Sunday sales of beer and wine debated by Frederick County grand jury
The February 1944 Frederick County grand jury issued 23 indictments and urged banning Sunday alcohol sales and an anti stray dog law. It criticized cigarette sales to minors, noted jail overcrowding, and recommended limited improvements at Montevue and Emergency Hospital. Several suspects, including Raymond L Mulls and John Fisenhour, were named in larceny and non support cases. three cases were dismissed. The jury praised jail and Montevue conditions and proposed safety measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Buty
Montevue
William M Storm
Raymond L Mulls
Joe Morris
National
Ridgeville
DC Winebrewer and Son, Inc
John Fisenhour
Berwick
James Leiby
Penns
Ivana
Leiby
Pennsylvania
Tral
Dempsey Elmer Jackson
Brunswick
Charles Ragland
Walden E Bowens
Robert Carroll
Dolar M Eyler
Ementsburg
Hubert L Hurley
Notta Taylor
Corrine K. Taylor
Notta G. Baker
Baltimore
Circuit Court
Bowling Green Pie Cordial Return Update
Weedon husband of Hilda Weedon and son of John and Mrs Weedon of Sunnyside is stationed at Bowling Green Virginia. He has served seven years in the Army and will fly home on leave soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pie. Weedon
Hilda Weedon
John Weedon
Sunnyside
Bowling Green
Local Girl Cheering Wounded in New Guinea Describes War Help
Miss Peggy Dean from this city serves with the American Red Cross in New Guinea. She details heat and danger, delivering refreshments, cheering wounded pilots, and sharing improvised meals and supplies with a unit of seventeen wounded in action. The narrative notes emotional strain and hope for an end to the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
New Guinea
Red Cros
Pegey Dean
Alice Dean
Rockwell Terrace
Jeanne
Peggy
Red Cross
Dorothy DuBois
Belot
Ohio
Virginia Morris
Addison Rd
Houston
Texas
Peggy Dean
Frederick
Hospital praises Dr Fahrney and staff while noting needed improvements
The report commends Dr H L Fahrney for guiding visitors through Montevue and the Emergency Hospital, praising efficient nurses and overall care. It urges improvements at both facilities but notes current conditions prevent changes. The document also calls for a law to curb unlicensed roaming dogs and addresses overcrowded school buses and underage cigarette sales. It commends Acting States Attorney Witham M Storm and others, and notes Joe Rhoderick suspends Bright Spot sports sponsorship as his brothers serve in the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H L Fahrney
Montevue
Witham M Storm
Gerald G. Remsberg
Harry C Gilbert
Boorkeeper
P Kecter
CROFS
Joseph F .Joe Rhoderick
South Market Street
Bright Spot
Spolls
Joe
Nai
England
Hawaii
South America
Moe
Twenty Flying Boats To Be Built By Martin Co For Navy
Glenn L Martin Company will construct twenty flying boats patterned after the 7Q-ton Mats, with lifting power 5000 pounds greater. The first craft is due next year powered by four 2200 horsepower Wright Cyclone engines and designed to carry larger engines as available. The ships will serve as aerial freighters for the Naval Air Transport Service, with added cargo space and reduced equipment for patrol bombing, plus a two and a half ton hospital or troop car conversion capability and jeep and weapon haul capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Fey
Glenn S Martin Company
Naval Air Transport Service
Mars
Changes In Dip Net Law Are Announced
Frederick County changes to the dip net law allow use in many streams not stocked with trout as Regional Game Warden Benjamin F L Phebus said. The move removes prior limits on Moonocacy and Potomac rivers and in mouths of non stocked streams. sportsmen fear the new rules could threaten local sucker populations if illegal dipping persists.
