Ice Storm Eases But Roads Still Hazardous Across Frederick
Frederick county highways opened yet treacherous as a snow sleet storm ends. Snow amounts ranged from 2.5 to 6 inches with sleet and near freezing temperatures. Roads were being salted and cindered as crews worked through the night. buses resumed service while authorities warned drivers to chain up and use caution. No serious accidents reported despite multiple skid incidents.
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Frederick County
Weather Bureau
State Roads Commission
Robert E. L. Putman
Commission
Blue Ridge Lines
Baltimore
Washington
Maryland
Pucheu Shot For Treason
Former Vichy Interior Minister Pierre Pucheu was executed by firing squad in Algiers after a French military court found him guilty of treason for collaborating with Germany. General Henri Giraud testified in his defense urging postponement until France is liberated.
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Algiers
Pierre Pucheu
Vichy
Pucheu
Khan
Henri Giraud
France
Winter Lands Savage Blow In Season's Last Round
Old Man Winter delivers a fierce finale across the nation with heavy snow, sleet, and subfreezing temperatures. Seven deaths occur nationwide from Indiana to Ohio, while New England endures driving snow and Utah endures a blizzard as spring arrives early at 149 p.m. Eastern Warmer headlines mix with power cuts and school closures.
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Associated Press
Jet
New England
Deep
Texas Panhandle
Middle West
Utah
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
New York State
New York City
Butler
Keystone State
Uniontown
Johnstown
Pittsburgh
Washington
Charlotte
North Carolina
Indianapolis
Kansas
Oklahoma
K. D. Blood
San Juan Capistrano Mission
California
St. Joseph's Day
Overseas Addresses Cannot Be Published
The News Post explains censorship rules barring publication of overseas servicemen addresses. It is permissible to mention arrival locations or general areas but not the unit or ship names. Publication of addresses for those serving in the continental United States is allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Smith
Continental
United States
Miss Frances Culler Weds Lieut Fales at Gethsemane Chapel
Miss Frances Culler educator at Frederick High School and daughter of Mrs. Eunice Culler of Baltimore married Second Lieutenant John Fales of Baltimore on Saturday afternoon. The ceremony was at 3 pm in Gethsemane Episcopal Church with Rev Don Frank Fenn officiating. The couple, wearing a gray traveling outfit, left for a wedding trip and expect to return Thursday for a reception hosted by Mrs Culler. Miss Fales plans to resume teaching in Frederick next week.
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Frances Culler
Frederick High School
Eunice C Culler
Chilton Street
Baltimore
John Fales
Fort Bragg
N. C
Don Frank Fenn
Gethsemane Episcopal Church
Fales
Baltimore Baritone William Horn Dies After Illness
Baltimore remembers William Gilbert Horn a baritone and longtime soloist and choir director at First English Lutheran Church. For over 30 years a familiar figure in city musical life he appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and starred in local operas while turning down out-of-town offers. He was known in the Evangelical Reformed Church as a past soloist.
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Baltimore
William Gilbert Horn
First English Lutheran Church
Horn
Old Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Mr. Horn
Evangelical Reformed Church
Nazis Tighten Grip in Cassino Face Strong Allied Assault
Allied and German forces clash in Cassino as Fifth Army troops press from the southwest around the Continental hotel and railway station. German holdouts in ruins, two tanks in the hotel wreckage, and heavy shelling mark another day of brutal combat with prisoners reported and strategic hills including No. 165 under contest.
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Cassino
Continental Hotel
No. 165
Naples
Fifth Army
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Heinzerling
Monastery Hill
Rome
Army To Close Miami Beach Training Schools
The War Department announced that all Army Air Forces training schools at Miami Beach Florida will move to the San Antonio cadet center and Sheppard Field Texas. About 20 000 officers and men are involved in training for officer candidates pre flight cadets and basic enlisted training. All current classes will finish at Miami Beach with future classes sent to Texas.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Miami Beach
Fla
San Antonio
Tax forms to be mailed to Maryland taxpayers
Baltimore March 20 George Hofferbert Collector of Internal Revenue reports that Federal forms for filing estimates of 1944 income will be mailed to Maryland taxpayers within a week. The forms will go to those who filed 1943 estimated income declarations last fall.
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Baltimore
George Hofferbert
Internal Revenue
Maryland
Knox backs postwar military planning committee
Washington March 20 The Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox endorsed legislation to establish a special Congressional postwar military planning committee stating that the nation will face very serious and difficult problems in military planning after the war.
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Washington
Navy
Frank Knox
Burma battle builds as Japs push in Chin Hills
New Delhi March 20 The biggest battle in Burma since Allied retaking Hukawng valley looms as Japanese forces cross the Chindwin river in force along the Chin Hills frontier. Allied HQ reports 4000 Japanese dead in Hukawng and gains in Kaladin and Maya range as West African troops counter attach. Imphal area attacked by air with limited temple damage and minor casualties.
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New Delhi
Burma
Chin Hills
India
Chindwin River
Hukawng
Joseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Claire L. Chennault
China
Chindwin
Imphal
Homalin
Timanthi
Jambu ‘Sum
Mogaung
Kaladin
Maya Range
Arakan
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Acrid fumes prompt evacuation after Philadelphia station blast
March 20 Philadelphia reports fumes from a transformer explosion on a Wilmington local train filling the suburban station with acrid gas. About 28 people were overcome, several hundred evacuated, six treated and discharged. Trains rerouted as firefighters contained the scene for over an hour.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wilmington
Del
James Farrell
City Fire Department
Broad Street
Best-Dressed Women Named by Fashion Academy
Mary Martin and Bidu Sayao of the Metropolitan Opera were named among America's best dressed women by Emil Alvin Hartman director of the Fashion Academy. The announcement lists their style notoriety as of March 20 in New York City.
