United Nations Air Campaign Sinks 18 Japanese Planes
American and Australian airmen claim decisive blows on Australia's outer defenses destroying at least 18 Japanese planes and damaging 20 in two days. Darwin Port Moresby and Timor raids, plus Lae air strikes, show heavy enemy losses as U S and Australian forces tighten pressure. Local reports describe a fierce sky battle near Darwin with bombers shot down and crews searched for survivors. Maj Gen Morris calls for lethal resolve, urging every Australian to kill two Japanese in defense of homeland. Birthday dinner for Ray Williams noted in Henryton community.
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Vern Haughland
United Nations
Australia
Darwin
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Lae
Draft Papers Again Mailed
Mailing of questionnaires to the first registrants in the February draft registration began today. About 200 questionnaires per board will be mailed this week at five cents a day for four days. Parsons Newman, chairman of Draft Board One, hopes mailing can be stepped up in two to three weeks. A new assistant clerk, Mrs. Philip Rosenbaum, starts today. Local attorneys will assist registrants in filling questionnaires, with daily duty by some attorneys. The petit jury room on the Court House second floor will be used. Registrants have ten days to return forms to the boards. Occupational inventory forms for over 3,000 new registrants are not yet received, so inventory plans cannot be set. These forms cover current employment, skills, and ability, in addition to regular classification questionnaires. A second item notes a Frederick City crew cutting fire trails on the municipal watershed to aid forest fire fighting. The Foxville land Hamburg fire towers opening was postponed due to heavy snow. Salamander tower opened Sunday, Lambs Knoll has been open for weeks.
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West Point
Darwin
Navy
Lae
New Guinea
Port Moresby
B. M. Morris
Parsons Newman
Draft Board One
Newman
Philip Rosenbaum
Petit Jury
Court House
Frederick City
Sheldon H . Burns Smill
Foxville Land
Hamburg
Lamb's Knoll
Australians Repel Japanese At Rabaul Beachhead
Melbourne reports the brutal fall of Rabaul on January 23 after a 20 000 strong Japanese landing with Australian forces of 1400 holding the garrison. About 150 Australians held off 15000 Japanese at Ralauna Beach suffering heavy casualties as 150 Australians secured a six foot high Japanese beach mass. Survivors recount a brutal March to Rabata through mud and malaria with scant rations, aided by natives before reaching Australian lines.
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Melbourne
Rebaul
New Britain
Rabaul
Ralauna Beach
Pastor Charles Owen Installed as Taneytown Presbyterians Leader
Rev Charles Owen arrives with wife Mrs Owen and son Neil to lead the Taneytown Piney Creek and Emmitsburg charge. Joyce remains in New York to finish school. Installation will occur Thursday at Piney Creek at eight o clock, overseen by Baltimore Presbytery committee and Geneva Presbytery visitor Rev Marshall Bartholomew. Reverend Owen succeeds Rev Morris who left almost a year ago for Baltimore.
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Charles 5. Owen
Taneytown
Piney Creek
Emmitsburg
Owen
Neil
Romulus
Joyce
New York
Mr. Owen
North Carolina
The
Theological Seminary
Baltimore
T. Guthrie Spears
A. Brown Caldwel
Marshall E. Bartholomew
Geneva Presbytery
M. Morris
Comforts For U S Men In Australia Aims At Morale
April 6 report from Maj Cowan to Gen MacArthur details steps to improve living conditions for American troops in Australia. Troops shelter outdoors, eat in partially enclosed mess halls, bathe in cool water, while maintaining morale and discipline despite harsher winter season down under. Also notes 81 year old blacksmith John M Haugh stricken by paralytic stroke, wife ill, and explains a blood enzyme reaction that causes foaming when hydrogen peroxide contacts a wound.
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Army
Australia
Lynn Cowan
Douglas MacArthur
Cowan
Heavy Land And Air Action On East Front
The article reports heavy land and air fighting on the East Front with Russia claiming 102 German planes down or destroyed on the ground since last Saturday and 40,000 German casualties on the central front between March 23 and April 4. Russia also says 161 localities were retaken and forces crossed a river to threaten German lines near Moscow. German raids on Leningrad were repelled by anti aircraft fire and Red fighters. The piece also notes the 1790 US census recorded a population of 4 million.
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Moscow
Red Army
Red Star
Leningrad
Red
Two Motorists Get Jail Terms For Drunken Driving
Two motorists received 60 day jail terms in default of $100 fines after hearings in which Charles Cramer admitted intoxication and Gerald Cole was found intoxicated. Cramer’s car ran a red light at East Fifth and Market streets causing damage. Cole ignored a siren on a three mile pursuit near Feagaville.
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Manuel M. Weinberg
Charles Scott Cramer
Malter Avenue
East Fifth Street
Atrucks
Market Street
Elmer A. Shade
Worthington, Mini
Shade
John Kilmer
Detroit
Mich
Weethington
Pennsylvania
Cramer
R. O
Charles Bell
Charles “Tobe” Fagan
Fagan
Sergt
Marion Carmack
Gerald J. Cole
Norfolk
Feagaville
W. K. May
Cole
Sergt. May
State Guardsman Dies After Armory Brawl in Baltimore
Harry O'Brien, 32, a former State Guard member, died at Maryland General Hospital from injuries after a fist fight with a companion outside the Fifth Regiment armory. Brig. Gen. Dwight H. Mohr said both men, discharged two weeks earlier, argued over unpaid pay, fought after midnight, and O'Brien was found beaten on the sidewalk.
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Baltimore
Harry O’brien
State Guard
Maryland General Hospital
Fifth Regiment
Dwight H. Mohr
O'Brien
Mohr
Liberia's crude rubber rises as core national industry
A brief dispatch notes that crude rubber has established itself as the central pillar of Liberia's economy, driving growth and employment as the country leverages its natural resources. The report highlights rubber’s prominence amid national development efforts.
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Liberia
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Herbert V. Evatt
Lord Halifax
Hume Wrong
Netherlands
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Lincoln Loan Service, Inc
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Optometrist
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Sunbeam
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