Frederick attorney Leo Weinberg dies at 57 in Philadelphia hospital
Leo Weinberg Frederick county lawyer and Republican candidate for attorney general in 1938 died at Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia from a heart attack at age 57. Born January 20 1885 he built a prominent practice here and in Maryland appearing in many notable cases and serving as counsel for Potomac Edison Company He was known as an effective orator and a Hebrew heritage leader continues on page five.
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Leo Weinberg
Frederick
State
Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia
Weinberg
Frederick County
Congress
Samuel and
Amelia Lowenstein Weinberg
Boys’ High School
Belles Lettres
Law School of
Washington and Yee University
Lexington
Graham Lee
Maryland
Frank L. Stoner
Stoner
Mr. Weinberg
Stoner and Weinberg
Court of Appeals of
Baltimore City
Potomac Edison Company
24 German Ships Sent Down Report
London reports a Reuters dispatch from Stockholm citing a reliable Norwegian source that 24 German operated ships were sunk last week off the coast of Norway by Allied planes and submarines.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Norway
35-Mile Speed For State Cars Set By O Conor
Annapolis Sept. 17 The Maryland governor orders all state agencies to enforce a 35 mile per hour speed limit for autos and trucks as recommended by the Baruch committee. He will also urge non state vehicle operators to obey the limit, arguing the move conserves gas and rubber and sets an example for national effort.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Goveror O'Conor
Baruch Committee
O'Conor
Democrats Are Defeated in 1942 Primaries
Washington reports that in the 1942 primaries four incumbent senators, all Democrats, and 19 House members were defeated or not renominated. Among 94 senators up for renomination, 24 Democrats, nine Republicans, and one independent sought re election. 19 Democrats were renominated, four defeated, and Green of Rhode Island expected to be renominated. Republicans all won renomination. Norris remains undecided on another run. The results reflect a typical off year loss rate with little expected change from upcoming conventions.
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Washington
House
Green
Rhode Island
Norris
Connecticut
Louisiana
Local Nimrod Bags An Albino Squirrel
Roger Hamilton of West Patrick street shot an albino squirrel on the Paul Angleberger farm in Ballenger Creek district with his fuelgun. The white furred animal was normal in form and Hamilton plans to mount it, saying he had never seen an albino squirrel before.
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Roger Hamilton
West
Patrick Street
Hamilton
Paul Angleberger
Ballenger Creek
Mr. Hamilton
Six Tons Of Scrap Buried Since 89 Flood Found
Johnstown pa Sept 17 a six ton cache of scrap steel thought buried in the 1889 Johnstown flood was found deep in mud near the Little Cone naugh river. Bethlehem Steel officials said the cache includes barbed wire plates and reels from the early 1880s discovered by a tow supervisor who saw barbed wire protruding from the mud.
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Johnstown
Little Conenaugh River
Bethlehem Steel Company
Cumberland arrest for Francis Glass on non-support warrant
Francis Glass of South Water street was arrested this morning by Sergt. R. O. Six on an Allegany county warrant signed by Sheriff Lucian Radcliffe charging failure to support his wife and two children. He was jailed here pending arrival of Allegany county authorities.
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Cumberland
Francis Glass
South Water Street
Sergt. R. O
Allegany County
Lucian Radcliffe
Allegany
Moderate bullish fuel in New York trading today
Moderate bullish fuel from rail and low-priced specialties tempered by many leading issues failing to gain ground in the New York stock market.
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New York
Allied And Jap Troops In Bitter Combat Near Port Moresby
Allied and Japanese forces clash in New Guinea with heavy fighting near Ioribaiwa on the Owen Stanley range as both sides reinforce and deploy mountain guns mortars and machine guns. Allied planes strafe from low levels while targeting Buna Rabaul and Buka to disrupt Japanese bases and dispersal areas.
