Send A Book To A Soldier Best Christmas Shopping Guide
A 1942 era guide urges sending books to service members before deadlines. Books, wrapped and mailed at low book rate, boost morale across battalions and can be sent year round. Featured titles span short stories, history, biographies, and mysteries, with selections suited to soldiers stationed worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Near East
Emil Ludwig
Whittlesey House
Pericles
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Ludwig
Alaska
Andrevich Baranov
Russia
Arctic
Art Club Opens New Season With History and Talks
Frederick Art Club held its first meeting of the season hosted by Mrs. Robert E. Clapp on Rockwell Terrace. President Clapp traced the club’s 45 year history, announced study of American Art of the Twentieth Century, and details covered early American folk art, tavern signs, and the shift to European influence before modern American art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Clapp
Frederick
Rockwell Terrace
Clapp
Florence Doub
Marion Green
Edwin Alden Jewell
Grace Beard Young
Homer Eaton Keys
Young
Hammond Clary
Washington
Chile
National Gallery
Clary
Frank Engebrétson
Floyd Davis
U. S
Bermuda
Life Magazine
Geo. McCleery
Charles Beatty
Meredith Mackiley
Grayson Palmer
Leonard Storm
Martha Ebeling
Helen Smith Wa
Old Braddock
Hollywood Talk Sparks Armchair Ace Story
Rich ard Arlen receives a long distance call from Lieut Don Lee Arlen an Army flyer at Westover Army Air Field recovering from a broken leg and injuries from a forced landing. The flyer who has shot down two planes and sunk two submarines says he admired Arlen since his film career and began aviation lessons after Air Gunner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erskine Johnson
NEA
Sta
Richard Arlen
Don Lee Arlen
Westover Mags
Arien
Arlen
Entertained in Laytonsville Homes Highlights
Laytonsville social notes recount a large bridge and draw party hosted by Mrs Greenberry Griffith with prizes to Miss Lulu Bell Mrs William P Shearman Mrs Francis Spurrier and Mrs George Carson. Other items report Mrs Eleanor Dupuis returning from Harrisburg Miss Leola Nicols Bluemont visiting Mrs Hugh Howard and Mrs Flora Peers of Baltimore visiting for the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laytonsville
Greenberry Griffith
Drdge
Lulu Bell
William P. Shearman
Francis Spurrier
George Carson
Eleanor Dupuis
Harrisburg
Mej
van Allen Clarke
Arthur L Sherman
New York
Woodburne
Blunt
Goshen
Leola Nicols
Bluemont
Hugh Howard
Flora Pe‘ers
Baltimore
Howard
Allison Taylor
Henry Howard
The Prewise Chapter 28 The Final Confrontation
Julie survives a perilous mind game with Arnaldo as Pete and the FBI close in. After a dawn assault, Dawn is evacuated and Bart Rogers guides her, while Pete vows to marry Julie and fight for their future. Julie agrees to wait for Pete’s return and continue their shared resolve.
Social Scene Notes From Laytonsville to Bethesda
A string of gatherings reports dessert parties in Laytonsville and Olney, dinners hosted by the Higgs and Riggs families, and visits across Gaithersburg Bethesda and Harmony. Notables include Mrs Katharine Johnson speaking to Gaithersburg Woman's Club, Blanche Hawes visiting Unity, and Paul Steele and family moving to New Mexico for a park ranger post at White Sands. Families such as Riggs, Howard, and Davis appear with varied social engagements and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laytonsville
Olney
Brookeville
Essee Riggs
Walter Hill
Howard Davis
Ata Vista
Merhle Haines
Katharine Johnson
Tyne Thoreday
Mea Johnson
Gaithersburg
Carson City
Nev
Normandy Farms
Blanche Hawes
Unity
Cora Howard
Frank Downey
Martinsburg
W. Va
Ernest Watson
Clayton Haines
Eva Ramey
Charlestown
Howard
Sam Riggs
Camp Lee
Samuel Riggs
Frank Riggs
Douglas Riggs
William H. Stinson, Jr
Barbara Waddell
Baltimore
Ann Ramsdell
Betsy Hunter
Hyattsville
Hazel Riggs
Daniel Ligon
Brighton
Dement Bonifant
Silver Spring
Remus Riggs
Thomas Stewart
Jeffrey Griffith
Lewis Markus
Howard County
Bay Ridge
Paul Steele
Patty
James
Cashells
Sunshine
New Mexico
Steele
White Sands
Arenie Asquith
Cleveland
Ohio
Julia Becraft
Larsonsville
Elizabeth Cramer
Bethesda
Victor Mature to join Army next Tuesday amid draft reshuffle
In Los Angeles on October 19, actor Victor Mature was relieved from reserve Coast Guard status and said he would enlist in the military, declining to name a branch while noting it would not be the Coast Guard. Lt Comdr A G Berry said the move follows a directive to induct all able bodied reserve men, with hundreds of similar cases. The report also notes new training planes using steel and plywood aim to shed up to 1250 pounds of aluminum per ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julie
Keka
Mr. Fowler
Pete
Arnaldo
Tyne
Angeles
Victor Mature
Coast Guard
A G. Berry
Selective Service
Bowers
United States Army
Nave
le Jant Meulac
Jim
Landon accuses New Deal of treating war as WPA project
Rich Hill Mo Oct 19 Republican nominee Landon criticized the New Deal as treating war as a glorified WPA project. He condemned conflicting statements on rubber, Jamico0r and food shortages, arguing the administration failed to plan. He said Roosevelt ignored Woodrow Wilsons War Industries Board reports and Army Navy Munitions Board studies, blaming him for poor preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rich Hill
London
New Deal
Landon
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
War Industries Board
Joint
Army and Navy Munitions Board
Pressure on Flynn Case Prosecutor Vows Equal Treatment
Los Angeles Oct 191 District Attorney John F. Dockweiler said influential movie people are pressuring him to ease the Errol Flynn rape case against Flynn and three studio workers. He promised the cast will be prosecuted like any other case. The grand jury had declined to indict, but will reconvene. Flynn and co defendants face a preliminary hearing Friday. A 17 year old Nebraska girl alleges rape. Twenty nine auto firms are producing military vehicles and eight are building tanks.
