Camp Detrick News Highlights Apprentices and Dignitaries
Camp Detrick reports Robert Slagle, among 12 outstanding apprentices in the MD area, receiving commendations from Lt. Col. Miller, Dr. Schwab, and Arthur Rawson, plus an autographed Governor MecKeldin speech. The item lists military promotions, dances, personnel notes, weddings, bridge results, and local notices.
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Camp Detrick
Robert §. Slagle
Maryland
Delaware
Washington, D. C
Cecil D. Miller
John L. Schwab
Biological Laboratories
Arthur J. Rawson
Slagle
Theodore MecKeldin
Baltimore Kiwanis Club
National Association of Manufacturers
U. S. Department of Labor
Earth Shocks Reach 200 in Guatemala City
Guatemala City observatory reports over 200 earthquakes in 72 hours the highest on record. Twenty nine shocks occurred yesterday and today with the strongest at 10:29 p m Wednesday. Four were listed as small and 24 as micro shocks. Police report no damage.
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Guatemala City
Appellate Court Upholds Legislation in Maryland
The Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the 1953 legislation reducing savings bank taxes, saying the title gave adequate notice and any inconsistency was harmless. The law would cut the franchise tax on mutual savings banks to 10 cents per $100 of deposits by 1958, from 25 cents today, with lobbying costs cited in the record.
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Annapolis
Court of Appeals
Baltimore
Firman A. Pressman
Appeals Court
Edward S. Delaplaine
McKelun
Tat Savings Banks
Slosenh MM Wyatt
Pressman
Leonard Mathias Fined for Tax Evasion in Federal Court
Leonard G Mathias an 83 year old Harvesterstown businessman and civic leader was fined ten dollars in federal court for tax evasion He pleaded guilty to understating his 1945 income reporting 14903 and paying 4904 42 while tax due was estimated at 11803 74 by U S Attorney James Murphy Defense argued for mercy noting his mental anguish and community stature with character witnesses including cousin Charles Mathias attorney C Neill Baylor and other local figures.
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Baltimore
Leonard GG
Mathias
Haverstown
Eaferstown Paint and Glass Co
Park Board
U. S
James Murphy
William C. Coleman
Murphy
Thomas Kenney
David Byron
Aehicurea le
Kenney
Nuclear Arms Shift Urges U S Defense Rebalance
In Binghamton on February 11, Rep. Sterling Cole of New York said the time is now closer when the United States can rely mainly on nuclear weapons for defense and retaliatory power. The Atomic Energy Committee chair warned such a move would not permit.
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Binghamto N
Hop. W. Sterling Cole
United States
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Atomic Energy Chief to Join National Security Council
In a Lincoln Day speech prepared for the Broome County Young Men's Republican League, Cole announced plans to make the Atomic Energy Commission chairman a permanent member of the National Security Council as part of stronger military preparedness. He said he would introduce legislation the next day to enact this change.
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Cole
Broome County
Young Men’s Republican League
The
Atomic Energy Commission
National Security Council
Death of 4 Month Old Baby Under Investigation
Cumberland February 11 State's Attorney Paul M Fletcher said authorities were probing the death of a four month old girl found dead at her home near Lumberland Quay The mother Shirley Alice Rephana 23 was in custody but no charges were filed. The cause of death was not yet determined The infant was Karen Gail Hephann daughter of Donald Earl Repham and his wife of Bowmans addition Cumberland The father a machinist at Western Maryland Railway shop Ridgeley West Virginia They are married five years and have a second child aged three.
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Donald Earl Repham
R. D
Bowman
Cumberland
Western Maryland Railway
Ridgeley
W. Va
Contempt Of Congress Charge Thrown Out
New York February 11 The government said it had no hope of convicting gambler Frank Erickson for evading Senate Crime Committee questions in 1951. Federal Judge John F. X. McGahey dismissed the contempt of Congress charge against the pudgy former kingpin.
