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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1945
Page
2
City Manager George Payette Jr. urged bond purchasers to exchange their bonds for reserved seats at the Maryland Theatre premiere on June 27. Anticipation runs high for a sellout crowd as exchanges should occur promptly.
Employees have bought bonds since April 9 and are urged to bring them for tickets. E bond sales at Maryland total $69,100 while other bonds reach $50,000. The premiere features The Corn Is Green with Bette Davis. Warner theaters’ Free Movie Day and Ernie Pyle Day on June 6 raised $4,400. De Soto found Hibbard squash grown by Indians on arrival in Florida.
Sergeant Alvin E. Schaeffer of Greenmount Maryland tours the country with Here’s Your Infantry a Army Ground Forces show aiding War Finance Division. The free program at Municipal Stadium Thursday June 14 at 8 o clock features jungle assault teams and realistic battles led by a 39 month Pacific veteran with Combat Infantryman Badge Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon two battle stars and Good Conduct Medal. He enlisted February 8 1941 and is son of Mr and Mrs John Schaetter.
Sgt. Jose A. Fernandez, stationed at a nearby Army camp for two and a half years, has been discharged and is living with Mrs. Fernandez in the county. A native of Spain and licensed to preach, he has been ordained by the Presbytery this year and intends to preach in neighboring churches with a full schedule this month.
An Army ground forces demonstration unit named Here's Your Infantry will tour over 600 cities during the Tth War Loan to boost War Bond sales. In a trench photo, Pic. James W. Taylor of Spartanburg D C with a Garand rifle stands beside S/Sgt. Erval J. Jenkins of Bogalusa Louisiana with an automatic rifle and Pic. John E. Dailar of Ventura California. Jenkins holds the Legion of Merit and Combat Infantryman Badge for exemplary conduct in action.
Lt Lawrence E. Wolfe Jr., son of Mrs. Lawrence Wolfe of 25 Belle Vue Avenue, returned home for a 60 day leave from a German prison camp where he endured 23 months and 15 days of captivity. A Flying Fortress navigator, he parachuted after his plane was shot down over Germany, was rescued by German fishermen, treated in a Stalag Luft 3 hospital, liberated by Patton's Army on April 29, and arrived in New York on June 5 after leaving Le Havre.
Father's Day observances will be held at Trinity Lutheran Chapel on Liberty Street. Frank Barr will teach the entire Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and E. Russell Hicks will be the guest speaker at the 7:30 p.m. worship service.
The Wakefield addition owners urged corrective measures as T Aubrey Kemp urged action on housing post war. Dr J A McCallum warned of unsanitary living spaces and rising tuberculosis, while Samuel Cohen urged zoning laws. City moved to abandon idle air raid wires and approved paint on the auditor’s office and iron fencing.
Cleveland June reports warn sugar shortages will deepen in the last six months of 1945. Regional OPA administrator Birkett L. Williams cites 1944 droughts and harvest manpower limits as the cause. He says July 1945 to January 1946 will see the supply tighten further than any wartime period, with the region using 55 percent of the 1945 quota by July 1.
The Maryland State Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will train volunteers to augment nursing care for poliomyelitis victims in case of a future outbreak. Senator Radcliffe of Maryland is involved in the efforts.
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