Germans Continue To Hurt Robot Planes
German explosive robot planes crossed the English Channel in weather that reduced Allied air activity striking southern England. A hospital nurses home was hit with fatalities and injuries, four trapped in a shop cellar for six hours, and fires hindered rescues. RAF Spitfires and American bombers attacked Pas de Calais as pilots fought the buzzing unmanned craft, with several crashes reported and claims that the weapon will determine a new phase in war.
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London
Pas-de-Calais
Hitler
Pas de-Calais
RAF Spitfire
Britain
Stockholm
London Daily Express
Robot Looked Like Fire Ball
In England a nurse described a robot plane that looked like a ball of fire, touching off a direct hit on a nurses home. Rescue squads searched for trapped nurses and patients as two boys were confirmed dead, while doctors continued aid and hospital wards burned. Market news noted a further rise in key industrial and rail shares in New York.
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England
New York
Severe quake reported near Alaska, Weston college says
A severe earthquake about 3,380 miles from Boston was reported today by Rev Daniel Linehan seismologist at Weston College and placed near Alaska. The alert notes the quake’s distance and uncertain location but confirms its occurrence.
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Weston
Mass
Boston
Alaska
Daniel Linehan
Weston Collge
Praise For Red Cross From War Prisoner
A German prisoner of war writes from a camp praising Red Cross aid improving his stay. The postcard, dated March 20, reaches Hagerstown on June 16 and asks Guy Kidwell to extend regards to local friends. Zecher lists Fairground Avenue as his home.
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The
Red Cross
Lyndon Zecher
Guy Kidwell
Hagerstown
Zecher
Mr. Kidwell
Fairground Avenue
Widely Known Priest Is Fatally Injured
The Rev. Fr. Patrick H. Mc Dermott rector of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Clarksburg West Virginia was fatally struck by a milk truck while crossing to his church. De Gaulle arrives in Algiers after London visit following Normandy front tour.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Patrick H. McDermott
Church of the Immaculate Conception
West Virginia
DE Gaulle
Algiers
London
Charles de Gaulle
Normandy Battlefront
One Killed And Two Badly Hurt In Early Crash
James Lewis Bryan died at 6 35 AM from a fractured skull after a crash on the Williamsport Green Castle pike. Charles E Reid driver of the Oldsmobile and Samuel Wiley were seriously injured and taken to Washington County hospital. Reid reported blinding lights caused the collision with a tree near Kemp’s Mill. Bryan, Reid, and Wiley were riding front seat. Bryan’s family listed survivors. Funeral planned Tuesday at 2 PM at the Pentecostal church in Williamsport with interment at St Paul’s cemetery.
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James Lewis Bryan
Williamsport
Charles E. Reid
Reessner Avenue
Samuel Wiley
Washington County
Bryan
Greencastle Pike
Reid
Leister Isanogle
Kemp’s Mill
Wiley
Row’s Park
Frederick
Barbara E. Bryan
Beulah
Pvt
Albert Bryan
Englan
Melvin .R. Shipley
Watel
Mary
Edward
Robert
Resh .Hawbaker
Harry RF
Big Spring
Pentecostal Church
Vernon Mills
St. Paul's Cemetery
Leaf Funeral
Four Narcotics Bottles Discovered Behind Danter Lot
Two Madison avenue youths found four bottles of narcotics yesterday on the Danter lot at the rear of the street and turned them over to police. Detective Wayne Seliman said he checked among physicians and drugstores. no source or reason for the bottles was found.
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Madison Avenue
Danter
Wayne Seliman
Sellman
Six Die in Langley Field Plane Collision
Six flyers were killed when an army bomber and a single-engine plane collided during landing at Langley Field Virginia. Col. E A Lohnan, commanding officer, announced the night fatal crash.
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Langley Field
Col
E. A. Lohnan
Yanks Inch Inland On Saipan After Coastal Victory
United States forces pressed inland on Saipan after seizing a coastal town and its airstrip, as sweeping operations against Japan extended across the Bonin and Kazan Islands. Eyewitness accounts from Charan-Kanoa described a savage land battle, with heavy bombardment and stubborn Japanese mortar fire.
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Saipan
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Marianas
Japan
Bonin
Kazan
Paramushiro
Palau
Charan-Kanoa
Invasion Casualties Report For First 11 Days
Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley announced that American forces in France suffered 3,283 killed and 12,600 wounded, totaling 15,883 casualties in the first 11 days of the Normandy campaign. He praised allied beachhead efforts and noted higher losses on the central beachhead with lower casualties in the Peninsula area, confirming prior invasion optimism.
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France
Normandy
Omar N. Bradley
Ger. Bradley
Bradley
Peninsula
Accident Suit Is Before Jury In Johnson City
The $7500 damage suit of Harry Miller, local paperhanger, against Pearl Brown and Generva Place of Johnson City, New York, is before a jury in circuit court. Miller and his brother Edward seek damages for injuries from an auto accident on October 14 at Huyett's crosspikes. The brothers, riding in a pickup, allege both were seriously hurt. Attorneys John Wagaman and Edward F. Trawyer represent the Millers. E. Stuart Bushong and Leo H. Miller represent Mrs Place. The brothers previously won a verdict in 1936 in a Route 11 crash near Belleville against Samuel Fleagle.
