Edwards Fined $110 After Fatal Route 40 Crash
Edwards is found guilty of man slaughter by automobile and reckless driving in the death of 15 year old James R. Dixon near New Market on Route 40. He receives a suspended one year term and a $110 fine plus costs as he attends college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvit E. Baa
Frederick
Edward J. Smith
Peoples Court
House of Correction
Edwards
James R. Dixon
Frederick High School
New Market
Eawin F. Sirk
Richard B. Zimmerman
Charles E. Magaha
Magaha
State Roads Commission
Zimmerman
Commission
Lieut
Magaba
Walter Chisholm
Cleveland
Charles K. Nikirk
Chisholm
Nikirk
Ridgeville
Dixon
Douglas Magaha
Herbert Friedman
Trafic
Magada
W. K. Max
Market Street
Church
Mackenzie column on world hunger crisis and relief efforts
DeWitt Mackenzie argues the global food shortage is the urgent crisis, with 125 million people condemned to hunger. He cites UNRRA chief LaGuardia and calls for immediate Western Hemisphere relief, voluntary rationing, and broader contributions from Canada and Argentina to avert starvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br Dewitt MacKenzie
UNRRA
Fiorello LaGuardia
Pha Oa
Europe
Orient
India
China
Japan
Sam
Canada
LaGuardia
Sero Lee
Tve
Man Goes To New York To Meet Abroad Wife
Austin W. McGaha of 312 West South street travels to New York to meet his wife arriving today, noting nervousness as she has never seen him in civilian clothes. He and farmer Jean Rae of Allanton were married May 1 1943 in England. he served in the 11th Infantry Headquarters Company and was discharged October 1945. The couple plans to return to Frederick early next week. McGaha is the son of Claude McGaha. Portland Ore March 30 Rong actors etc not. He was released on bond and to be produced in court. Tokyo March 30 pedestrians ordered to walk on right in Kobe April 1 while traffic remains left. Fourteen former Japanese infantrymen charged with executing six Filipinos on Mindanao last Sept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
New York
Austin W. McGaha
West South Street
McGaha
Jean Rae
Allanton
Shotts
Lanarkshire
Scotland
England
Frederick Man
11Th Infantry
Potomac Edison Company
Frederick
Mr. McGaha
Claude MecGaha
Tokyo
Yodo
MacArthur
Kobe
Stalin
Prepier
Secuauty Council
Iran
United Nations
Qavam
Russia
James F. Byrnes
Qayam
Council Secretariat
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
Hussein Ala
Byrnes
Gromyko
Hussein Ali
Tran
Trygve Lie
Labor Head John Lewis In Meeting Over Coal Miners Strike
In Washington on March 30 Secretary Schwellenbach and John Lewis met with United Mine Workers chief to avert a midnight walkout by 400000 soft coal miners. Talks with operators were at an impasse as a deadline neared and no compromise on Lewis's key demand for a health and welfare fund appeared likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Schwellenbach
John J. Lewis
John W. Gibson
Lewis
Senwellenbach
UMW Journal
Uniams
National Coal Association, Bituminous Trade Organization
Journal
James Marlow
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
Ute Son
Vlthavati
Some Jobs Available For Idle Construction Workers
Miss Mayetta Hershberger of the Frederick Employment Service said 1 560 unemployed exist as of Friday with weather improving likely to resume work for painters and carpenters. She noted many veterans awaiting college entry or first-time workers plus about 696 drawing unemployment including 455 veterans at $20 weekly up to 52 weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TS Royaloymnent
Mayetta Hershberger
Frederick
Miss Hershberger
Chamber of Commerce
Three Cornered Peach Bloom Sparks GOP Chair Race
Washington reports a brisk three cornered race for the GOP national chairmanship as Reece Danaher and Brown vie to succeed Herbert Brownell Jr. The Stassen forum idea, though unconnected to the meeting, draws interest as a potential new party policy engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
GOP
Harfold E. Stassen
Republican National Committee
Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Clarence Brown
Ohio
John A. Danaher
Connecticut
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Reece
Danaher
Brown
Slassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Schools Urged To Aid Conservation Of Food
Baltimore March 20 Dr Thomas G Pullen Jr state superintendent urged school authorities throughout Maryland to conserve bread pastries and oil to help starving nations. He asked county superintendents to encourage school and home gardening discuss famine in class and make conservation posters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Maryiana
Thomas G. Pullen
Pullen
Congressional Opinion Backs Bikini A-bomb Tests
Congress leans in favor of conducting Bikini atomic bomb tests that summer despite three senators opposing the timing. Support comes from many atomic energy advocates while Senator Huffman and Lucas sign a Senate resolution and Senator O Mahoney backs it. Approximately seventy five youths from Lynn, Massachusetts visited the Francis Scott Key Hotel for lunch after touring historic sites from Massachusetts to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atomic Energy Developments
Tmey
Senate
Huffman
Ohio
Lucas
O'Mahoney
Wea
Tynn
Mass
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Massachusetts
Six Man Board To Hear Eisenhower Spaatz Views
Washington reports Lt General Jimmy Doolittle heads a six man board studying officer enlisted relationships. The panel will meet Chief of Staff and compare notes with General Eisenhower and General Spaatz at the Pentagon. Doolittle says the board seeks fairness after hearing critic testimony. In China, Nanking prepares DDT dusting to curb malaria ahead of government arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
Jimmy Doolittle
Pentagon
Carl Spaatz
Air Forces
Army
Doolittle
Spaatz
Chungking
Ume
China
Nuanking
United States
Far Eastern Group Takes Up Jap Voting
Members of the Far Eastern Commission met in closed session today to discuss holding Japanese national elections on April 10. Some delegates oppose elections now, while others support the move with MacArthur’s approval and U.S. backing, amid debate over Japan’s new constitution and postwar political readiness.
