Cologne and Hamburg Hit Hard in Air Raids
British and American air forces battered Cologne and Hamburg with heavy bombs and incendiaries. The reports cite vast damage, thousands homeless, and ongoing raids across occupied France with patrols targeting railways and shipping. The article notes multiple aircraft offensives, including Flying Fortresses, and cites Vichy radio and Allied success claims.
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Cologne
Hamburg
Aircstate
Damight
Commudique
St Nazaire
Beaunont-Letoger
Rouen
Vichy
Ilin
G. S. 8Th Air Force
Mcial
Bombing raid reports from St Nazaire and Cologne tonight
Allied planes hit St Nazaire targets destroying enemy fighters at Beaumont Le Roger airfields while suffering six bombers lost. German shells pounded Calais in Dover Strait area as Cologne raid challenges antiaircraft defenses and signals for a new aerial offensive. Rome and Berlin radios note invasion alarms despite calm in the Mediterranean. A state of emergency was proclaimed in Iraq.
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St. Nazaire
Beaumont-LeRoger
Britain
Dover Strait
Calais
Lair
Berlin
Stockholm
Sweden
Cologne
Europe
Mediterranean
Rome
Iraq
Turkey
US Forces Hit Japanese Positions In Solomons Drive
U S forces conduct new advance with sized cargo vessels and transports, reporting damage to a large transport and two cargo vessels amid a Japanese screen. At Munda on New Georgia Island American airmen struck the airfield runway and revetments, while dive bombing teams attacked airfields, camps, and enemy positions on Bougainville Ballale and Santa Isabel Islands.
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Japan
Viami Kolobangare Island
Kahili
Buig
Bougainville Island
Navy
Liberators
Ballale Island
Shortland
Rekati Bay
Santa Isabel Island
Senate Approves NYA Funding Despite House Demands
The Senate voted 41 to 37 to appropriate 8 million dollars for the National Youth Administration for six months of operations, adding to a 1.1 billion labor security measure. It rejected a House provision to allow 3 million for liquidation before year end, and a reconsideration by Senator Clark was tabled 41 to 37.
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Washington
Senate
National Youth Administration
NYA
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Clark
Rural residents edge city folk in pleasure driving ban
State Police report rural residents lead in violations of the pleasure driving ban, with a list to be turned in to the local Ration Board showing few Hagerstown residents and most violations from smaller towns or countryside routes. About 10 percent of allied violations have been reported since Friday by Sheriff's officers and State Police. Deaths in the United States in 1942 from all accidents totalled 33,000.
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Hagerstown
United States
WANTS PROBE OF GAS SHORTAGE
Baltimore June 29 a resolution by the Automobile Club of Maryland calls for Congress to appoint a fact finding group to investigate problems behind the eastern petroleum shortage. Russell Singer of AAA argues agencies are not forthright and criticizes rationing enforcement while urging sensible gas use to aid victory. He says the public will sacrifice when convinced it is necessary.
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Baltimore
Congress
East
Board of Governors
The
Automobile Club of Maryland
Russell E. Singer
American Automobile Association
AAA
Prentiss Brown
OPA
Singer
Washington
Biologist Reports Large Chesapeake Soft Shell Crab Supply
Fisheries Coordinator Harold Ickes was informed by Biologist John Pearson that Chesapeake Bay soft shell crab meat production has surged since 1941, limited only by labor and bait. The Federal agency investigates whether Virginia's spawning sanctuary, kept for two summers, influenced the rise. Peak production was 7 million pounds in 1939, with a severe 1940 winter dropping to 42 million pounds.
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Washington
Harold K. Ickes
John C. Pearson
Fish and Wildlife Commission
Pearson
Virginia
Youth on Parole Violation After Auto Theft Allegation
Jervee Erickson, 16, of Hagerstown Route 1, was brought before Judge Joseph D. Mish for parole violation after allegedly stealing a Texaco filling station auto accessories on Frederick Street. Erickson, arrested early Sunday by Constable Bruce Spicker and Patrolman Don Smith, admitted the thefts saying the parts were hard to buy and he felt he should have them. The sentencing was deferred pending further investigation.
