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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1944
Page
8
Frederick Jaycees study shows a large share of 677 county service members expect to farm after demobilization, with about 14 percent seeking education or trade training. Only three of the 43 respondents who won’t return are female, while most are married or single men.
Police said they arrested Frank Heller a 24 year old Frederick taxi driver on a charge of falsifying a legal instrument by misreporting a girl's age to secure a marriage license. The girl wed Meer last week at Ellicott City and lived in Frederick. Also jailed were Garland Forrest for drunkenness, Walter Andrews on a battery warrant, and Jesse Tobery summoned on a battery complaint. Front Royal Va. listed for drunkenness and peace disturbance.
Carroll Manor Grange held its regular session on November 20 with Harry Kanode presiding. A November 15 Pomona banquet report from Calgary Church preceded a Juvenile program featuring Matilda Titus and a sequence of poems essays and a playlet The Customer Is Always Right Virginia and Mary Grace Thomas and Robert Fry served as readers and performers. An officer election was announced for the next meeting on December 4.
Two young youths, John and Douglas Falk of 506 North Market race and Hesse I Hamlton avenue, were detained last night on larceny charges involving firearms. The Falk boy, already on probation for larceny, was placed in the custody of relatives for possible placement in a correctional institution. One youth was held overnight, while a shotgun found in the other's possession is under investigation for ownership. it had reportedly been sold to gun dealers. Officer Dan Svomtey and Officer Harry Phillips led the arrests.
Walter H Suter, assistant director of mobile units for the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service in Baltimore, told Kiwanis members that the Red Cross has supplied more than twelve million pints of blood for U S Army and Navy theaters and that this year’s quota is five million pints. He outlined plasma separation, blood processing, and rapid transport of whole blood to Europe and the Pacific within 72 hours, noting 35 centers and 62 mobile units nationwide. Charles K. Taylor introduced Suter and thanked Calvary Methodist church and volunteers in Frederick.
Japanese torpedo and dive bomber raids hit American warships and transports in Leyte Gulf on November 29, the heaviest since the Philippines campaign began. U S destroyers maneuvered through mined waters to shell Ormoc while Allied ships endured storms and anti air fire. The raid caused significant damage to enemy planes and reinforced the fierce fighting around West Leyte as the 32nd Infantry Division pressed south from Catigara Bay.
London reports Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek have separated. Mrs Chiang, in the United States for medical treatment, may base in Miami and possibly tour lecturing on the Chinese political scene. The split followed a public disagreement at a Chungking tea party.
The House Agriculture Committee did not determine a single cause for the cigarette shortage. Witnesses cited factors including increased wartime wage demand, hoarding, distribución issues, wartime civilian cuts, facility and labor shortages, and transport delays, with tobacco production seen rising and a record crop expected.
Frederick County will elect three AAA committeemen and two alternates per district, plus a county convention delegate and alternate Tuesday announced by Allen M Pitzer. Voting starts at 7 30 pm Monday with the convention at 2 pm next day in the County Agent's office. Leaders urged farmer involvement to drive the wartime re conversion program and democratic control of the farmers led plan.
Polling places across multiple districts are scheduled for next Monday night including Buckeystown Adamstown Ballenger Braddock Feagaville Catoctin Wolfsville Creagerstown Emmitsburg Frederick Tuscarora Hanvers Miller's Lantz Myersville Jefferson Linganore New Market Middletown Lewistown Johnsville Thornsont Urbana Walkersville Mt Pleasant Walkersville Woodsboro Woodville Prospect Hall and more the schedule shows each site by town and facility.
The Maryland Department of Research and Education announced it would seek approval from the Maryland Commission on Post-War Reconstruction to develop a freshwater fish hatchery on Beaver Creek in Washington County. The project is estimated at $286,000 and already approved by the Board of Natural Resources.
A Frederick soldier T/4 Darwin A Hueting appears in metropolitan papers Tuesday aiding Belgian children to celebrate Christmas. He is pictured holding a Belgian boy beside Father Christmas in a Licee Belgium toy store. Hueting, formerly with Dick Gardner's orchestra, lives on East Third Street.
The Bicen tennial Committee of Frederick Md expands from 16 to about 20 members with four new committeemen, including Mayor Mugh V Gittinger and three Aldermen. Pauline Bowlus is secretary and James H Gambrill III treasurer as the group plans next years two hundredth anniversary. The meeting at the YMCA was led by Chairman C Frederick Bowers and yielded enthusiastic but undisclosed anniversary ideas for future discussion.
Subscriptions for Maryland's Sixth War Loan reached 24.8 million dollars as reported by the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond. The American Legion pledged 7.5 million, matching the cost of 10 Superfortresses, while the Geiss family circle of Baltimore stands out among top donors. The State chairman, Walter I. Steiff, notes a 170-relatives group has contributed 223,775, and the Maryland state goal is 210 million.
George Finck executive secretary Frederick County Welfare Board spoke to the Junior Civic Club at Clare Artz Library about the four major welfare tasks and eligibility for aid including aged dependent children needy blind and general assistance. The club voted a Christmas donation to Emergency Hospital and authorized another Sixth War Loan bond purchase. Plans announced for a January 9 board party and a December 27 Christmas gathering at Miss Rita McKenzie’s home with a dues vote planned for next meeting.
Navy asks Congress to permanently raise the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps from 7,290 to 14,000 and to authorize a wartime NROTC of 24,000. About 50 colleges and universities would enroll NROTC students with curricula similar to Annapolis.
Frederick County marks its 38th annual Christmas Seal Sale setting a 2500 goal. About 3600 letters with gummed stamps for the national anti tuberculosis campaign go out this week. Seventy percent of local returns fund the Frederick County Tuberculosis Association medical efforts. Dr. B E Kefauver, sale chairman, notes last year’s county receipts were 2565 dollars.
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