Bribery Charges Hit Triumph Explosives Case At Elkton
Navy seizes Triumph Explosives plant at Elkton Maryland and two subsidiaries at Milford Delaware amid bribery arrests of Josef Ben Decker executive vice president and two inspectors. Justice details pending as audit flags over one million in alleged management irregularities.
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Army and Navy
Washington
Navy
Triumph Explosives, Inc
Elkton
Milford
Del
White House
FBI
Josef Ben Decker
Triumph
J. A. McCambridge
Reginald Gregory
UW Suva Lelkeaewane Parereve
Milford Ordnance Company
Aksee Ordnance Company
A. B. McCrary
Army
Decker
McCambridge
Gregory
Navy Procurement Office
Triumph Company
Navy Department
Sussex Ordnance Company
Department of Justice
Jozef Ben Decker
JLA
War Frauds
Conditits
Navy Inv Won
Grant Jory
Tom C. Clark
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gas Rationing Registration To Begin November 9
Registration for gasoline rationing will start November 9 nationwide except the already rationed east. The Office of Price Administration said eastern car owners must re file tire information while others list tire serials. Innovations include periodic fire inspections, tire caps, and revocation for speeds over 35 mph.
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Washington
East
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Stimson Urges Drafting 18 and 19 Year Old Men
Secretary of War Stimson pressed the House Military Affairs committee to move quickly on legislation to draft 18 and 19 year olds to build a stronger army. He argued American survival hinges on rapid action and the youthful vigor needed to outpace Europe and Asia in modern warfare.
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Washington
Stimson
House Military Affairs Committee
May
D.-Ky
United States
Europe
Asia
Demonstration Agent Named For County
Miss Jessie Hammerly was named home demonstration agent for Frederick county by Miss Esther Knowles. Hammerly, currently with extension service in Roanoke Virginia, will assume duties after her current obligations end. Knowles will continue as acting agent and plans to attend the National Agricultural Outlook Conference in Washington DC next week.
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Jessie Hammerly
Frederick County
Esther Knowles
Maryland Extension Pagevices
Florence E . Williams
Hemmerly
Virginia
Roanoke
Frederick
Miss Knowles
National Agricultural Outlook
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau of Home Economics
Extension Service
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.a
County Firemen Meet Here Thursday Evening
The Frederick County Volunteer Firemen's Association will hold its regular quarterly meeting Thursday at 7 30 in Welock with dinner before. Simon Clopper, regional instructor from the University of Maryland, is expected to discuss another fire instruction course in the county during fall and winter. Charles F. Troxell of Emmitsburg, association president, will preside.
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Frederick County Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Welock
Simon Clopper
University of Maryland
Charles F. Troxell
Emmitsburg
Churchill Says Germany Asked to Stop Shackling Prisoners
Prime Minister Churchill announced that Britain had asked Germany to desist from shackling British and Canadian prisoners taken at Dieppe. If the Nazis agree, Britain's countermeasures will be withdrawn. He said the Geneva convention was violated by the binding of 1,376 prisoners and noted Switzerland was asked to protest.
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London
Churchill
Germany
Britain
Dieppe
Berlin
Switzerland
Sark Island
House of Commons
New Supervisor Of Nurses Begins Work in City
Miss Mary T. Collins of Boston has started as supervisor of nurses for the County Board of Health, succeeding Miss Janet F. Walker who resigned to teach at Catholic University in Washington DC. Collins, a Malden Hospital graduate with a Columbia University BS, previously served as a public health nurse for Metropolitan Life in New York and directed the Community Nurse Association in Plymouth. Before Frederick, she worked with the Public Health Service in New York State, assigned to the cantonment areas near Pine Camp, N Y.
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Mary T. Collins
Boston
Mass
County Board of Health
Janet F. Walker
Catholic University
Washing ‘Ton, D.C
Collins
Malden Hospital
Malden
Columbia University
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
New York
Community Nurse Association
Plymouth
Frederick
Pythian Sisters To Buy Five Ambulances
Annapolis October 14 The Grand Temple of Maryland Pythian Sisters launched a campaign to purchase five ambulances for the armed forces. The campaign received War Department sanction and was approved by Governor O Connor. The Maryland Temple numbers nearly 1000 members. Pearl Klein of Baltimore state president said funds would be raised through personal donations public affairs and solicitations.
