Preliminary survey complete for Route 10 reconstruction
The State Roads Commission finished preliminary engineering for about five miles of Route 10 from Pine Orchard to West Friendship. Bids may be sought late this summer, contingent on rights of way, with further work planned on Route 26 projects and street resurfacing.
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Pine Orchard
West Friendship
State Roads Commissi
Ridgeville
Commission
Ceresville
Mt Pleasant
Unionville
Patrick Street
Carroll Street
West
Jefferson Street
City and Potomac Edison Company
Carroll
Wisner Streets
Potomac Edison Company
State Roads Commission
East Patrick Street
Srst
Women Of Frederick Zone Hold Meeting
About 150 members attended the Wednesday meeting of the Washington West District W S C S at the Araby Church in Frederick. Morning sessions started at 10 30 with luncheon, afternoon program at 1 43, speaker Stewart Patterson on Far Eastern issues, dedicatory service led by Mrs Elmer Michael, and a duet by Mrs Janet Wiles and Jack Wamsley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Araby
Frederick
Washington West District
Earl Rice
Stewart Patterson
Washington
Elmer Michael
Janet Wiles
Jack Wamsiey
G. L Loar
Russell Dudrow
Edward Sharpe
William Ray
Ars
Wilbur Baker
Harry Zimmerman
Leonard Wachter
B. R. Etchison
E.R Pearl
Ki. Wagner
5. Blemlinger
Guy Brust
Ray Smith
Mattie Johnson
John Grove
Clarkson Kelly
Martin Summers
Jesse Stup
Binnie Overstreet
I. Ernest C
Counterfeit Investigator Tries Cashier For $10 Bills
A man posing as a counterfeit investigator entered a store on North Mar and demanded to search the cash drawer for counterfeit $10 bills. Clerk Hissey refused credentials and the man, described as 30 to 35 years old, 5 foot 7 inches, 160 to 270 pounds in a brown suit, left muttering about the loot. Police were called to review the incident as a possible impersonation.
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Marlowe
Dozier
O the Ad
Hisser
Hisseyr
Co Club Women Demonstrate Cooking Frozen Foods
Homemakers of Frederick county packed the old Church street school for a freezing foods demonstration led by Airs Ray Smith and Miriam Letter. The program showcased preparing and packaging vegetables, freezing apples and pies, and making frozen salads and desserts, highlighting time savings and storage advantages for home use.
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Frederick County
Church Street
Ray Smith
Jug Bridge
County Foods
Miriam Letter
Lucien Falconer
New Market
John Summers
Braddock Club
Mrs. Smith
Frost Bites County as Temperatures Dip to Freezing
Frost reported in sections of the county with temperatures near 27 to 33 degrees. The Weather Bureau warned the chill would be short lived and may have damaged fruit in low lying areas. Warmer weather expected today through Sunday with cloudiness by the Sabbath and planting of sugar corn to begin next week.
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Weather Bureau
Frederick
Carroll Creek
Corporations Cut Prices Hope to Ease Cost of Living
U S Steel cuts prices across products from barbed wire to auto steel by 25.9 million dollars annually starting May 1. Westinghouse Electric Group follows with about 3.125 million dollars in yearly savings. Both assert gains from efficiency and manufacturing improvements. The CIO United Steelworkers had demanded a wage boost, which was rejected.
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Pitsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
Westinghouse Electric Group
Cio-United
Westinghouse
T. S. Phillips
Two Cases Tried In Peoples Court Session
In a Morning session Judge Menuel Weinberg heard two cases in Peoples Court. John C. Johnson was charged with failing to pay $15 weekly support to his wife Effie Johnson and the case was continued to allow aid to be provided. Samuel Humerhouse was found guilty of vagrancy after pleading not guilty. Trooper W. W. Corbin arrested him on Alternate Route 40 after he stated he had $10 and nowhere to go.
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Frederick County
Menuel M. Weinberg
Peoples Court
John C. Johnson
Effie Johnson
Johnson
Samuel Humerhouse
Virginia
New York
W. W. Corbin
4 H Sunday To Be Marked In Frederick
May 2 will be observed with 4 H Sunday services at Frederick Presbyterian Church at 7 45 p m. Rev W M Weaver will speak on Creating Better Homes Today for More Responsibility Tomorrow. 21 members of 4 H Senior Club met to plan the observance. Florence Mason from University of Maryland spoke on Planning Your Home and demonstrated house planning concepts.
