Rhoderick Named Head School Board
George C. Rhoderick Jr of Middle Town was elected president of the Frederick County Board of Education at the annual meeting in Church Street school offices. He succeeds Claude A. Stottlemyer who declined re election for business and personal reasons. Kent C. Nicodemus of Walkersville was elected vice president succeeding Mrs John N Howie Brunswick. Eugene W. Pruitt serves as secretary treasurer. The board was in session addressing routine matters.
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George C. Rhoderick, Jr
Middle Town
Frederick County
Four Blocks Of Town Burn In Pickens Fire
Elkins West Virginia May 13 The Elkins Intermountain reports four blocks of Pickens about 30 miles south burned today in a fire destroying four stores the post office and other buildings No casualties reported immediate details limited by communications break The town has about 1200 residents.
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Elkins
W. Wa
Elkins Intermountain
Pickens
Here
Sinal
All Goldfish In Fountain Have Died
Court House Park fountain fish died after placement.Caretaker Bernard Davis suspects lead paint in the fountain caused the deaths and plans to replace the lining with cement. Some residents blame city water chlorine. The deaths began shortly after introduction. few fish survived. Officials did not confirm replacement plans.
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Court House Park
Bernard Davis
Fire Engines Housed Temporarily Elsewhere
Two engines from the Junior Engine House have been moved to Independent Hose on West Church Street and Benn Motor Company on North Market Street while Market Street repairs continue. Market Street is closed from Third to Seventh while sewer trench paving proceeds. opening of the Third to Fourth Street block is expected tomorrow.
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Market Street
Independent Hose Company
West Church Street
Benn Motor Company
North Market Street
Seventh Street
Third
Fourth Street
Labor bill vote seals Senate passage amid strikes curb efforts
Washington stayed 13 as Marsland Virginia and Maryland senators voted on the final roll call for a sweeping labor bill aimed at curbing strikes and certain labor practices. Rejections from union leaders surfaced in Maryland wage talks with telephone operators as Chesapeake and Potomac officials pressed to avert a Saturday strike deadline. Dividends, appointments, and regional political shifts also appear in brief items from New York and Annapolis.
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Washington
Marsland
West Virginia
Virginia
Senate
Baltimore
Maryland
Chesapeake and Potomac Company
Foreign Nurses To Visit City And County Over The Weekend
Maryland health officials announce a visit by foreign nurses this weekend. The event includes invitations, a Baltimore arrival, and a bus tour of Memorial Park and Green Mount Valley. Local hosts will entertain nurses and doctors wives with lunches and tours, highlighting the Maryland education and nursing boards.
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Windobdona
Braddock Heghu
Mary’ Green Lort Valley
Sunda
School of Is
Maryland
State Organizatio Health
State Recount of Senate Vote Now Expected
A statewide recount of Maryland’s United States Senate vote may be authorized this week by the Senate Rules committee. The effort covers 17 counties including Frederick, where Republican D. John Markey contests Democrat O Conor. Ballots are secured in a Court House vault while sub committees review challenged ballots before full action.
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United States
Maryland
Senate Rules Committee
Washington
Frederick
D. John Markey
O Conor
Senate Committee
Court House
Circuit Court
Senate
Rules Committee
Marker
Baltimore City
O'Conor
Markey
Hickenlooper
Jenner
Indiana
Anne Arundel
Prince George Hora
Mary's
Cecil
Montgomery County
De Gasperi Resigns as Italy Faces Coalition Fallout
Premier Alcide De Gasperi handed his resignation to Provisional President Enrico De Nicola as Socialist and Christian Democrat leaders blamed each other for the collapse of the coalition. The Christian Democratic press office cited Socialist attacks as the reason for the move amid ongoing debt disputes. In New York, May 13, Dun and Bradstreet reported weekly commercial and industrial failures ending May 8 rose to 98, the highest weekly total since March 1943, quadrupling the 23 failures of the previous year.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Enrico de Nicola
Christian Democrats
Christian Democratic
de Gasperi
Italy
New York
Dun & Bradstreet
500 Marines Miss Chinese Rail Blast Peiping
A convoy of 350 Marines and a de luxe train passed through Peiping as sections of the Peiping Li railway were blown up by Communist forces. The line from Tangku to Tangshan was damaged, delaying further troop movements toward Chinwangtao and Guam. The incident follows prior attacks near Tangku and the Hsinhua dump raid, with conflicting claims about Marine actions.
