Becker Woman Pleads Guilty In Grand Larceny Case
In Hood County court today Mrs Becker pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny arising from thefts at Hood College and nearby locations. Witnesses and officials, including Judge Patrick Schraer, attended as proceedings began with arraignment and trial scheduling.
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Becker
Hood
Indy
Hood College
Luther
Beard Brightwell
Amber
Liberty School
Patrick
Schraer
Offi
Mail Early, P. O. Advises Christmas Parcels
Post office officials warn that parcel post volume has surged and delays loom. Donaldson urges patrons to mail gifts and cards early to avoid Christmas delivery failures as local windows extend hours during the final two Saturdays before Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bransw
Jesse MM. Donaldson
Donaldson
Chago
Mai
Ofice
Tio Wes
Fredericx
Ordes
Froon
Saturda
Csornoky Executed by Hungary for Treason
London reports Yugoslav news agency Tanjug states Vistor Csornoky, son in law of former Hungarian President Zohan Tildy, was executed today for treason in Budapest. He had served as Hungarian envoy to Egypt and was formerly stationed in Washington.
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London
Vistor Csornoky
Zohan Tildy
Tanjug
Budapest
Csornoky
Hun- Barks
Esypt
Washington
Mass Caroling Event Set For December 6 in Frederick
Frederick hosts a public mass caroling event on Tuesday December 6 on the steps of the Evangelical Reformed Church. hundreds from schools churches and clubs from across the area will converge by 730 pm for a unified program featuring school and church choirs and carols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Mayor Rand Board of Aldermen
Evangelical Reformed Church
West Church Street
West Church Reet
Imas Carats
Reformed Church 5
West Eet
West Second Town
Rom Ec
Amarket Street
North Market Eet
Civic Association
Wil St. John’s School
Caroers Tome
East Patrickeet
Lincoln High School
South Blarket
New Reformed Church
City Church
Sarah V. Bennett
Frederick “Goes
Assembly Point
Heisely Coran
High School
Incus
Chapelines
Trinity 1. S
33 Exhausted Men Rescued Near Honolulu After Pacific Plane Crash
Navy escort carrier Rendova rescued 33 exhausted survivors from a mid Pacific crash run. Four others were missing from a total of 37 aboard the Air Force C 54 transport. Survivors faced sharks and crowded life rafts as they awaited rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Air Force
Navy
Ihe
Rendova
Rollir
W-fateé Air Force
Joseph
Smit. Stockton
Kans
William A. Colin
Fila
Robert.c. Harrell
Milledgele
Charles TI. Millepaugh
Port - Ar
Rengova
William R. Calhoun Birmingham
Aja
Calhoun
Increase In Postage To Be Asked By U S
President says he will ask Congress to boost rates on most mail to raise revenue. He plans increases for second class mail magazines third class parcel post and related services after White House Budget Bureau review. He indicated money orders and advertising mail would be affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Donaldson
AOL
Truman
White House
Budget Bureau
Grange Head Seeks More Aid for Maryland Schools
Hagerstown Maryland State Grange at the 74th annual meeting urged higher state funding for school incentives to help counties with growing populations. The speaker also backed federal aid to education with safeguards for state control and warned farmers face postwar price pressures. The proposals call for a federal farm program to stabilize inventories and support supplying the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Maryland State Grange
Arger Hand
Holter
Hotter
Hebet Fh
Sma
Cael
Welles Called as Witness at Public Hearings
Washington public hearings on the Sumner Welles affair proceed with Rep. Mundt and Rep. Nixon coordinating. Witnesses include former aide Robert E. Stripling as Mundt confirms Welles will testify. The committee aims to complete proceedings with planned 2pm sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sumner Welles
Rep
Mund
R-Sd
Nixon
Deer slay count rises to twenty six in county
The season to date total of slain deer climbed to 26 as three more bucks were checked in at Snook's store in Lewiston. Earlier in the week 23 deer were reported killed on a single day, Monday.
