State Plans New Trout Hatchery in Western Maryland
Baltimore February 1 State Game Warden Be Lee LeCompte said the State Game and Inland Fish Commission is drawing up postwar plans for a large trout hatchery in Western Maryland. The project costing 20000 to 25000 would be near a mountain stream to ensure water supply, supplementing existing facilities at Lewistown and two nurseries in Garrett and Washington counties. James H Gambrill Jr chairman Alfred A Powell and other commission members are reviewing the plan.
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Baltimore
Lee LeCompte
State Game and Inland Fish Commission
Maryland
LeCompte
Lewistown
Garrett
Washington
James H. Gambrill, Jr
Alfred A. Powell
Hatchery plan eyed to expand trout stocking program
Frank L Bentz administrative assistant of fisheries. LeCompte said a proposed hatchery would have an up to date refrigeration plant to aid in caring for young fish. He said completion would allow the State to expand its trout stocking program.
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Frank L- Bentz
LeCompte
Increase in Number of Nurses in Maryland 1943
ANNAPOLIS Md Feb 1 An increase in the number of nurses registered in Maryland in 1943 and students under 18 admitted to the State School of Nursing was announced by the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses. There were 32 graduate nurses registered in the State and 220 out-of-state nurses were registered without examination by the board. Five were accepted from Canada. The total number of students in the School of Nursing was 1,887 including new admissions of 1,054, of whom 242 were under 18.
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Annapolis
Maryland
State School of Nursing
Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses
Canada
School of Nursing
Mae West Performs In The Heat's On At Henry's Theatre
A 1904 film production scene at Columbia Studios shows Mae West dressed as Lillian Russell singing I'm Just a Stranger in Town for The Heat's On. Gregory Rates, director-producer, watches intently beside the camera as dandies and maidens pose in a stylized town square setting.
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Columbia Studios
Mae West
Lillian Russell
Henry's Theatre
Gregory Rates
Mae
Father John's Medicine for repeated child colds on vitamin A
Advice promotes Father John’s Medicine to build resistance in children with repeated colds due to vitamin A deficiency. Highlighted as alcohol free and drug free, it promises relief from coughs and throat irritation, touting vitamins A and D and five years of use.
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Father John
Supreme Court Affirms State Child Work Measure
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upholds a Massachusetts law banning parents or guardians from giving children literature to sell on streets. The ruling, reversing Jehovah’s Witnesses on religious freedom grounds, holds the state can regulate child labor in public spaces. Justice Rutledge writes for the majority. Justice Murphy dissents.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Sarah Prince
Brocton
Mass
Jehovah's Witnesses
Justice Rutledge
Murphy
Peace Terms Hardened For Japan After Atrocities
Washington reports that US policy toward Japan grows firmer with proposed three point plan to strip heavy industry, ban merchant marine and large ships, limit metals, and require farming for population. Military leaders urge continued Pacific war while preparing postwar controls and accountability for war crimes.
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Washington
Japan
United States
Pacific
Asia
Philippines
Bonin Islands
Guam
Guam-Bonin
Safety Campaign Is Launched Here In City
Hagerstown Lions club with police department launches pedestrian safety drive in downtown. Patrolman Harold B. Kiser leads efforts as concrete reminders are posted on lamp posts and pedestrians are warned against jaywalking at corners to aid war-time traffic safety.
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Mongerstown
Plans Mapped To Speed Movement Of Oil To East Coast
The Office of Defense Transportation announced steps to accelerate petroleum product movement eastward by tank car and truck. District manager Edward R. Gisburne cited slower tank car flows and a reduced East Coast fleet, with withdrawals for war needs, as reasons for action. Measures urge prompt loading, quick vehicle releases, and AA Railroad Association oil traffic priority over nonwar traffic.
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Office of Defense Transportation
Edward R. Gisburne
Hagerstown
DDT
United States
Gisburne
ODT
Association of American Railroads
Slow January for City Building Permits in 1944
City building inspector Charles W. Smith reports January 1944 yielded nine building permits estimated at 4135 dollars with only two over 1000 dollars. The larger permits covered a new church for People’s Tabernacle on Vale Street and a new storage building, with other permits for alterations and additions.
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Charles W. Smith
People’s Tabernacle
Vale Street
Finger Amputated At Penitentiary Work Site
Jesse R. Raymond, an employee at the State Penal Farm at Roxbury, underwent finger amputation surgery at Washington County Hospital after a band saw accident. Also reported: U.S. domestic airlines had 23 passenger fatalities in 1943, down from 55 the prior year.
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Jesse R. Raymond
State Penal Farm
Roxbury
Washington County
U. S
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Tommy Dorsey Oitit
Gil Stratton
Robert E. Strickland
June Allyson
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Guy Kibbee
Bergen
Fred F. Finklehoffe
Girl Crazy
Guy Boltgn
Jack McGowan
George Gershwin
Tro Gershwin
Norman Taurog
Arthur Freed
Faye Emerson
Jerome Cowan
Keron
Iad
Blox
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Sonny Tufts
Shirley
Jess Barkers
Whit
Pal Stone
Des Morea
Rene, Manning
Lear Monnens Wi Teens ‘Steer Kare
Roosevelt
White House
Basil O'Connor
U.S
Nippon
Jas
People's Store
W. Wash. St
Henrys Theatre
Pester Alien al Fat
Ane
Xavier Gugat
Thomas Saint
Pal
Aso Oe
Adnan
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Weselyt
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Rudy
Caskey
Caskey Baking Co
Starrett Tools
R. D. McKee
Record Shop
E. Wash. St
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