Thomas Is Given Two Years For Plane Sabotage
Harvey Lee Thomas a 21 year old former Naval aircraft inspector at the Glenn L Martin plant was sentenced to two years for sabotaging planes. Federal Judge William C Coleman recommended Petersburg Virginia as the place of confinement but the final decision rests with the U S District Attorney's office. Thomas formerly studied at Franklin and Marshall and Blue Ridge colleges and was convicted on four counts after admitting to damaging electrical parts of Martin planes. He argued defects would be fixed by workers.
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Baltimore
Harvey Lee Thomas
Glenn L. Martin
Martin
William C. Colegan
Thomas
Petersburg
U. S. District Attorney's Office
Thase
Coleman
Adamstown
Franklin and Marshall and
Blue Ridge Colleges
Charles Moylan
T. Barton Harrington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Draf T
No Important Fighting Reported From Russia
Moscow reports no major engagements on the front with German forces probing several sectors in the Kuban delta and Donets river areas. The mid day communique notes 100 Germans killed in a minor action on the Donets front and 74 in a light engagement on the western front amid scattered artillery activity.
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Moscow
Kuban
Caucasus
Donets River
What A Small War Bond Will Pay For
The piece explains the value of war bonds, noting that an $18.75 purchase toward a $25 bond covers six steel helmets or feed for 75 carrier pigeons for a month. It also states that buying two $235 war savings bonds for $1975 directs $18 toward guns, planes, or other equipment, per the Treasury.
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Treasury
Maryland special board screens inmates for induction
A special selective service board appointed by Governor O'Conor prepares to review all male inmates in Maryland penal and correctional institutions to recommend worthy cases for acceptance by military authorities for induction into the armed forces.
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Annapens
Special Selective Service Board
O'Conor
Maryland
German Losses In Africa Enormous
Allied headquarters in North Africa said German losses from January 1 to April 15 totaled 66,000 men killed wounded and captured. The period also saw 250 ships 3,000 vehicles 125 guns and 35 aircraft destroyed or lost.
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North Africa
McNair Wounded in Tunisia Helmet Saves Life
General Lesley J. McNair sustained a scalp wound and a severe shoulder injury when shell fragments pierced his helmet at a forward observation post in northern Tunisia. Eisenhower reported the helmet saved his life. evacuation to the United States is planned within days. Lt. Gen. Ben Lear will retain command of Army ground forces in Washington.
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Washington
Lesley J. McNair
Tunisia
War Department
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
General McNair
Eisenhower
McNair
United States
Ben Lear
Break With Finland Near Break With Finland Near Stockholm
A United States Finland diplomatic rupture appeared imminent with Helsinki signaling little chance of change in policy. Finnish officials called American demands for Russia ties and withdrawal from the war unacceptable, while Washington reportedly broke relations only as a possibility.
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Stockholm
United States
Finland
Helsinki
Russia
Germany
Washington
U.S
Robert Mills McClintock
Foreign Office
McClintock
Kelsinki Today
Easter Air Raid Alerts End in Los Angeles
The April 26 blackout siren marked the sixth air raid alert since Pearl Harbor and the fifth night blackout in Los Angeles. At 8 30 p m the alarm began and at 9 26 p m the air defense command ordered the alerts as targets were identified as friendly.
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Los Angeles
Nowids
California
Pearl Harbor
Los Angeles Air Defense Command
Fifty-Two Men Named for Final Army Examinations
Local draft board released 44 white and colored registrants for final physicals and probable induction in Baltimore. Among them are 25 Frederick city men and two conscientious objectors, with seven day furloughs for those accepted for service. One registrant from Johns Hopkins is slated for Army Air Corps pre meteorological training.
