Jug Bridge Approaches Preliminary Work Starts
The M. J. Grove Lime Company has begun clearing the eastern approach to the Jug Bridge while the bridge itself awaits steel release. Work will focus on clearing, grading, and drainage along the eastern approach, with rights of way secured except a Rosenstock strip. No excavation or bridge construction this winter is planned.
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M. J. Grove Lime Company
Jug Bridge
Pearl
James A. Long
Bartonsville Road
State Roads Commission
Samuel H. Rosenstock
Chinese forces push toward Hangchow area in Chekiang drive
Chinese troops in Chekiang province by passed Japanese defenses and reached near Chuki and Chenghsien. Advances from Chungking total about 60 and 40 miles, threatening rail and highway hubs. Japanese garrisons in Kinhwa and Sanchi held, while a Tokyo base air activity continued. A Chungking report notes a tank-supported Japanese retreat in Anhwei.
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Chungking
Chekiang
Chuki
Chenghsien
Hangchow
Chungkiang
Que
Tungyang
Choki
Kinhwa
Tokyo” Air Base
Sanchi
New York
CBS
Anhwei
Benefit shows banned after November 15 by War Relief Board
President Roosevelt's War Relief Control board decided to halt further benefit shows after November 15 unless controlled by service personnel. Community war chests in many cities must drop as beneficiaries unless their campaigns began by September 22. Existing chests will fund British relief groups the USO and other war charities.
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Washington
Army and Navy
Roosevelt
Board For War Relief Control
USO
Fordham Seismograph Registers Two Severe Shocks
New York reports Fordham University seismograph recorded two fairly severe earth shocks early today about 2015 miles southeast of New York. The shocks were timed at 12 06 32 a m EWT with details noted by the station in the bulletin.
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New York
Fordham University Seismograph
City County Prepare Flat Sum In Lieu Of Taxes
Frederick city and Frederick county will each get a flat sum in place of taxes on white and colored low rent housing projects. The exact amount awaits final action by the County Commissioners and Board of Aldermen. A Federal Housing Agency representative discussed tentative tax agreements and subsidies, with potential annual increases to two or three times past receipts. Sixty year terms are planned and local projects may differ from Baltimore projects.
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Frederick City
Frederick County
Board of Aldermen
Frederick Housing Authority
Federal Housing Agency
William M. Storm
Housing Authority
Local Housing Au
Baltimore
Annapolis
Baltimore and Ohio reports peak August operating revenue
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reports August net income of 3,637,294 after taxes and fixed charges. August operating revenues reach 27,639,619, the highest monthly total on record, up 6,484,444 from August last year and 863,525 above July. First eight months 1942 income totals 19,548,143, up 4,399,740 year over year. Accrual for federal taxes in eight months stands at 11,158,296, higher by 560,063 from 1941.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Today
Axis supply ships sunk in Mediterranean strikes
London reports British submarines have sunk at least five and probably seven Axis supply ships in the Mediterranean, with another vessel seriously damaged. The Admiralty communique notes continued heavy losses to enemy sea communications as Allied forces press to reinforce and supply North Africa, with one sunk and one probably sunk described as large tonnage and the rest medium.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Anis
North Africa
Minute Men Called Out For Tonight
Baltimore Maryland Minute Men were called out for a three hour patrol of vital military industrial and communications centers tonight in a practice alert. They must report in uniform with arms and will be assigned by commanding officers to points near their homes with timing to reach destinations. Brig Gen Dwight H Mohr said vital points would be patrolled between 9 p m and midnight with battalion commanders and Minute Men officers inspecting stations. The local order applies to Seventh Battalion companies in Baltimore city and county with three white and one colored company locally and others in Middletown Braddock Heights Blue Ridge Summit Emmitsburg Thurmont Liberty Walkersville and Woodsboro.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Dwight H. Mohr
State Guard
Third Service Command
Mike Command
Adjt
Francis Perrott
Middletown
Braddock Heights
Blue Ridge Summit
Emmitsburg
Thurmont
Liberty
Walkersville
Woodsboro
Working Wife Not To Be Draft Influence
Baltimore Sept. 26 The Selective Service headquarters stated married status and a wife’s employment do not affect draft classifications. Lieut. Com. C. H. Bryant said a man with a working wife would not be drafted sooner than one whose wife does not work. War Manpower Commission warned that fears of draft risk have reduced women’s participation in war industries, with some quitting or declining work.
