Nazis Toss Artillery Into Breach But Fail To Stop Soviet Assaults
Red Star reports Russian units hammering the Germans on the central front forced artillery reserves into battle. Two German counter-attacks failed, costing 360 casualties in the eighth artillery regiment. Dnieperopetrovsk sector dispatches predict Soviet retaking of a huge industrial center. Guerrillas blow German staffs, killing 100 officers. Smolensk province reports 11,000 enemy killed in nine months, five generals among them, with 20 districts cleared of Germans in three months.
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Kuibysmev
Russia
Red Star
Dnieperopetrovsk
Smolensk
End of Moonshining Looms as Sugar Rationing Nears
Local lawmen predict the illicit whiskey trade will end with sugar rationing. Federal Agent Cushwa says untaxed stills are rare and moonshiners may vanish unless a sugarless method is found. Stores report tight sugar supplies despite looming limits of a half pound per week per person.
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Charles B. Cushwa
Cushwa
Army Chief of State Marshall arrives with Hopkins in Northern Ireland
United States Army Chief of State General George C. Marshall arrived in Northern Ireland today with staff officers, accompanied by Harry Hopkins, adviser to President Roosevelt. The visit assembles a high level delegation at United States Army Headquarters in the region.
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United States Army
Northern Ireland
George C. Marshall
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Smallest Mushroom Seen At Local Market
Mrs. S. B. Powles of Hagerstown Route 1 displayed today what was believed to be the smallest mushroom ever seen in the municipal market. It was perfectly formed but no larger than a match head.
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S. B. Powles
Hagerstown
Solves Problem By Enlisting In Army
William Clunan Jr of Nashville went to the station to say farewell as friends left for the army. Each stop prompted a pot for another ticket home. At Fort Oglethorpe induction center he joined the army, solving the problem by enlisting.
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Fort Oglethorpe
William Clunan, Jr
Nashville
Army
Clunan
Divers Rescue Trapped Worker Near Virginia Ferry Slip
CAPE CHARLES VA April 18 Two Navy divers rescued Bernard C Dick Hamilton a professional undersea worker after nine hours trapped under mud fallen piling and twenty feet of water It was the Norfolk divers second entrapment under water A mud slide trapped Hamilton at about 5 pm Friday as he worked at a depth of 20 feet during dredging operations at the Virginia Ferry Company slip in the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal harbor H F Converse a Navy diver from Norfolk went down and reported that a cave like shelter formed by the piling kept most of the weight of the mud from Hamilton
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Cape Charles
Navy
Bernard C
Dick” Hamilton
Norfolk
Hamilton
Virginia Ferry Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
H. F. Converse
RAF Smashes Augsburg Diesel Works In Big Raid
The RAF staged a daylight offensive against Nazi targets, with heavy damage reported at the Augsburg Diesel Works blamed for half of Germanys submarine engines. Lancaster bombers joined the Augsburg raid, while Stirlings Wellingtons Manchesters and Hampdens struck Hamburg. The operation marked the first explicit mention of the Lancaster aircraft in RAF dispatches.
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London
RAF
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Germany
Augsburg
Naziland
Britain
Hamburg
Archibald Sinclair
Sugar rationing registration plans announced
Public school teachers in the city and county will conduct the sugar rationing registration the week of May 4. Superintendent B C Willis will oversee the work and plans a weekend survey to set registration places, with school houses as venues.
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B. C. Willis
Willis
City Receives Treasury Notes for War Effort
Hagerstown owned 25000 dollars in U S Treasury debenture notes today, half the amount it offered to buy. A check for the remaining 25000 was returned as the offering was oversubscribed by states, counties and municipalities. The purchased notes are redeemable in six months with 0.5 percent interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
U. S. Treasury
Treasury Department
Treasury
Explosions At Sea Shake Atlantic City Boardwalk
Atlantic City residents were roused at 2:30 a.m. by five powerful sea explosions. The blasts, heard again last night, caused such force that a store proprietor said the boardwalk shook beneath him as the tremors echoed along the shore.
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Sea Rock
Atlantic City
N. J
Panay Island airfields attacked in Philippines raid
German broadcasting reports April 18 that five large Panay Island airfields were used by Americans in raids on Manila and other Philippine sites. Dispatches say key coastal towns on Panay are now in Japanese hands and Manila lies about two hours from Panay by bomber flight.
