Injuries By Hit And Run Driver Fatal To Countian
John F. Thompson died at Frederick City Hospital after a hit and run near Worman's Mill. He had head injuries and a fractured left leg from the January crash. The investigation continues. Thompson was 69, active Republican, survived by wife and three daughters. Funeral arrangements set at 2 PM at 8 East Patrick Street with Mt. Olivet cemetery interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Thompson
Frederick City
Thompson
New Jersey
Ceresville
Worman’s Mill
Houck
Jace Wimmer Thompson
Letitia
Elizabeth
Eleanor Thompson
Parker Fenimore
Delaware
East Patrick Street
Mt. Olivet
C. E. Cline and Son
Railroads Lose Case In Court
The Supreme Court ruled that a railroad cannot obtain a restraining order against striking workers unless it has made every reasonable effort to settle the labor dispute. Justice Rutledge delivered the unanimous opinion setting aside a federal district court in junction restraining striking conductors, engineers and firemen from violence against the Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad after a dispute over working conditions and alleged featherbedding rules.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Rutledge
Toledo, Peoria & Western
City Felled By One Blow By Earthquake
Buenos Aires reports San Juan destroyed by a sudden quake that killed thousands. Moises Rudman, a survivor, said the temblor struck in an instant plunging the city of 30 000 into darkness. Troops and rescuers pull bodies as Argentina mobilizes aid for the disaster’s victims. Official totals recover 500. estimates place deaths between 1400 and 1600.
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Buenos Aires
PIA
San Juan
Moises Rudman
Mendoza
Argentina
Coal Movement Here Reported Satisfactory
The movement of coal to major local dealers has been satisfactory this winter. Shipments have come through on an even keel, with only slight tightening today. No excessive amounts were received, but enough coal has arrived to meet needs.
Record Cold With City Crossing Zero At Frederick
An official minimum of two degrees below zero was recorded at the Frederick weather station, the coldest reading here since a mid December 1942 cold wave. Readings varied at nearby stations as Unionville reported six above and the Frederick CA A station 12 above. The bitter air eased into the day with clouds, while roads remained slick and cinders and salt were used to melt ice. Skating was observed on Culler Lake despite the snow cover.
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Frederick
Unionville
CAA
State Roads Commission
Baltimore
Culler Lake
Frederick Coldest Spot In State Last Night
Maryland roads were 60 to 75 percent covered by ice and packed snow after a weekend snowstorm. State crews of 400 men and 175 trucks applied cinders to icy intersections and hills while 265 snowplows operated Saturday night and Sunday. Frederick logged two below zero, the coldest since 1942, as Cumberland reported six inches of snow and temperatures down to 24 degrees.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Roads Commission
Weather Bureau
Frederick
Cumberland
Salisbury
19 Fail To Pass Physical Examination In Baltimore
Unofficial reports from the first pre induction selective service examinations held in Baltimore indicate around 19 of about 45 city and county men failed to pass. No official results or calls for those who passed had been received. Draft Boards said there had been no further calls and civilian life 21 days await mailed notices confirming status.
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Baltimore
Board One
Hungary Says Sofia Is Still Government Seat
New York dispatch reports the Hungarian radio confirming Sofia remains the Bulgarian government's seat. A German broadcast denies rumors of government moves to other towns and rejects claims of evacuation orders after Allied air raids.
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Hungary
Sofia
New York
Frederick City Hospital Receives U S Cadet Nurse Corps Approval
Frederick City Hospital School of Nursing is approved for the U S Cadet Nurse Corps. Miss Davena Somerville announces benefits for cadets including tuition, uniforms, room and board, and monthly stipends ranging from 15 to 30 dollars as pre junior and senior cadets. Applicants aged 17 to 35 with top third high school grades may enroll, with a personal interview required. Applications directed to the School of Nursing director or by phone.
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Frederick City Hospital
Thomas Parran
U. S. Public Health Service
School For Nursing
U. S. Cadet Nurses Corps
Cadet Corps
School of Nursing
U. S
Cadet Nurse Corps
Bombers May Hit From East
A Vichy radio report claims a new Russian based strategic bombing force includes British and American heavy bombers joining Soviet aircraft to strike eastern Germany. No Allied confirmation yet. Stockholm dispatch says Brunswick was heavily bombed killing about 12,000 and leaving 30,000 homeless.
