Frederick News-Post (Newspaper) - July 22, 1946, Frederick, Maryland Today Wana shearers 92 Low 68 i people still kick when j they have a leg to stand oa 190 LEASED WIBE AND FEATURES FREDERICK MD MONDAY MORNING JULY 22 1946 PAGES TODAY CENTS HEAVY RAINFALL BREAKS DROUTH IN THIS COUNTY WIFE IS SERIOUSLY HUKT Cl CAUSE SERIES Cmm Barn By Fire Negro Lodge bers Routed TEMPERATURE HITS 98 HERE SATURDAY Most sections of Frederick and adjoining counties got from drouth and heat Saturday and day afternoons More than an inch and a half of ram was recorded here Lightning struck the bare on the Crum farm be- tween Walkersville and Mt sant about o'clock Saturday afternoon Fire destroyed the barn and contents Lightning also struck a gasoline pump Bell's Sling station at Harmony Grove about o'clock Saturday afternoon A motor was destroyed by fire 98 Here Saturday It was not until a new season recorded afternoon that tne broke the most sustained heat wave of Uie season Steady showers followed in the wake of the thunderstorm Saturday after- noon and a heavy shower durinc the The mercery moved back to 92 decrees afternoon before the second hit weatherman credited 1.04 inches of rainfall prior to 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon and 48 of an inch more to 5 p m Sunday Only 1.07 inches had fallen previously this month The total for the is now 2 59 inches The weather prophet promises more warm and humid weather day with probable this afternoon or evening Some Corn Flattened Not all sections of the County got as much rainfall as recorded in Frederick The southern and eastern areas got most of the fall Saturday afternoon as well as any damace and rain tened much of the growing com in jome sections but no serious Injury to the corn is anticipated The Sunday afternoon stonr disrupted parade of the colored of Pythias gathering here for their annual convention As the marchers reached the wall Jackson bridge over Carroll Creek on North Bentz street rents of rain sent them scurrying for any available cover by two bands the several hundred visiting had marched from Ninth and Market streets southward before rain broke their ranks Potomac Edison of- said many transformer fuses were blown out during the end storms Tree limbs blown across caused much of the trouble Electric current was off in the Point of Rocks community for a short time Saturday evening Utility company officials said no major damage was caused and ice was quickly restored in sections affected Saw Hit Neighbors saw lightning strike the Crum barn which was filled to capacity with wheat hay and Continued On Page Six Mrs Happy Johnny Zufall timore Of Automobile Accident Baltimore July ne Mae Zufall 32 wife of Happy Johnny Zufall entertainer re- chest contusions and in- ternal injuries when her bile skidded at Joppa road and Bellona avenue and struck an tric pole Saturday Taken to Union Memorial pital her three children who also were injured Zufall was said to be IT a condition Zindy Zufall 7 her daughter a possible broken Nancy 5 another daughter lacerations of the head and a shoulder injury and Tommy 4 a son was shaken up Tommy was released from the hospital Happy Johnny Zufall who had gone to Pa to fill an engagement at a carnival was notified of the accident by the Towson police Patrolman Ross Gagliano investigated The auto- mobile was badly damaged The live in the 300 block Oak Forest drive Parkville Rep May And Two OF ACCIDENTS Two Injured In Collision With Truck Near town Sunday FOUR MOTORCYCLISTS HURT NEAR THURMONT PEARL HARBOR COMMITTEE IN DISAGREEMENT Diplomatic Facts Should Supplement Present Re- port Ferguson Says Theatrical Producer Is Held In Fatal Accident Saa Diego Calif July 21 George White 52 who identified himself as the theatrical producer noted particularly for his George White Scandals was charged day with suspicion of down a newlywed pair with his automobile and speeding away He booked at the San Diego County jail on the statute charges of negligent homicide and failure to stop and give aid Officers said the newlyweds a middle-aged man and his girl bride had parked their automobile and crossing the highway after dark last pockets full of souvenir trinkets of their Mexican marriage trip White's residence s in wood The victims were Claude Lester Lee 42 of Ana killed outright at last night and his bride Ann Osborne Lee IS who died in a hospital at a m today White was arrested on the out- skirts of San Diego 10 miles from the scene of the at Solana Beach on highway 101 the re- port by State Highway Patrolmen Harold McCrear and Luther Hegg said THE WEATHER The weather for Maryland today Continued warm and humid with scattered