Japanese Assault at Empress Augusta Bay Repelled by Allies
Allied communique reports 3 000 to 4 000 Japanese attackers at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville repelled with about one third killed. Nearly 150 American Navy bombers supported ground troops, while Americans seized two islets near Seadler harbor to bolster positions for possible actions toward Manus Island.
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Southwest
Pete
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Cape Torkina
First Cavalry Division
Los Negros
Admiralities
Seadler Harbor
Hauwei
Butjo Luo
Manus Island
Admiralty Group
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Green Islands
United States
Rabaul
New Britain
Vunapope
Fifth Army Air Force
Wewak
New Guinea
Boram
Kavieng
New Ireland
Four Divorces Granted by Equity Court Amid Desertion Claims
Absolute divorces issued in Equity Court on Monday to four women. Claims included constructive desertion and brutality while under liquor influence. minors were involved in three cases. Names include Cornelia de Vanesse Fad yen, Dorothy Marie O Nea l, Mary Jane Kioby, and Violet C Cole. Custody awarded to each wife. costs taxed to the respective defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equity
Patrick M Schnauffer
Cornelia de VanesseFadyen
John Himes McFadyen
H. Kieffer DeLauter
Dorothy Marie O'Neal
West Patrick Street
John William O'Neal
Pikesville
Prevention of Forest Fires Urged in Western Maryland
State Forester Joseph F. Kaylor addressed forestry personnel from Allegany, Garrett, Washington and Frederick counties during a two day refresher course. He stressed forest conservation and watershed cover for flood control, noting unburned soil absorbs water better than burned soil and that restoration of protective cover takes time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Jorseph F. Kaylor
Maryland
Kaylor
Allegany
Garrett
Washington
Frederick
Forest Conservancy Districts
Wake Island Bombed by Army Navy Bombers
Army and Navy heavy bombers attacked Wake Island delivering a 50-ton strike on Saturday as Pacific Fleet units targeted Nauru and three Eastern Marshall Islands bases. No enemy air opposition was reported and forces returned safely. Nimitz announced the operation amid ongoing attacks this year and prior raids on Wake and Nauru. Separately, the first tax refund check for 14 dollars was presented to Staff Sergeant Stanley A. Sweet as part of a broader 400 million refund program for service members refinements.
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Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
i—Army
Navy
Wake Island
Chester W. Nimitz
Nauru Island
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Wake
Nauru
Washington
Stanley A. Sweet
Shamokin
Morgenthau
Bolling
Surprise Birthday Party Marks Charles Zecker 17th
A surprise party was hosted March 7 at the home of Mr and Mrs Lee Zecker in Burkittsville to honor their son Charles on his 17th birthday. Guests shared cake and warm wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Zecker
Burkittsville
Charles
Penicillin's $1,280 spark led to a medical breakthrough
A Rockefeller Foundation review details how a modest $1,280 grant funded H W Florey's Oxford lab work that pioneered penicillin's clinical use. It traces Fleming's discovery and the shift toward synthetic production, with U S wartime support expanding to 20 institutions and Army Navy medical services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rockefeller Foundation
Foundation
Raymond B. Fosdick
H. W. Florey
Oxford
Fosdick
Florey
England
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Washington
National Research Council
Army
Birthday gathering highlights gifts and refreshments
A cheerful celebration featured beautiful gifts and cards, a birthday cake, and other refreshments. Guests included Misses Mary Louise Hemp, Mary Margaret Zecker, Catherine Pry, Etta Louise Zecker, Darlene Zecker, Charles Ryman, Paul Cobleniz, George Wilmer Guyton, David Ifert, Edwin Freed, Glenn Guyton, Charles Zecker, Miss Bertha Pry, and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Zecker. Our national farm income's largest single source is milky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Louise Hemp
Mary Margaret Zecker
Catherine Pry
Etta Louise Zecker
Darlene Zecker
Charles Ryman
Paul Cobleniz
George Wilmer Guyton
David Ifert
Edwin Freed
Glenn Guyton
Charles Zecker
Bertha Pry
Lee Zecker
Slattery Named Untruthful By Agriculture Secretary
Washington March 13 Agriculture Secretary Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that an Agriculture Department investigator accused Rural Electrification Administrator Harry E Slattery of untruthfulness. Wickard said Slattery's resignation attempts followed and denied Slattery's claim of Cooperatives pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture
Wickard
Senate
Agriculture Department
Harry E. Slattery
Slattery
W. A. Young
Young
REA
NRECA
Nazis Blame Germany If Rome Becomes Battleground
United States warns that if Nazi occupied Rome becomes a battlefield and sacred Christian relics are destroyed, the German forces will bear the blame. Secretary Hull says Allied authorities focus on military necessity while seeking to spare holy sites and lives as Pope Pius XI appeals for restraint. He confirms no promise to spare Rome but emphasizes avoidance of unnecessary destruction. Also brief notes on recent musical performances and planned future concerts by Hawaiian Sharps and Harold Pratt at Winchester Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
Rome
Moscow
Red Army
United States
Soviet Union
Long Police Court Session Delivers Drunken Driving And Assault Sentences
Mag istrate Edward J. Smith presided over a long police court session that handed down sentences from sixty days in jail for drunken driving or throwing missiles at vehicles to a suspended six month term for assault and battery on a wife and child. Fines ranged from $1 to $150 plus costs, with some fines paired with jail time or vehicle collateral forfeitures.
