Severe rainfall floods Frederick area and nearby towns
A weekend storm dumped 1.61 inches Saturday and 2.20 inches Sunday, totaling 3.81 inches and flooding Frederick streets and lowlands. Carroll Creek rose high, Rosemont avenue bordered by water, and parks like Baker Park endured inundation. City workers opened a chok ed sewer to protect basements as traffic slowed along East Patrick and North Market streets. State Roads crews dredged creeks along Route 26 with relief, while county counties reported widespread rainfall and rising rivers.
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Frederick
Baker Park
Carroll Creek
Rosemont Avenue
Lindbergh Avenue
Grove Boulevard
East Patrick Street
North Market Street
Wisner Street
Lafayette Bridge
Spring Branch
Old Fellows Home
Brunswick
Unionville
East Patrick
East Streets
Lescalleet
United and Citizen
Middletown
Myersville
Thurmont
Emmitsburg
Fishing Creek
Mt. Airy
West College Terrace Bridge
Ceresville
Buckeystown
Furnace Ford
Potomac
Potomac River
Maryland
Virginia
Washington County
Answers To War Quiz Show Incomplete Text
Fragmentary page item notes an American officer Gen Lewis H Brereton and mentions a synthetic rubber project linked to Far East loss, with tangential references to J Cullen and seamen second class. The readable facts are sparse and fragmented.
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Mareeres Os Om
Lewis H. Brereton
Far East
Deka J. Cullen
Comprehensive Financial Program Urged For Nation
Senator Vandenberg urged Roosevelt to form one comprehensive war financing plan combining taxation and government borrowing. He warned against inflation from heavy bank borrowings and urged immediate work, noting the large unfocused 90 billion dollar segment of the program. He cited Treasury bond programs and the Senate Finance Committee questioning Morgentern and tax experts.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Roosevelt
Senate
Michigan
Congress
Treasury
the Treasury
Morgenthad
Senate Finance Committee
Sen. Taft
Gandhi Arrest Sparks Bombay Riots and Mobilized Strike
Mohandas Gandhi was arrested as mobs rioted across Bombay and other Indian cities. Police used tear gas and gunfire while workers in Ahmedabad and Bombay called general strikes. The government branded the Congress party illegal as violence spread.
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Preston Grover
Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Gandhi
All-India Congress Party
Shivaji Park
Aga Khatt
Poona
Ahmedabad
New Delhi
Congress Party
Indian Federation of Labor
Two Ballot Sets in Frederick County Primary
The Democratic ballot shows ten or more candidates versus the Republican slate, but Democrats can complete a ticket with two fewer marks. After candidates stood, the Board of Election Supervisors moved to draft ballots. Republicans face eight contests with 33 candidates, Democrats seven contests with 43 candidates, and both parties total eight contests. Ballots will go to printers after Secretary of State certificates arrive.
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Frederick County
Board of Election Supervisors
Secretary of State
House of Delegates
Register of Wills
Eddie Lk Wumleey Uusioner
The
Orphans Court
State Central Committee
Sixth Judicial Circuit
Day Camp Facilities For Cub Pack Members
Cub packs of the Boy Scouts of America will have day camp facilities at Camp Baker Braddock Heights August 12 13 14. Norman F Ford local field Scout executive says groups travel from Frederick terminal at 8 30 each morning and return at 5 20. Qualified leaders assist. Cubs bring lunches and water canteens. no overnight stays. Activities include hikes achievements games handicraft nature lore and swimming supervised by American Red Cross life saving and water safety instructors with a guard for every eight Cubs. Parental or guardian permission required.
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Boy Scouts of America
Camp Baker
Braddock Heights
Norman F. Ford
Frederick
Ford
American Red Cross
McKeldin To Speak At Farmers Picnic Near Peterville
Theodore R. McKeldin Republican candidate for governor will speak at the annual farmers picnic in Farmers Grove near Peterville on Wednesday. The Rural Women's Clubs Pomona Grange Farm Bureau and Pelerville Farmers Club sponsor a day of readings music and a speedball game between Grange and Farm Bureau teams. Austin P. Renn leads the Grange softball squad with J Homer Remsberg heading Farm Bureau and Gary L. Utterback directing trap shooting.
