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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1945
Page
4
New York May 19 racing opens its 1945 New York season at Jamaica with jockeys shedding pounds. Eddie Lee plans to drop a pound under a heavy blanket while Len Bowers aims to lose three pounds in the steam room as part of the weight control routine before the big race day.
Hawley trims riders under bright lights using steam and exercise. Jockeys like Remerscheid Westrope and Bowers shed pounds after Byrnes ban eased, with Permane and Mills returning from injuries. Hawley aims to keep the roster race ready without penalizing riders financially.
New York May 15 The Fred Allen program is back on NBC after a year’s health-related absence. he will premiere on Sunday nights at a half hour past the hour, marking a return to NBC after five years away and previously on CBS with a different sponsor. The day’s listings include a dense Saturday and Sunday schedule across NBC CBS and Blue networks featuring Foreign Policy United Nations programs Truth or Consequences Grand Ole Opry FBI in Peace and War Orson Welles Forum and various music and variety shows through primetime with multiple sponsors and times.
New York May 19 The National League shows speed with 43 games in. The American League has many postponements as rain wipes out early play. Giants Ot t Weintraub Lombardi lead in hitting with Voiselle winning seven. Dodgers surge while White Sox suffer 13 postponements. Chinese republic founded 1911 Formosa crops and fires claim about 10000 lives annually.
The Hagerstown Redbirds meet the Funkstown Master at City Park Sunday at 2 30 p m in a rain rescheduled game. Stubbits is expected to pitch for Funkstown while Redbirds scouts weigh who will start.
Reported heavy fighting in the Pacific shifts concern to China as Japanese reinforcements push toward Foochow and nearby coastal points between Mabgchow Bay and Hong Kong. Rumors of a peace offer circulate, but no official confirmation exists. underground factions in Japan are alleged.
Editor proposes a large public auditorium remodeled as a Service Club for veterans. It would include a soft drink fountain library reading room and worship space. Veterans receive lifetime memberships with discounted meals. general public pays standard prices for events.
The speaker calls for honoring veterans and notes questions on race and religion will arise. He reminds that the war was fought for democracy and the man beside you in the trench was equal. He urges patience and says let the soldiers finish the matter when they return home.
Report from Okinawa details a brutal hour long clash on Conical Hill as G Company of the 388th Regiment, 96th Division repelled a Japanese counterattack. Japanese officers in ceremonial dress highlighted the foe's resolve while Sugar Loaf Hill endured nine assaults. Marines and Navy air units supported Shuri defenses, with Thunderbolts and captured airfields expanding coverage against kamikaze raids from Japan.
President Truman may address a joint session Monday to honor the 100th Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Sgt Jake Lindsey of Lucedale Mississippi. White House said arrangements incomplete as Lindsey's timetable delays final decision and possible broadcast. Estimation notes 3,000,000 bats inhabit Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
Joseph A. Cantrell will deliver the principal address at I am an American Day exercises in City Park at 3 pm with remarks by veterans leaders, band music, invocations, and a parade of colors. If rain, events move to the Maryland Theatre.
David W. Kibler a 19 year old from Arbutus Maryland arrested February 2 at his uncle residence in Grimes Station was sentenced to four years in a federal penitentiary after pleading guilty to failing to register for the draft. FBI said he hid in mountains near Luray Virginia since his 18th birthday February 19 1944 sleeping in barns caves and in the open until last fall. Also in federal court Hugh Calvin Shelton 20 Indian Head Maryland received a year and a day and Harry Samuel Morganstein Baltimore got two years for draft evasion conspiracies. Morganstein paid $200 for aid to evade induction.
Maryland's winter wheat yield is forecast at about 1,120,000 bushels, eight percent below 1944's bumper crop. May 1 conditions set the estimate by the State Crop Reporting Service, part of the U S Department of Agriculture. About 390,000 acres in Maryland were in winter wheat, up from 379,000 harvested last season. The predicted yield is about 21 bushels per acre, two and a half bushels below last year and 1.7 bushels above the year average.
As late as 1830 two thirds of American homes used wood for heat a boot designed for wet climate conditions has been developed for the U S Army highlighting early military gear innovations and domestic heating trends.
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