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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1943
Page
3
The city registered 187 new voters on Tuesday, joining 138 from a week earlier for a total pre election count of 325 the lowest in years. Officials noted weak interest as turnout hinges on referenda rather than candidates.
Historic Linganore Methodist Church atop the Linganore valley hill held a May 2 rededication service after extensive repairs and redecoration. Rev. Royal A. Rice preached. The 400-seat sanctuary displays a life-size Christ painting by Hele L. Smith, donated by Mr. and Mrs. John Wilt, and features gifts in memory of family members including a Gothic communion table by Isaac Nicodemus, a pulpit Bible for Margaret Brightwell, antique candlesticks for E. Long, and an illuminated cross for Emma J. Barnes, with choir loft draperies by the Ecker sisters and Lillian Nicodemus.
German fighter bombers struck East Anglia today killing at least 12 Auxiliary Territorial Service girls in Great Yarmouth during a daylight raid. Fifteen Focke Wulf 190s bombed and shelled the town as German big guns fired from Boulogne Calais. Rescue teams recovered bodies and many more were injured amid wrecked homes and a nursing home casualty.
Reports state one vessel was damaged by RAF fighters and another by anti aircraft fire with several more vessels also sustaining damage. The incident underscores a broader engagement in the area as Allied forces contest control.
Miss Ruth Chambers, home economist of the National Livestock and Meat Board, will lead a 7:30 p.m. demonstration in the Potomac Edison demonstration kitchen. The event, part of the Share the Meat program, is arranged by Miss Jesse Hammerly and Miss Martha C. Thomas with invitations extended to invited representatives.
A Holstein bull ran berserk Tuesday morning at the C. Lease Bussard barn near Lime Kiln, killing a prized work mare and injuring four other horses. Dr. Harold Schaden treated wounds and tetanus shots were given. Neighbors alerted the owner after sighting the injured animals in the barnyard as work continued nearby. The incident reportedly occurred between 10 and 10:30 AM with no eyewitnesses to the initial event.
Bridgetown Barbados May 11 Reuters reported that a detachment of the Barbados battalion of the South Caribbean Force has embarked for Dominica in relation to the Martinique situation. Dominica lies 35 miles north of Martinique, the French possession ruled by Admiral Georges Robert, whose refusal to cooperate with the Allies led to severed U S relations.
A report notes collaboration between several home demonstration clubs in Frederick County and a selected group of home economics students from Hand College. The piece highlights cooperative education, community outreach, and practical home management instruction.
Master Sgt William Thomas McElfresh who has been in Africa since last July in charge of a wireless stall has been promoted to the first sergeant. He is shown with Susie, one of his pet leopards. He adopted two leopard cubs after arriving at the nest and he and the other men have praised them. In a letter accompanying the picture received by his mother Mrs Belle McElfresh.
A fragmentary note describes Susie the kitten expanding in size and losing her earlier gentleness. A stray line mentions an incident after a child tried to pet her, followed by an abrupt reference to Master Sgt. McElfres’s enlistment, though the surrounding text is unclear.
A passage notes that the U.S. Army Air Corps departed the United States in May 1937 and left the country early in July for Africa, reflecting early U.S. military movements abroad.
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