Democratic Convention Convenes Wallace Battles To Be Renamed
Chicago July 19 report says War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes withdrew from the Democratic vice presidential race hours before the convention opens. Roosevelt reportedly favors Truman and Douglas as potential second choices while Wallace campaigns for renomination in Chicago Stadium. Some Southern dissent exists for Byrd, with platform disputes over racial and minority planks shadowing the proceedings.
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Wallace
Chicago
James F. Byrnes
Chicago Stadium
Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Missouri
Supreme Court
Wiliam O. Douglas
Henry A. Wallace
Andrew Jackson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bicycle thefts continue despite vigilance in town
Dr T A Chappelesr on Fry Avenue and Roy Butts on Elizabeth Street reported bicycle thefts last night and today. Despite close police vigilance the thefts persist largely due to owner carelessness. Most stolen cycles are recovered as youths take a ride and abandon them when tired.
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T. A. Chappelesr
Fry Avenue
Roy Butts
Elizabeth Street
Three Divorces Docketed In Local Court Today
Three suits of divorce were docketed this month bringing total to sixteen for the period. Filed are Mary Elizabeth Hawbaker versus Rush Hawbaker Lillian R Martin versus James A Martin and Muab el C Weller versus Homer J Weller. Attorneys Harvey M Miller Martin L Ingram and John J Allen appear.
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Mary Elizabeth Hawbaker
Rush Hawbaker
Lillian R. Martin
James A. Martin
Muabel C. Weller
Homer J. Weller
Harvey M. Miller
Martin L. Ingram
John J. Allen
Bond drive raises Wash County total beyond quota
Washington counties Fifth War Loan bond drive climbs to 5 478 891 40 with Series E sales at 611 412 50. The effort still needs about 400 000 to meet EB quota of one million within two weeks. Dr Henry T McDonald resigns as Storer College president after 45 years in Harpers Ferry West Virginia.
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Washington County
Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond
McDonald
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Henry T. McDonald
Storer College
Two County Boys Get Air Medals
Official confirmation shows Richard B. Snyder received the Air Medal and eight Oak Leaf Clusters for bombing missions in North Africa Sicily and Italy. Now at Langley Field Virginia he returned from foreign duty six months ago and is the son of Mr and Mrs Walter Snyder. Another local awardee is Sst Neal M Grave son of Mr and Mrs I N Grove Williamsport Route 2. Announcement was made July 6 in New Guinea by Lt Gen George C Kenney commander of Allied Far East Air Forces.
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Richard B. Snyder
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Langley Field
Snyder
Walter Snyder
South Potomac Street
Neal M. Grave
I. N. Grove
Williamsport
New Guinea
George C. Kenney
Allied
Far East Air Forces
Fish Hatchery Likely Site Discussed by Maryland Panel
The Came and Inland Fish Commission will review a possible hatchery site in Maryland or adjoining county at its semiannual Baltimore meeting. They will also consider reserving forest land in Allegany County for wild turkey study and aligning Maryland dove season with Federal law, moving to September 16 through October 15. Local hunters note doves thin after cool weather, predicting opposition to the change.
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Washington
Came and Inland Fish Commission
Baltimore
Maryland
Allegany County
Hiccoughing Patient Enters Tenth Day in Los Angeles
Lawrence Schone, a 21 year old air craft worker, has spent his tenth day hiccuping in Los Angeles. Glucose injections into his intestine briefly quieted the spasm yesterday but it soon returned and sped up again. Doctor Lloyd P. Tainter plans glucose treatment every three hours for 26 hours.
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Los Angeles
J Lawrence Schone
Llnyd P. Tainter
Lane Re-Elected committeeman Chicago July 19
Maryland delegates at the Democratic National Convention pledged 18 votes to Governor OConnor for vice president but did not nominate him. William Preston Lane Jr. was reelected national committeeman and Mrs. M. Alice Canoles was chosen national committeewoman. Senator Tydings noted Wilma Cronin was withdrawn for party harmony while Roosevelt renomination was not discussed.
