Raid Planned at Spartan Club Before Armed Robbery
Police planned a raid on the Spartan Club as a suspected gambling site after tipster reports, but five armed robbers foiled the effort early Monday. The robbers escaped with over $10,000. five men were arrested nearby and others held on armed robbery charges. Victims reported losses including several hundred dollars and one claim of 2,600.
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Spartan Club
Court House
Edwin F. Nidirk
Montgomery County
Charles R. Graves
Washington
Stuyvesant Insurance Company
New York City
Baltimore
James Charles Toland
Jean Crum
Benjamin Grier
Willie C. Williams
Johnnie Douglas Boyd
W. V
Petey) Rose
Rose
Boy Struck On Head With Bat Dies At School Yard
Gregory McGaughey nine died after a girl struck him in the head with a baseball bat during noon recess at an elementary school in Prince Frederick Maryland. Conflicting student accounts described the sequence of events and authorities said likely no charges would be filed.
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Prince
Frederick, Md
Gregory McGaughey
Gregory
Calvert County Hospital
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Maryland
Joseph Kobleur
Calvert County
Streams To Be Stocked Again In Frederick County
Frederick County streams will receive about 3 250 more trout next week supplementing the season stock. Four county streams plus a fifth will be stocked Thursday and Friday with 1 000 Big Hunting Creek 500 Owens Creek 250 Friends Creek 1 000 Fishing Creek and 500 Middle Creek. The Game and Inland Fish Commission aims to place 200 brood trout in county streams in coming weeks for anglers seeking a big catch.
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Frederick County
Game and Inland Fish Commission
Angier
Big Hunting Creek
Owens Creek
Friends Creek
Fishing Creek
Middle Creek
Commission
Imprisoned Slayer Given Easter Present
Ray mond Tomczak, 32, father of six, wins parole for second degree murder after a judge cites provocation and exemplary prison conduct. He plans Easter worship with his family and to return to work Monday for a fresh start. Judge Ullman and Judge Altman voiced sympathy and granted parole.
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Philadelphia
David L. Ullman
Raymond Tomczak
Altman
Tomczak
Michael Aquilla
Frederick College Hosts Spring State Junior Session
About 175 persons are expected next Saturday for the Maryland Association of Junior Colleges spring meeting at Frederick College facilities and Frederick High School. Dr Felix E Hirsch of Tren ton State College will speak on the library as a center of learning.
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Maryland Association of Junior Colleges
Duval W. Sneadner
Frederick Community College
Frederick College
Frederick High School
Library—Center of Learning
Felix E. Hirsch
Trenton State College
N. 4
Hirsch
Bard College
New York
Trenton State
Association of College and Research Libraries
Library Association
University of Heidelberg
Germany
Columbia University
Florence C. Wilmer
Wilmer
Catonsville Community College
Margaret Atwood
York, Pa
Mary Shipper
Potomac State College
Keyser
W. Va
Dorothy Reeder
State Teachers College At
Towson
Donald E. Deyo
Montgomery Junior College
Atlee C. Kepler
State Association
Eli William Hall
Calgary Methodist Church
Dean Sneadner
James A. Sensenbaugh
Dean Sweadner
Mary Charles
Edward , Fritz
Winfred Hataway
W.day Mullinix
Louise Doty
Rhoda Fogle
Emily 4. Payne
Charles L.righter
Ethel W. Righter
Constitution
John W. Musselman
Raymond Neil
May Russell
Edward Fritz
Wilfred Hathaway
W. Day
Association
Kay Parks
Villa Julie College
Joan Beach
Hagerstown
Dewey la Rochelle
Montgomery
Joe Sunt
Baltimore University
Ed Aus
Balti Junior College
Delegates Named for Maryland Medical Meet at Alcazar
Dr L B Schoolman and Dr Frank Damazo will serve as delegates from the Frederick County Medical Society to the 62nd annual meeting of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. Alternates are Dr Charles H Conley Jr and Dr E A Dettbarn. The event opens next Wednesday in Baltimore with scientific sessions, exhibits and business meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. RB. Schoolman
Frank Damazo
Frederick County Medical Society
Russell H. Morfan
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Park Plaza Hotel
Sheraton-Belvedere
Howard M. Norton
Moscow
The
Sunpapers
State Society
Leslie E. Gaugherty
Cumberland
Three murder suspects released in widow slaying case
In Baltimore AP reports two of three men held for questioning in the murder and rape of 85 year old widow Laura Fiskinger were freed. A 61 year old handyman and a 48 year old laborer were released after questioning including a lie detector test. a 52 year old shipyard worker remained in custody as police questioned a 41 year old woman friend. The victim was found strangled and beaten by a cleaning woman early yesterday.
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Baltimore
Laura Fiskinger
Five Convicts Firefight During Walla Walla Escape Try
Five inmates overpowered guards at Washington State Prison in a Friday night escape attempt. Two wounded by buckshot and rifle fire, both not critically hurt. a third convict captured unharmed. Two more fled. Nichols and Herr still missing on the grounds. Jessie Davis, Roland Beard, Roy Olson identified among those involved.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Washington State
William Maclin
Flight For Freedom
No. 1
No. 2
Tower No. 2
Jessie L. Davis
King County
Davis
Roland Beard
Yakima County
Roy Victor Olson
Seattle
Joseph W. Nichols
Robert A. Herr
Spokane County
Macklin
Nichols
Herr
Easter Bunny Sale Brings Fresh Cuteness to Town
Veteran rabbit raisers Diane Brightwell near Monrovia and the Olden brothers Russell and Thomas of Woodsboro return to city streets selling rabbits for Easter at 1.25 and 1.50 each. The youngsters plan to buy Easter treats with their earnings as parents bring back purchases for Sunday morning visits.
