G O P Seeks Mayoral Candidate McCain Declines
The Republicans abandoned Alderman Russell H. McCain as a mayoral candidate saying he will not run for mayor again and will seek re election to the Board of Aldermen. GOP leaders consider other possible nominees while maintaining a full ticket for aldermen and city register.
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Russell H. McCain
McCain
Soirces
Edward P. Airedale
Board of Aldermen
City Register
Lloyd C. Culler
Allied Sub Shells Near Horebeten on Hokkaido Coast
New York May 16 Allied submarine shells Horebeten village on Hokkaido Island in a reported Japanese Northern Army HQ announcement. Shells landed in a field with no casualties or damage. The nationality of the submarine was not given.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Associated Press
Horebeten
Hokkaido Island
Bowers
Fujiyama
Tokyo
Dionne Quintuplets Christen Five Ships
Five eight year old Dionne sisters in grey suits and red coats stepped to the bows of five cargo vessels in Superior Wisconsin. The quint fleet shattered world launching records and set aims to become camouflage and combat grey ships for a wartime effort. Admiral Landchman gave the benediction as the girls declared the ships will bring good luck for the war.
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Superior
Wis
Utm
Quint
Oliva
Elzire Dionne
Emory 5S
Maritimé Comm
Hitler Says Winter Brought Heaviest Suffering For Soldiers
London May 10 Berlin radio quoted Adolf Hitler saying the winter involved the heaviest suffering and hardest burdens for our soldiers. The broadcast was recorded by Rewers.
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Africa
London
Adolf Hitler
Berlin Radio Today
Rewers
Axis Casualties and Novorossisk Breakthrough Reported
The London dispatch cites German radio admitting a hopeless Tunisian battle with 64,000 Axis prisoners and 42,000 killed or wounded, plus losses of 3360 tanks 500 guns and 4000 trucks. Moscow reports Red Army penetration of outer Novorossisk fortifications, ongoing air and ground combat, and 930 German planes destroyed while 235 Soviet aircraft were lost in the week.
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Novorossisk
London
Paris
North
Africa
Tunisia
Associated Press
Algiers
Asis
Moscow
Kuban
Lishhansk Crea
Donets
Ukraiian
Red Air Force
Central
Kalinin
Seed Advice Urges Care With Vegetable Seeds
Washington May 10 The man with the hoe gets praise if careful with seeds as 1943 garden efforts surge. Agriculture officials warn amateurs to avoid waste while seed sales soar toward 100 million dollars. 396 million pounds available for planting, with possible shortages feared. The piece notes record seed demand, prewar flower growers shifting to vegetables, and weather delaying planting.
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G. C. Edler
Anisculture Department
Edler
Ordered To Pay $600 Monthly In Divorce Case
A circuit court order requires Ellis C. Valentine to pay his wife Caroline Valentine $600 monthly during the suit and $1,009 as counsel fees. A temporary injunction bars disposal of land, business, livestock, or farming equipment until further order, with a hearing set for next Monday at 10 AM. Manuel M. Weinberg represents Valentine.
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Ellis C. Valentine
Medal
Caroline Valentine
Guubs Knter Oe
Siedman Prescott
Valentine
Edward D. Storm
James H. Pugh
Rockville
Alsl
Manuel M. Weinberg
Circuit Court Opens May Term With 65 Trials Docket
The May term of Circuit Court opened without ceremony before assistant judge Tydae Przeisk Mo Sehoarl Ier. Dockets were read and cages assigned. 65 cases on the trials docket, fewer than usual. One civil appeal, eight criminal cases, and eight criminal appeals listed.
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Circuit Court
Perrons
Present Restrictions Hold Until October 1 in Newsprint Policy
Washington May 10 Donald M Nelson told a congressional investigating committee that further restrictions on the use of newsprint and print paper by magazines and newspapers are in prospect before October 1 A statement from the War Production Board chairman was read to a House Interstate Commerce subcommittee by Donald M Sterling relating to press rent in newspapers and publications.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Congressional Investigating Committee Today
War Production Board
House
Donald M. Sterling
Compulsory Training For State Guardsmen
The Maryland State Guard will report to Fort George G. Meade for two weeks starting July 24 and August 7. This marks the first time training will be compulsory for all guardsmen in state history.
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Fort George G. Meade
Maryland State Guard
Speedy U S Planes Enter Combat In Europe
London reports American P 47 Thunderbolt fighters have entered action in the European theater. These heavy single engined planes, armed with eight 50 caliber machine guns, supported the heavy bomber escorts and helped in raids such as the one on Antwerp on May 4 5. Several Thunderbolts are said to have been lost in recent sorties.
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London
Foerce
Antwerp
Almifudas
Trac
United States
Miss Shook And J H Falk Wed In Brethren Church
Miss Harriet Elizabeth Shook and James Hamner Falk wed at Centennial Memorial United Brethren Church on a Sunday ceremony at 3 30 PM. Rev. Amos John Traver and Rev. J H Schmitt officiated. The couple resides at 308 Park Avenue and 3 08 Park Avenue is noted as their home after a honeymoon trip.
