Petitions To Put Sunday Sports Bills On Ballot Circulated
Frederick sponsors prepare petitions to place Sunday sports and movies bills on June ballot after general assembly approval. 25 percent of last municipal voters from 1940 must sign, about 1250 names, to require a vote. Separate petitions for sports or movies, supporters include factory reps and bowling interests, while ministers oppose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick City
General Assembly
John B. Funk
Senate
City Board of Election Supervisors
Robert L. Grove
Foes' Shipping Under Attack
London reports RAF fighters and Royal Navy planes attacking enemy shipping off the French coast last night, damaging three mercant vessels and five escort craft. One Navy plane bombed three ships near Dieppe, setting a target afire. R boats near Le Touquet were hit by cannon fire, with flashes after hits. Continent radio stations went off air as RAF bombers possibly flew overhead.
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London
Air Ministry
Germany
Europe
Dieppe
le Touquet
April Cold Weather Delays Garden Work
April's cold spell kept gardeners idle as winds howled and temperatures fell to 26 degrees on the high side and 24 at the low. The chill halted fruit frost and delayed farming tasks, contrasting with last year's warm spell when 87 degrees drew workers in shirt sleeves.
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Gariening
Millerand Dies Former Free France President at 84
London dispatch reports Alexandre Millerand former French president from 1920 to 1924 has died at Versailles at age 84. He had warned against German power after Hitler rose to power and in 1935 urged a two year arms conscription to counter the menace. He also spoke of France's low birth rate and the need for action.
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London
Berlin
Associated Press
Alexandre Millerand
Versailles
Millerand
Germany
Adolf Hitler
France
Community Gardens For City Urged
Dr. C. H. Mahoney of the University of Maryland urged city residents to pursue community gardens with near city plots. He advised soil improvement, proper fertilization, liming for most crops, and practical irrigation using a handmade hose line. He suggested edible soybeans broccoli and Brussels sprouts, warned against spinach and root crops, and outlined methods to extend the growing season from June to December.
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C. H. Mahoney
Department of
University of Maryland
Mahoney
Detroit
Bill reshapes Frederick County Roads Board membership
Emergency act clears changes in Frederick County Roads Board over five years. New appointees from minority party to be chosen by county commissioners, with two minority members required. 1945 term limits mean long-serving members can be replaced. Public hearings planned each December to review road work, triggering potential local disputes. New prohibitions ban using created tractors on improved roads, dragging logs, and filling ditches with briars, with fines up to 10 dollars and civil liability for damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County Roads Board
General Assembly
Roy M. Fisher
Cresgerstown
J. A. Engle
Kemptown
Rey Abbyans
Board of County Commissioners
William Hobbs
John B. Funk
Roads Board
Nersons
New Red Army Advances Push Nazis Back on Black Sea Front
Moscow reports a growing Red Army offensive in the Kuban delta with new successes against German positions. The midday communique claims large German defenses were shelled and over 600 enemy firing points destroyed. Earlier dispatches note Red Army advances into heavily fortified territory, reducing the German-held area along the Black Sea in the North Caucasus.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kuban
Black Sea
North Caucasus
Novoroszisk
All Saints Hosts Twentieth Tri-Diocesan Conference
All Saints Episcopal church hosts the twentieth annual Tri-Diocesan College Conference with about 30 Episcopal students from Maryland and the District of Columbia. Key figures include Tipe Ahetar BE Shamrin M rere tor and Bishop Noble C. Powell. The theme is Religion in a World At War, with registrations Friday, dinners, meetings, and Sunday morning communion led by Rev. Samuel Johnston and Rev. Henry Powers. Delegates arrive from University of Maryland Goucher Johns Hopkins Hood State Teachers colleges Frostburg Towson Blue Ridge Western Maryland George Washington University and other area churches.
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All Saints’ Episcopal Church
Maryland
District of Columbia
Tipe Ahetar
Shamrin M
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, D. C
Noble C. Powell
D. D
All Saints
Bishop Powell
St. Mary's
Conference
Samuel S. Johnston
Henry Powers
Nathaniel C. Acton
St. Andrew's Church
College Park
Fae Lenarions Jading Ash
Easton, Mayland
Columbia
University of Maryland
Goucher
Johns Hopkins
Hood
Frostburg
Towson
Blue Ridgs
Western Maryland
George Washington University
Local vigilante catches owl in New Market pursuit
Fragmented report describes C R Etaer capturing a predatory owl after a night chase near his prize wilds. The terse account mentions a steel trap and a dawn discovery, with unclear further details or names.
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C. R. Etaer
New Market
Etaier
Sundar
Mr. Eiac
Peach Crop Devastated by Cold Weather and Storm
Horticulturists report Eastern Shore peach and apple crops heavily damaged by a cold spell and Sunday night storm. Losses estimated at about 75 percent of the peach crop and substantial hits to apples, reducing total crop value from 2 million dollars to around 500 thousand.
