Mortality Among Babes Incenses In German Areas
A British famine relief committee reports a 40 percent rise in infant mortality in German occupied Europe and allied zones. It details severe hunger related deaths across Belgium France Poland Finland the Netherlands Greece and Nazi occupied Paris with widespread undernourishment and rising child mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
British Famine Relief Committee
Belgium
France
Paris
Poland
Finland
Karelia
John P. Thelen
American Red Cross
Netherlands
Greece
Rites Held For Hutchinson M. Adams in Frederick County
A large crowd attended funeral rites for Hutchinson M. Adams a long time southern Frederick County farmer connected with Scott Grant. The service at Grace Methodist Middletown was led by Rev. C R Curtis and included the poem Crossing the Bar and Jesus Saviour Pilot Me. Interment followed at Mount Hebron with active and honorary pallbearers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson M. Adams
Southern
Frederick County
Scott Grant
C. R. Curtis
Grace Methodist Church
Middletown
Churchill asks Roosevelt to slow private gifts for Britain
Prime Minister Churchill, in a letter published today, asked President Roosevelt to save shipping space for vital war materials by slowing the flow of private gifts from the United States to Britain. He warned the policy would curb the so called brotherly flow of materials and reduce American allocations in many homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
Roosevelt
United States
Britain
Four Die in Cincinnati Gasoline Blast at Rent-a-Car Agency
Four men died and a fifth was critically injured when gasoline from a sheared pump exploded at the Hodge drive-it-yourself agency on Sycamore Street. Police Sergt Carl Hille and four others were killed or hurt as walls were ripped from the three story brick building. Fire Marshal Louis Schraffenberger and Fire Chief Barney J Houston described the scene and cause, with a parking attendant suspected of triggering the blast by switching off fuel flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Carl Hille
Hodge Drive
Sycamore Street
Central
Fountain Square
Louis Schraffenberger
Sergeant Hille
Albert Bass
John Rehe
Norwood
Hodge Company
Herman H. Hodge
Perry Fell
Barney J. Houston
Houston
Hodge
Diplomatic Lower Heads For Sweden
The Drottingholm liner, carrying about 800 Axis nationals, sailed from New York toward Gothenburg, Sweden. The State Department announced that most aboard were sent to the United States for repatriation by other American republics that had declared war on or broken relations with the Axis. The ship had previously voyaged Lisbon to New York returning Americans and Axis nationals to their homelands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Drottingholm
High Seas
Gothenburg
Sweden
State Department
Washington
United States
Lisbon
Canned Fruit Prices To Rise 15 Percent In 1942
Price Administrator Leon Henderson outlined a 1942 pack ceiling for canned fruits and berries driving retail prices up about 15 percent to cover higher costs. Canners may add 10 percent over 1941 averages for the first 60 days and then apply cost differences in raw materials within set limits. Prices apply when 1942 crops reach grocers shelves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Henderson
OPA
Henderson
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Agriulture Department
The Star Classified Columns ROOMS FOR RENT
Helps wanted and classified listings appear with brief notices for rooms for rent and equipment sales. Readers can contact the listed names for details and prices.
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Adams
United Food Stores
Jefferson County
United Food
ADS
Hipolite
Mother's Cats
Sunkist
ABC
Teighman
East Coast
RINSO
Van
Mps Tenderon
White House
Land O’ Lakes
Libby’s Bartlett
Stokely’s
Tomato Juice
Alain Seeneel
Carnation
Bel
Jay Oreel
United
Lipton
Land O'Lakes
S’ld
Land O’lakes
LEA and Perrin Worchestershire Sauce
Kellogg’s
Carafa
BORAX
Boraxo
Lily
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