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Chicago
Maryland
O’conor
W William Preston Lane, Jr
Hageretown
M. Alice Canoles
Baltimore
Millard B. Tydings
Wilma Cronin
Harford
Roosevelt
Progress Corp to Sell Building in Hagerstown
Stockholders of the Hagerstown Progress Corporation receive letters urging stock assignment to allow sale of the East Wilson Boulevard building to a local manufacturer. Directors have authority to acquire all stock for the buyer who will take title after current occupant yields the premises. Stock sold at 16 dollars a share, liquidated at 12 dollars, an increase of five percent on investment. The one story concrete block building was built years ago for a woven label firm, later leased to Fairchild Corporation. The prospective buyer is said to be a wood products manufacturer.
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Hagerstown Progress Corporation
East Wilson Boulevard
Fairchild Corporation
Corporation
Capt Weddle Led Advance Units In St Lo Assault
Capt Le roy Weddle of Hagerstown formerly with Company 5 led advance units in the St Lo assault according to an Associated dispatch. He helped clear the German bastion and held defense positions along the Vire river. Six Germans were killed as they tried to cross, and Weddle had 14 years with Company B before the First Maryland infantry joined federal service.
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Leroy Weddle
Hagerstown
Company 5
Federal
St. Lo
Vire
Weddle
First Maryland Infantry
Yanks Capture Port Of Livorno
Rome reports the Fifth Army under Mark W. Clark captured Livorno after a wide pincers move, forcing German forces from the port near Pisa. Polish troops seized Ancona on the Adriatic, with more than 2,000 prisoners taken and large materiel captured as the pursuit continued northward along the coast.
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Rome
Mark W. Clark
Livorno
Italy
Ancona
Adriatic
Leghorn
Pisa
Genoa
Arno
Bay of
Normandy battle attrition estimate from Montgomery
Gen Bernard Montgomery announced in France that 156,000 German soldiers had been killed wounded or captured in six weeks of the Normandy campaign. He pledged that British and American troops would face no difficulty in defeating the Germans in France.
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Montgomery
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
Normandy
French Patriots Target Nazi Fuel as Sabotage Widens
French patriot organizations intensify acts against German fuel supplies across France, burning gasoline, oil and coal stocks and sabotaging mines and plants. Reports from Vichy note 20 storage tanks destroyed in Rhone valley and southern France, despite German sentries. Patriots adapt tactics by region, with northern coal fields seeing arson of timber stores used for mining operations.
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Porteroy
Spain
France
Vichy
Iiqard
Rhone Valley
Great Northern
Allies Break Rommel Line In Normandy Advance
British and Canadian troops breached the Orne river defenses and entered the Caen area as American forces secured St Lo and cut the St Lo Periers road. Front dispatches say Germans fell back one to two miles along much of the 48 mile front while raids and shelling continued in St Lo.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied, Expeditionary Force
Erwin Rommel
Orne
Caen
Faurbourg de Vaucelles
Cagny
Vimont
Normandy
St. Lo
Fall caused death of local air forces Sgt Ralph H Buchanan
Relatives of Staff Sgt Ralph H Buchannn learn he died in England five months ago after falling from an upper story of a bomb damaged hotel. A bombsight operator with the Army Air Forces overseas for nine months, he saw action over Germany and had earlier worked for Supplee Willis Jones Milk. His parents were the late Mr and Mrs John C Buchanan of Cearfoss.
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Ralph H. Buchanann
England
Buchanan
Army Air Forces
Germany
Supplee- Willis-Jones Milk Company
John C. Buchanan
Cearfoss
Two Towns Engulfed By Paricutin Lava Flow
MEXICO CITY July 19 Mil lions of tons of molten lava pour along a wide front from Paricutin Mexico's new born volcano engulfing two towns Parangaricutira is buried and three others face threat evacuations under way. Lava moves about 200 yards daily toward Zacan San Francisco Parihan and Zirosto as Indians flee with belongings while explosions echo from the lava center and church ruins in Paricutin-Tarascan area are threatened.
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Mexico City
Paricutin
Mexico
Volecano
Parangaricutira
Zacan
San Francisco Parihan
Zirosto
Tarascan
County Clinic Model Aims to Cut Deafness Across State
Baltimore health officials say a Washington county program for preventing deafness through school pediatric care will be extended statewide by the State Health Department. Dr. Donald F. Proctor reports 80 to 90 percent of school children with hearing impairment could be aided, with five to six years needed to reach most affected children. If successful, future generations may see fewer adults with chronic ear, nose, and throat disease. The Washington county project began in Hagerstown in February 1942 after talks with Johns Hopkins otolaryngology staff.