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Centennial Memorial United Brethren Church
Harriet Elizabeth Shook
Laura L. Shook
Park Avenue
John F. Shook
James Hamner Falk
Elizabeth F. Falk
East Fourth Street
John W. Falk
Amos John Traver
J. H. Schmitt
Brant Morgan
Roger W. Moser
Washington, D. C
Glenn Wilberger
Washington
J. William Falk
BP. C
Carlton Baumgardner
Nevin T. R. Waskey
Thomas E. Williams
Kenneth Fogle
Falk
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
United Brethren Church
Dinsd! Caolleze Jond Bedw Conservatory
Boys’ High School
Frederick County
Evanneva Church School
Marin
Reide
25 Lhe Limit Of Sugar For Home Canning
The Office of Price Administration set a 25 pound per person cap for home canning and freezing of this year’s fruit harvest. Sugar for jams and preserves may be allocated at five pounds per person, with processing rules and gift limits detailed. Applications open May 15, via ration boards, with required ration book copies and declarations of total produce and sugar usage.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Prentiss M. Brown
Bomb Messina In Daylight
Cairo reports Allied bombers attacked Messina in daylight yesterday hitting the ferry slip a locomotive roundhouse and other targets. U S aircrews returned safely after facing enemy fighters. British and Middle East based planes attacked shipping in the Aegean. several ships were damaged or sunk in harbor and at sea.
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Cairo
Americas
Axis African Losses Reportedly Peak At 750,000 Troops
London May 1914 Axis losses in the retreat from Africa exceed 750,000 troops with 280,000 wounded and 200,000 Negro soldiers. North Africa battles show 5,000 captives around Bizerte and Tunis and Axis equipment totals include thousands of tanks aircraft and guns.
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London
Axis
Africa
Ethopia
East Africa
ANS
North Africa
Danan
Ineldice
Bizerte
Tunis
Franco Urges Peace After Axis Setbacks in War
Madrid May 100 Ghi Generalisimo Francisco Franco urged an end to the war saying the conflict had reached a deadlock with both sides able to destroy the other. He called on observers to accept peace as senseless to delay relief. The peace appeal followed Axis failures in Africa and Soviet advances, made during a Florida welcome speech delayed until Sunday.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Almeria
Aevy
Africa
Franco
Florida
Count Gen
Francisco Gomes Jordana
Barcelona
Forest Fire at Camp Ritchie near Cascade burns 33 acres
A forest blaze at Camp Ritchie, Cascade, burned about 33 acres Saturday afternoon before soldiers from the camp, under District Forester Herman Toms, gained control after roughly three hours. The fire started during brush clearing for a target range and damaged 8 acres at the camp preserve and 25 acres of Western Maryland Railway land.
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Camp Ritchie
Cascade
Herman Toms
Western Maryland Railway
Wintherland
Toms
Foxville
Baltimore and Ohio
Frederick Junction
Namaville
Onion Cabbage Poultry Profit Margins Cut
Washington May 10 the OPA cut profit margins on grocery store sales of cabbage onions and some poultry and reduced prices of salt codfish These steps are part of GPA Chief Prentiss M Brown plan to bring down retail costs by subsidies aimed at a 1 percent cut in weekly meat and dairy prices including veal lamb mutton coffee and butter
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Washington
Hare Opa
GPA
Prentiss M. Brown
Restrictions on Chain Broadcasting Upheld by Court
The Supreme Court today upheld restrictions on chain broadcasting imposed by the Federal Communications Commission. Justice Frankfurter delivered a 5 to 2 decision in a challenge by National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Gumfications Commission
Chain Broadcasting
Frankfurter
National Broadcasting Company, Inc
Columbia Broadcasting System
Jine
Fate of Axis Troops in Tunisia Sealed as Surrenders Grow
Allied forces seal Tunisia, with Cap Bon blockade and many Axis ships sunk while 25,000 German troops surrender in the north and another 24,000 taken by British. Axis panic spreads on Cap Bon as Allied air and sea forces press attacks near Bizerte and Zaghouan.
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North Africa
Cap Bon
Second Corps
Bizerte
Entral
Tunisia
Africa
Tos Demande
Gate
Sormiter
VW Am
Krause
Afrika Corps
Omar N. Bradley
Tunis
Medjerda
Gulf of Tunis
Seventh Armored
Borowellz
15Th Armored
Hamman Lil
Cretewite
First Army
Bataan
Greece
Zaghouan
Sid Bella
Zaghauan
U S Equips French Army in Casablanca Parade
In Casablanca on May 10 1941 a parade marked the first shipment of American made weapons to a new French Army fully equipped with U S arms. Lt Gen Mark W Clark presided as over 100000 spectators watched armored units roll by bearing GSA stamps. He said the victory at Tunis and Bizerte foretells France’s fate in the war.
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Casablanca
Morocco
GSA
Mark W. Clark
Tunis
Bizerte
North Africa
France
Giraud Invites De Gaulle to Meet in Africa
London May 10 The Algiers radio reported by AP that Gen Henri Giraud invited Gen Charles De Gaulle to meet in Marrakesh or Bisera to discuss unifying French forces fighting the Axis.
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London
Algiers
Associated Press
Henri Giraud
Charles DeGaulle
Marrakesh
Bisera
Allied War Correspondent Injured In North Africa Jeep Crash
Wes Gale Slagher, Associated Press war correspondent, who covered invasions of Denmark and Greece and joined the North Africa front six months ago, was hospitalized after a jeep overturned causing minor injuries. In market news, New York stocks rose on light trading with several low priced issues advancing to best levels of the year on large blocks.
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Allied
North Africa
Wes. Gale Slagher
Associated Press
Denmark
Greece
AEF
New York
Mane Nerheim Resumes Finnish Command in Finland
Stockholm reports Baron Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Mane nerheim has resumed command of Finnish troops after returning from Switzerland yesterday an official announcement in Finland says.
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Stockholm
Carl Gustaf Manenerheim
Switzerland
Finland
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Japan
James Marlow
George Zielke
Agriculture Department
Speedy U.S
Miss Shook
J.H. Falk
U. B. Church
Messina
U.S
Giraud
DeGaulle
Burt
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