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Los Angles
John F. Dockweiler
Colony
Errol Flynn
Aecape
Hallywood
Dockweiler
California
Dorothy Dix Advice on a Younger Lover Temptation
Dorothy Dix counsels a married mother of five against leaving her husband for a much younger man who is not ready for marriage or family. She warns that romance with a 20 year old risks heartbreak, social judgment, and harming the children, urging return to husband and children. Also notes a sailor suitor cautionary tale and a two- friend love triangle with cautionary ending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Dix
Miss Dix
Local furloughs and visits noted in area households
Fort Bragg soldier Sterling Overholizer spent an eight day furlough with the Lakey Gibbet arenas near here. Mr and Mrs George Marshall brought their infant daughter home from a Baltimore hospital. Thurmont residents Charles Kiser and Eugene Eckenrode were dinner guests of Mrs Hannah Eckenrode and family. Emma Mort and Minnie Hefestav hosted Mrs Mary Spangler in Gettysburg. Norman Selby home visitors included Sterling Overholtzer, Ethel Wrabbs Taneytown and Lloyd Ross Bowers Littlestown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harney—Corp
Sterling E. Overholizer
Fort Bragg
N. C
Fia Pulc
Lakey
Arenas
George Marshall
Baltimore
Children’s Hospital
Charles D. Kiser
Eugene E. Eckenrode
Thurmont
Hannah Eckenrode
M. D. Eckenrode
Thomas E. Eckenrode
Emma Mort
Minnie Hefestav
Mary Spangler
Gettysburg
Samuel Valentine
Rosa Valentine
Norman Selby
Corp. Sterling FE
Overholtzer
N.C
Ethel Wrabbs
Taneytown
Lloyd Ross Bowers
Littlestown
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dial
Whit Burnett
Fischer
America
China
Farrar and Rinehart
William Burke
Ching
Tur
Soong
Mme
Chiang Kaishek
Ernestine Hai
Australian Frontier
Doubleday Durand
Holt
LeGrand Cannon
New Hampshire
West
Armstrong Sperry
Macmillan
India de Chambord
Mark Denny
New England
Manhattan
Sandwich Isles
Northwest
Gypsy Rose Lee
Simon and Schutter
Gypsy
Banock
Dutton
Jess Roden
Art Club
Joy Gilbert
John Gilbert
Stan Laurel
Lynn Riggs
Ord
Calif
Edmund Lowe
Times Square
Cecil B. DeMille
Tommy Dorsey
DuBarry
MGM
Czar
John Nesbitt
Nicholas
Bonita Granville
Jackie Cooper
Grace Hayes Lodge
Hollywood
Chapter
F.B.I
Potter
Dawn
Bart Rogers
Eureka
Jet
Pulie Hamilton
Lach
Pete Darling
Dad
Flynn
Earl Wetty
Erie
Jolie Wervon
Ead O'Clock
Ladies Aid
Teatheran Sale
Gtobt
Latterbox
Charter Shildt
Lake Hidinger
Beil Syndicate
Harvey Wanitz
Charles Heftan
Theodore Ridingar
Thureday
George Shriver
Morrie Haines
Murrey Fus
Elmer Stildt
Aire Clifford Hahn
George Dinbaugh
Ernest Beaver
Clyde Frock
Milton Spangler
Gettynburg
Maryland
Bouquet
Kemsberg - Tviley Store
Harney
North Court St. Frederick, Md
THE
Yankees
Gty Opera House
Polee Ga Sa Eae Denis de
Tarzan
Warner Brs
John Sheffiel
At Lae Ott Si Mem OL Sa A Se
Opera House
Frederick Theatre
Judy Canova
Joe E. Brown
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