Peacetime Draft Opposed by Daniels in Air Power Vision
Washington June 11. Former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels told the House postwar military policy committee that peacetime universal service should emphasize aviation and strong air power. He argued readiness lies in flying craft and trained volunteers, not draft reliance, and urged air dominance to deter invasion. Daniels, an 83 year old Raleigh publisher, urged a navy that flies with land and sea strength.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Raleigh
N. C
House
Daniels
Jaundice Cases Not Serious In Hagerstown Area
Health officials in Hagerstown and Washington county say the yellow jaundice wave is not serious. The illness, affecting younger people, is not reportable and is no more dangerous than a septic sore throat. Most cases improve in days and are respiratory in nature, spreading like a cold.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Windstorm Hits Jamestown. $1.5 Million In Damage
A savage windstorm struck Jamestown New York around 9 30 p m injuring eight people and causing about 1 500 000 in damage repairs underway today to restore power and clear wreckage. The storm hit Brooklyn Square ripping roofs from buildings felling trees and utility poles disrupting electric and telephone service.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Brooklyn Square
Business Center
Eisenhower Receives Order of Victory in Honor of Zhukov
General Eisenhower told a luncheon at his headquarters that Allied leaders from Britain, Russia, and the United States seek a lasting peace for all nations. He accepted the Order of Victory from Marshal Zhukov, the first time the award went to a non Russian. Both men praised each other and asserted unity in achieving peace through strength.
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Frankfurt ON the Main
Russia
Eisenhower
Britain
United States
Georgi E. Zhukov
Marshal Zhukov
Berlin
Hisenhower
Bond Drive Slows in County Progress
The Seventh War Loan drive slowed last week with sales adding little to totals. Chairman John D. Hollyday reported current individual sales at 1,233,153 dollars, about unchanged from the prior report. BE bonds total 684,317.25 dollars, roughly 50 percent of the 1,350,000 dollar county quota. Plans were announced for bond booths at the Stadium Thursday night during Here's Your Infantry.
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John D. Hollyday
Hollyday
Salt Lake Woman Finds Hats Change After Philippines
After two years interned in the Philippines a Salt Lake City woman returns home and notes hats have changed, saying she lacks the courage to wear one yet.
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Salt Lake City
Philippines
Salt Lake
States
Break In Polish Situation Near Credit Hopkins
Foreign diplomats expect soon a news update on the Polish issue as Hopkins visit improves US Russian ties. Tass reports hinted a big three meeting and possible expansion of the Warsaw government to include Polish Peasant, Socialist, and Catholic parties. The Paris broadcast claimed 16 of 17 Polish resistance leaders were released, a claim not confirmed by a British commentator.
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Moscow
Harry Hopkins
Tass
Paris
Pertinax
Andre Geraud
Washington
Hopkins
Parimax
Yalta
Warsaw
Pravda
Rain Boosts Early Potatoes and Corn in County
Keedysville weather observer J. A. Miller reports 1.03 inches of rain last night and today, timing favorable for the early potato crop and corn. Total June rainfall reaches 1.43 inches, with optimism that additional showers before July 1 could yield a bumper crop as warm weather follows the moisture.
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Keedysville
J. A. Miller
Mate Of Late Amelia Earhart Is Married
Maj George Palmer Putman and Margaret Haviland wed in a garden ceremony in San Marino California. Putman, 57, was Earhart's husband when she vanished in 1937. The Michigan City Indiana native is an Army intelligence officer and former publisher. The bride, 36, is an USO mobile unit executive from Michigan. Capt Willard Learned officiated.
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San Marino
Calif
California
George Palmer Putman
Margaret Haviland
USO Mobile
Michigan City
Ind
Putman
Amelia Earhart
Miss Haviland
Alice McConnaughy
Willard Learned
Army Air Forces
Army
News Tip Contest Highlights Crab and Robin Pitches
The Daily Mail recaps top tips from last week. Crabs undermining an entrance bridge in City Park and a robin nesting beneath a Western Maryland caboose head the first prize items. Second prize covers a Blair's Valley bear sighting and 2:30 am municipal market crowds. Third prize notes an Old Forge road airplane landing and a Fairchild worker car collision. Cash awards range from 3.50 to 1.50.
