Bombers Strike Nagoya and Western Honshu Ports
B-29s from Iwo Jima escorted by Army Mustangs attacked Honshu and near Nagoya on a morning raid. About 30 Fortresses mined Kasa Bay and Bungo Strait while Hamamatsu facility notes show industrial targets. Curtis LeMay reports four Nagoya raids destroyed 11.8 square miles, about 22 percent of the city.
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Wakasa Bay
Honshu
Japan Sea
Bungo Strait
Asmamatsu
Nagoya
Hamamatsu
Curtis Lemay
1St Bomber Command
Corporal Barn Receives Army Discharge After Overseas Service
Corporal Wilford L. Barn, 22, has been discharged from the Army on May 17 and returned to civilian life. He served a year overseas in England and France with the Transportation Corps and took part in the Normandy invasion. Barn, who enlisted after working for Western Maryland Railway Co., is the son of Police Officer Leroy Karn and Mrs. Karn of Randolph Avenue. His brother, Cpl George R. Karn, is currently serving in Germany, overseas for two years.
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Wilford L. Barn
England
France
Transportation Corps
Normandy
Western Maryland Railway Co
Leroy
Leroy ©. Karn
Randolph Avenue
Karn
Cpl
George R. Karn
Germany
Stalin Defends Polish Stand in Moscow Radio Reply
Moscow radio broadcast quoted by Ralph Parker of the London Times outlines Stalin’s conditions for a future Polish government. He called for a friendly policy toward the Soviet Union, rejection of the cordon sanitaire, and reconstruction with Poles who are tied to the Polish people, not without them.
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Moscow Radio
Ralph Parker
Moscow
London Times
Stalin
Russia
Soviet Union
Realty Market Has Quiet Week Sales 50 000
Realty market records a quiet week with multiple property transfers across Hancock and nearby areas. Transactions include Paul W. Harbaugh and wife for land on Woodland Way 8500 dollars and Samuel H. Keller transferring to Harvey C. Beard 2500 dollars.
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Paul W. Harbaugh
Woodland Way
Samuel H. Keller
Harvey C. Beard
Carrolton Avenue
Wm. E. Holsinger
Raleigh
Brown
Williamsport-Greencastle Pike
Broadfording Mills
Paul H. Barnhart
Lanvate Street
Ira S. Coffman
William W. Garrett
Williamsport Pike
Biltrite Homes Corp
Carroll B. Marquart
Summer Street
Herman J. Serig, Sr
Mary E
Fred B. Brass
Salem Avenue
Ralph E. Jones
H. W. Darner
Main St
Hancock
Wm. W. Garrett
Chas. O. Stoner
Paul F. Vetter
Harold J. Hutson
Fountainhead Heights
Pack of 26 bull terriers put down after attack in Miami
In Miami on May 19 a pack of 26 bull terriers attacked Mrs. Dorella Zinke injuring her severely. Nine dogs died after an execution by a three-man squad and the rest were disposed of. The Humane Society received many calls seeking intervention.
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Miami
Fla
Dorella Zinke
W. M. Hudson
Dade County
C. W. Pusey
Greater Miami Human Society
C. P. Longstreet
The
Humane Society
Society
Brackx Faces Possible Death Penalty at May 25 Sentence
Brackx awaits sentencing on May 25 with prosecutors seeking the death penalty. The case involves the alleged planning of severe crimes and ongoing legal proceedings determine the fate.
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Brackx
Fairchild Plans For Family Day at Plant Sites
Fairchild Aircraft hosts Family Day with thousands of employees and families attending at plants two and three. Visitors tour the Packet production line and PBM Shop, view Packet Number One on the apron, and inspect a second Packet nearing completion. A 2:15 p.m. flight over the plant is planned with a ground broadcast. Admission for employees and immediate family is badge‑based, with turnstiles from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. and visitors allowed until 2:30 p.m. If rain, event postponed to Sunday, May 27.
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Fairchild Aircraft
Fairchild
Plant Three
Welfare Board Clarifies Work Policy for Recipients
The Welfare Board states that welfare grants are not terminated if a recipient gains employment and earns income that is deducted from needs. Grants are adjusted upward when income declines, and former recipients who regain work may reapply. some elderly recipients have found part time jobs during shortages and may have grants reinstated after employment ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welfare Board
Snively
Out Of Fuel Bomber Crashes After Bailout Near Hurricane
Captain R Wilkerson of New York City piloted a two engine Army bomber that ran out of fuel. He and two crew members Sgt Gaines of Asheville and Sgt Heller bailed out before the craft crashed on Creepy Creek road farm near Hurricane. Wilkerson sustained critical injuries and was taken to Huntington hospital. Gaines and Heller were shaken but uninjured.
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Huntington
W. Va
Hurricane
Here
R. Wilkerson
New York City
Gaines
Asheville
N. G
Heller
Creepy Creek
Donald Patterson
Elton 8. Allen
J. T. Hill
Wilkerson
Insurance On Wheat Available In Washington County
Wheat crop insurance is available to about 1000 farmers in Washington County. Insured indemnities cover up to 75 percent of the average yield for the farm. The program applies to fall sown wheat and protects against drought flood hail wind frost winter kill fire excessive rain snow insect infestation plant diseases and other unavoidable losses as determined by the Crop Insurance Corporation. The non profit body funds premiums to pay normal indemnities and to build a surplus for extraordinary losses.
