Willkie urges MacArthur in supreme command over war
Boston Feb 12 Wendel Willkie argued there is lack of mutual confidence and central direction among fighting forces and called for General Douglas MacArthur to be brought home from the Philippines and placed in supreme command under the President The speech attacked Administration policy and urged reforms in war organization and state department authority with Hull and Knox contrasted.
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Wendel Willkie
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
N Supreme Command
Willkie
Middlesex Republican Club
United States
Lincoln
Hull
Bevin
Republican Party
State Department
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Cordell Hull
Navy
Knox
Hitler
Far East
Japan
Wallace
Program Of Physical Fitness Is Outlined
Westminster Maryland announces a new fitness program at Western Maryland College. About 40 men and women registered for body building courses using the college gym and facilities. Women played badminton volleyball basketball shuffleboard and ping pong while men played basketball volleyball handball tumbling and wrestling. Both sexes predicted they would be stiff and sore for days.
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Westminster
Western Maryland College
Red Cross Blood Unit to Visit Frederick February 17–18
The American Red Cross mobile blood donor unit arrives in Frederick on February 17 and 18 with space for 205 donors over two days. Local committee chair Mrs Holmes D Baker notes 484 registrations from nine industries, with plans to reopen registration to the public later. Dr Ward Briggs of the Navy will lead the unit, aided by the Motor Corps and Mrs Ames Hendrickson’s committee.
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American Red Cross Blood Donor Service
Frederick
Army
Navy
American National Red Cross Blood Donor Service
Holmes D Baker
Red Cross
Motor Corps
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Pacific
U.S
Frederick Industries
Dietrich and Gambrill
The
Potomac Edison Co
Sears, Roebuck and Co
the Everedy Co
Frederick Iron and Steel Co
Union Manufacturing Co
Frederick Tailoring Co
Ox Fibre Brush Co
Price Brothers
Three Resignations From Liberal National Party
London feb 12 three resignations from the Liberal National Party were announced by Leslie Hore Belisha former War Secretary and two others after a caucus censured two members for not voting on the motion of confidence in Prime Minister Churchill's Government January 29 Edgar Granville and Sir Henry Morris Jones abstained Hore Belisha becomes independent but will back the government the party formed in 1931 to support the government
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London
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Liberal National Party
Churchill
Edgar Granville
Henry Morris-Jones
House of Commons
Hore-Belisha
Liberal
Mail From Two Local Missionaries Lost At Sea
Letters from Rev. and Mrs Paul H Gleichman, evangelical Lutheran missionaries to Vegeswarapuram India, describe village cycling amid petrol rationing and a severe winter. They report volunteers aiding medical work for Christians and Hindus, with children suffering sore eyes and itchy skin from poor conditions and limited soap.
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Frederick
Paul H. Gleichman
Evangelical Lutheran Church
India
Gleichman
Vegeswarapuram
West Godavari
Rajahmundry
America
Paul
Christmas in India and local life notes from the Gleichmans
The Gleichmans describe hospital observations in India with a dying child and Hindu prayers, discuss typhoid fever and smallpox, and recount home life including a snake killed, gardens, an Electrolux ice machine, and Christmas plans for a Rajahmundry mission party. They note war delays for furlough in 1945 and that about 1000 people work for the American Red Cross.
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Edward Gleichman
Erdie
India
Rajahmundry
Eddie
Milk Hearings Open Over Proposed Dairy Price Increase
Five independent Frederick County milk shippers attended a Washington hearing on a proposal to raise prices for Class 1 milk and cream. Bruce B. Derrick of the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association urged higher returns amid rising farm costs and labor shortages, with a Monday recess granted for further study by the District of Columbia Consumers Interest Committee.
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Frederick County
Washington
Bruce B. Derrick
Maryland and Virginia
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