Sore throat scare hits Frederick County amid wartime fatigue cold
Epidemics of mumps chicken pox and scarlet fever mostly waned in Frederick County per Dr. E C Kefauver health officer. A new sore throat illness, called fatigue cold or auto inhalation, spreads among workers in transit to plants and is highly infectious though rarely fatal. Advice to patients: rest, light foods, fresh air, hydration, and muffled coughs. The report links long auto commutes and inhalation of dust and exhaust to throat illness. names individuals and local church activities and a civil suit settlement following a fatal December accident near Mt Carmel church.
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Frederick County
E. C. Kefauver
Kefauver
Baltimore Car Loadings Rise In Week Ended April 8
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reports 71 601 carloads handled in the week ended April 8 an increase of 1 808 from the same period last year Of the total 42 458 were loaded online and 29 143 received from connections.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Hood College elects new campus officers and editors
Hood College has elected its 1944 45 leaders. Mary Edich Tatem of Troy Ohio is named Y W C A president while Marilyn Hayes of Irwin Pennsylvania becomes Athletic Association president. Sarah Wrenshall is Herald editor and active in student government arts and choir activities.
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Hood College
Mary Edich Tatem
Troy
Y.W.C.A
Marilyn Hayes
Irwin
Athletic Association
Sarah Wrenshall
Herald
Tatein
Student Commission
The
Arts Club
Hood's Town Hall
Miss Hayes
Cleaning naphtha use spurs war ration crackdown
Washington on April 10 the Petroleum Administration for War ordered curbs on the growing practice of using cleaning naphtha as car fuel. Dealers and customers may not count naphtha toward quotas if sold as motor fuel before 1942. The move targets Midwest dealers who mix gasoline into base naphtha quotas and then sell extra naphtha in cans marked not for motor use.
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Washington
Petroleum Administration For War
Ralph K. Davis
Midwest
Farmers Council To Meet In Baltimore
Baltimore April 10 4-President P C Turner of the Inter State Farmers Council announced that representatives of 39 farm organizations from five States including Maryland were expected to attend the council s second annual meeting in Baltimore April 18 Farm leaders from Maryland Pennsylvania Delaware Virginia and West Virginia will hear 14 agricultural authorities speak at the one day session Speakers will include Quentin Reynold as manager Eastern States Farmers Exchange and Milo Sk Swanton executive secretary of the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture
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Baltimore
P. C. Turner
Inter-State Farmers Council
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Virginia
West Virginia
Quentin Reynold
Eastern States Farmers Exchange
Milo SK. Swanton
Wisconsin Council of Agriculture
Officers Installed by Frederick Lodge No 684
Officers were installed by Frederick Lodge No 684 with B P.O. Ellis presiding in West Second street lodge rooms. New officers include Hon. AL Schualer exalted ruler, Philip leading knight, Roland Lutz 1 knight, Paul Stone lecturing knight, Benjamin F. Shull secret, Russell Zimmermann treasurer, George William Smith chaplain, J Edward Shafer esquire, Charles W. Smith inner guard, Robert B. Crothers ruler, with Clarence C. Carty and William E. Miller as trustees.
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B. P.O. Ellis
West Second Street
AL Schualer
Philip
Roland Lutz
Paul Stone
Benjamin F. Shull
Russell Zimmerman
Treasure F. Thompson
George William Smith
J. Edward Shafer
Charles W. Smith
Robert B. Crothers
Clarence C. Carty
William E. Miller
Eight Recommended For 4th Circuit Vacancy
Annapolis April 10 The State Bar Association recommended eight persons to Governor O. Conorate for selection to the Fourth Judicial Circuit vacancy on the Court of Appeals created by the retirement of former Chief Judge D. Lindley Sloan. The nominees named Walter C. Capper William A. Gunter George Henderson Charles Heskett Asa T. Matthews Robert M. Cawley Joseph D. Mish and Horace P. Whitworth. Sloan retired April 3 and was replaced as Chief Judge by Judge Ogle Marbury of Prince George's County.
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Annapolis
State Bar Association
O. Conorate
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Court of Appeals
D. Lindley Sloan
Bar Association
State Association
Walter C. Capper
William A. Gunter
George Henderson
Charles 2. Heskett
Asa T. Matthews
Robert M. Cawley
Joseph D. Mish
Horace P. Whitworth
Sloan
Ogle Marbury
Prince George's County
Accountant Under Arrest In Maryland Ration Coupon Case
FBI agents arrested CPA William H. Stutman in Baltimore after raiding his apartment and seizing thousands of ration stamps for food, gas, and fuel oil along with 50 boxes of nylon hosiery. Stutman waived the hearing, posted 2500 dollars bond, and awaits grand jury action. Investigators say stamps were bought after thefts from ration board offices. several War Ration Book No. 3 copies and numerous coupon types were seized.
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Baltimore
Federal Bureau of Investigation
William H. Stutman
U. S
James K. Cullen
Thomas J. Kenney
Stutman
Ration Board
Kenney
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West Patrick Street
Alice Staley
Dorothy Falk
Christ
Jane Shoemaker
Thelma Lloyd
Mt. Carmel Church
Harry C. Lambright
Harry Samuel Lambright
Berie Burris
Chestertown
Parsons Newman
W. Wallace Rhynhart
Young Lambright
Lloyd Kennedy
Hood Girls
Mary Edith Tatem
A. A
Sarah Wrenshalt
Montgomery
Ala
Maxwell Field Hospital
Atlantic Coast Line
Army
M. D. Black
ACL
Farmers’ Council
I Ad
WSFA
Doll Jewelry Store
South Market St
Frederick. Md
Markell & Ford
South Carroll ST
Urbana 4-H Club
Eugene Lawson
Jesse Stito
Patricia Rosencrantz
F. W. Rogers
Rosie Lee Montgomery
Sarah Ann Stone
Rogers
Lovelo
Herbert R. O’conor
England
Cagle
Chesapeake and Potomac
Frederick City
United States
Winchester Hall
Buckeystown Canning Company
Buckeystown, Md
George W. McComas & Company
Monrovia, Md
Thomas & Company
Adamstown, Md
Monocacy Valley Canning Company
Walkersville, Md
Western Maryland Canning Company
Thurmont, Md
Colt & Dixon Packing & Mfg. Company
Frederick, Md
Frederick City Packing Company
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