Dixie Democrats Consider Own Convention To Split With Truman
Southern leaders discussed forming an all southern convention to oppose President Truman on civil rights. A Mississippi senator said the aim is to win over governors to withhold some of the South's electoral votes. Governors meet in Tallahassee Friday to tackle Truman's 10 point civil rights program.
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Washington
Truman
Tallahassee
Fla
Mr. Truman
Congress
Eastland
Miss
Jackson
Walter Sillers
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Winter Grips Midwest and East with Deep Freeze
The Midwest faced another round of subzero temperatures and icy conditions as a mass from central Canada pushed into the region. International Falls and Pembina reported minus 25 F, with freezing rain and snow hindering travel in Kansas and western Missouri. The East, including New England, expected a cold wave with forecasted temperatures well below zero in the north and near zero in the south, while California saw rain and hail not enough to ease January drought.
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Montana
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Mercury
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Minn
Pembina
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Missouri
Middle Atlantic States
Gulf Region
San Francisco
California
Weather outlook for Maryland Ohio and nearby regions
Maryland shows partly cloudy and colder tonight with snow possible in the west. Wednesday turns cloudy and cold with some snow in the west. Virginia sees partly cloudy and cooler conditions tonight and Wednesday with snow in the west. West Virginia has cloudy and colder trends tonight and Wednesday with likely snow in the northeast. Ohio begins with cloudy and cold conditions with snow spreading from the south tonight to the north by Wednesday morning, with lighter snow Wednesday and a touch milder by night.
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Maryland
West Portion
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
South Portion
North
Weather summary from Hagerstown station yesterday and today
Yesterday reached 37 degrees with a high as reported. This morning’s low showed an erroneous 265 degrees, wind from the west prevailing.
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Hagerstown
AFL Rejects Wallace and Hints at Isolationist Leader
The AFL Executive Council rejected Henry A. Wallace for President and said it may back a former isolationist senator to lead its political campaign. Burton K. Wheeler was floated as possible director of the AFL Political League, likely to be recommended to the league’s committee after debates among council members.
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Miami
Fla
AFL
Henry A. Wallace
AFL Executive Council
Wallace
Communist Party
Burton K. Wheeler
D-Mont
Andrew J. Biemiller
Milwaukee
Wheeler
Pearson Libel Trial Opens In Jefferson Republican Case
Charles Town West Virginia February 3. Washington columnist Drew Pearson sues the Jefferson Republican for 100000 alleging damage from a May 1946 lecture comment. Judge Decatur H Rodgers bars broad discovery, limits circulation proof to Jefferson and Kanawha counties and statewide total. Jurors questioned. no testimony yet as historic courtroom fills.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Washington
Drew Pearson
Jefferson Republican
Pearson
Rodgers
Republican
District of Columbia
Jefferson
Kanawha
West Virginia
Dynamite suicide in Roanoke alley shocks watchers
Roanoke Virginia February 3 William B Straightiff 31 placed a stick of dynamite in his belt last night and blew himself apart in a snow covered alley near his home. A girl companion Jewell Williamson 34 witnessed the event and said she had pleaded with him not to carry out a death by own action. Police reported holes in her clothing from the blast and the coroner Charles M Irvin ruled death by own action.
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Roanoke
William B. Straightiff
Jewell Williamson
Straightiff
Charles M. Irvin
Six Suits For Divorce Filed Across Town
Six suits for divorce were docketed today. Samuel M. Shaffer vs Frie da B. Shaffer. Paul R. Funkhouser vs Mary C. Funkhouser. Dorothy E B Shindle vs Santford B Shindle. Harry S Beckley vs Grace R Beckley. M Louise Ahalt vs James Ahalt. Hazel R Ricketts vs William F Ricketts.
