Okinawa Battle Wages On as Japanese Defenses Falter
Reporting from Okinawa Maj Gen John R Hodge notes signs Japanese forces are disintegrating as U S and Allied troops push toward Shuri and the walled city Despite stiff resistance the Japanese garrison shrinks while U S casualties total 0 526 including Army Navy and Marine deaths and missing figures Nimitz reports 48 103 Japanese killed with no prisoner counts Buckner urges troops to press the campaign as 30 000 survivors remain in combat regions
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96Th Infantry
Alarine
Shuri
Neha
Oki
John R. Hodge
Hodge
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Okinawa
10Th Army
Fleet Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
Ryukyus
Japan
Nimitz
Most Of Miners Return To Jobs
The United Mine Workers report most miners returned to work as talks on a new contract proceed. Telegrams to local union officers describe a wage boost funded by travel time pay, extra vacation, higher second and third shift rates, overtime penalties after seven hours daily and 35 weekly, with full coverage for all workers. Production losses from government seizure since May 3 total 3.5 to 4 million tons, while Pottsville area independents resumed work 24 hours early.
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U.M.W
Pottsville
War Bonds Speech Urges 7th Loan Amid Casualties
The community is urged to buy more War Bonds in the 7th War Loan to aid veterans hospitals and provide artificial limbs. The editor appeals to readers to view bonds as messengers of mercy and health, stressing the drive’s urgency due to growing casualties.
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Orciv
Purple Heart
Ike’s Decoy Plan Debunked by SHAEF Chief
Col. H. G. Sheen countered a wartime tale about an assassination plot against Eisenhower and other Allied leaders. He said no operation or Sabotage by Otto Skorzeny occurred, citing German deception aims to boost morale and mislead the Allies, with captured saboteurs divulging information.
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Mussolini
Eisenhower
Col
H. G. Sheen
SHAEF
Skorzeny
Sheen
Stars and Stripes
Army
Walter Bedell Smith
S. S
Secret Service
Pen Mar Sailor Killed on USS Franklin in Pacific Action
Elwood Rumbaugh MM3/c from Pen Mar was among the R32 listed as killed or missing when a lone Japanese dive bomber scored two direct hits on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin off Japan on March 19. The Franklin survived the strikes and was later in Brooklyn. Rumbaugh’s death was reported April 5.
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Elwood Rumbaugh
Pen Mar
Franklin
Japan
Brooklyn
Rumbaugh
Early Meeting of Big Three Held Necessary
Allies and Italian authorities debated food shipments for displaced Italians while Trieste remained under Tito’s control. The Allied government stayed outside the port, hindering relief. Gestapo chief Himmler’s manhunt continued as Schoerner was captured by U S forces. A move toward decentralizing Germany’s government under Allied oversight prompted recruitment of worthy burgomeisters. German bank restrictions limited Nazi leaders to small living allowances, with others capped as well.
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Italy
Trieste
Marshal Tito
Ferdinand Schoerner
Czechoslovakia
Schoerner
U. S
Gestapo
Heinrich Himmler
London
Reich
Ersatz
Karl) Doenitz
City Feels Out In Meat Supplies
In Hagerstown stores by noon last Saturday shoppers faced empty showcases as meat shortages spread. Dealers described a change in customer behavior with fear of not getting goods, while oleomargarine sales boom due to high point value and scarcity of butter. Beef coming to market is expected to be grass fed and less flavorful.
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Hagerstown
Deglers
Initiation of 300 Moose Members at Hagerstown Lodge
Three hundred candidates joined the Hagerstown lodge Lorval Order of Moose in Franklin Court Auditorium. The new class brings local Moose initiates to about 700 in 14 weeks. Paul Schusitz from Chicago congratulated Lodge 212, with Robert Irvin of Baltimore and Albert Ladner Jr. of Philadelphia speaking.
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Hagerstown
Lorval
Window break-ins and ransacked homes reported
Mrs Warren E Smith on Sue Hlock View Street reported an attempted break in with broken cellar windows but no entry. Louise Swope of Carrollton Avenue said her house was entered and ransacked with chairs and tables overturned. Weather notes mention a rise from near freezing to 51 degrees after a 74 degree high.
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Warren E. Smith
Sue Hlock View Street
Noalice
Louise Swope
Carrollton Avenue
Bond Drive Progress High on War Bond Campaign
The bond drive aims for 9500000 total with 1650000 through individual purchases and 1350000 in EB bonds. By Friday E bond sales reached 386616, about a quarter of the goal. A donor donut mobile will visit Thursday through Saturday, handing donuts to buyers of 2 or more in stamps between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. The vehicle, producing 6000 doughnuts hourly, is sponsored by the war bond committee and Doughnut Corporation of America in cooperation with the Treasury Department.
