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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1943
Page
3
London reports a secret conference in Balkan headquarters where British and Greek staff officers met with 600 guerrilla leaders representing over 50,000 patriots to unify a long term underground fight against the Axis. They planned arms supply and saboteur actions aligned with Allied Middle East Command.
Sykesville and nearby areas see a parade of guests and travelers. Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Ecker and daughter Katherine, with Lena and Blanche Ecker, visit Unionville. Mrs. William Cleason visits Baltimore. Pfc Eugene Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Coman Rogers, earns corporal rank and attends Coyne Radio School in Chicago. Numerous relatives and friends from Glen Burnie, Baltimore, and Laurel host and visit in turn, while British sailors on furlough plan returns. Private Warren Wilbur Blizzard departs Camp Swift after a visit with his grandmother.
Richard Henry Keyes of Riverdale was arrested by State Trooper Bruce A. Brachey after a disturbance in the Sabillasville post office Friday night. He was charged with being drunk and disorderly, jailed, then released Saturday morning on collateral for appearance before Magistrate William J. Stoner in Thurmont tonight.
Word from Pyi dson L. Dubie to his parents Mr and Mrs John W Dubie reports that Grace nam is greatly improved after being wounded in the Southwest Pacific on July 19.
Teens from Frederick Brunswick and Middletown gathered at Groves meadow beside Culler Lake for a two day Boy Scouts camporee. They pitched tents cooked meals and competed for the Standard Campers award. A campfire circle featured lighting with flint and steel and a Texas geography talk.
A meadow camp provided refrigeration for thermos jugs bottles of milk and canned fruit juices. Late today the boys spent the morning in contests between individuals and troops.
Emmitsburg notes record two girls Nancy and Sue Beegle and Stinsons raise 5.30 through penny bingo snow ball stands and a house of fun. They aim to donate twenty dollars when the drive begins. Also mentions Mrs. Morley in Toronto visit and a bombing mission miss in England. Recent social items include a birthday dinner for Mrs. Valentine and an addition to Mrs. Shuff's cottage. Emmitsburg Red Cross surgical dressing group produced 4200 bandages in August with certificates awarded to Mrs. Shuff Jr and Maude Deer. Seven killed seven hurt in Eastman Ga highway crash near Dubose last night.
On Labor Day the city remained quiet as most industry paused. Temperatures near 60s rose to about 60 degrees after morning cloudiness. Rain eased, traffic held steady until evening. Braddock Heights saw special cars hauling fuel as resorts close for the season. Residents mowed lawns and tended victory gardens amid a dry summer but recent rains refreshed lawns across the area. Weather observer notes 24 hour precipitation near an inch in the city, with lighter rain elsewhere and much of the county receiving little rain.
Nathan C. Hobbs II of Sykesville received the Purple Heart in Baltimore City Hall from Andrew Segal, commander of the Baltimore Order of the Purple Heart. Hobbs, a WWI private with the 318th Infantry, was wounded Sept 29, 1919 in France and served overseas July 8, 1918 to March 6, 1919.
A University of Maryland bulletin on Trends in Warlime Farm Prices reports cash income in Maryland fluctuated from about 45 million dollars in 1932 to over 118 million dollars in 1942. It states price variation, more than production, directly influenced cash farm income.
Mr and Mrs G William Stultz of Braddock Heights announce engagements of their daughters Miriam Elizabeth to Dr Frank Strang Parrott and Bettie Mac to Lieut Nelson R Boh. Miriam, a 1937 Frederick High School graduate, earned a BS from the University of Maryland and trained at University Hospital Baltimore. Parrott, son of Rob ert D Parrott of Goldsboro, Wake Forest and Maryland Medical School, is interning at University Hospital. Bettie, Frederick High School 1941, studied at Frederick Academy of the Visitation and Maryland University Hospital nurses training. Lieut Bohn, Frederick High School 1938 graduate, earned wings and commission at San Marcos, Texas. serving as a squadron navigator in the US Army Air Forces, Sioux City, Iowa.
Promotion committee of the Maryland Virginia District of Columbia jurisdiction calls a Friday meeting at DoatU avenue Baltimore. H Gundersdorff chairs. Plans to discuss educational work arising from the Grand Lodge session held August 18 19.
Detroit on September 6 reports a bystander killed during a volley of bullets exchanged between pursuing police in squad cars and a group of hoodlums on the city’s upper east side. Arthur Currie, 15, named as the victim, was struck during the gunfire.
The Baltimore Sun's Stockholm dispatch says the German home front is in moral dissolution, with observers predicting Nazi defeat within months. The report notes morale appears intact among soldiers but heavy RAF blows hurt the home front and hints at a broader collapse similar to 1918. Also reports a French ex-prime minister in a German sanatorium, a naval captain killed in Ireland, and a Maryland marriage license issued in Hagerstown.
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