Men in AS called to service by board
A second August Army call was announced by local Draft Board One. It includes 48 white men from the city and county, with twelve 1-B registrants, to report for probable induction soon. The first group has reported and those accepted are finishing 14 day furloughs to wind up civilian affairs. The list of I-A men in the latest call includes numerous names and addresses from Brunswick, Frederick, Walkersville, Middletown, and surrounding areas.
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One
I-A
Carl Clayton Bell
North Market Street
Edward Charles Nalley
Burkittsville
Marshall Randolph DeGrange
East Fifth Street
Charles William Barnes
Frederick
Joseph Tomes Cary
North Virginia Avenue
Brunswick
Vernon Grayson Ritter
Walkersville
Earl Franklin Starner
Washington
Austin Augustus Staley
Dorsey Hunter Coran
Braddock Heights
Kenneth Walter Fox
Fifth Street
Merrii William Sulcer
Park Avenue
Walter Martin Robinson
Middletown
Albert Franklin McCutcheon
Paint of Rocks
Grayson Hammond
Gilbert Henry Hoover
Wimbler
LeRox George Brightwell
West Patrick Street
Harry Winsor Hagan
Horace Andrew Sigamose
Freddie Guy Shipley
Linden Hills
Clyde Theatare
Droneburg
Baltimore
Dickerson
Richard Lee Murphy
East Eighth Street
Charles Harold Zeigler
Albert Staley Kata
New Britain
Conn
Earl Franklin Nokes
Sixth Avenue
Arthur Lee Crum
Paul Thomas Foster
Second Avenue
Calvin Fondrose Moler
Adamstown
Donald Paris Stephens
South Market Street
Spencer Lewis Ramsburg
Frederick County Roads Board audit shows 413 882 spent
A county auditor report, covering the Roads Board, commissioners, treasurer, Montevue and Emergency Hospital, dog license fund, Sheriff's office and Board of Education, shows 453 177 45 in receipts and 413 882 73 disbursed to end September 30. The balance on hand is 54 594 45, with WPA, maintenance and construction spending detailed across 26 districts and nine contract jobs. Sixty seven thousand eight hundred thirty six dollars in salaries and 10 421 64 administrative costs are itemized, including 3 600 for Roads Engineer Willard and 1 115 38 to his assistant.
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Frederick County Roads Board
Robert C. Triesier
Montevue
Dog License Fund
Sheriff's Office
Board of Education
Roads Board
Brunswick
Jefferson
Emmitsburg
Catoctin
Roger H. Willard
O. Wilson Bankies
Denver J. Shook
Haiphong Bombarded by U S Planes
United States planes conducted a concentrated bombardment of Haiphong water front in French Indo China yesterday without loss to their forces, according to Chinese reports filed from Chungking on August 10.
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Chungking
United States
Haiphong
Indo- China
Son of Money Family Reported Missing in Action
Mr l and Mrs N W Money of Point of Rocks received word Friday night that their son Pfc Money was reported missing in action in the Philippines. He served in the Army Air Corps as a radio operator and had been in the Army about three years.
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War , Department
N. W. Money
Point of Rocks
Pfc. Money
Philippines
Army Air Corps
Army
Two Killed In Storm During Weekend
Maryland recovered from a weekend torrent that killed two people and seriously injured another. Flooding shut roads, forced reroutes into Washington, and left about 75 homeless as water rose several feet in Anacostia areas. A Dundalk man James L. Leonard died in a flooded highway collision, while Betty Marine 26 of Cambridge was killed when her station wagon skidded off Trappe road.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Bladensburg
Washington Boulevard
Anacostia River
Prince Georges County
James L. Leonard
Dundalk
Betty Marine
Cambridge
Trappe Road
A. Stengle Marine
Harrington Prittchett
Cambridge Hospital
Victor McSorley
McSorley
Washington
Oxon Hill Run
Sergt. Elon Turner
Prince George's County
Marlboro Trace
Charles County
St. Mary's
Calvert Counties
Edmonston
Hyattsville
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Alexandria
B. and O
Mt. Winan
Violence in Bombay as mills close again amid rioting
In Bombay India Aug 10 police and troops opened fire ten times on doters. The All India Congress campaign sparked mass walkouts in 18 mills with rioting flaring across the city. Police fired on crowds in Dadar and Poona, hospitals treated bullet wounds, and schools closed as Gandhi's do or die call intensified the turmoil.
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Bombay
India
Preston Grover
All India Congress Party
Dadar
Poona
Parsurambhan College
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Grover
Cutting Corn Despite Heavy Mud In Fields
Farmers labored in knee-deep mud to harvest the late Sugar corn as local packers urged quick collection this week. Horses dragged wagons through wet fields while rain and fog slowed traffic and caused early season water concerns to ease on Fishing and Tuscarora creeks.
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Trafic
Byrd Makes Secret NZ Visit In Brief Mission
Auckland New Zealand Aug 10 Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd paid a brief, secret mission visit to New Zealand disclosed today officials said he traveled incognito and met unidentified local officials during the confidential trip in the Pacific region.
Russians fight to hold Maikop oil fields amid Stalingrad battle
London dispatch reports Soviet defenses cracking around Maikop oil fields as German thrusts push toward the Caucasus. Red Army fronts show counterattacks near Stalingrad and Voronezh with heavy fighting and scorched earth actions in the Maikop Krasnodar area while Persia Gulf supply lines loom in the German offensive.
