Barkley Resigns Senate Leadership Over Roosevelt Tax Veto
Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky resigns as Democratic Senate leader in protest of President Roosevelt’s veto of the tax bill. He denounces the veto as an assault on Congress and vows to press for overriding it. A leadership conference is set for 10:30 a.m. tomorrow to select a successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Roosevelt
Barkley
Rentrcxian
Congress of the
United States
House
Senator McKellar
Q-Teno
Congress
White House
Senate Finance Committee
Joint Conference Committee
Joseph Robinson
Arkansas
White
Maine
Beeins
House of Representatives
Veterans receive first mustering out checks ahead of schedule
About 135 local veterans submitted applications for mustering out pay via American Legion channels. Each eligible veteran receives $100 now, with most to get a second $100 in March. higher totals apply for longer or foreign service. A small number have foreign service and a few minority applicants are noted.
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American Legion
Legion 1
Brunswick
Emmitsburg
William R. Slemmer
Francis Scott Key Post
United States
Japs Report Taroa Shelled
Japanese Domei agency dispatch says Taroa Island in the Marshalls was bombed from the air Sunday and Monday and shelled by enemy surface craft Monday. The broadcasts claim all attacks were repulsed with no damage Sunday and only slight damage the next day.
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New York
Domet Agency
Pacific
Taroa Island
Marshalls
Syracuse Chiefs Plan Spring Training in Bedford Indiana
The Syracuse Chiefs of the International Baseball League will begin spring training March 23 at Bedford Indiana. Bedford is 23 miles from the Reds Bloomington camp, with whom Syracuse has a working agreement. The Chiefs previously trained at Frederick Maryland in 1943.
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Syracuse
Syracuse Chiefs
International Baseball League
Bedford
Ind
Frederick
Bloomington
Cincinnati Reds
Chiefs
Veto clash over tax plans sparks White House debate
Senate leader Barkley criticized the Presidents veto message as misrepresenting the Willkie tax plan. He called the reference to Wendell Willkie a vivid comparison, likening him to a Halley’s comet. Barkley dismissed the celestial metaphor as fantastical and confusing.
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House
Barkley
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Halley
Denver seeks FCC aid for police radio wavelength redistribution
Complaints mount as Denver asks the FCC to reallocate police radio frequencies. When Denver patrols transmit to local addresses, nearby cities Salt Lake City Sacramento and Los Angeles receive the same messages and dispatch patrols to wrong locations, wasting time and effort.
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Denver
FCC
Salt Lake City
Sacramento
Los Angeles
Motorists Stranded In Florida
Thousands of northern tourists who drove to Florida for winter now face gas shortages on the way home. Rationing boards in resort areas deny gasoline for return trips, with hundreds of applications rejected daily. In Miami visitors ship cars by rail. St. Petersburg with 27 000 visitors appeals to Washington for supplemental rations as district OPA enforces policy against granting extra gasoline for winter travel.
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Jacksonville
Pla
Florida
Miami
St. Petersburg
OPA
Washington
Winds Clear After Damp February In City Weather
Early morning high winds cleared the city with milder readings after yesterday's intermittent rain and dense fog. February total rainfall reached 1.80 inches, 1.62 inches below normal with a week left, while Fishing Creek reservoir remained full though inflow lagged. Temperatures fell to 32 in the morning and the weather bureau forecast colder air tonight as winter nears its end.
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Fishing Creek
Weather Bureau
W. O
Three Paratrooper Quadruplets Die in Hospital
In Decatur Alabama two more of the quadruplets born to a paratrooper's young wife died at Benevolent Hospital. Edmund Hutto Jr. died last night, Sherianne and Yvonne died this morning, Diane, born yesterday, still clings to life fed by an IV. Mrs Hutto, 23, is in satisfactory condition. The husband, a former farm worker now a paratrooper at Ft. Benning, was dazed by the news. The Huttos live at Hillsporo Alabama.
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Decatur
Ala
Benevolent Hospital
Edmund Hutto, Jr
Sherianne
Yvonne
Diane
Ft. Benning
Hillsporo
USO Dance Planned for Uniformed Men and Women
The Francis Scott Key USO will host a Saturday night dance in the pail room with Clifford M. Yinger as chairman. Service personnel from Camp Detrick Camp Ritchie Mt St Marys College and the Salvage Depot plus USO hostesses are invited. Joe Stephens and his orchestra perform with intermission entertainment and refreshments.
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USO
Francis Scott Key Eytel
Clifford M. Yinger
Camp Detrick
Camp Ritchie
Mt. St. Mary's College
Joe Stephens
USO Club
Court Street
Meter receipts rise in Frederick for January totals
Frederick city parking meter receipts for four weeks in January totalled 1 138 99 dollars, per Collector Elgin Hemp. The sum shows a roughly 100 dollar increase from January 1943 and remains well below most months of the prior year.
