Junction With Eisenhower Seen As Goal
Seventh Army advance toward the Rhone valley aims to join Eisenhower’s forces as American infantry widen the Argens valley flank. Cannes resistance ends. Toulon near fall as German withdrawals and bridge demolitions slow movement while the 37th Division captures a second German general in 48 hours.
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Carces
Salernes
Seventh
Rhone Valley
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Argens
Maritime Alps
Dragnignan
Cannes
Cap Benat
Miiles
Toulon
Boon
Vaught Thomas
3Éth
Patton hailed by British as man of the week
The News Chronicle names General George S. Patton man of the week as British editors laud his leadership. London papers praise his troops advancing into France after the Avranches breakthrough and call Patton a legendary general, noting his fire and movement tactics.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patton
News Chronicle
London Evening Standard
France
America
Cramer Family Reports Service Members Wounded in Action
Thomas Cramer was slightly wounded in France on August 2. His brother Paul is recuperating in Italy from injuries. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cramer of Chambersburg have been informed. Thomas was well known in Hagerstown during summer visits with aunt Mrs. James Semler at 505 Frederick Street.
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PLC
Thomas Cramer
Hagerstown
James Semler
Frederick Street
France
Paul
Buzz) Cramer
Italy
Charles Cramer
Chambersburg
Youth Is Injured In Auto Accident
Eugene Semier a 14 year old boy sustained three broken bones in his left hand when his bicycle collided with an automobile at Baltimore and Potomac streets. The crash happened when the bike’s brakes failed as it turned left. Oliver Bowling drove the car north on Potomac Street. Semier was taken to Washington County Hospital by the Goodwill ambulance.
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Eugene Semier
Franklin Street
Baltimore
Potomac Streets
John Knode
Oliver F. Bowling
Lone Avenue
Potomac Street
Semler
Washington County Hospital
Local Officer Is Given Promotion
Dr and Mrs Victor D Miller of West Washington street have word their son Henry Loose Miller has been promoted to lieutenant colonel. Lieut Col Miller is with the Military Intelligence Division in Cairo Egypt and has been overseas a year in July. Mrs Miller and their young son live at her Norwalk Connecticut home.
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Victor D. Miller
West Washington Street
Henry Loose Miller
Col. Miller
Military Intelligence Division
Cairo
Egypt
300000 Aircraft Workers Face Layoff
Washington August 19 close to 300000 workers will be laid off by aircraft plants within the next year due to production setbacks from light losses of heavy bombers in war theatres Maj Gen Oliver P Echols Assistant Chief of Air Staff told a Senate committee about 8000 obsolete planes turned over to the War Property Administration and more ships to be added in two or three months Willow Run plant near Detroit may see a 50 percent employment drop by December In all more than 1900000 aircraft workers are employed and many will be cut off by the start of 1945.
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Washington
Oliver P. Echols
Echols
Senate
War Property Administration
Willow Run
Detroit
Philadelphia woman lands nine bass on Potomac trip
Mrs. Peggy Owings of Philadelphia vacationing in Hagerstown caught nine bass in a few hours fishing near Williamsport. The fish weighed as heavy as two pounds and all were taken on flies.
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Peggy Owings
Philadelphia
Hagerstown
Potomac River
Williamsport
Merchant Ship Sunk In Atlantic With No Losses
A medium sized United States merchant ship was sunk in the South Atlantic by two torpedoes late in July. All 66 men on board were rescued or escaped. Lt. Harold J McCormick led a gun crew of 26 as flashlights and knives freed boats and rafts. Fifty three men remained aboard during the second explosion and got away before the ship sank two minutes later. The submarine was unseen. The crew drifted over 30 hours until a patrol plane located them and a rescue vessel brought them to a Brazilian port.
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Miami
Fla
United States
South Atlantic
Harold J McCormick
Capitol Hill Urges Roosevelt Clarify Youth Training Plan
Capitol Hill pressed President Roosevelt to specify a nationwide study of postwar compulsory federal youth training and reiterated support for immediate compulsory military training after the war. The President suggested a mix of military and civilian training for 1,066,000 to 1,250,000 youths and emphasized potential use of surplus housing for veterans and vocational training. Lawmakers debated whether this signaled universal military training or a broader peacetime program.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
House
Civilian Conservation Corps
Congress
Rep
Harness
R-Ind
House Military Committee
Woodrum
D-Va
Special House Committee
G. C.C
May
Dkey
Wadsworth
RNY
Patton Drives To Force Trap Near Dreux and Paris
Allied forces press the Dreux Eure river bridgehead widening while Patton’s Third Army seals off the Falaise pocket. German units retreat toward the Seine as Americans, British and Canadians push toward Caen and Le Havre, with air strikes hammering supply roads and a temporary news blackout issued for security.
