June Preinduction Draft Calls Reported By Local Boards
Local draft boards received June pre-induction calls and awaited a possible national policy change on men over 26. Calls were smaller than May, with six eligibility categories announced. officials warned no exact figures. Reports say many registrants sent to Baltimore for May induction were accepted, with 53 to 60 people transported by bus. A national clarification on age groups was expected after a three day Washington meeting, as boards anticipate a stabilized policy and possible inclusion of men 30 and older in upcoming calls.
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Baltimore
Selective Service
Washington
National Selective Service
Armed Services
Navy
Reception for New Pastor and Wife at Evangelical Lutheran Church
Members and friends filled the old chapel Wednesday for a reception honoring Rev. W. W. Garrett and Mrs. Garrett. Rev Dr Ralph E. Hartman welcomed the couple, lauding Rev C William Sprenkel’s six months of service between senior pastors. The event, chaired by Melvin F. Schwearing, featured string music by H. L. David Hagan Jorph S Stephers and Joseph H Stephens and a women’s committee serving refreshments.
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The
Evangelical Lutheran Church
W. W. Garrett
Garrett
W. C. Royal
Baptist Church
City Ministerial Association
Ralph E. Hartman
Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church
C William Sprenkel
G. Hunter Bowers
Mc. Garrett
Frederick
Frank W. Cole
Church Council
Melvin F. Schwearing
HL David Hagan Jorph S Stephers
Joseph H Stephens
Mrs Clem L Shaver Dies At Clarksburg
Mrs Clem L Shaver wife of a former National Democratic chairman died early today in a Clarksburg hospital. She was born Catherine A Neale of Virginia and lived much of her life in West Virginia and Washington. Clem L Shaver led the party 1924 to 1928 and was a recent member of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Clarksburg
Clem L. Shaver
Rev Gregory Francis Smith To Be Ordained On Ascension Day
Rev Gregory Francis Smith of St John’s Frederick to be ordained a Carmelite at the National Shrine Washington on Ascension Day May 18 Most Rev Michael Keres to preside First Solemn Mass at St John’s Frederick May 28. Smith’s birth May 21 1914 and family details. notes on Carmelite order and prior local native ordinations.
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Gregory Francis Smith
St. John’s
Frederick
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Washington
D.C
Michael Keres
Father Gregory
St. John’s Church
J. Richard Smith
U. S. Navy
George I. Smith
James W. Mullen
Baltimore
Gregory
St. John’s Literary Institute
St Charles College
Catonsville
St. John's High School
James E. Dol
St John's Alumni Association
St. John’s Holy Name Society
A. & P. Tea Company
North Market Street
Young Smith
St. Albert's Novitiate
Middletown
N. J
St. Albert's
Catholic University of America
Whitefriars Hall
Catholic University
Whitefriars
Palestine
Elias
Carmel
Holy Land
Europe
Carmelites
Mendicant Friars
America
John J. Rodock
S. J
Woodstock College
Jamaica
Quitman S. Beckley
Princeton University
Wm McSherry
Georgetown University
Hugh McAleer
St Columbus
Discharge Of Soldiers Is Stepped Up
Washington May 11 Secretary Stimson announced the Army has adopted a simplified separation procedure to speed discharges and aid readjustment. A Fort Dix center tests the model for future centers with 48 hour processing, medical exams, pay, travel, and counseling. Self reliance is emphasized, with centers later serving WACs and officers. disabled cases continue through Army hospitals.
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Washington
Stimson
Army
Fort Dix
City Officials Attend Aviation Forum in Baltimore
Mayor Hugh V. Gittinger and other Frederick city officials and residents plan to attend an aviation forum and banquet at the Emerson hotel in Baltimore sponsored by the State Aviation Commission. The conference will cover airport planning and new technical developments with questions from the floor and morning seminars on aviation topics. A Maryland National Guard air unit reunion and various meetings are also scheduled preceding a seven o'clock banquet with talks by Army Navy commercial and private flying authorities.
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Frederick
Hugh V. Gittinger
Emerson Hotel
Baltimore
State Aviation Commission
Maryland National Guard Air Unit
Army
Navy
Higher Postmaster Pay Under Attack
May 11 report says proposed increases of five to 20 percent in postmaster salaries are unjustified. Senator Reed called for a Postmaster General inquiry into overtime wage payments to postal workers in the last year. In China, reports reveal concerns over Loyang threats and the Peiping Hankow railway coming under enemy control, affecting northern and central forces.