thundershowers probable That Saturday evening shower arrived was welcome Less lightning would bo ed j Washington July 21 said today the State Department should merit Congress Harbor re- ports with diplomatic facts Ferguson said he was sure the joint committee which reported its I findings on the December 7 1941 i debacle last night did not get all the information to which the public is entitled about international bearing on the But the Michigan Republican said the hearing went as far as a Congressional committee could go He foresaw no attempt to reopen it during this or the next session It would be less he told a reporter Signed Minority Report Ferguson who signed a minority report differing with the on who was to blame complained also that Miss Grace Tully to the late President velt was permitted to Mr Roosevelt's official ence to determine parts of j it related to Pearl Harbor I I feel the hearing was very the Senator Observed But I hope some day we will set all the diplomatic information I would like to see the State ment some day cive out everything in relation to it The minority report also signed by Senator Brewster that the whole question of whether or not it would been possible to avoid war proper diplomatic action and thus avert the Pearl Harbor tragedy was left largely unexplored The majority report signed by i the other eight members of the i committee and tbe minority 1 ings are ready for the archives j They require no further action by I Congress j Blamed On Military j Tne majority laid sole blame on j i military men for the failures j ing to the disaster It declared that Mr Roosevelt and his Cabinet discharged their responsibility with distinction ability and fore- dent and Cordell HulL his i of State made every i sifale effort to avert war i Pie majority findings criticized Pearl Harbor commanders Gen Waiter C Short and Ad- j Husband E Kimmel and the War Plans and Intelligence j is ions of the Army and Navy here Brewster and Ferguson ed responsibility should be shared j by Mr Roosevelt Secretary of War Secretary of the Navy I Knox Gen George C Marshall Chief of Staff Admiral Harold C Stark Chief of Naval Maj Gen Leonard T Gerow Chief I of War Plans Short and Kimmel j Rep who signed i the majority report wrote a ate opinion contending that secret diplomacy was at the root of the tragedy and that the report had to throw as soft a af i possible on the Washington scene TO REPLACE BRIDGE Gettysburg July old covered bridge in Adams county 192 feet long will be reconstructed as a modern steel structure as loon as the arrangements can be made The bridge is located in townships of Cumberland and Mt Joy and spans the river near Harney One span of the bridge dropped 22 feet into the river last December and was swept The bridge has been supported by props since that time The bridge has been closed to traffic since last Summer Wet highways were held re- sponsible for two of three dents reported by State Police at Barracks B over tbe week-end Two persons were injured about o'clock Sunday afternoon when a car failed to negotiate the curve on Route 15 at the northern outskirts of and ran 1 into a large tractor and trailer loaded with peaches j Mrs Ester Goldberg Alexandria j Va and her son i ward Goldberg were taken to the Frederick City Hospital with severe lacerations Mrs Goldberg i also had a possible arm fracture i Skidded Into Truck j State Trooper William Houck said the and her son were passengers in a car driven by her husband William David Goldberg I Alexandria merchant His car failed to make the curve and t ded into the truck driven by Richard F Pearson Hillsboro N C The car was considerably damaged and the tractor was little damaged Goldberg was charged with failing to keep to the right j of the center of the highway j posted collateral for a 1 ing J Four persons riding on 1946 by New York Daily News from Telephoto Rep Andrew J May Dem Ky chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee is hugged bv Mrs Muriel Garrson a daughter of Murray Carlson while second wife at May's left during wedding reception for another at Hotel Pierre New York Jan 2 Garsson now reported in Cuba is one of two brothers who headed several Illinois war material firms new being investigated by the Senate CONGRESSMAN MAY EXPECTED 21 ARE CHARGED TO IGNORE HOUSE SUMMONS CITY POLICE Washington July 21 House probably after Congress adjourns least to need 1 power to call his owa i I I cycles were slightly injured about a Senate War Investigating Com- The committee's subpoena o'clock Saturday evening in summons to explain his j ted May to appear for questioning an unusual accident at j intervention oa