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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1945
Page
3
The Alsatia Club hosts a pig roast this Wednesday evening with dinner at 6 30 pm. Entertainment follows under Howard C. Machen as the committee works to organize an orchestra. The Alsatia Bowling League resumes Friday night with a tight first-half race and several teams tied for first.
An Alsatia Club report notes Friday bowling nights with new parties and a lively second half to the season. The January 15 monthly meeting will introduce new members at a buffet luncheon.
Detroit dateline reports Joseph E. Frazer chairman of Graham-Paize Motors predicted a Maryland new car sale of about 1230 in the first year after unrestricted postwar production. The estimate, tied to a national study, runs 62 percent above 1941 peak sales. Afghanistan population cited as 7,000,006.
Henry Beck Jr a 16 year old from Waynesboro pleaded guilty in Franklin county court to immorality and aggravated assault and battery arising from forcing a younger boy to walk and holding him captive 42 hours. Beck was jailed for psychiatric examination before sentencing. He was arrested near Mt Lena after allegedly tying and gagging 13 year old James Shindle Jr to a tree and torturing him with burns and slaps. The motive given was Becks anger over a school work permit issue. Foster parents reportedly reside in Wyneco Pa.
Amid Christmas cards from Hagerstown and Washington County service members overseas, the Letter League reveals letters from soldiers in Italy France and the Philippines. Pfc Leon Ebersole writes I got wounded again while noting friends became prisoners. others share home front joys and pleas for update on Sharpsburg and Pangborn city ties. Second, Lt J E Martin RAF recalls England missions with humor and a pen gift at altitude, while Pvt Harold B Kline touts Thanksgiving in France and Cpl Widdows reunions with a fellow Hagerstown man in Holland. The January bulletin is now circulated to overseas and stateside readers via local news outlets.
The Washington county Board of County Commissioners will fix the annual tax rate today. Due to a long overdue teachers salary increase, the rate is expected to rise from 1.10 to about 1.22 dollars per hundred, with schools making up most of the increase.
Major Richard G. Henkelman, once linked to bakeries in Hagerstown, Baltimore and Boston, is promoted to lieutenant colonel at the Boston Quartermaster Depot. A veteran of the Mexican Border campaign, he served in World War II with the Field Artillery. He has a son and a daughter and speaks Navy and ninety two languages.
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