Sandy Hook Bridge Opened On Potomac at Sandy Hook
The new 2,246 foot Sandy Hook Bridge over the Potomac was opened after ceremonies led by Gov. William Preston Lane. The $1 400 000 span links Maryland with Loudoun County Virginia and connects routes toward Hillsboro and a future West Virginia harbor crossing. The ceremony drew about 1,500 attendees from three states.
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Potomac River
Sandy Hook
William Preston Lane
Maryland
Virginia
Lane
Russell M. McCain
Frederick
State Roads Commission
West Virginia
Milton A. Reckord
William F. Childs
Wilson Ballard
Walter C. Hopkins
Roads Commission
Sandy Hook’ Bridge
William Tuck
Clarence Meadows
D. S. Brown
Point of Rocks
Late
Loudoun Country
Hillsboro
West Virginia Highway Commission
Shenandoah River
Bolivar
W. Va
Shenandoah
Loudoun County
Jefferson County
Harpers Farm
1 McGraw Construction Company
Philadelphia
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Weverton
Bethlehem Steel Company
McLean Construction Company
Baltimore
A. J. Carney
Pottstown
The
Steel Company
Ms. Brown
Potomac
Shenendoah Bridge
Richard F. Kline
Iseak
Paris Subway Strike Continues Amid Municipal Election Tensions
Paris workers voted to extend the subway and bus strike on the eve of municipal elections. A Communist union leader railed at the United States as reactionary, while 26,000 merchant seamen and shore workers planned to resume work after a 15 to 20 percent wage dispute.
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Paris
United States
Paul Ramadier
CIO Convention Signals Long Labor Road Ahead
The CIO convention in Boston, amid high prosperity and rising wages, set a long range agenda. It opposed the Taft Hartley act, pledged to mobilize to unseat the 60th Congress, and backed fair employment practices and national health insurance as slow to come but pursued in the years ahead. The event highlighted potential non merger with the AFL and a focus on long term goals rather than immediate wage demands.
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Boston
CIO
America
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Congress
Flash Flood Sweeps Town Galax Va
A flash flood from Chessnut Creek hit Galax Virginia on October 18, sweeping seven houses away and forcing about 150 residents from homes. Damage was estimated at two to three million dollars with Carnation Milk Company hardest hit. Red Cross temporary HQs opened for shelter and meals. Water receded quickly after the crest and was back in the creek banks by midmorning.
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Galax
Chess_ nut creek
Ross O_ Penney
American Red Cross
Carnation Milk Company
Fashion Can Be Fun Hood Graduate Says
Miss Mary Lou Chorley Hood College class of 1943 spoke on Vocational Opportunities in Fashion to students and faculty, noting women have good prospects with limited male competition. She outlined three career tracks buyers stock clerks and education or publicity roles magazine and editorial work and highlighted fashion photography styling and dress design as highly competitive fields.
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Mary Lou Chorley
Hood
Hood College
Jennie Coblentz
Chorley
Miss Chorley
Libertytown Delegation Seeks Timely School Improvements
A Libertytown High School PTA delegation urged County Commissioners to fund improvements at Liberty school in tandem with Thurmont High additions. They pressed for an auditorium gymnasium and cafeteria. Officials noted about 70,000 dollars could be earmarked this year from unallocated state race track revenues, with further funds possible from other state sources, potentially financing a major construction program without new bonds.
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Libertytown High School Parent- Teacher Association
Liberty School
Thurmont High
Board of Education
Libertytown
Local Rent Advisory Board Is Organized in Frederick County
Baltimore October 18 The Rent Advisory Board for the Frederick County Defense Rental Area was organized Thursday evening October 16 Dr William F E Trail Frederick unanimously elected chairman Other members are Mrs Mary H Gregory Frederick Philip Wertheimer Frederick Austin L Main Middletown L West Schnauffer Brunswick Boards established nationwide by Frank R Creedon Housing Expediter act on governors recommendations to advise on de control of the defense rental area rent levels and hardship cases The board will meet soon with dates set by the chairman Regular meeting dates likely to be established
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Baltimore
Walter H. Heath
Frederick County
William FE. Trail
Frederick
Mary H. Gregory
Philip Wertheimer
Austin L’ Main
Middletown
L. West Schnauffer
Brunswick
Frank R. Creedon
Mr. Creedon
Judgment Confessed For 500 After Wreck
In Circuit Court this morning Miss Anna Mae Kidd sued Homer C Mitchell Jr of Frederick over a June 15 accident on the Baltimore Washington road. Mitchell’s attorney E Austin James confessed $500, the suit’s claim, in Kidd’s favor with Kidd represented by Benjamin B Rosenstock.
