Connally to Push Senate Vote on Six State Department Picks
Senator Connally of Texas vows to force a Senate vote on six State Department nominees led by Joseph Grew, saying he will stay in session all winter if needed. Opponents seek to delay via filibuster or Pepper resolution to send nominations back to the White House, while some as yet tolerate a recess.
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Washington
Connally
D-Tex
Senate
State Department
Foreign Relations Committee
Joseph C. Grew
Roosevelt
Grant
Guffey
Grew
Pepper Dala
White House
Pepper
Guffy
D.-Pa
Murray
D.-Mont
LaFollette
Wis
Wallace
Deaths in Big Spring area claim several local residents
Obituaries report Isaac E. Shank dying at his Big Spring home with multiple children and grandchildren listed as survivors. John H. Kline of Beaver Creek dies at 72 after years of illness. Effie Alice Neufer of Leitersburg dies in Waynesboro Hospital. Luther Miller Greenawalt, once in local ice cream business, passes in Waynesboro. Sallie Frantz of Walkersville dies at 69 in Frederick Hospital with numerous siblings and children named. Funeral plans note church services and interment for each.
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Isaac E. Shank
Big Spring
Pearl Shank
Laura Kelly
Clearspring
Abe Moore
Roger
Ronald
Paul
Millard
Isaac
Pittsburgh
Dallas Ward
Huyetts
Crossroads
Lewis Yedrick
Big Pool
Charles
Brunswick
John H. Kline
Beaver Creek
Wolfsville
George and
Laura Dubel Kline
Beaver Creek Lutheran Church
M.A. Ashby
Lutheran Cemetery
Effie Alice Neufer
Michael Neufer
Waynesboro Hospital
Washington County
John Wolf
Leitersburg
Lutheran Church
Waynesboro Shoe Company
Grove Funeral Home
Waynesboro
I. D. Worman
Green Hill Cemetery
Luther Miller Greenawalt
South Potomac Street
Sallie (Bell) Frantz
J. Gilmore Frantz
Walkersville
Frederick Hospital
Jonas Bell
Frederick County
In memory of my father on his two year anniversary
A son Harold Kiser and wife Ady remember their father who died two years ago on December 15 1942 they long to clasp his hand hear his voice and see his smile that meant so much to them today
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Harold Kiser
Ady
In Memoriam Clyde Allen Dougherty Tribute
A memorial note honors Clyde Allen Dougherty who departed this life four years ago on December 18. The homage from his parents, sisters, and brother expresses enduring love and remembrance.
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Clyde Allen Dougherty
Tokyo Says Our Landing Point Wreckage Strewn
AP reports broadcast from Tokyo claims waters near a Japanese landing point on Mindoro island are filled with wrecked American ships and transports. It notes vessels burning, two medium transports five small transports and landing barges still afloat, while Japanese attacks continue as MacArthur cites negligible enemy air activity with two planes down.
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Tokyo
United States
San Jose
Mindoro Island
Federal Communications Commission
Douglas MacArthur
Electoral College Meeting Today To Cast Vote For FDR
The 1944 winter convocation of the electoral college was held today on 48 campuses. It votes 432 to 99 for Franklin D Roosevelt's fourth term with 531 electors casting ballots. The college electors, not the people, choose the President, and laws allow them to vote for another candidate if needed.
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Electoral College
Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Yank Captives Are Shot Down
A grim description from a war front shelter recalls a massacre as German troops opened fire with pistols and machine guns on prisoners, killing many while others lay hidden in mud. Survivors, including Pvt Geem and T5 Appman, describe the slaughter and escape under a Tiger tank threat. Time reporter Jack Belden rode with the first survivors to safety.
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Pvt
William F. Geem
Elizabethtown
Charles F. Appman
Verona
Harold W. Billow
Mount Joy
Jack Belden
Time Magazine
Maryland faces eight point nine million surplus
State Comptroller J Millard Tawes estimated today that Maryland's treasury surplus for the next fiscal year ending June 10 would reach 8932300 71 dollars. The figure signals a strong revenue position for the state and reflects careful budgeting by state officials.
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Annapolis
Mad
J. Millard Tawes
Maryland
Boonsboro High Student Writes Interesting Hog Project
Boonsboro High junior Harold Remshore details his vocational agriculture hog project begun after a $100 loan. He describes buying a sow, building two hog houses, farrows, sales of breeding pigs and fat hogs, prizes at shows, and ongoing herd expansion with costs and income.
