Jug Bridge Collapses into Monocacy River After Car Crosses
A 65-foot span of the Jug Bridge collapsed into the Monocacy River just after a car passed over it at about 9 30 pm. Guards halted traffic and a detour plan was discussed while residents called for a new bridge and preservation of the old stone jug marker at the eastern approach.
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Jug Bridge
Monocacy River
Conrad H. Williams
Frederick
State Roads Commission
Price Farsht
Harmony
Two Mount Students At Youth Congress
Two Mount St Marys College students will participate next Sunday in the annual youth congress of the Capital Region National Federation of Catholic College Students at Loyola College Baltimore. George M Widney of the Emmitsburg school is general chairman and will lead a seminar on Inter-American relations. Jack F Lois Son will preside at the general session with the theme What Catholic Students are Doing in the Inter-American Field and How They May Expand Their Efforts. Congress leaders note that 90 percent of Iber o-America is Catholic and Catholicism can bind America to its southern neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount St. Mary's College
Capital Region
National Federation of Catholic College Students
Loyola College
Baltimore
George M. Widney
Emmitsburg
Jack F. Lois
Congress
Ibero-America
South
Central America
America
Gasoline Rationing Likely on East Coast Soon
New York March 3 gasoline may have to be rationed very soon on the eastern seaboard and perhaps nationwide to allow tankers and tank cars to focus on building the reduced fuel oil supply from Georgia to Maine. Industry men cited diversion of tankers to war use and torpedoing of at least 16 ships off the Atlantic Coast as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eastern Seaboard
Georgia
Maine
Atlantic
Cranium Crackers Quiz Answers on Page Four
Answers to trivia questions include Helena as Montana's capital and Senator Burton Wheeler as a notable senator. It recalls Jack Dempsey defending the heavyweight title at Shelby on July 4, 1923, and notes Montana’s northern border with Canada and the Little Bighorn fight near the Little Big Horn River with Sitting Bull associated events.
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Helena
Montana
Burton K Wheeler
Jack Dempsey
Shelby, Mont
Tommy Gibbons
Canada
Sitting Bull
George Custer
Little Big Horn River
Survivors of Jacob Jones landed at Cape May N J
Eleven men, presumed survivors of the United States destroyer Jacob Jones sunk by an Axis submarine, were landed at Cape May Navy base. The ship, torpedoed off Cape May, likely carried about 146 officers and men. two survivors remain hospitalized. The group included nine engine room sailors and two apprentice seamen.
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Cape May
N.J
Jacob Jones
Naval Air Base
Joseph Paul Tidwell
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Thomas Ryan Moody
Franklin
N. Y
Louis Hollenbeck
Albion
N. J
George Pantall
Struthers, O
Albert Oberg
Proctor, VI
John Struthers
Trenton
Richard Dors
Brockton, Mass
John Merger
Norfolk
Rudolph Jacobsen
Eastport
Woodrow Albert Roussel
Boston
Adolph King Storm
Bridgeport
Conn
Tidwell
Struthers
Dors
County Canners Prime in 1942 Food for Freedom Drive
Frederick County vegetable and fruit canners expect a large role in the 1942 Food for Freedom campaign. Despite restricted packing and possible labor shortages, non restricted items like corn beans peas tomatoes peaches and tomato juice will be canned. Government limits favor blackplate cans and a shift to A-1 priority for canning season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Frederck County
War Production Board
Army
America
Firemen handicapped by spectators asserted by fire officials
Frederick County volunteers plan an education program to stop spectators from hindering firemen and equipment at blazes after two fires. At the New Midway and Birely farm fires, crowds blocked lanes, delaying response and jeopardizing responders. Officials say better crowd control is needed to protect lives and property.
