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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1944
Page
7
Red Cross chairman Chas K Taylor announced Advanced First Aid and Refresher classes starting Jan 17 at the Y M C A with Dudley Gordon as instructor. Courses target practiced first aiders to review bandaging respiration bleeding control and traction splints while stressing ongoing training for all community groups and rural districts.
Messages report visits in Lovettsville Thurmont and Brunswick including Harry Snoots, H C Frye and Connie Frye. Ruth Rust improves from grippe. Pvt Frank Frye at Tyndall Field trains as aerial gunner. Dora Louder returns from Baltimore. Edward Potterfield buys William Smith property. Katz buys Lovettsville hall. Pfc Sherman Frye reports 63 Christmas cards. George Washington regains health. Ralph Stine visits mother near Jeerson. Paul Grove moves from Alexandria to family home as he prepares to depart for Forty Meade.
Allegany county commissioners will meet with Washington and Frederick county boards in Frederick on Friday January 21 to discuss controlling rising annual welfare and charity appropriations. The Frederick session will also address the expiration of state adjustments in teachers salaries after April 30, 1944.
A British destroyer, escorting a freighter from Cartagena to Gibraltar, sank a German submarine off Cape Aguila in the Mediterranean. Some crew were rescued by the Spanish destroyer Churruca and taken to Cartagena. Also noted is a Maryland Optometrists meeting in Baltimore with Dr. Melvin Watkins lecturing on prism technique. Rayon becomes second most used fibre globally with cotton leading.
Lee and Welby stage a covert plan to arrest Sharipov for treason with police help after decoding a letter from Arnaud Miller. They shadow his movements to the Stewart Hotel and execute a quick abduction, while counterintelligence assets close in on Deduchin and the wider conspiracy.
Bolivar residents share updates from illness and recovery to travels and family events across Bolivar, Westernport, and nearby towns. Highlights include Raymond E. Biller in Memphis, Coast Guard promotion for Edwin Winters, medical concerns for Albert Bussard, and local visits by Frances Fossett, Betty Miller, and others. A wedding near Shepherdstown ties Bolivar families to broader communities.
Scrappy Hobby cares for Mr Donovan's ill mother at her home. Lester Webb returns home to Bolivar after hospital operation in Martinsburg. Bolivar Harpers Ferry water problems persist despite new pump. Both towns close schools for days. Harpers Ferry Bolivar town councils meet to discuss the issue. Mrs Helen Katzaman and Miss Evelyn Duncan visit sister Mrs Elizabeth Compton in Washington.
Union Bridge and nearby areas share updates on improving health. Mrs. William Wolfe shows improvement after illness. Earl Black visits his parents at Union Bridge. Mrs Jenasga Eakle visits Baltimore relatives while Effie Fowble tours Westminster. St James Aid Society hosted by Mrs Charles Fowble. Mrs Herman Snader convalesces from grippe. Norman Graham visits his mother near Union Bridge. Gessler Bohn spends time with parents. Rev R O Sorrick meets Lutheran Parish committee at the homes of Keysville Rocky Ridge and Union Bridge.
Sevvin Fogle and others are listed in local notices. The Union Bridge Methodist and Christian Holiness churches host classes, evangelistic services, and visits. Residents report illnesses, family visits, training camps, and seasonal activities. weddings, church sermons, and skating events are noted among residents and military personnel.
Emil Budnitz, 81, a Baltimore lawyer who served in city offices, died at his home. A Republican, he was a one-time member of the first branch of the old City Council and served on the Water Board from 1917 to 1931.
African elephants feature large ears flat heads and two finger like projections at the trunk tip while Asiatic elephants have smaller ears domed heads and a single finger like projection at the trunk tip.
Mrs Carrie Fuss Long of 115 East Main honors her son Staff Sergeant Wilbur R Long who died in aerial reconnaissance over the Southwest Pacific on September 14 1943. Long trained as aerial photographer and gunner, enlisted July 18 1938, served in Honolulu, and never returned home during five years abroad. A memorial citation quotes General H H Arnold praising his sacrifice and duty, with rededication to liberty.
Mr. John Viollinger has been confined to his home at 1224 South Seton Avenue for several weeks due to an attack of flu. The listing mentions Virginia and Pyl Francis with Staging Project Detachment Flight C at Hunter Field Georgia, noting overseas service.
Mr Pleasant and Mrs George A Cashour visited Mrs Jennie E Burrier and Miss Mary C Fogle Sunday evening. Mrs Aug Monath visited her nieces Jennie Burrier and Mary Fogle Sunday afternoon. Mr David Johnson called on Mrs Monath Sunday evening.
Readers catch up on weekend visits among Delawter Cashour Lindsay and Riggs families with further tales of Bowmans Brucheys and Crum kin across Chestnut Grove Johnsville Union Bridge and Good in Tent. A new baby boy Jerry Tucker Crum born at Frederick City Hospital weighs 7½ pounds as relatives share congratulations. Also note a transport fact that 23 railway tank cars of heavy fuel fuel a destroyer round trip east coast to North Africa.
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