Frederick News-Post (Newspaper) - March 2, 1955, Frederick, Maryland GOOD The dew ia a eyes meant don't 4 69 LEASED WIRE AKD FEATURES THE FREDERICK POST FREDERICK WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 1955 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY CENTS IS WIDE MARGIN WEST VIRGINIA MAN CONVICTED BY JURY Baltimore Mayor Carries Council President And Comptroller HOPKINS SELECTED BY REPUBLICANS BALTIMORE March 1 or Thomas the man did most to bring big league baseball to Baltimore scored a smashing personal victory m the city primary elections today The peppery little Democrat out- scored the closest of his six rivals by more than two and a half votes to one as he carried his choice for city council president and troller in with him leaned heavily on his role in bringing the franchise of the St Louis Browns to more last year in his rolled up 79.557 votes 28.995 for his arch- rival City Council President Ar- thur B Price on the basis of un- official returns from 528 of the 531 places Had Been III Election officials closed up for the night without results from the three uncounted precincts Only last year was plagued by illness and his was rocked by scandal One of the members of his Off Street Parking Commission and a contractor related by marriage to the mayor were among those con- of- charges of graft Many said at the time dro was through However the for- mer congressman regained his health and resumed the city ad- ministration leadership with a hand He is seeking bis third term as mayor There were about 306.000 crats eligible to vote today Only 79.000 Republicans show in city registration figures Samuel Hopkins former speaker of the Maryland House of gates defeated two other dates for the Republican tion He polled against 7.229 Tor former Wil- liam F Laukaitis and 1.740 for Louis H Milio Abramson Wins Leon Abramson supported by mayor won the Democratic nomination for city council dent the post vacated by Price He will oppose Republican J shall Boone victor over Arthur E Kurd in the elections next May 3 Dr Walter R Graham financial expert endorsed by won the nomination for ler Tne Republicans who edly also favor Graham let that post go Chartes M Carter 23 Guilty Of slaughter By Car HAGERSTOWN March 1 Washington County Circuit Court jury today found Charles Martin Carter 23 of W Va guilty of manslaughter by automobile but also recommended leniency Judge D K McLaughlin save j Carter a six-month suspended jail sentence fined him and costs and ordered him to pay the funeral t expenses of Clyde Richard May 19 of Boonsboro May killed Oct 30 in a head-on collision between his auto- mobile and one driven by Carter the Sharpsburg Pike State's Attorney Kaylor said Carter and another unidentified motorist were i acing side-by-side at high speeds when the May car approached from the opposite di- rection and collided with the Carter car Judge McLaughlin said if it had not been for the jury's dation he would have made Carter serve time in jail TAX SLASH IS GIVEN SETBACK COAL ASSOCIATION FIGHTS RATE BOOST Industry Stands In By And George GOP Members Of Committee 1C AV 1 15 UK I PROGRESS MADE BY HOSPITALS Spent On Mental Institutions Paying Dividends ANNAPOLIS March 1 The Senate Finance Committee was today that the millions dol WASHINGTON March 1 tfi The National Coal Assn said dav the coal industry stands united JOin opposition to projected increases in certain coal rates Rate revisions are to be ered at a public hearing called by I Eastern Western and Midwestern railroad groups at Chicago March 10 I Association officials have been instructed to argue for mainte- nance of present or coal meet i the competition of other fuels Railroads involved in the WASHINGTON March 1 fi ence last year made some Sens Byrd D-Va and George D- lions on fine coals like Gai teamed up with the cargo coal and certain all-rail cans on the Senate Finance Com- movements of coa in the Midwest today in a vote to kill They are now considering whether the income tax cut to cancel these reductions Thus President Eisenhower won rbe coal association said freight a big round in his fight to prevent on are su so tne cut high that they are paying for such All six votes for the reduction unprofitable operations by the were cast by Democrats roads as the handling of less-than Only last Friday the House voted carload dining car services on a roll call to keep the and deficit Passenger trains cut in the tax If the A Presidential advisory Senate should sustain the adverse Itee made up of Cabinet officers vote of its finance committee a recommended last week that considerable struggle would be aet on their to prospect between the two branches Congress ln a on energy supplies i Shortly after the