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cember ', waited until APO when the submarine net was lowered tc let out a garbage scow, then cruised all around inside the harbor, mark ing on chart the exact location of each U. S. battleship, destroyer and cruiser. (The sub later was sunk and, when raised, it's chart showed the exact time it hac passed each U. s. vesselD
 The sub passed outside the harbor at 5;25 a. m and apparently lay off the harbor's mouth, where it radioed the location of U. s vessels to Jap airplane carriers.
 About an hour before the attack sub was sighted by the U. s. s Antares and the U. s. s. Ward, which reported to the watch of ficer ashore that they had sighted sampan towing a small object which looked like a submarine, to which the shore officer observed that these damn destroyer skip pers are always seeing submarines. , He also observed that it was too early to disturb the Admiral. Shortly thereafter, the Ward re- ported that it had sunk the sub marine. At this point, TIP a. m, the watch officer finally got up nerve to wake his chief. However, mo alert warning or other alarm was sounded Pearl Harbor slept blIssfully cn.
 The officer in Command of Pearl Harbor Naval Base was Rear Ad- miral Claude c. Bloch Kimmel Commanded the Fleet.
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SAVE THE PIECES

of your broken lenses and send them. to Box 468, Ketchikan, Alaska, They will be replaced promptly in our large and well equipped labora- tory. c. M. and R. L. Carlson.
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ARMY NAVY FEUD Another tragic failure which the
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 bat do not cOmpe"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12

TUESDAY, DECEMBER l2
 Benefic aspects rule today which should be especially favorable to aged persons. Letters bearing good news will be numerous on this dete
 HEART AND HOME: Under this -ccnfiguration women should guard f against fatigue Warning is given that long anxiety regarding loved cnes in the war and extra work due to unusual conditions cause susceptibility to disease. Again there is a portent of the spread of heart maladies among persons of all ages.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Jupiter, the planet of finance which gov , erns Sagittarius, is read as presag- ing for the United States great business opportunities in 1945. How ever, aspects warn against mourning debts or expanding living condi- tions.
 NATIONAL ISSUES: Selfishness may be evident in holiday plans. Although aware of transportation limitations and difficulties many will manage to make pleasure trips and railways will be hampered un- necessarily.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: As United Nations victories spread many military and civic leaders will pay the price of superefforts in war 1 service. There is a sign read as indicating period of national mourning due to the loss of dis tinguished Army and Navy officers, also older statesmen.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of realized ambitions and broader ex- perience. New friends and changed environments are indicated. 1 Children born on this day prob ably will be fairly fortunate in carefully planned careers. They should be extraordinarily cautious regarding their associates.
 Copyright, 1944)
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INCIDENT OF JAP SUBMARINE

However, the most inexcusable dere1iction on the part of the Navy was the way it laughed off Jap submarine sighted just outside Pearl Harbor one hour before the attack; and also the fact that this or another submarine was able to cruise all around inside Pearl Harbors three hours before the at tack.
 This is touched upon very deli cately in the Roberts Report. But the real facts are that one Jap sub arrived at the entrance of Pearl Harbor al l 50 2. m. on De-
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predictable,' that "hostilities were momentarily possible" and that Japan was expected to make an aggressive move within the next few days
 Warnings ot this kind were sent to- Pearl Harbor almost up to the eve of December T. On December l. the Navy Department advised Kim mel that the Jap fleet had moved southward and it was clear that extensive preparations are under way for hostilities." On December 3, Kimmel was advised that Jap consulates were burning confiden- tial papers. And on December 6 he was instructed that he himself might burn confidential papers in case of greater emergency.
 Despite this, the crews Of Kim mels fleet were permitted shore liberty on that same night, 40 per cent of the officers were absent next morning when the attack started, there was no system of air patrcl eny distance from Pearl Harbor, ai.d no listening devices to detect hostile airplanes were in operation except during a few hours at night.
 It was not revealed in the Roberts Report, but in addition to the official warnings sent from Washington, Kimmel and Short got a confidential warning from the FBI. Hoovers men had been tapping the telephones of the Jap consulate in Honolulu and, on the morning of December 6, listened in on an 18-minute conversation to Tokyo during which a very sus- picious weather report was given plus some other code language which so worried the FBI men that transcript of the conversation was taken immediately to Army and Navy Intelligence.
 Naval Intelligence was not in tereSted. But the chief military intelligence officer considered the telephone message so important that he took it immediately to Gen. Short, who was on the golf course. Short put the message in his pocket.
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Mir and Mrs. J. T. Petrich have returned from vacation trip, ar irving on the Princess Norah
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KELVIE'S ANIMAL HOSPITAL
 sos FIFTH STREET Phone Blue 168 Phone Red 115 Office Hours T to 10 P. M
 DIR. w. A. KELVIE Boarding Veterinary Kennels Surgeon
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MODERN ETIQUETTE 0g gboprprA IRE

