Recreation Area Bill Introduced in Congress
A bill to place the Catoctin Recreation Area within the Washington park system and reserve Shangri-La for the President would enlarge the park by 280 acres and open facilities to Washington and DC residents. Interior Undersecretary Oscar Chapman cited expanded camping for groups, while Maryland officials and antiquarians urged retaining state control and preservation of historic sites. The measure follows last year’s House passage but Senate inaction and faces local opposition over federal ownership.
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Maryland
Catoctin
Congress
Washington Park System
House of Representatives
Senate
Shangri-La
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Truman
Washington
District of Columbia
Chapman
Interior Department
Oscar Chapman
National Park Service
Associated Charities of Washington
Maryland League For Crippled Children
Kaylor
Washington Community Chest
Boys' Clubs, Community Center
Catoctin Ares
Catoctin Furnace
Fruit Escapes Damage From Frost In Maryland Belt
Western Maryland fruit belt narrowly escaped a killing frost as temperatures fell sharply after 8 pm. Charles O Dunbar of the University of Maryland Fruit Experiment Station noted a rapid drop from 68 to 31 degrees with clouds preventing heat loss, saving apples and peaches.
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Hancock
Maryland
Weather Bureau
Baltimore
Charles O. Dunbar
University of Maryland Fruit Experiment Station
Elm Street Junior High to present Elmcapades Friday night
The Elmcapades musical evening at Elm Street Junior High School features choir groups, sixth to eighth grade performers, and a range of instrumental numbers under director Charles C. T. Stull. Students Shirley Gaver Patsy Ecker Patty Brice James Taylor and others perform solos duets and dances with Mrs. Virginia Rogers and Mrs. Lillian S. Braungart directing choirs and groups.
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Elm Street Junior High School
Frank H. Lewis
Elmcapades
Charles C. T. Stull
the Rangers
Conway
DeLamater
Stallfort
Federer
Virginia Rogers
Nobel Cain
Woodbury
Verdi
Glee Club
Panis Angelicus
Cesar Franck
Klemm
Claire de Lune
Debussy
Lillian S. Braungart
O'Hara
Richard E Summers
Robert Leatherman
Miriam R. Lewis
Ruth Lambert
Patty Brice
Patsy Ecker
Barbara Sibert
Sharon Hooper
Barbara Bowlus
Elizabeth Shoemaker
Fiend Sought In Slaying
Detroit on April 21 state police report the arrest of 19 year old Theodore Hiller of Detroit for the brutal slaying of a six year old boy. The naked bruised body found behind a furnace in a hotel garage was identified as George Counter son of a factory worker. Police say a strip of cloth was tied around the neck and a broken bottle lay nearby. Investigators search for possible sex offender links and note the evidence points to a fiend. Stock headlines say American Telephone & Telegraph steadied after yesterday's drop near lows since 1943 amid dilution concerns.
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Detroit
Theodore Hiller
Donald S. Leonard
Hiller
George Counter
John Counter
New York
American Telephone & Telegraph
Cachet For Dedication Of Airport Frederick MD
About 500 letters have been collected for postmarking on May 1 in Frederick as the new Municipal Airport is dedicated. Collectors and others will receive envelopes stamped with the official cachet showing runways a plane and the inscription Frederick Municipal Airport Frederick Maryland. Airmail postage is required for all such envelopes. Local post office staff expect more arrivals from collectors nationwide as word of the dedication spreads.
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Frederick Municipal
Frederick Municipal Airport
Frederick
Maryland
Post Office
Life Sentences in Polk Murder Case Highlight Greek Trial
In Salonika a Greek court sentenced Gregory Staktopoulos to life for complicity in the murder of American CBS correspondent George Polk. Co defendants Mouzenides and Vasvanas were sentenced to death in absentia. Staktopoulos’s mother Anna was acquitted. Polk was killed last May during an interview attempt with Markos Vafiades, Greece’s rebel leader.
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Athens
Salonika
Gregory Staktopoulos
George Polk
Polk
Adam Mouzenides
Evangelos Vasvanas
Staktopoulos
Anna
Columbia Broadcasting System
United States
Salonika Bay
Markos Vafiades
Greece
Mine Owners Seek Early Talks Over Contract
Southern coal mine owners urged prompt talks on a new contract and warned that higher labor costs could curb production. Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers Association, served a termination notice to John L. Lewis, noting the present contract expires June 30. Normally Lewis initiates negotiations, but this time the owners moved first.
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Washington
Southern
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Warships Entitled To Be In Yangtze
A Foreign Office spokesman stated Britain may send warships into China’s inland waters with Chinese government consent, likening it to China’s right to deploy ships on the Thames with British approval. Elks donate $300 to Frederick Sports, Inc. for McCurdy Field athletic center development.
