Allies plan military government for Germany and satellites
Russia, the United States, and Great Britain reach a mutual framework for governing postwar Germany and its satellites. An Allied Military Government with teeth would place supreme authority with Gen Dwight Eisenhower in western zones while the Red Army governs eastern areas. The plan envisions German civilian life overseen by military leadership until normal diplomacy resumes, with training underway in Britain for new public life officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
London
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Dwight BD. Biscuower
Red Army
Europe
Iaval
Berlin
Moscow
Badogno
European Advisory Commission
Britain
Eisenhower
Allied Supreme Staff
Holland
Norway
France
Jessens
Italy
Second Store Survey Ended in Frederick County
The War Price and Rationing Board announced results of the second emergency food store survey in Frederick County. One hundred ten of 181 stores were fully compliant with price ceiling rules while seventy one violated regulations, with most issues involving price posting or tagging. Violators face summons, possible license revocation, or referral to the Legal Enforcement Division if noncompliance persists. Consumers are aided by posted dollar and cent price lists for food items, soap, and meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Office of Price Administration
Frederick
Want To Again Take Up Distilling Of Liquor
Washington April 14 industry representatives urged the War Production Board to permit a limited resumption of beverage alcohol production. A committee member suggested a three day per month diversion could yield about 59 million proof gallons annually to ease a beverage drought. Officials had previously rejected partial whiskey production. March industrial alcohol output set a new record at 41.5 million gallons of 191 proof, with 1.8 million gallons imported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Alcohol Industry Advisory Committee
WPH
War Interpreted By Kirke L Simpson
The analysis notes intensified Allied air attacks on New Guinea and the Kuriles, signaling shifts toward the Philippines as MacArthur advances along the New Guinea coast. It discusses bombing goals, possible island bases, and the strategic move away from island hopping toward decisive ground offensives. The piece mentions troop strengths and rapid regrouping for future operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Kuriles
Philippines
New Guinea
Bismarck Archipelago
MacArthur
Big Island
Mindanao
Pacific Islands
Pacific
Nuge
Hall
Ctralian
Truich Island
Bismarck
Admiral Halsey
Bismarck Sea
Nimitz
Fleet
Baie
Mack
Hawaii
Wac
Corregidor
Re. Moe
Seokou
Aten Mey
Guinea
Japan
Set Ceiling Prices Announced By Local Board Officials
Officials declared ceilings on prices and urged consumers to report any charges above the limits to the Price Panel of the Local Board immediately. The move aims to curb overcharging and enforce regulatory caps.
John L Lewis Again Demands $18 Million Back Pay
Washington April 14 John L Lewis president of the United Mine Workers demanded immediate payment of 18 million dollars retroactive back pay to soft coal miners. He charged a conspiracy by Southern coal operators and the War Labor Board to delay compensation while urging Secretary Ickes to force liquidation of the obligation. The union said restive miners in Alabama prompted circulars urging them to stay at work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lew
Alabama
Lewis
United States
Secretary of Interior
National War Labor Board
Bituminous Co
War Labor Board
Reconversion Group Named by Washington War Board
Chair man Donald M Nelson of the War Production Board unveiled a post-war reconversion plan naming a civilian cross-section committee to review industry proposals for returning to consumer goods production. NAM president Robert M Gaylord declined invitation, citing ineffectiveness of such committees, while the permanent group will include labor management public opinion agriculture consumers banking and distribution, with machine obtainers for each sector to report findings to WPB.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Donald M Nelson
War Production Board Today
Robert M. Gaylord
National Association of Manufacturers
Gaylord
Nelson
Sagar
Orie Cosumer
Francis Scott Key Post American Legion Meeting Reports 200000 Cigarettes Sent
The Francis Scott Key Post 11 American Legion held its monthly meeting with Commander Lawrence C Willard presiding. Reports highlighted funds to purchase 200000 cigarettes for armed forces, USO collaboration, 269 members including four new inductees, a successful booster drive, and plans for Memorial Day services at Mount Olivet cemetery on May 30. Eleven WW2 veterans joined in an initiation ceremony following a moving Armistice Day parade and Memorial Day film shown at Camp Detrick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Scott Key Post
No 11
American Legion
Legon
Lawrence C Willard
Lews E. Eichelberger
Glenn R. Rippeon
Charles F. Handley
Frank A. Winebrenner
Charles E. Fogle
Mount Olivet
William H. Mohan
Wilbur W. Baker
Louis E. Eichelberger
Walter S. Forney
Clifford M. Yinger
Frederick
Camp Detrick
Capper Named Chief Judge of Fourth Judicial Circuit
Walter Capper of Cumberland named Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit by Governor O Conor. Capper, a Republican, becomes a member of the State's Court of Appeals. Born 1885, he is a former Maryland State Bar Association president and Western Maryland Railroad general counsel.
