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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1943
Page
2
Announcement sets wholesale ceiling prices for beet and veal effective immediately. Ration Board officials note price levels by USDA grading, with additional delivery charges for distances up to 50 miles. If beef or veal are broken into smaller cuts the ceiling may not exceed a quarter cent above carcass price.
Woodfield and Mrs Gilbert Broadhurst of Alta Vista hosted overnight guests with Mr and Mrs Harry Burdette and visitations to Samuel Broadhurst in Browingsville. Mrs Noah King hosted a reunion dinner for her husband heading to Norfolk Virginia then Norigik to join the Marines. Others present included Julian and Raymond King families, Ava and Calvin King, and Jerry King due to pneumonia. Norman Burdette Jr also ill. Bradley Hawkins recently underwent a minor operation in Frederick City Hospital and is recovering. Mary Ann Ward has returned home from Frederick City Hospital and is improving. Lena Burdette, nurse in Damascus, spent a week at home. Elbert Richardson and daughter visited while Eli Lelshear’s husband trains in Wisconsin and she works in Washington.
Cedar Grove residents host relatives from Takoma Park Woodfield and New Market. Virginia Kemp recovers from strept throat infection. Charles Ed Watkins undergoes appendicitis surgery in Frederick City Hospital. Sales Women's Society installs officers with a luncheon. Weekly Cedar Grove Red Cross meetings continue. Homemakers Club meets to discuss table mats and home furniture project leaders.
Stockholm report says Vice-Admiral G A J P Auphand, who ordered the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon, was arrested and sent to a concentration camp by order of Pierre Laval. Berlin dispatches Alle handa today detail the action.
An overseas note reports Sgt Free, son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Free, connected with Creagarsions. Further readable details are limited in the fragment.
Rev. Wilson P. Ard of Trinity Lutheran Church Hagerstown spoke at Hood College Brodbeck Hall as the first vesper service of the second semester. His message urged diligence toward beauty and God citing Psalm 24, while the college choir under Paul B. Beckheim performed Gounod’s Repentance with Henry T. Wade at the organ. Also noted is Sgt. William M. Remsburg promotion to sergeant at the Antilles Air Task Force in San Juan Puerto Rico for guitar broadcasts and prior radio appearances and his Maryland origins.
In Orphans Court this morning the wills of Mrs Marie CD Pearre and Franklin Blake were admitted to probate. Pearre leaves an estate about 5500 to her sister Miss Florence May Sellman who is executrix. the will dated September 14 1925 was witnessed by Wm M Storm and Hettye A Hahn. Blake leaves his small estate to his wife Mrs Julia Blake named executrix. the will dated Moree 52 1938 and executed at Norwalk Connecticut.
Directors of the South Atlantic Baseball League voted to suspend operations due to the war, effective February 25. The halt affects between 209 and 300 players across cities in Columbia Greenville Charleston and Savannah Jacksonville Macon Augusta and Columbia. The league plans to resume as conditions permit.
President Roosevelt today urged maintaining the Boy Scout movement at full strength as a practical contribution to the war effort. He noted that more than 327 service members decorated for heroism had been Scouts.
The report notes 24 hour precipitation ending 8 am. February 1942 shows 66 percent of an inch. February to date vs normals and year comparisons are listed with highs of 37 and a year-ago 53, lows near 29, sunset at 6:39, sunrise around 11:00.
Market reports across the United States show turkey supply tight as demand remains strong after the holidays. Maryland and other regions note early 1942 production shortfalls, prompting calls for expansion and possible all night lighting to boost hatchings and egg production.
Government urges discouraging wasteful mail use while welcoming letters from family. Soldier caution about unsolicited aid, warns Cupid darts take time from needed ammunition. Remainder notes a house robbery misattribution correction and two obituaries including a heavyweight champion's birth and a music professor's death.
Admiral Harold R. Stark has resumed command of United States naval forces in European waters after a homeward trip to London from the United States. Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk served as acting commander during Stark’s absence while discussions on the French political situation in North Africa were noted.
