Yanks Closing in On Ports Of Nantes Brest
Allied forces push through Breton peninsula reaching Loudeac within 85 miles of Brest. In Normandy German retreat widens from Odon Orne as British Canadian units take Villers Bocage and advance toward Caen. American armor and infantry move toward Nantes and Rennes threatening major German withdrawal to the Seine.
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Nantes
Brest
Villers-Bocage
Orne
Gladwin Hill
Allied Expeditionary Force
Breton
Normandy
Odon-Orne
Caen
Seine River
Paris
Noyers
Esquay
Evrecy
Odon
Supreme Headquarters
Omar N. Bradley
Loudeac
Rennes
Derval
Chateaubriant
Heat Wave Keeps Up Across Nation With Hottest Spots
No relief from the swelter over the weekend as Keedysville weather observer FA Miller notes the 1918 record 109 in the area and forecasts heat to continue into next week. Cumberland hits 101 in Maryland while Baltimore records 99, with Phoenix at 114 and New York at 96.3 as heat grips the nation.
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FA. Miller
Keedysville
Mercury
United States
Washington
Weather Bureau
Maryland
Cumberland
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Potomac
Williamsport
Hagerstown
Phoenix
Ariz
New York
Clearspring Youth Receives Purple Heart in France
Pvt. Paul C. Suffecool of the 29th Division is awarded the Purple Heart for a shoulder wound received in action in France on June 16. He is recovering at Woodrow Wilson General Hospital Staunton Va. amid many letters from friends. He went overseas in March and was among the county's first invasion casualties.
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Paul C. Suffecool
France
Minerva Suffecool
Woodrow Wilson General Hospital
Staunton
Pvt
Suffecool
Russians Told Finns Peace Talks Possible This Week
The BBC reported that Moscow informed Helsinki 11 days earlier it remains open to peace proposals but would not wait indefinitely. It warned that the Karelian offensive would be resumed this week on a larger scale.
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London
BBC
Lacked Fortitude, Actress Tells Judge in Divorce
Actress Jennifer Holt testified that her Marine flyer husband Maj. William M. Rickey taunted her with remarks about lacking fortitude equal to Guadalcanal soldiers. She described contemptuous and unsympathetic behavior after their Valentine’s Day separation following their November marriage in Yuma Arizona.
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Los Angeles
Jennifer Holt
Jack Holt
Maj
Willam M. Rickey
Guadalcanal
Miss Holt
Yuma
Ariz
Richey
Purple Heart Awarded to Son of Sprecher Family
Mr and Mrs Fred O Sprecher Tilghmanton have received the Purple Heart for their son Cpl D Rodger Sprecher who was wounded in France while serving with the 175th Infantry Regiment 29th Division. He enlisted on his birthday April 17 1941 and has served overseas 22 months. After injury to his leg he continued working on the dairy job in Hagerstown and is recuperating quickly.
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Fred O. Sprecher
Tilghmanton
Cpl
D. Rodger Sprecher
France
Sprecher
Hagerstown
175Th Infantry
RAF Lancaster Bombers Hit Brest Submarine Pens
More than 100 RAF Lancaster bombers attacked Brest to block German U boat access as Allied forces pressed the American advance.
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London
Brest
Train Crash Kills 46 as Coast Line Passengers Hit Freight
A westbound Atlantic Coast Line passenger train crashed into a freight locomotive on a Doctortown siding near Stockton Georgia killing at least 46, mostly railway laborers returning to Alabama. Many bodies were in the wreckage after a possible rail failure sent the passenger consisted cars into the freight engine.
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Stockton
Atlantic Coast Line
Here
Alabama
H. L. Tomlinson
Doctortown
Tomlinson
Turner Rockwell
The
Valdosta Times
Rockwell
Ransack Office And Steal Truck
Thieves gained an east side window entrance to the Ayers Coal Company at 39 West Antietam Street. They ransacked the office but left nothing of value and stole a 1935 Ford dump truck from the garage. Fingerprints on the window suggest a single suspect. state police have the truck's license number and description.
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Ayers Coal Company
West Antietam Street
Sgt Wolfe Wounded in Face While in France
Staff Sergeant Willie R. Wolfe, son of Mr and Mrs Walter A Wolfe of near Smithsburg, is recovering from facial gunshot wounds incurred in France with the 29th Division. He says he is back in England in a hospital and has been confined since early July. overseas 22 months, he landed in France on D Day with Company B 115th Infantry. His wife La Rue Rowe and their daughter live with her parents near Myersville.
