20 New Mars Boats Bought
The Navy ordered 20 additional Martin Mars flying boats, the world's largest, to be used in the Naval Air Transport Service. Delivered over about a year, the ships will bolster Pacific operations. Mars flights set cargo and endurance records, carrying mail and war materials across long distances, with four engines delivering over 2,000 horsepower each and crew accommodations for 16.
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Washington
Navy
Glenn L. Martin Company
Baltimore
Naval Air Transport Service
Knox
Natal
Brazil
Pacific
J. H. Towers
Admiral Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
Mars
Glenn L. Martin
Martin
Social notes from Gaithersburg and Washington area visits
Local society page records New Year greetings and home visits. G W Bell Jr seaman on leave from Sampson School hosts guests Ensign W R Williamson and others in Gaithersburg. Slacums hosted relatives in Cambridge and Orange earlier. Troxwell home welcomes William Troxel from Franklin Pa, while Diamond and Jo Ranney plan Tulsa trip. Moody and Nicol families anchor visits with Bethesda ties, and Barretts winter at Silver Sands Florida. Waddells return from Washington Grove to Charleston SC. news notes Col. Waddell’s father-in-law presence mentioned.
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Fred W. Boye
Ernest W. Moxley
Marberry Gates
Rockville
George Marshall
Carrie Ridgley
Corps
Forrest , Fraley
Camp Meade
Ella Plummer
Diamond Avenue
Garrison Bell
Lewis Reed
William Cooley
Earl Willams
George Darby
Margaret Thomas
Lawrence J. Darby
Carroll Walker
Merle Jacobs
Norman Belt
Clyde Thomas
Frederick
Lena Ricketts
Eva Trusheim
Jack Wallace
Alfred Richards
Virgie Williamson
Washington
Ralph Gerhardt Lip
Howard Slacum
Cambridge
Slacum
Norman O. Bailey
Orange
Thomas W. Troxwell
William Troxell
Franklin
Dick Diamond
Jo Ranney
Tulsa
Diamond
Spartan School of Aeronautics
Nicol
Charles Nicol
Terrill Moody
Moody
Adelbert C. Jordan
Bethesda
Henry Griffith
Charleston
S. C
Ruth W. Waddell
Washington Grove
Col
Local notices from Taneytown and nearby towns on New Year gatherings
Taneytown residents report New Year gatherings and family visits across towns including Gettysburg Littlestown and Westminster. Families such as Harner Weybright Foutz Coffman Echard and Shryock share greetings while residents like Mary Lockner improve illness. A death note for Sarah Jane Beaver is recorded with burial in Reformed cemetery. George Fowler uses crutches after accident.
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Taneytown
Jas. Harner
Weybright
Gettysburg
Mahlon Brown
Laurence Foutz
Littlestown
Leo Gossert
Quincy
Frank Coffman
Westminster
Lillie Shryock
Blanch Eckard
Frederick
Grace Echard
York
Curtis Echard
Laura Hanley
Lillian Demmit
Mary Lockner
Sarah Jane Beaver
Charles
Norman
George Fowler
Bernie Ohler
Raymond Rineman
Hercel Shank
Crouse
Kingsdale
David Hahn
Six Civil Suits Are Scheduled For Trial
Post holiday court activity centers on six civil suits set for trial within the week. First two are Thursday with cases including Brunswick Mayor and Council vs Ella Virts and Hartington. Hillside Coal Co. vs New England Fire Insurance. Sears Roebuck Co. vs Amon Burgee. John B. Shepard and Mary Bell C. Shepard vs Walter Gibbs and Walter Gibbs Jr.. Robert H. Diller vs Joseph W. Horton. All are December term cases.
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Court House
Council of
Brunswick
Ella Virts
G. W. Hartington
Hillside Coal Company, Inc
The
New England Fire Insurance Company
Sears Roebuck and Co
Amon Burgee
KREYLITE One Coat Primeless Interior Paint Fact Sheet
Before purchasing a substitute water paint, obtain the facts on Kreylite a single coat flat oil paint designed for interior surfaces. It claims to be really washable and suitable for all interior walls and surfaces.
Frederick Girl Serves Drinks To Pilots Back From Raids
Margaret Dean a Red Cross canteen worker at a New Guinea base is described as a beam girl praised for serving ice cold drinks to crews returning from bomber and fighter missions. The article highlights her and Donna Crawford of Mobile as part of the canteen crew facing war conditions and close escapes while managing a precious refrigerator and daily duties.
