Vast Heart Of Philippines Now Is Liberated
Report describes Allied advances across Mindanao Cotabato Davao and Lake Lanao regions aided by 23rd Air Force. Cebu reports claim Japanese collapse under American flank rear blows with thousands reported dead and captured equipment. North Luzon near Baguio sees U S forces on highways. health note mentions cancer deaths in youths under 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotabato-Davao
Mamuansan
Davao
Malabang
U. 58
Lake Lanao
Cotabeto
Mindango River
WAVES Train Men At Guard School in Shellon Va
A Navy WAVES enlistment push may place women as instructors at the Armed Guard School in Shellon Virginia. Chief Jack Millard says WAVES train crews and men in antiaircraft gunnery, operate simulators, and conduct gunner periods. Additional WAVES roles include clerks, chauffeurs, postal clerks, operators, storekeepers, yeomen and hospital corpsmen. Apply at the local Navy Recruiting station for women aged 20 to 36 with two years of school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armed Guard School
Shellon
Jack Millard
Royal Navy
City Hall
Yein
Navy
Millard
Real estate transfers total $110000 across multiple Maryland parcels
Realty sales totaling 110000 are recorded for properties in Head Heights Cumberland Street Clearspring Cavetown Bridgeport and surrounding districts. Transfers include John H Bloyer to Maurice Hoffman Linda B Huber and Lillian Perrett to Clarence Easterday with 10500, Hagerstown Ice Company to Potomac Edison 35000, and several other parcels ranging from 2100 to 4100 dollars across Indian Springs Rohrersville and Elizabeth Street areas. Mount Morrison Formosa noted as a high point in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Head Heights
John H. Bloyer
Maurice K. Hoffman
Cumberland Street
Clearspring
Linda B. Huber
Lillian A. Perrett
Clarence E. Easterday
Cavetown Pike
Bridgeport
Hagerstown Ice Company
Potomac Edison Co
West Lee
Bord J. Michael
Arthur L. Dayhoff
Indian Springs
Guy M. Grove
John J. Norman
Jefferson Street
Mulberry
Cannon
Albert B. Young
Calvin E. Young
North Mulberry
Clarence D. Gordon
Edgar L. Younkins
Gapland
Laura Fouch
John H. Harrison
Rohrersville
Solomon A. Keefer
Boyd J. Michael
Theodore H. Porter
Luther McLucas
Elizabeth Street
Okinawa Battle Grows Brutal In Latest Push
Guam April 24 The Okinawa battle ups the fury as American forces press deep against Japanese defense in a costly second day. Adm Nimitz reports naval losses up to April 18 include 15 ships sunk and 2,569 planes, with enemy casualties over 9,100 and American losses near 7,900 through April 4. The fighting intensifies after a stalemate on the southern front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Japan
Nimitz
Mummified Body Case Unfolding in Pittsburgh Area
In Wilkinsburg and Washington a long mystery unfolds about Mary B Woodward who kept her mother’s mummified body at home for 32 years. Funeral director Edgar Eaton recounted how the body and a cat visited a St Louis funeral home daily for comfort amid burial funding woes. The health board ordered removal or burial. a planned shipment to Washington followed. Also note Pte Edwin L Clark wounded in Germany February 25, email indicates his mother Rhoda Moore of Summit Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkinsburg
Mary B. Woodward
Washington
Edgar E. Eaton
Eaton
Germany
Edwin L. Clark
Rhoda Moore
Summit Avenue
Pic. Clark
First Army
Depot to close. Letterkenny Ordnance Depot to cut staff
The Letterkenny Ordnance Depot at Chambersburg will be among the last Army Service Forces elements to reduce personnel in this war. Army officials have advised the depot employees of the impending cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Letterkenny
Chambersburg
Army Service Forces
Army
Quiet Boom For Sen George Treasury Secretary Post
Washington April 21 A quiet push grows for Senator Walter F George to be named Secretary of the Treasury if Henry Morgenthau Jr leaves the cabinet Friends of George say they urged President Truman to pick the Georgia Democrat Morgenthau may step aside after the 7th War Loan The move would signal potential cabinet changes though Truman has asked old cabinet members to stay on Morgenthau long served as treasury chief faced tense tax talks with Congress
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Treasury
Truman
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Capitol Hill
Congress
Dedicate Forest To Servicemen Ceremony Honors Veterans
Hagerstown residents gathered for a Dedicate Forest To Servicemen event. Lt Elmer L Myers a recent escapee from a German prison camp returned home and was introduced. Fairchild Aircraft planes dropped hemlock seed as 4 H Club members plan to plant about 75 more trees with officials from state and county agencies present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Elmer L. Myers
Fairchild Aircraft
James A. Wales, Jr
Donald Frush
Big Pool
Wales
Raymond Snively
League of Maryland Sportsmen
J. Frank Hiliott
Metal Statues Intrigue Found In Mountain Farm
Henry Doornberger, a city blacksmith, found two small metal statues while mushroom hunting in the mountains. Each two foot tall figure depicts a soldier with a dragon helm and sword. One arm is missing and each has four bullet holes. Doornberger bought them from an elderly landowner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Doornberger
Doornberger
Refugee Liner Pretoria Sinks After Mine Hit Near Oresund