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Isn't this rotten weather?" Say, DISAGREEABLE weaher?" OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Pronounce BISK, in 
  impeinence insolence audacity, STUDY: Use a yours"
  arden student Bible"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
Fairchild Employees
Are Not Affected

The termination of trainer plane
contracts by the War Department is
not expected to affect employment
or production at the Fairchild plants
here, according to a statement re-
leased on Tuesday by Richard S.
Boutelle, vice-president and general
manager of the Fairchild Aircraft
Division.
Mr.. Boutelle stated that the COM
pany had been aware of the proba-
bility of the termination of contracts
for the PT-19 primary trainer, but
that, because of the projects ahead,
the company anticipated no appreci-
able change in the number of work
ers here and looked forward to the
opportunity to equal, on other prof.
ects, the trainer plane production
performance.
MIR. Boutelle also stated that after
production of the trainer plane had
stopped (that will be within the
next six months), the company may
be called upon to continue the pro-
duction of spare parts.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
Get Your Scrap Paper Out; The Scouts
Will Be After 1t On Saturday-Be Ready

At eight o'clock on Saturday
morning, more than 200 Boy Scouts
and their adult leaders will as
semble at the Public Square, ready
to start on a city-wide scrap paper
collection.
Every section of the city will be
covered. Not house or business
concern will be missed, and when
the day is over it is expected that
thousands of tons of scrap paper, so
urgently needed, will have been
collected
Collections will also be made
throughout the county by the vari-
Gus county Troops and all in all it
should be the biggest scrap paper
drive in the history of Washington
County-that is, if YOU do your
part.
Here is what the Scouts are ask
ing you to do:
1. Collect all the paper, card
board and magazines in your home,
tie them up in bundles and put them
on the sidewalk next Saturday
morning, March 4th.
2. If you are unable to put them
on the sidewalk, have them some
where handy, because, if there is
no scrap paper in front of your
house on Saturday morning, Scout
will knock on your door to inquire
whether you have any.
8. If you just haven't had time to
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
Red Cross Campaign In Full Swing Here;
Drive Will Go Over Top If All Pitch In

of communication between the
American people and their Army
and Navy" and as such has been
doing a magnificent job, it is entire
ly supported by voluntary contri-
buttons.
Although such activities as the
Blood Donor Service, the establish
ment of foreign recreation centers
and rest homes for service men and
women, the recruiting of nurses,
hospital and bandage work and
sending prisoner of war packages
are some of the services that have
been more dramatically in the pub
lie eye, perhaps nothing the Red
Cross does is more valuable than
the personal things it does for
service men and women and their
families. Daily, literally thousands
of individual dramas have the Red
Cross cast in the leading roles.
Strengthening out home difficulties
for worried soldiers and sailors, To-
eating service men whose families
have lost touch with them, helping
service families financially until al
lotment difficulties can be cleaned
up, handling service mems claims,
or those of their families, against the
government, making emergency
travel arrangements, investigating
home emergencies and getting nee
essary clearance for furloughs when
conditions require are only few
of the literally thousands of things
the Red Cross has been asked to do
and is doing. How much heart
break and hardship has been spared
world which has more than
enough, by these Red Cross serv-
ices, it would be impossible to guess
but the total would stagger the
Imagination.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
Sperow 'Pancakes0 To victory.

