Reed College Mother's Weekend Draws Attendees From Four States
More than a hundred mothers of Reed College students came from Frederick and nearby areas and from Maryland Pennsylvania New York and New Jersey to attend the sixteenth annual Mother's Weekend hosted by the Hood YWCA. Activities included dinners dances a bridge and five hundred party and a campus art display with student works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reed College
Frederick
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Hood Y. W. C. A
Mothers of Hood
Coblents Hall
College Campus
Blue Beard
Elizabeth Dillingham
Annapolis
Marian Grieb
Chestertown
Fatima
Mary Pennypacker
Haddonfield
N. J
Ann
Elizabeth Chase
Sopho
Japs List Booty In Drive On Singapore
Imperial headquarters reported heavy Japanese losses in the Malayan campaign with 3,283 killed and 6,101 wounded. The communique cited 95,000 prisoners, 15,000 abandoned enemies dead, and 551 aircraft destroyed, plus booty of aircraft, tanks, guns, machine guns, rifles, vehicles, and munitions.
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Singapore
Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
Malay Peninsula
Brook Hill Schoolhouse Becomes Yellow Springs Community Hall
The Brook Hill school at Yellow Springs closed as consolidation moved pupils to Frederick. Local citizens formed Yellow Springs Community Association Inc to remodel the 1885 brick building into a community hall with stage, seating, and amenities. Directors include Twentey, Stup, Kehne, Moore, Wolfe, Martz, Young, Staley, Stull, O’Hara, Feaga, Korrell, Linton, Kehne, Martz, Everhart, Martz, Be ard, Linton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brook Hill
Yellow Springs
Frederick
Red School
G. Lloyd Palmer
Chester G. Clem
Roger G. Harley
Russell Stockman
Arthur T. Kren
George L. Twentey
Issac Wachter
Frederick Stull
Millard Palmer
Wiliam Smith
L. Hubert Derr
Ralph Burgee
Price Young
Alberta Ramsburg
Lillie Wiener
Edith Wiles
Lena Maggio
Mildred Shorb
Anna Diffendal
Pearl Thomas
Emme Weikert
Merle Wiles
Katherine Snook
Margaret Cronenburg
PTA
Burkhart’s
Civic Club
Carroll
Montgomery
Washington
Virginia
Winches
United Fire Company
Little Dutch Band
Yellow Springs Community Association, Inc
Association
J. Orville Stup
Auto Ration Plan Begins for New Passenger Cars
General rationing of new passenger automobiles started today amid expected board action on applications filed this week. The local Rationing Board began its third month of tire rationing and issued certificates for tires or tubes to listed individuals and firms in Frederick County and nearby towns.
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Charles M. Ford
Myersville
RF. D
John S. Page
Bucké
Ystown
Leonard A. Shuff
Frederick
David Roy Grossnickle
Union Bridge
Charles T. Stansbury
Monrovia
Wilsontove
Mercurio Parziale
New Market
Victor Kaplan
Brunswick
Laurence Casper Mehrng
Woodsboro
Ralph Stanley Kehne
Millard Samuel Smith
Jefferson
Ladies Bible Class meeting at Rocky Springs church
The Ladies' Bible Class of Rocky Springs met at Mrs Mildred Zern's home on February 20 with scripture reading by Mrs Merrii Martz prayer by Mrs Raymond Martz a duet by Elaine and Mildred Zern a reading Washington by Mrs Lewis Putman a business session and closing hymn and Lord's Prayer Refreshments were served The next meeting is set for March 13 at Rocky Springs school
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Springs Church
Mildred Zern
Merrii Martz
Raymond Martz
Elaine
Four Air Raid Sirens Expected In Hagerstown This Week
Priority difficulties settled, four air raid sirens ordered last December are expected this week. Mayor Richard H. Sweeney, local civilian defense director, has awaited siren arrival before ordering air raid tests and blackouts.
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Hagerstown
Richard H. Sweeney
Frederick Maryland native becomes Army second lieutenant
Sergeant Lloyd J. Rice, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas J Kirikou of 4 Clarke Place Frederick Maryland, earned a second lieutenant rank in the infantry today after completing a three month officer candidate course at Fort Benning Infantry School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Benning
Lloyd J. Rice
Thomas J. Kirikou
Clarke Place
Frederick
Army of the United States
Infantry
Allan Named President Of Farmers and Merchants Bank
Winchester Va March 2 The directors of Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company elected Dr Lewis M Allen president to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John M Steck Dr Allan has long served as vice president of the bank and trust company
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company
Lewis M. Allen
John M. Steck
Allan
Beaten to death in street identified as John J McGuire
A man apparently beaten to death with an iron pipe was found in the street near his home early today. Police identified the victim as 53 year old John J. McGuire, an odd job worker, with a three foot pipe found beside the body.
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Baltimore
John J. McGuire
Fire at Brunswick and Swiss ration talk
Brunswick firemen were called out at 1 o'clock Sunday morning to extinguish a chimney fire at the Werniz apartment on Maryland avenue. They also extinguished a grass fire on New Addition Sunday evening. Meat rationing begins in Switzerland with a decree requiring official permission to slaughter livestock. Japan controls crude petroleum production in the Far East equal to about one day's US output.
