East To Be Short Of Gas Many Weeks
Secretary Ickes warned Washington that the Eastern States face a tight gasoline supply for weeks. He urged drastic cuts, noted floods but blamed no one, and said East Coast stocks have bottomed out. A new six-state transport plan divvies zones to move fuel toward the East.
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Washington
Ickes
Atlantic Seaboard
Mutual
Texas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Trlas
Memorial Day Traffic Declined 60 Percent
Baltimore May 31 The State Roads Commission reported traffic yesterday 60 percent below the year's high for a Sunday while OPA enforcement continued. Agents noted license numbers of 1036 motorists suspected of pleasure driving over the past two days. George N. Lewis said travel was about 60 percent of the 1943 Easter Sunday peak and that the ban is highly effective.
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Office of Price Administration
OPA
George N. Lewis
The
Roads Commission
Cornelius P. Mundy
Galbraith resigns from OPA price post in Washington
Price Administrator Brown announced the resignation of J K Galbraith as deputy administrator in charge of the price department of the Office of Price Administration since May 1941. No immediate successor named, but policy to hold the line on prices remains. Galbraith, a former Princeton economics teacher, left after a clash with Lou R Maxon.
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Washington
Price
Brown
J. K. Galbraith
Price Department
Office of Price Administration
Gayton
OPA
Civilian Supply
Jor
Galbraith
Lou R. Maxon
Princeton University
Maxon
Detroit
Army Baseball Team Travels by Bus and Sleep Amid Muddy Field
Fifteen Holabird Ordnance Lepot players hitchhiked from Holabird to Baltimore on Saturday, slept on a YMCA floor, rode crowded buses to Frederick, and slept on McCurdy Field grandstands Sunday night. They planned two games, but Monday’s rubber was cancelled due to mud. They faced transport limits, injuries to Hustlers players, and faced a $40 guaranteed payment loss as the return trip began.
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Holabird Ordnance Lepot
Holabird
Baltimore
Frederick
McCurdy Field
Hustlers
Ball Park
Richard Cook
Pete
Stout
RAF Raiders Active Over Low Countries and France
The RAF conducted two long day sweeps over the Low Countries and Northern France, bombing Zeebrugge Nieuport Brugge Vlissingen Caen Cherbourg airports docks factories. A Canadian wing reportedly shot down two Focke Wulf 190 fighters during a running battle with about 30 enemy planes over Nieuport.
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RAF
London
Low Countries
France
Zeebrugge
Nieuport
Brugge
Belgium
Vlissingen
Netherlands
Caen
Cherbourg
Air Ministry
OPA Tracks Maryland Cars Seen at Derby and Races
OPA officials said they received license numbers of Maryland cars spotted at the Kentucky Derby last month from the Kentucky OPA and expect data on Maryland cars seen at the Charles Town race track. They will verify all listed locations including Elk Ridge, Balti more, Oriole Park, Governor Ritchie Highway, Joppa, and Annapolis.
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Elkridge
Carlin's Park
Baltimore
Oriole Park
Glen Burnie
Baltimore-York Road
Joppa
Annapolis
OPA
Kentucky Opa
Maryland
Charles Town
W. Va
Diplomas Awarded at Middletown High School Commencement
Charles E. Moylan of Baltimore, prominent attorney, was principal speaker at the Middletown High School commencement in Memorial Hall Monday evening. Principal Herbert F. Davis awarded diplomas to 40 graduates. senior class awards for scholastic excellence were also presented last Friday. Moylan likened graduates to a ship’s crew and praised teachers and student leaders as officers guiding the voyage. Walkersville High School graduation is set for tonight.
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Charles E. Moylan
Baltimore
Frederick Countian
Middletown High School
Memorial Hall
Herbert F. Davis
Gelf Deleters
Moylan
Mr. Moylan
Walkersville High School
Don Bingo Delivers for Bing Crosby at Belmont Park
Don Bingo, carrying Crosby and Lin Howard’s Bing Crosby stable, won the 7th Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park amid war relief crowds of 47,083. Market Wise was disqualified, Attention moved to second, Lochinvar rose to third as fund-raising betting broke three world records.
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New York
Don Bingo
Bing Crosby
Belmont Park
Binglin
Crosby
Lin Howard
Charley Howard
California
Lou Tufano
Market Wise
William Helis
New Orleans
Joseph M. Rosbling
Lochinvar
Don Bingo Triumphs as Comeback Brings Big Payout
Don Bingo led the mile and a quarter race to win at odds rewarding backers. Crosby and Howard pocketed 27,600 as their comeback tale caps a year of success with the Argentine bred colt Lirica producing the mount. World betting records fell, including 2,699,153 in a single day.
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Mrs. Payne Whitney
Devil Diver
Markel Wise
Howard- Crosby
Don Bingo
Lirica
Serio
Crosby
Howard
Joey Renick
New York
Johnny Adams
Detroit
Promises Investigation Over Rogues Gallery Plan Revealed
May 31 in Washington County AYey Martin Ingram said he would probe reports that Hagerstown Police planned to assemble a rogues gallery of girls convicted of disorderly conduct and found infected with venereal disease. Captain Peters claimed photos would be posted at military camps. three girls arrested Friday were photographed. Ingram doubted police authority for such action.
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Hagerstown
Wasteringioi County
Ayey
Martin Ingram
William Peters
Peters
Ingram
Navy lowers draft physical standards slightly to aid inductees
Washington on May 3 4 man power Chief Paul V McNutt said the Navy is relaxing its draft physicals slightly especially eyesight. He said Secretary Knox informed him and questioned whether the change would delay inductions and noted they would delay only to the extent necessary to admit men who would otherwise be rejected.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Navy
Reindeer Ownership in Alaska Held by Natives
About two thirds of the 250,10 reindeer in Alaska are owned by 4,600 natives, reflecting a substantial Indigenous share in local herds.
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Alaska
Radar aided naval victory and sinking of Japanese battleship
A report cites radar aiding the U S Navy in sinking a Japanese battleship eight miles away on a stormy night near Guadiconal. It claims four submarines destroyed and highlights radar as a tool for spotting ships and planes in fog or darkness amid a broader arc of convoy success and diminishing enemy threat. It attributes statements to Byrnes and mentions Yamamoto with bold wartime rhetoric.
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Byrnes
Spartanburg
Soc
Man
James FL Byro
United State Navy
Guadidennal
Dartmann
America Means Business Promises Large War Effort
Wartime rhetoric stresses production with daily Mare output and plans rivaling the Dortmund raid. The text notes nearly 8,000,000 victory gardens on the British Isles as part of the home front effort.
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Dortmund
America
Britsh Isles
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Frederick, Maryland
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Antwerp
C. E. Moylan
Middletown
Rentner
Lydia Pinkham
Pinkham
the Globe Brewing Co., Balto
Victory
Drakes
Ely
Ees
Army
Marines
Coast Guard
Fidelity Building & Loan Association
Fredericktown Savings Institution
Market St
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