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London
Vichy Radio
Russia
Daily Express
Bomber Command
Stockholm
Brunswick
Grafton Lee Brown Named Liaison Officer
Baltimore January 17 War Manpower Commission state director Lawrence B. Fenneman announced the appointment of Grafton Lee Brown as liaison officer between the commission and veterans organizations. Brown will lead an expanded United States Employment Service program for veterans and the physically handicapped with A Vernon Collison assisting.
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Baltimore
Lawrence B. Fenneman
War Manpower Commission
Grafton Lee Brown
WMC
Commission
Veterans
Brown
United States Employment Service
A. Vernon Collison
Veterans Employment
USES
Fenneman
Washington
Report Nazis And British Discussed Peace Terms
Lord Halifax denied Pravda’s Cairo dispatch claiming two English officials met Von Ribbentrop to seek a separate peace with Germany. Hull said he had no information supporting the report as British, American, and Russian leaders reiterated no separate peace without Allied consent.
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Washington
Lord Halifax
Pravda
Communist Party
Moscow
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Halifax
Cordell Hull
Cairo
Germany
Pyrenees
Spain
Prtugal
Pyrennees
von Ribbentrop
Tass
Iberian Peninsula
London
Two Treated After Frederick Auto Crash on Death Curve
Two former Frederick residents Mrs Ella Lee Cockrell and Mrs Margaret L Miller of Hagerstown are hospitalized in Washington County for injuries from a January 2 auto wreck on Death Curve near Funkstown. Cockrell suffers a broken pelvis and collar bone with bruises. Miller has a broken pelvis. Miller’s husband Austin Miller had minor injuries. Pvt Edward W Cockrell on ten day furlough from Miami Beach to visit his wife. he returned to base last Thursday. The group was returning to Hagerstown from Frederick when a light snow caused the car to skid, spin, and strike a culvert. no other cars were involved. Both women are reported to be progressing as well as can be expected.
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Frederick
Ella Lee Cockrell
Margaret L. Miller
Hagerstown
Washington County Hospital
Funkstown
Cockrell
Norman Grabill
Edward W. Cockrell
Army Air Force
Miami Beach
Fila
Pvt
James W. Fletcher
Miller
New Soviet Drive Advances Toward Latvian Border
A major Soviet offensive pushed toward the Latvian border near Nevel and advanced in White Russia and Poland. Moscow claimed 100,000 German deaths and 7,000 captured in three weeks while forces crossed the Ippa river and neared Pinsk. Berlin warned of large scale battles as Red Army units probed toward Warsaw Odessa rail links.
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London
Raew
Old Poland
Red Army
Bis
Rovno
Nevel
Novosokolniki
Lake Hmen
Moscow
Nikolai Z. Vatulin
Ukraine
White Russia
Ippa
Novoselki
Kalinkovichi
Pripet Marshes
Pinsk
Pripet
Vinnitsa
Uman
Stockholm
Berlin
Bug River
Warsaw-Odessa
Dnieper
Baltic States
Government keeps mines after seizure under ongoing work stoppage risk
Secretary Ickes said the Justice Department rules federal possession of seized coal mines may continue even if production has not fully recovered. The Smith Connally act requires restoration within sixty days, but Attorney General Biddle contends productive efficiency is not restored under the war labor disputes act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
Justice Department
Biddle
Americans Die in England Train Wreck Near London
London January 17 A toll of nine dead and 30 injured was counted in a collision of two London bound trains at Ilford station crowded with troops on leave. Three American airmen were killed and nine other U. S. soldiers injured as the Norwich Express rear coach telescoped the Yarmouth train. Names of the Americans were not disclosed.
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London
U. S
Ilford
Yarmouth
Norwich
Washington’s fate of the foured ado program hangs in doubt
Washington sources say administration leaders plan to bring the entire forud ado controversy before the Senate. The program is marked for death within a month unless action is taken to salvage it.
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Washington
P—Administration
Fuord Subado
Senate
Advance Keeps Moving in Narrow Stock Market Thrift
Advance kept going as a control on new work and van holdings in the day’s stock market. Although readers faltered under light profit cashing, rails and specialties managed to sustain the advance.
U.S. Willing To Aid Solving Polish-Russian Border Dispute
The United States signaled willingness to help restart Russo Polish relations and restore good will after Moscow protested Poland’s stance on border talks. Hull said a dispatch to Moscow showed Washington’s intent to support negotiation. The report arrives amid Moscow’s insistence on a Curzon line framework and new Russian inquiries into Katyn related crimes.
