New Jap Food Made From Rotten Wood Report
San Francisco reports the German Transocean news agency describing a so called new food by Japanese scientists. It is made from rotten wood, sawdust and starch seasoned with sunshine. The process includes mould on wood planted in sawdust then starch added, steamed, fermented and sun dried. The edible product can be mixed with flour to make noodles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Transocean
Dispatch
Federal Communications Commission
F D R Scores In Two Addresses
Washington county political observers including Dewey supporters concede Roosevelt made gains in his re election campaign with powerful speeches in Philadelphia and Chicago. Surveys show workers turning out for the President as he returns from Chicago after addressing about 110000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Dewey
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Chicago
Washington
Democratic Broadcast Schedule Highlights Tonight
CBS at 7:55 p m from New York features Democratic National Committee speaker Joseph Jamila for five minutes. At 9:00 p m NEBC presents former Supreme Court Associate Justice James Byrnes under the Democratic National Committee. MBS lists Orson Weiss from New York with WOL for a Democratic broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CBS
New York
Democratic National Committee
Joseph Jamila
WTOP
NEBC
James Byrnes
U. S. Supreme Court
WRC
MBS
Orson Weiss
WOL
Farm Census Aides Named by County Agent
A committee of Washington County farmers was named to aid the US Census Bureau in the 294h national farm census. The group will advise on scheduling, farm practices, and local customs to ensure accurate data. Dr. S. H. Devans will chair the State Agricultural Advisory Committee. Also noted: a 7.5 pound turnip from Beaver Creek and two others totaling 11.5 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
Mark Miller
Céneils
Miver
T. B. Symons
University of Maryland Etension Service
Mari Miller
Weiler Shank
Leitersburg
James H. Smith
Knoxville
New Aerial Assaults Against Manila Reported by Tokyo
The United States and Pacific Fleet claimed major naval victory as 24 Japanese ships including four carriers and two battleships were sunk or damaged in last week’s action off the Philippines. Nimitz said Japanese fleet decisively defeated, while Philippine and Allied reports noted considerable American casualties and damage to the Australian cruiser Australia. Tokyo radio claimed U S planes hit Manila and Clark Field, with further carrier attacks reported in Samoa Bay. Continued in page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
U. S& Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Manila
Tokyo
Philippines
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Australia
Tokyo Radio Today
U. S
Manila and
Clark
Sundar
Samoa Bay
Eleven Returned Vets Without Jobs in Washington County
A draft board survey shows about 189 of 200 Washington County veterans discharged from service are employed or have found other work. By October 21, 466 Hagerstown area veterans were discharged. The board seeks data on employment location type of work and usefulness of military training. Most of the 11 unemployed are physically unfit and in medical care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Draft Board
Hagerstown
Robbers Loot Park Lane Cheerio Restaurant Desk Cash
Thieves broke a side window at the Cheerio Restaurant at Park Lane and Pennsylvania Avenue and ransacked a desk, taking about $50 in cash and breaking an automatic music box. City Detective Wayne A. Sellman is investigating the robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyake
Cheerio
Park Lane
Pennsylvania Avenue
Wayne A. Sellman
U S Women Donate More Wedding Gowns
London Ort 30 American women donate 92 wedding gowns to the British War Relief Society. The new gowns will ease wear on 60 gowns already used about 720 times. The gowns are lent to brides in uniformed groups and churches including Westminster Abbey, with an American groom often present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British War Relief Society
Westminster Abbey
Too Realistic Game Of Commandos Fatal
Four year old William Drach died in a Bronx apartment shaft after an older brother bound gagged and tied him in a play game of commandos. His father found the boy bound and the death was ruled accidental rather than homicide by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John J O'Connor
William Drach
Drach
Bronx
O'Connor
Robert
William
Williams
Inspector O'Connor
Arthur Carney
U S Employment Office Opens At New Location Today
The United States Employment Service opens at noon at 111 South Potomac Street occupying the first floor of the Odd Fellows Temple. Bre wer L Stouffer and D Paul Shilling note the new space is larger than 45 East Washington Street to handle increased wartime and postwar service to veterans and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
United States Employment Service
South Potomac Street
Odd Fellows Temple
Brewer L. Stouffer
Hagerstown
Movement Restricted OKLAHOMA CITY Concert Opens
At the Oklahoma City Symphony opening concert conductor Victor Alessandro waved his baton in small circles due to a new suit not arriving. He reassured music lovers there is no planned musical innovation, only a constraint from the tight suit hindering his usual sweeping gestures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Symphony
