State AG bans red lights on volunteer firemen cars
The Attorney General ruled that automobiles owned by volunteer firefighters cannot display flashing red lights. State Police will enforce the ruling across Frederick and nearby counties, with arrests for non compliance. Local volunteers have mostly removed red lights from their cars following the advisory.
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Attorney General’s Office
W. K. May
Frederick
Blovor
W. Lee Elgin
Frost Lingers Then Spring Expected This Weekend
Frost darkened city skies last night with a six degree drop below freezing then a milder, rainier trend forecast to begin tonight or Friday. Astronomical winter ends about noon Saturday and spring is on the way with increasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures. A county property sale deed was recorded in which Alarion A Coleman sold about 152 acres near town district to Herbert S Wilt for roughly 12500 dollars.
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EED
Alarion A. Coleman
Herbert S. Wilt
Local Maryland Forecast Reads Mostly Cloudy With Rain
Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland expect a high near 60 with increasing clouds tonight and a low from 37 to 44. Friday brings further cloudiness and mild temperatures with occasional rain. Frederick County maps show 53 to 58 for a day high and 35 to 43 at night. Washington and Allegany counties stay sunny then turn cloudy with rain Friday and lows around 24 to 40.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Eastern Shore
Frederick County
Washington
Allegany
Sight Of Work Clothes Forces Prisoners To Pay Fines
Jail road gang activity resumes as prisoners report to road work to clear brush and open drains. Declining jail population follows word of the program with several inmates paying fines to avoid further confinement. Sheriff Guy Anders notes progress while county officials say ongoing assignments will be found for the small crew.
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Runswick
Guy Anders
Mr. Philip
Roger H. Willard
Fourth Time Fine For Non Support In Court
John W. Stewart, a Brunswick railroad worker and carpenter, fined $100 and costs 90 for non support of his two children. The magistrate ordered the fine to go to his wife if paid, while Stewart must continue monthly payments of $63. Other cases included Jack W. Golden jailed 30 days for DWI with no lights. various motor vehicle fines. and an equity decree granting Britton L Wastler an absolute divorce from Carrie Wastler. One arrest noted for disturbing the peace. Bond ceiling for Series E savings bonds discussed at $7,500 yearly.
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John W. Stewart
Brunswick Railroad
Stewart
Manuel M. Weinberg
Edwin F. Walkirk
Rrs
Doris Stewart
Jack W. Golden
Washington
Golden
Richard A. Myers
Wilbur F. Sheffield
Marvin C. Hartsock
Myersville
Melvin L. Rice
West Third Street
Ralph W. Smith
Gaithersburg
Irving T. Brandenburg
Frederic
Jessie J. Johnson
Lorain
Ohio
Morse J. O'Levick
Corapo
Charles Trimmer
Woodsboro
George D. Caleras
A. A. Snyder
Everedy Company Implements Temporary 12 Percent Cut in Hours
Everedy Company has reduced work hours from 40 to 35 per week due to a drop in national commodity markets. Management keeps two shifts and spread the cut across all workers to avoid lay-offs while producers continue reconversion and introduce new items like the water baker. Storage of surplus goods has increased, some stored at the Fair Grounds.
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Everedy Company
Everedye
Everedg @rm
Insurance Case Argued To Jury
Testimony wrapped up in the Miss Mary F. Neighbours versus Mutual Life Insurance Co case in circuit court. Neighbours seeks twenty dollars monthly during presumed total and permanent disability with sixteen years of payments contested. jury seated after four plaintiff witnesses and two defense witnesses.
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Patrick M. Schnaufer
Mary F. Neighbours
Mirtual Life Insurance Company of
New York
Parsons Newman
Benjamin EB. Rostenstock
Alien Harper
Merit Shepley
Carroll E. Harp
Frank
Charles A Wilson
Mamie Imerman
Fern MM. Jenness
Ernest R. L
Samuel A. Long
Marie EH. Culler
Anna L. Dinterman
Baltimore Warehouse Fire Rages Through Canton Milling Facility
A large concrete warehouse in Baltimore was consumed by a fire starting on the upper floors and spreading downward. Howard Travers, chief engineer, said the upper three floors burned through and the blaze was under control after about two hours. Cause of the fire was not determined.
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Baltimore
Canton Milling and Feed Company
Howard Travers
Fie
Lilienthal Warns on Gestapo Methods in Science
David E. Lilienthal criticised star chamber proceedings and Gestapo methods for handling scientists saying such tactics could halt the nation's atomic energy progress. He spoke in Boston on March 18.
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Boston
David E. Lilienthal
Star Chamber
Homemakers Hold Annual Meet In Frederick County
The Frederick County Council of Homemakers Clubs held its annual session at Centennial Memorial U B Church with about 335 members present. Reports covered 1947 achievements including 103,734 quarts canned and 73,962 pounds frozen, clothing projects producing 153 coats or suits and 1,430 undergarments, and extensive home economics demonstrations and club activities across 12 communities.
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Frederick County
Luther Remsburg
J. H. Schmitt
Remsburg
Joan Summers
Braddock Club
John Engie
Jug Bridge Club
Marshall Stitely
Woodsboro Club
Home Furnishings Committee
E. Earl Remsberg
Buckeys
Towm Club
Home Management Committee
Robert Windsor
Pleasant Grove Club
Airs
Grayson Haller
Merle Soilinger
Community Life Car
Paricip. Hood
Dairy Foods
Achievement Banqnet
John L. Smith
Libertytown
T. Stuart Waller
Sam W. Angles
Ten Die In B 29 Crash At Tampa
A B 29 from Spokane base crashed during landing at MacDill Field Tampa due to dense fog. Ten men killed four injured with survivors in good condition. Plane attached to the 92nd Bomb Squadron had stopped at Maxwell Field Alabama before the Tampa flight. Crash occurred about 2 32 a m. An accident board opened investigation and names of the dead withheld pending next of kin notifications.
