Bombers Hit Formosa Harbor in Heavy Raid
About 250 U S Fifth Air Force aircraft bombed Formosa sinking six vessels and 36 small craft and damaging others in a several hour assault aimed at Kiirun harbor. Liberators pounded the business district and harbor while Mitchells targeted rail lines and communications in the heaviest land based raid to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Fifth Air Force
Luzon
P. L
Formosa
Fortress
Okinawa
China
Kiirun
Fifth Air Force
Formosan
Kiirun Harbor
Four In Family Burned To Death In Fire
KEYSER West Virginia May 22 A mother two daughters and a son were burned to death in a four room frame dwelling on Limestone Road near Queen Point Cemetery The father Clinton Boyce survived with burns and is hospitalized at Potomac Valley Hospital The fire started about two this morning and volunteer firemen arrived to find the building engulfed in flames The victims are Mrs Jenny Moomow Boyce 46 Mrs Hazel Boyce Bowman 21 Miss Marie Boyce 16 and Alvin Raymond Boyce 18
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keyser
W. Va
Potomac Valley Hospital
Limestone Road
Queen Point Cemetery
Jenny
Moomow) Boyce
Hazel (Boyce) Bowman
Marie Boyce
Alvin Raymond Boyce
Clinton Boyce
Divorce suits rise to twenty nine this month
With more than a week remaining, 29 divorce suits have been filed this month. The two docketed today are Robert Q. McSherry versus Mary Mae McSherry and Mildred L. Stine versus Donald E. Stine. Both couples married in 1936. Attorney J. J. Allen represents both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Q. McSherry
Mary Mae McSherry
Mildred L. Stine
Donald E. Stine
J. J. Allen
Gambling Cases Postponed After Salem Raid
Preliminary hearings in gambling cases tied to a Salem avenue raid were postponed until Thursday May 31. Hearings in city court were moved because prisoners were arraigned in circuit court this morning and criminal court sessions begin Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem Avenue
Soldier Carl Hillyard Wounded in Pacific Action
Pfc Carl W Hillyard 26 of 208 East Antietam street was slightly wounded on April 19 in the Pacific area a War Department telegram to his mother Mrs Esther Hillyard confirms He has been overseas three years before enlistment he worked at Hagerstown Laundry prior to service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl W. Hillyard
East Antietam Street
Pacific Area
War Department
Esther Hillyard
Hillyard
Hagerstown
Jap Official Admits Peace Agitation
SAN FRANCISCO May 22 A high Japanese official admitted growing peace agitation at home and called for arrest of any speeches that might disrupt national unity Domei quoted procurator general Namisaki Nakano saying the war crisis causes peace agitation He spoke to presidents of appeals courts with Premier Suzuki and Supreme Court President Shimoyama present The FCC intercepted the broadcast noting no optimism in current conditions Tokyo radio warned of penalties for not turning in American leaflets dropped by Superfortresses
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Domei
Namisaki Nakano
Courts of Appeals
Kantaro Suzuki
Seiichi Shimoyama
Japanese Supreme Court
Japan
FCC
Nakano
Tokyo Radio
Close On Shuri From Three Sides
American infantrymen and Marines fought Shuri from three sides as patrols entered Yonabaru. About five hundred Japanese attackers, some in American uniforms, struck Sugar Loaf Hill, causing heavy Marine and Japanese casualties. Two hundred Japanese were found dead. at least 100 more believed killed. Marine losses also heavy.