An impromptu pancake eating
contest" between Commissioners
Spigler and Sperow, and Scoutmas-
tiers Douglas and Thomas, held at
the Senior Scouts recent annual
dinner at St. Paul's Methodist
Church, was won by Commissioner
Sperow. The entrants, in the "stic-
ky going, were running neck and
neck when the syrup gave out about
the sixth plateful. Douglas tried to
steal march on his opponents by
using sugar and Thomas tried to
catch the field with the aid of an
extra piece of pie, which the Judge
(the lady in charge of the supper)
took away from him, but
Sperow just kept going on the "dry''
footing and finally outdistanced the
field. Spigler's chances were ruined
when he got stuck in the butter"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
BougainvilIe
Days Events In Combat
Area Told By Writer
By Sgt. Francis I'll. Barr
MARINE Corps Combat Cores
pondent)

BOUGAINVILLE, (Delayed) -
Bougainville panorama!
Tired Leatherneck infantrymen
in long single file coming back
from the front lines for a much
needed rest. A returning Marine
yelling, "How's chow back here?"
j.. He had been living on canned
rations and vitamin pills for too
long to suit him. Fresh infan-
trymen, with eager expressions on
their young faces, going up to the
front. The daily rain coming
down in virtual rivers. Men
standing in the downpour with a
cake of CT soap in hand, taking a
bath. Mud and more mud.
The decaying foliage causing the
mud to smell like the hog wall
back home on the farm. The
boys from the farm don't mind it..
+. The wounded coming back from
the front in jeeps with impoverished
stretchers. !. Although the going
is rough, they never complain. :.
The Woodworking Seabees already
building road through the soggy,
swampy jungle. A Marine stop
ping and saying, Say, Mac, when
did you get to Bougainville?" :.
He hadn't seen his pal since boot
camp days at San Diego. Every
body running for foxholes when the
air raid siren sounds. Men wash
ing their grimy clothes in the river,
beating them on rocks in primitive
style. The reassuring swish as
planes pass overhead on a bomb
ing mission. Give 'em hell"
yells Leatherneck. Men on
working parties on the beach, I'M
loading precious cargo to carry on
the battle !. . When the heat be-
comes unbearable, the men stop for
a cool plunge in the surf. i. /. They
return to work with new vigor.
Men crowding around the news bull
letin board, anxious to see what the
American Fifth and British Eighth
Armies are doing in Italy, what the
Russians are accomplishing. A
delighted exclamation: ''Those Rus
slams are really going to town. :.
Night falling quickly in the jungle.
Tired men going to sleep in fox
holes and jungle hammocks :.
Others keeping vigil in the numer-
GUS jungle citadels. Mute pray
ers for quick and successful cam
paign and for the good health of
loved ones at home. That's the
Battle of Bougainville. That and
the mosquitoes.
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Local Airnan In
Golfers Magazine

In the second installment of the
three-part article, "War Below Ze-
ro," by Bernt Balchen and Corey
Ford, in the February 26 issue of
Golfers Magazine, is a picture of
Warrant Officer Charles F. Spiel
man, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
F. Spielman, Dun Irwin Drive.
The picture shows Spielman, who
was tail gunner on BIZ Flying
Fortress when the picture was TAX
en-, with the ships pilot and another
member of the crew, making D.
Ration hot chocolate on makeshift
stove, beneath the B-17's stabilizer.
The picture, was taken by third
member of the ships crew following
the crash landing of the BIZ in
Greenland, in the summer of 1912
(the story of the crash was told in
our issue of October 16, 1922.
The magazine article tells the
hitherto unpublished story of the
heroic establishment of our air
bases in Greenland.
Warrant Officer Spielman Che was
a sergeant when the picture was
taken) is now stationed at Lowry
Field, Denver, Col, where he is re-
ceiving special training at the Air
Forces Technical School.
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Cong. Beall Offers
Gardening Hints

Congressman j. Glenn Beall, of
Maryland's Sixth District, has for
distribution many pamphlets which
should be interesting to farmers,
victory gardeners, poultry raisers
and housewives.
Anyone DESTROYS of obtaining
these bulletins should write Con-
gresham Beall, Room 329, House
Office Building, Washington, D. c.,
requesting the list of those avail
able. After the selection of parnph-
let is made, the checked list should
be returned to the Congressman and
the desired booklets will be for
warded Immediately.
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Nursing School
Recruiting Here

