Traffic Jams Down Town As Court Street Becomes One Way
Morning traffic in downtown Frederick was heavy with cars piling up for blocks as tourists joined the stream. Police sped traffic through busy intersections and adjusted signals to favor Church and Market streets while Court Street remained one way northbound. Market Street was reported as still heavily traveled with discussions of removing air parking to ease congestion. One trucker complained about Market Street being one way but officials stated the arrangement would stay to relieve Market Street traffic.
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North Court Street
Market Street
Trafic
Court Street
Chapel Alley
Middle Alley
North Bentz Street
Fred Straley
Court Ime
Church Streets
Church Street
Church and Market
West Church Street
Baptist Group Attacks Truman Vatican Message Exchange
Spokesmen from 44 American Baptists touring Europe said the letters between President Truman and Pope Pius XII imply the United States government allies clerical totalitarianism. They called the Vatican visit a tragedy and warned the move undermines church state separation and presidential elections.
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Europe
Truman
Fius XII
United States
Vatican
Taylor
Not Open Yet New Frederick Hagers Town Road Warns Labor Day Traffic
Public Roads Administration sponsors a traffic checkup on old Route 40 to gauge truck reaction to steep grades over South Mountain via Boonsboro and Middletown. Route 40 will later be closed to trucks while heavy traffic moves to the new road for grading tests. State Police warn motorists not to use the new road over Labor Day weekend due to possible road blocks and ongoing finishing touches by Williams Construction Company.
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Boonsboro
Middletown
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Washington County
Williams Company
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Roads Commission
Auto travel peak with grim highway dangers ahead
The Nation Today notes Labor Day weekend will bring record auto travel and a rise in crashes. It cites traffic growth since 1941, rising deaths but slower than expected, tougher enforcement after a 1946 safety conference, and new four lane divided expressways improving flow.
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Washington
Public Roads Administration
Trafic
California
Traffc
National Safety Council
Truman
Joey
Weekend Heat Expected Across Nation Through Labor Day
The Weather Bureau forecasts a warm holiday weekend with high temperatures in the 90s from the Rockies to the Appalachians and plentiful sunshine. Cooler weather moves into the Northern Plains and Great Lakes as showers affect Florida and the Gulf Coast. Rain is forecast along the Atlantic seaboard from New England to northern Virginia tomorrow.
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Weather Bureau
Rockies
Appalachians
Plains
Great Lakes
Florida
Gulf Coast
No Paper Monday Labor Day Notice
The News will not publish on Monday Labor Day. The business office will be closed all day while the editorial office resumes after 4 p.m.
Bark With No Bite Probes Hit Federal Agencies
Washington reports detail Rep Forest Harness claims that War Department and Federal Security Agency violated 18 U S code 201 by propagandizing for universal military training and socialized medicine. DoJ keeps actions secret while War Department and FSA dismiss inquiries and State Dept rejects Marshall Plan charges amid unclear outcomes.
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Federal Security Agency
Department of Justice
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Harness Committee
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Frank T. Bow
Backed Into Pole On Lindbergh Avenue Friday Evening
Frank R. Olsen of Lee Place backed his car onto Lindbergh avenue about 3 o clock Friday evening colliding with a White Way light pole in the second block, glass bowl broke, he reported the accident to city police and assumed line damages.
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Lindbergh Avenue
Frank R. Olsen
Lee Place
William B. Fout
Linden Hills
Manuel M. Weinberg
College Avenue
Labor Day Weather Brings Hot Forecasts and Busy Roads
Traffic rose to heavy levels as the Labor Day weekend began with warnings of 90 or higher temperatures and humid conditions. A fatal motorcycle collision with a mule near Hancock, Washington county, underscored holiday risks. Monocacy and Potomac rivers show clearer and muddy conditions respectively as most businesses pause for the holiday. August ends with a precipitation deficit and a record 90-degree day count near fourteen, while yesterday peaked at a near miss of 89.
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Mercury
Hancock
Washington County
Alonday
Potomac
Food price surge lifts family bills across 56 cities
Washington August 30 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the family food bill in 56 large cities rose 1.4 percent from mid June to mid July, the July retail food price index at 193.1 percent of the 1935-39 average. Eggs dairy and meats drove the increase with eggs up 11 percent and meats up about 2-3 percent in many cities.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
St Paul
Memphis
Providence
Minneapolis
Otaha
Los Angeles
65 000 Legionnaires Take Part In Parade
New York August 30 numbers shown thousands watched as 65 000 Legion comrades paraded up Fifth Avenue. The climactic march began at 8 30 a m with Mayor William O Dwyer leading behind a mounted police escort. The event stretched beyond 12 hours over a long route with flag lined streets.
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American Legion
Fifth Avenue
William O'Dwyer
Negro Gun Man Killed In Baltimore
Baltimore Aug 30 Police reported a negro holdup man was killed and a veteran officer along with a companion were critically wounded in a gun battle after police closed in to end five taxicab robberies. William Thomas was named as the slain robber. Sgt Joseph Davey 48 was wounded in the chest after firing six shots.
