British planes hit German battleship Tirpitz in Norway
London reports Admiralty claims several bomb hits on the 35,000 ton Tirpitz, the warship remaining as Germany's greatest capital ship. The carrier based strike possibly by Fleet Air Arm planes, with limited details on date, follows past midget submarine torpedo damage at Alten fjord.
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London
Admiralty
Norway
Alten Fjord
Royal Navy
Hitler
Fleet Air Arm
Tirpitz
Scharnhorst
Jane's Fighting Ships
William James
Last Fall
Gneisenau
Mystery of Thompson’s Money Unsolved in Chicago
Chicago reports the unaccounted wealth of former mayor William Hale Thompson. $1,466,250 found in two safety deposit boxes after his death, with two more boxes to investigate. Attorney James W. Breen hints at larger sums, potential pre-crash cash, and stock sales including Middle West Utilities. Thompson’s estate valued around $150,000. no will found.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Bill
Thompson
James W. Breen
Breen
Middle West
Insull
Commonwealth Edison
Associates
Easter Dawn Service In Baker Park Sunday
Frederick's Easter Dawn service will be held at seven o'clock Sunday morning at the band shell in Baker Park under joint sponsorship of the Frederick County Council of Religious Education, the Frederick County Christian Endeavor Union and the Frederick Junior Civic Club. Rev. John Bayley Jones of Buckeystown will preach the sermon "A Victory Worth Winning," with ministers from Frederick churches participating. Richard E. Zimmerman, baritone, will sing and Robert L. Smith will lead group singing.
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Frederick
Band Shell
Baker Park
Frederick County Council of Religious Education
Frederick County Christian Endeavor Union
Marbury Named Chief Judge Of Maryland Court Of Appeals
Annapolis April 3 Judge Ogle Marbury of Upper Marlboro assumed office today as Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals succeeding Chief Judge D Lindley Sloan of Cumberland who retired Sloan, the first Republican chief judge in the court's 165 year history, plans to resume private practice after a long career including 18 years on the court Marbury was appointed by Governor O Connor after being recommended by Maryland bar members He has served on the Court since 1941 and was chief judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit before elevation upon reaching age limits by 1952 Sloan retires at age 70 after a long record of opinions and service to Allegany County including leading the Red Cross War Fund drive
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Annapolis
Ogle Marbury
Upper Marlboro
Maryland Court of Appeals
D. Lindley Sloan
Cumberland
Marbury
Maryland
O'Conor
Seventh Judicial Circuit
Walter J. Mitchell
O’conor
Carroll T. Bond
State Board of Prison Control
Sloan
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Court of Appeals
Edward S. Delaplaine
Frederick
C. Gus Grason
Towson
Ridgely P. Melvin
Levin Claude Bailey
Salisbury
Stephen R. Collins
Chestertown
Rowland K. Adams
Baltimore
Wilh
Bond
Allegany County Red Cross War Fund Committee
Seven Copies Of The News In One Day For Lieut Wall
A letter from Lieut J Nelson Wall at an English bomber base describes receiving seven copies of The News on March 19 as a red letter day. He says reading the hometown paper keeps him connected to Frederick County, notes his England address at 249 West Patrick Street, and mentions commanding an engineer outfit and APO 634.
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Lieut
J. Nelson Wall
West Patrick Street
England
Wail
Frederick County
New York
N.Y
Army Navy E Award Honors Price Brothers and Others
Twenty firms were awarded the Army Navy E for outstanding production. The list includes M. M. Davis and Sons of Solomons Maryland and Price Bros Co of Frederick Maryland among the honored firms announced today in Washington.
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Price Brothers
Army-Navy ‘E
Washington
M. M. Davis and Sons
Solomons, Md
Price Bros. Co
Pastor Call Extended for Rev Wouter Van Garrett
Rev Wouter Van Garrett of Immanuel Lutheran Norwood Pa receives a unanimous call to pastor Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick. He is expected to begin around May 1 after the Palm Sunday meeting. Garrett, a Gettysburg trained minister, has served Immanuel for over a decade and held prior posts in Steelton and Taneytown.
