No Legal Holiday In Prospect Saturday
Governor O Conor remains silent on Maryland Saturday holiday. Banks state offices plan normal business. some dry goods stores and private enterprises will close. Bus terminals expect heavy Friday to Sunday traffic. service members given preference. New Year observances muted by air raid safety rules. bells and sirens discouraged. Weather hints a dry year. rainfall 48.5 inches in 1942. chain stores reopen Saturday after New Year holiday.
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O'Conor
Maryland
OCD
Texan Scores Pipeline Plan
Texan Mansfield argues intracoastal waterways offer a faster, cheaper alternative to the Texas Illinois pipeline. He criticizes admin delay in approving operation of the waterways system amid fuel shortages.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Mansfield
de Texan
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
WPB
Donald Nelson
Florida
Atlantic Seaboard
Roy Miller
Intracoastal Canal Association
Argentina's Axis Policy Is Deplored
London reports the British government officially deplores Argentina's policy of maintaining diplomatic relations with the Axis. This stance comes amid ongoing tensions as Allied nations seek alignment with Buenos Aires and condemn ties with Germany and Italy.
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Argentina
London
No Paper Friday New Year's Day Notice
The News will not be published Friday New Year’s Day. The editorial office will open at four o clock Friday afternoon and the business office will be open in the evening between 7 and 8.
Craved Trains Steal Hits 172 Dollar Loss Case
A 26 year old truck driver described as a model husband told the court a lifelong craving for electric trains led him to steal $172 worth of Craved Tov Trains from a department store over several months. His wife testified that his youth lacked means to buy trains and that the couple once spent their last $25 on a set. Judge Thomas Marshall warned that a future arrest would bring six months.
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Pittsburgh
I ‘Court
Steve Poset
Poset
Thomas Marshall
Fo Warred
Manpower Control Plans Expand Across United States
The War Manpower Commission reports within three months manpower control plans will be in effect in major industrial communities nationwide. It describes 270 areas with labor shortages or adequacy, plus two plan types: area based labor stabilization agreements and industry wide nationwide orders. Both rely on voluntary cooperation to hold essential workers and safeguard war production.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
United ‘States
Paul V. McNutt
Louisville
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Muskegon
Mich
St. Paul- Minneapolis
Des Moines
Mobile
Ala
Newark
N. J
Bufffalo
Nyack
Poughkeepsie
California
San Francisco Bay
WMC
Thirteen Indicted In Eastern Shore Liquor Tax Fraud Case
A federal grand jury in Baltimore indicted thirteen Eastern Shore residents on a five year conspiracy to defraud the government of liquor taxes totaling more than $60,000. The probe covered 1937 to last June and described a large distilling operation with over 30 stills. Constable J Walter Banks of Fruiland faces allegations of telephoning conspiracy leaders, hosting meetings, and selling a seized pump to another defendant. The indictment lists sixty three overt acts and was unsealed as defendants were jailed under bench warrants.
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Baltimore
Wicomico County
W. Calvin Chesnut
Sev En
J. Walter Banks
Fruiland
Alteged
Taft calls for probe of cost of war agencies
Senator Taft urged a thorough investigation of war department spending in response to President Roosevelt’s call for budget economies. He suggested major reductions at the War Production Board and the War Administrative offices, arguing Congress must ensure efficiency in both war and non war expenditures.
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Washington
Taft Robroy
War Production Board
Taft
re“Hortere
Mnary
McNary
Oregon
Congress
Thomas
D-Okla
Appropriations Committee
Ifke
Roosevelt
Doeg
Tydings
Jap Hold At Buna Ending
The Buna sector on the Papuan front nears ending as Japanese forces are contained in three minor sectors. Allied reinforcements have widened a beachhead and pressed back the enemy toward the sea. Some Japanese attempted to swim toward Giropa Point but were targeted by Allied rifle fire.
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New Guinea
Buna
Buna Government
Giropa Point
Buna Government Station
Third U S Force Lands at Dakar During World War II
A morning dispatch from Dakar French West Africa reports a third U S force has landed as Allied troops push to liberate France. The commander says American forces west Africa share a single aim to defeat Germany for lasting peace. Separately Annapolis reports Gov O Conor asked to extradite Richard Williams once held in Johnstown PA for assault with intent to murder.
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West Africa
France
Annapolis
Arthur James
Pennsylvania
O Conor
Richard Wuilliams
Hagerstown
Johnstown
O'Conor
Charles P. Wagaman
Washington County
Williams
Asessault
Atfa- Seratown
Income Tax Blanks Are Present on New Year Eve
Washington reports new U S income tax forms issued for 1942. Form 1040 asks about debts and income details, form 140A is shorter for simple salaries and investments, and form 040 is optional for gross income under 3,000 from salary and investments.
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U.S
Washington
Tax Form Shakedown and Quick Guide Draws Critics
Fragmented text describes a shakedown system in tax form instructions. It criticizes reliance on old forms and highlights a table classifying taxpayers by gross income with a $385 dependent allowance, while noting some may discard instructions or seek legal help.
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Met Cues UK
Dutchman Executed as Enemy Spy in Britain
London reports Johannes Marinus Dronkers, a Dutch national linked to the Dutch Nazi party, executed today as a German spy. He admitted being sent to London to locate American and Canadian troop camps in England and to gauge Allied strength. He claimed training in invisible ink and coded communications.
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London
Johannes Marinus Dronkers
England
English
Dronkers
The
Hague
Channel
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Britain
Stocks Hold Gains As 1942 Nears End
New York on December 31 1942 stock market held a portion of Wednesdays gains as the year closes with several industrials and tobaccos at new highs while some lists show slight pullbacks from profit taking and tax loss offerings. Colloidal graphite used for lubrication and tool protection endures heat where oil cannot.
