Statewide weight limits on Maryland highways revised
Frederick county roads retain freedom from heavy truck limits while four secondary routes receive 6 to 9 ton restrictions. Maryland Roads Commission, backed by State Police, enforces posted limits with portable scales and one-at-a-time wheel testing. Authorities cite winter freeze and thaw damage as reason to safeguard main routes and rural feeders, with signs to be posted by roads department crews.
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Frederick County
State Roads Commission
Maryland
The
Roads Commission
Fingerooard
Urbana
Monrovia
Clemsonville
Libertytown
New Windsor
Wolfs Corner
Sabillasville
Friend's Creek
Emmitsburg
Thomas M. Linthicum
Carroll County
Fenby-Sldersburg
Manchester-Westminster
Baustchurch
Middleburg-Union Bridge
Hunting Hill
Buckeystown
Washington County
Weverton
Heines
Weverton Hill
Boonsboro-Weverton
Gapland
Williamsport
Washington
Allegany
Garrett Counties
Homer E. Tabler
Nathan L. Smith
Robert ML Reindollar
Tne Commission
Western Maryland display opens with White Water show at county fair
The Fifth Regiment Army honor guard unveiled a striking indoor exhibit featuring a running water stream, a waterfall and pool surrounded by laurel rhododendron and dogwood. Frederick County and Western Maryland advance tickets sold rapidly with 1500 pre sales and more expected. The show runs February 19 as Western Maryland Day with chambers of commerce promoting attendance. A centrifugal pump reproduces the Catoctin mountains stream in trans ported terrain while a 70000 gallon lake forms part of the centerpiece. Guides from Nova Scotia and Native groups from the Far West are among the diverse exhibits including malamute dogs once with Admiral Byrd.
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Frederick
Army
Baltimore
C. Carty
Western Maryland
Maryland
Fredericx County
Carty
Chambers of Commerce of
Freds
Catoctin Mountain
Washington County
Armory
Admiral Byrd
South Pole
Nova Scotia
Far West
Rain And Snow Havoc In California
Rain and snow deluged northern California for the sixteenth straight day causing eight deaths and millions in damage. The long storm broke weather records while crowds stayed indoors as floods threatened and activity dropped across cities from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
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San Francisco
California
Weather Bureau
All America
Los Angeles
Light Snow Falls Brightens Winter Scene
The landscape whitened today for the fifth time this winter as the heaviest snow in a month reached about half an inch by early afternoon. The fall, brisk in the late morning, came despite forecasts for cloudiness and rising temperatures. It was the second heaviest in 1937-38, with January's one inch the only heavier snowfall. Roads iced over but no heavy storm expected to pile snow or freeze temps, keeping February's easy pace mostly intact. Continued on Page Eight.
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Weather Bureau
England declines to attend 1940 Tokyo Olympics
Chelmsford England Feb 11 AP The general committee of the British Amateur Athletic Association voted unanimously against Britain attending the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo. H F Pash urged the United States and other nations to join the British position.
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Chelmsford
England
British Amateur Athletic Association
Britain
Tokyo
H. F. Pash
United States
Store Chimney Fire Extinguished At Square Shop
A chimney fire at the C. Thomas Kemp store on the Square was put out about 8 50 this morning bySiemen of the Independent Hose Company after a silent alarm. Heavy smoke was seen by Officer Marshall Murray who alerted the staff. The blaze was defeated with chemicals and caused no damage.
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C. Thomas Kemp
Siemen
Independent Hose Company
Marshall Murray
Fleeting Fame Marks 212 East Biddie Street Muse Um
Baltimore reports on Wallis Warfield, once a local girl, who wed the ex King of England. A group turned 212 East Biddie into a museum then into a closing venture. Initial price was one dollar, then fell to 40 and 25 cents as the house sits closed and up for lease.
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Baltimore
Wallis Warfield
East Biddie Street
England
East Biddie
Repossessed Auto Is Basis Of Suit
Justice Emmett R. Bowlus presided over a Peoples Court case over a seven year old auto foreclosed for overdue tires and a radio. William E. Kline of Baltimore repossessed the car under a conditional sales contract by Tobery. Tobery challenged use. police seized the vehicle. The judge planned rulings with Attorney General O Conor on repossession rights. William M. Storm represented Kline.
