Bandoeng Bombed by Jap Air Armada in Java Invasion
Allied forces in Java, aided by American troops, fight back as Japanese bombers pound the Dutch headquarters city of Bandoeng for about ninety minutes. A Dutch spokesman said the situation remains under control with no landings yet. A Dutch submarine reportedly sank a large enemy tanker off Java. In the Philippines, MacArthur reported Japanese ships shelling ports and landing troops at Zamboanga.
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Rodger D. Greene
Associated Press
Java
Japan
East Indies
N.E.I
Bandoeng
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Zamboanga
Auto Catches Fire And Is Destroyed
The automobile of Daniel Norris near Keedysville was destroyed by fire last night shortly after fueling at a Keedysville station. Flames erupted from the bottom as it pulled away. Passersby and others tried to put out the blaze before Boonsboro fire company arrived. The car was nearly total loss.
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Daniel Norris
Keedysville
Keedysville Ning Station
Boonsboro Fire Company
Explosion at Atlantic refinery shocks Port Arthur
A major blast at the Atlantic refinery depot three miles east of Port Arthur Texas at 10 05 a m injures 12 workers with burns none critical. A company official said no deaths and the cause of the pump house explosion is not determined while damage to machinery may be little or extensive and a follow up fire was quickly put out.
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Port Arthur
Texas
Atlantic
Safe Passage For Food Ship Assured
A British spokesman said the government has a safe conduct guarantee from Italy for a relief ship to Greece loaded with wheat at Haifa and due to sail this week. Germany has guaranteed as well. Britain will fund a Swedish Red Cross charter, and Greek and American subscribers share the payment for food shipments from Turkey consisting of beans peas potatoes onions and fish, with hopes for continued shipments.
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London
Italy
Greece
Haifa
Palestine
Germany
Britain
Swedish Red Cross
Turkey
Georgia Congressman’s Daughter Weds Navy Officer in DC
Ensign Dorothy Ramspeck, daughter of Rep and Mrs Robert Ramspeck of Georgia, married Ensign Jarrell Ridley Dunson Jr of the U S Navy in Washington DC. Dunson survived Pearl Harbor and was aboard a destroyer in the Pacific fleet at the time.
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Dorothy Ramspeck
Rep
Robert Ramspeck
Georgia
Ensign Jarrell Ridley Dunson, Jr
U.S.N
Washington, D. C
Ensign Dunson
C.P
Coast Declared Military Area No. 1
The Pacific coast to 95 250 miles inland was named Military Area No. 1 by the Army. Japanese and American citizens of Japanese descent are slated for evacuation with German and Italian aliens to follow. Exceptions for elderly and those with armed forces children noted. The plan warns mass evacuation of all Japanese now impracticable but says later orders will require vacating the entire area.
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Pacific Coast
Army
San Francisco
Arizona-Mexico
J. P. Dewitt
Western Defense Command
Ita
de Witt
Bond Sales Slump Here in Hagerstown
Hagerstown bought defense bonds and stamps last month totaling 39,093.75 and 16,584.85 respectively, down from 62,025.00 in February 1941. Postmaster Thomas M. Simpson suggested January’s strong showing may have drained pocketbooks while Morgenthau’s plan aimed for 250,000 worth monthly. Post office receipts reached 17,360.58 versus 16,647.77 in February 1941, marking a gain of 712.81 amid two years of steady monthly increases.
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Hagerstown
Thomas M. Simpson
Simpson
Morgenthau
Jury summons revised for Friday 9 30 morning
Members of the February petit jury are asked not to report until Friday morning of this week at 9 30 o clock.
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Petit Jury
Britain Cracks Down On Food Profiteers
London March 3. Government moves to curb wartime food profiteering with stringent new regulations and penalties. Major Gwilym Lloyd George, parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Food, calls profiteers a danger to the war effort. He notes 800 inspectors and 40,000 prosecutions already.
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London
Britain
Gwilym Lloyd George
Ministry of Food
Seaking
House of Commons
Wilson Motion Is Overruled in Abortion Trial
Judge Mish overruled the new trial motion of Dr. Allen B Wilson colored. The defense argued the verdict on count two was contrary to the law after a jury found him guilty of performing an abortion. Arraignment for sentence likely forthcoming.
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Allen B. Wilson
Joseph D. Mish
Wilson
Income Tax Would Be Doubled
Secretary Morgen thau outlined a $9.61 billion war tax plan to Congress and the public promising heavy levies on individuals and corporations. He urged doubling many income tax rates, cited steep cuts for a $2,000 salary and near $100,000 retention for a $1,000,000 earner, and proposed higher excises, estate and gift taxes, plus $2 billion more in social security taxes.
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Washington
Congress
Morgenthau
Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
Gas Poured On Street Sparks Ten Cars Fire In Hollywood
Flaming gasoline flowed along Vine Street near Hollywood and Vine, igniting ten autos and destroying five. Police were mystified about the fuel source. Patrolman W R Schottmiller suggested it may have been poured and set afire deliberately.
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Hollywood
Vine Street
Vine
W. R. Schottmiller
20 To Pay With Lives For Death Of Sentry
German authorities in Paris announced reprisal for a Paris sentry’s death. Twenty hostages will be shot in retaliation after four youths attacked a sentry post. one killed the Nazi, another planted a bomb that was found. All fled.
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Vichy
France
Paris
Raging Snow Storm Hammers Western Maryland Telephones
A severe snow storm cripples communications across Western Maryland with 16 inches in Washington County and 7 inches at Cumberland. Over 100 telephone poles fallen between Clear Spring and Hancock disrupts service to the two towns. Four crews of 30 men from the C and P Telephone Co work through the morning to repair lines, while a moving truck crashed into a pole near Clear Spring during the night.