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Boonsboro High
Air Medal awarded to Sgt Henry G. Doub’s father
Harry G. Doub of Haerstown received an Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster for gallantry in action and meritorious achievement in flights against the enemy on behalf of his son S/Sgt Henry G. Doub of the Eighth Air Force. The decoration was presented by Maj. Gen. Philip Hayes, Third Service Command head, as announced by the War Department.
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Harry G. Doub
Haerstown
Henry G. Doub
Eighth Air Force
Europe
War Department
Doub
Philip Hayes
Third Service Command
Invest in the Best Buy War Bonds and Stamps Ad
An advertising brief urges readers to invest in War Bonds and Stamps and then buy reliable jewelry at Saum's located at 21 Jonathan Street. It promotes trusted purchases and honors wartime thrift with a local retailer emphasis.
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Saum'’S
Jonathan Si
Adv
INITIALS IN GOLD FREE On Billfolds at Saum's
Christmas trees advertised by Christmastrees Co at the southwest corner of Dual Highway and Cleveland Ave. Advance sale notes free initials in gold on billfolds purchased, likely an in-store offer linked to holiday decor.
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Saum’s
Jonathan St
Co. S. Coss
Dual Highway
Cleveland Ave
Second CIO Worker Announces Ward 2 Council Candidacy
Harry V. Smith 31 of 218 Summit Avenue a lifelong Hagerstown resident and United Auto Workers Local 42 vice president announced his bid for the Republican nomination for councilman of Ward 2. Smith the second CIO unionist to run after Albert Hedden a Democrat in Ward 3 is married with four children and has worked at Fairchild Aircraft Corp. for years living in Ward 2 for two decades.
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Harry V. Smith
Summit Avenue
Hagerstown
United Auto Workers Union
CIO
Smith
Albert Hedden
Hedden
Fairchild Aircraft Corp
Round and Square Dance at Span ish Danceland
Every Friday and Saturday night at Span ish Danceland Kemp's Mill Tavern Uncle Roy and His Dixie Serenaders Your Old Friend Ross perform.
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Kemp's Mill
Roy
Dixie Serenaders
Ross
Reds Battle in Buda Streets Amid Red Offensive
London reports Russian troops pushed across the Danube from Pest into Buda as violent street fighting rages in the Hungarian capital. Soviet forces blast inner defenses and reach the Slovak border while Pravda cites heavy German losses and widespread Soviet offensives around Budapest.
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London
Paris
Danube
Pest
Buda
Budapest
Moscow
Red Army
Communist Party
Pravda
svest—_Pravda
U.S. Army and Navy Journal
Russia
Tehran
Fet
Maggorod
Two Autos Crash Injuring Several East of Hagerstown
Saturday night about 7 o'clock two cars collided head on on the western pike two miles west of Hagerstown. Stanley Schetrempf Clearspring Route 1 drove the east bound car and William McKee Brindle Mawinsburg Route 1 the west bound. Schetrompf was charged with failure to keep to the right. Mrs Brindle sustained teeth face and chest injuries while Brindle injured in the legs. Other occupants had minor injuries. Junior Turner Sharpsburg pike was treated after his car hit a gas pump and broke a telephone pole at St James Road. Deputy Harvey Mauswans investigated.
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Hagerstown
Bruce Spickler
Stanley Schetrempf
Clearspring
William McKee Brindle
Mawinsburg
Schetrompf
Jane Brindle
Brindle
Junior Turner
Sharpsburg Pike
St. James Road
Harvey Mauswans
Liquor Seizure Leads to Arrest in City Raid
Federal agents and local officers raided a residence on the 400 block George street arresting William McSherry on a charge of possessing intoxicants for sale. Two Hagerstown women and a Greencastle man were detained with no charges specified. Officers recovered whiskey, rum, wine, beer, and an ice tub used for beer cooling, with bottles hidden under upholstered furniture. McSherry faces a city court hearing tomorrow at 2:30 AM.
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William McSherry
George Street
Hagerstown
Greencastle
McSherry
Germans Renew V Weapon Attack on England
British Ministry of Home Security reports renewed V weapon raids on England last night with damage and casualties cited by authorities.
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London
Jengland
Ministry of Home Security
Weather lowers to 23 as cold snap continues
Kee dysville weatherman J. A. Miller reports temperatures fell to 23 early today after a high of 44 yesterday. The Weather Bureau forecasts possible snow tonight with clearing skies and colder conditions tomorrow.
