Osaka Bombed With 3200 Tons Of Fire Bombs In Raid
Guam June 1 The. 21st Bomber Command reported a massive daylight raid on Osaka with over 600 bombers and fighters delivering 3200 tons of incendiaries. Yokohama burned over 6.9 square miles. Osaka’s industrial districts suffered heavy damage including metal plants and rail hub. The operation, part of nine days of strikes on Honshu, aimed to cripple Japan’s industrial capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Osaka
Japan
21St Bomber Command
Yokohama
Iwo Jmma
Amagasaki
Tokyo
Wear Industries
Nippon
Iwo Jima
Tokyo Radio
Honshu Island
Honshu
Shin Yodo River
Termination Contract Training For Local Industries
Army and Navy officials at Hotel Alexander instruct smaller war plants groups on terminating contracts. The school, sponsored by the Smaller War Plants group, uses an actual case from contract termination receipt to completion of accounting and property disposal forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ota
Army
Navy
Hotel Alexander
Deaths in Shenandoah and Rouzerville Area Obituaries
Funeral services and death notices for Mrs. Madge Lynn of Shenandoah and Mrs. Lillie Zeigler of Rouzerville detail services, survivors, viewing times, and church interments. Madge Lynn's rites are Saturday at 2 p.m. with burial in Shenandoah Methodist Cemetery. Zeigler's services follow tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Rouzerville Lutheran Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge Lynn
Mmother
C. M. Beylor
Shenandoah
HE. E. Sumpter
Harold Lynn
Sandra Lee
C. M. Beyler
Corrinne Hockman
John Beyler
iKraiss Mortuary
Lillie Zeigler
Routerville
Foxville
David A
Sophia
Manahan) Wolf
Rouzerville
William Whitmore
Thurmont
Ira Zeigler
John Zeigler
Waynesboro
Norris Zeigler
Dallas Zeigler
Paul Fisher
Glenn Smith
Route 4
Edna Yinger
Frederick
Ethel Zeigler
Amog Harshman
H. F. Coffelt
Harbaugh’s
Card of Thanks for Basil E Wolfe
Mr and Mrs Wade R Wolfe Ady express gratitude for flowers and car use from friends and neighbors after the death of their son Basil E.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basil E
Wade R. Wolfe
Ady
Admiral Miller To Speak Here At Chesapeake Meeting
Rear Admiral H B Miller chief of public relations for the navy and Benjamin B McKelway associate editor of the Washington Star will headline the two day spring meeting of the Chesapeake Press Association with a business dinner at the Hotel Alexander tonight McKelway will discuss a recent tour of European battlefields and Nazi prison camps while Miller will speak at the Fountain Head Country Club tomorrow evening Nearly 30 out of town editors and publishers will attend with William L Geppart Cumberland News managing editor presiding Other guests include William Atkinson J Curtis Lyons W H Shryock Hush Wagnon Max Fullerton and Frank Fuller AP bureau chiefs and editors from several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Miller
United States Navy
Benjamin 8. McKelway
Washington Star
Chesapeake Press Association
Washington
William L. Geppart
The
Cumberland News
Association
Fountain Head Country Club
Fairchild Aircraft Corporation
Herald and Mail
William Atkinson
Roanoke Times
Virginia Associated Press
J. Curtis Lyons
Petersburg, Va
Progress-Index
Virginia State AP
W. H. Shryock
Waynesboro, Pa
Record-Herald
Hush Wagnon
Philadelphia
Max Fullerton
Charleston
W. Va
Frank Fuller
Richmond
Private Baylor Is Enroute To U S
Private Charles N. Baylor of Hagerstown Maryland has been released from a Nazi POW camp and passed through the Normandy base camp one for medical checks clothing and record sorting before sailing home to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normandy
France
Charles N. Baylor
South Prospect Street
Hagerstown
Maryland
United States
America
Plan Service For Smithsburg Graduates
The baccalaureate sermon for Smithsburg High School graduates will be delivered by Rev. Francis Bell at Trinity Lutheran Church in Smithsburg on Sunday June 3. The sermon titled Three Indispens able Faiths will have participation from all Smithsburg ministers including Tov Oscar Tred or D D Rev Edward Robinson and Rev A E Owens. Commencement exercises for 25 graduates will be at the school on Tuesday June 5 at p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithsburg High School
Francis Bell
Trinity Lutheran Church
Sticky Neighborhood Stirs East Side Today
In New York City on June 1 a barrel of mucilage spilled on Avenue B and Fourth Street causing slick streets that blocked cars, tripped a horse, and interrupted pedestrians. A dance listing and ad for engraved bracelets also appeared in the same notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Avenue B
Fourth Street
Marriage Licenses Rise Ahead of May Month
May saw 154 marriage licenses issued, up from 1384 in April. Deeds and mortgages filed dropped to 256 from 336 in April. The Clerk of Court expects a busy month for licenses. For the first five months, 772 licenses issued, below last year's pace.
