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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1945
Page
1
London report says Russian forces push near Komarom and Budapest as Germany floods lowlands by opening dikes along the Frisches Haff to slow the Soviet advance. The German high command also notes a large Silesian drive and a shrinking pocket near Koenigsberg.
Clarence W. Stouffer, who rose from substitute letter carrier to superintendent of mails, retires today after nearly 39 years of government service. Health prompted the move after an earlier heart attack. he will stay active and help with small tasks he lacked time for before. He began as a substitute carrier on September 1, 1906. Continued on Page 10.
The War Food Administration released minimum support prices for county canning crops. Tomatoes run $27 a ton field grade $32 No. 1 and $21 No. 2. green peas about $91 a ton. corn $19 a ton field run $19.50 graded and $17.50 evergreen varieties. snap beans $105 Blue Lake poles and $97.50 field run Refugee with other varieties at $87.50 and wax types excluding black seeded. To certify for 1943 operations, canners must file with the county AAA committee.
London reports the Moscow radio described a Koenigsberg slave market in East Prussia where adults from occupied lands sold for about ten marks and children for five or six marks. Erich Zwemmer, cited as market director, claimed 52 assistants and that 250,000 foreigners from the Soviet Union Poland France and Belgium passed through the camp last year with at least 175,000 Russians sold annually. A collective farmer and his family were bought by Otto Koltzenen, a Prussian farmer owner.
Keedysville weather observer J A Miller reports apricot trees already blooming and late peach varieties nearing bloom after a hot day and a 49 degree low. He warns it is too early for fruit trees to blossom due to risk of late frosts, noting frosts have occurred as late as early May and peaches are unsafe to bloom before April 21. He adds chimney swallows may reappear if warm weather continues, typically arriving in late April.
Despite heavy snows this past winter, damage to apple and peach trees by rabbits has been negligible says County Agent Mark Miller. He notes rabbits cause bark damage when winters are severe, but field mice did far more damage this past season.
Charles B. Clapsaddle a 73 year old Welsh Run farmer died from burns suffered when gasoline ignited his clothing while he tried to smother a fire in his truck ropter near Mercesburg. Fireman Henry Lightner said engine trouble triggered the explosion and flames. He died 13 hours later at Chambersburg hospital with death listed as due to shock. Burial at Welsh Run scheduled this afternoon.
Washington reports the Treasury alcohol tax unit seized 639 outlaw liquor stills in March, up from 345 in February 1944 but down from 786 in February 1940. The Presbytery of Baltimore has called Rev. John Bernard of Hancock to lead Lonaconing, Md., church.
The piece notes spring arriving at 7 38 and discusses a mild shift after a harsh winter. Health and agriculture experts weigh in on benefits of cold spells ending, with farmers sowing spinach peas lettuce onions and radishes while fruit buds worry over heat and late frosts.
Mayor Richard H. Sweeney outlines postwar priorities for Hagerstown including new bridge over the Antietam at the Light Plant, overhead bridges and underpasses to fix railroad crossing hazards, widening main arteries, a northern reservoir, and extended sewers and water facilities. I. Alvin Pasarew of Maryland Commission on Post-War Reconstruction commends the city for aggressiveness in planning. details continued on page 10.
The City of Hagerstown will disburse 82400 on April 1, comprising 30000 retirement of bonds and the remaining as interest on bonded indebtedness. Municipal Electric Light plant bonds of 10000 at 4.44 percent, and 20000 Water department bonds at 4.14 percent, will be retired with 52490 in interest for light plant, market house, street department and water bonds.
Draft Board No. 1 listed Hagerstown registrants for induction on March 12 including John St. Marshall Jr. East Memorial Boulevard assigned to Navy and Santo F. Galin, 229 South Potomac, Omer Hendrickson, Thurmont, Alexander M. Edemy, Chambersburg, Bernard H. Kelly Newport Del assigned to Army. Board No. 2 reported county inductees accepted for Army: Charles William Caldwell, W. V. Walter Samuel Kouitz Jr., Wil Hamsport Route 2, Charles Leslie Burkett Mangansville, Paul Oscar Summers Williamsport, Lloyd Ellsworth Bowers Williamsport Route 1, Ray Franklin Whipp Sharpsburg Route 1, Roy Bruce Byers Williamsport, Perry Oscar Miles Clearspring, Charles Irvin Harbaugh Williamsport Route 2, Charlie Warrenfeltz Jr Clear spring Route 1, Ray Roy Brumback Hancock. Navy accepted Joseph Franklin Greenwalt Knoxville and Paul Robert Dill Boonshoro Route 1.