Victor Alessandro
Alessandro
Tissimo
A Creed For America From President Bongeveits Address
An excerpt from President Bongeveits Philadelphia address on Friday October 27 urges national unity and duty. He calls for honoring war heroes and defending freedom equality and opportunity while opposing racial strife and selfish interests. He pledges support for those fighting oppression and pursuing a lasting peaceful world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riwaiys
Strnee
Bongeveits
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Reelection Odds Set at 17 to 5 in 32 States
Betting Commissioner James J. Carroll released odds showing Roosevelt favored in 32 states with 37 percent of electoral votes versus 161 for Dewey. Roosevelt carried states include California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, and others. Dewey listed in 16 states such as Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
James J. Caryell
Roosevelt
Thomas J. Dewey
Dewey
Carroll
Washington
Montana
California
Arizona
Utah
New Mexico
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Georgia
North
South Carolina
Florida
Virginia
Nevada
Oklahoma
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
West Virginia
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Massachusetts
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Wisconsin
Indiana
Vermont
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
Michigan
Ohio
Maine
Illinois
Minnesota
Lane Forecasts Maryland Vote Seen for Roosevelt
William Preston Lane Jr., head of Maryland Democratic campaign, predicted at Baltimore that Roosevelt will win Maryland by 38,000 to 40,000 votes excluding absentee service ballots, with service voters adding 10,000 to 20,000 and absentee ballots a portion of the total. Lane forecast Roosevelt carries Maryland’s 23 counties by 9,060 margin and projects district by district majorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Preston Lane, Jr
Maryland
Baltimore
Roosevelt
Lane
Sgt Violet Wins Silver Star for gallantry in France
Sgt. Clarence E. Violet, son of Mrs Martha Violet of Rohrersville Route 1, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in aiding destruction of a German armored column and freeing an American unit in France. As a squad leader in an engineer combat battalion, he supervised a hedgerow clearing under heavy fire, enabling an advance guard to break contact and connect with a sunken road. His calm during the mission inspired the men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence E. Violet
Martha Violet
Rohrersville
France
Daily Mail
Second Armored Division
Violet
Viglet
Tidler
Maugansville Victim Of Accident Improves
Mahlon Bowaman, 18, of Maugansville, improved at Washington County Hospital after a Friday morning collision on the Middleburg pike left him with a fractured right leg and a badly injured left arm. Witnesses said the accident was unavoidable as he ran into the road while dodging another vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mahlon Bow‘aman
Mallagansville
Middleburg Pike
Washington County Hospital
Young Bowman
Last Hungarian Railway Escape Route Blocked
Csap, junction of four rail lines on the Ruthenia edge, was seized by Gen. Iván Petrov’s Fourth Ukrainian Army after two days of street fighting. Moscow said hundreds of Germans were killed and noted Russian advances in Latvia near Liepaja and Auce as well as ongoing clashes in northeastern Hungary and along the Kaunas Konigsberg highway. Tito indicated Yugoslav forces planned a cross into Hungary and southern Austria in coordination with the Russians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hungary
Csap
Tisza
Berlin
Baltic Sea
Ruthenia
Ivan Pétrovs
Ukraine
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Latvia
Priekulé
Baltic
Liepaja
Auce
Leipaja
Kaunas
Konigsberg
Second Ukraine
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Fetrov
Malinovsky
Nyiregyhaza
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Austria
FBI rounds up AWOL war prisoners near Camp Kilme
FBI Chief Samuel K. McKee announced at 3 a m that 58 former Italian service unit prisoners who went AWOL from Camp Kilme near Newark have all been captured. Seventy had been at large last night with details on the last 20 not disclosed. 28 had been recaptured by early yesterday, most on roads toward the New York Metropolitan area, and confined in the camp storehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. T
New Jersey
FBI
Samuel K. McKee
Camp Kilme
Newronswick
Teventy
New York Metropolitan Area
Camp Stornane
Grove Waives Hearing In Firebug Case
Richard Cecil Grove, 31, via his attorney TD Angie Wolfinger, waived a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Martin W. Bostetter in city court this morning. In default of bond set at 5000, he was remanded to await November court action. Police said Grove admitted starting fires at the Municipal farm barn and four other cases will go to the November grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angie Wolfinger
Richard Cecil Grove
Martin W. B. Bostetter
Grove
Martin JL. Ingram
Im Corre
North Potomac Street
Polics
Ace Bong Bags Three More Jap Planes At Leyte Field
