Referendum petitions urged on Sunday movies and sports in Frederick
Senator Funk amended bills to require 25 percent of Frederick city voters from the last municipal election and at least 24 percent of those voters to sign petitions to place Sunday movie and sport referenda on the June ballot. If approved, a further referendum could be requested before any new election. The move aims to let Frederick residents vote on the controversial issues amid late session debate.
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General Assembly
John B. Funk
Frederick City
Penn
Funk
Aksisthrtont
Sweater Frok
Grove
Houses of Delegates
Frederick County
House of Delegates
Carroll
Al-legany
Montgomery
Washington
Senate
Board of Election Supervisors
Frederick
Two More Jap Cruisers and One Destroyer Sunk
Allied headquarters in Australia reported three more Japanese ships hit by boombers at Kavieng, with one large cruiser, one small cruiser, and a destroyer sunk and four other destroyers damaged in the raid. The Kavieng naval concentration has been destroyed or dispersed, seven warships and five merchant vessels either sunk or heavily damaged.
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Austtralia
Mavieng
MacArthur
Kavieng Iow
Kavieng
Markham Valley
Lae
New Guinea
Targei
Salamaua
Kitchen Creek
War draft policy tightens for 38 to 45 year olds
Washington April 4 government tightens war work policy to draft 38 to 45 year olds who do non deferrable jobs for more essential labor while reducing April draft calls. Selective Service Director Hershey released a letter to draft boards noting the class 4-Ho was abolished and men in this bracket may be inducted if usable by the armed forces. Officials say April quotas drop up to 20 percent but will be made up later as the system aims for about 12,000 draftees daily nationwide.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
War Manpower Commission
War Department
Army
Manpower Commission
Destruction in Kavieng battle April 2 to 4
Allied action near Kavieng destroyed or dispersed enemy forces. Seven enemy warships and five merchantmen, totaling about 36 000 tons, sunk or heavily damaged. Additional enemy destroyers and a merchant ship possibly damaged. Our losses limited to aircraft damage. ten bombers faced the first wave and eight in the next two.
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Kavieng
Stitely Farm Livestock Sale Draws 3000 Attendees
The M. W. Stitely farm near Woodsporo hosted the season's largest public sale of livestock, drawing about 3,000 spectators in blustery conditions. A total of 297 head sold for roughly $19,38?0, with three auctioneers John W. Null Earl Huffman and Emmett R. Bowlus overseeing the event and two clerks keeping records Gail Catshall and H. C. Dovreus. Horses and ponies commanded strong prices and heavy draft horses also sold well.
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M. W. Stitely
Woodsporo
John W .Null
Earl Huffman
Emmett R.bowlus
Gail Catshall
H. C. Dovreus
Livestock Auction Prices Move Higher Across Species
From 115 to 210 a head for horses and ponies from 701 to 225. cattle demand strong with a 25 cow herd averaging 250 per head and other cows selling 150 to 331. Bulls 90 to 150. heifers 44 to 100. Pigs brisk with 104 head lot strong. shoats 87.50 to 24. brood sows about 35. Cattle and hog market bids heated by spirited competition.
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T. B
Bangs
TAM 4A Tran Pmindsack
Flying Forts Bomb Renault Works Over Paris
American B-17s attacked the Renault motor and armament works in Paris, four miles from the Eiffel Tower, dropping hundreds of tons of explosives. They reported heavy, accurate bombing and eight enemy fighters shot down by escort fighters. Eleven Allied planes were lost. Paris was described as beautiful from the air, with targets clearly visible including the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.
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London
Paris
Renault Motor and Armament
RAF
Dominion
Allied
France
Holland
Norwegian
Renault Works
England
Seine River
Eiffel Tower
Hitler
British
Air Ministry
Eighth
U. S. Air Force
Essen
Krupp
Renault
Tliout FB
Paltfark
New Orleans
Seine
Arc de Triomphe
Romilly
Army Linguist Captain Quynn Arrives in North Africa
Captain Quynn an assistant professor of Ramenes Languages at Duke University arrived in North Africa. He completed about three months of intensive liaison training at Fort Meade with a group of linguists. They trained to conduct anti ary in French German Trailan and Spanish and he is attached to the Army headquarters staff in North Africa.
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Quynn
Duke University
North Africa
Fort Meade
Anitary
Army
Luftwaffe Interceptors Fail To Hit Returning Bombers Near Paris
American crews report German interceptors tried to bomb them during the Paris raid but missed. Nazi planes circled high over the Fortresses, dropping 2000 pound bombs at Essen, with heavy bomber losses and many aircraft not returning.
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Paris
France
Heaviest wartime raid on Essen reported
A cautious official communique described the Essen attack as heavy and concentrated, the heaviest yet on the city. The raid followed Berlin's second raid in three nights and Trier power station and railway workshops were hit in daylight.
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Essen
Germany
Berlin
Trier
Hitler
England
Eastbourne
Former French Leaders Taken To Germany
The Berlin radio said former French Prime Ministers Leon Blum Edouard Daladier and General Maurice Gamelin would be transferred to Germany to thwart a British American coup. Observers saw this as masking a real goal to prevent Allied use if freed by invasion. the men had been imprisoned by Vichy and faced the Riom war guilt trial.
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Preas
Berlin
Leon Blum
Edouard Datader
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Germany
Daladier
Gamtelin
Associated Press
Daladick
Bruin
Vilerives
Gamelin
France
Third Republic
Riom
Petain
Security Ministries Report On Air Attack Noting One Destroyed Plane
Security Ministries reported that one enemy plane was destroyed during the attack and said there were no reports of bombs being dropped. The statement emphasizes the limited damage and the incident's outcome.
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Security Ministries
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Atarkan Legion
Tommies
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el Alamein
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Stitely
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Renault Motor Works
Burall
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