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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1944
Page
13
A small frame house on Vine Street in eastern Hagerstown was badly damaged by a fire that started yesterday around 11 in the morning. The blaze confined to the second floor. occupants fled without difficulty. A fumigating candle is believed to have caused the fire.
A reader asks about divorce from a husband serving in the Army and a baby, while she contends she loves another man. Betty Brainerd sternly warns against dating while married, urges wife duties, and questions custody and moral judgment, ending with how to submit letters.
Washington county War Price and Ration Board begins issuing second allotments of home canning sugar. Thomas Bittle, chief clerk, reminds residents that those who already obtained sugar since March 1 may reapply using form R-323 at local groceries. First time applicants must apply to the ration board and surrender sugar stamps 37.
Annapolis Md Aug 3 The state general fund surplus for fiscal year 1944 reached 8 961 001 surpassing the 1943 legislature estimate by about 3 250 000 Comptroller J Millard Tawes said total receipts exceeded expectations and almost 1 000 000 was returned to the treasury from unspent departmental funds during the year.
New Zealand veterans of the North African campaign push within five miles of Florence from the southwest on a five mile front. The advance, reported by AP correspondent Lynn Heinszerling, shows heavy fighting as the Eighth Army breaches Gothic Line defenses north of Florence. Burma separated from India in 1937 to become a separate unit of the British Commonwealth.
A Maryland group of tavernkeepers formed an association in Baltimore and nearby counties to curb minor alcohol use. President Francis J. McLane said 22 taverns joined and the plan seeks state authority for arresting minors with false credentials and immunity for tavernkeepers who discover falsified ages after serving alcohol. Under current law proof of service to a minor suffices for conviction.
A bomb exploded near a Santa Monica convent as a monk tried to remove the fuse, killing the monk and causing window damage at St. Peter's. Separately the U S Bureau of Standards tests rugs by modeling up to 48000 footsteps for durability.
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