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Frederick Presbyterian Church
W. Merval Weaver
Church Street
James Shaffer
Braddock
Florence Mason
University of Maryland
Farings
Martha Layman
Court House Offices On Daylight Time
The Court House offices will operate on daylight time starting Monday and the B and O Railroad train from Frederick to Brunswick will run on daylight time though standard time is kept. The County Roads Board will maintain operations from the Frederick show, with the B and O train schedule changing from 4:55 to 3:55 daylight time. The B and O office here will align with daylight time. no other local railroad effects are noted.
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Court House
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Frederick
Brunswick
County Roads Board
B. and O
Pinball Machines Returned To Operators After Grand Jury
The grand jury returned no indictments against owners or operators of 11 pinball machines. Officers believe the devices may be reactivated with no gambling features. A bill licensing slot and pinball machines passed the legislature but was vetoed by the Governor in Frederick.
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Coun Aries
Grand Jury
Grand Report
Frederick
Three Weapons More Powerful Than A Bomb
Miami report quotes Zachari a former naval intelligence expert stating the United States developed three weapons far more powerful than the atomic bomb. He lists bacteriological biological and climatological weapons as immediately available in sufficient numbers.
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Miami
Fla
Enis
MM. Zachari
Unite States
Russia
Townsend Tract Has New Owners Near Gapland
The Frederick Chamber of Commerce and the Historical Society of Frederick County Inc gained ownership of the George Alfred Townsend estate near Gapland for 3500 dollars from the Maryland Eldership of the Church of God of North America. The deal sparks questions about future use, with talk of a possible State park around the War Correspondents Memorial Arch as a major outcome. The tract in Washington and Frederick counties between Burkittsville and Gapland contains a single habitable building amid ruins and vandalized sites. Additional transfers include a 160 acre New Market district farm sold for about 12500 dollars and property sales on West Main Street Emmitsburg and Main Street Jefferson each around 7500 dollars.
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Frederick Chamber of Commerce
The
Historical Society of
Frederick County, Inc
George Ahred Townsend
Gapland
Maryland
Church of God of North America
Frederick
Historical Society
Washington
Burkittsville
Rui
Harry D. Miller
Joseph Etter
New Market District
Irace Rowe
Airs
Andrew R. Eyster
West Main Street
Emmitsburg
Bliss Jessie H. Greenlay
Whbur C. Arvin
Main Street
Jefferson
Stop Warfare He Asks U.N. Stop Warfare
Lake Success April 23 17 Britain urged the United Nations to adopt emergency measures to halt open warfare in Palestine. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones told the Palestine Assembly's committee there was no time for a permanent solution as Britain prepares to end its mandate May 15. He avoided backing any interim trusteeship and said Britain would cooperate with stop-gap actions within its withdrawal timetable.
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Lake Success
Brittain
United Nations
Palestine
Arthur Creech-Jones
Special Palestine Assembly
Holy Landa
Britain
Creech-Jones
Augi
Stock Market Closes Mixed Amid Fast Trading
New York reports a brisk trading session with manufacturing shares rising modestly and some issues reaching new yearly highs. The market paused briefly as orders clashed and price quotations lagged behind rapid floor activity, before trading recovered.
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New York
Transacs
Nales
Reds to Tighten Berlin Air Corridor Safety Measures
Russian air force officials say safety steps will be taken soon to prevent collisions in the Berlin air corridor linking the western zones to the city. Alexandrov declined to specify actions but stressed air traffic between eastern and western zones should rise, despite Western objections to overflight.
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Gerid
Ames
Adroy
Britain
Alexandrov
Berlin
Heights Drive To Be Sunday Braddock Heights Drive Collection
Braddock Heights plans a Sunday door to door collection of household articles clothing and shoes to aid overseas relief. G William Stultz announces the Sunday effort due to weekday truck and driver shortages. Boy Scouts will distribute canvass directions and posters. Collected goods will be brought to the Evangelical Reformed church in Frederick through Saturday May 1.
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Braddock Heights
Frederick County
G. William Stultz
Heights
Boy Scouts
Thevangelical Reformed Church
Frederick
Sheriff Anders Speaks At Women’s Guild Meeting
Sheriff Anders spoke at the April meeting of the Women’s Guild of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church in the Parish Hall. Mrs Kent Nicodemus of Walkersville presided as the sheriff urged stricter discipline for youth and adolescents, stressing care for minors.
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Sherif Guy Anders
Women's Guild of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church
Kent Nicodemus
Walkersville
Sherif
Latin American Communism Seen as Greater Threat than Nazism
An NEA analysis argues Latin American communism, led by figures such as Blas Roca and Fabio Grobart, grows native-led and widespread yet uneven across countries. It links to Soviet support, notes varied party strength from Mexico to Brazil, and warns of a broader social revolution fueled by rising living standards and education, predicting years of unrest unless reforms advance without exploitation.
