Germans Fall Back At St. Lo
Allied forces push toward Lessay and Cherbourg peninsula as American infantry and tanks advance one to three miles. The front from St Lo to the sea is on the move with German withdrawals underway. American units occupy several villages and tighten near Lessay on the west coast while a southern advance flanks St Lo from the east.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherboug Peninsula
Supreme Command
United States Army
St. Lo
Tts
Lessay
Sc Lo
First Army
Nor
Fairchild Urges Full Speed On Cargo Plane Production
R A Boutelle general manager of the Fairchild Aircraft Division appeals to all employees for total cooperation as production of the first cargo plane prototype nears completion. He says the flight test date will be set soon and stresses 100 percent effort, faster assembly, and elimination of delays. The labor management committee distributes a booklet detailing the Fairchild Suggestion System to boost time saving ideas.
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R. 8
Boutette
Fairchild Aircraft Division
Boutelie
Bautelle
Boutelle
Fairchild
Army Officers Tour Fairchild Plants
More than 100 student officers from the Army Industrial College in Washington toured Fairchild Aircraft Division plants this week to study modern wartime industrial operation. The group included a colonel, four lieutenant colonels, 40 majors, 34 captains, 15 first lieutenants and nine second lieutenants. all officers are in the Army Air Forces from various regions. In a separate item, Christina Ann Patterson, 2, daughter of Mrs. M. I. Patterson of Patterson Hotel, suffered a scalp laceration after falling from a rocking chair. She was treated at the Washington County Hospital emergency room and sent home.
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Army Industrial College
Washington
D. C
Fairchild Aircraft Division
Army Air Forces
Christina Ann Patterson
M. I. Patterson
Patterson Hotel
Washington County Hospital
Chamber Head Sees Huge Postwar Boom In Our Trade With Russia
Washington reports Eric Johnston president of the United States Chamber of Commerce foresees a large postwar trade boom with the Soviet Union after touring Russia. He cites demand for mining and industrial machinery ships trucks railway equipment and credits long term loans for Russia to pay for imports. Johnston believes Russia aims for a high living standard and does not expect sharp competition in future international trade.
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Washington
Russia
Eric Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
Soviet Union
Marshal Stalin
Johnston
United States
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
New York City
Stalin
U. S
Hearing For Alleged Price Violator Here
A summary hearing will be held this afternoon by the price division of the ration board for a Hagerstown retailer charged by the OPA with selling a used refrigerator above the ceiling price. This marks the first such hearing by the price panel in over a month in Hagerstown.
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Price Division
Hagerstown
OPA
Germans Accused of Desecrating Pushkin Grave
Moscow reports from Red Star Correspondent Maj. Boris Azbukin allege German forces desecrated the grave of Alexander Pushkin, removed memory relics, and burned many manuscripts. The dispatch notes the poet’s prominence and compares the act to desecrating Stratford or Mount Vernon, with artefacts taken to Germany.
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Moscow
Pushkin
Red Star
Boris Azbukin
Alexander Pushkin
Stratford On Avon
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Azbukin
Andrei I. Yeremenko
Riga
Pushkinskie Gori
Pushkin Mountains
Germany
U S Tanker Harrisburg Sunk Off Colombian Coast
Survivors who reached Barranquilla report the American tanker Harrisburg torpedoed by a German submarine off the Colombian coast. The number of rescued crew members remains unclear as the account focuses on the sinking and arrival of survivors.
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Barrangilla
Colombia
Harrisburg
Columbian
Freshour Acquitted on Trash Dumping Charge
Raymond N Freshour of West Franklin Street was found not guilty by Magistrate Harry K Snyder in city court this morning of dumping trash along a county road. The warrant was filed after a county commissioner reported trash and letters addressed to Freshour were found. Freshour said he pays for waste removal and suspects youths hired a half dollar to haul away paper ended up at the dump beyond Lesteshire, insisting he would not have dumped waste if he had a car. County officials have instructed enforcement to curb road dumping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond N. Freshour
Franklin Street
Harry KE. Snyder
Freshour
Board of County Commissioners
Lestershire
Band Leader Powell Faces Draft Charge in Detroit
Detriot July 14 Teddy Powell a band leader, 35, is free on $3,000 bond and to return to New York July 25 for examination on a Federal charge he conspired with a draft board clerk to evade military service. He waived Detroit examination. FBI says Powell gave gifts to John E Wilson to obtain delays.
