Plan Big Army BY ALEX H SINGLETON
Plan outlines a $32,000,000,000 wartime appropriation to arm a 3,600,000 strong army including an air force of 1,000,000 by year end. Patterson notes potential manpower strain as War Department, Nelson, and Moore testify before the House Appropriations Committee. The panel says the U.S. has begun the largest war-material production ever. The bill aims to mobilize billions for munitions, tanks, and guns, with immediate action urged amid strikes and profiteering concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex. H. Singleton
Washington
Congress
Pearl Harbor
United States
Robert P. Patterson
House Appropriations Committee
Donald Nelson
R. C. Moore
Army
Man Fined for Carrying Concealed Revolver in City Court
Charles B. Phillips, 56, a local garage employee, pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed revolver and was fined 50 dollars plus costs by Magistrate Harry B. Snyder. Phillips claimed the gun was an heirloom being moved between homes and denied drawing on the boys. Police recovered an unloaded revolver. the incident began when Phillips allegedly took a screwdriver from youths and later confronted them on South Potomac and East Antietam streets. His wife attended the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Phillips
Harry B. Snyder
Phillips
South Potomac Street
Italian High Command Reports Raid on Castel Vetrano
Rome dispatch says British bombers struck Castel Vetrano in Sicily, according to Italian high command.
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Rome
Italian High Command
Castel Vetrano
Sicily
Local Draft Boards Sort Hagerstown County Registrations
Draft boards in Hagerstown and Washington County began sorting thousands of age 20 to 45 registration cards turned in last night by 24 points. They will count and separate city from county residents while Selective Service staff in City Hall segregates non local registrants for forwarding to home boards. Cards listing Hagerstown or Washington County as residence will be shuffled and given serial names.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Selective Service
City Hall
Ickes cites industry plan to close East gas stations
Secretary Ickes told a House committee that the oil industry urged immediate closing of all filling stations in the East from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on weekdays and all day Sunday, with gasoline rationing if needed. He also proposed an $80 million Texas to Philadelphia New York pipeline and said the industry wants about 15 percent cut in East Coast petroleum use from February 15 to April 15.
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Washington
Ickes
House Committee
East
Texas
Philadelphia
New York
Japs Increase Air Activity Over Bataan Front
Washington war bureau reports rising enemy air activity along General MacArthur lines in Bataan. A Cabcaben bombing killed 23 women and children and wounded 22 others.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
War Department
Cabcaben
Bataan Peninsula
Dutch Brace For All Out Defense Of Java Island
Dutch planes bombed and machine gunned small Sunda Strait islands, with casualties reported but little material damage. Dutch bombers claimed a direct hit on a Japanese transport and a probable hit on another near Sumatra. In Palembang, Dutch bombers shot down two Japanese fighters. The outlook grew bleaker as Japan prepared a climax thrust against Java amid Sumatra’s investment.
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Batavia
N.eb. L
Java
Dutch East Indies
Sunda Strait
Sumatra
Palembang
South Sumatra
Netherlands East Indies
Japan
H. P. Quispel
Netherlands Indies
Hagerstown Workers Join In Plan To Loan Uncle Sam Part Of Wages
In Washington County and Hagerstown nearly 3000 workers have signed payroll allotments for defense bonds this week. Eleven local employers with 2,865 workers will start deducting weekly wages for stamps and bonds to support Morgenthau s plan. Employers listed include Pangborn Corporation and Hagerstown Rubber Co with 1000 and 200 workers respectively, plus Brandt Cabinet Works, Hagerstown Leather Co, Charles H Byerly, W H Reisner Mfg Co, Victor Hosiery Corp, Southern Shoe Co, and Hagerstown Shoe and Legging Co with 350 and 750 workers respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Uncle Sam
Washington County
Robert H. McCauley
McCauley
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Morgenthau
Sam
Pangborn Corporation
Hagerstown Rubber Company
Brandt Cabinet Works
Hagerstown Leather Co
Charles H. Byerly
W. H. Reisner Manufacturing Co
Victor Hossiery Corporation
Southern Shoe Co
Hagerstown Shoe and Legging Co
Paroled For Duration
