Yanks Poised For Occupation Of Jap Capital
American forces advance toward Tokyo with 15,460 occupation troops planned for key industrial sites and 20,000 landing at Tachikawa. MacArthur ends search restrictions for reporters as roughly 100,000 troops are expected by nightfall with more to follow toward a half million. Eighth Army under Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger leads the push.
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Takusu
Kyushu
Tokyo
Wanoye
Macarthur
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Airfield advances near Tokyo expand Allied reach
Forces crossed the Tama river and moved toward Tokyo after taking four air fields yesterday. Cho fu air field lay two miles from Tokyo while Tachikawa stood nine miles west and Showa two miles north of Tachikawa. A fourth air field was not identified.
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Tama River
Tokyo
Chofu
Tachikawa
Showa
Freed Yanks Recount Harsh Illness On Benevolence Ship
Prisoners liberated aboard the hospital ship Benevolence report severe malnutrition and diseases from beatings and neglect. A dying B 29 pilot from Salt Lake City died after suffering pellagra and mistreatment. Col Stanley Livingston James among friends notes reunion as medical teams pursue war crime lists and plan rapid homeward return.
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Crimes Branch
Salt Lake City
Omort
Frederick L. McDaniel
Aftexandria
Eichelberger
Stanley Livingston James
West Point
Signs Jap Beetle Here Weakening Disease Threats
Beetle populations are rising, Langford reports new trap bait three times more effective than current bait. The formula is eight parts caproic acid and one part each phenyl ethyl acetate and eugenol. Research seeks a wartime substitute for geraniol. DDT spray tests on fruit trees show good repellent and toxic contact effects with lethal foliage residue.
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Langford
58 New Teachers Added To Staff
A list of 58 new teachers joins multiple schools including Williamsport High School Clear Spring High School Broad Way School and Hancock Elementary School. Notable names include Sybil Kochenderfer Kath ryn Foltz Barbara Couchman Ellen Andrews Janet Lang June Mahone and Hilda Snyder. The roster covers districts in Williamsport Clear Spring Fairplay Surrey Antietam and Boonsboro with several elementary and primary schools represented.
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Kochenderfer
Sybil _ Grisentine
Julia Hammack
Williamsport
Euodias Gonso
Kathryn Foltz
Anna Roulette
Clear Spring
Hila Smith
Margaret Wolfinger
Lois Crouse
Nancock High School
Jean Vandever
Daniel McFarland
Smithshoro High School
Helen Downey
Margaret. Smith
Winter Street
Pegsy i Couchman
Barbara Collier
Broadway School
Jean Lehman
Ellen
Bus Fire Destroys Blue Ridge Bus and Luggage
A Blue Ridge Lines bus carrying 42 passengers caught fire on a descent of Sideling Hill destroying the bus and most luggage. All passengers escaped with minor injuries to three women. The cause is under investigation with backfire from carburetor or muffler suspected. A special bus evacuated remaining travelers to Hagerstown for claims processing.
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Blue Ridge
Sideling Hil
Blue Ridge Line
Fred Rhodes
Hagerstown
Carlos H. Geisbert
Blue Ridge Lines
Geisbert
Cumberland
Pittsburgh
Detrick Field
Frederick
Claims Department
Concert singer Lady Maud Warrender dies in London
Lady Maud Warrender aged 74, renowned concert singer and daughter of the Eighth Earl of Shaftesbury, died yesterday in London. She sang in more than 100 concerts including an 1898 appearance before Queen Victoria and performed for service personnel during World War I.
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London
Lady Maud Warrender
Earl of Shaftesbury
Queen Victoria
Warehouse Robbery Reported Over Holidays
A local warehouse operated by Rodger Botti on Rochester Place was robbed during the holidays. Thieves entered through a second floor window after crawling over the roof of the Hagerstown News Agency and removed a heavy screen guarding the warehouse window. Several boxes of candy and soft drinks were stolen.
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Rodger Botti
Rochester Place
Botti
Hagerstown
Hiroshima City in Ruins After Atomic Bomb
Witnesses describe Hiroshima’s destruction with residents fleeing through the ruined downtown. Police chief Dadai warns of possible attacks, death toll rising past 53,000 with many dying from unexplained causes. Guides reveal former Sacramento ties and embassy staff links amid chilling reports of infection from minor burns and lack of counteragents.
