Etzel Sentenced to Prison for Sabotage at Martin Plant
Michael William Etzel, 22, a former Glenn L. Martin subforeman in Baltimore, began a one year federal term for sabotaging Martin bombers. Judge William C. Coleman called the acts treasonous and tantamount to murder, with additional sentences totaling over seven and a half years on multiple counts. A government witness testified as the trial opened.
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Baltimore
Michael William Eizel
Glenn L. Martin Company
Subforeman
Martin
Eizel
William C. Coleman
Etzel
Germany
Coleman
Stormer Martin
War Department
Ritzel
Glenn L. Martin
August A. Kozlovsky
Father John's Medicine Ad Claims 85 Years Of Use
An advertisement promotes Father John's Medicine as a trusted cold fighter backed by four generations of use over 85 years. It highlights high vitamin A and D content and urges readers to start building resistance now.
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John
Etzel pleads guilty amid defenses in German risk case
The Baltimorean Simon Etzel, changing from innocent to guilty, testified he was hired in August 1839 and earned up to 5040 a week before his Oct arrest. He said he damaged bombers out of spite after learning a coworker would be promoted, and admitted seven prior statements were lies with no relatives in Germany.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Germany
Lumber Fire Extinguished in Alley Blaze
A fire in a lumber pile in an alley between Wayside and Fairground avenues was quickly put out by firefighters yesterday evening.
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Wayside
Fairground Avenues
Germans Are Driven Back Across Front In Frosty Streets
German infantry in outskirts of a city abandoned weapons as Soviet cavalry pursued the retreating Fascists in their undergarments. On the Ukraine front Axis forces pushed into the Donets basin seizing more territory while Red Army planes claimed 118 Nazi tanks five armored vehicles and 500 infantry destroyed. Rostov defenses repelled with heavy losses as weather and road conditions improved on the southern front.
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Ukraine
Hitler
Donets River
Red Army
Strike by Oyster Shuckers Halts Crisfield Industry
About 600 newly organized oyster shuckers walked out in Crisfield Maryland on Monday stopping the town’s main industry during a Thanksgiving rush season. The action involves union members and aims to pressure employers for better wages and conditions.
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Crisfield
Oyster Shuckers
The
Shuckers
Local 1960s Union Warns Oysters Pact Strike
The United Oystermen's Union AFL sought a labor contract with Crisfeld's oyster packers. Union reps submitted a contract Friday with a deadline of last night for signing, prompting shuckers to stay away this morning as the packers had not yet agreed.
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United Oystermen's Union
AFL
Crisfeld
Shuckers
Self-styled candidate Kujawa Says He Voted For Himself
Detroit November 18 Frank Kujawa claimed he voted for himself in the November 4 mayoral race and said the official tally showed zero votes in his precinct. He told Recorder Judge John J Maher that he felt robbed and demanded scrutiny. Judges Maher and the city election commission member referred Kujawa’s complaint to the elections director.
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Detroit
Frank KuJavwa
Recorder’s
John J. Maher
Kujawa
Maher
City Election Commission
Duce’s Feelings Move Public Aid Effort Postwar
Reading notes speak of ships and payments promised after the war and show a rare focus on Benito Mussolini’s personal sensitivities as part of a broader aid appeal. The text reflects a political climate where gratitude and loyalty to the leader shape postwar planning and funding expectations.
Auto overturns injure four youths near Martinsburg
Four local youths were hurt Sunday night when their car overturned on Route 11 about six miles north of Martinsburg. At King's Daughters Hospital in Martinsburg, Carroll Hengon 18 Luther Lynn 19 Donald Bennett Row's Park and Percy W Blair of Hagerstown received treatment for minor cuts and bruises and have since been released. Bennett was listed as the driver.
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Route 11
Martinsburg
King's Daughters Hospital
Carroll Hengon
Chestnut Street
Luther Lynn
Dale Street
Donald Bennett
Row's Park
Percy W. ‘Blair
Hagerstown
Bennett
Axis Ships Seized in New Delhi War Report
New Delhi reports 38 Axis vessels captured in operations, including three naval ships and five auxiliary craft. The seizure reflects Allied advances and disrupts Axis maritime capabilities during ongoing campaigns.
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New Delhi
India
Indian waters patrols expand with Empire navy aid
The National Defense Ministry announced today that patrols outside Indian waters will be conducted by the Royal Indian Navy in cooperation with Empire naval forces.
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Royal Indian Navy
Empire Naval Forces
National Defense Ministry
Todar
Many Never Suspect Cause of Backaches
This old treatment claims to relieve backaches by addressing kidney trouble. It suggests kidneys remove acids and waste from blood, reducing pain, fatigue, and other symptoms. The ad urges asking a druggist for a branded remedy said to have helped millions for over 40 years.
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Epee
Nature
Dean
Ward
Donn
Henrys Has Good Comedy Our Wife at Henrys Theatre
Henrys Theatre opens Our Wife starring Melvyn Douglas Ellen Drew and Ruth Hussey with Charles Coburn John Hubbard and others in a lively comedy about a band leader on a Panama bound trip and a scheming ex wife. Susan Drake helps the lead while Babe seeks revenge in the farcical plot backed by news reel and kennel footage.
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Melvyn Douglas
Ellen Drew
Ruth Hussey
Charles Coburn
John Hubbard
Henry Stephens
Henry’s Theatre
Panama
Susan Drake
Susan
Babe
Melvyn Coustas
Ruth Hussey Lin
Navy
Top Sergeant Mulligan and Law of the Tropics At The Colonial
A double bill at the Colonial and Academy theatres features Top Sergeant Mulligan a riotous army comedy starring Nat Pendleton about two shop partners turned soldiers and a troublesome sergeant. The Law of the Tropics stars Constance Bennett and Jeffrey Lynn in a South American drama with a dramatic performance by Lynn and a versatile Bennett.
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Mulligan
MM Iuiligar
Moxno- Stam
Colonial Theatre
Nat
Pendleton
Herman Mulligan
Bionda
Cano
Don
Bennett, Lynn
Warner Bros
Constance Bennett
Jeffrey Lynn
Academy Theatre
Ught
South Ameri
Ca’s Rubber Plantations Man Sought A Marital Escape
A plantation owner in the tropics learns his American fiancée has married another. He plans to flee, meeting a singer who agrees to marry him and take the fiancée’s name. Police pursue a case crime, while they keep moving, and a note on selling furnishings hints at converting items to cash via a classified ad.
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United States
Constance Bennett
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