Open Hearing on Communism May Draw Hundreds
Reported remarks describe time allotments for proponents and opponents at a hearing on communism. The session featured discussion of reapportionment plans, a potential referendum to freeze House seats, and bills on local rule, sales tax relief for farm machinery, and a toll bridge across the Patuxent River. Senate action lagged behind House activity as budget considerations began.
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Berst
Della
D.balio
State Commission
Frank B. Obert
Baltimore
Senate Judiciary Committee
House of Delegates
Legislative Council
Deliar
D-Balto
Judiciary Committee
Hall Hammond
William
Wash
House
Senate
General Assembly
Maryland
State Roads Commission
Patuxent River
Benedict
Charles County
Hallowing Point
Calvert
Senate Finance Committee
Lane
Carter
D.balto
Klux Klans Parade in Rain Draws Dense Crowd
About 1,000 robed Klansmen paraded in heavy rain at Denmark 8. C. Feb. 7. Grand Dragon Samuel Green of Atlanta declaimed that equal rights for colored people would meet white opposition and warned that the Klansmen would fight to the last drop of their blood. He called Northerners responsible for the Negro problem and affirmed Klansmen’s Christian beliefs. Police reported no disturbances during the parade or cross burning that followed.
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Denmark
Samuel Green
Atlanta
South
Green
Grand Dragon
W. B. Whetstone
Conveyor Plan For Iron Ore Project Details Revealed
Engineers describe a long haul conveyor belt system for iron ore with 172 belts over a mile long, 72 to 42 inch widths, 151000 tons steel, 267 miles of belting, 400000 trough idlers and 217 power units. System operates 52 million tons yearly capacity and 30 million tons profitable, fully enclosed to prevent pilferage.
Summoned Not Arrested After Auto Crash In Keadysville
A Mail report wrongly stated Leater Easterday, 43, Keadysville, was arrested after he struck Patrolman Fred Rickard with his car on Monday evening. The correct item was that Easterday was issued a summons to appear in magistrate court.
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Leater
Keadysville
Fred Rickard
Easterday
Rickard
Fresh Seafood Selection At Tangier Sound Market
A list of fresh seafood items including black bass, porgies, trout, kingfish, perch, Boston mackerel, halibut steak, salmon steak, bluefish fillet, haddock fillet, cod, smelts, jumbo shrimp, chowder ingredients, clams, and Tangier Sound oysters. Dense with named species and market offerings, indicating a seafood shop display and varying sizes.
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Tangier Sound
Parachute Group Holds Training Period in 1949
Parachute Group D 319 Parachute Infantry Regiment conducted its third training period for the first quarter of 1949. The session covered current events lecture by Lt William Pennington map reading by Lt Robert Bohman and chemical warfare by Lt Steven Newton under Major George Richard Schnurr who will file a training report. Several non commissioned officer vacancies remain open and interested veterans are asked to contact Major Harry J Clopp Room 208 Earle Building.
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319
Parachute Infantry Regiment
William Pennington
Robert Bohman
Steven Newton
George Richard Schnurr
Harry J. Clopp
Earle Building
Council Okays Airport Plans
The council favors extending the north-south runway to 6,000 feet and widening to 150 feet for about 600000 while considering a new 6,000 foot north-west runway costing up to 2000000. Stump and the CAA would share roughly half and a quarter of costs respectively, Maryland urged to aid financing as master plans, CAA review, and Bourne to draft plans proceed. Baltimore report notes criminals posted bail under Maryland salvo tax law.
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Stump
S Stump
CAA
Maryland
Thomas Bourne
Washington
Bourne
Baltimore
State Comptraller
UMW Urges Nation To Drop Labor Law For A Month
United Mine Workers proposed to Congress that the nation suspend labor relations law for a month to draft new legislation. The plan criticizes the Taft Hartley Act as a threat and calls for repeal, while warning no strikes should harm the country during the interim.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Miners’ Union
Senate Labor Committee
America
UMW
Lewis
Montana farmer pleads for aid in battle against wild ducks
A Lewiston Montana farmer, Ervin Weinheimer, appeals to Senator Ecton for government help as 5,000 wild ducks invade his Warm Springs Creek haystacks. Despite attempts with nets and blanks, the birds consume feed meant for cows. he seeks legislation to give fair treatment to both farmer and ducks.
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Montana
Washington
Ervin Weinheimer
Lewiston
Ecton
Mont
Warm Springs
Weinheimer
Edon
Westheimer
New Clash With Russia Seen Deepens Hungary Strife
Secretary of State Acheson linked Russia to the Mindszenty case and signaled a possible appeal to the United Nations as part of broader moves. He indicated considering actions outside the UN and direct challenges under the postwar peace treaty with Hungary over rights protections.
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Senate
Acheson
Russia
Mindszenty
Basia
Hungary
U.N
Elungary
Germany
Secret Consistory Called By Pontiff
Vatican reports Pope Pius XII summoned a secret consistory to address the clash between Communism and Christianity. The move follows the Hungarian situation and the life sentence of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty amid ongoing tensions with communist regimes. No public reference to Communism by name has been made previously.
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Vatican City
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Pius XII
Cardinal Address Cited For Public Discourse Release
The speaker plans a Latin address referencing the Cardinals and notes the discourse, likely to be made public on the same day as the consistory convenes. The timing suggests simultaneous publication during the meeting, with emphasis on formal church matters and official remarks.
Humphreys Twins Born After Wrong Twice Prediction
Salisbury Ma Feb 10 1910 Mrs Archie I Humphreys defied forecasts by delivering twin boys, confirming the couple’s first two guesses were incorrect. The twins arrived in the evening, bringing joy to the Humphreys household.
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Salisbury
Archie I. Humphreys
New Englanders Pioneered Early US Watchmaking
The rise of mass produced watches and clocks in the United States grew through Eli Terry Seth Thomas and Chauncey Jerome from New England. Their innovations in the 18th and 19th centuries transformed timekeeping and manufacturing in America.
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United States
New
Cardinal Held In Budapest Prison
The court hears cases from eight days after an appeal with no fixed act deadline. Count Zoltan K. J. Deczaky in Munich says he has documentary proof Cardinal Mindazenty did not plot to overthrow the government as of May 14 1945. He cites a letter claimed to be from the Cardinal and notes UN secretariat at Lake Success received a communication but would not disclose its contents.
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Ators
UMW
Benator Taft
Ohio
Taft
Lewis
Senate Labor Committee
Florida
Zoltan K. J. Deczaky
Munich
Germany
Mindazenty
United Nations Secretariat
Lake Success
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