Winnipeg Flood Crisis Deepens As River Crest Predicted
Five thousand more flee Winnipeg as Red River flood fears rise. Thirty foot water remains with wind backing the flow and 100000 expected refugees. Six square miles submerged and thousands evacuated as authorities mobilize disaster plans, food stocks, and airlift capacity for rapid evacuation.
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Winnipeg
Man
Red River
D. M. Stephens
Manitoba
R. E. A. Morton
Royal Canadian Air Force
Great Prairie City
United States
Reactionaries in Office in Maryland Rally Labor Leaders
In Hagerstown on May 15 the Maryland labor convention urged replacing reactionaries in public office and electing friends to preserve freedom. AFL official Harry Cohen criticized the Taft Hartley Act, pledged 100 percent cooperation with Truman, and noted 380 delegates arriving at convention HQ. Mayor Mills urged unions to match wage gains with cost of living and announced routine sessions as officers and resolutions are chosen.
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Hagerstown
Maryland
Harry Cohen
District of Columbia Federation of Labor
AFL
Congress
Truman
William Jones
Cumberland
Herman L. Mills
Lane
EH. W. Butler
Mills
Richard H. Sweeney
Police Court Cases Heard in Frederick Maryland
Magistrate Manuel M. Weinberg found a Baltimore motorist guilty of drunken driving but recommended leniency with license suspension. A local highway foreman forfeited collateral in another DUI case. Minimum fines of 100 dollars plus costs were set. Two Baltimore youths pleaded guilty to stealing gas from a Frederick businessman's car with riding intoxication. Several individuals faced peace disturbance and assault related charges, with various fines and suspensions. A warrant and testimony issues arose as cases proceeded. An officer described erratic driving prompting intervention.
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Manuel M. Weinberg
Baltimore
Frederick
James Branson
Carrol Shook
East Church Street
Shook
Charles F. Roberts
Woodsboro
Drunken driving charges amid road work near Frederick
Statesville man employed on road construction south of Frederick was charged with drunken driving after a Sunday 230 a m stop. Wilbur Moss Stevens and James Edward Stevens, Baltimore youths, faced tampering charges regarding John Callas’s automobile on East Patrick Street. Officers found a gasoline siphoning setup and a gas tank cap in the Baltimore suspects’ car during a routine check.
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Statesville
Frederick
Wilbur Moss Stevens
James Edward Stevens
Baltimore
John Callas
Oan
Patrick Street
Sergt. Swomley
Kanode
J Boone
Chesapeake and Potomac Teleph ne to not appeal rate denial
Baltimore May 15 The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company accepted the Public Service Commission denial of further rate increases and said it would not appeal to the courts The firm maintained its view that the commission underestimated property fair value while reserving rights for future proceedings It noted the PSC had set a permanent 400000 annual boost and rejected more than 2000000 in additional increases The company would not pursue further tariff hikes now per vice president W G Murrell
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Baltimore
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Publice Service Commission
PSC
C and Y
Commission
Toste
W. G. Murrell
Ruling on Maryland utility case and local homicide lead
The News notes the Commission seizing on the Septimis matter while the Maryland PSC dispute is treated as not aligning with law. It reports a dead woman near Martinsburg with an abandoned auto and notes investigators have ruled out John Shriver as a suspect in the death.
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Frederick
Tuesaday
PSC
Maryland
Newton D. Baker Hospital
Martinsburg
John Shriver
Pententury
Moundsville
Abandoned Auto Hint Snares Murder Case in Berkeley Springs
Morgan County authorities pursue leads after an abandoned automobile is tied to a murder case. A nude, strangled woman was found on old U S Route 522, and her identity remains unknown while investigators search for the slayer.
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Jaxi Fridas
Sharpsburg
Washington
Bedaby Pinay
Morgan Chaunty
Berkeley Springs
WoVia
Marth
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Francis Scott Key
Fred’k, Md
Acousticon
Washington St
Steweps
Lisbon
Soury
Gooksville
Sykesville
U.S
State Roads Commission
MILFE
West Friendship
Baltimore-Frederick Road
Baltymore National Pike
Willams Construction Company
Middle River
Pine Orchard
West Friendship 15
T E. Ritter Corporation
Carl Bell
Mary Johnson
Melvin
Ida May Boxlee
Myra Blackston
Henry Willams
Whatcoat Street
Sergi Swoomley
Jerratic
Twenteyr
William Edgar Witherspson
Americas
Pabestader - Wale Todean
Americal
America
Airtiyle
Nash
THE
Statesman
Lawson Motor Sales
West Patrick St
New Market, Maryland
Nowh Moi Davien Naah-Kor. Corporation
Detroit, Mich
Teape & Waan
Superior Bottled Gas Service
Frederick Bottled Gas CO
Market St Phone
Mp Prank Lee
Mayflower Card Company
Howard Street
Rathmore 1
Gilbert
Market ST
Joon
Samson
Kiel Kash
Cary
Cline
Dee
Corliss Archer
CBS
Potomac Edison CO
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