Preinduction Notices Sent To 75 More By Board 1
Seventy five registrants were today receiving notices from local Draft Board One to report to Baltimore for pre induction physicals in the near future. The white list, 53 members with three transfers, includes fathers like Lemuel Keller and James A Grove among others. The colored group totals 22 with no fathers among them.
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Baltimore
Lemuel D. Keller
A. Irvin Renn
James A. Grove
Frederick
William Rovin
Russell A. Oden
Charles W. Weddie
Sergeant Currens Missing Two Weeks After First Mission
Sergeant Ralph E. Currens, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Currens of 519 Elm Street, took part in his first bomber mission over Europe as tail gunner on a Fortress before being listed as missing in action on another mission. He was interviewed by a Washington correspondent after his Feb 26 mission. letters dated March 2 and March 7 followed. He described rapid readiness, a 12 hour flight, and the personal, nongraphic view of air combat, noting constant vigilance and the feeling that air war is impersonal.
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Ralph E. Currens
Edward E. Currens
Elm Street
Europe
U. S
Washington
Currens
Veterans Administration
Sergt. Currens
Air Forces destroy 9,463 enemy planes in 1943 report
Secretary of War Stimson released a year end Air Forces tally showing World War II air forces destroyed 9,463 enemy planes in the air and 1,579 on the ground in 1943 with total losses of 2,809 in the air and 76 on the ground. The report breaks down results by theaters including United Kingdom Mediterranean Southwest Pacific and China Burma India and Hawaii Alaska.
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Washington
Stimson
AAF
United Kingdom
AATF
Mediterranean
Southwest Pacific
China- Burma-India
South Pacific
Hawaii
Alaska
War casualty totals rise to 173239 worldwide
Washington reports 173239 total American war casualties for Army Navy Marines Coast Guard, up 4947 in a week. Army through March 15 shows 130619 casualties with 22570 killed 63124 wounded 27183 missing 27742 prisoners. Navy Marines Coast Guard total 42620 with 18087 killed 10974 wounded 9138 missing 4421 prisoners. Of 53124 Army wounded, 27296 returned to duty. 17742 prisoners, 1675 died in enemy camps.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Secretary of War
Stimson
Marines
Coast Guard
Sea Services
Notable names listed across Raleigh transfer notes
John Lucas and Preston Patterson appear among transfers in Raleigh North Carolina records. Others include Foster Wardell Butter at Lincoln Apartments James Adrian Hill 510 North Bentz Street Calvin Coolidge Carroll Frederick Route 5 and David Archibald Lyons 9 East All Saints Street. A transfer from Northampton County Virginia is noted.
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John Irving Kubrick
Adamstown
Robert Earl Cronenburg
East Seventh Street
Harry Malcom Cissell
West B. Street
Brunswick
Everett Hamilton Moore
Alexandria
James Alfred Grove
West Thirteenth Street
Reginald Leroy Poffinberger
Middletown
Harold Harcnest Blank
North Market Street
Roy Delaplaine Sundergill
Paul Robert Sanger
Indian Head
Charles Walter Nusbaum
Woodsboro
Johnny Carl Henry Timm, Jr
Raspeburg
Oda Smith Magada
Lee Place
Lewis Fraley Fagan, Jr
Patrick Street
Russell Lee Shipe
New Addition
William Gradon Markoe
East Fourth Street
Charles Glenn Yinger
East Third Street
Lemuel David Keller
Maurice Hoke Kefauver
Capon Bridge
W. Va
Norman William Himes
Jefferson
James Eugene Clem, Jr
Hagerstown
Charles William Weddle
North Bentz Street
James Herbert Jones
Frederick
Harry Edgar Phebus
West Church Street
Earl George Calvin Shafer
Washington
Amos Irvin Renn
Rosemont Avenue
Daniel Howard Easterday
South Carroll Street
Thomas Bernard Hane
Winchester Street
Oliver Andrew Guariglia
Charles Edward Haines
William Walter Culler
Walkersville
David John Markey, Jr
Grove Boulevard
Emory William Shafer
Hubert McChesney Daley
Harry Russell Baker
Donald Fiter Ramsburg
Baltimore
Fred Warren Young
Harry Clarkson Lawson
William Rovin
East Church Street
Russell Horrie Oden
Carroll Street
Robert Ralph Coffman
Knoxville
Raymond Elias Marken
West
Woodrow Wilson Smith
South Street
Paul Wilson Shank
Kenneth Hann Stull
