The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-10-11

An order has been suspended by
the Government for portion of this
years bean crop to be set aside for
military purposes.
A committee of Florida mayors,
business men and state authorities
met several weeks ago and planned
for an international worlds fair TO
be held in Miami, in 1850. The fair
will stress Pan-Americanism.
1t is expected the end of shoe
rationing will be here by Novem-
Der l, an official of the OPA has
announced. Shoe production has
speeded up to a point where ration
ing of shoes can be eliminated.
The OPA announced the tire
quota for October at 100000. This
number will not be large enough to
meet the heavy demands that have
followed the lifting of gasoline ra-
tioning. Motorists who use their cars
to earn living will have first claim.
The OPA and the Agriculture De
partment have announced good
news to all housewives The cab
bage crop is estimated to be 20
per cent higher this year than last
year and as a result canned and
bulked sauerkkraut has been taken
off price control list.
Authorities of the South General
Hospital, Baltimore, reported 5000
worth of radium had been discarded
by student nurse among piles of
: gauze and tape. 1t was found a week
later by the use of mechanical de-
tector, and constituted one-third of
the hospitals supply of radium.
When DR.. w. G. Schultz, physician
of Tuscon, Arizona, arrived home
after three years in the Army, he
was greeted by seven sturdy sap
lings and a 2-foot stalk of corn
growing from the roof. His only
comment was: 'The corn is green,
but it has no ears yet"
Penn State College football play
ers at State College, Pa, again wear
their regulation attire, which is
white this year for every game ex-
cept the Navy tilt at Annapolis,
which is scheduled for October Is.
Since Navy will wear all white they
will wear blue jersey uniforms.
Wilson College, Chambersburg,
Pa, will celebrate its 18th anniver-
sary with full three days pro-
gram on October IL, Is and IA On
the afternoon of October 10, former
President Herbert Hoover will be
the guest speaker and his address
will be broadcast over the radio.
Fred Astaire, the mercury hoofed
dancer now As, announces he would
like to retire, and says he may hang
up his dancing shoes soon. Fred
has been dancing since he was four
years old and a Hollywood fixture
since 1888, and he and Ginger Rogers
became the screens best known
dancing team.
Fourteen >r-old Arnold Palmer,
North St. Paul, Mimi, credits hasty
prayer with saving his life when
several tons of sand slid over him
while he was loading truck. When
the rescuers reached him twenty
minutes later they found his shovel
had formed an air pocket over his
face, thus saving his life.
Over 200 white students walked
out of Englewood High School, at
Chicago, Ill, recently in protest
against Negro attendance. The
principal, Joseph c. Thompson,
) stated that absenteeism among the
students had risen to $50. Approx
lnately go per cent of the school
$500 students are Negroes.
Mrs. Marian Rausco, Maiden,
Mass, happy in the knowledge that
she had seen five of her six sons re-
| Gently, died at the Maiden Hospital.
: boys were stationed in all parts
: of the globe, and four of them were