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MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Owen Stanley
Ioribaiwa
Efogi
Carters
Buna
Rive
Rabaul
New Britain
Buka
Solomons
Michigan harvests milkweed for life preservers
Petoskey Michigan September 17 Michigan today began harvesting milkweed to be used in making life preservers for American sailors. The floss is said to be more buoyant than kapok and will also be used in aviation jackets. Harvest hands include business men and rural residents.
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Petoskey
Mich
Michigan
Dutch East Indies
Mandalay Waterfront Bombed Again By RAF
RAF communique says British bombers attacked Mandalay waterfront for the second time in three days. All raiders returned safely after the Irrawaddy frontage strike on Monday. Canberra reports 28,251 Australian war losses with 7,667 captured in the Middle East and 16,286 prisoners or lost elsewhere.
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New Delhi
Mandalay
Irrawaddy River
Canberra
Australia
Francis Forde
Middle East
Greece
Crete
Ma- Fay
Germans Shoot All Men in Four Yugoslav Villages
Belgrade reports quoted by Reuters state that the Germans executed all male inhabitants of four Yugoslav villages and deported women and children to concentration camps in retaliation for the destruction of a German military trailer.
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London
Reuters
Istanbul
Belgrade
President Opposes Move To Alter Parity Formula
President Roosevelt opposes any move to change the farm parity formula. He told Senate and House Banking committee chairs in letters that he would not support recomputing parity at this time and urged continuation of the current computations under existing law. The president warned that amendments to anti inflation bills could be offered but his policy remains unchanged.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House Banking Committees
White House
Wagner
R- NX
Steagall
D-Aia
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Executives Pay Tops Treasury List for 1941
Washington reports the Treasury's annual list of Americans earning over 75000 includes Louis B. Mayer 704425.60 at Loew's, Thomas J. Watson 446294.26 at IBM, Eugene G. Grace 478144.00 at Bethlehem Steel, George W. Hill 456,? at American Tobacco, and Francis A. Countway 439,? at Lever Brothers. Bing Crosby leads movie stars with 302314.81 at Paramount and 150000 at Universal. Clark Gable rises to 357,500 while serving as a corporal in the U.S. Army.
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Washington
United States Treasury
Louis B. Mayer
Loew's Incorporated
Treasury
Thomas J. Watson
International Business Machines Corporation
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
George W. Hill
American Tobacco Company
Francis A. Countway
Lever Brothers Company
Watson, Grace and Hill
Countway
Bing Crosby
Paramount Pictures, Incorporated
Universal Pictures Company, Incorporated
Clark Gable
Loew's
We v. S. Army
Tani Named Foreign Minister of Japan
Masayuki Tani a 53 year old career diplomat and former president of the Board of Information was named Foreign Minister today. He succeeds the Premier who had held the post provisionally since Shigenori Togo’s resignation on September 1 and will also head the Board of Information. Tani is described as stocky bald and aggressive and aligned with the Army’s continental expansion policy and the Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere project begun during his earlier posting in Manchukuo.
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Yokyo
Masayuki Tani
Board of Information
Hideki Tojo
Shigenori Togo
China
Greater East Asia
Manchukuo
Allied Bombers Hit Bengasi Supply Port in Daylight
Cairo reports Allied heavy bombers carried out a daylight raid on the Axis supply port of Bengasi Libya about 500 miles west of the Egyptian front. The attack damaged two ships and set one afire while British fighters claimed at least two enemy aircraft shot down and several damaged. One British plane did not return. Tobruk was struck the previous night by heavy bombers. No land front actions beyond patrols and artillery exchanges were reported.
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Cairo
Bengasit
Tobruk
Resolution to freeze Social Security taxes proposed
Washington Sept 17 A resolution to freeze Social Security taxes at current levels was prepared for introduction in the Senate by Senator Vandenberg R Mich He said the measure would counter an anticipated treasury proposal to raise taxes to 5 percent and would prevent the automatic doubling next January 1 of present levies of 1 percent on employers and 1 percent on employees.
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Washington
Senate
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Treasury
Roosevelt Visits Annapolis for Navy Wives Luncheon
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt attended a luncheon, speech, and tea in Annapolis as a guest of the Reina Mercedes Navy Wives club. The visit highlighted Navy community support and public engagement during a semiannual schedule.
