginia Lee Corbin
Suvage
Shane
Charles Jacobson
Miss Corbin
Prescott
Ariz
Theodore Krol
Harold
Robert
War Interprets Japanese Midway Clash Broadly
The piece weighs Japanese aims in the north central Pacific while praising Nimitz for the Midway defense. It notes a bruising Midway blow against Japan including battleship and carrier losses, credits Midway garrison with counterattack and shifts view toward possible broader threats to the Hawaiian center of U S defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midw Island
Pacific
Thai
Dutch
Chester Wimitz
Primari
Imitz
Pearl Harbor
Alaska
Japan
Nimitz
Midway Island
Midway
Dutch Harbor
Wickard urges rural women to stay on farms for war effort
Agriculture Secretary Wickard warned of labor shortages and urged farm families to keep daughters at home to support wartime production. He said there is ample war work on the farm and that meeting goals will require more reliance on women.
Rockville Keeps Tax Rate at 85 Cents per 100
The mayor and city council of Rockville fixed the town tax rate for this year starting July 1 at 85 cents on each $100 of real and personal property. The rate remains unchanged from the current level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockville
Fair May Be Cancelled By Government or War Rationing
Frederick Fair officials weigh two cancellation risks as government use of fairgrounds and ongoing fire and gasoline rationing could derail plans for October. John L. Shaw says no action taken yet while Syracuse fair canceled for similar reasons. If conditions stay tight, organizers doubt profitability and defer a definite decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Fair
John L. Shaw
The
Agricultural Society
Bette Frave
Shaw
Syracuse
N. Y
Harrisburg
Frederick Fairgrounds
Frederick
Cologne Is Forever Lost After RAF Raid
Bern reports Cologne is forever lost after a Luftwaffe raid. The Koelnische Zeitung notes the city is still smoking, with whole quarters empty and thousands displaced. It claims tens of thousands of inhabitants learned they faced an irrevocable fate as precious monuments were destroyed or irreparably damaged.
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Bern
Switzerland
Cologne
Rhineland
Koelnische Zeitung
Stockholm
Dagens Nyhofer
Koeinische Zeitung
Court News Moves and Divorces Highlight City Records
Property deeds transfer to Mehler and Sharon Co Inc with entries for Appleby and Garsi equity case. Divorces include Line ton case, Sweeney and Waising, and Virts Fareback couples. Marriage licenses list White and Aliss, Vir ts and Fareback, with ages and addresses. About 4 million dollars worth of bricks salvaged from bombed British houses last year. Bricks repurposed for airport foundations and runways for the R A Fy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie Boyd Glare
Franklin A. Mehler
Jessie E. Trainor
Sharon Co. Inc
Grace B. Appleby
Simon Nurr
Garsi AL
James G White
E. South Street
City
Alice May Aliss
Doubs
James McKinley Virts
Virgina Fareback
Brunswick
James M. Sweeney
Margaret Ann Waising
Washington
R. A. Fy
Give Us Gas Congressmen Say As Argument Grows Hot
Washington June Roosevelt and aides tackled rubber and gasoline as about a hundred House members rallied against nationwide rationing without proven need. A MacLeish hint of a forthcoming statement followed a resolution opposing rationing, while a committee was empowered to map necessary steps. Senate hearings faulted the War Production Board on planning for alcohol use in rubber, and Eastman warned tires would be scarce for years making rationing the likeliest conservation step.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
House
White House
Archibald MacLeish
Office of Facts and Figures
Leon Henderson
Rankin
D-Miss
Sasser
R-Ind
Rep
Kleberg
D-Tex
Somers
D-N. Y
House Coinage Committee
Rep. Johnson
D-Okla
Office of Price Administration
WPB
Senate
Wheeler
Mont
War Production Board
Agriculture
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
Rep. White
Henderson
Eastman
MacLeish
Commerce Jones
Interior
Florida
Congress
Maryland Sets June 30 Registration For Youths 18 and 19
Governor O Conor announced Maryland will hold the fifth Selective Service registration for youths 18 and 19 and those who would have turned 20 since January 1 on June 30 from 7 to 9 pm. Baltimore City will start registrations on June 29 with counties optional. School facilities and teachers will be used, following arrangements with Dr Thomas G Pullen and David E Weagelin. The governor praised teachers for their service in prior registrations and their continued patriotic contribution to the upcoming registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
O'Conor
Maryland
Baltimore City
Thomas G. Pullen
David E. Weaglein
Finland Surprised By Hitler Visit and Mannerheim Speech
Finland declares it will keep an independent course after Adolf Hitler's sudden Helsinki visit. Prime Minister Rangell cites Marshal Mannerheim's commitment to sovereign Finnish independence. Also notes Keitel visit and medal presentation, plus Capt James E. Bartgis promoted to captain at Camp Crowder, Missouri.
