Overnight snow drifts into Frederick County roads slick
A light overnight snow varying from half an inch to an inch fell in Frederick County creating road hazards. The Weather Bureau forecast additional snow by tomorrow night and a continuing cold wave with subfreezing temps reaching 15 or lower. Snow cover reached about one foot. main highways remained open though slippery. City snow crews shifted to Patrick Street. drifting was limited and winds were not strong.
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Frederick County
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Averight
State Roads Commission
Red Hill
Steiner's Hill
County Roads Board
Patricktreet
Market Street
South Market Street
Fountain
North Market Street
Ashington County
West Virginia
Downie
Kerosene Shortage Triggers Emergency Help Across County
Three county residents reported kerosene exhaustion this morning to Sheriff Guy Anders and fuel coordinator Alderman Alvey Renn. The calls, from Harmony and Sugar Loaf Mountain areas, prompted temporary measures as supplies are sought. Kerosene use for heating cooking and lighting is noted, with some suppliers cutting allotments. officials warn shortages may surpass fuel oil woes. A Maryland emergency pool expansion follows, enabling local coordinators to request state resources, including 630,000 gallons of diesel from Navy stock. Brother E Pius, 72, former provincial head of the Christian Brothers Baltimore province, dies after six weeks illness.
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Sherif Guy Anders
Harmony
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Alvey
Baltimore
Maryland
Emory FL Niles
Judge Niles
Navy
Norfolk
Brother Pius
Philadelphia
Brother E. Pius
The
Christian Brothers
St. Marys Hospital
Open Bids Soon On New Road Section
The State Roads Commission will open bids on February 17 at noon for completing a dual highway from Rolling Road in Baltimore county west to Pine Orchard, about 16 miles east of Ridgeville. Surveys are under way toward Frederick as the first step in upgrading Route 40. bids for Pine Orchard to Ridgeville are not yet planned.
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State Roads Commission
Roling Road
Baltimore County
Pine Orchard
Ridgeville
Libel Suit Testimony Is Halted in West Virginia
Drew Pearson libel suit against the Jefferson Republican was halted as the court required him to answer questions about a Charleston lecture from 1946. The publishers agreed to pay court costs. the case involves $100,900 and ongoing cross examination.
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W. Va
Drew Pearson
Jefferson Republican
Circuit Court Today
Washington
Charleston
Decatur H. Rodgers
Pearson
Clarence Martin, Sr
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Rodgers
the Weekly
R. J. Funkhouser
Blakely Corporation
Hbel
Westbrook Pegier
Time Magazine
Roosevelt
Wheeling
Robert S. Allen
Baltimore Sunpapers
Martin
Hoover
Markey Says He Will Be Elected At Cumberland
Cumberland Feb 6 Republican Rep Short of Missouri told about 300 Lincoln Day dinner guests that a purchased friendship should not be trusted and urged the Marshall Plan to run one year. He called callous giving ignoble philanthropy and predicted Markey would prevail in the contest with Senator O Conor. Markey declared the Saab phase of the Senate investigation will soon finish and he will be declared duly selected Senator.
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Cumberland
Rep. Short
Rmo
Short
Republican State Central Committee
John Markey
O Conor
Markey
Saab
Senate
Ndt
Linden Hills Water Line Replacement Underway After Freeze
The Linden Hills water system faces disruption as a two inch feeder line froze and a six inch line is being installed. Four homes affected, ground frozen eighteen to twenty two inches, workers dig a trench through snow to lay new pipe. An eight inch main will replace the line later this year to solve ongoing water difficulties.
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Linden Hills
Water Department
Nerva Avenue
West Patrick Street
Linganore
Linganore Creek
Potomac
Culler Lake
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Board of Aldermen
Trud Claims U.S. Planning War
Moscow reports Trud the Soviet trade union paper claims the United States plans war. It contrasts budgets, citing Truman’s 36.7 billion dollar request for defense and Russia’s 387.9 billion rubles with 66 billion rubles for armed forces, noting differences in budget definitions and a 5.3 ruble per dollar rate.