behalf of Tuesday No was made ville on Route 15 A motorcycle gn Illinois munitions combine meet the conditions he set up operated by Richard L j These sources declining to j for his testimony Washington with his wife Mrs Elaine Keegan riding tandem Of Entered During Week-End AT PRESIDENT OF REBIRTH OF OPA BOLIVIA SLAIN ON COMPROMISE IN REVOLUTION HELD PROBABLE Institutional Government Is Truman Indicates He Will By Reluctantly Sign led Rebels Legislation PORTION OF IMMEDIATE LID JOINS REVOLUTIONISTS PUT ON COMMODITIES La Paz Bolivia July Washington A re- seemed soured as with weapons seized in official said Presides t fighting Government had indicated would holes today overthrew the regime reluctantly compromise of President Gualberto legislation which leaves undecided and announced that they had i whether controls restored on ed him a list of major foods As fighting continued against The measure opens tne way for soybeans searched for the leading backers of and food and feed products made regime who had from them There is no assurance ed remained on the alert to pre- j control will be restored on these vent a and re- items at ail leased imprisoned political Chairman Spenee of the House Banking Committee who led The victory of the revolutionists i the Cr s came after three days of battling in the streets of La Paz Bolivian tive bin bu h strong man yesterday haa do j h a new Cabinet composed entirely of military men some units of the Bolivian army joined the revolutionary movement which pass it- I believe the dent will sign it as a last recourse However OPA Administrator f Paul Porter declined to sav nac formed from he wouW recommend civilian groups other veto Judre Is Selected Nestor Guillen dean of the It was a stormy week-end both mit use of their names reported Meanwhile the committee called from the standpoint of weather and that May a change of miad far Justice Department records of i police activity 1 skidded on the wet highway His over week-end would on J its inquiry into a check Assault and battery drunken brother James L Keegan and tbe j constitutional rigats as a Court of the district of La Paz was one of the members of Delayed The compromise arrived at last night by a conference committee breaking 3 tne new Government selected by five-day deadlock does not re- tne revolutionists A store price immediately on tive from the University of La Paz meats dairy products grains anc a representative from the j and soybeans and foods and Teachers Confederation also were feed products made from them latter's wife riding tandem also j were thrown to the highway when described by Rep Coffee i driving and neace disturbance as s campaign contribution from j vied with the plain busy with legislative Eivind Anderson Washington drunkenness to of Congress and say that he j the second motorcycle skidded j j defense contractor in 1941 i account for a total of 21 arrests when the rider tried to avoid Groundwork for such a move oc i Senator Brewster a check-up was made ung the overturned cycle j part was laid last night with Coffee's explanation of the dav Collaterals ranged i All four were treated by a -n announcement that he bad re- from named Three other members of Government were ed later tonight Radio America where the gency committee of La Paz Uni- versity was organized announced that hsd been killed by the people The radio called for mont physician and Mrs Elaine ferred to an attorney the wasnington J was brought to the j of the call to testify The asked for a a belated Washington I Monje Gutierrer president of the and said upward through 55 and District Court to deliver the would be i until they reached the higher j government to the explanation bracket of and Some i bracket of 3250 and Some i and appealed to the armed i erick Ciry Hospital by State j House Military Committee j The more quickly he appears the paid most didn't and consequently forces to isolate er Houck Mrs Keegan was dis- msn he had been too to better were held in for hearin some time in the indefinite future i no basis for action j charged after treatment for a j attend i lacerated elbow No charges were 1 preferred Drivers Charged I Drivers of three vehicles were I charged with reckless driving by 1 State Trooper Charles C McLane i about o'clock Saturday Tn ing following a three car collision LITTLE VARIETY TO on Route 340 between Jefferson and Trooper McLane said a new sedan driven by James L j and have taken up positions on GRAIN CAR SHORTAGE SYKESVILLE HITS WHEAT SHIPMENT I jEast Patrick street Saturday ing about o'clock by Lieut Frank Dorsey Irving Shankle charged by I Frith with assault and deposited cash bond in the i