Toll in quake hits 2206 dead missing injured
Tokyo reports 2206 killed missing or injured after Saturday’s quake and tidal waves. Home Ministry lists 1026 dead 145 missing and 1035 injured amid over 100000 homeless. U S forces say fewer than 100 Americans in Wakayama area safe yet remain on site for relief work. Air drops provide food and water as rail lines suffer landslides and efforts to restore contact continue.
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Tokyo
Japanese Home Ministry
Shigeku Island
Wakayama Peninsula
Home Ministry
Robert
DL. Eichelberger
Wakayama _peninsula
Army
gar‘Tisons
Shikoku
Kochi
Wakayama
Honshu
Shikoku Island
Hagerstown Starts 162 New Dwelling Units in 1946
New dwelling units started or planned in Hagerstown during 1946 totaled 162, per the City Building Inspector. The Water Department logged 178 completed water facility installations in the area, mostly in dwellings. Building permits issued include 88 for single family homes, 2 for two family dwellings, and 33 for apartments housing and 38 units from remodeled apartment spaces. Many projects remain under construction due to material shortages.
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Hagerstown
City Building Inspector
City Water Department
Water Department
Richard Wilson
Tip on Plunge of 75 Feet Best News Tip
A poorly described tip about a steel worker who plunged 75 feet from the Sandy Hook bridge into the Potomac River, under construction, only fracturing an arm. It was judged the top news tip last week and won first prize with a second prize split.
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Sandy Hook
Potomac River
Safe stolen from Gray Concrete Pipe office Bridgeport
A 1200 pound safe containing cash and papers was taken from the Gray Concrete Pipe Company office near Antietam Creek in Bridgeport. The rear door was forced with a bar and the safe moved through the door, possibly loaded on a truck. Ground was frozen, hindering determination of how the theft occurred. at least three people suspected. Sheriff officers seek fingerprints and clues.
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Antietam Creek
Bridgeport
H. ‘Davidson
Davidson
Post Office Faces Christmas Rush in Hagerstown
Hagerstown post office presses ahead with heavy parcel inflow after a Sunday lull. Postmaster Thomas M. Simpson aims to clear all mail by Christmas Eve, despite two damaged trucks. Last Thursday set a record with 159,586 cancellations and multiple days over 100,000. Delivery follows regular schedule today and tomorrow with hurried parcel service as staff work extended hours.
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Hagerstown
Thomas M. Simpson
Baby Delivered By State Trooper At Frostburg Home
State Trooper William C. McBlush answered a call to the Howard-Davis home in Frostburg where no doctor was available. Mrs. Davis, an expectant mother, could not locate a physician despite family efforts. The trooper arranged for mother and newborn to be transported to the hospital by state police ambulance. both mother and child are in excellent condition.
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Howard -Davis
Frostburg
William. C. McBlush
Holiday Travel Hurdles as All Flights and Trains Booked
Holiday travelers in Hagerstown faced limited options as flights and Pullman trains reached capacity through the New Year. Blue Ridge Lines and travel agencies reported light bus travel to nearby cities but many sought to book air or rail to distant points, with the Mathias Maryland travel bureau noting widespread booking refusals. The Veterans Administration sub-regional office will close at noon December 24 and reopen December 26.
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Hagerstown
Blue Ridge Lines
Mathias-Maryland Travel Bureau
Hagerstoniams
Vic. Miller, Jr
Blue Ridse Lines
the Veterans Administration
William W. Baker
Louise Moore Granted Absolute Divorce
Bessie'. Louise Moore has been granted an absolute divorce from George William Moore. Elizabeth Jane Webb has been Charles Verdeen Webb.
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Bessie
Louise Moore
George William Moore
Elizabeth, Jane
Webb
Charles Verdeen- Webb
Motorist Stranded by Trolley Wire in Baltimore
A motorist named Melvin Carroll misjudged a turn yesterday in Baltimore and ended up beneath overhead trolley wires. He rolled one block ahead of schedule into a restricted area and faced delays while retracing his route.
