Uruguayan Ship Sunk Off Haiti Prompting Diplomatic Tension
Uruguayan merchant ship Montevideo formerly Italian Adamelio torpedoed off Jeremie Haiti with 31 crew aboard. some rescued. Uruguay reports no further details while noting prior Axis attacks on South American and Brazilian ships.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Alberto Guani
Adamelio
Jeremie
Haiti
Mona Passage
Guantanamo
United States
Guant
Guam
Brazil
Guami
Tokten
New York Harbor
Vasquez
Hood College selects student leaders for Blue and Grey staff
Hood College announces Miss Ruth Trimble as editor-in-chief of the Blue and Grey. The junior previously served as reporter associate editor and news editor and holds roles in Touchstone Marionettes and the Student Commission. Anne Pearce is elected president of Hood College Cooperative Government Association and serves on Town Hall Marionettes Herald hockey team and junior class basketball management.
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Ruth Trimble
J. R. Trimble
Mt. Airy Avenue
Philadelphia
The
Hood College
Blue and Grey
Miss Trimble
College
Marionettes
Anne Pearce
Robert M. Pearce
Windsor Avenue
Haddonfield
N. J
Cooperative Government Association of
Cooperative Government Association
Miss Pearce
Town Hall
Herald
Plead Guilty To Spy Charge In Wartime Case
Two German born men faced possible death penalty after pleading guilty to conspiracy to transmit information to Germany. Richard Fruendt 55 and Peter Donay 32 were held on $25 000 bail each with grand jury action pending. Conspiracy spanned Oct 30 1940 to Dec 31 1941 and involved mail drops in Mexico South America and Europe.
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New York
U. S
Germany
Richard Friedrich Fruendt
Peter Franz Erich Donay
Fruendt
America
Donay
Fort Jay
Governor's Island
First Army
Edward Fay
U S
James D. Laver
Alfred Brokhoff
Brooklyn
Gustav William Kaercher
Richard Ernest Weber
P. E. Foxworth
FBI
German Reich
Mexico
South America
Europe
Two Killed In Jap Raid Made On Darwin
Darwin attack kills two and wounds twelve with Royal Australian Air Force targets hit. Aborigine among the wounded. 100 bombs dropped, mostly anti personnel. Curtin says no fresh Japanese landings in New Guinea and Papua. Daylight saving ends last Sunday in March with autumn.
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Melbourne
Darwin
John Curtin
Curtin
Royal Australian Air Force
New Guinea
Papua
Britain Burns More Coal Than Before War
An official spokesman said Britain now consumes far more coal than prewar levels and will face a very difficult task meeting next year's demands. He projected no winter shortages given current use, noted essential industries run without stoppage, and estimated the home market will take almost four and a half tons per person next year with a production goal of 4,000,000 tons weekly.
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London
Britain
Nelson to Speak to All U S Tonight on War Production
Washington reports WPB chief Donald M. Nelson will address the nation in a 9 30 to 10 p m eastern war time broadcast to counter Axis propaganda about the production speed up The speech caps a dramatization of the drive on NBC CBS and Mutual networks and aims to block controls by enemy broadcasts while explaining the speed up to the public The WPB plans two weeks of meetings with prime war contract industries to organize management labor committees with equal labor and management representation and local problem adaptation The effort hinges on plant committee initiative and local conditions
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
Mutual Broadcasting Networks
Berlin
Tokyo
Nelson
Local Health Notes and Market Update
Sick list from Frederick City Hospital reports Georgianna Miller convalescing after an appendectomy on March 13. Others ill or recovering include David Barker with an infected leg, John Kolb Jr, and Marjorie Riddlemoser. Alberta Breckenridge shows improvement while Benjamin Groff moved to the hospital. Market news notes a modest stock rally with rails oils and blue chips edging higher in early trading.
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Georgianna Miller
H. Q. Miller
Thurmont
Frederick City Hospital
David J. Barker
Frederick
Route 1
John Kolb, Jr
East Fifth Street
Austin L. Heffner
East Patrick Street
Alberta Breckenridge
Benjamin Groff
Point of Rocks
M. R. Etchison
New York
Merchant Ship Sunk Off Atlantic Coast with 20 Missing
Four teen survivors of an American merchant ship torpedoed off Atlantic City have landed at Staten Island. Twenty men are missing and six were hospitalized for bruises exposure and shock at the Marine hospital. The Navy refused to identify the vessel.
