Fire destroys home. family escapes from smoke filled dwelling
The Minnick family and two year old daughter narrowly escaped a full fire that leveled their two story four room frame house near Edgewood. Firemen saved a nearby barn and garage and used booster tanks to quell the blaze as flames roared into the sky. The home belonged to the late George Miller’s family. insurance may not cover all losses. The father, a truck driver, woke to smoke and saved his wife and child, aided by their dog Cinders credited with saving their lives.
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Howard L. Afinnick
Springs
Minnick
George 3. Miller
North Feet Street
Lester Boyer
Ake
A. H. Brust
Edgewood Arch of God
John Mackenzie
Federation of Women’s Clubs Urges Meat Rationing
Washington reports the Federation of Women’s Clubs urges Congress to grant government power to ration meat amid a serious shortage and rising costs. President Mrs J L Blair Buck of Richland Virginia says some action is needed quickly as 3 000 women back the effort. She spoke before a Senate Banking subcommittee studying Senator Dresser’s bill to authorize ration books and hire personnel to develop a ration plan.
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Washington
Gen- Federation of Women’s Club
Congress
J. L. Blair Buck
Richand
Federation
Iso
Blair
Senate
Administration View Sought By Flanders
Senator Flanders seeks administration position on meat rationing and plans to recall Brannan to clarify policy divisions. Washington reports indicate machinery for rationing should be set up promptly, with Truman and Anderson offering differing views on rationing versus price control amid rising prices. Americans poured savings into banks, totaling 9.0 billion last year, compared with larger gains in prior years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aries F. Brannan
Bill Flanders
Brannan
Truman
Flanders
Agriculture Anderson
Ten-Mile House Destroyed By Fire On Reisterstown Road
Ten mile house a 200 year old landmark on Reisterstown road northwest of Baltimore was destroyed by fire. Only the walls of the three story tavern remained standing. Firemen arrived to flames and reported a woman trapped inside but she had escaped.
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Pikesville
Reisterstown Road
Baltimore
Six Weeks Of Bad Weather Warned By Groundhog
The local groundhog sighting sparked expectations of six more weeks of cold and snow. Forecasters predict a milder today with freezing to above freezing temps and melting, then a return to cold by tomorrow with cloudiness. Temperatures drift from 14 to 29 above, with a Leap Year February bringing five Sundays and an extra life event.
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Bir G-hog
State To Seek Oil For Navy Supply In Maryland
Maryland officials and oil industry advisers meet naval officers in Washington to secure 25 900 barrels of fuel oil held for Philadelphia government, aiming to relieve hardship cases in Maryland.
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Navy
Baltimore
Emory H. Niles
State Oil Industry Advisory Committee
Washington
Maryland
Residents press for Liberty junior to senior high expansion
A Unionville group representing the Parent-Teacher Association and Women's Club urged the County Commissioners to convert Liberty school in Libertytown to a senior high. They sought improvements including an auditorium and cafeteria. Officials said the board has no jurisdiction on the senior high matter and plans defer major school work until material costs ease.
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Libertytown
Unionville
Parent-Teacher Association and
Women’s Club of
Liberty
Slump In Recruiting for National Guard
Washington reports a recruiting slump for the National Guard. Maj. Gen. Kenneth F. Cramer, chief of the Army's National Guard Bureau, said the guard gained only 5 400 men last month after 13 000 in July and 33 000 in October during special campaigns. He has urged state adjutants general to renew recruitment efforts.
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Washington
National Guard
Kenneth F. Cramier
Army
National Guard Bureau
Adjutants General Association
Cramer
Adjutant General
Seach State
American to Go On Trial In Budapest
American Elizabeth Preiszl Pallos and 12 others face espionage charges in Budapest Peoples Court in a tied case. Peyer in absentia, she linked with U S Army Captain McClemens and AP links. arrest followed Pallos secrecy in AP Budapest bureau.
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Budapest
Hungary
Elizabeth Preiszl
Pallos
Pittsburgh
Karol Peyer
Peoples’ Court of Justice
Peyer
London
Proiszl-Pallos
Associated Press Bureau
Jack Guinn
U. S. Army
McClemens
Civil Information Corps
James Cargar
U. S. Legation
Guinn
Social Democrat Party
Austria
Funeral Services For Orville Wright Held
Orville Wright, 76, co inventor of the airplane, was mourned in Dayton Ohio with funeral services at First Baptist Church to be led by Rev. Dr. Charles L. Seashores. He died Friday night from lung congestion and heart ailment.
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Dayton
Cradle of Aviation
Orville Wright
First Baptist Church
Charles L. Seashores
Wright
Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond to Speak at Hood College
Roscoe Drummond, head of the Washington bureau for the Christian Science Monitor, will deliver Hood College’s convocation address on Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. His talk, The State of the Nation, caps Hood’s second semester opening with President Henry Irvin Stahr presiding. Drummond, a noted analyst and frequent lecturer, is active in press clubs and overseas writers groups and has served in multiple Monitor roles since 1924. Martha M. Reddick will perform Bach’s Air for the G String, with organ selections by William H. Sprigg including Passacaglio and the Hood College March.