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New York
Mary Martin
Metropolitan Opera
Bidu Sayao
America
Emil Alvin Hartman
The
Fashion Academy
Bus Plunges From Bridge Into Passaic River in Sleet
A Passaic New Jersey intercity bus skidded on a sleet laden bridge, ripped away guard rails and plunged about 15 feet into the Passaic river channel. Reports listed seven rescued who died in hospital and a death toll of three confirmed, with others feared in the submerged bus. Emergency doors and witness accounts describe survivors swimming through debris. The Comfort Bus Lines vehicle crossed from Passaic to Wallington during early morning sleet.
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Passaic
No J
Stanley Raymond
Raymond
N. J
Sf Ta. m
Wallingston
Comfort Bus Lines
Wed Saturday In Washington Wed Saturday In Washington
Miss Louise Florentine Lescure of Roanoke and Washington married Lt Leo Francis Waterman at Holy Name Church Washington D C. Ceremony performed by Rev Caulfield. Reception at the bride’s uncle’s home then trip to Florida. Both graduates of Jefferson High School Roanoke and Roanoke College Salem. Waterman to be stationed at Fort Myers. James Grant Shaffer of Burkittsville promoted to captain by War Department.
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Holy Name Catholic Church
Washington
D. C
Louise Florentine Lescure
Charles Lescure
Roanoke
Leo Francis Waterman
Leo T. Waterman
West College Terrace
Caulfield
Betty Lee Turner
George Williams
Lexington
Waterman
Florida
Whizst
The
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
Proposes All American Flag Line for Postwar Air Travel
Washington March 20 Senator McCarran introduces a sweeping aeronautics bill proposing the All American Flag Line a federally chartered private corporation with over a billion dollars working capital. The airline would be composed of carriers holding civil aeronautics certificates except those operating wholly within Alaska and would aim to be a leading foreign air transport operator.
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Washington
McCarran
D-Nev
Senate
Sir Garkets
Alaska
Induction pool issues delay and April exams in draft call
Local Draft Board One reports insufficient reserve pool of eligible men slowing up pre induction timing. Some expected to stretch lead time to 45 days but current calls will take all accepted men from two January pre induction exams in Baltimore. Four men depart for Camp Lee today.
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State
Board One
Baltimore
Camp Lee
Donald J. Holland
Joseph W. Boyce
Edward E. Hill
David ©. Berryman
Third Service Command
Blood Donor Unit Arrives in Frederick
The Blood Donor Unit, supervised by Lieut Ralph Duane Good and Miss Dora Twentier, arrived in Frederick to support the Army Navy Blood Bank. Despite severe weather, most appointments held as the Red Cross Blood Donor Service completed preparations for ongoing donor sessions Tuesday and Wednesday. Shut Gond, who survived severe burns from the African invasion, leads the unit on this second visit.
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Ralph Duane Good
U.S Naval Reserve
Dora Twentier
R. N
Red Cross Blood Donor Service
Baltimore
Frederick
Holmes D. Baker
Frederick County
Aerial War Over Europe Enters Sixth Day Of Bombing
A six day Allied air offensive against Hitler's Europe continues with American and British bomber swarms striking southwest Germany and targets from London to Monfalcone Italy. Mediterranean and Italian airfields report heavy losses for the German force while RAF and U S heavy bombers pound across occupied territory and France.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
London
Malan
Reich
Dover Strait
Europe
Britain
Haly
Italy
Naples
Austria
Mediterranean
Creil
Paris
France
Yugoslavia
U. S
London Daily Mail
Atlantic
Regent Monn
Red Army Breaks Through on Dniester to Besarabia
Soviet forces crossed the Dniester with bridges left by retreating Germans and pushed into Besarabia as the Red Army widened its middle Bug river breakthrough. German withdrawals from Vinnitsa Zhmerinka area opened a widening front while Khariv-Khustov forces prepared for a drive toward Lwow. Thousands of Germans and Rumanians were reported slain or fleeing, with mass evacuations in the path of the advance and warnings of a possible larger offensive on the northern front.
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London
Dniester
Bessarabia
Rumania
Vinnitsa
Zhmerinka
Red Army
Bug River
Proskurov
Finnilss
Romania
BBC
Moscow
Lower
Old Poland
Gregory Khukov
Lwow
Krements
Berlin
Pskov
Baltics
Black Sea
Enrollments Near End For Home Service Corps
Last minute enrolments were being taken for the Red Cross Home Service Corps training starting Tuesday at seven PM in the Red Cross offices at 17 North Court street. The class is limited to 13 members with 12 enrolled this morning, offering a small window for late applicants to join the six week course. The program aims to train home service volunteers in Frederick county with professionals in welfare teaching Tuesday and Thursday evenings. George H. Fink will lead the first session on Understanding and Helping People.
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Red Cross Home Service Corps
Red Cross
North Court Street
Home Service
Frederick County
Home Service Corps
George H. Fink
Frederick County Welfare Board
Germans And Chetniks Defeated By Yugoslavs
A Tito headquarters communiqué reports the Sec ond and Fifth Yugoslav Partisan divisions heavily defeated German and Chetnik forces after days of severe fighting along the Serbia Bosnia border. The notice is dated March 20 in London.
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London
Serbia-Bosnia
Marshal Tito
Josip Broz
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Bride of Lieut. L. F. Waterman
War Department
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Burkitsville
Attack Today
England
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John Cameron
Patricia Kerlin
Chestnut Lodge
Rockville
William J. Kerlin
E. Thomason
Tampa
Samuel Emory Thomason
Chicago Times
Tampa Tribune
Juniors and Citizens Truck Company
North Market Street
United Rescue Truck
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Stalin
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