Jap Forces Fail To Gain In Aleutians
Japanese troops on three undefended Aleutian islands at the tip of the chain have failed to expand their hold since early June. American air and sea forces have conducted repeated strikes, destroying ships and equipment, with nine damaged or sunk and several aircraft lost. The navy highlights the Dutch Harbor and Midway campaigns as a two pronged effort shaping the Pacific war, while noting the fog hampered many attacks. A birthday party notice for Mrs. Gilmore O. Hamilton is included.
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Washington
Aleutian
Navy
Altu
Kiska
Agattu
U.S
Northern Pacific
Dutch Harbor
Midway Island
America
Pacific
Midway
Aleutians
United States
Alaska
mid-Pacific
Fort Mears
Fort Glenn
Umnak Island
Northwestern
Coast Guard
Lions Attend Yerente Conven'ion Trip to Toronto for Lions International
Frederick Lions Club members and guests travel to Toronto to attend the annual Lions International convention running Wednesday through Saturday. New club president Brunk hosted committee chairmen, with representation from Mt. Airy and Rockville clubs. Separate items note moves, weddings, and local assignments including Camp Butner transfer for Lieut. Charles H. R. Lyon, a Hanover area visit, and plans for a wedding rehearsal dinner for Miss Mary Jane Michael and Lloyd Clinton Rhoades with family and out-of-town guests attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yerente Conven
Mt. Airy Lions Club
H. Deets Warfield
Rockville Lions Club
Marriage announcements and local notices from Frederick area
The column lists social news including the marriage of Miss Mary Jane Michael to L Clinton Rhoades with wedding plans and guests arriving. It also includes arrivals and visits by Mrs. Thomas J. Fickling, updates on Grove family, and several birth announcements. Military and government personnel movements are noted along with a fraud extortion case in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jane Michael
L. Clinton Rhoades
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Thomas J. Fickling
Columbia, S.C
Frederick
Edward D. Grove
West Second Street
One Day Meeting of S.S. Association at Hood
The sixteenth annual convention of the Sunday School Association of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland gathered at Hood College Brodbeck Hall with 281 registered by noon. Rev Raymond Stamm led devotional and addresses, Roy Stoop reported a record Summer School enrollment of 201, and Rev Charles Corbett, Thurmont, presided over the afternoon program ending near four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday School Association of the
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland
Brodbeck Hall
Hood College
Raymond T. Stamm
Gettysburg
Roy L. Stoop
Hagerstown
Charles H Corbett
Thurmont
German envoy vows hostage seizures to deter sabotage
From Vichy on July 17 a Brussels dispatch reports Gen. Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen says Germany will execute a large number of Belgian hostages if sabotage continues. Similar mass seizures were made in the Netherlands, framed as urgent measures to discourage hostile broadcasts and publications.
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Vichy
France
Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen
Belgium
Brussels
Netherlands
English Town Bombed in Broad Daylight Raid
London reports a German air raid on an English south coast town during daylight. Five people killed and about a dozen pedestrians wounded as a lone Messerschmitt bombed and machine gunned a main street. A row of cottages was demolished by a single bomb.
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London
Messerschmitt
Origin of the cowboy name traced to Revolutionary War desperadoes
ROW II statements note that the term cowboy did not originate in the west. It attributes earliest use to a group of plunderers who raided cattle from farmers during the Revolutionary War, marking the term's historical origin rather than frontier mythology.
Prison Labor Being Used In This County
Annapolis July 17 An agreement between the Department of Correction and the State Roads Commission sets up a portable camp for convict laborers to work on Cecil and Kent County roads. A 40-man road gang will be detailed to the camp, construction at the Penal Farm slated to begin next week. This is the second Eastern Shore camp, with a 75-man gang in Chester, Queen Anne’s County. The program follows weeks of negotiation and uses convicts from a list of about 100 graded for outside work. Currently 323 Maryland convicts work outside institutions in various areas including the Eastern Shore 75 Southern Maryland 92 University of Maryland 73 Baltimore and Harford Counties 48 and State Tuberculosis JostS SchalohWI dl Sclidddsville 35.
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Annapolis
Department of Correction
State Roads Commission
Cecil
Kent County
Willis R. Jones
Board of Correction
Ceri
Jones
Cecil-Kent County
Chester
Queen Anne's
Sie
Maryland
Eastern Shore
Southern Maryland
University of Maryland
Baltimore
Harford Counties
Schalohwi
Weather and personnel note from the area
The report shows no precipitation in the last 24 hours and July totals at 350 inches for 1941, with a deficiency of 115 inches in 1942. Highs yesterday 95, lows 72, rivers Monocacy cloudy at Ceresville and Potomac clear at Knoxville. A second lieutenant Malcolm R. Baer of this city departs for a new Army assignment after a ten day leave. he recently completed the three months officers training at Fort Benning and previously served with the 115th Infantry.
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Ceresville
Potomac
Knoxville
Malcolm R. Baer
R W Baer
Liecut
Baer
Fort Benning
115Th Infantry
Weddings Johnson Sponseller and Ebaugh Heilig union report
Multiple local weddings are detailed including Hele Sponseller and Harold A Johnson in a home ceremony officiated by Rev Edward Fenstein. Virginia Ebaugh and Marvin Ebaugh wed at Frederick Methodist Church with a later southern trip planned. Mildred Stambaugh and Paul Rummel wed in Harney, with Stambaugh an organist and Rummel heading to Army duty July 20.
