Frederick News-Post (Newspaper) - February 9, 1954, Frederick, Maryland GOOD A good tax collector can make any business pay Weather Today Windy snow Hurries Temperatures Yesterday High 37 Low 21 Vol 52 LEASED WIRE AND FEATURES THE FREDERICK POST FREDERICK AID TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9 1954 TEN PAGES TODAY CENTS COUNTY ROADS MADE SLIPPERY BY SNOWFALL NORTHERN WESTERN AREAS OF STATE ARE BLANKETED BY UNEXPECTED SNOWFALL Between Three And Five Inches Expected Be- fore Morning TRAFFIC BLOCKED IN THURMONT AREA Unexpected snow was making highways treacherous in this area Monday All available State Roads Commission plows and cindering equipment was called into service The weatherman said between three and five inches could be ex- before it is scheduled to stop early today Two highway accidents were re- ported by State Police last evening as highways took on a slippery coat of ice and snow The U S Weather Bureau in Baltimore said the snowstorm re- from a low pressure tem centered in Canada but ex- tending southward It said this system would move out toward the Atlantic by today Heaviest snowfall in this area was reported in the eastern and northern sections of the county Along the ridge it was an inch deep by 4 o'clock Monday afternoon The Unionville and Liberty tions were also sharing in the heaviest fall Thurmont had about 2 inches by o'clock last night Windy Weather Today The Weather Bureau said rett Allegany Washington erick Carroll Baltimore Harford and Cecil counties would bear the brunt of the storm The forecaster promised winds and snow flurries in this section today There was no immediate an- as to whether public schools would be open in Frederick and neighboring counties Only the northern and eastern areas of Frederick County were ex- to get as much as five inches of snow Other areas were promised about an inch or two Driving in the ern secfibn of Frederick County and in neighboring Carroll County about noon yesterday It ed in tempo after 2 o'clock SRC and State Police said ways were very slippery by 7 o'clock Monday night Some fic occurred Route 81 above Thurmont was blocked for a while when a tractor-trailer jack- knifed across the highway Buses were reported running close to schedules despite slippery going in some sections Several Collisions State said Monday's snowfall and slushy roads caused several property damage automobile accidents but only one person was reported injured Charles Smith 65 of Union Bridge was hospitalized at erick Memorial Hospital for x-rays of a head injury shortly after p m Smith's automobile skidded into a bank off icy Route 75 towards Johnsville north of Liberty Trooper Carlton Lewis brought the injured driver to the hospital in the MSP ambulance for ment of a possible skull fracture Hospital authorities said he was admitted for observation suffering a laceration of the scalp sion and shock after hitting his By The Associated Press A sudden snowstorm whipped through Maryland Monday after- j noon and night leaving northern and western counties under a blanket expected to measure 3 to 8 inches deep and causing road conditions The weather bureau said it would all be over today except for Garrett County where flurries would continue Garrett was already buried under 4 to 5 inches from previous snows when the latest storm moved into the state from the northwest early yesterday afternoon Up to 3 inches had fallen on top of the old snow by p.m and state police said road conditions west of Red Hill near Cumberland were so hazardous they advised motorists not to travel unless absolutely necessary The State Roads Commission had ploughing and cindering crews out in full force to keep main highways open to traffic in the counties which were hardest hit Jams still developed in some sections though On Route 81 near Fairmont in Frederick County traffic was blocked by a tractor-trailer truck which jackknifed across the way Highway State Police also reported early evening on the York road north of Towson and on U.S Route 40 near Randallstown On U S 64 at the eastern edge of Hagerstown other traffic occurred when motorists going home from work were caught out chains on their tires Western Maryland and the ern tier of counties made up of Washington Frederick Carroll Baltimore Harford and Cecil caught the brunt of the storm The weather bureau said depths in these counties would range trom 3 to 5 inches generally and tions closest to the Pennsylvania border could expect 6 to 8 inches Parkton in upper Baltimore County had recorded 5 inches by 5 p.m The Baltimore area was getting only about 1 to 2 inches and ties of extreme Southern Maryland and the Southern Delmarva insula were expected to have less than an inch of snow Nearly all sections of the state however were experiencing some snow by early evening At Cumberland the State Roads Commission reported it had 18 crews working late today in rett and Allegany Counties The Baltimore and Ohio and Western Maryland