Poles Denounce Nazi Cruelties in Polish White Book
The Polish government in exile release details of the Nazi occupation in Poland. It cites 200000 murders and one million driven from homes, plus German demoralization tactics and economic decrees favoring wartime needs, including forest exploitation and food rations for workers.
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Associated Press
New York
Poland
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Polish Information Center
Germany
Wayne real estate taxes net $452608
Wooster March 20 Special to The Repository tax collections on real estate for the period rose by 9287.34 from 1941 with total payments at 452608.66. Half year totals compare to 443321.32 in 1941 and 439646.50 in 1940, 436536.09 in 1939, with excess of 28356.43. Distributions include Wooster 37673.11, Rittman 15549.02, Orrville 7330.98 and broader shares to county, townships, schools, villages and special taxes.
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Wooster
Ben McIlvaine
Rittman
Orrville
Wheat King Wilmer Leese F armers Awarded in York Area
In York Pennsylvania on March 20 a 23 year old tenant farmer Wilmer Leese won the wheat growing honor for the second year in a row. He farms with his grandfather Valentine Nace aged 66 two miles from Hanover. Leese yielded an average of 35 bushels per acre on his 40 acres with a forward variety of soft red winter wheat to earn the title wheat king.
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York
Pennsylvania
Wilmer Leese
Valentine Nace
Hanover
Young Leese
Bel Geddes Urges Plant Camouflage Strategy
Norma Bel Geddes, renowned industrial designer, urges manufacturers vital to the war effort to camouflage their plants promptly to reduce bombing risk. She says isolated plants offer the easiest concealment for camoufleurs to achieve effective disguises.
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Bel Geddes
Associated Press
New York
Norma Bel Geddes
Suit on Bread Price Dismissed in Capital
In Washington on March 20 Justice T Allan Goldsborough granted a defense motion for a directed verdict of acquittal in the government's antitrust suit over a conspiracy to fix bread prices in the District of Columbia. Defendants acquitted include Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co American Stores Co Acme Markets and Sanitary Grocery Co two local bakery unions and individuals led by John A Hartford president of A and P Co.
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Associated Press
Washington
T. Allan Goldsborough
District of Columbia
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
American Stores Co
Acme Markets
Keeping 'Em High In Anti Aircraft Fire Doctrine
Chief value of anti aircraft guns is not necessarily in bringing down enemy bombers but in keeping them high and spoiling their aim.
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