Appeals To People To Save Gas For Emergency
Local panel of the War Price and Rationing Board urged Frederick County motorists to conserve gasoline during a critical emergency. An OPA report cited astounding increases in March and April. civilians may sacrifice hundreds of lives to sustain military operations. Citizens were told to heed ration rules, avoid Saturday night driving, and report violations. Nonhighway gas ration holders must surrender expired bulk coupons, and owners only may use tractors for farm work with proper allowances.
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Frederick County
OPA
United Nations
Africa
Department Store Hiring Customers in St Louis
A St Louis department store cites a labor shortage and began hiring its own customers as spare time sales help. Advertising Manager Maurice Hirsch reports the program drew capable volunteer workers and helped meet staffing needs during slow periods.
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St. Louis
Maurice Hirsch
Six More Italian Ships Sunk in Mediterranean Actions
British submarines torpedoed and sank an Italian destroyer and at least five supply ships in recent Mediterranean encounters, the Admiralty announced today. The May 18 report confirms continued Allied naval actions against Italian forces.
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London
Admiralty
Application Blanks For Ration Book No 3 Here
Thousands of ration book three application blanks arrived at the local post office and will be delivered to homes between May 20 and June 10. State OPA headquarters will stamp and remove the books before issuance. The process passes through the State office and involves the local Rationing Board.
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OPA
Ex Alderman C B Willard Dies At 84 In Frederick
C B Willard longtime Frederick grocer and civic figure died at 84 after ten weeks illness. He came to Frederick in 1888 and ran a store on West Patrick Street for 32 years. Survived by eight children including two sons in military service and an army chaplain, his funeral arrangements were pending.
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Clinton Bowers Willard
West Patrick Street
Frederick Emergency Hospital
M. Delbert C. Poole
Baltimore
Mr. Willard
Frederick
the Manor
Church Hill
Aldermen
Hase Company
Citizens Truck Company
Lynch Lodge No
A. F and A. Masons
Mountain City
Ladas
Knights of Pythias
Elcot
Pierce M. Willard
Fort Bragg
N. GC
Sera Rodney E. Willard
Stuttgart
Lawrence C
Carl B
Poole
Hugo EB
Washington
Mary E Willard
Edward Doups
Aghi Arande
East Charen Street
M. R. Etshison and Son
Gasoline usage rise warned by state price office director
State Office of Price Administration Director Leo H. MecCormick warned that a sudden surge in gasoline consumption in March and April would seriously impair the war effort unless halted or reversed.
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Battimo
Alaryland
State Office of Price Administration
Leo H. MecCormick
Army Heavy Bombers In Attack On Wake Island
Army Liberators attacked Wake Island installations, with weather hindering observation. Navy reports 22 Japanese Zeros engaged. two shot down and one probably destroyed. The May 16 action at Rekata Bay involved Dauntless dive bombers aided by F4F Wildcats and F-39 fighters. On Attu, May 17 US forces seized high ground near Holtz Bay amid strong enemy counterattacks. Casualties to date are light.
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Washington
Wake Island
Navy
United States
South Pacific
Marine Corps
Dauntless
Army Airacobra
Wildcat
Grumman
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
North Pacific
Attu Island
Holtz Bay
Kuban Fight Flares Again in Russian Front Action
May 18 report from Mostow notes German troops crossed into forested hills and attacked Russian positions near Novorossisk with infantry supported by tanks planes and artillery. Russian counterattacks bogged the German effort as fog hindered engagement, signaling renewed fighting on the Kuban front amid expectations of a broader summer offensive.
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Mostow
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Sugar Ration Cut To Fifteen Pounds Per Person
The War Price and Rationing Board was told by telegram not to issue more than 13 pounds per person for canning and preserving. A forthcoming amendment will allow ten pounds or less under a War Ration Book One stamp for home canning. Officials urge residents to request only what they can use and to submit full canning information with their applications.
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Ince? Wor
Plang
Prediction of Roosevelt Veto on Tax Bill by Rasburn
Rasburn of Texas predicts the president will veto the modified Rumhill if House Republicans push the Senate approved skip-a-year income tax measure to the White House. The remark was made in Washington on May 18.
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Washington
Spearer Rasburn
D-Tex
Roosevelt
White House
Disastrous Flood Grips Central Indiana May 18
One of the worst floods since 1933 sweeps through central and northern Indiana. At least four lives lost, over 300 families displaced as floodwaters inundate thousands of acres. Levees and the Charles Mills dam at Merion quake under the swollen Mississenewa river. about 300 families evacuated.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Wabash
Knights of Columbus State Convention in Maryland Here
Delegates from all sections of Maryland attend the annual Knights of Columbus convention in this city. Hotel Frederick serves as headquarters with the banquet Saturday at 6 30 pm led by toastmaster Jerome Offutt. State Deputy Joseph G Loufer reaches his third term as head.
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Maryland
Knights of Columbus
Frederick
St. John’s Catholic Church
Joseph G. Loufler
Baltimore
Maryland Knights of Columbus
St. John’s
British Raid Hits Japanese at Maungdaw Port
British troops conducted a commando raid on a jetty at Maungdaw in western Burma, engaging in fierce hand to hand combat. Two small detachments landed despite heavy Japanese resistance, killing most of a 20-man Japanese force. British casualties were two killed.
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New Delhi
Maungdaw
Burma
OPA Agents Checking On Stores Meat Prices
Baltimore May 18 enforcement agents inspected retail stores to enforce ceiling prices for beef veal lamb and mutton while Maryland OPA officials await word from Washington on reducing point values for function meals. Agents decide on posting price lists labeling of products by grade and related standards.
