Farewell for Roosevelt at White House East Room
The nation mourns as Franklin D. Roosevelt lies in state in the East Room with the Navy band playing. Margaret Suckley brings Fala as officials and family attend private services and prepare for burial in Hyde Park after a solemn procession through Washington.
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Washington
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Roosevelt
Truman
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Union Station Plaza
National Capitol
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Episcopal
Angus Dun
Washington Episcopal Cathedral
Dentral
Jonathan _ Daniels
Elliott Roosevel
London
Col. Roosevelt
Elf
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Pepper D . Mead
Lucas
Maybagk
Russians Close On German Holdouts In Austria
Soviet advances press toward Vienna as eleven German tank divisions fall. Horonia, near the Moravian border, falls and Brunn is threatened while Vienna celebrates liberation with public squares and waltzes. Tolbukhin’s forces push west of Vienna as Berlin notes wide withdrawals along a 170 mile front.
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Vienna
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Aviles
Song
Viennesee
Malinovsky
Horonia
Moravian
Bruenn
City Honors Late President With Moment Of Silence
Federal offices closed at noon and city county offices at midday as tribute spreads. USES office held 12 to 12:30 memorial led by Rev. Miller. Major industries halt briefly at 4 pm for funeral service. Victor Products stopped at 11:45 am after tributes by James Noel Sr. hymns echoed through the loudspeakers.
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U. S
Raymond M. Miller
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Funkstown
Beall Speaker At Sportsmen's Meet
About 75 attended the annual dinner and meeting of the South Mountain Rod and Gun Club at Smithsburg High School cafeteria. Congressman J. Glenn Beall spoke on sportsmen clubs and conservation. Maryland legislators from Washington county attended. Frank L. Bentz discussed the State Game and Inland Fish Commission and showed movies. Officers elected: D Eldred Rinehart president, Denton Jacques first vice president, Reno B Harp second vice president, Benjamin F Snyder secretary, C O Smith treasurer.
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South Mountain Rod and Gun Club
Smithsburg
J. Glenn Beall
Maryland
Washington County
Frank L. Bentz
State Game and Inland Fish Commission
Schroyer
D. Eldred Rinehart
Denton Jacques
Reno
Physician Arthur Glessing to Move Residence
Dr. Arthur L. Glessing, a former local physician, plans to relocate from Middleton to Boonsboro after purchasing a home on Lakin Avenue.
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Arthur L. Glessing
Middletown
Boonsboro
Lakin Avenue
Pan American Day session reshaped as quick House action
A planned long list of Representatives including USC Ball Ferguson and McMahon was drawn for an unusual Saturday House session to celebrate Pan American day, but the session became a brief reapportioning or quick move rather than the expected extended proceedings.
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USC
Ball
R-Minn
Ferguson
Rmich
McMahon
Donn
House
Truman Eyes New Forum For Postwar Europe Leadership
President Truman considers urgent talks with Stalin Churchill and De Gaulle to redraw occupation zones in Germany and decide reparations in kind prisoner labor and refugee disposition. He vows no policy change and plans a national address after Roosevelt’s burial, urging unity and continued prosecution of the war.
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Truman
Europe
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Charles de Gaulle
Yalta
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Congress
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Hyde Park
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Oval Room
Army
World Mourns Death of FDR
Nations grieve as Franklin D Roosevelt dies. Eden traveled to the United States to attend the funeral, while Britain, the King and Queen, and allied leaders observe mourning. Memorial services are planned across the globe including Londonderry Cathedral and Moscow.
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United States
Britain
Glasgow
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Moscow
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
George E. Thomas
Chicago
Lynn
Mass
Council of People’s Commissars
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Jerusalem
Lord Gort
St. Georges
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Mrs. Roosevelt
Truman
Purple Heart Chapter Holds Meeting in Hagerstown
The Hagerstown Chapter No. 149 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart held its regular meeting with many members present and five new patriots admitted. The committee led by Patriot Commander Hurd planned the Purple Heart tag day for Saturday April 1 to aid wounded veterans, and the chapter urged public donations to the United Clothing Drive.
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Hagerstown
Military Order of the Purple Heart
Hurd
United Clothing
Favorite Painting To Be Selected At Local Museum Exhibition
Spectators will ballot their favorite painting in the American Painting Today show at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. The cross section will guide future exhibitions as the display features contemporary American art without modernist extremes. Notable works include Paul Sample Politics, Peter Hurd Prairie Shower, Fletcher Martin Lullaby, and Hobson Pittman August Afternoon, with pieces by Brackman Speicher and Gross. The show runs through April 29, daily 1 to 6 pm on Sundays holidays and 10 am to 6 pm other days except Mondays.
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Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Hagerstown
Washington County
New England
Paul Sample
Peter Hurd
Fletcher Martin
Hobson Pittmen
Robert Brackman
Eugene Speicher
George Gross
Associated American Artista
Macbath
Midtown
Rehn
Kleeman Galleries
Milch
New York City
Six Veterans To Give Talks Here At Ha gerstown Rallyes
Six veterans of Bastogne including two Marylanders will visit Hagerstown next Thursday and Friday to take part in rallies and talk to Pangborn Corporation workers. The soldiers recently finished tours of Pennsylvania and Maryland industrial areas and will go to Baltimore Monday for a two day program at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point to speak with workers in the bloom shop and strip mill.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
Baltimore
Mornday
Bethlehem Steel Company
Sparrows Point
Eastern Front Must Collapse Amid German Mountain Redoubts
Analysis argues the Nazi strongholds in southern Germany and northern Austria, between Lake Constance and Berchtesgaden, could fragment into multiple pockets if Allied pressure continues toward Hamburg and northern ports. Norway may remain the strongest hold, with fall weather delaying assaults as Wehrmacht folds forces into these arcs.
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Germany
Austria
Lake Constance
Berchtesgaden
Hamburg
Luebock
Holland
Denmark
Norway
Middle
AL Hed
Baltimore visit by labor group includes five locals guests
The Maryland contingent of the Baltimore American Federation of Labor locals will host visitors on Wednesday. The group includes First Lt. Delos 4. Robyler and Staff Sgt. Thomas J. Delbaugh from Cumberland, plus three Virginians Sgt. Harold V. Woolford Roanoke Stat Set Odell Cassada Crewe and Stat Sgt. Carroll E. Elliott South Boston. The sixth member is Sgt. Charles J. Cunningham from New Orleans.
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Cold Roll Mill
Baltimore American Federation of Labor
Maryland
Delos
Robyler
Thomas J. Delbaugh
Cumberland
Harold V. Woolford
Roanoke
Odell Cassada
Crewe
Stat
Carroll E. Elliott
South
Boston
Charles J. Cunningham
New Orleans
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