Air Attack Against Berlin Reported Serious by Radio
British and American air forces launched a major daylight raid on Berlin and struck targets across Germany and Norway. The U S bombers reportedly hit Toulon in France and Oslo Kjeller aircraft plant, part of a broader offensive totaling thousands of sorties and tens of thousands of tons of bombs on Hitler's territory.
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London
U. S
Berlin
Italy
Toulon
France
Loth Vay
Hitler
Germany
Oslo
Norway
Europe
RAF
North Sea
Hamburg
Kjeller
Britain
U.S
Floods Devastate Regions As Rivers Overflow
Associated Press reports floods from the Mississippi and tributaries flood 113 counties across Illinois Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma with 1 636 400 acres inundated. Desperate efforts by men and high school students strive to hold back the rising waters while a divorce is granted for Henry Lyle Whittington from Josephine Blanche Whittington with Calvert K Hartie as attorney.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Missouri
Mlinois
Arkansas
Milinois
Kansas
Oklahoma
Red Cross
Henry Lyle Whittington
Joseph D. Mish
Josephine Blanche Whittington
Calvert K. Hartie
No Reason For Uneasiness Over India Invasion Says Mountbatten
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten stated that Japan's drive in India has not disrupted Allied plans or delayed the Ledo Road to China and that there is no basis for American uneasiness. He warned of strong Japanese land forces in Burma and inevitable offensives, with hard fighting ahead in that theatre.
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India
Mountbatten
Thoburn Wiant
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Lord Louis Montbatten
Associated Press
Ledo Road
China
America
Burma
SEAC
Assam
Mili
Hit Run Driver Sought Here In Fatal Accident
Harry H Barnes 59 of Mt Airy Frederick County found dead along Middleburg Pike east of the Airport after a hit and run. Autopsy shows death instant with prior drinking at a nearby tavern. Barnes employed at Fairchild plant No 2 and reputedly boarded with Howard Shank family. wife notified. Body removed to Kraiss mortuary. Investigation confirms hit and run after midnight.
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Harry H. Barnes
Mt. Airy
Frederick County
Middleburg Pike
Barnes
Washington County Hospital
Fairchild Plant No. 2
Howard Shank
Mt Airy
Kraiss
Leister Isanogle
All Russia All Russia May Day Celebration Across Moscow
Moscow braces for May Day as flags flood official buildings and apartments. Russians prepare gatherings and shopping as the holiday repeats under wartime pressures. Officials note victories across Leningrad Novgorod Smolensk Kiev Odessa Crimea Ukraine White Russia, and Red Army advances into Romania and Czechoslovakia. In Wheaton Illinois a laundryman’s estate ties up bundles and requires a Chinese chirographer to decipher tickets.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Leningro Novgorod
Smolensk
Kiev
Odessa
Crimea
Ukraine
White Russia
Red Army
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Wheaton
Charles Hong
Gardening Tools Drive for Veterans at Newton Baker Hospital
The Newton D. Baker General Hospital convalescents will receive a Victory garden. Washington county urges donations of gardening tools, collected by the County Farm Bureau and left at the county agent’s office in the old post office building by Monday. The drive aims to help veterans adjust to civilian life or rehabilitate for returned duty, with tools needed immediately to speed fulfillment.
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Newton D. Baker General Hospital
Washington County
County Farm Bureau
Post Ofice
Gandhi in good spirits after fever attack in Bombay
A government communique reports Mohandas K. Gandhi improving overnight and in good spirits. The 75 year old Indian leader had been weak and causing anxiety, with officials noting a fair degree of improvement in his condition in Bombay.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Deadline Today For Licenses Renewal Reminder By Board
The Board of Liquor License Commissioners reminds licensees today is the deadline to renew alcoholic beverage licenses. It also notes establishments cannot sell alcohol until after 8 p.m. Monday due to the primary day.
