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Location

Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Nov 19, 1948

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UN Food Farm Experts to Visit Frederick for Agriculture Day

About 50 United Nations food and farming experts are due in Frederick on Saturday for a farm tour including Middle Town valley holdings of Edward F. Holter and Charles H. Remsberg. They will dine at the Francis Scott Key Hotel hosted by the Chamber of Commerce, then tour Mrs Nellie Thrasher's Jefferson area farm to view a soil conservation system installed last August. The visit precedes the Freedom Train event and is part of Rededication Week activities.

United Nations Frederick Chamber of Commerce Francis Scott’ Key University of Maryland Braddock Heights Middletown Valley Edward F. Holter Maryland Charles H. Remsberg

France's Queuille seeks confidence vote on strikes fallout

Paris reports Premier Henri Queuille will ask the National Assembly for a vote of confidence after a cabinet decision to back his plan addressing the Communist driven strikes that halted coal shipments and prompted claims Moscow ordered miners to quit. Interior Minister Moch cited Moscow as source, urging dissolution of the Communist party if true. A 24 hour strike by Merchant Marine officers looms as dock workers at Dunkerque barricade, with 3,000 troops deployed, Moroccans among them.

Paris Henri Queuille National Assembly Queuille France Jules Moch Moscow Charles DeGaulle Moch Communist Party Merchant Marine Dunkerque

Belgium cabinet resigns over clemency for Nazi collaborators

Premier Spaak's Socialist Catholic coalition government resigns after minister Struve's death sentence clemency debate. King consults party leaders to form a new administration. Eyskens possible premier. Struve's stance and Catholic subsidies split the cabinet. no vote taken.

Brussels Belgium Paul Spaak Paul Struve Spa: 2 Socialist Gaston Eyskeng Prince Charles Struve

King Farouk and Queen Farida Divorced in Cairo

Cairo announces the divorce of King Farouk and Queen Farida. A palace communique also notes that Farouk’s sister Empress Fawzia has been divorced from Shah Reza Pahlevi. The news comes as market steady with small changes in New York.

Cairo Egypt Farouk Farida Fawzia Iran Shah Reza Pahlevi New York

Mild Temperature For Tonight Is Predicted

Temperatures skimmed the snow belt this morning as a precipitation band hit the area. The Weather Bureau station west of Frederick said tropical air would preclude any snowfall here. Expect occasional rain and mild temperatures today and tonight with partial clearing and colder days ahead. The 28 degree low last night rose to the forties by 8:30 am and should reach the high fifties later.

Weather Bureau Frederick W. Q Midwest

Many Prizes Awarded At Food Show

The Frederick Food and Housing Show sponsored by Independent Retail Grocers featured prize awards and contests attracting large crowds. Winners announced include Mrs. William Dubbel, Mrs. Mary Wachter, Miss Blanche Butcher, Mrs. Charles Dodd, and others for various afternoon and evening baskets, pies, fruit baskets, and royal crown cola prizes. Deeds were recorded for two property sales in Ballenger district and Magnonia avenue. Dr. T Guthrie Speers of Brown Memorial addressed Hood College students at a vesper service in Brodbeck Hall.

Potomac Edison State Armory Frederick William Dubbel South Jefferson Street Mary Wachter West Seventh Street Blanche Butcher West South Street Charles Dodd East Third Street E. L. Stockman East Sixth Street Pauline Brown Hamilton Avenue Charles Taylor North Market Street Allen W. Long J. S. Thomas North College Parkway Lucy Héffner Motter Place Royal Crown Truman Keeney East South Street Louis N. Cole West Fifth Street H.C. Dash Monroe Avenue Hormel Evelyn Shoemaker Jefferson Street Wilkins Coffee William Rose Pauline Dickensheets Harold Kline Fast Sixth Street Elwood Anglebower Lucy Heffner Blotter Place Horace C. Brown West Patrick Street Royal Crown Cola Fast Third Street Frederick Produce Frank Main Esskay Albert Virts Avery C. Clark Fruit Basket Virts Woods F. 3. Darkis Oil Avenue Chestnut Farms John Murphy Taney Apts Ideal Farms Paul Crum Military Road Sny Ger Joshua Monath Taney Maryland Roy Fouche Adamstown Roy Dinterman Walkersville Raymond Clay Mi Airy Walter McKelver Charles H. Hossler George Rippeon Morris Robertson H. F. Nicodemus East Patrick Street Walter Hoffman South Bentz Street DR. Speers T. Guthrie Speers Brown Memorial Prasbrerian Church Baltimore Hood College Brodbeck Hall Ataipm Hood College Cecilian Choir Anna Marie Budde

Thanks Day To Be General City Holiday In Frederick

Frederick observes Thanksgiving with business closures, bank and post office holiday schedules, and a shift to Christmas preparations. Stores will reopen next Wednesday as decorating plans begin. Harmon Staley’s replacement is pending. turkeys rise to about 70 cents per pound and churches plan special services and union observances.

