Tivoli screens Wartime thrillers and light domestic farce
Tivoli opens with Cecil B. DeMille's The Story of Dr. Wassell starring Gary Cooper as Navy doctor Corydon Wassell, plus Up in Mabel's Room and other features. Also on view are U S Marines on Review, Rudy Valee's Coast Guard Band, and War Plant reels highlighting American shipyards and factories.
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Dr. Wassell
Paramount
Cecil B. DeMille
Tivoli
Gary Cooper
Corydon W. Wassell
Navy
Java
China
Pearl Harbor
Houston
Marblehead
Universal News
Mabel
Gail Patrick
Marjorie Reynolds
Dennis O'Keefe
Mischa Auer
Charlotte Greenwood
Lee Bowman
Binnie Barnes
John Hubbard
Janet Lambert
U. S. Marines
Rudy Valee
Coast Guard Band
Frisco
Republic
Richmond
California
Michael O'Shea
Anne Shirley
Gene Lockhart
Trigger
Opera House
Rosie the Riveter
Jane Frazee
Frank Albertson
Vera Vague
England
Ray Milland
Ruth Hussey
Donald Crisp
Jane Eyre
Orson Welles
Joan Fontaine
Margaret O'Brien
Gene Autry
Pathe News
Tex Ritter
Boomtown
Frederick Theater
Allotment Upsets Family as Angel Buys Clothes
Martha scolds Angel over the eighty dollar War Department allotment as Angel buys two evening dresses. An angry slap follows, shocking Martha who feels relief at last having asserted her authority. The family struggles with poverty, pride, and care for sick Baby Jeanne in a Brooklyn tenement.
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War Department
Jimmie Saunders
Martha
Angel
Jeanne
Cultivate Ability To Count Cards Cultivate Ability To Count Cards
William E. McKenney reports on a Reading Tournament card game where four teams competed. Winners were Hawley Quier and partner from Reading, Charles Goren and Mrs. Agran from Philadelphia, and Harry Fishbein from New York. Ellenbogen team placed second amid tense afternoon and evening sessions. Fishbein demonstrated advanced counting and signaling in a decisive hand. The article also notes new U S Civil Service rules requiring chest X ray exams and serological tests for syphilis for applicants.
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William E. McKenney
America
Card Authority
Hawley Quier
Reading
Charles H. Goren
Nathan Agran
Philadelphia
Harry J. Fish‘bein
New York
E. G. Ellenbogen
R. C. Young
Joseph Davis
David Warner
Ellenbogen
Fishbein
West
South
East
U. S
Brothers In The Service Both Taylors Enlisted In 1940s
Pvt Taylor joined the Army on June 16 1940 and serves in England with a medical unit of the Air Corps. GM 3 Taylor joined the Navy on September 6 1948 and serves at sea with the armed guard of the Merchant Marine. Their wife Mrs Margaret Hayes Taylor and two children live near Frederick. Both are sons of Mrs Raymond A Taylor, 108 East Seventh Street.
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Pvt. Taylor
Army
England
Air Corps
GM 3
Taylor
Navy
Armed Guard
Merchant Marine
Margaret Hayes Taylor
Frederick
Pvt
GM Taylor
Raymond A. Taylor
East Seventh Street
Carroll County Woman Seeks Dream Legacy at Wills Office
A Carroll County resident went to the Register of Wills claiming a $1,250 legacy from a dream inspired by an angel. Clerks investigated records but found no such gift. the woman said the legacy would pay off her mortgage, and she left hopeful of notification if the revelation occurred.
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Carroll County
the Register of Wills
Sentenced to Jail in Brief City Court Session
Magistrate Edward J. Smith Friday night sentenced Howard E. Sheetz Jefferson to five days in jail in lieu of an $11.45 fine assessed Thursday and defaulted for unauthorized use of the call for Howard C. Corum. Two traffic cases were heard and three city ordinance offenders forfeited collateral. Charles R. Six paid a $5.75 fine for reckless driving. William T. Delauter paid $5.75 on a similar charge. George Drummitt and Caroline Weedon each for forfeitures of $5 for drunkenness and intoxication respectively. Henry Hines cited for unspecified offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Smith
Howard E. Sheetz
Jefferson
Howard C. Corum
Charles R. Six
East South Street
Charles V. Main
William T. DeLauter
Rt. 1
Frederick
Brandon W. Duvall
George Drummitt
North Market Street
Ellis Carty
Caroline Weedon
West South Street
Charles Burras
Henry Hines
Rt. 4
Norman Trump
Douglas Stup
Station Agent Varner Called for Service at Sykesville
Winton S. Varner, B. and O. station agent at Sykesville for three years, has been drafted by a Hagerstown draft board and will be inducted on July 25. He and Mrs. Varner are spending a week with their parents in Hagerstown. George Wright of Halitown, Va., becomes the new Sykesville station agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winton S. Varner
Sykesville
Hagerstown
Mt Airy Man Commissioned Second Lieutenant In Air Corps
Gaither 20 lately graduated from Foster Field Texas and received a second lieutenant commission in the Air Corps. He is the son of Mr and Mrs J D Gaither Route 4 Mt Airy. He attended the University of Maryland for two and a half years before joining the Army.
