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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1944
Page
4
Discussion centers on how to dispose of Germanys remaining naval forces after Hitler surrenders. The fleet is largely non existent aside from about 200 submarines and a few cruisers and destroyers. Lessons from 1918 show Allied controls aim to prevent a future fighting navy.
A columnist notes Churchill’s tempered optimism in public remarks about end dates, while defense officials fear worker exits from plants. The piece recalls his brief flurry of hopeful talk to Canadian tankers and defends frank, humane praise amid war’s grim costs, criticizing postwar surplus material planning.
A Washington Bureau piece portrays returning servicemen as haunted by war yet largely adaptable. It notes potential postwar issues from discipline and trauma to social behavior, with many veterans seeking normal jobs and domestic life, while some display lingering bravado and talk of battle.
A reflection on Proverbs 21.6 about treasure gained by a lying tongue as vanity. A quote attributes the idea to Helmes noting that sin uses many tools but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
August 29 1894 notes Prof Amon Burgee named principal of Male High Frederick succeeding M P Richards. Inter-State Telephone and Telegraph gains exclusive Western Magneto Telephone control with Frederick Exchange and annual rates 15 residence 25 business 35 combined. Albert McCardell recovering from typhoid fever. Junior steam fire engine moved to Lakin's spring due to water supply talks. Philip J Nusbaum sets notable Ridgeville ride 11 1/2 miles in 55 minutes averaging under four minutes per mile.
Twenty years ago in Frederick August 29 1974 a frightened crowd watched a horse plunge along East Church toward Market Street as 18 year old Herbert Nusbaura leaped in grabbed the reins and stopped the creature. A Rose Hill Manor subscription dance was announced with patronesses listed. State welfare will inspect county jails this autumn under a legislative act. Visiting Marines prompted Mayor Culler to ask shops and homes to display flags.
Today in history features notable births and deaths including Charles G Finney Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Bergh. It also lists historic events from 1629 1785 and 1831 plus figures like Charles Glidden Pat Harrison and Maurice Maeterlinck with brief notes on their origins and ages. Various anniversaries and a short horoscope conclude the section.
Allied reports sketch a broad Seine front with Eisenhower and Patch pushing toward a junction to trap German forces in northeast France. In the Rhone valley southward Patch’s troops push toward Montelimar, bottleneck tunnels funnel traffic, while Montgomery shifts U S units southeast of the Seine. Details on roving columns and Butler’s task force near Geneva remain unrevealed.
In Orleans area a tank destroyer unit blasted German planes on a rural airfield. Soldiers described crews rushing hangars, firing into wrecked aircraft, and capturing 40 Germans who surrendered in the woods. Lt Parker Frederick noted 5,000 bombs left unused by the Germans. Miss Julia Kefauver returned from a health lab vacation in Washington.
Washington proposes that the central need after the war is peace and an end to ideological fighting. The piece questions Roosevelt or Dewey in handling postwar jobs for demobilized soldiers, criticizes anti trust prosecutions against railroads and other industries, and warns that ongoing political warfare could delay reconstruction and risk government control of business.
Dorothy Dix cautions against marrying a stranger during wartime and warns of hidden backgrounds. She cites two letters of women who married after brief courtships and faced in-laws, family insanity, and social class clashes. She notes women bear his name and lineage, with little recourse beyond divorce.
The speaker laments young girls marrying for status and beauty, blaming fathers for not vetting suitors. They demand more from a daughter's husband than from an office boy, and warn war marriages often end in bitter tragedy.
In stark wartime rhetoric, the writer accuses Hitler of failed leadership as Allied advances threaten German strength. The piece predicts retribution for Germany and calls for the dictator to face consequences, implying mounting public outrage and looming downfall.
The piece surveys Emile Gavreau’s The Wild Blue Yonder and related aviation history themes, contrasts Pearl Harbor unpreparedness with America’s later air power rise, and notes reviews of Waldo Frank’s The Jew in Our Day Philip Toynbee’s Ah Youth and Babette Deutsch War Verse Take Them Stranger.
Foreword by Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery notes 128 of 27 poems in the British Eighth Army volume won in a 1943 contest. A single poem arrived by scraps in a slit trench at El Agheila amid Rommel’s campaign. Tender yet sinewy poems come from tough desert fighters.
New catalog items include BASIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Charles A and Mary Beard for mature readers. SPORTSMAN S ANTHOLOGY edited by Robert F Kelley. GATEWAYS TO READABLE BOOKS by Ruth Strang. PLAYGROUND by the National Recreation Association. LABOR BARON by James A Wechsler. DIVORCE GRANTED Lola M Brooks of Frederick gains absolute divorce from William C Brooks with custody of minor children. alimony reserved. costs taxed to husband.
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