Nearly Two Inches Of Rain Drops Across Frederick County
A Sunday rain event brought 1.94 inches at the airport and raised Fishing Creek reservoir two feet, easing drought but not causing road closures. Israel’s Creek overflowed at Route 26 near Ceresville, aiding water supplies while wind gusts reached 40 mph. December rainfall nears two thirds of the normal total, with 2.20 inches measured to date at the airport.
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Fishing Creek
Airport
Israel’s Creek
Route 26
Ceresville
Frederick
Potomac
Knoxville
Frank Weddle
Frederick City
Singanore
Suffocate In Baltimore Fire Kills Mother and Four Children
A Baltimore fire left Evelyn Wietzel, 26, and her four young children dead in a Northeast apartment. The blaze caused minimal damage, confined to a rug and sofa where the victims lay. A passerby alerted residents at the Latrobe Housing Project.
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Baltimore
Latrobe
Evelyn Wietzel
Jap Girl Murders U S Soldier Husband
Tokyo police booked 21 year old Hatsue Tanaka Jernigan for murdering her American soldier husband in their bed. She and her father walked into a station and said I just shot my husband. The body was sent to a Tokyo Army hospital. the soldier was Corporal Walter C. Jernigan, 22, whose hometown was not released. She claimed frequent beatings when drunk.
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Tokyo
Hatsue Tanaka Jernigan
U. S. Army
Tokyo Army Hospital
Asahi
Cpl
Walter C. Jernigan
Deer Season Opens With 20 Bucks By Noon
The week long deer season began at 7 09 am with twenty hunters reporting kills at the Snook's Mill station in Lewistown by noon One illegal deer was found Charles Ridge of Catoctin Furnace logged the heaviest deer a 154 pound buck from the Frederick city watershed Weather rain in mountains aided tracking and potential total near the 1952 record of 91. last year by noon 22 bucks had been listed with snow the previous year aiding hunts.
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Snook’s Mill
Lewistown
Robert Day
Charles Ridge
Catoctin Furnace
Ridge
Frederick City
Discontinuation of The Semi Weekly News in Frederick
The Semi Weekly News will cease publication with the December 11, 1953 issue due to rising popularity of The News and The Frederick Post. Subscriptions extending beyond that date will convert to The Daily News from December 14, 1953, with credits applied. Cash refunds offered for unused portions if daily paper is not desired.
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Frederick
News
Post
Daily News
The
Frederick Post
Revolutionary War Hero Was Once Local Deputy Sheriff
The Library of Congress has received Shelby Family papers centering on Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary War hero and first governor of Kentucky. The 2,000+ documents date 1738 to 1863, include letters from Jefferson, Clay, Harrison, and Sevier, and trace Shelby from deputy sheriff in Frederick County to Kentucky governor.
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Washington
Library’ of Congress
Shelby
Isaac Shelby
Kentucky
Susanna Preston Shelby Grigsby
New York
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Clay
Benjamin Harrison
John Sevier
Tennessee
Evan Shelby
Wales
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
East Tennessee
Franklin
Sevier
Frederick County
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Kings Mountain
Cowpeos
Great Britain
William Harrison
Canada
Harrison
Congress
Monroe
Motorcyclist escapes injury in Braddock Mountain crash
Delbert Lincoln Sutphin of Leesburg Virginia was thrust from a 1950 Harley Davidson when a car driven by Roy Theodore Shupe crossed in front of him on Braddock Mountain. The motorcycle burned, Sutphin wore high leather boots and escaped serious harm. Shupe faced a possible charge for failure to grant right of way.
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James Hardy
Delbert Lincoln Sutphin
Leesburg
Braddock Mountain
Sutphin
Roy Theodore Shupe
Route 5
Frederick
Virginia
Independent County
Hardy
Shupe
Baltimore
New Market
Artho B. Coberly
Yeagertown Road
Coberly
Joseph P. Marmor
East Third Street
Marmor
Baltimorean
Greenfield Road
Route 28
Thomas M. Wiles
Poolesville
Ernest A. Ambush
Adamstown
Carlton Lewis
Wiles
Lewistown
Route 15
Robert C. Dishong
Walter Co. Pilon
Brantford
Saw Americans In Russian Prison
Tadashi Maeda a 58 year old former Navy captain testified before Japan's Repatriation Committee that he saw American prisoners in a prison southeast of Vladimir Russia. He said the facility housed diverse inmates led by Germans and that the treatment was at a subsistence level.