railroads reported snow 3 to 6 inches deep along their routes in those sections but trains were still running on schedule Some Blue Ridge line buses were running late The storm bringing Maryland's fourth general snow of the season came without any warning The U.S Weather Bureau at Friendship International Airport had earlier in the day forecast partly cloudy windy and milder for the after- noon and night It hurriedly re- vised this and issued a snow tin late in the afternoon The bureau said the storm was caused by a rapid drop in sure associated with a storm center over Quebec Canada It was re- ported swiftly moving toward the coast during the night Low temperatures of 25 to 30 degrees were forecast for western and northern counties Monday and from 28 to 35 degrees in southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore Considerable cloudiness and windy with a few snow flurries in the mountains was the forecast for Tuesday TO STAY HIGH EXPERT CLAIMS ANOTHER VETO IS OVERRIDDEN BY LEGISLATURE Speculation Ruled Out As Factor In Present Cost Of Product NO SHORTAGE EXISTS AT PRESENT TIME Assembly 000 Buildings At Two Colleges SECOND BILLING FOR MOLOTOV AS SOVIET PRESS PLAYS DOWN ACTIVITIES AT BERLIN PARLEY COLORED DRIVER IS SENTENCED Given 18 Months For Un- authorized Use Of Automobile A three-time loser on use of automobiles George R Scott colored 108 West South street was sentenced to 18 months in the House of Correction by Magistrate H Reese Shoemaker Jr Monday in People's Night Court Five of six defendants in ly tried peace disturbances all were fined and paid plus costs on conviction for the latest com- altercation at 13 East South street William Shimrock was found not guilty Fined were Herman Phillips John Bartlett Clara Figgins Joseph Dodd and Kathryn Moats Neighbors complained of noise after an early Saturday morning drinking party at Phillips ing house None of the tenants or visitors seemed to know how a fight started and the party got rough necessitating another call for the police Officers said the place was torn up but quiet when they arrived Caught In Raid Bartlett under questioning by BLACK RESIGNS CLERK POSITION Republican Sworn Into Washington County Post Last Week HAGERSTOWN Feb 8 John R R Black sworn in last Thursday as clerk of the ton County Circuit Court resigned today saying an examination over the week-end disclosed he has a heart condition Black's appointment had touched off a squabble among the three judges of the Fourth Judicial cuit He was named by two Re- publican judges at Cumberland Chief Judge Joseph Mish at had recommended one of two veteran Democrats Black's letter to Mish said his resignation would become tive at the court's earliest con- It would be up to Mish to name an acting clerk until a new interim clerk is named A permanent clerk is to be elected in November to succeed J Guy Weagley who died One Deputy Quit Black had been sworn in by Judge George Henderson also was backed by the other City electrical crews were kept nf lac busy most night when stoim damage shorted several of the traffic traffic controls GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE LONDON Feb 8 Jones Roberts complained his wife snored deliberately from the third night of their moon His wife Mrs Hilda Irene erts charged he hit her when she denied snoring Judge Samuel Edgedale granted the wife's plea for a divorce He dismissed the husband's counter- suit and A man who starts quarrels with his wife on their honeymoon about her physical disabilities has thing very queer about him open for City Attorney W Jerome Offutt who prosecuted assisted by Chief of Police les V Main The defendant ad- milled that when on trial before i Magistrate Shoemaker in January on a charge of intoxication he had told the court I got drunk at 13 i East South street That place should be Officers Trump i Brown Dorsey and King caught Bartlett in the mass arrests there at a m Saturday Scott whose mania for driving cars of other people without their knowledge or consent twice jailed him pleaded guilty last night to taking an automobile from a South Market street Continued On Page HEFTY NET PROFIT WASHINGTON Feb 8 Federal Reserve Board said today preliminary figures indicate that Federal Reserve member banks had net profits in 1953 of 865 a gain of 36 million John Derr Appointed To State Republican Post This represented the net ings of most of the nation's com- banks since most of them are reserve system members The weather forecast for land Considerable cloudiness and windy with a few snow flurries in the mountains Colder night The weatherman apparently got crossed up again yesterday The snow was both a surprise to him and many others The forecast for today is a of yesterday's weather and five vice chairwomen in six of the seven congressional districts of the state to coordinate ties for the coming campaign D Eldred chairman of the Republican Com- j announced today the names i of the district leaders Those selected Parks