Staub Store Fire Damage Increasing
Investigators probed the messy interior of J. Marshall Staub’s liquor store at 401 North Market Street after a last night fire of unknown origin. The blaze caused smoke damage, four firemen were overcome, and losses were estimated from 560,000 to 100,000 or more with liquor, a Coca Cola machine, and basement stock heavily affected.
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J. Marshall Staub
North Market Street
Staub
Braddock
United Escue
Allard
Jake) Wiles
Gus Sanger
Camp Detrick
Allen Sherald
Elizabeth
John Hart
C. E. Troupe
Hart
Miss Martha Waring Killed in Texas Accident
Miss Martha Flavia Waring granddaughter of Mrs Martha C Carson of 19 North Court Street was killed in an accident in Texas. Details were not available this afternoon. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Wearing Jr of Comanche Texas and spent a year in Frederick with her grandmother while Mrs Carson was dietitian at Hood College. She attended Frederick High School and was well known locally.
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Martha Flavia Waring
Martha C. Carson
North Court Street
Texas
Miss Waring
John Wearing
Jdr
Comanche
Tex
Frederick
Carson
Hood College
Frederick High School
Southwest Winter Wheat Crop in Doubt Across Plains
The drought grips the Southwest as rain must fall to save winter wheat. Kansas reporters cite dry January through March as record-setting, with 50 percent normal yields in Garden City. Texas, Oklahoma, and eastern Colorado show poor to uncertain prospects, while central Kansas maintains some optimism. Weather, pests, and dust storms threaten the crop nationwide.
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Kansas City
Southwest
Kansas
Texas
Panhandle
South Plain
Oklahoma
Garden City
Kas
Hoy Etling
New Mexico
Oklahoma Panhandle
Car fire destroys borrowed 1950 auto in New Jersey brush blaze
Stephen Preffack of East Brunswick was driving on a back road in South River when his car wheels stuck in sand. He spun the wheels to free it, setting tires on fire and igniting nearby brush. The blaze spread to the car, which police say he borrowed, and the 1950 auto was destroyed.
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South River
N. J
Stephen Preffack
East Brunswick
Preffack
Easter Weather Threat Brings Frost Risk to Peach Crops
The weather bureau warns of a Sunday night frost with lows near 18 to 20 degrees and a windy, colder trend through Easter weekend. Showers are likely with a chance of Easter snow flurries and damaging frosts Monday morning, though airport readings showed 23 degrees overnight.
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Weather Bureau
Police Respond to Emergencies as Fire Rages at Market and Fourth
Police were busy Friday night as a $60,000 blaze at Market and Fourth drew the entire night force. At 9:15 p.m. a West Third street crash sent Yvonne Gerrich to Frederick Memorial with head injuries after about $50 damage to two cars. Later, near 12:45 a.m., W. C. Jones, a candidate for Judge of the Orphans' Court, suffered a paralytic stroke and concussion after striking his head on a bed rail, and was transported to the hospital by M. R. Etchison and Son Ambulance.
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Market
Fourth Streets
West Third Street
Yvonne Gerrich
West Patrick Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Norrian Trump
Sergt
Dan Swomley
Alion Twentey
South Market Street
W. C. Jones
Orphans’ Court
Jones
M. R. Etchison and Son
Hope for End O Long Chrysler Strike Near
Hopes for settlement of the Chrysler pension strike rose as union and company placed counteroffers on the table. Negotiations resumed with no details released, but the talks are believed to address noneconomic issues and the central pension question of $100 monthly payments. The strike, now in its Tdth day, is estimated to be near a billion dollars in cost.
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Detroit
Chrysler
United Auto Workers
Truman Takes First Atlantic Swim At Key West
President Truman waded into the Atlantic at Key West as warm weather returned to his winter retreat. The midday dip marked his first ocean swim since midweek and underscored easing winter conditions in the Florida vacation spot.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Atlantic
Cold Wave To Hit Maryland For Easter Sunday Observance
The Weather Bureau warned of a Canadian cold air mass sweeping southeast from Ontario and Great Lakes, delivering unseasonably cold Easter temperatures to Maryland and much of the Northeast. Rain, wind, and freezing temps expected. Monday morning lows may dip to 16 to 22 degrees in western orchards, with Maryland facing the full cold wave impact.