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Theodore R. McKeldin
Grange
Farm Bureau
Farmers’ Grove
Peteryville
Pomona Grange
Peleraville Farmers Club
Austin P. Renn
J. Homer Remsberg
Gary L. Utterback
Americans Ready for Second Front as Troops Sent to Britain
Major General M. W. Clark announced at a first press conference that picked combat divisions are being sent to Britain. American troops have joined British defenses against a Nazi invasion and are trained for amphibious invasion if needed. shipping delays are the main bottleneck. Clark notes troops are better trained than in the last war and that air and ground operations will be coordinated under Eisenhower’s theater command.
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Wes Gallagher
England
Britain
M. W. Clark
U. S
Nagis
Europe
Tass
Geneva
France
Clark
Dwight D.eterhower
Air Cooperation Command
Robert C. Candee
No Word Of Disposal Of Saboteurs Bodies
Washington reports secrecy surrounds the fate of six saboteur specialists executed in the District jail. Two spared, Dasch and Burger, received commutations for aiding the government. Justice officials say White House announcements are withheld, while Berlin confirms the deaths of Harm Heinek Kerling Haupt Thiel Neubauer. A Gaver reunion noted by members despite bad weather.
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Washington
Office of War Information
Ja.l
White House
Stephen Early
Berlin
Heinrich Harm Heinek
Richard Quirin
Edward John Kerling
Herbert Hans Haupt
Werner Thiel
Hermann Otto Neubauer
George John Dasch
Ernest Pater Burger
Dasch
Burger
Francis Biddie
Chicago
New York
Average drilling costs estimated for oil well
A rough estimate places the cost of drilling an oil well between five and three dollars per foot, reflecting typical industry expense ranges for the period.
Tydings Seeks Cut of One Billion Dollars in Expenditures
Senator Millard E Tydings told a Baltimore radio audience that a billion dollars could be trimmed from government spending without harming war activities and urged that economies precede new taxes. He said further savings are possible in government operations and questioned why the public hasn’t demanded such reductions.
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Baltimore
Enator Millard E Tydings
Tydings
Mary
Senate
Markers Pointed Way To Airfields During War
The First Ground Air Support Command disclosed markers designed to guide enemy air attacks on Eastern air fields and factories. Photographs show a V-shaped earth cut and a large ploughed field forming an arrow toward an air base and a grain sack nine forming a guide to a major airplane plant. ColoneI Reeves said these devices have been eradicated and will aid in future enemy exposure.
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Mitchel Field
First Ground Air Support Command
Cache M. Reeves
Lone Air Support Group
First Air Force
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Reeves
Two Die In Crash Of Light Patrol Plane
A light Civil Air Patrol plane crashed ten miles south of Ironton. Pilot J Harmon Smith, 31, Ironton, and co occupant Carlos Wyant, 32, Russell, Ky, died. The craft had just taken off and was seen near Horseshoe Bend before vanishing into woods. William Maples and Fred Huff pulled Wyant from the wreckage, but he died.
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Ironton
Civil Air Patrol
J Harmon Smith
Carlos Wyant
Russeil. Ky
Huntington-Ironton Chesapeake
Smith
Horseshoe Bend
Onlo River
Ashland
Maggie Smith
William Maples
Fred Huff
20 Axis Lighters Sunk Off Libya Egypt
Cairo Aug 9 British bombers continuing the assault on Rommel supply lines have sunk 20 Axis self propelled lighters off Libyan and Egyptian coasts in three weeks. They were equivalent to at least 1,500 three ton trucks. The RAF bombed Tobruk harbor starting fires. British HQ said enemy positions in the northern sector were engaged by artillery. A light bomber credited with two hits on a small enemy vessel and RAF fighters shot down three Messerschmitts over Malta.
