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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1945
Page
7
The table lands of Tibet in central Asia average more than 16,000 feet in altitude, highlighting extreme elevations across the plateau region and its high terrain.
Local Board No. 2 lists inductees for military service on December 26 in the Army and Navy. Names include Robert Wilson Funks town, Simon Shank St. Thomas, Pa. and Weldon Eugene Jackson Hancock among many others from Hagerstown, Williamsport, Keedysville, Smithsburg, Boonsboro, and nearby towns.
Treasury figures show the Sixth War Loan crushed its goals with a grand total of 21.621 billion dollars, 54 percent above the 14 billion quota. Individual purchases reached about 5.9 billion, while corporations invested roughly 15.7 billion, enabling a new world record for financing. Morgenthau praised volunteers and the American people for the achievement.
The Leyte peninsula in the Philippines spans about 1,000 square miles. It notes the region's geographic size and location.
Film starlet Susan Peters is in critical condition after a rifle misfire on a hunting trip at Lake Cuyamaca, about 50 miles from San Diego, California. The bullet struck her chest during the accident.
The Charles Chaplin paternity case ends in a mistrial after a five hour twenty minute vote six ballots seven to five in Chaplin’s favor. Judge Willis discharged the jurors leaving open the possibility of a repeat suit by Carol Ann Berry’s mother.
Charles Lewis Walters, a Frederick painter and World War One veteran, died from injuries after falling on ice and striking his head last week. The death occurred in Frederick, Maryland, on January 5. Walters was 58 and had a long local work history.
The article presents the first photograph of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz wearing a new insignia showing five stars arranged in a circle. It notes that the fleet admiral rank was authorized by Congress and marks a historic upgrade in U.S. naval leadership.
Lt. Janice Myers Cook, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jacob L Myers of Williamsport, serves as night nurse at a U S Evacuation Hospital near Bastogne Belgium. The hospital, a former textile factory, moved twice in a week as Germans advanced, caring for about 20 wounded from the Bastogne stand. Cook, a former assistant night supervisor at Washington County Hospital, joined the Army Nurse Corps a year ago after working with the Child Health Center and driving an ambulance in England and France.
The Mayor and Council debated acts to preserve municipal jobs and create a pension system. City Attorney Edward Oswald reviewed measures to empower ordinances for these laws. The session also considered local bills on fire and police pay limits, slum clearance, and city real estate for public use, plus plumbing code enforcement with notes of unlicensed work and defective installations.
Residents of the east end of Hagerstown submitted a petition with several hundred signatures to the Mayor and Council seeking public transportation. Councilman Earl Wolfe, chair of the committee, said the petition covered 87 families and an early meeting with Potomac Edison Company was anticipated. The east end remains the only area in Hagerstown without bus service.
The article states that about 5 percent of U S steel is made by the basic open hearth method and that native platinum is never chemically pure, with five other metals commonly associated with it.
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