Think Wallace Is Finished As Candidate
Washington reports conservatives at the Capitol assess Vic Wallace as politically dead after President Roosevelt reorganizes the economic warfare setup. Senators Nye and Smith call Wallace finished while Byrnes gains broad power, fueling talk he could be Roosevelt’s running mate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Vicw
Wallace
Henry Wallace
Smith
D-Sc
Nye
R-Nd
Leo Crowley
Commerce Jones
Office of Economic Warfare
Hoosevelt
Board of Economic Warfare
Crowley
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jones
Byrnes
Soosevelt
James F. Byrnes
BEW
Milo Perkins
War Mobilization Committee
United States
State Department
Stimson and Knox
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Harry Hopkins
Fret M. Vinson
RFC
Crowler
Rayburn
Boiler Explosion Injures Seventeen in Baltimore
A boiler in the American Can Company plant in east Baltimore exploded, injuring seventeen people including John Blake, a foreman in the boiler room. The blast toppled debris, shattered car windows, and sent tin sheets flying up to 400 feet, with most victims treated for shock and lacerations at the plant clinic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
American Can Company
John Blake
Blake
Three youths sentenced for unauthorized auto use in Frederick
Otis Diggs and William Thomas both 11 and a third youth were given three months to the House of Correction by Magistrate Bennett for unauthorized use of a automobile on July 2. Irving Lyles received a fine or jail time as a first offense. Swanson and other residents faced separate charges with fines and probation considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Diggs
William Thomas
Frederick
House of Correction
Alton
Bennett
Irving Lyles
Diggs
Thomas
Jawl
Ernest Swans
East Patrick Street
Casly
Markell and Ford Coal Co
Clarksburg
A. Markell
Swanson
Holden S. Felton
H. S. McDermott
Pennsylvania
Camp Detrick
Baltimore
Madalin Myers
Victory Garden Awards Season Details and Sears Sponsorship
Sears Roebuck & Company sponsors a County and National Victory Garden Contest. Prizes reward best gardens and canning, with 4 H Club girls receiving gifts from Sears. Awards include cash, ribbons, and trips, and seeds and plants are provided for the twenty five participants. The top garden earns an all expenses paid trip to the National 4 H Club Congress in Chicago this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears Roebuck & Company
Jesse Haomerly
Seth Dade
Sears Roebuck & Com
GG Cavone
Lst
Hopson
Congress
Chicago
Painless Teeth Extraction Recalled Galvanic Battery Method
A 19th century galvanic battery based device promised painless tooth extractions by delivering an electric shock during use. Dr. Thomas S. Eader recalls the apparatus, attached to a dry cell, as an experimental antique that never gained broad traction and faded before the century’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Thomas S. Eader
Maryland Dentists
der. Eader
Dr. Esder
Eader
Travel Permits Wreck Blamed Are Approved On Broken Rail
State OPA Director Leo H. McCormick says city ration boards may grant vacation travel permits to motorists with A coupons after a Baltimore facility survey. Elsewhere permits depend on hardship. A broken rail caused a derailment of the Cleveland night express near Point of Rocks. 159 passengers were moved to another train with minor injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Baltimore
State Office of Price Administration
Leo H. McCormick
McCoremick
Baltimore City
OPA
Cleveland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Point of Rocks
Washington
John N. Howle
Brunswick
Francis M. Hamilton
Cumberland
William C. Hale
Linthicum Heights
Variable Crop Prospects in Maryland July 1 1943
Maryland crop outlook as of July 1 shows variable prospects with early June warmth aiding growth but late June setbacks. Total crop acreage reaches about 1,673,000, 2.5 percent above 1942. canning crops surge while fresh market crops dip. Hay yields exceed averages. tobacco acreage cuts due to plant and labor shortages. fruit prospects are poor with peaches and pears at record lows. milk production up about 8 percent above average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Park
Maryland
Maryland Crop Reporting Service
Marshand
Laytonsville Soldier Serves in South Pacific
Far Away Cpl Howes son of Mr and Mrs J W Howes of Laytonsville serves in the Army in the South Pacific area. He has been in service since September 1, 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl. Howes
Mra
J. W. Howes
Laytonsville
South Pacific
Air Horn Alarm Plan Aims to Reopen City Hall Siren
Frederick officials and four volunteer fire companies meet with OCD leaders to restore the City Hall air horn for general fire alarms. They propose three short blasts to summon volunteers, arguing fire danger outweighs air raid concerns and citing prior siren purchases and authority from State OCD Fire Coordinator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atea
Hugh V. Gittinger
Frederick
W. Bartgis Storm
OCD
United Fire Company
Frederick County
OCD Council
Storm
Allen Y. Bennett
Giltinger
City Hall
J. W. Just
Maryland AAA awards contracts for conservation materials
The Maryland Agricultural Adjustment Agency awarded contracts to supply conservation materials under the AAA soil conservation and war food program. New contracts cover July 1 to December 31 1943 with 20 percent superphosphates and lime purchases creditable to AAA benefits. The Davidson Chemical Company of Baltimore won the limestone contract with multiple counties served by regional suppliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland Agricultural Adjustment Agency
AAA
Leonard C. Burns
Davidson Chemical Company
Baltimore
Washington County
North American Cement Corporation
Security
Frederick
Carroll
Montgomery
Howard Counties
Final Racing Meet At Hagerstown Draws 5000 Fans
Five thousand race fans filled the stands for the ninth and next to last day of the 10 day Hagerstown Fair meeting. Ballarosa won the Potomac Purse for three year olds and up in 1 20 3 5 over six and a half furlongs. High Formation was second with Silver Beam and Col. Scott deadlocked for show. Ballarosa paid 815 50 with Carson Kirk aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Veran Arthur
Silver Beam
Col
Scott
Hallarosa
Allied Air Base Munda Hard Hit In Pacific Assault
Allied forces dropped over 100 American planes and 2 tons of bombs on Munda air base as General MacArthur’s headquarters reported. The operation aimed to weaken Japanese defenses around Munda and nearby targets in New Guinea, with additional strikes on shipping near Vella Lavella and the Salamaua area.
