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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1956
Page
1
Forecaster predicts 80 to 85 degree high today with a shot at near 90 if skies stay clear. Airport reading hits 74 by 9:30 am, three degrees above Friday’s mark, while peaches bloom and orchards brace for further warmth and minimal frost risk.
Federal Reserve rate hikes push banks to raise loan costs and lenders to lift auto finance and department store charges. Automaker and tractor production cuts echo the cooling effort while first quarter earnings roar for United States Steel Bethlehem and other blue chips. A stock rally follows as major firms post record profits and dividends amid rising prices.
City police list four theft incidents. A physician’s case with medical instruments was stolen from Dr A G Bourne Jr’s car on West All Saints Street. Harry Naugie’s car on South Court Street lost groceries worth 10.94 dollars. Edna Masser’s clothes were stolen from a clothesline on North Market Street. Hub caps were taken from William Robinson’s Ford on Madison Street.
The Francis Scott Key Post of the American Legion plans dual Memorial Day observances. A Tuesday program at the Legion Home on East Church Street precedes the Mt. Olivet ceremony with a flag raising at the Key monument. Veterans Oscar R Brightwell and William Roscoe Brightwell are honored. committee members and a firing squad participate.
Akron man Ralph A. Barber 43 was caught shoplifting cigarette lighters in Frederick. Police say his FBI record spans three pages with charges from mail fraud to armed robbery and assault. He has used several aliases including Ralph Myers and Ronald A. Connelly and faces possible incarceration in Ohio.
Seventy six voting machines will be moved to 68 city and county precincts next Monday through Wednesday for the May 7 primary. Meadows Van Lines holds the hauling contract, and a representative from the Automotive Voting Machine Company will supervise and assist precinct judges. Machines will be sealed until voting starts at 7 a.m. and up to two spares kept in reserve for defective units.
London ministers rebuked Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher for criticizing Britain's Cyprus policy. Prime Minister Eden's adviser Richard Butler said there should be no delay, while Pensions Minister John Boyd-Carpenter called the comment unhelpful and Colonial Minister John Hare urged the archbishop to urge Cypriots toward talks.
A Senate Lobby Investigating Committee will open public hearings by examining the General Gas Committee of Fort Worth Texas and its leader Maston Nixon Corpus Christi. Nixon will provide records, and the group’s reports show 118,625 dollars receipts and 119,1725 dollars expenditures over 18 months with large contributions from oil firms including Continental Oil Co Houston.
The Soviet bloc pursues Yugoslavia with about 300 million dollars in easy loans, ten times the U S aid this year. Yugoslavia receives 30 million in economic aid with additional unspecified military support. The figure was disclosed in March testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Stuart I Van Dyke of the International Cooperation Administration.
In Blenheim Ontario six of Leo Dorssers fifteen children will wed four husbands at St. Marys Roman Catholic Church in Canada's largest multiple wedding. The village of 2600 brightened with lights as officials and media arrived to cover the ceremony and broadcast it to Helden in the Netherlands.
Dr William Kroger told 150 physicians and psychologists that many medicines succeed not by chemistry but by patient belief. He cited psoriasis treatment, bed wetting hypnosis, and deep anesthesia cases where patients survived or lived longer due to hopeful expectations and hypnotic therapy.
The Associated Press reports renewed storm activity across the central U S with tornado warnings issued overnight. No injuries were reported as tornadic winds and thunderstorms swept the Central Plains and Great Lakes, bringing heavy rain sleet and hail in several states. Temperatures swung sharply with cooling in the north and warmth in the south, while fair conditions persisted in the southern third.
Police seek a glib talking confidence man using the old friend approach to bilk local business people of cigarettes firearms cash and a bottle of whiskey he obtained with a bogus check. He gave the name H W Jones claiming work for a transportation firm and running a sportsman's inn in the county with false addresses in Emmasburg Lewistown and New Haven Conn.
Robert D. Owen leads the 1956 Crusade for Cancer drive in Frederick with Carroll Kinsey and Marion Kehne directing county and city efforts. The Frederick city and county quota is 35 500, aiming to boost last year’s exceedance as volunteers mobilize door to door and donations to Crusade headquarters at 121 North Court Street.
City police warned that firing air rifles within city limits is illegal and can bring fines or jail terms. Recent damage includes broken windows at the Maryland State School for the Deaf and at Coca Cola Bottling Company. Police also seek the driver who damaged a lawn and tree at corner of Rosemont and Lindbergh avenues Friday night.
A bomb exploded at a residence in Englewood nine miles northwest of Dayton injuring four people including the groom to be Donald Dixon and three wedding guests Rosella Cooney 34 of Chicago Rosella Stewart 45 of Washington DC and Catherine Stefanak 46 Nimhurst. Dixon died Thursday and funeral services are planned. Captain Coburn said the blast ripped furniture and lighting fixtures and investigators have no clear motive.
The district office of the U S Army Corps of Engineers prepares 1 322 housing units costing 17 800 000 in the Baltimore area. Ft Meade will receive 1 000 units, Ft Holabird 198, and 124 at Nike guided missile bases nearby. Col Stephen F E Smith notes most units will be multi family buildings rather than single houses.
Vienna report shows a lone survivor of four youths who fled Hungary for Austria on a farm tractor. He identified his brother among the border guards who fired on them. The other three youths were killed trying to force through barbed wire barriers.
London officials said two anti communist underground groups planned to assassinate Nikolai Blagun and Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet leaders visit to Britain. Scotland Yard and the Foreign Office tracked the plot via continental agents, tightening security for the 10 day mission. No incidents occurred as the Soviet chiefs departed aboard a cruiser from Portsmouth.
Eleven injured when a female elephant enraged by her missing baby charged a spectator stand in WANAHACHIE Texas during Miller Brothers Circus opening. A 62 year old woman, Mrs Josephine Johnson of Waxahachie, suffered a compound fracture and other injuries while 10 others were treated and released. The elephant was restrained after smashing through canvas and striking nearby sections, with spectators fleeing as the animal trampled the tent.
General Anthony C. McAuliffe praised the U S Army in Europe as best trained and equipped in history at a farewell review in Mannheim Germany. He retires May 30 after 38 years of service with 12 000 spectators watching a 30 minute ceremony. Lt General Henry I Hodes to succeed him as commander in chief.
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