Jne Hurt As Train Hit A Automobile
Walter LeRoy Weidner a 27 year old Woodsboro resident was killed when his 1950 Plymouth collided with a Pennsylvania Railroad train at New Midway crossing near Frederick MD around noon He was rushed to Frederick Memorial Hospital with facial lacerations by State Police ambulance. The locomotive was reported traveling about 20 miles per hour and the car was knocked back about thirty feet.
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Walter LeRoy Weidner
Woodsboro
Pennsylvania
New Midway Ossing
Frederick Emorial Hospital
Pofce
Harold L. Basore
Richard A. Myers
Weidner
Moneytown
Frederick Som York
Myers
Robber Caught After Branch Bank Heist
In Baltimore on July 13 a branch bank manager was robbed of 32,000 dollars as Simon Spemp drove to Calvert Bank. A blond youth with a revolver grabbed a money bag, the manager ran inside for help, and police quickly pursued the suspect, recovering most of the cash in a swift dragnet.
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Baltimore
Simon Spemp
West Baltimore
Q71
Calvert Bank
Baltimore and
Prey Streets
Ayrall
Pis
Kemp
Bank
Fens Police
Ross Family Reaches Japan Amid War Crisis
Mrs Robert E Clapp of Frederick reports the safe arrival in Japan of Mrs Richard Ross her son Col Richard P Ross and family aboard a liner. They sailed from San Francisco June 21 after the Korea hostilities broke out and landed in Yokohama July 10 then went to Yokosuka base to reside. The party includes Mrs Ross previously of Frederick and two daughters.
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Robert E. Clapp
Rockwell Terrace
Japan
Richard Ross
San Rancisco
Koea
Love Nest Denial At Soldier Field Claims
Evan Kelly, a Chicago park district official and ally of former Mayor Edward J. Kelly, denied his estranged wife’s charge that a “love nest” existed under Soldier Field stands. Grace Kelly sues for separate maintenance. she alleges an illicit relationship with Kelly and his secretary Delores Williams.
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Chicago
Pi Evan Kelly
Park District
Parotner
Edward J. Kelly
Soldier Field
Kelly
Big Lake Front Stadium
Grace
Cir Het
Biss Delores Williams
Kel
Baltimore hog market hits high on July 13
Hogs jumped 75 cents per hundredweight to $26.25 for 180 to 220 pound gilts and sows at the Baltimore live stock market. Other classes rose 25 to 50 cents. In California, Los Alamitos base reports a naval reserve fighter squadron VE-81 signing up over 100 officers and men for active duty led by Commander Collin Overland.
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Baltimore
Los Alamitos Air Base
Califaly
Naval Reserve
Collin Oveland
San Dego
Iso
Condition of Streams at Frederick Auction Report
Monocacy stream clear at Frederick auction site while Potomac shows slight cloudiness on Maryland and Virginia banks by Point of Rocks. Sw Spe.
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Frederick
Potomac
Maryland
Virginia
Point of Rocks
Red Cross Elects At Annual Frederick County Meet
Charles A. Price was chosen to head the Frederick County Red Cross Chapter at a Wednesday evening meeting. Mrs. Richard Nallin declined re nomination. Incumbent officers were reappointed: first vice chairman Mrs. Ernest Webb, second vice chairman Mrs. Robert L. Warfield, treasurer Paul S. Michael, assistant treasurer E. W. VanFossen, secretary Mrs. Charles Heck. Junior Red Cross chairwoman Mrs. Harrison Mel Alpine announced teenagers’ study trips. Floyd S. Brown 14 will depart July 24 for Cazenovia College and return August 4, Mary A. Thomas 15 and Sandra S. Hoffmaster 14 will attend Madison College July 14 to 24. The group discussed arts and crafts, recreation, and Junior Red Cross projects and the Red Cross fundraising policy reaffirmed by the ARC board of governors.
