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Laurel, Md.—a Wartime Study
Town Solves Soldier-Girl Problems This article is reprinted from the Washington Daily News , October 13, 1944 Its own young men gone to war and its streets crowded with Ft. Meade soldiers, this is how the little town of Laurel, Md., has so far successfully handled the same kind of servicemen-and-girls wartime problem that has shocked Washington with the brutal slaying of 18-year-old Dorothy Berrum. Easy on Soldiers Laurel, 19 miles out of Washington, is a wartime study from m

Martha Strayer
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