Memo for James O Callaghan engineer Pearl Harbor Hawaii paroled you in your own custody for the duration Magistrate Aurelio learned your whereabouts yesterday have the five bucks ready when you come back
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New York
James O’callaghan
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Manhattan
Two Men Sentenced in City Court for Disorderly Conduct and Assault
Randolph W. Burke aged 20 and J. W. Jones aged 29, both listed as colored, were sentenced to thirty days in jail each in default of $25 fines after arraignment before Magistrate Harry E. Snyder. Burke faced disorderly conduct charges, Jones assault. Officers allege the pair entered a white woman’s home yesterday. Jones denies improper advances, saying he asked for water. Patrolman Fred Rickard made the arrests. Burke had been brought from Baltimore earlier and decided to stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph W. Burke
J. W. Jones
Harry E. Snyder
Burke
Jones
Fred Rickard
Silent Screen Star Anita McKenna Robbed in Beverly Hills
Anita King McKenna, silent screen sitar and racing-stable owner, reported a $100,000 loss after two masked gunmen robbed her of furs jewelry and perfumes last night. She said the men, about 30, spoke with an accent and fled in her limousine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Anita King McKenna
Silent Screen
RAF Attacks German Ships at Helgoland Bight
London Feb 17 British bombers have begun attacks on Helgoland Bight where Scharnhorst Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen are believed to be taking refuge after last week’s clash through the Strait of Dover according to the German high command.
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London
High Command
Helgoland Bight
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Strait of Dover
Japanese uniforms and secret data seized in F B I raids
In Northern California raids the FBI seized four Japanese army and navy uniforms two U S army uniforms secret documents and three empty bomb casings. Four more Japanese aliens were arrested in Monterey as federal agents moved to curb alien populations near strategic Pacific coast zones. A House committee traveled to San Francisco to open hearings on related problems.
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San Francisco
F.B.L
California
Pacific Coast
Sacramento
Nat Pieper
F.B.I
United States Army
Monterey
House of Representatives
Walkout of Welders Ends in Tacoma War Time Reprieve
Tacoma Washington welders end a two day walkout over AFL dues. Spokesman Charles Brinkerhoff says the strike is over and workers will return to the shipyard for the duration of the war. AFL unions require good standing. Puget Sound shipyards enforce this rule. Earlier in Seattle-Tacoma, about 1,500 welders walked out after boiler makers’ union listed some as delinquent.
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Tacoma
Wash
AFL
Charles L. Brinkerhoff
American Federation of Labor
Puget Sound
AFL Metal Trades Department
Seattle-Tacoma Shipyards
Boilermakers’ Union
Churchill Says Gneisenau and Scharnhorst Out Of Action
British Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Germany lost the 26000 ton battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst for some time after last week's English Channel action. He said they will be laid up for repairs and the Royal Navy will be reinforced by high quality units and big new ships from the United States to meet the challenge.
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London
Germany
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
Britain
English Channel
Churchill
House of Commons
Royal Navy
United States Navy
Roads Free Of Frost Boils In Western Maryland
The State Roads Commission reports no frost boils on highways in Western Maryland this winter. Officials say February to March is the usual period for such damage, though this season has less snow than recent years. Significant ice has led to heavy use of cinders on roads.
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Maryland
State Roads Commission
Commission
Supreme Court to Review Betts Habeas Denial
The U S Supreme Court agreed to review a denial of a writ of habeas corpus for Smith Betts, jailed in Carroll County Maryland for robbery. Betts, sentenced to seven years, appealed the Maryland Court of Appeals ruling claiming trial court denial of counsel since indigent defendants are appointed counsel only in murder or rape cases. Betts is a Mapleville native who earlier faced a 1935 chicken stealing conviction in the local court and a 1939 Carroll County seven year sentence, with a 1941 habeas petition denied by Judge Mish.