Italians Halt Transfer Of U S Subjects In Occupied Zone
Bern reports Italians halted the transfer to Germany of 190 American and British citizens in a formerly unoccupied zone of France now controlled by Italy. French police had rounded up about 3,600 British and American citizens in Vichy France, with 100 gathered at Grenoble for transport to Lyon. Italians intervened, ordering guards to withdraw, and the captives were later released.
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Bern
Switzerland
France
Germany
Gazette de Loussannes
Luda
Gaxette
Grenoble
Lyon
Lausanne
United States
Great Britain
Orphans Court Salary Bill Not Introduced
A proposed measure to raise the salaries of Frederick County Orphans Court judges failed to be introduced in the General Assembly. The county delegation reportedly did not act after Governor O Conor's veto warnings and Attorney General Walsh’s claim the plan would be unconstitutional. The bill would have lifted three judges pay from four dollars a day to four dollars a day for a three day period, restoring levels from eight years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orphans Court
Frederick County
General Assembly
O Conor
William C Walsh
Walsh Wa
Brown Excused by Senate Agriculture Panel After Testimony
Washington April 6 The Senate Agriculture Committee brought Price Administrator Prentiss Brown before it for testimony under threat of subpoena and then voted to excuse him until Thursday morning.
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Browns
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Price
Prentiss Brown
Allied Ship Losses In March Worse Says Knox
Secretary of the Navy Knox stated Allied shipping losses in March were markedly higher than February due to intensified German submarine activity. He said February was among the war’s best months to date and did not signal a new peak in sinkings. Submarines are concentrating in the Middle Atlantic along U S routes to England and the Mediterranean as the U S rushes destroyers and related ships to counter the U-boat threat. The launch rate is improving amid engine shortages being resolved.
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Washington
Knox
Atlantic
the Atlante
Middle Atlantic
United States
England
Mediterranean
Red Cross Canteen Corps Feeds War Fund Workers
The Red Cross War Fund drive tested the local Red Cross Canteen Corps by feeding 450 workers over three dinners at the Evangelical Lutheran church costing 148 dollars funded by the committee. Dinners included a turkey, disaster meal, and chicken menu, with per plate costs of 41, 20, and 15 cents respectively. Meals supported two city orphanages, with Mrs F Russell Yount directing food prep and nine trained canteen workers plus eight aides contributing 272 hours.
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Red Cross War Fund
Red Cross
War Fund
Evangelical Lutheran Church
F. Russell Yount
Frederick
James F. Messersmuth
Red Cross Canteen Corpy
R. Ames Hendrickson
Congress Makes Slight Cut In Its Own Funds
Washington April 6 The Appropriations Committee recommended Congress operate with less money for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The committee proposed Senate funds of 3,995,528 and House funds of 9,527,595, an overall cut of 217,374 from the current year and 113,000 below prior estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Appropriations Committee
Congress
SAC
Senate
House
Allied Lightnings Strike Nazi Convoy and Tunisian Air Field
Allied air forces in the Mediterranean claim one destroyer sunk and multiple ships hit during a sea convoy attack near Trapani Sicily. Thirty-one enemy planes, including eighteen Junkers transports, were downed along with heavy bomber and fighter sorties that day, marking a major air battle with significant losses on both sides.
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Trapani
Sicily
North Africa
Junkers
Marshal Rommel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tunisian
Tunisia
Sicilian
Mediterranean
Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Admiralty
London
Algiers
United States
el Gudar
Paris
Palermo
Marsala
Rome
Akin Buibor
Algeria
Morocco
Mateur Mather
Biverte
Mountgomers
Xaon
Berlin
Bernard &. Montgomery
Eighth Army
U S Bombers Strike at Naples and Palermo
U S Liberator bombers from the Ninth Air Force struck Naples and Palermo as RAF planes joined at dusk. Reports noted hits on oil facilities near Naples and observed fires and explosions. Earlier in the day, 100 Fortresses based in French North Africa conducted a separate harbor raid, with subsequent air strikes on moles and military targets in Palermo.
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Cairo
Naples
Desert Air Force
Desert
Palermo
Sicily
Ninth
United States Air Force
Middle East
U. S
French North Africa
Vighienamole
U. S. Air Force
Ninth Air Force
RAF
Wad
Price violations charged in Newark indictments
New Jersey headquarters of the Office of Price Administration announced today seven mid western and New Jersey corporations and eleven individuals had been indicted here on charges of conspiracy to violate federal regulations governing meat prices and quotas on a nation wide scale.
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Newark
New Jersey
Office of Price Administration
Mid-West
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Free France
Alexandre Miller
Dr. Mahoney
U.S
Africa
Maknassy
Tri-Diocesan College
Patton
Wadi el Akarit
Gabes
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