Congress applauds Byrnes appointment as Home Front director
Washington May 29 Congress discusses new moves to streamline the domestic war effort after President Roosevelt puts James Byrnes in command of the Home Front. proposals include compulsory manpower control legislation, a separate civilian supply agency, consolidation of agencies, and staff reductions to cut duplication amid the mobilization effort.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James ¥. Byrnes
Congress
Office of War Mobilization
Byrnes
Army
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Knox
Harry Hopkins
Munitions Assignment Board
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Fred M. Vinson
Jobs Await All Incapacitated
Fairchild Aircraft Corp will hire Washington County men honorably discharged from the military who are injured or incapacitated if they can still perform some work. They propose a central clearing house to contact discharged soldiers, and Captain Price expresses appreciation for Selective Service cooperation.
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Fairchild Aircraft Corp
Washington County
Henry C. Stanwood
Selective Service
Maryland
Fairchild Aircraft
Joba
Fairchild
William H. Price
USMCR
Price
Suspended Sentence For Theft By Former Employee
Richard Kidwell appeared in city court and pled guilty to stealing an electric drill from a former employer. Magistrate Harry E Snyder sentenced him to six months in the House of Correction suspended on the condition of good behavior, monthly police reporting, and immediate farm employment. Kidwell sought leniency and mentioned army service, but prior burglary conviction may bar enlistment. The employer testified Kidwell was an excellent worker when sober.
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Richard
Kidwell
Virginia Avenue
House of Correction
Harry E. Snyder
Had Plenty Of Gas If Nothing Else
Worcester Massachusetts May 25 motorist stopped to pick flowers by a highway. OPA inspectors concluded the trip was not pleasure driving. The man held no vehicle registration plate driving license ration sticker federal auto use stamp tire or safety inspection sticker or gasoline ration hook but did have ample gasoline in the tank.
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Worcester
Mass
OPA
Former Local Man Wills Drug Store To His Employee
The $78 000 estate of the late Joseph C. Williams 59 of Washington D C a former resident of Hagerstown who died May 21 is left to a former employee and to various institutions according to petitions for probate filed yesterday Theodore I Heller who had been in Williams employee for the past 10 years inherits the drug store business while the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children receives 1000 and 500 was left to the Providence Hospital for the erection of a drinking fountain.
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Joseph C. Williams
Washington, D. C
Hagerstown
Theodore I. Heller
Williams
Shriners Hospital For Crippled Children
Providence Hospital
Perfumed Soap And Steam Bath Left By Attu Japs
At a captured Attu post on May 17, Japanese troops abandoned perfumed soap and a portable steam bath along with small grenades patent medicines and tobacco. They left vitamin pills cosmetics and a stash of cigarettes but no silk underwear. Snipers are nearby and the cook house is camouflaged under tundra and grass.
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Attu
Eugene Burns
Oupost
Violent Battle Continues For Bridgehead
London reports Red Army forces fight to push Germans from a river bridgehead in the Kuban. Soviet communiques indicate rising land and air activity northward, with emphasis on Smolensk and rail links between Kharkov Orel and Leningrad.
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London
Kuban
Novorossisk
Smolensk
Kharkov
Orel
Leningrad
Disorders Mark Trolley Strike
Disturbances continued in the Baltimore Transit company strike with two women treated for facial injuries after missiles were hurled through trolley car windows. Police reported trolleys pulled down and wires cut as other cars were stoned. Mrs Maude Porter, 42, received an eye laceration from an orange thrown through a window in Brooklyn. A boy was said to have tossed the fruit and fled.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Transit Company
Maude Porter
South Baltimore General Hospital
Brooklyn
Many Commissioned Special Policemen Named by Annapolis
A list of new special Fairchild policemen was issued today from Annapolis. The names include Aaron L. Staley Emory Staley Howard N. Youngblood Julian Snapp Boyce Snyder and many others headed by George Smith James Smith Roy Smith Russell Ritter Norman Meling Harold Scott Edward Miller and dozens more.
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Fairchild
Annapolis
Aaron l. Staley
Emory Staley
Howard N. Youngblood
Julian 8. Snapp
Boyce A. Snyder
William H. Springer
George ©. Smith
James N. Smith
Roy H. Smith
Russell E. Ritter
Norman B. Meling
Harold A. Scott
Edward Miller
Henry E. Miller
James W. Padian
Donald FE. Nerhoff
Olan C. Lowe
George A. Mel
Harold B. Bowman
W. W. Barr
Charles E. Barrett, Jr
Archie S. Bean
Julius K. Ayers
Collins A. Aikens
James R. Barney
Officials Wonder If Man's Feet Burned
A Hagerstown resident sought a special permit to buy new shoes after claiming his shoes burned when a truck rear fire ignited while he slept. Ration officials said they would investigate whether his feet were burned and if a certificate should be issued.
