Warrant For Or Is Asked By State
The death of State Trooper Lauren M. Ridge in a Hagerstown suburb gunfight leads to a first degree murder warrant for Steve Oris. Oris, 50, wounded, faces police probes as investigators seek sequence of events. Ridge’s killing prompts grand jury action and public tributes follow to a popular officer.
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Lauren M. Ridge
Ridge
Hagerstown
Steve Oris
Washington County
Atttorney
Martin L. Ingram
Oris
Joseph D. Mish
Grand Jury
Aieles
Frederick
Northern
Haperstown
Claude Artz
Kenneth Sinn
Ray
Artz
Theodore F. Snyder
Raymond P. McGuire
Charles Magaha
Thurmont
Senate Bill Tightens Aliens Control Near Pass
Washington July 18 With strong House support a bill to clamp down on dangerous aliens moves to the Senate for expected early approval. The House passed it 326 to 15 after hearings that subversive and criminal aliens who cannot be deported or locked up roam at large nationwide.
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Washington
Senate
Justice Department
House
Pravda Says U S Cruiser Sunk Off Korean Coast
Pravda claims two North Korean torpedo boats sank an American cruiser on July 5 off the Korean coast. The report notes no American confirmation and cites North Korean communiques as the source of the claim.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
U. S
Reuther Seeks $1.3 Trillion War Against Communism
Detroit July 18 Walter Reuther proposed to President Truman that the United States invest more than a trillion dollars over 100 years in a global total peace offensive to defeat Communism. He urged UN sponsorship, a People’s World Assembly for Peace, expanded military defense, and eventual disarmament, aiming to outpace Communist expansion in Korea and beyond.
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Detroit
Walter Reuther
United States
Reuther
Ciounited
Auto Workers Union
Truman
America
U. S
People’s World Assembly For Peace
People’s Assembly
Munich
Kremlin
Korea
Indo- China
Burma
Iran
Turkey
Berlin
White House
Pyongyang Radio Claims Heavy American Losses at Kum River
Pyongyang radio said over 2,500 Americans were killed and more than 100 captured in fighting south of the Kum river through 6 p.m. Monday. U.S. casualties were described as light in the last 48 hours by Eighth Army HQ, while North Koreans claimed heavy losses and ongoing advances as forces retreated to new defensive positions.
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Tokro
Pyongyang
Kum River
Eighth Army
Korea
U. S
Red
Pravda Attacks Lie as U S Office Boy
Pravda accuses United Nations secretary general Trygve Lie of being a servant of American aggressors. The paper claims Lie honeycombed the UN secretariat with FBI agents wire-tappers and microphones and says he spreads American propaganda and serves the U S State Department.
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Moscow
Pravda
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Communist Party
Lie
U. N
FBI
U. S. State Department
Five Day Forecast for Maryland and Delaware
Forecast covers Maryland and Delaware. Wednesday is partly cloudy and less humid with cooler conditions. Thursday turns warmer with scattered showers. Remainder of the period mostly fair and warm with additional showers likely toward week’s end. Temperatures run near to above seasonal normals.
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Maryland
Delaware
Wreck on Route 240 leads to fine and injuries
A tractor trailer collided with a Blue Ridge bus on Route 240 Saturday afternoon. Raymond Neal, Missouri driver, was convicted of reckless driving and fined $1144. One passenger, Nettie Shafer, 62, of Washington, hospitalized in shock, remains in satisfactory condition. Ten other passengers escaped injury. total damage estimated at $2400. Separate crash near Hyattstown left three injured. Enoch Anderson convicted of reckless driving and fined $10.75. Velma Grove injured in Poole vehicle. Renner acquitted on dealer’s tags charge.
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Blue Ridge
Manuel M. Weinberg
Peoples Court
Raymond Neal
Missouri
Frederick Memourial Hospital
Nettie Shafer
Washington
Frederick
Enoch Anderson
Bayles Ford
Tenn
George Poole
Route 3
Gaithersburg
Patrick Siakem, Jr
Poole
Velma Grove
Pine Avenue
Stakem
James T. Renner
New Midway
Jug Bridge
Route 40
H. B O'Brien
Army lowers enlistment standards and service terms
Frederick county youths face relaxed written exam requirements as the Army trims mental standards. Regular Army enlistment ranges three or twenty one months with branch selection limits. Air Force service remains four years. A local recruit was accepted at Winchester Hall and headed to Martinsburg for final exams, name withheld.
