White men called for 33 more to service Board One
Board One releases list of thirty three prospective inductees headed for Baltimore for final physicals and probable induction. The roster includes W Barry Everett, James S Crist, Darwin A Hueting, and other locally known names. Most fall in category three, with some former deferments expired. two volunteers noted.
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Jocal Draft Board One
Baltimore
W. Barry Everett
Junior Chamber of Commerce
James S. Crist
Darwin A. Hueting
Frederick
Satin Etantas
Vance Elmer Thompson
Knoxville
Cyrus Gambrill, Jr
Record Street
the Volunteers
Benjamin Leonard Engelbrecht
Santa Monica
Calif
Ernest Melvin Shank
Wisner Street
Merton Joseph Bart
East Patrick Street
Franklin Lee Good
Ninth Avenue
Brunswick
Henry William Bury
Walnut Street
William Edgar Specht
Ellicott City
Charles Henry Fepp
East South Street
William Barry Everett
John William Null, Jr
East Ninth Street
Carl Adolphus Shaw
East Church Street
Roy Roger Soper
South Market Street
Richard Montgomery Easton
Roland Eugene Etzler
East Seventh
Ad Fyeets & Fedletown
Darwin
Albert Hunting
Wilson Avenue
Preston Eutah Long
North Market Street
Walter Austin Crawford
Gilbert Loree Talbott
Washington
Doubs
William Thomas Ridgely
Edgar David Flook
James Samuel Crist
West Charen Street
George William Bentz
West South Street
James Lee Harrison
Spiritual Strength Superior to American Tech, Says Jap Leader
Lieut. Gen. Ashinari Uchida in a Tokyo broadcast admitted Japanese air force lacks in technical know how but claimed Japan’s spiritual strength is superior to America’s. Uchida, director of aeronautical affairs, urged greater war production and said Japan must attack the American mainland by air. He described the Pacific war as the unparalleled war of years and said it would enter a critical phase to decide who will eat or be eaten.
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Associated Press
Ashinari Uchida
Tokyo
OWT
Uchida
Aeronautical Al-Rairs
Japan
Frederick County Board of Education Elects Leaders
Claude A. Stottlemyer of Walkersville was elected president of the Frederick County Board of Education at today’s annual meeting held at the East Church street school. E. Paul Magaha was named a board member, Robert L. Warfield elected vice president, and Eugene W. Pruitt remains secretary treasurer.
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Claude A. Stottlemyer
Wolfsville
Frederick County Board of Education
Old East Church Street
Mr. Stottlemyer
Howard R. Damuth
Thurmont
E. Paul Magaha
Frederick
Damuth
John C. Derr
Monrovia
John N. Howie
Brunswick
Kent C. Nicodemus
Walkersville
Ten Miners Die In Explosion At Alabama Mine
Ten men were killed and five seriously burned in a Praco coal mine No 10 explosion near Birmingham Alabama. Rescue crews found the 10 bodies shortly after 10 am. earlier 12 of 22 men underground had been brought out, five severely burned, with hopes remaining for those still trapped two and a half miles below the surface.
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Birmingham
Ala
Praco
Alabama By-Products Corp
Here
P. H. Neal
Coke and By Products Department of Company
Nei
Second Allied Air Attack on Messina Within 24 Hours
Cairo reports RAF heavy bombers struck Messina Sicily Sunday night targeting defense Installations and followed by raids on shipping in the Aegean Sea yesterday. Two small sailing vessels were left sinking. all planes returned safely. A Cairo bulletin also noted US heavy bombers attacked Messina in daylight Sunday.
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Cairo
Messina
Sicily
Acgean Sea
Middle East
Esterday
United States
Treasury Postpones Third War Loan Drive
Washington May 11 The Treasury postponed the September Third War Loan drive citing the success of the second as the greatest government financing campaign in history. Undersecretary Daniel Bell said about 3.0 million more were sought, with final figures from April 12 to May 1 showing nonbanking sources subscribing 12.5 billion, banks 5.0489 billion, and other sources 0.935 billion.
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Washington
Treasury
Daniel Bell
the Treasury
Bell
Two Generals To Meet With OConor In Annapolis
Lieut Gen Hugo A Drum commander of the stern Defense Command and the First Army and Maj Gen Milton A Reckord head of the Third Service Command will meet with Governor O Conor this afternoon. The meeting was called at the request of General Drum.
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Annapolis
Hugo A. Drum
New York
Stern Defense Command
First Army
Milton A. Reckord
Baltimore
Third Service Command
O'Conor
Drum
Ministers Oppose Sunday Sports and Movie Ballot Measures
Nineteen Frederick city ministers from Protestant churches urged voters to defeat June 8 Sunday sports and movies bills. They argued passage would desecrate the Sabbath, violate sacred rest, and unfairly burden workers, urging the electorate to protect quiet Sunday observance and sacred day traditions.
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Frederick City
Board of Election Supervisors
Frederick
Japs Attacked by U S Planes In Solomon Islands
Washington May 11 reports from a war communique number 372 recounts U S bombers and fighters striking Japanese positions at Munda and Wangaranga in the Solomons. Allied forces reportedly set several fires and anti aircraft positions were hit as Corsairs and Grumman aircraft escorted dive bombers and torpedo planes in the operation.
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Washington
Munda
Wangaranga
Solomons
South Pacific
Meray
Dauntt
Wilden
Grumman
Mandana
Commons Cheers Report On Victory
London May 11 Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee reported to the House of Commons that Axis prospects on Cap Bon are bleak as the British First Army nears Tunis and Bizerte. He cited 8,400 Allied casualties since April 17 and about 50,000 Axis prisoners taken since May 5. Attlee praised Allied cooperation and the breakthroughs under Montgomery and Eisenhower, noting 30 miles covered in 36 hours and German surrender of the Fifteenth Army’s remnants.