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United States Supreme Court
Washington
Smith Betts
Carrol County
Maryland
Betts
Maryland Court of Appeals
Mapleville
Frank G. Wagaman
Carroll County
Joseph D. Mish
Five Local Men Join Navy Here This Week
Five Hagerstown and Washington county men were enlisted in the U. S. Navy through the local recruiting station since last Thursday and were sent to Baltimore to be assigned to a training base. The five enlisted men are William R. Mowen, Raymond Allen Tucker, Theodore F. McKean, Ernest L. Eavey Jr, Wesley H. Norman. Norman enlisted in the Navy Construction regiment.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
U. S. Navy
Baltimore
L. M. Dunaway
William R. Mowen
Avon Road
Raymond Allen Tucker
Antietam Street
Theodore F. McKean
East Avenue
Ernest L. Eavey, Jr
West Washington Street
Wesley H. Norman
Williamsport
Norman
Navy Construction Regiment
Army airman praises sub attack and reward promise
Corpsman John J. Duffy, part of an Army bomber crew that attacked an Axis submarine off the Atlantic coast, was among six airmen awarded commendations by Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum in New York. His widowed mother said he joked about being a hero after receiving the letter.
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Philadelphia
Corp
John J. Duffy
Atlantic
Army
Hugh A. Drum
New York
Catherine Duffy
John
Mitchell Field
General Drum
Australia to Mobilize All for Defense
Sydney February 17 Prime Minister John Curtin announced the war cabinet is to mobilize all human and material resources in Australia for the defense of the commonwealth against Japan. The full federal cabinet will issue the necessary regulations as Australia is placed on a full war footing. Curtin said every person is at the government’s service to work for Australia’s defense.
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Sydney
Australia
John Curtin
Commonwealth
Curtin
Seven Die as Navy Bomber Crashes Near Buena Vista
Seven men were killed when a U S Navy patrol bomber crashed in the mountains about nine miles east of Buena Vista Virginia while returning to base from a routine flight. Two crew members escaped unharmed. Forest rangers aided in locating the wreckage and recovering the bodies. Memorial services will be held later.
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Norfolk
U. S. Navy
Buena Vista
Fifth Naval District
Forest Rangers
Navy
400 More Women Workers Needed In Defense Drive
An order for 400 more women to fill positions in a local defense industry was received by the Maryland State Employment Service. The Vocational Training School will train 100 additional women in woodworking, and applicants should register at the Employment Service on East Washington Street for immediate training.
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Maryland State Employment Service
Employment Service
East Washington Street
Register
Oil Slicks Hint Submarines Paid For Aruba Raid
Reports from Maracaibo indicate submarines torpedoed seven tankers and caused 59 sailors to be dead or missing along the Venezuelan coast. Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews said American planes launched from Aruba and Carabao as a Standard Oil refinery in Aruba endured a submarine raid without visible damage. Weather and tracer fire described amid chaotic harbor scene.
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Chandler Diehl
Balboa
Panama
Canal Zone
United States
Frank Andrews
United States Caribbean Defense Command
Standard Oil Company
Aruba
Netherlands West Indies
Carabao
Andrews
Roosevelt vetoes rubber planting bill national scope
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to promote guayule and rubber plants, arguing it applied only to the United States. In a Senate message he urged Congress to pass a plan extending to all American nations in the western hemisphere to maximize crude rubber supplies for defense. He warned the vetoed measure excluded important sources and stressed broad regional development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Congress
Senate
County seeks outside lawyer for Ben ton legal advice
Jackson Miss Feb 17 The Benton county board of supervisors lacking a local lawyer has asked the legislature to allow hiring an attorney from a neighboring county for legal guidance. The previous advisor has volunteered for the air corps.
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Jackson
Miss
Benton County
Board of Supervisors
Air Corps
Daisy May Bachtell Seeks Divorce from Merle Bachtell
Daisy May Bachtell acting through attorney John J. Allen files suit in court for divorce from Merle Levane Bachtell on grounds of desertion.
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Daisy May Bachtell
John J. Allen
Merle Levane Bachtell
Stolen Ford Convertible Reported on South Prospect
Jefferson Scott of Broadway reported his tan Ford convertible coupe stolen from in front of a home on South Prospect Street after dark on Monday night. Police are investigating the incident.
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Jefferson Scott
Broadway
South Prospect Street
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Burke and Jones
RAF
A. F. L. Dues
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Arthur W. Wermuth
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