Form Of Milk Rationing Adopted To Meet Dearth
Freder ick dealers report dwindling supplies and a rationing system effective today as shortages spread from wholesale to retail. The public awaits an Office of Price Administration decision on price increases while shipper costs rise and productions falter due to cold weather. One dealer notes a 3 cent per gallon rise and cites added taxes and dual state licenses as burdens.
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Frederick
Office of Price Administration
Brunswick man fined for leaving scene of fatal accident
Harry L Hill of Brunswick was fined 200 after being found guilty of failing to stop and render assistance in a death involving 14 year old William Virts. Hill, claiming distress, left the scene but surrendered about 30 minutes later. The boy died three hours after the collision.
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Brunswick
Harry L Hill
Ninth Avenue
Alfred R Jones
Hill
William Virts
Anna Virts
Virts
Wirts
Schoauffer Hospital
Picecca
Occupational Questionnaires Mailed Across Registration Groups
The local draft board completed one fourth of the occupational questionnaire mailout in two days, sending about 4000 forms to men in the fourth and fifth registrations. Frederick High School students assisted under board supervision to speed the process. Questionnaires are due back in ten days. Board Two nears end of its mailing to the same registrants and has received several responses.
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Frederick High School
Board Two
Einesth Hegen
City Officials To Receive Ten Percent Pay Increases
The Board of Aldermen plans to adopt a 1943 budget tonight authorizing a general ten percent raise for most city officials and employees to offset higher living costs and taxes. The Mayor City Aldermen City Register and City Engineer will not receive increases. The budget totals about 387000 with a stable tax rate of 1.08 per 100. The plan includes war time reductions in other expenditures and no pre election reregistration.
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Board of Aldermen
City Register
Dressed to Kill Equiiprial of RAF gear listing
A read back list details RAF protective equipment ready for action including helmet oxygen mask and tube intercommunication lead parachute dog clips inflated life jacket parachute harness pieces fur collar lambs wool lined jacket and related hardware.
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RAF Dones
War Outlook Brightest In 3 Years Says Knox
Secretary of the Navy Knox told a manufacturers gathering that US naval strength is larger and more capable than before Pearl Harbor. He cited Japanese losses around 250,000 and US losses near 1 percent of personnel, praised production records, and warned of a tough Atlantic period ahead.
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Knox
America
United States Navy
Pearl Harbor
National Association of Manufacturers’ Convention
Navy
United States
Europe
Solomons
North Africa
South
Pacific
Britain
Africa
Secretary of Navy
Atlantic
Even Laval Is Now Balking At Demands
New York December 2 German demand to transfer Vichy government to Paris met opposition from Premier Laval and Marshal Petain. Reports say Berlin linked the plan to a Laval led committee of public safety to maintain order with Dorit and Deat as prominent figures.
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New York
Paris
Laval
Marshal Petain
Rewabie
Europe
Committee of Public Safety
Jacques Dorit
Marcel Deat
Figueca
Treason sentence for U. S. saboteur aiding Nazi group
New York City district court gives Anthony Cramer a 45 year term and $10,000 fine for treason by aiding two of eight Nazi saboteurs landed by submarine in June. Cramer, 42, a Yorkville mechanic, was convicted of treasonable acts connected to the group.
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New York
Anthony Cramer
Yorkville
United States
Middletown Leads USO Fund Drive With 470 Donation
A local drive for the USO shows $1,500 of a $15,000 goal raised with Middletown district contributing $470 as the first payment. James Earl Solt notes five teams have not reported and more contributions are expected, urging continued support at the Francis Scott Key hotel offices.
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USO
Middletown
James Earl Solt
USC Committee
Wolfe
Francis Scott Key
Cabinet Shift Plan Dropped By Roosevelt
Washington December reports say President Roosevelt reorganized the petroleum administration but kept Harold L. Ickes as Interior Secretary. Ickes was said to bow out of manpower plans, with officials noting a three way cabinet shift would be too complex and the oil industry favored keeping him in place.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Petroleum Administration
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Lieut Milburn Dies In Crash Near Waterford Va
Second Lieut John G Milburn 24 son of polo star Devereux Milburn was killed when the plane he piloted crashed near Waterford Virginia Officials at Pope Field Fort Bragg said four others parachuted to safety Milburn was married to Ruth Harris of Georgia and leaves his mother Mrs Mary Steele Milburn of Old Westbury Long Island The plane was based at Pope Field and Milburn's brother Devereux Milburn is a bomber in the Air Corps.
