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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1945
Page
6
The local War Price and Rationing Board in the Earle Building announced today that sugar for home canning will resume. Each family may receive up to eight pounds per person, and applicants must sign that the sugar will be used only for canning. Certificates will be mailed in order of applications. calls or visits are discouraged.
A 1945 advertisement touts Tremett as a safe, no effort weight loss solution claiming 3 to 5 pounds weekly without exercise or dieting. It promises a 30 day trial with full refund if goals aren’t met and directs readers to Rand's and other druggists.
The local Rationing Board office will stay open the balance of the week from 9 a m until closing to help clerks catch up. Last year several thousand county residents were issued sugar, and limited sugar will be allotted for June due to dwindling stocks. Local stores report sugar shortages, and it remains uncertain if buyers with OPA certificates can obtain required amounts for canning.
Diplomas were conferred on thirteen senior class members by Rt Rev Mon signor J Francis Leary at St Marys Catholic Church Sunday evening. Medals for general excellence were won by Rita Clark, Ann Malamphy, Sarah Jane Ford, and Dean Buhrman across classes, with special medals for religion, Latin, and good citizenship awarded to named students. Louis Domenici memorial bond given to Rita Clark. Prizes awarded in Catholic Daughters contest. Kathleen Kerns and others honored. Speaker Rev Martin J Schmitt urged education as harmony of principle and conduct. Names listed of all diploma recipients.
Washington County Sheriff John B. Huyett reports four lambs housed at the jail will be released to graze the tall yard grass. He says the lambs will do the job better than prisoners with scythes. In Detroit, banners on cars are banned under state law.
Capt. M. Catherine Knodle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knodle, returns home to Mount Paramount after two months in Australia, 18 in New Guinea, and two in the Philippines with the Army Nurse Corps. She recounts a March 19 attack in the Philippines with bombs at an ammunition dump, heavy fighting, and a night of rain, floods, and wrecked tents. She expects reassignment near bone at Walter Reed Hospital.
Two persons were injured yesterday evening around 6 30 in a motor vehicle crash at East Avenue and North Mulberry Street. Mrs Bertha M Davis of Rocky Ridge and Catherine I Shipley of the 400 block North Potomac were the drivers involved. The Shipley resident and seven year old Fay Davis were treated for cuts. Patrolman A C Palmer charged Mrs Davis with passing a through signal.
Mrs. William Nelms, a six month wife in Washington DC, asks a court in Washington District Court to annul her 1953 marriage to Stan Sgt. David E. Hammond who she says is alive and on his way home after being missing in action. Hammond, 35, of near Sharpsburg, served in the 29th Infantry and was liberated from a Nazi camp. Nelms says she remarried upon receiving word of his presumed death and now wishes to marry Hammond, claiming their past was loving and she was lonely.
Washington reports the Agriculture Department estimates the 1945 United States wheat crop at about 1 095 billion bushels, the largest on record, based on June 1 data. All crops are expected to run well above average despite a very cold May, with total fruit output near last year’s record despite frost damage to some varieties.
College ParkMd June 12 Critics of University of Maryland administration proceed with a student general assembly despite President H G C Byrd saying most complaints are covered by law The 26 critics released a 1700 word statement last week and met with Byrd who outlined limits on his authority and suggested a process for changes He advocated ROTC participation for all fit male students and denied pre publication censorship of the Diamondback noting its suspension was due to funds rather than university order The controversy began with the Diamondback charges and a failed AAUP investigation proposal by a faculty member later rejected by the Maryland chapter
A Thursday afternoon exhibition in Public Square will feature infantry weapons and equipment with an expert to explain. The Army Show at 8 pm in the stadium includes a two phase battlerelated display with living tableau and a Japanese pillbox assault. Soldiers toured cities to aid Seventh War Loan bond sales. organizers include Mrs. W Geary Porter and Charles W Hoffman. Police protection will be provided by the Maryland State Guard under Major Diehl and Captain Stotelmeyer. Mayor Sweeney backs the event with a fire engine and space in the Square.
Judge Mish sustained objections to the private sale of the Hotel Hamilton property to Hotel Hamilton Inc for 190 900. Clara Hamilton Eames and William T Hamilton Jr proved the objections, with the court holding the sale process invalid under the trust proceedings led by trustee Sr Howard Phipps. Hotel Hamilton Inc was formed by local citizens to run the hotel.
The Supreme Court freed twenty four Bund chiefs convicted of conspiring to advise draft evasion, with a five to four acquittal for Gerhaard Wilhelm Kunze and others. The decision follows a day of major rulings including invalidation of parts of a Florida labor law, a pending Alabama provisions dispute, and a North Platte river diversion finding upheld in part. The term’s schedule may end next Monday.
The tribunal declined to admit the law practice claim by Clyde Wilson Summers a conscientious objector. In Bund case defendants faced charges of conspiracy for distributing Bund Command No 37 urging refusal of military duty under draft laws. Justice Roberts led a majority ruling that evidence did not prove counseling evasion beyond reasonable doubt. West Point Class of 1915 produced over 30 generals.
The Boonsboro High School graduating class shows strong attendance with six seniors posting perfect records of eight years or more. Students Stunyre, Dusing, and Cora Roulette finished ten years, Lucille Gifft nine, and George Burtner and Elizabeth Ligman eight.
Thirty years ago in Tibet Edwin J Dingle found the answer that knowledge can transform life. He claims health, wealth, and worldwide recognition followed and now offers a free 9000 word treatise from The Institute of Mentalphysics. Readers may request a copy at 213 South Hobart Blvd Los Angeles 4 California before limits run out.
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