Police Check On Pleasure Driving In Area
State and city police said they have begun to check on pleasure driving under OPA orders, but no violator names have been turned in to the local War Price and Rationing Board. Police will scrutinize dance halls beer parlors and night clubs as crowds gather tonight, though no violations were reported. Traffic was light, with indications the pleasure driving edict and ice and snow kept motorists home. In Baltimore the Public Service Commission extended the OPA ban to taxis to curb non essential use, warning operators of possible permit suspension and police court actions for violators.
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OPA
Arthur C. Poulsen
Poulsen
Boinks Ane
S.C
Baltimore
Public Service Commission
Public Service Commissio
British Engaging Japs on Burma River Bank
New Delhi January 9 British Imperial troops are engaging Japanese forces along the Burma river front at Rathedaung on the Mayu river east bank, 25 miles northwest of Akyab, and on the Mayu peninsula. Occasional engagements have occurred in recent days as fighter escorted Blenheim bombers attacked Akyab airfield and transport concentrations near Kyaukpadaung. all planes returned.
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New Delhi
India
Burma
Rathedaung
Mayu River
Akyab
Mayu Peninsula
Kyaukpadaung
Meiktila Road
Ruhr Targets Again Bombed By British
RAF bombers attacked industrial targets in Germanys Ruhr valley last night the fourth attack this year five British aircraft were reported missing indicating about 100 planes took part no immediate details on targets given this is the second straight night of raids on Ruhr resulting in heavy destruction in steel mills and heavy plants NAZI FUEL DUMP BURNED Lenden dan 9 P In a supplement to its midday communique Moscow radio reported French patriots burned a German fuel dump on the outskirts of Lyon
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London
Germany
Ruhr Valley
Taid
Ruhr
Lenden
Dan
Moscow Radio
Sovet Information Bureau
Cigorts
Rostov
Russie
North Coat
New Gainea
Britain
Panis- Bizerte
Axia
Foundouk-Ebl-Aguraeb
Tunis
Reramel
Homs
Ziliten
PRL
Rteak Kk Bates
Gatrun
Tripoli
Burma
Ratedaung
Akyab
Bay of Bengal
Libya
Sfax
Tripolitania
Fondouk-E- Aouarea
Sousse
Intensified Drive On Fun Drivers Launched Sunday
New York officials announce an intensified drive against violators of the OPA ban on pleasure driving. Sylvan Joseph regional OPA administrator said inspectors and police will patrol streets in five states and the District of Columbia, including New York New Jersey Maryland Delaware and Pennsylvania, working in teams to halt and question drivers. Mayor LaGuardia had ordered police to check private automobiles in use, and the OPA order would replace the mayor's directive.
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New York
OPA
District of Columbia
Sylvan Joseph
Joszeph
New Jersey
Maryland
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Jozeph
F. H. LaGuardia
Fighting French Storm and Capture Axis Outpost
French forces under Brig. Gen. Jacques Leclercq stormed and captured the Axis outpost of El Gatrun southeast of Murzuch in southern Libya. The post surrendered with 177 officers and men taken prisoner, and Sebha’s munition dump and hangars were destroyed. Sebha lies about 100 miles northeast of Murzuch.
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el Gatrun
London
Jacques Leclercq
Murzuch
Libyan Desert
Tripoli
Gatrun
Uram el Aroues
Leslere
Lake Chad
Sarazac
Bretagaz
Sebha
Murzuca
Bible Society Service Sunday in Washington DC
Rev Dr Peter Marshall will speak at the 122nd annual Young Men's Bible Society session at the Presbyterian church in Washington DC Sunday evening at 7 30. The business session will elect officers led by president R Ames Hendrickson. Choir, organist Miriam G Rhoads, and pastor Rev W Merval Weaver will assist.
