New Gasoline Ration Books To Be Good After July 22
City and county operators of pleasure cars began registering at 27 public schools for A gasoline books to cover the next year. Registration runs Friday and Saturday 2 to 9 p m. May figures suggested about 12 000 motorists would apply. New A books allow about four gallons weekly. existing May cards stay valid until July 22. War bond seals in current cards become units for gas purchases: three to six gallons per card type. Two city schools registered 4 291 May. county centers listed across multiple towns for further registrations. Applicants must provide owner name address license and vehicle data. bring 1941 and 1942 cards if possible. A stickers will be issued for windshield and other ration book types. Trucks buses taxis and farmers with tractors may apply but are not eligible for A cards.
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County
North Market St
Parkway
Lincoln Wiel Cabal
Buckeystown
Point of Rocks
Adamstown
Middletown
Rocky Ridge
Creagerstown
Emmitsburg
Wolfsville
Urbana
Liberty
New Market
Sabill
US Names Stark and Rolfe Representatives to Free French
The State Department designated Admiral Harold R. Stark and Brigadier General Charles L. Rolfe as US representatives to consult with the Free French national committee in London. The move signals no policy shift, stressing military purpose and the committee as a symbol of French resistance against the Axis.
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Washington
State Department
Harold R. Stark
Charles L. Rolfe
United States
Free French National Committee
London
Charles de Gaulle
Stark
Bolte
de Gaulle
Admiral Stark
European
General Bolte
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Roosevelt
Lend-Lease Administration
P C Harvey Named Laboratory Technician
P C Harvey of Baltimore will serve as laboratory technician at Frederick County Health Office in Winchester Hall. He succeeds Dr Clara Williams who resigned months ago. Harvey will report Monday and plans to move with Mrs Harvey to Frederick this weekend, residing in Tower apartments.
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P. C. Harvey
Baltimore
Frederick County
Harvey
Frederick
Tower Apartments
Man’s Recent Wedding Here Investigated
County authorities launched an investigation into the marriage of 38 year old Hermliet E Magnus of New York City who wed here on June 23 and is jailed in Baltimore on five counts of false pretense. Investigators seek possible perjury and bigamy charges after discovering the couple’s marriage license shows Magnus as single.
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Herhiet E. Magnus
New York City
Baltimore City
Horace M. Alexander
Magnus
Manus
Stephen G. Nelson
Baltimore
Washington
Poey
Nelson
Sima Sobelman
West Garrison Street
Freeman Street
Alexander
Child Given To Custody Of Mother After Habeas Hearing
In Circuit Court Associate Judge Arthur D. Willard awarded a nine month old girl to her mother Violet McDonough Kefauver after she testified that the father Newton Kefauver Jr. took the child on June 22 during non support proceedings and refused to return her. Mrs Kefauver, separated, resides with her father on the Crosby farm at Walkersville and said she can provide for the child. Richard F. Zimmerman represented Mrs Kefauver and Edwin F. Nikirk was counsel for the husband.
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Arthur D. Willard
Newton Kefauver
North Jefferson Street
Violet McDonough Kefauver
Walkersville
Kefauver
Crosby
Richard F. Zimmerman
Edwin F. Nikirk
Stocks rebound after early profit take on July market day
New York notes a recovery track as stocks regain ground after a brief profit taking dip. Leaders added fractions near two points from Wednesday’s upswing with brisk buying and selling and a reported 1,900,000 shares traded. Intermittent slowdowns kept quotations slightly under the best near the fourth hour.
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New York
111 Arrested By FBI In Bandist Roundup
New York reports a rapid FBI sweep targeting the German American band. Eighty four additional members are seized in the metropolitan area, bringing total bandist arrests nationwide to 121 in two days. Prisoners are held as enemy aliens awaiting hearings at Ellis Island with possible interment. Bail figures reach up to $50,000 for several arraignments including Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze and Wilbur V. Keegan.
