City prepares for long blackout test nationwide tone
City residents check doors and windows as a planned blackout nears with a city alarm sound at start and end. Traffic halts and lights go out for 30 minutes then full darkness for hours while air raid drills proceed and wardens inspect blackout readiness. Baltimore plans a 3 hour 9 pm test with lights mostly on for traffic.
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City Hall
Arti
Baltimore
Baltimore Committee On Civilian Defense
George A. Carter
Congress weighs England trip for war council
Congressional leaders meet to decide if a July visit to England for a war council with British Parliament members should go forward. Senator O Mahoney warns public may call it a junket though he supports direct talks with allies to improve understanding and aid.
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England
O'Mahoney
Dwyo
Frederick High School Finals Set for Thursday
About 240 graduates will receive diplomas Thursday morning at Frederick High School commencement. Leslie N. Coblentz will give the address. diplomas will be presented by Robert L. Warfield. The program begins at 10 30 with processional to Elgar Pomp and Circumstance and national anthem.
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Leslie N. Coblentz
Frederick
Middletown
Frederick County
Elgar
Robert L. Warfield
Board of Education
Benjamin W. Meeks
Calvary Methodist Church
J. Grant Swank
Mary Frances Brengle
Hetty Compher
Jean Fogle
Phyllis Fout
Sarah Lee Grandy
Hazel Harper
Helen Horine
Marjorie Poole
Jean Schultz
Eloise Shankle
Evelyn
Roosevelt seeks WPA funding cut and relief plan
President Roosevelt asked Congress to cut the Works Progress Administration appropriation by about 185 million and request 280 million for work relief plus 2.767 million for administration for the year starting July 1. He predicted an average monthly employment near 400,000 with 3 million still unemployed and signaled social security reforms to cover residual needs. The decision will shape future WPA reductions or possible elimination.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Congress Lastanuary
Works Projects Administration
WPA
County Prisoner Asks For Release
James L. Schultz of this city seeks a writ of habeas corpus in Baltimore city Court claiming a denial of a speedy trial. Convicted at the February term of Circuit Court, he received two years and six months in the House of Correction and argues he was arrested November 20, 1941, held 18 days in jail, indicted February 18, tried March 6 with Delmas K. Rice for theft of a meat slicer, and that witnesses for him were not heard. Hearing set tomorrow at 12:30 before Judge Dennis. State’s Attorney Schnauffer to represent the State.
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House of Correction
Baltimore
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Schultz
United States
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Patrick M. Schnauffer
Gasoline rationing closes many local filling stations
Dozens of stations and several tourist restaurants shut Sunday as gasoline quotas bite. Dealers warn Memorial Day traffic will dip, with some locations already reporting scarce or no gasoline. FBI inspections reportedly check ration card use while new rules allow fuel for essential travel after local board review.
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Ratoning Board
Automobile Club of Maryland
OPA
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Labor Party to Stay Back of Churchill
In London voters at the Labour party annual conference rejected an amendment seeking withdrawal from the Churchill government by 2 319 000 to 164 000. The vote upheld Labour's participation while Clement Attlee backed the war continuation. Lord Strabolgi urged reconsideration of Labour ministers remaining in the cabinet.
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London
Labor Party
Churchill
Lord Strabolgi
Labor
Clement Attlee
Dominions
Allies Keep Up Non-Stop Drive On Japs
Allied headquarters report a weekend of heavy blows against Japanese targets in the Pacific. Allied bombers hit Amboina harbor while ships and airfields at Galfway Lae and Blanche Bay faced attacks. one Allied ship was sunk after a desperate night battle, with crew survivors rescued by a destroyer.
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Amboina
Dutch East Indies
MacArthur
Varakanau
Blanche Bay
Rabaul
New Britain
New Guinea
Celebes
Lae
Treasury Seeks 800 Million War Bonds Next Month
Treasury officials urged Americans to invest 800 million dollars in war bonds in the coming month. They announced state quotas including the District of Columbia Hawaii Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with county targets to be set soon. May bond sales for the first business days reached 41. million, up 24 percent from April, as management and labor cooperated to aim at a ten percent payroll investment. Maryland's quota is listed at 12,002,100.
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Washington
Treasury
District of Columbia
Hawai
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Maryland
Hood College Commencement Weekend At Outdoor Theater
Hood College outlines four day events with outdoor theater commencements on June 8 led by Franklin and Marshall’s Theodore Distler. Music by Henry Wade and Paul Beckhelm accompanies services, sermons by Dr. William Barnhart, and student processions and Alumnae Day activities through June 7.
