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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1942
Page
4
A dated wartime notice from October 20, 1944, explains Associated Press reuse rules and corrections policy. It states no reflection on firms or individuals will be printed without alerting the editor, that communications must include the writer’s real name, and mentions postal handling at Frederic.
Sweden has shifted from wartime neutrality to potential active resistance as Allies mass materiel in the British Isles. Stockholm expands army to 600,000 and conducts anti-landing drills while German propaganda brands Sweden “red.” Norway could become a western front, with Sweden overrun to block a northern Russian drive, and Norwegians continue their stiff resistance to German rule.
Lieutenant Reiseberg proposes a floating drydock with multiple towing tongs to lift sunken ships from the ocean floor. Aimed at recovering an armada, the plan leverages diving bell expertise and could cost less than a large freighter, potentially paying for itself through salvage value and ship restorations.
A daily English lesson fragment discusses common misuses and pronunciations. It highlights amenable meaning readily brought to yield or submit and includes examples and spurious phrases to illustrate errors.
Edson argues wartime diet changes could ease the farm problem and boost U S agriculture. He cites land use data, new processing like dehydrating and dried milk, and expanded soybeans and peanuts. He notes labor shifts, new farm industries, and government controls shaping postwar farming.
Readable fragments outline a Frederick County Agricultural Society fair receipts near a high mark for the era, a work accident at CN Hahn with glass breakage, aldermen debating market hours and bell start, a dog cart mishap on a Rocky Springs ride, and William Quynn taking a new position on East Patrick Street.
Twenty years ago a Westminster man reported his $65 pocketbook stolen while at the Frederick Fair. Deputy Sheriffs Bartgis and Myers arrested a nearby man who claimed the money was his and offered to return $65 to avoid trouble. The Frederick Fair, extended to five days due to the automobile wages fair, faced unusually good weather and strong attendance. In business news, Joseph Marino and Mich of Central Fruit purchased Q. Fox property at 14 West Patrick Street to convert the upper floors to apartments and ground-floor to store rooms. Water pumping from Little Tuscarora Creek into the city water system near Indian Spring may resume early next week if rainfall remains low.
A compact calendar of milestones and birthdays from 1671 to 1941 lists James Logan Austin Flint Marshall Jewell Oliver McClintock Frank L Soldan Albert H Buck and others with birth and death details. Notes on historic events include the Louisiana Purchase ratified in 1803 and Oregon joint occupation agreement. Also a brief horoscope predicting benevolence and public favor.
The analysis notes limited immediate impact of anticipated Allied second-front plans in Europe while highlighting potential early Allied offensives in Egypt. It cites Malta air battles, Axis losses, and Rommel’s stalled North Africa, arguing only a major counteroffensive near Egypt could justify heavy air operations against Malta to deny Axis supplies to Libya.
Today in Washington the Navy faces a hard task securing Marines in the Solomons amid public misunderstanding. The high command argues that Army forces in Australia are coordinated with Navy plans, and news delays serve naval deception to protect troop movements and adapt to fuel and tonnage limits across vast sea distances.
New York’s Man About Manhattan recounts Count Morner de Moreland’s train tale of a vanity eyebrow plucking by a flirtatious girl and notes his quirky life with Peggy Hopkins Joyce’s ex-husband now married to Geraldine Fitch. Also covered is a Brooklyn tax case where a $6,000 bequest to a late-deceased man’s entry was forgotten, leaving a $1,600 back tax bill resolved by deduction and a hidden bank entry.
Dr. Victor F. Cullen, head of the Maryland State Sanatorium at Sabillasville since 1908, was elected president of the Southern Tuberculosis Association at its October convention in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a native of Williamsport.
After General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Union soldiers fired salutes but Grant halted them to spare Confederate feelings. Grant recalled Meade’s humility and focus on national issues over personal rank, noting demotion tests character. Experts now say industrial workers may soon be the nation’s largest musical audience listening to canned music while they work.
A writer argues that roofs should prioritize function over beauty. Green and red roofs please the eye, but the key is stopping rain from entering. Many favor shade and display, yet true value lies in effective protection, not color or pomp. N. A. Lufburrow.
The quoted text mixes Ecclesiastes 2 11 with Shakespeare to reflect on vanity in human effort. It contrasts the exhaustion of toil with fleeting profit under the sun, urging restraint and contemplation of what endures beyond labor.
An exhibit at the C. Burr Artz Library features 1799 gold coin with Liberty on one side and an eagle on the other, a silver dollar of 1800, gold half dollars from 1852-53, a three penny piece, Confederate money, and photographs from Frederick College era. The display, courtesy of Jacobo Rohrbach, also includes daguerreotypes and political tickets from the 1880s and 1890s plus images of local figures and the re interment ceremony of Barbara Fritchie’s body at Mt Olivet Cemetery.
Western Maryland crews brace for fire risk as high winds over the Frederick watershed push manning of lookouts. New forest warden at Gambrill State Park reports 75 percent leaf drop and orders immediate posting at Hamburg, Salamander, and Lamb's Knoll towers, with Toms relocating from Middletown to supervise the district.
Emergency conditions trigger steady lookout work across the forest. Keedysville post seeks a fire guard while Pek Benett is set to oversee a new watch. Fallen leaves have become tinder dry fuel due to high winds across the Ca toctin range in the past 48 hours.
Gaithersburg plans a hall celebration on October 28 for the 50th anniversary of Forest Oak Knights of Pythias Lodge. Knights of Pythias Lodges statewide including the Grand Lodge will be invited. Committee is led by Brawner Z. Harding. Surviving charter members are James T. English Zadoc M. Cooke and Hezekiah Day.
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