Edsel Ford Transfers Bulk of Stock to Ford Foundation
The will of Edsel Bryant Ford files for probate shows most Ford Motor Co. stock bequeathed to the Ford Foundation. Estate taxes estimated at about 12 million. prior speculation had floated as high as 200 million. Edsel Ford died at 49. widow Eleanor Clay Ford and four children receive remaining assets.
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Detroit
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford Foundation
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Tie
Mp2
Eleanor Clay Ford
Henry Ford I
Benson Ford
Walter Buhl Ford II
William Clay Ford
Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit
Lake Shore Road
Grosse Pointe Shores
Michigan
Seal Harbor
Maine
White Hat
New Hampshire
Florida
May Rename Bishop Hughes For Washington Area
Temporary appointment of Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes to head the Washington area of the Methodist Church will be recommended to the Northeastern Jurisdiction meeting in New York on June 15. Hughes, retired since 1940, would replace Bishop Adna Wright Leonard who died in an Iceland airplane crash. The recommendation was the main item at the Baltimore Annual Methodist Conference attended by about 900 ministers and laymen from Western and Southern Maryland and the District of Columbia. The conference closes tomorrow.
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Baltimore
Edwin Holt Hughes
Washington
Methodist Church
New York
Hughes
Washington Area
Adna Wright Leonard
Iceland
Baltimoro
Maryland
District of Columbia
Francis J. McConnell
D. S. Patterson
Henry Gilligan
Joy Elmer Morgan
George W. Crabbe
J. H. Baker
Harry Grace
H. E. Cromer
H. W. Burgan
Fred G. Holloway
Westminster
Western Maryland College
Ro. E. C. Riggin
Gibraltar Clears Allied Shipping Through Strait at Dawn
Dispatches from La Linea report Gibraltar has been virtually cleared of Allied shipping. Seventy merchantmen troop transports and tankers passed through the Strait from the Atlantic to North Africa at dawn yesterday. A second convoy of freighters six tankers and one hospital ship departed Gibraltar harbor for the Mediterranean and North Africa.
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Madrid
la Linea
Gibraltar
Strait of Gibraltar
Atlantic
North Africa
Mediterranean
North African
Air Activity In South Pacific Area Renewed
United States Navy released a communique detailing renewed air operations in the South Pacific. American bombers struck Bougainville and Kiska in the Aleutians while small enemy groups on Attu were wiped out. Fires burned at Tinpots and Numa Numa harbors as two small enemy vessels off Tinpots were bombed and one beached.
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Washington
South Pacific
Bougainville
Navy
Kiska
Aleutians
Attu
Tinputs Harbor
Numa Numa Harbor
Tinputs
North Pacific
Attu Island
United States Army
Republican Candidates Answer Quiz on City Issues
In a letter to the Junior Chamber of Commerce E Austin James on behalf of the Republican executive committee outlined the candidates views before the upcoming municipal election. They address police department efficiency law enforcement health and sanitation curfew jobs for returning veterans board transparency and major issues before aldermen.
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Board of Alder
Commission
Hood College Students Receive U S Corps Membership Certificates
Officers of Civilian Defense in Frederick presented Hood College students and faculty with Certificates of membership in the United States Citizen Service Corps and the United States Defense Corps. Miss Mary Cott chaired the ceremony in Brodbeck Hall with Miss Hal Lee Ott and Alton Y. Bennett rewarding participants and voicing appreciation for Hood’s service to the community. President Henry J. Slahr praised the student response to enrollment.
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Frederick City
Brodbeck Hall
Hood College
United States Citizen
Service Corps
United States Defense Corps
Mary C.tt
Hood College War Emergency
Hal Lee Ott
Women's Volunteer Service
Frederick
Defense Corps
Alton Y. Bennett
Hood
Henry J. Slahr
Hood College Baccalaureate and Class Day Events Planned
Hood College will hold the 1943 baccalaureate at 9 a.m. Monday in the Hudson Memorial Theater with U S Senator Millard E Tydings delivering the commencement address. Sunday service features Rev W Sherman Kerschner and a full musical program led by Paul Beckhelm.
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U.S
Millard E. Tydings
Hood College
Hudson Memorial Theater
Bach
Paul B. Beckhelm
Franz Schubert
Anna Marie Budde
Elsie Muir Loucks
W. J. Muir
Elsie W.W. Muir
Alfred Hollins
Sherman Kerschner
Kerschner
Heidelberg Evangelical
Nibs
TA En
ChilaAnt
Jean Kerschner
Henry T. Wade
Frescobaldi
Eduardo Torres
C Mirnor
Herbert Howells
Vaughn Williams
Ye the
Father
Gounod
Paul Beckhelm
Catherine Williams
King Eternal
Shurtleff
Wade
Charles Widor
Sarah Bond Welch
Anenapolis
Betty Barrick
Woodsboro
Meyran Hall
Nazis Target Churchill In Airliner Crashes
London reports claim Nazi forces tried to kill Prime Minister Churchill after a Britainbound airliner carrying Leslie Howard and 12 others was shot down near Lisbon. Increased Nazi air activity over the Bay of Biscay followed the incident with radio broadcasts hinting at Churchill's location. A later Axis note said he moved between Gibraltar La Linea and Africa in the past week.
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London
Churchill
Axis
Gibraltar
la Linea
Spain
Africa
Dates For Your New Tax Bill And Pay Schedule
Washington highlights dates for the pay as you go income tax plan under President Roosevelt. Instructions cover quarterly installments and withholding, penalties, and estimates for 1943 and 1944 with thresholds for single and married filers and notes on farmers.
