3 SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1944 THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND Editor's Letter Box Post-war program discussed by former member of City Council. Hagerstown, March 31, 1944. Editor Herald: In an issue of a local recent date a list of twenty -four projects for Hagerstown were get forth as "most necessary to promote the pleasure and comfort of its citizens." "The projects," the article explained, "were practical and would be of great benefit to the city as a whole." and streets, overhead railroad cross. The list included new boulevards ings, widening and grading of numerous streets, slum clearance projects, storm water drains, 1 new alleys, new bridges, new reservoir in western section of the city, new water mains, new grade crossings and last but not least new water from city to Potomac River Water Plant. A conservative estimate of the total cost of these projects would be extremely high, probably as much as one to two million dollars; as to their practicability, a Plan.
ning. Commission composed of civic minded citizens could pass judgement on this. A bill for the establishing of such a Planning Commission should be proposed and introduced in the State Legislature when it convenes in January, 1945. post-war project that would be most practical, inexpensive and consume a great amount of labor and benefit all the citizens of gerstown would be the construction, of additional retaining dams above. the Edgemont Reservolr, Hagerstown's source of mountain water.
In past years this important part of Hagerstown's water system was one of the chiet pleasures and possessions of the local citizenry. When the mountain reservoir was the only water supply locally the softness and purity of the water was unexcelled. In recent years this supply has been fed into the A few drops IF YOUR NOSE 'CLOSES UP" TONIGHT Put 3 purpose Va-tro-nol up each nostril. It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2) soothes irritation, (3) relieves transient nasal congestion and brings greater breathing comfort. Follow the complete VICKS directions In folder, VA-TRO-NOL National Bank The Oldest Bank In Hagerstown Stanley's 15 Public Square Ladies' Easter Coats and Suits Rent A Floor Sander Old Moors made like new, cloan, caNy to operate.
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The House of Blue White Diamonds 68 West Washington St, FIVE General "Ike" Saluted by British Army Cadets mains of the city along with the treated water from the Potomac River supply. The reservoir water, when mixed with the river water is not of sufficient quanity to offset the hardness of the chemically treated river water and consequently looses much of its soft ities. It is estimated that Hagerstown receives approximately 3,000,000 gallons of water per month from its mountain reservoir for about nine months of each year. Between six and seven millions of gallons of water are consumed daily 1u Hagerstown at the present time. The Edgemont and Smithsburg ervoirs have a total capacity 120,000,000 gallons of water.
Millions of gallons of this fine mountain water are lost over the spillway at the Edgemont reservoir due to lack of stoppage space. It is estimated that with the struction of additional retaining dams on the Warren Hollow stream, principal feeder of the Edgemont reservoir, the stoppage capacity could be doubled or possibly tripled. The stream flows through a ravine banked on each side by high terrain for a distance of sev. eral miles, making it an ideal project for the construction of additional retaining dams. this supply to our mountain rescrvoir the savings in pumping costs at the Potomac River plant which would be considerable, it being.
safe to assume that the savings in one or. two. years would offset the construction costs at Edgemont. In addition much finer quality of water would be available in the homes Hagerstown. This project should be given serious consideration by.
the Board of Water Commissioners, a survey of the Warner Hollow stream made and details worked out for its struction as a post-war project. Harry T. Fridinger. SILENCE CLOAKING PALAU OPERATIONS (Continued from Page 1) sighting a single enemy ship. Vern Haugland, Associated Press war correspondent aboard one of the cruisers, quoted Rear Adm.
Aaron S. Merrill, commander of the force, as saying the daring crusade "deour naval as well as air monstrated superiority over a large section of the South Pacific." "That search for the enemy may have been a reconnaissance operation in preparation for the move against Palan. Raids on Truk and other Caroline Islands, preceding or simultaneous with the slash at Palau, were made by Allied warplanes based in the Central, Southwest and South Pacific. The indications were that these operations were coordinated with the thrust at Palau and desigr.ed to engage enemy air forces that otherwise might molest the task force under orders to smash Palau. DENIED RELEASE Cleveland Beverly, colored, who was sentenced out of Baltimore for breaking into, was denied his release on a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Joseph D.
Mish following a hearing in circuit court on Friday. Beverly was remanded to the custody of the- superintendent of the Roxbury Penal Farm. He contended he wasn't guilty as alleged. OFFICIAL DIES New York, March 31 (AP)-Lewis W. Waters, 56, vice president of the General Foods Corporation and director of its scientific relations, died today following a heart attack.
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Include 2c extra tor handling. and mailing. Address Pattern Department Hagerstown Morning Herald, 121 West 10th Street, New York 11, Y. PRISONERS TO GO TO ARMED FORCES Sixty-one From State Penal Farm Already Accepted Sixty-one prisoners confined to the Maryland State Penal farm, Roxbury, have been accepted for the armed forces during the past year, according to Elmer S. Maxwell, superintendent, who said the majority of the 388 men in the institution would volunteer for the services if they are eligible.