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Willie RB. Wolfe
Walter A. Wolfe
Smithsburg
France
England
Set
Wolfe
D Day
Co. B
115Th Infantry
la Rue Rowe
Telegram Casualty Messages Increase In War Here
War Department notices that casualty telegrams are rising as D-Day actions escalate. J. K. Carey of Western Union Telegraph in Hagerstown outlines strict delivery rules to protect families. Messages must be written, delivered 7 am to 10 pm, with couriers allowed to use taxis or aides if within War Department funding.
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War Department
Western Unio Telegraph Company
J. K. Carey
Hagerstown
Washington County
Japanese force with woman in unit, Solomons chief says
A Solomon Islands native chief tells Navy Commander Myron Graybill that the occupying Japanese force included a woman. When Graybill asked how he could be sure, the chief replied Tate her. The report from Los Angeles dated August 5 notes Graybill’s Pacific service and the extraordinary claim.
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Los Angeles
Solomons Island
Navy
Myron W Graybill
Graybill
Pacific
Allies Occupy Florence Suburbs
Allied forces have completed occupation of Florence suburbs south of the Arno and push 25 miles along the river front. Gen Sir Harold Alexander says the enemy used Florence for military traffic after declaring it open, blew bridges except Ponte Vecchio, paratroops within city limits, while attackers threaten a cross of the Arno on both sides.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
Arno
Harold Alexander
Ponte Vecchio
Sth
No Man’s Land
Tommy Manville To Take Wife No. 8
Tommy Manville announced he will marry Collette Francis by September 1, making her his eighth wife. The 30 year old former Earl Carroll show girl has known him 13 years and the couple plan to adopt a child. Manville joked about Reno and stated the marriage should last.
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New York
Tommy Manville
Collette Francis
Earl Carroll
Francis
Manville
Sharpsburg Youth Wounded In France
Sharpsburg resident Tech Sergeant Clyde W. Grove 26 was wounded in France and sent to a hospital in England. He formerly worked at the Central garage and had eight months overseas with prior service in Northern Ireland. Letters may be sent via his sister Mrs James Fisher Sharpsburg.
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Tech
Clyde W. Grove
Oliver Grove
Sharpsburg
France
England
Central Garage
Sergeant Grove
Northern Ireland
James Fisher
Lewis Own Union Backing Another Lewis Own Union Backing Another
Ray Edmundson, a miner aiming to become president of the United Mine Workers of America, won endorsement from Local 764 in Springfield by 111 to 17 over John J. Lewis. Edmundson previously resigned as Illinois District 12 chief May 15 and has promoted district autonomy while continuing mine work in Springfield.
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Springfield
Ray Edmundson
United Mine Workers of America
John J. Lewis
Lewis
Harry Salkeld
UMWA
Edmundson
Illinois
District 12
State Troops Mobilized as Philadelphia Transit Strife Mounts
Three regiments of Pennsylvania State Guard were mobilized to maintain order as 6,000 Philadelphia transit workers defied army orders ending a five day work stoppage marked by racial tensions and threats of violence. Troops were to operate rolling stock as the army seeks to restore bus trolley and subway service.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania State Guard
U. S. Army
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Army
Altoona
Here
Department of Justice
Broad Street
Factory Workers In French Red Belt Attack Germans
Madrid reports French factory workers in the Paris red belt have begun open guerilla warfare against German occupation. Elite Guard troops patrol Aubervilliers La Courneuve and Billancourt as battles erupt in the suburbs. A Spanish critic notes German confusion amid partisan and Allied actions in France.
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Madrid
Red Belt
Paris
Aubervilliers- La-Courneuve
Billancourt
Warsaw
Brittany
France
Middletown Flier Killed in C 47 Crash
Second Lt. Gerald O. Keller of Middletown Maryland died in a C 47 transport crash near Napier Nebraska. He was one of 28 aboard ferrying four pilots to Pierre Army Air Base. Cause of the crash remains undetermined. Keller studied in Middletown schools and worked at the Fairchild plant in Hagerstown before joining the Army.
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Gerald O. Keller
Albert J. Keller
Middletown
Pierre Army Air Base
Naper
Nebr
Keller
Fairchild Airplane
Wagerstown
Army
Few County Farmers Seek Wheat Loans
In 1944, statewide wheat loan demand surged as farmers submit many applications, but Washington county reports only three. Officials note the county sold few loans last year and suggest the bumper crop, favorable storing market, and profits from holding wheat on loans drive higher statewide interest.
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Agricultural Agency
Washington County
AAA
Maryland
Realty Market Continues Busy Weekers Real Estate Activity
The real estate market remained active with combined sales around $100000 for the week ending today. Residential properties dominated the transactions, with notable transfers including 929-31 Maryland Avenue to Stephen Basile and wife for 4800 and two parcels on Smithsburg Waynesboro Road to Eloise P. and Boyd C. Smith for 3600. Home Builders Savings and Loans sold an acre with improvements near Trego to Otho C. Reeder and wife for 2500. Continued listing shows ongoing demand outpacing supply.
