State to Ask For Bids On New Bridge In May
Baltimore March 13 Chairman Ezra B Whitman said the State Roads Commission plans relocation of U S Route 40 south of the broken tug bridge near Frederick and hopes to solicit bids on a new two lane Monocacy River bridge in May The Public Roads Administration will assist financing and a four lane design would cause too much delay at present a second bridge could follow if needed
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Baltimore
Ezra B. Whitman
State Roads Commission
Broken Tug
Frederick
Public Roads Administration
Monocacy River
Public Roads
Roads Commission
Whitman
Three Late U-Boat Sunk By British Escorts
The Admiralty announced three German submarines sunk from January 3 after a sustained convoy attack. U-131 U-434 and U-574 were all commissioned in 1941. U-574 was destroyed December 18 1941 by the Stork after depth charges disabled its motors. The Stanley had taken part in destroying U-434 the day prior. Two officers and 23 of 43 aboard U-574 survived as prisoners. Commanders named Gegnebach Baumann and Heyda were among those lost or captured.
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London
Admiralty
Stork
Stanley
Ceiling Price Freeze on Finished Piece Goods
The Office of Price Administration sets a 60 day price ceiling on finished piece goods made of cotton or rayon and blends to curb rapid price rises. The order freezes current prices and bars increases beyond March 7 levels, not applying to retail sales but aiming to limit costs for dresses suits coats pajamas house coats shirts curtains and similar items.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Australian Casualties in Malaya Reported at 17 031
Australian casualties in the Malayan campaign including the defense of Singapore totaled 17 031 with 287 officers and men killed and 16 744 missing. Casualties in the Middle East were 13 335 including prisoners of war.
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Sydney
Australia
Singapore
Middle East
Friday the Thirteenth Noted in 1942 Weather Report
The article notes the second of three Fridays the Thirteenth in 1942 and records a cool morning with frost after a warmer previous day. It mentions a forecast of possible rain at night, a 25-degree low, and a 53-degree high on Thursday, with references to prior warm days and a future November Friday the Thirteenth.
What Became Of All Those Pots And Pans
The Office for Emergency Management still seeks details on aluminum salvaged from pots and pans. OEM telegraphed 29 aluminum smelters for status of utensils, ingots, and war production share. Earlier data cited 11,835,139 pounds collected yielding about 7,000,000 pounds of aluminum.
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Washington
Office For Emergency Management
RFC Metals Reserve Company
War Production Board
OPM
Office of Civilian Defense
Gneisenau Bombed Again As RAF Strikes Kiel Area
London reports the RAF attacked the German battleship Gneisenau at Kiel and set naval installations on fire. The raid, part of a spring offensive, followed weather improvements and involved four and two engine bombers with eight planes lost to anti aircraft fire and night fighters.
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London
RAF
Kiel
Air Ministry
Germany
Gneisenau
Dover Straits
Seven Spies Given Terms in Nation's First Spy Trial
Federal Judge Henry W. Goddard sentenced seven defendants in the nation's first spy trial since entering the war to a total of 117 years. The punishments ranged from 12 to 20 years for acts aiding German submarines and transmitting military data, with two additional guilty pleas to be sentenced later.
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New York
Henry W. Goddard
United States
Goddard
Kurt Frederick Ludwig
Fremont
Rene C. Froelich
Governors Island
First Army
Paul T. Borchardt
Helen Pauline Mayer
Karl Victor Mueller
Ameriga
Hans Helmut Pagel
Frederick Edward Schlosser
Brooklyn
Bund
Lucy Boehmler
Long Island
Carl Herrman Schroetter
Miami
Fla
Miss Boehmier
WPA Approves $200,000 Hagerstown Airport Expansion
City Engineer Charles W. Stump announced WPA approval for a 200000 expansion at Hagerstown airport. The project includes widening and extending runways and installing new contact lights along each runway.