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London
Foreign Office
Yangtze
Britain
China
River Thames
ELKS
Frederick Lodge No
Frederick Sports, Inc
McCurdy Field
Baltimore Car Crash Kills One Identified as John Trimmer
A 1 year old man was killed early today when the car he rode in struck a pole and burst into flames. Police identified the victim as John Trimmer of Baltimore.
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Baltimore
John Trimmer
Bombing Encyclopedia Reveals Enemy Target Data
Washington reports Air Force intelligence is preparing a bombing encyclopedia to list world targets of strategic importance. The volume, doubling since last summer, includes target importance, city installation details, maps, secondary aiming points, and weapon estimates. Special weapons, including atomic bombs, are discussed for mass destruction of large targets and populations.
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Washington
Air Force
Congress
Russia
Five Miles Of New Road To Be Constructed
The State Roads Commission announces the first five mile section of a planned U S Route 240 between this city and Washington will be built this year in Frederick county. The reinforced concrete dual highway is estimated at 2.5 million dollars and will start at the junction of U S Routes 15 and 240 at Evergreen Point, extending toward Urbana. Bids for the initial section are expected later this year as survey plans move forward from Frederick to Brink in Montgomery county.
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Washington
State Roads Commission
Frederick County
Evergreen Point
Urbana
Frederick
Brink
Henderson's Corner
Montgomery County
Meat prices ease as spring supplies hit markets
The Associated Press reports lamb and veal prices edging downward this week while vegetables mostly fall and dairy stays steady. Consumer meat purchases around Easter were weak in several cities, leaving wholesalers with higher stocks. Pork and lamb lead declines, hog prices in Chicago hit lows not seen since 1946, and wholesale pork may drop further next week. Veal prices ease as spring vealers arrive. beef remains modestly higher in some cities.
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Associated Press
Chicaco
Agriculture Department
Uphill battle for free flow of news at ASNE meeting
Washington reports President Canham warned at the ASNE annual meeting that efforts for a United Nations freedom of information accord may leave the United States farther back. He said proposed amendments would turn earlier agreements into tools of new press controls and limits. Moscow reports inventors claim credit for sound movies. Five University of Virginia students paid fines from 28 to 250 dollars after a tavern brawl following the Navy Virginia lacrosse game in Annapolis.
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Washington
Erwin D. Canham
American Society of Newspaper Editors Today
ASNE
Canham
University of Virginia
Annapolis
Red Cross Drive Surpasses Goal in Frederick County
Frederick city and county exceeded its Red Cross drive quota by more than six thousand dollars with totals of 16,626.22 against a 10,000 goal. City receipts reached 11,310.97 and county pledges 5,315.25 under Dr Edwin H. Sponseller and John A. Derr. National tally stands at 62,200,000 from 3,741 chapters. Next meeting July 13 will elect officers.
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Frederick
American Red Cross Fund
Charles A. Price
Frederick County
Y. M. Cla
Red Cross
Edwin H. Sponseller
John A. Derr
E. Roland Harriman
Richard F. Nallin
Toleration Act Is Commemorated in Maryland
In St. Marys City on April 21 officials from faiths, civic and political groups gathered to honor Maryland’s 1649 Toleration Act. Governor Lane and former Senator Radcliffe led speakers praising the act as a landmark for religious freedom and conscience amid diverse beliefs across the state.
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St. Mary's City
Free State of
Maryland
William Preston Lane, Jr
U. S
George L. Radcliffe
Miners Sit Down Strike Spurs 6000 Absent Work
In Lansford Pennsylvania 6000 anthracite miners stayed home in support of a sit down strike linked to 10 diggers. Two thousand quit Lehigh Navigation Coal Company operations yesterday with 4000 more following today per United Mine Workers call for a stay home protest until pay deduction grievances are settled. A separate Donora smog test neared its end as winds cleared fumes and reports of illness waned. Konni Zilkucas, a leftwing British legislator, told a World Peace Congress that British workers will not be drawn into fighting the Soviet Union.
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Lansford
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company
United Mine Workers Panther Valley Committee
UMW
Donora
Webster
Monongahela River
U.S. Public Health Service
Paris
Konni Zillacus
World Peace Congress
Workers of
Britain
Soviet Union
Crossings of Yangtze Reported by Communist Forces
Beijing dispatch reports Communist forces crossing the Yangtze to sever Nationalist territory as British warships move toward the area. Mao and Chu Teh urged troops to liberate all China in a broadcast while Red forces threaten Nanking and the capital remains under discussion for possible peace terms.
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Nanking
Yangtze
Tiliang
Wuhu
Tottering
Mao Tze-Tung
All
China
Communist
Mao
Red
Chu Teh
Peiping
Artilery
Lenion
Chiang Kai-Shek
Polping
Converge On Bandits Hideout In Tennessee
State patrols and FBI moved on a rural Tennessee area after a tip that two bank robbers from West Virginia were inside a house. James Bennett, 22, and Carl Close, 31, were named as the suspects, armed and believed to be inside with pistols and submachine guns.
