Roosevelt Urges Action To Stabilize Living Costs
President Roosevelt warned on radio that immediate action is needed to avert a domestic economic crisis and called on Congress to pass farm price controls by October 1. He said he would act unilaterally if Congress fails, and urged wage stabilization once farm prices are fixed at parity or higher. He reviewed global war fronts, stressing Russia’s resilience, Pacific opposition setbacks, and a dangerous Mediterranean theater.
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Richard L. Turner
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Midway
Mediterranean
Middle East
Egypt
Indian Oceans
Pearl Harbor
America
France
Bishop Powell to Visit Point of Rocks Church
St Pauls Parish will hold its annual Parish Day at old St Pauls Episcopal Church near Point of Rocks on a Wednesday at 11 am. Rt Rev Noble C Powell Bishop Coadjutor of Maryland will make his annual visitation and deliver the principal address. Clergymen and friends from nearby are expected. Sidney Hickman chairs the event.
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St Paul's Parish
Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Point of Rocks
Noble C. Powell
Maryland
Fae
Neat
Sidney Hickman
Ration Board Opens Office At Brunswick
The Brunswick receiving station known as Receiving Station No. 1 Board 12 Frederick County War Price and Rations opened at 8 a m with Mrs Emily Crim in charge. The move shifts operations from the WPA site to Legion Home quarters on Maple Avenue and grants local officers power to issue rationed goods.
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Frederick County
Brunswick
Emily Crim
Knoxville
Brunswithin
Brunstwick
Legion
Alfred Harris
City Council of
WPA
Legion Home
Maple Avenue
Frederick
County Board
Frederick City
Western Maryland Seeks to Discontinue Trains Through Hanover
Hanover, Sept. 7. The Western Maryland railroad seeks to end passenger service between Baltimore and Gettysburg. Hearings will be held this month as petitions filed in Baltimore and Harrisburg aim to cut two Hanover trains, No. 44 and No. 45, from daily schedules. The Pennsy No. 669 from Lancaster and York stops in Hanover each weekday morning at 9:02, returning from Frederick at 3:10.
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Hanover
Western Maryland Railroad
Baltimore
Harrisburg
Gettysburg
Western Maryland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Peninsy
Lancaster
York
Frederick
Maryland
Controlling cost of living linked to price parity plans
A speaker argues that the cost of living can be controlled only if all price factors are managed together. He warns parity price plans must not raise food and farm product costs beyond a small margin, or the overall cost of living will rise sharply during the war. He urges decisive domestic action now to avoid jeopardizing the war effort.
Lower draft age proposal by Rep Wadsworth
Washington reports Representative Wadsworth introduced a bill to lower the draft age from 20 to 18, potentially subjecting 2.5 to 3.25 million youths to service. He argued early training yields better soldiers while reducing domestic unrest. hearings will be held by Military Affairs.
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Washington
Wadsworth
Congress
Military Affairs Committee
May Day
May
Tam
Omaha Today
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Tai Ada Hy
Horse And Buggy Days Return In Montgomery County
Rural Montgomery area returns to horse and buggy scenes as tires thin. Residents like Dick Gordon Key and neighbors display historic rigs while visitors from Sykesville Washington and Baltimore visit local families. Military age men discussed as key to vital industries in national defense.
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Montgomery
Laytonsville
Montgomery County
Gordon Key
Dayton
Francis Thomas
Counselmans
Seltzers
Merkle Haines
Sherman
Woodfield
Helen Burdette
B. F. Suits
Sykesville
Arthur Haney
Jane
Margaret Fairchild
Washington
Mer Maen Weel
Chester Harley
Gerald
Indiana
George Pope
William Bagley
Elmer Hines
Doris Moore
Kenneth Howes
Douglas Barnes
Paul Dwyer
Baltimore
Elgee Riggs
Frank Dwyer
Edward Kimball
Dwyer
Avondale King
Marjorie Spooner
Ocean City
Lenox Howes
George School
Pennsylvania
Ceci Allnutt
Cedar Grove
Fortresses Key To Air Mastery
London Sept 7 Major General Carl Spaatz praised American Flying Fortresses as the key to mastery of the air over Europe after a raid on Nazi occupied territory. The raid hit railway yards at Utrecht and Pattnamnd and Emden Bremerhaven. 12 German fighters were shot down and no Fortress losses were reported. Spaatz urged more crews and aircraft to ensure air mastery over Europe.
