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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1942
Page
3
The local Rationing Board approved certificates for about 1.25 million pounds of sugar for July, with unused portions to be returned. July and August allotments totalled 185,559 pounds for institutional and industrial users excluding canneries. By end of July, 27,223 people had drawn canning certificates, about half of registered family units.
Berlin reports a Nazi high command communique claiming U boats sank 13 vessels totaling 86 231 tons and a destroyer in three days while damaging 10 merchantmen totaling about 48 000 tons and another destroyer. The claims lack independent confirmation.
Secretary Knox told shipyard workers in Kearny New Jersey that Valley Forge lies ahead but Yorktown awaits after the bloody path. He presented the Army Navy E award to Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company managers noting New Jersey-built warships are fully engaged in the Solomon Islands battle.
Chungking officials and newspapers voice sympathy with Indian Nationalists and urge Britain for a peaceful settlement. Dr Sun Fo says Chinese sympathy lies with India’s struggle for independence. A government spokesman notes China will aid settlement to avoid hindering Allied war efforts and supply routes to China.
Milan, Mich. Aug. 11. Max Stephan a 50 year old German born American traitor sentenced to hang Nov. 13 has lost his bravado and told his attorney I am in a hell of a mess He said Germany will not let me hang Stephan with attorney Verne Amberson considered an appeal but no decision was reached at the first meeting The case tied to traitorous aid to Nazi flier Lieut Peter Krug Krug testified for the government at trial and was later captured in San Antonio Texas by the FBI and sent back to the camp
Frostburg Aug. 11 The first institute of professional and public relations opened at Frostburg State Teachers College with addresses by Maryland public school officials. Eugene W. Pruitt Frederick county superintendent and MD NEA representative Raymond Hyson spoke, joined by Carroll county superintendent and State Teachers’ Association president Dr. Thomas G. Pullen. Sessions covered wartime Maryland public schools and clear expression in mathematics and exact science, with leaders Dr. Fitzhugh Hamrick and Hallett of Frostburg.
G Baker Fout killed a three and a half foot copperhead this morning at Third and Bentz streets after children alerted him. He used a hoe borrowed from a nearby house to dispatch the snake that had crawled into a cellar area of the old Lambert property.
The Holstein Friesian Association of America names Joyce Lee Remneberg of Middletown Maryland and Irving Newhouse of Mabton Washington as national 4-H Holstein Friesian champions. Remneberg disclosed $2,580 from 28 projects over seven years of club work and received a purebred Holstein heifer on her eighteenth birthday. Newhouse, after 11 years in 4-H, owns 12 Holsteins and just completed his junior year at Washington State College majoring in animal husbandry.
Local industries and firms receive details from the Chamber of Commerce on the WPB allocation scheme. Roger B. Wolfe attends a New York training session as the program, covering symbols for domestic and military purchasers, aims to standardize forms and guide material allocation. A March cup charge rule and local notices from OPA are also noted.
A surprise birthday party for Meredith Boyer was held Aug. 7 at the home of Mr. and Mrs Raymond Gordon in Burkittsville. Guests enjoyed lawn games, gifts, and refreshments. many attendees listed include Marian Coblentz Etta Zecker Ethel Fowley Mary Adams Beryl Gordon Geraldine Jennings Adraienne Anhalt Betty Paffenberger Jessie Magaha and numerous others.
The fifth annual Ecker descendants reunion occurred August 2 at the Mead Owl on Artie Kemp farm near Liberty One. Prizes honored oldest woman and man, oldest married couple, youngest participants, and those traveling far. Officers elected, sixth reunion planned for Pine Mt Park in 1943, with a long list of attendees from multiple Eckers and spouses.
A list of numerous individuals including Ciladys Smith Ada Eitzler Nancy Curfman Betty Jane Kemp Bonnie Curfman Nancy Kemp Dorothy Lorenz Ardene Es worthy Kev William Baker Mechle Eck er Dr Raymond Aldridge Charles Heker EB Smith Waynre Mareis Warther Wayne Nusbaum Ralaa Ecker Lenny Keys Dr Leroy Eck er Paywl Droneburg Austin Bell Curtis Powell Je Albert Ecker Richard Valentine Charles Kaiser Jomer Campbell Amon Esworthy Gestee Smith Artie Exworthy Junior Esworthy Roland Warfield Ballenger Warfield Martin War field Reno Aldridge Jr Virgil Martin.
In Jacksonville North Carolina Mrs C F Thompson had her foot drawn into a boat motor shaft after her slacks snagged on the drive gear. She amputated the foot with a cloth tourniquet, watched by a companion. A nearby boat towed the boat 16 miles to a field hospital at New River Base where a transfusion saved her life and another amputation corrected complications.
Cleveland Atlanta 1 t TM A work stoppage by 4 000 employees today shut down the two plants of the Cleveland Graphite Browse Co maker of warplane parts. William Bullock, business agent for the Machanics Educational Society of America, an independent union, said the employees had walked off the job at both plants in protest against the company s arbitrariness and iron-fix rules He said the two factories employ a total of 1 000, about half of them women.
Maryland fiscal year motor vehicle income loses ground versus 1941. Comptroller Tawes reports a 75,253 dollar drop in motor vehicle revenue for the first ten months, while gasoline revenue falls 59,022 dollars. Total ten month motor vehicle revenue hits 83,737,000 in 1942, down from 1941. The state expects about 325,000 dollars of the yearly 1,050,000-dollar levy to impact the treasury.
In World War I most head wounds were caused by bullets, but now only about one fifth are from bullets while the rear is mainly caused by shell and mine splinters.
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