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Helsinki
Finland
Adolf Hitler
Jukha Rangell
Gustav Mannerheim
Mannerheim
Salemn
Huller
Wilhelm Keitel
Fint
United States
James E. Bartgis
Oficer
Frederick
U15th Infantry
Ths Ely
Bartgis
258Th Signal Construction Company
Camp Crowder
Carthage
Emmitsburg Tavern cited over sales to minors
License Commissioner cites Leslie Ancarrow of a tavern east of Emmitsburg for selling to minors and failing to maintain order. He was warned previously and must appear June 15 at 10 30 AM at the Commissioner's office on West Patrick Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmitsburg
Paul M Little
Leslie Ancarrow
Taneylowr
Little
Ancarrow
West
Patrick Street
High School Youths Report For Farm Work
Silver Spring June 5 About 150 youths from District of Columbia and Montgomery County high schools reported at the U S Employment center to begin summer work training on county farms. They will be divided into groups and transported by bus to four farms for initial duties. Training is unpaid and after completion the boys will be billeted at Poolesville Gaithersburg Damascus and Sandy Spring High Schools from June 21 to September 15 with a goal of placing 25 youths on individual farms. Dandelions flower every month in the car somewhere around the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Spring
District of Columbia
Montgomery County
U. S
O. W. Anderson
Anderson
Poolesville Gaithersburg
Damascus
Sandy Spring
French Fifth Column Ready To Aid Allies
A Washington authority claimed that a potent fifth column in France would act against Germany if a second front opened there. He said most French Fleet units sat at Toulon awaiting orders, while Laval would be ousted if he failed to satisfy German demands. Doriot could lead the Popular Party if Laval falls. The navy would fight or sink ships if ordered, and uprisings would grow with American action, though confidence in Britain remained mixed.
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Washington
France
Toulon
United Nations
Marshal Henri Petain
Laval
Pierre Laval
Jacques Doriot
Popular Party
Casablanca
Dakar
Seattle Shins
Europe
Britain
Doolittle and Allies to Parade in Baltimore
Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle and other war heroes will take part in a Baltimore parade on June 12. Attendees include Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lieut. Col. Boyd Wagner, Lieut. John D. Bulkeley, and Lieut. Comdr. Edward H. O’Hare. They arrive at 10:30 a.m. at the municipal airport. parade starts 3:30 p.m. at the Fifth Regiment Armory and ends at War Memorial Plaza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
James H. Doolittle
Japan
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Great Britain
Boyd AM. Wagnert
John D. Bulkeley
Douglas MacArthur
Corregidor
Australia
Edward H. O'Hare
O'Conor
Howard W. Jackson
Fifth Regiment
War Memorial Plaza
Fragmentary political note with scattered names and figures
A garbled passage mentions a primary, committees, and a court or legislative setting. It references figures and amounts such as 75 818 and 000, along with several abbreviated names and places, but the overall content is incomplete and unclear.
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Chicago Mart
Kirke L. Simpson
U.S
Court News
Equity Gases
Fannie Linton
Daniel B Lineton
Bill
Hook DeLauter
Hitler
Market St
Doolittle
Delphey’s
I Gene
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Baltir
Anne
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