Railroad to Use Trucks for Mail and Express
A Western Maryland official announced the removal of trains 1 and 4 on the Hagerstown to Baltimore run will not disrupt mail or express service. An overland system with three tracks will handle mail and express on the same schedule, and may outperform rail service. The change follows years of losses totaling 70,415 over three years, with protests noted but public awareness limited.
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Western Maryland
Hagerstown
Baltimore
Iremass
Maryland
Local Man Among Many Transferred In Military Move
Master Sergeant Lester L. Seibert of this city was among sixty men from the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron at Cha nute Field. They left for Tulsa Ohio to aid in supervising U S Air Corps technical training command. The transfer forms part of moving control bases of six Army ground schools and 15 civilian training schools from Cha nute Field. Twenty six men from the squadron remain at Cha nute Field and will depart today.
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Lester L. Seibert
Air Corps Technical Training Center
Chanute Field
Tulsa
Ohio
U. S. Air Corps Technical Training Command
Chanuty Field
Cheate Field
Fire Fighters Learn Duties at Maryland course
FIRE fighters at the University of Maryland conference heard a FBI official say industrial saboteurs pose the greatest defense threat to plants. E P Coffey warned fire marshals that arson specialists are hard to catch and that timely reporting helps trap saboteurs. He cited sabotage of hoses, lines, couplings, sprinklers, and extinguishers as proven tactics.
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College Park
Federa Bureau of Investigation
University of Maryland
E. P. Goifer
FEE
Coffer
FBR
Coffey
Damages Awarded in Death of Minnesota Senator
Norma Ward Lundeen will receive 10000 dollars in damages for the death of her husband Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota in a crash near Lovettsville Virginia on August 31, 1950. William Johansen, 34, executed in San Quentin Prison gas chamber for killings in a morgue. The Hagerstown Connell of the United Travelers of America No 311 will meet at the Odd Fellows Temple Saturday at 3 o'clock, to inaugurate candidates and begin the fall campaign. attendance urged.
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Washington
Norma Ward Lundeen
Ernest Lundeen
Minnesota
Lovettsville
San Quentin
Calif
William Johansen
Hagerstown Connell
United Travelers of América
Odd Fellows ‘Temple
Cramp Shipyard Reopens as Wilkes-Barre Launched
The 10,000 ton Navy cruiser Wilkes-Barre keel laying signals Cramp Shipyard near Philadelphia reopens after 14 years idle. The restored yard, famed for Civil and World War fleets, launches a $100.9 million government build program to equip Americas two ocean navy amid celebration and a Keynote by Admiral Mauarold BR.
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Philadelphia
Wilkes-Barre
Certury-Old
Cramp
Usele Sam
America
Hensington
Admiral Mauarold BR
Naval Operations and Motive
Garbage Spatter on Mitchell Ave and Fire Crews Respond
Fire company crews cleaned Mitchell Avenue after a garbage truck toppled, scattering waste across the street. Rain aided cleanup as firefighters worked to flush the area. Other text mentions political figures and demographics with unclear relevance.
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Western Enterprise Fire Company
Mitchell Avenue
What Men Will Do for Money
A 1941 copper cent set in a concrete cornerstone in the courthouse alley was dug free with a hammer and chisel. Police report several clues to the culprit’s identity following the theft.
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Court House Alley
Plea Issued After Plane Crash Fatally Burns Three
Mrs Arthur Kramer mother of Georgene three of three children killed when an army pursuit plane crashed near their home. She wrote to Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt asking to use her influence to bar planes from flying over congested areas.
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Hempstead
Arthur Kramer
Georgene
Franklin
Roosevelt
Joint Senate House Committee To Adjust Tax Bill Differences
The committee reached two concessions to avert prolonged debate. They dropped an amended provision estimated to raise 50 million annually and promised quick action on a pension rider for monthly payments to all over six. The plan lowers personal exemptions and raises tax rates, with a joint conference to iron out remaining differences before September 15.
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Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
California
Idaho
Washington
Finance Committee
Barkley
George
D.-Ga
Treasury
Senate
House
Roosevelt
LaFollette
Congress
Senate House Committee
la Follette
Expert Claims Adopted Babies Often Are Smarter Than Average
Evanston Illinois reports Dr. Harold M. Skeels of the University of Iowa says adopted infants from low intelligence or low status homes reach IQ levels equal to or above the general population. He studied IQs of children adopted from Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home, noting foster homes were superior and early placement under two years. The findings suggest maternal or paternal deficits do not deter placing infants in adoptive homes.
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Evanston
Ill
American Psychological Association
Harold M. Skeels
University of Iowa
Iowa
Skeels
Fails in third attempt to join the Army
Timothy C. Abbott of Cumberland Maryland fails for the third time to enter the Army at State Selective Service headquarters. Officials would not disclose the reason. Abbott had a prior operation and sought a medical clearance after a six month convalescence.
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Baltimore
Timothy C. Abbott
Cumberland
Army
Selective Service
Abbott
State Medical Board
Rare print of York County court house in historic hotel lobby
A rare print depicting York county Virginia court house as it stood when the Continental Congress met there has excited government historians. The copy, over 200 years old in parts, is in the lobby of the Washington Hotel in Princess Anne Maryland and may reach the national archives.
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Princess Anne
Sept
York County
Court House
Continental Congress
National Archives
Washington Hotel
War In the East film shocks British public
A motion picture claimed to be captured from Germany and showing the Nazi offensive against Russia is being distributed in Britain. The government hopes the film will jar the public from complacency, labeling it a record of the German total war. Berlin reportedly counters with a cinema showing Village in a Red Storm.
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London
Russia
Britain
East
Ministry of Information
Berlin
Roten Sturm
Schools face huge problem with postwar building surge
The U S Office of Education will provide funds for school construction once approved. Communities will run two to four shifts, classrooms move to basements and community spaces, and idle stages will be used. An estimated 1,000 new teachers are needed amid a looming male-teacher shortage. Curricular changes include more Spanish and added Portuguese, with high schools and colleges playing key roles in the defense program.
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U.S. Office of Education
John W. Studebaker
U.S
Studebaker
Latin America
Studewaker
Hood College names acting dean after resignation
Dr. Henry T. Stair, Hood College president, announced the appointment of Miss Dorothy Morvill, Ph. D. as acting dean. The move comes after Dean Helen D. Cragdon resigned to become president of Lake Erie College for Women in Painesville Ohio.
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Frederick
Henry T. Stair
Hood College
Dorothy Morvill
Helen D. Cragdon
Lake Erie College For Women
Painesville
Ohio
Not Etiquette and a Street Robbery in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on a September 32 incident Douglas Miller seeks an introduction for new friends. An amiable encounter in a restaurant led to a stranger punching him and robbing him of a wallet containing $50 and a $100 diamond ring before fleeing.
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Philadelphia
Douglas Miller
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