St James Grads To Dine Dance At School Commencement
St James School graduates to dine and dance tonight and tomorrow with a baccalaureate sermon, a commencement address by Dr. H G Byrd of the University of Maryland, and diplomas awarded by Rt. Rev. Bishop Noble C Power. Seventeen to nineteen graduates, including several from Hagerstown, will be honored with prizes and indoor arrangements planned in case of rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James School
H. GC. Byrd
University of Maryland
Hagerstown
Ann Melton
Jane Hershey
Mary Ann Hirshmann
Ann Spencer Brugh
Mary Stuart Brugh
Dorothy Lane
Rachel Willis
Phyllis Miller
Donna Miller
Jeanina Butterbaugh
Bob Iula
St. James Glee Club
Vernon B. Kellett
Noble C. Power
Byrd
Philip P. Jensen
McDonogh School
Walter B. McKinley
David W. Byron
Paul Lowdenslager
Winfield Roberts
Franklin M. Thomas, Jr
Franklin Variety Ad Offers Bargains On Everyday Goods
A compact Franklin variety store advertisement lists Snap-On Mop Sticks 39c, clothes pins two dozen 15c, drinking cups nine for 10c, table napkins 125 for 15c, paper plates 20 for 10c and 12 for a dollar. It also promotes DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RINGS OF Guaranteed Quality at 24.75 dollars and provides address SATS 21 Jonathan St with sale contact Winter and George and phone 2054-3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
K. Cor
Winter and
George
Jonathan St. Atv
Chinese Pressure Near Shaoyang In Hunan Front
Chinese forces pummeled the Shaoyang approach and pressed to widen a 145 mile wedge into the Japanese held corridor from Chihkiang toward Indo China. Units neared Shaoyang from the west as another column besieged Chukowpu 25 miles northwest. Linchow held under attack as the wedge expanded past Yungning toward Tsinkong. American-Chinese combat teams reported the former air base at Yungning retaken in surprisingly intact condition.
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Chungking
Shaoyang
Paoching
Hunan
Indo- China
Chihkiang
Chukow
Yungning
Nanning
Tsinkong
Chien- Kiang
Feld
U. S
War I Vets Bonus Bonds Due June 15
Veterans groups are reminded that World War I three percent adjusted service bonds from 1945 mature June 15 1945 and stop earning interest after that date. The $50 bonds issued to settle adjusted service certificates known as bonuses must be presented at a post office with proper ID. The owner must sign the bond back in the presence of the official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Administration
Treasury Department
U. S
Funkhouser Forms Advertising Agency Expansion
Justin Funkhouser announces the formation of Justin Funkhouser and Associates replacing Advertising and Sales Council. The new agency will service Funkhouser Industries and expand to additional accounts. Executives: Justin Funkhouser, executive director. Lee Elson, managing director. Offices in Baltimore Rawson W Va and Hagerstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justin Funkhouser and Associates
Advertising and Sales Council
Funkhouser Industries
Justin Funkhouser
Lee Elson
Baltimore
Rawson
W. Va
Hagerstown
Free Enterprise Topic At Hagerstown Kiwanis Address
Professor Eugene E. Ross principal of Harpers Ferry High School and lieutenant governor of the West Virginia Kiwanis district spoke to the Hagerstown Kiwanis Club in Hotel Alexander on the subject Free Private Enterprise. He is a familiar figure in West Virginia educational circles and was introduced by E. J. Hajek with John M. Miller presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene E. Ross
Harpers Ferry High School
West Virginia
District of Kiwanis
Hagerstown
Kiwanis Club
Hotel Alexander
Ross
E. J. Hajek
John M. Miller
Kiwanis