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New York
Frank Erickson
Senate Crime Committee
John F. X. McGahey
Court battles entwine Kefauver era with tax evasion case
The report contrasts Kefauver hearings with court decisions involving the Fifth Amendment as witnesses refuse to answer to avoid self incrimination. Erickson, jailed for income tax evasion in Milan, Michigan, faces possible further sentencing. Two underworld figures Castel, Adonis linked to earlier 1951 New York hearings. In Baltimore, two Black men, Mitchell and Robinson, receive prison terms for a robbery slaying of Harry Ezersky, with qualified verdict in Mitchell case preventing capital punishment but Robinson given life terms. A Frederick County panel discusses services for handicapped children and the rare sighting of an American robin possibly crossing the Atlantic.
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Kidward
Erickson
Eisenhower
Milan
Mich
Underworld
Kefauver Crime Committee
New York
Frank Castello
Joe Adonis
Baltimore
Il iLife
Harry Ezersky
East Baltimore
John E. Mitchell
James Edward Robinson
Mitchell
Ezersky’s
Lfe
Carter
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William E. Blumberg
Morton J. Hausner
Rufus 0. Howard
Julian H. Kushnick
Irving Leibson
Eric E. Metzger
Leon J. Nescavil
Richard J. Otten
Robert L. Parker
William OD. Smerder
Thomas T. Bannister
George C. Gallagher
Carl Gottfried
Richard D. Mattuck
James A. Shannon
Dave
Susie
Air Force
Washington
Civilian Welfare Council
Field House
Luther V. McMurry
Terry W. Johnson, Jr
John ZL. Schwab
McMurry
Johnson
Dugway Proving Ground
Utah
Mickey Gross
Marguerite Craw
Susan Berger
John Hays
Charles H. Knauff
Dugway Proving Ground Station Hospital
Gaye. Knaulf
Knauff
Donald Paul
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Mary Louise Davie
Thurmont
Harold R. Trout
Woodsboro
Hagerstown Methodist Parsonage
Hammaker
Issac J. Fish, Jr
Jeanne Eyler
Turmont Lutheran Church
Samuel R. Wahl
Pittsburgh
Eva Culler
Frederick
Doubs Wethodist
Charles L. Beaty
Piedmont
Betty Jane Swomley
Tramsville
Ocie M. Colley
John J. Crane
Arthur Gubernick
Charles R. Eaton
Linton
Ind
Mary Ben Lenhart
Alex Smailberg
Benjamin Warshowsky
Leonard Spero
Oldices
Cmdr
Bernard B. Berger
Wiliam C. Horsey
Charles R. Phillips
Dr. Phillips
Bradley M. Gerwig
Derrick
Robert L. Harris
Hug Wank
George Vayvada
Kathryn ‘Staley
Charles W. Eyler
John Malinowski
Ethel Parker
Regina Wetzel
Betty Jo Feather
Mary Esther Rippeon
Singanore
Edward H. Radcliffe
Katherine Keyser
Department Agriculture Liaison Office
South Market Street
Frederick, Maryland
Independent Hose Co
West Church Street
Evangelical Reformed Church
Paul L. Althouse
Hall of the Independents
Fredperfect
Madam Reid
Route 240
Ned S. Zeiler
Free State
M. J. Grove Lime Co
Jgin Hospital Aid
Leonard G. Mathias
Fred
Mountain View
Bath
Bank B
Bank
Irge- H
B. E. Carmichael
Dan Wight
Piper & Hill
North Court St
Williamson’s Drug Store
Bell's Millinery
Bell’s Millinery
North Market Street
Robinson
Bycevsky
Frederick County Association For
YMCA
Mental Health Society of
Frederick County
Russell L
Frederick Pediatrician
Pattie Dougherty
Foster Seal School
Margaret Kent
Maryland State School For the Deaf
Leon- Marn
Ard Blumienauer
He Tivy Club
Werner Braun
Frederick County Association
Elsworth Magaha
Association For Retarded Children
Margaret Rawson
Mental Health Society
Philco
Motorola T.V
Sunbeam
Melvin M. Englen
Carroll Sr
America
Penney’s
Gore
Norton
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