Sudden Thaw Threatens Flood Nearing Normal Traffic
A sudden thaw after a record 17 inch Palm Sunday snow raised flood fears as county residents dug out. Roads were opened, but drifting and slick conditions lingered on eastern routes toward Baltimore. Utility crews cleared lines, milk collections lagged, and buses resumed service after widespread disruption.
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State Roads Commission
Baltimore
Taylorsville
Ridgeville
Blue Ridge Lines
West Friendship
Ellicott City
Washington Road
Washington
Here
Hagerstown
County Roads Board
Denver J. Shook
Board of Education
Annapolis
Woodville
Harrisville
Mt. Airy
Chestnut Farms
Chevy Chase Dairy
Milt
Potomac Edison Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Potomac Edison
Liberty
New London
New Market
Policeman Phebus Listed Among Local Draft Selectees
A Frederick city policeman, Officer Benjamin F. Phobus, eight years on the force, is listed among Local Draft Board One registrants slated for probable induction soon. The list includes Anthony Marrone, insurance agent and boxing referee, plus numerous others with addresses in Frederick and nearby towns. Some registrants were later listed as rejected or ineligible, affecting draft call outcomes.
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Frederick City
Benjamin F. Phebus
Force
Anthony Marrone
John Anders Hansen
Pari Place
Harry George, Jr
West Potomac Street
Brunswick
Donald Rouse Conklin
Water Street
South Market Street
Benjamin Franklin Phobus
West
Fifth Street
Anthony Vincent Mattie
All Saints Street
Paul Francis Brunner
Woodsboro
John William Kemp
East
Church Street
Bernard Calvin Stacy
Patrick Street
James Edward Baer
Lee Paul Morgan
Frederick
George Casper Killian
Homer Theodore Campbell
Knoxville
Herbert Eugene Mulligan
Robert Cornelious Harding
East A Street
John M. Billy
Fred Earl Dolan
Potomac Street
Richard Edgar Snyder
Travers Dutrow Burdette
East Fourth Street
Oswald Eugene Utterback
East D Street
Ivan/ Snavely Hammond
George Robert Ebert
Dill Avenue
Allen Compton Willey
East Potomac Street
Robert Clingan McCardell
Richmond
Damage from heavy snow hits city and county structures
Early reports cite collapsed barn roof at Samuel Zecher farm in Burkittsville and a garage near Harmony Grove. No livestock harmed and repairs seen possible. A northside garage also fell after the storm. homes largely spared. Snow melt and ongoing weight raise further damage risk. Residents cleared roofs to prevent further failures.
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Samuel Zecher
Burkittsville
Harmony Grove
William Eyler
Guy Ramsburg
Eyler
Cit
Textile workers vote to end weekend strike in Fall River
Fall River textile workers whose weekend strike closed 18 mills voted to return to work immediately. The mass action drawn wide attention as workers weighed demands and resumed production across multiple plants.
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Fall River
Mass
Maryland Paralyzed by Weekend Snow Storms
Record March snowfall crippled Maryland from Saturday night through Sunday with 22 to 36 inches in cities like Baltimore Carroll Westminster and Cambridge. Roads rail and communications suffered outages as crews fought to reopen highways and assist stranded motorists.
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Liberty School
Frederick
Market
Patrick
W. Raymond Walter
Walter
Associated Press
Salisbury
P. A. Morison
State Roads Commission
Baltimore
Carroll
Carroll County
Westminster
The
Roads Commission
Taneytown
Free State
Cambridge
Centreville
Hagerstown
Berlin
Tower Shore
Cumberland
Leonardtown
Maryland
Baltimore-Frederick
Europe’s War Is Tangled Fight Of Sea Air Power
Recapture by the Red army of an extensive Smolensk district in a two day battle announced by TASS. Twenty communities west of Moscow wrested from German invaders as part of a Russian offensive on March 27 28. The war in western Europe and the Mediterranean remains a tangled sea and air contest while a major front in Russia persists.
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Europe
Moscow
Red Army
Smolensk
Yass
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Mediterranean
Arctic
Murmansk
Fuehrer
Russia
Libya
Rome
Tobruk
Malta
Britain
Germany
Baltic
Luebeck
Ruhr
Berlin
British
Air Ministry
RAF
Kharkov
Upper Volga
Leningrad
Kronstadt
Questionnaires To Go Out Soon In Maryland Draft
Maryland registrants aged 20 to 44 will begin receiving draft questionnaires April 6. Local draft boards will mail about 50 questionnaires daily to latest registrants, with all in the age group expected to be reached by May end. Questionnaires mailed in order numbers must be returned within five days or the registrants will be considered delinquent.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Henry C Stanwood
Selective Service
Col. Stanwood
Modest Bidding Drives Mixed Day on Wall Street
In New York March 30 4 The stock market showed tentative reversal signs with modest bidding after a slow start. While activity remained sluggish early, fractions advanced broadly by late afternoon with some issues unchanged and scattered exceptions across the board.
