Draft Boards Prepare For 3 Day Enrollment
Local draft boards issued clear instructions for the February 14 15 and 16 registration in city and county schools. Men born on or before December 31 1921 and those born on or after February 16 1897 must register while those who already registered in 1940 or 1941 are not to register again. Registrars must verify prior registration and registrants must go to designated school centers. offices operate on wartime hours but cannot accept in person at board offices. Five colored men were named for probable induction: Ralph Delauder Thomas Scott Henry Thomas Junious Armstrong and William Brown.
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Ralph William Delauder
West Fifth Street
Winfield Thomas Scott
Phobus Avenue
Henry Lee Thomas
Adamstown
Junious Armstrong
West All Saints Street
North Carolina
William Thomas Brown
Union Bridge
Prince George's County
Hill Gets Two To Six Years
George Hill, second secretary to Rep. Hamilton Fish, was sentenced in district court to two to six years in prison on each of two counts for perjury. He testified falsely before a District of Columbia grand jury probing Nazi propaganda, denying knowledge of George Sylvester Viereck and denying ordering mailbags of franked congressional material placed in Ren, Fish storeroom. the terms run concurrently.
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Washington
George Hill
Hamilton Fish
Hill
District of Columbia
George Sylvester Viereck
Ren, Fish
Public Hearing Set Feb 12 on Milk Price Increase
Washington February 6 The Agriculture Department will hold a public hearing February 12 on a proposed rise in producer prices for milk sold in the Washington area. Cooperatives representing most local dairy farmers seek a 46 cent per hundredweight increase for class one milk to 4.03 in DC and 3.57 in Maryland, with similar boosts for class two. They also want the marketing area expanded to parts of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties Maryland.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Washington, D. C
District of Columbia
Maryland
Montgomery
Prince Georges Counties
Artillery Destroys Japs Gun Foundations
Washington reports Japanese gun emplacements on the southeastern Manila Bay shore were destroyed by American artillery. Nine Japanese transports debarked troops in Lingayen Gulf to reinforce concentrations in Batan and Luzon. Batan front remained relatively quiet with reduced bombing and no damage to positions.
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Washington
Manila Bay
Corregidor
War Department
Lingayen Gulf
Batan Peninsula
Luzon
Batan
Philippine Theater
Indictment of National Wholesale Druggists Assn
A federal grand jury in Newark indicted the National Wholesale Druggists Association and 23 of its members plus 29 officers and agents on charges of conspiring to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. The case alleges fixing profit margins and wholesale drug prices, the first use of fair trade contracts beyond Miller Tariff amendments. The association controls about 80 percent of the nation’s wholesale drug business.
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Washington
Justice Department
Newark
N. J
National Wholesale Druggists Association
O Conor to Announce Reelection Plan in April
Gov. Herbert R. O Conor said he will not discuss reports of seeking a second term and emphasized war victory as the priority. He noted April as the month for a public announcement and said defense matters occupy his attention.
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Baltimore
The
Evening Sun
Herbert R. O Conor
Annapolis
O'Conor
U S Tanker India Arrow Torpedoed Off Atlantic
The Navy Department announced the tanker India Arrow owned by Second-Vacuum Oil Company of New York was torpedoed by an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast on February 6. The report notes the attack occurred as U S forces defend shipping lanes, with initial details about damage and crew none of which are specified in full.
Troops For Germans On East Front Report
Moscow reports German efforts to block a Russian offensive near the old frontier with air reinforcements widening German numerical superiority in spots. Soviet dispatches say the Red Army continues advancing, with heavy losses on both sides and Italian planes noted in combat for the first time.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Red Army
Berlin
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Italy
London
Fep
Vichy
Oday
Petropavlovaka
Dnieperopetrovsk
Moscow Radio
Kalinin
Kursk- Kharkov
Kalinin Front
Red
Kuibyshev
Valdai
Veningrad
Rush Holt Undergoes Draft Physical Test in Weston
Rush D. Holt of Weston and 71 local men underwent preliminary physical examinations for Army induction in Weston. Holt, seeking to wait his turn despite a severe cold, declined a physician’s offer to go first.
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Weston
W. Va
U.S
Rush D. Holt
Holt
Allied Forces In Western Pacific In Serious Situation
Washington reports that two months into the war allied forces face a very serious Western Pacific situation. Despite Japanese gains and losses, experts warn further reverses are possible unless massive reinforcements arrive, with Japan holding time and initiative.
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Western Pacific
Washington
Philippines
Singapore
Dutch Indies
Guardsman Shot At In Ambush Near Baltimore Reservoir
A rifle bullet fired from ambush narrowly missed a state guardsman on sentry duty at Monte Bello reservoir near Baltimore in fog. Brig. Gen. Dwight M. Mohr called it a deliberate assassination attempt in a series of acts against the Baltimore waterworks.