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New York
U S Fighters Attack Jap Installations in Solomons
American air forces struck Japanese ground installations and barges northwest of Guadalcanal in the Solomons. Catalina patrol bombers Airacobra and Wildcat fighters and Dauntless dive bombers participated in actions at Munda New Georgia Rekata Bay Santa Isabel and Vanua Levu in the Solomon chain.
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Washington
Can
Guadalcanal Island
Solomons
Navy
Munda
New Georgia Island
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
Henderson Airfield
Guadalcanal
Catalina
Dauntless
South Pacific
Consolidated Pby
Train Lincoln Rede Making Last Trip Gettysburg Narrative
Train Lincoln Rede makes its final journey from Baltimore to Gettysburg as passenger service on the Western Maryland line ends due to reduced revenue. The event recalls Lincoln in 1863 delivering the historic battlefield address with a crowd aboard.
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Gettysburg
Lincomn
Baltimore
Maryland
Africa corps stand uncertain as battles shift near Tripoli
London dispatch notes patrol contact with retreating Axis less than 180 miles from Tripoli. German armor sees action south of Pont du Falls Mank as French forces withdraw under pressure but establish engines in rugged terrain. Fighting French announce advances toward Lake Chad, while Cairo reports only patrol activity west of Wadi Ber El Chebir.
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London
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Tomes
Pont-Du-Falls Mank
Reuters
Yunis
le Clerc
Lake Chad
Fegan
Libya
Cairo
Wadi Ber el Chebir
Three Held In Theft Of Ration Books Hagerstown Md
Three 19 year olds were charged with stealing thousands of ration books from the Hagerstown ration board office over the weekend. James Junior Hines admitted the robbery and implicated John Mitchell and Joseph Clingerman. Hines held in Washington County jail. Mitchell and Clingerman in Allegany County jail. The theft occurred about 2 30 Saturday, with six or seven boxes taken and some buried at Hines home. Forty two books found at Hines home. many books still unrecovered. Arrests by State Police followed.
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Hagerstown
Dee
Aeenet Toetae
Hagerstown Ration Board
Washington County
Wayne A. Sellman
James Junior Hines
John Mitchell
Joseph Clingerman
Green Ridge
Hines
Mitchell
Clingerman
Cumberland
Allegany County
Sellman
Fox
Seilman
Thourand
Cnd
John H. Doud
J. J. Coady
H. L. Bashore
Seliman
Plan to Cut Newsprint Use Announced by WPB
Washington December 31 The War Production Board ordered newspapers to cut print paper use to the 1941 tonnage to reduce nationwide newsprint consumption by about 100 percent. W G Chandler head of the WPB Printing and Publishing division said publishers should expect a second and possibly a third reduction this year.
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Washington
Dee
War Production Board
Hever
Sunpoon
W. G. Chandler
WPB
Thousands homeless as major flood peaks in Ohio valley
Pittsburgh reports the worst flood since 1936 with 36.6 feet at the Ohio Monongahela Allegheny confluence, 11.7 feet above flood stage. Red Cross cared for 7,500 destitute in Allegheny county as cities from Wellsburg to Huntington brace for higher crests.
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Pittsburgh
St. Patrick's Day
Ohio
Monongahela
Allegheny
Red Cross
Steel City
Golden Triangle
Penn Avenue
Joseph Horne
W. S. Brotzman
U. S
Sharpsburg
Etna
McKees Rocks
Ohio River
West
Ohio Valley
Wheeling
New Marlinsville
Wellsburg
Wheeling Island
New Martinsville
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Huntington
Retail Bread Price Increase Is Urged
Washington dispatch reports spokes men for bakers urging a rise in retail bread and bakery product prices after a government order allows a 10 percent mill price increase for flour. Jack Koenig Jr of the Associated Retail Bakers of America said he asked Food Administrator Wickard to permit lifting price ceilings to prevent further casualties among retail bakers.
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Washington
United States
Jack Koenig, Jr
Associated Retail Bakers of America
Chicago
Wickard
Red Army advances seize 13 more towns near Stalingrad
Soviet communiques report the Red Army pushing south through captured Kotelpikovakt widening a wedge toward the Black Sea and Malmyck steppe. More than 700 enemy officers and men taken prisoner with guns trucks and horses. Northern Caucasus action near Tuapse highlighted with heavy German losses.
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Moscow
Dev
Kotelpikovakt
Black Sea
Malmyck Steppe
Stalingrad
Caucasia
Kalmyck
Elista
Caucasus
Io Pravda
Communist Party
Tuapse
Red Army
Don
Mahy
Hzhov
Rihev
Croan
Serek
Nakchik
Tere
Battic
Seven Are Injured In 3-Alarm Fire
A three alarm blaze at a rooming house on Euclid Street NW left seven injured with one person in critical condition after a fall from a third floor. John Bruce 19 suffered a fractured skull. James Warren 39 and Miss Eula Casternova 20 were also badly hurt. Fire Chief Frank Biondi supervised firefighters who moved to control the flames.
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Washington
John Bruce
James Warren
Eula Casternova
Garfield Hospital
Frank Biondi
Euclid Street
N. W
P. M. Zazaniz
T. L. Re ‘Vand
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Tov
Chittagong
India
Karniphuli River
Bay of Bengal
Opa
Dakar
French West Africa
Moroccco Radio
Lincoln Rede
Darlan
Algiers
Jean Francois Darlan
Africa Corps
Rommel
Roimmel
Beurst el Hsun
Wadi Bei £ Chebir
Tunisia
Gabes
Rome
National Parks
W. Va
Mosen
Lee
Elisis
Asaults
Berlin
Velikie Luki
Burma
Porte Grande
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