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Tokyo
Russia
Vladimir
Tadashi Maeda
Japan
House of Representatives
Maeda
Court St To Be 2 Way Tuesday
A special meeting adopted an ordinance to open the first two blocks of North Court street to two way traffic. The street now runs one way north and parking on both sides will be prohibited except for loading and unloading. East side meters will be removed and work is under way for the change, with two way traffic expected by tomorrow from Patrick to Second. An additional ordinance created three leading zones on the south side of West South street.
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North Court Street
Donald B. Rice
Patrick
West South Street
Hood Xmas Vespers Held Here Sunday at Hood College
Alumni from Hawaii to New Jersey and Hood students gathered Sunday at Hood College for the annual Christmas Vespers in Brodbeck Hall. President Emeritus Henry I Stahr presided as the Hood Choir performed carols under Dr Earle Blakeslee with festive decor and bells. The service featured scripture readings, carols, and Dupre organ variations, with a 7:30 evening reprise drawing town residents and faculty.
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Hawaii
New Jersey
Henry Irvin Stahr
Scituate
Mass
Andrew Gehr Truxal
Brodbeck Hall
Hood Choir
Earle Blakeslee
Hood
Tidewater
State College
Providence
Rhode Island
Birmingham
Ala
Hood Club
York
South Jersey Hood Club
Almanac
California
Berlin
Honolulu
Salem
Chapel Hill
N. C
Albuquerque
N. M
Nashville
Greensburg First Reformed Church
Pennsylvania
Jacobus-Salem Union Church
Emeritus Stahr
Gounod
Marcel Dupre
William Sprigg
Telegrams Pour In At White House Over McCarthy Appeal
The White House reported 17 629 telegrams plus an unknown mail volume after Sen McCarthy urged Americans to pressure President Eisenhower to halt U S aid to nations trading with Red China The White House said Western Union may have 1300 telegrams or more unprocessed. A separate item notes a four mile stretch of the Blue Star Memorial Highway in Queenstown Md opened by Gov McKeltin linking to Centreville and beyond to the Delaware line. In New York India and Western powers agreed on a recess plan for UN General Assembly to debate Korea later this week.
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Washington
White House
Sen
McCarthy
Eisenhower
U.S
World Nations
China
Murray Snyder
Western Union
Snyder
Queenstown
United Nations
N. Y
India
U. N. General Assembly
Xmas Mail Is Lagging Says Grove Postmaster
Postmaster James A. Grove warns Christmas mail is lagging behind, with parcel post trailing. He urges early mailing for distant and local deliveries, notes stamp rate increases, and outlines extended window hours on December 12 and 19. Ensure complete addresses and separate local from out of town mail to improve safe delivery.
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James A. Grove
Canada
Mexico
Groves
Chou En Lai Attacks U N Over Korea Policy
In a United Nations General Assembly broadcast message Chou En Lai accused the United States of wrecking the Korean armistice and holding prisoners of war to maintain international tension. He warned the U N to act responsibly or risk becoming a tool of the U S as talks at Panmunjom stall and call for Russian participation as a neutral.
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Tokyo
Red China
United Nations
Korea
Chou Enlai
United States
Chou
U. N. General Assembly
New York
Red Peiping
U. N
General Assembly
U. S
Panmunjom
Russia
New Talks Open With Union After NYC Newspaper Strike
Federal mediators announced surprise talks with AFL Allied Printing Trades Council after the strike by six major New York newspapers. About 400 photoengravers are involved, drawing 20 000 CIO and allied union members into sympathy pickets. The Herald Tribune resumed publication with eight pages daily after a week of stoppage.
