Sergt Flook Missing In Action In Sicily
Sergt Max K Flook radio operator in the Army Air Corps has been missing in Sicily since July 24 the War Department notified his parents Mr and Mrs Albert D Flook of Myersville He previously served in South America North Africa and Florida with bombing squadrons He attended Middletown High School and Lebanon Valley College graduating in 1937 and 1942 respectively He is the only son among five enlisted in the armed services and has MLB family connections in the city
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max K. Flook
Army Air Corps
Sicily
War Department
Albert D. Flook
Myersville
Army
Middletown High School
Lebanon Valley College
Flook
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
South Dakota
Florida
South America
North Africa
Fairchild Aircraft Corp
Hagerstown
Sergt. Flook
Armed Service
Bruce V. Kepler
Middletown
Roger Brooke Taney
Register of Wills
Roy L. Leatherman
Martinsburg Farm Sale Draws $12400 Total
Martinsburg West Virginia August 20 A farm sale at the I D Van Metre farm east of town sold 100 head of cattle and 100 head of sheep for about 12400. I D Van Metre Jr said the Van Metres plan to close out their dairy business after 27 years citing labor difficulties. Top cow brought 221 with several lots selling for 25 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
W. Va
I. D. van Metre
Here
I. D. van Metre, Jr
van Metres
Reading
Seven Die As Blast Levels Plant In New Jersey
Seven people are confirmed dead after last night’s explosion at the Consoleum-Nairn Inc plant in Kearny New Jersey. Four bodies recovered, three still unidentified. At least six others missing, ten injured, eight critically, as a three story structure collapsed over a ten mile area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DEA Kearny
N. J
Consoleum-Nairn, Inc
Frederick County Products directors host dinner meeting
Frederick County Products Inc directors and employees met at Hotel Vindobona Brad dock Heights for a steak dinner after a regular monthly meeting. A quiz on local facts followed with committee members Chas Mathias R Delaplaine and Elias Ramsburg guiding the event. Attendees included D T Dutrow Charles Wertheimer H C Zacharias and others. Camp Pickett personnel spent the night with the Markey family and Pvt Harold M Dutrow, now at Camp Hulen Texas, was listed among returning locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County Products, Inc
Vindobona
Braddock Heights
Frederick City
Chas. McC. Mathias
R. E. Delaplaine
Elias B. Ramsburg
D. T. Dutrow
Charles Wertheimer
H. C. Zacharias
W. T. Delaplaine
R. E. Delanlaine
Chas. McC Mathias
J. M. Carter
W. L. Brittain
F. Leo Smith
C. K. Heck
T. D. Gardner
E M. Nash
R. S. Barthlow
H. 5. Nash
G. W. Boyer
H. W. Rice
D. A. Nash
M.G. Wachter
J. W Hane
Grover Haller
T. B. Hane
C. L. Hoffman
G. T. Smith
C. E. Keenley
P. R. Grossnickle
Dr. G. S. Jackson
Local Notes On War Service And Town News
The item lists local servicemen including Bardier with the 44th Bomb Sqdn and Sgt Clarence G Mobley with the 54th Signal Br on overseas duty. It notes Miss Medora Mantz visiting Braddock Heights and Cambridge, Virginia visitors from Baltimore and other towns, a wedding in Hagerstown, a Middletown Lions Club picnic with Frederick, a birth at Frederick City Hospital, and several residents returning from Ocean City for summer. Also mentions Miss Mary Catherine Wilhide taking a library position in Charlottesville and Rev Henry W. Snyder Jr visiting Frederick, plus Mrs Snyder preaching and Mrs Storm moving to Florida with Lt Edward D. Storm stationed at Hollywood Beach.
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Bardier
44Th Bomb Sqdn
Clarence G. Mobley
54Th Signal Br
Elev
Medora Mantz
Rock Lode
Dr. William Lyon Phelps Dies at 78 in New Haven
New Haven Conn August 21 Dr William Lyon Phelps 78 emeritus Yale English professor author lecturer and man of letters died at his home after an illness notes say he suffered a stroke June 2 and relapsed this week Yale's unofficial ambassador at large and perennial favorite of the faculty retired in 1933 at 68 and welcomed a private scholar phase saying retirement was a new beginning for public orator and thinker
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
William Lyon Phelps
Yale University
Phelps
Yale
Danes Asked to Cease Sabotage in World War II
Stockholm reports a joint Danish government and King Christian X appeal urging Danes to stop sabotaging German war production and transport lines. They warn continued demonstrations could cut Nazi food and coal, and say ongoing sabotage would devastate Danish life while officials resist Nazi demands for German prosecutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Christian X
Denmark
Montgomery Ward Tests Labor Law After War Board Ruling
Washington reports a potential constitutional test of the Smith Connally act following a War Labor Board decision against Montgomery Ward and Company. The board upheld the act allowing union security dues check-off and arbitration of grievances at Ward stores in New York Detroit and Denver, asserting the act does not delegate legislative power improperly and preserves contract freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Montgomery Ward and Company, Inc
War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward
New York
Detroit
Denver
Pvt Keefer Stull Jr Transfers To Syracuse University
Pvt Keefer Stull Jr. has been transferred from Foster Field Texas to Syracuse University New York for a twenty month engineering course under the Army Specialized Training Program. He had been home at Camp Pickett Virginia visiting friends and relatives for three days before returning to camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Pickett
Pvt
Keefer Stull, Jr
Air Corps
Foster Field
Texas
Syracuse University
New York
Army
New Deadline Set For Mailing Packages To War Prisoners
The National Red Cross says letters and packages from next of kin for war prisoners and internees in the Far East must reach New York by August 27. Labels from the Provost Marshal General set the sailing date, with the Gripsholm relief ship slated to carry 1,400 tons of boxes if Japan agrees to carry mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far East
New York
Hed Coss
Asis
International Exchange
Gripsholm
State Department
Washington
Harpers Ferry Declares It Is Free Of Debt
Harpers Ferry West Virginia August 21 municipal council completed its levy for the current year and proudly announced it owed no debt. Officials noted that street resurfacing totaling about four thousand dollars was a project finished in the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Jefferson County
Man Sentenced For Attempt To Stop Passenger Train
Pi-Harry Eugene Scherer, aged 1, was given a three year sentence in a federal training school by District Judge Royce Savage after placing ties on rails to halt a passenger train in Tulsa Oklahoma. The crew slowed the train and avoided derailment. Scherer said he was tired from walking and planned to ride the train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Harry
Eugene Scherer
Royce Savage
Scherer
Carroll County Jail Sees Jump to Class B Rating
The 1942 Maryland jail inspection report shows Carroll County Jail improving from Class C to Class B, while seven jails earned Class A and others remained lower. Hill urged regional jail plans and better feeding practices with regular inspections and table-use outside cells.