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Baltimore
Selective Service
C. H. Bryant
Maryland
War Manpower Commission
Ensign Gay Recruits New Torpedo Squadron
Ensign George Gay, the sole survivor of Navy aviation torpedo squadron eight from Midway, recruited 29 young men to reform the squadron in Los Angeles. After a year of training the recruits will be ready for service with Gay as their commander.
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Los Angeles
George Gay
Navy
Torpedo Squadron Eight
Midway
Gay
Patchwork on City Streets Nears Completion
Municipal street forces report patching of holes in several city streets is about finished. Work will start soon on surface treatment. Oil for the patching is exhausted, delaying additional repairs. Some future bridge work is planned.
Maisky Awarded Lenin Order for Soviet Service
Moscow reports Ivan M. Maisky completing ten years as Russian Ambassador to Britain has been awarded the Order of Lenin for outstanding services to the Soviet Union. Tass announced today.
Wreck Toll Might Be 18 After Rail Crash
Rockville September 26 bodies of three Dickerson crash victims were identified including Harold Gadsden 36 of Charleston and George Garrett 49 of Cleveland along with J M Gilhart flagman. B and O officials said 13 bodies recovered and toll may be 18 instead of 20. Ten identified two tentative. All victims rode in Cleveland night express Pullman struck by Detroit Washington Express then by freight.
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Rockville
Dickerson
Harold Gadsden
Charleston
George G. Garrett
Cleveland
J. M. Gilhart
Flagman
Cleveland Express
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Marines on Guadalcanal Shoot Down Jap Planes Five Miles Up
On Guadalcanal Solomon Islands Marines and Navy fliers repelled a Japanese air raid at 24000 feet. 26 bombers attacked, 10 shot down by US fighters and anti aircraft fire, four Zeros downed, with one US plane and pilot lost. Major John L. Smith of Lexington Oklahoma credited with 15 enemy planes in five weeks. his wife resides in Norfolk Virginia.
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Guadalcanal
Tom Yarbrough
Solomon Islands
Guadaledbrt
United States Marine and Navy
Lexington
Oklo
New Lexington Launched A Year Early In War Carrier
Quincy Massachusetts September 26 a mighty warship the new aircraft carrier Lexington was launched a full year ahead of schedule in Fore River yards Bethlehem Steel. The old Lexingtons name and traditions were passed to the new ship with Rear Admiral Frederick C Sherman among the witnesses. Mrs Theodore Douglas Robinson broke a champagne bottle on the bow as the old ship sank last May after an internal explosion and Japanese assault. The Lexington is the second carrier launched since Pearl Harbor and will join the Essex class noted to displace about 25 000 tons speed 35 knots and carry over 80 planes with crew of about 2 000 at a cost near 60 million dollars. Navy recruiting followed the launch targeting naval air cadets for the new carrier. The fifth ship to bear the name Lexington set a record by being built rapidly with keel laying only 15 months before launching and the launch site was prepared from bare ground 18 months prior.
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Quincy
Mass
Lexington
Coral Seca
Lex
Fore River
Bethlehem Steel Company
Frederick C. Sherman
Sherman
Theodore Douglas Robinson
Mohawk
Pearl Harbor
Essex
Newport News
Navy
Jane's Fighting Ships
United States Navy
Bethlehem
Wreck Investigations Probe Capitol Limited Crash
Railroad officials identified one possible survivor, Anna Van Hamersveld of Creveland Heights, as trains resumed on both tracks after the eastbound derailment. Injured remain under care at local hospitals as investigators from Montgomery County, the ICC, the FBI, and B and O pursue four separate inquiries.
