MacArthur raises flag at Tokyo embassy ceremony
At the U S embassy in Tokyo General MacArthur presided as the flag was raised over the chancellery, with Admiral Halsey and Lt. Gen. Eichelberger present. The scene drew Japanese crowds as a mood of relief settled over the capital, ending with a prayer and handshake between the leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Tokyo
Yokohama
First Cavalry Division
Admiral Halsey
Third Fleet
Robert I. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Honshu
Chase
General Eichelberger
Embassy
Eugene Patrick Walsh
Richmond
Eichelberger
Halsey
Bill
Army Inductions Reported by Local Board No. 2
Local Board No. 2 announced September army inductions listing Yra Stocksinger Sharpsburg Ernest Spade Hagerstown Route 2 Norman Hose Williamsport Route 9 John Murray Hancock Robert Stamper Fairplay Route 1. Charles Fratianni aged 16 suffered a leg injury after a car strike in the East Washington street bus terminal alley. Peggy Driscall of Waynesboro was in the alley when the auto hit him. He was hospitalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yra Paul Stocksinger
Sharpsburg
Ernest Walter Spade
Hagerstown
Norman Nevin Hose
Williamsport
John Pat] Murray
Hancock
Robert Theodore Stamper
Fair- Play
East Washington Street
Charles Fratianni
Locust Street
John Rohrer
Peggy Driscall
Waynesboro
Washion
Believe Airplane Was Afire Before Fatal Smash-Up
A DC-3 transport attempting to land at Florence vanished into swamp in heavy sub tropical growth. A 12-year-old Hicks Harwell found the wreck and burned bodies, while Army and Navy search units scoured the area for hours. Capt. J Olin King piloted the flight from Miami to New York as the craft plowed 200 feet through trees before exploding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicks Harwell
W. L. Rankin
Harwell
Florence
Sumter
Laurinburg-Maxton
N. C
J. Olin King
Miami
Fla
New York
Bal
R. A. Kelley
Gertrude Graham
Unusual Battles Beset Congress in First Week
The week ended with Congress energized despite vacations. Rep Carl Wilson plans hearings to raise congressional pay from 10000 to 15000 and the President's salary from 75000 to 100000. The Senate opened with 56 of 96 members present, House with 150 of 482. President Truman urged continued war powers, a peace transition, and a quick, limited tax cut for 1946.
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Ity
Carl Wilson
Georgia
Army
Navy
Senate
House
Truman
Japs Free Wake Island Commander From Life Sentence
Commander Winfield Cunningham, captured with Wake Island 1941, freed by Allied forces after surviving two escapes from Japanese imprisonment. Born in Annapolis Md, he reached Washington after a China voyage, recounting a perilous POW journey via Shanghai and Woosung with multiple escape attempts and court martial sentences.
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Washington
Japan
Wake Island
Winfield Scott Cunningham
Wake
Woosung
Shanghai
Cunningham
Annapolis
China
Yokohama
John D. Wooley
C. B. Smith
Nathan D. Teters
Tonerd
Teters
Shanghai Municipal
Dane
Wooley
Smith
Marine Corps
Jovery
Deaths continue with obituaries for Mohler Netz Moser and more
The Teeter Funeral Home lists services for Lella Catherine Mohler widow of Edwin Mohler at Cedar Hill cemetery. Joseph Edward Moser died after a fall and services are at the A K Coffman funeral home and St Marks Lutheran Church with interment at Rose Hill. Harry E Netz of Boonsboro died of complications and funeral at East Funeral Home with interment in Boonsboro. Funeral details note ages, birthplaces, survivors, and church affiliations across multiple local burials.
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Teeter
G. E. Platt
Cedar Hill Cemetery
Lella Catherine Mohler
Edwin Mohler
North Mulberry Street
Rocky Ridge
Frederick County
John C
Mary (Newman) Whitmore
Helen M. Miller
Tom's River
N. J
Edwin E. Mohier
Hagerstown
Howard A. Mohler
Washington
H. J. Whitmore
Bedington
W. Va
G.S. Whitmore
Martinsburg
J. L. Whitmore
A. K. Coffman
F. Berry Plummer
Rest Haven Cemetery
Harry E. Netz
Boonsboro
John
Annie Catherine (Martin) Netz
Myrtle
Richard Routzahn
Richard
William
U. S. Navy
Carmie
East Funeral Home
Frank L. Stine
M. A. Ashby
Leroy Sigmund
Boonsboro Cemetery
Joseph Edward Moser
Washington Avenue
Washington County
Sabillasville
Joseph
Mary Jane (McClane) Moser
Western Maryland Railway Company
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Men's Bible Class
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
J. Edward Harms
G. I. Rider
Rose Hill Cemetery
New Disputes Raise Nation's Idle to 125000
The nation reports 125000 idle workers due to strikes across industries including Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Ford plants and coal, steel, and packing sectors. West Virginia gas lines and oil field walkouts affect thousands. Beavers Creek 4H Club plans fair exhibit and charter work.