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New York
FBI
Ellis Island
Selective Service
Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze
National Band
Mexico
Hartford
Conn
Wilbur V. Keegan
Teaneck
Nod
Roosevelt urges Congress to end deadlock over Agriculture Dept
President Roosevelt appeals to Congress to break a long stalemate over Agriculture Department operations. He warns war needs forbid compromise, urges a July funding stopgap while House and Senate dispute full year appropriations. Disagreements focus on wheat sales and Farm Security Administration funding.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Agri Culture Department
Senate
House
Agriculture Department
Bombardment reports from Hankow and Chinese rail loss
United States air attacks hit Hankow, damaging oil storage and wharves with eight fires lit in the Yangtze city. A July 2 raid damaged wharves and warehouses, ships likely hit. Japan is said to have gained full control of the Chekiang rail line, impacting Shanghai to Singapore supply routes. A British merchant vessel was torpedoed off South America by a submarine weeks earlier.
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Chungking
Hankow
Japan
Ching
Joseph W Stilwells
Yangtze River
China
White Cloud
Canton
Washington
Navy
Asiantiy
South America
Agulf
Pory
Axis Lines Of Transport Smashed By RAF Planes
Cairo July 9 British fighter bombers in day long assaults despite dust storms smashed Axis vehicles and landing grounds in the western desert after a night raid by ground troops. Rommel’s lines were pressed back and eight Axis planes were shot down during raids. The RAF said British losses were six planes. Allied air forces now stronger than six weeks ago with pilots returning to service. Naval forces kept vigil over supply routes to disrupt Axis reinforcements for desert fighters.
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Cairo
Alexandria
Erwin Rommel
Tus
E Daba
el Alamein
Claude J. E Auchinleck
Desert
Nile Valley
Rommel
Es Gade Ad
RAF
Axis
Larry Allen
Associated Press
Britain
Mediterranean
Red Cross schedules extended hours at Frederick HQ
A Frederick county Red Cross Staff Assistance Corps meeting set a new daily schedule for headquarters in the Francis Scott Key hotel to handle a national demand for thousands more surgical dressings. The office will be open 9:30 to 4 and 7 to 9:30 p m Monday through Saturday to accommodate workers and six members aid health clinics, six assist with dressings, and six check the dressing workroom. Approximately 335 of 40 members attended. total June hours were 564, lower than July expected due to material shortages.
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Staff Assistance Corps
Frederick County
Red Cross
Francis Scott Key
National Headquarters
Home Service
First Aid
Red Cross Chupler
Thivas
Thelma Culler
Tankers To Resume Oil Deliveries In East Coast
Washington reports resumption of tanker deliveries to the Atlantic coast as Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Bailey predicts early return to regular oil flow. He says increased air and sea patrols will suppress the submarine threat and allow an average fleet of five tankers to proceed safely.
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Washington
Athlnne Coast
Bailey
Senate Commerce Committee
Dewan
East Coast
May Release Part Of Secret Testimony
A secret trial proceeding at the Justice Department sees a new push for disclosure by the Office of War Information. Elmer Davis and Secretary of War Stimson met President Roosevelt as secrecy around the trial continues. Prisoners were brought in by a different entrance after a transport issue with a military escort.
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Washington
Miy
United States
Justice Department
Mnene the Neepala
Office of War Information
Department
Elmer Davis
War Stintson
Roosevelt
White House
Tadius
District of Columbia
Bar May Meet To Take Action On Judgeship
Frederick County Bar Association may convene within two weeks to discuss a vacancy on the Sixth Judicial Circuit bench after July 24 when Associate Judge Arthur D. Willard reaches retirement. Governor OConor will appoint a successor until November’s general election, with theories ranging from delaying until primaries to naming W Canton McSherry. No endorsements or petitions cited. party hands off policy noted by Democratic State Central Committee chair.
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Frederick County Bar Association
Sixth Judicial Circuit
Arhur D. Willard
Willard
O'Conor
Democratic State Central Committee
Edward J. Smith
Board of Election Supervisors
British occupy French island of Mayotte reported
Reports from London state British forces occupied the French island of Mayotte in the Mozambique Channel. The move follows resistance and a declared war. In Baltimore, the state price attorney for Maryland OPA Justice ruled no retail price increase for evaporated milk from dairies that upgraded equipment to meet laws.