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Anna van Hamersveld
Creveland Heights
Frederick City Hospital
Thomas Livingston Rodgers
Pittsburgh
Philip M. Curran
Richard Marriott
Warrenton
Theodore Sproul
Warren
Vincent Sweeney
Capitol Limited
Duis
Sac Capitol Limited
Chicago
Montgomery County
Cleveland
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Baltimore and Ohio
Recent convoy to Russia largest ever reunions voyage
London September 26 Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that the recent convoy to Russia delivered the largest total of reunifications yet transported in a single voyage from Britain and the United States.
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London
Anthony Eden
Russia
Britain
United States
Army Doctors Battle To Save Life Of Haugland
Army doctors in Melbourne fight to save Vern Haugland, AP correspondent, after he parachuted into a New Guinea jungle and was brought to Port Moresby in grave condition. He has fever and alternating moments of consciousness as authorities seek special food and drugs by air.
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Melbourne
Australia
United States Army
Vern Haugland
Associated Press
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Dean Schedler
Haugland
Schedler
Salvage drive urges scrap as war needs rise
Dr. David G. Everhart urges Frederick County to boost scrap collection to aid steel mills for tanks armor plate and war materiel. Civilians donate relics and Red Cross volunteers mention odd refusals by conscientious objectors. The report notes dwindling daily returns as bad weather approaches and cites local acts of sacrifice to support the war effort.
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Howe
David G. Everhart
Frederick County
Everhart
Americas Legion
Legion
Red Cross Motor Corps
Women told to use one bobby pin for four
Washington, Sept 26 The nations 40,000,000 women were told today that from now on they must make one bobby pin do the work of four. A War Production Board order to save metal reduced pin production to one fourth of the 1941 state and limited packages to no more than 160 pins.
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Washington
Wart Production Board
Woman Jumps To Death From New York Hotel
Adelaide Reckford, 40, founder's daughter of the American Lead Pencil Company, leapt or fell from a 29th floor room at the Bar bizon Plaza hotel in New York. She had been missing since Wednesday after attending a theater and not returning to the Chatham Hotel. Her body was found on a fourth floor ledge with a note near it indicating another note would be found in her room.
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New York
Adelaide Reckford
American Lead Pencil Company
Barbizon Plaza
Louis J. Reckford
Chatham
Miss Reckford
Fire Sweeps Three Boats in Hocking Valley Docks
Toledo reports a fire at Hocking Valley railroad docks fed by crude oil and gasoline. Twelve men injured and damages estimated at 110000 dollars. Coast Guard boats rescued seven of 18 Transoil crew trapped aboard the tanker as flames engulfed vessels and crew escaped to the dock.
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Toledo
Hocking Valley
Coast Guard
Transoil
William A. Whitney
Laval Calls Rumors of Fall Laughable in Speech
Pierre Laval dismissed reports of his government's fall as laughable and said his regime rests on solid foundations. He spoke to newspapermen and refused to comment on circulating rumors about his imminent removal.
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Laval
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Willkie Calls For Real Second Front In Europe
Wendell L. Willkie issued a written statement from Moscow on September 26 saying the United States can best aid Russia by establishing a real second front in Europe with Great Britain at the earliest possible moment, and that military leaders will approve.
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Moscow
Wendell L. Willkie
Russia
Europe
Great Britain
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Sewickley
Donald S. Rodgers, Jr
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G. H. Hill
Pullman Porter
Catonsville
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Lamothe
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Haggard
Baltimore and Ohio Press Relations Office
C. D. Crockett
Carl H. Ehrhardt
Navy Department
Solomons
New Lexington
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U.S
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West Seventh Street
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Motor Corps
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