Two Hurt In Early Morning Truck Crash At Kemp's Mill
Two men seriously injured when a service truck crashed into a culvert at Kemp's Mill at 7 am. James Hunter Bolen a 23 year old driver from Kernstown Virginia suffered a broken nose and severe lacerations while A Jackson Vincent 29 from Winchester Virginia had multiple facial cuts. Both employees of Novick Transfer Co. were returning from a repair job and were hospitalized after the vehicle failed to navigate a sharp curve. Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Stangle investigated the crash noting unfamiliarity with the road.
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Kemp's Mill
James Hunter Bolen
Kernstown
A. Jackson Vincent
Winchester
Vincent
Novick Transfer Co
Kemp’s Mill
Kenneth Stangle
Blazing ship sighted off Belmar with Coast Guard aid
Belmar police reported a tanker seen afire about five miles offshore early today. Coast Guard vessels from New York and New Jersey stations hurried to the scene. Police Sergeant William Briden said he witnessed a wall of fire rising 100 feet into the air as the ship drifted northward toward a point between Belmar and Asbury Park.
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Belmar
N. J
Coast Guard
New York
New Jersey
William Briden
Here
Asbury Park
Taxpayers urged to pay auto taxes before filing
From the county treasurer comes a reminder to taxpayers who deduct or plan to deduct auto taxes on income tax returns. Ensure those taxes are paid as you make oath on the returns.
Kiel Bombed by RAF for Second Night
London reported that Kiel, home to a 26,000 ton German battleship, was bombed by the RAF for a second consecutive night. Fires were started in dockyards and shipbuilding works, according to an Air Ministry communique.
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London
Kiel
Germany
R.A.F
Air Ministry
Germans pillaging Europe food supplies, starving occupied lands
The Inter-Allied Information Committee reports famine spreading across occupied Europe as Nazi pillaging feeds German populations and armies. In Greece up to half a million could starve this winter while France sends food trains to Germany despite a threatened whole generation. Executions and heavy penalties for illicit trading are noted amid drastic controls.
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London
Europe
Inter-Allied Information Committee
Switzerland
Germany
Inter - Allied Committee
Greece
France
BATAAN'S HERO IN THE NEWS
General MacArthur headlines reach home as Mrs. Marsh starts an income tax fund for him and a three week old cub at Oklahoma City zoo likens itself to him. Oakland shipyards adopt the MacArthur shift as workers embrace the morale boost, while some employers reprint forms for the change.
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Dallas
Texas
Douglas MacArthur
W. A. Marsh
Treasury
MacArthur
Oklahoma City Zoo
Leo Blondin
Oakland
Calif
New Trial Motion Argued In Dr Allen B Wilson Case
A motion for a new trial in the Dr Allen B Wilson case was argued before Judge Joseph D Mish this morning. Judge Mish withheld his decision. Wilson a colored physician was convicted earlier in the week on the second count of an indictment charging him with procuring an abortion of a 21 year old white woman. The motion filed by Defense Attorney Calvert K Hartle alleges the verdict was contrary to the evidence and that certain evidence was admitted over defense objections.
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Allen B. Wilson
Joseph D. Mish
Mish
Wilson
Calvert K. Hartle
Furnace blast injures man reviving fire at home
Kenneth N. Mowery of 364 South Cleveland avenue suffered burns to his arms neck and shoulder when a smouldering furnace exploded while he tried to revive the fire with gasoline. A spark triggered the blast that blew the door from the furnace and flashed toward his face. He was treated at a local hospital and released after care.
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Kenneth N. Mowery
South
Cleveland Avenue
Mowery
Suspended Sentence In Assault Case
Chester Delaney, 35, found guilty of assaulting his mother in law, received an 11 month suspended sentence in the House of Correction by Magistrate M V B Bostetter in city court this morning on condition of good behavior henceforth.
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Chester Delaney
House of Correction
M. V. B. Bostetter
Soon to curb rent boosts in war boom areas
Washington reports Price Administrator Leon Henderson will act within days to curb inflationary rents in defense housing zones. The OPA will designate the first group of defense rental areas with ceilings and boundaries, giving 60 days to reduce rents. If needed, federal powers may be used to enforce lower rates.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Prison term for Bloom man in Madison stabbing
Robert Colmes 34 colored of Bloom's court was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction by Magistrate M. B. W. Bostetter in city court for stabbing Warren Carter 21 white in the Colonial theater rest room on January 13. Colmes says Carter accosted him and struck him with a metal ash receiver. Police say Colmes used a pocket knife, gashing Carter in the back and shoulder.
