British And Chinese Taking A Heavy Toll
British and Chinese forces press the Asian front as a Japanese invasion column in Yunnan is driven back to the Burma frontier at Wan ting. Chinese units bypassing central Burma move toward Mandalay and Maymyo, while others push toward Balewa and face Japanese forces on the Salween river in the Shan states. Stilwell directs defense as multiple Chinese groups advance in Burma and northern frontiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
China
Yunnan
Burma
Chefang-Menshih
Chefang
Mengshih
Maymyo
Mandalay
Balewa
Stilwell
Salween River
Lailem
Local Soldier Phones Family From Hawaii
Richard Saylor, a local soldier, called his parents in Hagerstown from Hawaii to deliver a Mother's Day greeting. The nearly 6,000 mile call came in clearly and was described as like having him in the room. Saylor, recently briefly hospitalized, is well and works a Victory Garden in his spare time. Bud Bentz also connected briefly to relay greetings from Norman Bentz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Pearl Harbor
Richard Saylor
Sam
E. R. Saylor
West Washington Street
Grand Jury To Adjourn Today
The May Grand Jury will adjourn early this afternoon to set a new speed record. The jury examined police officers and prepared a report due to the court stenographer at noon. Arrests reported include Lloyd Walls on embezzlement charges, Robert Ebersole and Glenn Glessner for hold up, and Donald Lynn for pandering. Dr. W. R. Willard, health officer, invited to lead a panel on communicable diseases at today’s West Virginia Health Officers meeting in Martinsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Lloyd Harshman
Lloyd Walls
Robert Ebersole
Glenn Glessner
Donald Lynn
W. R. Willard
West Virginia
Martinsturg
Mother's Day Greetings From Son in Australia
Mrs. Wilmer Kretzer of 326 North Locust street received Mother's Day wishes from her son Staff Sergeant William Kretzer who is stationed in Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmer Kretzer
North Locust Street
William Kretzer
Australia
British Counterattack Halts Japanese Push in Burma
In northern Burma a British counter-attack repelled a Japanese column of more than 300 troops advancing by river boats. RAF aircraft machine-gunned Japanese transports and trucks along lines of communication while British forces guard west Burma near the Chindwin and Irrawaddy approaches to India. The counter-attack drove the Japanese back south after an initial shock.
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New Delhi
Burma
India
Chindwin
Irrawaddy
German decree orders longer work hours in occupied France
In Vichy France on May 12, the German command announced a decree to extend working hours in French enterprises and to require employers to report each shift in labor. The measure aims to increase forced labor while the occupation tightens control. A separate Vichy report said terrorists tried to damage a train but a French youth flagged the train, preventing an wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
Occupied
Otto von Stuelpnagel
Occupied Zone
Heavy Buying of Tin Cans Signals Gasoline Storage
Reports from Hagerstown and the county indicate a run on five gallon cans as residents prepare to store gasoline ahead of anticipated rationing. Purchases spiked Friday and Saturday, with some stores already short on supply. An insurance man warned that storing gasoline at home is hazardous and could jeopardize policies if a fire occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Penal Farm To Supply Labor To County Farms
About 100 to 150 inmates from Maryland’s Roxbury Penal Farm will work at Washington County farms within six miles this summer. They will be bused to sites, supervised by a penal farm foreman, and paid in commodities valued at market prices, not cash, at 20 cents per hour. Produce will be moved daily back to the penal facility. Farmers within the six mile radius may apply through the U S Employment Service or Elmer D Maxwell, superintendent, noting transport limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Roxbury
Washington County
D. Pauji Shilling
U. S. Employment Service
Shilling
Farm Placement Office
Homer D. Maxwell
Elmer D. Maxwell
Anticipated Quints But Triplets Arrive In England
ABINGDON England May 12 Shucks they were only triplets After medical reports and neighbors layettes for quintuplets or quadruplets at least three children born today to Mrs Emily Woodley 28 and her husband Private Arthur Woodley It is a boy in triplicate The babies arrived on the fifth anniversary of King George VI coronation and the birthday of the Woodleys first son John
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abingdon
England
Emily Woodley
Arthur Woodley
George VI
the Woodley
John
Plan Army, Navy Of Nine Million
Washington May 12 A United States military striking force of nine million men is being considered in Washington legislative circles. Rep Vinson chairman of the House Naval Affairs committee said he believed the ultimate goal of the Army would be from 7 000 000 to 8 000 000 men and that the Navy probably would need 1 000 000 Vinson said these figures were unofficial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Vinson
