Germans Hoped To Save Deadly Gas For Next War
Senate hearing on Germanys use of poison gas reveals I G Farbenofficials developed the deadliest chemical, tested first on monkeys then humans, and used in concentration camps like Auschwitz. The testimony cites hundreds of Farben subsidiaries and over 2000 cartel agreements shaping wartime industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Bernard Bernstein
U. S
Senate
Kilgore
D-W. Va
Bernstein
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
United States
Standard
I. G. Farbenindustrie
I. G. Farben
Wup
pertal-Elberfeld
Y. G
Farben
Auschwitz
O. G
Doctor Admitted A Love Affair In Murder Case
In San Francisco a prosecution witness testified Dr John H Mansfeldt admitted having a love affair with Mrs Vada Martin the nurse at the center of a murder charge against his socialite wife Mrs Mansfeldt testified she shot Mrs Martin on October 4 claiming she believed her husband was unfaithful The defense labeled Mansfeldt psycho neurotic and said sedatives prevented Mrs Mansfeldt from recalling the events while her husband faced pressure over a property settlement
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San Francisco
Cec.il
John H. Mansfeldt
Vada Martin
Mansfeldt
Martin
Baltimore
Kispert
Norman Elkington
Pfc George H Thomas Honorably Discharged
Pfc George H. Thomas of Boonsboro was honorably discharged from the Army on December 2 after service as a medical aid man with combat engineers in England France Belgium and Germany. He took part in crossings of the Seine Orne Meuse and Ruhr, spent three months on outpost duty with infantry in the Hurtgen Forest breakthrough, and was inducted at Fort Meade in December 1942.
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George H. Thomas
Clyde Thomas
Boonsboro
Thomas
Combat Engineers
England
France
Belgium
Germany
Seine
Orne
Meuse
Ruhr
Hurtgen Forest
Fort Meade Jr
Robber flees service station after gas theft
Daniel Cercone, a service station attendant in Chicago, was robbed at gunpoint by a man with a .45 caliber automatic. William McNeil, a part-time worker, called to Cercone, prompting the bandit to flee in his car with two women and another man, leaving without paying for 10 gallons of gas.
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Chicago
Daniel Cercone
William McNeil
Cercone
Dan
Bill
Harold E. Barnhart Discharged After 22 Months Abroad
Cpl Harold E Barnhart was honorably discharged after 22 months in the European Theater He entered service in March 1943 trained at Camp Shelby and at a California camp He served with the 295th Engineer Battalion in Belgium Holland France and Germany earning the Good Conduct Medal the European Theater ribbon with four battle stars and the Victory Medal He is the son of Mr and Mrs Lester Barnhart of Spruce Street formerly employed by Hagerstown Dairy.
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Harold E. Barnhart
Camp Shelby
Miss
California
295Th Engineer
Belgium
Holland
France
Germany
Lester Barnhart
Spruce Street
Hagerstown
Youth Draft Card Confusion Tangles Waynesboro Case
An 11 year old from Waynesboro who fled a West Franklin street cafe disturbance was arraigned in city court and held for FBI review. He claims to be John Beard but bears a draft card for John R. Coleman, used to allegedly buy liquor. He admitted a prior auto theft arrest after being questioned.
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Waynesboro
West Franklin Street
FBI
John Beard
John R. Coleman
Beard
Coleman
Harry E. Snyder
Pennsylvania Reformatory
Harry Young
Three More From Here Back From Overseas
Three more local and county GIs returned from overseas yesterday. T/4 David A. Spessard of Smithsburg arrived in New York aboard the John Ericsson. Pfc. Kenneth J. Mackley of Hagerstown was aboard the Asa Gray, and Staff Sgt. John S. Bywaters of Smithsburg is due in Boston aboard the Zehulon Pike.
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David A. Spessard
Smithsburg
New York
John Ericsson
Kenneth J. Mackley
Hagerstown
Asa Gray
John S. Bywaters
Boston
Mrs Patton Visits General Patton At Hospital Bedside
Mrs George S Patton Jr arrived at the 130th Station hospital in Heidelberg to comfort her husband the famed general who is in critical condition from a fractured neck Doctors reported a slight improvement after a blood transfusion Mrs Patton said she has seen Georgie in crises before and always recovers She was joined by Col R Glenn Spurling and Lt Col Kermen during the visit
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George S. Patton, Jr
Col
R. Glenn Spurling
Louisville
United States
Heidelberg Hospital
Germany
General Patton
Heidelburg
Army Hospital
130Th Station
Patton
Steel Workers Union to fix date for nationwide strike
In Pittsburgh on December 11 the USW wage policy committee of 175 members prepared to announce the date for a possible nationwide steel strike to back demands for a $2 a day wage increase. The walkout could begin in January and affect about 700,000 workers across 27 states.