Rasin Jr Chestertown W Offutt Owings Mills and Mrs Oliver M Currier Havre de Grace Prince Mrs Eleanor Beck both A Dorsey and Mrs Mollie Neal both more B R Mudd jLa Plata and Mrs Harold W Lady Laurel Dorr Monrovia and Mrs George cord Cumberland Rinchart said similar sel up for the Seventh L would be completed later deputies Edward and G Merlin Synder as possible appointees Both had been deputies for 30 years Right after Black was sworn in John Hartle a deputy clerk for 15 years resigned saying he had been thinking about quitting i tics for some time In his letter Black said in agreeing to accept the interim appointment I believed that I would be physically able to i form the duties of office and take a in the coming election Over the weekend ever a physical examination dis- closed that 1 am suffering from a heart condition which requires im- mediate and prolonged rest and a sharp reduction in my future Future Course Undecided His letter said I any inconvenience which may result Black told newsmen he did not know now whether he would be a candidate for the permanent post Judge Mish in opposing the pointment said he wanted it to go to a career man The Republican State Central committee in a ment after Black was sworn said he was selected so as to give him an opportunity to gain some experience in office before the election He was the first GOP clerk named since 1908 Mish said he could not comment immediately on any plans to name an acting clerk Judge Henderson is in Florida and there was no im- mediate comment from Judge Harris j WASHINGTON Feb 8 I New York expert told Senate in- today there is no hope for a dip in coffee prices as long i as the demand stays normal Leon Israel vice president of the j New York Coffee and Sugar Ex- change gave that appraisal to a Senate Banking subcommittee I when it opened a public inquiry j into price boosts that have pushed j coffee beyond a dollar a pound in j some grocery stores and 15 cents I a cup in many cafes I The subcommittee didn't nail i down today the reasons why fee has shot up in recent weeks Israel ruled out speculation as a factor but said the fact that Brazil has different rates for ex- changing American dollars for Brazilian cruzeiros has something to do with it No Shortage Now Both Israel and Gustavo Lobo president of the Coffee and Sugar Exchange insisted there is enough coffee now to meet demand and thus no shortage But Israel added that every bit of coffee in Brazil may have been put on the market by the time the 1953 crop year ends next July The subcommittee chairman j Sen Beall got out a ment after the hearing saying that two general misconceptions have the first day's testimony Statements in the last few weeks have given the impression that there is a shortage of coffee and that this shortage was ated by a severe drought in Brazil last he said Testimony by witnesses was to the effect that there is no shortage of coffee at this time and that the coffee now being con- was unaffected by the frost of last summer Cites Rate Of Exchange Sen Bush said he thought a uniform exchange rate i would cut in half the price at which Brazil sells coffee in the American market He said the ex- istence of varying rates is j ably responsible for 25 to 30 cents in this market Is that a fair he asked Israel the witness replied The differential Israel said is responsible for of the re- cent upturn in coffee prices I don't know that you can say it is responsible for 25 or 30 cents or 10 cents a pound i Latin Nations Worried Prices have gone up to an ex- tent that talk of a j boycott has made some headway around the country And coffee l producing nations are worried The Colombian ambassador to the United States Eduardo Zuleta Angel went to the State ment today to tell Under tary Walter Bedell Smith a cott would hurt sales of American products in Latin America Zuleta told newsmen coffee sales to the United States enable 14 j Latin American countries to buy about billion dollars worth of goods from this nation every year Latin Americans contend high coffee prices here are chiefly the result of heavy demand combined with frosts that have hurt the fee crop particularly in Brazil FARM MACHINERY Eastern Shore Businessman K i lied In Auto Accident Md Feb 8 W 52 widely known ton Md canner and businessman was killed in a collision at the intersections of Routes 404 and 313 today State Police said Noble was in a car owned by Herman Schmick 52 also of ton Police said they thought Schmick was driving but said his condition would permit diate questioning He was taken to Memorial Hospital Easton Officers said the Schmick car was going north on 313 and pulled in front of another car going west on Route 404 about two miles south of here The driver of the other car Harry J De Mott 24 of Chatham Va was not injured He was held under bond on a technical charge of manslaughter Noble died at Memorial Hospital shortly after the accident which occurred about Survivors include his wife he former