Oregon Coasts Hit in Dual Shelling by Unknown Vessel
The Pacific Northwest faced wartime danger as Vancouver Island shelling near Estevan Point and offshore gunfire along the Oregon coast caused alerts. Official reports cited 10 casualties and limited damage, with shells landing on beaches and rocks and a few windows broken at the radio site.
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Associated Press
Vancouver Island
Canada
British Columbia
Oregon
Pacific Northwest
Dominion
Estevan Point
Kenneth Stuart
West Coast
Seaside
Ocean
Astoria
Columbia River
Slow To Buy Auto Stamps In Hagerstown
With under ten percent sold, Hagerstown motor vehicle owners must buy Federal auto tax stamps at a rate of 1500 daily for eight days. Coastmaster Thomas M. Simpson said only 1200 of the $5 stamps have sold in ten days. About 13,000 vehicles in the city imply a stamp rush before July 1 as stamps, sold like postage, require no credentials beyond payment and provide a serial number for the next gas ration card.
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Hagerstown
Thomas M. Simpson
Scrap rubber drive nets 250000 pounds in Oregon
In Redwood on June 22 a Central Oregon rubber campaign collected 250000 pounds of rubber. A station attendant had already paid a penny a pound for a nest of chipmunks found inside an old tire casing.
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Redwood
Ore
Central
Oregon
Tip Prizes Divided At Daily Mail Tips
Opening of officers training camp at Camp Ritchie and the finding of a drowning victim body split last week's first prize. Second prize divided on tips about an injury during a blackout and a farmer’s accident. Tips accepted weekdays 7:30 am to 1:30 pm.
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Camp Ritchie
The
Daily Mail
Missing Mowen Report Shocks Local Baseball Family
Reports from Cearfoss and Park Circle Inn indicate Roger Mowen, noted local baseball player, is missing in action. His mother reportedly received a brief telegram from the War Department confirming his status. Mowen previously pitched for the Sharpsburg Club and started one game with the Hagerstown Owls before enlisting about eight months ago.
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Roger Mowen
Mowen
Cearfoss
Park Circle Inn
War Department
Sharpsburg
Hagerstown Owls
Army
Four Drivers Found Guilty In Drunken Driving Case
Four auto drivers were convicted and one acquitted of drunken driving in police court this morning. Jesse Earl Mills of Clearspring was acquitted of drunken driving and driving without an operator's card. His coupe left the road near Fairview Mountain around 10 last night and he was treated at a hospital before being lodged in jail for a hearing. The convicted drivers include Robert M. Froelich, 19, of Glenside Avenue, and Clarence V. Cooper, 28, of Park Place, with Mears of Park Place among the others.
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Jesse Earl Mills
Clearspring
Rt 2
M. W. B. Bostetter
Mills
Coupe
Fairview Mountain
Holsinger
Robert M. Froelich
Glenside Avenue
R. G. Mears
Park Place
Clarence V. Cooper
Water Board to Meet With Council Over Fountain Head Development
The Board of Water Commissioners is asked to meet with the Mayor and Council tonight to report on a request by a company proposing the erection of 60 houses on the Fountain Head Development. The request seeks permission to connect with the new water line to the Fairchild plant near Hagerstown airport. A recommendation was made to the Mayor and City Council after a conference with the builders recently.
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Board of Water Commissioners
Fountain Head
Fairchild
Hagerstown
Hancock Youth Reported Lost in Pacific Action
Word arrived Saturday that George Miles, son of Mr and Mrs Clinton Miles of Hancock Duck Valley, was lost in action somewhere in the Pacific off Australia. He served with a bomber crew that did not return to base after missions. A Watfordburg High School graduate and Hancock baseball club member, Miles enlisted in 1940 and transferred from infantry to the Air Corps after several months. Parents had learned he reached Australia about a month earlier.
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George Miles
Clinton Miles
Duck Valey
Hancock
Pacific
Australia
Miles
Watfordsburg High School
Hancock Baseball Club
Air Corps
Mellon Institute researcher rides 15 miles daily to work
Pittsburgh June 22. F C Weissert of the Mellon Institute staff is devoted to solving the rubber problem. He conducts synthetic rubber research and commutes 15 miles daily by bicycle from his McKeesport home to the $6,000,000 institute building.