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Anna Mae Kidd
Homer C. Mitchell, Jr
Frederick
Baltimore- Washington Road
E. Austin James
Mitchell
Miss Kidd
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
Thomas R. Ofarrell
Herbert L. Bollinger
William M. Storm
D. Eugene Walsh
Football Player Dies After High School Game Collapse
Vandergrift Pa Oct 18 Robert Eugene Fitzgerald 16 a substitute halfback at Vandergrift High School died in a hospital after collapsing during a game last night in which his team defeated Baldwin Township 41 to 20. Death attributed to cerebral hemorrhage per Allegheny County Coroner William D McClelland.
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Vandergrift
Robert Eugene Fitzgerald
Vandergrift High School
Baldwin Township
Allegheny County
William D. McClelland
Pleads Guilty To Charge Of Fast Driving
David K Poole Jr of Williamsport Md pleads guilty in Peoples Court to operating an automobile over 70 mph on the new Hagerstown Frederick highway. Trooper Mutchner testified Poole paced at 85 to 90 mph September 15. Poole paid a $100 fine and costs. his father accompanied him. Stauffer case held open to test truck speedometer. he paid $10 fine on one charge and forfeited $10 on another.
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Hagerstown- Frederick
David K. Poole, Jr
Williamsport
Peoples Court
Alton ¥. Bennett
W. A. Mutchner
Poole
Hagerstown
Frederick
South Mountain
Robert G. Stauffer
Tramsville
Bruce Brachey
Stauffer
Norman D. McFarland
Roanoke
Mutchner
False Pretense Charge Lodged Against Calvin Speaks
Calvin Speaks of East street faced a false pretense charge after allegedly obtaining money with a note bearing another party’s name who denied knowledge of the transaction. He was jailed on a $1,000 bond, while Lieut Frank Dorsey and Officer Martin Kanade processed the case. Additional docketed charges include intoxication and disturbing the peace for several individuals with varied bonds and costs.
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Calvin Speaks
East Street
Frank Dorsey
Martin Kanade
Henry Himes
Frederick
Harry A. Dennis
Charles H. Onley
Motier Avenue
Cliford W. Smith
West Fifth Street
Robert E. Damemilier
Kensington
Paul W. Jones
Middle Aller
Nelson G. Feag
Haines
Gross
Stup
Twenter
Simmons
Burras
Philliips
British Brigade Withdrawn From Palestine Frontiers
The Information Office announced that one brigade of British troops had been removed from Palestine and that the redistribution of forces near the northern frontier had ended.
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Jerusalem
the Pub
He Information Office
Palestine
Illness hits 87 after Region 4 turkey dinner
At least 87 persons became violently ill after consuming turkey at a Region 4 meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Lima.
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Lima
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
New Water Gauging Station Completes Near Fishing Creek
The U S Geological Survey completed a new water gauging station above Fishing Creek reservoir after Superintendent William J Davis reported the dam’s supply had fallen about seven to eight million gallons from full. Reservoir capacity is 77 million gallons. rainfall has been light and not enough to end the dry spell, with wells and cisterns drying in several mountain areas.
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Fishing Creek
U.S. Geological Survey
William J. Davis
Singanore Creek
Geological Survey
Showdown On Poultryless Thursday
Washington October 18 The issue of poultryless Thursday the most criticized phase of President Truman s drive to save grain for Europe will get a showdown hearing Monday Officials of Truman s Citizens Food committee privately say chances are even that Chairman Charles Luckman will call off eggless and chickenless day and shift emphasis to Tuesday meat denial A meeting with Luckman Monday is expected for the National Poultry Producers Federation to seek abandonment of the plan Luckman who earlier rejected poultrymen s pleas said he is open to conviction
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Washington
Truman
Europe
Mr. Truman
Citizens Food Committee
Charles Luckman
National Poultry Producers Federation
Luckman
Tropical Storm Near Turks Islands Strengthens Into Hurricane
The Weather Bureau reports a tropical storm in the Atlantic has reached hurricane force with winds up to 95 mph and a northwest turn that reduces danger to the Bahamas. Chief Forecaster Grady Norton notes caution as more information arrives. The system is about 190 miles north northeast of Turks Island, with gales extending 150 miles north and 75 miles south of the center.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Grady Norton
Bahamas Islands
Turks Island
Norton
Center
Market Fatigued After Recent Climb In New York
The stock market showed a fatigued appearance in New York trading as it paused its climb. Reading issues kept prices on a slightly irregular course and markets reflected cautious sentiment amid mixed results.
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New York
Byrnes Charge Imperialism By Russians
Ex Secretary of State James F Byrnes in Speaking Frankly argues Soviet Russia seeks domination of Europe. He cites Stalin Molotov talks and captured German records to show expansionist aims rooted in Russian history, comparing 1940 Berlin negotiations with present Soviet moves in Sakhalin Port Arthur and Iran.
