Saipan Air Battle Biggest Since Midway Defeats 300 Planes
U S Pacific Fleet reports about 300 Japanese planes from Saipan shot down in a massive air battle by American carrier task forces and warships. Adm Nimitz says only one American vessel damaged as U S Marines and Army seize the Aslito airstrip and push toward Magicienne Bay while shattering Japanese shuttle bases on Guam and Rota.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Pacific
Midway
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Sea‘hees
Aslito
Japan
Central Pacific
Ward
Tokyo
Magicienne Bay
Nafutan Point
U.S
Guam
Rota
Merlanas
Retired Teacher Miller Dies in Maryland Community
Clinton E. Miller 86 a longtime Weverton teacher and farmer died at Sehnauffer hospital Brunswick after a three week illness. He taught in Washington and Frederick counties for 40 years and will be buried at St. Mark's Episcopal Petersville following a 1 pm funeral service. Interment near the family cemetery. Also noted are obituaries for John Albert Shipp a seafood businessman and confectioner from Mercersburg with 40 years in seafood trade and Woodmen membership, Effie Myrtle Weigand, and William B. King a Baltimore-born photographer prominent in Hagerstown. Interments set at Rose Hill cemetery and services officiated by local pastors.
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Clinton E. Miller
Weverton
Sehnauffer Hospital
Brunswick
Jacob A
Mary A. K. Miller
Lutheran Church
Knoxville
Washington
Frederick County
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Petersville
Thomas A. Withey
St. C. Erdman
Mercersburg
Cyrus J
Mary (Ingle) Shipp
Elizabeth Avenue
First Brethren Church
Woodmen of the World
G. M. Dewitt
West Point
Roy A. Hagerstown
Tis Pee
Effie Myrtle Weigand
Clarence E. Weigand
Paper Mill Road
Evangelical Church
Jacob and
Mary Spessard Stouffer
Clarence Shupp
Huyetts Crossroads
Walter H. Dice
Rose Hill Cemetery
Kraiss
William B. King
Baltimore
A. K. Coffman
Hagerstown
Masons
Mr. King
James Cummins
Smoketown Road
Dunkard Church
Recruits 25 For Navy Jobs At Indian Head Md
Willam Totten, recruiter for the U S Navy powder factory at Indian Head Md, announced he recruited 25 persons in the last month from Hagerstown to take jobs at the factory. He will stay at the U S Employment office for two more weeks to recruit lead burners and other workers for government employment.
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Willam
Totten
U. S. Navy
Indian Mead
Hagersftown
U. S
Planes Move Hospital Patients Here Today
Fifteen C-47 Army transport planes loaded with casualties evacuated from Newton D. Baker General Hospital to nearer hospitals began taking off from Hagerstown Airport this morning. The move, using Fairchild loading facilities, aims to send patients closer to home for recuperation. Nurses accompanying the flights spent the night at Baker Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Newton D. Baker General Hospital
Army
Fairchild
Air Transport Command
Martinsburg
Baker Hospital
Atlee Hammaker Dies In Pacific Realm
Cpl. Atlee H Hammaker aged 38 died in June at a base hospital in the Central Pacific after a four week illness. He enlisted December 1942 and served overseas last year. A member of St Pauls United Brethren church and Morris Frock Post of the American Legion. His father was the late George Hammaker.
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Cpl
Atlee Huffer Hammaeaker
Central Pacific Area
War Department
Lora Hammaker
East Franklin Street
St. Paul's United Brethren Church
Morris Frock Post
American Legion
George Hammaker
Hammaker
Dewey Leads But Bricker Gains in GOP Debate
A Dewey lead in national polls faces Taft arguing Bricker is stronger. Sprague, NY Republican committeeman, says Dewey is favored by about 60 percent in polls, while Taft counters that polls and state delegates are unreliable. Pettis wins Democratic nomination in Maine's first district race. Wildreth secures Republican gubernatorial nomination.