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Maryland
Associated Press
Great Lakkes
Weather Bureau
Ohio
New York
Ontario
Canada
Great Lakes
United States
Deep South
Pacific Northwest
New England
Middle Atlantic
Rockies
Missouri
Upper
Mississey
North Sound
Search On For Slayer In Double Department Store Murders
Washington April 8 Polite today pressed a wide search for the owner of fingerprints found on a shoe of one of two brutally murdered department store night watchmen. Over 100 suspects questioned as investigators pursued a lead tied to Oliver Hess 56. The victims Oliver R Hess and John C Carpenter 66 were found bound and gagged with multiple stab wounds in Vansburghs downtown store. A butcher knife from the second floor cafe was the presumed weapon. One man held on an open charge as burglars eyed as motive. A minor accident followed on East South street and Hamilton avenue involving Robert Shank Buckeystown and William Sheckies. no injuries reported.
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Washington
Vansburgh’s
Oliver R. Hess
John C. Carpenter
A. Magruder
MacDonald
Carpenter
East South Street
Hamilton Avenue
Robert K. Shank
Buckeystown
William M. Sheckies
South Street
Allen Bartgis
Suit for Absolute Divorce Filed in Equity Court
Kingman Brewster of Washington a Frederick County landowner and former city resident sues Mrs Theofreh Brewster for absolute divorce on desertion grounds. Married in Chicago in 1930 the couple has one child.
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Kingman Brewster
Washington
Frederick County
Theofreh Brewster
Chicago
Claire Frock Workers To Return To Work Monday
Striking workers at the Claire Frock Company in Thurmont will return to work Monday morning and submit differences with management to arbitration before Judge Eli Frank. The union said the decision followed a Friday meeting and an agreement signed in York, Pennsylvania, to settle disputes ending a weeklong plant closure. Attorneys Weinberg and Edelman met with the judge who ordered immediate termination of the unlawful stoppage and future grievances to be arbitrated under the 1949 agreement.
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Claire Frock Company, Inc
Thurmont
Flr Frank
Supreme Court
Baltimore
York
Manuel M. Weinberg
Jack Edelman
Jlgwu Leal
Frank
Claire Frock Company
ILGWU
Eli Frank
Still Without Arrests For Murder Of Two Men
Kansas City reports no arrests in the double murder at the First District Democratic club as residents and police review clues. Charles Binaggio and aide Charles Gargetta are linked to the case amid widespread funeral attendance and ongoing investigations. Authorities question associates and study Gambler links, including ties to St. Louis.
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Kansas City
Charles Binaggio
Charles Gargetta
First District
Democratic Club
Binaggio
St. Louis
New York Importer Says He Furnished Info to McCarthy
Alfred Kohlberg, New York textile importer, told the Associated Press he supplied information to Sen. Joseph McCarthy for use in the State Department probe. He said the data concerned Owen Lattimore and Philip Jessup, both targets of McCarthy’s charges. Kohlberg testified to FBI agents that some material was given to McCarthy last week and that he had removed personal letters before showing files.
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New York
Alfred Kohlberg
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Kohlberg
Associated Press
McCarthy
Owen Lattimore
Far East
Philip Jessup
Lattimore
FBI
Jessuip
Tarpely
Ember
Lattmore
PBS
Institute of Pacific Relations
Institute
Man Guilty In Abortion Case
In Washington April, Ralph W. Myers was found guilty of performing an abortion on Nina Jean Campbell of Hillsdale Maryland. The jury concluded the operation did not cause death, sentencing range 20 months to five years with no sentencing date set.