In fog early this morning on Hopewell road the Roy Sease Jr car sideswiped the Great American Tea Co truck driven by Martha V Hollinger of Hagerstown Tit 2. Deputy Bruce Spickler investigated and noted the fog caused the collision.
Lord Alfred Douglas longtime friend and biographer of Oscar Wilde died today at his home in Lanting Sussex aged 74 The death marks the passing of a notable British scholar and literary figure with ties to Wilde across decades.
Near Charlton at the Jacob Needy farm two objectors James Koch and Jacob Sensgenis mistook pokeberry root for wild oyster root while digging fence holes. They ate the root about 11:30 am and suffered extreme pain, rushed to a Clearspring physician, and were out of danger after ten hours.
Charles D. Whittmore a 22 year old Black veteran with 32 months overseas received a suspended 60 day jail term after pleading to a concealed weapon charge in city court. He said he carried the revolver for protection after hearing of a threat to him by a local man. He described a service career from coast artillery to gunner with nervous breakdowns and months of treatment before discharge March 10.
SAN FRANCISCO March 26 Mayor Roger D. Lapham will host delegates to the World Security conference. He accepted an offer of a bullet proof automobile for the conferees. The offer came from Chrysler Corporation which built the special car for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain.
Frederick Maryland March 20 The Frederick county commissioners plan to request passage by the General Assembly of a bill to broaden the county's borrowing powers and permit financing of proposed school improvements without the necessity of a hand issue.
Paris March 20 The Army newspaper Stars and Stripes reports for the first time in U S Army history Negro and white troops are fighting in the same outfits in the First and Seventh Armies. Negro platoons have been assigned to rifle companies, chosen from thousands answering Lt Gen John H Lee's appeal to serve and work for the country. About 190 of 280 volunteers from a Quartermaster laundry unit volunteered, 36 were accepted, and roughly 2,500 volunteers total were taken. No platoons crossed the Roer in one company that aided in taking Dueren.
Paris dispatch reports Lt Gen George Pattons 3rd Army has flanked the Siegfried Line and the Hunsbruck line in the Saar Palatinate, driving toward a juncture with the 7th Army near the Rhine. In seven days the offensive has inflicted at least 45000 casualties on about 80000 German troops. The 3rd Army reached 25 miles from Kaiserlautern and captured Alzey, with 8355 prisoners taken yesterday and more than 45 towns seized. The 7th Army breached the Siegfried Line over a 12 mile stretch between Saarbrucken and Zwei Bruecken as it advances from the south.
A Mandalay dispatch reports Fort Dufferin, a holdout in Mandalay Burma, has fallen to Allied troops. The fort’s capture marks a strategic breakthrough in the city.
Washington reports that tomorrow is the last day to use A-14 gasoline ration coupons. The 2-15 series will remain valid Thursday and each new coupon is worth four gallons through dune TL.
US carrier force under Vice Adm. Mitscher bombed Japan for a third straight day, denying enemy claims of sunk ships as carrier planes struck Kobe and Kure on Honshu and Kyushu Shikoku zones. Tokyo said enemy attacks continued with Task Force 38 shaping up northeast of Shikoku.
Frank Lee Carl, 1872 1960s era Cumberland editor and columnist known as dean of Allegany county journalists, died at his home after a year of illness. A 58 year newspaper veteran, he began as a county weekly correspondent, later editing Hancock Star, Tragerstown Morning Herald, and Cumberland Daily News. He also served as assistant postmaster and wrote Carl's Scrapbook for the Cumberland Sunday Times.
An informant alleges Heinrich Himmler joined a 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler to gain top Reich power but later withdrew, claiming he only pretended involvement to spy on the conspirators. The account names figures like Popitz and Langbehn and notes an attorney’s Swiss inquiry.
A War Department report states American heavy bombers in Europe averaged 1.7 losses per 100 sorties in 1944. The Eighth Air Force under Lt Gen James H. Doolittle and the Fifteenth Air Force under Maj Gen Nathan Twining flew 20,682 bombers in February, with the loss rate at a record low. Despite fewer enemy planes, German flak shot down more planes proportionally as totals declined over 14 months.
Hartsville Tenn March 20 The birth of a baby boy weighing 20 pounds at a clinic was disclosed by Dr Lt Gwin who said the infant died at birth The mother Stephens condition described as satisfactory Chicago medical attendants noted the 20 pound infant among the heaviest babies on record in America Earlier reports cited 23 and 24 pound babies in 1918 and from Italy Records indicated some babies weighed up to 13? pounds at birth which are cited as extreme cases
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