British Wreck Docks Held By Nazis At St Nazaire
British commandos sailors and airmen raid St Nazaire to cripple docks using Campbeltown loaded with explosives. The raid destroys key facilities, kills and wounds many, and drives German forces into confusion while RAF bombing limited by weather. Return of survivors greeted with cheers. several German torpedo boats repelled.
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St. Nazaire
Y Drew Middleton
London
St Ibeis
Steck
Zeebrugge
Belgium
Campbeltown
U-boat
U.S
North Atlantic
Lorient
Bordeaux
Fred
Bhut
Charter Presented to Cub Pack No 1 in Frederick
The charter was presented to Cub Pack No 1 during Sunday evening services at the Presbyterian church. Rev W Merval Weaver pack chairman and church pastor led the ceremony with E Brooke Parkin presenting and Cub Robert Cramer accepting on behalf of the pack. It is the sixth charter for the oldest Cub Pack in Frederick County with Bernard Davis James Maples Donald Davis and E Brooke Parkinson Jr also taking part.
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Presbyterian Church
W. Merval Weaver
E. Brooke Parkinson
Frederick County
Robert Cramer
Bernard Davis
James Maples
Donald Davis
E. Brooke Parkinson, Jr
Answers To War Quiz Restions On Page Five
The article lists quiz questions noting the Distinguished Flying Cross as a joint Army Navy decoration since 1926. It identifies the Ruhr as a German steel and munition hub and Sumatra as a tobacco leaf source used for cigar wrappers. It mentions dry ice used to age harden pinion gear teeth in airplane engines.
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Congress
Army
Ruhr
Sumatra
Munitions Explosions Cost 137 Lives Through Mischance
An Associated Press survey shows home front munitions explosions costing at least 137 lives and maiming scores since war output began. Notable blasts include the Hercules Power Co. disaster in Kenvil New Jersey with 52 deaths and multiple incidents in Iowa and Missouri. Two blasts last Saturday in adjacent states killed 11 and injured 27, including at Remington Arms in Bridgeport Connecticut.
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Associated Press
Ilinois
Hercules Power Company
Kenvil
N. J
New Jersey
Addi
du Pont
Joplin
Iowa
Burlington
Peoria
Staten Island
Remington Arms Company
Bridgesport
Conn
Drunken Driving Case To Be Tried Tonight
Roy M. Shankle of Frederick route 3 faces a docket tonight before Magistrate Manuel Weinberg for operating under liquor and reckless driving. Shankle jailed on $1,000 bond after Saturday arrest by Sergeant Dorsey and Officer Dietz.
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Roy M. Shankle
Frederick
Route 3
Manuel M. Weinberg
Shankle
Frank Dorsey
Dietz
Samuel Thompson
Suomley
Jack Carr
Washington
Harne
Strawsburg
Bartgis
Jeremy Hawkins
Harno
Roy Sherman
Charles
Greek church at Malta destroyed by Axis bombs
New York dispatch reports a Greek church at Malta, said to mark St Pauls landing site, has been destroyed by Axis bombs. St Johns Cathedral and the Royal University were also damaged per a CBS recorded British radio broadcast. Famine averted by timely rains in Free China easing fears of spring crop failure across several provinces.
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New York
Malta
St. Paul
Mediterranean
CBS
St. John's Cathedral
Royal University
Chungking
Free China
China
Szechwan
Kwangsi
Fukien
Chekiang
First Casualty List Issued By War Dept
The War Department released its first casualty list under the new war news policy. It shows 226 killed and 396 wounded from Pearl Harbor, with revised totals after removing 13 erroneous names. Names may be published only for localities, and Navy ranks and unit designations will be withheld. Navy losses expected to exceed Army figures.
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Washington
War Department
Pearl Harbor
Department
Office of Facts and Figures
Navy
Navy Department
Army
Houston
Java
Canadians in Britain A British Port
Lieut. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, Canadian commander, returned to Britain from North America with thousands of Canadian fighting men and air force personnel. He predicted 1942 would be a big year and said the new forces would swell Dominion and home forces already in the United Kingdom.