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Pittsburgh
Ciso-United Steel Workers
USW
Navy Recruiting Office Tops Quota in November Enlistments
The Hagerstown Navy Recruiting Station exceeded its November quota by eight men and is expected to top December's. Recruiter Birch Shepherd said Hagerstown enlisted 29 men versus Cumberland's 24, beating Cumberland's 21 quota.
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Hagerstown
Birch Shepherd
Cumberland
Shepherd
Flu Or Grippe Hits Schools In Ohio
Ohio schools closed in at least nine counties as thousands stay home with influenza or cold. Health commissioner Harold J. Knapp says about 30,000 pupils were absent from Cleveland schools amid widespread illness and business disruption.
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Ohio
Columbus
Harold J. Knapp
Leveland Land Health Commissioner
Cleveland
Tough Breaks in Delano Auto Crash Injures Two
In Delano California Woodrow Wilson Latimer escaped injury at first in a pea soup fog crash but a third vehicle struck Latimer and broke his left leg. Ambulance driver Cecil La Course was injured when a truck hit the ambulance and Latimer was knocked out. Volunteers rushed both men to a hospital.
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Delano
Calif
Woodrow Wilson Latimer
Latimer
Cecil la Course
la Course
City Tax Rate Change Unlikely to Move in 1946
The 1946 tax rate will likely stay at 50 cents, the same as 1945 and the city’s lowest ever, a 10 cent cut from 1944. Budget meetings delayed due to illness in the city auditor’s office, with 1946 department budgets expected to remain near 1945 levels. estimates are with the city auditor for review by the Mayor and Council.
Food rationing ends as Bruskas notes surplus points
Alburquerque arrives at the end of meat rationing Gus Bruskas a restaurateur reports he had 181 603 red points on hand when rationing ended and he voluntarily surrendered 500 000 surplus blue points in the past year.
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Alburquerque
N. M
Gus Bruskas
OPA
Bruskas
FDR warned U S chiefs to await Jap overt act
Gen George C Marshall testified that President Roosevelt ordered American commanders to wait for an overt act by Japan before taking decisive action. Marshall recalled Roosevelt directing Lt Gen Walter Short in Hawaii to expect Japan to commit the first overt act, and noted concern over how to implement such restraint without hampering defense. The inquiry traced alerts ordered in 1940 and the 1941 directives guiding Short.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Roosevelt
Japan
Marshall
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
Walter C. Short
United States
Short
Hawaii
Army
Senator Ferguson
R-Mich
C. B. Herron
Ferguson
Herron
Infant Born After Mother Dies in Caesarean Delivery
Portland report says a four pound two ounce infant survived after birth minutes after the mother died from a heart ailment. The caesarian delivery occurred Friday with the father's consent, and the baby is described as in satisfactory condition at St. Vincent's hospital.
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Portland
Ore
St. Vincent's Hospital
Petty Larceny Cases Reported In Local Theft Roundup
A report shows Phillip Morris cigarettes vanished yesterday afternoon in front of the Hagerstown News Agency then turned up behind the Professional Art building missing four cartons. Howard G Bradford of Beechwood Drive said his seven year old daughter's coat was stolen yesterday at Woodland Way school. Sidney Disend of Moller's Apartment reported his wrist watch stolen at the YMCA.
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Phillip Morris
Hagerstown
Professional Art
Howard G. Bradford
Beechwood Drive
Woodland Way
Sidney Disend
Moller
Y.M.C.A
War guilt evidence shown as Nazis watch film reenactment
At Nuremberg the tribunal viewed a four hour documentary assembled in Berlin by two naval officers from confiscated films. The film replayed Nazi rise with Hitler and mass rallies as the accused observed faces, marches, and the Horst Wessel song. Some defendants smiled or appeared unsettled, others nodded as images invoked Munich and the doomed expansion. Page 2 continued.