Modic Cannon of a son and two daughters ANNAPOLIS Feb 8 Iff The General Assembly tonight counter- manded Gov McKeldin and proved two new dollar buildings one at Washington College and the other at Western Maryland college The House of Delegates did it by overriding the governor's 1953 session vetoes of construction items in a bond The House also enacted over veto a to lift the sales tax from insecticides and other farm chemicals The governor had estimated this will cost the state about On the other side of the house the Senate upset the on a fishery but held it on another local measure Support Overwhelming Support for the college buildings was overwhelming The Senate had reversed McKeldin last week and the delegates sealed the verdict for Washington College by an vote and Western Maryland by As a result Washington will get a gym and field house on its Chestertown campus and ern Maryland a men's dormitory or equal value at Westminster On current legislation the House without comment approved a com- report endorsing the same liquor tax proposal contained in another veto by McKeldin It would boost the gallon from to and give Baltimore and the counties 50 cents of the total Chairman Stevenson of the Alcoholic Beverages Com- said the delegates may take final action tomorrow ring the to the Senate for quick consideration A House group put in the measure last as a backstop New Available If veto of the tax plan is not overridden when it comes up next Monday night the new would still be available In other actions the Senate sent back to committee a measure to permit trial magistrates to pend within three days fines of not more than for motor vehicle violations With the governor beaten on one of two sales tax measures fiting farmers Del North D- TalboO made another move to bring back the other He reintroduced essentially the same defeated last week when the House sustained a McKeldin veto It would exempt the trade-in value of farm machinery from the 2 per cent retail levy Despite Del North's complaint that the governor's veto prevented removal of a discriminatory on farm machinery only 59 delegates voted against the governor's veto last Friday It takes 4 delegate votes to override Censorship Law Del Robinson Fourth introduced his designed to bring the state law on censorship of movies into line with recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States It would remove sacrilegious and immoral as reasons for ning films leaving only obscene and indecent as foundations Del Myers 6th moved to restore lashing as a punishment in Maryland Myers would make the whip a penalty for the crime of robbery or attempt to rob with body force Maryland last year eliminated the whipping post as penalty for husbands who beat their wives An increase of the maximum compensation for temporary total disability from to a week was incorporated in a by Del Auto Inspection Sen Lofstrand i also returned with the proposal for an annual inspection of auto- mobiles by designated private garages By LEON NEA Staff Correspondent BERLIN Feb Pre- mier Georgi Malenkov and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov do not seem to speak the same on the Four Power ence Judged by the play In the So- viet press Molotov's efforts at Berlin are only of secondary im- portance to Malenkov's new economic and agricultural re- Is the Kremlin ter rivalry for power raging in the Red ed out also at Some believe this is so Vyacheslav Molotov was his usual self when the Four Power talks opened on Jan arrogant and insulting especially towards the U S However the controlled Soviet press back home in Moscow ed down the conference and con- failed to back up the Soviet Foreign Minister and Izvestia were unusually mild for the Russians Molotov obviously seemed to take the hint He adopted a softer tone He has since been acting like a contestant for the title Miss yielding nothing of always asking for more Among the young ruthless and cynical technicians now at the helm in Russia even Molotov's twisted and tortured Stalinist idealism would appear to have become a liability The old Bolshevik is not ible enough for the new tion of power-hungry technocrats Dispatches from Berlin in Russian newspapers throw new Ught on Premier Mal- attitude towards the Four Power talks and especially on Molotov's role Neither the opening of the con- ference nor the subsequent de- bates of the foreign ministers re- at any time the prominence accorded them by the Western press generally Molotov's remarks in Berlin continue to be reported in dry lifeless dispatches by Tass cial Russian news agency Not even his opening speech was deemed worthy of page one in the Red press This pattern has been followed by the Russian and satellite newspapers Top space is usually given in and Izvestia to such issues as the elections to the Supreme Soviet scheduled for March efficient distribution of tractors in agricultural collectives and even to the opening of an airfield in distant Kazan There is