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Baltimore
State Office of Price Administration
Maryland
OPA
Washington
300 000 Small Business Men Voice Complaints
Washington May 18 Complaints of 590000 small business men concerning OPA regulation came in for an airing today before spokesmen for 19 retail organizations representing merchants. They began testimony during a two day session seeking to remove hardships small business says it has suffered under price control and rationing regulations.
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Washington
OPA
Targets In Widespread Area Again Hit By RAF
British bombers return to the European offensive striking southern Germany while fighters hit northern France and Belgium and coastal aircraft damage five ships in a convoy off the Dutch coast. Alghero in Sardinia is bombed again as daylight raids press the European south. A Cardiff raid marks a severe night attack on a Welsh town, with ten killed. U.S. bombers hit Lorient Keroman Uboat base and Bordeaux in the longest Liberator raid from a British base, with very good bombing results and praise for Lt. David W. Alexander.
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London
Europe
Germany
France
Belgium
Coastal Command
Calais
Alghero
Sardinia
Cardiff
Bordeaux
Kiel
David W. Alexander
Hot Springs
Riots in Duisburg Report Amid Floods and RAF Attacks
A Morocco radio report cited by Reuters claimed riots in Duisburg and surrounding Puhr valley towns after floods from a burst dam inundated shelters, with chaos described and RAF bombardment repeating messages. Separately, Frederick High School students raised funds toward purchasing jeeps for the “Jeep a Week” program, totaling funds from juniors, sophomores, and costs per amphibian jeep.
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London
Duisburg
Moline
Morocco Radio
Reuters
Enfy
RAF
Puhr Valley
JEEP
Frederick High School
Elm Street School
Axis Casualties Put Near 627000 in WWII Report
London reports that Axis casualties in Africa and the Middle East approach 627000, nearly triple British losses since Britain entered the war. Attlee told the House of Commons Allied Tunisian victory highlighted the cost, noting German losses around etc and Italian casualties about 400000.
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London
Clement Attiee
House of Compmons
Africa
Middle East
Britain
Attlee
Omy
Atti¢e
Church Leader Outlines Practical Church Program
Rev John W Austin pastor of Mt Vernon Pace Methodist in Washington addressed Frederick County Ministerial Association at the Y M C A on a five fold program for churches. He urged beautified worship, Christlike inspiration, life problem instruction, wholesome fellowship, and recreation. He noted his church runs a three hour Sunday instruction period and bowling for youth as part of recreation yet warned against relying on recreation alone to win souls. He urged modern approaches to religion and said the church must meet community needs or risk obsolescence. His Mt Vernon Pace church has over 4,000 members and more than fifty organizations. A luncheon followed at Hotel Frederick.
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John W. Austin
D. Old
Mt Vernon Pace Methodist Church
Washington
Frederick County Ministerial Association
Austin
Kingdom of God
Mr. Austin
Benjamin W. Meeks
Ministerial Association
Amos J. Traver
Hotel
Frederick
5 000 Casualties To Be Added To 80 000 Total
Washington reports an estimated 5 000 casualties in the last four weeks of the Lunisian campaign will be added to the wartime totals. Army tallies through May 7 show 56 942 casualties with 11 1078 killed and 12 277 wounded. Navy and allied losses total 33 casualties with 7 7ER killed and 4 683 wounded. Merchant Marine casualties reach 4 455 since September 1941. In Norway, fear of invasion prompts tighter coastal shipping controls.
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Washington
Tunisia
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Army
Philippines
Attu Ridge Captured as U S Forces Close In
United States troops advance from two beachheads on Attu Island in the Aleutians. Navy Secretary Knox says the ridge along the main axis of the island has been seized, signaling a pivot in the first phase of the campaign with lighter than expected casualties and continued air and naval support.
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Washington
Attu Ishin
Knox
United States
Aleutians
Exhler
Attu
U.S
Jung
Navy
Attu Island
Holtz Bay
Massacre Bay
North Pacific
Navy Department
Blind Cove
Holts Bay
United States Naval
United States Army
Chichagof Harbor
Pd Wren Faserdad de Assotinge Froans
Says Hitler And Tojo Must Pay For Crimes
Navy Secretary Frank Knox vowed Axis leaders and their helpers will face strict accounting for brutal crimes in Europe and Asia. He told the Massachusetts committee of the Conference of Christians and Jews that a long record of crimes has been kept. Remain unchanged prices for processed foods through May were noted in the Washington report.
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Boston
Hitler
Tojo
Navy
Frank Knox
Europe
Asia
Knox
Massachusetts
The
Conference of Christians and Jews
Churchill to Speak to Congress Tomorrow
Prime Minister Winston Churchill will address a joint session in the House chamber at about 12.30 p.m. Eastern War Time tomorrow. House officials and British sources say he will read from notes for about 20 minutes, repeating the approach used in his December 26 1941 speech to Congress.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
Congress
House
Davies Arrives in Kuibyshev Bearing Roosevelt Message
Diplomatic circles report Joseph E. Davies former U S ambassador to Russia has reached Kuibyshev with a message from President Roosevelt to Premier Stalin.
Recovery column shows mixed stock shifts in rail and steel
New York May 18 stock market notes indicate assorted rails steels and other stock marine favorites moved into the recovery column today while many leaders remained largely fractional in movement
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New York
Marinet
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