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Baltimore
Frederick City
Navy
Marine Corps Iin
Army
James Sam‘tel Parker Trout
Mt. Olivet Boulevard
William S. Ray
East Church Street
William Stewart Lambdin
Matter Avenue
Johns Hopkins University
Army Air Corps
Kenneth Foster Fagan
College Avenue
Charles William Yinger
West Fifth Street
Earl Reginald Moberly
Din Avenue
Robert Kenneth Danner
North Market Street
Edmund Kirby Secord
Washington
Frederick
Edward Nathaniel Wachier
Park Place
Elvin Markwood Keller
Middletown
Richard Newton Conrad
Brunswick
Carroll Edward Gigzard
CCC
Paul William E*worthy
Seth Denat Elmer Linnoce Wharton
Sreet
Robert Lee Gross
Dewitt Austin Harp. Jr
Eart
Ralph Wiliam
West Sixth Street
Aschvillé
Earl A Groys
Buckeystown
William Gibson
Walter Willard
Rogie
Hart Valentener Millberry
Doubs
Clinton Jacobs
Louisville
Jefferson
Carl Wesley Nichols
Patrick Street
Antonio Ferguson Wagner
Broadway
James Audrey Nickens
West All Saints Street
Edward ‘Benson Campbell
West I Street
Anton
Navy denies Ranger sunk as claims of German torpedo spread
The Navy refuted German broadcasts alleging the aircraft carrier Ranger had been torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic. A spokesman stated no U S carrier was sunk or damaged and noted the Ranger, built at Newport News in 1933, was the first US ship designed as an aircraft carrier.
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Navy
Ranger
Washington
North Atlantic
United States
Bertrado
North
Atantic
von Buctow
Bertin
Atlantic
Newport News
Russia Breaks Relations With Polish Govt In Exile
Soviet Russia severed ties with the Polish government in exile accusing it of German collaboration in a hostile campaign. The dispute follows German charges that 10,000 Polish officers were killed near Smolensk. Washington voiced regret over the rupture.
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Moscow
Soviet
Rusia
Soviet Union
Smolensk
Washington
State Department
Russia
Japan's Ambition To Conquer U S Stirred Union College Crowd
Joseph C. Grew former Ambassador to Tokyo warned at Union College commencement that Japanese militarists seek to invade and conquer the United States. He urged crushing the threat while praising Americans of Japanese origin and noting dire peril from Japan's unitary military power.
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Schenectady
Japan
United States
Joseph Co. Grew
Tokyo
Union College
Thea Mabe
Grew
Hull
Laval
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Brehon B. Somervell
Walter F. George Dga
Cecil. Brown
Edward Johnson
Metropolitan Opera Company
United Nations
Assei
Explosives Filled Freighter Sinks in Upper Bay
Explosives filled freighter rests on the bay bottom off Bayonne New Jersey after a fire gutted her hold. Water poured in through the seacock and the ship lay smoking as Civilian Defense officials watched for hours Friday night and Saturday until towage began down the Hudson.
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New York
Bayonne
N. J
Hudson River
Notable Residents List with Addresses in Several Cities
A compiled notice lists George William Moore Harrisburg Edward Detourer 20 South Court Street Emory Weedon Jefferson Bernard Gray Baltimore formerly Frederick Clarence Whiten 123 Tee Street Arthur Ford 428 Middle Alley and Frank Makel 21 West Sixth Street. The fragmented OCR reads as a roster of names and associated addresses across multiple locations.
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Brunswick
George William Moore
Harrisburg
Frederick
Roy Enogene
Sheep slaughter by dogs hits Marion England pens
Easter Sunday tragedy near Marion England between Urbana and Monrovia as stray dogs killed 39 sheep and lambs. England shot two of the trio. county officials inspect and estimate losses at $300 plus, with damages to be billed to the county. Some wool salvageable, meat may be unusable due to mutilation.
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Marion
England
Urbana
Monrovia
Charles Ggeisbert
RAF In Fresh Night Attack On Naples Port
Heavy RAF bombers attacked Naples again saturay night striking near the railway station steelworks and ship yard. Long range fighters reportedly set an enemy schooner ablaze in the Tonian Sea. All planes returned safely from the operations.
