Truman Seeks Vote For 18 Year Olds At Chicago Rally
President Truman urged extending the ballot to 18 year olds during an Army Day visit in Chicago. He argued educated youths can shoulder citizenship, opposed nine month draft extension, and backed universal training not as conscription. A 14,000 troop parade followed as security and dignitaries accompanied the president.
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Chicago
Truman
Missouri
Washington
Michigan Avenue
Red Diamond
John C. Prendergast
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stat
Carl Spaatz
Jacob L. Devers
Ami
LeRoy Lutes
Service Forces
Patterson
Union Station
United States
War Bride From Scotland Reunites With Husband In New York
A Scottish war bride Jean Rae and her American husband Sergeant Austin W. McGaha reunited in New York after 1945. They shared how London and Covent Garden memories, the trip over, and a 82 degree day stood out. Jean described Frederick and Lanarkshire sights while noting central heating, marshmallow sundaes, and local fruit abundance. Austin served with the 115th Infantry Headquarters Company in England, and they planned to live with his parents in Frederick until they find a home.
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New York
Austin W. McGaha
Jean Rae
Lanarkshire
Scotland
Frederick
Jean
Aberdeen
Austin
115Th Infquiry
England
Claude McGaha
West South Street
Keitel names three worst things he did under Hitler
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel testified before the international military tribunal listing three acts he considered his gravest, including ordering warfare in the Soviet Union, sanctioning the Gestapo execution of 30 British RAF POWs in 1944, and decreeing liquidation of patriots in occupied western countries. The prosecutor linked Keitel to Gestapo terror from 1942 to 1944, noting the brutal deportations of resistance leaders.
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Nuernberg
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
International Military Tribunal
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Gestapo
Hitler
Keitel
David Maxwell Fyfe
Germany
Fem 2
Frederick police cars hooked to new radio system test
All three Frederick city police cars now connected to the new radio system at Police Headquarters. Operators of two cars tested by talking 30 to 40 miles apart, one car 26 miles east of Frederick and the other near Salamander tower on the watershed northwest of the city.
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Frederick City
Salamander Tower
Frederick
Western Union starts steel tower for microwave arc transmission
Work begins on a 100 foot steel tower on city land at the Watershed as part of an experimental microwave transmission circuit for Western Union messages. The project is expected to take about five weeks to complete and the tower may also serve forest fire detection purposes.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Union
No Frost Spares Orchard District As Temps Stay Above
Orchardists breathed relief as temperatures stayed above freezing overnight with no frost reported. A low of 36 degrees accompanied a light breeze, keeping orchards safe in this section.
Coal Strike WIDENS Idle Mines and Railroads Across U S
Washington reports 400 000 miners idle as talks stall. Secretary Schwellenbach blocks weekend recess seeking speedier settlement on the six day old strike. West Virginia Power and Coke head proposes a panel. operators oppose. In Pittsburgh at least 12 000 added idle workers including 8 000 in U S Steel subsidiaries and coal carriers report interruptions. Emergency coal reserve allocations begin to reach hospitals and small utilities.
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Washington
Todey
Schwetlenbach
United Mine Workers
Schwellenbach
Risit
Charles Dorrance
West Virginia
Cop] and Coke Company
Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corporation
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Solid Fuels Administration
Hidden world hunger threat and Europe’s aging crisis
Mackenzie argues a hidden danger in world food shortages misleads Westerners while Europe faces potential mass starvation. He cites UNRRA Director La Guardia on 200 million affected and warns black markets worsen hunger, noting Austria’s relief gains and Soviet acreage cuts amid low caloric intake.
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Western Hemisphere
Orient
Europe
LaGuardia
UNRRA
London Daily Herald
Hiller
Mahatma Gandhi
Austria
Two Billions In Precious Metals Found In Tokyo Bay
Lt E V Nielsen of the dead military government unit led the recovery of platinum ingots worth about 2 billion yen in Tokyo Bay mud near a former Japanese maritime school. An informant, a geisha girl, claimed the bars were dumped to fund a postwar Japan build up. The discovery followed tips from Japanese shopkeepers and a laborer who worked dumping ingots.
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Tokyo
D2ad
Nielsen
Tokyo Bay
Japan
U. S. First Cavalry
Nielson
Bank of Japan
Bevin Agrees to Quad Foreign Ministers Meeting in Paris
London April 8 British Foreign spokesman said Bevin has agreed to a United States proposal for a meeting of British United States French and Russian Foreign Ministers on April 25 in Paris. The four powers will discuss postwar issues and security alignment amid growing wartime diplomacy.
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London
Ernest Bevin
United States
U. S
Paris
Two Youths Arrested For Theft Of Auto
Two youths from Rockwood aged 16 Dale Bittner and James Welsh were arrested near the Sand Hole on Buckeystown Pike about 10 30 this morning by State Police Sergeant W W Corbin. They admitted stealing a 1939 Ford en route to Washington and were placed in detention quarters in Montevue until word from Pennsylvania authorities.