Frederick Yale Harmon Staley Staley

Prices High Sales Slows in Early November Trade

Washington reports a nationwide dip in department store sales in the first two weeks of November, eight percent in the first week and nine percent in the second, while prices remain higher than a year ago. Weather and late Christmas buying are suggested factors, with officials noting a two week decline does not prove a trend.

Washington Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve

Articles Filed for Eastern Lime Marl and Fertilizer Co

Filed with the State Tax Commission the Eastern Lime Marl and Fertilizer Company to quarry limestone. Capital stock listed at 10 000 shares common par 1 each and 2 400 shares preferred par 100 each. Incorporators Lamary L Hubble and Elmer L Jones. Baltimore Thomas S Glass. Frederick HAS GUN SHOT. Eli Nicodemus between New Windsor and Liberty town injured by accidental gun shot in the shoulder while rabbit hunting. Condition satisfactory.

State Tax Commission Eastern Frederick Lamary L. Hubble Elmer L. Jones Baltimore Thomas S. Glass Eli Nicodemus New Windsor Libertytown

Flexible Price Supports Favored by Grange Convention

The National Grange convention endorsed flexible price supports to prevent future surpluses and shortages, defeating a plan to continue wartime 90 percent parity. It refused to specify range but noted parity as a fair price for farmers and buyers. It also did not endorse compulsory health insurance or tax cuts, and urged no formal stance on those issues.

Portland. Me National Grange Convention Grange

Middletown Fire Department to Build New Hall Center

Middletown volunteers award a $35,000 contract for a three story concrete block and brick fire hall and social center on Church and Washington streets. George Wiles will oversee the project, with site land bought years ago from the Coblentz sisters opposite the Christ Evangelical church. The facility will house a new engine on the second floor and include lounges, a caretaker’s room, an auditorium, kitchen and storage. Construction begins promptly after the Monday vote.

Middletown Volunteer Fire Department Church and Washington Streets George Wiles Middletown Fire Company Carrie Lora Coblentz Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church Washington Street Church Street Memorial Hall Main Street American Legion

Gasoline and fuel oil price changes reported

Esso Standard Oil Co announces gasoline price increases while home heating oil and heavy industrial fuel oil prices are cut. Tank wagon gasoline prices also fall up to three tenths of a cent per gallon from Monday. Heating oil car and barge prices decrease up to three tenths of a cent per gallon. Representative Kunkel spoke at Vanertown Chamber meeting on foreign and domestic policy. UN Assembly backs Western plan to curb world armaments, despite Soviet protests about an armaments race.

New York Esso Standard Oil Co Standard Oil Co New Jersey Paris Unite Nations Assembly Todar United States Britain Soviet Union

Collateral Forfeited Before Local Magistrate Review

Collateral forfeitures were ordered in Peoples Court before Magistrate Manuel 37. Weinberg. Defendants Charles Garber of Altoona Pennsylvania George N. Thomas of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania and Harvey E. Kline of Hagerstown Maryland each forfeited $1145. The matter was noted as a conference today. Paris November 15 Secretary of State George C. Marshall is to meet British and French Foreign Ministers to discuss the Ruhr and related questions. Mellon Institute tests show that cutting shaving or singeing hair does not make it grow faster or thicker.

Manuel Weinberg Peoples Court Charles Garber Altoona George N. Thomas W.nesboro Harvey E. Kline Hagerstown Paris P.U George C. Marshall Ruhr Mellon Institute

Frank B. Smith Dies At Cumberland Home

Frank B. Smith Star died at his Cumberland residence after about a year of illness. He was president and general manager of the Community Baking Company in Cumberland and served on the board of directors of the Liberty Trust Company of Cumberland.

Run Star Dingle Bos Wf Liberty Trust Company Cumberland

Standardized Accounting Is Needed In Md

Judge Joseph Sherbow told Rotary Club of Elliott City that Maryland must standardize accounting across subdivisions to determine if state allocations are fair. He noted the Maryland Commission on Uniform Accounts has not provided standardized forms and warned that over $50 million in state allocations next year depend on fair distribution. He questioned how to detect unduly enriched counties or towns under current varied methods.

Joseph Sherbow Maryland Baltimore Elliott City Maryland Commission On Uniform Accounts Sherbow Maryland Commission On

Pvt Wachter's Rites Tuesday

The remains of Pvt. Norman Monroe Wachter, 319 East Second street, arrived in this city this afternoon and will be removed to the funeral home, 106 East Church street, where friends may call after three o'clock Sunday. Funeral will take place from the funeral home Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock in the Memorial Plot Olivet cemetery. He served in Italy in 1944 and is survived by family in this city and Frederic. One arrest for drunkenness reported overnight.