East Fifth Street
Charles Franklin King
West Sixth Street
Walter Raymond Lutz
Gaithersburg
Charles Edward Carter
Roger Brooke Tanley
Roland Levere Wickham
East South Street
Marion Cromwell Talley
Uriah Burton Shockley, Jr
Kenneth Charles Williams
Somerset County
James Jackson Robinson
Detrick Field
Duval County
Fla
Carlos Pershing Ambrose
East A Street
Arlington County
Charles Arthur
John Curtis Johnson
East Street
Edgar Rudolph Chase
David Daniel Duckett
Harrisburg
Walter Samuel Brooks
West Street
Harry Alfred Barnes
Maurice Clinton Diggs
Bennie Bently
Phobus Avenue
Sylvester Posey
Chester Montgomery
John Lucas
Raleigh
N. C
Preston Patterson
All Saints Street
Foster Wardell Butter
Lincoln Apartments
James Adrian Hill
Calvin Coolidge Carroll
David Archibald Lyons
Northampton County
Frozen Fruits Ration Free Freezing Ends Restrictions
Washington reports a ration free policy for frozen fruits and vegetables starting Sunday, with existing meat point values extended through April. The Office of Price Administration cites storage space needs for meat dairy and poultry. Some frozen items remain technically rationed but will not require stamps for now. April charts keep butter at 16 points and margarine at 6. Canned peas drop to zero, carrots fall to 3 points, and 14 ounce tomato juice is reduced by one point.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Floods cause heavy property damage in four states
Associated Press reports floods swirled through Georgia Alabama Mississippi and North Louisiana inundating low lands. High water blocked highways and at least five people were drowned in the disaster with properties severely damaged across the four states.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Mrs Evah Wymore Aims For Office In Buffalo
Mrs Evah Wymore aged 90 should run for office in Buffalo New York on March 30 She has 147 living descendants including seven children 53 grandchildren eight and a half great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren The item emphasizes her large progeny as a notable fact from the notice.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Evah Wymore
Frederick City Approves Garbage Truck Purchase and Boys Week
Frederick city officials won War Production Board clearance to buy a new White garbage truck with Gar Wood body for about 5000 dollars to replace dilapidated equipment. The board also authorized a Boys and Girls Week committee to coordinate with the Playground Commission for activities April 29 to May 6, including parades, church events, school programs, and health and safety day.
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Frederick City
War Production Board
Board of Aldermen
Maylor
Lloyd C. Culler
Hugh V. Gittinger
WPB
Gittinger
City Playground Commission
Fishing
William J. Davis
Fishing Creek
Shank and Etzler
Frederick Brick Works
McCurdy Field
Philadelphia Athletics
New York Yankees
West South Street
Madison Street
Athletics
Yankees
Allied Planes Bomb Sofia Over Italy and Sofia Raid
Allied forces report wide air operations over Italy with attacks on Rome Turin and Bolzano while sweeping to the Adriatic to bomb Sofia Bulgaria last night. Fifth Army repelled two small enemy attacks on the Anzio beachheads as heavy and medium bombers joined the strike. No Cassino front reference in the communique.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Anzio
Italy
Rome
Turin
Bolzano
Adriatic
Sofia
Cassino
Bulgaria
French Targets Under Attack
London reports RAF bombers attacked railway targets at Vaires near Paris and an engine works at Lyon with Mosquitoes bombing Kiel last night. One bomber was lost. US Eighth Air Force also struck central Germany and Pas-de-Calais, with 39 enemy fighters shot down and nine bombers and nine fighters missing.
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London
RAF
Eighth Air Force
Brunswick
Germany
Pas-de-Calais
France
U. S
Raiders Praise and Private Notes From Pacific Front
A wartime letter from Warrant Officer Walker N Jolliffe recounts Japanese scraps found in a foxhole, raider actions on the beach, and rough conditions. He jokes about stationery, a spoon, and living in foxholes while units move toward tented housing. He notes constant danger, makes light of hardship, and ends with a rallying motto about returning home alive in 1945.
