OPA Plans National Milk Price Ceiling in Move
The Office of Prices Administration announced a forthcoming nationwide ceiling on prices paid to dairy farmers for fluid milk. The temporary rule links producer pay to January levels, with a 60 day move to a permanent regulation, while also targeting alfalfa hay price cuts in California Oregon and Washington. James Byrnes will oversee a six day study on maintaining dairy production without further price increases.
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Office of Prices Administration
OPA
California
Oregon
James F. Byrnes
New York City
Chicago
Birmingham
Ala
Burlington
Towa
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
OPA Provision Aims to Equalize Producer Prices Across Markets
The proposed OPAsid rule seeks to remove unwarranted price differentials among producers in different markets. It targets eliminating inequalities by standardizing pricing mechanisms and increasing transparency across regions.
Historic Casablanca meeting shown in new reels at Maryland Theatre
News reels from RKO Pathe screen Roosevelt and Churchill meeting French leaders in Casablanca Morocco. The President reviews troops and armored units and appears with Negro troops in Liberia. He later greets Brazil’s President Vargas.
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Churchill
Casablanca
French
Morocco
RKO Pathe
Maryland
Liberia
Vargas
Brazil
School Hoodwinked at Georges Township High
War Production Board chief A H Burchfield said thieves posing as WPB agents swindled Georges Township high school near Uniontown, stealing six typewriters and leaving $28 receipts for each. He stressed the WPB is not seizing typewriters and only voluntary donations are taken.
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Pittsburg
A. H. Burchfield
War Production Board
WPB
Georges Township High School
Uniontown
Burchfield
Mobile unit to collect blood at St Pauls Church Hagerstown
A Red Cross Blood Donor Service mobile unit will set up at St Pauls Methodist Church on North Potomac Street Thursday Friday and Saturday this week to collect donations from local residents. Confirmed appointments are being mailed. Donors should avoid fats for six hours before giving blood and should not eat foods such as butter bacon cream milk mayonnaise pastry or fried foods to prevent fatty blood from causing plasma reactions.
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Red Cross Blood Donor Service
St. Paul's Methodist Church
North Potomac Street
Hagerstown
Resistance of Japs Is Ended in Solomons Campaign Ends
Gen Knox reports the six month drive to seize Henderson Field in the Solomon Islands has ended, denying Japan a base to raid Allied lines to Australia and placing American forces near key Japanese bases. He cautions that naval and air activity may be a withdrawal demonstration, with no firm new disclosures. The note adds that the Virgin Islands were acquired by the United States from Denmark.
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Australia
Knox
Southwest Pacific
Solomons
Knor
Swamp Shoe Repair Shops Begin to Report Mixed Rebound
Shoe retailers described a slow morning with some stores posting nil sales while others saw average or better early activity. Consumers focus on fit and quality as Prentiss Brown urges conserving footwear with 50 million pairs idle. Stamp No 17 remains valid for one pair of shoes until June 15 with transfers allowed within families.
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Prentiss Brown
CD pennant adopted for area emergency vehicles
Baltimore reports Maryland's white triangular CD pennant to be used on emergency vehicles throughout the Eastern Defense Command starting February 17 by order of James M. Landis. The plan requires a single pennant on the front and rear of non waving displays. exemptions apply to military, fire, police, ambulance, and utility vehicles.
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Maryland
Eastern Defense Command
James M. Landis
Civitian Defense
Landis
Eastern Command
Maryland Council of Defense
Senate Confirms Nominee To Court
The Senate confirmed Wiley B. Rutledge to the Supreme Court to restore nine justices after James F. Byrnes resigned to become Stabilization Director. Rutledge is expected to take his seat by the court’s next order day, with possible rearguments for pending cases to include him.
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Senate
Wiley B. Rutledge
Supreme Court
James F. Byrnes
Rutledge
Students Honored at Washington and Lee Campus
Two Washington and Lee students from this city received campus honors as the school opened its second semester. Omer Thomas Kaylor Jr. was elected house manager of Phi Kappa Psi and made the second semester honor roll with an A average. He is a sophomore and son of Mr and Mrs Omer I T Kaylor of West Irvin Avenue. William Hubert Schindel was elected president of Lambda Chi Alpha and is a sophomore. he previously served as social chairman and is the son of Mr and Mrs Hubert Schindel of 23 East Irvin Avenue.