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Cairo
Erwin Rommel
Middle East
Tobruk
Malta
Ohio Youths Brought Here To Face Trial
Three Niles, Ohio, youths aged 18 to 20 were arrested for breaking and entering the Hour Glass night club on July 20. Sergt Walter May and Sheriff Horace Alexander traced them via an insurance receipt stub found among discarded clothing. The suspects fled to Warren Ohio after stealing a car at Myersville then abandoned it in Hagerstown. They admitted the entry to the Frederick venue and face larceny charges. identification marks were removed from clothes but a Greyhound receipt led to a Washington Pa. girl who identified the trio. Ohio authorities were notified and they were brought back to Frederick late Sunday night.
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Niles
Ohio
Walter K. May
Horace M. Alexander
Warren
Sergt
May
Steve Molody
Charles Havard
Alexander Henderson
Myersville
Hagerstown
Frederick
Bus Company
Greyhound Lines
Washington
Maraich
Convoy Reaches Northern Port After U-Boat Sub Duel
Moscow reports another Allied convoy reached a northern port safely after destroying a German submarine and a destroyer and injuring two other destroyers. The Red Fleet notes British Admiralty congratulations and credits a Soviet destroyer with sinking a U-boat and damaging a destroyer. A British cruiser reportedly sank a destroyer and damaged another. date of action not given.
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Moscow
Red Fleet
Roosevelt says war production must accelerate nationwide
Washington Aug 9 President Roosevelt declared great progress in production but warned the nation has only begun to hit its stride in the war effort. He cited tomorrow’s Army Navy production awards and urged continuous, united effort from factories ships and mines to flood the war machine with weapons. Admirals Leahy and Nimitz warned of grim tasks ahead while CIO and AFL leaders pledged unity and workers urged to stay on the job and use materials wisely.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Elmer Davis
Columbia Broadcasting System
William Leahy
America
Leahy
Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
CIO
William Green
AFL
United
Murray
Green
American Federation of Labor
William L. Batt
War Production Board
WP5
Davis
Production balance cited as key to wartime gun output
A speaker notes the nation has 1080 gun mounts and 1080 guns, not 3000 of each, and argues that reaching a critical production phase depends on balanced raw material stock and timely, intelligent allocation to plants to solve the shortage.
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Davis
Ceilings On Milk Prices Postponed
Washington August 9 The Office of Price Administration postponed until October 2 the effective date of March ceilings on wholesale fluid milk prices in the Washington market. The extension also covers wholesale fluid cream. The delay avoids hardship to distributors from a May 1 price increase by distributors under a Federal marketing order aligning with the March ceilings.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Weekend arrests seven by City Police
Seven suspects were taken into custody since Friday evening by City Police. The arrests involve public intoxication by Walter B. Jackson Madison Street. Joseph Stone and George Lean Mass er Frederick R. F. D. for drinking on a street. interfering with an officer and resisting arrest by R. F. D. with Vernon Rhoderick drunk in Baker Park. Walter Hallman and Harry Thomas Diggs both colored drunk on a street. and Dilmer DeHaven speeding. All face a hearing before Magistrate Alton Y. Bennett in Police Court tonight.
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Walter B. Jackson
Madison Street
Daniel E. Swomley
Joseph Stone
This City
Norman Dietz
George Lean Masser
Frederick
Dietz
Vernon Rhoderick
Baker Park
Harry Phillips
Walter Hallman
Harry Thomas Diggs
Horne
Dilmer DeHaven
Sergi Reno O
Alton Y. Bennett
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R. Paul Buhrman
H. D. Basehore
Oscar Lee Pearl
Cabin John
Callie Beile Bryant
Buckzystown
Fannie Maude Deck
Adamstown
Alwo
Rial
Iceland
Reykjavik
United States
Charles H. Bonesteel
U.S. Army
Air Force
Navy
Royal Navy
RAP
Quebec
Canada
Gen. Clark
Gaver
William H. Gaver
Grover C. Gaver
Audrey B. Stultz
Frank FE. Gaver
Charles R. Gaver
Libya
Egypt
C. C. Carty, Inc
Patrick Street
Fhone
Trio
Buckeye State
U.S
Victory Bicycles
Delphey
Pervivate Ambulance
CG. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Swan
House of Blue Swan
Bennett
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