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Peter Marshall
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Washington, D. C
Young Men's Bible Society
Presbyterian Church
R. Ames Hendrickson
Bible Societ
W. Merval Weaver
Bach
Mr. Weaver
C. William Sprenkel
Jesus
Hendrickson
Shaver
Robert L. Smith
James H. G. Best
Henry B.ramsburgh
William G. Zimmerman
Gerald G. Remsberg
Jacob Rohrback
Four Russian Armies Push Forward in Mud and Snow
Moscow dispatch says four Soviet armies drive ahead in the eastern front arc despite rain and melting snow that bogged roads. Red Army technicians remove thousands of land mines and claim up to thirty four thousand mines neutralized in two weeks. North Ossetia and Kabardino Balkaria reportedly liberated as fighting nears Stavropol, while in Stalingrad Red Star reports Russians methodically clear the northern factory district and storm German fortifications near Rostov.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Tower
Red Army
Red Star
Osetia
Kabardino-Balkaria
Stavropol
Stalingrad
Rostov
Constantin Rokossovsky
Oidensky
Avy Usthidee
Udet Whyithe
Don River
Parity Revision Upward Urged By Farm Leaders
Washington reports increasing demands for upward parity revision as the farm bloc and four national farm organizations push for legislation to raise farm prices and labor costs. Senator Thomas warns failure to act could trigger a fight in Congress affecting war unity. Leaders of the American Farm Bureau Federation National Grange and other groups urge parity to include all farm labor costs and longer work weeks to meet rising food costs and shortages.
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Washington
Congress
Thomas
D-Okla
Ward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Albert §. Goss
National Grange
Charles C
No Appointment Yet For Mercer Vacant Assessors Seat
County commissioners announced no appointment would be made today to fill the vacancy on the Board of Assessors created by Grayson H. Mercer’s resignation. There are 20 to 23 applicants, and the job may remain unfilled for about a week or more.
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Grayson H. Mercer
U.S. Submarines Sink Two Japanese Liners
Reuters report from Chungking says American submarines sunk two Japanese liners near Woosung, about 25 miles from Shanghai. Only 42 people were saved from the wrecks amid heavy war action.
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London
Reuters
Woosung
Shanghai
Giants and Bears weigh training plans for local spring
Pittsburgh Nationals consider Indiana or Ohio for spring training plans and will visit Indiana and Ohio next week to inspect sites while Pirates and Phillies thank Mayor Culver for local facilities. Giants plan to decide and Newark Bears discuss options as Buffalo contemplates training at home with nearby clubs to aid exhibition schedules.
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Frederick Be
Pittshurch
Lloyd C. Culter
Indiana
Ohio
Bob Rice
The
Pirates
MecCurdy Field
Phillies
Gerald P. Nugent
Philadelphia
National League
Office of Defense Transportation
New York Giants
Newark Bears
Buffalo
Dickering
Hagerstown
Baltimore
Newark
Who Ignored Edict Cite 553 In Baltimore
City police and OPA inspectors reported 553 cars suspected of violating the no pleasure driving rule. A list showed 338 more license numbers, divided as 268 by police and 70 by OPA inspectors. Police noted 150 of the 268 as passenger autos with 118 in taxis or limousines. The OPA and police logged 215 violations yesterday and hearings to recall gasoline ration books are set to begin next week.
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Baltimore
OPA
Tokyo declares war on United States and Britain
Premier General Unes Tofu announced from Nanking that China’s national government has declared war on the United States and the British Empire. The Japanese war leader called the action a “great step forward” in the campaign to crush the two enemy nations in greater East Asia.
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Tokyo
Unes
Tofu
Taikyat
Wann Ching-Weis
China
Nanking
United States
Eat Asia
War Bond Sales Reach $1.5 Million in 1942 for Frederick Area
Frederick city and county sold over a million dollars in Series E bonds and more than $1.1 million including F and G bonds for seven months in 1942. W. Clinton McSherry, county war bonds chair, said county sales exceeded the 1942 quota, aided by payroll savings plans and broad organizational cooperation.
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Frederick
W. Clinton McSherry
McSherry
Treasury Department
Frederick County
Victory Fund Committee
Frederick City
War Savings
24000 Miners On Wartime Strike Reported In Wilkes-Barre
A PA report notes a mass meeting at Wilkes-Barre urging miners to return to work as war demands mount. About 24,000 miners are idle with 6,000 staying home, closing several collieries and widening disruptions in the anthracite fields.
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Wilkes- Bare
War Department
Market at cross purposes in lively session
Market today extended a lively two hour session with ample activity. Large blocks of low priced utilities traded around unchanged as volume reached about 400000 shares, higher than last Saturday's 259000.
