Seven Estates Opened in Thurmont Orphans Court
Seven estates were opened in Orphans Court this morning. Notable cases include Wilbert R. Garrison former president of King College, with a substantial New Jersey and Maryland connected will. Executors named include Elmer Trust Company and Calvin S. Lohr, Thurmont, with Kal R. Wissler as beneficiary and library bequests to King College. The proceedings cover multiple legacies, residuary cash bequests, and various nieces nephews and siblings named as heirs.
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Orphans Court
Wilbert R. Garrison
King College
Tennessee
Thurmont
Elmer Trust Company
Elmer, N. J
Garrison
New Jersey
Register of Wills
Harry D. Radcliff
Calvin S. Lohr
Jessie L. Wissler
Wissler
Henry Wissler
Harry W. Wissler
Cornelia A. Wissler
Harrisonburg
Earl H Hoffman
William F. Hamerick
J. G. Arbaugh
Ella N. Riordan
Libertytown
St Peter's Catholic Church
Charles A
Eileen M
Bernadette
Thomas J
Mary Priscilla Riordan
Mary Weaver
Baltimore
Testatrix
Rose ML Anderson
Richmond
Main Street
Liberthtown
Charles P. Riordan
Anna M. Riordan
D. Princeton Bucker
Carl E. Holtz
Harry W. Nogle
Allen
Morris Ray Nogle
Bessie V. Carbaugh
Bertie R. Nogle
Allen Nogie
Waynesboro
Emory F. Stoulemyer
Calvin 5
Middletown
Norma E. Darner
George R. Zittle
Los Angeles
Calif
May Payne
Billy Zittle
Darner
William S. Zittle
George R Zittle
Hobart B. Albaugh
Carl E._ Brown
Bernard J. Eader
Blanche L. Eader
Charles E. Steel
J. F. R. Reagey
Mabel J. Nicodemus
Leonora Blanche Nicodemus
Anna M. Lillie
Elmer Kreitz
Emmitsburg
Truman Budget Sends Congress 1948 Fiscal Plan
President Truman forwards the budget and budget message for fiscal year 1948 to Congress. The process spans months with Budget Bureau scrutiny, department hearings, and House and Senate votes to determine how much money government must run. If spending exceeds income, Congress may require additional funds and further hearings.
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James Maelow
Washington
Truman
Congress
Trumar
State
Army
Navy
Budget Bureau
Congressional
House
Senate
Appropriations
Unitess Congress
Old Jaloppy Ablaze at Mountain City Garage
Firefighters responded to a blaze on the second floor of the old Mountain City garage in North Market Street. The car described as an old jaloppy belonging to a finance company suffered damage but the fire did not spread to other vehicles. Weil Bros owns the garage. Firemen used chemicals to extinguish dense smoke after a general alarm.
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Mountain City
Market Street
Weil Bros
Snow Falls In North End Of County
Snow covers the ground in the northern county districts from south of Catoctin Furnace to Ca ctin Furnace Hill with an inch or more by noon. Trucks spread cinders in Thurmont as roads remain slippery and temperatures rise to 35 degrees before noon.
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Catoctin Furnace
Emmitsburg
Catoctin Furnace Hill
State Roads Commission
Thurmont
Weather Bureau
Frederick
Elty
Medals To Be Presented At Brunswick Post Rites
Colonel L A Brown, director of the Fifth Marine Corps Reserve District, will present the Victory Medal and American Defense Medal to ex Marines in Frederick county at the Steadman Keenan Post 96 meeting on February 3. Ex Marines must report with discharge papers by January 30. A film titled Centerville USA will follow the ceremony at the Legion Home in Brunswick.
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L. A. Brown
Fifth Marine Corps Reserve District
Frederick County
Steadman-Keenan Pest No
American Legion
Brunswick
Brunswick Post
Donald Carr
Brown
Legion
Marine Corps
Centerville. USA
Deeds Recorded For Sales Of Properties In Urbana and New Market
Deeds were recorded in the clerk's office for several property transfers. Mr and Mrs Paul D Best and Elizabeth S Mitchell sold to Mr and Mrs William 3B. Upion aj siamm of 111 acres in Urbana district for about 7000. Annie L Burke and others sold to Mr and Mrs Harvey onnedman a 120 acre farm in New Market district with two ten acre tracts, around 7000. Addie ML Hamer sold to Mr and Mrs J Marshall Barger a Front street property Bruns ws with about 35060. An instrument filed to surrender a lease for 107-09-11 West Patrick street. Lease to Ralph W Boyer by Mary H Blecaffrey would have started Feb 1 for three years.