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Hagerstown
WPA
Charles W. Stump
British Cruiser Sunk After German Submarine Attack
German High Command announced a British cruiser of the 7 200 ton Leander class, about ten years old, was sunk after being hit twice by torpedoes from a submarine in the eastern Mediterranean. The report also named five cruisers damaged or heavily damaged in ongoing attacks by German and Italian air and sea forces.
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Berlin
High Command
Mediterranean
Martinsburg Defense Officials Observe Frederick Program
Martinsburg civilian defense officials toured Frederick this week to study how the city runs its program. Co ordinator J Howard Crabill and J Marvin Hawk led the visit, praising Frederick's implementation while noting Martinsburg’s plans are still under development and being examined in nearby cities.
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Martinsburg
Frederick
Fuller
J. Howard c. J. Crabill
Martinsburg Defense Council
J- Marvin Hawk
West Virginia
Legion Enrollment Reaches Over One Million
The American Legion reports an enrolment of 1 107 073 members, marking an increase of more than 28 000 in the past year.
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The
American Legion
FBI Agent Killed By 2 Army Deserters in Abingdon
Two Army deserters shot and killed FBI Agent Hubert J. Treacy Jr and wounded another during a a restaurant arrest attempt in Abingdon Virginia. The deserters Charles Lovett and James Testerman fled with pistols after kidnapping a taxi driver and stealing from Fort Oglethorpe. Police and state troopers pursued them. Treacy died instantly and a second agent, Tignor, was wounded, as did a Fort Oglethorpe sergeant. The pair were later cornered in an abandoned house on the Abingdon outskirts.
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Abingdon
FBI
Hubert J. Treacy, Jr
Charles L. ‘Ignor
Fort Oglethorpe
Charles J. Lovett
James Evans Testerman
H. I. Bobbitt
Richmond
Wallace Ford
Treacy
Tignor
Ford
Andy Hilton
Febingdon
Troy Combs
Combs
Elizabeth Kreger
Lebanon
Virginia
Bristol
W. H. Murphy
Knoxville
Clifton Hall
Rossville
Murphy
Third Cavalry
Love
2Nd Street
Philadelphia
Testerman
Lynchburg
Reach U S From Java in perilous wartime move
Mrs. Clarence L. Marsh a former Frederick resident and her daughter Nancy were reportedly en route to the United States from the occupied East Indies. They escaped Sumatra by plane and were said to have arrived at an East Coast port this week, with sister Mrs. Alice King traveling to Baltimore to meet them.
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Clarence L. Marsh
Frederick
Nancy
Baltimore
Potential Nationwide Blackouts Spur Demand for Materials
Local Civilian Defense officials forecast long blackouts at night and residents rush to buy blackout supplies in Frederick. Stores report sellouts and heavy orders for black wool cloth, black satin, and blackout flannel priced mainly 29 to 79 cents a yard. Merchants warn some material may be transparent and ineffective. Demand runs across industrial plants and night operations with many calls to outlets.
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Frederick Residences
Frederick
Shooting by State Guard Probed in Maryland Incident
Brig. Gen. Dwight H. Mohr said a three man board of inquiry would meet in Havre de Grace to investigate a claim that Warren Chamberlain of Perryville was shot by a State Guardsman patrolling the Susquehanna river bridge. Chamberlain said he was lightly wounded by a missile around 5 30 p m Wednesday after guard Pvt. Ferguson fired multiple rounds when Chamberlain did not halt. Ferguson said he heard rifle fire near tracks and fired at a man who did not stop, then fired again as he moved away.
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Baltimore
Dwight H. Mohr
State Guard
Havre de Grace
Warren Chamberlain
Perryville
Susquehanna River Bridge
Mohr
Chamberlain
John Ferguson
Highway Bridge
Ferrguson
Engineers Work On Local End Of Dual Highway
State Roads Commission engineers were seen near where the dual highway meets Route 40 west of Frederick. Plans discussed include channelization of Route 40 and the dual highway. Officials indicate possible funds to finish about 17 miles from near Hagerstown to Frederick, with federal support necessary. Bids on a section near Hagerstown to Myersville were previously announced but not yet advertised.