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Berlin
Tokyo
Panay Island
Manila
Philippines
Panay
Robbers batter safe at Wantz office on West Lee Street
Early today robbers used heavy sledges to batter open a cabinet safe in Hiram B. Wantz's office at 88 West Lee Street and fled with between 350 and 400 dollars in cash and about 1500 dollars in jewelry. A window on the west side yielded entry and fingerprints were collected as investigators suspect professional thieves from a larger city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram B. Wantz
West Lee Street
Wayne A. Sellman
Sellman
Lieut Rang Decorated With Distinguished Flying Cross
First Lieutenant F Bernard Rang of Hagerstown was among sixteen U S Army fliers awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the War Department for a perilous nine hour trans oceanic survey flight to an undisclosed British town last July. He now serves as an Air Corps instructor in Florida and is a son of the late Edward Rang and brother of Mrs John Halligan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Bernard Rang
Hagerstown
U. S. Army
War Department
England
Rang
Air Corps
Florida
Edward Rang
John Halligan
Pangborn Boulevard
Water main project approved for Hagerstown
Federal Works Agency office in Richmond announces approval of a contract by Hagerstown Mayor and City Council to Gaines & Gantz Towson Md for 42163 to install about 4000 feet of 12 and 16 inch mains. A federal grant of 51820 covers the estimated cost for defense plant water facilities in the north end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Works Agency
Richmond
Hagerstown
Gaines & Gantz
Towson
Mrs. Whitney Dies Sculptor and Art Leader
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney widow of the financier died in New York hospital from heart complications. The former Gertrude Vanderbilt, she built the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931 and was a noted sculptor. Her husband left an estimated 100 million dollars to her and their two children. Son Cornelius, a major in the U S Air Corps, is en route to an undisclosed military post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry Payne Whitney
New York Hospital
Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art
Parke-Bernet
Fifth
O Connors Request For Air Unit In Defense Parade
Governor O Conor seeks an air unit for the Washington county defense parade on Sunday April 26. He will review the parade and speak at City Park with radio hookups. Congresswoman Katharine Byron will attend. Meetings at City Hall April 20 discuss county unit roles and Alsatia Club parade direction.
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Herbert R. O’conor
Richard H. Sweeney
Washington County
City Park
Baltimore
Katharine E. Byron
Congress
Sweeney
Charles W. Hoffman
Alsatia Club Committee
City Hall
Duquesne Man Enters Third Week in coma at Washington County Hospital
Mike Charak, 25, of Duquesne, Pa., entered the third week of a coma at Washington County Hospital after being thrown from a motorcycle two weeks earlier. He has not regained consciousness, but hospital attendants described him as in fair condition. They recalled a prior case lasting three weeks before regaining consciousness.
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Mike Charak
Duquesne
Washington County Hospital
Charak
High Explosive Bombs Incendiaries Dropped Raiders Over Tokyo
De Witt Mackenzie analyzes a major allied raid on Japan describing organized air strikes on multiple cities including Tokyo. The article argues the attack signals Allied momentum and serves as punishment for Pearl Harbor masterminds. It notes initial Japanese attribution to unidentified planes and confirms involvement of American bombers.
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Japan
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
Certify 33 For New Auto Tires
Certificates granted this week by the local Ration Board to 33 persons for new passenger tires or tubes. The board also issued certificates for five new automobiles. Recipients include Calvin Poppell Rennery Garage Eugene B Wyand Ira Pine Earn est Trumpower John T Rosen berry Richard G Scherer Enoch Mundey Raleigh Griffith Rev Adam E Grimm Rev Benjamin F Kinger Leon Brumback Rabbi Henry Carback Norman C Klipp James F Winters Dr Harry D Bowman Charles W Huyett Rev Stewart Snodgrass Rev Lester Myers Edwin J Holder Louis Izar Summers Bros Lt Edward J Chapman Nellie H Myers Oscar T Clark Roger T Schultz Louise K Miller Edward D Zimmmerman Earl W Hepperle Paul R Shank Wilbur H Guessford. Also certificates for new autos went to Fairchild Aircraft Robert G Rider Albert S Blumenthal William B Laughing house Dr Walter B Clemson, all of this city. Past week 90 certificates for recaptives were issued.
