Slays Three And Then Takes Life
Four bodies found in a Westminster area tenant farm house mark a triple murder ending in the slayer Ralph Milton Wentz taking his own life. Victims include Verna L. Smith 23 and her mother Susan Elizabeth Sykes 56, plus Smith's son Sterling six and the housekeeper's family. Autopsy shows two head shots on both women and two shots to Sterling, while Wentz died of a self-inflicted wound. authorities pursue motive and custody issues tied to a prior divorce and habeas petition.
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Westminster
Carroll
Littlestown
Donald C. Sponseller
Ralph Milton Wentz
Verna L. Smith
Susan Elizabeth’ Sykes
Wentz
Sponselier
Sponseller
Charles Conaway
Lee Crawmer
L K. Indy
James E Marsh
New Windsor
Marsh
Albin Duvall
Here
Taneytown Road
Charles Joseph Sykes
Patapsco
Neena Wentz
Euclid St
N. W
Washington
Lois
James E. Boy Jan, Jr
Edgar Wharnish
Harvey Wentz
Route 2
Hanover
Westminster Funeral Home
Stalin calls for unconditional surrender and victory over Hitler
Stalin declared that unconditional surrender is the goal for the Soviet Union and its allies. He praised the Red Army and guerrilla efforts, noted gains in the Stalingrad campaign with hundreds of thousands of prisoners, and warned Hitler’s regime is in crisis. He urged renewed western and eastern blows and highlighted Allied air power and the prospect of a second front in Europe.
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Soviet Union
Red Army
Stalingrad
Germany
Stalin
Hitler
Libya
Tripolitania
Tunisia
Italy
Europe
Funkstown Voters To Elect On Monday
Funkstown voters will elect a burgess Monday May 3 with no opposition for Guy R. Hebb who has served 14 years. All other candidates are incumbents except Frank Stockslager for assistant burgess and commissioners Ellis Duffey Paul Reynolds and Frank Stockslager. Polls open 1 to 7 p.m. at the fire hall.
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Guy R. Hebb
Burgess
Funkstown
Guy Hoffmaster
Ellis Duffey
Paul Reynolds
Frank Stockslager
Stockslager
Money found wallet recovered by finder near Fayetteville
Charles Gardner of Fayetteville Pennsylvania reported to local police that a pocketbook with more than 800 dollars lost days earlier has been found. The wallet was located by a passerby and turned in to authorities with Gardner notified.
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Charles Gardner
Fayetteville
Ensign Flanigan Arriving Here Monday
Regina Flanigan WAVE recruiting officer for the Baltimore district will visit Hagerstown on Monday afternoon May 3 and Tuesday morning May 4 to interview WAVES and SPARS applicants at City Hall. She will explain enlistment paths and how to apply. Literature will be available. Enlisted ages 20 to 36, officer candidates 20 to 49. Education requirements include two years of high school or college work, or a college degree plus two years professional experience.
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Ensign
Regina Flanigan
WAVE
Baltimore
Hagerstown
WAVES
Navy
City Hall
Flanigan
Ensign Flanigan
Laval Reported Injured By Bomb In Paris Return
Brazzaville radio, via the foreign broadcast intelligence service, reported that Pierre Laval, French head of government, was injured by a time bomb while returning to Paris from a conference with Adolf Hitler. Laval’s finance secretary Pierre Cathala was said to be wounded seriously. Laval only slightly. The report also claimed Laval’s assassination attempt was not immediately confirmed. Berlin radio said Laval conferred with Hitler and that full understanding was reached on pending questions with Germany and Italy.
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Office of War Information
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Associated Press
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Giuseppe Bastianini
Taurus Traits and Wartime Changes Dominate May 1 Horoscope
The Taurus sign, ruled by Venus, highlights fearlessness and will power with strong material ambitions. May 1 foresees favorable national affairs in aviation, wartime home moves, and stock market activity. Patterns for summer fashion and mailing details are included, noting wartime rationing and expected delays.
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Taurus
Venus
Violators Reported At Pimlico Track
The Office of Price Administration enforcement division reported 15 people detected at Pimlico race track violating the honor ban on pleasure driving. Suspects seen at the track three or more times since the event began. Letters will be sent to the suspects asking explanations for repeated drives.
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Office of Price Administration
Pimlico
OPA
Cornelius P. Mundy
Maryland Cpa
Mundy
Happy Go Lucky Opens on Sunday in Hagerstown
The Maryland theatre will inaugurate its Sunday movie policy tomorrow with Paramount's Technicolor romance Happy Go Lucky starring Mary Martin Dick Powell Betty Hutton Eddie Bracken and Rudy Vallee. The comedy follows Mary Martin as a beauty chasing millionaires on a Caribbean island with Powell and Bracken providing comic support and Vallee as the target of her affection.
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Hagerstown
Maryland Theatre
Paramount
Mary Martin
Dick Powell
Betty Hutton
Eddie Bracken
Rudy Vallee
Caribbean
Palm Beach
Mary
Powell
Vallee
Bracken
Andrews Sisters Sing 5 Tunes in New Film Musical
The Andrews Sisters perform five songs in the Universal film How's About It, opening Sunday at Henry's Theatre. The gay musical features Robert Page Grace McDonald Shemp Howard Mary Wickes Walter Catlett and Buddy Rich and includes songs Going Up East of The Rockies Don't Mind the Rain Take It and Git Hera Comes the Navy.
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Andrews Sisters
Universal Tune
Henry's Theatre
Robert Page
Grace McDonald
Shemp Howard
Mary Wickes
Walter Catlett
Buddy Rich
the Nations No
Irving Gordon
Allen Roth
Sid Robin
Air Control By U S Is Needed
Air control by the United States is essential in the southwest Pacific where Japan has many airstrikes bases that prevent Allied ships from operating. Clark Lee, AP war correspondent, warned the Chesapeake AP Association that without air superiority no Japanese ships can break through the region. He said UN leaders seek planes to spare and warned the war could drag on indefinitely. Robert McLean also spoke at the dinner.
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Baltimore
Clark Lee
Associated Press
Chesapeake Associated Press Association
Pacific
Man’s Land
Lee
Japan
Australia
Southwest Pacific
United Nations
Robert McLean
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
The
Crowded Friday as stamps expire in Hagerstown stores
Hagerstown food stores were jammed Friday with shoppers using red and blue ration stamps that became invalid at midnight. Some stores sold out of meat items and long lines formed as rationing and stamp receipt slowed purchases. Many waited until the last moment to use remaining stamps. red and blue stamps became valid April 24 for May.
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Hagerstown
American Legion cites for Washington County service members
Anxious that every man and woman in the armed forces from Washington County receive an American Legion citation members of serving families are urged to report to the American Legion Home on West Antietam Street. By year end about 6 000 county residents will be in the services. Over a thousand citations have already been presented to soldiers sailors or their families.
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Washington County
American Legion
West Antietam Street
Washington
Motorist Sought After Hit and Run on Route 40
Sheriff officers hunted last night for an alleged hit and run auto with Pennsylvania plates that struck Thelma Campbell’s car on Route 40 at Brazil. The report notes Brazil and Cuba as large manganese producers used in steel making.
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Pennsylvania
Thelma Campbell
Western Pike
Route 40
Brazil
Cuba
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