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New Guinea
Red Cross
Margaret
Peggy) Dean
Frederick
Miss Dean
Alice Dean
Rockwell Terrace
Donna Crawford
Mobile
Ala
American Red Cross
Miss Crawford
Rabaul
Wewak
Peggy Dean
Mary Crawford
Dean-Crawford
Ackack
Dean
Quartermaster Corps
G.I
Hitler Chancellery Gutted by Fire in RAF Raid
Stockholm reports the chancellery in Berlin was heavily damaged after a four hour fire set by a bombing raid. More than 100 firemen fought the blaze. A traveler who left Berlin yesterday said no word on trapped persons in a shelter beneath the building. A fuel tank holding 50,000 gallons for the Luftwaffe was destroyed.
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Stockholm
Hitler
Berlin
Holiday in Pork Rationing Rejected
Washington reports farm state Congressmen and government food officials rejected a two week holiday in pork rationing. The Office of Price Administration and War Food Administration stated no country wide pork surplus exists and that lifting rationing could create chaotic supply and distribution, especially in the east, south and west.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Sinatra To Aid In March Of Dimes Campaign
Prank Sinatra appointed chairman of the youth division of the 1944 March of Dimes campaign. Basil OConnell, NFIP president, announced the plan to reach young voters through radio to support the infantile paralysis drive.
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Sinatra
New York
Basil O'Conor
National Foundation For Infantile Paraly
Brazil Airmen Arrive in U S for Final Training
Miami reporters note that a 5 man WPA group of Brazilian airmen bound for overseas duty arrived today en route to the United States Army air base at Orlando for final training. Others were expected later this day. The fighter pilots and ground crew are the first Brazilians sent for active service in a war zone.
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Miami
Flan
United States Army Air Base
Orlando
Fla
Brazil
President Roosevelt resumes work on annual address
Washington January 5 President Roosevelt recovering from illness was well enough to begin work on his annual message to Congress to be delivered Tuesday He had no appointments and stayed in his bedroom to work on the draft.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Holiday Mocha Puncil Recipe Headline
A simple holiday mocha recipe uses evaporated milk vanilla and cinnamon with decaffeinated coffee. Chill the milk and coffee then whip to stiff peaks and layer in cups half full with cinnamon sprinkled on top. The instructions note perking decaf longer to improve flavor.
Disease Defeat Aids Bengal Relief Effort
Maj. Gen. Douglas Stuart says famine foe defeated in Bengal yet disease remains a major threat with malaria cholera and smallpox epidemics sweeping rural areas. Troops distribute feed and medicine while Army doctors inoculate and draft thousands daily aiming to immunize 9 million Bengalese by March end. US Tenth Air Force assists by relocating transport planes to speed medical supply and clothing delivery.
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Catvalla
Douglas Stuart
Bengal
Stuart
Northwest Mounted
Canada
Tenth Air Force
Union Bridge social notes list local visitors and events
Miss Sarah Crabbs of Union Bridge broke her arm after a stair fall in Hanover Pa. Rev A Odell Osteen and Mrs Osteen recover from grippe. Johns Hopkins student William Oward Zinkham visits Union Bridge. Dinner guests from McKinstry’s Mill and Meadow Branch shared Christmas Day with local families. Moves include Etzler family relocating Linwood to Frederick and Baltimore buyer David Roop planning spring possession.
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Union Bridge
Sarah Crabbs
Hanover
Odell Osteen
Osteen
William Oward Zinkham
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Baltimore
George M. Ainkham
Merton Engel
Sams Creek
Mildred
Dorothy Zambrum
G. E. Sensenay
Elizabeth Hepp
McKinstry
Millis
John D. Roop
Elder
William Roop
Carroll Rinehart
Lavinia Wenger
Ethel Rinehart
Meadow Branch
Italian Split Seen as Communists Threaten Independence
In Naples on January 4 Italian Communists accused the Committee of National Liberation of weakness and threatened to split from the committee to pursue an independent line against King Vittorio Emanuele III. They faulted other groups for not adopting an aggressive policy and criticized Allied restrictions on political action near the Fifth Army front. Eugenio Reale, Naples committee president, turned himself in over placards urging to “put the guilty ones to the wall” and said he would go to prison for the manifesto. Allied inquiry into the incident was pending. Matian parties were granted freedom of action in the fight against the King.
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Naples
Committee
National Liberation
Vittorio Emanuele HI
Owas
Eugenio Reale
Reale
Fifth Army
Firms charged for ads in phantom union paper
S Hogan charged that several industrial and business firms spent about 250000 in recent months by buying space for patriotic ads in a non existent union newspaper. Firms paid 625 a page hoping to boost war bond sales blood donations and salvage campaigns, but the newspaper had no circulation beyond a few sample copies.
Ease Coughing with Vicks Vaporub Home Remedy
A home remedy suggests melting a spoonful of Vicks VapoRub in boiling water to ease coughing and loosen phlegm. The article touts Vicks Vaporub as the world s most famous and widely used medication of its kind.
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Vicks Vaporub
Mathers
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Beatrice Gastley
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Coke
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Winnlothalle
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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