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Newspaper

The Daily Mail

Location

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1945

Page

3

Charity Meeting That Spawned The Commandos

AP News recalls a June 1940 Mayfair gathering where Lt. Col. Dudley W. Clarke outlined a plan for an amphibious guerrilla force. The meeting, framed as a charity event, birthed Britain’s famed Commandos and led to raids to harass Nazi forces.

London Mayfair Dudley W. Clarke Dunkerque

Radio Workshop To Present Program

The Hagerstown High School Radio Workshop will present a half hour program of story and song The Blessing of King Wenceslas on December 29 from 430 to 500 pm over the local radio station The play is an adaptation of a state production by Alice M White and Janet E Tobitt Cast includes Betty Bittinger Fred Spigler Libby Krebs June Oliver Stanley Chatkin George Snyder and others The Glee Club will provide Christmas music under Sara Jane Hoffmann direction with solos by Janice Welch Jean Grosser Eloise Duffey Howard Watson and more Marjorie E Headlander directs the adaptation and production of the program

Hagerstown High School Radio Workshop King Wenceslas Alice M. White Janet E. Tobitt Betty Bittinger Fred Spigler Jan Libby Krebs Mascha June Oliver Honza Page Stanley Chatkin George Snyder Joseph Novak Donald Lighter Viasta Shirley Baker Glee Club Sara Jane Hoffmann Janice Welch Jean Grosser Eloise Duffey Howard Watson Robert Rohrer Thomas Wade Marjorie E. Headlander Radio Workshop

Blanchard to be lionized by Bishopville clubs Dec 27

Felix A. Blanchard Jr. will be honored at a December 27 banquet in Bishopville by Rotary Kiwanis Lions and Pilots clubs during his Christmas leave from West Point. About 300 people are invited with sports writers coaches of the Carolinas and Bishopville High attending as special guests.

Bishopville S. C Felix A Doc) Blanchard, Jr West Point Rotary Kiwanis, Lions and Pilots Carolinas

Lab on wheels fights silent subway threats in NYC

The New York Fire Department unveils a mobile laboratory in a repainted red delivery truck staffed by five chemistry graduates. Its first run in a busy uptown subway tunnel detected a gasoline and oil seepage threatening an underground explosion, underscoring that fumes kill more often than flames.

New York New York Fire Department

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