Truk raid marks new U S Navy assault in Pacific
The United States launched a dawn attack on Truk Atoll with several hundred planes supported by battleships cruisers and destroyers. Adm Nimitz said forces commenced the attack but radio silence limited details. Truk, a key Japanese base, hosts warships airfields oil stores and vast supplies, with Liberator reconnaissance flights photographing the atoll.
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Truk
Mid- Pacific
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Navy
Kwajalein Atoll
Kerstone
Marshalls
United States
Pacific
Nimitz
Eniwetok
Kusaie
Ponape
Carolines
Rabaul
Kavieng
South Pacific
Adtairal Nimitz
U. S. Pacific
League of Nations
Solomons
James Q. Yawn
Chitto
Edward J. Sanders
Sioux City
Equator
Washington
Germans Quit Mightiest Base East of Pskov
The Soviet information bureau reports that East of Pskov German forces hold positions 100 miles east of Staraya Russa as the Red Army tightens the encirclement. Only a few thousand German officers escaped by air while Hitler ordered defenders to die by their own hand if hopeless. The last phase of the battle occurred in frost and snow with supply by hand as rain and mud hampered transport. Von Manstein’s eight divisions and air force failed to break out, with 21,900 Germans killed and significant losses of planes tanks and guns recorded between February 5 and 7.
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Staraya Russa
Lake Ilmen
Shimsit
Soviet Information Bureau
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Red Army
von Mannstein
Junkers
Larceny Reported Of Cakes From Hagerstown Bakery Trucks
City police were told yesterday of thefts including cakes worth 3.00 from Hagerstown Bakery trucks stored in a garage. Frank Shank reported an electric razor theft and Roy L. Rice a box of tools. A bicycle stolen from Richard Rawls was recovered by Patrolman Fred Rickard. Omar Klavvam noted as astronomer mathematician and poet.
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Hagerstown
Frank Shank
Potomac Street
Roy L. Rice
Mulberry Street
Richard- Rawls
Paper Mill Road
Fred Rickard
Pangborn Corporations Sets Up Profit Sharing Trust
A new profit sharing trust for Pangborn Corporation employees becomes effective December 1 1948. The plan deposits 15 percent of eligible employees 1943 base earnings into the fund, with continued annual contributions tied to company profits and employee five year service eligibility.
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Pangborn Corporation
Thomas W. Pangsborn
Youth Surrenders Coin To Aid Red Cross Fund
Ronald Doornberger nine, son of Mr and Mrs George Doornberger of 322 North Locust street, gave fifty cents to Deaconess Pearl Eckard for the Red Cross. He earned the money by putting on penny admissions to neighborhood magician shows. Red Cross officials praise the sacrifice and the lesson of earning money through effort. The article notes ongoing college and 70 high correspondence courses offered to servicemen and women at half price.
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Ronald
George Doornberger
North Locust Street
Pearl Eckard
Lutheran Church
Red Cross
Ted College
Will Oppose Repeal of Declaration of Intentions Act
Maryland State Senator Jos R Byrnes states he will oppose any move to repeal the Declarations of Intentions Act if a special legislative session is convened. He questions the wisdom of repealing a law protecting permanent residents and notes soldiers abroad may affect local voting under a soldier voting law push.
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Baltimore
Maryland and District of Columbia Industrial Union Council
CIO
Jos. R. Byrnes
Balti
Byrnes
General Assembly
O'Conor
Maryland
Hearing Clinic Shows Strong Early Gains in Washington
The hearing clinic, funded by patient family conditions, logged 436 admissions in its first year with 82 adults and 354 children. Over 1600 visits and 400 radon treatments aided 27 complete recoveries and 117 with satisfactory regression, easing ear, nose and throat issues locally.
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Baltimore
Washington
Allies Launch All Out Attack Upon Cassino
Allied forces assault Cassino city in close combat, holding about one third of the area while Germans press a frontal push from Carroceto to Anzio. In the Anzio beachhead German counterattacks fail as Allied air forces execute a massive bombing and strafing campaign with 1500 sorties.
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Cassino
Anzio
Cisterna
Carroceto
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
Dr Peate Addresses Hagerstown Kiwanis on Prayer
Rev Dr Norman Vincent Peale spoke at the Hagerstown Kiwanis luncheon on prayer titled How to Pray. He cited leaders in China and remarks about Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran, discussed Henry Ford’s religion, and shared anecdotes about Edison and a chat with Mrs Edison. The program was arranged by E J Hajek with John C O Connell presiding.
