Bitter Cold And Snow Grip The East
Bitter cold and heavy snow sweep the eastern states with sub zero chills across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Temperatures dip to 43 below in Ladysmith and 36 below in Bemidji while Chicago records 9 below and Memphis hits 9 above as snow falls in Kentucky and Tennessee and freezing rain disrupts Louisiana and Texas. A wide ice belt extends from the Dakotas to northern Missouri and Illinois with rising readings on the Pacific coast and in Florida, while northern cities endure record lows from the cold snap.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Dakotas
Bissouri
Ilinois
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
New York State
Ladysmith
Wis
Bemidji
Minn
Pembina
N. C
Grand Forks
Land O'Lakes
Chicago
Mercury
Memphis
Tenn
Nashville
Shreveport
Louisville
Cincinnati
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
Miami
Fie
International Falls
62 Apartment Unit Discussed for Frederick High area
A 52 unit apartment project is considered for land immediately west of Frederick High School. Asa P. Watkins, a milling builder and head of the purchasing corporation, met with Courty Commissioners to discuss prospective assessments. The development remains in formative stages with no definite decisions. No building permit has been issued yet and some plans have been reviewed. Reports say a section along Carroll Creek may become an extension of the city park system, west of Culler Lake, a flood area in 1940. Officials stress final action will respect the nearby high quality residential area.
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Frederick High School
Asa P. Watkins
Miliry
Watkins
Carroll Creek
Culler Lake
War Plant Work Ended Divorce Case In Equity Court
Thomas E Wagaman of Sabilasville says his wife Beatrice M Wagaman changed after working in a war plant and sought divorce. A decree granting abso lution was signed by Associate Judge Patrik Schnauffer in Equity Court Friday. He must pay costs. The couple married in 1937 and she left February 5 after complaints during wartime employment. Sam M Storm was Wagaman’s attorney.
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Thomas E. Wagaman
I Sabilasville
Beatrice Magaman
Blue Ridge Summit
Patrik M. Schnauffer
iEquity Court
Wagaman
Sam M. Storm
Fea Sherman P. Bowers
Flooded Culler Lake Ends Skating Hope Abruptly
The icy surface at Culler Lake flooded by the United Fire Company left behind a slushy unsafe sheet, ending skating for the weekend as heaped snowfall loomed. Weather forecasts warned of three to six inches of snow and severe cold with high winds, while Cumberland and Hagerstown saw snow and colder readings.
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Culler Lake
Weather Bureau
United Fire Company
Nine Frederick men take exams for local health work
Nine Frederick county men sat a written examination at the Health Department to qualify as sanitary inspector. The chosen candidate, likely next week, will head restaurant sanitation, inspect food service sites, assist in milk work, and study methods in Hagerstown and Cumberland. Starting salary 2200 with 5 percent annual raises to 2750.
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Frederick County
Health Department
Donald J. Roop
United States Public Health Service
Hagerstown
Cumberland
Walter Comer
County Sanitarian
Public Health Service
Roop
Reop
Daniels Rites Are Held Today
Raleigh service for Josephus Daniels elder statesman and editor publisher of the News and Observer follows his Thursday death. Attendees include Mrs Woodrow Wilson and Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt and former officials like Joseph Grew. Bishop W W Peele conducts at Edenton Street Methodist Church as flags fly at half mast.
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Raleigh
N. C
Josephus Daniels
Haleidh News and Observer
News and Observer
North Carolina
R. Gregg Cherry
Daniels
Frederick banks show loan and deposit gains in 1947 data
Loans and discounts across Frederick's five banks rose to 8.29 million at year end 1947 with a six month gain of 907,892. Surplus and undivided profits climbed by 49,273 while total deposits reached 37.47 million, up 1.28 million in six months. Total resources stood at 41.13 million, up from mid 1947 but below January 1946.
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Frederick City
No Referendum on Maryland Sales Tax
Annapolis January 17 Judge William J McWilliams refused to order a referendum on Maryland's retail sales tax The judge said the Legislature and the Governor have established a fiscal polity for any biennium and it should be impregnable to the attack The Anne Arundel County Court opinion upheld a demurrer by Attorney General Hall Hammond to the petition for a people's vote filed by four taxpayers last fall
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Annapolis
William J. McWilliams
Truman orders fuel cuts in federal buildings and cars
President Truman orders fuel oil and gasoline conservation nationwide. Government buildings must not heat above 68 during work hours and 60 after hours, with strict limits on vehicle speeds and fuel use. The move targets efficiency, insulation, and careful energy management across agencies.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Bureau of Mines
Training meeting for county Homemakers' Clubs leaders
A Thursday afternoon session in the Extension Service rooms drew 75 club women for a cultural leadership training. The Frederick County Council of Homemakers Clubs split into music art and reading groups led by Isaac Nicodemus Mrs Lee Gordon and Mrs Palmer Snook with talks by Miss Miriam Leiter and Miss Lou Davis.