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Nashville
Tenn
Middle Tennessee
West Virginia
FBI
James Bennett
Carl Close
Follansbee
W. Va
Rats Outwitted in Farm Drum Trap Tale
Long report from Adamstown about George William Hoffman Jr capturing twenty one rats by luring them into a metal drum and sealing it. He emptied the barrel of corn prompting the rats to fall into the drum and die at dawn while Hoffman notes daily ledgers.
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George William Hoffman, Jr
Frank Thomas
Adamstown
Hoffman Long
Mr. Hoffman
Negro Shot and Killed by State Trooper at 90 Mile Chase
Millington, April 21. State Trooper Marlin Clevenger killed Harris Wilmer, 26, of Cecilton, after a 90 mile per hour chase in Cecil County near the Maryland Delaware line. Wilmer and three companions fled a motor vehicle stop. after he refused to halt, Clevenger fired striking Wilmer as the others surrendered.
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Millington
Ceed County
Harris Wilmer
Cecilton
Marlin Clevenger
Wilmer
Cecil County
Maryland-Delaware
Clevenger
Nationality Of Destroyer Was Clear From Flags Displayed
Shanghai April 2 1943 Communist shore batteries fired on the British destroyer Consort for two hours NE of Nanking. Lieut J F Birk of Torquay described seven large flags on the Consort, denying misidentification. The ship returned fire with 230 rounds and indicated eight gun emplacements were knocked out, with over 60 casualties. Consort could not approach Amethyst due to heavy fire. Lieut Jack Consadine said Amethyst lay aground with a skeleton crew and a mostly out of action bridge. The Amethyst appeared dead or wounded onboard.
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Shanghai
J. F. Birk
Torquary
Devon
England
Yangtze
Nanking
Birk
Dirk
Jack Consadine
Lowestoft
Suffolk
New Train Demonstrated by American Car & Foundry
ACF unveiled a train built of 20 foot units mounted on two rear wheels, linked like trailer sections. Passengers sit 18 inches above rails with a 40 inch unit center of gravity, far lower than standard cars. Aluminum use and lighter undercarriages cut weight to under a quarter of current equipment, promising stability on curves.
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New York
American Car & Foundry Co
ACF
57 Died In Chile From Severe Quake
Chile reports 57 dead and 150 injured from a south central quake centered on Traiguen and Angel. Forty five fatalities were inmates in jails. Property damage runs into thousands of dollars. The disaster recalls 1939 Chillan devastation.
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Santiago
Chile
Ministry of the Interior
Traiguen
Angel
Chillan
Two More British Ships Hit In Yangtze Conflict
April 21 22 reports from Shanghai say British cruiser London and sloop Black Swan were damaged after shelling by Communist shore batteries below Nanking on the Yangtze. Amethyst suffered heavy casualties with 20 dead and 30 to 40 wounded aboard, while Consort repairs in port evacuated 16 wounded and 10 dead. Surviving crews reached Shanghai as 300 believed dead across four ships.
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Shanghai
London
Black Swan
Shanhhai
Nanking
Yangtze River
Consor
Bates Point
Beaver Island
Hong Kong
Suderland
David Heath
Heath
Belfast
Constance
Yangtze
London Admiralty
Drove Drunk Fined $100 In a Short Court Session
In People's Court Magistrate Manuel M. Weinberg found Edward Keith Roudabush guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence after testimony from Trooper C. H. Dewitt. Roudabush, 34, Baltimore, received the minimum $100 fine linked to a Route 40 crash April 19. Trooper Dewitt testified. A separate assault case against Melvin P. Shank resulted in a 30 day suspended sentence. Collateral forfeitures included multiple traffic fines. Arresting troopers were R. A. Myers and Chas McLane. Also reports no plant shutdown rumors at Celanese Ameelle plant.
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People’s Court
Manuel M. Weinberg
Edward D. Storm
Edward Keith Roudabush
Baltimore
Roudabush
Frederick
Storm
C. H. Dewitt
Melvin P. Shank
Middletown
A. M. Rudy
J. H. Rouzee
Joan C. Bartlett
West Patrick Street
Earl Dorland Osborne, Jr
Watkins Acres
Harold J. Goodwin
Westminster
Jesse Jerome Snyder
Mt. Airy
Jay Drumemond
Elm Street
R. A. Myers
Chas McLane
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Legion
American Legion
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Maryland Legion
Perry Brown
Herbert A. Goode
Portland
Ore
Elm Street School
Moscow
Evening Moscow
Red Cross Drive
Drive Keynote
Western Maryland Railway
Eugene S. Williams
Beltsville
Consort
General Assembly
Nuernberg
Germany
Bamberg
Cumberland
Harrison C. Givens, Jr
Celanese Corporation of America
Ameelle
Niwas AD
Brn
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