Applications are noWs being re-
ceived in the nursing office of the
Washington County Hospital for
membership in the June 18th class
of the hospitals School of Nursing.
Miss Margaret Mullen, superintend-
ent of nurses, who has interviewed
the first group of applicants, states
that more recruits are urgently
needed.
1t is expected that this year most
of the girls who apply for admis-
sion to the school of nursing will
express desire to participate in the
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps. Already
n out of the schools 80 student
nurses have enlisted in the corps.
Enlistment is not compulsory, how
ever, and if for any reason any
young girl wishes to study nursing
without becoming a Cadet Nurse,
she may do so.
The uniform of the u. S. Cadet
Nurse Corps will shortly appear on
Hagerstown streets, as supplies have
been ordered for all the Cadet
Nurses at the local hospital
Girls who are interested in at
tending the Washington County
School of Nursing may investigate
the qualifications and opportunities
with Miss Mullen at the nursing Of
flee at any time.
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Junior Police Club

Chief Peters only worry, in reor-
ganizing the Junior Police Club is
finding place for the boys to meet.
Supporters of the club idea are COM
ing across with cash donations Tin
cidentally it doesn't take lot of
money to operate a club of this
sort) and a special show is being
put on at the Maryland Theatre on
Saturday morning, March IL, to
boost the club along. But all these
plans will come to nought unless
someone steps forward and offers
the club meeting place.
Surely there is some public spir-
tied property owner in Hagerstown,
with an empty building, or an emp
ty floor, somewhere downtown, who
will offer the club its use. The boys
club is operated under volunteer
supervision of members of the po-
lice force and should be encour-
aged in every way.
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collect and tie up the paper, tell the
Scout, when he knocks at your door,
just where it is cit may be down in
the basement or up in the attic)
and he will come in, gather it up,
tie it in bundles and carry it off for
you Yes, Ma'am, the Scout will
have some string with him to tie
the paper up with. You see, Ma'am,
Scouts motto is, BE Prepared"
4. If the weather is too bad
for the collection to take place, just
hang on to your paper for another
week, because, in case of bad wealth
er the collection will take place on
Saturday, March H.
All right folks, you have all the
facts.
You know that paper mills all
over the country have been forced
to shut down because of a lack of
scrap paper.
You know that the scrap paper in
your home is badly needed to make
cartons that will carry vitality need
ed supplies to our men and women
in the Armed Forces.
You know that when you burn
paper you are burning a vitality
needed article of war,
You know that the Scouts will be
out in force on Saturday to collect
YOUR scrap paper.
DON'T LET YOUR COUNTRY
DOWN! DON'T LET THE SCOUTS
DOWNi
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02

With a goal of SCI, 500 for Hagers-
town and Washington County, near
ly twice the amount asked for last
year, the local Red Cross War Fund
Campaign is in full swing. 1t is be-
ing conducted here at the same time
it is being carried on all over the
country with national goal of
$200,000,000. While nationally,
March has been designated as "Red
Cross Month";" the local drive is
scheduled to close on March 10.
Local Red Cross officials realize
that they are faced with difficult
task but they have tackled it with
the full confidence that the people
of Washington County realize both
the urgency and the seriousness of
the need. With more than eleven
million men and women in our
armed services and ninety percent
of the required money earmarked
for services to them, it is believed
that Washington Countians will
maintain the proud war record thus
far established of having gone over
the top in everything asked of them,
even though it will require a SUBJ
stantial increase in the size of indi-
vidual contributions.
A complete and veteran organiza-
ton headed by General Chairman
S. S. Bradford is leaving no stone
unturned to assure success. Every
possible type of coverage is being
employed but it has been requested
that if anyone has by some chance
been missed or overlooked when the
camapign closes, that they send
their subscription to Red Cross War
Fund Campaign Headquarters on
Summit avenue.
While the Red Cross is designated
by Congress as the official medium
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
Captain Lynch Decorated.