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Ration Board
Hagerstown
Levees Hold As Flood Waters Recede
Floods ease as the Illinois River falls from 29.5 feet while Beardstown defenses show resilience. Civilian aid head Frank Wessel and levee expert Stanley Marwick report leaks minor and under control as waters recede.
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Beardstown
Ilinois
Frank Wessel
Stanley Marwick
Confederate Memorial Exercises On June 6
The annual Confederate Memorial exercises will be held at Washington cemetery at 2 p m Sunday June 6. The program will be announced later.
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Washington Cemetery
No Daily Mail Monday Decoration Day Notice
The Daily Mail will not publish on Decoration Day Monday. No issue will be issued that day.
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Daily Mail
The
Heroes To Appear At Mass Prayer At City Park
Mass prayer plans by Fairchild Employees Recreation Association at City Park on May 31 at 6:30 p.m. announced two war heroes to appear on the band shell. Navy veteran A. B. Copeland of Oklahoma, cited for Wake Island and Midway service, wounded and returning to the states, will be escorted from Bethesda by Maryland State Police. Army hero Pvt. Frank J. O'Sandra of Long Island City, who served in Casablanca in 1942 and was wounded in February, will also be escorted from Bethesda by state police to Hagerstown. Marine hero name not yet available. FERA announced Navy Academy superintendent allowed use of facilities.
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Fairchild Employes Recreation Association
Navy
A. B. Copeland
Oklahoma
Wake Island
Midway
Solomons
Santa Cruz
Marshall Islands
Bethesday
Maryland
Frank J. O’sandra
Long Island City
Casablanca
Bethesda
Hagerstown
FERA
Naval Academy
Flags at Half Mast on Memorial Day Highlight Etiquette
The article explains the custom of flying the Stars and Stripes at half mast until noon on Memorial Day May 30 to honor fallen soldiers. It notes rain or wind would halt display and lists other calendar dates for flag display, citing Gen. John A. Logan's 1868 order establishing Memorial Day to honor Civil War soldiers.
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Hagerstown
Jay
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Pleasure Driving Violators Hearings Scheduled Here
About 25 alleged violators of the pleasure driving ban face hearings on Tuesday June 2. The hearings will be conducted by the Legal Panel of the Washington County Ration Board Ta lion office announced. The 35 mile an hour Victory speed limit violators will also be called. Names of convicted violators will be published after penalties are notified.
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Washington County Ration Board
Talion Office
Ration Board
Not A Single Jap Prisoner Taken So Far On Attu
General Landrum reports eight days of fighting on Attu with no Japanese prisoners taken yet. Troops breached Massacre Pass and patrols linked Holtz Bay to Massacre while the main Japanese force is cornered in Chichagof valley. Allied troops seized Japanese artillery and repurposed two 40 mm batteries.
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Eugene Burns
Attu
Massacre Pass
Holtz Bay
Massacre
Chichagof
Holtz
Teachers May Take War Jobs
School teachers will not lose their regular positions by working during summer at war plants and civilian services. They may take teaching jobs for higher pay, according to D. Paul Shilling of the C. S. Employment office, advised by War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt.
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D. Paul Shilling
Focal C. S. Employment Office
Shilling
Paul V. fcNutt
Life Lines: Pappy Creager Recounts Hagerstown Lore
In a feature on Pappy Creager, the longtime local storyteller from Hagerstown, the piece notes his reluctance to have his picture taken and previews his tales of Maryland countryside from seventy years ago. Born 1859 as one of nine children of a hatter, he describes life and fishing lore from his tiny East Washington street shop.
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Pappy” Creager
Tate
Pappy
Harry
Creager
East Washington Street
Pap
Hagerstown
Washington County
Maryland
Angier
Washington Street
Antietam
Locust
State Bureau Upholds Local License Board Ruling
The State License Bureau affirmed the local Board of License Commissioners denial of beer licenses for Charles W. Adams at the basement on Franklin and Potomac streets and for Theresa C. Baker at the Blue Hill Inn Hancock Rt. 1. Adams and Baker appealed. protests from ministers and church leaders were noted.
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State License Bureau
Board of License Commissioners
Charles W. Adams
Franklin and
Potomac Streets
Blue Hill Inn
Hancock
Rt. 1
Adams
State Bureau
Baker
Potomac Street
Franklin Street
Production Of Jeeps Resumed As Strike Ends
Spicer Manufacturing Corp resumed axle and transmission production for military vehicles ending a four day shutdown that halted the Willys-Overland jeep line for parts. About 4,000 Spicer workers and 1,000 Willys-Overland employees were affected. The back-to-work move followed a settlement over a discharge and operator reclassification in the axle division.