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Pittslurgh
FC. Weissert
Mellon Institute
McKeesport
Baltimore Democrat enters Maryland gubernatorial race
Annapolis Maryland June 22 Stephen B Peddicord a Baltimore Democrat became the first candidate to file candidacy papers for the Maryland governorship with State Secretary Thomas Elmo Jones marking the official start of the race.
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Annapolis
Stephen B. Peddicord
Baltimore Democrat
Maryland
Thomas Elmo Jones
Japanese Inching Toward Alaska in Aleutian Raid
Washington June 22. Under fog and weather Japanese landing forces have inched along the Aleutian chain toward Alaska and are establishing at Kiska about 585 miles from Dutch Harbor. A communique says a small force of enemy ships in Kiska harbor was bombed and an Army air strike hit a cruiser and sank a transport.
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Washington
Aleutian Island
Alaska
Kiska
United States Navy
Dutch Harbor
Kiska Harbor
Aleutians
Attu
Aleutian Chain
Sugar Ration Laws Revised for Washington County
The local Ration Board announced sugar rationing revisions to aid institutions and commercial users. Applications may now be filed anytime during the month preceding allotment, with an extra month added to the allotment period. July August and September become eligible filing months. Agencies may sign applications for owners provided written authorization is filed.
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Washington County
Bank Checks And Soft Drinks May Be Taxed
The House ways and means committee, after defeats for sales tax plans, moved to new excises to bolster war financing. Proposals include taxing bank checks with a per check or monthly percentage levy on withdrawals, and the Treasury suggested a soft drink tax around 146 million dollars annually.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
The
Treasury
Explosion at Liberty Power plant kills three near Uniontown
Three men were killed and two injured when an explosion wrecked a Liberty Power plant unit near Uniontown Pennsylvania. Emergency crews rushed to the site in the southwestern part of the state as investigators began to determine the cause and scope of the blast.
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Uniontown
Liberty
Pennsylvania
Senator Tydings to Speak at Local Luncheon
United States Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland will address a joint luncheon of the Rotary Kiwanis and Lions Clubs at Hotel Alexander on Wednesday at noon. An open forum will follow as he discusses efforts as Senate economy bloc chair to reduce non-defense governmental expenses.
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United States
Millard E. Tydings
Maryland
Rotary, Kiwanis and
Lions Clubs
Hotel Alexander
Senate
Local Civil Air Patrol squadron receives first formal inspection
The Maryland area wing commander Arthur C. Hyde of Washington led the Sunday inspection at the municipal airport. David Griffith supervised ground exercises as CAP members wore new khaki uniforms. Hyde arrived in a Taylorcraft, then returned to Washington after noon. Jesse Clem commanded the squadron with John R. Craft as executive officer and David Lewis as training and operations officer in charge of all flights.
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Civil Air Patrol
Maryland
Arthur C. Hyde
Washington
David Griffith
C.A.P
Hyde
Jesse Clem
John R. Craft
David Lewis
Rain Helps Crops as Washington County Receives Half Inch
Early morning rain drenched Washington county with over half an inch, heavier in the north. Edgemont reservoir station logged 0.60 inch while Keedysville noted 0.51 inch, aiding a city water supply that was four feet low. Mr. Miller, a government weather observer, said moisture will boost corn, pastures, and all garden crops with no harm to wheat, which is near harvest. Yesterday’s high reached 93 at Keedysville.
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Washington County
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Edgemont Reservoir
Boston Region Air Raid Siren Test Shocks City
Air raid sirens wailed across metropolitan Boston at 11 36 am halting traffic and driving about 3 000 000 people to shelter in a surprise daylight test described as the first and most complete of its kind in such a large region. The noise startled shoppers office workers factory hands and schoolchildren in 459 square miles of densely populated area.
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Boston
British position in Mid East menaced by Libyan disaster
British observers warned a Libyan military catastrophe could derail Allied plans for a second European front this year. The crisis may determine whether Germany is beaten in 1942 or 1943, or if the war drags on for years, with Rommel's armored forces powerful in Siwa and Giarabub. Parliament expected to demand clear war aims from Churchill upon his return.
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Mid East
Crew Middleton
London
Libya
Europe
Germany
Middle East
Far East
Churchill
House of Commons
United States
Mini
Siwa
Glarabub
Rommel
Britain
Roosevelt Churchill to Issue Joint War Statement
White House says Roosevelt and Churchill are in vital conferences with military experts, working day and night toward a joint statement. Early disclosed no specifics on a second European front or North Africa strategy, noting secret deliberations since Churchill’s arrival.
