22 Apr 1943
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
1
A congressional committee remarks on losses caused by Navy and War Production Board limits, praising a strong existing fleet but urging less conventional thinking. The panel urges fewer explanations of failures and more openness to new ideas in merchant shipbuilding.
A wartime report notes insufficient merchant shipping to sustain Allied needs and warns heavy losses by German submarines. It highlights efforts to boost production, optimize yard efficiency, and deploy subchasers and destroyer escorts, while praising the faster Victory ships and tankers carrying aircraft and torpedo boats.
A consumer note urges quick relief from muscle pain using Moone's Emerald Oil. It promises fast action after opening pores with a hot towel and claims the antiseptic oil cleans, penetrates, and does not stain. The ad advises buying a bottle at a druggist and sticking to treatment to ease pains.
A wartime adventure melodrama centers on a brave telephone company trouble shooter fighting Axis saboteurs aiming to tap wires to vital war plants. Bruce Bennett leads with Leslie Brooks and Frank Albertson assisting, alongside Julian Rivera and George McKay in supporting roles.
Van Heflin debuts as a leading man in MGM's Tennessee Johnson at the Maryland Theatre. He rises from modest prior roles to portray Andrew Johnson, a poor tailor's apprentice who becomes president, delivering a standout performance that signals star status.
A wartime note cites Hitler ready to deploy poison gas if enemies use it first. Churchill warned of retaliation with air power, while Germany denies gas use. Roosevelt vowed retaliation if gas persisted against China or other nations. The Panamanian highway link to the canal nears full completion minus 140 miles in Costa Rica.
The board endorsed four new public health nurses to address rising venereal disease rates and physician shortages due to military service. Officials noted Washington County’s ratio of one nurse per 12,000 contrasts with nearby counties at about one per 5,000, and emphasized nurses could support bedside care while physicians remain stretched.
On Monday April 26 Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis announced two WPA nursery centers will open in Hagerstown at Wayside School and a Guilford Avenue building. Trained nurses will staff the centers, serving children of mothers who work part time. The WPA program will discontinue and workers may transfer to the new sites.
A report notes that several nursery centers may open immediately with expansion plans to handle at least twenty children each. As demand rises, the number of children cared for will increase, though specific sites were not revealed.
Through Congressman J Glenn Beall of Maryland sixth district the sum of 17933 has been made available in his county for nursery schools and centers for extended school service with Federal contribution 8943. The appropriation covers April 1 to Sept 30. So if it must be taken care of quickly Sellers equally.
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