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Ington
Reed
R-Kar + toda
Frank C. Walker
Chungking
China
Loyang
Henan
Peiping-Hankow
Appeal Filed Over DMV Suspension Of Driver’s License
Willard Van Sant filed an appeal with the Circuit Court challenging a 45 day suspension of his driver's license by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. His attorney, Richard E. Zimmerman, argues the suspension was an unreasonable use of the commissioner's discretion and notes the suspension occurred on May 6.
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Circuit Court
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Willard van Sant
Richard E. Zimmerman
Invasion Preparations Rise Across Allied Radio Orders
BBC tells France to avoid highways during invasion and Vichy plans to cut passenger tram service Monday to aid troop movements. German and Allied broadcasts discuss railway use, D-day timing, and civil defense units ready to aid noncombatants. Agreements for civil administrations in the Netherlands and Belgium near completion.
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London
France
Europe
London Radio
Vichy
BBC
Vichy Radio
Lonedon
Atlantic Wall
Berlin
Netherlands
Belgium
Britain
United States
Civi
Nurses' Finals Friday at Frederick City Hospital School
Seven young women will graduate from Frederick City Hospital School of Nursing in a Friday afternoon ceremony at 3 o clock in the Georgiana Houck Simmons Nurses Home. William Storm will speak. the Student Nurses Glee Club will sing selections.
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Frederick City Hospital
Florence Nightingale
Trey
School of Nursing
U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Washington DC
NBC
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Helen Hayes
Thonas Patson
Eight Thousand Japs Die in Imphal Battle Front News
Allied headquarters report up to 8,000 Japanese killed on the Imphal plain and Indian frontier, with heavy action in the Mogaung and Myitkyiva sectors. General Stilwell’s tanks support advances in the Mogaung valley as Allied planes provide strong ground support.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Imphal
Kobima
India
Joseph W. Sitwells
Mosaung
Mogaung
Myitkyiva
Burma
Kohima
Palel
Ini
Kanglatongbi
Kohina
Stilwell
Mogaung Valley
Wheeler Roosevelt Talk on Fourth Term Sees 45 Minute Meeting
Senator Wheeler and President Roosevelt spoke 45 minutes at the White House. Wheeler reiterated opposition to a third or fourth term, warning a third term today carries greater power and federal spending. The talk covered postwar communications and international issues, but not politics, in a cordial exchange recalling earlier New Deal era cooperation.
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Washington
Senatorc Wheeler
Roosevelt
White House
Montanan
Wheeler
Capitol
E. M Watson
Senate
Price Administration seeks 1200 recruits to spot violations
Baltimore May 11 The State Office of Price Administration opened a recruiting campaign to day seeking 1200 volunteers to id stores for price ceiling violations. Shakinan Kate district price executive for the volunteers were expected to include housewives war workers and white collar workers and would be clasified as associates of the price panels operating under the war price and rationing boards. The recruits will be asked to same responsability for making reg ular reports of all stores visited io designated areas whether or not violations of price ceilings are involved.
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Baltimore
State Office of Price Administration
Shakinan Kate District Price Executive
Trial date set for Andrew J Gattuse on assault charges
The Circuit Court will hear the case of Andrew J Gattuse on May 24, with assault with intent to rape and assault and battery charged. State's Attorney William M Storm announced the venue change from Howard County, noting the trial will proceed before the court sitting without a jury.
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Andrew J Gattuse
Asault
William M Storm
Howard County
Supreme Example Of Fullest Security
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the British Parliament that harmony and reciprocity between Canada and the United States is the supreme example of a smaller partner living in fullest security and harmony beside a very powerful one, London.
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London
Mas dl -P
MacKenzie King
Canada
United States
OPA Public Meeting In Frederick For Women June Evening
Frederick county hosts a mass meeting for women to learn OPA rationing and price controls. Leon McCormick and Clarence Sturm speak on ceilings, black markets, and buying tips to aid public compliance, with Miss Hazel McCanner and Jesse Hammerly co leading efforts.
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Ciard
Orloek
Winchester Hall
Leon McCormick
OPA
Clarence W Sturm
Womes
Preerick
McCornick
Sturm
Frederick County
Hazel McCanner
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Frederick
Jesse Hammerly
McCanner
Sharp Clash In Channel Off Dutch Coast
Allied light coastal forces attacked a German patrol sweep off the Dutch coast during a pre invasion offensive. Two German U boats were sunk and two others damaged as British ships returned to harbor with superficial damage and light crew casualties. One damaged trawler was left burning amid reports of losses on both sides.
