Refrigeration plant blast kills one worker in Hanover
Schasies W Messner a 28 year old refrigeration engineer dies from a skull fracture after an dehydrator explodes at the R H Megcard Company Hanover plant He was installing a refrigeration wall and in charge of the operation The blast injures three others and cause is under study Messner leaves a wife two children and is described as respected in Thurmont He is survived by his parents wife two children a brother and a Fort Knox serviceman Funeral services are set at 3 pm Saturday at a Thurmont funeral home Interment Blue Ridge Cemetery L Creager and Son in charge Elks memorial notes later honor WWII members in Manila Guam and other locations
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sChasies W. Messner
Saerment
R. H. ‘Megcard Company
Han- 4
Hanover General Hospital
Frick Manufacturing Company
Waynesboro
Messner
Hanover
Mesmer
Associated Press
Harry L. Messner
Mary Reed Messner
Charles W. Messner, Jr
Charles Messner
Thurmont
John J. Messner
Fort Knox
E. D. Bright
Warren K. Damuth
Blue Ridge Cemetery
L. Creager and Son
Italian-bound Pvt Capoulos joins assignment abroad
Pvt Capoulos son of Mr and Mrs Michael Capoulos of 2014 North Monroe Avenue Baltimore and grandson of Mr and Mrs Oscar Speak of 462 West South Street is stationed somewhere in Italy. He has previously examined CIO group activities and found no evidence of law violations.
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Pvt. Capoulos
Michael Capoulos
North
Monroe Avenue
Baltimore
Oscar Speak
West South Street
Italy
CIO Group
Eighteen Others Lost With Admiral Cecil
Washington reports 18 other officers and men were killed in the same crash that killed Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil at an unnamed Pacific base Monday. The Navy announced the loss after the aircraft went down shortly after a takeoff.
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Washington
Charles P. Cecil
Pacific
Navy
Navy plane crash claims Cecil and junior officers in North Africa
A transport flight carrying 10 Naval officers, three Army officers, and a six man Pan American Airways crew is reported all aboard dead or missing. Cecil, the 11th naval general officer to die in combat areas, is confirmed dead. Captain Horatio G. Sickel, 47, awarded the Legion of Merit, is among the dead. Missing include Lt. Walter S. Gifford Jr., son of AT&T president Walter S. Gifford, who joined the Navy on December 9, 1941.
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Pan-American Airways
Navy
Cecil
Naval Service
Horatio G. Sickel
Legion of Merit
Fedala
Casablanca
Ship Named For Head Of Chemical Company
United States Maritime Commission will name a Liberty ship after Lunsford Richardson founder of Vick Chemical Company Greensboro North Carolina. Richardson died in 1919 and was praised by Negro citizens for service to their race. Launch planned soon at Charlotte.
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United States Maritime Commission
Greensboro
N. C
Lunsford Richardson
Vick Chemical Company
Charlotte
N. Cc
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Charis W. Messner
ELKS
Chicago
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Ellis Lodges
Manil
Philippine Islands
Guam
Raymond Benjamin
Westport
Conn
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D-Tex
Justice Department
CIO
Political Action Committee
Biddle
Congress
James M. Copoulos
Clude
Walter S. Gifford, Jr
Walter S. Gifford
The
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Gifford
American Institute of Laundering
Eri
Chemical Company
Lebanon
Bisquick Duffy's
Farmdale
Dron
Fin
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Wh. Ioft
Fror 2Fei
P.f
Asco
Calif
Sunshine Bakers Xrispy
Betty Crocker
Lipton
Asco Oran
Wey
Pekoe
Victor
Octagon
Reo
Bird
Wright
Gorham
Dubuque
Maxim
James River
Vogt
Vo AZ Ig Lee
JBC
Ils Bala Club
Rob Roy Colant Bot
Crax
Weston’s
Nabisco
Nabisco Graham
Hire
Oakit
Hershey’s
Melvin M. Engle
Seiberling Tires
Frederick, Md
Western Maryland Railway Immediately
Railroad Retirement Board
United States Employment Service
Winchester Hall
Frederick
WMC
Tearow
White State
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Rhone
W. Patrick St
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