Peace in China Sea Turns to Violent Clashes
A British passenger plane over the Indochina Sea was shot down by Chinese fighters killing 10 of 18 aboard. Rescue by U.S. carriers and a Navy amphibian saved survivors including a six year old girl and mother amid heavy seas. The incident follows Peiping’s verbal push for peaceful coexistence and UN recognition of Red China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Red China
United Nations
Indochina
Philippines
Britain
Peiping
U. S
Motorists Acquitted In Frederick Peoples Court
Four motorists including two truckers were acquitted this morning before Magistrate Wilbur F. Sheffield. Charges ranged from speeding on U S 340 and U S 40 to reckless driving on Gapland Road, with one driver appealing a guilty verdict. Collateral forfeitures and fines were listed for several defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoples Court
Wilbur F. Sheffield
Donald W. Bowser
Kenneth M. Poling
Middletown
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Luther W. Shryock
Hagerstown
Poling
Frederick
Shryock
Braddock Mountain
Joseph T. Grant
Brunswick
Gapland Road
Francis W. Wagner
Patrick Street
U. S. 40
Bowser
J. W. Hardy
Robert H. Holter
RFD 1
Hardy
West Patrick Street
William R. Snyder
Oakmont
U.S. 46
South Mountain
James J. Howard
Hastings
N. Y
Julius Silverberg
Baltimore
Boyer
Richard T. Hilderbrand
U.S
George R. Cole
Bowser and Hardy
Submarine bearings and National Guard pay Q&A
The excerpt covers a range of Q and A topics. Submarines use wooden bearings on propeller shafts due to constant immersion and lack of lubrication access. National Guard pay aligns with regular service grades and training counts as duty. It notes Memorial solskratea year and lists animal counts: over 900,000 species with about 675,000 insects. Birds do not sweat but can bring air into their bodies to cool themselves.
City Fire Companies to Receive $1000 Annual Aid in 1904
The 1904 Board of Aldermen approved $1,000 yearly grants for each city fire company to be paid quarterly. Fire department audits required, and Wesley Baltzell awarded a contract to build a $395 fireproof vault for tax books in the market house rear of the register's office. Aurelius Haffner robbed. Dr. Goldsborough bitten by a shepherd dog. Arcades beat Elite Brush Factory 3-1 at Athletic Park, Brust starring.
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Wesley Baltzell
City Register
Register
Austin Haffner
S. T. Hatiner
Charles Goldsborough
Walkersville
Woodsboro
Arcades
Brush Factory
Twenty Years Ago Items From The News August 3 1954
Twenty years ago notes report the death of Dr Charles A Norwood at 90, his brother ex Senator Frank C Norwood's death months earlier, petitions by 269 residents opposing leasing Calvin Hall farm as a transient center, Frederick Had nearly a third inch of rain, hail near Fishing Creek, and the birth of a son to Dr and Mrs A A Pearre at Frederick City Hospital.
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Charles A. Norwood
Rockwell Terrace
Frank C. Norwood
Calvin Hall
Eighth Street
Culler
Frederick
Fishing Creek
A. Austin Pearre
Frederick City Hospital
Travel and Social News Updates From Local Residents
Rev and Mrs Harvey Shue of Terre Haute and their children Dorothy and David arrived Friday to visit J William Howard and attend church events in Adamstown. The group will travel to Middletown Taneytown and Baltimore to see relatives and friends. Others visiting Knoxville over the weekend included Stephan Schranz and his children for Shirley Ann Pearson and Joseph F Thompson wedding at Brunswick. Blair Thomas Duvall born at Frederick Memorial Hospital to Betty Adams Duvall.