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London
Englich
Cumberland Democrat candidate McMullen to Congress
Daniel McMullen of Cumberland seeks the Democratic nomination in the sixth district. He traveled to Washington for a meeting after visiting Frederick briefly and is the son of the late Hugh McMullen, former state Comptroller. The Republican convention in Baltimore on May 23 will feature keynote speaker Everett M Dirksen of Illinois, ranking Republican on the Agricultural and Appropriations committees.
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Daniel McMullen
Cumberland
Frederick
Mio McMullern
Comenande
Ameren
Wintery
Howe
Washington
Hugh McMoren
Balimore Il P
Baltimore
Repres Entative
Everett M. Dirksen
Tilia
Repubbvicar
House
Four Ford Plants Ready for Early War Production Return
Windsor Ontario May 16 Ford Motor Co plants in Canada move to resume war production after a strike that saw only 30 of 14,090 workers oppose returning to work. The move follows the national pattern of rapid production restart.
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Windsor
Ont
Ford Motor Co of Canada
Congressional Immunity Claim In Speeding Stop
Congressman Charlie L. Gerlich of Adventonal Law faced speeding and left passing charges after a North Market Street stop by Officer Servet Swomles. He refused to post $1745 cash bail, cited immunity, and was released. police confirmed congressional immunity applies only to acts on official business, while authorities proceed with DMV notation.
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Charlie L. Gerlich
Adventonal Law
Oan
North Market Street
Gerlach
Servet
Daniel Swomles
Sergi Austtin Heffner
Washington
Market
Fourth Street
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Plan Invasion Day Services Across Frederick
When invasion day arrives churches from Frederick’s diverse denominations will hold prayer services at evening hours. Rev Samuel S Johnston chairs the Frederick City Ministerial Association coordinating participation. If the news arrives early, services occur that evening. if not, they move to the following night.
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Frederick
Samuel S. Johnston
Frederick City
Mr Johnston
Europe Clocks Six Hours Ahead Of U S Invasion Time
Europe wide clock advance places most nations six hours ahead of eastern U S time amid invasion plans. Britain France Germany Holland Belgium Norway Denmark Luxembourg Bulgaria Hungary Yugoslavia Romania Czecho Slovakia observe early summer time as war actions unfold.
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London
Europe
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Norway
Denmark
Luxembourg
Bulgaria
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Romania
Czecho- Slovakia
Gikl
EWT
Hull Warns Over Japanese Note On Relief Supplies
Washington reports Secretary Hull said the United States received a note from Japan with conditions for delivering relief supplies held at Viad stock for American prisoners in the Orient. Hull indicated the note’s significance required careful interpretation and tied to a Tokyo broadcast.
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Washington
Ahe Hull
United States
Japan
Hien
Viadastok
Orient
Aie Peirg
Tokyo
Late Planting Delays Hit 1944 Crop Prospects
Washington reports from the Agriculture Department warn of serious delays in spring planting across much of the country. Officials say ration reductions and adverse weather will prevent the hoped-for 1944 acreage, with excessive rains floods and cold conditions cited as the main causes.
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Washington
Max
Agriculture Department
Department
Great Force Of f U S Planes Again Pounds Nazi Targets
Allied air fleets pounded Nazi targets across Europe in a major round the clock assault. American and British bombers hit Budapest and Wiener Neustadt while daylight strikes targeted Calais, Lille, Ghent and Knin. RAF and Mediterranean air forces reported losses and mines laid in enemy waters.
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London
Europe
Hutters Fortress
Budapest
Stokais
Ameriva
Beaumont-le
Italy
Britain
English Channel
Calais
Folkestone
RAF
Berlin
Germany
Wiener Neustadt
Austria
Knin
Air Ministry
Tens
Lille
France
Ghent
Courtrai
Belgium
Ludwigshafen
Heavy Damage in Sevastopol Report Describes City Destroyed
May 11 Moscow correspondent Maj Victor J Koroteiev says Sevastopol suffered immense destruction with the city center ruined while suburbs remain partially intact after German siege and 1942 bombing. Repairs underway as barges reach the port and docks roads and air fields are being restored.
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Moscow
Victor J. Koroteiev
Sevastopol
Sad
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Shachive
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