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Annapolis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Reina Mercedes Navy Wives Club
Custody Hearing Sought for Noell Boys in Frederick Court
Mrs. Cleo W. Noell of Washington seeks custody of Richard L. aged 5 and Larry W. aged 3 from paternal grandparents Guyon J. Noell and wife, who currently have custody in Frederick. Hearing before Circuit Judge Edward S. Delaplaine opened with witnesses urged the merits of both homes as the estranged father faces an ongoing divorce case in Washington.
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Richard Noell
Frederick
Edward 5. Delaplaine
Cleo W. Noell
Washington
Guyon J. Noell
East Patrick Street
Washington Court
House of Correction
Soldiers Put On Strict Cash Basis
The War Department announced a cashOnly policy for soldiers at continental army posts effective November 1. Secretary Stimson said it ends decades of personal credit purchases to save bookkeeping and foster thrift, with local commanders deciding applicability to overseas posts. A preliminary test has been in progress at Brace NoC, one August on.
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Washington
War Department
Continental
United States
Stimson
Department
Alaska
West Md Asks Right To Abandon Train
The Public Service Commission studied a petition by the Western Maryland Railroad to abandon its Baltimore to Gettysburg daily train. Abandonment would affect local mail and freight only via changes to the Baltimore Cumberland service, with no confirmation of an early morning Thurmont stop being dropped.
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Baltimore
Public Service Commission
Western Land Railroad
Gettysburg
Paterson
Massed RAF Bombers Strike Ruhr In Heavy Night Raid
London reports a large RAF force dropped a massive payload on the Ruhr area as part of a renewed effort to aid Soviet Russia. The attack followed a dusk raid on Wiesbaden, with hundreds of aircraft reportedly involved and Berlin urging full blackout compliance.
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Ruhr
London
Germany
Soviet Russia
Adolf Sitlers
Warmiaking
Air Ministry
Beotbers
Wiesbaden
Rhimtland
Scrap Drive Raises Ten to Eleven Tons for War Effort
Frederickson residents and the Salvage committee praise the first day results of the Scrap Drive WT a ALEPe CACTASS led by the Rear Cross Motor Corps. J Marshall Staub plans to contribute three to four tons and shells from World War I are being salvaged along with old pipe and presses. The Motor Corps logistically supported by four large trucks collected in central city areas and shared a luncheon with Dr David G Everhart at the Francis Seatt Key hotel. Italy Loses Submarine in War Operations.
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Fredericksonians
Salvage Committee
Rear Cross Motor Corps
Motor Corps
Braddock Heights
J. Marshall Staub
Y. B. Hayward
Casa Loma
Staub
Francis Seatt Key
David G Everhart
Everhart
Buffalo
Helen Eader Johnson
Manuel M. Weinberg
Russell Beck
David G. Everhart
Clifford C. Doll
Clarence C. Carty
Edgar K. Moore
Mary Jame Lundgren
F. Earle Shriner
Small Raft Found After Prowler Escape
New York September 17 1929 the Eastern Defense Command announced a small raft was found along the Atlantic coast of Long Island last night. A shot was fired during an unsuccessful attempt to halt a prowler. An Army beach patrol with police and Coast Guard later reported nothing unusual. The incident occurred at about 10 p.m. Eastern War Zone.
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New York
Eastern Defense Command
Atlantic
Long Island
Coast Guard
Mighty Blast At Winchester Arms Plant
An explosion at the Winchester plant in New Haven Connecticut injured fourteen workers just before midnight. Twelve were inside the metal building. eight were hospitalized and six received on site care. The manager called the incident accidental, caused by a worker dropping a tray of explosives. Fifteen people, mostly women, were in the building at the time.
