Survivors Arrive From Torpedoed Panamanian Tanker
Twelve survivors reach Norfolk after a Panamanian tanker is torpedoed off the North Carolina coast. A rescue vessel also lands four bodies. Survivors report no warning before the attack and say two torpedoes sank the vessel, with a fourth ship sunk earlier in the week amid Axis submarine activity.
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Washington
Carolina
Penterery
Allan’ Jackson
Norfolk, Va
Naval
Pase
Long Island
Local Youths Find Abandoned Infant Near Roadside Ditch
Two Martinsburg youths Albert Buzzard and Elmer Moaris heard a baby crying from a ditch while traveling from Martinsburg to Charles Town. They found an infant wrapped in ragged clothing and delivered it to Martinsburg Hospital, where it is doing well. Martinsburg police are investigating the incident.
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Albert Buzzard
Elmer Moaris
Martinsburg
Charles Town
Martinsburg Hospital
Rubber Saving Helps Equip Planes In Washington County
Rubber saving under wartime rationing will allow 26 planes to be equipped this month in Washington County. Average plane uses half a ton of rubber, with total tire reductions amounting to 26,350 pounds and 1,793 fewer tubes. February quotas are expected similar to January figures.
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Washington County
Office of Emergency’ Management
United States
Tip Prize Divided in Daily Mail Contest
A tip on a fatal accident to a Clearspring district farmer beneath a tractor and a tip on the capture of two youths in Alexandria split last week's first prize. The second prize was divided between tips on a county man who committed suicide and a county woman with four sons in the service being honored. Tips are accepted weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. by the Daily Mail.
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Alexandria
The
Daily Mail
Survivors claim subs thick as catfish in western Atlantic
Seven Panamanian freighter survivors landed from a Canadian rescue ship report enemy submarines were almost as thick as catfish in the attack area. One man died after hospital arrival. others suffered injuries or frostbite. Survivors said they signaled a raider with a flare after abandoning ship, but the submarine fired on them. They observed submarines within several hundred yards during drift.
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Atlantic
Finch
1-A Group Here Now Exhausted
Hagerstown area draft boards announced exhaustion of the 1-A group as they call 33 additional men for induction. On February 2, 14 from Board 1 and 19 from Board 2 will take final physicals in Baltimore. The next group to face medical tests will be 1-H aged 28 to 35, receiving first examinations and reclassification.
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Hagerstown
Baltimore
Army Mixups Prompt Mail Mix in Hagerstown Indiana
A memo notes Army draft boards received a wool blanket consignment and cannister kits misaddressed due to legible handwriting and spelling mixups. The Army Quartermaster sent items to Hagerstown Indiana instead of Maryland Hagerstown, reflecting misread Md. and Ind. postal abbreviations causing cross-town mail with similar names.
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Army
Hagerstown
Ind
Army Quartermaster’s
Indiana
Maryland
Hagerstown Airport Plans Extend Runways and Lights
The Mayor and Council sponsor a WPA project to widen the east-west and extend the north-south runways at Hagerstown airport. Additional lighting and reshaping of existing runways aim to improve military and training use, with extensions already completed to date.
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Hagerstown
Stamps and Bond Sales Reported At Local Post Office
Nearly $90,000 in defense stamps and bonds were sold at the local post office last week. Bonds totaled $72,206 from a total of 1023 bonds and $15,000 to $20,000 in stamps. Postmaster Thomas M. Simpson said totals are satisfactory but more stamps could have been sold. A large portion of last week's bonds came from converting stamps sold the prior week. The aim nationwide is for the public to buy all they can afford. Many plants and stores have adopted the flagroll deduction plan, with several still to report in the city.
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Thomas M. Simpson
Wheat feed sale planned by Commodity Credit Corp
The Agriculture Department announced that about 100 million bushels of wheat will be offered for sale to livestock dairy and poultry producers for feed. The aim is to help producers meet the stepped up production program and free storage space for 1942 crops.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Agriculture Department
Eleanor Roosevelt to stay in civilian defense post
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said she would remain as assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense while there was useful work for her to do.
