29 Jun 1945
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1945
Page
1
Bridgeport reports coroner finds Mrs. Imogene Stevens criminally responsible for the shooting death of Albert Kovacs, a 19 year old submarine sailor, at a neighbor’s home in New Canaan. He notes liquor influence and a illicit affair with Mr Milton.
Camden man Lewis T. Timbers twenty admits to a string of local home burglaries over ten days. He signed a confession detailing raids on Charles street homes of Chas. H. Mullenix and Rosette Sarikas and on North Mulberry street homes of J. H. Gier Wilmer Willard and M. W. Pryor. Police recovered some stolen goods in an abandoned North Potomac street garage. Timbers says he may be wanted in Winchester for forgery.
Jamai cans are available in crews of two to eight for wheat harvest and threshing in Washington County. County farm placement officer Benjamin Solliday says the labor shortage worsened this week due to no Penal Farm workers. He notes farm operators report high satisfaction with Jamaican workers, with about 30 to 40 at Smithsburg Labor Camp now and an anticipated 100 more next month. Farmers needing help should contact Solliday or the Smithsburg Labor Camp.
In Fairbanks on June 29 the WACs at Ladd Field evacuated after a fire destroyed their barracks. The soldiers jumped to safety abandoning gear and personal effects while clothing from men's stocks was issued to them.
A Japanese news agency broadcast on June 29 reported the death in action of four more admirals. The names listed are Vice Admiral Joji Nishimura Vice Admiral Yoshio Suzki Rear Admiral Yoshiro Wada and Rear Admiral Kengei Ando.
A Okinawan civilian leaders group complained about stamping clothing with MG for military government. They argued branding pants seats insults pride and face, while officials noted branding helps prevent theft and distribution to civilians.
Donald Reich a 30 year old man of 409 Hizabeth street sustained a badly lacerated foot after stepping on a broken bottle while camping at Taylor's Landing He lost considerable blood before reaching Washington county Hospital where seven stitches were used to close the wound.
ZANESVILLE O June 29 A 750 coon dog owned by Earl Saxton of Roseville was stung to death by a swarm of bees while tied to its kennel His wife was stung on the arms during the attack authorities reported
President Truman called ratification of the United Nations charter and a world court essential for world peace. Speaking after a Kansas University ceremony, he warned there can be no peace without U.S. leadership and urged the United States to ratify first. He planned a meeting with former Governor Alf Landon and to attend a buffet supper as the page note indicates continuation.
Seven young men enlisted this week at the Navy Recruiting Station at City Hall led by Chief John Millard. Donald L. Rockwell will report to Memphis for air combat training and Guy P. Shockey will begin nine months training as a radio technician. Enlistees include Stanley R. Brown William H. Fridinger Jr Robert A. Brey Joseph W Royal Edgar E Pentoney Jr. Millard urged urgent need for radio technicians and WAVES with full information available, noting the local office closes July 4.
City officials met the wage demands of Municipal Light Plant engineers after a conference. An agreement was reached last night, ending the dispute over pay.
Pvt Lyndon Zecher, a liberated prisoner of war on furlough in Hagerstown, reveals a Nazi officer once spoke to the local Rotary Club about peaceful international relations twenty two years earlier. The officer recalled addressing the club and asked about Roy Danzer, then Rotary Club president in 1922, who admits only a vague memory of the man.
Pvt Wilbur Richard Grimm, lone survivor of a four man tank crew, freed by Germans after being POW for six months, returns to Trego Maryland on an 83 day convalescent furlough. He regained 35 pounds lost during captivity after his tank was knocked out by an 88 mm shell. three comrades perished in the fire while he crawled free and was wounded.
The Stars and Stripes reports that Japanese-American GIs from Maryland training camps will be used to teach Pacific theater units about Japanese tactics and weapons. The Nisei teams include two officers and thirteen enlisted men, with only two non Japanese-Americans among them.
The reverter interest of the John Nicodemus heirs to the Bellevue farm was disclosed as costing the county $30,000 with deeds filed. The county will convey this reverter to the state for the chronic disease hospital site. Also filed was a deed transferring the former Red Shield Lodge on North Potomac Street to The Pride of Hagerstown Lodge No. 279 Colored Elks for $4500.
A 90 mile dash to save a boy's life ended with success. Robert Swendel drove his son George from York to Philadelphia for an emergency operation after a peanut blocked his airway. A tire blew, then overheating slowed progress until a police car and motorcycles completed the trip. Dr Louis H Clerf reported the operation successful and the boy in good condition.