Drive Fund Campaign Plans For St Marys Parish
Artley O. Sica will chair the general membership division of the St Marys building fund campaign to raise $150000 for a new church and rectory and to rehabilitate buildings for youth and adult programs. Sica, assisted by Mrs Charles W Stump Mrs Roger V Mitchel Arthur F Chambers and William J Ryan, will organize the group. Pangborn, campaign chairman, announced two weeks of organization followed by two weeks of gift solicitation in late June. A parish meeting for leaders and captains is set for Wednesday June 6 at 8:00 p m at the Parish House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artley O. Sica
St. Mary's Building Fund
Charles W. Stump
Roger V. Mitchel
Arthur F. Chambers
William J. Ryan
Sica
Thomas W. Pangborn
St. Mary's Parish
Pangborn
War in Europe finished says air force commander
Brig Gen James A Pollison announced to Fifteenth Air Force Service Command troops in Italy that the war in Europe is finished. May 9 they prepared to move air forces toward Japan. May 8 included base activities and a boxing card at Municipal Stadium. The story also notes local servicemen, training postings, and family ties in Hagerstown area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifteenth Air Force Service Command
Italy
Allen Vernon Davis
Antietam Street
Hagerstown
James A. Pollison
Europe
Japan
Fourth Oak Leaf Cluster Awarded to Gunner William Harper
Staff Sgt. William J. Harper, 19, B17 Flying Fortress gunner from Hagerstown, has earned a fourth Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for meritorious achievement. He flew about 25,000 miles in over 30 Highth Air Force bombing missions from an England station, targeting rail yards and oil refineries to disrupt Nazi transportation and oil supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highth Air Force
England
William J. Harper
Hagerstown
W. L. Harper
West Church Street
Harper
RAF
Kingman
Ariz
Eighth Air Force
Osnabruk
Dusseldorf
Hamm
Chemnitz
The
Reich
Berlin
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Orient
MT. Lena Hall
Peta
Happy Valley Ramblers
Poetsmac
Claude H. McClelland
U. S. Naval Construction Battalion
C. H. McClelland
Washington Avenue
Southwest Pacific
Leff
Camp Enrdicoti
R. L
Saum's
Jonathan St
Terrace Restaurant
Pennsylvania and
Prospect Avenues
Washington Street
NCE Service, Inc
Admiral Miller
Baylor
Smithsburg
Saum’s
Jonathan St. Adv
St. James Grads
Hotel Patterson Audubon
General Acceptance Corp
Hagerstown Industrial Loan
Jonathan ST. D
Earl Neikirk
Liuchow
Funkhouser
Heart Shield Bibles
Yingling Auto Sales & Service
Pontiac
Frederick St
Ust
WMC
Hagerstown Lumber Co
Frederick Street
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. Mary’s
Spanish Danceland
Old Mill Tavern
Penn-Maryland
Valley Inn
Herb
Buckerooe
Suat
Hagerstown Ice Co
West Lee Street
Sharrett Motors
Ford
Baltimore St
Mest
Victor Products Corp
Pane Avenue
Goodyear
Baltimore and Locust Streets
Elwood Amos Knode
USNR
Naval Training Station
Norfolk
Eknode
Geraldine Belle Poffinberger
Buena Vista Avenue
Janet Lee
Cpl
Bruce V. Smith
Sarah A. Smith
Chewsville
Ordnance
Smith
First Army
Earl Markell
Camp Kearns
Utah
Harry Markell
Charles Street
Robert E. Manspeaker
Marshall J. Manspeaker
Englewood Road
Fairchild Aircraft
Jay E. McDonald
Little Orleans
Stude
de Soto
Fleigh Motor Co
Oak Hill Avenue
Lee Street
Goodyear Service
Balto. & Locust Sts
Reichard
Antietam St
Up Bottling Company
People's Jewelry and Watch
East Washington Street
Cadillac
Chevrolet Gorgsler
Dodge
Word
la Malle
Mercury
Nash
Olds Packard
Plymouth
Studebaker
Summit Avenue
Home Builders Savings & Loan Assn
Consumers Credit Service
Consumers Credit Service, Inc
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