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Harvey Shue
Terre Haute
Ind
Dorothy
David
J. William Howard
West 14Th Street
Shue
Adamstown Reformed Church
Augustae
Viola Holter
Middletown
Taneytown
Baltimore
Tobacco Spring Farm
Knoxville
Stephan A. Schranz
Stubby James
Jackie
Marilyn
Judy Schranz
East St. Louis
Shirley Ann Pearson
Joseph F. Thompson
Church of St. Francis
Brunswick
Schranz
R. C. Thompson
Leo Duvall
Seventh Street
Pike
Blair Thomas
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Duvall
Betty Adams
Mr. Reed
Clarence Reed
Tor Sheboygan
Wis
Miller
William C. Miller
Gaithersburg
Wiliam Stra‘snider
Fort Riley
William
John R. Barstow
Bruce
Baghdad
Arabia
Barstow
State Department
John A. Jones, Jr
Sellman
Clay Plummer
William Stevenson
Chevy Chase
Pittsburgh
H. E. Perkins
Plummer
Miss Cha
Korea
Lincis Wesleyan College
Local Patients Improve At Frederick Memorial Hospital
Among the sick residents on East Seventh street Mrs Juhnsiumenaver has returned home and is reported to be improving. Miss Ruth Dutrow of West Second street is in fair condition after entering the Frederick Memorial Hospital Sunday. Mrs Jesse Wetzel of 356 East Third street entered the hospital Sunday morning for observation.
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Juhnsiumenaver
East Seventh Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Ruth Dutrow
West Second Street
Jesse Wetzel
East Third Street
Court House
Charles H. Poole
Mrobert Ritchie
U.S. 40
New Market
New Market District
Robert W. Motis
Peter 4
Gerone
Biggs Avenue
Charles W O'Melveny
Emmitsburg
Guy P. Burdette
Austin W. Luhn
Albert W. Angleberger
Arthur Strube
Girl Scouts Start Appalachian Trail Exploration Survey
About fifty patrols of six or seven Senior Girl Scouts from region three began exploring the Appalachian Trail yesterday at ten am. They hike from Delaware Water Gap to Virginia to prep for next year’s Big Trail. Troop 15, led by Mrs. Edward D. Storm, started at Route 77 crossing Foxville and will exit at Route 40.
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Merotic
Frank Keefer
Tilly Kent
Iva Zeiler
Mary Storm
Kay Schnauffer
Patsy Kent
Jeanne Rabhstein
Miss Kent
Edith Wisner
Rachel Baker
Frederick
Delaware Water Gap
Virginia
Foxville
Charles K. Taylor
National Headquarters
Joseph Williams
Cumberland
Lenora Mann
Washington
National
Edward D.storm
July Wrong Time For Trip Through West Tourists Find
A Knoxville group led by Mr and Mrs Lin ford G Best and relatives traveled 3.00 miles through eight western states. They warn against traveling west in July due to extreme heat in Oklahoma where temperatures reached 120 degrees in Tulsa and cars heated to 149 150 degrees. Rail stations burned near Claremore and highways buckled, yet rainless Oklahoma contrasted with storms later in Tennessee. The travelers praised air conditioned motels and noted drought, grasshoppers, and desertlike terrain amid a hazardous summer journey.
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Oklahoma
Linford G.best
Rebecca
Ernie Best
Knoxville
Janna P. Kennedy
Barbara A. Kennedy
East Third Street
Frederick
Tulsa
Ars Best
Jack
Claremore
Okla
Missouri
Administrative Training Course at Detrick Begun
Thirty five Detrick clerical employees started a one week administrative training course at the post. Col John J Hayes announced the open and Lt Col Cecil D Miller officiated. The program teaches writing and routing Army correspondence security procedures and Chemical Corps organization. Two groups meet daily in three hour sessions for five days with Veronica Catlett directing and Helen Gravenkamp to instruct.
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Detrick
John J. Hayes
Cecil D. Miller
Chemical Corps
Veroica Catlett
Helen Gravenkamp
Washington, D. C
Herbert S. Quint
Frank Baker
Intelligence Office
Albert Detwiler
Grace
Bread Of Life By Rev A Purnel Bailey
A Chinese visitor compares America to a cash driven nation. He watches commerce education and especially religion. At the stock exchange he sees urgent trading and declares the crowd’s frenzy embodies the country’s religion. He concludes you cannot serve God and mammon from Luke 16 13.