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Roosevelt-Churchill
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
White House
United Nations
Stephen Early
Europe
North
Africa
Moscow Admits Pressure on Crimean Base
Moscow reports German pressure on the Crimea naval base area continues with heavy Russian casualties estimated at 100,000 in under three weeks. A new Nazi wedge drives into northern fortifications while a furious battle rages on a hill in the southern sector as defenders pull back from north and south fortresses.
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Moscow
Sevastopol
Crimean
Visit To Gen Hartle's Headquarters On Irish Estate
Ian Ross MacFarlane reports a three hour visit with General Russell P. Hartle, commander of the AEF in Ireland, to a palatial Northern Ireland estate. The letter describes a damp drive and a gate guard mistaken for General Harvie, highlighting Washington county’s tribute to Pete Wartie. Continued on Page 2.
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Gen. Hartle
Ian R. MacFarlane
John Stonebraker
Ireland
Russell P. Hartle
Ian Ross MacFarlane
Braddock Heights
English Isles
Northern Ireland
Washington County
Pete Wartie
General Hartle
MacFarlane
Bun
Harvie
Tomato vines sprout on filling station lawn in Bellflower
Arthur Steinman, upset after Hallowe'en tomato prank, now watches tomato vines grow along the station parkway. Prospects for a bumper crop brighten as vines sprout, signaling a surprising turn from mischief to harvest possibilities.
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Bellflower
Cal
Arthur Steinman
Hallowe’en
Parkway
Explosion at Triumph Explosives Claims Two Brothers
An explosion at the Triumph Explosives plant in Elkton Md. kills two brothers, Jonathan Dixon 24 of Charles Town Md. and Daniel B Dixon 27 of Elkton Va. Both natives of Virginia died in a hospital yesterday from burns.
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Elkton
Triumph Explosives, Inc
Jonathan Dixon
Charlestown
Daniel B. Dixon
Virginia
German Torpedo Flotilla Sinks British Coastal Fleet
Berlin dispatch reports German motor torpedo boats attacked a fleeing British coastal craft and freighters from Tobruk. One patrol boat and six coastal craft plus a 4,500 ton freighter were sunk, three coastal craft captured, and 175 men taken prisoner. A German mine sweeping flotilla has entered Tobruk Harbor.
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Berlin
Tobruk
High Command
Rationing Chief Warns on Tire Waste and Recapping
Franklin M. Thomas, chair of the local Ration Board, warned motorists that waste of rubber is hindering tire and tube rationing. He urged eligible drivers to have tires recapped only when tread is nearly gone, as many recapping requests are made when tires are too worn to recoup.
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Franklin M. Thomas
Thomas
Capture Of Last Sevas topol Fort Also Reported
Axis mobile columns pressed toward the Libyan border after Tobruk fall. British forces clashed 12 miles northeast of Fort Capuzzo near the Egyptian frontier as Allied lines in the Middle East faced renewed crisis. Some garrison troops including British, South Africans, and Indians escaped Tobruk.
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Cairo
Egypt
Tobruk
Middle East
Libya
Fort Capuzzo
Tobruk Falls as Axis Forces Capture Tobruk
Axis troops reportedly reclaim Tobruk, signaling a major wartime shift in North Africa. The surrender implies broader strategic impact, with military analysts noting possible changes to Allied and UN plans amid the Axis advance. Rome claims the British generals captured.
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Tobruk
Libya
United Nations
Rome
Evacuate Hawaii Urged After Midway Victory
General Delos Emmons urged all non residents to leave the Hawaiian Islands at once warning that Midway victory has fostered a false sense of security. He stressed civilians especially nonresident women children and dependent persons not in essential war work should evacuate to the mainland promptly.
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Honolulu
United States
Delos C. Emmons
Hawaiian Islands
Japan
Emmons
U. S. Army
Midway
Street fighting reported in Sevastopol siege
Reuters quoted a Vichy broadcast saying street fighting had begun in Sevastopol, the besieged Russian fortress. The report cited a Bucharest dispatch as its source.
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London
Reuters
Sevastopol
Bucharest
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Geo. Miles
Buck Valley
Blast
Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel
Fort Mechili
Portugal
North Africa
Sen. Tydings
Rotary
Kiwanis
Axis
Suez
Iraq
Naval
Brothers
By Edward. Kennedy
C. A. Farnsworth
AP War Editor
Hawaii
General Emmons
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