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Emmett R. Bowlus
Peoples Court
Justice Bowlus
Herbert R. O'Conor
William E. Kline
Baltimore
E. I. To
Continuous Coughing for 102 Days Baffles Doctors
Rochester Pa February 11 Ruth Ann Millers a 14 year old girl begins her 102nd day of coughing seeking allergy related diagnosis. Dr G M Durschinger plans serum skin test to confirm allergic tracheitis while X rays show no infection. Family reports episodes of long gasping fits and facial puffing during coughing.
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Rochester
Ruth Ann
Beaver Falls
Grand Old Man Of Rowing Dies At 86
James A. Ten Eyck longtime Syracuse University rowing coach died in a Miami hospital at age 86 after a heart attack. His son Ned Ten Eyck and a coaching assistant confirmed the death at about six this morning.
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Syracuse
James A. Ten Eyck
Syracuse University
Miami
Florida
Ned Ten Eyck
Jim
Weather Record Precipitation and Temperatures Summary
Weather data show 24 hour precipitation ending 7 am none. February precipitation totals 9 inches for the month to date, well above normal 2.95 inches. February 1937 recorded 4.46 inches. Deficiency in 1938 February to date stands at 1.51 inches. Yesterday’s high was 5 below zero, high a year ago 36. Low last night 25 below, same night last year 17 below. Sun sets at 5 42 pm, rises tomorrow at 7 07 am. Moon rises tomorrow at 3 41 pm, sets at 5 15 pm.
Navy aims to defend both coasts with new fleet plan
Washington AP reports Chairman Vinson urged an amendment to the $8000000 naval expansion to authorize a fleet adequate to defend the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and all insular possessions. The proposal seeks a policy of sufficient strength to guarantee national security without aggression.
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Washington
Vinson
House Naval Committee
Atlantic
Pacific
Leahy J
Canal Zone
Alaska
Hawaii
United States
Wave Of Robberies Spreads In Baltimore
Baltimore scene reports seven burglaries and a holdup during the night. Burglars forced entry at Western High School but could not open the safe. it had been robbed previously and $55 taken, later replaced. Charles Young of Halethorpe says two well dressed hitchhikers robbed him of $6.50 at gun and knife point. February total rises to 212 robberies with victims paying over $15,000.
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Baltimore
Western High School
Charles Young
Halethorpe
Some Selected Stocks Stay Slightly Higher
In New York on February 11, selected stocks edged higher while many issues held steady or slipped. It was a slow session with light transfers, but minor gains predominated around the fourth hour. Sterling rose 7-16 to $3.0173.
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New York
Sterling
Missing Maryland mother Goldie Mays sought in day old baby case
No report had been received as state police pursued Mrs. Goldie Mays 24 of Hagerstown missing from home with a 10 day old infant. A broadcast appeal and a $50 reward were issued to locate her after she left a car and was last seen wearing a brown sport coat a red and white spotted dress and brown oxford shoes. Frederick officials said they had no knowledge of her passing through the area.
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Michigan City
Ind
Indiana State Prison
George Christian
Valparaiso
Christian
August Cummings
Frank Pay- Hlench
Teacler
Wheatfield
Theodore Huiburt
Angelo Gengo
Kankakee
Indiana
John Dillinger
Tate
Goldie Mays
Hagerstown
Frederick
The
Saz
Lincoln Birthday Observance Drops in Maryland
Maryland does not observe the one hundred twenty ninth birthday of Abraham Lincoln as a legal holiday. Public observances will be skipped and banks and panics will operate as usual.
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Abraham Lincoln
Maryland
Hood College to Attend Tri-State Conference in Virginia
Hood College will be represented at the Tri-State Down-The-Bay Conference at Hampton Institute in Virginia on February 12-13. Delegates include Miss Margaret Hammers, Miss Mildred Smeltzer, Miss Grace Levis, Miss Doris Parker, and Miss Marjorie Duckworth. The meeting theme is Christians and the Crisis in the Far East, with leaders from Union Seminary, Japanese and Chinese student groups, and the Student Volunteer Movement. Attendees will depart Baltimore by day steamer Saturday afternoon, spend Sunday at Hampton, then return that night.