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Paul D. Best
Elizabeth S. Mitchell
William
Urbana
Irs
Annie L. Burke
Harvey
Addie ML Hamer
J. Marshall Barger
Front Street
Brunsws
West
Patrick Street
Ralph W. Boyer
Mary H. BleCaffrey
Man Detained in Break-In Probe After Docketed Suspect
A man listed as Edmonds Dewey alias Robert W. Kraumetz from Valley Forge General Hospital was picked up Sunday by city police and later turned over to Montgomery County authorities for a breaking and entering investigation. No further details were available.
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Edmonds Dewey
Robert W. Kraumetz
Valley Forge
General Hospital
Phobus
Rogger
Montgomery County
MacArthur may enter Illinois primary amid GOP contest
Reports say Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s friends will enter his name on the April 23 Illinois primary ballot, fueling talk of a broader GOP showdown with possible runs by Sen. Taft and Harold Stassen. Dewey and Eisenhower backers weigh Illinois timing as others assess their paths.
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Washington
Douglas
Illinois
Tobey
Gnno
Ilinois
Tinois
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Nebraska
St Louis Food Cost Inquiry Ordered by Attorney General
Attorney General Clark ordered a federal grand jury investigation into food prices in the St Louis area. The inquiry will focus on the milk production and distribution and high prices in the metropolitan region. Four departmental assistants will work with U S Attorney Drake Watson and anti trust division staff George Haddock Walter Murphy and John Niesley.
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Washington
Attorny
Clark
St. Louis
Justice Department
U. S
Drake Watson
Missouri
John Ford Baecher
Anti-Trust
George 8. Haddock
Walter B. Murphy
John R. Niesley
North Central States Brace for New Cold Wave
The Associated Press reports a cold wave driven by winds up to 25 mph threatens zero temperatures as far south as northern Iowa and Nebraska by tomorrow. Forecaster H. S. Renny says the north central region will see its coldest week of the year with the cold front moving east toward Wisconsin and northern Illinois before moderating near the Great Lakes. Sub zero readings include Pembina North Dakota at -7 and Maine locations like Concord at -11.
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Associated Press
North Central
Iowa
Nebraska
H. S. Renny
Chicago
Wisconsin
Illinois
Great Lakes
Pembina
N. D
New England
Concord
Lebano
Holton
Maine
Stolen Buick Stripped of Wheel Tires and Accessories
James Bristle Loy, a former Buckeystown resident, reported his 1942 Buick sedan stolen from behind the Potomac Edison building on West Patrick Street Saturday night. The car, found later in an isolated area, had $500 in damage with three wheels and tires, a radio, tools, a tire chain, cigarette lighters, and aluminum fender strips missing. No clues to the thieves were found and the car was towed back to the city.
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Fhieves
James ‘Bristle’ Loy
Buckeystown
Potomac Edison Company
West Patrick Street
Sundar
Singapore
York Publisher Heads Party Backing Wallace
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania a new political party to back Henry A Wallace for U S president began forming. J W Gitt editor of the York Gazette and Daily was named chairman of the organizing committee. The group called for a peoples convention to promote Wallace but set no date or location.
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Harrisburg
New Political Party
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Pennsylvania
J. W. Gitt
York Gazette
Daily
Wallace
Marshall Pushes Single Leader for European Aid Program
Secretary of State Marshall told the House Foreign Affairs committee that a businesslike administration is needed for the proposed European aid plan. He urged a single administrator answerable to the Secretary of State to oversee a four year program. initial funding requested is 6.8 billion dollars for the first 15 months, with future spending up to Congress. Some Republicans discuss cutting the figure in half.
