Two Injured in Early Morning Route 40 Crash Near Frederick
State police report two occupants injured when a 1943 Crosley station wagon veered off the left side of Alternate Route 40, plunged down a steep embankment, and hit rocks. Stanley Benowitz, 26, of Rochester NC, suffered a fractured right ankle. Melven Squire, 25, of Columbus, likely both ankles fractured. Driver Benowitz in fair condition, Squire in satisfactory condition at Frederick Memorial Hospital. No charges filed. In a separate incident near Steinler's Hill on Route 340, Edward Kerr, 20, Baltimore, escaped injury after his 1941 Pontiac ran off the road. damage about $100.
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Frederick
Crosley
Stanley Robert Benowitz
Rochester
N. C
Melven B. Squire
Columbus
Benowitz
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Squire
Richard A. Myers
Steinler’s Hill
Edward H. Kerr
Baltimore
Kerr
Joint Concert At Frederick High School
Frederick High School presented its tenth joint concert by vocal and instrumental ensembles in the auditorium before about 800 fans. The program featured Sperry L. Storm directing the orchestra with Showboat songs, a tenor solo, cornet number, baton-twirling majorettes, and selections by the band including a Sousa march. Manuel Arris played saxophone, a mixed quartet sang Make Believe, and the girls glee club performed a cappella pieces and songs like Falling in Love With Love, When Day Is Done, and Every Body's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time. Heisley B. Coran directed the mixed glee club with accompanists Patsy Ecker, Barbara Remsburg, and Joyce Simpson.
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Frederick High School
Sperry L. Storm
Jerome Kern
Richard Dudderar
Annie Laurie
Roydy Smith
Sperry Storm
Manuel Arris
Jean Shuff
Elizabeth Etchison
Richard Burgee
Girls Glee Club
Marion G. Rogers
Mixed Glee Club
Stephen Foster
Heisley B. Coran
Patsy Ecker
Barbara Remsburg
Joyce Simpson
Fishing tourneys ruled lotteries by Post Office Dept
Washington reports the Post Office Department treats fishing contests with prizes as lotteries, risking mail advertising bans and penalties including fines up to 1000 dollars and two years imprisonment. Representative Miller notes the ruling could end many local tournaments nationwide. Also, County Commissioners will decide next week on appointing an auditor to review county books for the year ending January 1, 1950, including Sheriff, Treasurer, School Board and Roads Board records.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Miller
R-Md
Frank Jd. Delany
Sheriff's Office
School Board
County Roads Board
Lattimore In U S May Be Heard April 7
United States authorities brought fresh friction to Washington as Owen Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins professor, returned to the country to answer McCarthy’s charges of Soviet ties. He denied Communism, expressed contempt for McCarthy, and prepared to testify before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee with Abe Fortas representing him.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
United States
McCarthy
R-Wis
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
New York
Senate
Bridges
New Hampshire
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Green Ird
Communist Party
Afghanistan
M McCarthy
America
Abe Fortas
Interior
Lattimores
David
Fortas
Senate Foreign Relations
Tydings
D-Md
Green
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
State Department
Wisconsin
Louis Budenz
Communist Daily Worker
Budenz
Fordham University
Natural Gas Bill Called Senate's Worst
Baltimore April 1 A bill to exempt natural gas producers from price controls by the Federal Power Commission is denounced as the worst the Senate has passed in 15 years by Charles S. Rhyne general counsel of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers Association He says 86 percent of the nations natural gas is controlled by those exempt from the bill and the measure would remove rate limits from interstate wholesalers increasing consumer costs at a banquet of municipal officials from 13 states.
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Baltimore
Federal Power Commission
Senate
Charles $. Rhyne
National Institute of Municipal Law Officers Association
Rhyne
FPC
Palm Sunday Weekend Forecast Warns of Wind and Rain
A weather bulletin indicates a windy and rainy Palm Sunday weekend with highs near 60 and overnight lows around 40s. The city airport reported 50 degrees and 26 degrees recent, recalling eight years ago when Frederick saw 17 inches of snow on Palm Sunday.
