No Substitute For Experience, Truman Declares
Senator Harry S. Truman accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice President in Lamar Missouri in a speech at his birthplace warning against choosing a man who lacks experience He praised President Roosevelt and urged caution about those unfamiliar with world affairs as the nation in midstream toward peace.
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Lamar
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Chicago
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Truman
Near
Ozark
Hidden slips found on passerby in Portland theft
In Portland on September 1 Patrolman Norton stopped a man whose arm steadied a load of cigarets. Six slips were recovered under his coat along with the contraband cigarets. The items appear to have been stolen. Watermelons and cantaloupes advertised nearby.
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Portland
Patrick J. Norton
Norton
Admit Situation In N. France Hopeless
A London military spokesman described the German position in northern France as hopeless for the time being. He cited two Allied bulges in the Amiens and Meuse regions and contrasted the current plight with the earlier progress near Lillian, four weeks ago, which he said had been mastered.
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London
France
Berlin
Amiens
Meuse
Death notices of Mulfenix Kaetzel and Minnich families
Multiple obituaries report the deaths of Mrs. Mary Jane Cromer Mulfenix at 16:20 on Thursday aged 57, and Mrs. Ella Almira Kaetzel at Gapland after a long illness, with services in Kraiss mortuary chapel and Church of the Brethren Brownsville. Also memorial verses for Mrs. Dorothy L. Fisher Minnich, one year after her passing, with family remembrances and funeral details.
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Mary Jane (Cromer) Mulfenix
Walter H. Mulenix
Vew Avenue
St. Paul's Evangelical Church
Charles W
US &. Navy
Charles S. Cloudensport
Victor
Charles
William
George
Kraiss Mortuary
Rey Walter Dice
Rose Hill Cemetery
Ella Almira Kaetzel
George W. Kaetzel
Gapland
Brownsville
Church of the Brethren
Frank
Roy D
Hagerstown
Paul E
Frederick
Ira L. Gapland
J. Clifford
G. Floyd
Gertrude Spitzer
Funkstown
Grace Reid
Newville
Ruth Deener
Washington, D. C
Fern Reed
Baltimore
George B
Noah
Frank B. Mullendore
Rohrersville
Emory A. Mullendore
Fannie Long
Boonsboro
Angie Zecher
Burkittsville
Roy Miller
H. C. Erdman
Earl Mitchell
Dorothy L. (Fisher) Minnich
U S Airforce Strikes New Blows In Philippines Invasion Prelude
Allied air forces intensify bombing across Formosa, the China coast, and the Ryukyu arc as campaigns widen toward Nippon. Davao city in the southern Philippines blazed while Rabau fortress in the Southwest Pacific endured heavy air assault. General Harmon predicts a year more of Pacific war after Germany falls, with major invasions planned. Japanese naval and air losses mount as fleets suffer and planes are shot down. In North China, Gen Naosaburo Okabe is named supreme commander, replacing Gen Neiji Okamura.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Japan
US. S. Army Air Command
Pacific
Formosa
China Coast
Tokyo Radio
Equator
Paramushiro
Philippines
Davao
Papines
Ducc Celebes
Palau
Millard F. Harmon
Korea
Manchuria
Ryukyu Islands
Nippon
Harmon
Germany
Rabau
Southwest Pacific
Fukye
Naosaburo Okabe
China
Neiji Okamura
Rent Control Praised in Washington County
OPA director Leo F. McCormick announced renewed emphasis on rent control in Washington County. He credited Louis Sager with stabilizing rents in Hagerstown and the county and warned that rooming houses hotels and unregistered dwellings may face checks to prevent above ceiling charges.
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OPA
Washington County
Louis Sager
McCormick
Hagerstown
County
Saums Store Ad Promotes New Billfolds At Low Prices
A local advertisement for Greater Diamond Values at Saum's 21 Jonathan St Ady touts a just arrived large shipment of billfolds priced from 75 cents upward. The notice emphasizes value and new stock for shoppers.
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Saum's
Jonathan St. Ady
Saum’s
Pfc Ray Carbaugh Killed In Action In South Pacific
Private First Class Ray R Carbaugh, 23, son of Mr and Mrs James E Carbaugh of Security, was killed in action in the South Pacific. He served two years with Company GC of the Fourth Marine Division after basic training at Parris Island and posts at Indian Head Maryland and North Carolina. The last letter from him was dated July 22. Survived by parents, sisters June Gladys and Helen at home, Mrs Herman Leedy and Mrs Clarence Manious of Hagerstown, and brother James B Carbaugh of Union Bridge Maryland.
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Ray R. Carbaugh
James E. Carbaugh
South Pacific
War Department
M. P. Moller Company
U. S
Ray Carbaugh
Hagerstown
James B. Carhaugh
Union Bridge
Allied Victories In France Equal Hitler's Blitz
Allied forces led by Eisenhower have nearly matched Hitler's 1940 feat in 37 days of campaign in France. Since the D day breakthrough by Omar Bradley on July 25, they reached Paris and pushed toward the German frontier from a Normandy beachhead. Yet port supply lines remain limited and Cherbourg shows only partial progress toward full Allied logistics.