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Frederick City
Elgin Hemp
Stalin warns Nazis doomed to fail in split Allied effort
London dispatch quotes Premier Stalin in a special order of the day marking the Red Army's 26th anniversary. He praises Soviet gains, says Hitlerite Germany moves toward catastrophe as Allied forces unite, urges vigilance, and condemns German attempts to sow discord and seek separate peace.
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Stalin
London
Red Army
Germany
Russia
Soviet
Europe
Moscow Radio
Soviet Monitor
U. S. Still Hopeful Finland Will Quit War
Acting Secretary of State Stettinius said the United States continues to hope Finland will withdraw from the war. Reports said Juhk Paasikivi returned to Helsinki from Stockholm with no sign of progress toward a separate peace. Paasikivi, who helped secure the 1939 40 Finnish peace, left Stockholm by plane with his wife.
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U. S
Finland
Washington
Steltinius
United States
Juhn H. Paasikivi
Helsinki
Stockholm
Juhu K.paasikivi
Moscow
Helisinki
Paasikivi
Lynch Lodge Marks Washington Birthday Celebration
Lynch Lodge No. 163 A F and A M holds its Washington's Birthday meeting at the Masonic Temple Thursday night. Speaker is Charles H. Reigner Past Master Concordia Lodge 13 Baltimore and president of H M Rowe Co book publishers. Music by Joseph Stephens H David Hagan Sperry Storm. Light supper on fourth floor afterward. James H. Falk chairs committee. E Bryan Rice is Worshipful Master.
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Lyrfth Lodge No. 163
A.F
A. Masons
Washington
James H. Falk
E. Bryan Rice
Lynch Lodge
German fighter pilot learns history over Washington's Birthday
Allied Headquarters in Algiers reports a German fighter pilot received a brief history lesson after attacking a Liberator bomber on Washington's Birthday. The tail gunner, Lincoln Abraham of Hedron Neb et, survived the encounter, making the small civics lesson notable in wartime narrative.
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Allied
Algiers
Washington
Lincoln Abraham
Hedron
Nebet
Linganore Water Plant Bid Plans Near March 1
City engineers expect bids for Linganore filtration plant improvements by March 1. Add two million gallon per day filter units and double coagulation basin capacity. taste odor equipment to be installed. Project cost about 60000 dollars. War Production Board and State Health approve. aim to reduce future water bans and secure auxiliary supply from Singapore.
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Lingaanore
Frank W. Rothenhoefer
Rothenhoefer
War Production Board
State Department of Health
Singapore
Fishing Creek
Dreuth
Singanore
Ash Wednesday Opens Lent Observances Across Frederick
The text notes Lent begins today marking 40 days of penitence leading to Easter on April 9. Ash Wednesday services vary by church in Frederick from early morning to evening, with lengthening days and rising spring skies accompanying the season.
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Frederick
Trial of Lonergan Postponed as Lawyer Absent
Opening of Wayne Lonergan’s trial for the bludgeon death of his heiress wife Patricia was adjourned when counsel failed to appear. An assistant defense lawyer said he was in Toronto completing an unfinished investigation. Judge Freschi said the conduct could be contempt of court and would be addressed at the trial’s end.
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Lonergan
New York
Wayne Lonegran
Patricia
Edward V. Broderick
Toronto
Ont
General Sessions
John J. Freschi
Dover Strait artillery exchange shocks UK coast
London Feb 23 British and German coastal guns traded salvos across the Dover Strait in a heavy barrage. Coastal observers said British batteries fired for about 30 minutes in a bid to disrupt an enemy convoy attempting to slip toward the French coast between Boulogne and Calais.
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London
Dover Strait
Boulogne
Calais
Eighth Air Force Reports Bomber Losses At 31 Percent
Loses to 31 percent since August 1942 marking first official figure in American air war against Germany.
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Lonaca
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Parry Island Japs Brace for Death as Marines Close In
Aboard Eniwetok Flagship Feb 22 APTide of battle turns on Parry Island as American forces push ashore to eradicate the surviving Japanese garrison. Rear Admiral Hill calls February the blackest month for Japan, with 800 miles closer to Tokyo in three weeks. At Eniwetok, 150 dead and 350 wounded reported. Parry Japs endure shelling and watch the invasion from a doomed island.
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Howard Handleman
Combined
Allied Press
Associated Press
Eniwetok Ato
Japan
Eniwetok Island
Parry Island
Parry
Eniwetok
Death House
South Sea
Pacific
Harry W. Hill
Oakland
Calif
Washington, D. C
Tokyo
Eniwetok Atoll
Seventh Army
Navy
Rol Island
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshalls
22Nd Division
106Th Army Infantry
Admiral Hill
Thomas E. Watson
Oscaloosata
Allies Gain On Burma Front
Allied troops in Burma’s Arakan front wrested the initiative from Japanese forces, with sustained British and West African assaults over recent days driving enemies from strong points. Mopping-up continued as remnants attempting eastward withdrawal faced heavy artillery and infantry fire, with Ngakyedsuk Pass in the Maya hills nearly cleared and relief of the Seventh Indian division completed.