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Frederick County Volunteer Firemen's Association
Ires
Jesse J. Renner
New Midway Company
Fink H. Birely
Ladiesburg
Renner
Remedy
New Midway
Union Bridge Company
Orchestra Leader Weds At Yuma Ariz
Artie Shaw, famed orchestra leader, married Elizabeth Jane Kern of Beverly Hills in Yuma Arizona with Justice of the Peace R H Lutes presiding. Shaw, 31, and Kern, 23, traveled with Kern's mother Mrs Eva Kern from Los Angeles for a quiet ceremony. The bride is daughter of music composer Jerome Kern and has been seen with Shaw in recent Hollywood months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yuma
Ariz
Artie Shaw
Elizabeth Jane Kern
Beverly Hills
Calif
Justice of the Peace
R. H. Lutes
Shaw
Los Angeles
Eva Kern
Lana Turner
Jerome Kern
Hollywood
Kern
Horse Brings 216 At Public Sale In Brockville
A large crowd attended a public sale at Williams Craver in Brockville Montgomery county despite weather. Farm equipment and house goods totaled 303750 with a top price of 210 for a five year old mare. Six other horses averaged 111. Five brood sows with pigs averaged 7350 each, one sow and eight pigs brought 895. An eight foot thinner t free years old brought 265. Mixer hay sold for 25 a ton. Glenn Trout led the sale with R L Kelly as clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams Craver
Brockville
Montgomery County
Glenn Trout
R L Kelly
Argentine Radical leader forecasts re election in chamber
Buenos Aires March 3 UP Deputy Paul Demonte Taborda head of the so called Argentine Congressional Dies Committee and a vocal foe of Acting President Castillo’s policy of keeping diplomatic ties with the Axis powers appeared certain of reelection to the chamber. Early tabulations from last Sunday’s balloting show Taborda leading the Radical party candidates, with Socialists also ahead of Castillo’s Conservative contenders.
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AXIS
AWEAD
Buenos Aires
Paul Demonte Taborda
Assets of Maryland State Banks Listed
Maryland state banks and trust companies saw total assets rise by 31,038,944 to 485,870,423.51 as of December 31, 1941, with deposits up 31,307,808 to 434,272,475.14. Investments climbed 30,130,654 while cash on hand fell 5,899,962 and loans increased 8,587,647. Capital totals reached 49,454,934.81 with other assets at 2,002,969.58.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
John W. Downing
Maryland
Maryland Firms Await War Orders Shifts
War Production Board says large plants will subcontract more to Maryland firms to speed defense orders. Baltimore regional director notes rising information requests and a tightening business climate as conversion to war work continues. Few Maryland manufacturers will exit. most are already in essential war-related production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
War Production Board
Maryland
Theodore Chandlee
Baltimore
George W. Creighton
Creighton
Brunswick To Enlarge Its Town Hall
Brunswick council approved enlargement plans for the Town Hall with an east wing at about 2500 this year and two more wings over three years. A large council chamber for about 100 will be built, plus public toilets. Senate Funk led the project and West wing slated for next year. Sewer connections were pursued with two delinquent owners settling arrangements and about 75 percent of accessible properties on sewer lines now served. State Health reports praised dairies distributing milk in Brunswick.
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Kiwanis Club
Lions
Brunswick Council
John B. Funk
Senator Funk
Alfred Harris
William M. Storm
Brunswick
State Health Department
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Robert E. L. Putman
Carl Redd
Wilson T. Ballard
Walter C. Hopkins
Ballard
Liberty
Urbana
New Market
Trafic
Juzbridge New Market District
County Road Board
Jag
Loral
Chamber of Commerce
Ataetor
Two Mount
East
United States
Joseph Lockhard
Williamsport
Pearl Harbor
Sergeant Lockhard
Robert A Gilmore
San Francisco
Fort Monmouth
Ladiesburg Blaze
Yuma, Ariz
Burall
C. C. Carty
Rayons
Belva Lin
the Plains
Laterz
Miami
Jersey
McCall
Vogue
Bennett
Delphey's
West Patrick St
Allen
N. Market St
C.E. Cline & Son
Koyalon Mattresses
U. S. Royal Royalon Mattress
E. Patrick St
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