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Washington County
Jacob Ankeney
County Agriculture Conservation Association
Mark Miller
Ankeney
The
Crop Insurance Corporation
Son in film The Fighting Lady delights mother at sea
Mrs Virginia Middlecamp of 1041 Pennsylvania avenue learned her son Billy Middlecamp Petty Officer was in the Navy documentary The Fighting Lady after friends spotted him in a breakfast scene. She has since watched the film four times and keeps a reel from Henry's Theater. He has served two years at sea after six weeks training and earned 13 battle stars while a range finder on an inch gun.
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Virginia
Middlecamp
Pennsylvania Avenue
Billy
Navy
Pilly
John Afiller
Henry's Theater
Petty
Missionary Drama by Church Youth
The Church of God on Baltimore Street and Summit Avenue presents Possessions a missionary drama by Mattie B Shannon tomorrow evening. Free admission invites the public. Cast includes Aubrey Warner Virginia Sester Lee Welty Mary Lou Sester Paul Reeder Irene Myers Granville Myers Louise Warner and Euodias Gonso directed by Miss Gangso with Leonard Davis handling staging. Rev H C Gonso will lead a brief worship service and a silver offering supports India relief.
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Mattie B. Shannon
Church of God
Baltimore Street
Summit Avenue
Aubrey Warner
Virginia Sester
Lee Welty
Mary Lou Sester
Paul Reeder
Irene Myers
Granville Myers
Louise Warner
Euodias Gonso
Gangso
Leonard Davis
Hdgar Gossard
Actar
H. C. Gonso
India Relief
Waves and War Roles Highlight Lakehurst News
May 16 report from Lakehurst New Jersey describes Dorothy Ruth Sowter beginning Navy weather observer training at the Aerographers School. The three month course covers meteorology, weather codes, mapping, balloon sounding and typing as Waves and sailors train for shore duty. Also noted are Lt Mary Jane Reed’s assignment at Kelly Field and T5 Paul O Deneen’s Army 15th Army Germany work and jeep project.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Dorothy Ruth Sowter
George B. Sowter
Mulberry Avenue
Hagerstown
Navy
Aerographers’ School
Lakehurst Naval Air Station
Wave Sowter
Western Maryland College
Westminster
U. S. Navy
Mary Jane Reed
George Street
Kelly Field
Texas
Robins Field
Army Air Forces
Yanks Capture Dam North of Manila in World War II
Filipino guerrillas and U S 43rd Division Infantrymen captured the Ips Dam east of Manila, the water source for much of the city. Japanese forces left intact sections of the aqueduct, so full water use is not guaranteed. In Mindanao, U S 31st Division seized Valencia and two all weather airstrips in the island’s center.
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Manila
Ips
U.S. 43Rd Division
Marcus Augustin
Fifth Airforce
Mindanao
U. S. 31St Division
Valencia
Czechs Add Keitel and Others to War Criminal List
London report says Czechoslovakia added Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and figures Walther Funk Kurt Daluege Karl Frank Albert Speer to a list of more than 800 suspected war criminals. Czech commission to Germany to gather evidence for trials before the May 31 war crimes conference.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Walther Funk
Kurt Daluege
Hangman Reinhard Heydrich
Bohemia
Karl Herman Frank
Moravia
Albert Speer
Germany
War Crimes Commission
Gostana
Lameburg
Gestapo
Maj
I Hugh Campbell
Report Claims Government Mismanagement Causes Sugar Shortage
A House Food Committee source says a sharply critical report is being drafted accusing OPA War Food Administration and others of mishandling sugar stocks risking a wartime shortage. The document seeks reduced foreign allotments stricter rationing and kept civilian sugar use in check amid 70 percent prewar levels.
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Washington
House Food Committee
House
OPA
War Food Administration
Combined Food Board
Jean
France
Spain
Italy
Switzerland
Returned Air Hero Interview Sparks American Spirit
In a wartime press chat Lt. Rudder speaks of returning home to his mother and a girl, touts teamwork and luck behind his success, jokes about champagne for war relief, and dismisses Japanese airmen while praising American workers. He plans to teach gunnery before heading back.
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America
Rudder
Pfc Calvin King Noted In Magazine War Feature
Mrs Harry Foreman of South Mulberry spotted Pfc Calvin King in a Collier's article about the New Britain fighting. King, a Pen Mar veteran, says he was discharged last December after taking part in the action at Death by Own Creek. Foremans invited him to spend Family Day in Hagerstown to visit the Fair child Packet plants.
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Harry Foreman
South Mulberry Street
Collier’s
New Britain
Pen Mar
Pfc
Calvin King
Ning
Waynesboro
Suicide Creek
Hagerstown
City council notes low bids for street resurfacing project
Gester and Long submitted the lowest bids for cutback asphalt and asphalt emulsion used in resurfacing and repairing Waynesboro streets and alleys. The proposal was announced at a Borough Council meeting.
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Gester & Long
Waynesboro
Courtcil
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Athey’s Paints
Eres
Bam Crabbe
King of the Wild
Fiery AL i
ST. John
Sowing
Allan Lane
Peggy Stewart
Wally Vernon
Twinkle Watts
Tom London
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Sama
Blondie
Chic Young
Penny Arthur
Larry Singleton
Lake Simms
Marjorie Weaver
Jonathan Hale
Daisy
Rod Cameron
Pecos
Stooges
Dagwood
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India
KAY Jewelry CO. Ee
W. Wash. ST
Rve
Easy Credit
Cwomen Ie
Russel Anderson
Mitchell Avenue
Kenneth
Paul O
Mike” Deneen
15Th Army
Elwood Deneen
Guilford Avenue
Martha
Barbara Ann
Martha Jane
Hyattsville
Ipo Dam
Lord Wright
Commission
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the National Brewing Co
Baltimore
Maryland
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