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Detroit
Liberty
Chestra
Teddy Powell
New York
Powell
U. S&s
J. Stanley Hurd
Hurd
Robert A. Guerin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John E. Wilson
Wilson
Guerin
Maryland trio to back Roosevelt on first Chicago ballot
Attorney General William C. Walsh E Brooke Lee and W Preston Lane Jr say they will vote for Franklin D Roosevelt on the first ballot at the Chicago convention. They stress war winning and a secure peace as key aims and note no formal commitment from O Connor. The governor had delayed comment after Roosevelt announced a fourth term.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Roosevelt
Chicago
O'Conor
William C. Walsh
Cumberland
E. Brooke Lee
Montgomery County
W. Preston Lane
Hagerstown
Walsh
Lee
Having Difficulty In Getting 29th Nazi
Lt Col Francis Gabreski of Oil City PA, a top American ace in the Eighth Air Force based in England, says he plans to fly next week hoping to add to his 28 kills before a thirty day leave on August 1. Fellow ace Capt Don Gentile of Piqua OH has 30 total with 23 in combat.
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A. U.S
Eighth Air Force
England
Francis Gabreski
Oil City
America
Gabreski
Don
Gentile
Piqua
Ohio
Auto Makers Plan For Reconversion After Nazis Fall
Top automobile makers and the War Production Board prepared a plan for partial resumption of passenger car production after Nazi collapse. The blue order reconversion system would place orders for parts and materials in advance to speed the process after X-Day. Lear Relieves McNair Army command shifts as Lt General Ben Lear takes over ground forces relieving Lt General Lesley J. McNair who assumes an overseas assignment after earlier wounding in North Africa.
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Washington
War Production Board
Automobile Industry Advisory Committee
Keefer Will Probated in Indian Springs District
The will of Thomas Jefferson Keefer a farmer from Indian Springs District was probated by the Orphans Court this morning. His estate is to be divided equally among his three children.
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Thomas Jefferson Keefer
Indian Springs
Orphans’ Court
Baby Kidnapped From New York Hospital
A six month old girl, Barbara Anne Goggin, was abducted from the New York Foundling Hospital. Police and district attorney officials launched a citywide drag net, checking terminals and hospitals as detectives pursue leads. The family faced no known enemies, and the operation proceeded as scheduled for the mother’s gall bladder surgery.
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New York
Barbara Anne Goggin
New York Foundling Hospital
District Attorney
Alfred J. Scotti
Patrick Kenny
Scotti
Barbara Anne
Walter Goggin
FDR Names Hinckley Contract Settlement Director
President Roosevelt selects Robert Hinckley former assistant Secretary of Commerce to head contract settlement responsible for terminating billions in munitions contracts when the war ends Hinckley resigns as vice president of Sperry Corporation White House says nomination will go to the Senate when Congress reconvenes
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Washington
Iuly
Roosevelt
Robert Hinckley
Hinckley
Sperry Corporation
White House
Senate
Congress
No Excitement After Baltimore Vice Raid
Police Lieut. Alexander Emerson and his vice squad stood by as an officer answered a call to a racing bookmaker's office just raided. The caller asked about excitement. the officer dismissed it, noting Emerson stays where he is every minute of the day.
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Baltimore
Alexander Emerson
Emerson
Still Can Smile Through Misfortunes Galore
Eight year old Jacqueline Jenner of Chicago has endured nineteen eye operations and multiple illnesses including scarlet fever measles pneumonia and several injuries while living mainly in hospitals. She faces bulbar poliomyelitis and hopes to go home soon as her mother Opal Jenner notes.
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Los Angeles
Jacqueline Jenner
Opal Jenner
Jacqueline
Plane plunge rescue: Claymore survives high altitude fall
Oklahoma City dispatch reports Joseph E. Claymore, 38, a civilian sine engineer at the Oklahoma City Air Service Command, was ejected from a B 29 during routine high altitude flight near Enid. He parachuted to safety, sustained minor lacerations, and awaited observation. he delayed his ripcord until air level was breathing. He spoke of air tunnellike pressure and planned to return home to California.
