State Board Of Health To Look For New Hospital Site
The State Board of Health will visit Frederick and Washington counties next Tuesday to review proposed sites for a Western Shore chronic disease hospital, authorized by the 1943 legislature. A Friday meeting at the Francis Scott Key hotel will discuss offering a site, with Monroe farm among options. The plan envisions a two-section facility with hospital and infirmary, serving counties and Baltimore city, with admissions by physician certificates and welfare proof of inability to pay.
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State Board of Health
Frederick
Washington
Francis Scottey Hotel
Frederick County
Connecon
Monroe
Western Shore Hospital
Washington County
Hagerstown
Board of Health
Baltimore City
Western Shore
Board of Public Works
Parental Discipline Costs Life Of Deer In Brooklyn Zoo
In Brooklyn's park zoo a year old Indian black buck named Joey was killed after being disciplined by his father Black Rajah. Joey teased his sister by butting and shoving, provoking the 18 inch horn attack that left him unable to escape a 12 foot enclosure. Doctors declared him beyond saving and he was euthanized with anesthesia.
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New York
Joey
Brooklyn
Park Zoo
Black Rajah
Japanese Offensives Aimed at Dividing China
Chungking May 31 reports 2 Japanese offensives in Henan and Hunan and possible actions elsewhere. P. H Chang, counsellor for the Executive Yuan, stated at a press conference that the aims include splitting China into eastern and western halves.
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Chungking
Henan
Hunan
China
P. H Chang
Executive Yuan (Council
Big Forces Of U. S. Planes Strike Deep Into Europe
Allied air offensive peels back the dawn with up to 3,506 American planes striking from Britain and Italy. Ploesti refinery attacked, Hamm Osnabruck Schwerte and Soest rail hubs hit, and French invasion coast targeted. Berlin reports some daylight penetrations as RAF and U.S. formations combine for a record fifth day of bombardment.
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London
Britain
Italy
Ploesti
Mulhouse
Switzerland
Hamm
Osnabruck
Schwerte
Dortmund
Soest
U. S
Europe
RAF
Berlin
Germany
Brandenburg
Brunswick-Hannover
Leverkusen
Boulogne
Dunkerque
Channel
Austria
France
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Fails To Return From Holiday Fishing Trip
State police search river banks for William Henry Myers a 29 year old missing man from 44 Hamilton Avenue who did not return from a Memorial Day fishing trip near Monocacy and Buckeys town east of Frederick He was last seen driving a 1937 Chevrolet sedan and is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall about 150 pounds with brown eyes black hair and a scar on the upper lip He wore a light tan polo shirt and tan trousers and did not report to work at a local plant
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William Henry Myers
Hamilton Avenue
Myers
Frederick
Buckeystown
Germans Claim Attack On Convoy Off Algeria
Berlin radio said German planes attacked an eastbound Allied convoy off Algeria last night sinking one transport and two freighters totaling 23 000 tons. It claimed six other vessels totalling 50 000 tons were heavily damaged. No Allied confirmation available.
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London
Berlin
Algeria
Canadian Ships Sink German Sub In Battle
The Admiralty announced that North Atlantic escort vessels forced a German submarine to surface with depth charges and engaged in a surface gun duel, with the destroyer Icarus sinking the raider. Several crew members were taken prisoner.
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London
North Atlantic
Admiralty
Icarus
Mayor Says County Ignored Frederic City in Reassessment Talks
Mayor Hugh V. Gittinger accused the county of excluding Frederick city representatives from conferences on land reassessment in the western Frederick area. He said the city has not been invited to county discussions and questions whether the proposed adjustments will address long standing tax concerns for city residents.
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Hugh V. Gittinger
Frederick City
Frederick
Gittinger
Biak Island Invasion Acknowledged by Tokyo
New York May 31 Japanese radio acknowledged that Biak Island in the Schoutens group northwest of New Guinea had been invaded by United States forces and that severe fighting is now in progress. The Tokyo broadcast quoted Imperial Headquarters and listed losses, including ships sunk and vessels damaged. Later monitors noted Tokyo claimed an aircraft carrier was sunk.
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New York
Biak Island
Schoutens
New Guinea
United States
Tokyo
North America
Biak I Sland
Imperial
U. S
Local Draft Boards Receive Army Induction Calls
Both local draft boards received Army induction calls this morning for late June. The extent of the calls was not learned. Board One has already sent notices to men being summoned to enter the Army later this week in the first June calls.
City leaders to hold first joint meeting tonight
The Mayor and Board of Aldermen will meet the Planning Commission in City Hall tonight. It is the first joint session and several topics are set for discussion.