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Frederick County
Army
Air Force
Robert L. Lane
Royal Army
Sgt
Lane
Winchester Hall
Martinsburg
W. Va
Frederick County Bar Holds Monthly Luncheon at Key Hotel
Twenty six members of the Frederick County Bar Association attended the noon luncheon at the Francis Scott Key Hotel. President Manuel M. Weinberg presided. Malcolm R. Baer of Frederick was elected to membership after a two month proposal. Benjamin B. Rosenstock reported on the State Bar Association convention in Atlantic City. A tent control discussion occurred. The next meeting will be a picnic in August with no date set.
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Frederick County Bar Association
Francis Scott Key
Manuel M. Weinberg
Malcolm R. Baer
Frederick
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
State Bar Association
Atlantic City
More Than 400 Girls Compete In Frederick Achievement Day
More than 460 4-H members from 26 clubs in Frederick County will participate in a two day Achievement Day event with judging, demonstrations and a style show. Entries close Monday at noon and champions advance to Club Week at College Park, then on to state and national venues. Judges from the University of Maryland Extension staff and local homemakers guide the contests across clothing home furnishings dairy foods and more, with a final style show at Baker Park Band Shell.
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Frederick County
University of Maryland
Maryland
Chiccago
Extension Service
East Church
College Park
Shell
Baker Park
Frederick
Evelyn Hutson
University of Maryland Extension
George Chick
Petersville
Ian Tervet
Ballenger
John Garst
Walkersville
Joods
Richard Hammond
Frederick City
Mary Ahalt
Mid- Valley Homemakers’ Club
Leslie Wes
Ballenger Homemakers
George Weast
Pleasant Grove Homemakers’ Club
Frank Darner
Middletown
Doris Clopper
Washington County
Margaret Watson
Ray Smith
Ug Bridge Homemakers’ Club
Noel Gross
Hood College
C. Myers
Brunswick Homemakers’ Club
Joseph Victor
Camp Detrick Homemakers’ Club
Edward Moller
Middletown Homemakers’ Club
Carlton Brown
Camp Detrick
Man Dies On East Patrick Street
Eugene Harry Dixon collapsed in the second block of East Patrick street around 10 am and died at Frederick Memorial Hospital. A known cardiac sufferer, his death is believed to be due to a heart seizure. He lived at 327 East Second street.
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Eugene Harry Dixon
East Patrick Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
C. E. Cline
Dixon
East Second Street
Correspondent Leaves For Eighth Army Hoigers
Guerrita Higgins New York Herald Tribune correspondent leaves for Eighth Army headquarters in Korea under army orders saying she is pledged to report and will ask a review of the order. Whitelaw Reid condemns the decision as wrong and unfair given her reporting record.
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Korea
Marguerite Higgins
New York Herald- Tribune
Eighth Army
Tokyo
Miss Higgins
Walton H. Walkers
New York
Whitelaw Reid
The
Herald Tribune
No Filipino Troops To Be Sent To Korea
The Philippine cabinet endorsed President Quirino’s stance that no Filipino troops be sent to the Korean battlefront. A spokesman said the government would not object to individuals volunteering for UN forces. Ralph Hawkins reported Americans left Manila to volunteer, while the cabinet limited aid to commodities for home needs including rice coconut oil soap and vaccines.
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Manila
Philippine
Quirino
United Nations
Ralph Hawkins
Manila Evening News
Clark Field
Korea
Filippines
Condition Of Streams Muddy At Buckeys Town Dam
The Monocacy River is muddy at Buckeys Town Dam while the Potomac remains cloudy on both Maryland and Virginia shores at Point of Rocks.