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Sovviet
United States
Soviet Union
U.S. SR
Truman
Congress
Arseny G. Zverev
Supreme Soviet
Cause Of Loss Of Fish Life To Be Sought
A survey of the Monocacy river will be begun to determine why fish life deteriorates. Dr R V Tru of the Maryland Department of Research and Education outlined station sites from the Potomac to the Pennsylvania line to study water conditions and effluent sources with state and local officials coordinating with the Maryland Water Pollution Control Commission. The effort aims to identify causes and remedies for the declining fish population, a concern raised by local sportsmen and the Izaak Walton League chapter.
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Maryland Department of Research and Education
Frederick
Izaak Watton League
R. V. Tru
Potomac
Pennsylvania Line
Maryland Water Pollution Control Commission
Edward D.D. Storm
George F. Grove
Department of Research and Education
Storm
Dr. Truitt
Winter Grips Much Of U S
Winter blankets the nation with heavy snow from Kentucky to the Mid Atlantic while cold temperatures persist northward. Snow disrupts transport and closes schools in several counties, with New York facing fuel shortages despite Navy emergency allotments and an anticipated new snowstorm in the metropolitan area.
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New York
Navy
Weather Bureau
Azalean Train Halts Over Open Drawbridge at Biloxi
The diesel locomotive of The Azalean halted with its front trucks over an open drawbridge between Biloxi and Ocean Springs. Red warning lights were obscured by heavy fog, according to conductor D. J. Chancellor.
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Miss
Azalean
New Orleans
D. J. Chancellor
Here
Ocean Springs
Britain Accused by Soviet Ukraine on Palestine split
Tarasenko, Ukrainian delegate on the Security Council, charged Britain with obstructing the General Assembly's plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. He claimed Britain's stance delays the assembly's resolution and hinders its implementation.
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General Assembly
Grader and Truck Damaged In Two Collisions Near Frederick
A State Roads Commission grader operated by Fred Kimmel and a commission pickup were damaged in two crashes at the same spot on Route 240 near Frederick Junction. No injuries. A tractor-trailer driven by Theodore A. Lovejoy fled scene but was later arrested and charged with leaving the scene and reckless driving. A northbound car driven by George G. Miller rear-ended the commission truck, causing minor damage.
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State Roads Commission
Fred Kimmel
South Carroll Street
Frederick
Frederick Junction
Theodore A. Lovejoy
W. W. Corbin
Lovejoy
Staite Roads
Commission
Gilbert C. Gouker
Middletown
George G. Miller
Rocky Ridge
Cerbin
Eisler May Leave U.S. By February 28
Deportation proceedings against Hanns Eisler, noted as Gerhart Eisler’s brother and labeled by a House committee as America’s No 1 Communist, concluded in minutes. A government spokesman said Eisler might tour the country by February 28 and may not be in the United States for a scheduled February 28 concert.
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New York
Hanns Eisler
Eisler
Gerhart Eisler
House
America
Immigration Service
Jonn P. Boyd
Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization
Mmusic
United States
iBord
2.5 Billions Cut In Budget
Washington February 6 A joint Senate House committee recommended cutting 2.5 billion dollars from proposed government spending for the new fiscal year. The 102 member Tax and Appropriation panel was created to cap expenditures. The subcommittee draft awaits Senate and House approval and is not binding.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Corn Crashes Limit At Market Opening
Chicago February 6 corn fell the limit at the opening for the third straight day of declines on the Board of Trade. Wheat was weak but did not drop the full ten cents. Oats were mixed with strength in deferred contracts as the Farmers Co-Operatives Association offered no wheat price and local elevators could not quote buying prices until market stability returns.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Farmers Co-Operatives Association, Inc
Stuelpnagel Hangs Self In Paris Prison
Gen Otin Von Stuelpnagel wartime commander of German troops in occupied France hanged himself in Cherche Midi prison in Paris. He faced charges of crimes against international law and was to be tried by an army court. His death follows another wartime officer, Gen Johannes Blaskowitz, who killed himself in Nuremberg while awaiting trial.
