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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1944
Page
5
Soviet forces seized Mga, a key rail junction 30 miles south of Leningrad, restoring Moscow’s rail link to Leningrad and enabling better Allied supply routes. The capture marks a notable shift in the siege, with Stalin praising the action in a special order.
Washington reports say the Democratic National Committee elected Robert E. Hannegan as chairman to succeed Frank Walker. The party broadly supports a fourth term for President Roosevelt with plans for a vice presidential candidate to be chosen at the Chicago convention. The White House reception followed by remarks indicated unity behind a third Roosevelt term.
Gifts to the Washington County Historical Society museum from Mrs. Mary E. Ridenour include a Civil War leather cap box and ration box, a bayonet, a stone monument, a handmade spur, and an early lithograph of Lutheran missionaries. A Co A Tenth Maryland Volunteers roster attracts local interest. The exhibit opens next Thursday during the annual board meeting and features items from the permanent collection and loans, open to the public for several hours.
The Office of Price Administration is reportedly considering sympathetic responses to protests by commercial canners over slow canned vegetable supplies under rationing. Canners say home canning reduced commercial pack sales and left large warehouse inventories.
Algiers reports two months ago of captured German officers sparked wild tales that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop led a peace mission to North Africa. Pr ime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt’s Cairo trip fed speculation as observers linked the officers seen at the airfield to a secret German delegation.
A general alarm fire at Cambridge Relief Hospital, an old mansion recently converted, was brought under control after Patrolman Leo Gutoski and Dr. Edith Lee aided by two nurses guided three patients and staff to safety through smoke filled hallways. The blaze began shortly before 3 a.m. and prompted multiple alarms to call out available apparatus.
Moscow reports reveal Stalin's strategy of misdirection as the Red Army launches concurrent offensives. First feints at Vitebsk and Novosokolniki drew German troops north, while true blows struck toward Leningrad, with renewed pressure from the Volkhov and aiming to sever divisions near Riga. Germans struggle to hold positions from Lake Simen to the Gulf of Finland, with indications this could be a decisive phase.
Miss Mildred Bowers, 31, of Hagerstown Route 1, suffered severe facial injuries at 12 10 this morning when the auto in which she rode as a passenger slid on an icy Beaver Creek road near Funkstown and crashed into the rear of Charles R. Clopper’s car. Driver Edna Bohn escaped injury. Both drivers, charged with reckless driving, were found not guilty by Magistrate M V Bostetter after testimony that the road was ice and Bohn skidded into the Clopper vehicle.
The interior of the local Pennsylvania railroad passenger station is near completion after reconditioning begun last fall. New floors walls and lighting have been installed, toilets rebuilt, and the interior rearranged. A new ticket office was added and the exterior reconditioned.
Pfc. Edgar B Baer wife lives on East Lee street was slightly wounded in action in Italy. Injury occurred January 5 two days before his twentieth birthday. Son of Mrs. Della M Warrenfeltz of West Franklin street. Enlisted July 1942 and moved to overseas area in 1943. Trained at Fort Bragg North Carolina and formerly employed at Motler's in this city.
City Treasurer Harold J. Bester reports more than a third of 1944 col lectable taxes were paid in the first three days, totaling $81,060.49. The figure compares to $70,607.49 for the same period in 1943, with early payments buoyed by a lower 60 cent rate versus 70 cents last year and high turnout from property owners. Personal taxes from large corporations not yet included, pending State Tax Commission certification. Tax office says the process has fast, short waits for taxpayers and praise for efficiency.
J. W. Winfield of Smithsburg Route 1 waived a hearing after arrest on a drunken driving charge and forfeited collateral of 101.45 dollars. City Officers Kuhlman and Doornberger made the arrest. RAID BIG JAP BASE NORTH PACIFIC. Two bombing raids on Paramishi ro Major Japanese naval base were announced by the Navy.
