Route 40 West Of City To Be Improved
Road work along Route 40 west of Frederick and Route 15 north of Frederick will be upgraded with blacktop resurfacing from the intersection with Alternate 40 eastward to Jefferson street. Bidders include T. B. Gar of Baltimore, with preliminary work starting Monday, weather permitting. The project, plus Route 15 resurfacing through Trumont, aims to widen shoulders and smooth the highway, while delays stem from streetcar tracks and utility negotiations. Bester-Long, Inc. of Hagerstown completed blacktop on Route 340 from Knoxville to the new Sandy Hook bridge, with dirt shoulders added. The Roads Commission also awarded $84,265 for resurfacing 1.575 miles of Routes 32 and 71 in Tanertow.
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Frederick
T. B. Gar
Baltimore
Tefferson Street
Pen Vania
Worman’s Mill
Mt. Pleasant
Trurmont
Gatch
East Patrick Street
Carroll Street
Hager
Frederick Raigo
Potomac Edison Company
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania
Bester- Long, Inc
Hagerstown
Knoxville
Sandy Hook
State Roads Commission
L. R. Waesche and Sons, Inc
Thurmont
Tanertow
Fatal Crash Case August 18 in Virginia Court Face Manslaughter Charges
Two drivers face manslaughter charges over a fatal August 6 crash in Virginia. Claude Creeger of Frederick and Master Sgt George W. Richie of Quantico stand accused after Frank E. Farnitz of Philadelphia died. The incident occurred on U.S. Route 3 near Adams town. Richie was injured and taken to Quantico Marine Hospital.
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Frederick
Virginia
Triangle
Claude Creeger
George W. Richie
Ordnance School
Quantico
Frank E. Farnitz
Philadelphia
Fort Eustis
Farmnitz
Three Springs
Adamstown
Creeger
Crees
Richie
Ararine
Reeger
Braddock Heights Fire Company Responds to Alarm
Braddock Heights Volunteer Fire Department answered an alarm Wednesday afternoon after four o clock, preventing a fire from spreading from a cabin on Edgemont Road. Officials said the unit is expanding its protection area and relies on funds from its annual carnival, last hampered by bad weather. A television set was won at the carnival to aid future fundraising as a tent was erected to allow events in inclement weather. Signs of a rally appeared in New York stock markets following an early downturn.
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Gden
Edgemont Road
Braddo Heights
Braddock Heights
Edward Clem
Taney Apartments
McCarthy Spars Brannan Over Farm Price Measures
Washington August 13 Sen Joseph R McCarthy pressed Secretary Brannan in the Senate on farm goals for beef and pork and the 1948 wheat acreage plan. Brannan defended the department noting beef supply needs for 1950 and beyond and that pork and wheat guidance aimed to avoid shortages and taxpayer costs. He warned against misinterpretation of policy and explained the impact of price controls and feed shortages on farm decisions.
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Peter Edson
Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
Senate
McCar
Wisconsin
Brannan
Jeremy
Department of Agriculture
Brannen
Burned Wreckage Of U S Plane Found On Rota Guam
Aug 13 7 The burned wreckage of a four engine U S Navy reconnaissance plane that failed to return from a weather mission was found on a 30 foot cliff side on Rota Island 50 miles north of here. Rota islanders sent distress signals to attract search planes. There was no information on the fate of the 12 men aboard. Doctors medical corpsmen and rescue crews were dispatched to the island. They landed on an abandoned Japanese airstrip.
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Guam
U. S
Navy
Rota Island
Here
Rota
Refugee Case Tests Moscow Talks Amid NY Teacher Row
Washington reports Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith denied U.S. involvement in the case of Soviet schoolteachers in New York. Molotov demanded custody and punishment for kidnappers. Samarin and Mrs Kosenkina, who leapt from the Soviet consulate, trigger renewed tensions ahead of Berlin talks.
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Washington
Walter Hedell Smith
Molotov
United States
New York
State Department
Smith
Foreign Office
Michael Ivanovitch Samarin
Oksana
Kosenkina
Alexander 5. Panyushkin
Robert A. Lovett
Russia
Moscow
Berlin
Oksana Stepanovna Koserkina
Walter Bedell Smith
Kremlin
Identify Young Woman Found Along Highway Havre De Grace
A Baltimore woman Lucy Field Leppo, 23, was identified after being found severely injured beside a highway near Havre De Grace. In a coma at Harford Memorial Hospital since the incident, her husband Lloyd Leppo reported she departed Sunday with a girl named Frances for Huntington, West Virginia. He said she wore a wrist watch and two small diamond rings. the jewelry remains missing while she remains conscious in critical condition.
