March 1 Set For Hearing For H. L. Thomas
Harvey Lee Thomas a 21 year old Navy plane inspector pleaded innocent to 150 acts of sabotage on 64 navy patrol bombers. Bail set at 25000. March 1 for further hearing. Navy official defended Thomas qualifications and duties as a junior inspector in training. A local women’s club petition asked for leniency, noting his father’s war relief contributions and his good reputation.
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Baltimore
Harvey Lee Thomas
Navy
Glenn L. Martin Company
U. S
James K. Cullen
Thomas
Cullen
Charles E. Moylian
Newton H. White
U. S. Navy
Glenn L. Martin
Martin
Repeaislua Shwe
Run Around Until Theyre Dizzy Angers Farm Senators
Washington activists denounced a bureaucratic cycle hindering war food production. Senator Aiken led an agricultural subcommittee inquiry calling three key figures in farm price policy to identify who runs the bicycle of conferences. They questioned last weeks executive order freezing fluid milk prices at January highs despite producer protests of shortages.
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Washington
Aiken
Man Dies After Baltimore Oil Plant Blast
William Adams, 29, died in a Baltimore hospital from burns suffered in a Standard Oil plant explosion and three alarm fire that injured 26 others, several seriously. The blast occurred when butane fluid used in crude oil processing ignited, injuring six more at the plant.
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Baltimore
William Adams
Standard Oil Company
Nazi Battleship Tirpitz in Target Practice
Reuters dispatch from Stockholm reports the Tirpitz, Germanys most powerful battleship, engaging in target practice in the North. The agency says damage from a Russian submarine attack in the Barents Sea last July has been repaired and the ship may be ready for raiding operations.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Germany
Barents Sea
Skating Ends As Ice Melts On Culler Lake
Ice skating on Culler Lake ended abruptly late this morning as rising temperatures caused melting. Pools of water formed on the surface, ending the skating session.
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Culler Lake
Refunding Of 27000 City Bonds Is Provided
A bill in the Maryland House would let Frederick city officials refund 27000 of a 60000 bond issue backed by a sinking fund to retire by 1943. The plan seeks refunding bonds at a lower rate, funded by the existing 33000 balance, to liquidate the issue by 1943 and reduce taxes. The measure includes terms for serial issuance not exceeding ten years.
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Frederick
House of Delegates
Frederick County
Corporation of Frederick
Louis E. Eichelberger
Eichelberger
City Register
Tax Clinics Close For War Ration Book Registration
Charles W. Willis Frederick High School principal announces that tax clinics at the Board of Education offices in the old East Church Street school building are closed during War Ration Book 2 registration. Teachers who aided at the clinics will assist with ration book registration, with clinics resuming afterward.
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Charles W. Willis
Frederick High School
Board of Education
East Church Street
Willis
Military needs dictate size of our army
President Roosevelt stated the army size for the year was decided last August and would reach 7,500,000 enlisted by December 3, with officers excluded. Including other services, total armed forces would be about 10,800,000, potentially over 11,000,000. He dismissed concerns about munitions shortages, saying supplies could be provided for all.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Steel Workers Report Funds
The CIO United Steel Workers of America released a 58 page financial statement listing 723,625 members and assets of 1 774 900 including 1 415 060 cash. Net income for seven months to November 30 1942 was 301 000. Details show asset increases of 960 000 from promissory note cancellations and funding from other CIO units.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steel Workers of America
Main and Company
No. 1
Well St
New York
Philip Murray
USWA
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Little Steel
United Mine Workers
Ladies Garment Workers
Boy Becomes Owner of Orioles at Twenty One
Jack Dunn, 21, grandson of Mrs. Mary A. Dunn, became owner of the Baltimore Orioles of the International Baseball League. Control remains in trust until age 30 per Mrs. Dunn’s will probate. George W. Reed, banker, named trustee. Mrs. Dunn was buried yesterday.
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Baltimore
Jack Dunn
Mary A. Dunn
Baltimore Orioles
International Baseball League
Dunn
War Aid to China Emphasized by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek urged Americans to send more implements of war to China at the White House press conference with President Roosevelt. He affirmed continued rapid aid as long as possible and discussed United Nations use of China as a Pacific front against Japan. Roosevelt projected total armed forces near 10.8 million with seven and a half million in khaki by year end 1943.
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Washington
Chiang Kai-Shek
White Hove
Roosevelt
United
China
United Nations
Japan
Pacific Islands
Madame Chiang
Chiang
AVG
America
Prodvicm
Rancavelt
Tokyo
Capitol Hill
Withdrawal Marks American Retreat in Tunisia Story
Harold V. Boyle surveys American withdrawal from Tunisia with tank battles, marches, and field hardships. Soldiers describe sacrifices and resolve, noting orderly withdrawal despite German pressure, and hope to renew war effort soon.
Food Production Conference Tackles U S Food Problem
Washington convenes the White House Economic Stabilization Board to address urgent home front needs. Key players include Wickard and Byrnes as Congress pressures farm labor relief and price policy clashes surface. Debate centers on farm prices, wages, and a $600 million subsidy program shaping civilian food supply.