committee and resources the committee said acting carrying charges should be jonty leader signaled that the to remove the and Senate Democratic disproportionate contribution that would make a floor fight for are making to meet the I income tax cut cost of other unprofitable services 1 Be Carried To Floor railroad industry Clements said in a Ir w not voluntary the The effort to obtain some relief said the government i for low-income taxpayers will be i should step carried to the Senate floor i pushed as vigorously as possible It is Clements vent CHURCHILL SAYS UNITED STATES PACKS WALLOP FAIR TRADE PRACTICE ACT ON CIGARETTES SUGGESTED TO MARYLAND LEGISLATORS Russia Can Never Conquer West British Leader Says ANNAPOLIS March 1 gists burned up are super markets hot dog and baked bean can't hold and big combines selling a candle to the cigarette on the for less than they cost American scene a group of them land legislators was told today This is known as a loss leader The cigarette forms a 44 billion to attract customers imp a store dollar industry in itself said I F in hope once inside they'll buy Kartman a Baltimore tobacco something else on which there is a j profit Charles Irby of NUCLEAR CLOUD IS TRACKED BY CORRESPONDENT Also it is standardized more Tests Show Radiation Can Be Controlled In Good Weather SOVIETS REQUIRE FOUR MORE YEARS Irby of Cumberland salable and available at a claimed it had gotten so bad in er variety of places than almost his area that regular merchants any other product So claimed 1 are not in carrying tobacco because they are either FLASH AREA lars poured into Maryland's lure of opposition that the I tal hospitals in the past seven i years is paying good dividends i Dr Clifton T Perkins who came Maryland five years ago to be- j come Commissioner of Mental i giene told the committee the de- budget has nearly tri- since 1948 that per patient spending has more than doubled and that nearly 50 million dollars has been spent on capital im- i This has been done while the budgeted population of the las increased from 8.950 to STATE BUDGET WILL INCREASE Population ernor Says CITY March f Couple And 4 Children Found Dead In Arizona Ariz March 1 veterinarian his wife and their four children were found shot to death in their home today Sheriff L C Boies said Dr George C Moffat 39 apparently shot his wife and children and then killed himself Boies said he believes the dren were killed outside the home Defore the husband shot his wife and committed suicide The victims Mrs ine Moffat Wayne Vickie Candice 7 and Gregory 3 The killings were discovered about by Mrs Jean No- gent a sister of Mrs Moffat Mrs Nugent said she went to the home after receiving no response when she tried to telephone her sister The father was found lying in the living room A 38 caliber pistol was near his body Mrs Nugent said the were divorced about four jears ago but they were separated only about 10 days before becoming re- The sheriff said he had been told the couple quarrelled frequently de- of than 15 million dollars for I next year said tbe State's mental j hospital system ranks now with pivotal states which others use as a guide such as New York I Massachusetts and others He said the discharge rate which is used as one basis for ing the effectiveness of a mental hygiene program has improved I Paying Good Dividends To show the investment is ing good dividends he said the per patient has increased 28 per cent since he took over while i the live discharge rate has in- j creased by 60 per cent He used graphs to show the more the investment in a hospital the higher the discharge rate i Maryland is discharging at the of 158 per 1.000 j The overall per capita cost now jis compared with in 11948 The 1948 budget was lion dollars 1 Using the three bfg mental as an illustration Perkins said that the discharge rate has more at Spring Grove jand Springfield as the per capita expenditures increased and that the discharge rate at Crownsville the state's Negro institution has to keep pace as has its per capita expenditure j 177 Xew Staff Positions The biggest expenditure in tbe operating budget for next year is 5411.829 for 177 new staff positions new buildings to handle an in- number of patients and to provide more adequate care in some areas A grant of 5365.054 has been asked to cut down in the employe turnover expectancy in the Continued On Page Eight has taken The President has never in the past objected to Democratic tax cuts In fact he has embraced five billion dollars in Democratic tax cuts so violently that he apparently Will Continue To With forgot the original authors and thought they were his own j As revised by the Senate com- i j the tax now contains I i only a one-year extension of