Mayor Seeks Rent Control Details In Inquiry
Mayor Hugh V. Gittinger said he is writing to district rent executive Lucien E. D. Gaudreau for full information on the rent control program to begin in Frederick city and county next Thursday. Reports from Gaudreau in Baltimore and OPA authorities note the scope includes houses, apartments, hotels and similar properties. Landlords must register in June, while tenants face questions on back rents, rebates, and charges after July 1, 1943, with rules to clarify cases of improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh V. Gittinger
Lucien E. D. Gaudreau
Frederick City
Frederick County
Gaudreau
Baltimore
OPA
Daniel FP. Wooley
New York
Frederick
Associated Press
Wooley
District Rent Executive
Department of Labor
Successor To Reynolds To Be Selected Today
Two political veterans battle for the Democratic Senate nomination in North Carolina as Clyde R. Hoey and Cameron Morrison vie for the spot with five candidates in the race. Marvin L. Ritch also campaigns, while Senator Reynolds has declined to run, signaling a contest shaped by local issues and enduring New Deal sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
North Carolina
Clyde R. Hoey
Cameron Morrison
Congress
Marvin L. Ritch
Charlotte
Hoey
Morrison
Robert R. Reynolds
Reynolds
Hood College 74 Seniors to Receive Degrees Sunday
Seventy four Hood College seniors will receive degrees at the fifty first commencement with 18 from Maryland including eight from Frederick County. The morning service features Dr Clarence W Crawford of Calvary Baptist Church Washington as speaker on The Quest for Lifes Highest Values. The Hood College choir conducted by J Alex Gilfillan will perform two anthems and Henry T Wade presents a preludial organ recital. The evening conferring of degrees at 630 in the Hudson theater will feature Dr James Francis Cooke as guest speaker on The Winds of Destiny.
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Hood College
Maryland
Bucknell University
Crawford
Cozer Theological Seminary
Washington
Second Baptist Church
Richmond
Logan Baptist Church
Philadelphia
J. Alex Gilfillan
Haydn
Henry T. Wade
Franck
Bach
Brahms
Hudson Theater
James Francis Cooke
Presser Foundation
Etude Magazine
Republic of France
Legion of Honor
Cooke
Henry Irvin Stahr
W. M. Muir
Elsie Winifred
Wade
Finlands
Sibelius
Heavy Holiday Travel Expected Across Transportation Modes
New York reports Memorial Day weekend travel 15 percent higher than last year with buses airlines and railroads preparing for a surge. Pennsylvania line notes servicemen entering the city and plans extra sections on the New York Washington run while urging employees to delay passes. New York Central reports all Pullman reservations sold for trains like Pacemaker and Empire State. Col J Monroe Johnson appeals civilians to stay home unless travel is essential.
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New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
New York Central Railroad
Molotov to Propose Health for Eisenhower and Allied Command
Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, quoted by London radio, said he would raise his glass in a toast to a burning question about Gen. Eisenhower and the Allied commanders. The CBS listening post reported the luncheon in Moscow marked the second anniversary of a British Soviet mutual assistance pact.
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New York
Vyacheslav Molotov
London Radio Today
Eisenhower
CBS
Moscow
New Offensive By Russians Reported By Vichy Radio
NBC London dispatch cites Vichy radio claiming Russians began an eastern front offensive. No details or confirmations from other sources were provided.
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Vichy
New York
David Anderson
NBC
London
Vichy Radio Today
Three Hood College Faculty Granted Leaves of Absence
Three Hood College faculty members were granted leaves for the coming year at the annual commencement meeting of the college board. Grace Lippy will pursue graduate work at Columbia University in natural science, Olive I. Reddick will join the Office of Strategic Services for work in India, and Catherine A. Eichelberger will serve as a staff recreation worker with the American Red Cross in veterans hospitals. Wayne C. Neely was promoted to full professor and will be acting head in Reddick’s absence. The board also re elected James H. Gambrill Jr. and Frank P. Will for six year terms, elected James Hughes to the board, granted degrees to 74 seniors, and approved the 1944 45 budget.
