Empire State Reopens After Bomber Crash
The Empire State Building reopens today after a Saturday bomber crash that killed 13 and created an 18 foot gap in the north wall. Lt. Gen. Hugh A. Drum said only the observation tower remains closed and a full inspection found no structural damage. An Army inquiry measured wreckage on the 79th floor, with potential damage costs ranging up to to $500,000, though exact figures were not yet set. Army officials indicated the Army typically assumes responsibility in such cases.
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New York
Empire State Building
Hugh A. Drum
Empire State, Inc
Army Board of
5Th Avenue
Army
Drum
Fumes Ignite But Damage Negligible
A fire at the Farm Bureau Co operative warehouse on Main avenue started from fumigation fumes igniting a container. The Western Enterprise Fire Co. responded to the alarm and extinguished the blaze with no significant damage reported.
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Farm Bureau Cooperative
Main Avenue
Western Enterprise Fire Co
Divorce Granted to Mary Madeline Pitsnogle in Absolute Proceeding
Judge Joseph D. Mish grants Mary Madeline Pitsnogle an absolute divorce from Fred C. Pitsnogle with representation by Attorney John J. Allen.
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Mary Madeline Pitsnogle
Joseph D. Mish
Fred C. Pitsnogle
John J. Allen
Tips On Panty Sale Spud Yield Best First Prize
The Daily Mail reports last week’s news tip contest awarded first prize to tips on a local store purchase of ladies’ panties and on a large early potato yield after a May killing freeze.
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Beaver Creek
The
Daily Mail
Bewitching Austrian Thief Nabbed After Looting GIs
An Austrian boy, described as flaxen haired with blue eyes, enticed American GIs in July. One truck driver found his pen, pencil, and watch missing after a brief game. MPs taken in the boy and a pocket search revealed eight pens, six pencils, two watches, three billfolds, and other items stolen from soldiers.
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EMI
Austria
De Gaulle Rebuffed as Referendum Plan Is Rejected
Paris July 36 The consultative assembly rejected De Gaulle plan for a constitutional referendum by 210 to 19 and backed a leftist counterproposal for elections to a sovereign unicameral legislature with colonial representation, amid acrimonious debate.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Consultative Assembly
France
Retired Teachers To Get Pay Increase
Retired county teachers will receive pension increases under a revised schedule approved by the last legislature. Payments have begun after the Board of Public Works allocated extra funds to supplement the $30,000 annual grant in the 1946-47 budget. The Governor's supplementary budget included provisions to raise pensions for those paid less than $50 monthly, with $30,000 allocated for this purpose.
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Board of Public Works
Artist William Damon Arrested Over Sunday Painting
Ocean City officials arrested artist William Damon for painting a portrait on a Sunday, citing a city ordinance that bans unnecessary business on Sundays as stated by Mayor Clayde Struble.
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Ocean City
N. J
Willam Damon
Clayde Struble
Lucky Hit Costs Yanks Their Beer on Okinawa
On southern Okinawa a Japanese torpedo plane breached a heavy screen and hit a freighter filled with beer. The vessel was saved but the beer was destroyed, leaving many U.S. troops thirsty for months.
Record Tomato Crop At Hancock
Hancock cannery run by R L Omps aims for record tomato yields this fall as 175 acres were planted after May freeze losses hit apples and peaches. Orchardists meet Omps to pledge labor, with about 500 acres under contract and German POW workers assisting in prep for canning.
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Hancock
R. L. Omps
Canner Omps
Omps
Locusts Will Not Appear This Year
Washington county will have no 17 year cicada emergence this season. County Agent Mark Miller and J A Miller report no sightings after canvassing 25 farmers. The insects will remain underground until 1953 when they reappear, then shed wings and begin the mating cycle.
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Washington County
Mark Miller
J. A. Miller
Department of Commerce
America
Suspected Jail Massacre Suspects Seized in Dawn Raid
Forty nine men suspected of complicity in a machinegun massacre at Shio jail on July 6 were captured in a dawn raid by the American 24th Infantry Division led by Lt Col Richard L Loller. Suspects were taken to Vicenza for questioning after the raid produced no shots. Forty seven killed and 26 wounded in the jail attack.
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RCME
Shio
24Th Infantry Division
Richard L. Loller
Tucaloosa
Ala
Vicenza
Woren
Snyder May Be One Man Boss Of Home Front
The Mead committee urges one man control of war mobilization and production, placing all powers under John W Snyder as head of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. The move would centralize price control, war production, and manpower decisions, with Snyder having final say, while OWMA previously acted mainly as a policy body.
