British Force Occupies Madagascar to Guard Sea Lanes
The British dispatched a naval and military expedition to Madagascar to deter Axis aggression and protect vital sea routes around the Cape of Good Hope toward Australia the Middle East and India. The move follows Roosevelt's warning and is approved by the United States with Madagascar to be restored to France after the war.
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Vichy-Held
Madagascar
Associated Press
London
United Nations
Cape of Good Hope
Australia
Middle East
India
Indian Ocean
Mozambique
Russia
Persian Gulf
Britain
Diego Suarez
Majunga
Reuters
Japan
China
Germany
Roosevelts
Axis
United States
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Washington
State Department
Henry Haye
Vichy
Department
France
U. S
Emmitsburg Man Estate Probate Brief Court Action
Real estate and personal property valued at 11500 are distributed by the will and codicil of the late Berramin R Stall near Emmitsburg admitted to probate by the Orphans' Court. The farm is to be sold publicly with $100 per Maud Naytor's children who are not married. The widow receives the home and all personal property with access to principal for medical costs. shares go to Byron S Stall Mrs Adams Hilda Theo and Claude De Beris. Executors named are the widow and Jacob D Adams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berramin
Emmitsburg
Orphans’ Court
Maud Naytor
Mary A Stull
Byron S Stull
Sue
Adams
Hilda
Theo
Clause
Adam
Hilde
Claude de Betis
Atly
Medical Capenses
Jacob D Adams
E Lec Erb
Frances E .Reinhazt
Anne E Porier
Byron S Stall
Mus Stil
Beckon of Charges and Warrants In Local Court
Glenn C Kelly held on a $250 bond for the grand jury action on passing a worthless check for $4. Robert L Grove, grocery store proprietor, had a warrant served by Constable Charles W. Smith. Julian Hale also faced an assault and battery warrant. Magistrate Alton Bennett will hear the cases at Police Court Wednesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chargt Glenn C Kelly
Grand Jury
Robert L Grove
Charles W. Smith
Smith
Julian Hale
Raymond Swartz
Alton Bennett
Answers To War Quiz From Page Five
A wartime quiz item notes that the Boatswain wears crossed anchors, Jamoke is army slang for coffee, and Canada aims to mobilize civilian manpower before the United States moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Union Bridge Boy Killed In Accident
Harold Leroy Fox a 13 year old from Union Bridge died at Frederick City Hospital after a bicycle collision with a truck near the fire hall in Union Bridge. He was a sixth grade pupil from Elmer Wolfe School and a member of the Church of the Brethren and Troop 33 Boy Scouts. Funeral services set for Wednesday at the Church of the Brethren with interment in Pipe Creek cemetery.
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Collsion
Union Bridge
Harold Leroy Fox
Frederick City
Howard
Dorothy Myers Fox
Elmer Wolfe
Co. C. Castle
Woodsboro
Wright Ambulance
Boy Scouts
Ife
Church of the Brethren
Boy Scouts of
W. W. Corbin
Castle
C. N. Fox
Herbert Myers
Fannie Myers
Herbert
Dorothy
Shirley
No Interest In Primaries
Wartime mood lowers political engagement as four states hold primaries. In Alabama and South Dakota battles loom for a few seats while Florida gains a seat count and Indiana trims delegation. Incumbents face limited opposition and redistricting reshapes districts amid the sugar rationing era. Pneumatic life rafts with 28 pounds of rubber noted.