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Wes Gallagher
London
Carl Spaatz
U.S. Army Air Forces
Europe
Germany
Utrecht
Shinvarde
Spaatz
U. S
North Sea
Rouen
Emden
Bremerhaven
Reich
Duisburg
Reichsmarshal Goering
France
RAF
Dominion
Vikey
England
Goering
Heavy Loss In Guadalcanal Solomons Fighting
American air power and naval action battered Japanese forces trying to reinforce Guadalcanal. Navy reports heavy Japanese losses in troops and small boats, with several enemy vessels sunk and aircraft shot down. Despite raids from land based bombers and submarines, U S installations held, while supplies and reinforcements continued to move into the Solomons.
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John M. Hightowes
Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Navy
San Jorge Island
San Jorge
Grumman
Douglas
Dauntless
U.S
Blue
Calhoun
New Windsor Boy Named to Maryland Dairy Judging Team
Holmen Baker of near New Windsor has been chosen as a member of the Maryland 4-H Club dairy cattle judging team to compete at the National Dairy Congress in Waterloo Iowa. He was one of six Maryland 4 H boys to qualify from the Timonium Fair contest with Baker finishing first last year and sixth this year to earn national selection. John A Holter also qualified but was not chosen.
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Holmen Baker
W. Snader Baker
New Windsor
Maryland
Waterloo
Iowa
Young Baker
John A. Holter
Jefferson
Baker
Timonium
Japs Register Gain In Kokoda Fighting
Gen MacArthur reports Japanese forces suffered over 1000 casualties as they pushed toward a pass in the Owen Stanley mountains near Port Moresby. Allied air attacks scorched huts and supply lines while fighting raged in the Kokoda sector and Milne Bay area.
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Marlin Spencer
MacArthur
Australia
Kokoda- Myola
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
Milne Bay
Kokoda
Milne Bay-Kokoda
Lae
Salamaua
Buna-Gona
U S Pilots Are Best And Bravest
Philadelphia labor rally hears General George H Brett praise American pilots as the best and bravest. He cites wartime air victories and rising pilot-to-loss ratios, calling production line workers blood brothers to the air forces and stressing unity in the war effort.
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Philadelphia
George H. Brett
United Nations
Southwest Pacific
Americas
Brett
Beginning Advanced 61st Aid Course At Mt Airy
Mrs Arintha Marsh and Mrs Le roy Logan completed the standard 61st aid course at Mt Airy and will start the advanced course on September 11 at 7 30 p m The class includes Jessie S Grabil Blanche D Butler George K Myers Ruth Hood Helen Hood Dorothy B Lowman Helen Nusbaum Ella E Ridgeley Kathleen Scheel Dr Robert C Sweetser Louise Earle Nathan Webb Geraldine Dubel and other local fellows citizens.
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Arintha Marsh
Leroy Logan
Mt. Airy
Mrs. Marsh
Jessie S. Grabill
Blanche D. Butler
George K. Myers
Ruth Hood
Helen Hood
Dorothy B. Lowman
Helen Nusbaum
Ella E. Ridgeley
Kathleen Scheel
Answers To War Quiz Questions On Page Five
A wartime quiz page lists Brazil as a question answer and hints at a sailor’s foot trunk while noting sausages and mashed potatoes as an item. The fragmentary items suggest a light page of trivia or household humor in a wartime newspaper.
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Brazil
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Labor Day Talk
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Great Britain
Russia
Hitler
Red Army
The
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Pt. of Rocks Church
Ration Board
Urals
Katen Bae
Koka Pos
Janghl
Soviet
Hes
Chatt
Mizhnl-Tagil
Povtoderi
Susenta
Talinsk
Moscow
Stalingrad
Volga
Denes
Willkie
Stra
Wendell Willkie
Cairo
Alexander Kirk
Eapt
General Spaatz
Aeronautical
Bennett
Gen
Victory Bicycles
MW Calrathioning Board
Delphey
C. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
C. C. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick St
Frederick, Md
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