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Wouter van Garrett
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Norwood
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Mr Garrett
Frederick
Pennsylvania
Church Council
James H. Falk
Clarence A. Bussard
Frank W Cole
Earl E. Zeigler
John L. Shaw
Charles F. Seeger
Robert L. Smith
Mr. Garrett
Amos J. Traver
Hamma Divinity School
Wittenberg College
Springfield
William Sprenkel
Garrett
Gettysburg
Gettysburg College
Lutheran Theological Seminary At
The
Theological Seminary
University of Pennsylvania
Steelton, Pa
Taneytown
Carroll County
Gettysburg Seminary
Tressier Orphans Home
Loysville
Glen Mills
Reformatory School
Marine Corps
Steyr raid boosts Allied strikes amid Texas voting ruling
Allied bombers hit the Steyr weapons complex in Austria as the Fifth Army repelled a German thrust near Rome. In Washington a Supreme Court ruling grants Black Texans the right to vote in a Democratic primary, marking a civil rights milestone.
Japanese Patrols Cut Roads Near Imphal In Manipur
New Delhi April 31 Japanese patrols move through eastern India into the Manipur plain and cut roads around Imphal as Allied forces report fierce fighting east of Kohima. Air supplies not required as crisis is deemed solvable, Dimapur lies 44 miles from Kohima and 60 miles north of Imphal. Glider-borne Allied commandos have severed north south routes to Myitkyina and hold rail lines to Katha while harassing river transport and blocking highways.
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New Delhi
India
Manipur
Imphal
Dimapur
Assam-Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Naga Hills
Kohima
Tiddim
Burma
Chindwin River
Chin
Tamu-Pale
India-Burma
Arakan
Tokyo
Mountbatten
Maungdaw
Buthedaung
Myitkyina
Katha
AP reports record staff efficiency despite wartime losses
Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, states in the annual report to member newspapers that AP staff accomplishments rose to new highs in quality and efficiency last year despite the loss of over a quarter of pre-war personnel to the armed forces and escalating war challenges.
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New York
Kent Cooper
The
Associated Press
Frederck Brick Works Elects New Directors in Meeting
The Frederck Brick Works annual stockholders meeting elected J. Walker Carty J. W. L. Carty Robert Baumgardner Elias B. Ramsburg and Charles McC Mathias to the board. Ramsburg fills the seat left by the late C. Thomas Summers. The board organized with J. Walker Carty as president J. W. L. Carty as vice president and treasurer Baumgardner as secretary Mathias assistant secretary and Lewis Martz as manager.
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Frederck Brick Works
J. Walker Carty
J. W. L Carty
Robert Baumgardner
Elias B. Ramsburg
Charles McC Mathias
Ramsburg
C. Thomas Summers
J. W. L. Carty
Baumgardner
Union Mfg Co Elects Officers at Annual Meeting
The annual stockholders meeting of Union Manufacturing Company elected Louis L Wilson Thomas L Zimmerman William D Zim mer man Jesse B Anders and Charles McC Matoias as directors. The board will convene next week to organize.
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Union Mfg. Co
Union Manufacturing Company
Louis L Wilson
Thomas L. Zimmerman
William D. Zimmerman
Jesse B Anders
Charles McC. Matoias
State Police Take Over Weirton Enforcement
Governor Neely ordered the State Police to assume law enforcement in Weirton after county arrests of United Steel Workers representatives distributing organization literature.
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Charleston
M. M. Neely
Weirton
Tioe United Steel Workers
Drastic Cut In Home Use Of Coal Likely
The Solid Fuels Administration announced a shortage of bituminous coal mined in southern Appalachia will force a drastic reduction in household coal use. Consumers in southern West Virginia eastern Kentucky parts of Virginia and Tennessee must meet at least 25 percent of annual needs from alternative fuels where available. New regulations limit delivery to households during the coal year 1944 45 beginning April 1 for eastern coal and for coke not sold in the east and briquettes and packaged fuel.
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Washington
Solid Fuels Administration
Appalachian
West Virginia
Kentucky
Virginia
Tennessee
No Action On Assessments Of Automobiles In 1945 Plan
County Commissioners have taken no action on a revised depreciation schedule for motor vehicle assessments approved by the State Tax Commission for 1945. Counties are asked to ratify and implement next year, with Frederick County leaning toward delaying if some counties do not follow. A neighboring county plans to protest after a 47 percent drop in proposed rates from a 400-car survey. The Tax Commission aims to basing 1954 assessments on percentages of FOB prices by age, starting at 75 percent for new cars and declining to 5 percent or a minimum of 100 dollars by year eight. Inflationary high secondhand values are to be ignored in a fair depreciation schedule.