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Cross Purposes News
York
Tt le Market
Atenies Purvo Ee
U S Raids Jap Bases At Rekata Bay And Kiska
United States air forces conducted new bombing raids against Japanese bases at Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel Island and at Kiska in the Aleutians. Liberator heavy bombers attacked Bougainville and Rekata Bay, while Flying Fortress and Marauder aircraft targeted Bougainville and enemy installations at Rekata Bay, starting fires and damaging two enemy float planes.
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Washington
Rekatas Bay
Solomons
Navy
Bouxainville
Kiska
North Pacific
South Pacific
Bougainville
U. S
Alrcobra
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
U.S
Guadalcanal
Aleutian
Frederick County Agricultural Society postpones 1943 Fair plans
At a board meeting last night Frederick County Agricultural Society officers were reelected. No date or plans were made for a 1943 Fair amid wartime uncertainty. Grounds buildings remain under government storage and may be used by any agency during the war.
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Frederick
Frederick County Agricultural Society
Mutual Insurance Company
John L. Shaw
Albert N. McCardell
Guy K. Motter
D. Princeton Buckey
Clyde Smith
Lee Ranneberger
Ofo
Charles N. Daugherty
Highlights On The War By The Associated Press
Allied aviation and ground forces strike at German bases and Japanese convoys. Soviet gains exceed twenty towns as German defenses falter. Britain raids Ruhr targets while Axis losses mount and French troops push inland near Tunis. Imperial forces engage Japanese near Akyab and Burma as overall war activity intensifies worldwide.
Maryland War Crop Goals Set for Frederick County Farmers
Maryland War Board announces essential crop targets for 1942 including soybeans for oil Irish potatoes and tomatoes and peas for canning plus barley oats and sweet corn. Frederick County aims raise acres of corn from 47 900 to 49 900 and potatoes from 1 500 to 3 700 while increasing dairy cattle egg and poultry production and turkey numbers to support war needs.
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College Park
Maryland
United States Department of Agriculture War Board
Frederick Taunty
Frederick County
Anya He
No Pleasure Rides In Taxis
Eastman urged taxicab operators and the public in 17 eastern oil shortage states to stop using cabs for pleasure driving. He said the ban on private car pleasure trips by the Office of Price Administration is being partially defeated as people shift leisure trips to taxis, undermining gasoline conservation.
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Washington
Jan. P
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
Eastman
Office of Price Administratin
United States
Chennault's Flyers Bomb Two Jap Bases in Burma
Brig Gen Claire Chennaults American Skydragons struck Mangshih in Burma on Thursday and bombed installations at Bhamo on the following day. American headquarters reported no losses, noting successful attacks by the force over the past two days as they targeted two Japanese bases along the Irrawaddy region.
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Chungking
Claire Lo
Americans Strike Bizerte In Major Raid As War Updates
Allied reports say U S Flying Fortresses bombed Bizerte in three raids marking one of the war's heaviest blows on a single Axis port. Five P 38 fighters were lost. Spaatz named commander of a new Allied Air Force in North Africa joining the 7th U S Air Force RAF and French units.
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North Africa
United States Air Force
Bizerte
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S
Carl Spaatz
Spaatz
U. S. Air Force
James H. Deolittle
RAF
William L. Welsh
Kairouan
Gabes
London
el Gatrun
Murzuch
Deseert
Jacques le Clerc
Camel Corps
Deettmertwe
Morgantown Mine Blast Death Toll Reaches Thirteen
Morgantown West Virginia January 9 rescue crews battled coal flames after a blast at Pursgrove No. 15 mine. Four bodies were recovered above ground and nine remain trapped, making a total death toll of thirteen. Company officials said eight of the nine men known to be inside had been located, with Frank Robinetiee missing as his motor apparently started the blaze.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Pursgrove Noo. 15
Frank Robinetiee
Flynn Confident of Australia Mission After Resignation
Edward Flynn announced his resignation as National Democratic Chairman and said he is confident he will be sent to Australia as the President's personal representative with the title of Minister Plenipotentiary. He indicated he would probably need to leave early in February.
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Flynn
New York
Edward Id. Flynn
Vestdullly
National Democratic
Australia
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Pittsburgh
Fair Board
Chennault
Flyers
Rommel
Cairo
Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel
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