Fire Bomb Demonstration Draws 1000 in Frederick
A Civilian Defense Council event at Frederick High School highlighted incendiary bomb dangers. Simon Clopper led nine demonstrations on extinguishing methods, while county officials praised the turnout and instructive talks on enemy bombs and their effects.
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Frederick
Clopper
Frederick Fire Companies
Earle Shriner
Alton ¥. Bennett
Bennett
Charles Troxell
Ray Gladh
Robert Rumpf
Emory Carmack
Melvin Fox
Charles Hollie
James Fletcher
Roger Etzler
Paul Rhoads, Jr
Joseph Hooper
5 F. Gardner
Louis Esterly
Charles Kinna
Weather and Property Transfer Report
The report lists 24 hour precipitation at .07 inches as of 8 am and March to date at 2.21 inches with March norm 3.48 inches. It notes 1941 March total 213 inches, 1942 deficiency 2.03 inches, yesterday high 44 and low 40, prior year highs and lows 32 and 20. It records the sale of property on West Seventh Street from Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore R. Flautt to William L. Brown for about 4300 dollars with revenue stamps.
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Gilmore R. Flautt
William L Brown
West Seventh Street
Answers To War Quiz On Page Four
Answers to the war quiz list ranks and vessels with shorthand clues. It also names historical figures such as Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt, indicating a feature on leaders and naval terms.
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Jackson
William H. Harrison
Taylor
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore
Personal Conflicts Blamed For Guthrie Resignation
Washington March 16 Don ald M Nelson war production chief blamed personal conflicts between staff and Guthrie head of WPB textiles division for Guthrie’s resignation and said these disputes impeded the war effort. Nelson asked the Senate Defense Investigating Committee to probe all circumstances and determine if resistance to the program existed within the WPB.
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Washington
Donald M Nelson
Robert Guthrie
WPB Textiles
Senate
Nelson
Tuman D-Mo
Guthrie
WPB
Truman
Would Limit Profits On War Contracts
Washington report on proposed laws to recapture profits over six per cent on war contracts and end overtime limits during the war. Rep. Howard Smith and Chairman Vinson push measures to bar union membership as a condition of wartime employment and to curb excessive profits on defense work. Supporters cite labor strain while White House says labor legislation is under study and some relaxation may occur.
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Washington
House
Howard Smith
D-Va
Vinson
D-Ga
Naval Committees
War
Navy
Capitol
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
Lee
Dokla
Congress
Rep
Wickersham
D-Okla
Disney
Smith
Senate Labor Committee
Military
Naval
Vinson-Smith
Declaraion
Public anger fuels push to end strikes against government
Within minutes of new bills, Rep Cox urged inflamed public opinion to end government labor strikes. Members later offered mail excerpts for the Congressional Record. Speaker Rayburn warned the record would swell to statute-book size and urged members to read their mail instead.
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Cox
D-Ga
Rules Committee
Rayburn
Dtex
Fredericktonian Rhoades Reported Safe in Tokyo Embassy
Otis W. Rhoades, sixteen years American Vice-Consul at Kobe, is safe at the U S embassy in Tokyo. His mother Mrs Charles M Rhoades received word via Swiss authorities and Sumner Welles signed the telegram confirming welfare. Joseph Grew serves as ambassador to Japan and is among accompanying officials.
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Otis W. Rhoades
Fredericktonian
Kobe
United States
Tokyo
State Department
Charles M. Rhoades
West Patrick Street
Rhoades
Contracts Awarded for 234 U S Cargo Ships and Shipyards
The Maritime Commission announced contracts for 234 emergency Liberty Ship class vessels to Higgins Industries of New Orleans and the W A Bechtel Company of San Francisco. Higgins to build 200 ships near New Orleans with new assembly line facilities. Bechtel to construct 34 ships in a six-way yard at Sausalito. Prospects for a large fruit crop noted by orchardist J Hooker Lewis near Thurmont.