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Hood College
College Board of Trustees
Grace Lippy
Columbia University
Feld of Natural Science
Miss Lippy
Wilson College
Johns Hopkins
Hood
Olive I. Reddick
Office of Strategic Services
India
Reddick
Wayne C. Neely
Catherine A. Eichelberger
American Red Cross
Veterans
En James H. Gambrill, Jr
Frank P. Will
Will
Philadelphia
Frank Cbd
Levering
Merion
James Hughes
Westmoreland County
Hughes
Pittsburgh Synod
The
Evangelical and Reformed Church
University of Pittsburgh
Public Schools of
Pennsylvania
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
Greensburg
Synodical Council of the
Common table salt as plasma substitute explored
Washington May 27 Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U S Public Health Service testifies that saline solutions may replace plasma for treating wounded and burned in combat. Based on Dr Sanford Rosenthal’s mice research, the method could ease burn shock if proven effective in humans and easier to obtain and administer than plasma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas Parran
W U. S. Public Health Service
Sanford A. Rosenthal
National Institute of Health
House Appropriations Committee
Allied Destroyers Bombard Wotje Island
The Associated Press reports two Allied destroyers bombarded Wotje Island in the Marshall group on the morning of May 23. Japanese shore guns replied and set one destroyer afire, with damage described as insignificant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Wotje Island
Marshall Group
Tokyo
Nazi Home Front Prepared For Fall Of Rome
London reports a German propaganda campaign signaling Rome’s fall and a retreat to a northern defense line, aiming to ease German shock and shift blame to the Allies for any damage. With Fifth Army pressing the last line south of Rome, observers doubt a long siege is feasible and note Rome’s hub role in rail traffic.
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Rome
London
Vichy
Hitler
Fifth
Transocean Agency
Albert Kesselring
Malaria Carriers Seen in Returning US Troops
Surgeon General Thomas Parran warned before the House Appropriations Committee that more than a million returning troops could carry malaria, requiring strict protective measures. He noted relapses in about half of cases and that current drugs merely suppress infection, prompting plans for ongoing regional malaria control and mobile response units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas Parran
U. S. Public Health Service
House Appropriations Committee
Bus Collision Injures Twelve Near Halethorpe
Baltimore bound Trailways bus hits a truck trailer at Rolling Road and Washington boulevard. The bus struck the rear of the trailer which had stopped at a traffic light. Twelve injured, none seriously. Bus driver charged with reckless driving.
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Baltimore
Trailways
Rolling Road
Washington Boulevard
Halethorpe
Wartime strikes disrupt U.S. output across industries
The Associated Press reports new and old labor disputes kept about 41 000 industrial workers from their jobs. Forest products sawmills and Detroit war plants sparked closures, with 11 000 000 board feet of lumber output lost daily. Pickets at Chrysler Highland Park halted 1 500 workers, while broader unrest hit Michigan, Oregon, and Providence.
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Associated Press
Pacific Northwest
Detroit
Washington
Oregon
Chrysler Corporation
Tlighland Park
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers (Cio
War Labor Board
Lincoln County
Ore
AFL
Toledo
Michigan
Parke, Davis & Co
Saginaw
Mich
General Motors
Chevrolet
Muskegon
Campbell, Wyant and Cannon Foundry
Providence
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co
R. 1
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Ciu
Former Imperial Palace In Berlin Damaged In Air Raids
Stockholm reports say the famous imperial palace in Berlin was badly damaged in recent daylight raids. Travelers describe the throne room and the chapel where Frederick the Great was baptized as heavily hit. Since the Weimar republic the castle has served as a museum.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Germany
Frederick the Great
Weimar Republic
Infantryman Badge Awarded to Pfc John Duble
Pfc John Duble of Graceham Maryland receives the Combat Infantryman Badge with the 37th Division on Bougainville for exemplary conduct in combat. He is the son of Mr and Mrs J W Duble. Since May 28 1942 he served overseas in Fiji Island Guadalcanal Russell Islands and fought in the New Georgia campaign.
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Bougsinville
John du
Graceham
Army
Duble
J. W. Duble
Fiji Teland
Guadalcanal
Russell Islands
New Georgia
Tax Simplification Plan To Be Effective Little By Little
Washington May 27 congress crafted a piecewise tax plan that shifts rates and withholdings this year while delaying some provisions to next year. For many, 1944 taxes rise modestly or fall with new standard deductions, credits, and withholding changes. Final returns due in March will reflect these phased effects, with married couples and dependents influencing final amounts.