The 17,000 ton Pretoria of German East Africa Lines carrying refugees struck a mine south of Oresund and sank within minutes, while the Potsdam arrived in Copenhagen with other evacuees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malmoe
Sweden
Pretoria
Copenhagen
Oresund
Denmark
Potsdam
Maryland reports $32 million in state treasury on hand
Maryland Comptroller General J Millard Tawes said March 31 1945 cash on hand totaled 32 373 660 a rise from 27 955 516 a year earlier Receipts for the month reached 9 867 738 versus 8 707 192 last year and the state debt stood at 26 193 000 Seven revenue sources showed gains in the period July 1 1944 to March 31 1945 with maps of increases in real and personal property taxes alcoholic beverages gasoline taxes income taxes inheritance taxes the Maryland Racing Commission and state insurance department General funds surplus was listed at 8 961 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Maryland
J. Millard Tawes
Maryland Racing Commission
State Insurance Department
General Funds
Sharpsburg Letter Recaps Local Society Activities
April 17 notes from Sharpsburg outline the 54th Women’s Missionary Society convention in Hagerstown at Trinity Lutheran, with attendees from Lovettsville and area. It lists birthdays, hospital admission for Vincent Ravyski, Bible class meetings, sick lists, PTA events, and residents visiting relatives in Baltimore and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharpsburg
Wm. A. Wade
Beatty
Lovettsville
Hubert Stine
Albert Kerlin
Allen Fpoffenberger
Etna Harley
Women’s Missionary Society of the Western Conference
Synod of Maryland
Trinity Lutheran Church, Hagerstown
Archie Baker
Washington
Henry Poffenberger
Alex Poffenberger
Joseph Neikirk
Roxanna
Lewis Mose
Donna Marie
Chas. Bender
Jimmy Honaker
Jane Honaker
Elizabeth
Billy Poffenberger
Abbie Jean
Kline
Vincent Ravyski
Washington County Hospital
Trinity Lutheran
Grove Churchey
Edith Hess
Emma Poffenberger
W. F. Peyton
Lillian
Alta Mae
J. C. Poffenberger
Carrie Hetzel
J. C. Callahan
Aggis Mose
Chas. Grove
Ida Dorsey
Susan DeLauney
Alen Foffenberger
Chas
Swain
Richard Knepper
Wyand Rohrer
Edna Earley
Patsy Moser
Atlee Atin Remshburg
Clara Chapman
J. Fred Mose
PTA
Louise Hebb
Haperstown
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Sharpsburg Pta
van Lipnard
June
Rockville
New York
C. R. Cox
E. P. Earley
Ruth Lumm Keefanger
Baltimore
Chas. Snavely
Cora Snavely
Warren Adams
Clifford Churchey
Local Gossip Notes from Western Maryland College Circle
Mercy Hospital Baltimore hosts patient Allen E Poffenberger. Western Maryland College is linked to visits by Allen Poffenberger and Ralph Earley families from Hagerstown. Seaman Bobby Howeril returns home from the South Pacific for five days. Women's Guild Reform Church plans an evening at Effie Long’s home with Genevieve Poffenberger and Alien Wilson hostesses and Anna Mary Weller leading the program. Ralph Hammond buys the R ef P Hall from Fred Mose. P G Nutting and Washington guests stay with the Stouffer family. Hopkin Gibson from Frederick visits. Allen Wilson, recently reassigned from Aberdeen, is now in Washington State. Rudolph Eavey of Baltimore noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy Hospital
Baltimore
Allen E .Poffenberger
Western Maryland College
Ralph Earley
B. S. Hoffman
Hagerstown
Allen Poffenberger
Seaman Robert
Bobby) Howeril
South Pacific
Women's Guild of the Reformed Church
Effie Long
Gene
Vieve Pofferberger
Alien Wilson
Anna Mary Weller
Ralph Hammond
Fred Mose
P. G. Nutting
Washington
Stouffer Home
Hopkin Gibson
Frederick
Allen Wilson
Aberdeen
Czech Agreement Sought With Czechoslovakia
Washington diplomats pressed on April 21 to finalize a civil affairs pact with Czechoslovakia, the first country liberated by both Russian and western Allied troops. The accord would outline Allied control of civil affairs in active military zones, a move previously pursued with Russia and echoed in Belgium and the Netherlands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Czechoslovakia
Red Army
Russia
U.S
Britain
London
Belgium
Netherlands
Western
Europe
Longs Celebrate 21st Wedding Anniversary in Weekend Gathering
Mr and Mrs Chas B Long observed their 21st wedding anniversary on Sunday with guests from Greencastle Pennsylvania and Hagerstown plus a separate note that the Barnharts marked their 23rd anniversary. Tech Sgt and Mrs Chas R Smith of Fort Belvoir spent the weekend with the Benders. Mrs Spong and Dickey Poffenberger were patients at Washington County Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. B. Long
Howard Barnhart
Greencastle
Blanche Schwinger
Vera Starlin
Hagerstown
Barnharts
Tech
Chas. R. Smith
Fort Belvoir
Chas. Bender
Thomas Spong
Washington County Hospital
Dickey Poffenberger
Cecil Poffenberger
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Bram
NN SF
Centlfy
FOX Picture
WAVES
Mount Morrison
Formosa
Elbert M. Hofner
Best Haven Chapel
Werner Bros
Louise Hancrll Pierson
Iwes
Rosslind Russell
Tack Carson
Mary Payette
Sen. George
Sec’y of
Lena
Rata
Dick Powell
Claire Pel
Trevor
Moniek MV
Eweet
Oito Kruger
Mike Mazurki
Miles Mander
Douglas Walton
Don Douglas
H BO
Berlin
Tawes
Comstock
Ryyy
Henrys
Pao Vvarcx Montez
Bey
Dla Nies PT Saa Rules
Vast Mes “Thunderhead Son
Flicka
Andy Devine
George Zucco
Robert Warwick
Universal
Sudan
Tarhan Bey
Maria Montez
Jon Hall
Henry’s
Claire Trevor
Franklin Court
WEFMD
Frene Rick
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