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Walker N Jolliffe
U.S. MC
Frederick
Pacific
W. Lyesong
Potomac Edison Company
Joey
Neutaus
John Morgan
D Jolliffe
Exchange Of Envoys Not Full Recognition
Moscow reports that Tzvestia says exchanging envoys with Marshal Pietro Badoglio’s regime does not equal full recognition. The editorial urges Britain and the United States to change Italy’s government to speed victory over Germany. It criticizes US and UK press for misreading the move and says Russia favors immediate changes without waiting for Rome’s occupation. Churchill noted Britain would reassess Italy’s situation upon reaching Rome.
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Moscow
UPA
Tzvestia
Pietro Badoglio
Britain
United States
Italy
Germany
Taye
Fear of outbreak in Palestine on eve of white paper expiry
Jerusalem March 30 The Palestine situation remained tense as both sides armed and sporadic violence flared. A dusk curfew and death-penalty laws were issued after last week's bomb incidents that killed nine policemen. Sinai dust storms cut Palestine-Egypt links, limiting ground travel to air. Jewish bodies planned to isolate extremists while authorities hoped for no full-scale clash. The 1959 white paper’s end offered 75,000 Jewish refugees up to March 31, 1944 with immigration halted absent Arab consent. Arabs outnumber Jews two to one.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Sinai Desert
Egypt
Araksy
Circus Heads North as Ringling Barnum Leaves Sarasota
The 1944 edition of the Greatest Show on Earth rolled out of Sarasota heading for New York marking the start of the season. Spectators lined streets as the train carried the circus north, bringing traffic and business to a halt in town.
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Circus
Sarasota
Fla
Barnum
New York
WPB Deferment List Covers Urgent 22 to 25 Year Olds
The War Production Board announces an official deferment list for key men aged 22 to 25 in urgent manufacturing programs. Eligible areas include Army amphibious ducks, rockets, radar, and heavy trucks for 215 tons or more, plus Navy landing craft, submarines, aircraft carriers, radar, and ship maintenance. The list aims to match deferments to immediate military needs and will be refined as details are finalized.
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Washington
War Production Board Today
WPB
Army
Navy and Maritime Commission
Navy
Maritime First
Germans Evacuating Czernowitz as Red Army Advances
London dispatches report Czernowitz, capital of Bucovina, fallen to the Red Army with Stalin announcing the fall after Berlin acknowledged German evacuation. Russian forces push toward Lwow, Stanislav, and the Carpathians, while Zhukov’s units sever the Berlin-Lwow-Bucharest rail line, worsening German supply lines and trapping forces around Czernowitz and the southern front.
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London
Czernowitz
Bucovina
Balkans
Red Army
Stalin
Berlin
Ukrainian Bug
Odessa
Prut River
Bucovinian
Romanian
Bessarabia
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Kolomean
Prut Tiver
Berlin-Lwow
Bucharest
Lwow
Old Poland
Stanislav
Baltics
Vitebsk
Chausy
Gregory K. Zhukov
Carpathians
Carpatho-Ukraine
Hungary
Hitler
Berlin-Lwow- Bucharest
Zhukov
Czernowiltz
von Mannstein
Noth
Churchill Wins Large Wartime Confidence Vote
London March 30 Winston Churchill won a resounding vote of confidence from the Commons his eighth such vote in four years of wartime premiership The tally stood 425 to 23 Rochester UNion March 30 A Mayo Clinic bulletin said Harry Hopkins who had an operation yesterday spent a fairly comfortable night and his condition remains satisfactory
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London
Winston Churchill
Commons
Rochester Union
Mayo Clinic
Harry Hopkins
Pocatello Army Air Base Suspends Pass System tease
The base provost marshal reportedly suspends the pass system allowing enlisted men to come and go with prompt pay call. Another note says paychecks will be advanced without questions and a third reports officers agreeing to a demotion to enable promotions. GIs recall April Fools Day after reading.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Pocatello Army Air Base
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U.S
Allied Air
Mohnyin
WPBE
New Delhi
India
Burma
Myitkyina
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Mandalay
Joseph W. Stilwell
Mogaung
Laban
Shaduzup
Kaiming
India-Burma
Imphal
Somra Hills
Arakan
Maungdaw- Buthedaung
Alkyab
Tiddim Road
Impaal
Kiel
Central Pacific
Jolliffe
Wight
Westinghouse
Quartermaster Bam
Tokyo
House of David
Golden Gate
Izvestia
Badoglio
China
Cernautich
High Command
Churchill
Hopkhins
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