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Tampa
Fla
Spokane
MacDill Field
George G Byrnes
Byrnes
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Ala
92Nd
Roy M. Walsh
R. WW. Hathaway
C. C. Miller
Corp
J.M. Miller
Europe Divides Over Truman Speech Across Lines
Europe split on Truman's preparedness address with non Communist papers praising its defense of freedom while Communist outlets decried it as war panic. London welcomed the speech and led Western bloc nations toward unity under the Brussels pact, amid mixed reactions from Athens to Prague.
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London
Europe
Truman
Moscow
New York
Dewey Short
R-Mo
Henry A. Wallace
Jito Marcantonio
Leo Isaacson
Labor Party
Sen
Glen Taylor
Didado
Wallace
Berlin
Vapaa Sana
Helsinki
Finland
People’s Democratic Party
Budapest
Szabadnet
Paris
United Nations
Themistokles Sophoulis
Greece
United States
Athens
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Italy
Christian Democratic
Alcide de Gasperi
Brussels
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
U. S
Naval Air Reserve mobile fleet prep discussed in Long Beach
Admiral Richard F L Whi head of the Naval Air Reserve says the force has more than 54 carriers ready for national emergencies. The program includes 233 squadrons that could deploy on 50 to 55 carriers, with personnel drawn from a 40,000 reserve strength including 6,000 pilots.
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Long Beach
Calif
Richard FL Whihead
Naval Air Reserve
Naval Air Reserve Program
Armed Forces Seek 350000 More Ranks in Revival Push
Defense Secretary Forrestal told a Senate committee that the armed forces need about 350000 more ranks to meet a revival offer tied to universal military training. He cited current strengths near 1.39 million with authorit y limits at 1.732 million and said figures for each service would not be made public.
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Washington
Forrestal
Senate
Armed Services
Navy
Congress
Equipment Is Again Biggest Army Problem
Washington reports warn that the US Army now suffers a severe equipment shortage far more than manpower. Only about 550,000 troops remain with less than one fifth in combat readiness, while surpluses from three years ago have been dispersed and damaged readiness to respond to a rapid war would require years to rebuild.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Europe
Pacific
America
Asia
Greece
Turkey
China
Wholesale Butter Prices Climb Again In New York
The wholesale price of top grade butter rose five cents a pound for the second day. Grade AA butter reached 83 97 cents, ten cents above Tuesday. Grade A at 87 cents. Grades B and C added five and a half cents, continuing the rise.
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New York
Government orders 23 percent cut in coal burning passenger trains
The Office of Defense Transportation ordered a 23 percent reduction in coal burning passenger service effective midnight March 21 due to coal mine shutdowns. About 45 percent of the nation’s trains use coal-fired locomotives and the order bans substitutions to diesel or other power. Major lines like Baltimore to Washington and New York routes report diesel operation, with special service and circus trains also halted. Talks among officials and mine operators were described as exploratory.
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Washington
Biarech
Office of Defense Transportation
Bureau of Mines
ODT
Cyrus S. Ching
Ezra van Horn
jJohn L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ching
van Horn
Lewis
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio
Washington New York Main Line
Potomac Ferry Service Resumes Between Poolesville and Leesburg
White's Ferry resumes across the Potomac connecting Poolesville Maryland with Leesburg Virginia after ice stopped crossings last year. Edwin Brown a Rockville attorney and sponsor says service runs from six in the morning to ten at night with a 69 foot ferry and standard signaling.
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White's Ferry
Potomac Tiver
Montgomery County
Loudoun County
Edwin Brown
Rockville
Maryland
Poolesville
Virginia
Leesburg
Brown
Resignation of Frederick County Nursing Supervisor
Miss Margaret Wiles resigns after over a year and a half as Supervisor of Nursing Services with the Frederick County Health Department. She will enter graduate school in Chicago to pursue pediatrics focused nursing education, plans to return home in September, and then join the Maryland State Department of Health in Baltimore as pediatric nursing consultant. She will travel to all 23 counties in her new assignment. No replacement has been announced by Dr. Donald J. Roop.
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Frederick County
Margaret Wiles
Wiles
Jes W. Wiles
Brunswick
Graduate School of the Unity of Chicago
County Health Unit
Marryland State Department of Health
Baltimore
Donald J. Roop
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Annapolis
Herman
Webb Duker
Murray Benson
Department of Parole and Probation
Lane
An. Jy
Batimore
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Equity Court
Britton L Wastler
Carrie Wastler
Thurmont
Edwin ¥. Nikirk
W. Jerome O
Merv E. Herbert Klinehart
Aller
Figing
Shook
the Today
Everedy
Homemakers
Gen. Taylor
Taylor
Telford Taylor
Berln
Germany
Nuernberg
Lucius D. Clay
Jacob Shawbaker
New Market
Reeos
Stephen Foster
International Relations Committee
Virgil Doub
Middletown
E. Mae Shankie
Louise Sebold
Emmitsburg
Roy Crum
Jug Bridge
St George C
Herman Borer
Helena Stauffer
Isaac Nicodemus
Unionville
Stauffer
J. P. Feiser
Edward ReDevitt
Pleasant
Edward Mantz
Harmony Grove
Ray H. Smith
Lou Davis
Miriam Weller
Earl Gosweiler
State Council
Potomac
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