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Board of Liquor License Commissioners
Fire destroys Gulf Refining storage plant in Knoxville
A spectacular blaze in Knoxville wiped out most of Gulf Refining's main storage plant. The fire, likely sparked by an explosion in the warehouse, raged from midnight to dawn, destroying gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil. Firefighters prevented two large tanks from exploding.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Gulf Refining Company
C. M. Johnson
Johnson
Ismaler Wojta
Calm Prevails At Ward Plant Amid Seizure Fight
In Chicago calm prevailed as government officials supervised Ward plant operations and troops kept watch. Sewell Avery won a shareholder vote of confidence yet was barred by court from occupying his $100,000 annual post, while Ward directors including 12 others were re elected. In Washington Senator McCarran led investigations into presidential directives used to seize Montgomery Ward properties, with an investigator reportedly on site in Chicago.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
Sewell L. Avery
Avery
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
CIO
Washington
McCarran
D-New
Senate Judiciary Committee
Montgomery Ward & Company
Judiciary
Byrd
D-Va
Heavy Frost Hits Keedysville Area With Little Damage
A heavy frost visited the county last night dropping to 29 degrees in Keedysville. No real damage occurred as warm sun earlier dried fruit blossoms, water pans froze on lawns and roofs white with frost. Miller notes 29 to lower readings are common. another frost is forecast with clouds and warmer weather tomorrow.
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J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Mr. Miller
Alimony Request Reaches OPA Office
A county woman asked the Office of Price Administration to collect alimony, claiming her husband owed support. The OPA replied it is not a domestic relations court and cannot intervene in alimony actions.
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OPA
Ration Board
Bolivia says revolution put down and state of siege declared
The Bolivian government announced that a vast revolutionary plot against the regime had been quelled and a state of siege proclaimed nationwide. Elements involved were detained, with details controlled by police for release later. The unsettled country had seen a December overthrow and a general strike that closed tin mines critical to UN supplies.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Ruuth
Gualberto Villaroel
United States
United Nations
Villaroel
Bradley seeks probe of Mexican wealth from Lend-Lease reports
Rep. Bradley discloses he will urge a Congressional investigation into claims that Americans live richly in Mexico with Lend-Lease funds. He cites a national engineer contractor source and plans to seek action from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee through Senator Vandenberg before final Senate action on extending Lend-Lease.
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Washington
Bradley
R-Mich
Mexico
House
United States
Bradey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
Rmich
Senate
Good Neighbor Policy
New York
California
Michigan
Washington, D.C
State Department
A Book Holders Can Get New Tires Monday
Ration book holders will be eligible on May 1 for grade III tires, the county ration office announced today. Only certificate holders may purchase, and many applicants are expected next week due to prior ineligibility complaints.
Local Contractor Buys Biever Home on Oak Hill
Local plumbing and heating contractor Bert M. Marshall has purchased the late William H. Biever property on Oak Hill avenue through N B Rowe Agency. Marshall, related to General George C. Marshall, plans to occupy the home after making improvements.
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William H. Biever
Oak Hill Avenue
Allbert M. Marshall
N. B. Rowe
Mr. Marshall
George C. Marshall
Busy Week in Realty Market Totals Near 250000
The local real estate market saw a strong week with aggregate sales near 250000. Transactions include Franklin M. Thomas to Gratten Broadwater for 13200 on South Potomac east side between Antietam and Baltimore, and several other property transfers with prices ranging from 2500 to 13200.
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Franklin M. Thomas
Gratten V. Broadwater
South Potomac
Antietam
Baltimore
Granville T. Mozingo
Norman R. Stone
Williamsport Pike
Frickstown
Ardra H. Jennings
Chas. F. Summerfield
Irvin Avenue
Dorothy R. Windley
Wim. McPherson Miller
North Avenue
John Lester Otto
Milton H. Gillan
Fairground Avenue
Charles S. Bowers
Lillian QO. Plotner
Lincoln Street
A. Leroy Mowen
John L. Otto
Virginia Avenue
Eleanora Grob
William G. McKay
Mhngerstown-Smithsburg
Roberta V. Barkdoll
Charles I. Wolfinger
Valley Hardware Company
Jesse L. Harr
Dorothy H. Heckman
Catherine H. Pope
Summit Avenue
Harriet L. Beckenbaugh
Fred ©. Wright, Jr
Fankhouser Is Scored Again in West Virginia Primary
Mayor D. Boone Dawson of Charleston charged Raymond J. Fankhouser with lip service to his crusade against boss rule. Dawson, seeking the Republican nomination, said the Eastern Panhandle candidate’s hypocrisy is astounding and claimed Fankhouser would back a slate if party members support him.
