Ancarrow Beer License Case Heard Before State Board
State Board of License Commissioners heard testimony in the Ancarrow beer license case from Emmitsburg witnesses. Authorities suspended and later revoked Ancarrow’s license for six months during the war over alleged serving to minors and a disorderly premises. Minors testified beer was consumed at the bar, with one girl claiming intoxication. defense noted neither had purchased beer themselves.
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State
Frank P. Bratton
L. Franklin Purnell
Leslie Ancarrow
Emmitsburg
Paul M. Little
Ancarrow
Little
W. W. Corbin
Albert Adelsberger
Emmmitsburg
Stewart Topper
Manuel M. Weinberg
Marie McGlaughlin
Lottie Miller
Ancarrnn
Miss McGlaughlin
Henry Hoke
No Need For Nation Wide Gas Rationing
Harold Ickes announced that nationwide gasoline rationing is not needed now to boost deliveries to eastern states. He indicated future steps may include reduced thermostats to 63 degrees next winter and possible heat elimination in several rooms, as officials debated rationing.
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Aegion
Daly
Pairaeum
Ickes
Joel Dean
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Leon Henderson
Roosevelt
Hopkins Macy Nuptials at the White House
Harry Hopkins, aide to President Roosevelt, and Louise Gill Macy, New York socialite and fashion writer, were married today in the White House oval study. The event marked the first White House wedding in two years with the President and Mrs Roosevelt in attendance.
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Washington
Harry Hopkins
Louise Gill Macy
New York
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oval
Frederick Entitled To Another Delegate
The 1943 Maryland House of Delegates will gain three new members with Frederick Montgomery and Rochester counties each set to elect one extra delegate after the 1940 census raised their allotment. The survey shows only 30 of 68 Democratic county delegates from 1941 plan to return.
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Associated Press
Frederick
Montgomery
Rochester
Dorchester
Six Warrants Issued In Sewer Connection Case
City Plumbing Inspector E S Mobley announced six warrants issued today against delinquents who have not connected to city sewer lines. Police Court appearances set for Friday evening, with ten more warrants planned next week if compliance fails. Authorities emphasize notices have been ignored and that all residents must connect.
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E. S. Mobley
Mobley
Some Plants May Bar Union Organizers
Dallas July 30 Companies engaged in secret war production may bar union organizers or National Labor Relations Board agents from plants. Judge T Whitfield Davidson ruled the NLRB may examine corporate affairs on labor but must protect military secrets. He granted a declaratory judgment for American Manufacturing Company of Fort Worth to determine rights under secret military and naval contracts.
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Dallas
Tex
National Labor Relations Board
T. Whitfield Davidson
American Manufacturing Company of
Fort Worth
Reassessment Starts Next Monday in Walkersville District
The county Board of Assessors announced a second reassessment of real estate and personal property in Walkersville district will begin Monday morning. Assessors Grayson Mercer and Ernest Speaks urged residents to be available to ease the process as the project may take several weeks to complete. Officials noted uncertainty about how many districts can be finished before fiscal year end, depending in part on obtaining snow tires for travel.
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Walkersville
County Board of Assessors
Grayson H. Mercer
Ernest C. Speaks
Hatte Su
Allies Hit Destroyer In Raids At New Guinea
Allied bombers struck a Japanese destroyer off Gona Mission on New Guinea’s Papuan Peninsula, leaving the warship smoking and beaching. The raid is part of a campaign that has also damaged three transports, with other night actions around Kokoda, Port Moresby, and Darwin.
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New Guinea
General MacArthur
Australia
Allied 1
Gona
Papuan
Coa
Gai T Weir
Port Moresby
Kokoda
Darwin
No Man's Land
Refugee Nyassa Docks With 800 On Board
The 8,000 ton Portuguese steamer Nyassa arrived with nearly 800 refugees from Europe and the Middle East. About 130 Polish technicians and families, 38 French refugee children, and around 180 children from other nations were listed among the passengers. The ship sailed from Lisbon, with prominent naval and military intelligence officers, FBI agents, and Baltimore police on hand. No Americans were aboard.
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Baltimore
Europe
Middle East
Canada
France
Lisbon
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Navy
Rationing Board Yet To Assure Line Assessment
The report notes no assurance from the Rationing Board. Assessors continue to use their own cars to perform the necessary assessments.
Autry Entered Into Technical Sergi Title Change
Gene Autry, famed singing star, is fingerprinted at an induction center with Rudy Han and others present as he enters Chicago’s Air Corps induction center for a technical Sergi.
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Sergi
Gene Autry
Rudy Han
Heide
Air Corps
Pat Chitago
Nazi Steel Center Hard Hit In New RAF Attacks
British bombers hit Saarbrucken in a seventh raid over 10 nights, damaging Germanys steel hub near the French border. Seven German planes were shot down. Birmingham and other British targets reported damage and casualties. The raid followed heavy attacks along the French coast and supported by German reports of civilian losses.
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RAF
London
Germany
Saarbruecken
Air Ministry
Boulogne
Calais
English
Channel
Berlin
Helgoland Bight
Stocks Do Better on Selective Basis in New York
New York on July 30 reported mixed stock activity with some gains on a selective basis while most market readers showed continued lack of recovery power.
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New York
Survivor Found After Plane Crash Near Victorville
Victorville Calif July 30 two men were killed and a third Frank Filan Associated Press photographer parachuted to safety in a crash involving two bombers. Filan wandered dazed on the desert seven hours after the wreck, found by Lt Clarence Skaggs and Col A J McVea who had searched with a jeep hoping the cameraman used his parachute.