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Cairo
Naples
Middle East
Tonian Sea
Lewis declines to name labor member on WLB three man panel
New York April 26 John L Lewis president of the United Mine Workers refused to nominate a labor member to a three man War Labor Board panel. WL B plans hearings on the soft coal wage dispute as operators and miners parties attended a preliminary session. Lewis offered no explanation, stating a policy committee would meet tomorrow to issue a statement. Sporadic strikes were reported in Appalachian regions with 6000 miners striking in Uniontown Pennsylvania.
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New York
John L Lewis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Libol
Winetr
Witon
Suft
K. C Adams
Lewis
WLB
Tower Poe Ee
WLHB
Adams
International Policy Committee
Washington
John L. Lewis
Uniontown
Steel Company
Four U S Planes Fight 30 Japanese Aircraft Over Guadalcanal
U S Navy report says four American fighters engaged ten enemy bombers and thirty Zeros ninety miles northwest of Lunga Point Guadalcanal. Five Japanese fighters were shot down and two U S planes failed to return after the battle.
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Washington
Guadalcanal
Navy
United States
Lunga Point
Solomons
South Pacific
Kglambangara Island
Duke Of Connaught Dies Suddenly In Canada
The Duke of Connaught aged 28 died suddenly today at Government House Ottawa while a guest of the Earl of Athlone Canada's Governor General and Princess Alice.
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Duke of Connaught
Canada
Ottawa
Government House
Earl of Athlone
Princess Alice
State income tax receipts rise to 1.53 million
Annapolis Md April 26 The State Comptroller's office reported income tax receipts totaling 1 529 502 05 an increase of 244 905 09 over last Thursday The number of returns filed rose by 5 900 to 44 059 for the 1942 income tax period and the tax division now has 44 059 returns on record.
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Annapolis
Mwo
State Comptroller’s Office
Tax Division
French Break Through to Tunis Plain Heights
Allied reports from North Africa describe French forces breaking through mountains guarding the Tunis plain and taking new heights near Pont Du Fahs. US troops of the Second Army Corps seized an important height in the Sidi N Sir sector as German forces withdrew, while Djebel Terhound fell to the Eighth Army and Allied air and ground operations continued along the Tunisian front.
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Tunisia
U.S. Army
Djebel Terhound
Enfidaville
Eighth Army
Djebel Terhouna
Djechel Mansour
Pont du Fahs
U. S
Sidi N'Sir
Heldous
Criminal Court Session to Last One Day
Witnesses summoned for a one day term of criminal court scheduled for tomorrow. The State lists 13 witnesses in sodomy cases against Walter L. Crummitt and Louise Glessner who is unarraigned. Additional witnesses in charges against Daniel Howard Arthur E Thomas and Edward D. Robinson for larceny and receiving stolen goods.
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Walter L. Crummitt
Louise Glessner
Daniel Howard
Arthur E Thomas
Edward D. Robinson
M. Weinberg
Middletown Victory Corps Opens Bond Drive
The Middletown High School Victory Corp and Sixth Grade Young American Victory Club launched a war data drive to raise 1000 dollars in stamps and bonds for war bonds and stamps. At the start of the school year elementary grades set a 1500 dollar goal and have surpassed it with 1684.60 raised to date.
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Middletown
Victory Corp
Young Amere1 Victory Club
Monthly Tabulations Of Civilian Supplies
The Office of Price Administration will issue monthly tabulations of civilian supplies including scanned bottled and frozen fruits and yearstakins. The lists will show quantities sold and available under blue stamp rationing and will compare early rationed sales with OPA estimates. Officials expect better planning for purchases to prevent confusion and waste of scarce food.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Abandons Price Control Over Several Items
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration abandoned price control on book ends artificial limbs and several other articles and services. The action includes fees for repairing airplanes public address systems signs and sporting goods and the prices of reading racks artificial rum and novelty center pieces and decorations.
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Washington
OPA
Marriage License Issued in Hagerstown
A marriage license was issued in Hagerstown for Leonard E. Sier 27 and Mabel V. Barnhowse 122 Frederick.
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Hagerstown
Leonard E. Sier
Mabel V. Barnhowse
Frederick
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Celanese Corporation of America
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John Lewis
Africa Corps
Djebel Mansour
Pont Lu Bahs
Tunis
Algiers
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