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Robert Colmes
Bloom’s Court
House of Correction
M. B. W. Bostetter
Warren Carter
Madison Avenue
Colonial Theater
Colmes
Carter
Numeral Three Tops In Atlanta Blackout
Atlanta reports a city blackout test with three births just before the alert and three more arrivals during the 20 minute outage. Police logged three arrests for blackout violations keeping hospitals and authorities busy during the incident.
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Atlanta
Reserves of Nazis Appear to Be Doomed
Russian reports say encircled German 16th Army remnants numbered at least 86,000 men poised for ruin. Soviet forces claim to have destroyed blockhouses, gun emplacements, and dozens of enemy equipment in the Staraya Russa area and broader Leningrad front engagements. Soviet guns and tanks battered German positions as siege lines tightened around the Lake Ilmen region under Lieut. Gen. Pavel A. Kurochkin.
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Moscow
Staraya Russa
Germany
France
Red Army
Leningrad
Soviet Information Bureau
Crimea
Information Bureau
Red Star
Lake Ilman
16Th Army
Pavel A. Kurochkin
Sunshine Lady Of Dixie Dies At 75 Founder Of Berry Schools
Miss Martha McChesney Berry died in a Atlanta hospital at age 75 after leading the Berry schools at Rome Georgia for 41 years. The Mountaineers called her the sunshine lady for her work teaching crafts and running a system that spans 35000 acres with over 100 buildings and 1000 students funded largely by farm activity. President Calvin Coolidge awarded her the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association medal for distinguished service.
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Atlanta
Martha McChesney Berry
Berry Schools
Rome
Berry
Berry Institution
Calvin Coolidge
Miss Berry
Theodore Roosevelt
Port Blair Bombed by Japanese Planes
Three Japanese planes bombed and machine-gunned Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, 350 miles southwest of Rangoon, according to All India Radio.
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London
Port Blair
Andaman Islands
Bay of Bengal
Rangoon
All India Radio
Rodger
Greene Associated Press
Bangka Iistad
United. ‘Nations
Java
Bangka
Sumatra
Batavia
Japan
Indian Ocean
Burma
Adaman Islands
Ceylon
India
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Clubhouse Robbery at Conocochea Sportsmen's Club
Thieves broke into the Conocochea gue Sportsmen's Club clubhouse at Miller's Sawmill, ransacking the kitchen and dining room. They stole a RCA radio four cases of Coca Cola and other beverages, pencils bearing Manbeck Baking ads, and damaged a Victrola and a vending machine. Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Stangle investigates.
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Conococheague Sportsmen’s Club
Miller's Sawmill
R.C.A
Manbeck Baking Company
Sugar Sellback Campaign Eases Shortage In NYC
New York reports large chains and independents participating in a sugar sellback drive to relieve the shortage. Seven major chain companies cooperate with Leon Henderson's plan, instructing managers to buy hoarded sugar back at current retail prices.
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New York
Leon Henderson
Heroism Of Local Boy Is Commended
Col William J Flood of the U S Air Corps commends Ha gerstown boy Private Lauren M Ridge for heroism during the surprise attack on Wheeler Field Hawaii. The commendation signed by Col Flood was received by the boy's father M G Ridge 37 West Side avenue.
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William J. Flood
U. S. Air Corps
Hagerstown
Wheeler Field
Hawaii
M. G. Ridge
West Side Avenue
Lauren M. Ridge
Negro Suspected In Old Murder Is Held
Millard Bowie, 33, suspected in the 1937 murder of Melville Knight, a Chester poolroom operator, is held in Philadelphia on two holdup charges. Frederick police were notified and an extradition effort to Frederick will be made. Bowie was linked to a possible accomplice in the Knight killing.
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Millard Bowie
Melville Knight
Chester
Frederick
Philadelphia
Bowie
February court to sentence prisoners at 10:30 morning
Prisoners are to be sentenced tomorrow at 10 30 in the morning following February court proceedings.