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Associated Prensa
Thomas E. Dewey
Taft
Ohio
John W. Bricker
J. Russel Sprague
Republican National
Sprague
Bricker
Washington
New York Party
Dewey
Maine
Andrew A. Pettis
Portland
Kantner Renamed to Maryland State Board of Pharmacy
Dr. L M Kantner of Baltimore was reappointed to the State Board of Pharmacy by Governor O Conor in Annapolis on June 20.
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DR. Kantner
Annapolis
L. M. Kantner
Baltimore
State Board of Pharmacy
O’conor
This Country Heaven Provides War Prisoners A Gracie Fields Party
Gracie Fields and Monty Banks hosted a dining and dancing party for about 70 Italian prisoners of war from Camp Haan at their Santa Monica home. The prisoners, veterans of Tunisia and Libya, swam, played tennis, and danced with local Italian girls as Fields sang, and many said this country is heaven after years of captivity.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Comedienne
Gracie Fields
Monty Banks
U.S. Army
Camp Haan
Tunisia
Libya
Banks Vields
Los Angeles
Banks
Mario Bianchi
Italy
Gracie
Center Reports Successful Period Center Reports Successful Period
The Infant and Child Health Center in Hagerstown and Washington County reports six months ending May 31 with 203 children enrolled and 42 receiving care at the new nursing home on Middlebury Pike. The center logged 1,334 nurse visits, 11 hospital treatments, 19 doctor visits, and inoculations totaling 26 for diphtheria and 12 for both diphtheria and whooping cough.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Infant and Child Health Center, Inc
Western Enterprise Fire Hall
Middlebury Pike
Nursing Home
Community Chest
Board of Children
Kiwanis Club
Lions Club
Zonta Club
Father Held After Children Die Of Gas Poisoning
In Buffalo New York the father Edward C. Howard aged 52 an embers railroad worker was arrested on a non support charge after the bodies of his 11 year old son and 17 year old daughter were found dead from cyanide gas poisoning in a house the family had vacated. The children had been homeless for weeks and had slept in a garage while hiding from welfare authorities with the home slated for fumigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Edward C. Howard
Howard
Lift Pre Invasion Ban on Diplomats
The British foreign office revoked the pre invasion ban on travel by diplomats and tightened communications after April 17. Exceptions were allowed for a few other nations. Gen Charles de Gaulle visited London and Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish government-in-exile departed for the United States.
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London
United States
Britain
Soviet Russia
Foreign Office
Charles de Gaulle
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Young boy seeks farm work at Riverton job bureau
An 11 year old applied at the farm employment bureau advertising for veteran farm laborers. When asked if he could milk cows he replied that he had done so as a child. A windy thunderstorm in Maryland killed a farmer by lightning in Wicomico county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverton
Wyo
Farm Employment Bureau
Baltimore Leader Opens Mind On Wallace Nomination
James H. Pollack a Fourth Baltimore City district party leader says he will attend the Democratic national convention with an open mind on Vice President Wallace. He rejects the unit rule as binding and will vote for whomever he believes best serves the country’s welfare.
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Maryland
Wallace
James H
Jack)Pollack
Baltimore
Pollack
French Complete Elba Conquest Elba taken by French Colonial troops
Allied forces push north toward Florence and Rome and enter Perugia after the conquest of Elba. Porto Longone surrenders with about 300 garrison. Elba’s garrison and material seize. Perugia vacated by scattered resistance as 8th Army advances.
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Rome
Perugia
Florence
Elba
Elbe
Porto Longone
8Th Army
Cancel Plans To Refit Normandie
NEW YORK June 20 The Navy says refit plans for the former French liner Normandie are cancelled due to manpower and material shortages. The ocean giant which burned and rolled in February 1942 was raised at 3,750,000 last fall and towed to Todd shipyard in Brooklyn. Navy department announced the cancellation yesterday.
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New York
Navy
Todd
Brooklyn
Navy Department
Changsha Captured By Japs Reported By Chinese High Command
Chungking reports Changsha fell after 56,000 Japanese troops destroyed suburban defenses and radio contact with the capital of Hunan province was broken. The Japanese attacked the suburbs under cover of war planes as the situation remained obscure.
