Monocacy Dam Plan to Save Jug Bridge Piers
Frederick County Fish and Game Protective Association backs a plan to leave Jug Bridge piers standing and build a three to four foot dam at the base to create a small motorboat friendly recreation area on the Monocacy. The project, costing about four thousand dollars, would be studied with the State Roads Commission for preservation and possible SRC financing.
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Jug Bridge
Frederick County Fish and Game Protective Association
Hotel
Frederick
Committee On Forests and Parks
James H. Gambrill, Jr
Hughes Ford
State Roads Commission
SRC
Teacher Of Athletics Promoted To Major
Fort George G. Meade Maryland May 14 Major Francois d Elis e u a wiry college professor teaching Army athletics and recreation officers how to kill with their hands has been commissioned as major in the Special Service Branch School He is on leave of absence from Columbia and New York Universities An infantry captain and bayonet instructor in World War I he helped promote athletic programs in Army camps He has also been a captain in the Hawaiian National Guard He teaches officers savage hand to hand methods including simple strangulation with a sash cord and kicks to the midsection to offset Japanese ji jitsu
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Fort George G. Meade
Francois d’Eliseu
Little College
Army
Special Service Branch
d’Eliscu
Columbia
New York
Hawaiian National Guard
dEjiscu
de Eliscu
Farm Program Sees Rationing and Waste Criticism
Washington reports senators sparred over the farm supply bill amid charges of waste and extravagance in federal program spending. Byrd cited about 100000 farmer committeemen and $44 million in expenses, while Russell defended costs as part of a $728 million program including soil conservation and parity payments. Gasoline rationing sparks sociological forecasts of changed family life, with Dr. Ivan E. McDougle predicting closer family bonds for some and strain for others as the social pattern shifts.
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Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate
Byrd
D-Va
Agriculture Department
Bankhead
D-Ala
Congress
Russell
D-Ga
Baltimore
Ivan E. McDougle
Goucher College
Byrd cites admin cost variance in farm benefit payments
Virginia Senator Byrd criticized state county admin costs in farm benefit programs noting Alabama 8 percent and Arizona 3.8 percent with Alabama $2 million less in payments yet $400,000 higher in admin costs. Rhode Island 20 percent and Virginia 15 percent contrasted with Kansas and Iowa at 4.8 percent. He cited Virginia counties ranging 3 to over 40 percent. The Senate approved tentative increases totaling about 8.4 million and decreases of 1.236 million, including forest service funding for fire protection, forest roads and insect control, while cutting soil conservation funds by 1 million. An embargo on related costs remained under review.
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Arkansas
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Kansas
Iowa
Senate
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Russell
Soil Conservation Service
House
Answers To War Quiz On Page Five
staff sergeant stripes appear on the page quiz. A sailor eats macaroni as a quiz clue. Thousands of British soldiers pass through Hazebrouck on their way to the famed battle of Ypres.
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Hazebrouck
Ypres
Students Aid Nutrition Program Across Carroll County
Westminster May 14 Western Maryland College nutrition students aid Carroll County nutrition program as a national defense project. Adeline Hoffman county home demonstration agent arranged for home economics department students to speak at PTA meetings countywide. Frances Ogden Baltimore junior spoke at Elmer A Wolfe High School Association in Union Bridge. Other speakers include Hazel Metz Barton Janith Horsey Easton and Alice Rohrer Hagerstown. Mrs Milson C Raver leads the Home Economics Department faculty.
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Westminster
Western Maryland College
Carroll County
Adeline Hoffman
Frances Ogden
Baltimore
Elmer A. Wolfe
Union Bridge
Hoffman
Hazel Metz
Barton
Harney
Married Men May Be Shifted Into War Work
Washington reports that select service chief Hershey said no broad plan to draft established families but some married men with working wives may move into essential war work. He testified that payments for dependents would total $20 to the wife and $10 per child, with $20 monthly from the service man’s pay, supporting morale and labor needs amid the war effort.
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Washington
Army
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
House Military Committee
Hershey
Uncle Sam
William S. Richards
Richards
Farmers' Union Started By CIO
Latrobe Pennsylvania May 14 John L Lewis United Mine Workers launch drive to unionize Southwestern Pennsylvania dairy farmers. Marlatt says 35000 dairymen enrolled nationwide in UMW dairy division. 600000 goal with dairy division to have a voice at the October convention. UFA votes to affiliate with UMW dairy division. aim to push legislative action in all states to aid milk producers.
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Latrobe
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
Pennsylvania
UMS
Ralph Marlatt
UMW
United Farmers of America
Marlatt
UFA
New Jersey
New York
Michigan
Rounding Up Workers For Explosives Plant
About 150 to 200 unskilled laborers in Frederick County were interviewed for jobs at Triumph Explosives in Elkton. Miss Mayetta Hershberger said most applicants were not currently employed, many Black applicants appeared among those arriving by bus, and no housing had been arranged for colored workers.
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Frederick County
United States Employment Agency
Triumph Explosives Company
Elkton
Mayetta Hershberger
Miss Hershberger
First Coral Sea Battle Victims Land at Australian Port
May 15 Sydney reports the first casualties from the Coral Sea landing at an Australian hospital after a long voyage. Ambulatory heroes walk with help, clutch burns and bandages, while a hospital staff receives them in solemn silence. A hotel scene recalls toasting fallen sailors who did not return.
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Australia
Coral Sea
Jutland
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