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London
Cap Bon
Clement P. Attlee
House of Commons
Attlee
Thir
Britain
Tunis
Bizerie
Casablanca
Adana
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alexander
Bizerte
Fifteenth Armore
Seventh Armored Division
Reds Within Nazi Lines Moscow May 11
Red Army units crawled forward in brutal fighting along the Novorossiysk line as Germans stiffened defenses. The Red Air Force launched attacks on German supply routes and reinforcements, while the German forces moved to tighten defenses in the Kuban region with armored cars and heavy artillery. A Black Sea Fleet dispatch noted Allied air sorties targeting enemy supply ships and positions.
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Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Novorssizk
Axis Res
Red Air Force
Seltors
Kuban
Black Sea
Mecl
Six Motorists Lose Rations For 10 To 30 Days
The local OPA legal panel revoked gasoline ration books of six motorists for 10 to 30 days after Victory speed violation hearings. Nine others were ordered to appear for hearings on similar charges. Reprimands were issued to ten motorists, while notices to appear were sent to a group facing 35 mile per hour violations.
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OPA
War Price and Rationing Board
Court House
Nelson Cockrell
Frederick
Charles E. Schill
Walter Fogle
Walkersville
Lundy W. Anders
Marvin O. Whittier
Middletown
Paul C. Hausler
Charles Z. Turner
Francis J. Thompson
Evelyn C. Wellen
Buckeystown
Tony Howard
Roland Flohr
Benton J. Forney
Lettie Viola Cling
Reno Warren Linton
Thurmont
J. Austin Whitehill
Clarence W. Gernand
Myersville
Japs Almost Had Buckner at Kiska in Aleutians
Major General Buckner recalls near miss when Japanese forces nearly reached American soil at Kiska last June. He flew in late May to confer with naval officers, arguing for stronger Aleutian defenses as weather delayed Catalina departures.
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Aleutians
Eerfg
Alaskan
Kiska
Sima Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Rucker
Washington
Buckner
Germans Surrender And Cheer In North Africa Front
Allied reports from Cap Bon describe weakened German morale with soldiers surrendering voluntarily, some marching away with hands up or giving the V sign amid expectations of ending their participation in the war. The scene reflects growing enthusiasm among Allied forces and local observers over potential German capitulation in North Africa.
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North Africa
Cap Bon Front
Churchill Congratulates Eisenhower for Tunis Campaign
London May 11 Prime Minister Churchill sent a congratulatory message to General Dwight D. Eisenhower praising the simultaneous allied advance into Tunis and Bizerte. He lauded Allied harmony with French forces and thanked commanders including Sir Harold Alexander and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder for their roles in the Tunisian campaign.
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London
Churchill
Dwight BD
Elsgyhower
United States
Tunis
Bizerte
War Cabinet
Acree
Tunisia
Hizerte
Harold Alexander
Arthur Tedder
Arthur
James H. Doolittle
Carl A. Spoots
Arthur Coningham
Warry Braoadhurst
Raids Resume On Continent As Allied Bombers Hit
London reports daylight raids by large Allied formations resuming over the continent after a weather bounded weekend. Bombers crossed from Boulogne, the morning bright then overcast, while 15 German Focke Wulf fighters attacked an East Anglian town, dropping explosives and strafing a building housing territorial service girls where several bodies were later recovered amid believed casualties at another site.
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London
Boulogne
Focker Wulf
Sriary Territorial Service
Flood Threat Looms Over Northwest Arkansas
Lowland residents from Fort Smith to Harrison faced rising creeks and swollen rivers as flood warnings were issued for the Arkansas and White rivers. Roads and rail lines were cut by the floodwaters, prompting evacuations overseen by Red Cross workers and troops from Camp Chafica after a day of rapid deterioration.
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Port Smith
Ark
Mavis P
Arkansas
Fort Smith
Harrison
Weather Bureau
Little Reek
White
Red Cross
Camp
Chafica
Hitler's Shock Troops Routed On Cap Bon in Tunisia
Allied reports say German and Italian forces on Cap Bon tight peninsula face collapse with thousands surrendering. British First Army breached the neck of Cap Bon, capturing Hammamet Soliman Grombalia and Menzel Bou Zella as Axis troops shelled and burned supplies, signaling a panicked retreat and handover of prisoners including members of the Herman Goering regiment.
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Associated Tress
First Army
Cap Bon
Tunisia
Dunkerque
Hitler
Aftica
Reuters
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
de Luce
Edktring
Axis
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hamman Lif
Hammamet
Soliman
Grombalia
Cape
Goering
Herman Goering
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
K. A. N. Anderson
Purple Heart Awarded to World War I Veteran Yingling
Ralph Yingling, a World War I veteran born in Mt. Alry, received the Purple Heart for wounds sustained September 26, 1918 in the Argonne and Avocourt sector. He served from November 5, 1917 to June 5, 1919 and has long worked as a rural mail carrier in Mt. Alry. The Military Order of the Purple Heart remains the sole national group for veterans wounded in action.
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Mas Arenddeided
Ralph Yingling
Airy Mol
Tatrice
Military Order of the Purple Heart
Yingling
Argonne
Avncourt
Mt. Alry
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Wee. Mae
Bae
Wetead Sae
U.S
Commons
Novorossisk
Eisenhower
English Town
Africa
Algiers
Zaghouan
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