To volunteer an inmate must have served at least one third of his sentence and must also be eligible for parole, Maxwell said, adding that the "volunteer's institutional record must be good." To handle the processing and induction of prison inmates, he said, a special Selective Service Board has been set up to interview the men following which a recommendation is made by the board to the prison superintendent. If the requirements and record of the volunteer are satisfactory an application is made to the Maryland Parole Commission which makes a recommendation to the governor in the case of the prisoner. The prison farm superintendent said "the boys know that it they can get into the Army and make good their record will be clean, and every consideration is given the man who wants to volunteer it he is guilty of no serious crime." Draft Quotas For April Are Large April draft quotas for Hagerstown and Washington county are cver double the March call, it. was announced Friday at local draft headquarters. While draft boards are not mitted to announce their quotas, it is understood that one contingent alone being sent to Baltimore for pre-induction physical examinations next week will require six buses to transport the registrants.
What is perhaps the largest group of war workers ever. called in a single month will be on their way to the armed forces in April. Well over half the entire quota for April will be made up of war workers whose occupational deferments have expired and a have not been renewed. The remainder of the quota will. be filled by pre-Pearl Harbor fathers and those who have recently reached their 18th birthday.
AWARDED DFC The War Department Friday announced that Flight Officer Robert R. Moore, son of Mrs. Elsa Moore and W. Rand Moore, has been awarded the 1guished Flying The local participated i in 25 combat mis over the French Coast and his citation states: "Although many of these missions were dispatched under adverse weather conditions and against skillfully devised enemy defenses, these men displayed marked ability and unswerving devotions to duty which reflect credit upon themselve and the Army Air Forces." AT FIRST SIGN OF A USE 666 666 TABLETS. SALVE.
NOSE DROPS CONTINUOUS 11 A.M. to 11 P.M. HENRYC TODAY ONLY RANGERS GO 'INTO ACTION BOOST WAR PRODUCTION! CHARLES STARRETT: SUNDOWN VALLEY with Dub Taylor Jeanne Bates A COLUMBIA PICTURE The Tennessee Ramblers Timmy Wakely and his Saddle Pals SUN. MON. TUES.
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Eisenhower, supreme taking the salute of marching cadets ing out" (graduation) exercises. American forces. NO DECISION MADE IN GASOLINE CASE (Continued from Page 1) more details in regard to the case will be released, an official stated. Price Panel Cases Three cases of alleged violations of OPA ceiling prices came before the Price Panel of the Rationing Board yesterday afternoon. A restaurant proprietor was charged with selling a certain kind of sandwich above the ceiling price.
The proprietor said he would abide by ceilings but denied overcharging in the particular instance, as he said he had not sold that kind of sandwich recently. A grocery store operator was charged with overcharging for onions. He admitted the violation after an explanation but the violation was evidently a misunderstanding of ceiling prices, an official pointed out. The operator said he was selling a high grade of onions and thought he could charge more for them. He promised to abide by all ceiling prices.
The case of an applicance store was referred to the district office in Baltimore for action. The were charged with selling a used washing machine at above the established ceiling price. The violation was admitted. The operator offered to make a refund to the customer but amount offered was not acceptable, it was explained. The above cases came to the attention of the Price Panel as the results of complaints filed with it.
U.S. PLANE DOWNED IN ERROR OF WAR (Continued from Page 1) information must be withheld from the enemy. In a letter made public in Kansas City only today, Major General A. D. Surles, director of Army public relations, acknowledged that "general misunderstanding concerning the reasons for our reluctance to give out information is having a detrimental effect on the public's support of the War Department and the Army." The letter, released the War Department, was written to Roy A.
Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star and president of the Editors. American Society of Roberts had written the War Department saying there was growing uneasiness in the nation that the Army was not always withholding information for security reasons alone. NAZIS ARE HURLED BACK BY SOVIETS (Continued From Page 1) on the western end of the broad front moving toward the Black Sea was the rail station of Sipotyany, 32 miles northwest of Kishinev, the capital of the Bessarabian territory ceded by Rumania. to Russia in 1940. The seizure of this rail station, 30 miles east of lasi, severed the main German escape route from the Odessa area.
The Russians moving down on Odessa' along both sides of the trunk railway cast of the Dniester River captured more than 100 towns and villages, including Ananyev, 90 miles northwest of Odessa and 67 miles northeast Kishinev. In the northwest Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First Army troops attacking a German bulge above the middle Dniester near Kamenets-Podolsk narrowed River, that pocket to 400 square miles with the capturo of Dunayevtsy, 18 miles northeast of Kamenets-Podolsk. Cauffman's Cut Rate 30 E. Washington: St.
