Last Barrier Before Nazi Silesia Breached
Russian infantry stormed across the Wisla near Deblin Pulach, advancing toward German Silesia with tanks and artillery as Polish forces reportedly move with the Red Army. Izvestia quoted underground advices and BBC reports placed troops within 38 miles of Warsaw amid a major river crossing.
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Moscow
Wisla
Vistula
Warsaw
Silesia
Izvestia
BBC
NBC
Deblin-Pulach
Berlin
Deblin
Second Son A War Casualty
John P. Harness of the Security office reports that his family has suffered multiple casualties in World War II. His son Chief Quartermaster Keith Harness was lost in the Pacific aboard Liscombe Bay. Another son, First Lt. Marshall O. Harness, was wounded in the invasion of France and is recovering at an English hospital. Staff Sgt. John G. Harness survived a near miss after leaving his tail gun position during an attack on tap installations. A fourth son, Capt. Phillip C. Harness, serves in the Ordnance department on the Pacific coast.
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Liscombe Bay
Keith Harness
Pacific
John P. Harness
Marshall O. Harness
France
Marshall
John G. Harness
John
Phillip C. Harness
Ordnance Department
Pacific Coast
29D
Price charts to public for food price enforcement
Washington County Ration Board announces that beginning next week pocket sized ceiling price charts will be mailed to all food retailers for distribution to customers. Community service panels in seven sections survey retail prices as part of driving enforcement of legal prices. The small charts aim to acquaint housewives with current ceilings for all food commodities. Continued on Page 13.
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Washington County Ration Board
OPA
Washington
Thomas
Junior Police Quarters Ready for Opening Tomorrow
Captain William H. Peters announces the new Junior Police Club quarters beside the City Market. The rooms, newly decorated and well equipped, will open to members tomorrow at noon and daily from 12 to 9 pm. The facility is described as the best of its size in the nation for a city like Hagerstown.
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William H. Peters
Hagerstown
Gen Reckord's Nephew Killed In Action
Capt John Reckord of Baltimore aged 26, nephew of Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, was killed June 23 in the European theater. The War Department telegram disclosed the death to his family. Reckord's uncle serves as Provost Marshal General of the European theater and former CG of the Third Service Command with Baltimore headquarters.
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Baltimore
John Reckord
Milton A. Reckord
War Department
Reckord
Third Service Command
John G. Reckord
County Agent Aids Draft Boards Medical Survey program expands welfare services
The Washington County Welfare Board will collect social health and educational histories from registrants slated for pre induction physicals. Acting executive secretary Abner J. Kaplan announced the Medical Survey program to aid induction centers with relevant background information. The service, already in use in several Maryland counties, will begin locally with welfare staff gathering data.
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Washington County Welfare Board
Abner J. Kaplan
Welfare Board
Maryland
Kaplan
Welfare Office
Battle For Florence Reaches New Fury
The battle for Florence intensified as the Sth Army repelled fierce German counterattacks eight miles from the city. German forces reportedly used the Leaning Tower and church steeples for observation while barricades appeared in Arno north streets. American long range guns leveled railway cannons and took out tanks and dumps amid daylong shelling.
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Rome
Florence
Sth
Pisa
Arno
5Th Army
San Romano
Germans Threaten to Shoot French Resistance Behind Lines
London reports the German radio in Paris declares that agents of the French forces of the interior are not regular soldiers. It accuses the FFI of banditry, looting, sabotage, and murder. The Nazis vow to shoot captured members regardless of nationality.
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London
FBI
Paris
Koenig
Joseph Koenig
FFI
Ringworm Clinic Chief Arrives in Hagerstown
Dr Isadore Botvinick, former US Public Health Service surgeon reserve, arrives to lead a federal scalp ringworm control project in Hagerstown. He will organize a clinic opening July 31 with Dr J A McCallum, health officer, overseeing a six month assignment. Treatment is free and enrollment hours run 9 am to noon for new patients, clinic at the Health Department building on King Street.
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Isadore Botvinick
U. S. Public Health Service
Hagerstown
Botvinick
J. A. McCallum
Drivers Fined After Avalon Crash
Robert C. Myers and John Lewis faced fines in city court after a Tuesday night truck motorcycle collision at Avalon Avenue intersection. Myers paid $5 for reckless driving and $2 for lacking operator and registration cards, Lewis $10 for no operator’s card. Myers and James Goodie were aboard the motorcycle when it struck Lewis’ truck, both riders sustaining serious injuries and Myers suffering a severe hand laceration.