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Diane Brightwell
Monrovia
Fredericktown
Thomas Olden
Russell
Diane
Last escapees caught near Baltimore after 42 hours on the run
Baltimore County police rounded up the last two of 18 juvenile escapees from the National Training School for Boys and handed them to the FBI. Sergeant Walter Stance said the 16 year old boys, hungry and exhausted after 42 hours on the loose, were apprehended after officers fired a warning shot over their heads along railroad tracks. The other 16 escapees were captured earlier.
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Baltimore
Baltimore County
National Training School For
FBI
Walter Stance
Halethorpe
Minimdum Security Institution
Washington, D. C
Sinking Lebanese freighter Ethel C leaves no trace off Virginia
A 33 foot Lebanese freighter with a largely Greek crew reported taking on water and abandoning ship about 19 miles off the Virginia coast. Coast Guard and Navy units searched for hours with no wreckage or survivors found. The Ethel C, built in Britain in 1943, carried 382 tons of scrap iron worth about $130,000 and was en route from New York to Rotterdam.
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Norfolk, Va
The
Coast Guard
Virginia
Ethel C
Newport News
Esso Lexington
Navy
New York City
Rotterdam
New York
Rohner, Gehrig Shipping Corp
Diomedes Caravias
Thomas Gibson
Great Britain
Britain
Air Force Eyes Satellite Capsule Recovery Near Hawaii
Giant Air Force planes circle Hawaii in a test of catching the Discoverer XI capsule launched from Vandenberg. If recovered, the 27 by 33 inch capsule will mark the first retrieval from orbit, opening the path to future manned spaceflight and return.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Hawaii
Joose
Earth
North Pole
Fingerprints Unearthed in Starved Rock Slayings
Ottawa AP reports investigators sealed a major breakthrough in the Starved Rock triple murder case as prints found on clothing of two victims may match records. State Police Supt Morris said five to six prints and a thumb print were uncovered from garments of Frances Murphy Lillian Oetting and Mildred Lindquist on March 14.
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Ottawa
Starved Rock
William Morris
Riverside
Frances Murphy
Lillian Oetting
Mildred Lindquist
Chicago
Monocacy River Turned Black By Sewage Fault
Andrew Cowan of Gas House Pike reported the Monocacy River at the Gas House Pike bridge was visibly black this morning, resembling ink. A Fort Detrick official attributed the condition to a sewage fault.
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Andrew Cowan
Gas House Pike
Fort Detrick
Former Postmaster Burgess Dies At 75 In New Market
Bayard C. Burgess 73 formerly served as postmaster and general store operator in New Market for 23 years. He died at Frederick Memorial Hospital after weeks of illness. Surviving siblings include Annie Burgess May Murdock Nellie Wiles Thurman Burgess William Burgess Louis Burgess. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. in New Market with Rev. Charles Bryan. Interment in New Market Cemetery. L. K. Falconer, funeral director.
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New Market
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Bayard C. Burgess
Woodrow Wilson
George W
Mary Lare Burgess
Margaret Wood Burgess
Annie Burgess
May Murdock
Airy
Nellie Wiles
Brunswick
Thurman Burgess
William Burgess
Venus
Fla
Louis Burgess
Charles Bryan
New Market Cemetery
L. K. Falcconer
Unrest in Kazakh Republic Suppresses Across Regions
AP reports from Washington describe unrest in the Kazakh Republic of the Soviet Union with a October riot near Karaganda's Temir Tan and hundreds of casualties. Soviet troops intervened after local authorities failed to quell the disturbance amid discontent over Moscow’s development push and shortages.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Karaganda
Kazakhstan
Nicolai Belyaev
Communist Party
Kazakhistan
Moscow
Republic
Iran
Afghanistan
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Temir Tan
Killed On State Roads
Four persons died in Maryland traffic accidents last night and today raising the yearly toll to 156. Two Marines, Charles Jones and Donald Jones, both 23 and 22, were killed when their car left Maryland Route 165 near Jarrettsville and struck a tree during Easter leave from Quantico. Elizabeth Carr, 28, of Bel Air, died when her car crashed into a tractor-trailer on Route 40 near Middle River Road east of Baltimore. Russell Lee, 19, of Stamford Conn., died after his car swerved on Maryland Route 2 in Calvert County. The Philadelphia truck driver was named William Bachman, 38. state police reported.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Marine Corps
Harford County
Baltimore
Connecticut
Calvert County
Charles
Donald E. Jones
Quantico
Whiteford Md
Maryland 165
Jarrettsville
Elizabeth Carr
Route 3
Bel Air
Middle River Road
Herbert Rise
Cockeysville
William H. Bachman
Philadelphia
Russell
Lee
Stamford
Conn
Maryland 2
W. T. Gerwig
Threaten To Banish Workers
In Johannesburg and Cape Town the South African government warned that African workers who join a stay-home strike would be banished to native reserves in the interior. The move follows leaflets calling for a week of work stoppage by underground leaders aligned with the ANC and antipass protests.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Department of Bantu Administration and Development
Cape Town
Three Men Sentenced for Store Robbery in Suranki
The Daun of the East reports three men were sentenced to 10 to 13 years in prison for robbing a Su ranki store of 168000 mobles at the official rate. Such crime reports are rare in Soviet papers.
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Moscow
Daun of the East
Suranki
Sovet
Khan birth observed in Taipei commemorates Genghis Khan
Formosa reported that Taipei marked the birth 893 years ago of Genghis Khan. The Mongol conqueror founded the Yuan dynasty, which ruled China from 1206 to 1368 A.D.
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Raid
Pas
Michael Hodges
Damascus
Russell Olden
Hutch
Gary Rayburn
Woodsboro
Frank J. Keefer
North Market Street
Miss Brightwell
Schoolman
Damazo
Bayard Burgess
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