the i present levels of taxation on income and continuation i of present excises on automobiles I transportation gasoline cigarettes 1 liquor wine and beer i J April 18 Deadline j rising with us population growth i thp con tion i crisis c I by April 18 corporation income 1 tampering with his tax proposals j rates will drop from 52 per cent j Two Democratic leaders in the i to 47 and the excises a varying j Legislature have offered amount The loss to the tutes to plan to raise j ment would be about three billion sales and income taxes next year i dollars a year These have been criticized by the The cost of the governor as not looking j income tax cut dubbed fiscal i sufficiently to the State's needs be- irresponsibility by Eisenhower i yond next fiscal year was estimated at nearly billion j He discussed his budget and tax j a year proposals tonight in a speech pre- Eisenhower contended this was pared for delivery to the no to cut lvt govern running behind outgo of the plan replied City Rotary Club I am particularly pleased to the peoole of I that the Republicans cut taxes last tte General Assembly is in year when the deficit was greater i sessi because tne Legislature is The motion to knock out the it should to vour benefit was made by Sen I McKeldin said senior on the j He said rapid committee and its chairman in the Hon has created a need for additional revenue and that there Voting for the motion besides fe hope for state spending level himself Chairman Byra and j g off s Iong as that growth Con- were Sens Martin Williams Flanders Malone Carlson we are adding tax i and Bennett payers to our rolls each year Opposed ere Sens Kerr said j am Frear Long D- dent fte tax program which I Lyndon j j h proposed to finance the 1956 a-d Barkley will if enacted by the 1 compromise proposal the base for was beaten by the same com- t t for many bination s plan was lo the cut put into three stages a person in LONDON March 1 Minister Churchill said today viet leaders realize they never can win a hydrogen bomb war against the West The United States has an over- whelming superiority in thermo- nuclear weapons that may be cut by the Russians four years but cannot be nullified Churchill said He told a hushed House of Com- mons the United States is the only country which is able to de- liver today a full-scale attack with hydrogen bombs The Prime Minister predicted it uill take Russia another two to four years to achieve the power to mount such 1 an attack against North America and even then the free world with Britain now starting H-bomb duction would have greater re- power i Has H-Bomb Race 1 Reasoning that Russia has lost the hydrogen bomb race Churchill said In three or four years time it may even be less the scene will be changed The Soviets will probably stand possessed of hydrogen bombs and the means of delivering them not only on the United Kingdom but also on North American targets They may have reached a indeed of parity with the United States and what is called saturation Saturation in this connection means the point one power is stronger than the other perhaps much both are capable of inflicting pling or injuries on the other with what they have got Can Never Conquer West i As Churchill defined it Russia can never conquer the West with the H-bomb She might achieve the power not to win but to touch i off a holocaust that would destroy civilization j But the Prime Minister saw a gleam of light even in the dark i prospect ahead He A curious paradox has emerged After a certain point has been passed it may be said that the worse things get the better With die piling up of these weapons by the United States and Britain on one side and Russia on the other he said the risk of war may be less for twin sides will then realize that global war will result in mutual annihilation Might Launch Attack Churchill stressed that the i viet Union lacks the power at the i Continued On Page Four of tlie Wholesale Tobacco Distributors of unable to meet the low prices Maryland before the Senate j the big outfits or it wouldn't be ciary Committee The distributors worthwhile LAS VEGAS Nev March 1 want the Legislature to pass a The tobacco distributors Air Force today took ad- prohibiting sale of cigarettes be- j that the large retailers who are vantage of a brilliant atomic ex- low cost able to buy direct from the j plosion visible in six states to Sen Hoff wanted at wholesale prices are demonstrate that radiation can be know what's peculiar about able to drive the smaller held to safe limits under good to make them different i tors out of business weather conditions from hot dogs He suggested hot j Harry Cohen president of the u a group of newsmen doS manufacturers might be next I of Columbia to