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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1943
Page
4
January 2 1943 issue reports on a local Tree Festival and community garden event. It highlights participants, activities, and schedule details for the Saturday gathering.
The Joint Congressional Committee on the Reduction of Non-Essential Federal Expenditures issues a comprehensive questionnaire to all eighty-one federal agencies. It seeks staff totals, payrolls, staffing by grade and function, regional and Washington HQ data, decentralization notes, and space used. The project aims to trim waste and speed administration while praising Byrd and colleagues for tackling bureaucratic delay.
The text describes expected heavy Allied air assaults on northern Italian industrial cities, backed by reinforced American and British air forces from North Africa. It notes planned operations to soften the Mediterranean islands for occupation, with Pan J and Malta as air bases. Rome appears within bomber range from Tyrrhenian islands like Sardinia and Corsica.
Bod Mra and Phomes J. Fickling of Columbia South Carolina are visiting Mrs. K. E. D. Grove in the West district soon.
Washington commentary notes rising dissatisfaction in military circles with civilian war agencies controlling production and supplies. The piece argues authority remains dispersed among White House directives, multiple administrators, and overlapping missions, risking delays in armament, fuel, rubber, and transport. It highlights tensions between Nelson’s War Production Board, Byrnes Stabilizer, Ickes petroleum, Wickard rubber, and the broad lend lease role, with the President unable to fully coordinate all powers.
At the Freder ick branch annual stockholders meeting of the Baltimore Building and Loan Association directors were elected for 1893 with officers named Captain George W. Grove as president Hamilton Lindsay as vice president F Granville Thomas as secretary Henry B Ramsburg as treasurer Jacob Rohrback as attorney A fox chase near Woodsboro involved many local sportsmen including L V Baughman Chas N Hargett O J Gaver James M Smith J H Delauter and J L Simmons The Frederick Bicycle Club organized with Woost Delaplaine president T S Eader as vice president John A Kennedy secretary and treasurer W W Marken captain J M Brish lieutenant and Geo Wiener bugler An Enthusiastic meeting at Dr Charles W Hoffman’s residence led to the formation of the Flewita Society with Col Charles E Trail chosen president Judge John A Lynch as vice president Dr Hoffman secretary Mrs John Ruichie Mrs Wm C Johnson Mrs Ann Graham Ross and Edw n Eichelberger as executive committee
Twenty years ago local columns note Braddock Heights as a proposed summer White House site after a Baltimore lawyer pledged 270000 for the project. The 1919 class reunion at Katherine Merwig’s home on West Patrick Street elected officers including President Michael Elizabet, Secretary Ernest Stephens, Treasurer Josanna Best, and Historian Charles F. Bowers. Brunswick men fined for loitering near Empire theater after attempting to dislodge iron awning supports. Mayor Culler remains bedridden at his South Market Street home.
Today's history spans notable births and deaths from 742 to 1937 with figures like Philip Freneau and Frederick Burr Opper, plus milestones such as Washington's Princeton march and Georgia's Constitution ratification. Birthdays include Willam M Jeffers, Vera Zorina, and Vera Zorina. The horoscope segment profiles a reserved, self reliant nature.
The Division of Industrial Economy reports the 1942-43 shift to war production. Durable goods, especially munitions like ships, planes, tanks, and guns, surge with output now about 24 times higher than a year earlier. Industry adjustments across autos, radios, and consumer goods loom as material, manpower, and transport limits press. The aim remains peak all-out war effort in 1943, with 1944 as a further test.
Today's note introduces Climache as pertaining to a climax or culmination. A breathless audience awaited the climactic ending of the play as guidance on usage and pronunciation is outlined.
The piece urges readers to begin the New Year with reflection on duties to individuals and the nation. It calls for thinking, working, caring, and generously sharing to meet obligations, anticipate troubles, and undertake sacrifices in the year ahead.
Charles Smith was arrested Friday morning for being drunk on the street and jailed. Later that day his wife Catherine M. Smith swore out a warrant charging him with assault and battery. Constable Charles W. Smith served the warrant and he remains held in $500 bond for a Police Court hearing Monday night.
Washington experts say after the war hundreds of cargo planes may be scrapped and rebuilt into modern freighters. Though DC-3s and older designs are still in use, costs of 10 cents per ton mile are needed to beat rail and truck pricing, prompting calls for varied sizes and specialized models instead of a single perfect cargo plane.
Frederick County faces 1943 budget talks and tax debates as the new year begins. Officials note the $1.12 per hundred tax rate, children’s aid reductions, and a five percent Victory tax to fund wartime needs. Residents cope with rationing, fuel shortages, and war bond drives while local youths enlist or are drafted, with President Wilson cited in a reflective wartime tone. Pvt Clyde G. Smith is promoted to corporal at Selfridge Field, Michigan, from Tramaville.
Baltimore faces mounting street waste with a critical manpower shortage in street cleaning. Mayor Jackson weighs hiring women or using prisoners to clear refuse. Civic leader Marie Bauern Schmidt warns of epidemic danger and urges Army aid. Health Commissioner Williams notes trash separated from garbage does not cause disease, but garbage invites rats and disease risk.
Thomas C. Darby, president of the Frederick Production Credit Association, says the Frederick Association annual stockholders meeting will be held January 7 at 10 a m at the State Armory. Luncheon served at 12 15 p m in Calvary Methodist church. The program features a panel, reports, and a guest speaker Pvt Denver Potts, recently inducted, home Woodsboro, assigned for training at Camp Robinson Arkansas.
Gabes is described as a town founded on an oasis whose main commerce is exporting date palm fruit. The question sets contrast with its geographic character, noting it as an oasis based settlement rather than a plain city.
Mr. William R. Cole, son of Mr. and Mrs Charles E. Cole of Route 6, has completed his course of studies as an aviation mechanic in the Army Forces Technical Training School at Amarillo, Texas. The Bible quotes and religious lines are present in the clipping.
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