clearly a calculated fort to play down Molotov Western experts on- nism who know how to read be- tween the lines in the Russian press i view this snub to the old foreign minister as significant Nothing like this happens by chance in the Red dictatorship To seasoned observers Molotov looks at times like a desperate man fighting with his back to the wall He must bring home the bacon the West impede German unity and gain economic and ing advantages for face the consequences Molotov is not likely to be ar- rested or the lin conference could turn out to be his political swan song AUSTRIAN ISSUE TO BE TAKEN UP AT CONFERENCE GOVERNOR HITS FEAR DEALERS Says Those In Legislature Are Misrepresenting His Program CAMBRIDGE Md Feb 8 Gov McKeldin said tonight the state Legislature had its fear dealers too and charged they were misrepresenting his program They are in near panic because your Republican administration is j approaching the close of a year term without increasing eral fund taxes McKeldin said in I a speech prepared for a Lincoln Day dinner Sherman Adams assistant to President Eisenhower used the i term fear deal last Saturday in criticizing the fair Deal by i which ex-President Truman labeled his administration McKeldin I called it a natural and said he'd used it last May Have Facts 1 We have its remnants too in our state he said The governor asserted fear ers in Annapolis have 1 resented the facts by saying the state income tax is going He 1 argued it was only holding at the usual 2 per cent rate and that a i dwindling treasury surplus was preventing deductions authorized the last two years When there were lar'cc pluses at the end of each fiscal year they cried out in even though the surpluses were created by taxes imposed prior to this administration McKeldin said He c h a r c e d Democrats had shamelessly misrepresented an impending jump in the state erty tax rate from 5.67 to 11.89 cents per Real estate bills won't double because the state's levy is paltry compared to local he said more he went on the we of the state debt controls the rate and there's nothing he can do about it Maryland pays olf its bonds with revenue from property taxes As Political Weapon They constitute a requirement in the past by the in some 01 those Continued On Page Five GRAND JURY MAY PROBE WALKOUT Williamsport Situation ed To Attention Of Jurors By Mish HAGERSTOWN Feb 8 Judge Joseph Mish of the ington County Circuit Court told the incoming grand jury today it may look into the strike at the Federal Silk Mills at nearby if it decides the tion falls within its jurisdiction Referring to the labor dispute at Williamsport without ing the plant by name the judge i told the February term jury you should have no interest in whether the employes or the employer is right He referred to press reports con- the controversy and told i the jurors they may investigate only whether criminal laws have I been violated or whether there has been proper enforcement by I Conflict Of Statements There have been reports locally quoting some ers that they wanted to go back to work but that couldn't get proper protection The county sheriff's office has said men were available but as far as they could determine no one wanted to go back to work The hosiery mills which ployed about 400 has been bound since late last December I Incidents at the plant have re- suited in assault and traffic charges against workers and against plant owner David Goetz i The dispute originally involved union recognition Later the tional Labor Relations Board dis- missed a company complaint and bargaining got underway The 1 company offered a an hour pay boost which was turned down by the CIO Workers Union Attempts by the company to the plant havr failed Nation May Be Given In- dependence Promised Decade Ago UNIFICATION OF GERMANY FAILS By DANIEL DE LUCE BERLIN Feb 8 Big Four Foreign Ministers agreed night to sidetrack the deadlocked German reunification question and move on to the Austrian ence treaty not later than day The decision by Russia and the Western powers in their 13th one held under strict diplomatic secrecy buried man hopes that the East-West split of their country would be healed at Berlin A terse four-power communique couched in guarded language gave no other hint of other ments from the four-hour meeting in the West sector Allied Control Authority building The communique said the four only by three aides ters arising on Item 1 of the agenda This was the Soviet bid for a springtime Big Five ence including Red China and rival Soviet and French resolutions for a world disarmament ence Figl Flying To Berlin But the closing words of the communique brought cheer to Austrians who have been waiting 10 years for the big ers to make good their wartime promise of independence for that occupied nation It They the ministers further discussed also by previous ment the question of procedure for opening the discussion by the con- ference of Item 3 Austrian treaty of the agenda On