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New Delhi
Arakan
Burma
Southeast Asia
Ngakyedsuk Pass
Maya Hills
War Bond Sales Here Increase in Frederick Area
Frederick city and county war bond totals rose by about 100000, reaching 2205035.75 from 2136254.50 as of last Friday. County campaign chairman W Clinton McSherry said recent returns push the drive beyond the prewar quota of 1900000, with all E F and G bonds counting toward the final tally.
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Frederick
W. Clinton McSherry
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Treasury
Bomb fragments in Sweden show Russian markings after attack
Stockholm reports Russian lettering found on bomb fragments at Straeagnacs 40 miles west after foreign planes dropped explosives on the city and on Turku Finland. Signal lights suggested attempted emergency landings. Several bombs hit a summer open air theater. no casualties but many windows shattered.
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Stockholm
Swedish Telegraph Agency
Straeagnacs
Turku
Finland
Brief Grand Jury Session Ends Today in Circuit Court
The February grand jury will end one of the briefest sessions this afternoon when it reports to the Circuit Court. Indictments will be returned then. State's Attorney William M. Storm said witnesses were heard Monday and Tuesday, with 23 on Monday and 40 on Tuesday.
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William M. Storm
Montevue and
Local Case Removed To Washington County
An order signed by Associate Judge Patrick M Schnauffer filed in Circuit Court removes the appeal of William H Freed of this city against Standard Overall Company to Washington County Circuit Court for trial. The appeal from the State Industrial Accident Commission concerns a denied compensation claim for an injury alleged while a Maryland penitentiary prisoner on August 1 1934 during employment with the Overall Company. Freed through attorney B B Rosenstock seeks a fair trial elsewhere. W C McSherry represents the appellee.
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Patrick M. Schnauffer
William H. Freed
Standard Overall Company
Washington County
State Industrial Accident Commission
Fierd
Maryland
Overall Company
B. B. Rosenstock
Freed
W. C. McSherry
The
Appellee
Three Nazi Ships Left In Flames After Attack
Cairo Fel 23 VP-RAF Beau fighters and U S Mitchells attacked a German convoy off Crete yesterday. Two destroyers and a 5,000 ton merchant ship were left in flames after torpedo hits amidships. Three Nazi planes were shot down in the action, according to a Middle East air communiqué.
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Cairo
Fel
Crete
Middle East
Lonaconing Principal A F Smith Improves After Stroke
Arthur F Smith principal of Central High School Lonaconing for 44 years shows improvement after a paralytic stroke Monday night. A Frostburg native, he taught in Allegany county for 60 years including Frostburg and Cumberland before becoming Lonaconing principal and will be 70 next July 4.
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A. F. Smite III
Lonacotting
Arthur F. Smith
Central High School
Smith
Allegany County
Frostburg
Cumberland
Lonaconing
Localized Nazi Attacks Beaten Off By Americans Near Anzio
Allied headquarters in Naples report two German attacks west of Cisterna repulsed as Kesselring redeployed forces. German artillery and air raids targeted Anzio and beachhead areas, while Allies conducted 1,600 air sorties and heavy artillery fire. Casualties were high for the German side, with reports of 500 dead from one American battalion near Carveceto.
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Naples
Cisterna
Albert Kesselring
Anzio
Cassino
Fifth Army
Carroceto
Kesselring
Carveceto
114Th Jaeger (Rifle
Ten Killed in London Raid Raises Alarm Across City
London reports indicate a heavy German air assault last night with high explosives and incendiaries across eastern and southern districts. At least ten people were killed and several areas damaged including a famous school building. ten enemy planes were shot down, one by a Canadian airman over France.
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London
France
Britain
Churchill Salutes Red Army Anniversary
London reports Prime Minister Churchill sent a message to Premier Stalin and all ranks of the Red Army on the Army's 26th anniversary. He expressed profound admiration for their glorious record and said they will go forward to victory and to peace with honor under capable commanders.
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London
Churchill
Stalin
Red Army
Russia
Mackenzie Brothers Take 15 Day Furloughs
Staff Sgt Mackenzie and Pfc Linwood Mackenzie, sons of Mr and Mrs Johan G Mackenzie, are on 15 day furloughs from military posts in Florida and Utah. Staff Sgt arrived Saturday morning and his brother arrived Tuesday, with ties to 503rd Training Group and 4th Ferrying Group. Rocky Springs is their hometown.
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Markwood G. Mackenzie
AAB
36Th St
Miami
Fla
Linwood H. Mackenzie
AAF
O.R.D. No. 2
Camp Kearns
Utah
Johan G. Mackenzie
Rocky Springs
Mackenzie
Hare
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