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Charles A. Price
Frederick Countty
Paul S. Michael
E. W. VanFossen
Charles Heck
Harrison Mel Alpine
Red Cross
Floyd S. Brown
Route 1
Frederick
Cazenovia College
Syracuse
N. Y
Mary A. Thomas
Middletown
Sandra S. Hoffmaster
Myersville
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Marian C. Currens
The
ARC
Two Gunmen Caught After Early Morning Robbery
Two young men held up a filling station near Havre de Grace at about 4 a.m. and were captured within 15 minutes after a police blockade. Identified as James D. Mintmier and Walter Francis Reiger, sailors from Norfolk, they fled with 43 dollars. Frederick Smith, a 17 year old attendant, alerted state police after the men fled in a car toward Havre de Grace. Radio dispatches led to a roadblock between Havre de Grace and Bel Air where two patrol cars stopped the pursuit.
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Havre de Grace
Here
Norfolk
James D. Mintmier
Johnstown
Walter Francis Reiger
Carroltown
Frederick Smith
U.S. 40
Havre de Grace Racetrack
Smith
Bel Air
Flag precedence in Korea raises tough UN banner question
Washington weighs whether the U N flag should fly concurrently with U S and other nations. Truman orders display of flags for Britain Canada Australia New Zealand and the Netherlands alongside U N and U S symbols, testing MacArthur's adherence to flag hierarchy.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Korea
Douglas MacArthur
U. N
Far East
United States
International Organization
United Naions
Congress
United States of America
MacArthur
Russia
U.S
Mr. Truman
Britain
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Netherlands
U. S
U.N
American Airlines to open Baltimore to Los Angeles service
American Airlines will launch a daily two stop route from Baltimore Friendship International to Los Angeles starting July 27. The DC-6 aircraft will carry 52 passengers with westbound stops at Washington and Chicago and a passenger change in Chicago, while return trips require no changes.
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Baltimore
Los Angeles
Altimore
American Airlines
New Friendship International Airpark
Washington
Chicago
No Plan Yet For Next Draft Call
The Army stated there is no present plan for a second draft call and had asked last Monday for 20,000 draftees. A Pentagon briefing noted reports of an 80,000 draftee second call were untrue. A British unit silenced three of four Red Korean Tim guns near Inchon with no damage to the ship. Tuchon serves as Seoul’s main port. Eighth Army HQ in South Korea marked a notable stage in building U.S. forces.
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Washington
Army
Pentagon
Navy
Inchon
Korea
Tuchon
Seoul
Eighth Army
South Korea
U.S
Seven local youths accepted for U.S. service this week
The Army and Air Force recruiting station announced weekend standby duties as seven Frederick area youths enlisted or prepared to depart for four year terms. Six headed to Martinsburg for examinations and swearing in, with one leaving for Fort Knox and others to Lackland, San Antonio. Names include Earl A Kolb Jr and several others from Frederick and nearby towns.
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Army
Air Force
Martinsburg
W. Va
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Fort Knox
Earl A. Kolb, Jr
Earl A. Kolb
West Church
Farmers and Mechanics Bank
Frederick High School
Kolb
George E. Shook, Jr
George E. Shook
Route 1
Thurmont
Williams Typewriter Supply Company
Shook
David E. Morgan
Jefferson
Navy
Roy Ramsburg
Morgan
Melvin E. Filler
Harry T. Filler
Walkersville
Filler Lett Manday
Elmer L. Dixon
Lincoln High School
Diggs
Mullinix Park
Charles E. Stanton
Joseph F. Stanton
Ice Street
Lincoln School
Ernest E. Griffith
Adams Own
Robert L. Lane
Bidwell Sherman
Winchester Hall
Cnty
Five From Here Join In State Pistol Shoot
Frederick city officers Norman Dietz and Sherman Boone joined three Maryland State Police members Walter K May Sgt W W Corbin and Trooper R E Garvey at the fourth annual Maryland Police Association pistol shoot held yesterday at Sparrows Point range. About 800 officers from across Maryland attended along with participants from Washington and the Treasury Department.