penetrate for the first time the to ask for fair trace price American Federation of Labor j edges of the cloud of a nuclear to be followed by other j said this was reflected in layoffs I explosion products of workers In reply Lawrence Ensor sel for the distributors pointed out that cigarettes are peculiar You don't find hot dogs or baked beans being sold at gasoline stations and whisky stores for instance as you do cigarettes Aimed At Super Markets What has the distributors along Would Raise Price The proposed would require The third test of the 1955 series a tower shot on Yucca Flat flashed at It was wholesalers to charge at least four au per cent profit on sales of a encompassing Idaho San to retailers who in turn would have to add 8 per cent to the price to the consumer This would result in a minimum charge of a carton in independent grocers and Continued on Page KINDERGARTEN DAMASCUS FIRM PUPILS SAVED GETS CONTRACT Miraculously Escape Death Covering In Flaming School Bus In Clerk Of Court's Office Francisco Los Angeles Salt Lake I City Klamath Falls Ore and Phoenix Ariz Was Baby A-Bomb The comparatively light shot in jibe df clouds and high winds bore out the AEC ment that this was a smaller de- vice in the baby A-bomb class Approximately 600 soldiers and 25 Marines maneuvered in the first major operation of Exercise ert Rock but they had to yield center stage to the atomic cloud today The AEC and the Department of Defense relaxed restrictions i ter four years to permit five re- porters to make a radiological safety flight in a one of the Air Force's score of cloud pling planes The group took off at dawn 20 SILVER Md March 1 j The County Commissioners at a I 15 kindergarten students meeting held in the Court House 1 escaped death today Tuesday nigh awarded the con- when a bus in which they were riding suddenly burst into flames j on New Hampshire Ave extended i The children students at St 1 Camillas Catholic School escaped j bus after passing motorists i ed them open with their bare fists An emergency door in the rear of the vehicle jammed according to county fire inspectors It was a miracle they got the I children out without cutting them i to said Chief Marvin i bons of the Hillandale Volunteer j ty of awarding the tract for a new linoleum floor for the new office of the Clerk of Court to a Damascus The low bid was submitted by King Floor Service and feet The only time the geiger counter and ion chamber recorders on the plane jumped appreciably was when the T i- i plane Local bidders on the contract J stern iess than Fire Dept j The blaze started firemen said j when brackets supporting the gas tank came loose and the tank was i dragged some 250 feet were The Rug Store son's The King Company bid was The bids had been opened earlier in the day and the board was surprised at receiving the out of town bid and decided not to make the award until they discussed the to County s under the atomic mushroom 45 minutes after shot time Light Reaction Otherwise the reaction was less than you'd get from a chest or dental X-ray The total radiation exposure in the cockpit was TS other than a Frederick firm President Delbert S Null last night said after consideration the the entire flight which included 16 passes at and through the dis- persing cloud Farther back in the plane exposure was measured at 64 A chest X-ray Intense heat mounted the right a basis and all things side of the vehicle ignited a tele- phone pole 20 feet away and set an adjoining field on fire Credited with pulling the children board felt that bids must be on anywhere from 120 to contracts must go to Commissioners of radiation The plane was lightly with a dosage of 160 mr Edward F Holler and Mehrl boots registered Ramsburg agreed that such was sLx mr and some had almost that GRAND PROBES WHISKY INDUSTRY spra to i and driver from the flames were the of state i much ott hands AU nad Roland Semmons 30 visiting here and j to do was wash California and John owed it to taxpayers to The Air Force furnished flying 34 head chef at j service at Ae lowest bid The j suits boots parachutes and a tanum j specifications call for floor of i crew headed by Lt Saw Trail Armstrong Col Alden Thompson 37 of the We saw a trail of Appears jAir Research and Development line from the bus about 250 i A group of landowners along i Command Baltimore After each long Semmons said By the tune Ball road which Is due to get a j of the 16 passes Co-pilot Lt Bobbie the bus stopped the flames had and a naif of construction Bagshaw of Toole Utah reported frot K was i general yearT i pathetic to hear the kids j came before the board to clear Fuss Over ornery County Dispensary System At Heart Of Investigation ling up some points concerning rights