this subject the ministers agreed that discussions on this item would be opened not later than next Friday Notified by France's Georges Bi- for trian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl immediately obtained an line reservation to fly from Vienna to Berlin tomorrow If there is to be any real easing of cold war tension in Europe look for it to come on the Austrian question The ence treaty has been stalled for years by Soviet reluctance to pull troops out of this little central Eu- ropean republic Admit Failure The good news for Austria only confirmed the bad tidings for many By agreeing to detour around their dead-end argument on the former reich the Big Four ob- admitted they had failed on this leading issue of the ence Russia's V M Molotov and the three Western representatives are expected to exchange a few more recriminations in open session morrow about the surrendered German Reich Both sides have begun to show growing weariness over futile ering Neither East nor West has retreated from its original de- mands which would secure a ed German nation of 68 million Continued On Page Five LAST TROLLEY RUN SET FEBRUARY 20 Service Between Here And mont To Be Replaced By Bus Schedule PERISH NEW ORLEANS Feb 8 children including two sets of twins died today flames de- their three-room shack here Police said they were Jessie Lee and Tommie Lte Farrell almost Brendy and Bruce Farrell 7 months and Albert Farrell Jr T Officers said the mother Lee Farrell 23 was en route to a grocery when the fire broke out Baltimore County Man Convicted Of Murder MISHAP i BALTIMORE Feb 8 1 body left a hydrant running today and the water froze on a section 1 of North Broadway Police said the 1 damage toll on the slippery stretch one truck seven cars Iwo I poles Ifi PERISH LISBON Portugal Feb 8 Sixteen crewmen perished today when the trawler Acor foundered on rocks off Lisbon Two men aged to swim ashore in the dense fog Ono of the survivors said thr cap- tain remained at the bridge of the vessel as it sank HEAVY SMOKE DAMAGE United Independent and ens fire companies sent four pieces of equipment to combat a hot chimney fire 422 West Patrick street shortly alter 4 o'clock day afternoon Firemen said the flue blaze was roaring when they arrived and the house was ed with smoke which even j rated the brickwork of the I nry outwards BALTIMORE Feb 8 John B Gontrum found Thomas Penn cuilty of the murder of his today and said he'd decide tomorrow whether it's first or second decree The Baltimore County war eran shot and killed his wife Elsie Jean last fall in the Pulaski Highway restaurant ated by her parents He pleaded guilty to the crime A psychiatrist testified Penn 1 emotionally unstable and capable of great violence The State did not ask for a death sentence 11 testified the couple had separated several months before Penn frustrated in attempts to make up with his wife entered the restaurant chased hrr into the kitchen and blasted her life away a shotgun SCOTLAND YARD RAIDS LONDON Feb 8 Yard squads swooped on suspected criminal hideouts in London's MI- hurbs before dawn today in raids aimed at oui a of maii robberies and safe They were for the brains behind an organized gang which over the last two pulled off some of tlic most coups in British crime tory hauls alone include 5260.000 from an ambush in tral London from another and from a third OFFICE BUILDING APPROVED BALTIMORE Feb 8 The Board of Estimates approved today a city-state plan to build a State office building in the 5th Regiment Armory neighborhood The Board sent the plan on for State Board of Public Works proval and agreed to ask City Council for a condemnation nance for the land involved The city committed to paying the remaining costs after the state puts up for acquiring and clearing the land The city's expense has been mated at The two venerable trolleys of the run will end their careers on Saturday ary 20 it announced by the Potomac Edison Company Monday One of the trolleys will make the regular schedule run out of erick the morning of February 20 and at a m will be replaced by the bus that will provide service in thc However at 11 a m a group of invited guests will board No 171 and No 172 here for the last run of the veterans It is planned to ask the Mayor of Thurmont to greet the ers when the trolleys arrive there Upon returning to Frederick a brief farewell ceremony will be held at the car barn followed by luncheon at the Francis Scott Key Hotel An official of the company said last nicht that no definite decision has been made as to fate of the trolleys A railway fan club in Washington interested in one to be set up as a museum exhibit New York junk companies are also reported interested in them 22 DIE IN ACCIDENT BOMBAY India Feb 8 Twenty-two people were killed and 14 injured in a train accident m the district of desh according to reliable reports today The reports said the empty train jumped a rail on the Railway crushing laborers working on the line
