Meatlegging drive opens nationwide crack in price controls
The OPA launched a nation wide campaign against a black market in meats amid alleged violations of price ceilings and bootlegging. Reports describe surreptitious slaughtering in makeshift abattoirs and meat salesmen charging premiums before selling. Maryland also opened a state probe into wholesale meat black market activity with several butchers questioned.
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Associated Press
Rose Marie Kiefer
National Association of Retail Grocers
Senate
Washington
Office of Price
Baltimore
Maryland
Price Administration
Srivan. Joseph
Ration Board Getting Tough Policy Update
The OPA explains the Ration Board will deny excess gas to wastful use in Washington county. Defense workers and businesspeople who misuse gas face re education and strict enforcement with a volume of regulations to read. Firefighters also responded to chimney fires in the 700 block of Winter street and the 500 block of Washington avenue.
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OPA
Washington County
Ration Board
Winter Street
Washington Avenue
Union warns coal miners to return or face government action
President Roosevelt urged a 48 hour return to work as war concerns loom. Troops could be used to seize mines amid a 12,900 strong wildcat strike by United Mine Workers. War Labor Board ordered processing of grievances while leaders dispute its authority and plans for further votes surfaced across five collieries.
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Mame
Wildcat Waskent
War Labor Board
William H. Davis
UMW
John L. Lewis
W.L.B
Lewis
W.lb
Mr. Roosevelt
Savings Assn Holds Election After 44th Annual Meeting
The Homebuilders Savings and Loan Association held its annual meeting at 128 West Washington Street. Officers reelected: Elmer N. Funkhouser president. D. A. Stickell, 1st vice president. Frank L. Bennett, 2nd vice president. C. Harry Keller treasurer. Homer W. Eakle assistant treasurer. Clarence C. Ditto secretary. Franklin R. Miller assistant secretary. Harry Brindle attorney. Board of Directors includes John Ankeney, C. Merritt Campbell, Oram Fishel, Robert G. Foltz, H. Maxwell Yingling. Many directors served over 25 years without pay. Association organized in 1898. this was its 44th annual meeting. Early directors included M. P. Moller and others who laid the foundation for assets over $1,900,000 with $100,000 in surplus and reserves.
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Homebuilders Savings and Loan Association
West Washington Street
Elmer N. Funkhouser
A. Stickell
Frank L. Bennett
C. Harry Keller
Homer W. Eakle
Clarence C. Ditto
Franklin R. Miller
Harry Brindle
John Ankeney
C. Merritt Campbell
Oram
Fishel
Robert G. Foltz
H. Maxwell Yingling
Washington County
M. P. Moller
S. H. Wethenmayer
William Preston Miller
George P. Miller
J. Frank Roessner
Henry ©. Foltz
Charles M. Watson
George C. Snyder
Samuel 31. Hockman
Fred G. Burger
Bus Operator Fined After Reckless Driving Arrest
James F. Nolan of Great Cacapou West Virginia was arrested by State Trooper J. J. Coady on the Middleburg pike on a charge of operating a defective bus in a reckless manner. He forfeited $10 and costs yesterday.
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James F. Nolan
Great Cacapou
W. Va
J. J. Coady
Middleburg Pike
Farm Program Outlined for Washington County 1943
The 1943 farm program details were set at a county AAA committee meeting in the County agent’s office on Summit Avenue held in conjunction with Farm Mobilization Day. Hamilton Linthicum of College Park noted crop program changes and that $9 per cent of production goals must be reached to trigger corn and wheat payments. No restrictions on the corn crop this year. Simon L. Downey and county war board members attended.
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Washington County
AAA Committee
Summit Avenue
Hamilton Linthicum
Maryland
College Park
Pasteur
Simon L. Downey
State Aaa Committee
County War Board
Procurement Party Ends Two Day Stay in Hagerstown
The Naval procurement party spent two days at the Hotel Alexander in Hagerstown interviewing officers for the men s Naval Reserve and both enlisted and officer WAVES and SPARS. Lt Edwin B Constantine Jr said dozens of applications were forwarded to Washington and those seeking more information should contact the party s headquarters at 1320 G Street Northwest Washington DC. A canal built in China centuries ago remains the world s longest.
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Hagerstown
Alexander
Naval Reserve
WAVES
Cumberland
Edwin B. Constantine, Jr
Washington
G Street
Northwest
Washington, D.C
Rommel Pressed On Tunisian Front As Allies Attack
Allied forces pressed Rommel across the Sahara toward Tunisia with air blasts on Castel Benito and soil seaborn strikes. French spokesmen said Italians were driven from the Sahara except Gadames, while Peyrouton’s North Africa appointment drew sharp criticism from Fighting French leaders and London papers.
