Coal Miners In 3 States Strike Defy President
Three states see walkouts as 200 night-shift miners refuse work over time lost during an April stoppage. In Glen Lyon, 1200 anthracite miners were set to return Monday after a week idle during union-led grievance talks. Fines are imposed for unauthorized strikes. large mines in Ohio and Pennsylvania face mass walkouts. President Roosevelt labels miners as government employees amid ongoing tensions and a looming May 18 contract expiry. District 5 warns no contract means no work, signaling a hard line by Western Pennsylvania’s bituminous miners.
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Glen Lyon
Susquehanna Colieries Company
UMW
Jones and Laugh- Yin Steel Corporation of
Pittsburgh
Vesta No. 4
California
Hanna Coal Company
St. Clairsville
Ohio
Willow Grove
Roosevelt
Washington
John P. Busarello
Western Pennnsylvania
Busarello
District Board
Pittsburg
District 5
Mother's Day Observance By Hagerstown Aerie Fraternal Order
Members of Hagerstown Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles will mark Mother's Day with services in the lodge social rooms Sunday at 10 30 AM speaker Frank H Miller of the city Rowland Davies and piano ac companist Mrs Charles Betts sing history by Worthy President Lloyd L Masters and a recitation by Master Dale Schiotterbeck Reinehart Schlotterbeck chairs the program The Aerie degree team will go to Waynesboro PA Sunday afternoon for initiation in honor of Mother's Day All Eagles invited
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Hagerstown Aerie
Order of Hagles
Frank H. Miller
Rowland Davies
Charles Betts
Lloyd L. Masters
Dale Schiotterbeck
Rinehart Scehlotterbeck
Orchard Ridge Church of God Mother's Day Program
A mothers committee at Orchard Ridge Church of God plans a special Mother's Day program for Sunday evening May 6. Rev S N Mullo ugh of Berkeley Springs W Va will speak. Music readings and songs will highlight the event. Each mother gets a gift with additional prizes for oldest and youngest mother largest family and longest distance traveled. Robert Gerhart, in U S Army training, visits his father Charles Gerhart for a few days.
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Orchard Ridge
Robert Gerhart
Charles Gerhart
Mother’s Day Cable From Son in Iran Reaches Washington Woman
Mrs. Mary Messner of Route 3 Washington County receives a heartfelt Mother’s Day cablegram from her son Pfc Eddie Messner, 24, stationed in Iran. He sends love and best wishes for a speedy reunion, noting he wishes they could be together on the special day.
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Washington County
Mary Messner
Route 3
Pfc
Eddie Messner
Iran
Persia
Mother's Bay
Pleasure boats may fuel fishing trips under new rule
Senator Radcliffe announces a new Office of Price Administration regulation allowing gasoline for pleasure boat fishing when the catch is sold to the captain for food. The move reverses previous wartime ration policy and ties to a bill to return government seized fishing boats to owners for postwar use.
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Washington
Radcliffe
D-Md
Office of Price Administration
QEA
Bradley Led Yanks In Seizing Bizerte
Allied forces report Maj. Gen. Omar N. Bradley led the U S Second Corps to capture Bizerte, taking over from Lieut Gen George S Patton as operations shifted north on April 17. The change reflected the northern segment requiring infantry, while Patton and armored forces operated in the south.
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North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
Bizerte
George S. Patton
Bradley
Patton
Makinassy
Lieut
Ger. Patton
Small Retailers May Get Stamp Certificate
Small retailers with monthly sales under 2500 unable to open a ration bank account may exchange unused ration stamps at the Ration Board for a 60 day certificate. Stamps expire ten days after the certificate date unless deposited or exchanged. Those who collected stamps in April must present them by Monday May 10.
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Ration Board
Injury to Police Chief’s Daughter From Fall on Potomac
Miss Jo Ann Peters daughter of Chief William H. Peters injured when she fell on Potomac avenue near her great grandmother Mrs Clinton Trav inger's home. Her hand struck a bottle causing a cut that required four sutures.
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Jo Ann Peters
William H. Peters
Potomac Avenue
Clinton Travinger
Pigeons To Carry Messages for 100th Anniversary
Pigeons released from three Hagerstown Lutheran churches will carry congratulatory messages to Dr. Henry W. Snyder in Washington as his congregation marks its centennial. Messages in aluminum capsules will be attached to pigeons legs and flight home about a half hour.
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Washington, D. C
Hagerstown
Henry W. Snyder
Wilson PB
Ard
Trinity Lutheran
J. Edward Harms
St. John’s Lutheran
Roy L. Sleep
St. Mark’s Lutheran
Washington
National Capital
U. S. Signal Corps
Camp Meade
Baltimore
New York
Pittsburgh
Johnstown
Man Is Apprehended For Stealing Ham
Jack Bonne of Winchester Virginia, sought for months on larceny of ham, was captured in Washington DC and will face a preliminary hearing in Winchester. State Trooper J J Coady said Bonne, once employed here, delivered hams to a Frederick road eating establishment and left without payment after trooper approached. Coady to testify. hams identified as stolen from a local farm near Winchester.