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New York
Atlantic City
N. J
Staten Island
Third Naval District
Marine Hospital
Navy
Washington
United States
Atlantic
Japs Had Huge Force In Battle Of Java
A House of Lords speaker said Japan’s Java battle fleet included 14 cruisers 5 aircraft carriers 55 destroyers and 25 submarines. The Allied force opposed them with five UN cruisers all officially reported lost and smaller ships.
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Java
London
Japan
House of Lords
United Nations
Sewer Problem Seeems To Be Working Out
City Attorney Edward J. Smith said sanitary sewer connection issues are “working out all right” and warrants reported over the weekend were not necessary. Some residents had not connected but were not contesting notices, and problems were being ironed out. Plumbing Inspector Edward Mobley declined comment. Also, Mrs. id. Frank Hoffman learned from the State Department that her daughter Esther Hoffman, with the American embassy in Hongkong, is safe and well in the Japanese-held city.
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Edward J. Smith
Edward
Mobley
Westminster
Id. Frank Hoffman
State Department
Esther Hoffman
Hongkong
Turn In Scrap Rubber Urged By Local Board
The County Rationing Board calls on all residents to turn in scrap rubber to junk dealers for processing and reclaiming. Farmers are especially urged to surrender old tires unfit for retreading. Certificates for tire recapping were issued to Wilson and Jones, Crown Oil and Wax, and others in Frederick and surrounding towns.
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Trebeard
Alexander Gow
Frederick
Mearl G Warehime
Glenn Lo Putman
Phurmont
W. Homer Renn
Adamstown
Arthur G Null
Doubs
Newton O Sharrer
Rocky Ridge
Horace F Kline
Ivan G Naugle
Thurmont
Wilon
Jones
Maynad W Tregoning
Atlee C
Kinna
Arthur F. Masser
Tuscarora
Homer A Boyer
Jefferson
Oscar R Saylor
Marshall V. Shaner
John William Smith
Yamsville
Chester R. Hood
Mt. Airy
Earnest Rosecard
Myersville
Ralph W. Miller
Lantz
Leonard Shuff
Roland T Hauver
Royal G. Hilton
Monrov
Local business names listed for archival record
Maynard W. Tregoning Frederick Boyer Transportation Company Knoxville A W Nicodemus Company Inc Frederick Charles E Smith Thurmont G Raymond Shipley Frederick Thomas Supply Company Luypons.
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Maynard W. Tregoning
Frederick
Boyer Transportation Company
Knoxville
A. W. Nicodemus Company, Inc
Charles E. Smith
Thurmont
G. Raymond Shipley Frederick
Thomas Supply Company
Luypons
London Hails MacArthur Appointment in Australia
British military circles praise Gen. Douglas MacArthur for supreme command in Australia as proof of Empire United States coordination. MacArthur enjoys high prestige in Britain, rivaled only by Gen. George C. Marshall, with respect boosted by the defense of Bataan.
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London
Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Command
Australia
United States
MacArthur
Britain
George Ic. Marshall
Gudes
Brusn War Office
Bataan
Philippines
Deed Recorded for 138 Acre Farm Transfer
A deed recorded in the clerk's office covers the sale of a 138 acre farm along the road from Bur Hees mill to Prices mill from Mr. and Mrs Dallas W Kehne Sr to Mr and Mrs Charles E Murphy for about 9200 dollars.
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Bur- Hees Mill
Price's Mill
Dallas W. Kehne
Charles E. Murphy
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Marian Ruthvin
Charles D. Oland
Walter Naylor
Oland
Naylor
Doubs- Adamstown
Edward D. Storm
Women of the
Chaplain Shook
Reading
Gosnell
Smith
Hammaker Brothers
Monument Firm
Charles A. Opel, Jr
South Market Street
Opel
NYA
Frederick County
Mr. Opel
Louis C. Zettler
Carrabelle James
Past Chiefs Association
Pythian Sisters
Pythian Castle
Fannie King
Mabel Smith
Ella Fisher
Frederick Past Chiefs
Taneytown
Mannerheim
Stockholm
Sweden
Gustaf Adolf
Finland
Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim
Napoleon II
Richard E. Snyder
Anna L. Shaffer
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank
Frederick, MD
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
HPAL
U.S
Dorothea Coiffeur
Dorothea
House of Beauty
Maryland
the House OF Beauty
E. Patrick St
Ambassador Winant
England
Brendon Bracken
ST. Patrick's Day
Roger Brooke Taney
Supreme Court
Frederick Industrial
N. Mkt
Parsons CO
Fry
P.O
Chicago
Linin
Gen. MacArthur
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