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Peiping
Peiping-Li
Shanhaikwan
Chinwangtao
Guam
United States
Chi
Tientsin
Chinwangiao
Tangku
Tangshan
Linyu
Hsinho
U. S
Marin
Fight Over U S Radio Broadcasts continues
The article reports ongoing U S cultural relations program disputes amid debates on 1928 appropriations. Secretary Marshall seeks funds for the Office of American Radio Broadcasts, while Chairman Taber and the House Appropriations Committee press for cuts. The State Department faces hearings and adjustments to its shortwave broadcasts and language offerings.
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Washington
State Department
Marshall
Taber
R-Ny
Appropriations Committee
House Foreign Committee
Io Hs
Extended Forecast for Middle Atlantic States and New Yorky 13
Weather forecast for the Middle Atlantic states and eastern central New York. Temperatures will run two to five degrees above normal with cooler readings in the north on Thursday. Showers are expected Wednesday Friday and Sunday. Normal highs in the north 95 central 60 south 63.
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New
Justice at Last To Begin Catches Up Oiling Roads
The article reports the Nürnberg trial verdict sentencing Schacht to six years in prison with confiscation of assets and civil rights restrictions. It notes his previous imprisonment and acquittals, then describes road oiling plans in Maryland including Route 32 and Route 75, with detours and expected completion within about a week pending good weather.
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Justice
Schacht
Strate
Will
Thomas OW
Eammeritsburg
Taneytown
Mitsburg
St. Anthony's
Thurmont
Yellow Springs
Price's
Point of Rocks
Mts Pleasant
Liberty
Thurston Road
Mohler
Sugar Stamp Policy Expands Through October 31
The Agricultural Department announced sugar ration stamp No 42 becomes valid earlier than planned enabling purchases of 10 pounds per consumer. Supplies must last until October 31 when price and rationing controls expire. Stamp No 12 also noted as a 10 pound sugar allowance, reflecting a shift amid freight car shortages and a bumper Cuban crop.
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Washington
Agrcultural Department
May Asked Help by May in Garsson Bribery Case
Secretary of War Patterson testified that former Rep. May sought his help for the Garsson munitions firm. The witness described requests for an E award for Batavia Metal Products Co. as part of the wartime bribery trial involving May, the Garsson brothers, and Joseph Freeman. The trial proceeds in Washington with Patterson as a star witness.
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Patterson
Andrew J
Garsson Munitions Combine
May
House Military Committee
Henry
Murray Garsson
Joseph F. Freeman
Garsson Brothers
Garsson
Batavia (I) Metal Produicts Company
Soviet Move Defeated in Nations Assembly Vote
At Lake Success on May 13 the political committee defeated a Soviet proposal for a Palestine inquiry. The draft proposals for immediate peace in the Holy Land were rejected 26 to 13 with 12 abstentions and two absences. The inquiry commission would be free to consider all possible solutions to the Palestine issue, not just dependence questions.
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Lake Success
The
Nations Assembly
S. N. Palestine
Commission
Holy Land
Palestine
Portal Pay Message To Be Sent To Congress
A report states President Truman will send a message to Congress tomorrow regarding the portal pay issue. Secretary Charles paid is expected to accompany him at the conference andation.
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Congress
Agiom
P—Press
Truman
Charles Iis
Orecas
Shot Down in Street 330 P Fred A Turmiba Era
Police report a fatal shooting in the street linked to an era described by witnesses. Investigators seek motive and identify suspects as they review local surveillance and interview residents. No arrests announced. scene secured for evidence collection.
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Fred A
Turmiba
Expr
Nat Ais
Bourne Remains Recovering After City Scare
Focal physician Dr U G Bourne faced a weekend scare as reports spread about his illness. He told his wife he would return to the office while he recovers from a heart attack suffered Friday. The city weighs rumors of his condition and possible demise.
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Bourne
Meeki
Supreme Court backs ICC on freight class rates
The May 13 piece notes the Supreme Court's upholding of the ICC ruling to adjust class rate freight across regions. It explains northern advantages in class rates compared with the south and west, the long dispute since 1939, and how the decision aims to boost southern and western competitiveness while limiting overemphasis on the ruling's impact.
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James Marlow Washington
Supreme Court
Leas
Ifs
Wu Hodge
ICC
Nora
Hitch-Hiking Family Receives Help After Rental Crisis
A Muncie family dispossessed by rising rent found shelter and aid from local officers and volunteers. The elder McDonald and his family, including two young children, had only 59 cents and faced homelessness after their rented home was sold. Local police coordinated support with Montvue and Rockville contacts as the family sought sanctuary and relief amid the mid May crisis.
