May Day Pageant and Court Held Indoors
May Day rites indoors feature Queen of the May crowned by Prince Hugh Miss Margaret Muth of Catonsville served as queen with Jane Seward as jester and Gretchen and Barbara Eckhelm as forest fairies. The event included college choir, a dance, and a formal dance in Cabdlentz Hall plus a bridge party for visiting parents.
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Ques
Nicholas Wwe
Misspeet Park Dent
Rush
Severnt
Prince Hogh
Margaret Muth
Catonsville
Co-Operative Government Association
Jane Seward
Jiouna
Paul Eckhelm
Gretchen
Barbara
Seardale, N. C
Lodged In Jail On Assault Charge In Mount Pleasant
A string of arrests followed a disturbance reports show several individuals jailed or cited on peace disturbance and assault charges. Frederick, Miller, Orms, Offord, and Armstrong face bail or collateral as officers processed cases through Sgt. Dorsey and officers at Mount Pleasant.
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Bat Alonea
Frederick
Lowell Orms
John Offord
Sergt Frank Dorsey
Norman Diety
Ellis Carty
Martin Kanode
Orms
King and
Arden Lads
Mount Pleasant
Norman Trump
Julius Armstrong
Denver Shock
Ben Phebus, Jr
Bernard Bell
Frederick Junction
Sergt
Dorsey
British Flyer Tops RAF Aces With 28th Kill
London May 7 Wing Commander Braham shot down his 28th German plane after a long chase near Copenhagen tying for the lead among RAF aces. Johnson downed his 28th over France Friday. A bomber crashed near Willand Cemetery west Chester killing all six aboard. witnesses reported explosions before impact. Production of chemical nitrogen materials rose as authorities allow higher application rates per acre.
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London
J. A.D. Braham
Coperhagen
J. Eooehnny
Johnson
France
West Chester
Ailand Cemetery
Here
Olivers
New Castle del Army Air Base
State Convention of Co E At Hood In June
Cumberland May 7 Pennsylvania hosts Atlantic Regional Christian Endeavor Society Conference November 10. York may host next regional meeting with Delaware New Jersey Pennsylvania West Virginia and DC. decision by Charles Crain. Miss Lula May announced Maryland convention at Hood College. Maryland DC unions exceeded quotas for Guides For A Christian Living copies to chaplains and women in uniform.
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Lantic
Christian Endeavor Society
York
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
District of Columbia
Charles Crain
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Union
Harry Algard
Walmington
Del
Lula May
Hagerstown
Maryland
Hood College
Frederick
Dune
Frees And Shrubs Freely Distributed To Farmers
Monocacy Soil Conservation District secured 71 225 trees and shrubs from the Soil Conservation Service for free distribution to local farmers. They were all distributed and planted with farmers doing most planting. Vocational Agricultural classes and Boy Scouts assisted, including Libertytown class planting about 5 000 trees. Trees included White pine Norway spruce black locust and sugar maple plus erosion control shrubs. District plans to expand next spring. In Leesburg Va a 14 year old was critically injured when a tractor backed over him on a farm.
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Monocacy Soil Conservation District
Soil Conservation Service
Libertytown
Manville | Coblents
Man
Leesburg
Arthur H. Fulton
Fulton
Young Fulton
Loudoun
Itar
Leesburg High School
Carroll County School Board Names Officers
Westminster May 7 At the regular meeting of Board of Education GB Barner and Dr ROG Baxter were unanimously elected president and vice president. Clyde L Hesson of Taneytown joined as a new member. Superintendent recommended reappointing supervisory and administrative corps. Eugene D Walsh reappointed attorney and Trusman B Cash insur ance supervisor. Roland Haifley reappointed as utility man. Janitors in county schools reappointed. Information on stokers in two schools to be sought. Roof repair bids for county schools advertised. Scholarships to Western Maryland College to be awarded at June meeting. Examinations for Senatorial and Western Maryland College scholarships set for May 27 at Westminster High School. Library aid approved for Hampstead High and New Windsor Elementary.
