Restriction On Sale Of Autos May Be Relaxed Soon
Local dealers welcomed news that new car rationing may end within 30 to 60 days as the government prepares an OPA order to be effective April 29. Only five certificates have been issued since March 1, with a quota of 64 for the period, raising hopes that cars will soon be available to war workers and others connected to the effort.
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Washington
OPA
Kenneth M. Woerner
T. Edgie Russell
James B Besst
Frederick
RFC Aid
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate Banking Committee
RFC
Baltimore
Laval Starts Reign of Terror on Madagascar London
Dispatches report from Tananarive that Vichy authorities led by Laval have begun a reign of terror on Madagascar. Governor General Armand Annet and several officials are said to have arrested hundreds of De Gaullists and sympathizers with the Free French movement.
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London
Vichy
Madagascar
Free French Movement
Daily Express
Tananarive
Armand Annet
Pierre Laval
Germany
Annet
Detecting Devices For U S Coasts
Secretary of War Stimson said the Army is rapidly placing radio detector devices along U S coasts to signal hostile ships or planes beyond 100 miles. He cited tests at Fort Monmouth where an approaching plane 60 miles away was detected. The system uses electric eye like radio wave echoes to warn at night through fog or clouds.
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Washington
Stimson
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Fort Monmouth Signal Corps Training Center
German fear of Allied invasion rises in Western Europe
London April 23 German fear of Allied attack grows as Stockholm dispatches say Germans are tightening western front from Norway to France. Von Rundstedt moves to France with parachute troops while Berlin leaders warn of invasion but remain uncertain of Allied plans. British officials expect airborne raids on a diversionary scale and prepare to repel them.
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London
Boulogne
Stockholm
Berlin
Europe
von Rundstedt
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Runstedt
France
Britain
Norway
Oslo
Molde
Tromsoe
Dagens Nyheter
Opposes Suspension of 40 Hour Week
Washington April 23 Representative Engel Republican Michigan opposed suspending the 40 hour week for American industrial workers. He warned it would destroy property rights and mark the end of democracy and the start of totalitarianism.
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Washington
America
Rep. Engel
R-Mich
Three Acquitted in Railway Labor Act Case
In Peoria on April 23, President George P. McNear Jr and two Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad officials were acquitted by a Federal Court jury of charges they coerced union employees in violation of the National Railway Labor Act.
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Peoria
George P. McNear, Jr
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Chimney Fire at 740 North Market Street Is Quelled
The Juniors Citizens and Uniteds responded to an afternoon alarm to extinguish a chimney fire at 740 North Market Street US. Separately, the Department of the Interior reports that 1941 iron ore production reached a record high.
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Citizens
Uniteds
North Market Street
Department of the Interior
New Head Of Church Calls For Victory
Canterbury England April 23 AP Dr William Temple installed today as Archbishop of Canterbury in a bomb scarred cathedral. He declared that a German victory would end international fellowship and that defeating the Axis is necessary to keep open the possibility of a Christian civilization. Temple, formerly Archbishop of York, succeeds Cosmo Lang who resigned in January.
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Canterbury
England
William Temple
United States
Temple
All England
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Church of England
York
Defenders Of Timor Fight On In Southwest Pacific
Allied forces sustain combat on Timor interior as Australian and Dutch troops engage in heavy fighting on the island. Allied air strikes hit Rabaul docks and shore structures, while MacArthur meets Brett Blamey and Curtin to review recent air operations and Southwest Pacific activity.
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Australia
Timor
Rabaul
New Britain
Philippines
Corregidor Fortress
Panay Island
Cebu Island
Tokyo Radio
Asahi Today
Panay
Bulletin
Mindanao
Big Island
MacArthur
Brett
Douglas MacArthur
George H. Brett
CBS
Sir Thomas Blamey
John Curtin
Southwest
Pacific
Maps to be reviewed before public release by Army officials
Annapolis Maryland April 23 Governor O Conor said state surveys maps and charts would be submitted to Third Corps Area Army officials to ascertain if they contain information of interest to the enemy before they are published
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Annapolis
O'Conor
Third Corps Area Army
Anteaccident drive urged as national effort
President Roosevelt called upon the nation to aid a drive to prevent death and injury by accidents describing it as an integral part of the national war effort. The message was delivered in New York on April 23, urging public support and safety measures across the country.
