Jap Defenders Of Iwo Regroup For Final Stand
Jap forces regroup on Iwo Jima as Third Division occupies Motoyama airfield area and Western forts. Fifth Division advances to push back fortified hills with tank columns led by Maj. Gen. Keller Rockey. Hill 362 near the northeast shore targeted while Marines hold beaches and repulse night counterattacks. Aerial observers report Japanese regrouping as carrier planes drive off air raids, leaving the US to press supply unloads and prisoner gains amid cautious enemy reorganization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motoyama Airfield
Iwo
Keller E. Rockey
Fifth Division
Motoyama
Morrie Landsberg
Chester W. Nimitz
Ackack
U. S
Erskine
Marines Press On in Saipan Hills and Ravines
Marines advancing under heavy fire across Saipan struggle to dislodge Japanese forces entrenched in hill positions. Maj. Gen. Clifton B. Cates' Fourth Division fights through rugged terrain as climactic heights like Furu Yama and Mt. Mote dominate the arc of hills guarding the shore. After two assaults Hill 382 fell as observers, though the peak remained under mortar bombardment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton B.cates
Cates
Furu Yama
Erskine
Mt. Mote
Recruiters Seek Workers Across County Towns
Fairchild Aircraft promotes the Packet as a top war transport priority with future airline use. Special reps will interview in Bowman's store Smithland March 6 6:30 to 9 p m Wolfaville Horne's groceries March 6 6:30 to 9 p m Town Hall Boonsboro March 7 and Sharpsburg March 8 posters displayed locally. The article notes veterans and experienced locals as key allies in recruitment. The piece ends with a note on secret light-producing glowworm and firefly research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairchild Company
Packet
Fairchild
Smithaburg
Bowman’s
Wolfaville
Horne’s
Boonsboro
Sharpsburg
Yanks Advance To Rhine West Edge Of Ruhr
American forces push toward the Rhine and Ruhr front, with the 83rd Division among those first to reach the Rhine. British, Canadian, and French units advance along the Rhine, while American troops secure Meuse crossings and rail hubs such as Venlo and Krefeld amid heavy bombardment and advancing Allied lines. 15,500 prisoners have been taken since crossing the Roer eight days earlier as Venlo falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhine
Ruhr
Germany
Silesia
Saar
Rhineland
Muenchen-Gladbach
Rheydt
Dusseldorf
Robert C. Macon
83Rd Division
Lower Rhine
Alps
Strasbourg
Montgomery
Simpson
Venlo
1St Army
Cologne
U. S
Bonn
3Rd Army
Trier
Moselle
Middle Rhine
Neuss
Ninth Army
Krefeld
Sth Army
Maas and
Sth
Roer
Maas
Meuse
Traffc
Venlo Outflanked as 2nd Armored Near Rhine Bridge
Allied forces report German positions in Trier and along the Moselle as bitter fighting rages. The 2nd Armored Division advances within two and a half miles of a Rhine bridge while Trier trembles under encirclement and bridge losses. The 1st Army nears Cologne, fighting entrenched defenders in ridges and mined areas as it seizes 13 towns overnight including Erp, 15 miles from Bonn and seven from Bushkirchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venlo
Roermond
2Nd Armored
Hitler
Rhine
Trier
Ist
Erp
Bonn
Bushkirchen
Inductions Into Army and Navy Listed By Draft Board No. 2
The county draft board announces names of inductees and their assigned branches. Army inductees include Shives in West Wilson, Webster in Boonsboro, and Cline in Boonsboro among others, while Navy inductees include Cline in Boonsboro and Hartle in Smithsburg. Also noted is the State Museum at the University of Alabama housing 20,000 ore and mineral specimens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Mulberry
Paul W. Straub
George
Lee J. Turner
West Washington
Chester R. Hadley
East Franklin
Robert E. Willis
Mulberry Avenue
Robert G. Snyder
Ridge
David A. Turner
Harmons
Franklin L. Williar
West Side
Charles P. Donegan
West Franklin
Board No. 2
Robert Edgar Shives
Wilson Boulevard
Paul Webster
Wade
Boonsboro
Carmel Victor Smith
Lantz
Harry Walter Mentzer
Williamsport
William Charles South
Smithsburg
Claude Bentley Straley
Middleburg
Floyd Colman McAllister
Big Pool
Millard Merril Minnick
Frederick
Martin Raymond Gordon
Clearspring
George William Cline
Walter Grant Dreisbach
Willamsport
Grant William Diehl
Hancock
Robert Benjamin Mitchell
Williams
Joseph Ellsworth Webber
Park Place
Arthur Elwood
Montvalla Avenue
Wilbur Benjamin Everitt
John Emanuel King
Ernest Melvin Shank
Edward Daniel Swope
Buonsporo
State Museum
University
Ala
Russians Desert 7 Miles of Baltic Front as Deserters Grow
A Soviet communique reports mass desertion of Nazis at the Baltic front amid Rokossovsky’s Pom erania advance. It cites a German order authorizing mobile courts martial for deserters and notes Soviet gains near Stettin and the fall of Rummelsburg. American prisoners in Kolberg camps raise hopes of liberation.