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.12 Est. .17 Tax .02 Tax .03 .14 .20 commander for the Allied invasion of Sandhurst Military College, The general is popular with the of western Europe, is shown, left, England's West Point, during "passBritish Tommies as well as with the (International) OFFICE Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton are about to go off the deep end under the supervision of Justice of the Peace Porter Hall Paramount's comedy, "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," due Sunday at the Marvland Theatre. There doesn't seem to be anything peaceful about the judge. The picture is said to be a riot of laughs. Diana Lynn and William Demarest are in-it, too, New Appeal Made For Saving Rome BALTIMORE, March Michael J.
Curley of the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore and Washington proposed today that the declaring of Rome as an open city be arranged through a neutral intermediary. "If any good will is still left in the great human family, surely some way may be found through a neutral intermediary to deal with our enemies and effect a solution, whereby Rome may be saved," the Archbishop said. He declared that it was his fervent prayer and earnest hope that the Eternal City would not become RAPIST HANGED Baltimore, March 31 (P)- Dartin D. Smith, 19-year-old negro rapist, was hanged a few minutes after last midnight at 1 the Maryland State penitentiary. He was convicted in Baltimore city criminal court of raping a white woman.
Governor O'Conor denied yesterday a minute request for commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment. Prison 'officials said Smith was pronounced dead about 12 minutes after his body dropped through the trap. SHOT DOWN BY MISTAKE Be British Washington, fighter planes March from 31 (AP) an craft carrier shot down a U. S. Army transport airplane and its crew of six by error in the Atlantic this week, the War Department and the British Admiralty announced jointly today.
The fighters were protecting an Allied convoy, said the announcement, and apparently mistook the four-engine C-54 transport plane for a German Focke-Wulf 200 bomber when identification was not established as the transport plane the convoy. MUST GET CERTIFICATES Authorized OPA tire inspectors must apply for and receive a special certificate from the Ration Board before they will be permitted to further inspect truck tires for replacements. The qualifications for the inspection of truck tire: have been changed by the OPA and not all inspectors will be eligible to handle truck tires, the ration office said. All necessary information is available at the ration office. KEM -TONE 2.98 Gal.
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KERRIGAN GRANT WITHERS St. James Letter St. James, March 31. There will be Sunday school in the St. James Brethren church here on Sunday morning, April 2, at 10 o'clock.
Christian Endeavor will follow. Preaching services will be held in the evening at 7:30, conducted by the pastor, Rev. D. C. White.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Bloom and family were dinner guests in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Spielman, of Halfway. Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, oi Glenside, were Monday visitors of Gaza Cross.
Mr. and Mrs. Junior Turner and Mrs. Pearl Sperow spent Sunday in the home of Mr. Turner's parents, near Bridgeport.
Mrs. Cora Stockslager spent Saturday afternoon in the homes of Mrs. Pearl Sperow and Miss Gaza Cross. Mrs. John Hutzell and Mrs.
Bruce! Shafer gave a birthday surprise supper to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mentzer and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Diebert, in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Rowland on Wednesday evening. A delicious supper was served to the following: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mentzer, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Diebert, Mr. and Mirs. Norman Rowland and daughter, Miss Margaret Rowland, Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce Shafer, Mr. and Mrs. John Hutzell and granddaughter, Janet; Marie Metz, S. Hetzer and Mrs. Paul Keller.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Bloom gave a birthday party in honor of their daughter, Miss Joyce Bloom, on Wednesday erening last week.
A very enjoyable evening by the was spent young people. Delicious refreshments were served to the following: Misses Gwendolyn White, Lucy Henninger, Joyce Bloom, William and Morris Petefish, Billy and Tommy Sensenbaugh, David White, Sonny and Ronny Baker, Preston Mrs. Isabell Baker, Petefish, Mrs. Myrtle Bloom. Mr.
and Mrs. D. K. Poole. AN Argentine says he is the father of quintuplets born months ago.
That American sergeant in England probably would like to know how he kept it secret. Chimney Sweep R. D. McKEE Today's A 6 Can WAR be TOMORROWS ENTIRE MARYLAND STARTING SUNDAY WEEK SUNDAY SCHEDULE Continuous Shows 1 to 6:30 EVENING SHOWS START 9:30 P.M. ADMISSIONS ADULTS CHILDREN Established Price 37c Established Price 17c U.
S. Tax 7c U. S. Tax 3c Total 44c Total 20c BETTY HUTTON 16. Trudy GAL -MIRACLE Morgan's kissed Creek the who boys goodbye Regiment by Regiment? Paramount's Miracle of Mirth The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" EDDIE BRACKEN BETTY HUTTON with Diana Lynn William Demarg9t Porter Hall and McGinty" and The Written and Directed by Preston Sturges LAST TIMES TODAY CONTINUOUS 1 To 11 P.M.
Paulette Goddard "STANDING ROOM ONLY".