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Washington
American Air Forces Strike At Nazis From England And Italy
Allied air forces launched a major raid across Germany and occupied France with up to 1,000 Liberators and Fortresses, targeting Karlsruhe Mannheim Ludwigshafen Saarbrucken and French plants at Metz and Strasbourg. An estimated 2,000 American aircraft participated in the assault supported by Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters.
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England
Italy
London
Hitler
Europe
Karlsruhe
Mannheim
Ludwigshafen
Saarbrucken
Metz
Strasbourg
Burma Town Taken From Japanese Burma Town Taken From Japanese
The Chinese have captured the north Burma town of Warong 32 miles northeast of Kamaing and seized a supply dump in the Mogaung valley with heavy enemy casualties. Allied troops from Zigyun to the Irrawaddy bend advanced toward Myitkyina as Japanese forces in Imphal area faced losses.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
Warong
Kamaing
Mogaung
Zigyun
Irrawaddy Bend
Bishenpur
India
Imphal
Royal Air Force
Indian Air Force
Manipur
Tonang
Brunswick Graduates Hear Sermon Sunday
The Brunswick High School graduating class will hear an 11 o'clock Sunday sermon in the school auditorium by Rev William E Nelson, pastor of Brunswick Methodist church. The final senior assembly is Monday morning, followed by graduation exercises Wednesday at eight o'clock with commencement address by Dr Henry F Istahr, Hood College president.
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Brunswick High School
William E. Nelson
Brunswick Methodist Church
Siuium
Henry Flistahr
Hood College
Baccalaureate and Commencement at Frederick High School
Rev W C Royal will address 250 graduates at the baccalaureate Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the high school auditorium. The open service features caps and gowns with a student procession to Pomp and Circumstance. Commencement Wednesday at 10 30 am will have U S Senator Millard E Tydings as speaker and diplomas awarded by Superintendent Eugene W Pruitt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Royal
Frederick High School
Mr. Royal
First Baptist Church
Elgar
Melock
U.S
Millard E. Tydings
Eugene W. Pruitt
State Funds Available For Post War Planning
Annapolis May 27 Maryland communities may access about 2 million dollars in state funds after June 30 for post war planning. Governor O Conor said grants will be on a matching basis for constructing post war projects and will depend on population and tax valuation, subject to Maryland Commission on Post War Reconstruction and Development approval.
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Annapolis
Maryland
O'Conor
Maryland Commission On
Fifth Army Attacks Near Rome Defenses Drive North
Fifth Army reconnaissance near Artena about five and a half miles from Valmontone reports progress toward Rome as heavy fighting and tank battles churn along the Liri valley. Allied forces press toward Ceprano and road junctions on Via Casilina while French reach Monte Rotondo and Monte Quattodorci.
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Allied
Naples
Casilina
Fifth Army
Artena
Valmontone
Rome
Eternal City
Anzio
Mark W. Clark
Cisterna-Valmontone
Liri
Eighth Army
Melfa
Arce
Sacco
Ceprano
Cassino-Rome
Albert Kesselring
Adriatic
San Giovanni
Pastena
Monte Rotondo
Monte Quattodorci
Amasemo
Cisterna
Highway Six
Cori
Hundreds Of Miles Of Danube Are Mined
Allied aircrews mine hundreds of miles of the Danube river at night reducing German waterway traffic. RAF Liberator rear gunners report traffic change is dramatic from crowded Main Street to a country lane. Hungarian and Romanian shipping firms warn they can no longer accept cargoes.
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Allied Headquarters
Naples
Danube
Balkans
Royal Air Force
Liberators
Strategic Air Force
RAF Liberator
William MaccGuffe
Whithaven
England
Nazi Troop Ships In Far North Attacked
Moscow reports a Barents Sea air strike on German troop transports and a destroyer north of Norway. Two transports and a destroyer sunk with several others damaged. It remains unclear whether reinforcements or withdrawals were involved. The Russian bulletin notes German air losses while stating the Red Fleet Air Force inflicted nine losses on German aircraft.
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London
Barents Sea
Norway
Arctic
Moscow
Red Fleet
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State Roads Commission
Catoctin Furnace
Payne's Hill
Hansonville
Thurmont
Timtown
Creagerstown
Lewistown
Surgeon General
Marlow and
Selke
Jai George
Roosevelt
France
Marseille
Tactical Air Force
Rhine
Chungking
Tatanguizu
Tatangtzu
Tengchung
Kaitou
14Th Army Air Force
Loyang
Joseph W Stilwell
Brunswick
W.C. Royal
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