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Annapolis
Walter Capper
Cumberland
Fourth Judicial Circuit
O'Conor
Capper
Court of Appeals
Maryland State Bar Association
Western Maryland Raiload
State Bar Committee
D Linaley Sloan
Baltimore Law School
State Bar Association
Allegany County
Western Maryland Railroad
American Bar Association
Amercan
Ritchie
Capp
Edgar J) Dawarn
O Cones
Aer
Cnost
Walter C. Capper
State
Joseph S
Hagerstown
Giraud Placed On List of Retired Officers
Algiers April 14 The French National Committee of Liberation named General Henri Giraud as retired commander in chief after his refusal to accept the Inspector Generalship. Giraud plans to leave North Africa for England to write his memoirs, as aides say his status is now settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gos Angeles
Helmut Dantine
America
Hollywood
Dantine
Hitler
Austria
Giraud
Algiers
French National Committee of Liberation
Ungatledais Vueter
Henri Giraud
Charles DeGaulle
North Africa
England
Giraudists
Fined $60 For Brick Battle In Court Session
John Joy proprietor of a West South street restaurant was found the main instigator of a Saint Patrick’s Day brick battle. Magistrate Edward J Smith fined Joy 60 dollars plus costs and suspended six months in the House of Correction for two years of good behavior. Co-defendants Joseph Castle and others faced smaller fines plus costs. Seidling was found not guilty of disturbance and assault charges, while sufferer Seidling received a skull fracture from a brick. The hearing included testimony from ten witnesses and officers, with a lengthy session by the police court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Joy
West South Street
Edward J Smith
Joy
Car Castle
William Seidling
House of Correction
William M. Storm
Holden S. Felton
Seidling
Castle
Frederick
Felton
Sergt
Frank Dorsey
Denver Shook
Harry Phillips
Paul Etzler
Calvin Geishert
Harry Cramer
Jane Perkins
Glen Baker
Wilbur Ford
Worthington
Etzler
Perkins
Joseph H Roosensteel
Emmitsburg
Charles Smith
Baltimore
Sosso
Middletown
George Angleberger
S F Senta
Bord Doods
Fred G
Oscar Shalt
David S
Tu Aester
Trouper
HL L. Basore
Albert E. Kolb
Chevy Chase
George Esteves
Denisville
P M . Pattison
New Caste
Pattison
Death of Red Army General Vatutin After Surgery
London reports Gen Nikolai Vatutin a top Red Army commander dies in Kiev after an operation. He led key winter counterstrokes including Vyazma Stalingrad and the Kiev liberation driving German forces from Ukraine. A monument to him will be erected in Kiev. he was noted for rapid rise and defense of the Dnieper bridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Nikolai F. Lightning
Vatutin
Ukraine
Kiev
Moscow
First Ukraine Front
Rie
Russia
Vyazma
Stalingrad
Gregory K. Zhukov
Council of People’s Commissars For Defense of the
Kharkov
Belgorod
Zhitomir
Voroshilovgrad
Rovno
Poland
Dneiper River
Fire at Grand Central Airport destroys three buildings
Giennaie Cal April 14 A fire at Grand Central Airport caused an estimated half a million dollars in damage. Three buildings were destroyed, seven airplanes burned, and five workers injured. The blaze began from an explosion in the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute paint department, destroying the hangar, personnel office, and the commissary. Damage estimate by Curtiss-Wright Executive Frank Howe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giennaie
Cal
Grand Central Airport
Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute
Frank Howe
Curtiss-Wright
Fairchild builds 5000th trainer plane at Hagerstown
The Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation announced it produced its 5,000th primary trainer, model PT-19, begun five and a half months ago. Except for 154 units, all trainers were shipped to the Army Air Forces and nine nations under lend-lease. The PT-19 contract was recently terminated and will stop production later this month as the factory shifts to other aircraft contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation
Army Air Forces
United Navas
City Forfeitures And Arrests For Disturbing The Peace
A report lists multiple arrests for peace disturbances. Dorothy Nayior posted bond of $10, Alice White owe $2500, Raymond Ford $5, and a quartet including George B Darrah John R Darrah Rufus G Flory and Charles W Sewertzer each $5. Officers Kanode Trump Phe bus Ben Phe and Harry Phillips led the actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Nayior
Martin Kanode
Alice White
Norman Trump
Raymond Ford
Ben Phebus
Our of
George B. Darrah
John R Darrah
Rufus G Flory
Charles W Sewertzer
Harry Phillips
Army And Navy Told To Take Over 2 War Plants
President Roosevelt ordered the Navy to seize the Bridgeport Connecticut plant Jenkins Bros Inc and the Army to seize the Owensboro Kentucky Ken-Rad Tube Lamp Corp to prevent work disruption. The two plants refused wage boosts mandated by the War Labor Board affecting about 5,000 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Army
Jenkins Bros., Inc
Bridgeport
Kentucky
WLB
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union
CIO
Ken-Rad Company
United Automobile Workers
AFL
Leaves From Notebook Of A Fifth Army Correspondent
George Tucker describes salvage operations in Italy where unserviceable gear is repaired for POWs and refugees. Pvt Woodrow Wilson Smith cleans canteens in seconds using lye and acid, deeming items fit. Sgt Louis Van Hollen runs the post exchange by day and classifies gear by night, with care over barracks bags. A road sign campaign to boost salvage faced uproar until an order curbed the antics. A Boston Post Road courier service marked the start of overland mail in the U S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Tucker
Hal Boyle
Fifth
Maly
Italy
Woodrow Wilson Smith
Tth St
Mishawaka
Ind
Smith
Honest van Trading Post
Camp Post Exchange
Honest van
Louis van Hollen
Edmondson Avenue
Baltimore
Van
Post Exchange
Bogadjim Taken By Australian Allied Force In New Guinea
Allied troops seized Bogadjim from Japanese control as Australian and American forces advance along the Huon peninsula and toward Madang. The capture followed joint movements from Lae and Saidor, with Madang once serving as a key supply base. Additional air strikes hit Truk atoll and Rabaul, while U.S. industrial output neared 10.5 billion dollars in annual wartime production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
Bogadjim
Maidang
Bogadjjim
Bone
Douglas MacArthur
New Guined
Ramu
Saidor
Madang
Huon
Huon Peninsula
Truk Atoll
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Seventh Army Air Force
Truk
Chester W. Nimitz
Caroline Island
Dublon
Moen
Fefan
Param
Uman
Staj
Willis H. Hale
Seventh Air Force
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Truk Island
Ponape Atoll
Marshall Island
Eniwetok
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U.S
Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
Power
Corpus Christi
Tex
Tyrone
John Lewis
WPB Advisory Committee
Nis
Gaviord
Induatra
NAM
Hes
Key Post
Igen
Nikolai F. Vatutin
H.P. Bendix
Boston Post Road
Bernie's Arena
Allen
Market ST
South Market
C.E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
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