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Guam
Shuri
Yonabaru
U. S
Fourth Marine
Sugar Loaf Hill
Paul R. Hunter
Lake Worth
Fla
Williams Child Is Slightly Hurt
A four year old boy, son of Mrs Pearl Williams of the 600 block of Pennsylvania avenue, ran into a moving automobile in front of his home and was injured lightly. He was examined at the hospital and found to have minor injuries. The car was driven by the wife of a Waynesboro physician. the child’s father is serving overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Williams
Pennsylvania Avenue
Waynesboro
Russians Free Cpl. Difabbio Liberated From German Camp
Corporal Frank DiFabbio, 22, son of Mr and Mrs Michael DiFabbio, a paratrooper and D-day veteran, was freed by Russian forces on April 22 from Stalag IV after five months without contact. He had served in North Africa and Sicily and waited in England for D-day. He enlisted in July 1942 after graduating from Hagerstown High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank DiFabbio
Michael DiFabbio
Diabbio
North Africa
Sicily
England
Hagerstown High School
Stalag 4
Liberated Pfc David D Dicks of Smithsburg Reported Missing in 1944
A letter from Chaplain Richard Shipsley to Pfc David Dicks wife confirms Dicks, 34, of Smithsburg and formerly of Landis Tool Co Waynesboro, has been liberated after being reported missing November 8 1944 and later a German prisoner on February 15 He served in the infantry and was overseas since July last year The letter says he is safe well and in good hands and will write when possible
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David D. Dicks
Smithsburg
Richard Shipsey
Pfc
Landis Tool Company
Waynesboro
Confessed Slayer Of Child Hangs Self
Richard Bailey a 26 year old shipyard worker held for murder in the February death of 2 year old Betty Lou Frazier was found hanged in his Glynn county jail cell near Brunswick Georgia A blanket tied to a window served as the noose Bailey a former Pineville West Virginia resident reportedly confessed to suffocating the child with her nose and body and said he did not know why he did it Meanwhile the child’s body was recovered from a swamp after a large search effort involving more than 1000 people
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Richard Bailey
Betty Lou Frazier
Glynn County
George M. Owens
Bailey
C. A. Williams
State Highway Patrol
Pineville
W. Va
Sailor Reports Theft Of Wallet In Funkstown Tavern
Ralph J. Austin, a sailor headed home on leave, was robbed of his pocketbook containing $50 in a Funkstown tavern at 11 last night. Deputy Sheriff Bruce Spickler pursued the suspect, who rode in a black Plymouth car, as Austin, of Pontiac, Mick, and a companion stopped in for a bite and paid for it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph J. Austin
Funkstown
Bruce Spickler
Austin
Pontiac
Mick
Apartment House Sells For $24,000
The five unit apartment at 800 block Mulberry avenue, erected by Kenneth N. Rudisill, was purchased by Edward C. Artz and wife through the Ralph A. McCune agency for about $24,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth N. Rudisill
Mulberry Avenue
Edward C. Artz
Ralph A. McCune
All Our Might In Men Money Needed War Bond Message
General Krueger calls for maximum effort in the Seventh War Loan to back the Pacific attack. He pledges that all our might in men munitions and money will be required from every American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter Krueger
Sixth Army
Luzon
Philippines
Pacific
Japan
Hitler Stamp Racket Netted Untold Income
ROSENHEIM Germany May 22 Allied officials trace a stamp overcharge scheme used by Adolf Hitler to siphon funds for personal use. The 24 pfennig “fuehrer” overcharge financed a private estate, guest houses and Hoffman's distribution monopoly. Hoffman, once Hitler’s photographer, is now a POW and reputedly built a vast private fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosenheim
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Reich
Heinrich Hoffman
Hoffman
May Prisoners Are Arraigned In County Court
Clarence E Bowen and Jack T Green pleaded guilty to two armed robbery charges tied to Sunrise Inn and Janes Place heists in the county. Hubert Smyre and Gerald Smyre pleaded not guilty. John G Terry not arraigned, out on bond. Velma Kearns faced six forgery indictments, pleading not guilty. Joseph Martinal and Catherine Neville also appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence E .Bowen
Jack T. Green
Joseph D. Mish
Hubert
Gerald Smyre
Bowen
Green
Charles Grice
John G. Terry
Hubert Smyre
Smyre
Jane's Place
Velma Kearns
George D. Hicks
Virginia
Joseph Martinal
John Colton
Catherine Neville
Helen Lightner
Gloria van Wickler
Young
Three Nations Share Pacific War Burden Across Allies
President Truman announced coordination among American British and Canadian efforts to divide Pacific war duties equitably. The 19th lend-lease report to Congress says mutual aid remains a military necessity until final victory and that Allied production will not substantially drop after Germany’s defeat. The report covers through March 31 and omits future lend-lease to Russia, noting programs to allies continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
Germany
Russia
Japan
Negroes confess to bold robbery in city crime
Police report three signed confessions from Charles Jackson 17 James A. Lee 15 and Charles Green 20 all from Martinsburg for a 1 am assault and robbery on Charles L Eaton in front of 65 West Church Street Eaton arrived at headquarters with a bloodied face. The trio said they received $1 for the crime and Green had prior theft conviction from March 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Eaton
West Church Street
Charles Jackson
James A. Lee
Charles Green
Martinsburg
Eaton
Blenard
Staines
Jackson
Green
Lee
Eyerly’s
Ban Portable Kerosene Stoves Urged By Fire Chief
Baltimore May 22 Fire Chief Howard Travers asks city council to ban portable kerosene stoves in a new fire prevention code saying they caused 23 deaths by burns in 1944 and must be done away with Managing Director Samuel Dunckel of the Institute of Cooking and Heating Appliance Manufacturers countered warning that kerosene and gasoline stove hazards are overstated and offered demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Howard Travers