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Texaco
Frederick Street
Jervee Erickson
Hagerstown
Joseph D. Mish
Erickson
Bruce Spicker
Don Smith
Baldridge Named Director for Virginia Theatre Drive
Thomas W. Baldridge formerly of Hagerstown is named director of a Virginia theatre drive to raise 130000000 for the purchase of an aircraft carrier. Baldridge, tied to Metro Goldwyn Mayer, will maintain offices in Richmond. He previously managed Academy Theatre in Hagerstown.
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Thomas W. Baldridge
Hagerstown
Virginia
Baldridge
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Richmond
Academy Theatre
Senate Approves Farm Security Plan After Senate House Rift
The Senate approved a conference committee compromise on the Farm Security Administration program but sent back the 875 million farm bill to iron out soil conservation payments and crop insurance. It voted 49 to 10 to insist on continuing wheat and cotton crop insurance and 69 to 2 against House limits on using 400 million for soil conservation payments. Senator Russell warned that House limits could block allocating funds to encourage crop production.
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Washington
Senate
Conference Committee
Farm Security Administration
House
Russell
Vessel Launched at Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyards Baltimore
Baltimore witnesses the launch of the S. and Nathan Towson today at Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyards. Named for a former U.S. Army paymaster and Baltimore County native, the ship sailed with Mrs. J. T. Merritt of Baltimore as sponsor, a Towson descendant. Honeybees contribute beeswax coating for shells and airplanes.
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Baltimore
S. & Nathan Towson
Bethlehem- Fairfield
U. S Army
Baltimore County
J. T. Merritt
Towson
Strait Area Shelled In Dover Straits Night Bombardment
German guns across the English Channel shelled the Dover strait area for the second successive night. The bombardment lasted nearly an hour with intervals of 15 minutes, signaling continued activity near Calais. Also noted, the 83 year old Rev. Father John P. Gibbons, director of the Sisters of Charity, Emmitsburg, Md., died in Philadelphia after a long illness. Arizona's copper fines ranked among the world's greatest.
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Philadelphia
John P. Gibbons
Sisters of Charity
Emmitsburg
Jones Becomes New Food Boss
Jones becomes new food administrator succeeding Davis amid policy clashes over price controls and subsidies. The change follows Roosevelt and Wickard tensions and Davis stepping aside after subsidy rollbacks drew farm-state opposition. Jones, previously adviser to the Office of Economic Stabilization, brings White House perspective to food policy. Home accident deaths in the United States totaled 30,006 in 1942.
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White House
Roosevelt
Lester
Davis
Federal Reserve Bank At
St.Louis
Claude J. Wickard
Wickard
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Jones
Office of Economic Stabilization
United States
Car Damaged On Hitting Mower On Mt Etna Road
A vehicle collided with a State Roads Commission mower on Mt Etna road yesterday afternoon. Driver Paul Barnhart, 20, from Salem Avenue, tried to avoid the mower after cresting a hill, rolled against a bank and struck the mower. Mower operator Floyd Renner escaped unharmed.
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State Roads Commission
Mt. Etna
Leister Isanogle
Paul Barnshart
Salem Avenue
Floyd Renner
Bootsboro
Route 2
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Yes
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Concord
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Sears, Roebuck & Co
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Ogee
Fred B
Miller
Magsestons
Billaggy
Baltimore St
U.S
Auto Club of Maryland
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company OF
GITY
John Bondurant
Makoger
Rogartown
Ralph Johnson
Pittsburgh
D. D. Gilbert
Aamoss
Zjapan
Jimmy
Ie Nopalecree
Tokyo
America
China
Fukien
U U. S
John D. Myers & Co
Straw Hat
Arizona
BON Ton
Silex
Harry S. Myers
North Potomac Street
Hanes Underwear
Hanes
Merica
Studebaker
Stude
Baker Dealers
Studebaker Truck Division
Dept. N
South Bend
Fleigh Motor CO
Oak Hill Avenue
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