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Old Church Street
Frederick County
Palmer Snook
Charles Flook
Schwartz
Widening work on new Route 40 bids sought
Baltimore January 17 The State Roads Commission asked sealed bids by February 3 for multiple projects in Washington County widening 2.97 miles of Hagerstown Myersville Frederick relocation of U S 40 from Antietam Creek to Landis Branch and in Montgomery County widening 24 miles of East West Highway Route 410 from Georgia Avenue to Wisconsin Avenue.
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Washington County
Hagerstorm-Myersville-Frederick
Antietam Creek
Landis Branch
Montgomery County
Georgia Avenue
Wisconsin Avenue
Queen Mary Delayed 37 Hours by North Atlantic Storm
Queen Mary reached New York late after a 37 hour delay caused by a fierce North Atlantic storm described as among the dirtiest by its skipper. Commodore Cyril G. Ahingworth reported colossal seas from 40 to 30 feet high. most passengers, including Lady Astor bound for Arizona, remained unaware of the severity. About a dozen of 250 passengers aboard the Marine Perch sustained injuries. The liner America also docked 14 hours late.
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New York
Cyril G. Ahingworth
Lady Astor
Arizona
Marine Perch
Italy
America
Ruhr Area Strikes End as 50,000 Return to Jobs
All workers in Duisberg Muhlheim and Dislaken are back at work after a wave of Ruhr strikes over food shortages. Trade union officials report relief from tensions due to supplies from other U S regions and British zones. A total of 160,000 workers have been involved in strikes in the past week. Ruhr union officers will reconvene on January 23 to assess aid delivery and hunger relief progress.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Jan.uy
Ruhr
United States
Duisberg
Muhlheim
Miners May Quit in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Eniontown Pa January 17 United Mine Workers leader William J. Hines warned a general stoppage by about 15000 miners in southwestern Pennsylvania if timber supplies do not resume.
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Eniontown
Pennsylvania
William J. Hines
District Four
United Mine Workers of America
Two Rockville Firemen Hurt in Icy Crash
Norman C. Anders and Arthur Fiewings, Rockville volunteers, were injured when their 1946 Ford skidded on an icy curve near Washington Grove and hit a tree. A state trooper alerted Gaithersburg rescue units around 12:30 AM. Capt Reynolds Younkins and Lieut Forie Sandison pried open the car door and provided aid before transporting the men to Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, with possible fractured hip for Anders and skull fractures and head lacerations for Flemings.
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Norman C. Anders
Arthur Fiewings
Rockville
Washington Grove
Anders
Gaithersburg Fire Company
Reynolds Younkins
Forie Sandison
Gaithersburg Company
Bethesda
Flemings
Deeds Recorded for Multiple Property Sales
deeds were recorded in the clerk's office for several property transfers. W S Baker and W W Baker sold a 129 acre farm in Liberty district to F H Moxies. E F Hargett sold a residence in Hargett Addition on Willow avenue to J D Alew. A Holter trustee and others sold 173 acre farm in Petersville district to Marshall W. Crouse. Gilmore R Fiautt sold a building lot on Fairview avenue to Paul M Hannack.
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W. Snader Baker
Wilbur W. Baker
Fred H. Moxies
Liverty
Earl F. Hargett
Jack D. Alew
Hargett Addition
Willow Avenue
Fred
Iik
Asios A. Holter
Othie
Marshall W. Crouse
Lacres
Petersville
Barton V. B. Garrett
Gilmore R. Fiauttre
Paul M 'Annack
Cambridge mayoral ballot reaches 388th vote without choice
Cambridge Massachusetts report shows the city council failing to elect a mayor from nine candidates after 388 ballots. The council will resume voting on Monday. Also noted is Leonard F. Grazier of Berlin named Maryland state chairman of the MacArthur for President Clubs.
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Cambridge
Mass
Bertin
Leonard F.grazier
Berlin
Maryland Jstate
MacArthur
Miss Doris Keplinger Studies Home Demonstration Works
Miss Doris P. Keplinger appointed assistant home demonstration agent for Harford county spends weeks in Frederick studying home demonstration procedure. Frederick county hosts training for new assistants from other counties under University of Maryland Extension Service with instruction by Miss Lou Davis and Miss Miriam Leiter.
