China to form joint council to settle civil war issues
Chinese Communist and Chiang Kai-Shek authorities agree to a proposed political consultative council to resolve outstanding civil war issues. The body would meet around November 20, but final peace hinges on Chiang’s order ending bandit suppression. A liberal Democratic League led peace talk spurred the plan amid Manchuria tensions and Assembly timing questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
National Assembly
Manchuria
Tung Pou
Four-Car Pileup Injures Two Near Hagerstown
Two injured in a four car crash on the Middleburg pike two miles north of Hagerstown at 7:50 am. James S. Recher 44 and Dagmar Becher suffered non serious wounds. All involved are Fairchild aircraft employees. Becher admitted responsibility as the line of cars had stopped ahead. No charges were filed. Becher had nose cuts and his wife other injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleburg Pike
Hagerstown
James S. Recher
Dagmar
Bruce Spickler
Iis
Becher
Garnet Samuel Canby
Eleanore B. Poffenberger
Sharpsburg
Chas
W. Harshman
Dale Street
Recher
Fairchild Aircraft
Milk Subsidy Checks for 1000 County Farmers
Substantial dairy subsidies were issued to Washington County farmers, totaling over $92,467 for milk and butterfat during July to September. Payments were 13 cents a pound for butterfat and 55 cents per hundredweight for milk, issued by the Agriculture Adjustment Agency to offset higher feed costs passed to milk consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Agriculture Adjustment Agency
AAA
Four Tips From Old Reliable Cop First Tip Prize
An old regular won the first prize in the Daily Mail top contest with four tips. Topics included recurrent malarial concerns, illegal hunting, egg prices, and motorcyclists with cutouts disturbing East End patients and residents. Second prize went to a housewife who tipped on a veteran fatally injured in a hunting accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Daily Mail
Decline In Blue Ridge Bus Travel
Blue Ridge Lines bus travel has dropped in three months leaving no travelers stranded and few standees at the Hagerstown terminal. About 40 percent of current riders are servicemen and women with this share expected to continue as discharges slow. New buses with more space per passenger arrive around December 15, replacing older units except for emergencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Ridge Lines
Hagerstown
Communists Announce Campaign To Punish Jap War Criminals
The Japan Communist party will sponsor a nationwide probe of Japanese war criminals beginning December 8, Pearl Harbor anniversary. They call for severe punishment and redistribution of farm lands, workers’ control of major industries, and overthrow of the emperor system for a republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan Communist Party
Pearl Harbor
Yodo News Agency
Asahi
Truman and Stassen move from sold rental homes
In St. Cloud, Howard Truman and R. J. Stassen are being forced to move from rented homes sold out from under them. Stassen is described as the former Minnesota governor's cousin, though the note says there is no politics in the situation.
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ST. Cloud
Minn
Truman
Stassen
Howard Truman
R. J. Stassen
Minnesota
Attlee Urges World Atomic Information Pool
A report claims Prime Minister Attlee proposed an international pool for sharing atomic energy discoveries for peaceful use. He would involve President Truman and Canada’s Mackenzie King, asking other nations including Russia and France to participate, with safeguards first. The White House offered no comment after a nine hour meeting.
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Washington
Attlee
Truman
Mackenzie King
Canada
Russia
France
United Nations
White House
Mr. Truman
Condemned Man Escapes Jail in West Virginia
William Turner 27 a condemned slayer escaped the Preston county jail at Kingwood tonight Turner was under death sentence for the fatal shooting of Carla Jean Pratt committed July 31 in front of her parents tavern near Newburg Judge C P Wilhelm sentenced him to death on November 3 State Police Sgt R W Boyles reported the fugitive fled likely in a sheriff’s automobile with no further details available.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Navy
William Turner
Preston County
Kingwood
R. W. Boyles
Boyles
Turner
Moundsville State Prison
Hobart Spindler
Carla Jean Pratt
Newburg
C. P. Wilhelm
Boonsboro Post Buys Pierce King Home on Main Street
The Clopper Michael Post of the American Legion Boonsboro has purchased the Pierce King home on Main Street for a future post house. It will undergo improvements before occupation.
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Clopper-Michael Post
The
American Legion
Boonsboro
Pierce King
Main Street
Legion
Soldier Arrives From Overseas In Newport News
Pfc. Denton T. Bohn of Hagerstown arrived aboard the Joseph Leidy at Newport News Virginia on Saturday after returning from overseas service.