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London
Stalingrad
Rehev
Voronezh
Kotelnikovaki
Moscow
Red
Maikop
Caucasian
Baku
Caspian
Pyatgorsk
Armavir
Black Sea
Markop
Krasnodar
Caucasus
Kotelnikovski
Danelbow
Red Army
Don
Thon
Varanez
Maikop-Krasnodar
Pravda
Nei
Russia
Sea of Azov
Kushchevka
Kuban
Berlin
Red Fleet
Novorossick
Tuapse
Vorosnilavak
Nevinnameava
Kuma
Persian
Air Forces Ready to Start Attacks on Nazis
Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of the United States Army Air Forces in Britain, said the American Air Force is ready to begin attacks on Germany soon. He noted full cooperation with the Royal Air Force and that operations would proceed ahead of the original timetable.
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London
Carl Spaaty
United States Army Air Forces
Britain
Germany
Royal Air Force
Royal Air
Amerigam
Bombing raids hit Osnabrueck and Ruhr mills in RAF offensive
British bombers struck Osnabrueck and other northwest German targets last night, hitting rail yards at Osnabrueck and several steel works in the Hamburg Duisburg Ruhr area. Docks at Le Havre and air fields in Belgium and the Netherlands were also bombed, with six bombers missing and one fighter lost. Reports say phosphorous fire bombs caused limited local damage while major rolling mill roofs at August Thyssen works suffered significant damage.
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London
Germany
Osnabrueck
Air Ministry
le Havre
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Farinne Tebtaba
Rhineland
Ruhr
England
RAF
August Tiyssen
Ruhr Vales
Hamburg - Duisburg - Ruhrart
Joint Financial Drive By Churches
Churches and synagogues representing 15 tribes will conduct simultaneous financial drives this winter in cities nationwide. Rev. Dr. Earl F. Adams says the joint canvass strengthens spiritual foundations during wartime. Participating groups include Episcopal, United Methodist, Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Presbyterian, and others. In Frederick removal of abandoned trolley tracks nears completion, with about a month more work expected and traffic limited to the west side of North Market Street.
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New York
Earl F. Adams
United Church
Episcopal
Reformed Church In
Reformed church in America. United #rethren, Northern Baptist
Dssciples of Christ
Presbyterian
U.S. A
Synagogue Council of America
Congregational Christian
Church of the Brethren
Methods
United Presbyterian
Evangelical, Evangelical and Reformed
African Methodist Episcopal
Colored Methodist Episcopal
Frederick
Square Corner
North Market Street
South Market Street
Allies Land Troops as Pacific Action Enters Fourth Day
Reports from Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters say Allied bombers pummeled New Guinea and New Britain bases while air and sea forces clash with Japan around the Solomon Islands. Allied land actions reportedly underway as Tokyo claims are questioned. battles raged at Rabaul, Gagmata, Lae, and Salamaua with heavy losses on both sides.
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MacArthur
Australia
Southwest Pacific Command
New Guinea
New Britain
Solomon Islands
United Nations
Southwest Pacific
Tokyo
United States
Solomon Island
Rabaul
Pacific
Gagmata
Lae
Salamaua
Guy Wonders Falls To Death In Washington Fire Escape
Guy Wonders, 57, district manager for Warner Brothers theaters in Maryland, died last night after falling or jumping from a fire escape near his Earle Building offices. Police said his associate blamed long sorrow after his wife’s death weeks earlier. Wonders, a veteran East Coast theater figure, was known for talent development and extensive city work, including regular visits to local Warner Bros venues.
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Washington
Guy Wonders
Warner Brothers’ Theaters
Maryland
Heath
Earle Building
District of Columbia
H. E. Lohmeyer
Wanders
Fred Waring
Mr. Wonders
Warner Bros
Tim
Lloyd C. Culler
City Opera
Japs Claim Guerrilla Warfare As Fight Spreads
Tokyo dispatches quote Imperial HQ claiming Japanese naval forces repelled a strong enemy squadron in Aleutian waters. US Navy says forces attacked Kiska while Domei notes Japanese guerrilla actions to undermine American resolve and conceal naval impotence.
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Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
Aleutian
United States Navy Department
Kiska
Aleutians
Comei
Japa
Solomons
Solomon Islands
Domei
Sheriff to appoint new office deputy sheriff
Sheriff Guy Anders, serving in the army, will appoint a successor to Deputy Sheriff C. Fred Knock who died suddenly Saturday. Anders is being contacted and a deputy for the remainder of the term ending December 1 will be chosen soon. Sheriff office is closed today and tomorrow for the funeral.
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Guy Anders
C. Fred Knock
Sheri Anders
Knock
Court House
Germans Stop American Tank with 12 Hits
Detroit reports Major General Levin H. Camp Jr. described at the Chrysler plant how a German 12-millimeter anti-tank gun pierced an American M-3 tank twelve times before it was halted. He cited another M-3 that withstood fifty 50-millimeter shells without being knocked out, as he presented the Army-Navy E award for wartime production achievement.
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Detroit
Chrysler’ Tank Arsenal
Levin H. Campbel, Jr
Ordnance
Maryland State Guard Units Return From Camp
Frederick units of the Maryland State Guard returned home Sunday after a week at Camp O Conor Cascade. About 100 men arrived in State Roads Commission trucks and officers reported a successful encampment. Guardsmen came home to miss Sunday’s heavy rain after all day rains at the camp Saturday.
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Frederick
Maryland
More U. S. Troops Arrive In England
Additional contingents of United States troops have been arriving in Britain for some time past to strengthen the forces expected here to swing one may into action in Europe.
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London
United States
Britain
Europe
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U.S
U. S
Pfc
Willard Money
Corbett Bishop
St Agnes Hospital
Heard
South Afric
By Eddy Gilmore
Coyates Macdaniel
Guy
Warner Brothers
State Guard
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