Won Last War But Lost Peace, Speaker Says
Prominent attorney William A. Storm, former Commander of the Post of the Air, addresses on a Veterans Day-like ceremony. He argues the Armistice ended in 1918 but peace proved short and warns of repeating past mistakes. The event featured a state guard volley, taps, and a memorial in the park with civic leaders urging civilian support for current wartime efforts.
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Wiliam A. Storm
Post of the Air
S & Palace
Scott Kein! Park
Seo
Paries
Frederick
Marvian Deal Dram Corps
F. 3 Post
Legionnaires
Ana & Locomotive
J. F. Minor Simpson
Francis Scott Key Post Chantain
Seventh Battalion
Veel
Star Spangled Bane
State Guard
Bane
Beenes
Storm
Maryland farm meeting on food production challenges
Upper Darby announces that J D Wood regional director of the Farm Security Administration will chair a Maryland advisory committee meeting in Baltimore tomorrow. The session will discuss ways to alleviate the critical agricultural conditions threatening war food production.
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Upper Darby
J.D. Wood
Maryland FS Ysory Committee
Laltimore
Maryland
Hybrid corn drives bumper Iowa yield to new highs
Des Moines reports the 1944 Iowa corn crop could reach 594 million bushels on 8.78 million acres, averaging 61 bushels per acre. Hybrid corn accounts for about eight percent of plantings, with Indiana, Ohio and others trailing the yield gains from cross bred varieties.
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Ier
Berere
Granddad
Leslie M. Carl
Federal
Carl
Thingis
Indiana
Ohio
Ihe
Held For Theft Of Sum Of 61 Dollars
A man identified as George Robertson is held for grand jury action after a preliminary hearing in Police Court on a charge of stealing $61 from Walter Harris. Witnesses include Officers Dietz Flook and Phillips and Harris, who identified a marked bill.
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George Robertson
Manuel M. Weinberg
Robertson
Walter Harris
Washington
Norman Dietz
Howard ©. Flook
Harry Phillips
Harris
James T. Reed
Caa
Roberts
South Bentz Street
Diets
Flook
McNutt Praises Women in War Jobs at Pittsburgh Speech
Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, declared on Armistice Day that women can do 80 percent of war jobs. He urged 5,000,000 more women to enter industry and farming by the end of 1943, emphasizing women as a crucial wartime workforce.
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Pittsburgh
United States Employment Service
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Dental defects predominate in Montgomery children study
Preliminary examinations in Silver Spring and Rockville show most children in the fist, third and seventh grades have defective teeth. Dr. V Fifcott notes more draftees fail due to teeth issues, while enlarged fossils rank second. Dr. Bridger surveys schools and the health department earns a merit certificate for National Negro Health Week. Building a heavy bomber requires 100,000 man hours for 36 000 parts and hundreds of thousands of pieces.
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TRETH
V. Fifcott
Silver Spring
Rockville
Roy Bridger
Bridger
Ellicott
Montgomery County
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