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Gaither
Foster Field
Tex
Air Corps
J. Dorsey Gaither
Route 4
Mt. Airy
University of Maryland
Army
$45 In Small Change Stolen From Automobile
Lieut. Allen Bartgis reported a theft of $45 in quarters and dimes from a car in the 500 block of North Market Street yesterday morning. Several juveniles are under investigation with no arrests yet. Austin Young, of this city, planned to exchange the money, left it on the seat at a bottling works, and found it missing upon return.
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Allen Bartgis
North Market Street
Austin Young
Young
German Ace Killed and Florida Plant Under Construction
London reports the German radio said Capt Karl Heinz Weber a top air ace with 136 kills is missing. He is among five Luftwaffe aces admitted lost in two weeks. In Florida a $5,000,000 sweet potato starch plant financed by private capital is under construction and expected to operate this year with annual capacity of 6 million pounds.
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London
Karl Heinz Weber
Florida
Wounded Sergeant Cannon Father Hears Conflicting News
A War Department letter leaves Garel C. Cannon uncertain about the fate of Sgt. William Cannon in England. It reports his son was seriously wounded in France on June 10, contradicting earlier telegrams and a later pledge of recovery. The father fears a German bomb may have hit the English hospital while his son was convalescing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Garel C. Cannon
Sergt
William Cannon
England
France
Sergi Cannon
Court News and Equity Actions Reported
Court transfers show Ernest F Keilholtz and wife to Charles A Flaggs and wife for 2835 dollars and Roberta L Lindsay widow to Lindsay heirs for 10 dollars. Marriage licenses list several couples from Myersville and Middletown. Equity appeals name Grace Trail Babcock beneficiary with trustees and attorneys. Defense news reports Baltimore pharmacist Nathan Isaac Liss fined 500 dollars with two years probation for theft at Edgewood Arsenal.
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Court News
Ernest F. Keilholtz
Charles A. Flaggs
Coun
Baltimore
W. Calvin Chesnut
Chesnut
Nathan Isaac Liss
Edgewood Arsenal
Brothers in Service Overseas Brothers in Army in Italy and North Africa
Pvt Walter Crawford trained at Camp Pickett and has served in North Africa with a sea corps since June. His wife Frances Beard Crawford lives on North Market Street. Pvt James F Crawford joined the Army November 11, 1943 and sailed for overseas service within five months, serving with infantry in Italy. They are sons of Mr and Mrs Walter Crawford Sr of 111 West Fifth Street.
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Walter Crawford
Camp Picket
North Africa
Sea Corps
Frances Beard Crawford
North Market Street
James F Crawford
Army
Armed Infantry
Italy
West Fifth Street
Ceiling Price Lists Made Available To Consumers
Frederick city and county residents will receive ceiling price lists for groceries canned goods and meats on Tuesday. Dan Wight chair man of the Frederick county Rationing Board announced the lists may be obtained at the board office and at banks and post offices across the area. One list covers groceries and canned goods the other meats. Each sheet shows groupings and identical trade names and sizes to apply the listed ceilings. Prices remain until changed with new sheets posted about a week later. Consumers should report irregularities to merchants or the Rationing Board.
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Frederick City
Dan £. Wight
Frederick County
Adamstown
Buckeystown
Burkittsville
New Market
Wight
Rationing Board
Guam Invasion Advancing From Both Sides of Port Apra
U S Pacific Fleet reports invasion of Guam progressing well with beachheads on Guam west coast near Agat and Asan. Adm Nimitz notes light landings casualties and growing interior combat, while ships indicate a plan to encircle the harbor at Port Apra.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Port Apra
Pacific
Nimitz
John R. Henry
Allied
Fine Harbor
Third Party Talk Sparks Dixie Dissidents in Chicago
In Chicago on July 21 dissidents from the South voiced Third Party talk in open revolt against the New Deal and rebuffs from national conventions, challenging the Solid South's unity.
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Third Party
Chicago
Dixie
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Ray E. Taylor
James F. Taylor
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Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Maryland
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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War Dept. Telegram
Amos
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Ralph T. Crummitt
J. Edgar Bussard
Clifford H. Wamsley
Roberta L. Lindsay
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Myersville
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Smithsburg
Edgar E. Poffinberger, Jr
Gladys Irene Keller
Middletown
G. Donald Weddle
Harriet G. Morgan
Equity
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Charles McC. Mathias
Grace W. Trail
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C. McC. Mathias
D. P. Buckey
Garber
Brothers
Walter A. Crawford, Jr
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
National Democratic
Association
Rogers Park Drug CO
Park Heights Avenue
U. A. Lough
South Market St
Groadway
Henry
Orote
Agat
Asan
Bill Elliott
Geo
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Rosie
Riviteer
I Frederick
Gary Rines
Bert
Aramount
Cdte
We Wassell
Geer
Els
Tree Ere
Ettee Seem
Carol Thurston
Carl Exsmand
Stanley Ridges
Cech B. de Mille
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