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War Ministry
Otin von Stuelpnagel
France
Cherche- Midi
Stueltenagel
Jean le Gorguil- Her
Stuelpnagel
Heinrich
Germany
Munich
Adolf Hitler
Marcel Heraud
StueIpnagel
Johannes Blaskowitz
Nuernberg
Studpnagel
Heraud
Greek Navy Orders Sink Unidentified Submarines
The Greek navy ministry ordered warships to attack and sink all un identified submarines in Greek waters after two strange subs were sighted. One near Peloponnesus Crete and another off Preveza in the Ionian Sea. Troop and supply ships are escorted by destroyers and corvettes with depth charges. A submarine reportedly tried to contact a caique before submerging. A guerrilla group of 60 to 100 fighters clashed with gendarmerie near Mount Parnes, 11 miles from Athens, part of a southward move from Mount Parnessos.
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Peloponnesus
Crete
Preveza
Ionian Sea
Epirus
Popoponnesus
Ministry of Public Order
Mount Parnes
Mount Parnessos
Second Snow Storm Strikes West Virginia
West Virginia faced a second snow storm in as many days striking the southern counties that missed the prior downfall. Four inches fell in the Funtington area in under 11 hours as the system moved southeast. Trucks on mountain routes skidded and traffic halted while cinder crews attempted to clear delays.
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Charleston
Woman given term for shooting Bruce Orem
Mrs. Della Johnson Stumm 40 of Martinsburg pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Jefferson County Circuit Court and was sentenced to one to five years in the West Virginia penitentiary for shooting Bruce Orem 41 on January 10 at a tenant farm near Cableton after a three day drinking party at the home of Freddie Johnson, her brother. Orem died two days later in a Bee City hospital.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Della Johnson Stumm
Martinsburg
Jefferson County
West Virginia
Bruce Orem
John C. Skirmner
Decatur H. Rodgers
Orem
Cableton
Freddie Johnson
Stumm
Bee
Debate on a federal anti lynching bill and constitutional issues
Washington discussion outlines why lynching is not a federal crime yet and how federal laws could prosecute state actors who conspire in lynching. It notes potential penalties, the role of the FBI, and the path to Supreme Court review if Congress passes an anti lynching measure.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
South
FBI
Supreme Court
High Butter And Meat Prices Meet Resistance
Washington reports the government sees early signs of resistance to high food prices. Agriculture Department data show housewives shifting demand from steaks and top-grade beef to cheaper cuts while butter demand declines after year-end holidays. Secretary Anderson endorses three day self rationing to curb inflation.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Anderson
Maryland Weather: Light Snow Today With Clearing Tonight
Souther and central Maryland including Frederick county see light snow today ending by afternoon with highs 26 to 32. Tonight will be cloudy and colder with lows 16 to 24. Saturday remains mostly cloudy with a chance of snow or rain by night. Washington Allegany and Garrett counties report light snow today ending by early afternoon with highs near freezing. Clearing and colder tonight, lows 10 to 18, Saturday cloudy with likely snow or rain thereafter.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Souther
Frederick County
Washington
Alegany
Garrett
Wheat Futures Fall to Limit Then Recovers
New York February 6. Wheat futures hit the maximum 10 cent drop but buying curbed losses with a small rebound. Corn fell eight cents daily, oats down 23, and cotton slumped then recovered mildly. Vegetable oils and butter moved lower while tallow and grease rose. The AP noted a potential bottom in this week’s price break, with inflation questions and a possible early readjustment in prices.
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New York
New York Exchange
Associated Press
Chicago
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Pearl Harbor
Washington Oficial
Middletown Player Signs With Dodgers
Middletown athlete Paul Bacard Lutz, who starred for local teams last season, signed to play professional baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He will report for spring training as the team heads south. Berlin notes a strong administration plan for Bizonia with a high court to enforce decisions amid postwar pressures.
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Paul Bacard Lutz
Middletown
Brooklyn Dodgers
Secor
Lutz
Berlin
Bizonia
Modest Plus Signs Amid Mixed Market Rally
Modest gains appeared in New York trading as Pi bidding for a technical comeback boosted individual stocks while market leaders showed notable divergence. Investors watched February data and corporate actions as speculative bets anchored gains amid uneven sector performance.
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Modest Plus
New York
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