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Toledo. C
Spicer Manufacturing Corp
Jeep
Willys-Overland Motors, Inc
Spicer
Willys-Overland Jeep
Willys-Overland
Lloyd J. Haney
Spicer Industrial Relations
Transmission
Purse Found by Hound Brings Lucky Return
Jake Cemensky of LA CENTER Minnesota lost a purse containing $200 during a shopping trip. After retracing steps, he told his wife. She later found the wallet in the doghouse and returned the money, suggesting his hound helped recover it.
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LA Center
Minn
Jake Cemensky
Cemensky
Company to Drill Maryland State Gungl on May 31
The firm 8B Maryland States Gungl will conduct a planned drilling operation Monday night May 31, as announced this morning.
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Maryland
Gungl
Invasion talk floods London papers in late May
London newspapers banner invasion speculation after Roosevelt Churchill talks. Reports claim Allied landing craft massing in Tunisian Algerian Moroccan ports with Rome radio repeating the claim. Navy reports call for the biggest operation involving a continental invasion.
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London
Washington
Axis
Rome
Navy
News Chronicle
Europe
America
Key Jap Ridge on Attu Taken
United States troops captured Fishhook Ridge a major Japanese stronghold on Attu Island. The main enemy force on the island is now contained in a three to four square mile mountainous area. Navy communique notes Japanese positions on Fishhook Ridge were entrenched above cloud fire as American troops scaled 60 degree ridges under heavy fire.
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Washington
United States
Fishhook Ridge
Attu Island
Navy
Attusa
Chichagof Harbor
Fishbook Ridge
Gas Stations Entered Here
Thieves broke into three filling stations in the northern city section and took only a small amount of cash. The Amoco station at 00 block Pennsylvania Avenue was entered through a side window. a pinball machine contents were stolen and desk drawers searched but nothing else. The Association of Guy W Griffith at 00 block Pennsylvania Avenue appears to have been entered through a window and left by the front door with no loss. The Standard Oil station of Ralph Boyer on Potomac Avenue was entered by a side window and a cabinet broken into but nothing valuable taken. Detective Wayne Seliman says fingerprints link the three burglaries to the same robbers.
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Amoco
J. C. Johnson
Pennsylvania Avenue
Guy W Griffith
Standard Oil
Ralph Boyer
Potomac Avenue
Wayne Seliman
Chinese Sikang Commissioner Killed In Western China Assault
Chinese commissioner Leng Yan for Sikang province was assassinated Wednesday by five gunmen while traveling to automobile landing pine district. one bodyguard was fatally wounded. The attack occurred in western China and was reported by dispatches from Chungking.
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Chungking
Sikang
China
Satally
Lengyan
Hundred Forts Strike Leghorn In Major Air Raid
Allied and Axis air forces clash over Leghorn as nearly 100 Flying Fortresses bomb the Italian port. Observers report fires in refineries and shipyards, with raids continuing on Foggia and targets across Sicily and Sardinia.
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Edward Kennedy
HDQS
North Africa
Italy
Leghorn
Rome
Cairo
Naples
London
Livorno
Mying
Foggia
Adriatic
United States
Mediterranean
Sicily
Sardinia
Pantelleria
Castelvetrano
Page
Allied Fliers Sink Six German R Boats Off Cherbourg
Six German R boats were sunk and three damaged by bomb carrying Albacores of the fleet air arm off the Cherbourg peninsula during the night. Only three of the 12 craft escaped undamaged. Pilots attacked at wave top height, breaking up a single line of enemy boats.
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London
Fleet Air Arm
Cherbourg
Air Ministry
Bolt Damages Home On Sharpsburg Pike
A lightning bolt struck the home of Clarence Thomas near Hacketstown along Sharpsburg Pike Thursday afternoon. The strike ripped shingles, entered a window, burned out a radio and damaged furniture, but caused no fire and left occupants unharmed.
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Clarence Thomas
Hackerstown
Sharpsburg Pike
Old Football Injury Hospitalizes Him
Mrs. W. E. BD. Kretzer of North Locust Street learns her son Staff Sergeant William Kretzer, 27, is hospitalized in New Guinea after a leg injury from a football game at Hagerstown High School years ago. He entered the Army two years ago and has seen overseas duty for 18 months.
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W. E. BD. Kretzer
North Locust Street
William Kretzer
New Guinea
Hagearstown High School
Serat
Kretzer
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F.D.R
Kentucky
James F. Byrnes
Office of War Mobilisation
Judge Vinson
Man Wills Drug Store
Regent
Admiralty
Naval Academy Head
Peter II
Yugoslavia
Alexandra
Greece
Key Jap Ridge
Folkestone
Bolt
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