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New York
Chinese Score Success Over Japs In Burma
Chinese forces report a counter-attack north of Toungoo recapturing several villages and seizing mortars guns horses and gas masks after a thrust that caused heavy casualties. The battle near Toungoo is in a critical phase as Japanese reinforcements press Chinese defenders along the railway toward Mandalay. British forces with mechanized units joined the fighting 30 miles south of Prome facing Japanese advances with air raids on Prome.
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Msymyo
Burma
Toungoo
Burma-Thailand
Chungking
Mandalay
New Delhi
Prome
Rangoon
Burma Front
Pacific War Council Formed To Coordinate Allied War Effort
The White House announced the creation of a Pacific war council with Australia and New Zealand represented and a first meeting set for Wednesday. Britain Netherlands and China will also be represented, with the council to work alongside a similar London body. Roosevelt stressed unified strategy among all United Nations engaged in the Pacific conflict.
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Washington
Pacific War Council
Australia
New Zealand
White House
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Netherlands
China
United States
United Nations
London
Navy cites new aerial attack method in Pacific clash
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports a peacetime Navy innovation credited with a decisive Feb 20 engagement near New Britain in the South Pacific. Lieut. Commander John S. Thach says the method, different from British and Army tactics, led to 19 Japanese bombers destroyed and two American fighters lost.
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Pearl Harbor
T. H
Navy
New Britain
South Pacific
John S. Thach
U.S. Army
Wavell Crash Revealed From 1941 Axis Frontier Event
Lieut. Gen. Sir John Laverack disclosed that General Archibald Wavell crashed in enemy territory near the Egyptian border in April 1941 and was missing for 36 hours. German and Italian forces were unaware of the crash, and Wavell eventually reached British lines safely.
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Melbourne
Australia
John Laverack
Archibald FP. Wavell
Cirenaica
Laverack
Wavell
Attacks on Bataan Dwindle After Repulses in War Update
Washington reports Japanese assaults on the Bataan Peninsula have waned after repulses with heavy losses. Corregidor endures nightly air raids though no serious damage noted. Mindanao shows local patrol skirmishes at three points with no other news from the theater.
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Washington
War Department
Bataan
Philippines
Correpidor
Mindanao
Corregidor
Supreme Court splits 5 4 on Texas picketing law ruling
The Supreme Court upholds a Texas restriction on picketing within the industry area of a labor dispute. In a separate decision an 8 to 1 ruling finds the National Labor Relations Act prohibits a closed shop contract if unions aided by unfair practices. Justice Reed writes the tied opinions. Frankfurter for the majority in the Texas case calls picketing a violation of state antitrust law.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Labor Board
National Labor Relations Act
Cleveland
Ohio
American Federation of Labor
Justice Frank |Nfarter
Houston
Frankfurter
Jap Raid On Darwin May Have killed 240
Melbourne reports the first Japanese raid on Darwin on February 19 may have killed 240 people. Prime Minister Curtin said 15 deaths occurred in Darwin city while others died in the harbor or in air combat. An inquiry by Justice Lower was requested amid criticism of Darwin’s conditions and Pearl Harbor comparisons.
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Melbourne
Australia
Darwin
Joan Curtin
Charles Lower
Pearl Harbor
Australia Ends Daylight Saving Time Ahead of War
With winter approaching Australia discontinued daylight saving time at 2 am today, setting clocks back one hour. The change leaves Australia 14 hours ahead of eastern war time.
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Melbourne
Australia
Floods Drive Japanese Back In Markham Valley
Japanese forces withdraw about 20 miles in New Guinea as floods scour the Markham valley. Air blows by American and Australian forces cripple cruiser strength, with reports noting attacks on Lae Salamaua and Finschhafen and a growing wet season hampering Japanese operations. Port Moresby and Port Darwin saw raids as Allied air power presses the defense.
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Vern Haugland
Melbourne
Australia
New Guinea
Markham Valley
Darwin
Port Moresby
Japan
A. S. Drakeford
London
Pearl Harbor
Great Barrier Reef
Markham
Markham River
Lae
Salamaua
Finschhaven
Nadzab
Drakeford
Netherlands East Indies
Wake Isand
Douglas MacArthur
Vatican confirms Jap appointment to Vatican in Rome note
Vatican sources confirm Ken Harada, former Japanese minister to Vichy, as minister to the Vatican. The move marks the first establishment of diplomatic relations with Japan, after Tokyo announced the appointment last week.
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Rome
L'Osservatore Romano
Vatican City
Ken Harada
Vichy
Vatican
Japan
Harada
Tokyo
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War Dept
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