UNRRA Bill Passed by Senate and Sent to House
The Senate approved a $1.35 billion U.S. contribution to the UNRRA program for civilians in liberated areas by a 47 to 14 vote, with an amendment barring use of funds for education religion or political purposes. The measure limits expenditures to June 30 1946 and forbids commitments beyond appropriation.
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Washington
Senate
House
United States
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Willis
R-Ind
Reynolds
D-Nc
American Red Cross
UNRRA
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Clark
D-Mo
Russia
Camp and Hospital Council Gifts to Detrick Camp
Rev Samuel S Johnston reports 1943 donations from the Camp and Hospital Council of the Frederick County Red Cross to Camp Detrick. Furniture and athletic items including a ping pong table, volleyball gear, desks, chairs, tables, lamps, rugs, curtains, and a glider were sent, mostly for sun rooms, with additional items to a nearby camp and a magazine subscription.
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Camp Detrick
Frederick County
Camp
Esquire Magazine
Arguments In Sewer Case Delayed Indefinitely
The appeal of J Marshell Staub Frederick from a $10 fine for failing to connect to the city sewer system was postponed as a point of law was argued. Judge Ed ward Delaplaine suspended hearings to allow defense counsel to submit legal authorities on use of plumbing supplies bought before a WPB date and whether the city could compel canvassing plumbers. No continuance date set. Also notes Corporal John M Clem Frederick Md completing an Armed Forces Institute course in airplane maintenance at Columbus Field Miss earning a proficiency certificate, among 20 service members advancing education.
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J. Marshell Staub
Frederick
Edward
Delaplaine
Aafternoon
Jacob Rehrback
Edward J. Smith
Staub
Columbus Field
Miss
John M. Ciem
RFD. 3
U. S. Armed Forces Institute
Madison
Wis
War and Navy
Cp. Clem
Columbus Army Air Field
Transporting Big Guns to Pacific Front By Air
Major General Waldron reports 105 mm howitzers can be moved by plane to support Southwest Pacific operations. He notes field access near combat zones enables rapid deployment and that ordnance can be carried by air or small island boats. The term potalo is traced to the Indian name hatatas.
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Boston
Feb
Southwest Pacific
Alpert W. Waldron
Boston Ordnance District Office
Waldron
United States
Book Review on Wartime England at C Burr Artz Library
Dr Laura A Ward Hood College English assistant professor will discuss English reading in wartime and how it aids American understanding of Britain. Her talk titled A Balanced Mental Diet in Wartime England will cover novels religion social reform and poetry plus reissued works like The Ship Malta Epic Screwtape Letters and Reflection on the Revolution of Our Time. The public meeting is the third in the season's library series.
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England
C. Burr Artz
Laura A. Ward
Hood College
Ward
C. 8. Forester
Malta
Ian Hay
C. S. Lewis
A. J. Laski
Library
200000 Service Men Returning Home
Washington reports American ships are serving double duty by bringing home about 200000 soldiers who earned a respite from battle. The rotation furloughs span European Caribbean and Alaskan theaters with expansion tied to manpower and facilities. theater commanders decide eligibility, minimum service 18 months in North Africa.
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Washington
U. S
War Stimson
Caribbean
Alaskan
Stimson
Millard Harmon
Theater plans and redeployment across theaters revealed
Stimson notes two years as the base factor for Alaska Caribbean and Southwest Pacific staffing. About 200000 personnel already back in the United States are listed as returned requiring no dedicated replacements.
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Alaska
Caribbean
Stimson
Southwest Pacific
Harmon
Returning Service Men To Spur Post War Work
L. 3 B. Carroll, president of the downtown Baltimore Lions Club, spoke at the Frederick Lions Club luncheon in the Francis Scott Key hotel. He said returning servicemen will bring new ideas and talents, posing a challenge to foster harmony and comradeship through Lionism. Guests included H. W. Mitzel, Paul Gunby, William Elder, Elbridge Donaldson, R. M. Zacharias, and others from Baltimore and nearby towns.
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B. Carroll
Baltimore
Lions Club
Frederick Lions Club
Francis Scott Key
Court News Marriage Licenses and Property Deeds
Court notices list marriage licenses for Charles J. West and Jane N. Riley from Baltimore and Luray Virginia, and Woodrow S. Carey with Anna Virginia Fritts from Brunswick and Harpers Ferry. Deeds show transfers between Gosnell and DeLauter, Sewell and Sewell, Smith and Louder, Gerrich and Rinehart, Hoffman and Burkholder, and Overcash spouses, mostly for $10 in various counties and cities.
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Charles J. West
Baltimore
Jane N. Riley
Luray
Woodrow
Carey
Brunswick
Anna Virginia Fritts
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Mary Schmidt Gosnell
H. Kieffer DeLauter
Glenn S. Se
Quarantine Extended for Laytonsville District Dogs
Montgomery County commissioners extended the dog quarantine to include Laytonsville after a recommendation from county health officer Dr. W L Ellicott. The board paused the action for consideration at its next meeting while enforcing stricter measures.
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Laytonsville
Board of Montgomery County Commissioners
Rockville
W. L. Ellicott
Dr. Ellicott
New Tactical Air Force Is Set Up For Attack
London reports a new American air force joining the Allied Expeditionary Air Force under Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory. The Ninth Air Force, led by M G Lewis H Brereton, shifts from the Mediterranean to England, transforming from heavy bomber to fighter units for close support of invasion troops.
