All American Patronage Up To Expectation At Frederick
Frederick air service by All American Airways shows outgoing mail higher than incoming during the first full week, with 17 passengers and 17 incoming air express parcels. About 162 pounds of inbound air mail contrasted with 35 pounds received locally. the DC-3 operations began March 7 at Frederick municipal airport on the Pittsburgh Baltimore Washington route. Local officials say public education and interest at the airport will boost business, aided by managers Ralph LeComte and William Willard, with airport supervisor Charles N Grimes on site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
AW American Airways, Inc
All American
Frederick Municipal
Air Express
Joseph Friday
Ralph LeComte
William Willard
Charles N. Grimes
D A R Officers Club Elects New President in Baltimore
Mrs Loyal R Alden of Pikesville was elected president of the officers club of the Maryland State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Carroll successors, Miss Raid Belt of Chevy Chase as vice president and other officers named. About 50 attended the dinner meeting as the latter club, comprising former state society officers, opened a convention here tomorrow.
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Baltimore
Loyal R. Alden
Pakesville
Officers’ Club
Maryland State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
George ¢ Vietheer
Aleuxandria
Raid Belt
Chevy Chaise
William E. Miller
Frank Edmondson
One-Man Rule For Md mental hospitals
Governor Lane backs centralized control of Maryland mental hospitals proposing a single commissioner of mental hygiene to run all five institutions. He outlines a $30 million two year program funded by surplus and bonds, plus major salary raises and planned building expansions at Spring Grove and University Hospital.
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Annapolis
Lane
General Assembly
Maryland
Board of Mental Hygiene
Assembly
House
Senate
U. S. Public Aid Service
Legislative Committee
Spring Grove
Tuberculosis Sanatoria
Treasury
University Hospital
Baltimore
Council of ‘ Psychiatric’ Societies of
M. Tand
Hospital planning reshapes state care and costs
Governor cites need to crystallize ideas on hospital capacity and function as five institutions face new space standards. Cost ranges in year one from 1.12 million at Eastern Shore to 6.13 million at Springfield. Lane outlines space needs, staffing, and a board system to oversee administration and professional training.
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Eastern Shore State Hospital
Springfield
Lane
Worden and
Risberg
Philadelphia
Legislative Committee
Board of Visitors
Coal Output Greatly Cut in National Miner Shutdown
Pittsburgh spring 1917 reports a sweeping two week coal strike led by UMW President John L. Lewis. About 471,000 miners stayed home, 62,000 railroad workers idle, and Western exemptions limited. Protests targeted Dr James Boyd nomination as U S Bureau of Mines director while Virginia Railway announces furloughs.
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Pittsburgh
UMW
John L. Lewis
Mississippi
Lewis
James Boyd
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Senate Interior Committee
Finois
Progressive Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
West Vic Hinks
Western Pennsylvania
Eoal
Virginian Railway
Furloughs Announced Amid Coal Mine Shutdowns
The notice says 2,000 of 3,800 employees would be idle later this week. National unemployment rose with hard coal miners and railroad workers among about 3,742,000 jobless from all causes. Government data showed 3,200,000 jobless before the shutdowns as coal production nearly halted and rationing plans were announced.
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United
Pennsylvania Railroad Faces Bleak 1949 Outlook
Philadelphia March 14 The Pennsylvania Railroad reports its 1948 peacetime operating revenue was record high yet income lagged costs. President Martin W. Clement notes material costs up 105 percent since 1939 and only 53 percent total rate increase this year. He warns further rate hikes are necessary as costs mount.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Martin W. Clement
Clement
Ashton Ready For Washington Trial
Ashton Lyman Ramsdell of Youngstown face federal charges for the West Virginia train robbery near Martinsburg. Ashton requested a Washington trial at arraignment before Judge Richmond Keech while Ramsdell was shot by police and hospitalized after capture.
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Washington
George L. Ashton
West Virginia
Richmond Reech
Ashton
Keech
Lyman Ramsdell
Youngstown
Baltimore and Ohio
Martinsburg
Ramsdell
U. S
George Morris Fay
Federal plea option discussed for Ashton case
The report notes Ashton may plead guilty under federal rule. Washington and West Virginia authorities could approve such a plea. In Cumberland at city hall on March 14 1944 hourly municipal workers began a 40 hour week, down from 45, with pay unchanged through union negotiations with the mayor and council.
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Ashton
Washington
West Virginia
Cumberland
AFL Municipal
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Sporting News
Blue Ridge
TOLFE
Eetnlek
Flautt’s “Realtors
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Mayere and Letters of Real
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Kear C. J. Carty's
E. Pat. St
West End Motors
W. Patrick Street
Peter Shank
Plymouth
Weil
Brothers Your Direct
DeSoto
North Market St
Pape
R. R
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West Patrick ST
E. Cline & Son Fusserbal Home
E. Patrick Street
Comaker
General Acceptance Corp
Corner Market & Third Streets
Mars Opticians
Market Street
Delphey’s Sport Store
Lydia EB
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Allen’s Market & Second Sts
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Arad
Beth Fad
Clark Gable
Charles Bici
MGM
Walter Sam” van Brian
Dgeon-Johnson-Donlevy Ford
John Hodiak
Edward Arnold Anid Telrlidy
Dullee Ele
Luscious
Dorothy Gray
North Market Si
Fredericktown
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Columbia Pictures Presents
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Terry Moore
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May Whitty
Henry O'Neill
Warner
Bob
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