amount of for s hearing son Baltimore proceeding toward Food b Adequate To Maintain Bulk Of Kansas Crop Is Off j Frederick was passing a truck i without clear vision ahead forcing another machine driven by Landis C Fox this city off the highway j Weight But Lacks ness Official I night He was by Officer Martin Ki i Seven Summoned j Seven colored residents on West All Saints street couldn't sleep on Sykesville July 21 diet Kansas City Kas July 22 j account of the police said t Springfield State Mental Declining prices and a continuing because they and swerved back onto the i is adequate to maintain shortage of boxcars in some Ample storage lities Reported Avenue Arce Fight At Arsenal Heavy fighting occurred at the arsenal before the forces which included students forced the backers of to Large stores of arms and munition were concentrated at the university where regiment was formed to put any attempt at a age All three drivers were Bowen Bernard Ambush Francis OM I and of the Tomlinson added that although to appear reckless driving and cited statements earlier this week r before Magistrate fnr Ambush Effie Fisher Chester Movement j who were reported to have escaped Tne MNR is the political which Supported Villarroel In addition to directing this party DUDUC earner tnis r j j Ld 26 cents is daily for of wheat now Regina is under cover ana ample others trapped in weekend sPace hss bcen dragnet Hallei anCC feed 400 employes in addition to b-v Sram elevator Albert Charles ard Marvin Jones in Brunswick cach food the sum i Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock jy is 22 cents The hospital must No one was injured Division Charter of Economy and Minister of the 2566 patients TomHnson ex- But because of the boxcar T Johnson Thelma Johnson James Villarroel had served as dent since December 20 1943 He mach is stin Piled on Blackston all after a group of Tomlinson gave the following some of it of city G imple menu served general Bertie McKinsey y sample ents one day last weekt Some elevator operators said j w Va and Edgar Mathias h Being Sought Locally 1 Electing Alton Shaff v man pro tern and A Melvin i and one pat of oleomargarine facilities to j preferring charges m er secretary Frederick County fee with milk and sugar j iOr higher They to the above named were members of Scrapple potatoes Declared that many larmers have j Sgr Jn Keao army officers in cooperation with he revolutionary cereal one expected fanners who have veterans of two wars Sunday for- mally applied for a charter in the Blue and Gray Association Charles M Sinclair national Scrapple potatoes ed cabbage bread coffee with i milk and sugar dissatisfaction The evening menu varied in ithe I price which fell steadily during i A the j six and officers Nelson Cockrell ment deposed the government of Gen Enrique Penaranda and set up a junta Later the junta was dissolved and However it creates a three-man board with higher authority than OPA to determine these items shall be If this board fails to act by August 20 OPA then will have authority to restore ceilings at its own election There was a difference of ion among the conferees whether tbe they drafted would permit the control board to restore prices on these food items before August 20 under any circumstances They will have another look at the measure tomorrow on that point before it to House and Senate The board would however have authority to restore ceilings prior to August 20 if it sees fit on poultry eggs food and teed ducts made from them tobacco and its products and petroleum and its products Provisions Cited As tbe will go into the House and Senate Tuesday for votes here are the major 1 A year's continuation of fied price control and rent unchanged OPA would have all its old power to set rent ceilings 2 A new pricing formula that will mean higher prices of many manufactured articles This ula requires that producers and processors ceilings be placed high enough to take care of the average increase in costs in their industry since 1940 OPA is allowed some discretionary in making such increases 3 A stipulation that price ingi snail be lifted when supply of an article or product comes into balance with demand and normal competitive forces are restored 4 Removal from OPA of power of final determination whea replaced by a provisional items shali be decontrolled ment which Villarroel headed In lodging this authority in the the election of June 2 tbe man board to be appointed by the each of four dining rooms No 2 dark hard wheat sold on Dietz No i Kansas City market Ian week will be in Frederick Thursday to bread coffee from to as compared accept the application for a j Xo Navy