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Britain
A. G. L. McNaughton
North America
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
America
United States
Washington
Canadian Broadcasting Company
Dominion
Cripps Proposes Dominion Status for India After War
Sir Stafford Cripps unveiled a plan to create a new Indian union governed as a dominion within the British Empire after the war. Britain would retain defense authority during the interim while the Congress and Muslim minorities hold talks on a unified constitution or two autonomous dias. The proposal envisions a postwar Indian union equal to the dominions, with potential separate constitutions for minorities and treaty relations with a postwar constitutional congress.
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New Delhi
India
Sir Stafford Cripps
Britain
Burma
Andaman Islands
Stafford
Sir Stafford
Mohandas K. Gandhi
All-India Congress Party
Congress Party
United Kingdom
Postponed Blue Ridge Conference Oratorical Contest
Heavy snow blocked roads forcing the postponement of the seventh annual oratorical contest of the Blue Ridge Conference of the Catholic Students Mission Crusade at Mount St. Marys College. A symposium on Mission Work and the Present World Crisis at St Josephs College was also cancelled. Rev John L Sheridan president of Mount St Marys was to preside. No definite new date set.
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Emmitsburg
Blue Ridge
Catholic Students Mission Crusade
Mount St. Mary's College
St. Joseph's College
John L. Sheridan
Mount St. Mary's
America
Europe
Hugh J. Phillips
Mount
M. C
Pilgrimage to Mother Seton's Tomb Planned in Emmitsburg
The Sunday after Easter, April 12, a large Holy Name Society pilgrimage will travel to St. Joseph's Motherhouse Shrine of Mother Seton in Emmitsburg. Families from Central Maryland parishes are expected as devotions occur under Holy Name Society auspices with a general invitation to attend.
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St. Joseph's
Sisters of Charity
Emmitsburg
Mother Seton
Holy Name Societies
Maryland
Holy Name Society
Australian minister Evatt in New York on special mission
Australian external affairs minister Dr Herbert V. Evatt is pictured in New York during a special mission for the government. He is shown in a formal setting as he advances talks abroad.
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Herbert V. Evatt
New York
Change Of Venue Asked By Accused Attorney
Hagerstown March 28 Baker, a Hagerstown attorney, filed a petition in Circuit Court seeking transfer of his embezzlement trial to another county. His Frederick counsel Leo Weinberg answered the bar association petition seeking Baker's disbarment, asking dismissal and no action until after trial. Baker was indicted February 24 on eight counts totaling about $25,000. He was ill in a Baltimore hospital when trial was set for March 19, with a postponement to April 186 granted after Dr. Charles Bagley Jr testified illness.
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Hagerstown
C. Walter Baker
Circuit
Leo Weinberg
Frederick
Washington County Bar Association
Baker
Baltimore
Charles Bagley, Jr
All Possible Aid To Russia At Once Urged
Lord Beaverbrook urged maximum lend-lease aid to Russia as the pivotal front in the war. He said the battle on the Russian front could decide humanity's fate, warning that scattering the Russian army would empower Nazi Germany and Japan. He praised Russian courage during Moscow's threat and stressed action beyond factories, calling for brave civilians trained to operate weapons and ships.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Lord Beaverbrook
United States
Churchill
Roosevelt
MacKenzie King
Canada
Beaverbrook
Urals
Germany
Japan
Moscow
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Easton
Lehigh Portland Cement Co
NEA Telephoto
Lenhart
Potts
Sherman
Marshall Ropp
Quinn
War Dept
MacArthur
Curtin
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Southwest Pacific
Canberra
John Curtin Wright
Melbourne
NEA
London Plan
Cripps
Aussie
U. S
Delphey
West Patrick ST
ALLEN
N. Market ST
Bennett
Rose Marie
Bemberg
Rose Marie Bember
McCall
Russia
S. Market St
Cc. E. Cline
E. Clene, JR
E. T. Whitmore
A. L. Michael
C.E. Cline & Son
Funeral Home
East Patrick St
Bath
E. Patrick St
C. C. Carty, Inc
Frederick,Md
Mawelle
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