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Washington
NEA
Coloma
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Rio Grande
Cubs
Communist Party
Cengre
Fabio Grobart
Cuba
Latin America
Juan Marinella
Blas Roca
Russia
Havana
Oppenly
Constantin Dumadsky
Mexico City
Mexico
Vicente Lombardo Toledang
Colombia
Panama
Paraguay
Honduras
Nicaragua
el Salvador
Brazil
Chile
U.S
U. S
Central Ie i
South America
Chalienge
New Effort Made To End Meat Strike
Chicago reports a new government bid to halt the nine day old nationwide meat strike. Cyrus S. Ching of the Federal Mediation Service will lead talks with CIO Packing House Workers and the four major packers in Washington. The union accepted the invitation. Armour, Swift, Cudahy, and Wilson were named for sessions centered on wage demands and settlement efforts. Local clashes in Kansas City ended with police dispersing pickets at the Cudahy plant.
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Chicago
CIO
Washington
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
4Armour and Co
Swift and Company
Armour
Cudahy and Wilson and Co
Ching
Cudahy
Wilson
Truman
Iruman
Judge postpones Lewis contempt case indefinitely
Washington April 23 Judge T Alan Goldsborough postponed indefinitely any further contempt penalties against John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers union. Government counsel urged no new fines while most soft coal miners have returned to work. The injunction under Taft Hartley remains in effect, and a renewal could occur if the walkout resumes.
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Washington
T. Alan Goldsborough
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Goldsborough
Graham Morison
Lewis
Goldisborough
UMW
Union
Morison
Justice Department
National Health and Safety
Welly K. Hopkins
Mule Death in 55000 Trespass Suit Before Jury
A Circuit Court jury hears a $55,000 trespass case brought by Charles and George Bartgis against neighbor Henry Hoppe and workers Scott Smith and Howard Wallace. The Bartgis claim a bulldozer toppled a 725 foot barbed wire fence and destroyed 360 to 400 windbreak trees causing hogs to invade cornfields. Hoppe's side alleges no trees were cut, the mule died of old age, and damaged corn was from hogs with notice given to repair the fence. Numerous witnesses are called.
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Patrick M. Schnauffer
Charles F. Bartgis
George W. Bartgis
Yellow Springs
Henry Hoppe
Scott Smith
Howard Wallace
Hoppe
H. Kieffer DeLauter
Bartgis Brothers
Bartgis
Barigis
Richard E Zimmerman
Ox Fibre Engineer Is Optimist Speaker at Club Dinner
John F Stephens, Ox Fibre Brush Company engineer, spoke to the Frederick Optimist Club at Catechin Country Club. He said annual brush production reaches 25 600 800 units, noting Florida origins in 1881 and Frederick roots in 1866. He explained lumber use and losses from cutting, and demonstrated brush manufacture while President Lease Bussard led the meeting. Herschel Gibbs attended as a guest.
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Frederick Optimist Club
Catechin Country Club
John F. Stephens
Stephens
Florida
J. K. Robinson
Frederick
Air, Robinson
McClintock Young
United Tes
Lease Bussard
Herschel Gibbs
Holdout Youth Walks Out After Store Robbery
In Los Angeles on April 2 a young man with a pistol loitered in a store, talking to customers for nearly an hour. He finally pocketed the gun and left, while Mrs. Dorothy Fear described the scene and noted she spoke about her son in service.
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Los Angeles
Dorothy Fear
Crocery
Suit Is Filed Over Drilling Of Well
Fauble sues J. W. Shaft in Circuit Court alleging a well on his Middletown area property failed to perform. He says an oral contract from June 1945 set $3 a foot and materials with a satisfactory result, but the 135 foot well produced only muddy five gallons daily. He claims $1,000 in damages for remedies and loss of use. Attorney W. Jerome Offutt represents Fauble.
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J. W. Shaft
Middletown
Fauble
Shaft
Srea
W. Jerome Offuit
Oil Derrick Theft Shocks Gregg County Officials
Gregg County officers report a 94 foot derrick valued at 1009 pounds stolen from an oil lease in Hercules Kilgore. The incident occurred in Hercules Kilgore Texas around April 23, with authorities investigating possible culprits.
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Kilgore
Tex
Gregg County
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AM Davis
U.N
Stock Market
Reds
Sheriff Anders
Women’s Guild
Health Crusader
Bernarr MacFadden
Wrih
Jonnie Lee
Miami Beach
Lee
MacFadden Health Foundation
Peter Edson
Washington Correspondent
South
Lt. S
Bogota
Kansas City
Kas
C. O
Cudahy & Co
Ox Fibre
Pribian Sisters Plan District Convention
Mountain City
Keedysville
Esther Miller
Forrest Oak Temple
Gaithersburg
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