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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1945
Page
7
John D. Hollyday, county chairman, said $5000 in bonds and stamps sold yesterday at the Public Square donut mobile is not enough if Hagerstown is to beat Cumberland. Cumberland sold upwards of $50,000 on days the donut mobile appeared, prompting Hollyday to urge stronger effort.
Pvt Lyndon V Zecher of the 1st Armored Division was liberated from Stalag 3-B by American forces. He described being at a German airport en route to Le Havre and expected to reach the United States within a week or ten days. The 31 year old Funkstown delicatessen manager before enlistment was among Washington county’s first casualties reported.
Washington May 25 The War Production Board revoked the 1942 ban on manufacturing Christmas tree lights and other decorative electric bulbs, subject to material facilities and manpower availability.
Earl Watkins a 19 year old Baltimore Negro with Crownsville history faces trial for the May 5 murder of 16 year old William Johnson at the Roxbury Penal Farm. Court records reveal no witness to the knife strike but doctors testified Johnson died minutes after being stabbed in the dining hall as prisoners prepared for supper.
London reports Prime Minister Churchill launching a hard hitting tour of Britain as the Conservative Labor split deepens. Professor Harold Laski for Labor pledges a clash over private enterprise versus socialism and vows Labor will not join a Tory coalition again. Election date July 5 looms with results due July 27 or 28.
Washington county had fourteen accidents in April causing two deaths and injuries to six others, per a Traffic Collision Statistical Bureau report. Nationally 1,019 accidents caused 33 deaths and 549 injuries. Hagerstown had seven accidents, one death, and three injuries. twelve of the month’s deaths were pedestrians versus 25 in April 1944.
The Tokyo radio declared that peace proposals through Russia could be possible if Japan sought peace and that the war was only starting. It dismissed rumors of Russia mediating while at war and claimed Anglo American propaganda spurred such talk as signs of fatigue with the conflict.
Samuel Clark a 16 year old Black resident of Keedysville died near Sharpsburg after the automobile he rode in overturned. He was tossed from the car and likely suffered a broken neck. He died at Dr W H Sheely’s Sharpsburg office. Deputy Sheriff Bruce Spickler and Deputy State Medical Examiner Dr S R Wells investigated.
A congressional food investigator said OPA plans a drastic curtailment of industrial sugar, cutting suppliers to about half of 1944 levels starting July 1. Bakers and candy makers will face reduced quarterly allotments as civilian consumption outpaced forecasts, causing a large deficit and withdrawal from stockpiles.
Memorial Day will be observed on Wednesday May 30 at the Fairchild Aircraft Division with all operations and offices shut. General Manager R S Boutelle announced the holiday to give each employee a chance for rest and relaxation.
Justice Robert H. Jackson, prosecutor of war criminals for the United States, arrived today in Paris to begin postwar wartime trials and investigations. The visit signals intensified U.S. involvement in legal actions against Axis leaders.
College Park Md May 25 The university president and AAUP chapter officials gave shifting statements on whether an inquiry into five complaints at the University of Maryland would be planned under way or pushed A Diamondback report cited concerns over anti-Semitism campus censorship a Hearst named scholarship and a summer teaching requirement with no extra pay The details remained unclear as officials disputed who would conduct the investigation and what actions would follow
Premier Stalin and top Soviet officials held a victory banquet in the Kremlin White Halls celebrating the triumph over Germany. Stalin toasted the Russian people as the most outstanding nation in the Soviet Union, noting mistakes in early wartime months.
Maurice W. Caplan, a 54 year old Scot who left Glasgow in 1910 and settled in Baltimore by flipping a coin, will receive the Louis D. Brandeis medal for services to humanity from the Jewish Forum in New York on June 3. As executive secretary to Bethlehem Steel Company’s shipbuilding division, Caplan naturalized in 1915 and over 31 years helped place more than 2,000 people in jobs regardless of race, creed, or color, with 90 percent not Jewish.
The City Board of Estimates in Baltimore has approved a $400 yearly salary increase for current school teachers and a $300 raise for new teachers. The plan awaits city council approval in the 1945 budget ordinance.
Paris May 25 The French Foreign Affairs committee urged De Gaulle to sever relations with Spain and push Franco from power. It asked for Laval extradition, proposes Allied action to end Franco rule, establishing a republican government and an immediate constitutive election.
Public notice explains a 1945 statewide law effective June 1 requiring all taxes or public charges be paid before real estate transfers can be recorded. Deeds must bear a tax endorsement from the treasurer or tax collector, and personal property taxes of the transferor must be paid as well.
Denver firemen report a meat shortage rumor but respond to two blaze calls in three hours. Each incident traced smoke to neglected meat roasts, highlighting howroasts cause fires rather than actual shortages.
British Second Army officials weigh whether to hold a funeral for Heinrich Himmler in Allied hands. The Gestapo head killed himself with poison after capture near Brennervoerde, leaving his body in a Lueneburg villa and prompting questions about Ribbentrop and other fugitives in northwest Germany.
Pfc Louis E McCarren and a 40 man patrol on Mindanao warded off repeated Japanese assaults during a recon mission. After three banzai charges the Americans held position with lethal fire, counting 46 enemy dead and one accidental injury from debris. no other injuries reported.
Marine Pfc. Ira H. Hayes, one of three Iwo Jima flag raisers, is being ordered back to overseas duty at his own request. Hayes, 22, from Bapchule Arizona, already served two overseas tours and preferred combat over bond drives, saying he can do more good fighting in the Pacific.
A poll of Hagers town merchants by the Retailers Bureau shows a majority favor Wednesday afternoon closing. Results will be announced at the retailers group meeting this afternoon.
Tokyo suffered massive fire damage with thousands of homes destroyed after a 9,000,000 pound air raid on the capital. Reports claimed the mansions of imperial princes and several embassies may be burned or gutted while officials warned on unsettled aftermath. Pilots praised the operation as highly successful with dawn strikes hitting major railway yards and a record run of over 550 B 29s.
County Marine Clifford M. Tuer of Maugansville suffered eyeshot wounds while engaging the enemy on Okinawa. His wife, Mrs Lorraine Izer of Maugansville, has been advised. Inducted May last year at 23 he trained at Parris Island and Camp Lejeune. He went overseas in the summer of 1944 and is the son of Mrs Harry E. Izer of Waynesboro.
Berchtesgaden note reveals Adolf Hitler privately detailing a peacetime program for war. He states universal service, Rhineland occupation, Austria annexation, and crushing of Czechoslovakia and Poland as essential steps for Germany to be ready for future conflict. The document, found among charred notes, indicts Nazi war guilt.
Gen. Karl Oberg, ex-chief of SS and police in occupied France, was captured by American troops near Kitzbuhel Germany after a three hour climb to a mountain hideout. Speculation on Hitler’s fate cites Leon Degrelle, who claims Hitler survived in Berlin until the Russians arrived.
Laur ent H. J. Brackx, 51, a former V. V. S. Naval Reserve officer, was found guilty of wartime espionage and censorship code violation and sentenced by Federal Judge Mortimer W. Byers to nine years in prison.
Baltimore March 25 Pi Rich ard K Coggins 87 longtime Ninth Ward political leader succeeds George N Lewis as superintendent of the State Accident Fund effective June 1 with a $4000 salary. He has spent the last decade in the clerk of the superior court office.
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