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Havre de Grace
Harford Memorial Hospital
Lucy Field Leppo
Baltimore
Lleyd
Leppo
Engield
Frances
Huntington
W. Va
Field
Baltimore-Philadelphia
Seppo
Extended Weekend Weather Outlook for Chesapeake Bay Area
The forecast calls for cooler conditions Saturday and Sunday with a rise in temperature Monday accompanied by showers. Tuesday and Wednesday should be fair and mild with temperatures about 2 degrees below average for mid August and rainfall near one inch, slightly higher east of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Chesapeake Bay
Friday the 13th holds superstition in 1948
The article warns readers about Friday the thirteenth and superstition. It notes Friday the Thirteenth in 1948 will be the last of its kind that year, with only one other occurrence in February.
Modern Miracle on Thrasher Farm Draws Big Crowd
Exiles of farm world converge on Mrs. Nellie Thrasher’s 175 acres southwest of Jefferson for a one day conservation project. Some 30 hundred workers and 150 pieces of equipment execute minute by minute tasks to reshape fields, build a new hay pasture, and erect a dairy barn while a crowd of 25,000 to 40,000 gathers with officials from Brannan to Lane watching a planned, battalion style operation.
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NeHie Thrashers
Jefferson
Themeighbors
Conservpion
Charles F. Brannan
William Preston Lane, Jr
Ae U. S. State Department
Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations
Army
LES Soil Conservation Service
At & A.m
Nellie Thrasher
Mountain Valley
Potomac River
Ralso
Mr. Thrasher
Plans With Coal Crash at Templehof in Berlin
Two United States four engine Flying Coal Man planes landing during a heavy rainstorm at Templehof airfield collided with the Berlin runway. One aircraft smashed through a fence and burned but all three crew members escaped via an emergency hatch. The second plane, descending through clouds, damaged a half finished runway with the crew unharmed. Initial reports said the burning craft carried food. later it was confirmed to carry coal. Firemen controlled the blaze as bystanders narrowly avoided injury.
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Berlin
United States
Templehof
Wheat Sags Below Government Support Level
Chicago reports wheat trading below the government support floor as heavy selling and storage shortages press prices. Despite higher export plans and loan schemes based on 90 percent of parity, farmers struggle to store grain, forcing some to dump wheat onto the market.
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Chicago
Agriculture Department
Fined On Charge Of Drunken Driving
A man named John W. Bennett was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle under the influence and as a reckless offender. He was jailed on the first charge in default of costs totaling 3190.75, with a $10.75 fine and costs on the second charge suspended. Substitute Magistrate Edward J. Smith in Peoples Court ordered payment of fined and costs as the case proceeded this morning. Police reports list Trooper J. C. Sheets as the arresting officer, with details of the patrol along Route 1 south of Freder on a late afternoon. Other names appear in related claims and fines, including George Para of Monongahela and Donald Burke of Ostead, among others. The remaining items note multiple traffic offenses and fines.
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John W. Bennett
Edward J. Smith
Peoples Court
J. C Sheets
Freder
Hurer
George C. Alderman
Baltimore
Donald R Burke
Ostead
Police Asked To Watch Here For Child Brides
The bureau of missing persons passed three notices to local police asking vigilance for child brides and related cases. A 16 year old girl eloped with a 16 year old boy from Mt Vernon to Hagersown. A 16 year old boy fled with an 18 year old girl from Belvoir. A third report sought a girl of 18 who ran away to marry a 38 year old man with a criminal past, linked to Pennsylvania plates.
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Bureau of
Mt Vernon
Hagers‘own
Belvoir
Pennsylvania
Currie Denies Communist Ties in Spy Ring Hearings
Washington reports former Roosevelt aide Lascha Currie testified before the House Un American Activities committee that she never believed Currie was a Communist or helped the Soviet espionage group. Bentley contradicted, saying Currie was a courtier for the Communist party conspiracy. Hearings resumed amid broader Moscow developments.