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Washington
NEA
Russia
Europe
James F. Byrnes
Harper and Broth
Byrnes
Stalin
Molotov
Adolf Hitler
Yalta
Karl Marx
Berlin
Hitler
Ribbentrop
Moscow
Peter the Great
Marx
Turkey
Hungary
Prussia
Galicia
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Kars
Bessarabia
Romania
Poland
Foreign Office
Germany
Central Africa
Italy
North Africa
Japan
Pacific Islands
Black Sea
Dardanelles
Indian Ocean
Norway
Spitsbergen Islands
Sakhalin
Kuriles
Port Arthur
Dairen
Manchuria
Iran
United Nations Security Council
United States
Pleasant Weather And Mild Temperatures Across Regions
The Associated Press reports pleasant weather and mild temperatures ahead for most of the nation with a few wet spots in the Pacific Northwest and Ohio Valley. Federal forecasters in Chicago note temperatures in the 80s from the Rockies to the eastern seaboard and up to 95 in some Gulf states.
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Associated Press
Pacific Northwest
Ohio Wailey
Chicago
Rockies
Seaboard
Guill States
Eighth Air Force Sets 4178 Mile B-29 Flight Record
Fort Worth reports the Eighth Air Force flying a B-29 4,178 miles from Jamaica to San Antonio without extra fuel tanks, marking a long-distance record for the unit.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Eighth Air Force
Jamaica
San Antonis
Army's 'Worst' On Prison Train Heads West
Salt Lake City Oct 184 With reinforced armed guards over about 150 of the worst men the Army has, a military prison train moved toward California after seven escapes in three states. One prisoner remained critically wounded and two more escaped in Kansas. James Anders of Jamestown NY and others were recaptured or hunted as the train carried handcuffed inmates from Greenhaven NY toward Camp Cooke CA amid a broader search involving Missouri Kansas and Colorado.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Calfornia
Kansas
James D. Anders
Jamestown
N.Y
Ames
Missouri
Colorado
James W. Douglas
Lovelady
Tex
Steve Grandhoise
New
Walker
Lee
Selkirk
Camp Carson
Pueblo
Colo
Continental Divide
Salverio R. Fiore
New York City
Fiore
Thomas J. Mulligan
Denver
Mulligan
Leadville
Carsen
Five Dead and 37 Missing After Marseille to Oran Plane Crash
Marseille to Oran flight with 34 seats carried extra children and infants. Rescue vessels Sabre and a Spanish ship retrieved a pilot, a mechanic, and a man named Huyghe among five bodies. Weather was clear with good visibility as search continued for survivors.
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Paris
Marseille-Oran
Mediterranean
Sabre
Huyghe
France
North Africa
Air Transport Control
Cartagena Bay
Spain
Inter- Continental Air Transport Company
Remy
Marseille
Oran
Cape Paris
Algiers
Yesterdaay
Wheat Price Rises Toward Record On Local Market
Wheat prices have climbed about 72 cents in Frederick area over three months and may push toward a $3 per bushel record. After a small setback, the market was expected to rebound. local prices slipped to 2.79 after reaching 2.82 yesterday. Farmers Cooperative notes little recent receipt of wheat, likely due to heavy corn marketing. Most grain sold now goes cash market as it does not grade for government storage. FOOTBALL PLAYER HURT Ted J Noinger, 17, Gaithersburg, suffered possible kidney injuries in a game at Welch Field, Rockville. He was hospitalized at Suburban Hospital, Bethesda. Pvt Calvin K Burdette, Damascus, Md., serves with the 1st Cavalry Division in Tokyo with the Eighth Army.
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Frederick
Farmers Cooperative Association
Ted J. No
Gaithersburg
Welch Field
Rockville
Bethesda
Frederick High School
Tokyo
Eighth Army
Japan
Calvin K. Burdette
Amos D. Burdette
Damascus
1St Cavalry Division
Nippon Capital
Margaret Pleases Her Audience Not Critics in Pittsburgh
Margaret Truman, age 23, earned a warm reception from about 4,000 at Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh for her first full length concert, drawing praise from audiences while critics were mixed. President Truman’s daughter launched a 39 day tour and earned an ovation with nine curtain calls as Mrs. Truman attended. The First Lady said she was pleased with her daughter's performance. In Rome, L Unita blamed the President for the Greek government's execution of 10 convicted communists linked to OPLA.
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Pittsburgh
Margaret Truman
S v
Fred Lissfelt
T the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
Ralph Lewando
Pittsburgh Press
Truman
Rome
L'Unita
Opla
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Samuel Fisher
East Seventh Street
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Alvey Vv. Renn
Goodwill
John S. German
Broadway Methodist Church
Baltimore Goodwill Industries
Peter Edsox
Washington Correspondent
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