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Baltimore
Carroll
Melvin
Aare
Taft to Seek Labor Committee Chair Post
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio announced he will ask for the Senate Labor Committee chairmanship when Republicans organize on December 30. He said seniority would allow a choice between labor chair or Finance Committee head and plans to remain on the Finance Committee and chair the Republican Steering Committee.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Senate Labor Committee
Taft
Labor
Labor Post
Forfeits Collateral In Drunk Driving Arrest
Edgar S. Weller of Frederick, 33, posted 101.45 collateral and waived a hearing after arrest Saturday night by Patrolman Kuhlman and Prime on a charge of operating while intoxicated. The arrest followed a collision that damaged a parked car on North Mulberry Street.
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Edgar S. Weller
Frederick
Kuhlman
Prime
North Mulberry Street
Bellevue Inmates Will Feast Christmas Day
Fifty nine inmates at the Washington County Home will dine on turkey with trimmings on Wednesday. Cook Mrs J Shatzer said the menu includes turkey and stuffing mashed potatoes creamed corn lima beans sweet potatoes fruit salad pumpkin pie celery pickles three kinds of cake and ice cream. Staff have spent the past week preparing.
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Washington County
J. Shatzer
Chamber seeks relief from portal to portal pay rules
The United States Chamber of Commerce plans to mobilize its 2000 member groups to back a drive in Congress to limit portal to portal pay liabilities dating to 1938. Members will survey about 30 000 companies on amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set a 44 hour week then 42 and 40 in later years for interstate goods production. The Mt Clemens decision by the Supreme Court granted pay for time spent preparing for work on company property, fueling the push to curb such back pay.
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Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Chambers
Supreme Court
Do United Pottery
Mt. Clemens
Mich
John L. Lewis
Sweeney Backs Sherbow Plan In Maryland Cities
Mayor Richard H. Sweeney joined five other Maryland city leaders in endorsing the Sherbow Tax Commission revenue redistribution plan. He noted it had not yet been reviewed by the City Council and no revenue estimate for Hagerstown was available. Annapolis and Salisbury already favored the plan, with Annapolis projecting $70,000 to $90,000 in additional revenues.
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Richard H. Sweeney
Maryland
Sherbow Tax Commission
Sweeney
Hagerstown
Annapolis
Salisbury
Sherbon
Father Of Quads Looking About For Names And House
Baltimore December 23 Charles Henn Jr. practices naming a seven member family after quadruplets three boys and a girl were born to his British wife during the war at St Agnes Hospital in 55 calm minutes without anesthetic. The babies placed in individual oxygenated incubators and weigh about four pounds each. The parents, Johnny a 15 month old, met in England where Henn served with the 54th Division and Dorothy Geast served in the ATS. The mother in good condition requested British tea before a sedative, and the father said no names were chosen yet.
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Baltimore
Charles Henn, Jr
Thomas Jd. Bowyer
Johnny
England
Henn
Dorothy Geast
ATS
William H. Sawyers
Walter Benavent
Sugar Ration Plan Expands Five Pounds With Stamp 53
Washington says spare stamp No 53 will be good for five pounds of sugar starting January and a second consumer stamp for 1947 may be ready before spare stamp 53 expires April 30. Agriculture estimates a large sugar crop could allow another five pounds per person in 1947, totaling 20 pounds on regular stamps, plus home canning stamps. If supply holds, next year could see at least 10 pounds per person more.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculure Department
Bevin Hopeful Peace To Stay
London December 23 Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Britain’s treaty negotiator and part time United Nations spokesman, spoke on radio last night optimistic about friendship and cooperation among great powers as the surest basis for lasting peace. He cautioned peacemaking would take several years, outlining aims after returning from the Big Four talks and UN General Assembly session in New York.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Britain
United Nations
BBC
United Nations General Assembly
New York
No More Snow In Prospect For Christmas
The Weather Bureau says no additional snow is expected by Christmas morning. Ground snow remains in North Dakota, Montana and parts of several states, with last week’s coverage diminishing. temperatures in the Midwest have peaked near 50 in Kansas City and are forecast to drop to normal as a cold front moves southeast from the Dakotas.