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Washington
Laschaiin Currie
Sant Bo Dent Roosevelt
House Un-American Activities Committee
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Bentler
Moss
Currie
United States
Canada Lifts Ban on Export of Cattle
Ottawa reports Agriculture Minister J. G. Gardiner announced the lifting of Canada's export ban on beef cattle calves and dressed beef veal and related products effective next Monday. The move reopens US markets closed for six years and promises more beef supply for US tables but may push Canadian retail beef prices up by 20 to 30 percent.
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Ottawa
J. G. Gardiner
United States
Canada
Final Housing Survey Report By Marsland Veterans Commission
A final report on the city and county veterans housing survey, conducted earlier this year, shows 990 responses. Lipps says 97 want to buy, 120 build, 308 rent. among renters 32 would pay 15 a month, 49 pay 20, 52 pay 35, 22 pay 7, 1 pays 50, and 8 would rent a house with 15 to 30 and 40 ranges noted for apartments.
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Veterans’ Housing Survey
G. Ernest Lipps
Marsland Veterans Commission
Lipps
Maryland Veterans Commission
Champion At Catching Japanese Beetles
Silas Murray of Adamstown, renowned for beetle catching, reports a season opening with 1.135 quarts or about 2863 gallons collected. He notes the pest is waning this week as few beetles enter traps, and his long work has left him weary of the task.
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Silas
Adamstoun
Murray
Adamstown
Gridder to wed College Park couple planned marriage
In College Park on August 13 190? a Maryland football player from North Vandergrift Pennsylvania and Mr Jean Eskridge of Cambridge were to marry at 26 minutes past noon today.
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Gridder
College Park
iPi
al Phillips
Unive
Maryland
North Vandergrift
Jean Eskridge
Cambrides
Spy Case Reveals Canadian Communist Network Body
James Marlow reports on Soviet recruitment in Canada via study groups that served as cells. Secret agents were drawn from both committed Communists and sympathizers, with nonmembers like Jones seduced by discussion and discontent, undermining loyalty to Canada.
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Washington
Gouserko
Canadien
Cana- Mmudse Perivy
Sovermimenndt
Mber
Royal Colviision
Zabotin
Canada
Moscow
Ottawa
Montreal
Toronto
Teo
Jones
Cana
Cai
Zabetin
Communist Party
Zabotin Zane Wee
Myersville 12 Room House Sold For 5 850
A sale in Myersville realized about 891 in total prices and featured a 12 room house centerpiece. Rev Dr H C Erdman retires as Lutheran pastor and plans to spend time at his Susbury home before moving to Florida.
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Myersville
Thurs- BK
Dr Erdman
Burkittsville and
Braddock
Susbury
Florida
Russian Teacher Refuses Consulate Visit After Injury
Aug 13. Mrs. Vera Kosenkina, severely injured in a fall from a building, refuses contact with the Russian consulate. Vice Consul Chepurnykh visits the Roosevelt Hospital room where she is guarded by police, asking for permission to have a Russian nurse. The consul general may also visit later if permissible.
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Vera Kosenkina
Zoti
Chepurnyukh
Sam Dyezko
Lomakin
Ledden
Mra. Kosenkina
Chepurnykh
Mrs
Chepurmykh
Babe Ruth Hospital Bulletin Says No Improvement
Babe Ruth, hospitalized since June, shows no improvement and remains with a high fever. Memorial Hospital bulletin notes pulmonary complications from a cold, contrasting with yesterday’s report of slight rally. Friends and fans await clearer word outside the hospital as his condition remains serious.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Memorial Hospital
Ruth
Center For Cancer
Vyot
Old
Wholesale But Not Retail Price Crn Baltimore, Aug 13
Wholesale vegetable shortening fell two cents a pound on Saturday but Baltimore retailers kept the retail price mostly unchanged at 42 to 44 cents, with no two cent cut. Meat dealers report steady sales and no major price changes. President Truman named Lawrence A Steinhardt ambassador to Canada.
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Baltimore
Steinhardt
Washington
Truman
Laurence A Steinhardt
Canada
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Marshall
Thrasher Farm
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Yugoslavia
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White House
Bentley
Final Housing Survey Report
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