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Pfc
Denton T. Bohn
Hagerstown
Joseph Leidy
Newport News
Postcard From 1909 Reaches Baltimore After 36 Years
A vacation postcard mailed September 18 1909 from Boonsboro Maryland by Mrs. Earl R Williams to Albert A Mogge Baltimore grocer arrived recently The note mentions Buzzard a clerk long deceased and references Taft Perry and Cook battleship Missouri and the surrender in New York The article notes postal explanations are speculative and highlights the long journey of the card across decades
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Earl R. Williams
Albert A. Mogge
Baltimore
Boonsboro
the Buzzard
Buzzard
Mogge
Taft
Frederick Turnpike
Williams
North Pole
Perry
Cook
Missouri
New York
Capper Seeks Parental Role to Halt Juvenile Delinquency
Judge Walter C. Capper addressed the Grand Jury opening the November term of Circuit Court urging parents and guardians to curb juvenile crime. He warned that court action alone cannot solve the surge in delinquency and urged children attend school and church, be home at a reasonable hour, and stressed the need for peace after wartime emergencies. John C. Pangborn is noted as prominent.
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Walter C. Capper
Grand Jury
Circuit Court
Capper
Pinesburg School
Williamsport Public Library
House of Correction
FBI Photo Clue Links Whisky Theft Suspect
The FBI said a photo of a man sipping his favorite whisky helped locate Thomas J. Irwin 37 of Brooklyn who was charged with stealing 180 cases. Irwin, hired by a trucking firm, vanished with the truck and 180 cases, found abandoned in New Jersey.
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Baltimore
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fred Hallford
Thomas J. Irwin
Brooklyn
N. Y
New York City
Hallford
Irwin
New Jersey
Air Force Chief Sees Space Ships Threat from Robots
General Hap Arnold warns in his third annual report that atomic bomb warfare in interstellar space ships looms as a likely future. He envisions enemy incursions by thousands of robotic invaders reaching U.S. shores unless the United States is ready to strike at the source with a strategic air force and one of two atomic bombs. He predicts future warfare will resemble a German V-2 rocket attack.
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Washington
Hap Arnold
Army Air Forces
United States
Hav
Lt Stitley Leaves Army Air Forces
First Lt. Thomas F.E. Stitley of 28 East Franklin Street is honorably discharged from the Army Air Forces at Westover Field Massachusetts separation center after four years as a pilot. He is a graduate of St Mary's High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas FE. Stitley
East
Franklin Street
Army Air Forces
Westover Field
Mass
Stitley
St. Mary's High School
Dove Coup Ends With Eviction Over Back Rent
Perfect Peace, a landlady, won a $60 back rent judgment in municipal court and had the John Dove family evicted from her premises after Perfect Peace defeated them.
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Omaha
Perfect Peace
Doves
John Dove
Weekend Rain Falls Across Region in Small Amount
Keedysville weather observer J A Filler reports .15 inch of rain over the weekend. Weather notes show yesterday's low 42 and this morning 44 as temperatures edge up in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keedysville
J. A. Filler
Atomic Energy and Universal Training Split House Panel
Washington November 12 The House Military Committee remains divided on two hot issues atomic energy control and universal military training. Chairman May backs the atomic energy bill and hearings on universal training continue, while Republicans say both measures are temporarily blocked to gain more time. A committee vote and hearings were postponed, with Rep Short declaring the universal training bill dead for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atomic Energy and Universal Training
Capitol Hill
House Military Committee
May
D-Ky
Short
R.-Mo
Wanda McPherson Remains Critical After Route 40 Crash
Wanda McPherson, 26, of Smithsburg, remains in critical condition with a skull fracture at Washington County Hospital. She was injured October 28 when the coupe she rode in struck a concrete culvert on Route 40 east of Funkstown. Kenneth Creager of Boonsboro, driver, said he was blinded by oncoming headlights. Case pending outcome of her injuries.
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Wanda McPherson
Smithsburg
Washington County
Route 40
Funkstown
Kenneth Creager
Boonsboro
Charles Mades
Colgate Grants Class Absence for Veteran's Wife Birth
Hamilton New York November 12 A rush of married veterans to Colgate university campus prompts a rare excuse. Dr James A Storing director of studies for veterans approved Sidney A Walton Niagara Falls sophomore to take his wife to Oneida hospital where she gave birth to a daughter. It is the first time in Colgate's 126 year history that class calls were excused for this reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
N. Y
Colgate University
James A. Storing
Studies For
Veterans
Sidney A. Walton
Niagara Falls
Oneida Hospital
Daugher
Colgate
Indonesian ask intervention by Soviet Russia
Batavia Java November 12 Foreign Minister Soebardjo appealed for Soviet intervention on behalf of the unrecognized Indonesian Republic as British Indian infantry renewed the house to house assault driving Indonesians from much of Surabaya. Soebardjo asked Molotov to help win justice for Indonesians and said Indonesians would aid Allied forces in disarming and evacuating Japanese in Java. He noted foreign troops on Indonesian soil were undesirable but British troops were tolerable for now. The battle for Surabaya continued with renewed air attacks by the British on Indonesian forces.