London reports the RAF struck Magdeburg in Saxony with over 2,000 long tons of bombs as part of a major aerial operation that also hit Berlin. The raid followed a earlier 2,200 long ton assault on Berlin, costing the RAF heavy losses as 55 bombers returned. Magdeburg is a 300,000 population city and a key rail junction serving Leipzig Kassel and Hamburg.
The wage increase for coal miners raises city costs by about $3,000 annually for the water department. December power bills rose by $287 due to higher coal costs, and the water pumping station electricity is priced from coal expense.
One hundred and thirty five women and 21 babies in Washington county have been authorized to receive free maternal or pediatric care under the Maryland Emergency Maternity and Infant Care program for wives and infants of servicemen. The program, started in 1942, initially covered wives or infants of Army Navy Marine Corps or Coast Guard personnel in specific pay grades, later restricted again to the fourth and fifth grades. Continued on Page 8.
A letter to E C Hook from Zoltan Salkay now in the Merchant Marine praises war bond courage. He says guts define soldiers across air, tank, sea and allied services, urging Hagerstown to buy Fourth War Loan to back every front with nerve and resolve. A Federal Reserve report on the war fund support underscores the call.
An Italian airbase near Castel Gandolfo and Frascati, close to Pope Pius XII’s summer residence, was reported destroyed by dive bombers from the 12th Air Support Command. Two eight aircraft formations scored 26 direct hits on a German front line air corps headquarters located in a villa near Frascati, south of Rome.
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones orders a farm wage control program with maximum ceilings up to 2400 yearly. State wage boards will hold hearings to set wages, functioning like the War Labor Board. Wages had reached a 20 year high before this action.
Washington county reported 25,695.31 spent in December for 1499 aid cases including old age assistance 635 cases 14344.51 total average 22.59 per case 28 dependent children 566 spent 33.70 per family 100 general public assistance 2164.31 total 22.25 average 17 needy blind 436.05 25.65 foster home care 43 children 1234.78 average 28.72. Allegany county spent 38132.70 for 1719 cases averaging 21.64 per person.
A small tanker collided with a Liberty ship five miles off the Delaware capes in calm seas last night. A Navy officer said one tanker seaman is missing, the incident reported today.
Allied forces led by the 5th Army and General Clark launched an amphibious assault on the west coast of Italy, establishing a beachhead near Nettuno and advancing toward Rome. Frontal action along the Gustav Line continued at Cassino as the push aimed to cut German escape routes and threaten the Rome area.
Advanced air base in Italy reports pilots saw little artillery fire from shore and no fires on the beach during early patrols over the west Italian coast. Weather was ideal and some landing craft returned for loads while Allied ships offshore fired broadsides inland. Maj. Bruce Biddlecome of Phoenix noted vehicles and boats on the shore with possible inland fires from naval guns.
Allied Mediterranean airforce said its air campaign knocked out all airfields in the Rome area except one and blocked railroads in the Leghorn area except one. The spokesman added that rail blocks in Rome area were largely effective.
A deed dated April 1 1912 transfers property near Maugainville from Daniel W Martin and wife to Joseph H Eshleman for 33300. The week ending today shows active sales totaling near 80000 with transactions including Hunsberger to Kline on West Franklin street 2700 Moser to Rohrer along Keedysville Boonsboro road 8500 Heir to Beckley on Virginia avenue 4500 Ridenour to Miller on South Cleveland avenue 4800 and Gans to Brandenburg two large parcels.
Irvin Daley, 20, of Maugansville, was acquitted of a coat larceny charge by Magistrate Harry E. Snyder and permitted to retain Green's tan sports coat. The incident began when Jack Green reported his coat stolen after a confrontation on East Washington Street. An arrest on West Franklin Street led to Daley's brief detention, but Green declined to swear to a warrant. Continued on Page 2.
Pittsburgh residents fret as garbage piles grow during a 9th day of a strike by 20 city refuse workers. Milton Jackson, 46, a private collector, said he was assaulted by about 15 men while collecting rubbish, heightening tension across the city.
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