The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-08

Living cOSIS IOT the average lam
lily in Baltimore have increased 20
per cent since 1899 according to a
November report This is "a per
cent under the average national in
crease in living costs.
Fire famed by high winds des-
troyed property valued at 100000
and several hundred thousand feet
of lumber at the Washington Lum-
Der Company yard in Baltimore.
Maryland's share of major de-
fense-and-war contracts and prof.
ects from June l., 1910 to October /,
1914 amounted to 50, 758,528, 900, the
War Production Board reported re.
Gently.
The War Manpower Commission
listed twenty-three top priority
plants in the Baltimore area last
week where $500 workers were
needed Immediately to work on
critical war jobs.
Everest Moxley, 81, a Montgomery
County policeman attached to Head
quarters Station at Rockville, died
from injuries suffered in an automo-
bile accident recently near Gathers
burg.
The Third Service Command
states that about 1000 German pris-
oners of war camps in the Baltimore
area have been sent to Camp Ashby,
Va, to work in fertilizer and agri-
cultural industries to help relieve
a critical labor shortage there.
A total of $4,000 acres, the largest
acreage of winter wheat seeded in
Maryland since the fall of 1887 is
the estimated acreage planted last
fall for harvest in the summer of
1915.
Dairy officials of the University of
Maryland have been notified that
20 per cent of the creamery butter
produced in February and Is per
cent in March will be set aside for
sale to government agencies for
shipment overseas to our armed
| forces.
Maryland truck crops, exclusive of
early potatoes, harvested in 1914 had
valuation of approximately $22,-
$4,000, or about five per cent great
er than the estimated 1913 total of
$21 ,964,O0O
The Glenn L. Martin Company
saved 2,550,000 pounds of scrap pa
per last year which were sold to the
Elk Paper Mill, of Elkton, Md. In
cluded were 346,OOO pounds of used
paper towels, and 100000 pounds
of boxes and wrapping paper much
of which can be reprocessed for lin
ing new boxes for mailing overseas
to members of the armed forces.
Woodrow P. Taylor, 81, West
minister City Clerk, was sentenced
to four years in the Maryland Peni-
Tertiary by Associate Judge James
E. Boylan, Jr., in Carroll County
Circuit Court for embezzling $4,995.
in city funds.
An exhibition of enlarged photo
graphs obtained from captured and
dead German prisoners described
as showing evidence of Nazi plan
to exterminate captured peoples will
open in a museum at 10 East Lexing-
ton street, Baltimore on February 4
Fish being caught in the upper
Chesapeake Bay and Chester River
have been sold at prices that were
the highest on record in Baltimore
and Eastern Shore markets. The
catch has been small because OF
the cold weather and heavy ice.
Howard county has been award
ed the Westinghouse plaque of hon
or for the outstanding county All
rural identification program in
Maryland during 1914.
Governor O'Conor has signed q
bill allowing a $500 state income
tax exemption for Maryland mem
bers of the armed forces. An amend
ment has also been introduced into
the Assembly to include the Merch-
ant Marine and Maritime Service
under the provisions.
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