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Robert C. Myers
John
Lewis
Avalon Avenue
Myers
James Goodie
Detective Duffy Recovers Wallet From Grand Larceny Suspect
In New York on July 27 detective John A. Duffy on his way to Penn Station saw a man jostle a passenger and heard him say I got it Ross. Duffy recovered the wallet and the suspect was charged with grand larceny.
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New York
John A. Duffy
Pennsylvania Station
Duffy
Ross
Buster Turner Granted Annulment in Circuit Court
Overseas resident Buster Benjamin Turner was granted a decree of annulment by the Circuit Court, dissolving his marriage to Betty Jane Turner. Attorney Irace Gerber Silverberg represented the plaintiff.
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Buster Benjamin Turner
Circuit Court
Betty Jane Turner
Irace Gerber Silverberg
Damage From Freak Storm Mounts In Washington County
A freak wind and rain storm in Washington County caused extensive damage across Downsville Hagerstown Waynesboro and surrounding areas. Uprooted trees ripped roofs and shattered windows with Landis Machine Company roofs torn and many fruit trees uprooted. Downsville suffered the heaviest damage as residents reported dozens of uprooted trees including 14 apple trees on the Ira Downey farm.
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Washington County
Downsville
Hagerstown
Boonsboro
Beaver Creek
Cavetown
Woodpoint
Waynesboro
Landis Machine Company
Clayton Avenue
Funkstown
Lappans
Dam No. 4
Potomac
Fountain Head
C. Welles
Station Robbed For 13th Time
Police reported the Atlantic Refining Company's service station was robbed for the thirteenth time in four years. Thieves failed to enter the building but broke a lock on an outside refrigerating case and carried off about three cases of soft drinks. The station had been entered last week with little value stolen.
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Atlantic Refining Company
Hitler's Newspaper Admits Nerves Taut
Stockholm dispatch reports the Nazi party paper Voelkescher Beobachter stating nerves and hearts have faced heavier trials since the war began. The remark accompanied coverage of Paul Goebbels' speech on total mobilization.
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Stockholm
Hilflers
Voelkescher Beobachter
Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Premier Mikolyczyk to Meet Stalin in Moscow
Premier Stanislaw Mikolyczyk of the Polish government in exile left London for Moscow where he will confer with Premier Stalin. The trip follows cabinet approval of a plan to seek a compromise with the rival Polish faction in Moscow.
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London
Stanislaw Mikolyczyk
Moscow
Stalin
Weverton Man Pays Big Fine for Drunk and Disorderly
Weverton resident Earl Noose was arraigned before Magistrate E G Miller in Boonsboro for drunken and disorderly conduct. Deputies arrested him at home, and he paid a heavy fine of 50 dollars plus costs.
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Earl Noose
Weverton
E. G. Miller
Boonsboro
Noose
Barometer Signals Incoming Storms in Keedysville
The barometer at J A Miller's weather station in Keedysville fell to 29.30 this morning, the lowest in weeks, signaling more rain within 24 hours. The Weather Bureau predicts afternoon thunderstorms in the area, while yesterday's high reached 95 and the low stayed at 69.
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J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Weather Bureau
Riot at National University of Mexico Leaves Two Dead
In Mexico City two students die as a university riot escalates across campus and streets. Police report over twenty seriously hurt and about two hundred with minor injuries as violence erupts amid protests over university leadership and faculty appointments.
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Mexico City
National University of Mexico
Avila Camacho
Rodolfo Brito Foucher
Law
Law School
Veterinary School
Sabang Harbor Damaged in 35 Minute Allied Bombardment
An Allied task force bombarded Sabang on Sumatra, destroying harbor installations in 35 minutes under carrier cover. A trio of destroyers and a Dutch cruiser silenced shore batteries, sank a merchant ship, and wrecked two jetties. 2 crew killed.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Sabang
Lord Louis Mountatten
Sumatra
Robot Attacks Resume After German Bombing Burst
July 27 London reports indicate a renewed German bombing run over London and southern England. The opening salvo was not heavy, but new damage and casualties occurred as robot attacks continued into the day.
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London
England
Nazi Radio Names Three Of Plotters With Deaths
London reports that German radio identified in the bomb plot against Hitler Gen Olbricht, Col Gen Ludwig Beck and Col Gen Erich Hoepner as participants. Olbricht was executed after a court martial, Beck reportedly died by his own hand, and Hoepner was in custody awaiting trial. Goebbels mentioned three names in a speech, referencing a general and a colonel general with blamed actions.