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New Haven
Conn
Winchester Repention Ame Company
New Ihaven Hospital
Winchester Works
Thomas T. 8. Bonk
Nation Now Almost At Production Peak
War Production Chief Donald Nelson told the House Defense Migration Committee that the nation is almost at a maximum in war material output, with 194% production likely to exceed the $60.9 billion goal. He said full low production begins January to February and noted limits from materials and shipping. Nelson added the current timing sees mass production planning possible in plants, while agreeing with Roosevelt that current output is about 50 percent.
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Washington
Donald Nelson
House Committee On Defense Migration
Nelson
WPS
Roosevelt
State's Prize Trophy Is Thrown Into Scrap
Annapolis Md September 17 The six inch Krupp field piece captured by Free State soldiers on the western front in 1918 becomes a state scrap campaign contribution. Governor O Connor turned over the monument to the salvage committee noting the gun weighs about six tons and could be used to forge a small tank. A captured 73 millimeter German gun also was given to the scrap committee.
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Annapolis
Maryland
America
Germany
O’conor
State Salvage Committee
O'Conor
Public sale secures East Third Street residence
At the court house this morning the residence at 601 East Third Street, owned by the late Charlies E. Roulzahn, sold to George W. Young near Frederick for $6,070. The 13 room home with 31 foot frontage and 165 foot depth was sold by administrator Mrs. Glenna M. Staley. Manuel M. Weinberg served as attorney and Ermmert R. Bowlus’ acted as auctioneer.
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Court House
East Third Stieet
Charlies E. Roulzahn
George W. Young
Frederick
East Third Street
Glenna M. Staley
Manuel M. Weinberg
Ermmert R. Bowlus
Willkie in Russia Arrives in Kuibyshev on Air Tour
Wendell Willkie arrived by air today at Kuibyshev the U S S R capital. He flew from Teheran Iran on an air tour as President Roosevelt s volunteer messenger of American home unity. The mission has traversed the Middle East and will include China during its schedule.
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Willkie
Russia
Kuibyshev
Wendell Willkie
U.S.R
Teheran
Iran
Roosevelt
Middle East
China
Battle In Attics And Cellars Of Stalingrad
German and Russian infantry battled in the attics and cellars of a north western sector of Stalingrad as gates of the city opened to invaders by massed tanks. The fight raged amid bombs and rising smoke with German air power dominating. The German high command reported continued land operations despite Soviet resistance. A Vichy radio report claimed German occupation of Stalingrad, but no confirmation followed.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Vulga
Berlin
High Command
Cily
Volga
Terck
Caucasus
Grozny
Red Army
Voronezh
Vichy
London
Reuters
Bucharest
Cams Munigre
Petrillo Edict Threatens War Time Radio System
Washington note says Elmer Davis of the Office of War Information told a Senate subcommittee that James C. Petrillo ban on records and transcriptions endangers public morale and the national system of communication. The order halted making records for radio and phonographs, affecting upwards of 150 stations and threatening war information aims.
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Washington
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Congressional
James C. Petrillo
Davis
Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
Army Private Paid 350000 For Patent
Montgomery Sept 17 Camp Rucker reports private in a chemical warfare unit was paid 350000 for a patent by DuPont, a major chemical company. Pvt Theodore E Borst of Clinton N J served since last April, ten years as a research chemist. Patent in agricultural chemistry may take time to develop but could dominate postwar chemistry.
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Montgomery
Ala
Camp Rucker
Theodore £. Borst
Clinton
4Th Chemical Company
Commercial Chemical Company
DuPont
Borst
Abandoned Buick Traced to Scottdale Owner
City police said they located the owner of a Buick sedan found deserted on Clarke Place last week. Robert E. Barkell of Scottdale, Pa., identified as the car owner, reported the vehicle was stolen in Scottdale and left in the city by men in Army uniforms. The car was towed to a garage pending return arrangements.
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Clarke Place
Sergt. & Q. Six
Robert E. Barkell
Scottdale
Sergt. Six
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Saarbruechken
Karlsruhe
Duisberg
Frankfurt
Duesseldorf
Wilhelmshaven
Bremen
Italy
Rome
Winchester Arms Plant
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