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Brunswick
Werniz
Maryland Avenue
New Addition
Bern
Switzerland
Far East
United States
NYA Denies Mismanagement Charges In Frederick County
Charles A. Opel Jr, NYA county director in Frederick, refutes claims of gross NYA mismanagement reported in Baltimore and Frederick. He asserts no home economics project existed in Frederick to produce eggs or butter and denies prior NYA purchases of tires or lumber. The NYA sewing room at Brunswick, temporarily closed, was reopened with fifty workers as war orders loom.
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NYA
Frederick
Baltimore
Charles A. Opel, Jr
Opel
Clark S. Hobbs
Baltimore Sun
Glen D. Brown
Maryland
Carlton Schuller
Hagerstown
Brunswick
Byron
WPA
Winchester Hall
Knoxville Youth Injured in Washington Collision
A 17-year-old Maryland youth, William E. Lerch of Knoxville, Md, was seriously injured early Sunday on Eighteenth Street near Kalorama Road Northwest after running into a passing car driven by Stuart Pett. Lerch suffered a fractured skull and jaw with facial and left hand lacerations and was admitted to Garfield Hospital in a semiconscious state.
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Washington
Maryland
Eighteenth Street
Kalorama Road
William E. Lerch
Knoxville
Stuart Pett
Upshur Street
Lerch
Garfield Hospital
New US destroyer fights U boat on first voyage
A recently launched US destroyer met a submarine within 48 hours of leaving port. After a tense chase the ship dropped depth charges, oil slick appeared, and the captain called the sinking probable, amid reports from the third naval district.
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U.S
New York
United States
North Atlantic
Third Naval District
Adolphs Andrews
Eastern Sea Frontier
Waiter
Allied Forces Struggle With Japanese In Java Front
Allied and Japanese forces clash across Java as United Nations troops seek to halt the Japanese spearheads. British, American, and Filipino units contest advances while a Dutch report notes a motor torpedo boat sinking a Japanese destroyer in the Java Sea. Rangoon line holds, Christmas Island bombed, Solomon Islands attacked. casualties feared heavy on the Japanese side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
United Nations
Java
Reuters
Bandoeng
Java Sea
Burma
Philippines
Dutch East Indies
London
Sitiang River
Rangoon
Sittang
Bataan
MacArthur
Japan
War Department
Christmas Island
Tokyo
Domei
Indian Ocean
Singapore
Solomon Islands
San Francisco
Sydney Radio
CBS
New Guinea
Ministers Plan Summer Services in Frederick
At the Frederick City Ministerial Association monthly meeting the group announced failure to secure Dr. E Stanley Jones for a Frederick appearance this season but noted plans for a preaching mission next year. A committee was formed to arrange the annual summer vesper series in Baker Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick City
H. L. G. Kieffer
Mr. Johnston
Stovall
Ralph E. Shober
J. H. Schmitt
F. B. Phelps
Dr. Meeks
Raymond M. Crowe
Henry W. Snyder, Jr
Leaders' Class Meeting at Calvary Methodist Church
Sunday Leaders' Bible Class met at Calvary Methodist Church. Scripture by Charles Hahn. sermon by Rev. Clarence Sullivan of the Church of God. Special music by the Kemp sisters. Attendance listed as Blues 72 Reds 57 visitors 4. Prayer meeting set for this evening at Miss Flynn's Jefferson Street home at 7 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvary Methodist Church
Charles Hahn
Clarence Sullivan
Church of God
Kemp Sisters
Miss Flynn
Jefferson Street
Be Quick To Treat Bronchitis Ad Creomulsion Promise
Urges rapid treatment of bronchitis to prevent chronic illness. Claims Creomulsion heals raw bronchial membranes by loosening phlegm and soothing symptoms. Describes it as non narcotic and effective with money back guarantee if it does not relieve cough and aid sleep.
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Brodbeck Hall
Catherine A. Eichelberger
Edna Anderson
C. Law Watkins
Elizabeth Bellamy
College News Service
Meyran Hall
Strawn Cottage
Coblentz
Jennie Coblentz
Coblentz Hall
Martha C. Carson
Joseph H. Apple
Laura A. Ward
Margaret L. Keister
William R. Barnhart
Anna K. Rudy
Marian Rickard
Lewistown
Mothers and Daughters
Marcia Ludlum
Philadelphia
Ellen Carpenter
Chatham
Marcia Rodman
DS. C
County
Mr. Opel
Belsy-Ross
Albert C. Palmer
A Home Loan Co
N. Court
Lydia EF
Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Klemp’s
U. S. Defense
Jersey
Hampton Farm
John Ridgely
Towson
Sandy Hill
Comdr
H. Jewett
Joe Morris
Westerville
Ohio
Quaker City
North Market Street
Margie
Daddy
Frederick County National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Robin
Schick
McCleery’s Jewelry Store
Frederick, Md
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