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Baltimore
Montebello Reservoir
Dwight M. Mohr
State Guard
Mohr
Pacific Council Is Functioning
President Roosevelt said a Pacific council has operated from here and London for a month with close cooperation. He noted it handles military, political, and governmental questions, with military matters sent to Army and Navy chiefs of staff and political issues to Washington and London. He added the Dutch government in exile is based in London and the British Dominions are represented here.
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America
England
Russia
Africa
Orient
Pearl Harbor
Batan
Manila Bay
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
Philippines
Sdiarabaya
Indies
Moulméin
Burma
China
Japan
Washington
Australia
Siberian
Borneo
China Sea
Western
Pacific
Macassar Trail
Marshall
Gilbert Islands
Roosevelt
Pacific Council
London
Army
Navy
Shipping losses rise in January report
London officials say Allied shipping losses, including United States vessels, increased in January above recent months' average. The update comes from official circles and cites ongoing wartime losses.
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London
United States
Iday
Successful Retirement To Singapore Fortress
Canberra Australia February 6 The great majority of Austral nan Imperial forces in Malaya retired to Singapore fortress when the peninsula was surrendered Army Minister Francis M Forde announced. New York February 6 stock market today showed lightened commitments with mild retreating tendencies and sluggish dealings near the fourth hour.
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Canberra
Australia
Malaya
Singapore
Francis M. Forde
New York
Two Million Foreign Workers Imported by Germany
Paris Midi, under German control, estimates 2,000,000 foreign workers in Germany as labor power drains from the war with Russia. The paper notes 130,000 are French and the total labor force continues to rise amid the immense wartime effort.
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Vichy
France
Parisewspaper
Paris-Midi
Germany
Russia
Five Field Meets To Be Held In May
Frederick county will host five May field meets to avoid crowding. Four elementary meets in Thurmont Walkersville Middletown Elm Street and a single high school meet in Frederick on May 19. Local principals coaches and supervisors organize with Eugene W. Pruitt leading the games committee.
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Frederick County
Helma Hann Bowers
Frederick High School
Thurmont
James Zimmerman
Walkersville
Harry O. Smith
Middletown
Sarah Leiter
Elm Street
Central Division
Frederick
William M Brish
Baltimore County
Thurmont High School
State Department of Education
Eugene W. Pruitt
Rationing Violations Flagged by U S Officials
Leo H. McCormick, acting regional director of the Office of Price Administration, reports early inspections in Pennsylvania Maryland and Delaware show apparent rationing freezing violations. Attorneys review discrepancies and will pursue immediate action for willful offenses. Irregular practices include sales without authorization, excessive inventories, and moving unreported stock to homes or safekeeping by dealers.
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Philadelphia
Leo H. McCormick
Office of Price Administration
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
McCormick
Deal Oss
Tokyo claims Dutch Indies fleet annihilated by planes
Tokyo asserts naval planes wrecked most of the Dutch Indies fleet in the Java Sea, claiming three Dutch cruisers sunk and U S Marblehead damaged, while Dutch and Allied sources caution on confirmations as fighting rages around Singapore and Rangoon.
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Java Sea
U. S
Tokyo
Netherlands
Far East Navy
Associated Press
Dutch Indies
N. E
Macassar Strait
Borneo
Java
Archibald P. Wavell
United Nations Command
Southwest Pacific
Pacific
Germany
Holland
Imperial
Comei
Itsl
Strait of Malacca
Singapore
Strait of
Johore
Dutch East Indies
Samarinda
Balik Papan
East Java
Dutch Sumatra
Amboina
Indies
Rangoon
Casualties Inflicted in Libya Transport Attacks
British Middle East command says Axis supply columns in the Jebel el Akdar region were attacked, a large number of vehicles burned and many enemy personnel casualties reported. Italians claim Axis troops occupied Tmimi, near Tobruk.
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Cairo
Egypt
Middle East
Libya
Jebel ¢li Akbar
Jebel ¢l Akdar
Tmimi
Tobruk
Jebel el Akdar
U S and RAF Pilots Halt Major Rangoon Raid
American volunteer and British fighters repelled a large Japanese daylight raid on Rangoon Burma. The communique reports ten Japanese planes shot down and possibly ten more destroyed with seven confirmed by Americans and five likely destroyed. No Allied losses were reported.
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Rangoon
Burma
Hostile Air Raids on U. S. Possible Defense funding vote
Washington February 6 The House Appropriations committee recommended a civilian defense program at 100 million dollars as the largest item in a 160.59 million dollar omnibus bill sent to the House floor. The committee warned that enemy air raids on the continental United States are likely though not to reach the scale of raids on England or the European continent.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
Continental
United States
England
Europe
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MacArthur Debark
O’conor
Atlantic Coast
the Navy
East Front
Rush Holt
Reservoir
Roosevelt States
U. 8S
Navy Department
Singapore Island
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