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New York
Roocevelt
German reserves boosted by 1.9 million call up
Russian Foreign Affairs official S. A. Lozovsky announced at a press conference that Germany has called up 1.9 million reserves. The total includes 800,000 in two new classes, youths aged 17 and 18.
Japs Pushed Back South Of Yenangyaung Battle in Burma fronts shifts
British troops withdraw from Taungdwingyi as Chinese forces mop up near Yenangguang and push Japanese 3 to 4 miles south along the Irrawaddy. Stilwell’s command reports pressure on the Salween flank with fighting near Pyinmana and Loikaw as Japanese advance rapid on Loikaw while garrisons counterattack to prevent encirclement.
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Chungking
Irrawaddy
Yen-angguang
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Salween
Mandalay
Pyinmana
Pyiinmana
Zewe
Loikaw
Salween River
Laikaw Harrison
Secretary Reclaims Hat and Knitting Bag for Travelers
G Horton Peace of the local Chamber of Commerce has recovered two lost items in weeks of duty. He found a hat at a Washington restaurant after a Martin’s Ferry man breakfasted there en route to D C. He also located a Syracuse woman’s knitting bag at 1043 North Market Street. A soldier asks help locating deposited funds in a Frederick bank, which the chamber cannot yet resolve.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ohio
New York
U. S
G. Horton Peace
Martin's Ferry
Washington
Mr. Peace
Syracuse
Harrisburg raid seizes enemy alien homes and contraband
FBI agents raided 130 enemy alien homes in and near Harrisburg capturing maps and pictures of plants and bridges, propaganda, letters from relatives, magazines, and 18 radios. Authorities seized 1,700 letters from a Japanese household, 13 cameras, other firearms and ammunition, and arrested several for contraband in the state capital's first such action and third in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Harrisburg
FBI
John F. Sears
Sears
Pennsylvania
Bombing Raid on Rhine and Le Havre Marks St George Day
British bombers resumed raids on the Rhine land and Le Havre docks, with four planes missing, as London and Paris celebrate St George’s Day. Berlin claimed German damage and three raiders shot down while heavy Dover Channel artillery kept watch for German long range guns.
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London
Rhineland
le Havre
Air Ministry
Boulogne
England
St. George
Berlin
DNB
Germany
English Channel
Boomen
Dover Strait
Thames Estuary
English
Zeebrugger
Bruges Canal
Kaiser Wilhelm
Flanders
Plymouth
The
Daily Express
U S Bomber Fends Off Seven Japanese Planes
Sydney report recounts a Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett bomber protecting a crippled craft. Lieutenant Stanwood of Rhode Island dive boosted the pair to safety as gunners downed three of seven pursuing Japanese fighters before the surviving crew landed with the crippled plane.
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Sydney
Australia
George H. Brett
Stanwood
Rhode Island
Property to be sold to satisfy bond in Blake case
A Prince Georges county property will be sold on May 11 to satisfy a 2500 dollar bond tied to the Frederick county claim. The bail amount arose after George Wilson Blake fled city to avoid six criminal charges. State's Attorney Patrick M. Schnauffer said the property belongs to Jack T Brown, a bondsman, and was advertised for sale May 1. No new information from California authorities about Blake’s trial there. Blake was arrested on a minor California charge in February and posted a 100 dollar bond before being identified as the sought man here.
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Prince George's County
Frederick County
George Wilson Blake
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Tne
Jack T Brown
Schnauffer
California
Blake
Air Raid Alarm Across Copenhagen in Night Alert
German broadcasts report an air raid alarm in Copenhagen lasting about ninety minutes. Residents reportedly conducted themselves in exemplary fashion during the nighttime alert.
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Wupenwagen
Denmark
County Marine Featured In English Magazine Story
Mr and Mrs C H Wright of Doubs received a London magazine illustration featuring their son Carroll A Wright in Marine Corps uniform. Wright, 27, stationed in London since last summer as mail carrier and messenger, is one of thirteen siblings from Frederick County. The article recounts a day in London with Wright nicknamed Piwi, trading tales with Private Peggy Spencer and visiting landmarks, restaurants, and the Marble Arch Sports Gardens. Wright wears marksman and bayonet proficiency medals and the story notes his fondness for England and hamburgers there.
