Train Attendant Says Killer Could Not Flee After Slaying Bride
Albany April 24 The man Folkes on trial for murder was seen in the dining car galley early morning as Porters and conductors described a knife wound in the victim Mrs. Marthe Virginia James 21. Witnesses testified the killer could not have escaped the Pullman train. Ensign James widower identified his wife at the Seattle station before she rode toward California. The defense argued Folkes was at work in the galley when the murder occurred.
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Albany
Ore
Marthe Virginia James
Pullman
W. H. Banks
Robert E. Lee Folkes
Banks
Folkes
Ead
Huy
Richard Floyd James
Seattle
San Diego
California
Lomax
Robert Folkes
James
Nathaniel Lincoln Shaw
Porter H. OM. Hughes
Portland
Harold Wilson
Shaw
Wilson
Porter Hughes
Union Loses Election at Station Furniture Plant
The National Labor Relations Board dismissed a United First Workers of America CIO petition for certification after an election at Station Furniture Manufacturing Company Hazerstown on March 23. Of 73 employees, 47 voted against the union, leaving no certified bargaining representative.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
United First Workers of America
CIO
Station Furniture Manufacturing Company
Hazerstown
Baltimore
Witn
War Interpreted By Glenn Babb North Europe invasion chances rise
The article discusses looming Nordic war dynamics as Norway, Finland, and Sweden face invasion fears and strategic choices. It highlights Norway's revolt, Haakon's appeal for liberation, and the hope of Allied moves against Nazi Europe, with Sweden weighing arms and neutrality amid pressure. It notes naval routes, U boats, and potential impacts on Russia and the Atlantic war effort.
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Mediterranean
Hitler
Europe
Liatins
Norway
Haakon Broadcas
Finlana
Hite Jer
Swerl‘en
Scandinavia
United Nations
Hijer
Sare
Murmansi
Russia
Soviet Union
Norwestian
Doenitz
Flotilas
Grand Fleet
Tirpitz
Alles
Found Guilty On Drunken Driving Charge
Paul Thomas Wilbide, 18, of 16 East Second Street, was found guilty of drunken and reckless driving by Magistrate Alton Y. Bennett in Police Court last night and fined $105. The case featured seven youths who testified that Wilhide appeared sober Sunday morning, around 12:30 to 1:? o'clock, at a West Patrick Street night spot. He was arrested around 2:15 a.m. and is scheduled to leave for Army service Monday after recently passing a final physical. Collateral fines were imposed for expired license, towing a trailer without a tail light, and speeding, totaling a small sum.
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Paul Thomas Wilbide
East Second Street
Alton Y. Bennett
Benet
Wilhide
West Partick Street
Bennett
E. Austin James
City Hall
James
Frank Dorsey
Fred Lewis
East Third Street
Elmer Hall
Dill Avenue
Charles Barger
West Patrick Street
Harry Jackson
West Third Street
Robert Sheets
Richard Robert Powell
South Market Street
George Long
Clarence T. Mill
North Bente Street
This City
Luke R. Kramer
Mechanicsville
Lawton Courtney
Harrisburg
LA Dib
EA Geame
East Seventh Street
City
Reck
Review of Seventh Maryland State Guard Battalion Ceremony
Gov. Herbert R. O’Connor and Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord will inspect the Seventh Battalion Maryland State Guard at Silver Spring National Guard Armory on April 7 at 11:30 a.m. The event honors the battalion for rifle range score at Camp Ritthie, with related commissions, ribbons, and a collective inspection of 38 companies.
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Herbert R O'Connor
Maryland
Milton A. Reckord
Third Service Command
D. H. Mohr
Maryland State Guard
Adijutan
Francis Perrott
Silver Spring Naonal Guard
O'Conor
Montgomery
Frederick
Howard Counties
Albert C. Ritthie
State Guard
Forest Fire Destroys Oak Hickory and Poplar near Burkittsville
A forest fire two miles south of Burkittsville Friday afternoon burned eleven acres on the property of Mrs. Gertrude Lee and Robert Staley. District Forest Warden Herman D. Toms and local help fought the blaze for three hours and blamed a brush fire started by Mrs Julian Smothers. The 68-year-old woman’s son Fred Smothers, living nearby, has promised to pay suppressing costs.
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Burkittsville
Gertrude Lee
Robert Staley
Herman D. Toms
Toms
Julian Smothers
Fred Smothers
Allied raid damages Madang as planes destroyed
Six Japanese aircraft were shot down in a raid on Madang New Guinea. Allied forces fired 63 000 rounds of cannon and machine guns destroying two bombers and four fighters. Madang lies on the north coast of New Guinea about 354 miles northwest of Port Moresby.
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SIN Jas
Australia
Madang
New Guinea
High Command
AM Gadderers
Port Moresby
Navy to double size in 1943 as war loan rally vows gains
Indianapolis April 9 1943 Secretary Knox declares the Navy will more than double its fighting ships in 1943 over 1942 total. He outlines a surge in carriers destroyer escorts and aviation, predicting greater tonnage and a qualitative rise in fleet striking power, with aircraft production soaring and auxiliary vessels doubling.