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State ‘Roads Commission
Frederick
Hagerstown
Myersville
Income Tax Deadline Nears At Post Office
Deputy collectors at the post office report a heavy rush of taxpayers filing returns. Doors close early to finish service as the deadline looms. Returns must be postmarked Monday midnight with a grace day this year since the 13th is Sunday.
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Internal Revenue
Second Fire On Former Normandie Reignites Deck Fire
A blaze aboard the former Normandie, now Lafayette, was reported as a rubbish fire and quashed in 135 minutes with 100 coast guardsmen and vessels responding. The ship had earlier burned on Feb 9 and capsized after that fire was extinguished. Separately, the ICC allowed Pullman to raise rates by 10 percent to take effect within 10 days.
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New York
Normandie
Lafayette
Pullman
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pullman Company
Commission
Wage Control Under Study Lets Roosevelt Reply
President Roosevelt said wage control as a war measure is under study and he did not rule out positive action. He noted inflation control is mixed in progress and that the Canadian system of wage control may be unclear for U S use. He added he did not attend Mrs Roosevelt’s White House wage control meeting.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
White House
House Farm Bill Sees $25 Million Reduction
The House tentatively cut $25 million from agriculture appropriations today, halving additive expenses and grants in the farm rehabilitation program. The $25 million reduction was the largest single cut so far, passed 142 to 139 as President Roosevelt faced talks of a veto on the bill.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Japanese banker interned after insulting Eden report
Viscount Hisaakira Kano a Japanese banker was arrested for ridiculing Foreign Secretary Eden’s Hong Kong atrocity report and placed in internment on the Isle of Man.
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London
Viscount Hisaakira Kano
Eden
Hongkong
Isle of Man
Soviet Spring Offensives Push German Lines Near Dnieper
Soviet authorities claim a major southward push led by Marshal Semeon Timoshenko employs up to 1.5 million Red Army troops to break German resistance in the Donets Basin and advance toward the Dnieper bend. Berlin notes heavy losses as Moscow reports new spring preparations and widespread combat across the central and northern fronts.
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London
Semeon Timoshenko
Donets
Caucasus
Stockholm
Dnieper
Ukraine
Dneiperopetrovsk
Moscow
Ned
Soviet Information Bureau
Red Army
Leningrad
Kalinin
Russia
Smolensk-Vyazma
Arctic
Murmansk
Berlin
Lake Ilmen
Sea of Azov
Staraya Russa
Roosevelt says this is a war and politics is out
President Roosevelt told reporters that the war effort should be free of political maneuvering and that such implications are rare in cabinet actions. He noted Postmaster General Walker’s discussions on Pennsylvania matters as a state issue, stressing cabinet members should avoid national political entanglements.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Frank Walker
U S Bombers Claim Five Japanese Planes Destroyed
The War Department reported five American heavy bombers destroyed five enemy planes in a raid on Japanese held airfields at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea. The communique said buildings and runways were damaged with a direct hit on a harbor craft. American crews escaped damage despite Japanese fighters.
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Washington
War Department
Salamaua
Lae
New Guinea
Australia
Battan
Philippines
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippie Peninsula
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Malaya
Sipwepa Pet
Hhi
France
Als
Paris
Vichy
Royal Air Force
Champs Elysees
15Th Arrondissement
Reuters
Hall
Chattanooga
Charles F Landreth
Cleveland
Tenn
Sweetwater
U. S
Java
Mrs. Marsh
Board of Inquiry
Solomon Islands
Melbourne
Japan
New Zealand
Kessa
Buka Island
New Britain
Solomons
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Buka
Bougainville
New Hebrides
Timor
Air Force
Port Moresby
Commonwealth Air Ministry
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