Frederick Jaycees press for city action on unconnected sewers
The Frederick Junior Chamber of Commerce accuses city officials of stalling on enforcing a law that would require about 700 unconnected properties to join the sanitary sewer system. Jaycees say health risks persist and demand fixed responsibility and enforcement to compel homeowners to connect.
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Frederick
State Health Department
Carroll Creek
E. C. Kefauver
News and Post
Kefauver
Niemann A Brunk
Jaycee Committee
Brunk
Jaycees
Patterson Sues Winchell NBC For 200000 Damages
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson owner of the Washington Times Herald sues Walter Winchell the Andrew Jergens Company and NBC in District Court for 200000 damages claiming defamation. She seeks 100000 in compensation and 100000 punitive against Winchell for allegedly repeating false and scandalous words from an editorial involving US foreign policy.
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Washington
Eleanor Patterson
Washington Times- Herald
Walter Winchell
Andrew
Rationing Of Gas Within Next Six Weeks
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes announced a rigid gasoline coupon rationing system would be instituted in the east and Pacific northwest as soon as the cards can be printed, within six weeks. The card rationing would replace the current 20 percent cut in gasoline supplies delivered to filling stations.
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Washington
Ickes
East
Pacific Northwest
Ousted Nazi Officers Recalled in Berlin Dispatch
A Basel National Zeitung report from Bern cites a Berlin dispatch claiming Hitler has recalled top officers including Walther Von Brauchitsch Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt and Erwin Rommel to plan a major eastern front offensive with a possible Libyan surprise. Goering appeals to farmers for higher production and Franz von Papen may skip a Berlin visit, signaling shifts in policy toward Turkey.
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Bern
Switzerland
Hitler
Berlin
Basel National Zeitung
Walther von Brauchitsch
Fuehrer
Moscow
von Brauchitsch
Libya
Russia
National Zeitung
Rommel
Basler Nachrichten
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Turkey
Franz Vor Papen
Ankara
Offensive Force To Be Built Up By MacArthur
General MacArthur, now supreme commander in the southwest Pacific, aims to rapidly build an offensive force to defeat Japan and relieve beleaguered Philippines troops. Brigadier General Hurley, ex War Department aide, quoted him as confident he will return to Filipino soil and that plans are being set into motion with military secrecy.
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Melbourne
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Philippines
MacArthur
War Department
Patrick Jay Hurley
New Zealand
Hurley
United States
Philippine Islands
Blizzard Roars Across Northeast England and Scotland
The worst blizzard in 60 years hit northeast England and eastern Scotland March 5 and 6, amid a historically severe winter. Authorities disclosed the storm as wartime weather records remained secret, with extreme cold persisting over two months and roads impassable for nine weeks before heavy rain arrived.
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London
England
Scotland
Food Rations to Drop in Germany Starting April 4
Reuters reports Berlin radio announced Germany will cut food rations starting April 4. The move tightens civilian supplies amid wartime constraints and anticipates shortages across the nation.
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London
Reuters
Berlin
Germany
Instructions For Use Of War Ration Books
Frederick city and county residents will receive War Ration Book one for sugar purchases with 28 stamps. Books must be signed by the named individual and safeguarded. stamps are forfeited if torn outside store use and record keeping is required. Local registrars and the Ration Board will oversee issuance and sugar inquiries, with operation dates to be announced.
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Frederick
Office of Price Administration
Court House
OPA
United States
Ration Board
American British Flyers Claim Big Air Loss in Burma
New Delhi March 19 British headquarters in Burma reports American volunteers and British pilots destroyed about 25 Japanese planes in attacks on Japanese held airfields in southern Burma yesterday. Japanese bombers struck a target in North Burma causing damage.
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New Delhi
India
Burma
Idle Machine Tool Survey Is Completed
A city survey of idle machine tools and unused manufacturing space, led by G. Horton Peace of the Frederick Chamber of Commerce, is filed with authorities. The study cites Deland Florida’s pooling approach as a model to secure defense contracts and notes WPB involvement and potential centralization of equipment.
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G. Horton Peace
Frederick
F. W. Weitzel
Ox Fibre Brush Company
Deland, Fla
Board of Aldermen
Peace
Lloyd C. Culler
Weitzel
Deland
William J. Deegan
Deegan
Florida
WPB
Washington
County Fair
Wright Field
Fair Grounds
Citizens Committee
Plan to suspend Sunday double time pay for war duration
Administration leaders pressed to suspend Sunday double time in arms industries by mutual consent of management and labor. The preliminary proposal would replace Sunday double time with time and a half, applying for the war's duration and subject to agreement, with details still under discussion.
