Classification Of Men Over 38 Changes Again In Draft Rules
Washington March 7 Selective Service ordered local boards to reclassify two dozen men aged 38 to 45 into 4-H and shift others into regular classes but not draft them. The move aims to induce over 38s to farm by May 1 for farm deferment 2-C or 3-C, with some possibly entering 1-A (H) and similar. Officials gave no commitment on a broad call. emphasis remains on farming and updated farm-deferment procedures.
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Weshington
Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
Manpower Commission
War Or
Navy Departments
Senator Wheeler
D-Mont
Congress
Army
Adda Kcl Lee
AL Hald
County Farm War Board
County Farm Boards
Mr. B
Farm Machinery High Prices At Sterling Ecker Sale Near New Windsor
Farm machinery brought high prices at the public sale of Sterling Ecker two miles northeast of New Windsor on Friday. A corn cultivator sold for 485. a corn binder for 280. a low down wagon used 17 years 125. a rubber tire wagon 239. a side delivery rake 138. a day loader 103. another binder 140. Cattle sold 125 to 190, eight week old pigs at 10. horses sold well. Total receipts 7348.87. Clerks were Charles Haines and Lee Hoke. A household goods sale at 82 North Market Street yielded good prices including an electric range 89 and an iron range 90. Dishes and chairs sold well. R. L. Kelly handled the farm sale records. The farm sale for Charles rg was postponed due to weather, to be held next Saturday at 40 o’clock, Ignatios Lease to cry.
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Sterling Ecker
New Windsor
Glenn Trout
Charles, Haines
Lee Hoke
North Market Street
Trout
R. L. Kelly
Chinese Score Win Over Japs At Salween
Chinese forces on the Salween river west bank began a general Japanese retreat after counter attacks. Central News Agency reports Chinese recaptured key points. fighting continued in Hunan and Lungchwan regions. Tokyo radio claims 20,000 Chinese troops led by Wang Ching-Shai were taken prisoner in recent mop up operations.
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Chungking
Salween
Cecentral
Tali
Burma Road
Yunnan-Burma
Chinese High Command
Hunan
Junnen
Lungchwan River
Kiangtzuegh
Myitkiyina
Shichuida
Hupeh-Hunan
Niehchiaho
Pailochi
Tokyo
Associated Press
Wang Ching-Shai
Ind Rubber Workers Vote To Go On Strike
Mishawaka Indiana March 7 Local 63 United Rubber Workers of OtO N voted to strike against Ball Band a US Rubber Company subsidiary in a protest over delayed War Labor Board action on wage appeals. The strike slated to start at midnight with the night shift and about three fourths of the plant workforce involved. Wage scale at Ball Band stands at 65 cents an hour for women and 89 cents for men.
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Mishawaka
Ind
United Rubber Wartass of Ot
Ball Band Plant
United States Rubber Company
Gerald Nichels
War Labor Board
Nichols
WWAS
Pleasure driving ban seen in effect at Penn Square
On January 20 the ban first limited pleasure driving in Philadelphia. At the northeast corner of Penn Square a count showed 65 private cars and 36 cabs in one hour. Today with the ban in place the same check counted 202 autos and 7 cabs in the same hour.
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Philadelphia
Gueck
Penn Square
Two Youths Held For Stealing From Auto
Charged with the theft of groceries from the automobile of Howard Shockey near Emmitsburg Saturday night. James and George Wills, brothers, of near Emmitsburg, were arrested by State Trooper Walter Wilt and charged with larceny. The youths had the groceries in their possession when arrested. They were released in 100 bond each pending a hearing today before Magistrate Frank J Campbell at Emmitsburg. Ralph Valentine Route 2 Taneytown, arrested by Trooper Wilt on charge of exceeding 50 miles an hour, will be tried next Friday before Magistrate Vincent Tubman at Taneytown. Arline Good Miller of Waynesboro was found guilty Friday before Magistrate Campbell of exceeding 25 miles an hour in Emmitsburg. He paid 10.75.
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Howard Shockey
Emmitsburg
James
George Wills
Walter Wilt
Wilt
Frank J Campbell
Ralph Valentine
Taneytown
Nephew of Brunswick Woman Prisoner in Japan War
Sergt Harold G. Pohl of Steubenville Ohio is among nine Marylanders reported missing or prisoners in the Philippines. He is not a son of Mrs. O W Ayres of 522 West Potomac Brunswick, and she explains she is his aunt not his mother. Mrs Ayres and Mrs Pohl have written hopeful letters and await word on possible replies from Pohl. The father George Pohl died after his son was reported missing following Bataan.
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Harold G. Pohl
War Department
Philippine Islands
O. W. Ayres
West Potomar Street
Brunswick
Steubenville
Ohio
Sergi
Pohl
Elsie Pohl
George Pohl
J Pon
Ayres
Jirs. Ayres
Gandhi son says Mohandas Gandhi well on road to recovery
Devadas Gangni, Gandhi’s youngest son, reports the Indian nationalist leader is improving after a 21 day hunger strike. He expects another two weeks of bed rest before possible discharge. Gandhi remains detained at Aga Khan Palace in Poona since last August.
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Gandhi
Bombay
Devadas Gangni
Mohandash Gandhi
Devadas
Aga Khan
Poona
Large Jap Cargo Ship Hit By Bombs
Allied Headquarters in Australia reports an 8,000-ton Japanese cargo ship was bombed off New Guinea. An enemy bomber was shot down over Darwin, with fighters intercepting a reconnaissance plane. Heavy units raided Cape Gloucester and Goodenough Island, and plane strikes targeted Minduru Ruta and Dona runways amid widespread activity in the New Guinea theatre.