Capt Richard H. Lynch, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Frank Lynch, 842
Maryland avenue, who has already
won the Air Medal of the Army Air
Forces and the Oak Leaf Clusters,
has now been awarded the Distin-
guished Flying Cross for his activ-
tiles during the African campaign.
Captain Lynch, who served over
seas as bombardier, is now sta
toned at Langley Field, Va.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
c. Of c. ELECTION Meeting

Plans are going forward for the
annual election meeting and ban
quet of the Chamber of Commerce
membership, to be held at the Hotel
Alexander, March Is. The speaker
will be the Hon. William S. Liven-
good, secretary of Internal Affairs
of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania.
Primary ballots have been mailed
to every member and they should
be returned to the Chamber of
Commerce by March IL.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
BROADCAST SUNDAY

At las p. m. on Sunday, Radio
station WCAO, 600 k. c., will broad
cast Christian Science program,
which will be directed by Mr.. Will
liam M. Muhl The program has
the approval of the Christian Sci
ence board of directors.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02

The critical paper situation di-
rectly affects every business and
individual = Military Requirements
come first. You can help now by
saving waste-paper to relieve this
shortage.
Please don't destrOye it'll!
! Support the Boy Scout Collection
on March 4th.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
FAD" Has New Editor.

Edwin L. Groome, of Washington,
D. c., well known newspaper and
radio man, has Joined the Public
Relations staff of the Fairchild Air
craft Division, as editor of FAD"
the popular Fairchild weekly. Mr..
Groome takes the place of ]. Hardee
King, who recently resigned.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
County Boy Wounded.

Pfc. Austin L. Abbott, husband of
Mrs. Irene B. Abbott, Keedysville,
was wounded during the Italian in
vasion, according to a letter from
her husband, recently received by
Mrs. Abbott, in which he stated
that he spent his birthday, February
5, in a hospital in Italy.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02

tenth generator recently put into
operation at the Dam was the eli
max of the greatest expansion of
power generating facilities ever
made in single plant in years
time.
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Local Boy Wounded.

Pvt. Wilbur Lee Cordell, brother
of Mrs. Catherine Rogers, $50 Wash
ington avenue, who is stationed
somewhere in Italy, has been
wounded in action, according to
word received by his sister. Mrs.
Rogers was also advised that her
brother had received the Purple
Heart medal.
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Read the ads along with the news.
RATION
DEADLINES
CANNED GOODS

K, L and M stamps in Book
No. 4 are valid now and can
be used through March 20.
Blue stamps A8, B8, CO, Do
and Ed in Book No. 4 be-
come valid next Monday,
Feb. %, and remain valid
through May 20.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
Grand CouIee Now Third Largest.

The electric power capacity of
Grand Coulee Dam in Washington
now exceeds 100000 kilowatts-
third largest in the world and sec
ond largest in the United States. A
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
Brief Notes On Local Happenings
New Republican Committeeman.

Daniel E. Heller, Hancock, has
unanimously chosen to succeed the
late Charles Corbett as a member of
the Republican State Central Com
mittee for Washington County. The
new committeeman, who is widely
known, is veteran of World War I.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
MEAT, BUTTER,
OILS

v, W and x stamps
BROWN in Book 3 are now
valid and remain valid
through Feb. rs. Y and z
stamps are also valid now
and remain valid through
March 20. Red stamps A8,
B8 and CO in Book No. A
become valid next Monday,
Feb. %, and remain valid
through May 20.
Spare Stamp No. 8, in Book
4, is good for 5 points for
purchase of pork or sausage
through Feb. 26.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02
A STITCH IN TIME

he third in series of three articles fuel oil tuaton
The Fuel Oil Consumer who has lived within his ration
feel that he has taken stitch in tme Fuel Oil stocks
critically particularly heating
Kerosene stocks almost perous condition.
have knowing what further depletion of inventory
be made by the military need but
will be heavy particularly when invasion tactics
view of the above facts HARDSHIP ALLOTAdENTS WILL
BE HELD TO A MINIMUM
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-02

Mothers Day is the second Sun
day in May.
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SUGAR

Stamp No. 80 in Ration
Book No. 4, good for 5 lbs,
mains valid through
March 81. Stamp No. 40 is
also valid now, good for S
lbs. of canning sugar and
can be used through Feb.
%, 1915.