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Oklahoma City
Joseph E. Claymore
Oklahoma City Air Service Command
Army
Enid
Okla
Claymore
Enid Army Air Field Hospital
California
De Gaulle Hailed As A Returning Hero
Algerians hailed Gen. Charles De Gaulle as a returning hero during Bastille Day ceremonies in Algiers. Crowds crowded downtown balconies and the post office plaza as De Gaulle reviewed a parade of well-equipped French and Allied troops. United States, British, and South African units led the hour-long review.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Post Office
French National Committee
Washington
Ottawa
de Gaulle
United States
Reds Nearing Kaunas After Wilno Fails
London dispatch reports a Swiss radio commentator warning of a major crisis in Germany. Confidence waning, nervousness rising in the German camp as Hitler's HQ moves west, Rundstedt is dismissed, and intensified persecution of Jews noted. Berlin cites Rundstedt ill health.
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London
Germany
Hitler
Rundstedt
Kar Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Guenther von Kluge
Berlin
von Rundstedt
Robot Raids Appear Checked
London reports its fourth straight bomb free night as flying bombs caused only scattered damage in southern counties. Allied pounding of launch sites and stronger fighter patrols along the coast appear to be reducing raids, though officials fear a rocket bomb of great size could be devised, a danger military men doubt can be sustained long.
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London
Hitler
Duchess Apples Move Out at $4 a Bushel in County
The first Duchess apples were picked in Hancock district today and commanded $4 per bushel, higher than last year, with transparent prices for early varieties ranging from $3.50 to $4. The Elberta peaches will follow in August, while growers list no current price ceilings and say dry weather hasn’t alarmed them yet.
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Hancock
Elbertas
Wheel and tire and radio thefts reported
Police probe thefts of a wheel and tire from a Chevrolet truck on Midway road parked at Security and a Transitone radio stolen from a boarding house room on North Locust Street reported by Dolan Bailey and Joe Laipersbeck.
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Joe Laipersbeck
Midway Road
Dolan Bailey
North Locust Street
Transitone
Farm sale in Welsh Run district nets £15000
Mrs Mary Kalbflesh Travinger of Bryan Place sold her 190 acre Welsh Run district farm to J T Miller of the same district for fifteen thousand pounds.
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Mary Kalbflesh Travinger
Bryan Place
Welsh Run
J. T. Miller
Hearing Testimony in Industrial Accident Claims
Members of the State Industrial Accident Commission hear testimony in Incal claim cases in the circuit courtroom today.
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State Industrial Accident Commission
Circuit
Russians Close In On Last Barriers To Warsaw
Soviet forces pressed from Wilno toward Kaunas and edged closer to the Baltic region, with Cherniakhovsky’s cavalry near Kmdytkuhnen and Rokossovsky’s units advancing toward Brest Litovsk. The Red Army closed on Pinsk as Germans evacuated Pinsk and fell back to defenses near Grodno and the Suwalki corridor. Memel remained a Baltic front objective as Soviet armies tightened the ring around Warsaw.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Wilno
Kaunas
Pinsk
Pripyat
Brest Litovsk
Luniniec
Warsaw
Riga
Tallinn
Estonia
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Kmdytkuhnen
East Prussia
Grodno
Suwalki
Cherniakhovsky
Konstantin K. Rokossov
Allies Push Through German Lines Near LivornoItaly
American forces pierced to Pastina, 13 miles east southeast of Livorno, and advanced two miles past San Luce as the 442nd regimental combat team of Japanese origin spearheaded the thrust. French troops on the American right wing also reported hard fighting gains along the frontline in Italy.
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Rome
Pastina
Livorno
Leghorn
San Luce
Era
Circus Seeks Solution After Fire Besets Ringling Bros
Hartford officials and a Hartford Bar Association committee hold talks to resume Ringling Brothers show. A spokesman says the circus can pay its obligations if operating, but idle assets would lose value. Lieutenant Governor Hadden notes city seeks to remove the circus. a $300,000 bond proposal backs the assets, filed with Superior Court Judge King. The bond plan will be presented to the judge for approval.
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Hartford, Conn
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Hartford Bar Association
William L. Hadden
Bar Association
Hartford City
Hadden
Hartford
Superior Court
John HH. King
King
Violence erupts as bomb attack hits central Jerusalem
In Jerusalem a Palestine constable was killed and another seriously wounded during a gunfight with about 12 heavily armed men who detonated bombs and set a four story building ablaze in the city center last night. About a dozen police billets in the building were lightly wounded as explosions rocked the area.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Anu
Seyepa Pritzeh
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