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House of Correction
Edward J. Smith
Robert Turner, Sr
Baltimore
New Market
Horace Alexander
Paul Rhoads
Harry 8. Schaeffer
Hagerstown
Schaeffer
Route 40
W. W. Corbin
Doroihhy Bowie
Ernest W. ‘Shry
Urbana
Frank Foreman
Shry
Bowie
Rhoads
Daisy Harris
William M. Storm
Sherman P. Bowers
Turner
Cornelius Jackson
Elizabeth Mason
Jack McGolerick
Richard J. Davis
Washington, D. C
Ceril H. Woodward
New Midway
Ellis Carty
Charles F. Bell
Wilbur
Martin Kanade
Wilbur S. Rowe
Myersville
H. F. Wallace
Harold F. Covell
Frederick
Walter Wilt
Bruce E. Wachter
Monrovia
H. L. Basore
William R. Runkles
Rt 1
Mt. Airy
W. L. McElfish
Orphans Court Grants Admin for Johnson and Estates
Orphans Court issued letters of administration to Harry Johnson of 130 East Third Street for the late Mary T. Johnson estate with $300 in personal property. Executors Grove Sapping ton and Biser filed $256.54 in their fifth and final account and distributed $220.10. Weinberg reported no personal property for Daisy Porter Mathews and paid inheritance tax on real estate valued at $5,000 after expenditures. Horine filed $2,395 in first and final accounts and distributed $1,887.80 for Ezra St Horine estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orphans Court Matters
Orphans’ Court
Harry Johnson
East Third Street
Mary T. Johnson
Grace R. Grove Sappington
Mary Sue Biser
William J. Grove
Manuel M. Weinberg
Daisy Porter Mathews
Baxter T. Horine
Ezra St. Horine
Carroll county honored for wartime food effort in 1943
Carroll county farmers were to be honored for their wartime food production with an honorist certificate presented by Edward M. Davis at two o'clock this afternoon in Westminster. The award, from Maryland Agricultural War Board with War Food Administration approval, recognizes Carroll along with Baltimore and Montgomery counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll County
Westminster
Edward M. Davis
Soil Conservation Services
Maryland Agricultural War Board
War Food Administration
Carroll
Baltimore
Montgomery
Ferris R. Penn
Carroll County Aaa
Agricultural War Board
Agricultural Board
Mr. Penn
LC. Burns
J. N. Snyder
Caral Remsburg
Carl H. Ingling
State Agricultural War Board
Walkersville Fire Company Holds Annual Worship Program
About 35 members of the Walkersville Volunteer Fire Company attended the annual church service at Walkersville Methodist Church Sunday evening. Led by chaplain Rev. Dr. Alvill Conner, the gathering included host church members, families, and friends, with music by the church choir. Dr. A. N. Warner delivered the sermon titled The Hero In Thy Soul, and Dr. Conner gave the invocation and remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walkersville
Prisoner Found Hanged at Phoenix War Camp
Col A H Means reports a German prisoner hanged at the Phoenix area POW camp last night. A board of inquiry is to investigate. Means later said two inmates climbed the fence but were captured. the incidents are not connected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
A. H. Means
Here
Means
Badoglio And Soviet To Exchange Envoys
Naples March 13 premier marshal Pietro Badoglio announced that Italy and the Soviet Union will exchange ambassadors marking the first diplomatic recognition of the Badoglio government by a United Nations member. The communique said both governments will establish direct relations and proceed to exchange representatives with usual diplomatic status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Pietro Badoglio
Soviet Union
Badoglio
United Nations
Russia
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Labor Now On Threshold Of Dog House
Boston March 13 Eric A. Johnson president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States warned that American labor faced growing government backlash as management bore blame for past excesses. He urged mutual aid between management and labor and warned against a continuous brawl that could invite government restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Eric A. Johnson
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Boston University
Johnson
Labor
Washington
Insull
Hopson
Musica
Browne
Bioff
Scalise
Maryland motorists fail to endorse gas line ration coupons
More than one fifth of 1 777 Maryland motorists checked last week had not properly endorsed gas line ration coupons. The Office of Price Administration announced 324 drivers had unmarked license numbers and states on their coupons. Violators were told to display properly endorsed coupons within 15 days or face possible revocation of ration books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Maryland
OPA
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Martienburg
W. Va
Theresa Buchta
Binghamton
N. Y
Anthony Buchta
Southwest Pacific
Harold Pratt
Hanover Oahu
Winchester Halls
Tre Procaxis
Frederick Guitar Club
Cleveland
Ohio
Allen
Market ST
Delphey
Patrick St. Blanks
Nasi
Berlin
Robert L. Meserve
Sand Point
Idaho
Wallace Emmer
St. Louis
U. S. Army Radiotelephoto
NEA
Moscow and
Russ Front
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Eric Johnson
Viking Hose
South Market
Burall's Cycle Shop
C. C. Carty’s
E. Pat
Cary
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