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Garland E. Groh
Stephen Basile
Maryland Avenue
John A. Martin
Hancock Soldier Wounded in France Praises Blood Donors
Pfc. Floyd T. Shoemaker, seriously wounded in action in France, sends thanks to civilians who donated blood for plasma. Inducted in 1942, he trained in Virginia Florida Tennessee California and Kansas before departing for Europe in April.
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Floyd T. Shoemaker
France
War Department
Leathie Shoemaker
Hancock
Shoemaker
Pfc. Shoemaker
Army
Virginia
Florida
Tennessee
California
Kansas
Baltimore polio cases rise with two deaths this week
In Baltimore during the week ending today twelve infantile paralysis cases were recorded, one fatally. A new case reported yesterday brings the total since June 30 to 20, with two deaths among them.
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Baltimore
Allied breakthrough opens western front in Normandy
London dispatch reports the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead has widened the conflict on the western front. Allied observers see no fixed German fortifications beyond the Maginot and Siegfried lines, predicting a mobile defense in the Seine-Loire region with Paris as an inland focal point.
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London
Normandy
Germany
France
Hitler
von Rundsteat
Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Rudolf Karl
Fruit And Produce Dealer To Comply With Prices
An operator of fruit and produce stands in the city and county yesterday admitted violations of OPA ceiling price regulations at a hearing before the Price Panel of the Ration Board. He promised to adhere to regulations after a warning that further violations would be referred to the OPA's legal division. The dealer cited staff shortages for unpaid weight based pricing but the ration office proposed a weight based division system which he agreed to use.
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OPA
Ration Board
Wounded in Action Kenneth Hawbaker in France
Pvt. Kenneth L. Hawbaker, son of Mrs Emma Hawbaker, East Avenue, slightly wounded in action in France, according to War Department information received by his wife residing at Church and Foundry streets. He has served four and a half years in Company B, 29th Division, overseas two years, transferred to France early in the invasion. two brothers Wilbur and Robert are also in service in England and New Guinea.
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Kenneth L. Hawbaker
Emma Hawbaker
East Avenue
France
War Department
Church
Foundry Streets
Pvt
Hawbaker
Wilbur
England
Robert
New Guinea
Joyful Rennes Welcomes Liberators Amid Traitors Seized
Reuters report from Rennes details crowds cheering advancing Allied troops and hostility toward collaborationists. Soldiers and civilians condemn traitors as town authorities beat and threaten captured collaborators, with executions reportedly contemplated but not immediately carried out.
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Rennes
Russians Break Through East Prussian Border Lines
A Berlin transocean broadcast reported Soviet forces breached the East Prussian border north of Virbalis near the Kaunas-Konigsberg railway amid heavy fighting. Moscow dispatches said the Red Army cleared water barriers on the Vistula, moved toward Krakow, and pressed toward German Silesia with advances 75 miles from Silesia.
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London
Berlin
Virbalis
Kaunas-Konigsberg
Virballen
Moscow
Red Army
Krakow
Silesia
Vistula
Nida
Wisturia
German Silesia
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Ivan S. Konev
Balkan Air Forces Formed To Assist Tito's Partisans
A new Balkan air force is formed to aid Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans with bases in Italy Yugoslavia and Africa. It draws mostly from British and American units and includes Italian Polish and Greek squadrons with Yugoslav airmen to follow. Commanded by RAF Vice Marshal William Elliott the force operates under Mediterranean Allied air force with roads to Balkan fronts and a policy committee ensuring alignment with government policy.
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Balkan
Mediterranean
Tito
Balkans
Yugoslavia
Italy
Africa
RAF
William Elliott
Gibraltar
Ira C. Baker
U. S
Germans In Turkey Face Internment After Break With Reich
Ankara reports that about half of 3000 Germans in Turkey may choose internment or restricted freedom rather than return to the Reich after Turkey severed relations. Industrial experts may stay free under Turkish employers parole. others will be interned in inner Anatolian towns. Dangerous Germans have been watched for over ten days and rounded up. Each leaving German can take 249 pounds of possessions.
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Ankara
Turkey
Germany
Anatolian
Robbery Report From Washington Man
Richard G. Mervine of Washington, D. C., told police this morning his hotel room was ransacked yesterday and $81 in corn stolen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard G. Mervine
Washington, D. C
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Son
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Tate Her
Middletown Flier
Frances Andrews
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Monterey
Jay Lovett
Kenneth Hawbaker
By Pete Carroll
Associated Press
de Gaulle
Churchill
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