U S Planes Land At Secret Russian Bases
United States bombers and Mustang fighters landed at secret bases in Russia after hitting Romanian targets, marking a joint offensive with the Red Air Force. ECUSSA reported slight enemy opposition, one bomber lost, one fighter outstanding, and Russian ally participation along the route to Russian bases abroad.
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Strategic Air Force
Russia
Hitler
Red Air Force
Italy
Ecussa
Eastern Command
Budapest
U. S
W. Averell Har
Realty Sales Total Reaches One Hundred Thousand Dollars
Real estate transfers and mortgages valued around $100,000 occurred in the week ending today with nearly 80 deeds filed. Transactions focused on residential properties as demand outpaced supply, including Hershey to Stotler on High street for $5,600 and Creak to Miller for 141 acres near Hancock. Continued on Page 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Raymond Hershey
William K. Stotler
High Street
Harry F. McCoy
John L. Sullivan
Maugansville
Jessie P. Creak
William L. Miller
Hancock District
Sideling Hill
Elmer H. Huntzberry
Harry $. Palmer
Pike
Smithsburg
Smokedown
Jess Harper
David C. Dayhoff
North Avenue
Jacob W. Vorous
Robert Woods Miller
Greenmount Avenue
Halfway
Russell J. Bowers
U S Labor Mission To Be Sent To Italy
Luigi Antonini of the Italian American Labor Council will go to Italy to aid reorganization of free democratic trade unions as part of postwar peace plans. AFL President William Green announced the selection during a convention of the ILGWU, where Antonini is vice president. Green said the mission follows a TUC invitation via Sir Walter Citrine.
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Boston
Luigi Antonini
Italian American Labor Council
Italy
William Green
APL
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Antonini
Green
British
Trades Union Congress
AFL
Walter Citrine
TUC
Reds Welcome Wallace in Irkutsk Speech
In Irkutsk Wallace urged full collaboration between the United States and Soviet allies for a stable postwar peace. Moscow radio said he was greeted warmly en route to China. He stressed developing the American Northwest Canada Alaska and Soviet Siberia as key to regional growth.
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London
Russia
Siberian
Irkutsk
Wallace
Moscow
China
American Northwest
Canada
Alaska
Soviet Siberia
United States
Faked Sugar Stamps Circulating Warn Dealers
Authorities report an intensive investigation into counterfeit sugar stamps alongside faked gasoline ration stamps. Officials warn dealers to verify sheets and booklets before tearing out stamps and to scrutinize suspicious sugar purchases tied to moonshine liquor activity.
Wants More Money For Grandchild She Claims Is Chaplin's
In Los Angeles on June 3 a grandmother seeks an early trial in a paternity suit against Charles Chaplin. Gertrude Berry, representing Carol Ann, claims the child is Chaplin's daughter and destitute, requesting $10,000 for medical costs, $5,000 legal expenses and $2,560 monthly support, while Chaplin offers no more than $150 monthly for support.
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Los Angeles
Carol Ann
Joan Berry
Charles Chaplin
Lfe
Miss Berry
Gertrude BE. Berry
Superior Court
Chaplin
Berry
War Ends Long-Running Evansville Dynamite Firm
After 80 years at the same location L. M. Baird and Sons closes its dynamite business in Evansville. Sons John B. Baird and Herbert M. Baird explain wartime restrictions forced the shutdown, noting government limits on dynamite stock made the operation unprofitable.
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Evansville
Ind
L. M. Baird and Sons
John B. Baird
Herbert M. Baird
Herbert
Treasury Creates GI War Bond For Service Members
The Treasury announced a new GI war bond costing 7.50 dollars with a 10 dollar payoff. It will be sold only to members of the Army Navy Marines Coast Guard and Maritime Service.
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Washington
Treasury
Armed Services
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Maritime Service
Invasion Coast Dealt Two More Blows Today
World War II report from London notes heavy bomber attacks on Pas-de Calais and Boulogne fortifications in daylight and night raids. Allied forces from Britain and Italy conduct 2700 Mediterranean sorties as RAF and US crews press a three-way aerial squeeze on European targets.