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Southwest Pacific
Munda
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Towanese Oparitione O
Baobetubd
Salamaua
Shiwatteen
Munde
New Georgia
Solomons
Australia
Aroe Islands
Taberfane
Vella Lavella
Tambala Bay
Bobdubi
Huon Gulf
Mubo
Lae
Buna
Gona
Papuan
President Roosevelt Interprets Ambiguous Laws On Price Standards
President Roosevelt criticized Congress for ambiguously worded laws affecting price controls. He signed a bill extending the Commodity Credit Corporation with a personal interpretation that the Office of Price Administration may set essential standards for price fixing. The ambiguity stems from OPA's stance on standards in CCC and another bill, with Prentiss Brown previously suggesting possible hosiery labeling limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
Office of
Price
Prentiss Brown
OPA
Willkie Challenges McCormick in Illinois Primary
Wendell Willkie said he would enter the Illinois preferential primary next April and stump the state if Colonel Robert B. McCormick ran. McCormick dismissed Willkie as a joke and declined to comment further on the challenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willkie
New York
Robert B. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Wendell Willkie
Illinois
Wilkie
McCormick
War Interpreted By Kirkel Simpson
The article reviews Allied and Russian fronts in World War II, noting the Sicily advance and a major Red Army pincer at Orel in Central Russia. It discusses Allied hopes for synchronized offensives, Nazi claims, and Stalin's timing aligning with beach landings to pressure German forces.
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Sicily
Italy
Roosevelt
Churchill
North Africa
Europe
Russia
Moscow
Washington
Kursk
Orel
Belgorod
Bryansk
Vitebsek
Taganrog
Sea of Azov
Kursk Bulge
Red Army
Stalingrad
Lis
Stalin
Orel Salient
Marshall
Hitler
Soldier's Son to Sing on Army Air Corps Broadcast
Mrs. Irving L. Shuffler of this city received a cablegram from her son Sgt. Irving L. Shuffler Jr stating he will sing on an Army Air Corps broadcast from England this evening. The program on the Mutual network runs seven to 730 o'clock for the English Orphans Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving L. Shuffler
Irving L. Shuffler, Jr
Army Air Corps
England
Mutual
English Orphans Fund
Commanders Appointed For U S Army Field Troops in Europe
Baltimore reports Maj Gen Leonard T. Gerow named new commanding officer of U S Army field troops in the European theater and Maj Gen Russell P. Hartle, former field troops commander, identified as top leaders. Hartle, a Chewsville native and St. John’s College graduate nicknamed Scrappy, helped form the Ranger battalion in World War I. Gerow, Virginian by birth and Virginia Military Institute graduate, led the Twenty Ninth Division at Fort Meade after converting it to a triangular unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Leonard T. Gerow
U. S. Army
Russell P. Hartle
Maryland
Hartle
Chewsville
St. John's College
Annapolis
Scrappy
Gerow
Fort George G. Meade
St.John's
Ireland
Virginia Military Institute
Wallet Returned by Honest Youths at Baker Park
Lieut. (jg) Arthur P. Remley of the U S Navy crediting Frederick youths for honesty as two 16 year old boys found his wallet at Baker Park tennis courts containing naval credentials and $90. They returned it to him and police canceled the reward notice. In Rockville on July 16 Mrs Madeline Bennetham was named clerk stenographer for Montgomery County Community Chest at $150 monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Arthur P. Remley
U.S. Navy
Frederick
Navy
Baker Park
Fred M. Straley
Richard Donsile
Lieut. Remiey
Rockville
Madeline Bennetham
Laytonsville
Montgomery County Community Chest
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Cpl
Walter Dennis Howes
W. B. Storm
Panrinistins Watanini
Wrae
Uae
OBA
U.S
Kirkel. Simpson
Gen. Gerow
R. P. Hartle
Hoes
E. Cline & Son Funeral Directors
Carty
Cafurst Mattress
C. C. Carty, Inc
Patrick Street
Frederick, Md
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