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State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Commissioner Board
Frederick County
French Sink Nazi Convoy in Adriatic Action
Allied headquarters announced that light French forces sank both enemy freighters and warships driving off the convoy and its escort in the Adriatic. The strike reportedly caused no French losses and followed a recent pattern of French actions against German communications with Balkan forces.
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Naples
Adriatic
Balkans
Red Army Crosses Prut and Invades Axis Soil
London reports Red Army forces smashed across the Prut into eastern Romania and pushed toward the Danube and Carpathians. Berlin says Romanian army has joined battle. Moscow claims penetration near Czernowitz and Prut rail hub as Zhukov and Konev spearheads advance, seizing prisoners and booty while Axis forces suffer heavy losses.
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London
Red Army
Prut River
Tvet
Axis Soul
Rumania
Danube River
Deta
Carpathian Mountains
Stoscow
Great
Black Sea
Odessa
Soviet Korea
Vyacheslav Molotov
Prut
Berlin
Bucharest
Moscow
Tasi
Ivan
Konev
Czernowtly
Gertsa
Czernowitz
Iasi
Iasi-Kisninev
Crimea
Zhukov
Carpathian
Hungary
Strikes Force Britain to Cut War Factory Power
London April 3 British war factories turning out equipment for an imminent European invasion faced a sharp production drop as the government ordered a general cut in power supplies amid strike fuel shortages. Fuel Ministry ordered electric output down 10 percent and gas 25 percent affecting all factories including 19000 rushing war materiel. Public transport in northwest England to be reduced 20 percent to save power. War Cabinet urgent over crisis described as grave and the worst labor disruption since 1926.
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London
Fuel Ministry
England
War Cabinet
Britain
Yugoslav Partisans Rapidly Advancing in Serbia
London dispatch reports large Yugoslav Partisan forces driving into Serbia interior under Marshal Tito while other Partisan units halt Axis troops in Montenegro, Slovenia and Moslavina.
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Serbia
London
Tito
Josip Broz
Montenegro
Slovenia
Moslavina
Heavy American Bombers Raid Budapest In Large 1944 Attack
Allied forces launched a major bombing raid on Budapest with Liberator and Fortress bombers. From Italian and Berlin reports the 15th Air Force targeted the Budapest railway hub and an aircraft factory south of the city. The assault marks a large volume attack on Hungary’s capital amid ongoing air battles over the region.
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Steyr
Hannover
Krefeld
Aachen
Steyr Hallbearing
London
Budapest
U. S
Ialy
Berlin
Hungary
15Th Air Force
Naples
Europe
Danube
Germany
Heteh
Maryland Chick Hatchery Buys 100 West South Street Site
The Maryland Chick Hatchery Inc purchased the old Page foundry property at 100 West South Street from Wilcoxon and Brown Lumber Co. The deal covers about 3.5 acres and seven buildings. Frederick Storage Co. will keep an office in the main building. The hatchery, formed in 1930, increased capacity to 94,000 eggs and has hatched 3,636,466 chicks to date.
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Maryland Chick Hatchery, Inc
Page
West South Street
Wilcoxon and Brown Lumber Company
Frederick Storage Company
Maryland Chick Hatchery
East Patrick Street
Merril F. Maberly
Leatherman
South Street
State Poultry Department
C. R. Holland
Charles L Holland
Wilcoxon and Brown Lumper Company
Calvary Methodist Church
West Second and
Bentz Streets
Wool content cut lowers German uniforms on front
Allied headquarters in Naples reports the wool content in German uniforms issued on the Italian front has been reduced from 40 to 35 percent after examining clothing of recently captured Nazi soldiers.
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Naples
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Anne Tasker Oberweiser
Allegany Jurist
W. W. Garrett
Texas
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Old Austria
Fifth Army
Rome
Cassino
Garigliano
Supreme Court
Congress
Reed
Roberts
Philip Hayes
Third Service Command
Charles E. Wilson
War Production Board
Noble C. Powell
Maryland Protestant Episcopal Diocese
Municipal Stadium
Prat
Danube Delta
Italy
Chick Hatchery
Lumber Company
West South
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