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Hagerstown
Maryland
Clearspring
Hancock
Pittsburgh
Washington County
Frostburg
Cumberland
J. A. Miller
Keedysville
P. Telephone Company
Local youth robbed of up to 400 dollars in Martinsburg
William Holbruner of Hagers Town was held up at the H L Mills service station in Martinsburg last Friday night. A lone bandit fled in a gray 1939 sedan with Maryland plate 276 500. Officers believe the plates may be stolen and the car linked to Snow Hill, Maryland.
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William Holbruner
Hagerstown
Archie S. Holbruner
South Potomac Street
H. L. Mills
Martinsburg
Maryland
Snow Hill
Holbruner
Mholbruner
Mississippi Senate votes Sunday movies in wartime ban lifted
The Mississippi Senate approved a 29 to 10 liberalization of a 120 year old blue law allowing Sunday movies within 30 miles of Army bases during the war, while bull fights cock fights bear baiting remain banned. A heated debate cited Pearl Harbor and danger to Sabbath observance. The bill heads to the House for action where similar measures have died before.
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Mississippi Senate
Jackson
Miss
America
Pearl Harbor
Joe Daws
Earl Richardson
Olen C. Hull
House
Radio unit to span break reaches Hancock
A portable radio unit, a new science development, is being rushed by the C P Telephone Company to Hancock after a storm created a gap between Clearspring and Hancock. Officials aim to have the unit in service this afternoon to carry telephone messages across the break by picking up at one end and reintroducing on the wires at the other.
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C. & P. Telephone Company
Hancock
Clearspring
Duke of Aosta Dies in Prison Camp at 43
The Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Ethiopia and a British prisoner of war, died in an officers camp in Nairobi Kenya Colony. He was 43 and a second cousin of Italian King Vittorio Emanuele. He fell ill with tuberculosis after his surrender in Ethiopia last May.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Duke of
Aosta
Ethiopia
Vittorio Emanuele
Boost In Freight Rates Approved By ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized a general six percent rise in rail and water freight rates with exceptions for basic commodities. The revenue gain is about 203 million dollars annually, below the carriers' proposed 10 percent hike. An additional 46 million from passenger fares is already in effect.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
First bluebird sighting delayed by weather censor
Will Orth phoned the Ogden newspaper to explain he waited the required 24 hours to comply with weather bureau censorship before reporting the first bluebird of spring seen locally.
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Ogden
Utah
Will Orth
Weather Bureau
Blackout Trouble Near Oxford During Test Warden's Mishap
Air raid warden Victor Mandato described a test blackout in Oxford with disbelief saying he would be mad if not serving Uncle Sam. He shouted warnings as lights failed and Al the Hights in a farmhouse went out. A pig lunged at him, he jumped a stone wall and landed in more trouble, colliding with a skunk in the darkness.
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Oxford
Conn
Victor Mandato
Sam
Mandato
Jacob Jones Destroyer Sunk Off New Jersey Coast
The Navy reported the destroyer Jacob Jones was sunk by an enemy submarine off Cape May New Jersey before dawn February 28. Only 11 crewmembers survived, nine from the engine room and two apprentice seamen, with over 100 lost from the 145 wartime complement.
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Washington
Navy
Jacob Jones
Cape May
N. J
H. D. Black
Oradel
N.J
Second Term In Two Weeks
Frank Lemon 45 described as an itinerant steel worker was handed another jail term in city court for disorderly conduct. He had arrived from Baltimore two weeks earlier to work at a local plant, got drunk and jailed for ten days on February 21, then released. Last night he refused to leave a liquor store, tried to flee officers in the snow, and was found abusive at headquarters. Found guilty before Magistrate Snyder, he received a $25 fine or thirty days. he chose the thirty days.
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Frank Lemon
Lemon
Baltimore
Lemnon
Harry Hamilton
West Washington Street
Harry &. Snyder
Brazil and U S Sign Three Key Defense Pacts
Washington reports Brazil and the United States signed three agreements to boost Brazilian production of strategic war materiel, expand rubber output in the Amazon Basin, extend lend-lease aid for Brazil’s navy and army, and earmark 14 million dollars to finish the Victoria Minas railroad tapping major iron ore deposits.
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Washington
Brazil
United States
South American Republic
Amazon Basin
Victoria-Minas
Japs Land Troops Bomb Three Philippine Ports
Japanese naval units shell several ports on three Philippine islands and land troops from a convoy of four transports escorted by a cruiser at Zamboanga on Mindanao's southwest tip, the War Department reported today.
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Washington
Philippines
War Department
Zamboanga
Mindanao
County To Bury Victim Of Crash Near Hancock
The unidentified hitch-hiker burned beyond recognition in a Hancock crash will be buried today in Hancock at the site where the body was removed. The county will bear the expense. Survivor Donald Kromer, 22, is unable to describe the victim beyond noting he was a government worker hitchhiking from Baltimore to Pittsburgh. Victims identified as Daniel M. Lipson of Cumberland and Ralph Tennant of Essex, now deceased. Lipson’s death marks a second family tragedy from auto crashes.
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Hancock
Wayne A. Sellman
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Donald Kromer
Kromer
Frederick
Kramer
Daniel M. Lipson
Fayette Street
Cumberland
Ralpt Tennant
Pennant
Essex
Greensburg
Tennant
Lipson
Bernard
Daniel
Charlotte Hall Military Academy
Allegane H High School
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Shell Philippine Ports
Clearspring Down
Duke
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