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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Injured In Truck Crash

A truck loaded with furniture and
driven by Vito Pegano, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, crashed into disabled truck
owned by the Brooks Transfer. Com
pany, one mile south of North East.
The impact caused an explosion
and before the local fire company
could reach the scene botk trucks
and contents were total loss.
Pegano was burned about the
hands and legs and was taken to
Union Hospital, Elkton, for treat
ment. The driver of the Brooks truck
was thrown clear of the wreck and
escaped with only minor injuries
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day was one of fine
fall weather, bright sunshine for
he day, but few snowf1akes
floating about in the afternoon.
The day was quietly observed, for
the most part, in our community.
Union services in the Methodist
church here in the morning were
largely attended, Rev. S. J. Venable,
of West Nottingham Presbyterian
Church bringing the Thanksgiving
message.
A large number of the sporting
fraternity availed themselves of a
day afield, with dog and gun, and
maffysG Bunny Cottontail substituted
for the great American bird, turkey,
on the table.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Cecil County Coun-
Gil Of Churches

The annual meeting of the Cecil
County Council of Churches will be
held on Friday, December /, in the
Methodist church at Zion. There will
be afternoon and evening sessions,
presided over by the Rev. Harry N.
Bailey, president. At the afternoon
session, beginning at 2 o'clock, the
Rev. John J. Bunting will be in
charge of the devotional period,
which will be followed by seminars
on the subject THE Christian Mis-
sion to Teachers to Win Boys and
Girls to Christ" The Rev. Richard
M. Green, Executive Secretary of
Christian Education of the Peninsula
Conference of the Methodist church,
will be the director of the seminars,
assisted by Miss Lillian e. McCor-
mick and the Rev. Willis r. Ford, of
the Council of Churches and Christ
ian Education of Observation-Disclosures,
Inc.
The closing period of the afternoon
session will be devoted to the annual
reports of committees and other bust
ness.
A banquet is to be held in the Zion
Community House at 500 p. m. for
all of the Council delegates, and
will be sponsored by the ladies of the
Zion Methodist Church. The toast
master will be the Rev. Edward M.
Mckee, and the Rev. Custer Crom-
well, pastor of the Havre de Grace
Methodist church, and president OF
the Hartford County Council OF
Churches. will be the banquet speak
err.
The evening session, beginning at
1870. will be q popular. meeting. to
be addressed by the Rev. DR., Paul G
Warren. pastor Of the Second Pres
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01

The residence property of the late
DR.. T. B. Moore, at the intersection
of Cherry and Walnut Streets, in this
town, was sold at public sale on Sat
urday afternoon, by VIM. Pepper
Constable, trustee. The bidding was
spirited, the property bringing $3.50
and being purchased by DR.. R. c.
Dodson, of this town.
The lot in Brookview cemetery,
sold the same afternoon, was pur-
chased by Clifton Kirk for $500.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Marker-YOung

Mr.. Clifford Marker of Rising Sun,
Maryland, announces the marriage of
his daughter, Miss Betty Jane Marker
Phi. M. Bic, USNR, to Richard Arthur
Young, C. Phi. M, USN, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel A. Young, Cleve-
land, Ohio, at West Nottingham Pres
byterian Church on November rs.
The bride was given in marriage by
her father. Her step-mother, Mrs.
Anne Marker, was matron of honor,
and Mr.. Silvio H. Lopez, of Whining
ton, Delaware, was best man. The
Reverend DR.. S. j. Venable, pactor of
the church, performed the ceremony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Young are stationed at
Norfolk, Virginia.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Chicken Supper

The ladies of Calvert Methodist
Church will serve chicken supper
on the evening of Friday, December
1, 1914, in Rose Bank Hall, Calvert,
Md. $50
The first table will be served at
500 O'Clock. -
The Supper is sponsored by the
Parsonage Committee and the mem
bers of TIE MYF, and splendid re-
past is guaranteed. Come and enjoy
1t and assist in worthy cause.
PRICE; Adults. rs cents: Child
rem. SO cents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL MENTION