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Washington
John S
Parainas
Treasury
Uncle Sam
Leave For Camp Today for Eleven Local Recruits
Eleven men from the area of focal Draft Board One will leave this afternoon by Baltimore and Ohio railroad train to enter the Army. They have passed final physical examinations and completed two weeks of fuclengue at Winchester Hall before departing for Fort Meade. The group includes James Crist acting corporal Leroy Blutmenauer John Null Darwin Hueting James Warrison Gilbert Talbott Roy Soper Walter Crawford Carl Shaw Karl Bussard Vance Thompson.
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Focal Draft Board
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Army
Oder
Board
Winchester Hall
Fort Meade
James
Crist
Leroy N. Blutmenauer
John W.null
Darwin
Three Axis Ships Sunk and Beached in Allied Naval Offense
Allied destroyers sank two Axis merchant vessels and an escorting torpedo boat off Cape Spartivento Italy and beached a destroyer while another gun battle left no Allied casualties. American planes raided Pantelleria and southern Sardinia with substantial air strikes and no losses. RAF fighters attacked the Aegean, sinking two small sailing vessels and damaging a third.
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Africa
Cape Spartivento
Italy
Capo Spartivento
Pantelleria
Iban
Haly
Pancetleria
Sardinia
Mussolini
Jor Cap Bon
San Antioco
Ge UU Cedearia
Argean Sea
Middle East
Heat Wave Grips City as Temps Push Toward 90s
The city endCounty endure extreme heat with highs near 90 in shade and 100 in sun. Officials restrict thermometer readings at the weather bureau station, while residents cope with sleepless nights and record heat. Local gardeners report rapid produce growth amid the hot spell after heavy rains.
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Weather Bureau
CAA
Frederick
Victory
Modest Recoveries as Markets Pause Near Fourth Hour
The stock market shows modest recoveries near the fourth hour amid cautious trade. Gasoline tankers in U S Navy service commonly bear Indian river names from oil regions.
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U. S. Navy
Named to bench in Baltimore by Governor OConor
Tucker, a Baltimore bar member, was appointed today to the supreme bench of Baltimore city, announced by Governor OConor.
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Woah
Aie
Dolin T Tucker
Baltimore
Supreme Bench
Baltimore City
O'Conor
De Gaulle May Try To Set Self Up As Dictator
Washington reports June 3 that Charles De Gaulle contemplates a virtual French dictatorship in Algiers as fighting French leadership tries to unite under a new National Committee of Liberation. British and American officials weigh outcomes of negotiations with Gen. Giraud amid tensions between the rival leaders. The Anglophone press notes possible withdrawal of financial support if De Gaulle gains control.
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DeGaulle
Washington
Junge
Ameri
British Cieric
Charles Be Gaulle
Alger
Daulle
Heo. Garwad
North Africa
Dpe
Buteaf
de Gaulle
Bin
Giraud Hay
Algiers
France
Algic
Henri Giraud
Hem
Charles de Cattle
Harald MacMillan
Robert Murphy
Murphy
Giraud
MacMillan
Emmitsburg Alley Case Heard In Circuit Court
In Emmitsburg Circuit Court a case over a gate alleged to block a public alley opened before Assa Sh Tate AP Sake yaw was heard. The Burgess and Commissioners seek an injunction to remove the gate with testimony from Emmitsburg town attorney and resident Joseph Esler.
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Emmitsburg
Assa- Sh
Emmit-bug
Campbell
Joseph Esler
President Roosevelt Meets CIO AFL Labor War Board Leaders
President Roosevelt summoned the CIO AFL Labor War Board to the White House for a conference amid signs of action to end the coal strike. War Labor Board officials and union leaders discussed possible White House steps while signatories resumed wage talks but would honor the board’s order to halt negotiations while production dips.
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Washington
Fls
Roosevelt
Cio-Afl
White House
Doh J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Morrow
James P. Byrnes
New War
Stephen Early
War Labor Board
Combined Labor War Board
Cotl
CIO
AFL
White Mouse
William Green
Phillip Murray
Julius Emspak
CLO Electrical Workers Union
R. J. Thomas
CQ Automotive Workers Tantem
George Meany
Early
Chinese and American War Efforts Reported Across Fronts
In New York and China, officials discuss war bonds and tax plans for 1943 as Morgenthau urges Americans to invest a quarter of income in war savings bonds. Chinese forces push on the Yangtze, recapturing Changyang and Chihkiang near Ichang with air support and heavy Japanese losses.
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Changyang
Chungking
Yangtze
Ichang
Great River
China
Chihkiang
Seven Assessors For Montgomery Are Named
The Montgomery County Commissioners announced the appointment of seven assessors for the county under a state bill creating a method for assessing property. Named were Emory H. Bogley S. Murray Hamilton Frank J. Hewitt John T. Culver William Belleau Wood U. Smal Aud Robert S. Billhimer and others.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
Legisl Tacre
Emory H .Bogley
S. Murray Hamilton
Frank J. Hewitt
John T Culver William Belleau Wood
U. Sma- L
Robert $. Billhimer Anarines
Germany
Garner W Duvall
Bagley
Ham
Paris
al Ilion
Hewitt
Acceeements
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Bishop Hughes
Leonard
Oltied
Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
Dr. Kerschner
Senator Tydings
Leslie Howard
Britain
National Committee of Liberation
Fideward R. Stetlinias
French North Africa
United States
Emmitsburg Alley
Cio-Afl Labor War Board
UMW
Morgenthau
Newark
Secordary of the Treasury
Joseph W. Stilwell
Ith
U. S. Air Force
Lake Tungting
10Th
Jihe
Montgomery
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