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London
Pas-de Calais
Boulogne
France
Europe
Britain
West Wall
Mediterranean
Russia
RAF
Channel
Great Trappes
Paris
Leverkusen
Germany
Cologne
Air Ministry
Italy
Giurgiu
Danube
Romania
Priest Fields
Sparse Strawberries Hit City Market Amid Short Crop
Strawberries were scarce at City Market this morning as a short crop coincides with buyers from the county who purchased berries at patches. Prices for boxes ranged 50 to 53 cents. Vegetables, eggs, and country butter were plentiful and selling at fixed prices.
Navy WAVES recruiting drive in City Hall interview station
The Navy seeks able bodied women aged 20 to 36 for the WAVES. Wanda Lee Nichols Y2c and Virginia Hopper SP(R)3c will interview applicants at the Navy Recruiting Station City Hall through next week. John H Millard announced that two years of high school or business school are required and applicants may be married but not have children under 18. Applications can be completed and exams arranged at no obligation at the recruiting station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAVES
Wanda Lee Nichols
Y2c
Virginia Hopper
Navy
City Hall
Navy Service
John H Millard
Paratrooper’s strange ascent at Fort Benning
A young paratrooper leaped from a plane at Fort Benning Georgia and rose on a thermal wave after his unit played out a mock battle. He drifted higher with no control, watched comrades swing to the ground, then was released to descend and join his battalion as a new reservist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force
Fort Benning, Ga
Fifteen Seized In Draft Probe in Baltimore
FBI arrested fourteen men and one woman in Baltimore on charges of evading the draft or aiding inductees to feign mental illness for deferments. Suspects include a Navy chief petty officer, two Army NCOs, a civilian psychologist, and eight former inductees. payments ranged from 150 to 500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John W. Vincent
FBI
Navy
5Th Regiment
Vincent
Chester T. Ruby
Leon D. Shapiro
Corp
Morris Molofsky
C. Karl Martin
Hagerstown
Florence Wheley
James S. Hens
Selective Service
Washington, D. C
Third Service Command
Military Intelligence
Army
Chinese war council ex-member shot in Shanghai
The Japanese Comei agency reported Gen Wong Tai-Wei, 58, a former member of Nanking’s puppet government supreme war council, was fatally wounded Wednesday in his Shanghai residence by four Chungking terrorists who escaped after the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Comei
Wong Tai-Wei
Supreme War Council
Shanghai
Yanks Open Way For Big Push On Biak Airfields
Allied forces push toward three Biak airfield bases as mopup squads clear cave snipers and ridge-top gun nests on the island’s Ridged coast. Liberators drop 80 tons of explosives while ships deter Japanese barges near Bosnek and Mokmer in a widening campaign from Quarters New Guinea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Mopup
Biak Island
Philippines
Biak
Sehoultens
Dutch New Guinea
Geelvink Bay
Bosner Village
Mokmer
Bosnek
Might
Maffin Bay
Bosack
Washington county leads state in farm repair shop work
County shops completed 15 226 of 54 411 farm repair jobs in the ten months ending April 30, leading the state. Frederick and Carroll counties also contributed large totals as the State Board of Education notes the program’s growth and similar repair work across counties. The report itemizes 6 300 pieces of heavy machinery repaired 45 8 welding 12 248 forge work 5 787 cold metal work 8 548 tool fitting and 2 067 soldering.
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Washington County
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Frederick County
Carroll County
Batista Wins Backlash and Tumbling Votes in Cuban Election
In Havana, President Fulgencio Batista gains prestige as his allies falter in a nationwide ballot. Dr Ramon Grau San Martin leads opposition with likely control of the house and senate, while local mayoral contests tilt against Batista kin. Roosevelt reportedly sent congratulations to Grau San Martin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Fulgene Batista
Batista
Carlos Saladrigas
Ramon Grau San Martin
Francisco Batista
Mariano
House
Senate
Gray San Martin
Miami
Emil Ludwig
Cuba
Roosevelt
Gran San Martin
Heavy Shower Fills Hagerstown Reservoir
A rare thundergust from the north delivered over an inch of rain to the watershed north of Edgemont, sending more than 10 million gallons into the mountain reservoir and filling it beyond capacity, restoring Hagerstown’s water supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Edgemont
Scrape Bottom Of 18 26 Group Induction Callbacks Noted
Local draft boards have reduced the 18 to 26 age pool with a remaining 141 men in Boards 1 and 2 having passed physicals and awaiting calls to Army or Wavy. Earlier deferments exceeded 700. now releases from war plants may reclassify workers 1-A if under 38, under new Selective Service rules limiting calls to ages 26–30 and 31–38 in essential industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Wavy
Selective Service
Kidnaped Child Believed Assaulted In Seattle
Police Capt. William Veek said Florence Marks a five year old daughter of a Navy doctor was kidnapped possibly raped and left on a doorstep fourteen blocks from her home. Her parents reported the disappearance at 2 46 a m and a ladder into a second story window was found. Mrs Ethel Smart then telephoned police that the girl, wrapped in a blanket, rang her doorbell. Doctors described her as the victim of a possible criminal attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
William Veek
Florence Marks
Navy
Veek
Jacob Marks
Florence
Marks
Ethel Smart
R. F. Ballard
Say Fairchild Cargo Needed
The Fairchild cargo ship is described as the hottest urgently needed aircraft on any assembly line by Fairchild Aircraft Division officials. Lou Fahnestock says steps will soon inform shop and tool workers about cargo details to show why the ship is vital to the Armed Forces and achieve absolute top priority from the Army Air Forces.