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Mayotte
London
Mozambique
Asthaud
Baltimore
Maryland
OPA
White officer ponders main enemy to defeat first
Brigadier Bourne of the British Joint Staff considers war strategy at Charlottesville research talk. He weighs whether to strike Germany first or Japan, noting Japan may be the stronger current foe while Germany could be weakened later. He argues for a definite plan aligned with UN war planners, while preserving shipping and timing for maximum advantage.
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Washington
Cour
Germany
Witlers
United Nation
Cr. Bourne
Virginia
Institute of Public Artirs
Charlottesville
Rourke
Japan
Omar
Bourne
Roosevelt
Air Evacuation Group to Bring Home Wounded Likely
Secretary of War Stimson announced the Air Evacuation Group will form to repatriate sick and wounded from combat zones. The unit will repurpose transport planes as makeshift surgical and medical hubs capable of carrying up to 40 patients. The broader transport command has moved mail and matériel to war theaters, and now expands its mission to medical evacuations. Also, J. McAuliffe, longtime St LouisGibobe Democrat editor, died at 65 from cerebral hemorrhage after illness.
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Washington
Stimson
Air Transport Command
Air Evacuat ‘Tion Group
Transport Command
Slimson
Northern Ireland
Great Britain
Australia
Panentwee Ops
Bedl
Pohoeeph
J. McAulife
St. Lois
Gibobe-Democrat
Nazis Deny Von Tirpitz Damaged In Attack Report
The German high command denied a Soviet claim that the battleship Von Tirpitz had been hit by a torpedo. Officials insisted the ship was not damaged and remained fit for service despite reports of bombardment.
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von Tirpitz
Devin Cueen
Hialy
High Conmand
Tae von Sirpia
Tad
Taphed
Ced
High Command
Waus
Tiepil
Bean
No Quick And Easy Source Of Natural Rubber
Washington reports after months of investigation the Agriculture Department finds no quick or easy source of natural rubber to replace wartime supplies. Guayule is the most promising candidate, but substantial fields are needed and none will be ready soon. Cryptostegia shows potential claims, yet no extraction method exists. Tests involve Russian dandelion and other plants to assess climate adaptability and production prospects.
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Washington
Investi Kolingg
Experimentig
Agriculture Department
Mexico
Lexas
Loren G. Polhanows
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pothamus
America
Curran backs Jackson bid for Baltimore mayor
William Purean, Baltimore party leader, urged unity behind strong candidates for Congress and the legislature and urged Howard W. Jackson be reelected mayor. Curran said emergency action was needed as Governor O’Neill contemplates reelection and Jackson’s name may remain in the gubernatorial race. He denied plans to unite with any faction for a primary. The Sun notes the timing follows O’Neill’s candidacy news.
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Baltimore
William Purean
Jeader
Democratic Party
Congress
Howard W. Jackson
Curran
Evening Sun
Oonar
Jackson
Mavar Dpekenne
Foe Diverted From Drive On Voronezh In World War II
Russian dispatches report German forces diverted large units from their thrust toward Voronezh after counterattacks recaptured communities on the flanks. German wedges west of the Don faced intense Soviet artillery and machine gun fire as defenses in the broad Don front showed strains and withdrawals increased.
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Moscow
Germany
Jimigh
Don River
Borca
Voronezh
Orel
Kursk
Staryi Oskol
Rass
Red Army
Sugar allotment expanded for families this summer
The local Rationing Board confirmed an extra sugar allotment to family units this summer. No. 7 coupon becomes two pounds usable with Stamps 3 or 6 between July 10 and August 22. Stamp 5 remains valid until July 27, and Stamp 1b until August 22, enabling four pounds per ration book at one time this season.
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OPA
Entire Jewish Population Slain in Hrubieszow, Poland
Official Polish sources reported that Nazis killed the entire Jewish population of Hrubieszow in southeastern Poland. The town housed an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 residents, more than 3,000 of whom were Jewish.
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Lordss
Jwly
Hrubieszow
Poland
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