Infantry Show to Draw Large Crowd at June 14 Event
A staged infantry show titled Here's Your Infantry is slated for June 14 at the stadium, free to the public, to boost the 7th War Loan Drive. Captain Friedenwald, a decorated infantry rifle commander with 69 enemy accounted in France and Germany, helped arrange the tour and is among several Army veterans leading the production. The display features blank-fire assaults on a Jap pillbox, with rifles, bazookas, flamethrowers, and machine guns demonstrated by trained teams from The Infantry School and supported by the Army Ground Forces and Treasury War Finance Division. Friedenwald, wounded in the Roer campaign, wears the Silver Star for gallantry.
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Aeron Friedenwald
Baltimers
France
Germany
Visfted
Army
Maryland National Guard
Aachen
Bauchem
Roer
Siersdorf
Friedenwald
War Finance Division
Treasury Department
Infantry
Fe T Benning
Georgia
Maryland
Sth
Here's Your Infantry unit tours country for extra bonds
The presentation shows doughboy tactics with barbed wire as a crossing aid. Pte. Wallace M. Russell of Pittsburgh leans on the wire bridge while S/Sgt. Ralph E. Hamilton of Aubury holds the Bronze Star and Combat Infantryman Badge. Pros James H. Hinll of Grand Rapids bears the Silver Star and unit citation. Over a thousand infantrymen will tour in support of the 7th War Loan message urging extra bonds for extra action.
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Wallace M. Russell
Pittsburgh
Ralph E. Hamilton
Aubury
James H. Hinll
Grand Rapids
Mich
Captain Befriendedwald’s Daring War Wounds and Valor
A Nazi bullet shattered his right leg early in the day as he fell at 10 am and lay unattended for 10 hours under enemy artillery fire. He endured with 16 sulfa pills and a bandage, earning the Silver Star, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge, American Defense Ribbon, and European Theater Ribbon with stars for Normandy, Northern France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. He hopes to return to the 29th Infantry Division after his temporary limited service ends, having been overseas 10 months with Rifle Company E of the 175th Infantry Regiment.
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Normandy
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Frienedwald
29Th Infantry
175Th
More County Men May Be Released
Washington county soldiers from the 110th Field Artillery Battalion are listed among Marylanders in the 24th Division eligible for U S return under the Point system and possible Army discharges if not essential. Names include Sgt Earl F Brown Bagestown T A Easton G Mundey Hagerstown Sgt William L McNamee Brenllhedsville T 4 John A Rowland Hagerstown T 4 Howard Rucy Hagerstown and Sgt Ragan O Stahl Hagerstown.
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Washington County
Maryland
24Th
United States
Howard M. Norton
Baltimore Sunpapers
Countians
Field Artillery Battalion
Ara
Earl F. Brown
Bagerstown
T/A Easton G
Mundey
Smithsburg High School graduates twenty five at exercises
Smithsburg High School held commencement exercises last evening awarding Giploitas to 25 graduates. Honors went to Vivien A. Walter Lois Beecher Doris Barnhart and Jean Weaver with medals for scholarship citizenship activities and more.
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Smithsburg High School
Benjamin Willis
Wilbur Phillips
Vivien A. Walter
Lois Beecher
Doris Barnhart
Jean Weaver
Vivian A. Walter
Blayne Dayhoff
Vivian Walter
Kenneth Phetteplace
Hilene Beecher
Thelma Kendall
Arthur Tracer
Blayne Darbott
Mae Smith
Smithsburg
Arthur Coleman Tracey
Doris Belle Barnhart
Betty June Biser
Catherine Elizabeth Davis
Anna Mee Grimes
Thelma June Kendall
Anna Jane Lewis
Meda Arlene Miner
Catherine Beatrice Needy
June Clinic Schedule At Local Health Department
The June schedule lists venereal disease clinics on Tuesday and Friday evenings at 7 o'clock and Thursday mornings at 9. Prenatal clinics occur on Tuesday mornings June 12 and June 24 at 9. TB clinics are by appointment this morning June 6 and Wednesday morning June 20. ENT clinic by appointment Saturday June 16. A child hygiene clinic is at Western Enterprise fire hall Tuesday morning June 18 at 9:30. All other clinics are in the Health Department building.
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King Street
Western Enterprise
Health Department
Three Indicted In Larceny Case In Baltimore
Three Hagerstown youths were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Baltimore on charges of stealing 54 cartons of cigarettes from a Pennsylvania Railroad freight car at a local siding on May 20. Defendants James D. Burger 22 William R. Stanley 18 and Charles L. Brown 24 resided on West Antietam Street and were apprehended by city police with the cigarettes.
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Hagerstown
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
James D. Burger
William R. Stanley
Charles L. Brown
West Antietam Street
Scientist Church Elects President
Mrs Myrtle Holm Smith of Waban Massachusetts was elected president of The Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist at yesterday s annual meeting in Boston She succeeds Paul Stark Seeley Roy Garrett Watson was reelected treasurer and Mary G Ewing clerk The directors urged peaceful world aims and noted fourfold growth in Mother Church membership since its founding
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Myrtle Holm Smith
Waban
Mass
First
Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Smith
Paul Stark Seeley
Roy Garrett Watson
Mary Gewing
Christian Science Board of Directors
California
Properties Sold At Auction Near Court House
The Miller property on Jonathan Street sold for 5600 dollars in front of the Court House yesterday afternoon. Auctioneer J C Snyder oversaw the sale, with Ernest Williams the purchaser. A Lanvale Street property brought 1675 dollars.
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Miller
Jonathan Strest
Court House
J. C. Snyder
Ernest Williams
Lanvale Street
Homeward Lt William Cochran Arrives from Nazi Camp
Lt. William Cochran returns to Randolph Avenue from Moasburg Germany where he was liberated by American forces on April 29 after nearly two years as a prisoner of war. He recalls landing in a Nazi airfield and being captured following a mid air collision over Wilhelmshaven. He credits Red Cross parcels for aid.
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William “Hw. Cochran
Randolph Steins
William Cochran
Randolph Avenue
Fort Meada
Moasburg
Germany
Cochran
Wilhelmshaven
Red Cross
Prisoner Officers Reunite With Family After Liberation
Lt Cochran and Lt Wolfe, prisoners in France, were liberated and Cochran reached Baltimore by transport ship. He phoned his mother Mrs Ruth Wolfe, hoping Wolfe would return with him. They had been wounded and separated in France, with Cochran optimistic about Wolfe's imminent homecoming.
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Reich
Cochran
le Wavre
Baltimore
Weslie
Ruth Wolfe
Belview Avenué
Lawrence E. Wolfe
Cothran
France
Wolfe
Unclear fragment from Hagerstown prisoner report
Fragmentary June 6 1945 item mentions Cochran and prisoners in Hagerstown. It is not possible to extract a clear event, date, or names beyond the scattered references to prisoners and Cochran.
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Smithsburg High
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