Five Eichelberger brothers join service from Hagerstown
Paul Hichelberger reports to Fort Meade for active duty as the fifth son in a Hagerstown family all five brothers serve. William, Kreps, Kenneth, and Earl Lee already in the Navy Air Corps MP and Army. All five born and educated in Hagerstown. Dried egg production in 1942 was 139 million pounds.
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Fichelberger
Paul Hichelberger
Army of the United States
Fort Meade
Hei
John M. Eichelberger
West Antietam Street
Paul
Sam
Eichelberger
Army
William
Navy
Kreps Hichelberger
Air Corps
Hawaii
Kenneth
Military Police Corps
Earl Lee
North Carolina
Hagerstown
Armed
Real Thrills in Marine Film at Henry's Theatre
The full length feature We Are the Marines produced with the U S Marine Corps cooperation and released by 20th Century Fox brings a thousand authentic thrills to Henry's Theatre. Technical advice from Major Edward Hagenah Colonel William T Clement and others of the Corps enhances authenticity.
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March
U. S. Marine Corps
20Th Century-Fox
Henry’s
Edward Hagenah
William T. Clement
Forest Rangers thrills at Colonial with MacMurray leads
Marine hero tells his own hard hitting story in The Forest Rangers a Paramount adventure at the Colonial Theatre. Fred MacMurray Pawnee Goddard Susan Hayward star in a fiery tale filmed with U S Forest Service cooperation showing smoke jumpers bailing out and flame throwers used to start back fires.
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Paramount
Forest Rangers
Colonial Theatre
Fred MacMurray
Pawlette Goddard
Susan Hayward
Thelma Strabel
Cecil B. DeMille
U. S. Forest Service
Guerdon
Aiis
Tehoe National Forest
Iit
Man jailed for improper welding on liberty ship
Baltimore May 26. Harley Erastus Miller, 20, was sentenced in Federal court to 18 months imprisonment after being convicted of violating the National Sabotage Act by performing improper welding on a liberty ship. Miller, a former welder at Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, pleaded innocent. Judge W Calvin Chesnut said he had poisoned the springs of justice by lying on the witness stand and warned that a guilty plea would have yielded more leniency.
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Baltimore
Harley Erastus ‘Miller
Miller
Bethlehem
Fairfield Shinyards
W. Calvin Chesnut
Tribute to Merchant Marines Shapes Postwar Goal
Washington May 26 The speech by Senator Radcliffe stresses maintaining an adequate merchant marine fleet as a key postwar duty. He lauds the merchant marines and the Maritime Commission calling their record brilliant and warns that without a strong fleet postwar problems will fail to be solved.
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Washington
America
Senator Radclive
D-Md
Maritime Commission
Radcliffe
Former Potentate of Shriners Dies in Honolulu
James Sutton McCandless 87 known as Sunny Jim, a former Imperial Potentate of Shriners of North America, died Tuesday in Honolulu. Born in Indiana Pennsylvania he moved to Hawaii in 1880 to study artesian water for irrigation and drilled over 700 wells aiding sugar plantations. He also did oil well work in West Virginia. A sister Anna O'Brien resided in Parkersburg West Virginia. He attended Colorado School of Mines where athletic teams are nicknamed the Orediggers.
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Honolulu
James Sutton
Sunny Jim) McCandless
Imperial
Shriners of North America
Indiana
Hawaii
West Virginia
Anna O'Brien
Parkersburg
W. Va
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