Thanksgiving Day guests of Mrs.
Florence Mccoy were Mrs. William
Hartman and daughter, Lancaster,
Pa, and Rev. and Mrs. Paul Mccoy
and daughter, Newport, Del.
Sgt. Herbert Ryan, Jr., and wife,
Freeman Field, Seymour, Ind, spent
a week with the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Ryan, ST., in
Rising Sun.
Donald Felty, who has just return
ed from a trip overseas, visited his
grandmother, Mrs. G. B. Felty, of
Woodlawn, during the week.
Mrs. Hampton Richards and daugh
Jean, Port Deposit, were Thanksgiv-
ing Day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph T. Richards.
Miss Eva P. Nutter spent the
Thanksgiving holiday with her sister,
Mrs. Harvey Hall and family, Anna
polls.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Emerson, Den
ton, Md, were guests last Thursday
of Mrs. Jean Shepherd and family.
Miss Sara Brokaw, Newark, Del,
was the guest last week of her moth
er, Mrs. Louise Brokaw.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Pryor, Elk
ton, were guests Sunday Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Keim.
Evans E. Ewing was Sunday Wis
itor Of his brother, Halus Ewing and
family. Propsect PARK. Pa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01

The annual sale of Christmas seals,
which supports the work of the Mary
land tuberculosis Association, open
ed Monday Nov. 81.
William H. Staub, general chair
man of the Association, stated the
sale was first announced for Monday,
Nov. 20, but was postponed for a
week to avoid conflict with the open
ing of the Sixth War Loan Drive.
The sales are handled almost en-
tirely by mail, although booths will
be opened in department stores dur
ing the week of December IL, tie
chairman said.
To meet the threat of increased
incidence of the disease because of
in Maryland has enlarged its pro-
gram, especially in the field of pre-
vention. The greatest extension has
been with mass X-ray surveys.
Since last June, when a machine
using miniature film was acquired,
TIE association has been going into
industry and business and has X-ray-
ed the chests of $4,000 persons. The
surveys also reached into trailer
camps and other low-rent housing
sections
AN analysis of the first 10000 of
these X-rays shows that 81 per cent
of the individuals had the re-infec-
ton type of tuberculosis" Mr.. Staub
said. Some of these cases were in
active, but others were in an active
state. The national figure is 1.08 pei
cent.
"It has been shown that between
80 and S5 per cent of tuberculosis
patients who are hospitalized are in
advanced stages. On the other hand,
tkis survey revealed that rs percent
of the cases detected were in the min
imal or early stage, which is compar-
atively easily and quickly controlled
Only four were in the far-advanced
stage.
This is an illustration of the i'm
portance of early diagnosis. Il people
wait until they feel ill before they
discover the trouble, the treatment
is prolonged and the chance of re-
covery reduced"
The chairman emphasized the i'm
portance of maintaining our protec-
tive health wall" in wartime, and
pointed out that grave outbreak of
tuberculosis has followed the devas
tation and privation of war in Eur
ope. He added that there was some
indication of growing incidence Of
the disease in some large industrial
cities of the United States, although
the death rate in Maryland has been
held to a pre-war level.
In addition to this mass survey
program, the association continues
it's established X-ray work case find
ing, tuberculin testing, medical re-
search health education, the program
for Negroes, and operation of Miracle
House, a children's preyentatorium
Persons wanting seals or informa-
ton are invited to inquire at associa-
ton headquarters, 900 st. Paul
Street. Mulberry 1881, Baltimore,
Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Fourteenth An
nual Reunion

The fourteenth annual Rea Reun-
ion was held on Thanksgiving Day,
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Deaver, Oxford, Pa. After enjoying
fine turkey dinner, the members
assembled for the business meeting.
Following the business session, a
program, consisting of special num-
bers, games, and singing, was en-
joyed. At late hour the guests de-
parted, after having enjoyed a very
pleasant day together. Those who
signed the register were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl A. Deaver, Mr.. Samuel
Jamison, Mrs. Raymond Pollock, and
daughter Shirley, Oxford, Pa; Mr..
and Mrs. Albert F. Rea. Anita and
Jane, Lansdowne, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs.
William e. Rea. and Elsie p. Rea.
Port Deposit, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Perry Point Contri-
butes To War Fund

The War Fund Drive at Perry
Point, under direction of tie Com.
handing Officer, Col. Clark, U. S.,
Veterans Facilities, Melted $489.89.
This amount was turned over to j.:
Warren Atkinson, chairman of the
Cecil County Community Chest cam,
paign.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Barksdale Farm Sold