Samuel Dunckel
Institute of Cooking and Heating Appliance
More Interest In Chicken Raising In City This Year Than Gardening
Inquiries on small scale chicken raising have risen at the County Agricultural Agent’s office while Victory garden questions have fallen this spring. County Agent Mark Miller ties the shift to meat shortages and notes back yard flocks are easy for beginners. He also mentions rabbit raising draws little interest and cites a resident who said a rabbit looked like a skinned cat when ready to eat. City ordinances don’t ban poultry or rabbits but require clean pens and no offensive odors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victory Gardens
Mark Miller
Victory Gardenerss
Miller
Liberated POW Celebrates Return and White Bread Joy
Lt Bill Cochran Jr RAF writes to family from Randolph Avenue after liberation from a Bavarian POW camp. He recalls weighing more than before capture, enjoying white bread like angel food cake, and hopes to be home soon as he signs Ex Prisoner of War Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Cochran, Jr
RAF
Randolph Avenue
Germany
Bavaria
Temperature soars as 90 degree day nears
Summer like heat returns with possible 90 degree high by mid afternoon. Night temps stayed above 60, nine degrees higher than the previous night. Weather observer A. Miler notes farmers in Keedysville are busy, with some preparing fields for corn and others planting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Miler
Keedysville
Charges Bookie Banked Millions
New York City official testimony details that bookmaker Frank A. Erickson and his aides deposited over 22.5 million dollars in seven banks and eight safe boxes between January 1 1933 and March 31. The hearings probe if the funds came from New York bookmaking operations, with co defendant ties and caution by counsel. Senior relatives also deposited large sums in major banks in the same period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edgar Bromberger
Frank A. Erickson
Aids
Bromberger
Erickson
New York City
George M. Levy
Levy
Joseph D .McGoldrick
Comptroller
Leonard J. Erickson
National City Bank
Time Square
Frank Strader
National Bank of West New New York, N. J
Local radio man to fly over Hagerstown en route home
Cpl. William E. Deavers son of Mr and Mrs W A Deavers 178 South Prospect street is a radio man on a C-46 transport and will fly over Hagerstown late today on his way from Philadelphia to his station at Sedalia Field Missouri The plane passed over Hagerstown yesterday en route to Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
William E. Deavers
W. A. Deavers
South Prospect Street
Hagerstown
Philadelphia
Sedalia Field
Missouri
Deavers
Liberated Soldiers to Return Home Fast from Germany
About 22,000 U S troops freed from Germany will be in the United States by month end and up to 100,000 held by Germany at collapse camps will be sent home as quickly as possible. They travel by air and ship to American camps for medical care food and back pay. War Department officials say transport limits slow some reports and next of kin notifications are expedited where feasible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
United States
War Department
Colt Albert L. Warner
War Intelligence
Warner
Department
Will Discharge Selected POWs
Allied headquarters in Paris announced that selected German prisoners and certain disarmed Volkssturm personnel along with women prisoners will be discharged and returned to civilian status to support occupation. Male groups include agricultural workers coal miners transport workers and other key personnel needed for farm and industry restart under Allied military governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Allied Headquarters
Volkssturm
Eisenhower
Germany
Hancock Boy Wounded In Italy Hospitalized
Frances Shoemaker of Hancock received word from her husband Pte Melvin E. Shoemaker of the Seth Mountain Division in Italy that he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel in April and is now in a hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Shoemaker
Hancok
Pte
Melvin E. Shoemaker
Séth Mountain Division
Italy
Tax rate hike fixes 1.25 per Stein property valuation
The 14445 tax rate for Cumberland has been set at 1.25 dollars per Stein property valuation, marking an increase of 0.05 dollars over last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Stein
Draft policy hints halt on over-30 workers order
A Washington sourced report says Selective Service may issue an order to nearly halt drafting men over 30 in essential or useful employment. The move, under consideration since Germany's capitulation, would avoid including so called loafers and keep some control for future Japan war needs. Reports cite sources at Selective Service and the Baltimore Evening Sun via AP.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selective Service
Washington
Japan
Baltimore Evening Sun
Associated Press
Jap Beetles Are Due Shortly
County Agent Mark Miller warns 1945 Japanese beetles will appear in full force if warm weather continues. A meeting with Extension Service representatives at College Park will plan summer pest control using milky white disease spores and green traps. Milky white dust effectiveness hinges on active grubs. traps distribution by local youths starts after June. other methods to be decided at the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Miller
Extension Service of
College Park
Miller
Navy ships outnumber 1938 personnel in World War II
Washington May 22 The U S Navy the world s largest now has almost as many ships as men in 1938 with 100 000 vessels added to a force of 7 695 on December 7 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. In 1938 the fleet had 109 665 officers and men. The 250 000 craft include 1 150 combatant ships 2 285 landing ships and craft and 557 auxiliaries. The remainder are patrol and moorage and small boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Navy
Pearl Harbor
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Carl Hillyard
Williams
Difabbio
Sailor
Britain
Canada
Liberated
Roger M. Dorsey
M. A. Dorsey
Sharpsburg Pike
Hagerstown High
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