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Roscoe Drummond
Washington
The
Christian Science Monitor
Hood College
Henry Irvin Stahr
Hood
Drummond
Overseas Writers Club of Washington
National Press Club
Gridiron Club
Martha M. Reddick
Wll
Bach
Frescobaldi
William H. Sprigg
State Well Fixed With Emergency Fund
Comptroller James J. Lacy reported Maryland’s emergency fund is largely intact with about 30 percent disbursed since July 1. The 1947 General Assembly and a 1947 special session each added 3.5 million, but only 108,466 has been paid out by the Board of Public Works. Major withdrawals included Bowie State Teachers College 6,200 and the University of Maryland 6,849, with several agencies taking smaller sums.
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Annapolis
James J. Lacy
Maryland
General Assembly
Lacy
Board of Public Works
Bowie
Department of Motor Vehicles
Tidewater Fisheries
Veterans Ib
U Oiversity of Maryland
Farm Sold at Public Auction in Wolfsville
A 36 acre farm owned by the late William F. Lewis along the Wolfsville Pleasant Walk road was sold by heirs to John W. Lewis for 2159 dollars. The property includes a five story six room log and frame dwelling and outbuildings. Ror Eigenbrode acted as auctioneer. Snow on Culler Lake drew would be skaters who cleared only a few lanes, hampering skating resumption.
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Harne’s
Wolfsville
William F. Lewis
Pleasant Walk
John W. Lewis
Ror Eigenbrode
Culler
Two edged Taft Hartley tool cited in injunction cases
The Nation Today notes the Taft Hartley act grants the injunction power to curb unfair labor practices. With ten injunctions issued, Robert Denham warns it is a powerful tool used for urgent cases. Instances include actions against AFL CIO unions, GM, and a Topeka carpenters’ strike amid ongoing debates over its reach.
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Max Hall
James Marlow
Washington
General Amlotors
Robert N. Denham
Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Huca
N. Y
AFI
Teamsters
Topeka
Kas
AFL
Offce
New York
General Motors
Dendham
CIO Auto Workers
Indianapolis
AFL International Typographical Union
Chicago
Congress
North Carolina
CIO
Texarkana
Ark
AFL Street Electric Railway & Motor
Stand or fall on restoration of peace in India
Prime Minister Nehru told the Constituent Assembly he would stand or fall on restoring peace in troubled India. He said failure to protect the nation’s greatest treasure would be shameful. Gandhi’s ashes were gathered on the Jumna banks and prepared for dispersal on sacred waters.
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New Delhi
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian Constituent Assembly
Mohandas
Gandhi
Nehru
Jumna
Liberty Ship Carlisle Towed By Coast Guard
The Liberty ship John F. Carlisle with a crew of five was towed at 8:30 a.m. today by the Coast Guard cutter Mendota, 75 miles east of Frying Pan Shoals, per Coast Guard headquarters. Two arrests followed: Raymond Clary charged with bastardy released on $250 bond. Perry Grove arrested on a peace warrant and released on $500 bond.
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Liberty Ship
Carlisle
Coast Guard
Norfolk
John F. Carlisle
Mendota
Frying Pan Shoals
Raymond Clary
Frederick
Route 4
Paul B. Rhoads
Rhoads
Perry Grove
Grove
New Wave Of Extreme Cold Coming
A new extremely cold wave spread southward through the upper Midwest and eastern half of the nation. The Weather Bureau noted fuel shortages idled about 250 000 workers in industry while a thaw began in parts of the East and South. Snowbound motorists resumed travel in Tennessee and Virginia with county schools closing under heavy snow and ice. New York Mayor O Dwyer ordered escorts to ensure fuel deliveries to homes.
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Midwest
Weather Bureau
Tennessee
Pulaski
Columbia
Virginia
North Carolina
William O'Dwyer
New York
United States and Italy Sign New Trade Treaty
Washington reports a new commercial treaty between the United States and Italy includes a freedom of information clause allowing news writing and reporting without censorship for Italians in the US and Americans in Italy. The pact replaces the 1871 friendship treaty and requires ratification by the US Senate and Italy’s Chamber of Deputies before taking effect.
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Washington
United States
Italy
Mussolini
United States Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Midyear Finals Held At Western Maryland College
Fifteen students graduate from Western Maryland College as many veterans use GI Bill benefits. Dr. G Franklin Stover debuts as dean of the faculty and delivers the principal address. Degrees are conferred to graduates from Baltimore Washington New Windsor Union Bridge Greenbelt Hampstead Waynesboro and Lititz.