the plane's position and gave tbe radiation reading to ground control center at Camp Mercury in and Three Waynesboro Women Hurt Near years without further increasing the rates of taxation I It would in my opinion be a mistake to tamper with this gram in a manner that would make the future uncertain McKeldin has proposed ing the sales tax one penny and Westminster individual and corporation COMPETES CRUISE Conn March 1 The atomic submarine Nautilus steamed home Jo her berth tonight completing three-day trial cruise on which she made her first deep dives There -A ere no immediate re- on outcome of phase of the Nautilus trials The Nautilus spent most of her latest cruise off the coast of Maine outside the shipping She was test the effects of water pressures on her hull and operation THE WEATHER The weather forecast for laud today Partly cloudy and not as warm High in 50s Chance of some rain at night in extreme west That rain helped clean some of the filth from Frederick streets Those who put all that mud on them ought to have to take it off You or T couldn't get tway anything like that Renewed Soviet Warning h Ignored By London LONDON March 1 dismissed today a renewed ing from Russia that ratification of the Paris agreements rearming Western Germany would result in the scrapping of the 1942 Anglo- Soviet friendship treaty A Foreign Office spokesman said a complete answer was con- in the British note of Jan 26 telling Russia that Britain would ratify the accords which it regarded as purely defensive The note accused Russia of jing German reunification and the dangerous and division of Europe Russia sent a note to Britain yesterday repeating Dec 20 declaration that the Pans accords were intended to be aggressive i and were incompatible with the i Anglo-Soviet The Foreign Office made plain Britain will go ahead with the of the Paris agreements i Parliament already has approved agreements and they the formality of the Queen's signature j income taxes 50 and 25 per cent WESTMINSTER March 1 respectively to help meet in- Three women from the creased spending needs boro Pa area were hurt one Combined with a one-year j seriously in a smash-up of more than 10 million dollars I today on the dual section of XJ S from having State income taxes j 140 which Westminster collected on a withholding basis j Mrs Karl Kaeding 25 who was i jt would produce about 35 million j driving one of the cars had a Collars extra next fiscal year Some ken hip and lesser injuries Mrs 28 million of this is listed in Frank Ressler 53 had a broken jng in the budget with a surplus ankle Mrs Luther Ressler 54 of of more than 6 million to be held Blue Ridge Summit Pa had ruts for future needs and bruises Two Alternate Plan dren Susan and Karl Frederick An alternate plan proposed by escaped Sen Turnbull and Del Boone The three women were taken fo timore County Democrats sticks Johns Hopkins Hospital in wish the withholding tax idea but more does away with the sales and in- come tax increases COLORED WOMAN STABBED it calls tor the i City police were still base of the sales tax to purchases ting last the stabbing of and broadening its Marjorie R Palmer colored 412 and imposing a 2 cent i Middle alley Tuesday afternoon P61 tax on cigarettes It Taken to Frederick Memorial provides a surplus of about 2 Hospital in the United rescue compared to the more than i bulance the woman was admitted 6 m McKeldin s plan for a puncture wound of the upper Tne governor tonight compared left chest and laceration of the Maryland to a growing family 1 riant side of her forehead She whose expenses nse as new was admitted at p m Her hers are added He said the states condition last night was reported population had increased 841.000 i since 1940 and that the Census reau predicts it will rise a half J POLICE WOUND a million more in the next 10 years i BERLIN March 1 Need Not Be Economist East Berlin police wounded an important reason why a West Berlin pedestrian tonight budgets go McKeldin said i as they tried to pre- j You don't have to be an economist vent the driver of a dray know that You merely have to from fleeing to UM Wilt Continued O- BALTIMORE March 1 Federal grand jury today denly began some kind of an in- into the liquor industry having to do with a fuss over the county dispensary system in Montgomery County i Federal prosecutors declined to explain the grand jury's activities but the list of those summoned to appear before it included eight of the nation's large distillers their Maryland distributors and four industry trade associations in Maryland A Department of Justice man in Washington indicated no testimony will be taken until about April 7 after government gators have had a chance to check over business records which