Bond and Stamp Sales At Legion Shelter Grateful
War bond and stamp sales at the American Servicemen's Legion shelter in Public Square were described as very gratifying by the Legion Bond Committee. The shelter will be staffed Monday to Friday with volunteers from the Auxiliary and OCD, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and next Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers are still needed. Purchasers receive an American Legion receipt granting free admission to the Owls ball game on July 6 at Municipal Stadium.
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American Servicemen’s Legion
Public Square
American Legion Bond Committee
American Legion Auxiliary
OCD
Legion
American Legion
Owls
Municipal Stadium
Paper Collection Planned July 1
Local Boy Scouts plan a city and county waste paper drive on Saturday July 1. About 200 boys, led by Scoutmaster Douglas of Troop 5 and David Crowley, will collect old clean rags and paper bundles from homes. Communities including Williamsport Chewsville Boonsboro and Funkstown will participate as the drive aims to gather over 100 tons of material.
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Douglas
David Crowley
Williamsport
Chewsville
Boonsboro
Funkstown
Larceny Reports and Window Breakings Reported
Police report a theft of 15 to 20 cases of empty beer bottles from The Club and several windows broken. Bessie Moore of Hagerstown Route 2 reports a pocket book with $45 and valuable cards stolen.
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Bessie Moore
Hagerstown
Route 2
Corporals Rush In Where Japs Fear To Tread
Pvt. George Wingerd, recovering from wounds from the Normandy invasion, spoke on the American Eagle in Britain program from a hospital in England. He described ankle and knee injuries from machine gun fire and expressed hope his wife would hear the broadcast. The program highlighted a hospital praised as the finest in the British Empire.
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George Wingerd
England
France
Wingerd
West Washington Street
Britain
Bebe Daniels
Panama
Panama Hattie.” In His Brief Share of the Broadcast, the Hagerstown
Normandy
British Empire
Hagerstown Man Posts Heroic Normandy Voyage Error
Roger Haover of 865 Mulberry Avenue joined a perilous merchant ship run to France and back in the invasion early days. Listed as Hovers in the Baltimore Sun, friends corrected the name. Haover, a signalman aboard, rode a ship that hit a mine three miles off Normandy on the return. Maryland crew improvised wooden machinery to replace damage after repairing the Liberty ship’s hull.
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Roger Haover
Mulberry Avenue
France
Baltimore Sun
Hagerstonian
Haover
Normandy Beach
Security Woman Falls From Auto
Mrs. Wilma Karnes, 19, of Security, fell from an automobile on Route 40 near Clearspring yesterday evening around 6 44. Her husband Raymon Karns, 28, drove back to the city limits and she was taken to the Goodwill ambulance and Washington County Hospital with facial and body cuts and brush burns.
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Wilma Karnes
Clearspring
Raymon Karns
Karns
Goodwill
Washington County
Willkie Silent on Course for 1944 Campaign
New York June 29 Wendell Willkie the Republican 1940 presidential nominee said he had no plans to attend the GOP national convention and would reveal his future political course only after the 1944 ticket is named He wants to remain flexible and remains undecided about his 1944 campaign plans.
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New York
Wendell Willkie
New York Doctors Faces Induction Reclassification
New York City doctors and dentists under 38 who are certified for military or naval service but failed to apply for commissions may be reclassified 1-A and ordered to induction. Col. Arthur V. McDermott announced local draft boards should remove occupational deferments for those deemed available by the Procurement and Assignment Service. The balsam source is a tree on the balsam coast of El Salvador.
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New York
New York City
Arthur V. McDermott
Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
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