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Joseph Davey
Daniel Howard Chase
Barton C. Rote
Rote
Sgt Davey
Thomas McKenna
Anthony Cadden
Chase
Cadden
Davey
Firemen Aim for $200 Parade Prize at Charles Town
The Independents depart for Charles Town West Virginia to compete in the West Virginia Firemen's Association annual parade. They expect 50 or more uniformed members in line with the Browningsville Band and the city pumper. The event awards a $200 first prize for the largest out-of-state company in march.
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Charles Town
W. Va
West Virginia Firemen's Association
Independents
Browningsville
Greek Cabinet Heads For Early Collapse In 1930s Style
New Greek cabinet led by Constantin Tsaldaris and largely Royalist faced an imminent end after replacing the Populist Maximos government, sworn in by Archbishop Damaskinos at the royal palace. The 10 ministers, part of a fragile coalition, risk immediate dissolution following Saturday resignations. Montgomery Price, 88, dies in Washington. funeral Tuesday. Coffee prices rise by one cent per pound effective Tuesday, Maxwell House Beechnut announced.
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Greece
Cabine
Constantin Tsaldaris
Damaskinos
Paul I
Demetrios Maximos
Montgomery Price
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Mary Ellen White Price
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Washington
Sarah R. Price
Charles H. Price
W. W. Deal
Georgia Avenue
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Mt Olivet
New York
Maxwell House
McCarran Improves After Internal Hemorrhage
Reno reports Senator Pat McCarran United States Democrat from Nevada is resting well after an internal hemorrhage. The 71 year old, who became ill last Saturday in Tonopah, has received two blood transfusions in three days. Doctors say he is very anemic and weak but showing slight improvement.
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A. L. Stadtherr
Fire devastates Princess Elizabeth bridal home in Sunninghill Park
A spectacular blaze destroyed the south wing of the 173 year old Georgian mansion at Sunninghill Park near London, home to Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten. Firefighters battled through the night, official says arson unlikely but detectives probe possible incendiary motives and construction complicates containment.
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Mirror Lake
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D. M. Taylor
Taylor
Missing Since Aug 3 1940s Trio Found in Helsinki
Two American students and a British artist missing since August 3 were located in Helsinki after traveling from Stockholm on the Sea Shark. Ann Blumenfeld 22 Robert Storch 25 and Gordon Lawson 32 left Stockholm July 26 and were seen near Hango for charts before heading to Finland. Separately City officials inspected a two and a half acre tract at Silver Springs near Shookstown tied to a potential sale action.
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Ann Blumenfeld
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Shookstown
Frederick
Soviet General Attacks U S and Britain Over Berlin Plans
Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky in Berlin accused the United States and Britain of dismembering Germany and rupturing the Potsdam Agreement by pushing Western occupation zones toward industrial output near 1936 levels. He spoke to Allied Control Council after Maj. Gen. Kotikov condemned anti democratic actions and delaying tactics in Berlin socialization efforts.
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Vassily Sokolovsky
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Aumvets Convention Opens At Cumberland
One hundred delegates from nine Maryland posts of the Amvets are expected for their second annual convention in Cumberland. James E. Marrone of Frederick is state commander, with posts in Frostburg Grantsville Oakland Hagerstown Capitol Heights Rockville and Takoma Park.
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Frostburg
Grantsville
Oakland
Hagerstown
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Rockville
Takoma Park
Third Arrest For Theft Of Atom Secrets
Arnold Frederick Kiv, 27, a Brooklyn ex-soldier, was held for arraignment in New York on charges of taking highly confidential photographs from Los Alamos. FBI said he kept 37 photos and 10 negatives, later burning some, and that he worked briefly at Brookhaven Lab after leaving Los Alamos. He is the third person this year charged with stealing atomic project documents.
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Arnold Frederick Kiv
Brooklyn
U. S
New Mexico
Lee Alamos
Washington
Los Alamos
N Igl
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kivi
N. Y
Hoover
FBI
Dhoover
Irom
Los Alamos Project
Army
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Atomic Energy Commission
Patchogue
United States
Santa Fe
N. M
Alexander van der Luft
Qavam Named Premier Again
Ahmed Qavam was reelected Premier by the Iranian Parliament today with 78 of 116 votes. He had resigned under a law requiring the Premier to quit when a new Majlis was elected, and he first became Premier January 28, 1946 by a narrow vote. He has led multiple cabinets and also served as Foreign Minister and Minister of the Interior for months.
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Tehran
Ahmed Qavam
Qavam
Battalion Reunion For D 311th Machine Gun Battalion
The Quarter Century reunion of Company D, 311th Machine Gun Battalion Association, will be held tomorrow at Big Fine Creek Park in Taneytown. Roy Phillips chairs the event with an all day picnic lunch for families, followed by a business meeting. Paul S. Wilhide and John A. Pfeffer serve in leadership roles.
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311Th Machine Gun Battalion Association
Big Fine Creek
Taneytown
Roy Phillips
Paul S. Wilhide
Middletown
John A. Pfeffer
Easton
Tail reward for Holstein injury in Clarence Center
County Treasurer Frank A. Slade awarded 40 dollars to Clifford Kilkenberg of Clarence Center after a dog, owner unknown, bit off three inches of the tail of a registered Holstein heifer. The sum was paid from the dog license fund to cover livestock injuries caused by dogs.
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N. Y
Treasu
Frank A. Slade
Clifford Kelkenberg
Clarence Center
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