Youth Admits Taneytown Robbery and Court Pleas
A Baltimore youth admitted breaking into the Wagner Service Station at Taneytown with more than 800 dollars of merchandise stolen. Authorities identify Manuel Nelson, 18, as suspect in multiple Baltimore and Carroll county robberies and plan further interrogations to solve additional cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Wagner
Taneytown
Eutaw Street
Manuel Nelson
Carroll County
Nelson
Wagner's
Dundalk
Essex
Baltimore County
Madonna
Harford County
Abra
Keymar
Magistrates urged to adopt general drunken driving policy
Circuit Court Judge Patrick M Schnauffer urged Frederick county magistrates to adopt a general policy for sentencing drunken driving cases, noting offenses and prior records should guide penalties while stressing consistency for identical circumstances. State's Attorney Charles A Price will coordinate with magistrates to present these suggestions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick M. Schnauffer
Charles A. Price
Frederick County
Schnauffer
Putman
J. Allen Putman
Clifton
John Paul Rhodenck
Ail Pleasant
Oliver T. Warfield
Alton Hennett
Harold Crith
Rockville
Warfield
Messrs Zimmerman and
Thompson
Thomas
Glass
Lehnaufter
James Anthony Wills
Emmitsburg
Youth Held on Theft Charges in Hagerstown
An 11 year-old boy described by police as a one man crime wave was held in $1000 bond for a grand jury indictment on charges of stealing a $40 camera from a parked car. Officers arrested William St Clair after a complaint about a flashlight shine into a parked car. He admitted breaking into twenty cars and taking items from eight, including flashlights lighters sunglasses and knives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Grand Jury Acon
Willian St Clair
Greeks Established Early Scientific Medical System
The ancient Greeks are credited by the Encyclopaedia Britannica with creating an early scientific medical framework. They developed foundational theories, organized observations, and linked physiology with disease concepts, influencing later medical traditions.
Diamonds Hidden in Shoe Heel Smuggling Busts Abroad
Miami reports a traveler nabbed with diamonds concealed in his shoe heel, valued at 1.5 million dollars smuggling. Ed Stern, 29, of Brooklyn, faces charges after landing from Havana Cuba with 119346 in industrial diamonds. Two New York travelers, including Eta Hoffmann, a 26 year old Belgian émigré, were earlier jailed on similar shoe heel smuggling. Authorities tie a larger plot to the inflated black market diamond price but found no direct links yet. Stern departed Amsterdam before arrest and officials note the same method as the New York cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
James R. Offutt
Ed Stern
Brooklyn
N, Y
Stern
Havans
Cuba
New York
Eta Hoffman
Offutt
Amster
Miracle at Carville condensed tale of leprosy and hope
Betty Martin learns she has leprosy in a dramatic February Reader's Digest condensation. The account follows her life in an institution, a tender romance with an affected fellow patient, and her prayers for a miracle amid the disease's terrors, ending in ultimate triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Martin
Reader's Digest
Current Books
Smuggling suspect held on bond after airport arrest
Gain traveled from January T1 to Montreal then Havana before Stern, arraigned before U S Commissioner Roger Edward Davis on smuggling charges and held on a 5000 bond. A 31 year old Austrian Lesser Weitman was arrested on Sunday arriving from Belgium with 500000 dollars worth of industrial diamonds hidden in his shoeheels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gain
Montreal
Havana
Stern
U. S
Roger Edward Davis
Austran
Lesser Weitman
Belgium
Truck Skids Into Guard Rail on Monocacy Bridge
Melvin Staub sustained injuries to his calvarium when the 1949 Chevrolet panel truck, driven by his wife Nora Staub, skidded on the icy Monocacy bridge at Ceresville and struck a guard rail. He was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital by a passing motorist and discharged after treatment. State Police noted slight damage and icy road conditions with cinder crews active. highways remained passable with isolated spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Staub
West South 1Street
Monocacy
Ceresville
Staub
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Nora Staub
U S Aid Funds Used To Help Iron Curtain
Senator Herbert R. O Conor said American aid funds were used by Western European nations to supply materials aiding war behind the iron curtain. He cited an American aluminum maker testifying that Canada shipped aluminum almost continuously to Poland Czechoslovakia and other Soviet dominated nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Herbert R. O'Conor
House
Canada
Poland
Czechoslovakia
O'Conor
Maryland
Willard L. Thorp
U. S
State Dept vows joint action to curb war materials leaks
O’Conor cited Thorp and other officials at a closed conference who promised to seek joint action by Atlantic pact countries to prevent further leaks of materials that could be converted for military use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
O'Conor
Thorp
State Department
Cattle Men Elect Eck President of Maryland Aberdeen Anguses
Charles F. Eck owner of Good Fellowship Farm Towson was elected president of the Maryland Aberdeen Angus Association Inc Other officers elected include H H Hackney Finksburg vice president J M Vial College Park treasurer and Charles M Perry
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eck
Charles F. Eck
Good Fellowship
Towson
Maryland Aberdeen-Angus Association, Inc
H. H. Hackney
Finksburg
J. M. Vial
College Park
Charles M. Perry
Board Elected Members List From Maryland Meeting
Mount Airy field man and secretary helped elect to the board of directors J J Gebhart Owings Mills D E Wight Frederick W C Hanson Gaithersburg Maxwell Covington Davidsonville H H Anderson Princess Anne J B Single Queenstown W F Schluderberg Monkton W A McCregor Jr Chestertown and C A Morrow New Windsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Airy
J. J. Gebhart
Owings Mills
D. E. Wight
Frederick
W. C. Hanson
Gaithersburg
Maxwell Coveington
Davidsonville
H. H Anderson
Princess Anne
J. B. Single
Queenstown
W. F. Schluderberg
Monkton
W. A. McCregor
Chestertown
C. A. Morrow
New Windsor
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Ing
Price
Charles Oden Denny
Cross Junction
Bennett
Sheffield
Mr. Price
Bruce Y. Remsburg
Joseph W Parker
Edward Clark Johnson
John Grayson Wiles
Louis Simort Erchinger
Charles
Martin John Remsburg
John Remsburg
Armistead Mack
Mildred Keeney
Ali
Palmer’s Cash Market
East Church Street
Packard
Hallenger Sales & Service
IN. S
IFIP
ST. Extd
Canek RD
Preperick, MD
PHONE
Jane Parker
HIVE
Carville
Iron Curtain
Lincoln Loan Service, Inc
W. Patrick St
Frederick, Md
North Market St
Worry Footer . Co
Footer's
St.Joseph Aspirin I
Frigidaire
Raymond Leany
Your Potomac Edison
Frederick - Taneytown
MT. Airy
Brunswick
WSOPA
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