D.-Ga
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Local Boy Promoted To Staff Sergeant
William L. Moore, a Hagerstown High School 1925 graduate, has risen from private to Staff Sergeant in the U S Air Corps since enlisting at the local station nearly a year ago. He was among the first 21 of 1,100 to pass tests for promotion and writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Moore of 129 East Baltimore Street, of a fine basket from the American Legion Auxiliary. He is stationed at a southern camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. M. Moore
East
Baltimore Street
Moore
Hagerstown
American Legion Auxiliary
Bus Driver In Crash In Urbana Sunday Night
Robert Kershner of Hagerstown piloted a bus that crashed into a car, which then struck another vehicle, in Urbana Sunday night. Mrs. Roger Mills, 47, of Brunswick, suffered head injuries as an occupant of the Mills car driven by Arthur R. Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Kershner
Hagerstown
Urbana
Corp. Puncke
Roger Mills
Brunswick
Arthur R. Mills
Gas sign up stage is set
The three day gasoline sign up begins this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the county. Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis says 400 teachers and over 100 volunteers will sign up 17,000 to 20,000 motor vehicle owners. Registration hours are 4 to 6 this afternoon and tomorrow, 2:30 to 6 on Thursday, and 7 to 9 in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin C. Willis
Schoos
Willis
Suspect Dual Road Dropped
Local officials plan to press the State Roads Commission over the apparent cancellation of the Hagerstown to Frederick dual highway project this summer. They question whether funds are being redirected to Baltimore access roads after surveys indicated plans to extend the road to Myersville, with talks ongoing with federal officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Roads Commission
Hagerstown- Frederick
Baltimore
Myersville
Blue Ridge Reworks Schedules To Forty Mile Basis
Blue Ridge buses shift to longer running times to conserve scarce equipment amid war production. General manager A K MacDonald says services now run closer to schedule and no trips were dropped, with runs between cities extended by ten to thirty minutes to conform to a forty mile hour limit.
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Blue Ridge
A. K. MacDonald
AIRMEN HUNT REMNANTS OF JAP ARMADA
Allied fliers reported the pursuit of scattered Japanese ships after the Coral Sea battle. MacArthur’s HQ said two ships were damaged and a third likely, lifting total Allied losses in eight days to 23 or 24. Air Minister Drakeford warned the threat to Australia remains despite delays. Transports also hit, with casualty numbers 22 and 23.
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Australia
Japan
Coral Sea
MacArthur
Arthur S. Drakeford
Jail Break Foiled In Rockville Attempt
James Anthony Anderson a 17 year old accused of assaulting a government worker was thwarted in a jail break at Rockville when a soap gun and foil improvised weapon were found Sheriff H Leslie Carlin said Andersons June 1 trial date remains and Judge D Lindley Sloan may join Judge Joseph Mish to hear the case LeRoy Carroll about 40 is also set for trial May 28 for raping his 11 year old niece both trials will summon witnesses next week
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James Anthony Anderson
Rockville
H. Leslie Carlin
Montgomery County
Anderson
Washington County
D. Lindley Sloan
Joseph D. Mish
Carlin
LeRoy Carroll
Charles EB. Wagaman
Carroll
Frederick County
Mrs Menefee Hospitalized After Baltimore Hotel Fall
Mrs Elizabeth R Menefee Cumberland Juvenile Court Judge and former Democratic National Committeewoman for Maryland suffers possible fracture of her left arm in a fall yesterday at a Baltimore hotel. She is in Allegany hospital in Cumberland and is well known in Washington county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth R. Menefee
Cumberland
Washington County
Allegany Hospital
Baltimore
Menefee
Maryland
Baseball Chief Landis Treated For Cold In Hospital
Chicago May 12 K M Landis Commissioner of Baseball received treatment today for a cold and a bad upper respiratory condition at Passaic Hospital after being sent there last night by his physician Dr Arthur F Byfield The 75 year old official was said by Dr Byfield to have no indication that his condition was serious
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Chicago
K. M. Landis
Baseball
Passagant Hospital
Arthur F. Byfield
Byfield
Defeat in Burma Marks Allied Tragedy and Escape
Calcutta based dispatch by Daniel De Luce chronicles the British Imperial Army retreat in Burma. Survivors of two divisions fight on amid desert heat jungles and leech infested swamps as Japanese air and ground forces press the frontier near India. Casualties mount and morale strains under a tactical collapse deemed a military tragedy for the United Nations.