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Mercury
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Weather Bureau
Hagerstown air force heroes cited for meritorious service
Pfc John R Harkrader of 628 North Mulberry Street Hagerstown receives a certificate of meritorious achievement at an Eight Air Force Liberator station in England with praise from officers and airmen for untiring devotion to duty. Pfc Harkrader an anti aircraft gunner, formerly a welder at Fairchild Aircraft and Woodland Way Junior High attendee, is to be joined by his wife Mrs J R Harkrader of Mercersburg and his parents at the Mulberry Street home. Also named is Pfc Raymond R Mills 23 son of Mr and Mrs Amos C Mills of Clear Spring Route 2, an ordnance ammunition man in a Fifteenth Air Force B 24 group in Italy, noted for the crucial role of arming bombs. Mills, a Clearspring High School graduate, married to Charlotte L Repp with three children, formerly worked for Thomas C Mills Co. Pvt William C Fraley of Bester Street has moved to the A A F Band Barracks at Sheppard Field Texas with new address 13140991 3706 TH A A F Base Unit B T C 524th A A F Band, Bks 534 Sheppard Field Texas.
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Pfc
John R. Harkrader
North Mulberry Street
Hagerstown
England
Daily Mail
Harkrader
Pfc. Harkrader
Fairchild Aircraft Company
Woodland Way
J. R. Warkrader
Mercersburg
Mulberry Street
S. W. Ralls
Route 5
Joseph Ralls
Nellie Ralls
Pope Avenue
Pfc. Ralls
Fairchilds
Raymond R. Mills
Amos C. Mills
Clearspring Rt. 2
Fifteenth Air
AAF
Italy
Ordnanc
Mills
Clearspring
Thomos C. Mills Co
Charlotte L. Repp
William C. Fraley
R. C. Fraley
Bester Street
A.A.F Band
Sheppard Field
Texas
T.H A.A.F
B.T.C
A. A F. Band
Sheppard Field Texas
Nazis Got What They Came For In Siegfried Line Patrol
In Germany near the Siegfried line Pvt Bonner Schulenburg of the Second Infantry Division repelled a German patrol after hearing footsteps. A German lieutenant, seeking a furlough, was shot after explaining his plan to learn American positions. The lieutenant was wounded. a sergeant earned a furlough in a POW camp.
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Germany
Siegfried Line
Pvt
Bonner Schulenburg
Texas
Bonner
Diamond Wedding Ring Sets Guaranteed Quality $24 Up
Diamond wedding ring sets offered at $24 and up as ideal gifts. Large selection showcased for customers seeking quality engagement and wedding bands.
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Saum's
Jonathan St. Adv
Local military moves and training updates from wartime notices
Cpl Grover C Russman is reassigned from Geneva Nebraska to an air base in Kansas with address 13158584 504th Bombardment Group 421st Bombardment Squadron HAAF c o General Delivery Herrington Kansas Evelyn L Gerhart 21 graduates from Naval Training School Yeomen W Cedar Falls Iowa selected for specialty training after recruit tests and civilian experience course includes shorthand typing and naval correspondence Mr and Mrs James French notified son Pfc Leon W French has landed safely in England English people described as serious minded war conscious yet friendly
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Cpl
Grover C. Russman
Geneva
Neb. T
Kansas
504Th
H.A.A.F
C-O General Delivery
Herrington
Evelyn L. Gerhart
John L. Gerhar
Hager Street
Naval Trainin School
Yeomen-W
Iow State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Iowa
James French
Pfc
Leon W. French
England
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Columbia College
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Jonathan Sta
Yingling Auto Sales & Service
Frederick St
Martha
Harry
Nellie Smith
Martha Bell
Mary Farrow
Fred Sowers
Shippensburg
Albert
Memoriam
Community Finance Service, Inc
Washington Street
The
Associated Press
Summers
Harold Remsburg
Boonsboro High School
Harold
Harold Remshore
By Harold Remsburg
Ohio
Chester
Middle West
Hagerstown Trust Company
Earl W. Miller
Georgetown
Farrow
Baltimore
Sgt. Doub
Air Medal
Mayflower
Fleigh Motor Co
Oak Hill Avenues
Used Car Department
Frederick Street
Mr. Wilhelm Thumma Motor Co
Heart Shield
J. R. Markley
N. Locust Sr
L. A. Zitzman
Sir W. Church St
Reds
Wastheneton St
General Acce
Hagers
D. Earl Neil
Ptance Corp. Industrial Loan
Reichard’s
W. Antietam St
General Ins
Agey
Dealers In Sound Insurance Professional Arts
Arthur F. Detrow
Mer
Goodyear Service
Balto. & Locust Sts
Value Center
Summit Ave
Summit’ Ave
Courthouse
Consumers Credit Service
ACTEL
Consumers Credit Service, Inc
407
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