Wheeler & Grier, Realtors, of Ok
ford, report the sale for Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard e. Clark, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph /. Cross of Landenberg, Pa,
the former Seemans farm of 80 acres
in the Fourth District of Cecil County
near Barksdale. Mr.. Clark is to re-
main in occupancy for the present.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01

byterian Church of Baltimore, and
an outstanding speaker. Each of the
county churches and Sunday schools
10 being asked to send several dele
gates to the annual meeting,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
Traffic Safety Slogan

Drive carefully-Don't spill your
blood on the highways, give it to the
Red Cross. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01
To fhe People
of this Community

Five billion dollars Of the IA bill
lion dollars our country needs to
press the war against our enemies
must come from individual invest
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01

Guests thanksgiving Day or Mr..
and Mrs. Will Reynolds and son Will
liam, were Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Raw
lings, Mr.. Lawson Love, Mrs. Mollie
Martindale and Miss A. Mabel Rey-
nolds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Baird have
returned from visit to their son,
David, who is stationed at U. S..
Army camp in South Carolina.
The MYF enjoyed hay ride and
spent the evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Gamble, Pennington, last
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coulbourne, POGO
moke City, Md, spent last week with
Rev. and Mrs. ]. R. Bicking and son,
Dick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Pierce spent
several days last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. George Brown, Lancaster, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evans Patten of Bal
timore, were Saturday visitors at the
home of the formers mother, Mrs.
Emma Patten, Cherry Street.
Mrs. William r. Pogue, of Pitts
burgh, has sold her property in that
city, and she and her four children
are making their home in Rising Sun.
A conference of the Fedration of
Churches will be held Friday after
noon and evening in Zion Methodist
Church with a banquet served at 6
p, NJ, A ane program 10 prepared.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01

ors. That sounds
like, and is, a lot
of money. Actually
success or failure
Of the Sixth War
Loan is up to each
individual Ameri-
can.
Every war loan
has been oversub-
s cribed because
Americans by the
m I'LL s h a v e
shared ifc rocnop CT.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-12-01

bility. Americans such as you have
recognized the need of extra War
Bond purchases over and above
their normal payroll savings.
There is no such thing as little
fellow In War Bond drive. Your
War Bond purchases, multiplied by
the War Bond purchases Of your
friends and neighbors, become
fighting power which saves lives of
Americans on the battlefronts and
brings us nearer our common
objective.
THE EDITOR.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

signal of a German retreat on the Finnish question.
 Urgent Plea
 GA long news chronicle dispatch from Stockholm said Germ n sources reported that Col. Gen. Ed ward Dietl had urgently requested Adolf Hitler's permission to evacuate German troops from northern Fin land immediately
 A United Press dispatch from Hel- sinki said the only visible sign of the tense diplomatic and political activity going on behind locked doors was the German Ministers automobile waiting outside the Fin nish foreign office.
 Reflecting the Finnish public's growing impatience with the peace rrlmor's the Helsinki newspaper Ilta Sanomat said in an editorial that much would be gained If newspa- permen were informed as fully as poSsible.",
 Private reports from Helsinki said that the public-tlanks to what out siders have considered 8 short-sight- ed censorship and propaganda policy generally did not have 8 realistic picture of Finland's predicament un- til U. s. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's statement calling upon the nation to get out of the war was published throughout the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

tContinued frcm Page Il almost two dozen conferences like the recent Moscow meeting of for eign ministers. That conference, in- volving thousands of miles of travel for Secretar yof State Cordell Hull and a large staff of experts, cost $70,000.
 In trimming the $5.987, 900 from the funds asked by the president for the three departments, the com . nittee reported that all could achieve greater economy.
 The report noted that the com- merce department was involved in planning for industrial reconversion and expressed the hope it will serve as hub, rather than the periphery of any postwar planning which is to be done by the federal government"
 The justice department vas praised for personnel economies. although the antitrust department was criticized for slow progress in it's etudy and prosecution of loan sharks. The committee observed that the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation, with tremendous increase in war activity, had requested no new funds for personal services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