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Fayetteville
N. C
John G. Milburn
Devereux Milburn
Waterford
Pope Field
Fort Bragg
Francis A. Nance
Robert Northember
Stanley B. Nolander
Milburn
Mussolini Defends War Policy Before Fascist Chamber
Premier Mussolini sharply rebutted Churchill's warnings, claiming Italy will not be inferior to Britain or Russia and vowing stronger German aid. He cited planned June entry, mass evacuations, and Italy’s unity while denouncing Allied attacks and stressing a sacred, necessary war effort.
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Churchill
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Chamber of Corporations
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Genoa
England
France
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Hitler
Il Duce
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Duce
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the Duce
India
Ni Duce
Russia
Japan
North Africa
New Meat Ration Program Details Unveiled by OPA
The Office of Price Administration outlines the forthcoming point rationing system for meat set to begin after New Year. Citizens will use color coded coupons in a book replacing traditional money for certain purchases, with monthly point allocations guiding what can be bought and at what value.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
400 Kit Bags For Service Men Asked
Red Cross Production Corps asks 400 kit bags for service members with 200 due by December and 200 by January 31. Bags to be sent to Army and Marine Corps at embarkation ports, Navy declines. Contents include soap, cards, tobacco, pencils, envelopes, gum, laces, matches, blades, small book, and sewing kit. Bags measure 11 by 14 inches and weigh under 1.5 pounds. Stocks section follows.
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Red Cros
Red Cross
Francis Scott Key
Army
Marine Corps
Navy
Hed Cross
Francis B. Sayre
Philippine High Commissioner
Corregidor
Bataan
War Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
National Red Cross
Red Cross Rushes 300 Hot Water Bottle Bags and Stump Socks
Material arrived Tuesday night at Red Cross headquarters for 300 hot water bottle bags to meet a special hospital quota by month end. Wool for stump socks is still not arrived, though they are knit in one evening. The local Production Corps must also finish 25 patient masks and 12 cotton hospital pajamas plus 50 bed pan covers before shipment.
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Red Cross
Blood Donor Quota Filled in Frederick County War Effort
The Red Cross Blood Donor committee filled its quota with 280 volunteers to spare. The Blood Service mobile unit will set up at Calvary Methodist parish hall at 11 o clock Thursday. Ten Kiwanis members volunteered after a club appeal led by Charles K Taylor. Mrs Holmes D Baker said the response was gratifying and names of late applicants remain on file for future rounds.
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Red Cross Blood Donor Committee
Frederick County
Blood Service
The
Red Cross
Calvary , Methodist Church
Charles K. Taylor
Miwants Club
Holmes D. Baker
Allied drive tightens hold on Tunis Bizerte
Allied and American troops report heavy losses inflicted on a major German counter attack north of Tebourba as Bizerte and Tunis defenses tighten. RAF and US fighters claim eight German planes down, while air raids pound Bizerte and Tripoli as forces push to sever land links between the two Axis strongholds.
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North Africa
Bizerte
Tebourba
Tunis
Tunisia
United States
Es Qouina
London
Kenneth A. N. Anderson
Creek
Morocco
Gabes
Sfax
Rosa
Tripoli
Brittain
Small Enemy Installations Are Wiped Out
Washington reports Allied forces on Guadalcanal strike at small enemy positions. American troops and Marines seized three light guns and six machine guns, and killed 51 Japanese. An Army patrol wiped out 21 foes and captured a 70 millimeter gun, while Marines killed 25 and seized two guns on the upper Le river. Marines also wiped out six machine gun nests and killed 15 Japanese as Army planes attacked enemy positions.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Navy
Marine Corps
Effort To Pigeon-Hole Bill Blocked In House
A House Ways and Means committee blocked an effort to pigeonhole the bill today. The move halted a proposal tied to wartime powers and draft regulations, ending the immediate push in the chamber.
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