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Batavia
Java
Soebardjo
Soerabaja
Britain
Indonesia
V. M. Molotov
Three More Local GIs Receive Discharges
Three Hagerstown area service members were honorably discharged at Fort Meade between November 9 and 11. The men are T-5 William R. Snyder of Williamsport Pvt. Charles A. Coleman of 635 Pennsylvania Avenue and Pfc Raymond H. Gruber of Williamsport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Army Separation Center
Fort Meade
William R. Snyder
Williamsport
Charles A. Coleman
Pennsylvania Avenue
Raymond H. Gruber
Great Flocks Of Wild Fowl Pass Over Here Saturday
One of the largest migrations of wild fowl with geese and ducks moved south over Washington County Saturday afternoon. A single flock of over a hundred geese passed the North End causing excitement among onlookers. Big geese circled the Edgemont reservoir but did not land, flying at nearly tree top height.
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Washington County
North End
Edgemont Reservoir
Parrot Causes Stir in Jackson County Jail
In Medford Oregon on November 12 prisoners and townspeople complained after an overseas veteran’s pure white parrot was placed in the sheriff’s cell block. The bird’s profanity shocked inmates and the public when asked for a cracker.
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Medford
Ore
Jackson County
Polly
Hamilton Park Market Robbed in Hamilton Homes area
Thieves broke into Hamilton Park Market off Middleburg Pike last night or early today, stealing 282 dollars from a cash drawer and a counter bag, plus 500 to 600 dollars in checks left over. At 329 North Potomac Street, intruders ransacked Walter D. Willson home boxes of carpenter tools and attempted to force an old iron safe. investigators City Detective Wayne Sellman and Patrolman Lewis Schmidt are on the case.
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Hamilton Park
Hamilton Homes
Middleburg Pike
Walter D. Willson
North Potomac Street
Willson Heirs
Wayne Sellman
Lewis Schmidt
Family plots to speed Navy discharge
In Nehalem Oregon on November 12 Commander E D Flaherty faced his family discussing his lack of discharge points. His children conceived a plan to help bring him home by writing to his commanding officer and including OPA ration stamps totaling 20 points as a plea to hasten his release.
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Nehalem
Ore
E. D. Flaherty
Flaherty
Navy
Frances Elizabeth Cook Granted Absolute Divorce
Frances Elizabeth Cook has been granted an absolute divorce from Lee Wallace Cook. Attorney Calvert KX Hartle appeared for the complainant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Elizabeth Cook
Lee Wallace Cook
Calvert KX
Hartle
Armistice Day observances mark local memorial events
Hagerstown observes Armistice Day with a memorial service in front of the Courthouse plaque by the American Legion Auxiliary. The parade begins at Sea 34 Welock this afternoon with participation by veterans, auxiliaries, and State Guard units. A veterans’ colors parade forms at Prospect City and moves along to Locust, then north to continue on Page 2.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
United States
Cour House
American Legion Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Vet Crane
Legion Home
Prospect Te Jonathan Street
Prospect Eton
Asigneren
Wreckage Found Today On Mountain Near Beacon NY
Commodore Dixie Kiefer, 49, commanding officer of the First Naval District air bases, is named as one of six killed in a Navy bomber crash on Mount Beacon near Beacon NY. The wreckage was found at 2:35 am. The other five victims were unidentified. Kiefer, known as Captain Dixie for the film Fighting Lady, had been wounded ten times at the battle off Formosa.
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Boston
First Naval District
Beacon
N. Y
Dixie Kiefer
Beason
Dixie Kieffer
Mount Beacon
Here
E.S.T
Commodore Kiefer
Dixie
Kiefer
Ticonderoga
Formosa
Kieffer
Kansas City
Tito Candidates In Yugoslavia Assured Victory In Big Vote
Belgrade reports indicate Marshal Tito's National Front expected to win as incomplete returns show over 39 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the national constituent assembly election. Opposition boycotts failed to deter turnout with women voting for the first time and a festive scene around polling places. Alcohol sales were banned since Friday midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
National Front
National Constituent Assembly
Burned youngster Timothy St Clair listed in fair condition
Timothy St Clair of the 300 block of Elizabeth Street was reported in fair condition at Washington County Hospital after flames ignited his clothing when kerosene was tossed into a fire on November 3. A companion also involved was present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy St Clair
Elizabeth Street
Washington County Hospital
Irate customer threatens to eat ad lines from Oregonian
In Portland on November 12 an angry shopper demanded two lines be removed from a classified ad after claiming it wasn’t printed. He followed through on his promise to eat the lines, alarming clerks as the incident unfolded.
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Portland
Ore
The
Oregonian
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Chiang
Blue Ridge
Boonsboro Post
King Home
American Legion Unit
FBI
Air Force Chief
Arnold
Soviet Russia
Dorothy Witt
Queens
Harlem
Legion Auxiliary
Court House
Sea
Tito
Yugoslavia
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