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Board of Aldermen
City Planning Commission
Frederick High School Class Graduates in Wartime Ceremony
Frederick Maryland. The first four year class at the new Frederick High School received diplomas as 222 graduates marched in cap and gown to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance. Senator Millard E. Tydings urged graduates to choose a government of law and to value constitutional rights as war dislocations loom. Five sets of twins were among the graduates. The Synod of Potomac debated union plans between Evangelical and Reformed and Congregational Christian churches with final approval slated for later.
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U. S
Millard E. Tydings
Frederick High School
Patrick Henry
Tydings
United States of America
Frederick County
Eugene W. Pruitt
Elgar
Martin
Deems Taylor
Harold C. Baer
Evangelical Reformed Church
Charles W. Willis
Mendelssohn
Margaret Jane
Marguarite
Jean Blumenauer
John Thomas
Joseph Trundle Griffin, Jr
Philip Seeger
Thomas Eden Lambdin
Caroline May
Roger Carroll Peaerick
Frederick
Harry Eugene
Marie Trene Lawson
Potomac
Union of Churches
Hood College
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Congregational Christian Church
James E. Wagner
Lancaster
General Council
Wagner
Synod
Committee On Christian Social Action
John R. T. Hedeman
St. Mark’s Church
Baltimore
Nazi troops moved to Italian front from Denmark report
A Goteborg Sweden Handels- Och Sjodartsudning article cited by OWI says 45,000 Nazi soldiers have been sent from Denmark to the Italian front. The May 31 report notes the transfer and location.
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Denmark
New York
Goteborg
Sweden
Hadels-Och Sjodartsudning
OWI
Nazis Plan Scorched Earth Tactics Before Invasion
London May 31 German propaganda warns the Nazis will use scorched earth tactics ahead of Eisenhower s invasion. An Allied briefing urged fire control units to stay ready as bombing and German arson threaten battle zones. The underground was also urged to refresh first aid skills for anticipated casualties.
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London
Dwight D. Esenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Patiats
Begin Registration In June For Rent Control Rules
A city county registration of all rental properties will occur around June 12 with dates and venues to be announced. Lucien E D Gaudreau, district rent executive, said registrations likely at schools and bulletins will be placed countywide. Rent control targets rents to July 1, 1943 levels with limited increases only after review.
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Lucien E. D. Gaudreau
Gaudreau
Rederick City
Baltimore
Lynchings Report Yet Unconfirmed By Aftonbladet
Aftonbladet reports an American airman was lynched near a German village on Monday but Berlin censorship and a German broadcast offered conflicting accounts. The dispatch, via Helje Granberg, did not confirm whether he was among five airmen previously alleged to be lynched.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Aftonbladet
Helje Granberg
Germany
Aflenbladet
Granberg
Hopes airports to be completed by U S War Department plan
Washington May 31 Rep Randolph reports hope 28 airports in 17 states halted by the War Department will be finished at an expense around 30 million dollars. The airports include Danville Martinsburg Parkersburg Wheeling Wiley Ford Cumberland and others. WILL PROBATED The will of Mrs Ella Kate Cramer widow of Noah E Cramers city probated in Orphans Court. Estate bequeathed to son James H Cramer and daughter Mrs Katherine R Winebrewer, executors. Will dated February 11 1937 witnessed by Charlotte P Smith and Edward J Smith.
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Washington
Randolph
D-W.va
War Department
Danville
Martinsburg
Parkersburg
Wheeling
Wiley Ford
Cumberland
MD W. Va
Ella Kate Cramer
Noah E Cramer
Orpans Court
James H. Cramer
Katherine R Winebrewer
Charlotte P. Smith
Edward J. Smith
Enemy Holds Off Fifths Assault On Strong Wall
Allied HQ Naples May 31 British troops push across mine fields along the coastal flank of the Fifth Army near Pescarella Nuova and L Americano while fighting inland near Campo Emili. Americans inch toward Villa Crocetta, and the Eighth Army advances through central Italy closing near Frosinone as German resistance tightens around Vel letri and Velletri. The German front, including the last fortress wall before Rome, resists with determined counterattacks as German forces retreat along escape routes amid heavy air strikes.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Pescarella Nuova
Rome
Moretta
L’ Americano
Tiber
Andea
Campo
Emini
Velletri
Valmontone
Via Casilina
Villa Crocetta
Lanuvio
Alban Hills
Eighth Army
Italy
Alfeders, Fontana
Strangolagalli
Posi
Ceccano
Arpinoe
Frosinone
Alfedena
Sangro
Lanuvia
Hermann Goering
Albert Kesselring
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
Vaimontone
Goering
Tenth Army
Liri
Porl
Amara
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Peprhdhive
Mayer
Biak
U.S
Chindits
Myitkyina
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Chindit
Burma
Mandalay
Joseph W Stilwell
Namkwi
Fifth
Frc Hives
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