Japanese bombers strike Indian Andaman Islands
Japanese air raids hit Port Blair on the Andaman Islands as the war expands into Indian territory. The attacks threaten a back door sea route to Russia and China, with carrier or land-based planes possibly involved. The raids mark Japan’s farthest western blows and target key shipping lanes in the Bay of Bengal.
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Britain
Japan
Bay of Bengal
New Delhi
India
Indian
Andaman’islands
Port Blair
Rangoon
Lower Burma
Russia
China
Andamans
Calcutta
Chittagong
Chungking
Burma
London
Mergui
Burma Panhandle
Australia Maps New Offensive Strategy In Wartime Plan
Melbourne February 27 The Commonwealth War Council met in secret session with Allied advisers to shape a new offensive plan amid the threat of a Japanese attack on Australia. Australian and Allied forces outline heavy offensive strokes and shore defenses as Japanese forces hover near New Guinea and New Britain. Air raids target the new Britain port of Rabaul while discussions continue over the weekend. The Herald notes contention that Japan may strike Australia soon or push into Burma, and predicts Australia will become a major base for Allied counteroffensive.
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Melbourne
Australia
Commonwealth War Council
New Guinea
New Britain
Rabaul
Melbourne Herald
War Council
Burma
Netherlands Indies
Japan
Herald
The
Oil to Heat Homes as East Faces Low Supplies
Washington report warns heating oil supplies in the eastern states and DC are dangerously low. Deputy Petroleum Coordinator Ralph K. Davies urges using all suitable tankers and rail movement to divert fuel oil from gulf gasoline shipments to domestic heating oil for the remaining five weeks of the season.
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Washington
Petroleum Coordination Office
East
Gulf Ports
Seaboard
Ralph K. Davies
District of Columbia
Davies
Keedysville Bank Sets Eighth 5 Percent Certificate Payment
The Citizens Bank of Keedysville will make its eighth payment of 5 percent on the bank's certificates of beneficial interest on Monday March 2. Holders should present certificates to the bank on or after Monday to receive payment.
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Citizens Bank of
Beers Offered For Bagging Jap Plane In Dutch East Indies
Two residents of Bandong near the Dutch East Indies army headquarters offered a case of beer to each of the first two anti aircraft gunners to shoot down a Japanese plane nearby. The first case was claimed Monday.
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Batavia
Bandoeng
Dutch East Indies
Firemen Active But Loss Light In City 1942
City fire companies answered 114 calls through February 1942 averaging about two daily. Forty eight box alarms and silent calls plus six out-of-town calls totaled a near record two month fire activity. Four volunteers sleep at each fire hall while three join drivers at alarms and another stays to take calls, with cots and bedding supplied for rotating overnight duty.
U. S. Filipino Armies Score New Gains In Bataan
Allied air actions and ground operations reported gains in Bataan as U S and Filipino forces press the campaign. Japanese plans were repelled at Port Blair and Bangka as Tokyo pressed western advances, with civilian casualties and strategic implications noted for Ceylon and India. General MacArthur’s bulletin from the Philippines updates the evolving war situation.
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Bataan
U. S. Supplies For China Destroyed
In Rangoon Burma on February 27 remnants of lend-lease material and about 400 trucks burned on the docks as the war effort faced a possible Japanese capture. Lt. Col. Adrian St. John, head of the U S military mission, arrived by armored car after transferring thousands of tons northward, a move observers say saved substantial Allied material.
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Mandalay
Burma
Rangoon
Adrian St. John
United States
St. John
Vichy Rejects U.S. Fleet Demand
London reports a German radio from Paris says Admiral Leahy demanded U S fleet movements receive U S prior authorization and the Vichy government rejected the demand. It adds rumors that Leahy may resign and S Pinkney Tuck could assume U S representation.
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London
Paris
William D Leahy
United States
Vichy
Morristown man admits fatal shooting in Chambersburg
Police Chief H S Byers said Edward M Parris 44 of Morristown Tennessee confessed to fatally shooting Daniel Greenland a 44 year old coal trucker during a rooming house quarrel in Chambersburg Pennsylvania He claimed self defense and a murder charge will be filed against him
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Chambersburg
H. S. Byers
Edward M. Parris
Morristown
Tenn
Daniel Greenland
Greenland
Parris
Byers
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