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Hiroshima
Earth
Hirokami Dadai
Japan
Army
Second Army
Dadai
Tokyo
Sacramento
Clif
Washington, D. C
YMCA Official Heads North For Boys Work Course
Harry E. Wolf of Hagerstown Y M C A visits Camp Wawayanda in northern New Jersey to attend a five day school on boys work methods. The program is conducted by the Central Atlantic Area of the Y M C A.
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Harry E. Wolf
Hagerstown
Horse Show Riot Ends In Fatality In Manassas
In Manassas Virginia a horse show riot over seizing a whiskey car left Alvin Lacy dead from a gunshot wound and Deputy Wheeling injured. Officers faced a crowd as a wrecker moved to tow the vehicle, with 10 to 12 arrests for inciting to riot.
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Manassas
P. M. Herndon
Alvin Lacy
Alexandria
Turner D. Wheeling
Herndon
J. P. Kerlin
Wheeling
Lacy
Six Injured In Auto Collision West of Hagerstown
Six people hurt in a three car crash on Route 40 half a mile west of Hagerstown Saturday night. Injuries include a broken leg and fractured skull for Lieut. Glen Naegele, 35, of Camp Ritchie. Drivers Schadewalet and Brewer and passengers Edith Tosten and Ronald Gillespie among those injured. Three treated at the scene or by Goodwill ambulance.
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Hagerstown
Glen Naegele
Camp Ritchie
Fred W. Schadewalet
Wilson Boulevard
Washington County Hospital
Bruce Spickler
Schadewalet
Robert Timmons
Sharpsburg
Thelma M. Brewer
Clearspring
Route 3
Timmons
Edith Tosten
Ronald M. Gillespie
Antietam Street
Elizabeth Schadewalet
Spickler
Brewer
Harvey Maugans
Negro Detained After Store Attempted Assault
Lewis Hawkins of Chambersburg was arrested by sheriff's officers after an alleged attempt to strike C. Berger, store proprietor at Jonathan and Church streets, when Hawkins entered the shop late Saturday night asked for matches and made a fist pass after fumbling in his pockets. Berger said he threw a meat cleaver to ward him off and Hawkins fled.
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Lewis Hawkins
Chambersburg
C. . Berger
Jonathan
Church Streets
Berger
Burger
Navy Opens Enlistment to 17 to 50 Age Range
The Navy announces immediate voluntary enlistments for men aged 18 to 38, the first time since December 5, 1942 that this group could join. Enlistment eligibility now covers men aged 17 to 50 to apply.
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U. S. Navy
Navy
POWs Produce Much Of Britain's Food
London report shows wartime labor shift with 54,590 prisoners in agricultural work last June, up from 25,310 in June 1944, while regular land workers fell by 22,500 year over year.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Agriculture Today
Ina
Local Angler Nets Huge Potomac Bass On Labor Day
J. R. Kuhn of 637 Guilford Avenue landed a 3.14 pound bass at Shaffer's Landing on Labor Day, one of the largest in weeks. He used a minnow and fought the big fish in a muddied Potomac now clearing, while the Shenandoah River remains in good fishing condition.
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Potomac
Labor Day
J. R. Kuhn
Guilford Avenue
Shaffer
Truman seeks authority to overhaul federal agencies and draft law fate
President Truman presses Congress to grant power to abolish or merge agencies while five point must program advances. Hearings begin as lawmakers weigh limits on reorganization, exemptions for ICC GAO and FCC, and wartime controls nearing expiration. Draft act fate looms with May 15 deadline. debate over stopping inductions continues amid push for voluntary enlistment.
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Truman
House Expenditures Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
General Accounting Office
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
Rayburn
D-Ter
House
House Military Committee
Autos Damaged In Crash On Highway
Two cars collided at the Millers Road and Leitersburg Pike intersection injuring two people who were taken to Waynesboro hospital. Donald F. Marsee of East Lee Street and Charles H. Wastler of Hagerstown Route 4 faced magistrate court for failure to yield right of way and passing at an intersection respectively. Deputy Bruce Spigler investigated the incidents and the second crash involved a coupe that ran off the Leitersburg Pike and struck a fence with no one located at the hospital. The accident occurred about 10:45 last night.
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Millers Road
Leitersburg Pike
Bruce Spigler
Donald F. Marsee
East Lee Street
Charles H. Wastler
Hagerstown
Marsee
Wastler
Spigler
Waynesboro Hospital
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