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Hood College
Hampton Institute
Margaret Hammers
Washington
D. C
Mildred Smeltzjer
Harrisburg
Grace Levis
Baltimore
Doris Parker
Dunbar
Marjorie Duckworth
Scranton
American Friends Service Committee
Peace Institutes
Rachel T. Robison
Student Christian Movement
Hugo W. Thompson
Hampton
Chancellor Gray To Speak At Hood College Vespers
American University chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray will speak at Hood College vesper service Sunday at 4 p m in Brodbeck. Gray, who has led American University since 1934, spoke at Hood last year and earlier served as a Methodist minister and army camp lecturer. The program, directed by Prof Henry T Wade, includes choral pieces by Franck Wesley Mozart and Mergel with hymns and organ selections.
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Joseph M. M. Gray
American University
Washington
D. C
Hood College
Brodbeck
Gray
American Universy
England
France
Henry T. Wade
Caesar Franck
Word of God
Wesley
Lord
Smart
Mergel
Where Do We Go From Here Declared In Washington
Washington in 1938 ponders a stalemate as Roosevelt Congress and business hold back. Analysts say no clear plan emerges while labor's sitdown tactic unsettles policy directions. Predictions of a new farm act tax law and reorganizations loom amid uncertainty.
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Washington
Dutcher
Feb
White House
Congress
Business
Roosevelt
Noah Webster
Roosevelt- Congress
Senate
Supreme Court
NEA Service, Inc
James T. Bogley Dies at 73 in Rockville
James T. Bogley 73 former Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County died Monday night at his Rockville home. Ill for years pneumonia was the immediate cause. Survived by two daughters Naomi Bogley Young Rockville and Beulah Coleman Atlanta a sister Mrs Edwin M. West Alexandria Va a brother Emory H. Bogley Friendship Heights and three grandchildren. Lifelong Rockville resident son of late J Hilleary Bogley once County Commissioner. Longtime clerk's office worker and former Democratic political activist.
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Rockville
James T. Bogley
Montgomery County
Naomi Bogley Young
Beulah Coleman
Atlanta
Edwin M
500000 More To Be Put On Relief Rolls
Aubrey Williams, acting administrator of the Works Progress Administration, said the President's request to Congress for a $250 million emergency relief appropriation would allow adding about 509,000 people to the relief rolls immediately. He noted 1,950,000 were already on the rolls and that unemployment conditions were generally spotty.
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Herbert Hoover
George Washington
Belgium
Hoover
Commission For Relief In Belgium Educational Foundation
Washington
Aubrey Williams
Works Progress Administration
Congress
Williams
Denials Hit Rumors Of German Crisis
Berlin officials dismiss sensational rumors of army revolts and Berlin street fighting tied to Hitler’s leadership shakeup. AP reports no basis for unrest claims, while noting Romania’s cabinet change and the Reich’s sensitivity to neighboring rearmament moves.
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Berlin
Alfred Insemar Berndt
Reichsfuhrerer
Hitler
Foreign Correspondents Corps
Paul J. Goebbels
Berndt
Europe
Germany
Associated Press
Berlin Staf
Octavian Goga
Romania
Reich
Rumania
Goga
Soviet Refuses Large Scale Aid For China
Shanghai February 11 AP Reuters reported that Soviet Russia refused a Chinese plea for large scale assistance against Japan. Sun Fo had urged Moscow to aid China but Russia declined to risk a direct confrontation with Japan. Chinese forces fought to blunt eight Japanese columns along the Lunghai railway corridor between Japanese controlled north China and the Yangtze valley.
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Shanghai
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Sun Fo
Sun Yat-sen
China
Moscow
Central China
Lunghai Railway
North China
Yangtze River Valley
One Hurt In Crash Near New Market
Collision between a truck and car on National highway east of New Market injures Edward Armstrong of Winchester Virginia. He is hospitalized with a fractured arm at Frederick City Hospital. State police report scarce. other driver unnamed. Also note Miss Elizabeth C Davis of Louis Female Orphanage treated for illness. AARON strawberry history line concludes article.
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New Market
Edward Armstrong
Winchester
I Va
Frederick City
Willis’ Hill
Elizabeth C. Davis
Louis Female Orphanage
Frederick City Hospital
M. R. Etchison and Son
Davis
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