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Samuel M. Shaffer
Frieda B. Shaffer
Mary C. Funkhouser
Dorothy EB. Shindle
Santford
Shindle
Harry S., Beckley
Grace R. Beckley
M. Louise Ahalt
James Ahalt
Hazel R. Ricketts
William F. Ricketts
Senator Cain Backs Unlimited Rent Increases Plan
Washington reports a proposal for voluntary unlimited rent boosts as a means to end rent controls, with Sen Cain of Washington chairing a banking sub committee studying extension of controls beyond February 29. The plan would let tenants refuse increases but deny lease protections after controls expire, while meat rationing bill prospects remain uncertain.
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Congress
Cain
R-Wash
Senate Banking
Tighe Woods
Charles F. Branman
Flanders
Vermont
Brannan
Tobey
R-Nh
Rat Problem Is Up This Week
Hagerstown set to discuss and act on rat control at the regular Mayor and Council meeting. Bids from exterminators will be heard after residents near Frederick street complained rats from the city dump take shelter in homes during winter. City Clerk Eldon Kerney has received several bids to rid the dump of pests.
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Hagerstown
Frederick Street
Earl Wolfe
Eldon Kerney
St Lawrence Seaway Bill Declared Licked by Lodge
Washington February 3 Senator Lodge Republican Massachusetts said the St Lawrence seaway project is licked. He predicted the Senate may take three weeks to vote but expressed confidence of defeating the bill whether the vote comes soon or later. He plans to press for a vote before the Senate recess Thursday night and warned that delaying would make the country feel we are dawdling.
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Washington
Lodge
$120 Stolen From Man At Boonsboro
Cleve Hutzell of Boonsboro told sheriff deputies the larceny of $120 occurred from his bedroom in a rooming house early today. Deputy Leister Isanogle said Hutzel went to the bathroom to wash and upon returning found the money missing.
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Cleve -Hutzell
Boonsboro
Leister Isanogle
Hutzell
Sledding Boy 6 Hurt After Car Collision
Six year old Henry Tucker of Big Pool sustained brain concussion a fractured femur and multiple injuries when his sled veered onto a highway and hit Jack Michael’s car. The crash happened Sunday near his home. He was treated at Washington County Hospital and reported resting more comfortably.
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Henry Tucker
Big Pool
Washington County
Jack Michael
Michael
Henry
Fred .C. Tucker
W. F. Murray
Jean Holland
Williamsport
Malcolm W. Walden
West Washington Stret
GOP Tax Bill Goes On Ice
The Senate delayed the Republican tax cut bill, signaling a possible two month pause and a likely reduction from the House approved $6.5 billion cut. The House passed the measure 297 to 120, with only one Republican voting against it. Senate Republicans doubt veto override unless revenue loss is trimmed, possibly to about $4 billion, as the chamber waits on the House budget committee's action on President Truman's $39.7 billion appropriation for the new fiscal year.
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House
Rep
H. Carl Anderson
Minnesota
Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Senate
House Budget Committee
Truman
Bold Gunman Captured Here
William Kiehl, 21, was captured at his residence after escaping police last Friday morning when he drew a gun on two officers. He was ordered held in $3000 bond for action by the February grand jury. Police surrounded his home at 219 Suter's alley and arrested him with handcuffs. Det. Sgt. Wayne Sellman and Patrolman Norman Wolfe led the investigation that traced his whereabouts.
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William Kiehl
John Draper
Lowry
Duffey
Winchell
Plume
Kiehl
Suter’s Alley
Kiehlet
Rioting Continues Across India Amid Political Tension
New Delhi reports show two militant Hindu groups Mahasabha and RSS facing arrests for questioning as mobs attack Gandhi peace appeals. Rioters beat and stone opponents while both groups, tied to Hindu nationalist goals, are described as rightist and fascist with youth volunteer arms.
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India
Mohandas
Gandhi
Mahasabha
Rs.s
Great Organization
Moslem League
R.S.S
Rastriya Swayam Sevaysangh
Volunteers
Fear Arabs Gather for General Attack in Damascus
Damascus reports truckloads of armed Arabs entering the city amid claims of an imminent broad assault on Jewish forces in Palestine. Leaders say the Middle East’s finest army is moving in as observers note preparations, possible Feb. 15 timing, and campaigns to unite Arabs against partition.