Mrs Marian Kranchok returned to her acre lot in suburban Tincold Acres San Diego to find her house missing along with most of the prized topsoil. The article notes a four year absence and the startling discovery on arrival.
Mrs. Mary Jackson, a widow with five children, faced a freight train at a Hancock B&O spur trestle. She clung to cross ties as the locomotive passed overhead, then fell 25 feet to a rocky bed, suffering a fractured skull, leg, and shoulder before being taken to Kings Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg.
Richmon d Va reports a surge of civilian patents at the U S Patent Office despite wartime production cuts. Edwin H Tompkins of New York received a patent for a power driven toothbrush powered from the same electric socket as a razor. Marianna Ositter and Harriet Sacks of New York patented a ring worn watch and a pipe like cigarette holder respectively.
Robt. A. Harrell Jr. has purchased the Nehi Bottling Works plant on Frederick Street for 7300 dollars. A deed transfers the two story brick building from Henry A. Bester Jr. to Harrell and wife. Harrell, who operates Nabi Bottling Works, has occupied the plant for several years.
A 23 year old mother from Ada Oklahoma stood with her 10 month old baby for 400 miles on a crowded train before collapsing in Union Station Kansas City. She was moved to a hospital with doctors diagnosing nervous exhaustion. She was en route to visit her sailor husband Bonner Van Ness stationed at Treasure Island San Francisco.
TheAssociatedPress reports new labor disputes added to the mixed scene as over 60,000 of 93,000 idle workers prepared to return to work today after temporary settlements. Yet 40,000 remained idle with threats of strikes on three railroads and at 18 Western Electric plants. Detroit saw major gains as 46,100 CIO United Automobile Workers expected back after a jurisdiction dispute. About 15,000 more from 10 glass plants across 10 cities agreed to end a week-long strike following a War Labor Board request.
A sudden Aberdeen wind and rain storm flooded streets and halted travel for about 30 minutes. The storm ripped the top from a station wagon and forced a local theater to close as water covered its floors. Lightning and hail caused damage to several trees and telephone lines.
Three Hagerstown retailers accused by the OPA of violating ceiling price regulations will face summary hearings this afternoon before the Washington County Ration Board price panel. These hearings inaugurate the panel’s first such cases in two weeks.
Grace M. Butts, represented by Attorney J. Jd. Allen, filed for divorce from J. Melvin Butts in court today. It is the 28th suit filed this month.
June 29 report from San Francisco states Tokyo radio announces a large scale transfer of war industries from Japan to Manchuria due to enemy air raids. The broadcast claims the shift is more fundamental than dispersion and notes Japan’s factories are moving to the Asiatic continent. It also says Japan’s communications with Manchukuo are disrupted and emphasizes shifting industrial focus to weapon production.
Paris June 29 The War Office announced Jacques Leclerc commander of the famed Second Armored Division has been chosen to lead the French Expeditionary Force against Japan.
Capt. James R. Gardner of the Army Air Corps returned home to honor his promise to his wife and celebrate their second wedding anniversary on June 26 after ten months overseas. He arrived at 7 p.m. on the date he had written to be his homecoming.
In London a spokesman for the Polish exile government said the army of about 200000 to 256000 remains loyal but the regime’s future is unknown. He doubted sanctuary in Etretat or Canada and urged staying with Polish forces as recognition shifts loom.
A year old Robert W. Irwin son of Mr and Mrs William W Irwin of Forrest Drive hiked 22 miles toward Funkstown to reach the Hagerstown bus home after his mother forgot to give him candy bars. He rode a noon train with other boys to a summer camp but slipped off to search for his mother and retrace his steps home. Police and his anxious parents followed the unfolding saga as he kept moving toward Funkstown despite fatigue.
U S bomber fleet of five hundred Superfortresses dropped about 3000 tons of fire bombs on Honshu Kyushu and Shimonoseki Kanoya areas. Japanese air defenses offered little resistance. One bomber failed to return.
Chinese forces seized the main Liuchow airfield in the northern suburbs and retook the citys south railway station. Fighting raged in western and northwestern districts as Chinese units moved toward Liuchows center. The city, burning since June 23, was reported mostly destroyed with likely under 1,000 Japanese remaining. Nearby Kweilin was under Chinese pressure as columns closed in from the northeast. The Liuchow–Kwangsi railroad was largely back under Chinese control, the first major line restored since the war began.
Art treasures valued at one million dollars were returned to the Walters Art Gallery from Frederick Maryland where they had been buried since 1942 as a precaution against enemy bombing. The items were hidden under a six foot thick concrete slab over a pool at the National Guard Armory.
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