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New York
Walter A. Maggiolo
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
AFL Allied Printing Trades Council
AFL International Photoengravers Union
CIO American
Printing Trades Council
New York Herald Tribune
The
Herald Tribune
Maggiolo
Swiss Referendum Ends Federal Income Tax Power
In Bern Switzerland a nationwide vote rejected extending the emergency federal income tax beyond 1954 halting a plan to keep a tax that funds about a third of government revenue. Voters by 487 364 to 353 962 defeated the proposal. In New York the stock market opened mixed with moderate trading and occasional price swings.
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Bern
Switzerland
New York
Fire destroys nearly completed Emmitsburg block house
A nearly finished six room cement block house and its furnishings were destroyed by fire early Saturday about 10 miles northwest of Emmitsburg on Reservoir road. Fire Chief John Hollinger estimated losses at around $4,000. no electricity or recent fires connected to the residence were found. Police will investigate the cause.
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Emmitsburg
Reservoir Road
John Hollinger
G. Edward Eyler
Hollinger
Donald Tucker
Eylers
Eyler
Waynesboro
Farmer Keefer Dies from Jeep Accident Near Taylorsville
John W. Keefer prominent farmer of near Taylorsville died at University Hospital at 11 30 Sunday night from injuries after his jeep wrecked Friday afternoon at Marston in Carroll County. The 68 year old drove alone when it left the road struck a fence and overturned suffering a broken neck and internal injuries. He was taken to the hospital by the Union Bridge Fire Department ambulance. He ran a large farm north of Taylorsville with his sons James F Keefer and John Davis Keefer who survive with his widow and one sister Mrs L R Lambert near Taylorsville.
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John W. Keefer
Taylorsville
University Hospital
Marston
Carroll County
Keefer
Union Bridge
James F
John Davis Keefer
L. R. Lambert
Taylorsvile
Eisenhower
Old City
Jack Palermo
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Louisiana
Napier Field State Trade School
Dothan
Ala
Montrose
Arkansas
Shreveport
Texas
Wedding Called Off Between Dempsey and Rich Widow
New York reports the oil and water remark ends engagement between former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Estelle Auguste the Florida widow with a fortune around 45 million dollars. Dempsey rests at the Mayflower Hotel after leaving Mrs Auguste’s Waldorf apartment.
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New York
Jack Dempsey
Florida
Estelle Auguste
Palm Beach
Fra
Dempsey
Mrs. Auguste
Waldorf-Astoria
Mayflower Hotel
Ste
Dempsy
Auguste
GOP Leaders Quiet On Controversy
Washington reports Republican congressional leaders remained discreet as the McCarthy Eisenhower Dulles dispute drew quiet support for McCarthy’s call to halt aid to nations trading with China. Public stance avoided linking leaders to McCarthy’s challenge to the administration’s policy. In Virginia, Cpl Ed Dickenson, a Korea veteran, married Katie Laney in Big Stone Gap after his return from Korea and rem patril reunions.
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Washington
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
White House
McCarthy
United States
Red China
Eisenhower
Dulles
America
Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
Cpl Ed
Korea
Katie Laney
Vicksburg Tornado Deaths Rise as Rescue Goes On
Rescue teams in freezing weather continued a grisly search after a violent tornado tore through Vicksburg Mississippi killing at least 30. Tens of thousands were affected with 275 homes destroyed and 29 apartment buildings damaged. Authorities estimated 23 million dollars in damage as Civil Defense and National Guardsmen aided survivors.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Vicksburgs
Red Cross
Crippled Airliner Reaches Johnston Island After Engine Explosion
Forty two aboard a Pan American four engine airliner endured a 30 mile tense flight to Johnston Island after an engine exploded near 10 000 feet. Captain Edward G. Kelley said the craft lost control but landed safely with passengers calm and crew performing perfectly.
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Johnston
San Francisco
Honolulu
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Karachi
Kelley
Cote
Teck Fe
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County
Dawn
Lausche
Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Trenton. N.S
New Jersey Supreme Court
Catoctin
Waynesburg
Greene County
Gov. McKeldin
Court St
Grove
City
Patrick Street
Court Streets
Daniel Howard Clicks
Walkersville
Route One
Court Street
Paul Slagdan Rhoads
Rhoads
GOP
Arlington National Cemetery
Pearl Harbor
Tiny Island
Sapheure
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