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Carl C. Cranmer
Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
Adolf Hitlier
St. To
Omar N. Bradley
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Hitler
Normandy
Paris
Major Tipton At City Hall Tonight
Representatives of service clubs churches and other organizations meet in the City Hall council room to hear Major L W Tipton director of Civilian War Services for the Maryland Council of Defense Third Service Command. He will discuss Army and Navy hospital technicians, aiming to spark local interest and information sharing postwar. Not all groups contacted yet, invitations extended to bring representatives.
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L. W. Tipton
Maryland Council of Defense
Third Service Command
Tipton
Army
Station Operator Is Held For Court
Charles G. Byrd, a local filling station operator, was arrested August 16 on charges of violating gasoline ration regulations. He was held on a $2,000 bond for Federal Court action by U. S. Commissioner C. Welles Little. Byrd is charged with possessing 2% counterfeit 10 gallon inventor gasoline ration stamps and obtaining them not in accordance with ration rules. Bond set at $1,000 in each case.
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Charles G. Byrd
U. S
C. Welles Little
Affternoon
Byrd
Red-Men Annual Picnic and City Social Ads
The notice lists events and ads including a Red-Men annual picnic in Hutzell's Woods near Boonspore with day and night events on September 4 and a main date September 9. Also advertised are round and square dances at Valleyton Music by Bill and his Meladies, and Saturday nights at Mt Lena Tavern with Four Aces plus fried chicken.
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Boonspore
Valleyton
Bill
Meladier
Adv
MT. Lena Tavern
Four Aces
U S Seizes 10 Pennsy Mines in Labor Move
Ten western Pennsylvania coal mines were placed under government control after strikes idle nearly 8,000 miners. President Roosevelt, at the War Labor Board's request, ordered seizure citing existing and threatened strikes in soft coal fields. The union action by Supervisory Workers of the UMW seeks recognition for clerical and technical staff.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Supervisory Workers
United Mine Workers of America
Interior Department
Solid Fuels Administration
UMW
Elgin Proposes Use Stamp Ties License Plates to Purchases
Maryland Motor Vehicles Commissioner W Lee Elgin proposed a national plan to deny license plates to vehicles missing a use stamp. He urged aligning stamp sales with state license dates and employing clerical staff in each state MV dept. He criticized the stamp tax but urged fair sale practices amid Maryland’s 109,000 motorists yet to buy stamps.
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W. Lee Elgin
Maryland
Motor Vehicles
Elgin
Motor Vehicles Department
Birth Stone Ring Gift Sale at Saum's Ady
A birth stone ring offers ideal gift options at Saum's 21 Jonathan St Ady with a weekly Sunday night event at Valley Inn. Proceeds support the Goodwill Ambulance service and community welfare.
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Saum's
Jonathan St. Ady
Valley Inn
Benefit of Goodwill Ambulance
Ady
Service command unit man serves with Ninth Air Force
Private Jack Hose son of Mr and Mrs Frederick Hose 331 Jefferson street serves with a mobile repair unit of the Ninth Air Force Service Command in Europe. Mobile repair units follow crashed aircraft traveling in trailers to perform emergency repairs and major overhauls with equipment in their caravans. Hose is a Havoc engine and aircraft maintenance specialist trained in a technical school. He entered the Army at Fort Meade in December 1943 after attending Hagerstown High School.
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Ninth Air Force Service Command
Jack Hose
Frederick Hose
Jefferson Street
Ninth Air Force
Pvt. Hose
Pvt
Hose
Europe
Army
Fort Meade
Hagerstown High School
Corporal Lewis Wounded in Action in France
Mrs Gaither D Lewis of Hagerstown Route 3 was notified by the War Department that her husband Corporal Gaither D Lewis was slightly wounded in action in France on August 11. In a letter he says he is in an English hospital. He previously worked for Pangborn Corporation and has been overseas since February.
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Gaither D. Lewis
Hagersstown
Route 3
War Department
Cpl
France
Cpl. Lewis
Pangborn Corporation
Joe DiMaggio Won't Seek Medical Discharge
Joe DiMaggio returns to San Francisco on what he calls Army business after two months in Hawaii. He declines to discuss an illness with the Seventh Army Air Force and says he will not seek a medical discharge, declaring he is in top condition.
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San Francisco
Joe DiMaggio
New York Yankee
Army Business
Hawaii
DiMaggio
Seventh Army Air Force
Teeth Missing In Brooklyn Park Tale Turns Funny
A war veteran dozed under poplar trees in a Brooklyn park and found his upper teeth missing on waking. He searched the next day and the poplars were gone as well. A park foreman later recovered the teeth while removing the trees and returned them to the owner.
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New York
Brooklyn
Row's Park Dance Listings Round and Square Night
Local four line item noting events at Row's Park featuring the Silvertone Melody Boys with Speedy and his Maytag. Also Friday and Saturday night at Span ish Danceland Sxemp's Mill Tavern and Penn Maryland String Band Your Old Friend Ross with advertisements for the venues and show times.
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Silvertone Melody Boys
Row’'S Park
Speedy
Maytag
Adv
Spanish Danceland
Sxemp's Mill Tavern
Penn-Maryland
Ross
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