Sugar Can Now Be Bought By Mail For Home Canning
Relief for hard pressed county workers is near as the OPA authorizes mail applications for sugar store certificates. Holmes D. Baker explains that housewives can request forms, list household needs, and receive certificates by mail after approval. Rules require documenting family size, prior quantities, and specific canning or preserving purposes. The system aims to reduce church street school crowding, with volunteers aiding the process and up to 200 daily served. A second note reports a British merchant ship torpedoed in the Atlantic and evacuees landed on the US East Coast.
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County Rationing Board
OPA
Holmes D. Baker
Church Street
Frederick
Rommel Struggles as Axis Forces Trapped in North Africa
British reports from Cairo describe Rommel's Africa Corps being harried and largely destroyed behind the Ain El Gazala Bir Hacheim line. Churchill and Auchinleck note great Axis losses and failed attempts to break out, with Rommel's tanks still on the wrong side of the line despite some withdrawals.
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Reuters
Cairo
Ain el Gasala-Bir Hacheim
Egypt
Tream
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Ain el Gazala-Bir Hacheim
Claude Auchinleck
House of Commons
Churchill
Rommel
Auchinleck
Tobruk
RAF
Derna
Tmimi
Bengasi
Martuba
Navy Patrol Plane Crashes Near Half Moon Bay
A Navy patrol plane crashed and burned twenty miles south of San Francisco near Half Moon Bay today. California highway patrol officers arriving at the scene found five bodies.
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San Francisco
Here
Half Moon Bay
California
Cologne Dead Put At 20000 54000 Wounded
New York Times cites private Berlin observers on a RAF raid that killed about 20,000 people and wounded 54,000 in Cologne. Evacuations affect roughly three fifths of Cologne’s 800,000 residents, mainly toward Munich. Aachen Duesseldorf Wuppertal Mainz also see mass migration amid fears of more bombardment.
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Cologne
Rhineland
New York Times
Berlin
Munich
Aachen
Duesseldorf
Wuppertal
Mainz
Convoy With Russ Aid Reaches North Russia Port
A large United Nations convoy carrying American and British war supplies to Russia has reached a north Russian port after five days and nights of peril amid German U boat attacks and heavy air assault. The Admiralty praised escorts for keeping losses low and delivering vital equipment to Russia amid constant daylight.
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London
United Nations
Russia
Admiralty
British Foresaw Libyan Drive By Rommel
London reports Prime Minister Churchill told the Commons that Britain anticipated Rommel’s Libyan offensive and stood ready. He cited captured documents showing Rommel aimed to defeat British forces and seize Tobruk, noting heavy tank losses and large transport damage. Auchinleck stressed fierce fighting continues and plans gone awry. In New York, stocks softened despite war news.
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London
Churchill
Libya
Erwin Rommel
Rommel
Tobruk
Rummel
Claude Jd. E. Auchinleck
Beer License Appeal Case Ends After Defective Petition
A beer license appeal in Maryland neared closure as State License Bureau official W Clinton McSherry ruled the petition with nine signatures defective, denying the appeal and upholding County License Commissioner Paul Little’s denial. Dr H F Getzendanner sought removal from the signer list, and Mrs Morgan’s application for an Evergreen Point license faced questions of signatories, money sources, and prior moral objections.
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Paul M. Little
State License Bureau
W. Clinton McSherry
State Bureau
Little
H. F. Getzendanner
Ethel G. Morgan
Evergreen Point
Frederick
McSherry
W. Jerome Offutt
Roosevelt Asks For War On Axis Satellites
President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Bulgaria Hungary and Romania stating they act as Hitler instruments. He urged recognition of a state of war with each country noting their declarations against the United States and ongoing military actions. The move follows existing U S declarations against Japan Germany and Italy.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Bulgaria
Hungary
Rumania
House of Representatives
United States
United Nations
Senate
Romania
Hitler
Japan
Germany
Italy
Russia
Europe
Iran
Caucasus
Justice On One Way Road Five Dollar Fine
Supreme Court Justice Hugo L Black received a $5 traffic ticket for driving the wrong way on Rock Creek Parkway a one way in the morning toward Maryland in the afternoon toward Washington The Park Police officer J W Macon flagged the mistake Black paid the fine and said the officer was nice adding he sent the payment to the traffic bureau and laughed at the incident
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Washington
Rock Creek Farkway
Maryland
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
J W. Macon
Alexandria
Black
Baltimore Conference Convenes on Wednesday at Western Maryland College
The third session of the Baltimore annual Methodist Church conference will meet at Western Maryland College starting Wednesday and run through Sunday with Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of Washington presiding. Appointments to charges will be read at the final meeting on Sunday.