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Doris P. Keplinger
Harford County
Frederick
Frederick County
University of Maryland Extension Service
Keplinger
Lou Davis
Miriam Leiter
Hummingbird Streamliner Derailed near Gulfport
Five cars of Louisville and Nashville Railroad Hummingbird derailed about five miles west of Gulfport Mississippi while en route from Cincinnati to New Orleans. Passengers remained in coaches awaiting buses. one club car porter injured. Cause a broken rail. second derailment in three days after Wales Tennessee incident.
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Gulfport
Miss
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Wales
Tenn
A. J. Lovell
White Castle
Western Republicans Seek More Rooms and Seats
Philadelphia January 17 Republican National Committee officials faced a shortage as western delegates demanded more hotel rooms and voting tickets. Chairman Walter Hallanan said the system discounts tickets and rooms for long-distance delegations, with excess seats scarce for the convention in June. The 14,300-seat Convention Hall may be insufficient for all requests as tensions rise over allocations.
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Philadelphia
Republican National Committee
Walter S. Hallanan
West Virginia
Mississippi
Hallanan
National Committee
West Coast
Corvention Hall
Biting Cold To Follow Four Inch Snow
Baltimore January 17 Weather Bureau predicts four inches of snow for most of Maryland Saturday night and Sunday morning. Light fall to start then moderate to heavy snow across western counties Garrett Allegany Washington and Frederick. Temperatures forecast 3 to 10 degrees above zero in far west, mid teens in central counties, mid twenties to thirties on the Eastern Shore. Snow should end by Sunday afternoon with clearing skies and colder temperatures.
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Cumberland
Hagerstown
Weather Bureau
Frederick
Chicago
Memphis
Tenn
Baltimore
Maryland
Garrett
Alliegant
Washinon
Atlantic Sea i Board
Garrett County
Allegany
Washington
Shanghai protest: mob threatens British consulate
A crowd of about 10,000 Chinese demonstrators gathered near the British consulate in Shanghai after a Canton fire incident. Police dispersed the group with clubs, preventing entry to the fenced compound. Posters denounced Britain, the United States, and the Chinese government as evacuees left Kowloon.
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Shanghai
Canton
Kowloon
Hongkong
Tax Bills Are Choice Of Evils
Washington reports Rep. Doughton warns Congress will veto the Knutson plan to cut income taxes by 5.6 billion annually while supporting some relief. He says there should be a modest cut but not as large. Treasury says the GOP proposal would shrink revenues by about 6.3 billion. Doughton notes many federal employees and high spending, and his vote could influence Democratic support to override a veto as the Ways and Means Committee opens the election year tax battle.
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Washington
Doughton
D-Nc
Congress
Knutson
Truman
Senate
House
Caughton
Rep
R-Minn
Treasury
GOP
Dougnion
Indonesians Sign Truce With Dutch A Java Armistice
Java January 17 both the Dutch and the Indonesian republic signed a truce aboard the US Navy transport Renville near Batavia ending weeks of UN mediated talks. The pact calls for an immediate cease fire a demilitarized zone along the Van Mook line and joint police management with UN advisers to monitor compliance and potential violations. Trade between areas would resume with limited restrictions and prisoners on both sides to be released.
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Batavie
Java
Sumatra
Madoera
United States Navy
Renville
Batavia
Good Offices
United Nations Security Council
Dutch East Indies
The
Indies
Padang
Security Council
U. N. Committee
Netherlands
Demilitarized Zone
Republic
Pauley Named on New List of Traders in Oils and Wool Tops
Washington January 17 The agriculture secretary released a list of big traders in cottonseed oil and wool tops for the 23 months ending November 30 1947. Edwin W Pauley an army secretary aide and possible resignation was noted as a public official with a long position of 300000 pounds in cottonseed oil in Sept and Oct 1947. The only big wool tops trader was Zissis Brothers Detroit. Most traders were processing and food concerns.
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Washington
Anderson
Edwin W. Pauley
Army
Pauley
Iet
Zissis Brothers
Detroit
Thurmont Liquor ture Inc files articles of incorporation
Articles filed with the State Tax Commission for Thurmont Liquor ture Inc. in Thurmont. Capital stock set at 50 shares of common par value 100 dollars. Incorporators listed as Jules Shapiro Thurmont David Shapiro Frederick and Michael Shapiro Washington. Articles also show increase of capital stock from 50 to 140 shares of common par value.
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Thurmont Liquor Ture, Inc
Thurmont
Jules Shapiro
David Shapiro
Frederick
Michael Shapiro
Washington
Frederick Professional Building, Inc
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