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Washington
P—Administration
Club Women Of County In Annual Meet Here Today
The Frederick County Federation of Rural Women's Clubs met at Grace Evangelical and Reformed church with about two hundred women. Miss Venia Kellar urged wartime family cooperation in nutrition and food production, while Dr. William Barnhart discussed world peace and the danger of fascism. The meeting featured reports by officers and county chairmen and closed with an afternoon program at Calvary Methodist church.
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Frederick County
Barnhart
Europe
J. Homer Remsberg
Middletown
Federation
Ralph E. Hartman
Steiner Smith
Woodsboro
G. O. Hendrickson
Urbana
Bowyer Fout
Frederick
Genevieve Thomas
Adamstown
Calvary Methodist Church
Market recovers tepid after MacArthur rally
In New York on March 19, profit cashing from Tuesday's Mac Arthur rally appeared nearly finished as stocks showed feeble recoveries. Early trading edged forward but buying demand faded, with sluggish dealings and irregular activity prevailing near midafternoon.
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New York
Lst
Japs Advance Toward Port Moresby and Stilwell Command
Reports from Washington and Sydney detail Japanese ground movement from Lae toward Port Moresby New Guinea with Australia and Britain defending the coast. In Burma General Stilwell is placed in command of the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies aiding British forces. The story notes allied air and sea actions and Japanese cruiser losses amid ongoing raids and defense efforts.
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Washington
War Department
Joseph W. Stilwell
United States Army
Burma
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Stilwell
Chiang
Chiang Kai-Shek Thas
Jooseph W. Stilwell
Seaches
Austalia
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Markham
Lae
Sydney Sun
New York
CBS
Markham Valley
Lyon
Salamaua
Australia
London
France
Vichy Radio
Lyons Radio
Australian
Java
Timor Sea
Melbourne
Darwin
Japan
New Guinea Sea
Rabaul
New Britain
Large Area Wrested From Nazi Control
Soviet guerrilla forces told Pravda they retook about 6000 square miles behind German lines near Leningrad, a blockable zone as large as Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Moscow News urged Britain and the United States to open a broad anti-Hitler offensive to exploit Red Army gains.
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Moscow
Pravda
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Leningrad
Communist Party
Baltic
Estonia
Baltic Republic
Britain
United States
Germany
Moscow News
Kuibyshev
Red Army
Hitler
MacArthur’s perilous voyage to Australia detailed
A Melbourne dispatch cited by the New York Herald Tribune outlines General Douglas MacArthur his wife and child with aides traveling from Bataan to Australia by small motor torpedo boats. They left March 11 hid in bayous four days awaited planes and endured heavy seas before reaching Australia on March 17, with Darwin avoiding air attack.
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New York
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan Peninsula
Australia
Melbourne
New York Herald Tribune
Allen Raymond
MacArthur
Bataan
Philippine Islands
Raymond
MacArthurs
Darwin
British destroyer Electra sunk. 54 rescued by U S subs
Fifty four crew members of the British destroyer Electra, sunk in the Java battle, were rescued by United States submarines. Reuters reported from Perth Australia today.
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London
Electra
Java
United States
Reusters
Perth
Burma Battle Readies to Burst on Prome Road Assault
Burmese front reports an imminent clash as Japanese forces press toward Prome Road defense lines guarding Yenangguang oil fields. Reuters notes Imperial troops pulled from Tarrawaddy toward Rangoon and Prome, with Japanese advancing by river, road, and mule train.
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Mandalay
Burma
Prome Road
Yenangguang
Irrawaddy
Reuters
Tarrawaddy
Rangoon
Prome
Toungoo
Kanyutkwin
Tongoo
Maryland Day Full Work Schedule Ordered by Governor
Annapolis March 19 State offices will stay open next Wednesday Maryland Day Governor O Conor urged industrial plants to observe a full work schedule due to the dire situation and need for continued production State law may force banks and courts to close.
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Annapolis
Maryland
O'Conor
Treasury weighs renaming defense bonds to war savings bonds
Washington officials said they are considering changing the label of defense bonds and stamps to war savings bonds and stamps, affecting federal savings programs in the current policy review.
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Washigton
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NBC
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Hood College
America
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John Curtin
United States Navy
Coral Sea
Irrawaddy Valley
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