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Westminster
Baltimore
The
Methodist Church
Western Maryland College
Adna Wright Leonard
Washington
300000 Belgians Forced to Work for Germany
Vichy dispatches report 300000 Belgian workers sent to German factories in the two years after King Leopold capitulated to Nazi armies. The note situates Brussels as the source of the count and frames the wartime labor program within the German occupation.
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Vichy
Brussels
Leopold
Port Moresby Raid Downed Nine of 30 Jap Raiders
Allied airmen carried out three nocturnal raids on Japanese bases with no losses. They destroyed or damaged nine of 30 aircraft raiding Port Moresby. MacArthur said wrecks of two of three midget submarines were raised in Sydney harbor. Casualties from the ferry sinking included six naval men killed, 13 missing and believed dead, and ten injured.
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Australia
Port Moresby
Douglas MacArthur
Sydney Harbor
New Guinea
Sydney
Lae
Salamaua
Fort Moresby
Rabaul
New Britain
Japs Stalemated Says Curtin In Australia
Melbourne June 21 Prime Minister John Curtin declared Japan's war program has suffered stalemate as he launched the Commonwealth Second Liberty Loan. He warned of a possible invasion and said the enemy cannot land large forces in Australia. The loan target is 113.4 million pounds compared with 157.14 million subscribed to the first loan.
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Melbourne
Australia
John Curtin
Japan
Commonwealth
Germans Launch New Drive Near Kharkov to Regain Ground
Reuters dispatch from Stockholm reports German forces starting a drive to recover ground lost to Marshal Semeon Timoshenko around Kharkov and already regaining Tamulovska eight miles northeast of the city.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Semeon Timoshenko
Kharkov
Tamulovska
Maryland Flyer Plane Shot Up by Japs in New Guinea Mission
Lieutenant Jean C O'Donnell, 22, Oakland bomber pilot, led a four-zero mission over Lae. A running 35 minute air battle with Japanese Zeros left engine damage but the aircraft returned safely. Tail gunner Ivan W. Whenerson and Sgt. Harry Berg each downed enemy fighters. co-pilot Lieut. Louis McCord.
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Australia
Jean C O'Donnell
Oakland
Lae
New Guinea
inDonnel
Odenrell
Ivan W. Whenerson
South Bend
Wash
Harry Berg
Cedarville
N. J
Lieut
Lous McCord
Montgomery
Ala
Massive RAF Raid Strikes Ruhr At Essen And Cologne
The RAF deployed 1,036 bombers in a daylight drive across the English Channel and deep into Germany. Targets included the Krupp works at Essen and the Cologne area, with preliminary reports indicating heavy fires and substantial destruction. Churchill announced plans for further raids with US air force aid, while noting some bomber losses and a shift to varied attack methods.
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London
RAF
Germany
Mssen
Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Krupp
Air Force
United States
Eisen Raitt
Cologne
House of Commoanss
Air Ministry
France
Low Countries
Essen
Henry H. Arnold
United States Army Air Force
Ruhr
Krupp Industries
Prussian
Rhine
Berlin
Albert Anderson Paroled by Governor Ward
Albert F. Anderson, ex state trooper convicted last May for removal of goods from a wrecked truck, was granted parole by Governor O Connor on Monday following a parole recommendation by Herman M. Moser. Eleven of twelve jurors reportedly signed a parole letter. Anderson will seek employment with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Attorney E Austin James of this city represented him. Also paroled Monday was Charles F Potts serving six and a half years for forgery in this county.
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E. Austin James
Anderson
Charles F. Potts
Nazi Idea Was Good One But They Lost It
Report from Cairo notes that German forces in Libya last week carried a large mobile tank repair unit to maintain their machines but the British captured the unit, derailing the plan. The piece frames the German idea as sound yet failed in execution.
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Cairo
Libya
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