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London
Olbricht
Ludwig Beck
Erich Hoepner
Hitler
Beck
Hoepner
Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
W. M. Defends Highfield Stop Discontinuance
Public Service Commission hearing heard Western Maryland Railway defend discontinuing passenger service at Highfield station to offset extra stops on the Baltimore Hagerstown line due to a gas shortage. J A Abbott testified three stops in 1.2 miles, saying removal would save four to five minutes. 57 locals petitioned against the change citing postal and express service impact. no decision reached.
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Highfield
Baltimore-Hagerstown
Western Maryland Railway
Public Service Commission
J. A. Abbott
Hagerstown
Highfield Station
PSC
Eating To Prevent Ulcer Flareup Urged
Dr. Walter Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic advised in JAMA that ulcers flares during emotional crises can be prevented by hourly or bihourly meals, especially between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m., to supply the stomach with food and shield the mucous membrane from highly acidic gastric juice.
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Chicago
Walter Alvarez
Maro Clinic
Rochester, Minn
Journal of the American Medical Association
Massed Germans Cut To Ribbons By Typhoon Rockets
On the Orne Front in Normandy British frontline troops witnessed a German counter attack near Verviers. German infantry with about 50 tanks massed in Requancourt sector but British Typhoon rockets struck at the crucial moment, destroying five tanks, damaging eight, with many infantry casualties, dispersing the concentration within an hour.
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Orne River
Normandy
Verviers
Requancourt
French Patriots Ambush Germans in Advancing War Effort
Supreme Allied Headquarters reports French patriots repelling German tank ambushes and wiping out a convoy of 116 trucks in Saone-et-Loire. Interior forces have repelled raids since July 15 and disrupted rail links as Normandy and other fronts face attacks on supply lines.
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HDQS
Supreme Command
Saone-et-Loire
Normandy
Luftwaffe suffers heavy losses as Allied air force strikes
Rome July 27 The Mediterranean Allied Air Force dealt a harsh blow to the German air force yesterday claiming 75 enemy planes shot down over Southern Europe. In the same action Lightning and Mustang fighters of the 15th U S Air Force returned to Italian bases after a shuttle to Russia. They reported destroying many enemy aircraft on the ground. Twenty of yesterday's victims were credited to these formations returning from the shuttle.
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Rome
Mediterranean
Europe
U. S
Russia
Romania
Poland
Pennies And Nickels Reported Stolen
I T Houpt of Marlboro Hotel reported to police this morning the theft of 3 dollars in pennies and 1 50 in nickels. Two youngsters aged seven and nine are being sought as suspects.
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I. T. Houpt
Marlboro Hotel
Tragic War Loss Marks Second Anniversary in Pottstown
War Department telegram disrupts Mrs. Doris Nagie’s second wedding anniversary as her husband Sgt. Robert Sagle, 22, is reported killed in action in Normandy on July 5. The telegram confirms the fatal loss and brings grief to the family in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
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Pottstow
War Department
Doris Nagie
Tr Saxl
Robert Sagle
Normandy
Second U S Spearhead Threatens Supply Route
Allied forces in France report a major American armored breakthrough pushing two miles deeper into German lines near the center of the 40 mile front. Canisy fell below St Lo as the drive widened, with seven miles gained in two days and air support decimating Nazi tanks. British Canadian flanks countered German counterattacks near Caen as Lt General Omar Bradley’s 1st Army held firm south of Caen.
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HDQS
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
France
Canisy
St. Lo
Periers
Lessay
St. Gilles
St. Lo-Coutances
Marigny
Normandy
Huguay
Caen
Allied air raids strike Belgian targets and Budapest
American Liberators and fighter escorts attacked Belgian rail hubs around Brussels and Ghent amid heavy air battles. Berlin reported raids on Budapest while night bombing hit Givors Baden near Lyon and Hamburg woke to ongoing bombardment.
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London
Brussels
Ghent
Berlin
U.S
Italy
Budapest
Normandy
Givors-Baden
Lyon
France
Hamburg
Belgium
Germany
U. S
1Sth
Hunting Black Person Sought After Maryland Assault
Towson Maryland police sought a Black man accused by a 19 year old Marine wife of running her down with a truck, dragging her into a thicket and severely beating her. A passing motorist heard screams and stopped the attack in broad daylight at 9 30 am. The suspect was identified by a truck license plate and is alleged to have committed another rape at a Heathorpa home.
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Towson. Md
Hya Doffme
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Gestapo
Hjalmar Schacht
Algiers
Gesapo
W. M
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Luftwaffe
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