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Washington and Lee
Omer Thomas Kaylor, Jr
Phi Kappa Psi
Kaylor
Omerit
West
Irvin Avenue
William Hubert Schindel
East
Lambda Chi Alpha
Schindel
Hubert Schindel
East Irvin Avenue
Cumberland Factory Nears Finish for Synthetic Rubber Ingredient
Workmen in Cumberland Maryland advance a 500000 pilot plant by Celanese to produce butadiene the main Buna rubber ingredient. Manager Fred T Small says completion is near and the unit will produce about two tons daily but a full plant nearby is unlikely due to raw material sourcing.
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Cumberland
Celanese Corporation of America
Fred T. Small
Small
Polishing Strips Trim Shoes At South Plains Flying School
En listed men at the South Plains Army flying school wear narrow strips of soft cloth inside their trouser cuffs to polish their shoes as they walk. The origin of coffee is traced by meat authorities to Abyssinia.
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The
South Plains
Army Flying School
Abyssinia
Mass Meeting Planned for National Ground Observers Week
Plans finalize for a mass meeting at Franklin Court auditorium tomorrow night at o oclock led by Washington county spotter posts to celebrate National Ground Observers Week along the eastern coast. Speakers include Lieut A B Canady from Philadelphia Third Service Command headquarters Sergeant Murphy from Baltimore filter center and John Shank from Waynesboro laboratories. County spotters will be awarded certificates for service while advancing the colors will be by the American Legion. Music by Hagerstown Municipal Band directed by Peter Buys. Invocation by Rev Scott Wagner welcome by Mayor Sweeney and two patriotic vocal solos by Merle Belle Snyder. All local war plant personnel and the public are invited.
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Washington County
A. B. Canady
Philadelphia
Third Service Command
Sergeant Murphy
Baltimore
John Shank
Waynes Born Laboratories
American Legion
Hagerstown
Peter Buys
America
Scott Wagner
Sweeney
Merle Belle Snyder
OCD
Election Ordered for Baltimore Insulator Workers
The National Labor Relations Board ordered an election within 30 days among employees of the Locke Insulator Corporation in Baltimore to decide whether United Construction Workers a division of United Mine Workers or United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America CIO would represent them as bargaining agent.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Locke Insulator Corporation
Baltimore
United Construction Workers
United Mine Workers
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
CIO
North Africa Wadis Shaped by Ice Age Rivers
Scientists propose that the wadi systems across North Africa were carved into the earth by rivers during the Ice Age, creating long dry valleys now visible in desert landscapes. The theory links arid region geology to ancient hydrological activity and climate patterns.
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North Africa
Allies Bomb Key Messina and Tunisian Ports Raid Gabes Airfield
Allied communique reports new attack on the Tunisian port of Sousse with fires at the airfield and ships torpedoed or hit. A British submarine off the Italian west coast sank four ships in a single day, while Gabes raid hit buildings and aircraft. 18 enemy fighters were shot down.
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Sousse
Gabes
Ware Osi
U S Sub Sinks 8 Jap Vessels
A Navy submarine reports sinking eight Japanese vessels after torpedoing a leading freighter and a transport near Wewak on January 26. The convoy included a fully loaded troop transport with thousands of soldiers aboard. The incident followed a prior collision between a destroyer and a Japanese vessel, with ongoing chase and engagement in the area.
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Wewak
First Combat Patrol Adds Luster To Wahoo Sailors
Morton recalled his Pacific patrol as his unit’s first combat mission after earlier Atlantic duty. He noted the Wahoo had previously claimed one combat ship and two auxiliaries, and he preferred Pacific hunting to the Atlantic.
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Pacific
Morton
Atlantic
County Prisoners Ask For Paroles
Two Wash county men Raymond Fletcher and Glen Glesner are among 69 applicants to be reviewed by State Parole Director Herman M. Moser at an Annapolis hearing. Fletcher led to two years for auto larceny. Glesner two years for robbery with a deadly weapon.
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Washington County
Herman M. Moser
Annapolis
Raymond Fletcher
House of Correction
Glen Glesner
Maryland
Baltimore City
Women’s
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