Towns Clean Up After Flood Waters Recede
Residents of Fotomac River Valley begin cleanup after devastating flood douses Harpers Ferry Sandy Hook Kroxville Brunswick Point of Rocks and other towns. Brunswick reports heavy rail activity as B and O Railroad crews resume movement after Friday shutdown. Red Cross opens temporary offices at Point of Rocks and Brunswick to aid evacuees and arrange shelter while immunization clinics for typhoid begin. Roadways show mud and washouts, with Route 15 and Route 340 cleaned. bridges over the Monocacy reopen as officials warn soft roads remain. Local officials expect flood damage to rival the 1936 event, with many homes still awaiting cleanup and aid.
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Fotomac River
Harpers Ferry
Sandy Hook
Kroxvile
Brunswick
Point of Rocks
Wee
Res
American Red Cross
Benjamin
Rosenstock
Red Cross Disaster and Relief Committee
E C. Kefauver
Knoxville
Tuscaigia
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Robert E. L. Pulman
State Roads Commission
Weverton
Furnace Ford
Moanplace
Monoccacy River
Roger H. Lard
County Roads Board
Haan Lacade State
Potomac
St March
Pont of
Borks
Vernon Derryer Etzler
Emory Carmack
Ford Freed
Lewis
Sherif Horace M. Alexander
Red Cross
Ravensteck
American Legion
Kefauver Sd
COC
Mud and sanitation efforts after flood hit local area
Officials urged chlorination of wells and springs as mud settled to sanitize the community after floods. Many outhouses were swept away though some may be salvaged. The YMCA lobby hosted fifteen cats to assist as overflow workers. others stayed in roadside cabins near Brunswick. Railroad properties escaped serious damage, while mud removal loomed. a bowling alley and flooring at a station were reported warped.
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YMCA
Grunswick
Brunswick
UMLC
Tdllibwand
People Travel Too Much Jeffers Says
Omaha report quotes national rubber conservation director William M Jeffers urging limits on travel. He criticizes unnecessary trips and discusses wartime rubber shortages, warning some regions will be hurt more. notes American bomber arrival and plans to return to Washington. He defends cotton rayon dispute as Senators represent their people.
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Omaha
Qet
cPi
William M Jeffers
National Rubber Conservation
Seid
Union Pacific Railroad
Washington
Jeffers
Texas
Selectees Leave For Camps On Saturday
Uncle Sam kept to schedule after floods delayed transport. Frederick County men received a 39 member reprieve as draft boards arranged bus transport and planned to depart Saturday afternoon. Seventeen were set to leave Friday on the BL and QC lines.
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Sam
Frederick County
BL & QC
Baltimore
Secretary To Enter U S Army Service At Princeton
C OFC secretary Peace to report to Princeton University on November 1 for Quartermasters School of the U S Army as second lieutenant. He has led the Frederick Chamber of Commerce and served as a price specialist with the Office of Price Administration in Western Maryland, Baltimore.
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Frederick
Answers To War Quiz Seeecttoma Nm Barr Mo
The fragment mentions a P51 line country resembling the German Mo-109 and a caisson from the French term meaning large chest. It references Peters at the Tate amma barr Cubs, Grant ub two Wiedls the horse artillery and notes Switzerland.
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Tate
Horse Artillery
Switzerland
Flood Devastates Homes Across Frederick County
After the Votymacy River flood receded, Harpers Ferry to White’s Ferry faced widespread destruction. Dozens of homes and businesses were wrecked or demolished, with families displaced and cattle and hogs rescued by neighbors. At Jenkins Island on the Potomac, Richard Jenkins reported 50 sheep 45 hogs and over twenty cows lost, while a dairy farm saw its threshing machine torn from its foundation and a cabin destroyed.