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Fairchild
Army Air Forces
Weather report notes humidity keeping highs below 90
Yesterday showers kept temperatures under 90 with humidity offsetting the lack of heat, according to J A Miller Keedysville weather observer. This morning the mercury rose again but expected thunderstorms may hold highs in the low nineties today.
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Here
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Mercury
Two Yank Forces Advance On Capital
Allied forces push toward Rome from the Alban Hills and Valmontone as U S troops seize Monte Castellacio near 14 miles from the capital. French units close on Colle Ferro, while a Rhine theater broadcast claims Rome is free from German armed forces. The advance threatens a final push to break the Rome line with Velletri and Sacco river sectors still resisting.
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London
Berlin
Foreign Office
Rome
Reuters
HDQS
Naples
U. S
Alban Hills
Monte Castellacio
Eternal City
Via Casilina
Valmontore
Velletri-Valmontone
Monte Castellado
Velletri
Valmontove
United States
Valmontone
Sacco River
Sgurgola
Local Soldier Is A Prisoner After Months Of Silence
Mrs. Vernon M. Jenkins learns her husband Pfc. Vernon M. Jenkins Jr. is a prisoner of Germans after four months without word. The 25-year-old serviceman, formerly with Fairchild Aircraft Division, served since May 1943 and participated in Sicily and the Anzio beachhead. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon M. Jenkins of South Street East Antietam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernon M. Jenkins
East Antietam Street
Pfc. Jenkins
Italy
Jenkins
Germany
Objectors To Help Farmers Aid For Emergency Harvests
Conscientious objectors stationed at Civilian Public Service camps will aid Washington county farmers for emergency crop harvests this summer, announced Farm Placement Officer Benjamin Solliday. Office moved from U S Employment Service to the county agent. C O workers may be used only for harvests and farmers must pay prevailing wage rates set by the county Extension Service committee to the camp superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Benjamin H. Solliday
U. S. Employment Service
Solliday
C. O's
State Extension Service
Doubled His Quota at Fort Warren Tale
A Fort Warren MP asked for a Private Twohal in Training Company No. 2 and learned of Pvt Amos Twohabies, an Indian, whose wife and three babies are waiting at the railroad station. The sentinel notes the family actually includes four children, one left at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inne
Twohal
Fort Warren
Amos Twohabies
Oft Decorated County Boy Returns After 25 Combat Missions
Tech Sgt. David L. Mills of Big Pool, son of Mr and Mrs Lewis E B Mills, is back in the United States after completing 25 combat missions in the European theater. He holds the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Mills reports to RAF Redistribution Station No 1 in Atlantic City New Jersey for reassignment interviews after eight months overseas. He served as a radio operator on a B 17 Flying Fortress and was forced to bail out in a parachute after a crash landing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces
Mills
Myitkyina Base Falls as Allied Columns Reach Railhead
Southeast Asia Command reports reinforced American and Chinese forces have seized large supplies and ammunition at Myitkyine, Burma, with southern railhead forces and northern columns both driving toward the town's edge in hand to hand combat. General Joseph W. Stowell’s headquarters note confirms the capture progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
Myitkyine
Ite
Joseph W. Stowelle
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By Eddie Gilmore
U.S
War
Geronimo
Vernon M. Jenkins, Jr
Husband
IL. & Employment Service
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