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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1942
Page
2
County farmers see good prospects for the year with favorable weather and manageable labor supply if shortages do not worsen. A special deferment committee reviews farm youth requests, balancing need against nonessential labor claims while noting unreliable day laborers and rising early hiring to avert shortages.
Frederick High School conducts practice air raid drills as wartime preparedness. Students are organized into squads with leaders on each floor and alarms announced over the school sound system. If a teacher is absent a student leader assumes control during emergencies. Drills occur by room and with the whole student body.
Miss Hal Ott of the Zonta Club and chairman of Frederick County Civilian Defense urged cheerful and faithful defense work. She urged unity, obedience to orders, and home front efficiency to support servicemen, noting dangers of talking about war. Ruth Trout presided. a defense quiz was won by the Zonta team. about forty people attended.
29 men from city and county enlist in the United States Army at the Hagerstown recruiting station during January, part of 146 enlistments for the month, Sgt. John Chop reports. The Frederick county group includes many named men. Voluntary enlistments remain open to men 18 to 35, with posting at the Frederick post office each Friday. NO FROST BOILS report notes Western Maryland highways show no frost damage yet. light winter snow, more ice, and cinders used.
Eight Frederick county representatives completed a six day FBI Civilian Defense program in Pikesville. The course covered wartime emergencies including convoy work security guarding protected areas gas decontamination blackout enforcement and evacuation logistics. Certificates signified their training and they will teach department personnel.
C. H. Kaletzki of Syracuse testifies before a Senate sub committee on a war program that reduced consumer goods threatens the advertising industry and the future of the American newspaper. He urges continued flow of consumer goods and proposes substitutes like plastics to spare essential materials.
Cairo reports British mobile columns with fighter plane support moved deep into the desert south of the Tmimi el Mechili line west of Tobruk without meeting opposition. The push continues patrols along the south flank as Axis efforts to push into eastern Libya stall.
Chicago native Captain Arthur W. Wermuth, a former Northwestern Military Academy football player, earned the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart with two clasps for killing 116 Japanese soldiers during Philippine scouting missions. The photo shows him as a cadet.
The Martaban Gulf lies roughly twenty miles from the railway linking China's Burma road, about thirty miles closer than the parallel Bilin route. The distance highlights strategic access to transport corridors in the region.
Martinsburg West Virginia milk distributors will suspend Sunday deliveries starting Sunday as announced by Fred Hammond spokesman for the dairies.
All civilian defense activities in Maryland including the women’s division move under the Maryland Council of Defense. Four district councils will be coordinated by the state body after resignations and internal controversy. W. Frank Roberts chairs the council with Isaac S. George as executive director guiding state defense operations.
A miscellaneous shower at the home of Mr and Mrs Glenn Babington Frederick honors Misa Evelyn Sigler daughter of Mr and Mrs John H Sigler of Middletown as she prepares to wed Robert B Crone son of Mr and Mrs Samuel G Crone of Middletown Gifts and refreshments are noted with many relatives from Middletown Jefferson Braddock Heights and Frederick in attendance.
Berlin reports a German war plane scored a direct hit on a submarine turret. The submarine disappeared after a violent explosion in an attack that occurred yesterday afternoon north of Crete.
German built torpedo that failed to explode on a ship exploded on Aruba killing four Dutchmen including two officers, two Marines among the dead, and injuring a Marine and two civilian guards. The torpedo's origin was German and it halted oil shipping from Venezuela to the Dutch islands.
On February 13 Patsy Rankles and Barbara Kelly hosted a Valentine gathering at Kelly's Rosemont Avenue residence. Attendees included Alice Hummer, Betty Rothenhoefer, Jane Summers, Kay O’Donnell, Gwyneth Neal, Edith Fink, Charlotte Summers, Doris Wachter, Marion Biggs, Anna Main, Frances Smith, Shirley Peart, Geraldine Mount, Carolee Everhart, Miriam Engelbrecht, Warren Neal, Richard Biggs, Carroll Brashears, Paul Fout, Kenneth May, Herbert Mount, Marion Carmack, Thomas Bowman, James Thomas, John Kelly, Bernard Kelly and Mary Virginia Kelly.
At the Washington County Home for Children San-Mar annual meeting in Hagerstown on Feb 18 C Harry Keller was reelected president for 1941. Officers include Mrs George M Bushey first vice president Roy A Lester second vice president Walter Elmer secretary and superintendent and Franklin M Thomas treasurer. The superintendent reports 48 in residence Jan 1 1941 with 41 by Dec 31 and a daily average of 46.
Harvey Harris, a Black man, and Ruth C. Cook, white, were arrested Sunday night on morals charges. Harris was released Tuesday from jail on $75 collateral and a hearing is set for today. Cook also secured Tuesday collateral release.
The late Phil H. Gold's estate in Winchester is appraised at $60,167.22 including cash insurance sureties real estate and personal property. Mrs Rebecca Clayton Gold is executrix of the will.
Two March courses led by C. G. Sola of the Red Cross will train water safety instructors and provide a first aid instructor's course in Frederick County. Classes include YMCA sessions the week of March 2 and a March 9 program at three-hour nightly sessions. Enrollment requires standard instructor certification, with focus on expanding local qualified instructors before March ends.
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