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Calvin Poppell
Rennery Garage
Eugene B. Wyand
Ira Pine
Earnest Trumpower
John T. Rosenberry
Richard G. Scherer
Enoch Mundey
Raleigh Griffith
Adam E. Grimm
Benjamin F. Kinger
Leon Brumback
Henry Carback
Norman C. Klipp
James F. Winters
Harry D. Bowman
Charles W. Huyett
Stewart Snodgrass
Lester Myers
Edwin J. Holder
Louis Izar
Summers Bros
Edward J. Chapman
Nellie H. Myers
Oscar T. Clark
Roger T. Schultz
Louise K. Miller
Edward D. Zimmerman
Earl W. Hepperle
Paul R. Shank
Wilbur H. Guessford
Fairchild Aircraft
Robert G. Rider
Albert S. Blumenthal
William B. Laughinghouse
Walter B. Clemson
Attack on Arras Nazi HQ Spreads Curfew Across Arras
German occupation authorities announced a new assault on Nazi headquarters in Arras in the occupied zone on April 15. Reprisal measures for Pas de Calais were ordered, with a curfew in effect by 8 p.m. The Reich notice reported hand grenades used on a central Arras German office, detailing no damage but signaling strict controls.
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Vichy
France
Arras
Pas de Calais
le Courier du Pas de Matin
Tokyo Port Areas Bombed by Allied Planes
Allied bombers struck the Tokyo Yokohama region for the first time today prompting air raid warnings across more than 800 miles of Japan. Fire and casualties followed as nine planes were reported shot down, with alerts in Honshu Shikoku and Hokkaido and targets including Kobe Nagoya and surrounding farmland areas.
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Tokyo
Tokyo-Yokohama
Honshu
Japan
Shikoku
Hokkaido
Corregidor Guns Active In Pacific War Update
Washington reports Corregidor guns silenced several enemy batteries and hit roads and bridges on Bataan disrupting Japanese communications. Siege fire continued with reduced intensity and Cebu reportedly occupied with fighting on Panay as invaders push ashore.
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Washington
War Department
Corregidor
Philippines
Bataan
Cebu
Big Headlines In London On Air Raid
Britain's jubilation over the first air raids on Japan fills early afternoon front pages. The Rivington Standard displays a two line banner and a large map of Japan with Tokyo raid details. The Evening Standard the Star and the Evening News also cover Britain's around the clock air offensive against Germany and occupied territories.
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London
Britain
Japan
Tokyo
Lord Beaverbrook
Rivening Standard
Evening Standard
the Star
The
Evening News
Germany
No Comment On Raid On Japan
Washington April 18 The War and Navy departments had no confirmation today on the Japanese announcement of bombing Tokyo. There was no indication when a communique might be issued. It was noted that if the bombing was a long distance attack the aircraft would take many hours to return and reports would be unavailable until then.
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Tokyo
Wallace predicts U.S. will outproduce all nations in war material
Vice President Henry A. Wallace told 96 new Army ordnance officers that by the last half of this year the United States would be turning out more war materials than any nation in history, including one of the officers his own son.
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Aberdeen
Henry A. Wallace
Army Ordnance
United States
Bombers Raid Rangoon by U S Forces in Burma
A squadron of U S heavy bombers raided Rangoon in Japanese occupied Burma during the night. Docks and harbor installations were heavily bombed and the raiders returned without damage or casualties.
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New Delhi
U. S
Rangoon
Burma
Slaybaugh To Resume Post As City Auditor
Mayor Richard H. Sweeney announced that Georges E. Slaybaugh will continue as City Auditor after earlier ill health prompted his resignation. Slaybaugh wrote the mayor expressing eagerness to return and stressing the close, friendly relationship between them and the value of the appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard H. Sweeney
Georges E. Slaybaugh
Slaybaugh
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Viola
Louisville
Bodenschatz
Karl Bodenschatz
Cincinnati
Marshall
Ireland
BIG Augsburg Diesel Works
H. B. Wantz
Lieut
Harry Payne Whitaby
O’conor
By DE Witt MacKenzie
Local Ration Board
Soviet Russia
Hirohito
Kobe
Toko
Nagoya
Central Defense
Wakayama
Yok
U.S
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