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Westminster
Board of Education
GB Barner
Rog Baxter
Clyde L. Hesson
Taneytown
Hessen
Roy D. Knouse
Silver Run
Eugene D. Walsh
Trussman B. Cash
Roland Haifleyas
Manchester
Sands- Owa Aren Ft Nlad
Western Maryland College
Washington College
St. Mary's Seminary
Westminster High School
Hampstead
New Windsor
Davis family weekend visitors fill Frederick area notices
Miss Anna Davis attended a Frederick high school weekend at Edward Davis home with Mary and Jean Roelke. Howard Tracey and Mrs Tracey visited Edward Davis family from Pearl Harbor. Algie Gregg Catherine Gregg Louella Gregg Mildred Flohr Willie Gregg and son Stanley joined Roge r Davis and Roscoe Gregg families. Margaret Hawse visited Helen Staub in Montgomery county. Several Davis relatives and friends gathered at John J Davis and Perrell homesteads near Frederick and Damascus.
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Chreenfield
Anna Davis
Frederick
Mary Roelke
Jean Roelke
Edward Davis
Billy” Davis
Howard Tracey
Pearl Harbor
Tracey
Algie Gregg
Comus
Catherine Gregg
Washington
Louella Gregg
Mildred Flohr
Willie Gregg
Stanley
Roger Davis
Roscoe Gregg
Charles
Ruth
Ed. Davis
Margaret Hawse
Helen Staub
Montgomery County
John J. Davis
Archer Davis
Barbara
Robert
Jercald
Luther Smith
Nick Perrell
Perrell
Clayton Lenhart
Near Frederick
Samuel Perrell
Damascus
Florence's rise as a wealth hub for Europe in medieval times
Between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries Florence emerged as a leading economic power, one of Europe's richest city-states, driven by banking trade and textile industries that funded arts, architecture, and governance.
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Florence
Europe
183 618 Prisoners Of War Now Held By U S
Washington May 7 am The United States now holds 183 618 prisoners of war. The War Department gave a breakdown: 133 135 Germans, 50 136 Italians, 347 Japanese in 203 camps across all states except seven. Prisoners aid labor needs, accounting for 19 300 321 man days from June 1943 to last March, without competing with American workers. They support agriculture and lumbering and aid reeducation aims. Only 285 escaped. five remained at large as of last week.
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Ted
Axis
Hitler
War Department
Senate may speed report on Montgomery Ward seizure
Washington May 7 The Senate may receive a preliminary report this week on the seizure of Montgomery Ward and Co but it will not likely cover the dispute between the firm and its employer Judiciary Committee Chairman McCarran said Sunday The seizure came after the firm refused to renew contracts with striking workers unless it could show majority union representation
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Washington
Senate
Montgomery Ward and Co
McCarran
D-New
Judiciary Committee
Soldier Town’s Ideal Town Tale
A humorous look at what defines a Soldier Town where civilians welcome servicemen, the town’s girls are plentiful, and soldiers praise the place. A soldier who finds such a town may keep quiet, visit secretly, and possibly become honorary mayor and marry the town belle.
Ges t a po Pr i ck e ry raid on Allied underground
Washington May 4 The Gestapo has begun a campaign of pr i c kery against the Allied underground in Europe It aims to trap sympathizers into exposing themselves and being liquidated before American and Allied troops advance The Office of War Information reports false Allied orders spoofed leaflets dropped from planes and Nazi agents posing as Allied flyers attempting to flee Germany
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Washington
Gestapo
Europe
Invision
Office of War Information
Germany
Final Campfire Attracts 250 Sportsmen Near Thurmont
About 230 sportsmen from six states attended the Brotherhood of the Jungle Dock campfire at Camp Airy near Thurmont. The event opened Friday and closed Sunday with Paul Kelly elected president, succeeding George Landis. Other officers include Prue Savoy as vice president and J Hammond Brown as secretary. Guests fished in Hunting Creek and attended a reception at Prue Savoy’s mountain lodge near Catocin Furnace. Meals were served by Baltimore Boy Scouts.
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Baltimore
Boy Scouts
Baltimore firm shows fly-wasting display by Knight
John Alden Knight, author of the solunar fishing tables, presented a fly-wasting display to The Scouts in Baltimore. The talk touched on unusual fish behavior and noted that £ream Asia is a fish said to walk on land and climb trees.
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Baltimore
John Alden Knight
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