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Snook’s
Lewiston
Four to be inducted from local draft board today
Four registrants from local Draft Board 45 left for the Army station in Hagerstown to enter service on Pearl Harbor Day. Twelve others went to Hagerstown for pre induction examinations, with a 30 percent cut in pre induction calls and five letters advising non reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Draft Board
Army Mg
Hagerstown
Armed Services
Pearl Harbor
Focal Boards
Army
Willard E. Harley
Middletown
Robert F. Cahill
North Marret Street
Paul D. Hite
Brumnswick
Donald L. Boyer
Jefferson
First Units Watkins Acres Ready Soon
The first units in the Watkins Acres apartments will be ready soon after heating equipment is installed. Asa H. Watkins says 10 to 15 units may be ready, with rents at 70 to 85 dollars monthly for one to five rooms. Veterans get 30 day preference per FHA rules.
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Watkins Acres
Asa H. Watkins
Watkins
Carroll Parkway
Carroll Creek
Frederick High School
Board of Education
Richard Erk
Army Fleeing Suchow Surrounded Near Nanking
Government sources said 179,000 Nationals and three Army Groups were encircled southwest of Suchow as Communist forces pressed a pocket 50 miles from their former base. Chen Yi led units trapped while Reds claimed heavy casualties and Nationalist attempts to shift south were hampered by encirclement.
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Nanking
China
Der
Suchow
Othey
Chen Yie
Uns
Partison
Aevacus
Peiping
Chen Yi
Twelfth Army
Cut Off From $24 000 Program Prize Says She Was Cut Off
Mrs A H Moeller of Cheyenne says a radio show prize question worth 24000 was interrupted by a telephone disconnection after she was prepared with the answer. Officials from local lines and CBS deny responsibility while New York stations investigate the disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
A. H. Moeller
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Maedler
Red Grange
Illinois
George Redhair
Wyoming
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Not To Be Executed Before Court Acts Tokyo
General Douglas MacArthur said Tokyo officials will appear before a court as appeals are heard. He indicated death rows for former premier Tojo and other leaders may be delayed beyond November 36, with a possible Dec 16 hearing date set by the U S to review the cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Ormer
Hidek
Tojo
Youth Held in Grocery Store Robbery Case
A juvenile suspect, unnamed due to age, was taken into custody by city police in connection with a robbery at Vernon A. Snurr’s grocery on 518 A North Bentz Street. The break in occurred early Saturday. about $31 in paper money and around $6.40 in change were reported stolen. Investigation led by Lieut. Frank Dorsey, Ben Phebus, and Norman Trump. The case will be referred to the probation officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Necro
Vernon A. Snurr
North Bentz Street
Frank Dorsey
Sit Ben Phebus
Norman Trump
New Drugs Claim Success Against Typhoid and Spotted Fever
Dr Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins reported at a pharmaceutical meeting that chloromycetin and aureomycin show dramatic cures for typhoid fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. They improved pneumonia and undulant fever outcomes, with rapid patient recoveries and no serious toxicity in hundreds of cases, though production will take months.
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New York
Perrin Lone
Johns Hopkins University
Alaryi
Hospic
E ‘S Woodward
Altogeth- Long
Buroa
New Guinea
Philippines
Long
Bat
Rocky Mountain
Maryland
Baltimore
Ne 2 Facture
pavreAwnsven
Gattle Roth
Long Field
Br. P. R. Burkholder
Yale University
Parke Davis and Company Laboratories
H. M. Duggar
Lederle Laboratories
Jolly Santa Targeted in Burlington Christmas Parade
During Burlington North Carolina’s Christmas parade an unidentified youth climbed under the Chamber of Commerce float carrying Santa. The boy lit Santa’s trouser leg with a match and attempted to ignite the other leg. Santa extinguished the flames and pursued the prankster, who then slashed a shoe with a pocket knife.