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Weather Bureau
Santa Claus
Santa
North Dakota
Montana
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
New England
Midwest
Kansas City
Dakotas
Treasury Employee Plunges To Death In Washington
Police identified Elizabeth P Chapman, 38, a Treasury Department employee, as the woman who plunged from a third floor hotel window in Washington. An autopsy was planned. a male companion said he briefly left the room and upon returning found the window open and the woman gone.
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Washington
Elizabeth
Chapman
Treasury Department
Proclamation of siege in Tonkin and Indo China
Paris reports a state of siege in Tonkin and northern Annam as the National Assembly awaits Premier Blum's statement. Hanoi dispatches claim over 200 French soldiers killed or wounded in clashes with Soviet Namese forces. The warning targets unfurled firearms and flagless houses. Marium Moutet travels to Hanoi for on the spot inquiry into the disorder.
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Paris
Tonkin
Annam
National Assembly
Leon Blum
Indo-China
Hanoi
Marium
Moutet
Overseas Territories
Blum
New Auto Licenses Due In February
The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles announces the February start for issuing permanent two tag licenses for front and rear. Motorists should prepare a bracket for the front tag as many cars lack brackets. Rear tag must be illuminated and legible from 25 feet at night. colors are black numbers on an aluminum background.
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W. . Lee . Elgin
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
Liquor Store Clerk Robbed of $7,200
Charleston West Virginia December 23 a liquor store clerk on his way to the bank was held up and robbed of about $7 200 two men were reported to have restrained Percy H Burl s Negro clerk of the Capitol street store as he walked to deposit the weekend receipts with R C Swim state liquor control commission official stating the loss was confirmed and police were notified
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Charleston
W. Va
R. C. Swim
State Liquor Control Commission
Percy H. Burls
Capitol Street
Charleston National Bank
Warned to Keep Out of Police Affairs
Albert White twenty seven? no 31, 404 Salem avenue faced charges of being drunk and dis orderly and interfering with an officer. Magistrate Martin V. B. Bostetter dismissed the case in City court with admonition to quit meddling in police affairs after White allegedly started an argument and attempted to interfere with another arrest by Patrolman Charles Deneen on Saturday.
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Albert White
Salem Avenue
Martin V. B. Bostetter
White
Charles Deneen
Enrollments Exceed Two Million in U.S. Universities
Cincinnati report notes 1946 closing with well over 2,000,000 students in higher education. Dr. Raymond Walters cites a 27th annual survey of 668 universities for School and Society showing 1,718,862 total enrollments as of November 1, including 714,477 war veterans.
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Cincinnati
Raymond Walters
University of Cincinnati
Chicken coop raided at Wilbur Shry residence
Wilbur Shry of 819 West Franklin street reported to police that thieves raided his rear chicken coop last night.
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Wilbur Shry
West
Franklin Street
Closing Notice From Selective Service Headquarters
At noon today the Selective Service headquarters in City Hall will close from noon tomorrow until Thursday morning. Rothre: stated the office would be closed during the period.
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Selective Service
City
U S businessman denied right to land at Free Port
U S Navy ship left Dairen after a verbal ultimatum from Russian military officials threatening consequences if it did not depart within 20 minutes. An American businessman and two newspaper men were denied clearance to debark as Soviet troops remain in control of the city. The State Department said it had no immediate comment while the LC-3 1090 on a courier mission headed back to Tsingtao.
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Dairen
Manchuria
Owith
United States
Combined World Press
Washington
State Department
Navy Department
Tsingtao
Democrats Rally To Defend Pacts
Washington reports Senate Democrats rallied to defend the administration reciprocal trade agreements program amid Republican pressure to suspend it. Senator Butler proposed the State Department halt negotiations, while Democrats warned such actions could trigger world economic disaster and domestic repercussions. Senator Hatch called the plan disastrous for the nation and world, and Senator Tydings warned of political consequences for the Republicans.
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Washington
Senate
GOP
Congress
Butler
Senator Hatch
D-Nm
Hatch
Tydings
San Francisco man seeks wife after Tule Lake drawing
A 41 year old San Francisco bachelor who won a Tule Lake California homestead drawing says he is seeking a wife. He plans courtship and notes he has acquired a new residence and is ready for marriage. The ad hints at his prize and readiness to move forward with domestic life.
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San
Francisco
Tule
John” P
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