Battle For Airport Fund Will Go On Says Himes
The defeat of a 150000 federal grant for a Frederick municipal airport in the House did not deter local leaders. Airport committee chair Joseph Himes said efforts to secure funds will continue with national lawmakers' help, noting the Senate had approved the Tennessee linked request.
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House of Representatives
Frederick
Joseph H. Himes
Todd
Himes
Chattanooga
Tenn
House
J. Greon Beall
Tennessee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Department of Commerce
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Cumberland
Beall
Allied landings continue on northern French coast
War bulletins report Allied forces maintain landings along the northern French coast with satisfactory progress. Wholly unconfirmed reports claim an Allied landing in Greece from Ankara. Berlin claims 18 troop carriers and 34 Allied aircraft downed, but this is not supported by Allied reports. A second day light invasion was said to be opposed by German artillery at Pas de Calais.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Greece
London
Ankara
German International Information Bureau
France
Berlin
Pas-de- Calais
Dover
Cherbourg
Frederick County Sets Fifth War Bond Goal at 2 Million
Frederick County announces a 2,000,000 quota for the Fifth War Loan drive opening next Monday and running to July 8. W Clinton McSherry will chair county efforts with Holmes D. Baker heading Region 2. The county target rises 100,000 from the Fourth War Loan, which saw a 643,000 overage. Maryland’s national share totals 228,000,000, with emphasis on E bonds.
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Frederick
W Clinton McSherry
Montgomery
Washington
Carroll
Howard
Holmes D. Baker
McSherry
Maryland
Woman, 71, Ends Life in Middletown Home Attic
Daisy Ellen Sheffer, 71, hanged herself Tuesday afternoon in the attic of her Middletown boarding house. Death ruled suicide by medical examiner. Husband William M. Sheffer found her body upon returning from work. Survived by two brothers Charles Castle of Thurmont and Emory Castle of Hagerstown. Services Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Middletown funeral home, Rev. Donald F. Brake officiating. Interment Frederick Memorial Park. Gladhill Company, funeral directors.
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Daisy Ellen Sheffer
Middletown
Pronunciation Guide Lines For French Normalized Names
The Associated Press provides phonetic pronunciations for several French place names and nearby towns. Examples include Villers sur mer Troutville Deauville Asnelles Ouistreham Honfleur Audemer Pont L Eveque Beuzeville with approximate Anglophone renderings.
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Associated Press
Villers-sur-mer
Vee-lay-sourmair
Troutville
Troo-veel
Deauville
Doh-veel's
Asnelles
Ah-neil
Oustreham
Honfleur
Audemer—On-der-mair
Nine General Principles For Post War Schooling
Walter J Mason reports on the International Education Assembly at Hood College as it proposes nine guiding principles to shape world schooling after the war. The panel argues education must foster free individuals, widespread access, lifelong learning, enriched personality, competence, character, and international understanding while recognizing gaps between ideals and practice. Committees will report back as the body notes it wields no governing authority beyond shared human ideals.
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Walter J. Mason
Associated Press
International Education Assembly
Hood College
William George Carr
Washington
United and Associated Nations
Carr
Army Appropriations Committee OKs $49.1 Billion War Dept Bill
The U S Army, fighting in western Europe toward Hitler's homeland, won a $49,109,002,795 vote of confidence from the House Appropriations Committee. The amount was recommended to finance the War Department for the year starting July 1.
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Washington
America
Europe
Hitler
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
Allied air forces lose 70 aircraft in theater
London reports Allied air forces have lost seventy aircraft in this theater since the invasion began, with today's announcements confirming the toll and listing aircraft losses in the ongoing campaign.
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London
Second Crisis In Allied Invasion Yet To Develop
Washington reports a first crisis ended in Allied victory with the invasion proceeding on schedule. Roosevelt cautions optimism, noting the next phase hinges on overcoming a German defensive belt from Holland to the Bay of Biscay and the looming armored counterattack as the second crisis.
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Washington
Roosevelt
West Wall
Holland
Bay of Biscay
Dozen Troop Carriers and Gliders Lost in Normandy
Dozen C-47 troop carriers and twelve gliders were reported missing from overnight airborne missions beyond the Normandy beach heads. First specific losses since invasion began. Three waves dropped equipment and reinforcements with paratroopers and gliders. glare of Cherbourg peninsula visible parachutes.
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Ninth Air Force
Normandy
Green Bag To Be Opened By Frederick Board Tonight
Mayor Hugh V. Gittinger said the green bag of municipal appointments for the coming year would likely be opened at a special Board of Aldermen meeting next week. No comment on changes. Two appointments to the Frederick city Police Commission are expected tonight, filling three year terms as Roger B. Wolfe and Elmer I. Eshleman’s terms expire. Regular session business tonight to be routine.
