21 Dec 1943
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1943
Page
1
In Maplewood New Jersey a local resident, Salvatore Desidero, had planned Christmas cheer but his home was broken into. A thief stole six bottles of whisky ten bottles of gin eighteen bottles of champagne and twenty four bottles of cordials from his house.
Lieut. General Brehon Somervell told the Senate War Investigating Committee that the Army oil project in Canada is essential to Allied invasion plans and should be expanded. He accused critics of timidity and noted grand-strategy backing by the joint Chiefs of Staff. He dismissed calls to abandon the Norman Wells venture and said new contracts cover operations including a Norman to Whitehorse pipeline and an aviation refinery at Whitehorse.
The 46th annual meeting of the Maryland State Horticultural Society will be held at Hotel Alexander in Annapolis January 6. A. F. Vierheller announced a program covering post war fruit control, price topics, and grower profits with speakers from the University of Maryland and USDA. The gathering will include discussions on peach varieties, sprays for blossom removal, harvest sprays, fertilizer chemistry, sick peach trees, mouse control, apple prices, labor, and post war markets with remarks by F A Metz and others.
White collar workers in Montreal vote to mass tonight and strike to press wage increases from the Quebec Municipal Commission which controls the city finances.
Baltimore police sergeant Raymond B. Chapman age 49 and his wife Norma Chapman age 49 were found dead from bullet wounds by another officer who entered their home after the sergeant failed to report for work. A note on a bedroom table read I am mentally sick and the officer reported a service revolver was in the sergeant s hand.
Washington county hunters killed 18 buck deer as the open season closed. State totals dropped to 229 deer statewide, down from 439 in 1942, due largely to scant snow. Garrett county reported 107 and other counties totaled 49 Allegany 17 Cecil 1 Dorchester 1 Frederick 10 Worcester 27.
Los Angeles sleuths say 16 year old Gregory Leahy is held on suspicion of murdering his wife Louise 33 after a shooting seen by two year old Susie Leahy near a Christmas tree. A housekeeper reported weeks of marriage quarrels over a pie route their family owned.
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