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Johnson
Dundalk
Mr. Zeigler
Ralph Sellman
Hives Webb
Benjamin Bryan
Atty
Bernd Landis
Bire
Norman Sherowan
Boston
Virginia
Rummel—Stambaugh
Mildred Alyce Stambaugh
Marry Stambaugh
Taneytown
Rummel
Arendtsville Vocational High School
Peabody Conservatory of Music
Baltimore
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Harney
Rumpie
Elizabethville High School
United States Army
Naval Depot
Mechanicsburg
Army
Smiths and Dayhoffs Wed in Grace Reformed Church
Dayhoff Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs David Smith Taneytown and Glenn Upton Dayhoff son of Mr and Mrs Upton Dayhoff Keysville were married at Grace Reformed Church Taneytown with Rev Gig P Arcady officiating. Only attendants were Miss Mary Louise Alexander.
Wedding Notes Include Marshaled Attendants at Baker Chapel
Miss Mary Lee Wilmington and Joseph M Grim of Wilmington Del were joined in marriage by Ray Edwin Reeder at Baker Chapel Western Maryland College. Attendants Mr and Mrs Grim and Miriam Bond presided at the organ. The couple will reside in Wilmington after a small reception at the groom's parents home.
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Grim—Lee
Baker Chapel
Western Maryland College
Mary Lee
Wilmington
Del
Joseph M. Grim
Jo Mahlon Grim
Sykesville
Ray Edwin’ Reeter
Bullimyr
Brandentuige Methodist Church
Carlos Grim
Airy
Miriam Bond
Guim
Mt. Airy High School
Peat Dent
Berrett
Carroll County
Bride Wears White Taffeta Gown At Rural Wedding
The bride wore a white taffeta gown with a tight bodice and illusion veil held by a silver head dress. An attendant wore aqua and white. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast followed at Havilah Farms.
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Burg
Havilah Farms
Arm Lacerations With Sickle After Cemetery Grass Work
Frank Shut of St. Anthony's suffered severe lacerations to the penis while culling grass with a sickle in Mt. St. Mary's cemetery. Six stitches were required to close the wounds.
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Frank
St. Anthony's
Mt. St. Mary's
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Raleigh Winebrenner
Algie Smith
Gilmore
Hamilton
Austin Hamilton
Equator
Charles H. R. Lyon
Holmes D. Baker
Waverley Farm
Charles Edward Lyon
Owings Mills
Camp Butner
Durham
N. C
Lieut. Lyon
Fort Bragg
N.C
J. Harold Hooper
Walkersville
Braddock Heights
Lloyd Clinton Rhoades
Evangelical Lutheran Church
George B. Délaplaine
Lindbergh Avenue
G. Albert Wolfe
Ralph §. Wolfe
Middletown
Salisbury
Catawba College
University Hospital, Baltimore
Stanley Kurtz
Philadelphia
Frank Kennedy
East Second Street
Joseph Sewell Kennedy
31St Ordnance
H. M
Dilworth
Joseph M. Kline
John C. Worthington
Nina Alvey
Worthington
Mt. Airy
Harold A. Johnson
Ruth Webb
Evelyn Bryan
Judson A. Lyon
Gladys
Connellsville
C. Bernard Smith
Dill Avenue
Washington, D. C
J. Claude Freeze
Maxwell Field
Ala
Claude Freeze J
Nashville
Penn
Lora Kefauver
Frederick County Rationing Board
E. R. Crumpton
Danjylle Va
Ranean
el Alamein
NEA
Cairo
George Washington
German-American Vocational League
Riverdale
N. J
Old Glory
G-men
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John A. Derr
United States Coast Guard
Monrovia
Mr. Derr
Manhattan Beach
S. 1
Circuit Court
Earl Shreeve
Dickerson
Frederick City Hospital
John William Flickinger
Wm. Flickinger
Keymar
Keesler Field
Miss
Robert G. Witter
Harmony Grove
Zoe Anna
Clear Spring
J. Adrian Strite
Strite
Nellie Witter
Bon Secour Hospital
John F. Wooden
John Frederick Wooden
Wooden
Westminster
Donald A. Alexander
Camp Grant
Rockford
Station Hospital
Camp Stoneman
Pittsburgh
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Alexander
Frank Alexander
West Patrick Street
Charles Bosley
Garland
Bos Tey
Meredith Hane
Narva Avenue
Justice Department
Los Angeles
Louis B. Mayer
Bedrawal
Reese Oul
S. S. Assn
Hood
Germany
New York
ePi
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Pitchblende
Ebsueh—Ecker
Allen Ecker
Uniontown Road
Hat Dauphter
Marevin Ebaugh
U.S. Ebaugh
New Windsor High School
Baltimore Business College
Frederick County
Sth
Democratic Party
Emmitsburg
Hat FT
Nely
Tam
Ont County
Fredenck
J. Campbell
Glenn David Smith
Miss Alexander
York Ie
Fishers Restaurant
Keysy de
Fedor—Sarisky
Welen Satisky
Joseph Fedor
Miram
Ohio
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Ementsburge Row
Francis J Rogers
Irene Shorb
Louis Rosensteel
Emmits
Erate
College
Quaker City
Frederick's
North Market Street
John W. Grove
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Frederick, MD
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
G. Cleveland Trout
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