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Marpers Ferry
Migs Mollie Murphy
Coal Yard
Thomas Pageltt
Frank Longbrake
Raymond Murphy
Austin Hoffman
Childs
Dougherty
Dorn
Fauble
Bessie
Bille
Elsie
Ethel
New Addition
Brunswick
Stanley T. Wirls
Joh Cummi
Lander
Mre
Cameron C. Kebne
Port of Rocks
Preston Smallwood
Heaters Island
Dom Leesbore
Camp Kanawha
Frederick County Fish and Game
E. Allen James
Oriantation
Witsee
Ssrick
Seneca
Charles Staos
Green Selby
Jesse Seegers
Gem Ng
Bath of & Paul Delphoy
Jo Ro W. Baer
Jimes A. Cramer
Harry D. Stup
Delpheys
Jenkin's Island
Whites Ferry
Richard Jenkins
Frederick
Warden Resigns After Desperadoes Escape
Ay-E. H. Stubblefield resigns as warden of Stateville Penitentiary after the escape of gangsters led by Roger Touhy and six others. Governor Dwight H. Green says the resignation was voluntary and that Public Safety Director T P Sullivan is now in charge. The fugitives remain at large as authorities seek remedies for conditions at Stateville.
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Crago
E. H. Stubblefield
Stateville Penitentiary
Roger Touhy
Dwight H. Green
T P Sullivan
Stubblefield
Green
Dou
Sullivan
Stainville Prizon
Tauhy
Basil
Sataciva
Aptakar
Presidents in early states led by chief executives titled president
Under the first constitutions of Delaware New Hampshire South Carolina and Texas the chief executives were known as presidents in early state governance.
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Delaware
New Hampshire
South Carolina
Texas
Gestapo naturalized by Vichy regime in France
London reports that 500 Gestapo agents were naturalized by Vichy to operate in unoccupied France under Laval. The move aims to round up workers and quell unrest, with flying squads and cooperation with pro‑Nazi French groups. Laval met Nazi leaders as violence rises and Vichy defies Hitler’s demands.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Viehs
Gestapo
France
Fighting 1
Vichy
Germany
Laval
Legionnaires
Popular Front
Jacques Doriot
London Times
Lyon
Paris
Hitler
Charles de Gaulle
Profitable War Bond Auction Sets New Local Records
Frederick’s Junior Chamber of Commerce staged a late night sale in Winchester Hall raising profits on war bonds and stamps. Items ranged from coffee and cigars to a 22 caliber rifle donated by the State Guard, with purchases exceeding expected values and one bond selling for 1600 dollars.
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Sam
Frederick
Chamber of Commerce
Emmett R. Bowlus
Jaycees
Charley Keller
Keller
Company A
State Guard
St Theta Ladies
C C. Rayfield
Chamber
Winchester Hall
Laval Frenchman Killed In Air Attack Over West Africa
A Berlin Vichy dispatch says Lieutenant Commander Bailliere, a French officer, was killed when his reconnaissance plane was attacked by a U S pursuit ship near British West Africa. The plane diverted to Konakry in French Guinea after a single bullet fatality. The report ties to claims of U S reinforcements in Liberia.
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New York
Berlin
Bailliere
United States
Dakar
Freetown
Sierre Leone
Konakry
French Guinea
London
Liberia
Four hurt when autos crash at Jug Bridge on Route 49
Four persons sustained injuries Saturday evening when two cars collided in the narrow eastern approach to the temporary Jug Bridge on Route 49. William Elwood Sampson of Baltimore drove westbound and collided with R S Runkles of Samsville. Runkles and his daughters Geraldine Margaret and Phyllis sustained minor injuries while Sampson received leg and back contusions. Runkles will pursue reckless driving charges and a hearing is likely Friday night.
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Jug Bridge
Route 49
William Elwood Sampson
Baltimore
R. S. Runkles
Sjamsville
Walter Wilt
Warry Holsinger
Sampson
Frederick City Hospital
Geraldine
Margaret
Phyllis Runkles
Runkles
Plane kills 14 near London railroad station crash
London reports a World War II era RAF plane undershot an airdrome and crashed near a railway station, killing fourteen people including women, children, and servicemen as bystanders fled trains. Emergency crews battled flames while the exact crash location remained undisclosed.
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London
Raikway
Japs Strengthen Kiska Base in Alaska Action
Headquarters Alaska Defense Command reports Japanese reinforcements at Kiska south shore Gertrude Cove. US Army planes reveal new shore installations. Marauders hit a cargo ship and two destroyers, with one likely sunk. Weekend arrests total nine, with multiple suspects facing Police Court.
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Alaska Defense Command
Kiska
Gertrude Cove
U. S S. Army
Aleutian Islands
Abbe
Endice Tatemance
Navy
Washington
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Earl Remsburg
Herbert Erker
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