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Daniel de Luce
Burma
Associated Press
Offliers
India
Daniel De:luce
Calcutta
United Nations
Singapore
Java
Manila
Salween Line
Late Registrants Can Get No Sugar
The local Ration Board announced that all late registrants must wait until the 15th when a definite date will be set. Those who did not register will receive no sugar. Many stragglers visited the board unsure of the weeklong registration, and some had registered twice. People with two books must return one. A larger sugar allotment for canning will be announced in local papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Ration Board
Ration Board
Dutch merchant vessel torpedoed off Atlantic coast
The Navy announced that a medium sized Dutch merchant vessel was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast and survivors were landed at an east coast port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atlantic
Ensign James S Spielman Graduates Naval School
James S Spielman of this city has completed the midshipmen training aboard the U S S Prairie State in New York and is commissioned as an Ensign in the U S Naval Reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Spielman
Midshipmen’s Training School
U. S. S. Prairie State
New York
U. S. Naval Reserve
Youth Charged With Sabotage In Train Shooting Near Elyria
Cleveland May 12 The U S District Attorney announced Donald Kintner 20 would be charged with sabotage for shooting New York Central Engineer F J Decker near Elyria Ohio to disrupt war materiel transport The worst penalty is 30 years and a 10000 fine Decker was wounded but recovering Fireman took over and halted the train Kintner admitted firing at the engineer and at a signaling tower mechanism, amid wartime sabotage charges and Department of Justice coordination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U. S. District Attorney’s Office
Donald Kintner
Jerome N. Curtis
U.S. District Attorney
Kintner
New York Central
F. J. Decker
Elyria
Decker
Curtis
Department of Justice
D. W. Taylor
Colonial Hardwood Flooring Lands Major Federal Contract
The Colonial Hardwood Flooring Company Inc of this city won a federal contract for 65 houses as part of a 330 house project in Pennsylvania. The order covers millwork flooring and framing for defense workers’ homes near a renowned aircraft factory, the largest in the company’s history. The 65 houses will be erected at once, with the entire contract awarded to Colonial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Hardwood Flooring Company, Inc
Pennsylvania
Colonial Company
Twenty Five Dutch Sentenced to Death by Germans
London reports that twenty five Dutch nationals were sentenced to death by German authorities in occupied Holland. The Nether lands news agency Aneta circulated the dispatch noting the executions were ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Holland
Aneta
Netherlands
Commencement speaker invited for May 28 address
Dr. W. R. Willard has been invited to deliver the commencement address at graduation exercises on May 28 at the State Sanatorium in Sabillasville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Willard
Sabillasville
Fractured ankle hospitalizes local man Klahris King
Klahris King of 855 Guilford Avenue sustained a fractured right ankle in a fall yesterday. He was transported to Washington County Hospital for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klahris King
Guilford Avenue
Washington County Hospital
Russians halt major German Crimean offensive
Soviet dispatches report a large German attack on the Kerch peninsula failed after four days of heavy fighting. German forces, aided by Romanian troops and air power, opened the offensive last Friday with mass raids but yielded little strategic result as Red Star described the battle as in full swing.
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Russia
Crimea
Great Caucasus
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Kerch Peninsula
Red Star
Hitler
Berlin
Crimean
London
Germans Sink 3 Destroyers in Mediterranean Action
London reported the British Admiralty said three destroyers the Lively Jackal and Kipling were sunk by German bombs in the Mediterranean. About 500 officers and men were rescued and total complements were near 600. All three ships were new with tonnages around 1696 to 1920 each. The loss raised British destroyer losses to 77 in 32 months of war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British Admiralty
Mediterranean
Lively
Jackal
Kipling
Nazi Munitions Plant Blown Up Says Moscow
Moscow reports a large munition works in Munich was blown up by Soviet information, blaming rising German resentment toward the Hitlerite regime. The bureau says main departments were out of commission for a long time and notes slogans like Down With The Criminal War and Long Live The Soviet Union on city walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Information Bureau
Munich
Soviet Union
Tire Cost Life in Miami Car Crash
Benjamin B. Lenoir aged 64 was struck and killed after stopping to pick up a discarded tire casing in Miami Florida. He crossed the road and returned to his car when an approaching vehicle hit him, ending his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Benjamin B. Lenoir
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Roxbury Institution
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Uncle Sam
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Malta
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Colonial Hardwood
Roger D. Greene
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