(Continued from Page D one of Chaplins attorneys, tell what had happened nj the labora- tory.
 Tt was the unanimous opinion of the doctors that Mir. Chaplin could not possibly have been the father of the child," he said, smiling ex- pansively.
 Half an hour later Attorney Irwin unhappily confirmed the news, but would not comment upon what course the case might take when Chaplin and six co-defendants are called for arraignment in federal court.
 The grand jury accused Chaplin on two courts of taking Miss Barry to New York for immoral purposes and bringing her back again. It also accused him. 8 Beverly Hills judge, three members of the police force and two intimates of Chaplin with conspiring to deprive Miss Barry of her civil rights when she was released from jail on vagrancy charges and placed upon a train for New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
rder canae to abandon snip.

order came to abandon ship.
 'The heavy seas broke two of the life boats on the windward side and we launched the third Saturday morning just before the ship broke up.
 Three men were in 1t as we low cred 1t when the painter broke from freezing brittle and she overturned The three men may have been saved by the Coast Guard. We arrived at Portsmouth late Saturday afternoon 26 hours from the time We ran afoul of the ledge" olsen said.
 The Navy reported that the three men in the lifeboat mentioned by Haagensen and Olsen were picked up by rescue vessels. One of them was pulled from the boat by three men from the rescue craft who brayed the heavy seas to go over the side to his assistance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

HUH d8V 4p city presumably was delayed in or- der to move up reinforcementS and supplies after a 100-mile advance from Leningrad.
 (The Soviet-sponsored Free Ger many National Committee said in a broadcast over the Moscow radio that the position of the surviving Germans in the Cherkasi pocket was now so desperate that 1t re- calls the last days of hell at Stall ingrad." The broadcast was re- ported by the U. 8. Foreign Broad cast Intelligence Service).
 GA Finnish broadcast heard by the same source said Russian troops in northern Estonia have forced the Narva river both north and south ot Narva itself. Radio Moscow said the Germans have be- gun the forced evacuation" of Es- tonia. A trainload of evacuees who arrived at Riga February 5 was given poisoned coffee" which kill- ed 2,000 persons, the broadcast said.)
 General Nikolai F. Vtatutin's ar- tillery and infantry pinned down @ German rescue spearhead that had wedged into the Soviet lines north- west of Zvenigorodka, dispatches said, and farther north reduced the encircled Cherkasi pocket to 35 square miles.
 The Germans attacked seven times yesterday in a futile effort to widen their rescue wedge, only to be thrown back with a loss of more than 1000 men. Another 800 Ger mans were killed inside the pocket, where the Russians seized Q num- Der of heavily fortified strongholds in 8 night attack and beat off morning counter attacks.
 The toll of enemy dead yesterday boosted to more than S3.OOO the number of Germans ofilcially re- ported killed in the past two weeks in the battle of the Cherkasi pocket, including 24.6O0 inside the pocket and 5000 in rescue attempts from the southwest. Nearly 800 German tanks have been destroyed.
 GA London broadcast estimated that about half" of the original 100000 men inside the pocket had been killed or captured.)
 On the approaches to Estonia, General Leonid A. Govorov'S Lenin- grad armies scored new advances along a 15~mile front toward Pskov, key highway and railway junction guarding the main northern gate- way to the Baltic.
 Soviet troops gained another seven miles along the main high- way from Luga to pskov with the capture Of 0orodets. Novo Selye, i6 miles southwest of Luga, and Pet. rovskoye, l2 miles southeast of Luga, also were selaad.
 Front reports said the speed Of the Russian thTusts into tho Cor, man Hanks had forced the enemy to divert his supply convoys ever dirt tracks end roads, creating great tfalAc jams which made eaay sargets for Soviet gunnefs and aif- mon.
 Nearly 1900 Germans were Killed and $50 motor vehicles, 60 railway cars loaded with supplies and n buses carrying infantry wero des. trcyed yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