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Board of Aldermen
Hugh V. Gittinger
Frederick
More Meat and Fresh Produce for Civilians This Year
Chicago June 7 More meat and a plentiful supply of fresh fruits and vegetables are expected for civilians this year according to two industry leaders. George M. Lewis of the American Meat Institute told a national grocers convention that beef and pork will rise, totaling about 145 pounds of meat per person, up from 137 last year. William Garfitt of the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association forecast large gains in fruit production with a 150 percent peach crop increase over 1943, an estimated 17 percent rise in orange yields, a 5 percent boost in potato production, and a likely banana supply reaching about 50 percent of normal by year’s end 1944.
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Chicago
George M. Lewis
American Meat Institute
National Association of Retail Grocers
William Garfitt
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association
Lewis
Report awaited on Stalag Luft 3 shooting inquiry
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said in London that Switzerland was informed by Germany on June 5 that a full report on the shooting of British prisoners at Stalag Luft 3 is being prepared and should be available this week.
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London
Anthony Eden
Commons
Stalag Luft 3
Nazis Driven Out Of Bayeux Quit Town
German broadcast reported to NBC that Nazi forces abandoned Bayeux on the Cherbourg peninsula after a night clash with Allied troops. Separately, Allied HQ said Japanese withdraw from Kohima area as British forces move into a village east of the town. The D-Day event disrupted the town clock, stopping at seven minutes to four and later showing 8.10 amid the day.
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Bayeux
New York
NBC
Cherbourg
Caen
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Kohima
India
Eorlier
Frederick Men Enlist At Navy Recruiting Station
Two Frederick men left today for the Navy Recruiting station in Baltimore to enter the Navy. The applicants are Glenn Orrison of this city and Harry W. Hart of Frederick Route 1, from Draft Board One area.
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Frederick
Navy
Baltimore
Glenn Orrison
Harry W. Hart
Figures On Invasion Of France From Allied Air Power
The Associated Press reports on the Normandy invasion showing more than 900 C-47 transports and gliders used in the opening blow. A 200 mile long nine plane wide train crossed the English Channel 300 feet above water. Today a second train 30 miles long brought reinforcements. Allied air activity included thirteen thousand individual flights on the first day plus 11,000 planes available at the seas with 4,000 ships and numerous rafts and light craft.
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Associated Press
France
English Channel
Churchill
Ninth Air Force
Berlin
Stockholm
U. S
Fifth Army presses toward Rome amid swift German retreat
Allied forces ten miles north of Rome after breaking German lines on the coastal road west of the capital. Fifth Army advances include a 10 mile push toward the Lake of Bracciano and a similar move northwest of Rome after crossing the Tiber. Eighth Army faces delaying actions in the mountains east of Rome while New Zealand troops seize Balsorano. General Alexander proclaims Italy’s liberation underway as 18 000 prisoners are reported by Fifth Army. Mediterranean Air Force raids Ploesti Brasov Turn Severin and Belgrade with heavy bomber losses.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Albert Kesselring
Rome
Lake of Bracchiano
Tiber
Eighth Army
New Zealand
Balsorano
Sora
Avezzano
Harold Alexander
Italy
Alexander
Kesselring
Mediterranean
Hitler
Europe
Balkans
Ploesti
Brasov
Pitesci
Turn- Severin
Romania
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Russia
Major General Demoted for D Day Talk
Supreme Headquarters reports a senior US Air Force general was demoted to lieutenant colonel and sent home after revealing pre invasion plans at a London party. Eisenhower ordered the action following a security investigation into comments made about the June 15 invasion date.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
America
Supreme Command
US Air Force
London
Eisenhower
Glider Borne Force Seizes Key Cherbourg Peninsula
Allied airborne troops shattered German defenses on the Cherbourg peninsula on day two of the invasion. Parachutists and gliders seized bridges and roads, linked with seaborne forces, while Berlin reported large-scale counterattacks and Rommel rushed reserves. Air, sea, and ground action produced massive sorties and widespread fighting as the invasion progressed.
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Cherbourg
Allied Expeditionary Force
Berlin
Pas-de-Calais
Dover Strait
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Channel
France
Supreme Headquarters
Front
Enerate
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Fllera
D-Day
U.S
Air Force
Kurt Student
Crete
Erwin Rommel
Lisieux
le Havre
Orne River
BBC
Blue
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goereing
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