were brought in by the various today Liquor may be bought only in original packages in Montgomery County including the populous sub- urbs of Washington and the county operates a monopoly in retail sales The current controversy was touched off when several large dis- tillers declined Jo sell their goods direct to the county system They insisted county must buy through their established land distribution Montgomery County's delegation in the General Assembly has asked for retaliatory legislation It would prohibit a manufacturer cotted the county stores from selling his products to anyone in Maryland Among those summoned to before the grand jury were officers of the Maryland State censed Beverage Assn whose ex- committee only last week adopted a resolution against the j Montgomery County system and introduced m the lature Alfred Fleming production of and other details Clyde j Another Test Today j ager at the Government Printing j stup was spokesman for the group Flight engineers were Lt James I Office who assisted in the After assurances from La Follette of Fresno Calif and tion credited the children Engineer Roger H that James B Seals Pennington selves with success of the entrances to their fields would be Gap Va provided and cattle crossing The AEC so encouraged by They were the real plied Mr and Mrs Augustus Har the turn of the weather that it set told newsmen All anyone else ris colored landowners who another Yucca Flat test for did was pull them out of the j sought information before agreeing big tower shot windows but it was up to to rights of way assured the com- originally scheduled to open the to get to the windows i missioners of their agreement with two weeks ago Fleming said tbe children were j the plans for the road widening Barring a last minute in the bus by themselves after tbe i past their place which lies on both tion more Army troops and sides of the road 25 Marines will take up trench Other members of the delegation positions and engage m another were William Creager Franklin Desert Rock maneuver Bear Jr Robert Stup Wilford i driver had been freed and credited j discipline as the reason for the happy ending Semmons said he pulled the driver Ambrose Murphy 41 of Kline Ketzel Weedy and Harry E Silver Spring from the driver's Stup 11 C W lorn window after he became stuck in i I an effort to escape Davis rammed STRUCK BY TORNADO l Merger Is his fist through another window KINGWOOD W Va March 1 and began pulling the children out home was destroyed and NEW ORK March 1 Semmons said at kasl persons were injured tional City Bank of New York 1 Was 4 Miracle a windstorm which swept day announced a plan to purchase 1 Another two minutes and they'd County early today the historic First National Bank of all have been gone he added Some residents described the New for milbon dollars Another eve witness was Mrs storm as a small and National City is currently tne George W Stroud of Oak View said they a cone-shaped cloud second largest bank in the United who was waiting to place her son coming over the bills around States on the bas Directors of both institutions AH of a sudden black smoke State Trooper H E Parks said agreed to merge the two Rot out in time Creek section was shattered by the j holders of First National for the The bus described as a total terrific gusts Casteel was at work outstanding 300.000 shares of loss was owned by the Silver the storm struck his stock Spring Transit Co and rented to dwelling The proposed a the parochial Both and new Jhe intense county road supervisor said for competitive advantage now STATE OF WAR ways were obstructed by fallen ing place among commercial banks VIENNA Austria March 1 and limbs jin the nations financial capital The presidium of the Bulgarian California's Bank of America w Parliament today unanimously AT firmly entrenched as the largest parsed a decree which terminated Monroe Burdette Mt Airy 5 bank deposits of the state of war with Germany i admitted to Frederick Memorial 534 751 At the end of 1954 The decree was broadcast by Hospital about p m Tuesday j tional city had deposits of radio Sofia Russia Poland and i surgery after an accident and chase National bad Czechoslovakia have already ended Burdette partially the state of war with the fourth and fifth gers on his left hand in a jointer VETERAN PILOT DIES while at work yesterday afternoon NUTHALL England March for Hamilton Homes Inc He was R T Shepherd 56 one of j taken to the hospital by James Britain's leading airplane pilots N Taylor also of Mt Airy died today He 96 x I fellow worker deposits of BIG DEFENSE BUDGET BRUSSELS Belgium March 1 Belgain Senate's National Defense Committee reported today the defense budget will total 382 million dollars in 1955
