Confusion Expected As DST Begins
Daylight saving time starts at 2 a m Sunday and Frederick county schedules split with fast time in cities and standard in rural areas. Schools open on daylight time, services vary locally, and transportation schedules must be readjusted. Post office operations shift, with window hours on daylight time and mail handling on standard time. Camp Detrick and area lines align to daylight time for consistency.
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Frederick County
Middletown
Frederick City
Potomac
Winchester
Waynesboro
Smithsburg
Greyhound
Blue Ridge
All American Airlines
Frederick
Highway Post Office
Camp Detrick
Turf
Avery Retains Grip on Montgomery Ward
Sewell Avery kept his iron grip on Montgomery Ward and Company today. He was assured of re election as a director when nominations closed without opposition. Directors planned to elect a chairman later that day, with Avery expected to hold the post again. He remains the chief executive officer and the only director active in day to day management.
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Chicago
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
Avery
Ward
Blast Rocks City Gas Main Fired Inglewood Calif
An explosion at Basin Oil storage near Inglewood California injured no one. A series of blasts damaged a gas main and transformers, halting the fire by cutting the line. A boiler was hurled onto a street. no tanks burned. The plant previously suffered a deadly 1948 blaze killing two women and a child.
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Inglewood
Calif
Los Angeles
Basin Oil Company
Ward
Gambrill Wing Plans Received for Frederick Hospital
Architect John R. Edmonds of Baltimore submitted plans and specifications for the Gambrill Wing at Frederick Memorial Hospital. The building committee will review them with medical staff and the superintendent. If approved, bids will be invited, and construction may begin soon on a single story base with plans to add three stories later. The Gambrill Wing honors James H. Gambrill on his 80th birthday, funded by the Detrick Foundation with $100,000. The project is separate from the north wing funded by a $635,000 community pledge two years ago.
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Gambrill
Frederick Memorial Hospital
John R. Edmonds
Baltimore
Detrick Foundation
James H. Gambrill
Pilot Dies In Plane Crash Near Charleston
A Texas National Guard fighter plane crashed about eight miles northwest of Charleston at 10 a m. The pilot, identity withheld pending kin notification, was killed. The F-51 took off from Kanawha airport at 9 53 a m en route to Orchard Field Chicago. Witnesses reported the craft circled three times before crashing and bursting into flames. Visibility in the area was about three miles.
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Charleston
W. Va
Texas National Guard
Here
National Guard
Kanawha
Orchard Field
Chicago
CAA
Barkley Statement Is Disputed By Brewster
Washington April 22 A top Republican disputed Vice President Barkley s claim that the GOP must help enact President Truman s program Barkley spoke at a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner in New York insisting the people voted for the program Senator Brewster of Maine chair of the GOP Senatorial campaign committee argued Barkley overstated support saying the President s program was approved by a majority of the people last November Brewster said Barkley took too much territory with his assertion and minority groups should not oppose the plan
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Washington
Barkley
GOP
Truman
New York
Brewster
Maine
Four Miles Of Liberty Road Is Scheduled For Improvement
The State Roads Commission plans a 160000 dollar four mile widening and resurfacing of Route 26 from Mt Pleasant toward Unionville with curve modifications. Bids are set for November 8. The notice also lists several other 1949 road projects including Route 32 from the Pennsylvania line to Emmitsburg, Route 31 toward Libertytown, Route 27 toward Taylorsville, U S Route 40 from Hopewell to Hagerstown, and U S Route 240 through Rockville with bid dates in spring through August.
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State Roads Commission
Mt. Pleasant
Unionville
Mt. Measant
Pennsylvania
Emmitsburg
Carroll County
Libertytown
Old Westminster Road
Westminster
Taylorsville
Hopewell
Hagerstown
Washington County
Commission Iis
Rockville
Truman Pushes Compulsory Health Insurance Plan
President Truman asked Congress to vote a compulsory medical insurance as part of a national health program. He urged government funding via a dedicated tax fund, expansion of medical schools, hospital construction, and broader disease control and maternal child health services. AMA opposition centers on socialized medicine while some doctors back the proposal. he defended patient choice and doctor autonomy.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Capitol Hill
AMA
American Medical Association
Trustees of Library Named By Mayor Culler
Trustees of the C. Burr Artz Library were named by Mayor Lloyd C. Culler. Parsons Newman and J Richard Ramsburg were appointed to replace resigning judges Edward S Delaplaine and August T Brust. The library endowment requires church membership from All Saints Episcopal and Evangelical Reformed. Newman is an attorney, Ramsburg a businessman, and third trustee is F Ross Myers.