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Harry Miller
Pearl Brown
Generva
Johnson City
N. Y
Huyett
Miller
Edward
U. S. Rt. 40
Nash
Williamsport Greencastle Pike
John Wagaman
Edward F. Trawyer
Place
Brown
E. Stuart Bushong
Leo H. Miller
U. S. Route 11
Bellevue
Samuel Fleagle
Cumberland
Army Air Forces honors local air spotters in Hagerstown
About 400 former aircraft spotters in Hagerstown and Washington county received certificates of honorable service from the First Fighter Command of the Army Air Forces. The certificates list each recipient and are signed by Colonel Stewart W. Towle. Posts were deactivated six months earlier as invasion risk inland declined.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Army Air Forces
Stewart W. Powle
Air Corps
Col. Towle
H. M. Garrison
J. F. Omps
Hancock
Finns Evacuate Viipuri As Red Army Advances
Stockholm dispatches report compulsory evacuation of Viipuri toward which Soviet forces press with heavy armor. Refugees flee other Karelia towns. Finnish forces shift east from Åland. Soviet capture of Viipuri looms as bridges are being blown and Red Army pour in with tanks and air support.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Viipuri
Helsinki
Suranmaki
Red Army
Dagens Nyheter
Akveranmaa
Aland
Gulf of Bothnia
Moscow
Viipuri J
Karelian
Red
Grigory Ivanov
Karelian Isthmus
Finnish Envoy Ordered Home Amid US-Finland Rift
Washington reports that Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope and three counselors were ordered to leave the United States after a State Department accusation of inimical activities. The action, taken under police guard, widened the diplomatic split with Finland and involved four diplomats and their families. The grounds for the accusation were not disclosed.
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Washington
Hjalmar J. Procope
State Department
United States
Procope
Finland
Alsatia Club to Hold Last Meeting Until Fall
The Alsatia Club will meet Monday night at the usual hour for its last regular gathering until September. President W. K. Bower says several important matters will be discussed and a full attendance is urged. A substantial door prize will be awarded.
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Alsatia Club
W. K. Bower
Half of quota raised for United Jewish Appeal drive
New York reports more than half of the 32.6 million nationwide quota for the United Jewish Appeal has been raised in the first five months of the year. The effort involved 3,250 Jewish communities across the country, with the announcement made yesterday.
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New York
United Jewish Appeal For Refugees
Overseas Needs
Palestine
Southern Section Of County Misses Heavy Downpour Again
The southern part of the county again missed a heavy rain, while Hagerstown and the northern section reported a downpour. Keedysville observer J A Miller logged only .02 inch there, and about ten minutes brought a half inch of rain locally. Yesterday reached 93, with forecasts predicting 97 or 98 today, and more rain appears likely in 48 hours. Last night’s warm spell climbed five degrees from the previous night and brief high winds snapped tree limbs in the North End.
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Hagerstown
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Mr. Miller
Father Of Nine Is Missing Here From Home
Police sought help to locate Ray E. Keets a 52 year old colored man missing since last Sunday from his home. His wife fears amnesia or illness may have befallen him. She described him as six feet tall about 160 pounds wearing a brown coat and navy trousers. He had little money and worked for Victor Products Corporation.
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Ray E. Keets
Keets
Victor Products Corporation
Allied drive in Normandy nears Cherbourg port
Bad weather delayed unloading at a U S fighter base in England as American forces push along the Normandy peninsula. Capt James Earnhardt of Rutherford College NC reported German trucks and staff cars moving southward toward Cherbourg while Gen Omar Bradley’s troops tighten the trap. Allies claim gains near La Haye du Puits and St Sauveur le Vicomte as they seek to sever the Cherbourg peninsula from German lines despite costly German counterattacks east of Caen.
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U.S
England
Cherbourg
Omar N. Bradley
James Earnhardt
Rutherford College
N. C
HDQS
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
la Haye du Puits
Supreme Headquarters
Caen
Troarm
Caumontere Tilly-sur-Seulles
City Deed Transfers 5.6 Acres to Park Near City Park
Washington County Historical Society deeds 5.6 acres along Walnut Lane to the Mayor and Council for 3000 dollars. The tract will be drained and added to the park and Walnut Lane widened. Other sales include Edna Smith home in Fountain Head Heights to C Welles Little for 10 dollars and assorted transfers totaling about 75000 dollars.
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Washington County Historical Society
Walnut Lane
Edna I. Smith
Fountain Head Heights
Brewerland Lindsay
C. Welles
Henry ©. Bennett
Samuel N. Beyard
Williamsport Pike
Chester S. Butler
West
Park Avenue
Washington County
Clarence G. Spence, Jr
Bridgeport
Lelia Hager
Ernest Williams
Bloom's Alley
Suspected Frog Hollow Moonshiners Linked to Illegal Sugar Ring
Investigators tie Frog Hollow in Washington county to a large illegal sugar ration stamp scheme. Five arrests made with claims of thousands in counterfeit stamps injected from an eastern contact. Stamps allegedly printed from plates found near the Anacostia River and used to buy five to ten tons of sugar at a time. State OPA officials in Baltimore say ongoing checks on black market sugar activity began weeks ago.
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Frog Hollow
Washington County
Jhead
Anacosta River
Washington
OPA
Leo McCormick
Baltimore
Hag- Perstown
Urges Countians Buy Keep Bonds
Bond buyers should hold to maturity barring emergency, says Bond Chairman John D. Hollyday. He notes that quick cashing after a War Loan flare harms the fund and that such buyers are a minority. A Treasury War Finance letter cites that about 0.1 percent of Series E, P, and G bonds remain with original investors since 1941, with E bonds slightly worse at 8.3 percent.
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Washington County
John D. Hollyday
Hollyday
E. R. Mowbray
War Finance Committee
Treasury Department
State of siege proclaimed along northern German coast
A northern Germany state of siege has been proclaimed along the entire coast. Field Marshal Hermann Gensling was reported touring the coast with army and navy representatives and Todt defense engineers assessing coastal defenses and military engineering efforts.
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London
Morroon Radio
Tass
Suiricheirn
Germany
Hermann Gensling
Army
C7manitt
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