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Muncie
Ind
Highay Samaritan
McDonald
Fempora
Montevue
Rockville
Ex-Treasurer Of County Dies At Home
Clarence M. Phieeger former Frederick County treasurer dies at home near Frederick aged in his 80s after 58 years residence in Besadiock district. He served as county treasurer after being elected in 1923 and held roles in state and national orders. Survived by wife Fannie and four children, sister, brother, funeral arrangements by Gladhill Company of Middletown.
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Clarerce M. Phieeger
Frederick ©Tan
Fredmorn
Roorent
Phleeger
Besadiock
Tern
Phiceger Fong
Frederik
Order
Lutheran Church of
Harleys Phleeser
Middletown
Gladhill Company of
Labor Bill Advances to Conference Amid House Approval
The labor bill cleared the House with a close vote and heads to a conference committee. Senate lawmakers later rejected a substitute drafted by Democrats seen as too moderate, while Senator Taft chaired the Republic Policy and Labor committee and led opposition to the bill’s adaptation.
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Org
House
Senate
Treman
Taft
U S Envoy In Belgrade Attacked
The American charge d affaires in Belgrade was disarmed and deprived of his camera and embassy identification during a Pec visit on May 2. They were returned after a formal protest to Marshal Tito’s government. The State Department seeks disciplinary action against responsible local officials.
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Washington
State Department
Belgrade
Pec
John M. Cabot
Marshal Tito
Girl Charged With Killing Her Father
In Cumberland 16-year-old Ethel Mae Bloss was freed on 2500 bail and faces murder charges after she says she shot her father James Bloss a 56 year old blacksmith’s assistant at Baltimore and Ohio train shops. The shooting occurred at the Bloss home after alleged threats as doors were broken. The widow Mrs James Bloss reported the incident and the girl planned to attend her father’s funeral and return to high school later in the week. The case will be heard by an October grand jury.
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Cumberland
Ethel Mae Bloss
James Bloss
Baltimore and
Ohia
Acre OS Woodland Burned Near Mt Airy Report
About an acre of woodland burned near Mt Airy last night before District Forest Supervisor Herman Toms and volunteers contained it. Toms planned to check the fire source today as crews fought the blaze with tools and fire lines amid extreme danger forecast for late.
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Mt. Airy
Herman Toms
Toms
Summers Farm
AM All
Lomstis
Delay Action On Proposed Tax Cut Moves Senate
Washington May 13 Senate Democrats push to delay action on a proposed 3 billion tax cut in June. The plan aims to gauge potential economies on President Truman’s 37.5 billion budget for the coming fiscal year starting July. With most of the 44 Democratic Senators wary, only a few Republican votes would be needed to postpone the measure.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
VA ruling limits unemployment pay for veterans in school
The Veterans Administration stated that veterans using the GI Bill to attend school may not collect unemployment allowance or vacation pay between terms. The new guidance clarifies benefits eligibility for veterans pursuing education under the GI Bill.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Lawmakers weighPostmaster General split with Democratic Party
Washington May 13 House to probe Post Office and Civil Service matters amid talk a split between the Postmaster General and the Democratic National Committee may occur. Speaker Martin says full inquiry could push regulations barring a top party office holder from the Postmaster General post while seeking economy in a department expected to lose about 287.7 million dollars next year. The plan foresees higher rates on second class mail and various fees to offset the expected deficit.
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Washington
Martin
Mass
House
Democratic National Committee
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Congress
Marfin
James A. Farley
Frank Walker
Robert E. Hannegan
Edward J. Flynn
Ted
Riartin
Truman to Speak at Charlottesville July Fourth
President Truman has accepted an invitation to speak in Charlottesville on July 4. Plans call for him to travel by automobile to Monticello and address the crowd on a patriotic theme, though the subject remains undetermined. Charles G. Ross conveyed the details to reporters.
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Truman
Charlottesville
Thomas JeXerson Dation
Jorvesville
Charles G. Ross
Monticelo
Tersen
Charlottesy
Ross
Production Stops Hit Detroit Area Plants May 13
Production halted at multiple Michigan plants today as a steelage strike closed about thirty thousand jobs. Authorities reported at least a dozen facilities paused operations affecting numerous workers and local outputs.
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Detroit
P—P
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