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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1944
Page
7
The plan to extend lunch service to more schools in Hagerstown and Washington County follows a highly successful year with cafeteria gross receipts totaling $118,000, the best since inception, per Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis.
Superintendent Willis reports 21 Washington county schools offered hot lunches last year, a tripling of sites and doubling of food volume in recent years. Rationing caused few problems as meals stay affordable with milk soup sandwiches and hot plates. Food prepared by school staff with some parent and pupil involvement, meals vary by school size.
The ancient city of Athens earned the nickname The City of the Violet Crown due to the violet hues seen on the surrounding hills. The term reflects historical descriptions of the landscape and its scenic slopes.
The unfinished 35,000 ton Richelieu class vessel, laid down before France fell in 1940, was sunk by the RAF in a safe harbor to prevent its capture and potential use by Germans to block a major harbor.
The Maryland State Guard unit Co. B was shown Army and FBI training films at the State Armory. Major Crown Q. Diehl announced monthly screenings as part of the training program. Films depicted riot control and FBI arrest and search work. Interested youths from 16 to enlist should visit the Armory on drill nights.
London Aug. 29. The Air Ministry announced that the RAF sank the half-built Inf French battleship Clemenceau in Brest harbor yesterday, beating German forces to the action.
Paris dispatch details Pierre Laval's final hours in Paris with Edouard Herriot Mrs Herriot and Otto Abetz present at Hotel Matignon. Notes exchanged about moving the French government to Belfort as German forces advance. Laval shows visible stress and deep emotion during the afternoon.
In Hagerstown Maryland on Tuesday August 29 1944 a veiled man shows sweat and tension as a collaborationist pacer paces nervously with a cigarette. Laval speaks with a group before a Gestapo officer arrives to conduct him to Belfort. An informer notes the man as tortured in mind.
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