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Libya
Tunisia
Rommel
Avis
Tunis
Tripoli
Castel Benito
Gadames
Tripolitania
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Fort Saint Anchor
Minan
Peyrouton
Vichy
Interior
London Daily Herald
Laborite
Romanians Routed as Stalingrad Drive Shrinks Axis
The article notes heavy Romanian losses on the eastern front with estimates of over 20 divisions and about half a million men, mauled at Odessa and Crimea, and crushed near Stalingrad. It adds Hungarian and Italian resistance under pressure from a Russian drive south of Voronezh, while Djibouti is cited as a key deep harbor on Africa’s coast.
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Fuehrer
Volga
Romania
Odessa
Crimea
Stalingrad
Red Army
Voronezh
Kharkov
County Group Off Thursday Inductees List Near Final Exams
Local Board No 2 announces men to report on Thursday for final physical examinations and possible induction into the armed forces. The register includes numerous names from Hancock Hagerstown Smithsburg Williamsport and surrounding areas with routes listed, indicating draft processing steps.
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Wilbur Archie Mitchell
Hancock
Verdean Clyde Smith
Hagerstown
Glenn William Haines
Clearspring
Lester Robert Younker
Sylvester Roger Younker
Palmer James Taylor
Security
Dean Lesher Bartles
James Henry Holliday
Econsboro
Daren
Ranklin Mullenix
James Stewart Frey
Smithsburg
Clifton Harry Grove
Big Pool
Charles Swanger
Homer Eugene Rowe
Williamsport
Francis Sylvester Hose
Roy Leon Ingram
Robert Eugene McCarty
Clifford Ellis Rock
Funkstown
Joseph Robert Rohr
John Richard Mummert
Indian Springs
Arthur Keller Bachtell, Jr
Cypress Street
City
Samuel Kieffer Eckis, Jr
Preston Miller Kendle
Edwin Blair Glesner
Maugansville
Clarence Rich Carhaugh
Allen Tosten
Mercersburg
Ralph Elmer Sterling
Virginia Avenue
William Fchardeon Potts
John Alvey Smith
Earl Elmer Diverbiss
Millard Eugene Stone
Lawrence Lford Tomblin
Lebanon
Joseph Richard Britendolph
Wilbur Jackson Myers
Georges Richard Ambrose
Edward Garth Martin
Donald Elwood Moss
Boonsboro
Palmer Jennings Dawson, Jr
Gay Street
Irvin Robert Dick
Walter Lee Sprinkle
Harry Eugene Davis
Fairplay
James Edward Haynes
South Potomac Street
Paul Leroy Andrews
Paul Allen Grove
Big Spring
Harvey Scuffins, Jr
Preston Vallet Buck
Tregor Richard Wallace Fritzberry
Charles Wilbur Rowe
Gladys Cooper Cast As Tyrannical Mother In Now Voyager
In London she is famed as the British stage’s beauty and darling. Hollywood casts her as an old woman in Now Voyager at the Maryland Theatre. Her age and stern portrayal, with white hair and a silver cane, unsettles British audiences as she persecutes Bette Davis.
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London
Hollywood
White House
No. 10
Downing Street
Warner Bros
Voyager
Maryland Theatre
Miss Cooper
Gaiety
Bette Davis
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood at Henry's Theatre
Slapstick thrills and peril mix in this Henry's Theatre screening of the fourth Boston Blackie adventure. Chester Morris stars as Blackie who plans a Florida vacation but is pulled into a California heist after a wire from Arthur Mandelor.
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Henry’s Theatre
Columbia
Boston
Blackie
Hollywood
Jack Boyle
Chester Morris
the Runt
Florida
New York
Arthur Manleder
California
Beyond the Blue Horizon lights at Colonial Theatre
Dorothy Lamour headlines the new Paramount Technicolor feature Beyond the Blue Horizon arriving tomorrow at the Colonial Theatre. The jungle romance stars Richard Denning with Jack Haley Patricia Morison Walter Abel Helen Gilbert and Elizabeth Patterson. Lamour performs the hit song Four Fuji Moon and an Empty Heart in the film.
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Dorothy Lamour
Paramount
Dotty
Richard Denning
Jack Haley
Patricia Morison
Walter Able
Helen Gilbert
Elizabeth Patterson
Dotty Heiress Sees Fortune In United States
An heiress to a fortune travels to the United States after being orphaned in the jungle when her parents were killed by a wild elephant. The incident underscores her dramatic rise from hardship to wealth and prominence.
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Dotty
United States
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