The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-01-11
Items of Interest
From Entire State

Miss Catherine Utz, 80, an invalid
for about eight years, died as re-
suit Of burns suffered when the en-
tire second story of the Utz home
near Westminster was destroyed by
fire.
Ronald Wishard, ii, Hagerstown,
was killed instantly when his sled
struck the wheel of a truck operated
by Glenn H. Orris of Baltimore, as
the boy was coasting one day last
week on vacant lot in Hagerstown.
Nearly 100000 worth of tires,
electric heaters, automobile access
series and tools were destroyed or
damaged recently in a spectacular
fire which swept the Taubman Auto
Supply Company's store and ware
house on South Broadway, Balti-
more.
! Permission to establish a pet
cemetery on the Old Beantown road,
8 miles north of Rockville, was de-
MED MIR. and Mrs. Woodrow Neal,
Rockville, by the Montgomery
! Board of Commissioners.
According to estimates recently
released 34,548 ballots were cast by
Maryland service men and women
in the November presidential
election.
A minimum price of u cents per
dozen for candled eggs and "a cents
per dozen for straight run eggs to
be paid the producer in 1915 has
been announced by the War Food
Administration.
More than $50 persons were pre-
sented plaques of honor recently in
Baltimore in recognition of their
having contributed a gallon or more
of blood each to the Red Cross Blood
Bank in that city.
Much concern is being registered
by Washington County farmers over
foxes preying on poultry focks and
causing heavy loss. County Com
miSsioners report bounties were paid
on 254 fox pelts during the year, and
an unusual scarcity of quail and
rabbits during the hunting season
was attributed by hunters to the de-
predations Of foxes.
Because of i'll health, a 43-year-old
farmer of near Hyattstown, Eugene
! Clarence Carlisle. ST., committed
suicide by shooting himself in wa
gon shed near his home.
Two persons were killed and five
injured when an automobile in
which they were riding crashed into
a highway bridge abutment near
Owings Mills, during a heavy rain
and fog New Years Day. The dead
were Robert L. Ewell of West
minister and Mrs Eugene Abel, Jr.,
Of Hampstead.
The Hampton Roads port of en-
barkation shipped 624,856 sacks of
United States and Canadian Christ
mas mail from there and its sub
sidiary cargo port of Baltimore
during October and November. it
has been announced
In spite of assurances by the OPA
that outstanding shoe coupons l, 2
and 3 in Book 8 would not be can
celled Baltimore shoe stores report
ed "shoe buying spree" by the
public last week.
Baltimore shipbuilders launched
l45 cargo or transport vessels, with
la total lightweight tonnage of more
than 100000 tons, during 1914.
Daniel N. Barber, 81, Baltimore
mail carrier, was sentenced to eight
months in jail by Federal Judge
William c.. Coleman for taking two
letters containing 81 from the mail.
A long range flood control pro-
gram involving construction of four
teen dams along the Potomac River
and its tributaries has been recon-
mended to the United States War
Department, by the departments en-
gineer for the Middle Atlantic dis
trict. Huge reservoirs would be
constructed in Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia and the District of
Columbia.