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Ain
Frederick Cyuunis
Benjamin FL
Phebus St
Soone
Moonocacy
Potomac
Milk Shortage Prompts Local Production Push
Frederick County milk producers report ongoing shortage affecting distribution in the area. Albert M. Mercer notes Camp Detrick draws supplies from Washington County and urges increased regional production. Local officials and Grange leaders attend the tenth annual luncheon at Hotel Frederick as officers are reelected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Cuty
Albert M. Mercer
Frederick County
Mercer Roy C W . Shaffer
C. W. Warner
Milo Hooper
D Walter Hooper
Charles I Wiles
Mercer
Shaffer
Henry R Shoemaker
Edith W Shafer
Rosenstock
U S Now Holds All Of Western New Britain
Allied headquarters report that American forces have cleared Western New Britain from Rotock Bay to Arawe. MacArthur cites 7,000 Japanese killed, including troops from the 17th Division. Invasion forces included Sixth Army units under Krueger and air support that sank enemy barges and small warships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
New Britain
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Sixth Army
Douglas MacArthur
Arawe Peninsula
Cape Gloucester
Rottock Bay
Arawe
MacArthur
Hill 660
Guadalcanal
Bataan
Philippines
Swao Matsuda
Texas
Idaho
Walter Krueger
Julian Cunningham
Washington, D. C
New Mexico
Arizona
J Srugh Herndon
Tucson
Ariz
William H. Rupertus
Washington
D. C
New Ireland
New Guinea
Pacific
Rabaul
Retreat Opens for St Johns Students in Frederick
Rev Louis A Wheeler of St. Ignatius Baltimore opened a three day retreat for St Johns Literary Institute high school students in Frederick. The retreat ends Friday morning with a High Mass at nine. Notre Dame Sisters direct the children's choir in the Mass of St Cecilia in two parts. Father Wheeler also leads a retreat for Saint Peter Claver Society members of St Johns Parish this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis A Wheeler
St. Ignatius Church
Baltimore
St John’s Literary Institute
Frederick
Notre Dame
St. Cecilia
Jasper
St. Matthias
Father Wheeler
Saint Peter Claver Society
St. Johns Parish
Kline Joins 722nd M P Battalion at Fairmount Army Barracks
Pvt. Kline son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Kline Sr of 119 East Fourth Street has been stationed with the 722nd M P Battalion at Fairmount Barracks Philadelphia since New Year’s Day He was previously stationed at Newport News Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pvt. Kline
Arthur Kline
East Fourth Street
Fairmount Barracks
Philadelphia
722Nd M. P
Newport News
Tokens At Banks For Farmers Selling Meats
Baltimore February 23 Farmers who sell rationed meats and processed foods may obtain supplies of ration tokens at banks ahead of the new ration point system set to begin Sunday. J William Eggleston state rationing officer said primary distributors can get tokens to make change as retailers do. Farmers with no stamps or under 250 surrendered points may apply to the war price and rationing board for supplies up to 230 points. A certificate issued by the rationing board exchanges for tokens and represents a permanent grant for point change and need not be repaid under the plan. Tokens set meat and processed food stamps at 10 points with retailers using the tokens for change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
State Office of Price Administration
J. William Eggleston
Eggleston
OPA
Whiskey stolen in Frederick caval ry dealer case in Hagerstown
A Ford county case reports Three Feathers whiskey stolen Saturday from a Charlton Bros. Transportation Co. truck in Hagerstown while the driver made deliveries. Company officials traced the case to a Frederick cavalry dealer. Evidence mentions camel hide leather camel hair cloth camel milk and camel meat in unrelated recall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Charlton Bros. Transportation Co
Frederick Cavalry
U.S. Planes Strike Saipan and Tinian in Marianas Raid
United States Pacific Fleet led by Adm. Nimitz and Rear Adm. Mitscher attacked Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana Islands, advancing toward Tokyo. The operation followed earlier strikes on Truk and Eniwetok, with 28 Japanese prisoners taken at Eniwetok and Parry Island's capture completing the atoll conquest.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Mariana Islands
Tokyo
Pacific Fleet
Truk
Chester W. Nimitz
Marianas
Marc A. Mitscher
Mitscher
United States
Naval Aastion
Nimitz
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
Parry Island
Ponape
Kusaie
Carolines
Nauru Island
Marshall Atolls
Saipan
Tinian Islands
Guam
Tinian
Nimintz
Tanoag Harbor
China
Marshalls
South
Southwest Pacific
Eniwetok
Engeli
Engebi
Parry
Levening
Kwajalein
Atoll
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Cleveland Trout
Earl J. Weedon
Jed
James
Jeanne Sackett
Cleveland, O
Gloucester
North America
Martin Co
Apply
Sears, Roebuck and CO
West Patrick Street
Richelieu
London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Richu
Dakar
Burall’s
Carty
CG. E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Nall
C.c. Carty, Inc
E. Patrick Sr
M.P
Pvt
Arthur Kline, Jr
South Market
U. S
Japanese Empire
Allen
Market ST
Delphey
W. Patrick St
Hendrickson
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