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Norman Vincent Peate
Marble Collegiate Church
New York City
Hagerstown Kiwanis Club
Hotel Alexander
Peale
Dr. Peale
China
Empire
Teheran
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Chiang Kai-Shek
Winston Churchill
Henry Ford
Ford
Thomas Edison
Paul M. Robinson
E. J. Hajek
John C. O'Connell
Local Men Report For Naval Service
Local Board No. 2 lists men who reported to the Navy Recruiting Station in Baltimore for induc tion on February 14. Names include Joel Bailey Spigler Williamsport Clement Berkley Repp Harold Grove Jr Hagerstown Willis Boyd Mason Hancock Woodrow David Poole Clear Spring George Lee Naley Funks town Donald Elvin Fleagile Smithsburg Edwin Cooper Hancock Walter Barnhart Leitersburg John Samuel Kelbaugh Smithsburg Roy Sampsell Mapleville Charles Williams Harris Boonsboro Charles Grafton Downs Williamsport Route 1. RUBBER FOOTWEAR UP WASHINGTON Feb 18 The Office of Price Administration announces a rise in retail price of waterproof rubber footwear offset by better wearing quality. Galoshes boots cost about six percent more due to more synthetic material. The whale shark has teeth too small for biting and feeds through the gills.
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John Samuel Kelbaugh
Smithsburg
Roy Allen Sampsell
Mapleville
Charles Williams Harris
Boonsboro
Charles Grafton Downs
Williamsport
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Yugoslav Partisans Cross into Northern Italy to Fight Germans
Yugoslav Partisan units have crossed the Slovene border into northern Italy and are engaged with German forces south of Caporetto. The 30th patriot division reportedly crossed the Piave between Gorizia and Tolomina and held the river’s right bank as heavy combat continued in Zagorje between Ludberg and Koprivilica.
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London
Italy
Caporetto
Josip Broz (Tito
Free Yugoslav Radio
Piave
Gorizia
Tolomina
Gorizna
Zagorje
Ludberg
Koprivilica
Y M C A Officials Confer in Hagerstown for Centennial Plans
Edmund Tomb secretary of the Central Atlantic Area of the Y M C A met Wednesday with Hagerstown’s centennial committee and Thursday with local Y officials and three others to discuss plans for observing the 100th anniversary. Attendees included George Updegratt Elmer Funkhouser and Edward Summers, with local secretaries Peters Quinn Leftwich Johnson and others. The talks covered mutual interests and Y program issues in general.
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Edmund Tomb
Central Atlantic
Hagerstown
George W. Updegratt
Elmer N. Funkhouser
4. K. Coffman
Edward S. Summers
Tomb
Y. Brimswick Railroad
Y’s
Cumberland
Frederick
Harold E. Peters
Alvin Quinn
Harry Leftwich
Brunswick
Everett Johnson
I. Bergstrom
Donald Kiepfer
Laura Durkee
Harry E. Wolf
Autoist Johnson posts collateral after accident arrest
Ralph E B Johnson, 38, of the 600 block Highland Way, was arrested yesterday evening by Patrolman Fred Rickard on a charge of failing to stop after an accident. Johnson posted $26.46 collateral for a hearing. An officer said a pickup driven by Johnson struck a car driven by Russell Byler on Jonathan Street near Washington early yesterday evening.
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Ralph EB. Johnson
Highland Way
Fred Rickard
Johnson
Russell Byler
Jonathan Street
Washington
Navy Dumbo rescue plane escorts pilot who bail out
In New Ireland, a Navy Dumbo search plane hunted for downed pilots when 2nd Lt. Martin Hannum of South Pasadena California bailed from his Army Airacobra due to engine trouble. The rescue plane then recovered Hannum after engine failure.
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Guadalcanal
New Ireland
Martin Hannum
South Pasadena
Captain Samuels Granted Leave After Roosevelt Intercession
The appeal by Miss Mayer to President Roosevelt led to a favorable recommendation from the Army surgeon general and a War department leave grant for Captain Samuels. Lieutenant Edwin Green clarified earlier reports, saying the captain was en route to a new station when the first leave request was made.
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Samuels
Mayer
Roosevelt
Army
War Department
Edwin Green
Transportation Corps
New York
Green
Printing partners credit daily card game for long relationship
In Chattanooga Tennessee on February 18 Arch Faidley 74 Charley Douglas 77 Sam Behm 80 and Dag Carruth 66 longtime printing partners say part of their 42 year partnership rests on a daily lunch hour card game. For over 30 years they and employees have played setback daily from 12 715 to 1 during lunch.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Arch Faidley
Charley Douglas
Sam Behm
Dag Carruth
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W. Washinston St
Icodemus
Pskov
Omar Klavvam
Alexander
U.S
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N. Y
Sexton Albert Deliyette
All Saints Episcopal Church
Bayside
House of Worship
Pangborn Corp
Hearing Clinic
Concordeel
Dr. Peate
Kiwanis Club
Naval Service
Presbyterian Church
Wayne Sellman
William H. Peters
Charles Town
Mr, Hoyle
Humphry ‘Davy
Pal
Silex
Algo Drip and Percolators
Harry S. Myers
North
Triangle Food Stores
Ernest W. Miller
South Potomac Street
Les
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone CO
Balto
Lawrence C. Card
Summit Avenue
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