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Frederick
Eisenhower Proposes Three Point Defense Plan
General Dwight D. Eisenhower outlined a three point program to strengthen U S defenses. The proposals call for a permanent armed force in Alaska with radar early warning, modernized air power backed by 12 National Guard groups, and a funded anti submarine fleet including destroyers and carriers. Senator Elmer Thomas said the plan cost three to five hundred million dollars with potential savings elsewhere.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elmer Thomas
D-Ohla
Europe
Alaska
Navy
Thomas
Eisenhower
Truman
Columbia University
Senate Appropriations
Armed Services
Russia
U.S
United States
Hainan Attack Is Beaten Off
On Hainan Island a Communist invasion was repulsed by Nationalist forces. Reports from Taipei and San Francisco claimed most of the flotilla was sunk or forced to withdraw with hundreds of enemy casualties. The landings occurred on Hainan's north coast near Haihan with some Reds reaching shore before being contained. Air actions claimed eight Junk ships sunk off the island.
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Taipei
Formosa
Hainan
Hainan Island
San Francisco
Luichow Peninsula
South China
Haihan
Air Force
Objectives For Defense Are Set Out The Hague
The U S Defense Secretary Louis Johnson outlined three aims for the 12 nation North Atlantic defense program. deter aggression defend ourselves defeat the aggressor if war is forced upon us, as ministers from signatory nations met in The Hague. The plan, a middle term defense outline, covers years ahead while Allied troops remain in Germany. The United States handles strategic bombing and most naval work while Britain and France cover medium bombing and fighter cover and continental nations provide an infantry screen.
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Netherlands
U. S
Louis Johnson
Johnson
Europe
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Omar N. Bradley
Averell W. Harriman
Economic Cooperation Administration
ECA
Germany
United States
Britain
France
Truman Faces Census Taker on Opening Day
President Truman and his wife and daughter Margaret will be questioned by a local census taker on opening day of the 1950 census. The White House pledged all answers would be confidential and not used for tax or investigations. Truman, 65, from Lamar Missouri, spends long days at the White House, with renovations making Blair House his temporary residence.
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Margaret
Miami
Washington
Key West
Lamar
White House
Independence
University of Kansas City Law School
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Blair House
Monks Plead Guilty in Czechoslovakia Treason Case
Catholic monks from the Dominican and Redemptorist orders faced high treason and espionage charges in Prague’s first big church trial. Defendants Sylvester Braito and Jan Blesik admitted guilt, with others offering partial or no plea. Proceedings drew limited Western access as the state court heard claims of false information, Vatican contacts, and calls to undermine the regime. Additional admissions included Abbot Bohumil Vitr Zavojovsky and Abbot Augustin Machalka, with Jesuits also named amid the proceedings.
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Vogue
Apell Upi
Czechoslovakia
Ows
Prague Radio
Sylvester Braito
Olomouc University
Jand Jan Blesik
Redemptorist
Benn
Prague
Sylvester Bratio
Olomouc
Republic
Vatican Information Service
Dan Brevil
Congregation of Redemptoristy
Nova Rise
Machatka
Vatican
Frantise Silhan
Order of Jesuits
Adolph Kaipr
Stanislav Wartak
Frantisek Mikulasek
City Begins Quarry Use for Non burnable Trash
The city opens the abandoned Shank and Mylec quarry at Sisters Will behind the Fairgrounds to dispose of non burnable trash. City residents may dump there weekdays 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays 7 a.m. to noon. A fence three acres around the site and stop blocks were installed for safety. A resident complained about locating the new dumping ground, but officials say the issue is resolved.
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Sisters Will
Fairgrounds
East South Street
Raymond Walter
Massillon Bomb Blast Shocks Downtown Crowd
A PRA bomb exploded in downtown Massillon hours before midnight, blasting a hole in a three story Elum Sales Co building and shattering windows. Residents gathered in the streets as thousands came out to hear the blast. No injuries reported. Also, Johnstown begins a $2,285,000 housing project under a $15,000,000 state subsidy program near the city.
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Massillon
PRA
Elum Sales Co
Johnstown
Cambria County
Army Of Census Takers Begins Counting Noses In U.S. Today
Washington reports the 17th decennial census underway with about 145000 takers counting the U.S. population likely around 151 million plus territories. They collect basic data on name sex race marital status occupation home ownership and income, while the farm census asks only applicable questions.
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Army of
U.S
Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Truman
Calfornia
Truman urged to invite GOP to join foreign policy talks
Senator Ferguson proposes the president invite Republicans to join in major foreign policy decisions to bolster bipartisan approach. Bridges of New Hampshire demands truth about policy and the Cold War, accusing the administration of undermining the State Department.
