Pacific Fleet blasts Truk and bases in two-day attack
U S Pacific Fleet says heavy carrier strikes Saturday and Sunday hit Truk hard with 126 Japanese planes destroyed and 800 tons of bombs in a two day assault. Ponape and Satawan Tochland bases shelled. no American losses reported.
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Pearl Harbor
Pacific Fleet
Truk
Ponape
Sotiwan Teland
Chester W. Nimity
U. S
Saigwan
Nomoi
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Marc A. Mitscher
Admiral Nimitz
Mitscher
Caroline Island
New Guinea
Satawan
Named To Administer Knoxville Man's Estate
The Orphans Court named Catherine B. Pearl of Knoxville administratrix of the estate of Robert Hayes Pearl who was killed October 1 in the railroad yards at Alexandria Virginia. The administratrix reported a claim against the Pennsylvania Railroad with no value set. Burkinsville also qualified as admin istratrix of the estate of her sister Alice F Snowden. She reported real estate valued at 250 and personal property worth 15. The court approved the final account of Germond Keller and Lee, executors of the will of A. OR Keller of Midgieton with the personal estate valued at 6 047.35 and a distributed 3 473.01. They faced inheritance tax on bequests to R. and George Ray as joint tenants.
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Knoxville
Robert Hayes Pearl
Alexandria
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dorothy E. Lucas
Burkinsville
Alice F. Snowden
Germond Keller
Call Girls Guilty in Mann Act Conspiracy Trial
Washington May 21 2 Seven women tied to the Hopkins Institute were convicted of conspiracy to violate the Mann Act after a trial that did not disclose a so called little black book of patrons. The federal jury deliberated about an hour and 20 minutes with no sentencing date set. Sentences range from four months to two years.
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Call Girls
Washington
Hopkins Institute
Dollar Call House
Court awards $25 damages in auto crash suits
A circuit court jury delayed deliberations to reach verdicts in three suits stemming from a last year auto accident at West Thirteenth Street and the O Possumtown Pike. It found for defendants in two suits and for plaintiff in the remaining one, with damages set at $25 in the Eyler versus Staley matter.
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Patrick M. Schnauffer
West Thirteenth Street
O'Possumtown Pike
Lib- Nan
Eyler
Charles P. Staley
Elmer C. Eyler
Alderman Staley
Walter E. Sinn
W. Clinton McSherry
Disney Animator Visits Local Schools At Parkway
About 1,300 children at Parkway 7th Market Street and Washington Street schools Tuesday watched Dick Mitchell, Disney animator, draw cartoon characters learned from Snow White. Accompanied by Evelyn Danielson, Snow White voice contest winner.
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Warner Brothers
Biddle and Avery Called as Witnesses in Ward Probe
Attorney General Biddle and Montgomery Ward chairman Sewell Avery will be summoned for Senate inquiry into the government seizure of Ward's Chicago plant. The probe, tied to labor disputes and wartime powers, may expand to examine use of troops and executive orders.
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Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
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D-Hi
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House
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Rayburn
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Cox
Georgia
Smith
Virginia
20 Jap Supply Barges Hit Near Wewak and Aitape
Advanced Allied headquarters reports air and PT boat strikes against 20 supply barges fleeing Wewak. Plans also strafed inland routes as about 60,000 Japanese are believed trapped between Madang and Hollandia. A separate raid near the Scouten Islands shot down six enemy planes and damaged a freighter.
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APJ
Wewal
Aitape
Madang
Haullandia
Hollandia
Scouten Islands
Nazis Predict Three-Pronged Attack From West and East
London dispatch based on German and Allied briefing notes outlines a predicted multi-front German attack. German broadcasts claim imminent Soviet counteroffensive and a Western strike, while Allied movements suggest coordinated pressure from Fifth and Eighth Armies in the south and a coast-to-coast Italian push as the Allied response.
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Italy
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Veniana
Tong
Bentztown Bard Recites Poems For Kiwanis Luncheon
The Bentztown Bard of the Baltimore Sun, Folver McKinsey, spoke to Kiwanis members and Parkway School guests at the Francis Scott Key Hotel. He recalled boyhood days with humor as Parkway students and adults laughed at his vivid reminiscences of youth and candy shops, swimming holes, and dusty lanes.
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Folver McKinsey
Bentztown
Baltimore Sun
Parkway School
Francis Scott Key
Mr. McKinsey
William T. de Ine
Maryland
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Frederick
Mutual Insurance Company
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Charles K. Taylor
Mary E. M. Smith
Muss Smith
Parkway
Nancy Jones
Jean C. Lippy
Shirley Ann Rickards
Darrell Phoebus
Billy Anders, Jr
Bruce Douglas
Kiwanis
Francis B. Sappington
Hugh V. Gitlinger
Joseph D. Sears
Camp Detrick
A. R. McEwen
Ben Shu
William F. Sauer
A. L. Shraity
Margyrilin
Niemann Brunk
Wilson Cook
Robert E. Delaplaine
J .Macy
Esther Tull
Jom Pikese
Linden A. Shenk
Ariimgwa
Birthday Dinner Honors Grier J Reilholtzs Brother
A Sunday dinner at South Penn Steel York Pa honored Grier J Reilholtzs brother with attendees including Mr and Mrs Grier J Reilholtz and son La Verne from Taneytown Md and Ralph Dinnerman from York Pa Also present were Mr and Mrs Andrew Keilholtz with son Lloyd Ruth Glass from Enunitsia and Miss Mary Frov Pa Family members and neighbors joined the celebration at the Troxells home with a large birthday cake and gift lines
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Troxell South Penn Steel
York
Grier J. Reilholtz
Mells
la Verne
Taneytown
Ralph Dinnerman
Mroo
Andrew Keilholtz
Lloyd
Ruth Glass
Enunitsia
Mary Frov
Frederick War Dads chapter organized in Frederick County
Washington organizer Guy A. Lamphear spoke at Frederick County Chapter No. 1’s inaugural meeting. Frederick postmaster Guy K. Motter elected temporary president, with C Cyril Klein and Jesse Ramsburg as officers. Charter rolls open 60 days. 44th State American War Dads chapter expansion noted with Baltimore and Hagerstown to follow.
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Guy A. Lamphear
Kansas City
Frederick County
Guy K. Motter
Frederick
Lamphear
Washingtonian
Frederick Direct
Washington
Earl W. Shinn
C. Cyril Klein
Jesse C. Ramsburg
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Bombs Hit Axis In Record April Daylight Raids
The U S Strategic Air Force based in Britain and Italy dropped over 3 500 tons of bombs on Germany and occupied Europe in April. American losses neared 537 bombers and 191 fighters. Over 36 000 offensive flights were flown, about 20 000 by heavy bombers, with 1 282 German planes destroyed and heavy damage to Germany's aircraft industry.
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Truk
Ponape
Adm
W. A. Lee
Tokyo
United States
London
U. Ss. Strategic Air Force
Britain
Italy
Germany
Europe
Windsor Ford strike vote at mass meeting
Windsor Ontario reports Local 200 of the United Automobile Workers of America voted tonight to strike at Ford Motor Company of Canada, two days after a ten day walkout that shut the large plant. The decision came at a mass meeting of union members.
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Windsor
Ford Motor Company of Canada
United Automobile Workers of America Wcio
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