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London
Supreme Allied Command
Germany
RAF
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory
U. S&s
Ninth Air Force
Eighth Army
Rommel
Africa
Rome
Ploesti
Romania
M&j
Lewis H. Brereton
Mediterranean
Ninth
Allied Mediterranean Air Command
England
S Second Front
Spare Stamp 3 Good For 5 Pork Points
The Office of Price Administration validates Spare Stamp No. 3 good for five pork points from midnight tonight through Saturday February 26. The stamp in War Ration Book 4 covers all sausage purchases and reflects larger civilian pork supplies due to continued hog receipts. It is the third pork bonus stamp issued, following December and the first two weeks of January.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Germans plan evacuations as Arctic sea wall built
Stockholm reports that Germany moves to receive forces in Finnmark and may evacuate the Northern Finland front. Berlin pressures North Norway defenses and reportedly builds an Arctic sea wall along the Pasvik River. Helsinki briefly alarms but no incidents occurred.
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Stockholm
Finnmark
Norway
Finland
Dagens Nyheter
Pasvik
Helsinki
Finland Bids for Peace as Helsinki Seeks Compact
London dispatches indicate Finland made a peace bid to Moscow with terms far from Soviet demands. Bombed Helsinki shows willingness to compromise as entry to talks shifts to Moscow. Finland’s offer reportedly sought exit from the alliance with Adolf Hitler, possibly conveyed via President Juho K. Tauriainen.
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London
Finland
Moscow
Helsinki
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Juhu
Paasikivi in Stockholm Amid Armistice Talks Delay
Kurt Paasikivi is in Stockholm meeting with Mme Alexandra Kollontay the Russian minister to Sweden. Reports from Vichy radio claimed he had gone to Moscow but Stockholm confirms he remains there. If his terms were accepted he would head to Moscow to work out an armistice. since he waits, belligerents are still far apart.
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Kurt! Paaskivi
Stockholm
Mme
Alexandra Kollantay
Sweden
Paasikivi
Vichy
Moscow
Public Sale Notice Near Urbana Maryland 1944
The undersigned will sell at the premises on his farm along Urbana Finger Road two miles north west of Urbana and seven miles south of Frederick Maryland on Monday February 26 1944 at 11 oclock am Eastern War Time. Authority and items not specified in the fragment.
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Ezra Houck
Frederick
Worman
Ray Wisner
Schettler
John-Deere
John Deere
Beck Krats
Potts Farm
Gas House Macadam Road
Maryland
E.W.T
T. B
Ayrshire
McCormick-Deering
Allis Chalmers
Deering
Dellinger
Black Hawk
Syracuse
H.P. Wagner
Myers
McCormick-Deering Milker
Florence
Urbana
Buckeystown
Burkittsville
McCormick
Ella Little
Charles 5
Carl L
Ramsburg
Linganore Road
David H. Martz
Woodswero
C. Elmer Cane
Harmony
F. M. Miskell
Pt. of Rocks
E. Hood England
L. E. Kramer
Rockville
Fannie Lanner
Middletown
Merrii E. Giesier
L. E. Grossnickie
Bloomfeld
Edward Stager
Hampstead
Robert R. Rhoderick
Mt. Pleasant
Liberty Pike
Joseph M. Routzahn
Jefferson
Irene Mullican
Lewistown
B. C. Schmid
Kemptown
J. Edward Chaney Barrisville
Harry B. Lare
Walkersville
Luther Bussard
Samuel Q. Ausherman
Oscar Joy
Libertytown
Harry L. Sigler
C. O DeGrange
Percheron Horse Sale
Frederick Fair Grounds
L. Cramer Powell
Woodshoro
Routzahn
Jo D. Hildebrand & Sisters
Meas Dickerson
Harvey M. Lare
Liberty
Paul FE. Franklin
Unionville-Union Bridge Road
James HW. Whitmore
Oliver M. Wise
Jefferson & Middletown
Roy Hilton
George A. Tritappe
Old Braddock
Walter L. Hipkins
Emma D. Brandenburg
Geo. Hightman
Petersville
Schwartz Bros
Everett W. Mullinix
Long Corner
St. Airy
Vernon L. Smith
Mt Pleasant
Hitkman Ganley
Monrovia
Lee M. Howes
Washington Grove
W. Walter Culler
Paul R. Adalt
Middletown & Jefferson
M. W. Stitely
Woodshore
T. Davis
Mt. Alry
Urbana-Fingerboard
Delco
H. P. Delco
WM. T
BISER
Glenn Trout
Raymond L. Kelly
Nash Hotel
South Market Street
Della E. Dotson
Frederick County
Helen L. Huffer
Samantha E. Nash
Della B. Dotson
Samantha E Nash
RCA Radio
Walter E. Linn
R. L. Kelly
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Camp and Hospital Council
Charles S. Houck
Rathond Cl.eflly
Leneb
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church
Court News
Raymond N. Reeder
Emmert R. Bowlus
Lancheon
Tactical Air Force
State Office of Price Administration
India
Burma
Jayne's
America
Dr. D. Jayne & Son
Vinett
Emmitsburg
Orndorff
Frederick Street
Burgess and Commissioners
Jack
Nellie
Trixie Carson
Fannie Carson
Prince
Pet
Guernseys
Jerseys
Guernsey
Berkshire
New Idea
Schuttler
Barshear
Viola Roderick Frederick
Emmert BR. Bowlus
Signature Auto—Furniture Loans
Frederick Industrial Loan
Market
Ella Little Emmett R. Bowlus
John L. Shaw
Ayrshires
Farrow
Poland
China
E. Hood
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