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Associated Press
South Dakota
Indiana
Alabama
Florida
Illinoig
Bankhead
Bulows
Bulow
Roosevelt
Thomas Berry
Edward P Burke
Washington
Harlan Bushfield
Olive Ringsrud
Springer
Halleck
Gillie
Landis
Wilson
Larrabee
Patrick
Grant
Jarman
Larry Allen Wins Pulitzer Prize of 500 Dollars in 1941
Larry Allen, Mt Savage Maryland native and AP foreign correspondent, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his graphic battles aboard the British Mediterranean Fleet. He survived the sinking of the Gala tea and returned to the Middle East after a country stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Larry Allen
Graphic
Associated Press
Allen
United States
Mt. Savage
Middle East
Pulitzer
Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism
Los Angeles
Calif
Free Press
Geoffrey Parsons
New York Herald Tribune
Ellen Glasgow
Margaret Leech
Washington
Herbert Lawrence Block
NEA Service
Huot
Milton Brooks
Detroit
Mich ) News
Y M C A executives to attend Atlantic City meeting
Two Western Maryland Y M C A officers Alvin G Quinn Frederick and George M Bohman Hagerstown will attend the Central Area Council and Convention in Atlantic City this weekend. There are 82 associations in the Central Atlantic Area with 64 in New Jersey and 18 in the Tri state Area. Notable speakers include Dr Bernard C Clausen Dr Walter M Kotschnig and Dr Ethan Colton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Central Area Council
Young Men's Christian Associations
Atlantic City
Alvin G Quinn
Frederick
George M. Bohman
Hagerstown
M C. A
Central Atlantic
Quinn
New Jersey
Tri-state
Delaware
District of Columbia
Bernard C. Clausen
First Baptist Church
Pittsburgh
Walter M. Kotschnig
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
Ethan Colton
Price rules to be adjusted under OPA rollback plan
Baltimore May 4 The regional price executive pledged quick resolution of inequalities in price fixing and warned that the price control act will be enforced strictly. Lloyd G Reynolds spoke to the WCA Public Affairs Committee about a rolling back method to adjust wholesale and retail price relations, to be announced in supplementary regs. He said March ceilings would stay but some wholesale prices would be reduced below March levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
OPA
Lloyd G. Reynolds
Washington
Leon Henderson
Maryland
Reynolds
Office of Price Administration disavows exceptions
A statement says exceptions were not the idea of the Office of Price Administration and that they deplore them. The speaker notes that farm prices should be changed and emphasizes Congress must decide, claiming obedience to that decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Office of Price Administration
County W C T U Convention Set for Woodsboro Church
The County Convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union meets at Woodsboro Lutheran Church on Friday May 8 with Rev. Herbert Schmidt presiding. Morning sessions feature reports from officers and directors. Miss Bertha Tyson of Rising Sun will speak. Kemp sisters will sing. Woodsboro pupils demo an afternoon program. an open forum titled Information Please will address member questions. Lunch served by Mrs Powell's class. Woodsboro W C T U dates back nearly 50 years, led by Mrs Laura Wagner and followed by Mrs Ethel Fogle Shawbaker and the late Mrs Cora Catshall. Dr Robert Hammond supported prohibition. Rev Patterson is noted as a former figure.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
Woodsboro
Herbert Schmidt
Bertha Tyson
Rising Sun
Cecil County
Baltimore
Kemp Sisters
Rocky Springs Union
Powell
Patterson
Women temperance and civic notes from Woodsboro and Frederick
Early Woodsboro W C T U members include prominent locals led by Janet Barrick as president. Bus schedules Frederick bound from Elm Street Third and Market Street at 9 Friday. Frederick Moose Chapter Nvo plans open meeting at 8 30 pm in Moose Hall honoring Hospital Guild chair Luma Ponton with program and candidate initiation. Membership supports Mooseheart child clinic and hospital near Chicago. Forty cyclotrons exist.
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Lutheran Church
Woodsboro
Janet Barrick
Frederick
Elm Street
Market Street
Women of the Moose
Nvo
Moose Hall
Hospital Guild
Luma Ponton
Mooseheart
Chicago
Two Cumberland Men Die In Plane Crash Near Cumberland
Frank V. Becker owner of WTBO and Ellis Swartzwelder driver for Barnwell Brothers Inc died when their passenger plane nose-dived into a ploughed field on Nichols Mountain two miles off Williams Road near Cumberland Maryland. The pair, both registered pilots and Civilian Air Patrol members, had left Mexico Farms Airport at 530 p m on a test flight with Swartzwelder at the controls. Becker had recently acquired control of WTBO and was active in local defense groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Nichols Mountain
Williams Road
Frank V. Becker
WTBO
Ellis Swartzwelder
Barnwell Brothers, Inc
Swartzwelder
Mexico Farms
Becker
Civilian Defense Committee
Allegany County
Philadelphia
Agriculture Dept seeks indefinite life for surplus commodities agency
The Agriculture Department asked Congress to extend the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation beyond its June 30 expiry. Acting Secretary Grover B. Hill said the agency buys agricultural commodities for lend-lease Red Cross and domestic needs and also supplies some Army and Navy requirements.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
House
Grover B. Hill
Secretary of Agriculture
Army
Navy
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Frederick, Md
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Hendrickson
Outboard Motors New & Used
Delphey
C. E. Cline
C.E. Cline & Son Air Conditioned Funeral Home
East Patrick ST
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