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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1943
Page
4
The Frederick News announces subscription rates and policy details. It notes Associated Press affiliation and requests real names with communications. The paper is entered as second class matter and includes standard corrections policy.
Analysis notes Axis morale weaknesses in Europe and weapon shortages in Japan. It cites Italian and German strain, resistance to conscription, and growing Allied air and naval dominance. Assertions that morale and weapon gaps will drive total Axis defeat are emphasized as inevitable outcomes.
A vintage etiquette piece asks five scenarios on manners. It suggests offering help to a blind person, refraining from prying about a veteran’s wounds, introducing yourself if a stranger does, and challenges about a girl with two men and a committee member pressuring a busy mother. It ends with choosing an appropriate reaction to refusal and endorses shared childcare duties.
A wartime style exhortation links sports and labor discipline with concentration. The piece highlights the adage keep your eye on the ball as essential to success in both baseball and work tasks, warning that distraction leads to failure. It ends noting that about 1000 teachers retire under age in Guenter Leadon, England.
The July broadcast slip over The Voice of America by OWI triggered questions about who writes foreign messages. Officials say the error occurred Sunday afternoon amid difficulty reaching State and War Departments. Congress cut OWI domestic funding, but foreign outreach remains debated with Roosevelt and Sherwood tied to the policy, prompting calls for higher supervision.
The Frederick city tax rate for the coming year was set at 8544 rents on the S10 by the Board of Aldermen, with salaries remaining unchanged. A separate ordinance confirmed these actions. Also, James Conrad Cal Kelly Enoch Rowe and R L Lorentz plan a three day fishing trip to Washington county by wagon, bringing a full cooking setup to handle eel and fish. The Independent Hose Company quarterly meeting led to forming three racing drill teams with captains George Wallace Emory Nusz and Millard Nusz. WAESCHE named Mechanicstown postmaster. WM. H. Hoke in Emmitsburg awakened by a note. robbers pursued by armed men, disappeared into darkness.
Bridges washed away and structures damaged as storms hit the southern and northeastern sectors. Stockholders of Oil and Gas Van stockholders meeting planned to form a county branch of the Automoblie Club in Maryland. Frederick Hustlers, trailing in the Blue Ridge League, lost 3-1 and 6-2 to Hanover with Blethen hitting a homer in the first game.
Medical bulletin notes pinworms infect 16 to 40 percent of people nationwide with higher rates in certain neighborhoods. Transmission occurs via eggs laid at night on skin and transferred to hands, bedding, or dust. Symptoms range from itching and irritability to diarrhea, with reinfection common due to persistent eggs capable of surviving up to 60 days on skin and resisting ordinary disinfectants. Gentian violet is cited as an effective treatment but requires ongoing use beyond egg survival.
A reflective column surveys wartime life in Frederick County with drought worries and fruit prices, notes on food rationing and heavy rains, soldiers returning home for brief respites, letters from abroad, war stamps, and local civic updates. It recalls entertainments, local events, and nightly sermons as July ends.
The note discusses vocabulary habits and pronunciation, urging correct usage and identifying decretive as a term meaning an authoritative order. It contrasts decretive with preceptive and cites Bates on the will of God as either decretive or preceptive.
The text advises that all infected persons receive ministering care and that parasite recognition must precede treatment. It calls for examining every family member regardless of symptoms and ensuring supervision by a physician for the treatment.
Reporter Peter Edson profiles Chester Bowles, new senior deputy administrator of the Office of Price Administration, portraying a mild, soft spoken reformer who seeks decentralization, clearer regulations, and practical cooperation with business. He urges patience, notes subsidies as necessary, and aims for progress in six weeks.
A compact record lists historic anniversaries and birthdays including jurist James Kent, engineer John Ericsson, explorer Paul du Chaillly, Confederate leader Quantrill, pathologist Theobald Smith, and Lafayette’s 1779 commission. Also noted are milestones like U.S. Patent No. 1, Carlisle Indian School, and WPA Theatre Project ending, with birthdays of U S Senators Barbour and others.
A tuberculosis clinic for Frederick County will be held at Winchester Hall on August 10 at nine o'clock in the morning. The notice emphasizes the simplicity of greatness and includes a quotation about entering the Kingdom of God.
The excerpt presents quick Q and A items: Big Inch pipeline oil capacity about 300000 barrels daily. Stars and Stripes flag used at White House signals presidential presence from sunrise to sunset. light travels sun to earth in about 498.7 seconds. U S holidays vary by state with Congress designating only one national holiday in 1869. Vatican protection by Swiss Guard about 100 personnel plus Italian Papal Gendarmerie also around 100.
Odds and Ends notes Frederick is among a minority of U.S. cities with two daily papers published by the same publisher. The American Newspaper Publishers Association survey shows 181 cities have dual dailies, 1,091 have only one, and 1,387 have at least one daily newspaper. Also covers mid-year life insurance claims, a war era decrease in motor accident death benefits, and a humorous economics lesson about a penny scone amid wartime austerity. It mentions Ensign Francis Scott Key, a descendant of the famed author, serving as recreation officer at Key West.
A bo r o Ga native and Oglethorpe University graduate played football basketball and baseball and joined intramural athletics. The piece mentions a typographical error misnaming Ensign Francis as Frances and contains a string of quips and wordplay attributed to various speakers and objects.
Earl L Douglass argues navigation by stars defines Christian life as a voyage toward a distant harbor. He contrasts faith guided by eternal stars with secular expediency, urging believers to steer life by guidance beyond worldly turmoil toward life eternal.
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