Marine Flyers Wreck Enem y Marine aces surpass old record
Washington February 14. The Marines announced more than 60 Marine flyers have shot down five or more enemy planes each to earn ace status. Corsair fighters have given the corps a qualitative edge over the Japanese Zero, changing air battles in the Pacific. Leading aces include Major Joe Foss with 26 victories, Major Gregory Boyington with 25, Lt. Robert Hamson with 25, and Capt. Kenneth Wash with 20.
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Washington
Joe Foss
Solomons
United States
Pacific
Gregory LI Boyington
Okanogan
Wash
Foss
Robert M. Hamson
Newtonville
Mass
Beau Jack And Berger In Cleveland Tonight
Beau Jack meets Maxie Berger in a 10 round non title bout at Public Hall Cleveland. Berger rides a 16 fight win streak and carries a 10 pound weight edge in his first Cleveland main event. Gate expected over 40000 dollars and a near sellout crowd, with comments from Ray Arcel and promoter Larry Atkins.
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Cleveland
Beau
Jack
Georgia
New York
Montreal
Maxie Berger
Berger
Larry Atkins
Ray Arcel
Beau Jack
Arcel
Swiss Dinner Features Synthetic Foods Delight
An all synthetic dinner in Switzerland pleased guests with hors d oeuvres of chemically treated cellulose flavored by coal tar by products and a meat course made from wood pulp garnished with synthetic gravy.
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Switzerland
Roosevelt urged to state peace terms now
Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, called on President Roosevelt to declare terms of peace. He warned against a shift from Hitler to Stalin and urged broadcasting peace aims before the Western invasion of Europe. Libby, 69, a Maine-born Quaker, urged clear aims to reassure American servicemen and the public.
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Washington
Frederick J. Libby
National Council For Prevention of War
Roosevelt
Europe
Hitler
Stalin
France
Council For Prevention of War
Western
Libby
Casablanca
Teheran
Statin
Churchill
Senators pick catcher Early for Army call up
Washington owner Clark Griffith announced Jake Early the Senators regular catcher has passed pre induction physicals and is expected to enter the Army in a few days. Early, 28, married with two young children, hails from Kings Mountain North Carolina.
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Washington
Clark Griffith
Washington Senators
Jake Early
Early
Kings Mountain
N. C
Coal sidelined coal ships delay shoreline cargo
Norfolk reports 500 to 600 carloads of coal moved to sidings at Roanoke last week due to storms that halted colliers from reaching piers. Movement resumed as congestion eased while coal would otherwise have been dumped into ship holds at Norfolk. In Maryland, War Food Production rises via share-the-farm machinery plan with purchase certificates to farmers showing greater production potential and examples of a farmer visiting 47 farms to bale 630 tons of hay.
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Norfolk
Carl Bucholtz
Virginian Railway
Roanoke
Bucholtz
College Park
Joseph H. Blandford
Maryland Agricultural Adjustment Agency
State Agricultural War Board
Blandford
Tomatoes in February from a Victory Garden harvest
Mrs Ernest Fogle of Walkersville preserves sun ripened tomatoes from last summer’s Victory Garden. The Fogle family enjoyed the last few preserved fruits up to Valentine’s Day in a simple home method.
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Ernest Fogle
Walkersville
Victory Garden
Fogle
Fogle Diet Relies on Home-Grown Tomatoes for Supper
A family in a rural home relied on garden crops, raised by a mother and her two daughters, for supper last night. They have followed a home-grown tomato diet since Christmas, with Mrs. Fogle noting she uprooted several tomato plants as fruit ripened on the stems.
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Fogle
Tomato harvest notes and giant puffball observations
A report describes tomatoes kept in a cool dark place until ready for meals. Individual tomatoes were picked from stalks and a giant puffball noted as Calvatia gigantea can grow large and sun ripened. Mrs Fogle weighed 20 pounds and described the last tomato as firm tasty and good colored.
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Johnson’s Red Cross
John Walker
Pal
Storm & Shipley
Busx
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Frederick
Maryland
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Coca-Cola Company
Frederick Coca-Cola Bottling Company
CUAS
RE. Taylor
Seiberling Tires
Frederick, Md
Lincoln Loan Service, Inc
West Patrick At Hone
Thomas A Morris
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Sa Et Rer
Ulmdeobe
Gabardine
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