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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1948
Page
10
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The piece reports on the Eastern States regional mixed pair championship won by Mrs. Helen Levy and Max N. Schwartz. It highlights a hand where Schwartz explains a bid and a sequence where declarer protects against losing spades and hearts, detailing a series of ruffs and cashing of high cards to force East’s queen and maximize tricks.
Henry R. K. Shoemaker reports wheat and barley promising in most county areas despite thin stands. Frost and winter kill limited by snow cover, but fruit frost damage noted with cherries and apricots hit hardest. Average frost date about April 20, with risk of further freezing. Joe Pou, Maryland Extension Dairyman, visits dairy herds and praises Frederick county producers while outlining cooperative breeding sites and Jersey and Ayrshire lineages. March sets new herd-breeding record for the cooperative.
Grange groups vote to donate to Cancer Fund and Red Cross drive while expanding Grange expansion funds. Lecturers program features entertainment and ritual reports. meetings occur on the second and fourth Thursdays with 31 members present. Other notes include youth activity reports, health committee talks, and a card party planned to raise funds. Carloadings drop due to coal strike in Baltimore and Ohio rail service.
Gen Franz Halder testified at a war crimes trial that a group of top German Army officers plotted to overthrow Hitler in 1938. He said the plan would have involved Potsdam and Berlin garrisons and a tank division seizing the Reich Chancellery, but the Munich conference ended the move as peace appeared likely. He noted later efforts to assassinate Hitler and the group’s retreat after Munich. The hearing also covered Russia threats and proposed pipeline expansions by Sea board and Transco with targeted routes from West Virginia to Maryland.
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