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Washington
Eleanor Roosevelt
Office of Civilian Defense
Plan Chapter on Paralysis in Washington County
Washington County Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will be organized after dances on January 30 to handle funds from the Roosevelt Birthday Balls and other campaign activities. Chairman Calvert K. Hartle said record receipts are expected from this year’s dances, dime birthday cards, and other contributions, and a local chapter for expending the funds seems advisable. Dime birthday cards were distributed to 60 manufacturing plants last Friday with a generous response. the cards carry $2 in dimes.
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A. Washington County Foundation For
Youth Held For February Court
Edward W. Young a 15 year old who confessed to robbing the Earle Department store of about 350 dollars was arraigned in Juvenile Court and held on a 500 dollar bond for February Grand Jury action Ralph Fletcher 18 Baltimore who was arrested with Young in a stolen car in Alexandria Virginia last week will be arraigned in city court later this week on a charge of stealing the auto Police also disclosed today that two other suspects are being sought to be questioned along with Young and Fletcher about other robberies.
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Edward W. Young
Baker
Earle Department
Ralph Fletcher
Baltimore
Young
Alexandria
Fletcher
GOP Support for Plan for Switchover
Republicans in Congress backed a Roosevelt plan to ease the shift from peace to war economy by funding a 26 week paid training program for up to four million laid off workers. The scheme would spend 450 to 600 million dollars to pay as much as 24 dollars weekly, with training aimed at aircraft tanks guns and other war production roles amid Detroit auto plant conversions.
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Washington
Congress
McNary
Oregon
Rep. Martin
Massachusetts
House
Roosevelt
Brown
D-Mich
Detroit
Senate
Dog Leads Father To Drowned Child
In Philadelphia on January 19 a soaked mongrel named Babe ran into a house barking. Harvey Erb followed the dog toward the frozen Pennypack creek bank and discovered his four year old daughter Joanne beneath the ice. Ice marks showed the dog had tried to save her.
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Philadelphia
Harvey Erb
Pennypack Creek
Eric
Joanne
Newark Woman Pleads To Defrauding Charge In Court
Mrs Amelia Everts Carr aged 66 a church worker labeled a confidence woman with a fifty year record asked Es sex county court for mercy by pleading no defense to a Newark woman’s charge of defrauding her of 4700 dollars.
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Newark
N. J
Amelia Everts Carr
Essex County Court
Pfay
War Dept announces December shell production doubled
The War Department stated today that December production of artillery shells at government loading plants doubled November's output. Specific figures were withheld.
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Washington
War Department
Fighting Yanks of Batan Greeting Invaders With Shot and Song
Associated Press dispatch from Clark Lee details Gen. MacArthur forces on Batan Peninsula resisting Japanese attack. Soldiers sing a poem Dive Low Dive Bombers by Corporal Dumot F Wade from Coronado California as anti-aircraft units fire on incoming planes.
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Batan
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Associated Press
Clark Lee
Manila
U. S
Corregidor Naval Base
Luzon
Batan Peninsula
Lee
Fiafemous
Dumot F. Wade
Main Street
Coronado
Cal
Wade
Church Friendship Built Is Dedicated
Elmwood Methodist Church in Philadelphia was formally opened with its four walls dedicated to the Negroes, Chinese, Catholics, and Episcopalians who built it and the tower to a Jew who funded it. The $25,000 structure cost $750 to build and was erected in 19 months by five groups working together. Rev. E W J Schmitt read a Roosevelt letter praising the friendship and simplicity shown.
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Philadelphia
Elmwood Methodist Church
E. W. J. Schmitt
Roosevelt
Hand to hand battle rages near Mozhaisk and Leningrad front
Russian and German forces clash in fierce hand to hand fighting as winter offensive expands from the Arctic to the Black Sea. Red Star reports heavy street fighting in Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, with preparations for a broader push against Moscow’s western flank.
