Sailor recounts Wasp torpedo attack and loss of funds
Pfc. Robert Geisbert back from 30 day furlough tells how the USS Wasp was torpedoed last September 15. He describes diving from his station, four hours in the water, and surviving with nine others on a timber before rescue. He left $1,240 in the ship’s safe, money now lost. He adds details of pay day and chaos onboard as destroyers and submarines moved in. He, a former soda fountain clerk from Frederick County, plans to stay with relatives in Maryland for weeks.
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U. S
Pfc
Robert Geisbert
U. & Marine Corps
Behkind
Creagerstown
Wasp
Pfc. Geisber
Navy
Geisbert
Malta
far-Pacific
The
Solomons
Baltimore
Eugene A. Alexander
East Third Street
Brunswick
Samuel Staley
Bicyclist Injures 11 Year Old in Frederick
William Wood an 11 year old son of Mr and Mrs Paul Wood of 221 North Market Street sustained a broken collar bone after being struck or sidewiped by an unidentified bicyclist Tuesday afternoon. He was taken to Frederick City Hospital by Robert Nicodemus of 512 Elm Street and returned home after treatment.
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William
Billy” Wood
Paul A. Wood
North Market Street
Frederick City Hospital
Rober
Nicodemus
Elm Street
Hase
Answers To War Quiz Quest On Page Five
Man pictured is Premier Vidkun Quisling of Norway. It takes exactly 600 bonds of 18,753 dollars each to purchase a Pontoon bridge costing 15,000 dollars. Battle for Stalingrad raged on the banks of the Volga.
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Vidkun Quisling
Norway
Stalingrad
Volga
Candidates for Freder ick County Commissioners tout roads control
Five of six Freder ick County candidates for County Commissioners spoke at the League of Women Voters meeting in Y Md C A. They urged returning roads administration from the Roads Board to the County Commissioners to save costs. They supported prison labor for public works and pledged efficiency and economy. An illness kept incumbent A Grant Hooper away. A study noted power shifting from county to state agencies, with schools roads welfare and assessments moving toward the state. Next meeting will discuss law enforcement under state control.
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Frederick County
Memjones
League of Women Voters
Y. Md
C. A
A. Grant Hooper
Amawer
Abraham H. Derr
Samuel H. Young
George V Arnold
Charles G. Geisbert
John W. Grove
Roads Board
Roy L. Leatherman
League
G. A Holland
Pacific
Hesitant To Use Old World War Battleships
Cleveland October 27 Vice Admiral Richard S Edwards says both Japan and the United States are reluctant to deploy aged World War I battleships. He notes sea clashes have been limited to skirmishes with screening forces and Midway remains the only major engagement. Edwards, chief of staff to Admiral Ernest J King, doubts an imminent showdown of main striking forces. He adds new battleships with superior armor and weapons will be ready when developments advance.
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Cleveland
Japan
United States
Richard S. Edwards
Midway
Edwards
Ernest J. King
U. S
Traver Reports on Lutheran Synod Sessions in Louisville
Dr Amos John Traver returns to Frederick from the United Lutheran Church in America biennial convention held in Louisville Kentucky October 14 21 as a Maryland delegate. He notes steps toward a broader merger and sees altar and pulpit fellowship expanding among American Lutheran Church Augustana Swedish Norweigian Lutheran groups. Joint work includes care of service men community ministry prison ministry disaster relief and war relief with a goal of larger unity within a few years.
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Amos John Traver
Frederick
United Lutheran Church In America
Louisville
Maryland
United Luther Chaese
America
New York City
Noveber
American Lutheran Church
Augustana Synod
Norwegian Lutheran Church In America
Missouri Synod
Traver
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Mochiman
Moclman
Pearl Harbor
Kiwanis Inspect Low Rent Housing Project Progress
Kiwanis Club members toured the Roger Brooke Taney low rent housing project between Bentz Street, viewing eight cement brick buildings with sixty-eight apartments. Lewis R. Dertzbaugh guided the group, explaining the project begun in 1941 and completed in 1942 at a cost of 305000 dollars, with rents from 10 to 17.50 monthly excluding heat and power.
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Roger Brooke Taney
Bentz Street
Kiwanis Club
Lewis R. Dertzbaugh
Dertzbaugh
John L. Shaw
Saan
Tell The Good As Well As Bad Byrd Urges
Norfolk addresses urge full wartime truth to the public while avoiding divulging secrets. Byrd criticizes censorship as foolish and presses for publication of casualty lists and clarity on Doolittle raid reports. He cautions against political war tactics and defers to trained leaders on major fronts.
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Byrd
Norfolk
United States
Norfolk Navy Yard
Virginia
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Doolittle
Tokyo
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
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