Activity in Italy Dwindles As Allied Forces Report
Allied Headquarters Naples reports reduced activity on all Italian fronts due to severe weather. Allied aircraft flew about 900 sorties with medium bombers striking shipping and targets at Santo Stefano and Montalto di Castro northwest of Rome. Light bombers hit gun positions behind Anzio and at Campranica railway. About 30 enemy planes were seen. two Allied planes missing. Germans captured total over 1300 since Salerno. 3000 on the beachhead and 1500 in Cassino area. General Alexander called the beachhead situation much better than three weeks earlier.
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New Market Homemaker Club Sets March Federation Day Plans
The New Market Homemaker's Club met at New Market school auditorium Friday. Corporals Guerney and Smith of the WACs showed a film "We're in the Army Now" illustrating women's duties. Children sang war songs and the club voted $10 to the Red Cross. President Mrs. Trimble announced Federation Day luncheon tickets for March 16. The program included "The Four Freedoms" pictures, a Bible study by Miss Shawbaker, poems by Mrs. Shawbaker and Mrs. McGolerick, and a hat-restyling demo by Miss Hammerty. Sixteen members attended. next meeting set for April 7 at Mrs. Harry Wood's home.
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Roosevelt Struggles With Tax Form Too
Washington reports President Roosevelt toiled on his income tax return, solving Form 1040 himself as Treasury help is deemed unnecessary. The White House notes a desk stacked with papers from his mother’s estate complicating the task, including renting bungalows. With more whirls, the return should be ready for the Internal Revenue Collector.
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Paul Revere Returns to Goldsmith Craft After War
Paul Revere resumes his trade as a goldsmith following the Revolutionary War and furnishes the plates for the frigate Constitution, continuing his involvement in early American industry and naval projects.
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Hood College Honor Dinner Guests and Activities
Hood College in Coblentz Hall hosted the Honor Dinner with Wilson College President Dr Paul Swain Havens as guest speaker. Top Hood students and faculty attended while students from Hood prepared talks and basketball play day plans at George Washington University.
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Rivalry For Prestige Intensifies Campaign
Washington March 10 Rivalry between AFL and CIO sharpens the push to strike down the little steel formula. The War Labor Board seeks White House guidance on wage ceilings while the steel industry fights CIO Steelworkers 17 cent demand, arguing it conflicts with existing policy. Both groups want to raise the 15 percent limit but fear giving the other an edge among workers.
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Ramirez Resigns Argentine Presidency in Formal Message
Buenos Aires reports Pedro Ramirez formally quits the presidency in a letter to acting President Edelmiro Farrell. La Nacion notes the resignation was also sent to the Supreme Court, which planned a special session to address the development. Other major papers carried the same report.
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Surprise Birthday Party Near Frederick Honors Harry Ridgley
A Feb 29 gathering at the Ridgley home near Frederick marked the birthday of Harry Ridgley with gifts and ecards. Attendees included multiple Ridgleys and spouses plus friends. cake and refreshments followed. Arizona State prisoners reportedly harvested half a million pounds of cotton this past year, earning the prevailing wage with costs for food and guards deducted.
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Weather Weather data snapshot from March 1944 report
The report lists 24 hour precipitation none, March to date 162 inches, normal March 3.48 inches, actual March 1943 4.17 inches, deficiency to March 1 0.33 inch. Yesterday high 29, low 12. Sunrise 7.29 am, sunset 7.12 pm. Moon rises 8.54 pm, sets 8.33 am.
Oven Steamed Pud ding With Low Sugar Version
Lively note on serving steamed puddings as spring arrives. Provides a recipe for Oven Steamed Pudding with low sugar and shortening, listing ingredients such as sifted cake flour baking powder salt sugar shortening milk and vanilla, plus steps to combine, beat, fill small molds and bake in a hot water bath for about 55 minutes.
Cooking directions for a versatile batter dish
Instructions describe baking batter in a greased casserole or a double boiler. Suggested options include baking about one hour, covering with paper and tying, or cooking until done over boiling water. Mentions serving hot with fruit sauce and yields unspecified servings.
Man struck by candy shard. injuries in movie house
Police report a Thompson, a Baltimore resident working on a local war construction project, was hit by two pieces of hard candy thrown by two children at a local theater. Glass lodged under an eye. he was treated at Frederick City Hospital and by a local oculist. The father of the children agreed to cover damages.
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