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Frederick City
Frederick Barracks
Maryland Police Association
Sparrows Point
Norman Dietz
Sherman Boone
Frederick
Maryland
Walter K. May
W. W. Corbin
R. E. Garvey
Washington
Treasury Department
Twenty Die in Saxony Train Wreck Near Uranium Mines
In Russian occupied Saxony a deadly train wreck last night in the uranium mining region killed twenty men and injured more than fifty, according to Soviet licensed ADN news agency reports.
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Berlin
Saxony
ADN
B-29s Bomb North Korea In Major July Raid
Nearly 40 B 29s hit a rail center north of the 38th parallel in a daylight operation. Two groups were rushed from the U S west coast for the first precision bombing in Korea. Five hundred tons of bombs fell on the target as Maj Gen Emmett O Donnell directed the assault. 38 Red tanks and 82 trucks were reported destroyed.
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Tokyo
North Korea
Far Pacific
U. S. West Coast
Europe
James ‘Jt. Patrick
Carnation
Wash
Uncle Joe Sil
Emmett
Rosy) O'Donnell
Far East
Ife
Japan
Air Force
Chochiwon
Kongju
Suwon
Tanyang
Chonan
Big Liner Strikes Reef Near Quebec During Night Collision
A Cunard-Donaldson liner Franconia rammed a shallow reef one mile from Quebec at 8:45 p.m. as it neared Liverpool. Crew and tugs evacuated 789 of 20,000 passengers who left with only their clothes. Most passengers were moved to waiting buses. no injuries reported. Officials probing steering system failure as a possible cause.
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Quebec
St. Lawrence
Franconia
Cunard-Donaldson
Pointe A Tauren
Liverpool
Cunard
Francona
American Prisoners In Pyongyang Reported By Tass
Tass reports the first American war prisoners arrived in Pyongyang. North Korean troops allegedly wiped out an American infantry unit south of Chochiwon near the Kum river defenses. Four tanks and other war materiel were reportedly captured with prisoners in Chuncheon province. An American officer identified as a battalion commander of the 24th Division said the imperialists must abandon military intervention. Pravda denounced atom bomb proposals in Korea as a crime against humanity. In Arizona, wreckage of an unknown military plane and three survivors were sighted in the Bassett Peak area of the Gualuro mountains.
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Moscow
Tass
Pyongyang
Chochiwon
Kum River
Chunchen
Communist Party
Pravda
Korea
Hiller
Walker
George Patton
Third Army
Europe
Britain
U.S. War Department
Department of the Army
MacArthur
J. Lawton. Collins
Army
Hoyt Vandenberg
Air Force
MacArthir
Wit Walker
Arthur W. Radford
Navy
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
15Th
Hamchang
Taejon
Pusan-Taejon
Associated Press
Tom Lambert
Han River
Tanyang
Chungju
Chunju
Lambert
Rec
Chaechwon
Tanyank
Chochiwon-Tanyang
Russians Maintain Large Sub Fleet in Far East
Washington reports say the Soviet Union has a varied submarine force near Korea and in the Far East, with 7 to 18 boats including snorkel types. Analysts doubt a balanced fleet, citing many small subs and possible amphibious craft, while primary duties appear to include reconnaissance and hindering American ships along the Asiatic lifeline.
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Washington
Russia
BOC
An Navy
Far East
Japan
United States
U.S
Orient
Western Pacific
Eastern
Asia
Uussion
Pentagon
Red Navy
Plane Output Delays Climate of War-Era Speed Measured
The New York Times reports that current aircraft production would lag World War II timelines if a full mobilization were needed. It would take about 34 months to reach 30,900 annual planes, due to heavier, more complex modern warplanes and fewer ready plants despite abundant resources.
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New York
New York Times
United States
the Times
Frederick Graham
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Graham
Filchock Suspension Lifted by Bert Bell
Commissioner Bert Bell of the National Football League today lifted the indefinite suspension he placed on Frank Filchock three years ago. Filchock, a former Giants backfield star, was suspended in 1947 for failing to report a bribe offer. Teammate Merle Hapes was also suspended but was not involved in today's decision. only Filchock had applied for reinstatement.