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Rev. A. Purnel
Bailey
America
China
Stock Exchange
State's Crop Report Details Maryland Drought Impact
Maryland's Crop Reporting Service says tobacco, corn and pastures were seriously hampered by lack of rain in last week's checkup. Western Maryland fares better, soybeans show resilience, and fruit remains under control despite dry weather. An injured boy, Peter Linton, has returned home after a year in Kernan's Hospital.
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College Park
Maryland
Atl L. Park
Sudan
North Bay
Bay Region
Delaware
Peter Linton
James W. Linton
Yellow Springs
Imho
Kernan's Hospital
Baltimore
Primaries In Four States Held Today
Four state primaries feature limited opposition with veteran congressman Dewey Short defending Missouri seat amid drought aid boost. Kansas Michigan and West Virginia shows light campaigning. several governors face limited GOP opposition while incumbents in several races avoid serious threats.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Kansas
West Virginia
Missouri
Dewey Short
House Armed Services Committee
Noel Cox
Short
House
White House
U.S. Senate
Andrew F. Schoeppel
R-Kan
Matthew Neely
D. Vai
Homer Ferguson
Senate
Ferguson
Patrick V. McNamara
Blair Moody
McNamara
Detroit
G. Mennen Williams
D. Hale Brake
Owen J. Cleary
Donalds. Leonard
Eugene Keyes
Edward Arn
George Templar
U.S
Fred Halt
Wichita
William C. Salome
George Docking
Lawrence Banker
Sen
Neely
Thomas B. Sweeney
Wheeling
Latelle M. LaFollette
Charlleston
Television Developments Signal Big Football Era
New York reports a multimillion dollar football TV surge with ABC linking college games to Saturday afternoons under NCAA, Dumont airing Chicago All-Star pro game, NBC introducing Canadian football, and CBS sticking to light sports, promising an unprecedented pigskin concentration across networks.
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New York
Chicago
American Broadcasting Company
ABC
Dumont
National Football League
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Piedmont League Scores and Market Prices
Lancaster 19 Hagerstown 7 York 3 Lynchburg 1 Newport News 4 Portsmouth 2 CH Petersburg 3 3 Norfolk 2 3 game ended after 7th due to rain Wheat 31.83 cents per bushel Corn 8.75 cents per pound Market prices listed alongside league results showing a rain shortened game note
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Lancaster
Hagerstown
York
Lynchburg
Newport News
Portsmouth
Ch-Petersburg
Norfolk
Rhee Visit Highlights 33,417 Dead in Korea
Washington column recalls the 33,417 Americans killed in Korea with 108,650 wounded as Syngman Rhee visits to thank the United States. The piece criticizes policy shifts under Truman and Eisenhower, warns of pacifism eroding resolve, and questions stayable commitment to Korea. It contrasts Rhee’s gratitude with Washington’s actions and attitudes toward the war and Cold War strategy.
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Rhee
America
Korea
David Lawrence Washington
Syngman Rhee
Washington
Kansas City
Truman
Navy
Republic of Korea
Asia
Europe
Manchuria
China
Chiang Kai-shek
MacArthur
Eisenhower
Indochina
Great Britain
Britain
United Nations
London
Security Council
Red China
Republlic
Patrick Henry
Abraham Lincoln
McCarthy
Congress
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Phyllis Grove
Edsthe Happel
Nora Hoke
Rosa Kreh
Ruth Mauro
Mary S Motherway
Virginia Pollock
Patricia Poole
Goldia Shaw
Kathryn Staley
Ann Sterbinsky
Dorothy Wright
Lewis B. Gannon
Grace B Miller
Charles Stup
Betty C.baugher
Carolyn Daniel
Miriam Feeley
Lillian 5. Haller
Regina Kennedy
Shirley Keyser
Ruthann Lewis
Barbara Medinger
Barbara Mohler
Rebecca Rhoderick
Mary Trout
Jeannette Willis
Thelma B. Wilson
Dorothy Windigier
Barbara Yeager
Carroll Hedges
Vernon Ritter
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