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Carroll A. Wright
London
C. H. Wright
Doubs
Carroll
Wright
Marine Corps
The
Frederick High School
Agriculture
England
Piwi
Philip Edward Prettyman
United States
Peggy Spencer
London District Signal Corps
Pici
Virginia
Peggy
U.S
Frederick County
Lincoln
Abraham Gincoin
Westminster
Huanen Swaffer
Marble Arch
Hitler
Royal Opera Trouse
Covent Garden
Prettyman
Nazis Shift To Defense On Southern Front In War Updates
Soviet front reports say German forces on the southern front have halted counterattacks and fortified positions after heavy German losses. A Red Star dispatch notes Italian detachment routs, limited fighting elsewhere, damaging a pontoon bridge, and massive German casualties in central sectors. Soviet navy claims two Axis ships sunk in Arctic waters as Red Army advances continue near Smolensk and Leningrad corridors.
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Kuibyshev
Russia
Red Star
Bryansk
Smolensk
Yukhnov
Pravda
Kalinin
Leningrad
Smo-lensk
Barents Sea
Soviet Information Bureau
Inflation Message Likely On Monday
The White House indicated President Roosevelt would send his anti inflation message to Congress on Monday. A fireside radio address on the same topic would be postponed to a later date. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said the president was drafting the speech and could send it to Congress Monday, with the radio chat to follow.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Stephen Early
Early
Union of South Africa Breaks With Laval Govt
The Union of South Africa severed diplomatic relations today with the Vichy government of France. Britain and Canada had limited contact. South Africa and other dominions maintained legations where possible.
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Union of South Africa
Laval
Pretoria
Union of
Two Soldiers Recaptured After Jail Escape Near Charles Town
Charles Town W Va April 23 two soldiers absent without leave from Fort Meade Md who escaped from Jefferson county jail ten days ago were recaptured near Charles Town. Trooper Lester Wolford said the men Poyates Bay Mumaw of Jefferson county and Char McDonald of Berkely were arrested yesterday near Mumaw’s father’s home. They offered no resistance and were returned to jail. They escaped by overpowering the guard while he was bringing a new mattress for their cell.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Fort George G. Meade
Jefferson County
Lester Wolford
Wolford
Decline Resumed On New York Stock Market
In New York on April 2306 the market resumed a long decline after four steady sessions. Leading issues fell fractions to about two points as selling dominated early trading. Top industrial shares faced offerings prompted by Washington hints that tax and inflation controls would approach fiscal limits.
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New York
Washington
Gasoline Cut Not To Be Drastic, Ickes Says
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes stated there is no justification for possible gasoline limits to 23 to 5 gallons weekly for eastern motorists. He said plans aim to supply as much gasoline as possible and denied any discussion of such a cut. He noted Henderson’s rationing plan, effective May 15, did not include the 2 4 to 5 gallon figure.
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Washington
Ickes
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Panay Island Holds Out Against Invading Forces
Asahi reports five to six hundred American and Filipino troops hold out in jungles near Mt Baloy on Panay Island. Resistance on the island largely lapsed except around the mountain as Domei cites Bataan Peninsula casualties and prisoners taken by Japanese forces.
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Tokyo
Baloy
Panay Island
Asahi
Panay
Itollo
Bataan Peninsula
Luzon
Domei
Philippines
Japan Takes Over French Shipping
A British spokesman reported that 50,000 tons of French shipping have been taken over by Japan, likely ocean-going vessels, with no public disclosure of information. A Free French authority said the Vichy government handed several ships in Indo China to the Japanese, who were negotiating for more.
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London
Japan
Vichy
Indo-China
Late C L Renns Stocks Sold At Public Auction For 10922 71
The estate of the late Charles L. Renn sold 79 shares of Potomac Edison preferred stock at $115 to $116 per share and 184 shares of Frederick County National Bank stock at $7 to $725 per share. Alfred Zimmerman, Ada V. Etzler, George White and Tollie Wachter were among the buyers. Auction conducted by William M. Storm for Farmers and Mechanics National Bank trustee at the Court House door. Dr David G Everhart Sr bought 100 Automatic Guns and 35 Durant Motors shares.
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Charles L. Renn
Court House
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank
Potomac Edison Company
Ada V. Etzler
Frederick County National Bank Common Capital
A. B. Collinus
Automatic Guns, Inc
Durant Motors, Inc
William M. Storm
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Pachave
U.S. Coasts
Yenangyaung
New Delhi
India
Taungdwingyi
Channel
Panay Island Holding Out
C. L. Renn
Bhuhiy
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