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Maryland
Blair's Valley
Big Spring
Old Forge Road
Fairchild
Daily Mail
Third And Seventh To Occupy Germany
Paris June 11 The Army newspaper Stars and Stripes said the U S Third and Seventh Armies would occupy American zones in Germany freeing Lt Gen Leonard Gerow s 15th Army for a possible shift to the Pacific It noted the redeployment would not mean Third and Seventh troops go to occupation duty and described a near complete personnel revamp The First Army heads for the Pacific and the Ninth will halt operations in Germany next Friday.
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Paris
Stars and Stripes
U. S
Germany
Leonard Gerow
15Th Army
Pacific
Wiesbaden
U. S. First Army
Ninth
John S. Hollyday Promoted Again
John S. Hollyday of Funkstown has been promoted from captain to major after serving as a buck private at war start. He is in the South Pacific with an antitank artillery unit, a Duke University graduate who was commissioned after officers’ school and has been overseas about two years.
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John
Hollyday
Funkstown
John D. Hollyday
Nicodemus National Bank
Hollyway
South Pacific
Duke University
Pearl Harbor
Four More German Generals Picked Up
Four German generals and several officials and scientists were arrested by Allied occupation forces in a 24 hour period ending Sunday noon, according to the 12th Army Group. Notables include General Walter Musshoff, former Welfare Chief of the Luftwaffe, Lt. Colonel Juedeich, ex head of the Psychological Warfare Board, Conrad von Schubert, former Ukrainian Foreign Office observer and later senior Berlin embassy councillor, and Dr. Max Rend Schm it, Berlin city architect for 22 years.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
12Th Army Group
Walter Musshoff
Air Force
Gol. Juedeich
German Psychological Warfare Board
Conrad von Schubert
Foreign Office
Ukraine
Croatia
Max Rendschmitt
Berlin
RAF to be reduced to a third of size next year
London June 11. The Air Ministry announced the RAF will shrink to about one third of its current strength of around 3,000,000 personnel within 12 months. The readjustment for the war against Japan will release many groups, retrain and remuster others, and renew recruiting. Some RAF personnel have already been transferred to the navy.
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London
RAF
Air Ministry
Japan
Navy
Air armadas batter Japan in worst war weekend yet
Guam reports four straight days of American air attacks across Japan. B 29s Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters and carrier planes bombed Tachikawa Atsuki airfields Hitachi works and rail yards Sukagawa. One Superfortress lost. several Japanese interceptors destroyed. Sunday raid hit five targets in Tokyo Yokohama districts.
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Guam
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Tachikawa
Atsuki
Tokyo-Yokohama
Tokyo
Yokohama
Hitachi
Sukagawa
Kyushu
Barefoot Dad to Get Shoe Stamp After Sympathy Letter
A New York donor offered several pairs of worn shoes to barefoot dad, who earlier paraded downtown Hagerstown with a sign about two sons in the Army. Mayor Sweeney announced the stamp will be available from Mrs. H. H. Dickinson of Long Beach after she sent a sympathetic note.
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New York
City Hall
Richard H. Sweeney
H. H. Dickinson
Long Beach
California
Cumberland
Daddy
Hagerstown
Willamsport
Thomas M. Simpson
Sweeney
Mrs. Dickinson
De Gaulle Still Is Tops With French His Tour Reveals
Gen. De Gaulle's Normandy inspection trip turned into a public triumph as crowds mobbed him from Caen to Alencon. Signs hailed him liberator and great president while flowers lined the route and thousands gathered in Bayeux St Lo and small towns.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Normandy
France
Caen
Bayeux
St. Lo
Alencon
Delinquent Tax Notices Mailed by County Treasurer
Treasurer Hugh K Troxell announces delinquent tax notices mailed to all state and county taxpayers. About 93 percent of the 1945 levy has been collected, with railroads and large corporations largely awaiting State Tax Commission certification. A few local tax items remain unpaid.
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Hugh K. Troxell
Troxell
State Tax Commission
Pope Receives Solons From U S Senate in Vatican
Pope Pius III today received in audience members of the U S Senate Military Affairs and Appropriations Committees touring the Mediterranean theater. The visit underscores ongoing military and strategic discussions as officials meet with Vatican leadership during their European tour.