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Washington
Maritime Commission Tonight
Higgins Industries, Inc
New Orleans
W. A. Bechtel Company
San Francisco
Higgins
Bechtel Company
Sausalito
San Francisco Bay Area
Small Percentage Of Applicants Fit For Jobs
David L. B. Fringer, U. S. employment commissioner for Maryland, said only 35 percent of the 2,500 weekly job seekers in Maryland are suitable for local war industry work. He projected 50,000 more workers needed in 1942, with 15,000 skilled positions. The report notes untapped labor from women and minorities and cites 2,800 women employed at one aircraft plant as a positive sign.
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Baltimore
David L. B. Fringer
U. S
Maryland
Fringer
U. S. Employment Service
Civil Services Commission
National Youth and Works Projects Administrations
Selective Service
Department of Labor
Office of Education and War Production Board
Charles R Hook, Jr
WPB
Nore
War Production Board Orders Amusement Machine Shutdown
Washington March 164 The War Production Board ordered the shut down of all manufacture of juke boxes weighing machines pinball games and other amusement machines effective May 1 The order affects about 30 companies mostly in the Chicago area employing around 10000 people It aims to divert copper aluminum nickel and other metals to war production and speed conversion of the 75000000 industry into war use
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Washington
War Production Board
Chicago
Girl kills general in Kharkov assassination
Moscow reports a Ukrainian girl is credited with the assassination of a German general at Kharkov in a guerrilla dynamiting of his division headquarters. The February 1 notice of General Braun’s death did not mention any girl’s involvement in the same incident.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Braun
Draft Drawing Begins Today At 6 O'clock
Washington reports America's third draft lottery in 17 months will start tomorrow night with Secretary of War Stimson drawing the first number from the goldfish bowl at 6 pm Eastern War Time. The process, overseen by Brig. Gen. Hershey, involves about 9 million men aged 20 to 44 and could extend for several hours as inductees are selected for military service.
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Washington
America
Uncle Sam
Stimson
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Army
Navy
War Department
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Government authorities to participate in draft drawing
Selective Service officials said the list of government authorities in the draft drawing is not complete. They indicated that many members of Congress have been invited, with about a dozen Senators and 70 House members already registered in last month's listing.
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Congress
House
One Body Recovered After Towboat Sinks
The body of one of eight or nine presumed dead after the Kate Lyons towboat sank in the Ohio River near Wheeling is washed ashore at Wegee, Ohio. Thirteen injured remain in hospitals in Wheeling and Belleaire as rescuers search for others.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Kate Lyons
Ohio
Wegee
Bellaire
Pittsburgh
Kate
Lyons
Lyons Transportation Company of
Brunswick man jailed for thirty days for drunken street offense
Alfred R Jones, a magistrate in Brunswick, convicted Howard Grove on a charge of being drunk on the street. Grove began a thirty day sentence at the county jail.
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Alfred R Jones
Brunswick
Howard Grove
Deep Red Preferred for Blackout Lighting
Baltimore on March 16 Deep Red lighting is advised for blackouts as the least visible from air and most practical on the ground. Maryland Council of Defense Executive Director Isaac S. George reports the War Department guidance to use deep red when lighting is required while warning that red light draws attention if misused.
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Baltimore
Isaac S. George
Maryland Council of Defense
War Department
Feld
Manual On How To Fight Explosives Adopted For Training
A firefighting manual titled War Gases Incendiaries Infernal Machines and Sabotage by Chel J W Just has been requested by 32 states and major departments for training. Michigan adopted it as a standard for instructors and civilian groups with about 9 000 copies printed. The volume includes an article on Aerial Attack On Cities by Major D B Phillips and compiles material from official sources.
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College Park
Chel J W Just
War Department
Coast Guard
Navy Department
Chief Just
Michigan
O'Conor
Just
D. B. Phillips
Army Chemical Warfare School
Record tax payments mark final day of 1941 filing surge
Washington reports a record 22 million filers and thousands of corporations paid at least a quarter of their 1941 income tax by midnight. A $5 million quarterly installment in Chicago set a city record as the Treasury rushed debt payments to keep money flowing. Partial early totals show $441 million collected in the first 13 days, more than double last year, with higher rates and lower exemptions driving the surge.
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Washington
Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Treasury
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