Norman Monroe Wachter East Second Street East Church Street Memorial Plot Olivet Italy Anzio Pvt. Wachfantry Bethiehemmore Mnie Filb Walter R. Fe Frederi Wachter Anna May Boston Helen Johnson Dorothy Fritz Ethel Hefine Meredith Wachter Pearl Bruce Wachter Etchison and Son

East Coast ship strike halts hundreds of vessels and fuel plants

About 200 ships tied up on the East Coast as AFLIL and New York Ship Owners talks stall. Halifax port remains open while Cunard White Star Line is warned against strikebreaking. Sugar refineries warn of imminent closures as stocks run low and production slows across multiple states.

AFL Fed U. S Halifax New Tocai New Brunswick Soha Margolis AFL International Longshoremen’s Association New York Shipton Ryan Cunard White Star Line Qalifax Maine Virginia American Sugar Refining Co Brooklyn Baltimore Franklin Philadelphia Pennsylvania National Sugar Refining Co

Weather Bureau to Run Eight Hour Day at Frederick Station

The Weather Bureau station west of Frederick will operate on an eight hour day from 8 a m to 4 p m with two observers remaining F Robertson and James Delauney. After farmer appeals the service will continue as a public service though the staff has been reduced from five to two. A room in the administration building at Frederick is doubtful to be ready until December at the earliest. A separate exhibit at the C Burr Artz Library features Samuel Francis Smith and the poem America with related photographs. Also noted is the admission to Maryland bar of James McSherry among 945 lawyers.

Weather Bureau Frederick F. Robertson James Delauney America C. Burr Artz Library Samuel Francis Smith Edward S. Delaplaine Smith John R. Holt Andover Mass Flord Humphries Anna Helfenstein Maryland Court of Appeals James McSherry West Second Street

Should Congressmen Put Country Over District In Voting

The Nation Today asks how a Congress member balances district interests versus national welfare. It cites Fulbright on following constituents at times yet supporting strong UN ideals, noting party guidance and personal judgment in voting on poll taxes, isolationism, and broader policy.

Washington New Ater Arkansas Congress Fulbright United Nations U. N

Judge Evans Dies at 75 in Elxton

Judge James F. Evans, former associate recree of the Second Judicial Civ il and dean of the Cecil county bar, died at Union Memorial Hospital after a paralytic stroke. He was 75 and had served the county legal community for decades.

Evans Elxton James F. Evans Second Judicial Civ It Cecil County Bar Union Memorial Hos

More Nazis Are Hanged At Landsberg

Nine more Nazi war criminals were executed at Landsberg Prison, with five gallows victims from SS elite guard units tied to Mauthausen and other camps. Several condemned men had been involved in torture and killings, while two inmates aided abuse. An anti execution appeal from Dr Theophil Worm, bishop of Wuerttemberg, reached President Truman as reviews and sentence reductions paused the continued hangings.

Inmgis Fodayerg Said Theophil Worm Wuerttemberg Truman

Opposed to New Street Divides Frederick Schools Community

Frederick residents and parents at Frederick High School and Elm Street School oppose a proposed street through the high school grounds to Watkins Acres. Superintendent EuGene W. Pruitt cites about 95 percent of petitioning parents against the project, with over 600 petitions returned and most opposing. City actions and endorsements by the Rural-Urban committee of the Frederick Rotary Club are noted.

Frederick High School Elm Street Watkins Acres Eugene W. Pruitt Board of Education Pruitt Frederick Richard E. Zimmerman

Explosion Report Heard Citywide Last Night

Residents in central and eastern city areas reported a loud explosion around midnight. Some woke, looked outside, but found nothing unusual. Law enforcement said no unusual incidents were reported in the locality. The sound was heard from the northeast.

Extended Maryland Delaware forecast with rain and cooling

Extended forecast notes clear and cooler conditions in Maryland and Delaware Saturday after early Del Mar peninsula rain. Sunday turns cooler, Monday warms with rain likely Tuesday, then colder midweek. Period temperatures run two to four degrees above normal with rainfall around half to three quarters of an inch.

Maryland Delaware Del-Mar Peninsula

Also Mentioned on This Page

King of Albert Smiley John F. Smiler Harris E. Binder Ballenger District Mt Zion Jefferson Braddock Heights Joseph E. Elkins Paul G. Morgan Magnonia Avenue Tanexy Kunkel Vanertorwn Chamber of Commerce Robert Reindelar Russell H. McCain State Roads Convision Ree Frank B. Smith Cumberland Home Pvt. Wachter Willam Cromwell Burras Pvt Norman ML By James Marlow William Jervais Chicago Landsberg U.S New Street Washington and Lee Nes Spa Anhie
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