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Parsons Newman
J. Richard Ramsburg
Ramsburg
F. Ross Myers
U S Labor Leader Speaks At Meeting
Paris April 22 A U S labor leader told the Communist inspired world peace congress that American workers will not lay down their lives for Wall Street Washington and the dollar He named Donald Henderson international president of the Tobacco Agricultural and Allied Workers union of America CIO affiliate and said the American working people will not be driven into a war against the Soviet Union The delegates gave him an ovation for his remarks
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Paris
United States
World Peace Congress
Wall Street
Washington
Donald Henderson
Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America
CIO
Soviet Union
Man pleads guilty to DUI in Maryland court
Paul Raymond Hoff of Jessups, a Maryland House of Correction guard, was fined 100 dollars plus costs by Magistrate Manuel M. Weinberg after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence. State trooper Cpl. Charles D. Mades testified Hoff's car wandered, pursued for about a mile and a half from South Mountain to Myersville. Hoff admitted drinking beer and appeared without counsel.
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Manuel M. Weinberg
Peoples Court
Paul Raymond Hoff
Jessups
Maryland House of Correction
Cpl
Charles D. Mades
Hoff
South Mountain
Myersville
Accused In Robberies Of Banks
Four suspects including Carl Close Joseph Moran and Audrey Lynn are charged in multiple bank robberies totaling over 40000 dollars. James Bennett confessed and fingered Roy Mann aiding in the Follansbee and Baltimore crimes. Investigators traced arrests to a Hickman county farm and a Memphis drugstore raid following a nationwide manhunt.
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Nashville
Tenn
FBI
Memphis
D. S. Hostetter
Hostetter
Baltimore
Follawsbee
W- Va
Hickman
Carl Close
Joseph William Moran
Audrey Fay Lynn
California
Close
Farm House
James Edward Bennett
Bernett
Moran
Roy L. Mann
West Virginia
Mann
Occident Federal Savings and Loan Association
Union Trust Company
Miss Lynn
Trooper Cleared In Shooting Of Negro
Millington April 22 An investigation cleared State Trooper Merlin Clevenger in the fatal shooting of 26 year old Harry Harris Wilmer after a 90 mile per hour chase. Wilmer a Cecilton resident was shot as he ran from the car following the pursuit. State's Attorney A Parks Rasin announced no charges were filed.
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Wilmer
Millington
Cecilton
Sabotage plans said in communist trial testimony
New York April 221P The trial jury heard that U S Communists were told to sabotage industry and demoralize the population if the United States and Russia went to war A witness Albert Lannon a member of the American Communist party national committee spoke at a Cumberland meeting in the summer of 1945 The witness Charles W Nico Idemus of Dawson Md a former party member named the meeting
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New York
U. S
Russia
Albert Lannon
Communist Party National Committee
Cumberland
Charles W. Nico Idemus
Dawson, Md
Aggie Broadcast Urges Desertion in German Town
In Nuernberg Germany on April 22 a blonde German girl Rosemarie Gunther 23 portrayed Aggie in an Army propaganda broadcast aimed at U S troops retreating after a spring maneuver. The broadcast warned of enemy propaganda tactics and urged soldiers to desert to the other side where fraulins are reportedly plentiful.
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Nuerenberg
Germany
Ludwig Canal
Auressor
Aggie
U. S. Army
Rosemarie Gunther
Nuernberg
British Not Too Upset By Yangtze Fight
London reports Britain's Amethyst fired on by shore batteries after a Yangtze river transit. Foreign Office says China should have known the peaceful mission to provision the embassy in Nanking. Admiralty grateful for U S hospital ship Repose aid in Shanghai. Observers note Britain sought cease fire rather than a formal protest.
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London
Foreign Office
Auiethyst
Yangtze River
Nanking
Ernest Bevin
Admiralty
U. S
Shanghai
Air Ministry
RAF
Singapore
Malaya
China
Britain
Man Accused In Kidnapping In Weirton Case
Weirton police to file kidnapping charges against Orville Kittle, 26, of Mapleton, Pa., arrested in Mapleton on a car theft charge. He is accused of abducting two Weirton city officers after they questioned two men about a $5,400 Follansbee bank robbery on April 13. The officers were overpowered and left handcuffed to a tree in Ohio. WV and PA police doubt Kittle's involvement in the bank robbery.