bean soup pickled j a top of which j 1 i 20 cents since OPA i tOf ter First meeting of the j beets bread coffee butterscotch was P ick post will be August 3 at the pudding Prices went l- I c State Armory here No Steamed potatoes stewed i Joe Fleming of Hutchmson Kas A truCK rorn he Relief Center Ten signers for a local charter I squash raw onions bread tea j President of the Cano Chain in New Windsor recently picked in the national No Potato salad cheese i 90 elevators estimated that 60 up pounds of clothing and or 70 percent of this year's wheat 248 pounds of canned food at the George Hoffman 4 c MNR gained a majority in the j President subject to Senate I Constituent Assembly ana one of i This is the same board Wn first acts was to will determine whether meat i elect Villarroel as constitutional and the other food items shall DP President placed back under controls j 5 What the President called a V it l f e i plus provision for profits Lar of and appliance ers and an end to OPA's maximum sion Association yesterday were bread tea SnaiT Seeger Ruger R Rice Governor O'Conor yesterday croo is still on the farms parsonage of tiie Frederick Church Are Captured By Police average price regulation j to force manufacturers to produce Two youths who admitted low price clothing The Hays Kas city flour mills J of the Brethren Of this amount ing a car in Atlanta Ga on July was sent immediately to j appropriations der Sinclair at Baltimore FRACTURES COLLARBONE t While practicing Sunday in J aration for competition in the i Liberty town tournament month W Jerome Offutt local torney was thrown from his horse and sustained a fractured collar BUILDING FOR Thomas Bennett and Hun 1 Oil lucre w LAIC wi 044 i high due to lack of facilities for Reformed church and 30 j near Reese Carroll County The violation of price controls turning was given by members of the two youths were parked in the car 1 A requirement that in esta Hunter I Drabs Lutheran and Methodist daring a rainstorm when another i lishing maximum prices contractors are grading a lot -i joining the Station July 21 EDis was f T C A W applicable I churches Much of the clothing car ran into the rear of the parked j to wholesale or retail distributors given oy citizens of Frederick machine The youths wanted to manufactured articles or Cox Jr 16 son of the late Henry G E Brengle Wilson Avenue nas settle for bone He was removed to tbe equipment A portion of i was inspecting a 22 five toa has been The youths identified as Joseph may oe used i calibre rifle police reported ered locally and taken to New Randolph Chancey 23 and Or Richard C Dodson Cecil Windsor The young people of the topher Crane 23 both of Atlanta church made over 600 pounds said they went to Philadelphia for shipment abroad from Atlanta and left Philadelphia damage but when agricultural allow of the other car chose the current cost of acquisition of the youths drove any commodity plus such average percentage discount or markup as I Frederick City Hospital for ment and later discharged to return to his home at 266 Dill avenue The accident occurred on the of his brother Bernard L Offutt near LeGore THET WERE FIRST First white women to travel the Overland Trail through South Pass Wyo were the wives of Spalding and Whitman two i Bridge for a or other purposes j ACCEPTS COLLEGE POST County medical examiner who re- j turned a verdict of accidental j Dr Orville L Davis who has death said Richard had been in- center has facilities to dry clean Saturday Atlanta authorities said both were under indictment for larceny fA autos The youths waived extradition and will be re- turned to Atlanta this week been serving as pastor of the Union the rifle as it lay on a clothing slightly soiled and has new Bridge Methodist Church for more table in the living room of the equipment to repair shoes needing than a year has accepted a position boys West Nottingham home at a college in Indiana and will i Young Cox was in the kitchen at leave for that place about August the time minor repairs Alfred E Smith attended school j 1 It is not known as vet Dodson said the gun was for only seven years but had of the world's will succeed Dr Davis Union dentally discharged as it was i orary degrees from known diamonds have come from ed through the kitchen door ties Africa was in effect Mardi 31 1946 This would stop a large portion of OPA's cost absorption program distributors are required to accept lower profits so that not all of higher manufacturing costs is passed on to the consumer WOULD BE THE SAME An inhabitant of Mars or any other of the planets in our solar system would see the tion of stars as we see them from the earth