Frigid nationwide weather blights spring across the nation
A blizzard and frigid weather hit the Midwest and East with snow and ice disrupting travel and thawed toward normal in the Northwest. Temperatures plunged near zero in some areas while the Pacific Southwest baked in the heat. At least seven deaths were linked to the cold wave and several states reported icy highways and weather related accidents.
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Bowie
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North Carolina
J. R. Lloyd
Kansas City
Nebraska
Montana
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Pacific States
Alaska Land Survey Progress
Alaska reports 3F8.165.000 acres total, with 2.199.008 acres surveyed, indicating substantial remaining unmapped land and ongoing governmental surveying efforts.
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Loot Recovered From Boxcar Robbery Near Hagerstown
Patrolman John Knode recovered medicines and toilet articles from a Baltimore and Ohio boxcar robbed last Wednesday. The goods, destined for a Brunswick drug store, were found along the tracks near the car on the siding by the Hagerstown Gas Company plant. Some perfume and shaving cream remain missing. recovered merchandise turned over to M. E. McGaha of the B&O police.
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Baltimore and Ohio
John Knode
Brunswick
Hagerstown
Major Riley Dies From Car Crash In Maryland
Major Hugh R. Riley a longtime Maryland National Guard officer died in Casualty Hospital Washington after a two car collision near Upper Marlboro. He led the First Battalion 115th Infantry in World War I but did not go overseas. Survived by a daughter Rebecca and two sons Reverend Joseph F. Riley and Didgely Riley. brother Don Riley Baltimore radio commentator. Several others injured in crash including Baltimore detective Albert Kendrick and grand jury bound for inspection at Cheltenham House of Reformation. Riley known as a veteran newspaper correspondent and Navy athletic observer aged about seventy.
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Washington
Upper Marlboro
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115Th Infantry
Rebecca
Joseph FT. Riley
Smithsberg
Didgely Riley
Penn State
George C. Hilde
William Galvin Nolte
Edwin E. Hooper
Baltimore Fire Department
Kiley
Maryland
Freedance
Navy
Euhu
Miley
Forecast for Maryland wheat crop in April report
Maryland crop service forecasts the smallest wheat crop since 1933 7 070 000 bushels due to very slow growth from cold spring. Pasture 72 percent of normal and rye 65 percent. farm stocks down from last year. Witness in New York seditious conspiracy case missing as trial pauses due to witness illness.
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Maryland Crop Reporting Service
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Gbosecu
United States
New York
Chase Gunther Bruecke
Leeange
Denis A. Healy
British Losses Mount as Norway Campaign Rages On
British air and naval losses mount in Norway as 11 bombers go down mostly near Kristiansand and Narvik, with further planes lost at sea and at Bergen. German reports claim ten British planes in Bergen attack and two German losses, while Stockholm reports Norwegian resistance stiffens and hints Hitler may seek new targets if the campaign stalls.
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FDR Awaits GOP Selection on Third-Term Plans
Washington sources predict President Roosevelt will withhold any third-term statement until after the June 1 Republican convention. Two unnamed senators say FDR wants to study nominees and platform first, to avoid revealing strategy before Philadelphia. Senator Lee argues the tradition against a third term may force a Democratic nomination from the ranks, given wartime duties.
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Roosevelt
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Lee
Dokla
Russia And Germany Plotting A Revolt In Mexico Dies
Washington April 13 Rep Dies said he had evidence that Russia and Germany planned to trigger a Mexican revolution and install a puppet government near the United States. He cited Spanish Civil War ties and alleged recruitment of 10,000 Americans for a Mexican coup with 10,000 already in Mexico. He urged Justice Department action against recruiters and veterans misusing passports.
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Maryland Youth Murdered By Loyalists In Spanish War
Vernon Selby, a Maryland youth who joined the Loyalists in Spain, was reportedly murdered after being taken from a camp near Barcelona. Relatives and officials had sought details for months as testimony connected the abuse of American volunteers to Communist leadership and to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Mrs. Selby said her son went to Spain in 1937 and was last heard from with reports of harsh treatment and arming restrictions.
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Maxwell Wallach
Detroit
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Vernon
Dear Wondering and Silly Old Maid in Advice Column
Betty Brainerd offers guidance to two readers, urging restraint from rash judgments and warning Wondering about a wolf in sheep's clothing. The letters advise keeping private acts of help discreet, ignoring critics, and ending a risky relationship by recognizing its harmful implications and pursuing self-respect.
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Martha Raye and David Rose End Marriage Suit
Actress Martha Raye using legal name Martha Lyonne Rose filed for divorce from musician David Rose alleging extreme cruelty since their October 1938 Laguna marriage in Ensenada. Rose, a screen and radio arranger, wed Raye after divorcing her first husband, with make-up man Bud Westmore also noted in the sequence.
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Martha Raye
David Rose
Ensenada
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Chaperau Sentence Commuted By FDR
The Justice Department announced that President Roosevelt commuted Albert Chaperau’s sentence to the time he has already served in the New York City Federal Detention. Chaperau testified for the government in cases involving George Burns Jack Benny Mrs Edgar Lauer and others indicted for customs violations tied to jewelry imports from Europe. Benny paid 10000 Burns 38000 and Mrs Lauer served a three month jail term. The commutation was cited as a reward for his assistance in prosecuting the cases.
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Albert Chaperau
Federal House of Detention
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Chaperau
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Edgar Lauer
New York State Supreme Court
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Benny
Burns
Queen Mary at Halifax to embark Canadian troops
London April 13 Rome dispatch quoted Stefani the Italian news agency saying the liner Queen Mary is at Halifax to embark Canadian troops. Stefani, per the Ottawa telegram, reports a troop movement connected to the British war effort. The dispatch appears in Reuters coverage of wartime troop movements.
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Rome
Reuters
Stefani
Itelian
Halifax
Ottawa
Wide Search For Robbers In Puget Sound
Tacoma April 13 The nations number one bank robbery team two brothers in law who staged at least eight major holdups in five years escaped from McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary by forcing a guard and driving a truck through the gate. They robbed three Pacific Northwest banks including Portland and Seattle during 1985 to 1937 and are sought by authorities as a 400 yard swim of cold water separates the island from the Olympic peninsula.
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McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
Joseph Paul Cretzer
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Chicago
Arnold Thomas Kyle
Cretzer
Bank of America
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B. B. Swope
Olympic Peninsula
Roy Anderson
Kyle
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