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Pope
Jail Inmates Hope For Beef Stew As Meat Shortage Eases
County jail inmates have endured a meat shortage, surviving on cold cuts for a week or two. Sheriff J B Huyett said the situation pinched last week but a returning butcher will supply red meat again, promising beef stew and varied meat for jail meals.
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J. B. Huyett
Sun day lightning strikes Fairmont church shatters cross
Dr. David K. Alenn's Sunday sermon on The Force of Nature was interrupted when lightning struck the church yesterday afternoon. The bolt shattered a large stone cross and a cornice tower, causing damage but no injuries reported.
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Fairmont
W. Va
David K. Alenn
Stilwell Says Japs May Hold Out Two Years
General Joseph Stilwell, amid frontline Okinawa fighting, warned the war with Japan could last at least two more years and may require ground action in Manchuria after home islands are conquered. He doubted bombing alone would stop Japan and noted Japanese tenacity and stubborn morale.
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Okinawa
Joseph W.stilwell
Japan
Manchuria
Army
Stilwell
Vinegar Joe
U. S. Sixth Army
Yanks Smash Yaeju-Dake Escarpment On Okinawa
American Tenth Army drives head on into the Yaeju-Dake escarpment in southern Okinawa amid heavy Japanese artillery mortars and machinegun fire. Lt Gen Buckner directs with flame tanks aircraft and naval gunfire as battleships and cruisers support the assault.
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Guam
Tenth Army
Yaeju-Dake
Okinawa
Shuri
Pacific
Pointblank
Simon Bolivar Buckner
10Th Army
Page Pa
Hopkins Leaves Paris in High Spirits for Washington
Harry Hopkins departed Paris by plane on June 11 returning to Washington to brief President Truman on his Moscow mission. He had arrived in Paris a day earlier from Moscow and did not meet General De Gaulle. Diplomatic observers expect plans for a broader Big Three meeting to be discussed. Hopkins appeared in high spirits and declined to comment on his conversations with Marshal Stalin.
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Paris
Harry Hopkins
Washington
Truman
Moscow
Hopkins
Gen. de Gaulle
Marshal Stalin
Army D D T to Combat Edgemont Ant Mounds
Extension forester Harry Dengler of the University of Maryland will test a new D D T insecticide on mound building ants discovered at the Edgemont reservoir watershed. The two to three foot high mounds were found in a field near the Memorial Forest project, where Dengler intends to apply a spray dose.
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S. Army
Edgemont Reservoir
Harry Dengler
University of Maryland
Denglar
Memorial Forest
Hagers
Bull Tail Hollow
Wate
Dengier
Three-Way Invasion Catches Enemy Off-Balance
The Australian assault forces launched a surprise invasion of north west Borneo seizing Labuan island and key Brunei bay targets. Japanese resistance was minimal as the 4,000 yard inland push toward Brunel town began under heavy Allied naval and air bombardment. Air cover came from Royal Australian and US forces while naval gunfire supported the operation.
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Associated Press
Borneo
Brunei Bay
MacArthur
Tokyo Radio
Labuan
Brocketon
Maura
Manila
Maura Island
Brooketon
Brunel Town
Brunei
U. S. 7Th Fleet
Royal Australian
U. S. 2Th
Fewer Packages Going To Europe
The post office reports a sharp drop of up to 30 percent in outgoing parcel shipments to Europe after last month’s victory. More packages are now being sent to the Pacific area as soldiers request food items, with no changes in mailing rules. Parcel post clerk J Winter Roney notes contents remain unchanged and urges careful packing due to South Pacific conditions.
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Europe
J. Winter Roney
Noney
Pacific
South Pacific
Auto Stamps Hit Sale On First Day
Fewer than 100 Federal auto tax stamps were sold Saturday on the first day they must be displayed on motor vehicles after July 1. About 49 sold at the post office stamp windows and nearly 50 by the Informal Revenue Bureau on the second floor. The stamps cost 33 cents. Lewis Hippie of Hazers Town, oldest Morgan county Selective Service Board member, was elected chairman.
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Informal Revenue Bureau
Lewis Hippie
Hazerstown
Morgan County
W. Va
Selective Service Board
Ripple Moes
Berkley Springs
Tian 'Gock
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Joseph D. Medley
Tor
Nancy Boyer
T. Alan Goldsborough
Medley
Buck
Yanks
Jap Escarpment
Pointblank Range
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