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Westminster
Western Maryland College
G. Franklin Stover
Stover
Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction
Western Maryland
L. M. ‘Bertholf
College of the Pacific
Stockton
Cal
Jean Edwin Brant
Ernest K. McFadden
Charles Luther Warner
Mary Ruth O'Kelly
Baltimore
James Ralph Dudley
Helen Marie Becker
Washington
William Gregory Anders
New Windsor
Leon David Israel
Union Bridge
Richard Arden Palmer
Greenbelt
Albert Aldridge Phillips, Jr
James Donald Smyth
Sykesville
Mildred .Chierry
Fantown
Hugh Benjamin Tress
Waynesboro
Jesse Lee Starker
Joseph Shorer Ward
Drunken critic fires pistol at Long Beach church choir
In Long Beach California a self appointed music critic fired a pistol at a choir during a pre service rehearsal at First Methodist Episcopal church. The drunk intruder named 2 blotto profundo was heard shouting before the shot rang out. No injuries occurred and the assailant fled before police arrived.
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Long Beach
Calif
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Ichorister
Joseph Farrer
Transmitter House Burns at WANN Station
A fire destroyed the transmitter house of radio station WANN in Annapolis over the weekend but the station planned to resume broadcasting today or tomorrow despite the loss.
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Annapolis
WANN
Bodies Of Woman And Son Found In Alps Crash
In Digne France February 2 French skiers located the bodies of Mrs Shirley G Martin of Princeton North Carolina and her year old son Benjamin killed in the U S Army C 47 crash in the French Alps Also dead were ten others including two women four children and three Army flyers as the search for the missing transport continued Sixteen bodies were flown to Frankfurt for repatriation The women and children were dependents of U S troops in the Trieste occupation zone Surviving Fortress crewman Staff Sergeant Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines Iowa is hospitalized in Digne
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Digne
France
Shirley G Martin
Princeton
N. C
Benjamin
French Alps
Frankfurt
United States
U. S
Trieste
Angelo LaSalle
Des Moines
First Marriage Annulled, Pair Are Remarried
Army couple Carl A. Anderson and Jennie K Miller were remarried 36 hours after an annulment of their December 1946 marriage. Legal delays arose from differing final decree dates in California, prompting a court action and a subsequent quiet remarriage at a Lutheran parsonage in Carlisle Pennsylvania. Anderson, a 2nd lieutenant stationed at Carlisle Barracks, and Miller, an Army nurse stationed at New Cumberland, had initially wed December 19 amid uncertainty about the previous marriage’s end.
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Carl A. Andersons
Andersons
Carl
Carlisle Barracks
Carlisle
Jennie K. (Miller
New Cumberland
California
Thomas Glass
Manuel M. Weinberg
W. V. Garrett
Evangelical Lutheran Parsonage
Anderson
Tacoma
Wash
Lexington
Truman nominates Stephens chief justice of U S Court of Appeals
Washington Feb 2 President Truman names Harold M Stephens of Salt Lake City as Chief Justice of the U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia replacing D Lawrence Groner who retires after ill health Stephens succeeds Groner who had served on the court since 1931 and as chief since 1938 James M Preetor of Washington named associate justice to fill Stephens post Groner plans unclear after retirement and rest in Tucson Ariz
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Washington
Truman
Harold M. Stephens
Salt Lake City
Utah
U. S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Stephens
Senate
James M. Preetor
Court of Appeals
D. Lawrence Groner
Tucson
Ariz
Groner
Apri
Norfolk
Norfosiks
Some Seek Recovery In Stock Market
New York stocks edged toward a recovery in today's market though gains were uneven. Light reinvestment demand lingered from January and supported favorites. Professional bidding reflected hopes for a continued technical comeback despite widespread skepticism over taxes business and foreign conditions.
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New York
Doughton Promises Tax Cut Aid
Hey Doughton of North Carolina told the House that with Republicans trimming the tax bill from 6.5 billion to about 4.25 billion Congress could override a veto with enough Democratic support. He argued for a moderate, safe tax reduction while President Truman favored a 3.2 billion cut financed by corporate excess profits levy.
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Washington
Hey Doughton
D-Nc
The
Hous
Congress
Truman
Doughston
Coughton
GOP
Treasury
Reds Protest Is Rejected by U S on Warship Visits
Washington reports the United States rejected Russia’s protest over American warship visits to Italian ports. A State Department note said Italy granted advance permission for each visit and that such calls are in accord with the comity of nations. Russia’s note, delivered by Ambassador Panyushkin, claimed these ships violated a peace treaty requiring Allied forces withdrawal by December 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Russia
Haliac
State Department
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Italy
Hermit on Long Island Sound Replenished by Sled Provisions
Rye New York February reports the beard ed hermit of Hen Island Yarl Wacks aged 85 and his dog were rescued after four men hauled 50 pounds of supplies across ice to his houseboat retreat. Marooned since before Thanksgiving he had lived on snow water and crackers and planned a fricassee chicken feast upon relief arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rye
Hen Island
Long Island Sound
Yarl Wacks
Wacks
Lattor
Switchboards Affected By Freak Of Nature
A strange natural event hit Hancock to Union Bridge during the heavy snowstorm affecting county exchanges including Emmitsburg and Buckeystown. Operators felt light shocks while plugging calls for about four hours. Officials could not find a known source, with aurora borealis as a possible cause. Power companies checked but found no contribution. Groves Applies For Retirement From Army Post Feb 29.
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Hancock
Union Bridge
Emmitsburg
Buckeystown
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