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Washington
Senate
Mead Committee
Office of War Mobilization
John W. Snyder
Snyder
Truman
OWMA
Veteran of Two Wars Fined for Carrying Blackjack
Joe Elsliger a World War I and II veteran was fined 10 with costs in city court for carrying a blackjack a concealed weapon. He said a pawn shop clerk urged him to take the weapon after claiming it was legal to carry and he showed it when asked by Patrolman Raymond Hoover. He was wounded in World War II and now works at a local war plant.
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Joe Elsliger
Harry E. Snyder
Elsliger
Raymond Hoover
Naughty Squirrel Causes Domestic Mayhem in Waukegan
In Waukegan Illinois on July 30 a playful squirrel entered the Grohall residence while the owners were away. It pulled curtains knocked lamps over soiled walls and woodwork with dirty paw prints and finally settled on the cleaned linen for a rest. The Grohalls sighed that at least he could have washed before bed.
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Waukegan, Ill
Robert Grohall
Sugar crop in Louisiana nears all time high
Louisiana reports a sugar crop nearing the state record of 450 000 tons, about 100 million mouthfuls in a year of shortages. The figure reflects the success of long breeding programs improving sugar cane.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
War Cost Germany Two Million Killed
Berlin dispatch reports German documents seized from General Hermann Reineke's home show military deaths and casualties through November 30, 1944. The three services tally 1,911,300 killed or fatally wounded, with 1,419,000 on the Russian front, and total losses at 4,064,438 since the war began.
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Berlin
Hermann Reineke
Reineke
Seek Woman Here On Kidnap Charge
Detective Chief Thomas V. Meegan of Buffalo New York asks Hagerstown police to watch for Mary Taylor twenty four who abducted a four year old boy from Buffalo and may be headed toward Hagerstown traveling by bus with the child A warrant for kidnapping was issued July 11 after Eva Watson Crystal Beach Ontario resident said her son Peter had been missing since July 3 Watson said Taylor took the boy to a store to buy him a suit and did not return the details place the action in Buffalo New York and Hagerstown Maryland and involve a missing child case.
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Thomas V. Meegan
Buffalo
N. Y
Hagerstown
Mary Taylor
Taylor
Tennessee
Meegan
Eva Watson
Crystal Beach
Ont
Peter
July Rainfall Exceeds Average Across River County
Heavy weekend rain along the Potomac brought July totals to more than a inch above normal, with 2.02 inches at Keedysville and 3.74 inches overall. Miller's sawmill area flooded the aqueduct road, later cleared by Capt. Carl H. McCleary and other residents. wheat harmed while corn prospects look strong.
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Potomac River
Miller’s
Carl H. McCleary
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Mr. Miller
Hancock apple crop slashed to 16 percent of normal
A statewide survey shows Hancock belt apple production will top 115000 bushels, about 16 percent of 1944's 733000. Most orchards suffer heavy losses from May freeze, with only Locker and Tonoloway near normal. several others yield 5k to 15k bushels. Peach crop also down to 45 to 50 percent.
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Hancock
Great Hancock Fruit Belt
C. H. Locker
Potomac River
Tonoloway
Roy Daniels
Maryland Orchard Company
Emmett M. Lowry
Stanley Fulton
Jack Casper
R. S. Dillon
J. Andrew Cahill
Local Boy In Action On Carrier Intrepid
Petty Officer Joseph C. Presgraves U S N son of Mr and Mrs W E Presgraves 511 West Wilson blvd has seen extensive action on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid pictured on July 30 in a Jap kamikaze attack He helped the crew account for 80 enemy ships including the Yamato and 650 Jap aircraft A 25 year old veteran of 42 months sea duty he was aboard Intrepid each of the four times she was bombed Twice burned and slightly wounded he went to Treasure Island Hospital Calif before returning to duty His Avenger was shot down over Leyte and he parachuted into the sea later picked up by a destroyer He enlisted after graduating from Hagerstown High in 1941 wears the Atlantic Pacific ribbon with 11 battle stars and the good conduct badge
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Joseph C. Presgraves
U.S.N
W. E. Presgraves
West Wilson Blvd
Intrepid
Presgraves
West Indies
Treasure Island
Calif
Leyte
Hagerstown High
Navy
Four Maryland Soldiers Honored with Discharges
Forty eight Marylanders were honorably discharged under the Army point system, announced by the Separation Center at Fort George G. Meade. From Hagerstown, four soldiers listed are Pfc. John F. E. Langstein, Cpl. Charles W. Miller Jr., Sgt. George C. Penner, and S/Sgt. Alvey R. Ebersole.
