Local tire collection and rationing plan revealed
Homeowners and car owners are turning in excess tires to the Railway Express Agency as the government plans a November mileage rationing registration. The Office of Price Administration urges disposal of idle tires and reports of serial numbers from passenger car tires will be required. Five tires per car will later be the limit. Tires shipped to Hagerstown warehouses will be appraised, with payment at retail ceiling prices. Damaged tires and tubes are appraised with repair costs deducted. scrap tires fetch scrap value.
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Cry
Railway Express Agency
Office of Price Administration
War Price and Rationing Board
Hagerstown
W. F Bohannan
Bohannan
Frederick
Railway Express
Frederick Mayor Seeks Holiday Cards for Service Members
City leaders urge parents and wives of service members to fill in greeting cards for distribution to Frederick County troops. Cards must be mailed before November 1 to ensure delivery and support for those in the armed forces.
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Frederick
Frederick City
Frederick County
Servick
Holiday Greetings Mailers Go Out Worldwide
Overseas recipients receive holiday greetings via international mail with strict confidentiality. The information provided confirms mailing or delivery arrangements to ensure timely dispatch and secure handling for all recipients.
Guadalcanal Supply Lines and Allied Reach
The article analyzes Guadalcanal logistics hardening the battle as Allied bases in the south Pacific sustain air and ground forces. It contrasts Japanese shorter supply routes from Asia with U S lines from America and Hawaii while noting risks from submarines and carrier losses.
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Guadalcanal
Wake Island
Bataan
United Nations
America
Australia
Hawaii
Turk
Lae
New Guinea
Rabeul
New Britain
Bougainville
Buka
Solomons
Milne Bay
Espiritu Santo
Hebrides
U S
Wake
U. S
New Hebrides
Fiji Islands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Von Trapp Family Lost Fortune Rebuilds Self-Sufficient Life
The Austrian Von Trapp family, displaced by the anschluss, now sustains themselves in Merion near Philadelphia. Baroness Hedwig cobbles, Baroness Martina cooks, and Baron Georg works as a cabinet maker while all 12 children share chores and crafts. They tour extensively and perform Tyrolean music, aiming to match prewar income. They arrived in 1938 with only $4.17, living in a frame house provided by patron Henry Drinker. They will perform in Frederick on December 10 opening a concert series.
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von Trapps
Austrian
Tyrol
Augusta
Los Angeles
Hitler
Adttay
Aluey
Johannes
United States
Merion
Philadelphia
Henry Drinker
Salzburg
Maria Augusta
Georg
von Trapp
Frederick
Cooperative Concert Association
No Red Cross Roll Call To Be Conducted In Frederick
Edward D Storm Frederick County Chapter executive secretary announces no November Red Cross Roll Call this year for the first time in years. The Junior Red Cross drive will proceed as usual with Armistice Day to end of November set aside for fundraising. A national drive returns in March as a combined Roll Call and War Fund campaign to cover local and national needs.
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Red Cross
Storm
Frederick County
Frederick County Welfare Board
Dakar Evacuates French Citizens From West Africa
In Dakar and French West Africa, two ships chartered by the government carried wives and children of Europeans to France at government expense with heads of families allowed to stay. Governor General Boisson said evacuation aimed to preserve strength, calling Dakar a strategic trump card in defense plans amid war tensions. Reports from St Louis quote Boisson on defending the territory vigorously.
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Dakar
French West Africa
Vichy
France
PAN
Childern
Pierre Boisson
Boisson
Bechin
St Louis
Senegal
Warfield Visits Dickinson College
Dr Warfield, pastor of the American colony in Warsaw, visited Dickinson College Carlisle Pa for the first time since his return to the United States. He previously received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Dickinson at the 169th commencement exercises in June.
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Carlisle
Gaither PB. Warfield
Dickinson College
Warfield
Warsaw
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