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Kelsey-Hlayes Wheel Company
Ford
West
B. ¥. Goodrich Company
Akrot
Ohio
Consolidated Steel Corp
Beaumont
Tex
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Charleston
W. Va
Clarence M. Meadows
Huntington
West Virginia
United Fuel Gas Company
CIO
Oil Workers Union
The
War Labor Board
Beaver Creek
Gerald Mose
Dale Eaton
Donald Fpitsnogle
Robert Corbett
Thomas Detrow
Pioneer Firemen Host Scouts Demonstration At Hall
Local Boy Scouts visited the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company to tour the hall and equipment. They assisted with a life net exercise and watched firefighters simulate battling a Teal blaze as they demonstrated standard procedures. Adjidaumo, Ojibway name for the steel squirrel, means tail in the air.
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Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company
Realty transfers show multiple property sales in Hagerstown area
The list records transfers from various sellers to buyers including Paul R. Baker, Clarence M. Marks, William W. Smith, Cora M. Shafer and more. Properties span Elizabeth Street Spruce Street Woodland Way Mt Aetna road Antietam Sharpsburg West Washington Garlinger Jonathan North Lincoln Avenue and Mt Aetna area with prices from 2500 to 10000 dollars. Nine acres with improvements noted along Mt Aetna road.
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Elizabeth Street
Paul R. Baker
Harold €. Johnson
Spruce Street
Clarence M. Marks
Edward B. Britt
Woodland Way
William W. Smith
Fred R. Palmer
Mt. Aetna Road
Cora M. Shafer
Charles Edgar Hammond
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Hagerstown Independent Oil Co
Jacob M. Middlekauff
West
Washington
Karl W. Bunkley
C. Joseph Cumiskey
Garlinger
Jacob W. Kershner
Lillie May Ridenour
Jonathan and
North Streets
R. Perry Beckley
Chas.e. Cromer
Lincoln Avenue
John Hubert Detrow
Chas. H. Hoffman
Mt. Aetna
United States Lines Up Lend Lease Talk For Postwar Trade
U S officials plan early postwar trade pivots with Britain to revive peacetime industry and jobs in the United States while seeking British concessions to free commerce beyond the empire. Washington also expects Britain to accept substantial financial aid though London resists new loans citing heavy wartime debts. Separately, passenger railroad cars measure 60 to 88 feet in length, averaging about 72 feet.
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United States
Britain
United Kingdom
Allies Prepare War Crimes Trials for 400000 Nazis
Allies may try 400000 Nazis for crimes against the peace and war crimes. Evidence includes Warsaw Ghetto destruction, meticulously compiled official reports, and photographs from Hitler's photographer. Prosecution rests on planning and waging aggressive war in violation of treaties and the laws of war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Hitler
Major Hoffman Returns Home From Overseas Service
Major Lloyd A. Hoffman of the U S Army Medical Corps arrived in New York City on Labor Day after 15 months overseas with the 104th Division in England and the 167th in France. He and his wife Helen Hoover Hoffman of Waynesboro are visiting his parents Judge and Mrs Lloyd K Hoffman on Oak Hill avenue. After a 30 day leave he will report to Fort Meade for reassignment.
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Lloyd A. Hoffman
U. S. Army Medical Corps
New York City
104Th Division
General
England
167Th
France
Hoffman
Helen Hoover
Waynesboro
Lloyd K. Hoffman
Oak Hill Avenue
Fort Meade
Slight Rise in Washington County Hospital Births
Birth records at Washington County Hospital show a small rise from July with 98 total births in August. The August count compares to six infants in August 1944, marking a higher average. Among August births were triplets born to Mr and Mrs Harry McKay of Mercersburg.
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Washington County Hospital
Harry McKay
Mercersburg
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Montgomery
Congress
Comdr
Comdr. Cunningham
Hague
Sept
Sthevenigen
Anton Mussert
Nagi
Paul Bunyan
Hagerstown Gas CO
Bohman-Warne, Inc
Franklin St
Beaver Creek Boys
Pioneer Firemen
Scouts
Ctacular Revue
Hours OF
Seldon Crx
Voovil
Big Gay Midway
Ward Bean
Thrills
Ealore
U. S
Wetherill
America
R. D. McKee
City Hall N
Potomac
Katages
ASV
Gloria Jean Kirby Grant
Eme Fiore J
Edward Bromberg
Taratan Boys
San Antonio
Major Hoffman
Lyans Ayd
Wu Phyllis Thaxter
Sureethepry
Edmund Gwenn Daniels
McNally Mon Watson
Siren
Arch Oteter
Alter Ego
Arch Omoler
Jerry Bresler
Mary Rafferty
Steel King
AGM
Greer Garson
Tioner Barrymore
Preston Foster
Marsha Hunt
Sladys Cooper
Reginald Owen
Dan Duryer
Jessica Tardy
Barbara Everest
Marshall Thompson
Jobe Mecton
Sonya Levien
Mora Devernert
Tay Garnett
Edwin HL
Connecticut
Gregory Peck
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