Public Apathy Toward OPA Is Hit At Meeting
State OPA Director Leo F. McCormick told Winchester Hall audience that public apathy toward price and rent controls weakens enforcement and that consumer vigilance is crucial. He cited rationing and price ceilings, noting rent controls saved tenants millions and that a crime threat grows when profiteers corner supplies. Eastern Shore cooperation was praised.
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OPA
Leo F. McCormick
Winchester Hall
Dan Wight
Clarence Sturm
McCormick
Baltimore
Wight
Eastern Shore
Feedi
Changes In Taxing Tangible Personal Property Proposed
Baltimore May 37 Judge Robert J France chair of the State Tax Commission outlines a plan to shift tax proceeds from utilities to counties based on tangible personal property located, replacing the current allocation to stockholder residence. The proposal faces city and rural opposition and targets the 1945 legislative session.
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Baltimore
Robert J. France
State Tax Common
Legislative Council
France
Tax Commission
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele Phone Company
General Assembly
Baltimore City
Wicomico County
Eastern Shore Public Service
Frederick County
Potomac-Edison Light and Power Company
Ezra B. Whitman
State Roads Commission
Matapeake
Albert Ritchie
of See
Whitman
Flavre de Grace Bridge
John G. Greiner
Joseph F. Kaylor
Commission of State Forests and Parks
War Profits Aid Crime Say Local Leader
The speaker charged profits are fueling crime with buyers blamed for thoughtlessness amid wartime strains. Miss Hazel McCanner of the Business and Professional Women's Club introduced Mr. Wight who cited Edgar Hoover in warning of a postwar crime wave.
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Edgar Hoover
Hazel McCanner
Business and Professional Women's Club
Wight
Fire Destroys Ice Plant Motor In Frederick County
A large electric motor at Frederick County Products Inc. caught fire late Wednesday evening triggering a citywide fire alarm. Firefighters used hand lamps to combat the blaze while cooling the area after pulling all plant switches. Damage was estimated between 1000 and 2000 dollars with insurance in force.
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Frederick County Products, Inc
Frederick Jaycees to screen air plane construction film
Aviation committeemen of the Frederick Jaycees announced last night that motion pictures of air plane construction would be presented for the public as well as members of the organization. The event is at the Frasers Scott Key Hotel Blue and Gray Room tonight with Chairman Willard Marine leading the announcement.
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Frederick Jaycees
Frapers Scott Key Hotel
Fla
Elec
Willard Marne
Agiatin
General Arnold denounces strikers in Detroit plants
Washington May 7 foremen leading a two and a half week strike in 13 Detroit war plants ended their walkout after General Henry H. Arnold warned the stoppage endangers American airmen and invasion plans. Arnold condemned the strike as a serious setback to the Army Air Forces and insisted on war production over labor disputes.
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Washington
Detroit
Henry If. Arnold
Army Air Forces
War Labor Board
Fh Army Air
Anule
Fas
Uo Vs
Army Force Wa
Packard
Davis Barker
WLB
Wil Hare Wo Dasis
Robert W. Kexss
Fortman’s Association of America
Davi
National Labor Relations Board
W4b
Cmplayers
Davis
Arnold
Germany
Walter M. Nelson
Nelson
Drying and grinding soap ends for dishpan use
To use up soap ends, allow them to dry completely then run through a food chopper to create a powder usable in dishpans or washing, turning waste into practical cleaning aid.
Elm disease hits Frederick County with 18 trees found
The heaviest Dutch Elm disease infestation in Maryland is in Frederick County with eighteen infected trees to be burned under supervision of District Forest Warden Indi Yourswall and state officials. Scouts from the U S Department of Agriculture identified the trees April 26 and authorities warn destruction must occur before bark beetles emerge.
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Maryland
Frederick County
Henry R. Shoemaker
Her- Indi
Bureau of Entomology
U. S. Department of Agriculture
State Horticultural Department
Shoemaker
A. S Hoyt
Bureau of Entomology and
Ronald Bamford
Botany Department
University of Maryland
M. R. Snoderly
Cory
Europe
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Fort Melleury
Cumberland
Nazi Transport Hit By Russians
Russian long range bombers damaged Nazi railways and trains at Minsk Baronowieze and Chelm in White Russia and Old Poland as Soviet pilots reported high losses for the enemy. The front bulletin said 29 enemy planes were destroyed and predicted heavy fighting would resume on the Eastern Front.
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London
White
Russia
Old Poland
Minsk
Baronowieze
Chelm
Moscow
Berlin
Grigoripol
Dnester
Federal Communications Commission
Hamina
Kotkas
Gulf of Finland
Long Batlie Line
Transport Wakefield Returns To Sea For War Duty
The Navy reports the Wakefield reentered service under Capt. Roy L. Raney after surviving heavy bombing near Singapore and a later Atlantic blaze. She carried refugees and troops, with over 1,500 rescued from the former Manhattan during 1942’s burns, now hailed by the Coast Guard crew as “The Floating Life jackets.”
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Washington
Wakefield
Singapore
Atlantic
Navy
Roy L. Raney
Coast Guard
Marblehead
Mass
Manhattan
Lend-Lease Bill Signed Extends Aid Through 1945
President Roosevelt signed a third extension of the lend-lease act extending the program until June 30, 1945. He hailed allied unity and predicted early, lasting victory, noting total lend-lease aid reached 21 billion dollars through January 31. The act bars postwar uses without Congress consent. Senate adds farm census funds to 1945 appropriations, allocating 7.25 million for a nationwide census next year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations
Hger
Lend-Lease Administration
United States
Congress
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