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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1944
Page
3
Deily ne Mail in Hagerstown carries 1828 establishment notes with editors J Garvin Hager and E Phillips as general manager. It lists Blambe Audit Bureau circulation figures and subscription rates by zone and method, including foreign mail pricing and AP membership rights.
The piece recalls Hitler's two front war rule from Mein Kampf and Kaiser era doctrine. It notes the Eastern Front with Russia, the Italian and French fronts, plus underground, air fronts, threatening Germany as Allied forces close in. It argues Hitler cannot manage many fronts and will only twist until defeat.
The piece argues synchronized Allied raids and ground advances near Tokyo signal Japan could fall sooner than once thought. It notes Japan lacks the production Plants to match Germany and that final air and ground campaigns will crush Japanese war capacity. Dark days for Japan, with final defeat potentially quicker than a five year struggle.
The piece notes the United Nations and the United States may wage two major offensives at once. While Allied forces prepare for the European invasion with massive troop and supply mobilization, the Pacific war enters a pivotal phase amid strategic air raids and shifting momentum.
Japanese mainland targets are bombed as Saipan and dozen Jap islands fall under Allied strikes. Heavy Allied air power disrupts roads and rails across Germany and France while invasion of Europe continues. High officials foresee a faster defeat of Japan as bases tighten control of the Philippines and Mindanao.
The article notes a shift from wartime stock pessimism to postwar optimism following Allied landings in France. Stocks rallied to four year highs, with lower priced issues surging over 40 percent in a week. Analysts foresee strong civilian demand and high employment after the war, despite potential later economic troubles.
A reflective poem explores secret courage and self restraint. A speaker, invoking Confucius, contrasts outward behavior with inner duty. The ceiling becomes a silent observer, shaping moral choices and the fear of private judgment as the measure of virtue.
In a roundup of 40 years ago, First Hose reel team rode Capt Engie’s boat along the C and O Canal from the locks to Williamsport aqueduct. Samuel Knode of Boonsboro named Republican Convention doorkeeper in Chicago. A Philadelphia doctor claimed radium can be mined from local barium rock. A 20 week kidnap scare hit Hagerstown after two families received threatening letters demanding money. Parking plans in Hagerstown progress as Central Parking Company buys land on West Antietam Street for a first municipal lot. Fifty employees at Securite Cement and Lime Company are noted.
Ernie Pyle writes from the Ormandy Beachhead about American war correspondents who landed on D Day. He describes the fatigue, danger, and camaraderie of reporters like Don Whitehead Jack Thompson and Tex O Reilly. He notes their struggle to file stories while the assault raged and questions the fate of their dispatches reaching America.
The employees held their annual outing at Taylor's Landing with entertainment supplied by performers from their native lands, singing songs characteristic of their backgrounds.
Horace B. Davis announced his resignation as editor of the Western Maryland edition of CIO News and field representative of the Western Maryland Industrial Union Council to take a position with a national CIO union in Chicago. Davis previously served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington.
The column recalls Dwight Eisenhower as a young Army ace and Gruenther as a rising staffer shaping Italy’s Fifth Army strategy. It notes Kentucky Senator Vinson opposing a Bankhead price control amendment after a vow to mobilize support. It also covers Senator Taft’s push to cap executive pension deductions and mentions Ellsworth Alvord’s influence in pension tax law.
Washington reports reveal General Marshall warned of labor delaying war as troop movements to seaboard for shipment to England followed the Teheran Conference. The message tied a potential railroad strike to wartime logistics, prompting resentment from labor leaders and White House protest. A labor delegation later visited Senator Chandler.
Fragmentary text describes a bitter experience at a local Sanatorium in Harleton South Carolina. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR.
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