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Washington
Truman
Ferguson
Reich
State Department
Bridges
New Hampshire
Russia
Key West
Fla
Wherry
R-Neb
McCarthy
R-Wis
Kremlin
Convicted On Two Charges At Hearing
William Kidwell of Sharpsburg faced two charges before Magistrate Alfon Y Bennett. He was found guilty on drinking driving and operating without a license and jailed for forty days total for failing to pay fines and costs totalling 112.90. The drunken driving carried thirty days and the license charge ten additional days. Kidwell was arrested on Route 40 about two miles east of Frederick by State Trooper A D Hasenbuhler.
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Alfon Y. Bennett
Peoples Court
William Kidwell
Route 1
Sharpsburg
Frederick
A. D. Hasenbuhler
Kidwell
Second Victim Of Car Crash Dies In Hospital
Clevesita April 14 Mrs. Martha G Hayden 80 of Beaver county Pa died in Suburban Hospital today from injuries suffered yesterday in an accident near Gaithersburg. Hayden's daughter in law Mrs Helen Hayden 27 was killed in the crash when the Adams car left the road and struck a tree.
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Clebesita
Martha G. Hayden
Beaver County
Gaithersburg
Hayden
Helen Hayden
Taft Calls For Unhampered Probe Of State Dept
Senator Taft urges an investigation of the State Department free from executive obstinacy and name calling. He defends McCarthy and Hiss, argues facts justify inquiry, and says purging communists requires a change in leadership, not mere removal of individuals.
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Portland
Taft
Ohiot
State Department
McCarthy
Rwis
Wisconsin
Truman
Key West
Fla
Kremlin
United States
Russia
Yalta
Potsdam
China
Asia
Alger
Tliss
Henry Julian
Wadleigh
Hiss
Maine
GOP
Investigation Of Theft On Farm Continues In Myersville Area
An ongoing probe reports nine sacks of dairy feed 20 to 40 empty feed sacks and a bushel of alfalfa seed stolen from Dan Warrenfeltz barn on the road to Church Hill. Deputy Sheriff R Paul Buhrman leads the inquiry, noting the items disappeared after delivery to the barn. Warrenfeltz runs a small local store and operates the farm for his father.
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Myersville
R. Paul Buhrman
Dan Warrenfeltz
Church Hill
Warrenfeltz
Fire destroys Hanover blocks in $750000 loss
Hanover Pa April 1 Fire in the center square of Hanover swept through two three story brick business and apartment buildings and damaged a third. Damage estimates range from 500000 to 750000 with one man injured and a firefighter overcome. Thirty five families fled in night clothes as Red Cross aided with temporary shelter and clothing.
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Hanover
Pennsylvania
Miles R. Fasnacht
J.C. Penney
Red Cross
Fittman
Fred Bethas
Fred Stambaugh
Bothas
Rain and Snow Reported Across Regions in April Weather Day
The Associated Press notes showers and some snow across many regions with a rain belt from the East to the Ohio Valley. Light snow fell in upper Michigan and parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Temperatures ranged from 12 above in North Dakota to below freezing in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and the northern plains, while the Southwest enjoyed warmth with 80 in El Centro and yesterday’s high of 95 in Yuma.
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Associated Press
Plains States
East Grif States
Louisiana
Ohio Valley
Lower Michigan
Central Plains States
Pacific Northwest
Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
North Dakota
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Court Fight Over Nazarene Influence in Bethany Schools
Oklahoma City April 1 Disgruntled Bethany citizens press a state supreme court fight to oust school officials for alleged Nazarene indoctrination. Judge Baker H Melone dismisses suit saying abstinence teaching is not religious instruction. Bleakley leads the challenge and may appeal. Bethany bans shorts beer and tobacco amid a kiss coronation controversy.
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Oklahoma City
Bethany
Supreme Court
Baker H. Melone
William E. Bleakley
Bleakley
State Supreme Court
Here
Nazarene Church
Riddell Riggs
Charlotte McLain
County Funds Cap Hit For Allegany Relief
Cumberland Maryland a county relief update reports that Allegany county has contributed 78078 to a state matched relief program and that last 15000 payment is the final county pledge. Commissioner James Holmes says the county cannot afford more and that finances are drained.
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Cumberland
Allegany County
James Holmes
Chimney Fire at Rockwell Terrace House Extinguished
Firemen were summoned around 9 15 this morning to 300 Rockwell Terrace to extinguish a chimney fire at the residence of Col and Mrs Harrison McAlpine. Booster streams were used. Responding to the alarm were the Independent United and Citizens company.
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Rockwell Terrace
Harrison McAlpine
Independent, United and Citizens Company
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