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Chungking
Changsha
Hunan
Two Coe College Girls Ride 225 Miles Home
Chicago report notes Carlee Baur and Sue Robertson of Coe College Cedar Rapids Indiana biked 225 miles to reach home after a week long trip to give up train seats for service men. The patriotic gesture during a post college visit drew attention for its bold travel on bicycles.
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Chicago
Carlee Baur
Sue Robertson
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Candle smoke at North avenue residence prompts quick fire call
Junior Fire company responded to a North avenue residence where a sulphur candle caused considerable smoke. No damage and firefighters did not enter. The text also notes tea’s first appearance in European literature toward the end of the 16th century.
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North Avenue
News From Our Men In Uniform In Italy And Beyond
Corporal Bill Ford reports thrilling encounters in Italy and a hot hill battle after meeting friend Breezy. Naval cadets George I Brandenburg and Robert Roulette receive new addresses and assignments in North Carolina and Pensacola. Pic Howard Carter returns home on furlough from Camp Blanding. First Sergeant John E. Potter Jr transfers from medical to the 70th Armored Infantry Battalion to serve as a doughboy.
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Bill Ford
Italy
Williamsport
O. K
Rome
Bill
George I. Brandenburg
Chapel Hill
N.—C
Mt. Lena
N. A
Grosse Tle
Michigan
Naval Aviation
Robert Hisworth Roulette
E. R. Roulette
Hagerstown
Naval Air Training Center
Pensacola
Fla
Naval Air Station
Glenview
Roulette
Naval Reserve
Marine Corps Reserve
Hagerstown High School
Maryland College
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity
Navy
University of North Carolina
N. C
Camp Campbell
John E. Potter, Jr
20Th Armorred
John E. Potter
Public Square
Potter
70Th Armored Infantry Battalion
20Th Armored Division
Dow
Army
Fort Meade
Pine Camp
Fort Bragg
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Admit Cherbourg Is Isolated In Nazi Siege Forecast
London reports German acknowledgment that Allied troops isolated Cherbourg port but Nazi officials predicted a long siege. Berlin radio via Voelkischer Beobachter said American advances disrupted land links to France interior and noted Cherbourg’s coastal fortifications may threaten further penetration. Transocean claimed attackers would face heavy defenses if moving north.
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London
Cherbourg
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Contentin
France
Nazi Transocean
Two Rocky Mountain Fever Cases Reported in Frederick County
Two confirmed cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have appeared in Frederick county, with a third child suspected of infection. Both diagnosed patients are girls aged nine and five, and health officials warn the disease is tick borne.
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Frederick County
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Green Lantern
North Potomac Street
Columbia Way
Columbia College
Potomac St
OME Owners Headquarters
Fleigh Motor Co
Oak Hill Avenue
John Albert Shipp
Atlee Hammaker
West Washington St
Kraiss Funeral Home
Phons No
Amy Hagerstown Laundry
Weat Franklin Street
Center
Saum's
Jonathan St. Adv
Frederick Street
Wilhelm
Thumma Motor Co
Salisbury
Wicomico County
Henry Elijah Bailey
Elwood C. Bailey
L. A. Rademaker
Hagerstown Industrial Loan
Jonathan St
D. Earl Neixirk
John A. Shipp
Shipp’s Seafood Market
Eighth Army
Normandie
Goodyear
Balto, & Locust Sts
Williamsport Taxpayers
G. W. Wolfe
Apply Employment Office
Pope Avenue
Victor Products
Pic
Howard F. Carter
Camp Blanding
Florida
Carter
Sharpsburg
Mitchell Avenue
Washington Co
Yingling Auto Sales & Service
Pontiac
GMC
Central Garage
Summit Ave
Hamilton Hotel
General Ins
Agey
Dealers In Sound Insurance Professional Arts
Arthur F. Detrow
Gen Mar
Keystone 1
Exide Batteries Wholesale & Retail
Reichard’s
W. Antietam St
Consumers Credit Service
Consumers Credit Service, Inc
Williamsport Volunteer Fire Company
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