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Buchhannon
W. Va
D. Boone Dawson
Charleston
Raymond J. Fankhouser
Charles Town
Dawson
Funkhouser
Panhandle
West Virginia
Attacks Across Eastern Front Reported by Moscow
Moscow says Axis attacks southeast of Stanislawow in former Poland were broken with about 800 Germans and Hungarians killed while reporting no substantial changes on the eastern front. Soviet raids hit the Lwow rail junction and an airfield near Lwow, destroying troop trains and German trucks. In Crimea, naval planes sank a 1,000 ton tanker and a landing barge near Sevastopol.
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London
Stanislawow
Poland
Moscow
Lasia
Red Army
Lwow
Allied Bombers Hit Italian West Coast Ports
Allied heavy bombers struck Piombino Orbetello and Santo Stefano on the Italian west coast while Genoa and other harbors were raided at night. Daylight raids focused on rail links bridges and supply dumps as 1 700 sorties were flown. Eleven Allied planes were lost and five enemy aircraft were destroyed.
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Naples
Piombino
Orbetello
Santo Stefano
Genoa
Rome
Forrestal May Succeed Knox In Cabinet Shuffle
Washington April 29 Strong congressional backing grew for James Forrestal 52 year old Undersecretary of the Navy to become secretary of the Navy post vacated by the death of Frank Knox The move would place a New Yorker with World War I naval service in charge of the world s largest naval establishment The president offered no clear guidance amid speculation about further Republican or Democratic appointments and possible candidates such as Harold E Stassen were discussed by friends and observers as potential successors
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Washington
James ¥. Forrestal
Navy
Frank Knox
Roosevelt
Stimson
Congress
Forrestal
Knox
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Pacific
Naval Air Service
Pre School Clinic Schedule In County Towns
Health Department conferences set for Funkstown on May 2 Keedysville on May 4 and Lincoln School Halfway on May 5 begin at 1 30 pm Children must be accompanied by a parent and attend promptly
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Health Department
Funkstown
Keedysville
Lincoln School
Halfway
Can't Deliver So Milk Poured Out
Atlanta April 29 The Georgia milk producers Confederation Inc has poured out 1000 gallons of milk each Monday for three weeks due to a government regulation limiting deliveries to six days weekly. Restrictions ordered by the Office of Defense Transportation to conserve gasoline tires and equipment forced the firm to drain 8000 gallons of milk receipts for the last three Sundays.
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Atlanta
Georgia Milk Producers Confederation, Inc
James D. Gay
Office of Defense Transportation
Gay
Invasion Talk Spreads Across Europe Invasion Reports
Stockholm and London dispatches quote Helsinki Sanomat claiming landings underway in multiple spots as Allied invasion rumors swirl. Berlin says western front invasion began days ago with air crews deployed. Denmark halts Stockholm Copenhagen lines amid occupation. Franco’s Madrid outlet cites 4:41 am as invasion guess window.
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Stockholm
A.P
Helsinki
Sanomat
Europe
Stockholm Aftonbladet
London
Berlin
Denmark
Copenhagen
Ruesic
Tass
Tmor
Karl Rundstedt
Hitler
West Wall
Dwight D. Eisenhower
England
Marshal Petain
Vichy
Sweden
Dagens Nyheter
Arriba
Franco
Madrid
Germany
Divorce suit filed for Elizabeth J. Bullett
Elizabeth J. Bullett, represented by attorney Samuel C. Bstrite, appears in court today seeking a divorce from Ellis Ve Bliett in a civil action filed in the jurisdiction.
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Elizabeth J. Bullett
Samuel C. Bstrite
Enit
iEllis Ve Bmiett
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Reich
Russia
Gandhi
Biever
Fankhouser
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