Ace Bong, America’s top fighter ace, added three Japanese aircraft to his tally at Leyte airfield Philippines. He downed his 32nd and 33rd planes within hours, one by jettisoning a bomb to lose tail and survive a dogfight. He previously shot down his 31st shortly after landing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leyte Airfield
Philippines
Richard Bong
Leyte Field
Bong
Jackson Held In Truck Theft Case
Eugene Jackson 24 Blinstreet was arraigned in city court for stealing a Ha Verstown Lumber Company truck and held on 1000 bond for November court. Police had pursued him since June 24 after the theft and his elusion halted two arrest attempts until Saturday when he was captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Jackson
Blinstreet
Fnally
Haverstown Lumber Company
A. Vv. OB. Bochester
Jackson
British Capture Kozane After Fight
Rome reports British forces seized Kozane, 40 miles from the Yugoslav border, after a sharp battle with retreating Germans in northern Greece. Allied headquarters say strong Nazi casualties occurred west of the town and British entry at 2 45 pm yesterday drew an enthusiastic welcome from residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Kozane
Salonika
Greece
Supply And Demand Oakland Navy Supply Depot Figures
Nine million cigars a month are shipped to Uncle Sam's bluejackets in the Pacific but the demand is for 28,000,000. About 22,000,000 packages of cigarettes go out each month to navy men afloat and at advanced Pacific bases. They use 25,100,000 candy bars every 320 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Pacific
Naval
Germans Unprepared For Cold Weather Fighting Again
Moscow dispatches report the German army is unready for sub zero warfare as winter nears. Prison interviews and captured booty suggest Hitler has sent no new equipment or personnel for the cold season, hampered by bombed industry and manpower losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Red Army
Barents Sea
Balkans
Hitler
One Third Of A Gas Books Issued In Washington County
The Ration Board mailed about one third of the $500 basic A gas books in Washington County. Chief Clerk Thomas Bittle warns motorists to apply before November to avoid delays. Applications slowed recently. forms are available at gasoline stations and must be mailed with the old back cover to receive the new A book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Ration Boar
Thomas Bittle
Sharpsburg Native Missing In Action Turret Gunner
Sgt. Carroll E. Moss a Sharpsburg native and turret gunner on a B17 Flying Fortress has been missing in action since September over Germany. His wife Marguerite J. Moss of Martinsburg reports he entered service in February 1943 and had been awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster and the Presidential Medal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll E. Moss
Sharpsuining
Germany
Marguerite J. Moss
Martinsburg
Moss
Bee
Hip Broken In Fall On Street
Mrs. Max Freisher, wife of a well known departineli stove oi or booker, suffered a broken hip Friday after slipping on the street. She was removed to Washington County Hospital for treatment after the fall near a tareat in the Pah Sere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Freisher
Company B of Hagerstown Fights in Germany
Army reports say Company B, 28th Division, once praised in Norquandy and Saint Lo, is now engaged in Germany within the Reich. Since early September, Maryland Virginia forces have pressed the Siegfried line gap near Aachen and Geldern, conducting raids and patrols to pin German units and slow reinforcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Norquandy
Saint Lo
Germany
U. S. Army
Reich
Gelienkerchen Amt Aachen
Ies Werho
Gap
Abd Es
German Defenses Cut Into Four Pockets Near Schelde
Allied air attacks and rapid advances have trapped German forces in four pockets below the Maas as the Moerdijk bridge area nears, with Breda on Beveland island fallen and Walcheren remnants fighting amid flooded dikes and sunken towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Maas River
Moerdijk
Maas
Breda
Beveland Island
Fionted Wadheren
Beveland
Felsium
Schelde
Antwerp
Walcheren
Washington County announces Ches Drive Program opening
Officials from the commercial and utilities division will meet at headquarters on Wednesday evening to obtain supplies. Donavan Re Beavhley will preside as chairman as division leaders and captains convene at the Hotel Hamilton for private assignments. November 2 marked by industrial division meetings and notices of workers’ gatherings across Hagers tew and nearby camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Mindaid Manu
Donovan Re Beavhley
Claieman
Gene Novenber
Hotel Hamilton
Hagerstew
Lear Bio
U. Bartholomew
Wien
Higdain
Newton T. Baker
Bought Liquor For A Minor Case Summary
An OCR fragment reports a person accused of providing alcohol to a minor with jumbled text. The readable parts indicate a legal or disciplinary action, a suspension, and mentions of individuals and possible dates or identifiers. specifics are unclear due to corrupted source text.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Holland
F.D.R
C. A. Cosens
Beaver Creek
U.S
America
Sgt
Maugansville
Ace Bong
Sharpsburg
Corres
Ch Troy
Othe Ureak-throneh
Unis
Ches
Robert Eichelberger
Wil
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!