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Washington, Ped
White House
Economic High Command
Economic Stabization Board
Wickard
Agriculture
Janes F. Byrnex
Military Affairs Committee
Austin
R-Vt
War Department
Optus
Congresssonal
Jevela
Byrnes
Congress
Adinistration
Wickerd
Red Army advances in Orel region and along coast
Soviet forces report rapid gains behind the front in Orel province capturing Zulegoshch near Orel and other unlisted towns ten miles behind the line. Taganrog's supply route cut with Matveev-Kurgan seized north of the Sea of Azov. German positions along the Caucasus coast pressured as Reds push toward the Taman peninsula and Kerch Strait. Debrief notes Donets basin tightening control with settlements taken west of Novoshakhtinsk and near Vornshilovgrad and Kramatorsk.
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Moscow
Red Army
Orel
Zulegoshch
Yelets
Taganrog
Rostov
Matveev-Kurgan
Sea of Newport
Nazi Naval Base Raided
London reports say RAF bombers and other Allied aircraft attacked Wilhelmshaven naval base and raid lines on the continent. Seven planes were lost, including four bombers, during the night operations. A medium supply ship was hit off the Dutch coast. coastal and rail targets in France and Belgium were also struck.
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London
Wilhelmshaven
Ma Smindteiay
France
Belgium
Ministry
Germany
Associated Press
New York
Profit Taking Continues In New York Stock Market
Profit taking persisted in today’s stock market with selling momentum easing as the session progressed. Opening declines were modest and overall volume lagged the prior Viols Session. Few heavily traded one quotation blocks appeared while a small group of pivots performed comparatively well.
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New York
British Destroyers Sink Nazi E-Boat in North Sea Action
British destroyers escorting a convoy in the North Sea sank one E-boat and damaged another early yesterday. The attack by German motor torpedo boats was repelled by the destroyers Garth and Montrose at close range. Prisoners were taken from one boat, and the convoy and escorts suffered no damage or casualties.
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London
North Sea
Admiralty
Garth
Montrose
Price control planned for fresh vegetables in months
The Office of Price Administration announced price ceilings will cover virtually all fresh vegetables within two to three months. Carrots lettuce sweet potatoes cabbage green beans tomatoes yellow beans lima beans and peas likely will be included.
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Washington
Ofice of Price Administration
One Man Controls City Light Plant in Emergency
Frederick officials revealed only one city employee, William M. Bader, can operate the municipal light plant equipment. Aldermen pressed for urgent training of a second operator as the board approved continuing the all clear via street lights while exploring backup options.
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Corporation of
Frederick
Board of Aldermen
William M. Bader
OCD
Alton Y. Bennett
Potomac Edison
Raymond Waller
Phe
Quiet on Central Front in Tunisia After Allied Push
Allied headquarters report a temporary halt in the Erwin Rommel spearhead drive through central Tunisia near the Algerian frontier. After four days of combat Axis gains were swept, but activity on the southern Tunisian front cooled while Allied planes attacked enemy ground targets and bombed supply routes in the Ferena area and northern sector.
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North
Afica
Erwin Kermmel
Tunisia
North Africa
Ferena Sree
Gulf of Gabes
Chott Djerid
Will of Mrs. Minnie M. Littlefield Probated in Orphans Court
The will dated November 23, 1926, probate granted in Carroll County Orphans Court. It leaves $5000 to husband Fred Littlefield and sets trusts for Thelma Shriner of Frederick. The will directs partial stock bequests to Shriner and banking interests, with income for life to Fred and remainder to Thelma Shriner. Also funds to Union Bridge Banking and Trust for church upkeep and cemetery fence painting. Shriner named executrix. Witnesses Howard G. Byrd and Richard A. Walmsley.
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Minnie M. Litlefield
Carroll County
Orphans Court
Fred Littlefield
Thelma Shriner
Frederick
Testatrix
Bank of Westminster
Middleburg
Certificates of War Necessity Required for Vehicle Owners
The local War Price and Rationing Board announced that all owners of commercial vehicles including farmers using trucks off highway must obtain certificates of war necessity from the Office of Defense Transportation to receive gasoline allotments. The ODT office for this section is in the Earle building in Hagerstown. County Agent Henry B. Shotmaker can provide procedure details to those unfamiliar with the process.
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War Price and Rationing Board
Fiticee
Office of Defense Transportation
OPA
Earle
Hagerstown
Henry B. Shotmaker
Salary Limitation Repeal Is Voted
Washington feb 19 the house ways and means committee reaffirmed approval of a bill to repeal the president's wartime salary cap after taxes allowing annual earnings to return to prewar levels at twenty five thousand dollars or more. The measure would restore wartime pay to peach harbor levels as part of the repeal effort.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Howe Ways and Means Committee
Peach Harbor
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Adamstown Rural Women’s Club
Steel Workers Report
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Churchill
No. 10 Downing Street
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Harold V. Boyle
U.S
Jerry
Tunis
Sfax
United States
Michael Higgins
Tamme
York City
Gafsa
Feriana
Higgins
Pearl Harbor
Edward E. Colter
Corning
Sbeitla
Economic Stabilization Board
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