Emmitsburg Opposes County School Consolidation Plan
A mass meeting at Emmitsburg High School to discuss Frederick County Schools long-range program drew 500 to 800 residents. A unanimous resolution protested consolidation with Thurmont, urging better teachers and libraries instead of tax increases and loss of a local school.
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Ada H. Sperry
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Herbert W. Roger
Lions Club
Morris A. Zentz
H. W. Hays
Thornton W. Rogers
Burgess
Cigarette Prices Seen Rising Soon in City Report
Baltimore vendors forecast a price rise on standard cigarette brands late next month due to higher tobacco prices, freight costs, ad spending, and insurance. Taxes total one cent city, one cent state, and seven cents federal, with the rest as profit and costs. In a separate note, Chairman John R. of the House Foreign Affairs Committee urged Truman to brief Congress on the U.S. brink of war with Russia.
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Russia
Extra Session Faces Fight Over Platform in Republican Campaign
The Dewey campaign argues the 1938 Republican platform cannot become law via a rump session of Congress starting next Monday. Brownell says no action is planned, while Wherry hints civil rights bills may prompt Senate debate and a fierce Southern opposition, risking a party split.
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Wherry
Nebraska
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Adams Accepts 7300 Prize After Public Pressure
Huntington WV July 20. Jack L Adams a 27 year old war veteran won a $7300 prize on Mutual's National network game Three For The Money. He and his wife faced relentless calls and offers as well wishers urged various uses for the money before agreeing to take the check.
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Former Hood Victory Is New Belgian Ship
Former Hood Victory Is New Belgian Ship decided not to take the money Mutual sent Edward Leech from New York to convince them they should The network s loen outlet arranged a conference in one of its studios Mir and WV Adams were present after minutes of negotiation finals took the money Attorney-General J Lindsay Almond Jr and his associates agreed to drop prosecution of 75 other men named in the Gilliam indictment Three men named in the same indictment were unable to appear today due to illness but will be arraigned later Attorneys for the Commonwealth also agreed not to prosecute further nine other anti lynch law indictments against 178 men 4 H COUNCIL DANCE The Annual Montgomery County 4 H Sr Council dance will be held at Gaithersburg High School on Friday July 23 from 9 till 12 The music will be furnished by the Esquires Band The dance is being headed by Charles Linthicum chairman Amy Fry Jane Cholm Edward Mayne and Harold Ring.
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New York Today
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Ninety Seven Miners Plead Guilty in Virginia Anti-Lynch Case
Ninety seven of the 178 union miners in Grundy Virginia pleaded guilty to one indictment charging violation of the mob violence provision of the anti-lynch law. They received suspended five year penitentiary sentences in a Buchannan Circuit Court mass arraignment after two days of closed-door talks.
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Virginia
Buchanan Circuit
Cutty
Robert J. Gilliam
Silent alarms summon United rescue to heat victims
United drivers rushed a rescue truck to South Market Street near Air Oli vet cemetery after two silent alarms. They believed someone overcome by the heat, and police soon joined. Victim(s) were transferred to a hospital or awaiting further action.
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Air Olivet Cemetery
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Court House Park Incident Reappears In Police Report
Police responded to a second incident at a court house park where two men were involved and allegedly intoxicated. Ernest Els road of Rockville and Harry Fagen were identified by Police Headquarters as the participants. Intoxication charged. Also noted: California imported ice from Alaska from 1855 to 1860, about 3000 tons yearly.
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Rockville
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East Fourth Street
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