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Indianapolis
ASV
Isleh Wat Thay
United Navy
Knox
Navy
Navy Air Arm
Considerably More Births Than Deaths in Maryland
Maryland’s February bulletin shows 3,478 births to 1,990 deaths, with white births 2,844 and Negro births 634. City of Baltimore led in births and deaths. counties reported 1,728 births and 948 deaths. Diseases totaled 5,042 with syphilis 1,494 and chickenpox 315. Efforts urged better infant diarrhea prevention.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Department of Health
Baltimore City
Dinner And Reception To Honor Potentate Cumberland
A dinner and reception will honor Byron Guy Winebrewer of Frederick, noted potentate of All Ghan Sarwe Temple. The event at Alt Ghan Shrine Country Club includes dinner at 6 30 p m and a 7 30 p m presentation of his potentate and divan. Special entertainment by Prof Narlan Randa and Mrs Hester Proven sen, with J Milton Patterson of Baltimore, and Maryland welfare officials. Cards and prizes after 10 p m, with ambiance and attire noted.
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Cumberland
Byron
Guy
Frederick
Alt Ghan Shrine Country Club
Narlan Randa
Hester Provensen, Gramam
Toa University of Maryland
Woc Bern
University of Marytone
J. Milton Patterson
Baltmore
Maryland Department of Pete Welfare
Anti-Inflation Orders Hit Grain Pits In Chicago
Wheat prices plunged to multiweek lows as Roosevelt anti-inflation orders unsettled grain markets. Trading remained heavy and volatile with fears of ceilings below parity, while corn, oats, soybeans and haylisted showed wide price ranges and nervous activity throughout the session.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Timothy
Vesper Speaker Rev Elmer H Zange to Speak at Hood Callese Vesper
Rev Elmer H Zange Ph D will speak at Hood Callese vesper Sunday at four in Bredbeck Hall He formerly dean of North Japan College Sendai Japan and earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1914 He has served as a Reformed Church missionary in Japan and now works for the War Department Also listed are an organ recital by H T Wade a choir under Paul Beckhelm and artwork by Stella Campin featuring spider web oil paintings
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Elmer H. Zange
Bredbeck Hall
Zangg
North Japan College
Sendai
Japan
Heideberg College
Heidelberg Seminary
Tijin
University of Chicago
The
Reformed Church
United States
Zaurg
America
War Department
H. T. Wade
Thy Cao
Paul &. Beckhelm
Labor Loses Fight Against Hobbs Bill
Washington reports that organized labor lost its first legislative battle of the 78th Congress as the House passed the Hobbs bill to make robbery and extortion punishable under the 1934 Anti-Racketeering Act by a 270 to 107 vote. The debate featured a rejected Celler amendment aimed at preserving unions’ legal rights under existing laws. The vote followed intense testimony from labor leaders and lawmakers praising or opposing the measure, which Congress supporters framed as necessary to curb labor excesses. Also noted, local supervisors held a Friday night meeting to organize and elect a president with appointments for attorney and clerk deferred.
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Organized Labor
House
Senate
American Federation of Labor
Rep. Celler
D-Ny
Norris-LaGuardia
Rep
Hobbs
D-Ala
Celler
Judiciary Committee
Cellers
Gelee
New Yorker
Supreme Court
New York
Tamarr
Halleck
R-Ind
Walter
D-Pa
African Invasion Hero Hine Aids North African Campaign
Brother of Luther R. Hine from Burkitsville joined the North Africa invasion. He served with the force that held positions in Casablanca and is currently stationed somewhere in North Africa.
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Pic. Hine
Luther R. Hine
Burkitsville
North Africa
Casablanca
Four Allied Ships Lost In Japs Attack At Guadalcanal
Washington reports four Allied ships lost during a Japanese air attack near Guadalcanal. A destroyer, a corvette, and a tanker were sunk or damaged, with a small fuel boat also lost. Japanese claims of ship sinkings were disputed by the US Navy which also noted 37 planes then 24 enemy losses and tallied Solomons casualties and overall Allied ship losses to date.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Lee Navy
Solomons Islands
United States
Navy
Imperial Tokyo
Solomons
I I
Canberra
Rockville Man Prisoner Named By War Department
Washington reports two Maryland soldiers listed as prisoners of war of the Japanese by the War Department. Staff Sgt. Virgil P. Busse of Maier, Cumberland area, and Pvt Lloyd C. Shumaker, whose mother Tessie Shumaker lives on Route 2 in Rockville, are among 230 U. S. soldiers cited as POWs.
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Rockville
Washington
Maryland
War Department
Virgil P. Busse
Maier
Bering Burns
Cumberland
Lloyd C. Shumaker
Tessie Shumaker
U. S
Calamity To Strip States Of Powers Calamity To Strip States Of Powers
Maryland Governor Herbert R. O Conor warned that federal encroachment threatens state sovereignty. Speaking at a regional council meeting he urged preserving dual government and argued for coordinated planning among private interests and all levels of government to meet postwar challenges.
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New York
Herbert R. O'Conor
Maryland
National Council of State
Anume
Guy
O'Conor
O Conor
Committee to Act on Court Room Work Named
Leslie N. Coblentz William M. Storm and Alton Y. Bennett were named to a committee to make recommendations for improvements to the Circuit Court room at a Frederick County Bar Association meeting. The panel will report to the County Commissioners. Debate favored removing the clerk’s desk and placing the witness stand before the judge’s desk. The association praised Frederick County delegates for opposing the Bond bill and noted Senator John B. Funk’s support of it. Jacob Rohrback urged adoption of the resolution praising Delegates Richard E. Zim merton and W. Jerome Offutt for opposing the Bond bill. Deputy Register of Wills Harry D. Radcliff said he is not seeking candidacy for City Register in the upcoming municipal election amid Republican push.
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Leslie N. Coblentz
William M. Storm
Alton Y. Bennett
Frederick County Bar Association
Frederick County
John B. Funk
Jacob Rohrback
Richard E. Zimmerton
W. Jerome Offutt
Register of Wills
Harry D. Radcliff
City Register
Mr. Radcliff
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