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Allied
Australia
New Guinea
Darwin
Armed High Command
Ium
Tocal
Keay Islands
Gasmala
New Britain
Stephan Strait
Cape Gloucester
Runnway
Sala Malia
Vivigani
Goodenough Island
Mubo
Mindru- Ruta
Dona
Genoa Hit by British Bombing Destroys Thousands of Buildings
A Berlin radio record cited by The Associated Press reports more than 6,000 Genoa buildings destroyed in British air raids. Among wrecked structures is the Palazzo Doria Tursi, Genoa's town hall, per a Milan dispatch of the Trans-Ocean News Agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
Genoa
Milan
Trans-Ocean News
No Tampering With Sunday Laws Warned by Pomona Grange
Pomona Grange in Middletown urged against any legislation to liberalize Sunday liquor sales theaters or sports events and backed replacing the state biennial budget with an annual one. The group referred other current matters to committees and adopted plans to hold the next quarterly meeting at Feagaville. They also abandoned the Efficiency and Economy Committee and Advisory Board and named a Post War Committee to study agricultural issues, authorized $3 awards for 4-H club winners, and heard appeals for increased food production from Dr. Frank Bomberger.
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Pomona Grange
Middletown
John 8. Funk
Grange
Funk
Feagaville
The
Frederick County
College Park
Frank Bomberger
University of Maryland Extension Service
Austin P. Renn
Rebecca Holland
Harry Howard
David Derr
Edward F. Holter
Frederick
Petersville
Braddock Heights
Howard
U Quinn
Tobias E. Zimmerman
J. H. Crickenberger
J. Homer Remsberg
Sharnex Walker
John Renn
Denver J. Shook
David H. Fry
George IF. Grove
George Hubbard
Soil Conservation
Ralph G. Kline
Henry Lakin
Maurice Zentz
Harry Frantz
Carl Ingling
Cecil K. Holter
T. E. Zimmerman
L.H. Crickenberger
Roy Ramsburg
George Stone
Ensign Schwartz Receives Navy Wings at Corpus Christi
James Wil digin Svlwarks Schwartz son of Charles Raymond Schwartz 324 Madison Street receives the Navy Wings of Gold at graduation from the Naval Air Training Center Corpus Christi Texas in February He previously served as communications watch officer on the U S S Saratoga in 1941 and first enlisted in the Naval Reserve summer 1940 He was accepted for flight training in May 1942 and briefly lost his Ensign status before being commissioned again A Frederick High School and Gettysburg College graduate he worked as a reporter for the Frederick News Post and is on leave now
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Naval Reserve
James Wildigin Svlwarks
Dirs
Charles Raymond Schwartz
Madison Street
Naval Air Training Center
Corpus Christi
Tex
Schwartz
Seattle
Wash
Frederick High School
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg
Ensign Schwartz
Frederick News-Post
Local Honor Roll Names Included in Various Groups
The record lists members across several clubs including Home Economics with Mary W. Holter Bessie Bell Nellie Frushour Sylvia Byler Annie Dutrow Elsie Holter and Lester Lenhart. Juvenile Grange features Mrs Howard Quinn Mrs Austin P Renn and Ruth Firor among participants.
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Ard
Repudiates Vichy Decrees In North Africa
Allied Headquarters in North Africa reports Gen. Henri Giraud repudiating all Vichy decrees since the armistice and liquidating the government bureau. He has relaxed restrictions on Jews, promised relief, and outlined gradual steps to restore property and schooling for Jewish people amid new war committee policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Africa
Henri Giraud
Vichy
Giraud
Imperial Council
Darlan
French Africa
Japs Refuse To Come Out And Fight
Brig. Gen. Clayton L. Bissell reported February air operations in India Burma and China show Japanese planes avoiding combat. In 70 missions over 490 sorties 28 Japanese planes were destroyed and many more damaged. An American air base in East India repelled a raid with 14 fighters downed. one American was killed aiding airport workers.
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New Delhi
Clayton L. Bissell
United States 10Th Air Force
India
Burma
China
Bissell
10Th
Salween River
Cecil N. Vaccaro
South Greensburg
Gauss to Return Home for Consultation
U S Ambassador Clarence E Gauss will depart Chungking for Washington in a few days for consultation. He will leave the embassy in charge of First Secretary John Carter Vincent of Fairfax Virginia as he goes.
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Gauss
Chungking
U. S
Clarence E. Gauss
Washington
John Carter Vincent
Fairfax
Institute Raided On Vice Charge
Washington March 7 FBI raided the Hopkins Institute on Connecticut Avenue near Du Pont Circle, calling it a pseudo massage parlor and arresting owner George Francis Whitehead in New York and two women Mildre Powell Carter and Rose Anderson in Washington on prostitution charges. Hoover said the institute operated a lucrative call service sending girls to hotels and private apartments. The arrests, expected to spark a furore in Washington, came after months of FBI surveillance revealing an active call agency serving a dozen clients from a swanky address.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Hopkins Institute
Connecticut Avenue
du Po
Circle
George Francis Whitehead
New York City
Mildre Powell Carter
Rose Anderson
J. Edgar Hoover
Institutes
Hoover
Theonnecticut Avenue
New York
California
Property Sold Near Mt Pleasant After Public Auction
The late Wm M Lovhner estate sold a two story house barn garage outbuildings 13 acres and a wood lot one mile east of Mt Pleasant for 1375 dollars at public auction Saturday. Harry Barnes of near Frederick bought the property. Auctioneer Glenn Trout and clerk R L Kelly handled the sale.
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Wm. M. Lovhner
Mt. Pleasant
Harry Barnes
Frederick
Glenn Trout
R. L. Kelly
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Virginia Ifert
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Roy Fisher
Fannie Howard
Richard Remsburg
L. M. Coblentz
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Ensign James Wm. Schwartz
Allen
Burall
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Gletien
Armstrong
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