(Continued from Page D
 It has been pointed out that re- lease of 10 per cent of the insur- ance and mercantile establishment workers in Hartford would create 8 considerable pool of workers fol the aircraft and bal1-bearing indus tries. Although the number oi workers released here under such plan would not be large, 1t Is re- ported some benefit might result.
 Scheduled to attend the confer ence in Hartford tomorrow are John Driscol1, local c. I. o. representa- tive. Harold Senior. state o. I. O. organizer, and Edward Lavery. pres ident of the state c. I. O. Various other union representatives and in- dustrial officials are expected to at- tend.
 With the referral system of plac- ing workers to be enlarged by the expansion of controls to cover non- essential work, heavier tasks loomed before the U. s. Employment Serv- ice and the A. F. of L. hiring chan nels, the only units which are ale lowed now to refer workers for placement in essential work.
 Today agents of the A. F. of L. met with Mrs. Dewey to discuss the placement conducted so far through the approved union chan nels and to set up a system of checking back on refeyrals. Rec- ords were presented by the union officials on the Teferrals made since the hiring controls program took ef- feet and the A. F. of L. was grant, cd permission to continue its hiring work.
 Under the new program all new workers. and all persons shifting jobs. will be required to secure re- terrals from the USES. The same considerations will apply to non- essential jobs as now apply to es- sential and critical work. and cell- ings will be set on the number oi workers c non.essential establish ment may have.
 The new controls wlll he effect Cd through means of an amendment to tho present mobilization plan. Aa reported yesterday. The clause ru- ferring Go additional controlled caA tegoriee will be eliminated" end wording will be changed in the con. troas elausee 60 es Co imeosp9soae SAe hon-ee9enlaMi tohs.
 Members of the Q. I. O. are re- ported Co have questioned the orig. tnal source of plans to expand con-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
ConquestOf SoIomons
(continued from Page D

The Allied troops came ashore at two points inside the atoll in land- ing boats from U. s. warships, Ire maine said, and supplies immedi- ately started moving landward from ] boats to set up 8 base. Slow Resistance
 Rear Adm. Robert B. Carney, Hal sey's chief of staff, announced the landing was made shortly after 6 8. m. and met resistance only af- ter several hours. No reports of the characetr of the belated Jap anese opposition were yet available, Carney said, and no casualties were reported.
 Seizure of the Green Islands. also known as the Nissan group at the northern end of the Solomons Archipelago, gave the Allies an air base only l20 miles east of Ra- baul. big Japanese stronghold at the tip of New Britain.
 The islands had been bombed in- termittently during the past several months by Solomons- -based planes Ill the widespread assaults, aimed at knocking out Japanese bases throughout the southwest Pacific area.
 The 22,0O0 doomed enemy troops, caught in flanking movements which started in the New Georgia group were scattered through the Choiseul the Shortlands, Bougainville and Buka Islands and now are isolated from their supply base at Ra- baul.
 starvation and disease, certain to ensue from military blockade, render their position hopeless" the communique said. With their air. fields destroyed and their barge traffic paralyzed, the relief of these scattered garrisonS is no longer practicable and their ultimate fate is sealed"
 RecOnqueSt
 The reconquest of the SolomonS ended campaign that started al Guadalcanal in November, 1942. Allied flyers continued their heavy onslaught on Rabaul, throwing all types of bomberS against the Jap anese the Japanese base in the 1lth consequent raid this month. The attack caused much destruction and started fires which sent columns of smoke thousands of feet into the air.
 Allied airInen shot down at least seven and probably five others of group of 40 Japanese planes ove, Rabaul. Eight enemy planes also were destroyed on the ground. Three Allied planes were lost in the at- tack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
rented by the Swedish lega-
 tion were almost destroyed

ClO11 were a11IlOSC UGSCIOyCu by fire.
 The air ministry announced that crews of twin-engined Mosquito bombers that roared over Berlin after the RATS heavyweights had dropped their cargoes of nearly 5000, 900 pounds of steel and ex- plosives found "a very large area of fire with smoke rising to 8 height of 10000 feet"
 Mosquitoes also bombed objectives in western Germany and Holland to round out the nights offensive.
 The nights raiding fleet was the greatest ever sent out by the RAF and brought the pre-invasion aerial offensive against Germany to its highest pitch at a time when Allied daylight raiders, including American Flying F'odtresses and 1iberators, were smashing daily at the "west- ern front" coast of northern France
 The air ministry triumphantly reported that the tonnage dropped on Berlin after a 15-night respite totalled more than 2,800 short tons "a heavier load than (has been rlnloaded) in any previous attack on any objective in air warfare"
 Protected by thick cloud cover, the sky-filling force of four -engined bombers arrived over Berlin about 6 p. III. and dropped the entire 2,80C ton plus bomb load in 20 minutes. The thunderbolt assault was be- lieved to have devastated a large section of Berlin, already partly ir ruins from IA previous major at. tacks in the past three months. The