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Hudson
Theodore Distler
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster
Henry T. Wade
Guilmant
Brodbeck Hall
Cublentz Hall
Henry J. Stahr
Margaret Wehler
New York Library
Gloria Schmitt
Pittsburgh
Mayor Returns His X Gasoline Ration Card
Mayor Lloyd C Culler voluntarily returned his X gasoline rationing card to the local Rationing Board. Official sources say the mayor stated he did not want the card and the fee was not sought. He held a B-3 card according to officials.
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Lloyd C Culler
Rape Trial Set After Venue Change in Carroll Case
LeRoy Carroll faces a rape trial in Washington County Circuit Court with witnesses to be heard in Hagerstown after a venue change. State’s Attorney Patch Schnauffer leads the prosecution. defense counsel includes Erwin Fo Nikirk and Tlenreth McLaughlin. The case concerns an alleged assault on Carroll’s 11-year-old niece. The article notes North Carolina’s Indian population figure of 22,690 as a regional detail.
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Washneton County
LeRoy Carroll
Washington County
Hagerstown
Yau
Pat
Ch Schnauffer
Proscute
Carroll
Erwin Fo Nikirk
Thierty
UD Tlenreth McLaughlin
Strike disrupts Cleveland transit system
Dozens of street cars and buses halted city transit lines in a widespread strike. The stoppage began about 11 a.m. as workers affected by the action disrupted service during a typical Monday rush in downtown Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Lane Appointed To Frederick County Welfare Board
Charles S. Lane, Frederick Industrial plant executive, is named a member of the Frederick County Welfare Board succeeding Rev. William C. Royal who was ineligible for reappointment. Ernest R. Shriver of Emmitsburg is renamed to the board to succeed himself. Six year terms run to May 31 with no salary. board to reorganize and elect a new chairman after next month.
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Charles S. Lane
Frederick
State Department of Welfare
Ernest R. Shriver
Emmitsburg
Royal
Frederck
Laval May Be Ousted By Axis
Paris and Vichy circles report growing Axis pressure on Pierre Laval as he negotiates France’s collaboration. Rumors say Jacques Doriot might enter government or form a rival regime while Laval seeks German backing to end pressure over Nice Corsica and Martinique amid U S talks and Russian front issues.
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Switzerland
Pierre Laval
Paris
France
Axis
Vichy
Jacques Deriot
Pari
Matterns
Doriot
Laval
United States
Martinique
Ruceia
Nice
Corsica
Ttals
Armistice Commission
Germany
Maryland Youths Expected to Register June 30
State Selective Service officials estimate more than a thousand Maryland men aged 18 to 20 will register on June 30 under President Roose velts proclamations.
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Barvicore
Traffic Manager For Agricultural Workers
A House committee recommended appointing a traffic manager to direct transportation of agricultural workers to labor short areas. The panel said movement of workers, both agricultural and industrial, is a major national issue and divided responsibility cannot be allowed when foodstuffs and equipment are needed for the battlefield.
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Washington
House
Jap Column Routed By Chinese Forces in Yunnan Event
Reports from Tokyo and Chungking describe Chinese defenses repelling Japanese advances along the Salween and Fuchun rivers. Chinese forces allegedly inflicted heavy Japanese casualties while defending Kinhwa and nearby Kin te h, with guerrilla actions targeting enemy supply lines as Japan reportedly threw up to 10,000 troops into the offensive.
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Salween
China
Yunnan
Paoshan
Chekiang
Kinhwa
Chungking
Fuchun
Kienteh
Chientang
Pukiang
Yiwu
Tungyang
State School Finals Tuesday at Maryland Deal
The Maryland State School for the Deal holds commence ment exercises Tuesday at 2 pm in the school gymnasium with all departments represented. Prizes are awarded by Jan K. Snow of Baltimore. Salutatory by Irene Evangeline Quidas and valedictory by Rudolph Craver Hines. A program of songs, rhythms, and four choruses closes with benediction by Rev Daniel Moylan. Exhibits and cadet drill precede a public day except board meeting.
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Jan K. Snow
Baltimore
Irene Evangeline Quidas
Preston
Dea
Julia B. Elting
Francis Gale
Ignatius Bjorlee
Marguerite Quinn
Sudelle Rice
Saraa Quinn
Antoinette Gale
William Gross
Margaret S. Kent
Craver Hines
Brinklow
Pearl Harbor
Maryland
August Wriede
Red Army gains at Kharkov in renewed Soviet drive
Front line dispatches report Marshal Semeon Timoshenko renewing the Kharkov offensive and driving Germans from a key resistance center. Soviet communiques note heavy German losses, with a slugging battle continuing in the Izyum Barvenkova sector and renewed progress by the Red Army.
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Semeon Timoshenko
Kharkov
Ukraine
Red Army
Izyum
Leningrad
Red
Soviet Information Bureau
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