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Moscow
Mozhaisk
Red Star
Russia
Arctic
Black Sea
Realty Taxes Due Tuesday
State, county and city taxes for 1942 are due and payable tomorrow. City tax bills will be mailed today with a expected heavy first-day rush. County deputies added for anticipated receipts. State and county bills are not mailed. city offers 4 percent and county 5 percent discount in January. Auto taxes are due to the County Treasurer in the courthouse.
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Harold F. Bester
Harry E. Keedy
Hurley to Return to Army as Brigadier General
Patrick J Hurley former secretary of war under Hoover will join the army as a brigadier general. President Roosevelt sent the nomination to the Senate yet the White House did not reveal his assignment. Hurley has practiced law in Washington since 1932. Also sent to the Senate was the nomination of William T Knudsen to head the army war production and procurement program with rank of lieutenant general.
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Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Roosevelt
Senate
White House
Hurley
William &. Knudsen
Two Taytan Leaders Held After Desert Campaign
Cairo reports British forces captured 14 000 German and Italian prisoners in the Halfaya Salam pockets near the Egyptian Libyan frontier. Two Italian generals and a German officer with the Iron Cross were among the captives as Rommel's main force drew east of El Agheila. Bad weather hindered operations, while South African troops earned high praise for the victory. Large booty and coordinated land sea air actions highlighted the success.
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Cairo
Egypt
Imperial Desert Army
Halfaya-Salam
Bach
Erwin Rommel
el Agheila
Gulf
Sirte
Baxdia
Salam
Auto Violators Assessed Fines
Police court proceedings showed auto law violators paying fines for various infractions. James W Hoppen gardner paid $11.45 for no license. Charles Patterson paid $2.45 for no registration card. John A Snyder and Gerald Q Malloy paid $6.45 each for speeding in restricted zones. John Kenneth Myers paid $1645 for excessive speed.
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James W. Hoppengardner
Charles Patterson
John A. Snyder
Gerald Q. Malloy
John Kenneth Myers
Hospital Treats Accident Cases
Ronald BE Mellor of Big Cove Tannery was admitted for a fractured right knee from an auto accident. Raymond Beauharp of Williamsport received treatment for a fractured forehead and was sent home after. Paul Hespelhorn of Greencastle was admitted for amputation of a left finger after injuries at a local plant.
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Ronald BE. Mellor
Big Cove
Survives Four Days Trapped Under Tree in Wood Lot
Providence report recalls Albert Gorlich a 57 year old wood chopper pinned beneath a felled tree for four days and nights. He sustained a broken left arm several broken ribs and possible gangrene in the arm. doctors consider amputation as tractors may decide today.
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Albert Golich
Albert
Adamo Angellotta
Gorlich
Battle Deepens as Japs Press on Luzon Front
Washington reports ongoing operations on Luzon with enemy patrols active and indecisive skirmishes in the last 24 hours. MacArthur cites Filipino tenants deprived of transport, farmers evicted, and invaders seizing crops as Japanese advance tests Singapore defenses.
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Douglas MacArthurr
City May Get Mountain Water
After a near quarter inch of rain and forecasts of more, Hagerstown may receive mountain water soon. Albert Heard says this is the first January since the Smithsburg reservoir (1882) and Edgemont (1902) to lack mountain water in winter. Edgemont holds about 57 million gallons, roughly half full, with several inches of snow remaining in the watershed.
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Albert Heard
Water Department
Smithsburg
Edgemont
Hagerstown
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Japan plans clothing rationing beginning February 1
A Tokyo dispatch reports a Domest radio broadcast announcing widespread clothing rationing in Japan starting February 1. All stores handling rationed goods will close from tomorrow through the end of the month.
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London
Tokyo
Japan
Five injured as car overturns on Landoved road near Largo
Roe land Windsor, 26, of Largo, was killed and four other persons injured when an automobile overturned on the Landoved road near Largo early today. The crash disrupted traffic and prompted a local investigation by authorities.
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Largo. Md
Roeland Windsor
Largo
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