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Washington
Sion
Gexantine
Douglas Mage Larthur
MacArthur
United States
Russia
Nikolai V. Novikov
New Zealand
Carl A. Berendsen
National Press Club
Far Eastern Commission
Japan
Commission
General Markey Returns From East Shore Tour
Brig. Gen. D John Markey campaigner for the Republican gubernatorial nomination concluded a tour of eight Eastern Shore and two Southern Maryland counties reporting definite progress. He visited Chestertown Rock Hall Church Hill Hurlock Denton Pocomoke City Cambridge Easton Salisbury Princess Anne Crisfield Leonardtown La Plata and Waldorf and addressed Rotary clubs and a large Legion meeting in Salisbury presenting 35 new membership certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. John Markey
Walkersville
Maryland
Chestertown
Rock Hall
Church Hill
Hurlock
Denton
Pocomoke City
Cambridge
Easton
Salisbury
Princess Anne
Crisfield
Leonardtown
la Plata
Waldorf
Rotary
Pacomoke City
Wicomico County
Arbitration talks ease Virginia strike threat
Officials of Virginia Electric and Power Company and unions met in separate sessions to review new arbitration proposals as Federal conciliator Lucien F. Rye noted a major hurdle to the April 1 strike had been cleared. A public sale at the Court House sold the John W. King farm of 38 acres for 5300 to Mr and Mrs Albert C Bussard. Bel Air postpones a Harford County Bar Association petition hearing due to illness of Chief Judge Grason. Greek leftists intensify boycott drive ahead of elections protesting a so called royalist coup restoring King George II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia Electric and Power Company
Lucien F. Rye
Court House
John W. King
Frederick-Jefferson Road
Albert C. Bussard
Mr. King
John W. Null
Alton ¥. Bennett
Bel Air
Maren Qi -Pi
Harford County Bar Association
James H. Broursel
C. Gus Grason
Athens
George H
Nine Demands But No Clear Price From Lewis Miners Tie
John L. Lewis faces a fresh three-way contest as 400,000 soft-coal miners threaten a midnight walkout while he presses for new contract terms. He seeks wage gains and a health fund but remains vague on exact figures and on foremen controls.
City Exceeds Its Red Cross Fund Quota
The 1946 Red Cross fund drive shows city and county totals reaching 92 percent of the chapter goal. City contributions top 16 269 45 against 15 000 while county receipts approach two thirds of its 10 000 quota. twelve districts remain to report. Theater receipts of 1 257 19 await official confirmation and Warner Bros. check. John Ed Schell Jr credits a slow start and hopeful momentum as districts strive to meet targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Fund
Warner Bros
John Ed Schell, Jr
Jacob
Red Cross
Apartment Owners Call for 45 Percent Rent Increase Nationwide
Baltimore report notes 250 real estate leaders at a National Apartment Owners Association meeting urge a 45 percent general rise in residential rents across the country. Arthur D. Koppel criticizes OPA for not making area wide rent adjustments despite rising operating costs. New York stock activity also highlighted as selective issues push for word.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
National Apartment Owners Association
Arthur D. Koppel
Metropolitan
Faie Rent Committee of
New York
OPA
Congress
Rockets To Sample Air Sixty Miles Up
The Navy plans to launch meteorological rockets to 60 miles altitude to collect air samples for weather forecasting and radio research. Lieut. Cmdr. Rex said experiments may begin soon, with 15 rockets at 2,300 pounds and 24 feet long, costing about 20 thousand dollars each, surpassing earlier Army ionosphere tests reaching 230,000 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Navy
Cmdr
Daniel F. Rex
Office of Research and Inventions
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Calif
Army Ordnance Department
Signal Corps
Rex
Aerojet Corporation of California
Army
Accident at Tuscarora Bridge damages railing
State Police and roads officials lack information on the driver who hit and demolished a portion of the temporary Tuscarora Creek bridge railing between Harmony Grove and Hansanville. The old bottleneck bridge had been widened only enough for two cars to pass and was erected after flood damage.
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Tuscarora Creek
Harmony Grove
Hansanville
State Roads Commission
Geattysburg
Butter Heist: 3500 Pounds Vanish From Los Angeles Dock
In a swift loss, 3500 pounds of butter bound for a warehouse vanished within 15 minutes after loading at Los Angeles harbor. The War Shipping Administration ordered a police probe into the empty truck at the unloading dock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
War Shipping Administration
Los Angeles Harbor
WSA
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Smith
Mackenzie
BOND
Portland
Ore
Nicolai G. Redin
Seattle
Commissioner's
TAPS
Mindanao
Labor
John Lewis
Frost
da Tintold Namare
Appies
Reece, Brown and
Far Eastern
Gen. Markey
Ivan
Fle
Lle
Dartagg
Lewis’ Union
Ning
Security Council
Tuscarora Bridge
Kelly-Springfield Tire Company
United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America
CIO
Judy
Galdie Lowell
Audrey Rightmier
Truman
Potomac River
U. S. S. Williamsburg
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