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Burlington
N. C
Santa
Chamber of Conmerce
Main Street
Sants
Two Men Die After Truck Plunges Into Savage River
A pickup rolled off the highway into the Savage River two miles north of Bloomington around 8:30 p.m. killing Aden Wilt Jr of Swanton and Samuel Carr of Westernport. State Police and Westernport firefighters recovered the victims and investigated the crash as friends and relatives arrived.
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Westernport
Savage River
Bloomington
Tyro
Aden Wilt, Jr
Swanton
Samuel Carr
Ater
Robert Broad
Do Ht
Broadwater
Toomington
Geaff
Truman To See Mime In Friday White House Meeting
President Truman plans a meeting Friday with Madame Chiang Kai-shek at Blair House escorted by George C Marshall. The White House announced the visit as part of ongoing diplomatic exchanges with China. In another note, Secret Service reported the Baltimore arrest of John Acunzo on charges of passing counterfeit ten and twenty dollar notes in nightclubs last Sunday.
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Washington
Truman
Chiang Ka-Shek
White House
Ida
Charles G Ross
China
Chiang
Blair House
Fruman
George C Marshall
Dee
Secret Service
Baltimore
John Acunzo
U N Aid Sought For Korea By United States
The United States asked U N protection for the Republic of Korea against threats from Communist North Korea. John Foster Dulles urged U N solidarity with the government of Korea and condemned Russia Poland and Czechoslovakia for recognizing the North Korean regime. Russian delegates warned they would try to block action in the remaining five working days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United States
United Nations
Republic of Korea
North Korea
John Foster Dulles
U. N
Dulles
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Korea
Closing Of Station Up In Monrovia Maryland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad seeks to abandon the Monrovia station arguing low business volume. Residents including Siegfried Goetze oppose, citing hardship for farmers and businessmen and civilian defense considerations. The Maryland Public Service Commission heard the case with residents testifying against abandonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Balimore and Ohio Railroad
Io Agay
Monrovia
Frederick County
Maryland Public See Commission
Bo and O
Airy
Frederick
Siegfried Goetze
Operation On Marshall Is Successful
Secretary of State George C. Marshall underwent a kidney operation at Walter Reed Hospital. Officials reported the operation was successful with no complications anticipated. Marshall, 67, has served as Secretary since 1947 and was due to turn 68 on December 31.
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Washington
Marshall
A. Walter Reed Hospital
Froma
State Department
Pita
Ace
Walter Reed Hospital
Paris
Truman
Army
United Nations
Tex Ritter Heads to Frederick in Western Show
Cowboy star Tex Ritter arrived in Frederick with his revue at the City Opera House. Crowds formed early as he tours the East with five partners including Slim Andrews in a western show. Ritter plans to continue to Hagerstown Martinsburg and Waynesboro, with no film work recently but several children’s records.
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Tex Ritter
Frederick
City Opera House
Ritter
Carolinas
Pennsylvania
Hagers
Martinsburg
Waynesboro
Warner Bros
Slim Andrews
Ars
van Nuys
Calif
Caroline Rand
Frederi
Experts Testify On Record Business Profits
A Senate Economic Committee session heard two accounting professors William A Paton and George D Bailey testify on why reported profits may not reflect true earnings. Harvard economist earlier argued profits are overstated due to flawed accounting. The witnesses from University of Michigan and Detroit address how methods mask new conditions and problems in business income. The inquiry could influence forthcoming congressional actions on inflation money controls and rationing.
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Washington
Harvard
William A. Paton
University of Michigan
George D. Bailey
Deatrott
American Institute of Accountants
Senate
House Economic Committee
Congress
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Rial
Chestertown
P. O
Hungary
Rhye
Evangelical Reformed Church Steps
U.S
Grange Head
Watkins’ Acres
Central China Front
N.C
U.N. Aid For
Walter Reed
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