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Washington County
Maryland
State Health Department
Baltimore Health
Donald F. Proctor
Baltimore
Fee
Hagerstown
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Curtis F
Training saved Marine F. D. Lewis at depot front gate
PORT CHICAGO Calif July 19 Marine Corp. F. D. Lewis of Enid Okla credited combat training for saving his life after a flash lit the depot front gate. He said he dropped to the filter from force of habit, avoiding more serious injury despite severe body cuts.
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Port Chicago
Calif
Marine Corp
F. D. Lewis
Enid
Okla
Lewis
Burns and Shock Kill Convention Delegate
John F. Nolan a 53 year old Ohio delegate at large to the Democratic convention died at Walther Memorial hospital from burns and shock after stepping into a bath tub of scalding water in his LaSalle hotel room Nolan a Steubenville attorney testified to the tragedy in Chicago July 12 1932 funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Chicago
John F.nolan
Ohio
Walther Memorial Hospital
LaSalle Hotel
Nolan
Steubenville
Two queer eggs reported from Rhode Island Red hens
M J Weteu displays two unique eggs laid by Rhode Island Red hens within days. A small egg appeared on Sunday July 9 and a much larger egg weighing one pound was found in the henhouse on Wednesday.
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M. J. Weteu
Rhode Island
Six Russian Armies Breach Hitler Front Lines
Six Soviet armies cracked through large gaps on the eastern front as Konev’s 1st Ukraine Army advanced toward Lwow and the Bug river, with Yeremenko’s forces pushing into Latvia. The drive extended 550 miles, crossing the Bug and approaching the Polish border near Skomorokhi, Kaminonka, and Busk while Berlin acknowledged the worsening German position.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Hitler
Ivan S. Konev
Andrei I. Yeremenko
Latvian Republic
Konev
Ukraine
Lwow
Kowel
Bug River
Selets Belski
Sokal
London
Germany
Russia
Skomorokhi
Kouey
Kaminonka
Theaily
Busk
Bortkov
Berlin
Fanatical Paratroops Making A Last Stand At St Lo
St Lo, France July 19. Germans battered the wrecked city as American doughboys dig in to defend the prize won after eight days of fighting. Explosions crash along the front while paratroopers and advancing troops hold positions in ruined streets and buildings.
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France
St. Lo
Pvt Woodrow Rowe Wounded in France
Pvt Woodrow Rowe son of Mrs Alice Rowe of Salem avenue was wounded in France as a member of the 29th Infantry Division though he sent a message to his mother saying the injuries were not serious nurses at his base hospital wrote a letter for him friends may obtain his address by telephoning his mother.
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Woodrow Rowe
Alice Rowe
Salem Avenue
France
Alt
29Th Infantry Division
Nazi Railroad Yards Blasted Over Southern Germany
London dispatch reports nearly 2000 American heavy bombers and fighters striking a large network of railroad yards and airfields in southern Germany. Targets included Munich area facilities as Allied forces continued coordinated Germany attacks with Luftwaffe activity noted near Munich.
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London
Germany
Munich
Britain
Italy
Fourteen Naturalized In Circuit Court Ceremony
Fourteen city and county residents were granted U S citizenship in circuit court this morning in informal yet impressive ceremonies. The group includes eight Germans, three Italians, two Yugoslavs, two Russians, two English, and a South American. Harry A. Shafter and Leister Cook led the proceedings, with the latter deputy miner of the Bureau of Naturalization assisting.
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U.S
Harry A. Shafter
Leister Cook
Bureau of Naturalization
Cisterns Going Dry As County Sees Water Hauling
Cisterns in the southern part of the county are going dry as residents haul water from springs. J. A. Miller, Keedysville weather observer, reports many calls for water and noutheasterly signs of rain may bring relief within 24 hours. A morning wind and thunder heads foretell rain while temperatures fell from the day’s high to a cooler night.
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J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Drouth
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Oeflahoma
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Golden State Limited
Here
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Rommel
Orne River
San Juan
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Treacy
Java
Edmund Hofmeister
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