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Philadelphia
Bert Bell
National Football League
Frank Filehock
Filehock
New York Giants
Merle Hapes
Filchock
Hapes
Bell
Withdrawal Amid Heavy Fire In Korea Amid Casualties
Private accounts from the Korean front describe a careful withdrawal as artillery and mortar fire pound village paddies. Lt Delbert Cates of Texas steadied retreat with a machinegun, keeping the line intact until the last soldier made it to safety. Morale remains buoyed by American resilience despite strafing and heavy bombardment from North Korean forces.
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Korea
Areca
Damon Orlerdy
Watt Bane
Dames Bulang
Fenton Sven
Tre Arenx
Delbert Cates
Sanervedte
Tex
Gries
Vacationists In Train Wreck In Paynesville Minn
Vacationists traveling to a hardware convention in Seattle were injured when a 15 car Pullman train carrying about 224 people sideswiped an eastbound freight near Paynesville Minnesota. About 40 were hurt. preliminary reports indicate only five or six serious. Passengers were treated on board or at local offices. arrangements were made to move them to Minneapolis. The freight locomotive failed to clear the main line, blocking the track.
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Paynesville
Minn
Didy Tam
Canada
Minneapolis
Ohio
Atlantic
Baw
National
lKetard Hardware Association
Seattle
Pope
Defective grenade kills captain and wounds four at Camp Carson
In Colorado Springs a defective grenade exploded after the pin was pulled killing 43 year old Capt. Charles Bush of Hobart Indiana and seriously wounding four others. The accident happened in a ten foot trench on the Camp Carson grenade range. Pfc. Connie Brokman Jr. 19 of Orange Virginia was critically wounded.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Charles Bush
Hobart
Ind
Stong
Camp Carson
Connie Brokman, Jr
Orange
Obey Forfeits Bond in Wisconsin Traffic Case
Roland J Obey of Wausau Wisconsin forfeited a unilateral of 511 49 in Proples Court before Magistrate Alton Y Bennett. State Trooper D A Tucker stopped Obey six miles west of Frederick on Alternate Route 40 for speeding and he faced a charge of exceeding 0 miles per hour.
Superfortress Downed Report Sparks Air Force Briefing
A damaged wartime dispatch claims a B20 Superfortress was shot down near Leon and a B22 lost to enemy action. Tokyo reports B29 raids with 500 tons of bombs and no opposition, but the Air Force offers no clear timing or details of downed aircraft.
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Worhindon
Leon
Air Force
Pentacen
Filom Tokyo
Yo Smike
Tokyo
U S Reds Are More Active Underground
Washington July 13 4 U S Reds are more active underground says FBI Director J Edgar Hoover in an annual FBI activity review for the year ending June 30 The report notes record internal security and national defense investigations surpassing World War II volumes It cites Communist party decentralization and expanded underground operations increasing security efforts Hoover also asks Congress for more than 300 additional agents mainly for internal security cases.
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Washington
U. S
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Communist Party
Congress
Americans Fight Skillfully in Korean War Header and Command Changes
North Korean and Allied forces fought along the Kum River front as General Walton Walker assumed command of ground forces in Korea. Allied air and ground actions targeted supply routes while talks of a new Red thrust toward Hamchang and the Pusan-Taejon rail line persisted amid shifting leadership and battlefield rumors.
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Toksa
MarArihuy
CTS
Amerie
Korea
North Korea
Kum
Walton WW
Walker
Worl
Yttal Ku
South
Taejon
Que O
Raiway
Reds
Tanjang
Pusan
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Wirs. Ross
Tstadium
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Charles U. Price
Red Capital
Tucson
Afiz
Bassett Peak
Galuro Mountains
Arizona
NSAN
Namwon
Ayjon
Himom Sangil
Taegi
MASAN
Yang
Kyong
Ft US
Choehiwon
Tagan
China
Koresias
Yongeak
QP Ayiles
Qos
Musan
Caer
U.S Po
Gates
Avery
Jaty Woume
Senate Public Works Committee
Baltimore Washington Parkway
Ohachive
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