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Rockwood
Tohnstown
Buckeystown Pike
W. W. Corbin
Montevue
Pennsylvania
Dale Bittner
James Welsh
Washington
Corbin
Buckeystown
Slain Girl's Red Dress Sought in Maryland Pennsylvania Case
Waynesboro Pa April 6 police broadened a search for a red dress tied to the slaying of 11 year old Betty Jane Kennedy whose nude body was found near Buchanan Trail highways. Investigators say she was seen with another man nine hours before her death and garrotting caused death. Coroner notes no traces of rope found. Family identified the body at a Waynesboro funeral home.
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Belly Jane Kennedy
Hagerstews
Hear Rouzerville
Paleo
Waynesboro
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Betty Jane Kennedy
Buchanan Trail
Hagerstown
Carl Hartman
Hartman
Nentwo Maila
Meland State Jing
Bolizerville
Charles C. Clark
S. D. Shull
Sadie Kennedy
Pauline Gonder
John B. Huyett
Washington County
Police still without word on Officer Patty missing in action
Chief Fred Staley said there is no information about Officer William Patty since he entered the Navy on March 16, 1942. Patty, appointed to the force in June 1941 after moving from Virginia, may have been discharged long ago and is believed to be working elsewhere. His parents reportedly moved away and friends have heard nothing. The department will keep his job open while status remains unknown. Meanwhile Baltimore’s Maj. Gen. M. S. Eddy announced Col. J. E. Maher of Baltimore as command inspector general.
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Fred Staley
William Patty
Batty
Patty
Virginia
Navy
Navy Department
Omcer Carl Rentzell
Department
Final Plans For Navy To Demobilize
The Navy released plans to end active service with a four phase demobilization. Highest point personnel will depart first with processing at separation centers by August 20. Quotas: 40 percent by July 1 to 7, 40 percent by July 15 to 28, 25 percent by July 28 to August 11, and 15 percent by August 12 to 20.
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Washington
Navy
Suplemwor
Wooley
R. D. Simpson Dies Suddenly in Frederick
R D Simpson longtime farmer and painter died suddenly at his home 514 Trail avenue aged 61 He had moved to Frederick in 1925 after 30 years farming near the Wallis farm Survived by wife Anna Florence Albaugh Simpson three sons Walter A Simpson Emmitsburg Paul D and Homer R Simpson two sisters Minnie W Jones and John H Albaugh six grandchildren Funeral set for Monday at 3 PM at 106 East Church Street with burial at Mt Oliver cemetery Etchison and Son directing
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Ridgley D.simpson-Werenow
Frederick
Trail Avenue
Mr. Simpson
Paul D. Simpson
West 12Th Street
Basil J. F
Laura J. Nusbaum Simpson
Wallis
Grave Evangelial
Lreluried Cehurch
Builders Bible Class
Sunday School
Simpson
Anna Florence Albaugh Simpson
Walter ‘A. Simpson
Emmitsburg
Paul D
Homer R. Simpson
Minnie W. Jones
John H. Albaugh
East Church Street
Mt. Oliver
M. R. Etchison and Son
Candidacy filings in early morning for local offices
Certificates of candidacy filed with the Board of Election Supervisors by Samuel Q. Ausherman Burkittsville for the House of Delegates on the Republican ticket Denver J Shook Frederick for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff Autry Browning Myersville filed for the Democratic State Central committee as the third candidate yesterday
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Board of Election Supervisors
Samuel Q. Ausherman
Burkittsville
House of Delegates
Denver J. Shook
Frederick
Autry Browning
Myersville
Democratic State Central Committee
Communists Enter Harbin Edge in North Manchuria
Pro government Chinese dispatches from Harbin report Communist troops reached the outskirts of Harbin on Thursday, marking a significant advance near the major city in North Manchuria.
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Harbin
Peiping
North
Manchuria
Poland Asks UN to Take Up Franco Issue
The Polish embassy urged the United Nations Security Council to sever diplomatic ties with Franco’s government. Warsaw radio said Poland would recognize the exiled Spanish Republican government of Jose Giral, citing threats to international peace and the defense Poles made for democratic Spain.
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Daciay Po
Juxt
Footy
Spain
Tyoshuaidhae Aakdied Oit Clan Rfeels
United Nalions
Republcan
France
United Nations
Franco
Miranda del Erbo
New York
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Iran
Tehran
Police Check West Patrick Sightings In McFarland Case
City police investigated a report that a man resembling Earl McFarland, the escaped killer, was seen on West Patrick Street trying to thumb a ride. No trace found. another man named Kenneth Charles Kile was held for FBI check, bearing no matching identifying marks. Officer Marshall Murray and Officer Douglas Stup led the efforts.
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Earl McFarland
Washington
West Patrick Street
Marshall Murray
West Patrick
Bentz Streets
McFarland
Kenneth Charles Kile
Scotia, N
Kile
Careful Cirls Kiss Demonstrates Germ Growth at American University
Washington report describes a science display at American University where a girl kissed a gel agar slab and germs multiplied in 24 hours. Laboratory staff explain bacillus subtilis and staphylococci are common, noting the exhibit aims to show facts rather than discourage kissing. Separate New York note reports moderately popular individual stocks with many readers cashing in profits.
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Washington
American University
Margaret Long
Pat Lanziliotti
New York
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Labor Department
Philadelphia
Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company
Budd Wheel Company
Budd Company
Edward G. Budd
Routerville
M. S. Eddy
Third Service Command
Col. J. E. Maher
R. D. Simpson
Poland
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