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War Bond Committee
Grount
Doughnut Corporation of America
Treasury Department
Employers Favor Control by State
ANNAPOLIS Md May 21 The great majority of Maryland employers favor the return of the employment service now under Federal control to state jurisdiction Governor O Conor said on the basis of returns from a poll conducted by the Maryland State Unemployment Compensation Board The Governor said that of a total of 4817 ballots returned 4521 employers or 94 per cent of those answering declared themselves in favor of the immediate return of the employment service to the state and only 274 went on record as favoring continuance of the service under jurisdiction of the federal Government
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Annapolis
Maryland
O'Conor
Maryland State Unemployment Compensation Board
Poppy Sale Sets Record for Local Veterans Group
The Buddy Poppy sale by the William D. Byron Post and its Auxiliary raised the largest amount since the post’s 1942 founding. About twenty post and Auxiliary members sold the poppies last Saturday in this city, according to chairman A. L. Durst and Mrs. Edwin B. Williams. Police also reported larcenies including a stolen billfold worth $11 and a wristwatch taken from two residents.
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The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
William D. Byron
A. L. Durst
Edwin B. Williams
Auxiliary
Post
Senate delays confirmation vote on TVA chair Lilienthal
Washington May 29 The Senate vote on confirmation of Chairman David Be Lilienthal for a nine year term on the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors has been postponed again until Thursday. The move follows absence of Senator McKellar and a Monday speaking engagement by Senator Tom Stewart.
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Washington
Senate
David BE. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
Tennessee
Tom Stewart
Soldier Finds Daughter Alive After Leipzig Search
Major Samuels and Anton Viditz-Ward recover Elaine Marilyn, a nineteen year old American girl, in ruined Leipzig. The girl carried American papers, grandparents protected her from the Nazi regime, and she is reunited with Samuels in the 94th Division HQ. Elaine studies English as the family adjusts to postwar life ahead.
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Cording
Samuels
Saxony
Anton Widitz Ward
Astoria
S. L
Leipzig
Maloney
Viditz-Ward
Streinstrasse
Schroeder
Anton
Elaine Samuels
Elaine Marilyn
Ohio
94Th Division
Duesseldorf
Nordhausen
Men Arrested In Cigarette Theft
Two men were arrested early Sunday by Patrolmen Lewis Blen ard and BE. W. Stains after 54 cartons of cigarettes were found in their possession. They allegedly admitted stealing the cigarettes from a Pennsylvania Railroad boxcar on a North Prospect street siding. The pair, Charles L. Brown and William R. Stanley, were stopped on Kennedy street after midnight. they claimed to have bought the cigarettes for $10 from an unidentified stranger.
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Lewis Blenard
BE. W. Stains
Pennsylvania Railroad
North Prospect Street
Charles L. Brown
William R. Stanley
West Antietam Street
Kennedy Street
Pugh
Pedestrian Injured In Crossing Mishap
George Baker aged 35 of Jefferson Street was slightly injured after being struck by a northbound car at Potomac and Franklin Streets shortly after midnight. He had a facial cut and was taken to the hospital by Goodwill ambulance.
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George Baker
Jefferson Street
Potomac
Franklin Streets
Wolford
Baker
Richard A. Myers
Sfagerstown
Edna G. Renn
Black Ridge Avenue
Earl Haugh
Oldtown
Hopewell
Samuel Conrad
Haugh
Negroes Accused Of Stealing Tires In Maryland Case
Four Baltimore men were returned to Hagerstown to face charges for theft of automobile tires and tubes from Boyer's filling station on Potomac avenue May 17. Walter D. Washington and Robert E. Sullivan Jr. face breaking and larceny charges, while Robert J. Barrett and Leroy Young will be charged with receiving stolen goods. Washington testified that his car carried 13 tires and six tubes to a hideout on the Paramount road and to Baltimore for sale. Two tires remain missing and may be found in nearby weeds after a police search.
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Baltimore
Hagerstown
Boyer
Potomac Avenue
Walter D. Washington
Ruby Avenue
Robert E. Sullivan, Jr
West Worth Street
Robert J. Barrett
Jonathan
Wayne Sellman
Washington
Sellman
Joseph Desmond
Paramount Road
County Official Confined to Bed after Displaced Cartilage
Williamsport Commissioner Joseph M. Hoffman is bedfast at home after a Saturday work accident caused a displaced cartilage. Doctors say he will remain confined for at least a week and may need a leg cast. A remark about barometers and thermometers appears as stray text from the era.
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Joseph M. Hoffman
Williamsport
Hoffman
All Serene Again Seeks Missing Bride’s Purse
Seaman Rudolf Sengebosh of Newark and his fiancée Mary Alexander discussed marriage plans after arriving in Seattle. Alexander left a purse with $500 in cash and $135,000 in jewels in a taxi. the cab company alerted authorities and questioned drivers until the 52nd taxi rider recovered the bag. The item notes the first US census in 1790.
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Seattle
Rudolf Sengebosh
Newark
Mary Alexander
Aged Alaskan Bishop Crimont Is Dead
Seattle report says His Excellency Joseph R Crimont 987 bishop of Alaska died at his Juneau residence yesterday afternoon The pioneer Jesuit born near Lille France entered Jesuit seminary at Woodstock Md ordained 1896 He served Crow Indian Reservation Montana and Alaska since 1893 becoming Precept Apostolic in 1904 and Bishop of Alaska in 1917 England didn't use the ballot system of voting until 1872.
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Seattle
Joseph R Crimont
Alaska
America
Juneau
Walter James Fitzgerald
Lille
France
Jesuit
Woodstock
Montana
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