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U.S
Washington
Russia
Poland
Hull
Moscow
Red Army
London
Curzon
Paul Joseph Gaoebbels
Katyn-Smolensk
Nikolai N. Burdenko
Peoples Commissariat of Health
Burdenko
Royal College of Surgeons
Alexei Tolstoi
Stalino
Nikolai
Goebbels
Viscount Curzon
Curzon Line
Tass
Soviet Union
Fifth Army Reaches Rapido River at Cassino Front
Allied forces under Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark push along a 30 mile front to the Rapido’s steep banks as American and French troops batter the Gustav line near Cassino. Mt Trocchio has fallen, and French units reach the upper Rapido amid Italian Apennine fighting. Luftwaffe production at Klagenfurt targeted by a large Allied air operation.
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Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
Rapido
Cassino
Rome
Hapido
U.S
Alphonse Juin
Apennines
Cardilo
Messerschmitt
Klagenfurt
Austria
Trieste
Vienna
Ira C. Eaker
Eisenhower Enjoyed Brief Family Visit in Kansas
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower paused during a busy trip for a short Kansas reunion. He arrived at Fort Riley then stayed with his brother M S Eisenhower in Manhattan. He met his mother Mrs David Eisenhower who traveled from Abilene. He left for Washington the next morning after a brief stop in the state.
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Manhattan
Kas
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kansas
Marshall Field
Fort Riley
M. S. Eisenhower
Kansas State College
David Eisenhower
Abilene
Europe
Washington
War Department
Eisenhower
Mediterranean
United Kingdom
Roosevelt
Marshall
P. L. C. Elects Directors For Coming Year
Peoples Liquidating Corporation elected eight directors Arthur C. Brown Walter E. Burall G Robert Gray C U Groassnickle J Floyd Lovell Samuel E McBride Wint on McSherry Ernest FR Shriver Claude A Wilf at the annual meeting This morning the board reelected officers with McSherry as president Shriver as vice president Burall as secretary and W Eugene Sanders as assistant secretary and treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoples Liquidating Corporation
Arthur C. Brown
Walter E. Burail
G. Robert Gray
C. Upton Groassnickle
J. Floyd Lovell
Samuel E. McBride
Winton McSherry
Ernest FR. Shriver
Claude A. Wilf
McSherry
Mr. Shriver
Italian given death for reviving Fascism in Algiers
A military tribunal in Algiers sentenced an Italian to death for attempting to revive Fascism in July and ordered a woman colleague imprisoned for one year. The verdict was announced today.
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Ahied
Algiers
Iuly
Allied forces seize two more Burmese villages
New Delhi dated January 17 reports Allied forces have occupied two additional villages in western Burma west of the Mayu range as they continue a slow jungle advance. Mountbatten’s headquarters released the update today.
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New Delhi
Burma
Mayu
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Three Found Dead In Auto In Lexington Mass
Police find three dead in a car on a remote road off the Concord pike. Victims are James Keefe 24 John Keefe 17 and Ruth Place 16 all from Waltham. Grace Saunders 18 of Cambridge survived frostbitten legs and reported riding with the group after meeting Ruth Place. Autopsies planned to determine cause of death.
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Lexington
Mass
Concord Turnpike
James Keefe
John
Ruth Place
Waltham
Grace Saunders
Cambridge
John O'Brien
Miss Saunders
Keefe Brothers
Myer Marlin
Saunders
John W. Rycroft
Roosevelt Loses Ten Pounds In Flu Attack
President Roosevelt, recuperating from the flu, has shed about ten pounds from his 185 pound normal weight. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early reports the chief executive still has bad days with fatigued periods, and the physician urges rest. The President limited to light duties while in the White House study.
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Wa Bington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
White House
Invasion Plans Advance as Eisenhower Names Bradley Leader
London reports that invasion prep in Britain is far advanced under Eisenhower who praises naval air and supply forces. Omar Bradley becomes senior American general under Eisenhower, flagged for possible role as invasion commander. Wilson outlines Mediterranean push toward the Pyrenees and Rome with De Gaulle talks.
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London
Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Henry Maitland Wilson
Mediterranean
France
Hitler
East
Omar N. Bradley
Tunisia
Eisenhower
United Kingdom
Balkans
Fyrenees Wilson
Algiers
Maritsa
Pyrenees
Charles de Gaulle
Wilson
Europe
Bradley
U. S
Bernard L. Montgomery
Scharnhorst
Bay of Biscay
England
Germany
Italy
Rome
Spain
Roosevelt
Churchill
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Mandy A. Hurley
Arnold G. Hurley
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Emmett R. Bowlus
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Rovio
U. 8
Fifth Army
Rapido River
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