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Jack Bonne
Winchester
Washington
D. C
J. J. Coady
Bonne
Hagerstown
Frederick Road
Coady
Perishable Food Bill Vetoed By Governor
Governor OConor vetoed SB165 proposing to ban interference with transport of perishable foods in state commerce. He said the measure is untimely directed at labor and unnecessary due to existing statutes. He also vetoed bills legalizing slot and pinball machines. Showers forecast for area. 54 overnight low after 84 high yesterday. Mark K Miller to be guest of honor May 13 in Queen Annes County farmers event.
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Baltimore
O'Conor
O’conor
War’ Manpower Commission
State Labor Victory Board
Victory
J. A. Miller
Mercury
Keelesville
Mark K. Miller
Washington County
Queen Anne's County
Martinsburg Restaurateurs Adopt Meatless Wednesday Plan
Martinsburg restaurant operators announced a voluntary agreement to omit meat from menus on Wednesdays each week. The move aims to promote dietary variety and reduce meat reliance across the city dining scene.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Picture Show Sunday In Hagerstown High Auditorium
A film titled Next of Kin from England on Army Intelligence will be shown Sunday afternoon at Hagerstown High School. The event, hosted by Fairchild Corporation personnel and Civilian Defense members, includes a discussion on radio operator training and short wave procedures led by War Emergency Radio Service head Thomas F. McNulty. The program aims to demonstrate how careless words can reach enemies and features scenes of the French Command raid, touted as essential American viewing. A postshow meeting will explain new licensing for radio operators. The notice also reports a theft: Nellie Puller says four dollars were taken from her Bloom Avenue home by a 13 year old colored boy.
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England
Army
Hagerstown High School
Civilian Defense Organization
Fairchild Corporation
Fairchild
France
United States
Thomas F. McNulty
War Emergency Radio Service
Nellie Puller
Bloom Avenue
Summer Fashion Pattern No 3579 for sizes 12 to 20
The Ha berstown Daily Mail pattern department offers pattern No 3579 in frosty white rayon sharkskin or raven shantung. Includes size guidance, fabric yardage, and a mailed pattern with 15 cents postage. Also promotes a Summer Fashion Book with 24 pages of cotton patterns for all ages and occasions.
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United States
Haberstown
Missing sailor returns home after year of worry
Annie Fogle of Thurmont reconnected with her seaman son Andrew Fogle in a Thurmont grocery store. He explained his ship was torpedoed, then rescued by another vessel before both ships were sunk. He was busy writing and had not contacted family, but is alive with plans to return home to Clarence Fogle and relatives. The Fogies recently moved from near Thurmont to a farm five miles west.
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Thurmont
Annie Fogle
William Sanders
Andrew Fogle
Fogle
Armed Services
Clarence Fogle
Fogies
Ceiling Prices Set For Fresh Vegetables And Poultry
The local Rationing Board on North Locust Street posted ceiling prices for fresh vegetables and poultry for the week beginning May. Retail prices include Iceberg lettuce 23 cents a head, small 19 cents, spinach 19 cents a pound, carrots 10 cents per bunch, peas 33 cents a pound, snap beans 26 to 32 cents, cabbage 14 cents a pound, tomatoes 34 cents, onions 10 to 22 cents, and potatoes 6 to 10 cents. Farm poultry caps in Washington County list broilers and fryers 28.4 cents, fowl 24.5 cents, stags 20.9 cents, capons 28.4 to 31.4 cents depending on weight.
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North Locust Street
OPA
Texas
Maine
California
Washington County
Local price quotations from Kline Bros for farm produce
Prices paid to producers include wheat at mill and barn with small fractions, corn, butter at 40 cents, onions, heavy hens, country bacon, ham, fowl, guinea, chickens and honey. Values show small ranges and per bushel or dozen pricing, reflecting local market quotes.
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Kline Broa
Eowesse
Famous Dead End Kids Keep Them Slugging Keen Em Slugging
The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Gang star in Keen Em Slugging at Henry's Theatre with Evelyn Ankers Don Porter and Elyse Knox in a story of a hijacking scheme centered on a metropolitan department store. Shemp Howard and Frank Albertson provide laughs and gangster roles. The warehouse fight scene is the highlight.
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Little Tough Gang
Henry's Theatre
Evelyn Ankers
Don Porter
Elyse Knox
Shemp Howard
Dienty
Frank Alberton
jJads
Learn Charity Scheme Is Hoax
A hoax claiming Seeing Eye dogs could be exchanged for cigarette bands tin foil and other items spread from the East Coast to the Great Lakes area causing disappointment. Seeing Eye headquarters Morristown New Jersey says no exchange is possible and urges countering the rumor.
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Seeing Eye
Morristown
New Jersey
Norristown
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