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Syria
Attakk
Palestine
Fawzi Bey al Kaukji
Middle East
Ahmed Sharabati
Sharabati
United Nations
Camascus
France
Czechoslovakia
Cairo
Board expands county school bus routes with new buses
The Board of Education announces three new school buses and one replacement as it slowly expands routes to improve transportation. Bus No 8 replaced on Hagerstown Halfway route, Bus No 13 added serving Broadfording Road Route 40 to Huyetts and Hagerstown, Bus No 14 serves Maugansville Fairgreen Acres Middleburg Pike and Hagerstown, and Bus No 15 creates a new Pen Mar Cascades Edgemont Greensburg Smithsburg route.
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Wm. Brish
Hagerstfen
Downaville Pike
Broadfording Road
Huyetts
Hagerstown
Maugansville
Fairgreen Acres
Middleburg Pike
Howard R. Poe
Pen
Mar
Cascade
Edgemont
Greensburg
Smithsburg
Investigator Staubs Remains Home After Illness
County investigator Thomas Staubs of South Locust Street was ordered to stay at home for a week to undergo tests after falling ill yesterday.
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Thomas Staubs
Locust Street
US protests Romania accused of violating peace treaty
Washington charged Communist dominated Romania with violating its peace treaty and pressed for human rights. Marshall signaled readiness to discuss Soviet price for an Austrian peace treaty renewing talks of the Big Four in London on February 20. The US protest, led by Rudolph Schoenfeld in Bucharest, suggested Britain may join.
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United States
Russia
Romania
Marshall
Austria
Big Four
Foreign Ministers Council
London
Rosnia
Bucharest
Rudolph E. Schoenfeld
Britain
Mediterranean
Middle 1St
Orient
Mellaha
North Africa
Differences Mar Council Session
United Nations Economic and Social Council meets in Lake Success to resolve discord between Russia and the West. Russia's A A Arutinian fails to cut the agenda and clashes with Willard Thorp. Santa Cruz is elected vice president with Lange abstentions. Subcommission on freedom of information rejects Soviet calls against press propaganda and monopoly.
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Lake Success
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Russia
West
A. A. Arutinian
Poland
Arutinian
Willard Thorp
Thorp
Hernan Santa Cruz
Chile
Oscar
Lange
U. S
Santa Cruz
Malik
U. N. Sub- Commission On Freedom of Information
February clinic schedule announced by Washington County Health Department
The health department on King Street released February clinic times including venereal disease clinics Tuesday and Friday at 7 PM, prenatal Tuesday mornings on Feb 10 and 24, children's Thursday mornings at 9, chest clinics Wednesday mornings at 8, ENT clinics Saturdays Feb 7 and 21, and a cancer detection clinic Monday Feb 9 at 2 PM.Appointments limited to 10 patients per month.
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Washington County Health Department
Maryland
American Cancer Society
Health Department
King Street
Syphilis Tops Monthly Contagious Diseases in County
The January report from Washington County Health Department shows syphilis leading at twenty cases. Diphtheria followed with ten, while gonorrhea, typhoid, and other diseases appear in smaller counts.
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Washington County
Orrhea
Riots in Shanghai as Workers and Women Clash
In Shanghai on February 1, a pitched battle at a cotton mill left three women dead and 110 injured among around 7,000 sitdown strikers, with 400 police also hurt. Over the past week students and cabaret workers rioted separately amid widespread unrest and pessimism among foreign observers.
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Shanghai
Jobless Benefit Claims Rise In Washington County
Claims increased twenty percent in the past week reaching 1211 in Washington County Maryland, reported today by the Hagerstown office of the Maryland Unemployment Compensation Board. Manager D Lee Staley cited bad weather and reduced outside employment as the main factors. Assistant manager D Paul Shilling noted the office was busy with such filings.
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Washington County
Hagerstown
Ofth
Maryland Unemployment Compensation Board
D. Lee Staley
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