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Berlin
von Kluge
Dreux
Mantes
Vernon
Supreme Headquarters
Eure River
2Nd Army
Normandy
Seine
Patton
Paris
Canadian First Army
Cabourg
Dives-Sur- Mer
Caen
le Havre
Supreme Command
Third Army
Argentan
Nieux
Seventh Army
15Th Army
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Transocean Agency
German War Ministry
Falaise
George S. Patton
Eure
Paris Falls Hinted as Allied Pressure Seals German Route
Allied forces tightened siege on Paris as Patton's Third Army boxed German troops between the sea and the Seine. With the Seventh and 15th Army units withdrawing, Paris appeared doomed to fall, reports say German uniforms vanished, roads to Germany crowded with collaborators fleeing, and Paris radio silenced with public buildings closed.
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Paris
Third Army
Sea
Seine
Seventh Army
15Th Army
von Kluge
Germany
Local Man Faces Federal Charges In Gas Ration Case
A Hagerstown man, three Baltimoreans and a University of Maryland student were charged in federal court with violating gasoline ration regulations. John S. Barker age 18 of Hagerstown and Gordon David Stauffer of Baltimore gave false statements in applying for non-highway gas rations. Clinton E. Colvert, a Baltimore race-track cashier, allegedly transferred ration coupons to Richard Joseph Duggins, who was charged with unlawfully possessing weapons. University of Maryland student Joseph J. Gurinskas faced charges for false statements in applying for a supplemental ration.
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Hagerstown
Duggins
Joseph J. Gurinskas
Big Chemical Plant Planned for Front Royal
Construction will cost over 1,000,000 dollars at Front Royal for a General Chemical Company facility, subsidiary of Allied Chemical and Dyer. The plant on 10 acres beside the Shenandoah river will produce sulfuric acid for war production, supplying American Viscose Corporation for rayon used in parachutes tire cord and other war products.
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Front Royal
General Chemical Company
Allied Chemical and Dyer Corporation
Defense Plant Corporation
Shenanadoah River
American Viscose Corporation
Rayon
H. O. C. Ingraham
Suspect Held In Stolen Car Case
The abandoned automobile found in the Fairview mountain thickets was reported stolen from Albert Katz of Philadelphia. Donald William Booth is under arrest in Tiffin Ohio, charged with the theft. Sheriff’s officers and FBI had been tracking the vehicle. Booth was found with another car allegedly stolen in Ohio.
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Fairview Mountain
Albert Katz
Philadelphia
Donald William Booth
Tiffin
FBI
Booth
Ohin
Woman Offers to Give Away Her Child in Distress
Mrs Violet Dietz sobs at Chicago Cook County Building as she appeals for help for her 8 year old daughter Sharon Ann. Dietz faces a hearing on a desertion charge against her husband James Dietz, a taxi driver.
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Sharon Ann
Violet Dietz
Cook County
Chicago
Sharon ‘Ann
Roads Committee To Map Program For Farm To Market Roads
The Western Shore County Commissioners Association forms a special roads committee that will meet at the Frederick courthouse next Tuesday to study farm to market road needs. Chairman Roger H Willard and member Joseph D Baker lead the group which aims to create uniform specifications and coordinate with State Roads Commission and Public Roads Administration to access potential federal funds for post war road construction. The panel will report to County Commissioners and seek a year long construction program for approval by the State Roads Commission.
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Special Roads Committee
Western Shore County Commissioners’ Association
Frederick
Roger H. Willard
Frederick County
Joseph Dbaker
Keller Shank
County Commissioners’ Association
State Roads Commission
Public Roads Administration
Shank
Usherette Wins Understudy Role in Oklahoma
Wanda Cochran quit her church chair in Grand Rapids Michigan and got an usherette job at the Erlanger Theatre to see Oklahoma. Within two months she won a chorus place and was named understudy to leading soprano Betty Jane Watson after impressing Oklahoma’s musical director.
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Chicago
Wanda Cochran
Erlanger Theater
Grand Rapids, Mich
Miss Cochran
Oklahoma
Betty Jane Watson
Three Nazi Divisions Trapped As Soviet Offensive Advances
Russian forces drove toward East Prussia with a major push on an 80 mile front from Augustow to the Niemen as 150000 troops massed for the assault. The war bulletin reported three trapped divisions in a cauldron while Sandomierz yielded a crossing for reinforcements as Baltic operations neared Tartu and the Pskov region.
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East Prussian
East Prussia
Moscow
Berlin
Augustow
Poland
Niemen River
Lithuania
Sandomierz
Silesia
Warsaw
Estonia
3Rd Baltic Army
Pskov
Peipas
Tartu
Lake
Vulgetmesa
U S Lifts Turkey Export Bans Amid Lend Lease Outlook
Washington reports the United States has removed export bans on Turkey and will ship civilian goods on cash terms to the neutral who cut relations with Germany two weeks earlier. Military aid under Lend Lease may resume soon, with the board coordinating shipments, while British origin goods dominate existing aid.
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Washington
United States
Turkey
Germany
Combined
Britain
Employment Service restricts farm workers under directive
Under a presidential directive the United States Employment Service in Washington cannot accept agricultural employees until cleared by County Agent Mark Miller. Farm hands are referred to the County Agent or State Extension Service before interviews for defense jobs.
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United States Employment Service
Washington Street
Mark Miller
State Extension Service
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People's Stora
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House of Blue White Diamonds
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Alan Marshal
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Universal
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