Scouts Prepare For County Paper Drive in Hagerstown
Boy Scouts of Hagerstown and the county plan another waste paper collection tomorrow after a last drive netted 28 tons. Robert Shirchiti leads the effort to reach Lunt pounds per boy by Sept 30 for merit certs, with about 130 participants averaging 377 pounds each. Bundled paper and clean rags should be placed at curbs in town and county towns will hold collections Saturday morning.
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Boy Scouts of
Hagerstown
Robert Shirchiti
Wounded Veterans Tour Potomac Edison Power Plant
Fifteen wounded veterans from Newton D. Baker General Hospital Martinsburg were hosted by Potomac Edison yesterday as part of a weekly Ha gerstown Junior Chamber of Commerce industrial tour. PE officials guided the group 14 men and one ARC officer through the plant before refreshments were served by F H Robertson Vernon Stone and Katherine Schmidt. The visitors ended with a dip at the Municipal Swimming Pool to escape the heat.
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Potomac Edison Company
Newton D. Baker General Hospital
Martinsburg
Hagerstown
Jaycees
Brooms Put Out Grass Fire Near Prospect Street
Firemen armed with broom quickly extinguished a grass fire in a vacant lot in the 600 block of North Prospect street shortly after noon yesterday. The Junior Fire Co. responded after a telephone call. The fire started near houses and was caused by turning rubbish. New York enacted price fixing laws in 1780.
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North Prospect Street
Junior Fire Co
Boys Take Money And Buy Luxuries
Two brothers aged 9 and 12 were at the Health Department for scalp ringworm treatment but used most of 821 taken from a clinic purse to buy luxuries. They were found at City Park Lake by Sergeant J. B Brown with small boats. about 7 was recovered. The rest spent on toys. Both had prior troubles and will be held for Juvenile Court.
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Health Department
City Park Lake
J. B Brown
Sgt. Brown
Highfield Service Will Be Continued
Public Service Commission in Baltimore ordered continued passenger and freight service at Highfield station in Washington County Md Western Maryland Railway Company had sought to close it arguing nearby Blue Ridge Summit and Camp Ritchie could serve the community Express service would be by truck from Hagerstown Residents protested and the commission ruled the closure unjust and unreasonable and not compatible with safe adequate service at the station
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Highfield
Washington County
Western Maryland Railway Company
Public Service Commission
Baltimore
Blue Ridge Summit
Camp Ritchie
Hagerstown
Six Permits For Building Issued In August
Despite a material freeze last month Hagerstown issued six building permits in August with total construction valued at 6590 dollars. One permit rebuilt a 4000 dollar house destroyed by fire and another added 2000 dollars to a dairy. Other permits covered a lighting job a garage and two additions. Flight Officer Jackie Coogan reported for duty as an instructor at George Field. He is a former Hollywood star and Burma veteran who arrived from Stout Field in Indianapolis.
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Hagerstown
Lawrenceville
Jackie Coogan
George Field
Coogan
Burma
Stout Field
Indianapolis
Warning Rejected By German Gov t
London reports a Berlin broadcast denying warnings by Britain and the United States against treating the Polish home army as insurgents. The Nazi claim holds the government-general in Poland as Reich territory, saying Hague Conventions do not apply and occupied populations have no right to rebel.
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London
Berlin
Poland
Transocean
Ministry of Information
Democrats Move To Unite Forces In Maryland
Baltimore September 1 Dr H C Lancaster chairman of the Maryland Committee for Roosevelt and Truman announced the group is formed to unite organizations backing President Roosevelts re election this fall David J Lewis Cumberland former Congressman and chairman of the National Mediation Board was named honorary chairman at a recent meeting
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Baltimore
H. C. Lancaster
Maryland Committee
Roosevelt
Truman
Lancaster
Maryland
Citizens’ Committee For Democracy
David J. Lewis
Cumberland
National Mediation Board
August Health Report Details Local Communicable Diseases
The August report from the Health Department shows a small number of cases in Hagerstown and Washington County. Three polio cases headline, venereal diseases dominate at 55 percent with syphilis and gonorrhea pending. Additional notes include four occupational dermatitis in Hagerstown, one tuberculosis case citywide, and a county undulant fever case.
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Hagerstown
Washington Wunty
J. A. McCallum
Nephew of Goering Is War Casualty
New York report: German radio said Lt Helmut Goering nephew of Hermann Goering was killed in aerial combat over Normandy. The agency claimed it was his fifth nephew killed in action in the war.
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Transocean
Helmut Goering
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Normandy
Goering
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