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Annapolis
Poe
Grand Temple
Maryland
Pythian Sisters
War Department
O Conor
Pearl Klein
Baltimore
$1500 Gift Alleged in Brightwell Case at Frederick
Defense claims a farmer left $1500 in cash for William R Brightwell a Frederick resident before dying Brightwell and Roy Lee Yinger stand trial charged with handling stolen funds The state alleges Brightwell hid the money under a barn toilet near the Orme farm and distributed cash around Frederick Yinger allegedly used funds to buy clothes and bus tickets to Florida
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Buckeystown
William R. Brightwell
Frederick
Brightwell
Stedman Prescott
McComas Orme
Roy Lee Yinger
Malden
Felton
Orme
Hyattsville Bank
Yinger
Monocacy
Orme Farm
Raymond
Orme Place
Frederick City Hospital
Ormé
Sherman P. Bowers
Raymond Orme
Shiorl Bine
Newelt Gor Line Hospital
Florida
E. Austin James
Sle
Maryland
John J. Shark
Emmitsburg
Sharb
Barn C. Stull
J. Edward Houck
Nannie K. Roderick
Laval Receives German Ultimatum For France by 1942
A Geneva Tass dispatch cites diplomatic sources saying Pierre Laval was handed a Hitler ultimatum during his Paris trip. It demands total suppression of the anti German movement in France by the end of 1942 or cede all of France, including new unoccupied territories, to a German commissioner.
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Moscow
Tass
Geneva
Pierre Laval
Paris
France
Nazis Try To Open Way For New Push At Stalingrad
Moscow reports say German forces pressed in a renewed assault on Stalingrad amid heavy fighting. Red Army counterattacks disrupted several Mozdok sector advances as Italian units and tanks joined the fray. The battlefront described intense artillery duels and stubborn defense around the factory district with substantial German losses and continued Soviet control of the city outskirts.
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Stalingrad
Moscow
Red Army
Mozdok
Rusceney
Stalin
Pravda
Leningrad
Don-Volga
American Marines Expand Guadalcanal Positions in Offense
Navy brief reports Marine forces extended positions on Guadalcanal after two days of offensive action. Japanese losses included 15 planes and two light cruisers damaged, with US planes lost. Admiral McClain vowed hold and expansion of the Solomons.
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Guadalcanal
Washington
Navy
United States
Solomon Islands
John $. McClain
Southwest Pacific
Solomons
Vincennes
Astoria
Quincy
Communionue
Marine Corps
New Georgia Island
Rekata Bay
Army
Heavy Japanese Fleet Sighted Steaming Toward South Pacific
A Reuters report from Chungking cites a Chinese military spokesman claiming a Japanese fleet with four aircraft carriers and seven battleships was seen moving toward the South Pacific. The sighting was described as having occurred some time ago and echoes a similar report from weeks prior.
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South Pacific
London
Reuters
Chungking
Workers Defy GFPs Return To War Work Amid Strike
In Alton workers defied a strong return-to-work order from President Green of the AFL. Western Cartridge Company strikers stayed away as AFL Molders and Foundry Workers Union leaders and War Labor Board conciliators met seeking a settlement during vital war production. In Cleveland Navy-backed action at Sree Improvement and Forge Co ended an eight-day strike with 166 of 223 workers voting to return, after the plant faced wartime production pressures.
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Alton
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Western Cartridge Company
AFL Molders and Foundry Workers Union
War Labor Board
Cleveland
AFL
Sree Improvement and Forge Co
Navy
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Isidor Bilbao Ojinaga
U. S. Motomar
Indalecio Sevillano
Secretary of War
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Miss Williams
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Canada
Laval
Oither
Russ
South Hanovee Street
Sandra Sue Richards
Dorothy Richards
Ronald Richards
Edward S. Deal
Edwin F. Nikirk
John C. Main
Main
Charles Summers
J. Paul Delphines
Charles C. Wiles
Robert L. Grove Grocery
Barney Shapiro
Nikirk
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