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Buckeystown Dam
Potomac
More Called For Exams In Maryland Draft Call
Fifty one Baltimoreans report for preliminary draft examinations while Maryland boards prepare for the first draft since the Korean War. Examinations will test 106 Baltimore registrants and Eastern Shore counties with testing sites at Cambridge Washington Martinsburg and other towns as Col Henry C Stanwood notes Maryland’s draft quota stands at 294 with about 1000 registrants to be examined to meet it.
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Baltimore
Chestertown
Cambridge
la Plata
Washington
Oakland
Martinsburg
W. Va
Henry C. Stanwood
Selective Service
Maryland
Sabotage Probed On British Warships In England
London July 18 three new cases of suspected sabotage on British warships were reported amid tight security at naval bases. Incidents, linked to a wrecking campaign possibly Communist inspired, followed an ammunition barge blast in Portsmouth last Friday injuring nineteen. A naval board of inquiry will hear fifty witnesses.
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London
Portsmouth
Ninteen
Korea
Admiralty
Algernon Willis
Tortemouih
Naval Board of Inquiry
Devonport
Stops Oil Shipments To China Tandon
A Foreign Office spokesman announced Britain has stopped all oil shipments to Red China. British services in the Far East will take over all stocks for their use, due to operations under the UN Security Council Korea resolution. Only Shell had sold to the Chinese Communists. six months’ total fell to 26,000 tons. Stocks in the theater will be used by the British fleet and aircraft.
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Tandon
Foreign Office
Britain
Red China
Far East
United Nations Security Council
Korea
Shell
Otal
China
Durmy
Shell Company
Better Teeth Required Of New Draftees
The draft rules shift to demand better dental health for new draftees and permit reduced standards for psycho neurotic cases. Army plans aim to channel 4-Fs into essential jobs if war rises, while another draft call may occur next month. Summer School opens at Hood College with 150 registrants.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Army
Defense Department
Stuart Symington
National Security Resources Board
Symington
Wounded U S Soldiers Shot On Litters Across Kuan River
Report says thirty American soldiers were killed by North Korean forces as they moved across the Kuan river Sunday night. The incident describes wounded U S troops being shot while on litters amid prior fighting and a sudden river crossing.
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U. S
America
I Seren
Haly 1A
Kuan River
United States Stance on Korea Peace to Nehru Revealed
Secretary Acheson prepared a careful no appeasement reply to Prime Minister Nehru outlining Washington’s aim for peace in Asia but not at the cost of bowing to Communist aggression in Korea. The draft, to be sent after briefing Indian ambassador Madam Pandit, sought to pair U N aims with a firm line against Communist China’s UN seating.
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Washington
Jly
Ste Acheson
Nehru
United States
Asia
Korea
Russia
New Delhi
State Department
Toomake
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Pandit
Acheson
Stalin
China
Camamunet
Inedia
Security Council
Encouuringiug
United Nations
India
U. S
U. N
Moscow
Sealing Chinese Communists Agree On Admission To UN
Moscow reports Stalin and Nehru agreed Communist China must join the United Nations before Korea settlement. Tass release cites need for five powers and peaceful path via Security Council with Chinese representatives. Nehru outlined a four point plan including seating Communist China and US China talks. Stalin endorsed hearing Korean representatives in the Council.
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Moscow
U. N
Stalin
Nehru
China
U. W. Security Council
Soviet Union
U. S
United States of America
Korea
Security Council
No decisive turn in fighting reported in Korea
Washington reports no change along the front and a cautious note that any turning point remains premature. Far East forces say they are holding the line with increased artillery and air support while enemy pressure slows. Brisk stock buying follows positive Korea news.
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Washington
Pentagon
Tokyo
Kum River
Taejon
United Nations
William F. Dean
Dean
24Th Infantry Division
150
MacArthur
Eighth Army
Korea
24Th Division
Kum
Kongju
Tae- Jon
24Th
Eusak-sk
U. S. Army
Associated Press
William R. Moore
Far East Air Force
FEAF
Tanyang
Taesan
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Reds
Eighth Army Hoigers
England
Lutheran
James T. Clare
Baltimore County
Dorothy M. White
Athol
Mags
Creneral MacArthur
U.S
Newsfarm
Aarhiye
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