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Victorville
Calif
Frank Filan
Associated Press
Rodney M. Grim
Army Ate Forces
Clarence L. Block
Los Angeles
West Coast
Army Air Forces Training Center
Filan
Clarence M. Skaggs
A. J. Mc Vea
Bombs Pound Cairo In Air Attack On July 30
Axis bombers struck British and American airfields in the Nile Delta before dawn. Cairo faced the heaviest anti aircraft barrage as sirens wailed in Suez and scattered areas. One death and minor property damage were reported by the Egyptian Interior Ministry. British sources said raids aimed to disrupt Allied air operations near El Alamein, about 70 miles from Alexandria. General Auchinleck reported limited land actions and reduced aerial activity due to dust storms.
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Cairo
Nile Delta
el Alamein
Suez Zone
Egypt
Interior Ministry
el Alamein Front
Alexandria
Claude Auchinleck
Navy arms chiefs refuse harvest furloughs for soldiers
Washington reports Secretary Stimson rejecting widespread furloughs for armed forces to aid harvest. He said only extreme emergencies allow exceptions and that surplus labor should be exhausted before mobilizing troops. Nye disputes the stance urging conference on farm labor needs.
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Washington
Stimson
Iis
Senator Nye
RND
Bresieger
Nye
Army Cargo Plane Crash Kills 10 At Minneapolis
A UW 8 Army cargo transport plane crashed during takeoff at Wold-Chamberlain field near Minneapolis. Ten Northwest Airlines employees died. Kenneth Olson and John Fisher were identified among the dead. The ship, Boeing 247 converted for cargo, had 270 gallons of gasoline on board and was operated under Ferry Command after government ownership.
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Minneapolis
Northwest Airlines
Wold-Chamberlain Field
Kenneth Olson
John F. Fisher
Freemont
OuispHot
Leonard ©. Larson
Oil reserves near bottom threaten Axis fuel supply
The Oil Weekly reports Axis oil scarcity as Germany fights in southern Russia. It estimates Germany holds about 2.6 million tons of fuel oil for the current Russian campaign, with weekly production around 240,000 tons, relying on coal liquefaction and various byproducts to boost supplies.
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New York
Oil Weekly
Trade Journal
Russia
Germany
Europe
New Synthetic Rubber Source Declared By Ickes
Washington July 30 Petroluem Coordinator Ickes announced the oil industry found capacity for 200000 tons annually of butadiene, enabling 240000 to 250000 tons of synthetic rubber yearly beyond current programs. He said the source could be brought in by year end by converting existing gasoline refining plants. He did not say if civilian rubber supply would be affected.
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Washington
Ickes
Tremor Felt Near Bucharest on July Night
A weak earthquake tremor was recorded in Bucharest Romania with its center estimated about 100 miles away. German broadcasts reported the event from July 30.
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Bucharest
Romania
Last Rail Connection Is Cut by Nazi Claims
German high command said rail links from the Caucasus to Russia were severed cutting the Soviet route eastward in the Don bend near Rostov, isolating oil shipments and threatening the Stalingrad front as Storm Town and Proletarskaya reports followed. Stalin appealed for resolve as Red Army fell back toward Stalingrad with new reserves and strategic moves by Marshal Timoshenko.
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Berlin
Caucasus
Russia
Don River
Stalingrad
Volga
Tikhoretsk
Don Jean
Proletarskaya
Soviet Union
Proletarsak
Red Army
Moscow
Finland
France
Fedor von Bock
Rostov
Don
Joseph Stalin
Napoleon
Communist Party
Pravda
Lower
Semeon Timoshenko
Don Delta
Bataish
Red Star
Don Bend
Kletskaya
Second Front Plans Not To Be Revealed In Commons
London July 30 Sir Stafford Cripps government spokesman in the House of Commons again refused to divulge any plans for a second front amid calls for a secret session. Liberal L Borabin pressed for a summer recess inquiry into military intentions. Cripps said the government would not disclose its plans and would not hold a secret session. Communist William Gallacher urged disclosure but Cripps stood firm.
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London
Sir Stafford
Cripps
House of Commons
Lold Quua-Ioners
Commons
Homas L. Borabin
House
Stafford
William Gallacher
Tegan
Allison Flies Down Two Jap Planes Over Hengyang
Major John E. Allison of Gainesville Florida led a nine plane Japanese bomber raid at Hengyang Hunan province and shot down two of three bombers without US losses. Capt Albert J Baumer also scored a kill and the action ended the raid before reaching the Hengyang airfield. The mission followed his Moscow flight with Harry Hopkins a year earlier.
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Chungking
John E. Allison
Harry Hopkins
Moscow
U. S. Air Force
China
Hengyang
Hunan
Gainesville
Fla
Albert J. Baumer
Joseph W. Stilwells
Allison
Flying Tigers
AVG
Hlopkins
Joseph Stalin
U.S
Soviet Union
Frederick County Sets August Bicycle Certificate Quota
The Frederick County Rationing Board today fixed August bicycle certificate issuance at 52. Unissued July certificates will be carried to August, increasing the August supply, while unused August certificates will not roll over to September. Officials urged eligible applicants to apply, noting August is expected to offer the largest certificate availability soon.
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Frederick County
Executed By Firing Squad For Slaying
Salt Lake City. July 30. 7-Donald Lawton Condit, 25, was executed by firing squad today for the slaying of Harold A. Thorne, a Salt Lake City salesman. Condit, a hitchhiker Thorne had given a ride, chose the firing squad over hanging after conviction of first degree murder. Five men from Iron County fired the lethal volley. one gun carried a blank, unknown to the shooters.
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Salt Lake City
Donald Lawton Condit
Harold A. Thorne
Condit
Thorne
Iron County
Uist
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