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Washington
Ralph W. Myers
Nina Jean Campbell
Hillsdale
Myers
Arlington
Ruth Childs
Miss Childs
Children’s Hospital
Peggy Earnshaw
Aun
Mes Campbell
Jaege F. Dickinson Letts
Lucy E. Nauman
John W. Barnet
James J. Laughlin
Letts
Nauman
Laughlin
Campbell
Buzzie Roosevelt Engaged To Miss Robin Edwards
Los Angeles announces the engagement of Buzzie Roosevelt, son of Anna Roosevelt, to 21 year old Robin Edwards, daughter of a Douglas Aircraft Corp. executive. The couple were listed as engaged at a Brentwood home cocktail party. Roosevelt, 20, blond, attends Loyola University and is a grandson of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His mother uses the Roosevelt name in her public work.
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Los Angeles
Curtis
Buzzie) Roosevelt
White House
Douglas Aircraft Corp
Robin Edwards
Brentwood
Jame Burton Edwards
Buzzie
Franklin D Roosevelt
Loyola University
Anna Roosevelt
Curtis Dall, Sr
John Boettiger
Buzzle
Roosevelt
Suspected Kidnapper And Girl Arrested
Covina California April 8 officers nabbed a high school girl and a man suspected of kidnapping her after an incident in front of the girl's home. Sheriff Sgt William Sells said Daley Nelson 16 was abducted by a 30 year old mustached man. The boyfriend Donald Ovrich 16 reported a light flashed on the couple and the man ordered Donald from the car then drove away.
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Covina
Calif
PH Shevitt
Orl
Sherif
Williamy Sells
Daley Nelson
Donald Ovlrich
Donald
Golf Am
Che Gn
Ovlrich
Joy Of Easter Celebrations Across Christian World
The Associated Press reports Easter joy marked worldwide as Christians gather in cathedrals churches and hilltop services to celebrate the Resurrection. Weather varies with fair conditions in some regions and showers elsewhere as crowds prepare for parades pilgrimages and dawn services including Rome and Washington imploring peace.
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Old World
New England
Pacific Northwest
Florida
U.S
Christ
Rome
Pope Pius XII
BL. Peter's
Washington
D. C
New York
Fifth Avenue
Midtown Manhattan
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Atlantic City
Miami
Fla
Fredericksburg
Tex
Wichita Mountains
Lawton
Oklo
Boy heir to vast California estate revealed in probate filing
Nine year old William Thornton White ITI named sole heir to a 99 million estate from grandmother Katherine Irvine. Taxed heavily by state and federal inheritance taxes, the windfall may shrink to about 4 million. The boy, his sister Gay, and mother Gloria White live in Newport Beach. father William White Jr. is executor.
Small Progress on New York Stock Market
The New York stock market showed only modest gains, advancing around a point on favored issues while many leaders held Thursday’s closing levels and a few dipped slightly amid fast trade.
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New York
Western Europe seeks freer eastern trade at May foreign ministers' talks
Western European powers press for relaxed barriers with the Soviet Union and eastern satellites. London hosts the May conference of French British and American foreign ministers to discuss trade walls and postwar Germany. Officials cite Marshall Plan constraints and US policy as factors shaping the debate.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Russia
United States
London
State Department
Europe
Tragic Baltimore death after 6 year old with sitter shoots self
In Baltimore on a night with four children left with 21 year old Angel Torres and a 10 year old babysitter Fayetta Morgart, six year old Vito Delemardo used a .45 auto left on a bed to shoot himself in the heart. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police say the 10 year old was paid to supervise, while the mother worked as a waitress.
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Baltimore
Vito Delemardo
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Pahce
Angel Torres
Torres
Fayetta
Vito
Three Escapees Identified After Va Highway Robbery
Abingdon Virginia April release identifies three armed holdup men as escapees from Halifax prison farm. FBI lectures from Richmond matched prison files. Suspects are wanted in 15 states for wounding Patrolman William Roscoe Mutter of Damascus during a car theft and shootout.
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Abingdon
Halifax
FBI
Richmond
William Roscoe Mutter
Damascus
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John L. Bradshaw, Jr
West Fourth Street
Howard W Whitlock
Hyattsville
Raymond S. Hudson
Piedmont
W. Va
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Nathan Lockshin
Cleveland
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A. D Hasenbuhler
Williiam Young
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