Allied forces said to have killed several Japanese in New Guinea battles. Heavy bombers attacked Kaukenau and Timika while medium bombers damaged two ships near Boeton and Wangi Wangi in the Celebes. Maryland birth rate cited at 18.8 per thousand with a 12.1 death rate per thousand.
Rev Francis B Hargadon S J of Manressa Retreat House Annapolis will conduct the annual retreat for Visitation Academy students. Opening sermon tonight in the Convent Chapel at o o clock. Sermons Thursday through Friday at 9 11 am and 4 7 pm. Retreat closes Friday morning after the 6 45 mass. Alumnae Association members and friends invited.
Pvt Rutherford son of Mr and Mrs Charles D Rutherford Point of Rocks is stationed somewhere in England. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps April 29 143.
British communique reports American made Liberator bombers dropped nearly two hundred tons of bombs on Rangoon, with flames seen in the target area. Earlier daylight sweeps hit a Japanese village east of the Kaladan river and destroyed enemy motor transport near Taungup Pass. Shipping was attacked off the western Burmese coast. The air force said none of its aircraft were missing.
The Navy Mothers' Club of America re elected Mrs. Andrew Rehbein as commander on Pearl Harbor Day. Sykesville State Bank directors were re elected at the January 13 stockholders meeting with Arthur C. Brown as president and J. Marion Harris as vice president. E. J. Hammond named cashier. The Sykesville Volunteer Fire Company chose Edward R. Grimes as president and Samuel Richeson as vice president along with a full executive committee and officers. The department handled 130 calls this period, with 96 in Carroll County and 34 in Howard County. Other items note visits, inductions into the army, and local social engagements.
Grover Devilbiss, long employed on defense work near Baltimore, spent the weekend at his Union Bridge home. George W. Hardesty, recently named conductor on the Western Maryland’s Union Bridge to Baltimore run, has been on medical leave for bronchial treatment and is improving. The Union Bridge Fire Company now honors 23 members serving the country with a new plaque. A farm machine repair shop opened January 18 in B A Fogle's Union Bridge garage and will operate Monday Wednesday and Friday for six weeks or longer with C P Saylor as instructor. Mr and Mrs Albert Carr moved from Upperco to the David M Culler property Bark Hill. Mrs Charles Fowhbles of Union Bridge spent several days in Baltimore. George Delphy of Middleburg, ill, is staying at the home of his son-in-law and daughter Ebner Wilson and wife in Union Bridge.
Serving Overseas Miss Eileen Leonard formerly of the city is now in Great Britain as a staff assistant with the Red Cross. She trained in Washington before being sent overseas and is the daughter of Major General and Mrs. John W. Leonard of Fort Riley Kansas. General Leonard was once stationed in Frederick. Miss Leonard attended Hood College and graduated in 1940.
Gettysburg College announced an early finish for the current academic year with classes ending April 22 and the commencement program set for April 26, two weeks earlier than the usual June date.
A Martinsburg group asks Congress to honor the late Newton D. Baker by naming the Army General Hospital scheduled for construction east of the city after him. The proposal cites Baker's service as Secretary of War in World War I and the local push to recognize his legacy.
A local Greek War Relief Committee in Frederick sent $150 to the New York office. Charilaus G. Raphael praised the effort and noted the gift could feed six Greek children for a year. Dr. Joseph H. Apple chairs the local committee. C. E. Cline, Sr. is treasurer.
A Tuesday gathering celebrated the second birthday of Sarah Jane Hamilton. Guests included Lewis Fagan III, Mary Ann Geisbert, Jay Marie Steinhaus, Bill Steinhaus, Sonny Perkins, Wade Finneyhock, David Lee Finneyhock, Kenneth Keefer, and many relatives.
A lengthy list of proposed estate and property sales appears in the Brunswick and Frederick area notices. Names include Ezra Barker estate Brunswick Fannie Mayne Frederick Clarence Blackston Carroll County Claude Ettler Middletown Cletus Barnes Walkersville and many others. The notices specify farms houses routes and towns with dates in March and April and point to sale actions at courthouses or on private properties.
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