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Hagerstown
Berlin Allocated Section to French Control Council
The Allied Control Council’s historic first meeting in Berlin announced that a section of Berlin had been allocated to French control. This marks a significant postwar arrangement as French authorities prepare to administer the designated zone.
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Berlin
Allied Control Council For
Germany
Invasion Message From Fleet Chiefs in Pacific
Rear Adm. D C Ramsey and Maj. Gen. Curtis B Lemay warned Japan of impending invasion and total destruction. Ramsey said the blockade and bombing of home islands already begin, while Lemay touted pamphlets predicting erasure by Superfortresses to demonstrate futility of resistance.
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Guam
Japan
Adm
D .C. Ramsey
U. S. Fifth Fleet
United States
Curtis B. Lemay
20Th Air Force
OPA Probes Potato Price Violations in Washington County
The Baltimore District office of the OPA said investigators will question potato growers over claims of sales above the $2.70 ceiling per hundred pounds. The ceiling can rise 14 cents if the grower acts as the country shipper. No origin of the complaints was given.
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Baltimore
OPA
Washington
Local Boy Receives Honorable Discharge
M/Sgt. William KE. Kretzer, son of Wilmer E. D. Kretzer of 320 North Locust Street, has been honorably discharged from the Army under the point system after 4 years and 38 months overseas with the 46th Engr. Bn. He earned 111 points and served in Australia, New Guinea, the Netherlands East Indies, and on Leyte during the Philippines invasion. He wears the Bronze Star, Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with four battle stars, Good Conduct, American Defense, and Philippines Liberation ribbons with battle stars, plus the Distinguished Unit badge with oak leaf cluster for two presidential citations. He returns to work as a Hanover Shoe Co. representative in Wilmington, Delaware.
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William KE. Kretzer
Wilmer E. D. Kretzer
North Locust Street
Army
46Th Engr. Bn
Kretzer
Australia
New Guinea
Netherlands East Indies
Philippines
Leyte
Rail Strike Threat Looms Over Britain
London July 30 The nation faces a potential nationwide railway strike after a weekend that stranded thousands of holiday travelers amid a one day walkout by over 20 000 rail workers. J E Binks head of the National Union of Railwaymen urged workers to remain on the job during wage and hour talks with the companies.
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London
Britain
J. E. Binks
National Union of Railwaymen
Girl Held For Theft Of Bike In City Court
Doris Flint of Foundry Street was in city court this morning charged with stealing Vincent Thomas Lindsay's bicycle and was ordered held by Magistrate Harry E Sney der for November court action. Effie Eshleman, a frequent court visitor, was fined $25 and costs on a drunk and disorderly charge.
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Doris Flint
Foundry Street
Vincent Thomas Lindsay
Harry E. Sneyder
Effie Eshleman
No Opposition As Fighters Roam Deserted Tokyo
Guam reports the Third Fleet shelling industrial cities from Kyushu to Tokyo. Carrier aircraft roamed Honshu pounding air fields and rail targets while 1,500 Allied planes damaged 66 airfields. The Tokyo air defense offered little resistance, with no planes lost in yesterday’s six targeted towns as Japanese radio acknowledged the strikes.
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Guam
U.S. Navy
Kyushu
Tokyo
Kura Naval Base
Hamamatsu
Honshu
Kobe
Superfortress Command
Housing Given Top Priority By Attlee
London July 30 The problem of providing houses for Britain s homeless was given top priority today on the legislative program which Prime Minister Attlee s new Labour cabinet has begun drafting for submission to Parliament when it convenes Aug 15 Opening of the first Parliament session in British history to be controlled by a clear Labourite majority was postponed last night from Aug 8 in order to give Attlee more time to complete his cabinet and prepare the speech in which he will outline his government s plans.
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London
Britain
Attlee
Yanks Occupation Force Enters Vienna
American dress convoy enters Vienna as part of a five thousand strong U S occupation force joining Russian British and French troops. Col Stanley Grogan commands the American contingent leading the press escort into the city under prior Russian ban.
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Vienna
U. S
U.S
Stanley Grogan
Many Participated In Riot Says Warden
Dr. Leroy Wright, superintendent of the Maryland House of Correction, testified at the trial of 38 prisoners indicted for a June 2 riot at Jessup. He estimated about 700 of 1,650 inmates joined the disorders, noting 1,564 windows were broken and other property damaged within the prison for short-term convicts.
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Annapolis
Judy
Leroy Wright
Maryland House of Correction
Wright
Jessups Institution
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Mass
LaGuardia Field
Empire State
Okinawa
Naughty Squirrel
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