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Shinnston
W. Va
West Virginia
Weirton
RKO
E. E. Stout
Orville Kittle
Mapleton
Follansbee
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Kittle
Andelot Herd Sold To Alan McGregor
The sale of the entire herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle from Andelot Stock Farms Worton Maryland was disclosed. Purchaser is the firm Alan McGregor and son led by W Alan McGregor a well known figure in pure bred livestock circles.
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Chestertown
Andelot
Worton
Alan McGregor
Princess Margaret Faces Papal Meeting Doubt
Protestant leaders press King George to keep Princess Margaret from meeting Pope Pius XII during her Italy tour. The 18 year old leaves next Wednesday for a month in Italy, with reports she might call on the Pope. Vatican sources note surprise over claims by a Catholic college instructor that non Catholics can reach heaven.
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London
George
Margaret
Pius XII
Italy
Rome
Vatican City
Vatican
Boston
Amethyst Trapped by Red Fire on Yangtze Action
Shanghai April 22 reports say the British sloop Amethyst remained trapped by Communist artillery as it moved toward Nanking. Four British warships struck by Red guns, with 44 dead and about 82 injured overall. a RAF flying boat attempted a landing but was driven off. Repose arrived to assist, transferring facilities to the British.
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Shanghai
Yangtze
Nanking
Yangtze River
Singapore
RAF
Earrier
U.S
Repose
Tsingtao
Ihhe Amethyst
London
Consort
Black Swan
Chaeel Fair Meeting Rescheduled For May 2
Frederick County Agricultural Society amendments may be voted only at annual meetings. A special life member meeting on May 7 to act on two amendments has been cancelled. The amendments will be presented at the next annual meeting. One would move the annual meeting to December. the other limits certificate ownership to one per member and restricts eligibility to bona fide Frederick residents.
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Frederick County Agricultural Society
Guy K. Motter
Life
Frederick Th Dt
Union seeks shorter work week for coal miners
The United Mine Workers vice president said the union will push to cut the miners’ work week and seek changes in contract terms. Proposals include a fairer labor distribution so some diggers work fewer days and an improved welfare fund tied to coal production. Also notes extended forecast and stock market losses and the end of a three day sit down strike involving about six thousand miners in Lansford Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
Thomas Kennedy
Lansford
Rumors on Berlin blockade lifting and German plans
James Marlow reports that Russia may lift the Berlin blockade, a move with wide implications. The blockade has forced Western airlifts at high cost while blocking peace talks and threatening plans for a Western German government and Marshall Plan aid. A possible easing could still mask strategic aims toward long term goals.
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James Marlow Washington
Russia
Berlin
Germany
United States
Britain
France
Congress
Europe
Lenin
Reds Sweep Ahead as Communists Halt Shanghai Reach
Red forces pressed from the Yangtze valley taking key cities including Klangyin and Kiangyin while government high officials fled toward Hangzhou. desultory defense and river crossings threatened Shanghai and Nanking, with 15,000 Reds crossing the south bank and bridgeheads expanding as government counterattacks stalled.
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Nanking
Yangtze Valley
Li Tsung-Jen
Ho Ying-Chin
Pat Chung-Hsi
Central Front
Hangchow
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Kiangyin
Yangtze
Klangyin
Here
Kweichih
Wuhu
An King
Shanghai
Nort
Red Radio
Wubu
Anking
Pukow
Red
Foreign Office
Canton
U. S
J. Leighton Stuart
Defense Ministry
Living Costs Rise In March After Long Slide
The Labor Department reports the consumer price index edged up in mid March, rising 0.5 points from February to 169.5 percent of the 1935-39 average. The increase, led by higher food prices, followed a five month decline. Beef, pork, and lamb costs rose, while fruits, vegetables, and rents also lifted the index.
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Washington
Labor Department
Agriculture Department Order Would Keep DDT Out Of Milk
Washington April 22 A new Agriculture Department order aims to remove all traces of DDT from the U S milk supply. Officials say tiny amounts are not alarming but want the total lowest possible in all food. W G Reed chief warns manufacturers not to recommend DDT for dairy animals feed or residual barn spray. Labels will omit use recommendations and farmers are advised not to use DDT on dairy cows.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U. S
W. G. Reed
Livestock Insecticide Division
Production and Marketing Administration
Department of Agriculture
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Montgomery Ward
Liberty Road
Trustees of Library
Scnool Mead
Martinsburg
Berkeley County Board of Education
G. William Ropp
Ropp
Annapolis
Lane
Maryland
Deny Raf
Chaeel
Delaware
Reds
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