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Hitler
Berlin
Hermann Goeerng
Britain
Peville Chamberlain
France
Edouard Daladier
Munich
Czech Sudentenland
Horst Wessel
Wilhelm Keitel
Rudolf Hess
Fritler
Fuehrer
Motive Found in Kidnaping of Navy Man's Baby
Chelsea police unveil motive in the kidnapping of six month old Ronald Carlan son of a Navy man. Lieutenant Inspector John J Kirby says this is the first break and a climax is expected soon. The mother Mrs James J Carlan is described as in collapse and exhausted from worry.
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Chelsea
Mass
Ronald Carlan
John J. Kirby
Kirby
James J. Carlan
Maurice Gilbert
No Relief From Cold Snap Seen
A heavy snow routine blanketed Western Maryland with 2 to 5 inches, while travel remained largely hazard free per the State Roads Commission Sixth District. Foxville led with 4 to 5 inches, Frederick and Keedysville recorded cold lows, and crews in Foxville cleared six inch drifts on secondary roads amid a multi day cold snap across the region.
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Maryland
State Roads Commission
R. T. Thayer
Foxville
Frederick County
Keedysville
J. A. Miller
Cumberland
Salisbury
OPA Urges Merchants to Return Red Tokens Now
The Maryland State OPA requests retailers wholesalers and distributors of rationed meats and fats to surrender all red tokens in their possession to ration banks immediately. Tokens only not meat fats ration stamps. Tokens are government property to prevent misuse. Most tokens are held by the trade and not surrendered quickly enough.
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Maryland
OPA
Two hunters witness bobcat trip jack rabbit capture
In Scobey Montana on December 11 a hunter identified as Sheldon E Kosher attempted to shoot a jack rabbit. A bobcat leaped from a gully at the rabbit and Kosher missed the quarry but killed the bobcat.
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Nuernberg
Scobey
Mont
Sheldon E. Kosher
Kosher
Independent Air Force Backed by Key Congressional Leaders
Leaders of the House Military and Naval committees oppose merging Army and Navy. They support an independent air force headed by a cabinet officer with its own officer training school. The plan would place Army air entities under a new department while excluding Navy aviation from jurisdiction.
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Washington
House
Military and Naval Committees
Army
Navy
Air Force
Andrew J. May
May
Vinson
Air Forces
West Point
Annapolis
Army Air Corps
Army Air Forces
Department of the Air Forces
Joint Chiefs of Stat
Unwary pheasant nets hunter in Fort Morgan field
Trapper Howard Cook claims to have caught a live pheasant barehanded near Fort Morgan after already shooting one bird. He spotted the tail popping from under cornstalks, reached and grabbed it to find a fresh pheasant in his hands.
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Denver
Howard Cook
Fort Morgan
Nationalists To Take Over Most Important Cities
China and Russia reached a pact allowing central government troops to fly into Manchuria and seize key cities including Changchun Mukden and Harbin. The accord excludes the southern port of Dairen and marks a turning point in contested control following Yenan directives to withdraw from Mukden to conserve Communist strength.
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Chungking
Russia
Manchuria
Central
China
Changchun
Mukden
Dairen
Changchung
Harbin
Sunrise Inn Ransacked Again in Funks Town
Sunrise Inn owner A. W. Walls reports a second recent robbery. The thief stole cash from a pinball machine a cigarette machine and an automatic phonograph plus two boxes of 15 cent cigars. Entry was through a front window. Deputy Reynolds believes fingerprints will identify the suspect.
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Funks
A. W. Walls
Clever M. Reynolds
Walls
Reynolds
Much Of Xmas Mail For GI's Is Lost
Seattle dispatch reports a storm sank barges carrying Christmas mail for 4 000 American troops on Shenya Island in the Aleutians on November 10. Of 560 bags, 38 were lost and the remainder damaged beyond salvage. Maj. S A MacLennan announced new Christmas packages to Shanva or APO 723 will be accepted until December 23 and efforts will be made to air mail them north to boost troops' holiday morale.
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Seattle
Shenya Island
Aleutians
Oficer
S. A. MaccLennan
Shanva
Buzz bombs pass through Route 49 on trucks
Two German buzz bombs, apparently returning from victory and on a selling tour, passed through Route 49 this morning on trucks.
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Eve
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George Thomas
Steel Worker Union
Navy Recruiting Office
FDR
U.S
Daniel DE Luce
Ike Hashimoto
Charles B. McVay
Indianapolis
Hashimoto
McVay
Independent Air Force
May-Vinson
Trapper
Sunrise Inn
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