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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1944
Page
2
Fragmentary ad text lists mail subscription details and pricing. Mentions J Garvin Hager and Phillip C P with a phone note. Indicates membership in Audit Bureau of Circulation and office of subscription rates. The readability is limited by OCR garble and partial phrases.
About a thousand American airmen held in neutral countries are making the best of their extended stays. In Switzerland about 50 are living at the Winter resort, skiing and skating while American hockey teams play captors and teaching the Swiss baseball. Sweden hosts 381 with privileges and escorts, and no escapes have been reported. A few are sent to England under exchanges. others remain in Germany as prisoners. Uncertainty grows as allied capitals fear bombings and Nazi anger. Few have been captured by Japan.
Capitol Hill observers warn the 40 percent federal tax on after dark entertainment will push about 15,000 entertainers out of work while likely failing to raise meaningful wartime revenue. Critics argue it harms a key industry that supports movies, stores, and radio, with few benefits to the war effort.
The aim is to channel surplus war earnings into savings and war finance mechanisms. Moralists and hardline anti inflationists share this view in Utat, aligning in principle.
Military leaders warn tougher fighting ahead in the Pacific as Japan, strained by oil shortages and sunk tankers, may face dwindling supplies. After Hollandia, renewed Allied pressure presses toward the Philippines, threatening Japanese positions if reinforcements cannot reach the front.
The piece discusses transitioning from war to peacetime production while sustaining armed services. It notes continued Navy preservation, smaller scale military output, and higher postwar production than prewar levels. Mentions possible merger of War and Navy into a single Armed Services Department and retaining scientists in laboratories.
The State Department once began with five employees under Thomas Jefferson. Elephants are oiled on circus sides to prevent cracking. The nickel lacks the words In God We Trust among modern U.S. coins. Boston claims the nation’s oldest subway. About 15 percent of weekly overseas mail is misaddressed. Women on average breathe faster than men. Napoleon originated the idea of odd and even house numbers by street side.
At a Smithshire home Miss Wate Feliz suffered a deep arm wound when a backyard firearm discharged, shattering a cup and narrowly missing death. The suspect firearm owner fled as responders tended the injured person.
A garbled fragment describes a parade related to the Patemar river and local officials. Readable parts mention residents gathering under a summer event and a capering at a bridge. Details such as place names and dates are unclear. the item appears as a damaged notice or clip with minimal concrete facts.
By Ernie Pyle June 26 reports from aBee Squadron at a B26 base. The men live well, with clubs, Red Cross facilities, and outdoor games. Barracks are basic Nissen huts but spartan comforts and camaraderie shine through despite danger and homesickness.
A grandfather reflects on changing attitudes toward work and weather. He recalls feeling pity for those outdoors in rain or snow, then admits a shift: it is better to labor outside than stay sheltered. He laments idleness and longs to wake and trudge through snow again.
Washington May 20. Price Administrator Chester Bowles told the House banking committee that OPA regulations are being streamlined. He said the goal is to simplify the tax and pricing rules now under the wartime price control authority.
DR Earl L Doug Heard recounts a Navy tale of a rejected Annapolis candidate and a friend's quiet kindness The story highlights how small acts shape friendships and daily life The mother note and the seediest outfit illustrate the value of little gestures in home and service life
Major General Patrick J. Hurley, ex Secretary of War, meets with Roosevelt and State Department officials over a 30 page plan to extend Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter into the Near East. He proposes US economic missions, military rank for an ambassador, and closer U.S. guidance in Iran Iraq Arabia Syria to boost influence and oil access.
AP dispatch notes Japan's radio claim of vitamin C in sweat by a university professor, estimating 100 mg per day loss, but points to prior American work and a detection error without oxidase treatment. It concludes Americans lose only trace amounts of vitamin C in sweat.
A young flight sergeant from New York asks a Red Cross worker to be his mother for the day and presents flowers. She congratulates him, talks briefly, and he then muses that his mother would kiss him if she were truly there.
Leitersburg Grange degree team initiated 22 candidates into the first and second grades with one reinstatement and two absentees. Thirty three youths signaled intent to enter the victory garden contest with cash prizes for growing five vegetables from ten on a 225 square foot plot. Third and fourth degrees will be conferred May 31. County Pomona Grange gathering planned May 27 in Lappans with Montsarada Grange as host. public afternoon program and speaker to be announced. New regalia purchased for Leiteresbing Grange use.
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