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Rokossovsky
Pomerania
Germany
Weiss
Kolberg
Baltic
Red Army
Rummelsburg
Free City of Danzig
Imment
Neustettin-Kolberg
G. K. Zrukov
Stettin
Berlin
Oder River
Wallace Names Postwar Business Advisory Committee
Wallace forms a postwar employment panel to secure maximum employment and cooperation among employers investors business agriculture and government. The appoints are Eric A. Johnston Edward A Brown Prentiss M Brown Ralph E Flan ders Thomas B McCabe John W Snyder Ernest G Draper and Stacy May with aims to boost small business output after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Eric A. Johnston
U. S, Chamber of Commerce
Edward A. Brown
First National Bank of Chicago
Prentiss M. Brown
Detroit Edison Company
Ralph E. Flanders
Jones & Lamson Machine Co
Springfield
Thomas B. McCabe
Scott Paper Co
Chester, Pa
John W. Snyder
First National Bank
St. Louis
Ernest G. Draper
Federal Reserve Board
Stacy May
McGraw- Hill Publishing Co
Girl Struck By Auto Injures Connie Johnston
A nine year old girl Connie Johnston of 500 block South Potomac Street was injured yesterday evening about 6 o clock when struck on South Locust Street near Potomac by a north bound auto driven by Arthur E. Mellett Williamsport Route 1. Patrolman John E. Rohrert reported she stepped from behind a parked car into the path of the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connie Johnston
South Potomac Street
South Locust Street
Potomac
John E. Rohrert
Arthur E. Mellett
Williamsport
Route 1
Ha perstown to Host OPA Hearing on Ceiling Price Violations
A Price Panel of the ration board will hold a hearing this afternoon for an alleged violator of Office of Price Administration ceiling price rules in Ha perstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
The
Ration Board
Office of Price Administration
Haperstown
German Vehicles Flee Across Rhine in German Withdrawal
British pilots report over 300 German road vehicles with lights on moving toward or across the Rhine near Krefeld as signs of a German withdrawal. U S Ninth Army advances again, taking more than 3000 prisoners and pushing on after seizing Muenchen Gladbeck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Rhine
Krefeld
Ninth Army
Muenchen Gladbech
Yanks Take Palawan Island in Deep Pacific Push
American forces landed on Palawan twenty five miles southwest of Manila as MacArthur drives northward. The 17th Philippine island in American hands will control sea approaches to Thai Indo China Malaya Singapore and the Netherlands East Indies. Sixth Division under Maj. Gen. Edwin Patrick repulsed three Japanese counterattacks while fighting along the Marikina watershed and in Manila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Palawan
Manila
Borneo
Philippine
South China Sea
Thailand
Indo-China
Malaya
Singapore
Netherlands East Indies
Marikina
Edwin Patrick
Lewis Demands Cast Union Leader as Labor Czar
Operators say John L. Lewis’s contract demands would make him a labor czar with control of a $55 million political fund. Lewis opened negotiations for a new contract as the current pact ends March 31, proposing a ten cent royalty on every mined ton to fund medical, insurance and rehabilitation for union members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMWA
Kenny Resigns to Join Victor Products Purchasing Dept
Simon T. Kenny resigns as manager of J. C. Orrick & Son Company in Cumberland to take a purchasing department position at Victor Products. He led the Cumberland wholesale grocery firm for a year after fourteen years as a salesman with the same company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenny
Victor Simon T. Kenny
J. C. Orrick & Son Company
Cumberland
Victor Products
Six Detroit War Plants Closed
Six Detroit area war plants shut down and operations at fourteen more affected as a weeklong strike spreads. About 29,000 idle workers reported. Briggs plants in Milwaukee Avenue Vernon Highway and Hamtramck plus Chrysler Dodge main and truck plants and Mack Avenue plant among those affected, halting aircraft parts and tank components across multiple facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Chrysler Dodge
Dodge
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Briggs
International ‘United Automobile Workers
U10
Briggs Milwaukee Avenue
Vernon Highway
Hamtramck
Chrysler Corporation
Dodge Truck
Chrysler Tank Arsenal
Chrysler
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Mackayenne
Veterans aid from Fairchild surplus at Newton D Baker Hospital
Over ten tons of aluminum sheet and tubing, hardware, plexiglass, canvas and more were shipped from Fairchild Aircraft Division to the Newton D. Baker Hospital as rehabilitation material. Medical officers selected the items, aiding veterans regaining use of limbs with hands on work. Additional shipments of 16 tons went to Martinsburg hospital Ft Belvoir Va and a nearby army camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Fairchild Aircraft Division
Martinsburg Hospital
Ft. Belvoir
Fairchild Company
Downey Re-elected to Frederick County Guernsey Committee
Fred Downey of Downsville was re-elected to the executive committee of the Frederick County Guernsey Breeders Association at the annual meeting and banquet held yesterday in Frederick. Twelve Washington county breeders attended, with Floyd Arnold of the University of Maryland extension service addressing the gathering. Bertha Krupp gave her name to the “Big Bertha” cannon of World War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Downey
Downsville
Frederick County
Guernsey Breeders Association
Frederick
Washington County
Floyd Arnold
Extension Service
University of Maryland
Bertha
Friedrich Alred Krupp
Big Bertha” Cannon
Hagerstown Could Join New Expressway Network
City Engineer Charles W. Stump said a Federal Bureau of Roads representative informed him that Hagerstown may be part of a postwar national expressway plan. The route would run east to west across the country, but the project remains years away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Charles W. Stump
Federal Bureau of Roads
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Zenith
Dumors
Ing Group
Army
Navy
Joan Kenley
Wallace
Girl
Tyler
Rosemary Lane
Columbia Pictures
Texas
Henry’s
Strategic Isle
Starr
Joan Woodbury
Potomac St
Drensen
Oh Sap Smiley
Burnette
Ayaa
Ruth
Jess
Nevada
Ronan
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