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Washington
Marshall
House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Congress
Europe
Atomic Energy Development
Maritime Commission
Commodity Credit Corporation
National Science Foundation
Finance, Commerce and Industry
Treasury
Mr. Truman
National Commission Against Discrimination In
Ar. Truman
Labor Department
Mediation and Information Services
Fire on transport Joseph V. Connolly threatens crew and 9000 casket shipment
The U S Army transport Joseph V Connolly carrying about 5000 empty caskets to repatriate World War II dead was afire and abandoned 90 miles east of New York. Rescue of 44 men in lifeboats was underway as Morrison R Waite and other ships closed in. The Connolly, built in 1945, had radio out of commission after the blaze began in the engine room, and Coast Guard and Army units coordinated rescue efforts amid uncertain damage extent.
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New York
U.S. Army
Joseph V. Connolly
Europe
U. S. Morrison
Coast Guard
Bostelman
Anthony J. Lawrence
Army
Connolly
Atlantic
Radiomarine Corporation of America
Antwerp
General Callen
S. S. Josephine
Sales Tax Deductible From Income Tax Return
The piece notes that state sales tax is deductible on federal returns and discusses the difficulty taxpayers face in documenting sales tax expenditures. It mentions the January 15 filing deadline for farmers and others with nonwithheld income and the need for a basis for any figures submitted.
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Internal Revenue Office
High Cost of Government Per Capita With New Budget
Washington reports a per person share of government spending at 270 dollars for the next fiscal year under the Truman budget. The figure compares with 69.15 dollars per American a decade earlier in 1939, before World War II.
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Washington
Truman
Europe
Wage dispute settled with printers’ 18 week raise
Washington January 12 five months long wage dispute between printers and four Washington daily newspapers ends as printers accept an 18 per week raise offered by publishers.
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Washington
Washington Daily
Budget Battles Over President Truman's 39.7 Billion Plan
Republicans assailed the 39.669 billion request as extravagant and political while Democrats defended it as reasonable given domestic and foreign burdens. Senate figures urged cuts in military and foreign outlays, with some noting potential budget balance and debt payoff if reductions are made.
R Rush Lewis Weds Lettie Halmshaw in Florida
R Rush Lewis a prominent resident of near this city married Lettie Halmshaw widow of a Methodist clergyman in St. Petersburg Florida on January 3. The ceremony was by Rev George W Osmun and the couple returned to Thurmont where they reside.
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R. Rush Lewis
St. Petersburg
Fla
Lettie Halmshaw
George W. Osmun
Thurmont
Osmun
Hood College
Lewis
Florida
Must Quit Methodist College Catholics Told
Cleveland January 12. A diocesan priest told a mass meeting of 162 Roman Catholic students at Baldwin Wallace College that they must withdraw from the Methodist college to conform with church laws. The talk warned that a compulsory religion course and chapel programs at Berea College conflict with Catholic canon law. Some students, including two athletes, have already withdrawn.
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Cleveland
Baldwin-Wallace College
Berea
Joseph T. Moriarty
St. Johns College
Record Peacetime Budget At $39.669 Billion In 1949
President Truman submitted an unprecedented peacetime budget of 39.669 billion dollars for the 1949 fiscal year, outlining defense and international aid as major expenditures. He urged rigid economy while aiming to fund foreign programs to curb communism, and proposed tax measures to reduce the public debt.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
GOP
Atlantic
Pacific
Europe
Latin America
Young Wife Dies After Being Struck By Auto
Baltimore January 12 Mrs Angeline Steele aged 18 died at Johns Hopkins Hospital from injuries after being struck by an automobile on a city street. More than 30 friends appeared to donate blood as doctors tried to save her life. Mrs Steele and Miss Mary Smith were struck. a third woman suffered minor injuries.
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Baltimore
Angeline Steele
Johns S Hopes
Sub marine S S Pike Burns At Curtis Bay
Fire on the superstructure of the submarine S S Pike at Curtis Bay drew eight firefighting companies to the Coast Guard station today. Initial reports warned of heavy damage as a blow torch on deck is believed to have started the blaze.
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Baltimore
OA. S. S. Pike
Coast Guard
Curtis Bay
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