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Baltimore
Maryland Department of Correction
Stoward C. Hill
Dorchester
Harford
Montgomery
Prince George's
Washington
Wicomico
Gap Allegany
Carroll
Frederick and
Garrett
Anne Arundel
Caroline
Cecil
Charle
Howard
Talbot
Calvert
Kent
Queen Anne's
St. Mary’s
Somerset
Carroll County
Hill
Board of Correction
Baltimore County Jail Praised for Reforms in Report
A report criticized prison facilities for segregation, religion, and meals, but lauded Baltimore County jail as among the most satisfactory in the state. It credited the separate warden and his dedicated study of the role as key factors. Say you saw It in Tue News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore County
Tue News
Navy Air Operations Division Is Functioning
Washington reports the Navy plans intensified aerial actions as Vice Admiral John S. McCain takes charge of all naval aviation matters guiding actual combat. Rear Admiral Dewitt Clinton Ram ey becomes head of the Bureau of Aeronautics to oversee aviation material and supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hevar
John S. McCain
McCain
Dewitt Clinton Ramey
Bureau of Aeronautics
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Sergt
Signature Auto—Furniture
Frederick
Frederick, Maryland
D. J. Markey
Markey
Harold M. Dutrow
Motter Avenue
The
Coast Artillery
Camp Hulen
A. Btry
858Th
C. A. Bn
Jack Cave
Richard J.young
Trenton
Lambertville
Philadelphia
Helen Albaugh
Washington Count Hospital
Catherine Albaugh
Thurmont
Henry Kepler
Springfeld
Janet Lohr
Calvin Lohr
Nancy Swearingen
Ann Smith
Dorothy Barnhart
Miss Lohr
William H. Keller
Edna Anderson
Irving L. Shuffler, Jr
Hagers~town
Irving L. Shuffler, Sr
Herbert
Margaret
Leonardtown
Neighbours
L. D.crawford
Tourmont
Emmitsburg
Pic
Charles R. Routzahn
Eglin Field
Fla
Theodore Routzahn
Detach
Med. Dept
Robert Wilbur Mobley
George L. Mobley
Pleasant V. Mobley
Clarke "Place
U. S. Navy
U.S. N
Sampson
Robert
George L. Mobley, Jr
Virginia Garber
Union Bridge
Arnold and Linthicum Heights
C. P. Jacobs
Airy
Melvin Shank
Charlotte Rodges
Catonsville
Warren Simpson
Delmon Larburton
Samuel Jarrer
Ladiesburg
Felly
Mt. Airy
John Thomas Croghan
Fredericks
Margaret Boone
William J. Maroney, Jr
Dubuque, Ja
Walter B. McKinley
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Joseph F. Rhoderick
East Seventh Street
Frederick City Hospital
A. Austin Pearre
A. L. Pearre
New York City
Morley Harrison
Hilda Green
Shirley
Raymond Brandenburg
Carl Smith
Ocean City
Mary Catherine Wilhide
School of Military Government
Charlottesville
Law School
University of Virginia
Willhide
Nether Province
Wallingford
Hood College
Henry W. Snyder, Jr
Snyder
Grayson H. Mercer
West Patrick Street
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Edward D. Storm
Mary Elizabeth
Penny
Damar Apartments
Hollywood Beach
D V
USNR
Naval Training School
William Meredith S Young
Melvin M. Engle
Citie
Frederick's
Vanita
Keystone
Nicodemus
M. Daily
Condi
Markell & Ford
American Timber Products P
Fairground Road
Fast Church St
Guernsey
Fresh & Close Springers
T. B. & Bangs
Cockeysville
Louis
Mdl
Merryman
Sparks, MD
of Sauble’s Inn
Tanextown, MD
Dexter
Coleman
Champion
Peerless
Lincoln
Edison
Frick
Larrer
Anid
Casis
E. R. Bowers
Carl Haines
George R. Sauble
Navy Air Operations Division
Doll Jewelry Store
South Market St
Frederick, Md
Joe Eyler
Eyler Livestock Market
Thurmont MD
PHOSE
Josh
Eyler
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
James Lord, Jr
Taneytown, MD
Truman F., Keefer
Alvie M
Etzler Walkersville
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