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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1943
Page
10
An hour long Frederick County air raid drill exposed gaps in civilian defense and blackout rule adherence. OCD officials warned violators would be named for protection, noting no major offenses but many confused blue and red signals and lights left on.
Algiers May 3 General Henri Giraud urged General de Gaulle to come to North Africa as soon after May 5 as possible to finalize a pact between their Fighting French forces. Negotiations continue via liaison officer General Georges Catroux to unite Frenchmen while awaiting liberation of metropolitan France and a provisional government.
A trash fire along the Buckeys Tow Pike near the sand hole was put out by members of the Independent More Company Mos ’iy eersece.
Soviet reports from May 4 detail ferocious combat across the Kuban sector and wider Caucasus front with thousands of enemy dead in land and air actions. Russian forces claim major German losses including hundreds of tanks, dozens of dugouts, and multiple artillery emplacements, amid aerial battles over Krasnodar and Novorossisk. Guerrilla actions near Chernigay disrupted German advances, while Leningrad and SevsK sectors saw continued artillery and sniper activity.
Desolate Libyan desert graves from El Alamein to near Tripoli are being erased by shifting sands as Allied forces push the Axis Africa Corps westward. Desert towns, air bases, depots, and supply rails vanish under dunes while Bedouins return to usual haunts.
Washington May 3 Jeffers and Patterson fault line in rubber and octane gasoline programs eases as they plan a joint tour of war plants to identify bottlenecks. Patterson warns of 100 octane gasoline shortages and criticizes WPB grounding of training planes. He says reserves are depleted and the rubber situation is improving.
Lieut-Commander John B. Fitzpatrick of the Navy Training School in Frederick told the Frederick Business and Professional Women’s Club that peace will need enforcement after the war. He argued the UN must maintain military and economic control, pool raw materials, and oversee joint purchasing, production standards, and shipping.
Two woods fires burned over one hundred acres of mature oak in Washington County Monday. A large fire two miles north of Boonsboro on South Mountain raged from 3 to 7 30 p m, destroying timber valued at about four hundred dollars. A second fire near Chestnut Grove covered four acres, traced to a cigarette or match by mushroom hunters. Warden Toms praised 16 Civilian Peace Service camp volunteers from between Keedysville and Boonsboro for aiding the second blaze. Local wardens, residents of Boonsboro and nearby stations, assisted on the Souch Mountain fire. Toms said neither blaze was incendiary. A separate note says about 75 percent of the mowing gear industry has shifted to weed production.
Pvt Keeney son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Keeney of near Unionville is now stationed at Salem Air Base Salem Oregon The Supply Co of Salem Air Base reports the fact with military precision and note of the local family connection
May 3 New Windsor report notes only coeds attended graduation after male students joined armed forces. Seven women earned diplomas in two and four year programs as the college trains for war, with accelerated three year coursework and summer work in war industries. Secretary Knox praised the program and 80 men served in Army Navy Marine Corps or Coast Guard. two were killed and four decorated once. Dean Reifsnyder read the roll. Westerhof spoke. Hungerford presented diplomas. A morning wakefulness heightens a person.
Allied Headquarters in Australia reports three Allied pilots missing after Japanese attack on Darwin on Sunday. Weather contributed to losses more than combat, with Spitfires forced down at sea or crash-landing on shore. Reports say two Japanese bombers and two fighters were destroyed on the ground at Koepang, Timor, during long-range raids.
Frank Weedon an 18 year old colored youth of Manor Woods is held in jail in default of bond after being charged with theft of two heifers from James A. Rogers near Buckeystown. Deputy Sheriff Paul B Rhoads led the investigation and says Weedon sold the animals. Additional charges may follow.
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