Extensive fire safety upgrades at Montevue nearing completion
County commissioners say extensive improvements at Montevue almshouse and Emergency Hospital to reduce fire danger are nearly finished. Costs run around 35 000 dollars with savings of about 12 000 from a cost plus contract. Major work includes fire doors wiring plumbing and new painting, copper gutters, and added fire screens to isolate any blaze.
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Mint
County C
Ounty Almshouse
Thomas
J. Crum
Merril F. Wachter
Aiodern Lighting Company
Montevue
Soviet Troops Concentrated Near Romania Frontier
Istanbul papers Cumhuriet and La Republique report heavy Soviet military buildup along Yugoslavia Romania border with 22 air divisions split into two groups moving toward Yugoslavia and the Mediterranean. Bombers conduct nightly exercises and additional forces shift into Bulgaria amid Turkish intel uncertainty.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Romania
Cumhuriet
la Republique
Mediterranean
Bulgaria
Fire in Baltimore Apartment Traps Twelve Residents
A blaze broke out in a northeast Baltimore three story brick building trapping twelve occupants. Firemen say the fire started on the first floor and spread quickly through the structure. All but one tenant, J Carroll Moore, escaped. Moore was carried down from a porch by responders.
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Baltim F
Baltimore
J. Carroll Moore
Led Parade by Key Post Drum Corps in Hamilton
The Drum and Bugle Corps of the Francis Scott Key Post American Legion led Hamilton Va firemen in a Monday evening parade on invitation. The local corps did not compete for prizes.
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Francis Scott Key
Post American Legion
Hamilton
25 Year Olds to Get First Call in Draft
Washington reports Selective Service Director Hershey announced 25 year olds will be drafted first. Other ages will be processed in order of registration after a conference with Senate and House Armed Services members. He estimated about 5,000,000 men would be processed beginning with 25-year olds and moving down to 22-year-olds.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hersey
E Senate
House Armed
COI
Hershey
Mre
Allied Envoys Personally To See Molotov
London July 27 Western Powers will have ambassadors present personal views to Foreign Minister Molotov on the Berlin blockade and other German issues. US Britain and France plan oral delivery, aiming for flexibility and avoiding a formal rejection, with Bedell Smith and Sir Maurice Peterson attending. Smith expected to return to Moscow soon. Bond of Suit posted for Edwin Mack in a bad check case. Paris Premier Andre Marie seeks a quick confidence vote for his cabinet. York stock market moves slowly awaiting the President's message.
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London
V.al. Molotov
Berlin
W. Bedell Smith
Maurice Peterson
Russia
U. S
Britain
France
Molotov
Smith
Moscow
Paris
Andre Marie
Extended Mainland Weather Forecast
Scattered showers and thunderstorms expected Wednesday and again Sunday. Warm and humid midweek with cooler Thursday then warmer again. Seasonal temperatures near normal and total precipitation for the season projected around 13 to 23 inches with local shower variation.
Wreck Grinds Route 40 To Halt Traffic For Hour
A two and a half ton group truck towing another two ton truck and a panel truck overturned on the first hill west of Mallons restaurant near West Friendship blocking Route 40 for over an hour this morning. The tie rod failure caused loss of control as trucks worked toward Baltimore, with about 800 dollars in damage and no injuries. All vehicles were removed to Ellicott City once the scene was cleared.
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Mallon’s
West Friendship
James S. Hall
Randallstown
B. C. Hammersmith
Baltimore
Buai Lee Williamson
Stevenson Road
Detroit
Traffc
Charles Kline
Ellicott City
Baptists Hear Church Leaders Assembly at Hood College
Registrations for the Maryland Baptist Summer Assembly and Training Union conference at Hood College opened with about 225 attendees. Rev. William C. Royal presides, with Mrs. P. E. Berry as convention president and R. L. Berghauser directing.
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Maryhland Baptist Summer Assembly
Hood College
Moore C. Linkenhaker
Baltimore
William C. Royal
First Baptist Church
P.E. Berry
State Sunday School Board
R. Milton Hall
Alden F. Norris
Tabernacle Baptist Mission
Caroline D. Henderson
State Sunday School
Stalf
J. C. Ledbetter
Lexington P
Lexington P. Hite. Hagerstown: Crowder. James R. Rowles
David C. Dorr
F. Bragg
Upper Cross Roads
Maryland Baptist Pastors
Mr. Reral
W.C. Wood
Annapa Spore
Womans Union of Maryland
Mies Mar
Jorie Allen
Missionary Union
Funice Haye
Aeron Hancock
Atlanta
Lucille McKinner
Missionary Sound
Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Recording Device For Phone Talks Available August 2
Harrisburg July 27. The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania will offer a voice recorder connector with an automatic tone signal starting August 2. For a $5 initial charge and $2 monthly fee subscribers may permanently record telephone messages. The circuit will beep every 12 seconds to warn callers. on private lines without warning the device is illegal. A $1 monthly fee applies to private-line installations. Libel or slander liability is waived by customers using the device.
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Harrisburg
Telephone Company
Bell Telephone Company
Cansylvania
Network Of Treaties Is Being Built
Washington reports a broad Soviet bloc push to bind allies with mutual defense pacts. The State Department published 22 compacts as Moscow and allied states seek to deter aggression, citing unified plans to consult on major questions and act together against any renewed German threat.
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Washington
Europe
Russia
State Department
Moscow
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Albania
Tito
Yugoslavia
Czech
Germany
United States
Britain
France
United Nations
Finland
Tobacco Aphids Again Found In Maryland
July 27. TEP phosphate recommended by University of Maryland extension entomologist T. L. Bissell to combat green tobacco aphids in Southern Maryland. Dust or spray formulations have reduced damage as aphids again threaten crops. last year farmers lost about 20 percent of their tobacco yield.
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College Park
T. L. Bissell
University of Maryland Extension
Southern Maryland
Deeds Recorded For Sales Of Properties
Deeds were recorded in the clerk's office for the sale of several properties. Mr. and Mrs. Maxie A. Hill sold to Mr. and Mrs. James K. Smith a property on the north side of 14th street for about 13 500. Mr. and Mrs. Preston B. Reop sold to Mr. and Mrs. George F. Revelle and wife a tract of about 65 acres with improvements on the road from the Frederick Emm itburg road to Apples church in Thurmont district, location around 6 000.
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Maxie A. Hill
James K. Smith
14Th Street
Preston B. Reop
George F. Revelle
Frederick-Emmiteburg
Apples Church
Thurmont
Russians Boost Berlin Zone Air Power Amid Allied Moves
Berlin dispatches report a substantial increase in Soviet fighter aircraft including jets in their German zone around Berlin as American air strength grows at bases in Western Germany. Moscow also conducts large summer maneuvers with heavy armor and the Joseph Stalin III tanks, while warnings of air corridor activity surface. Allied officials decline comment. The Taegliche Rundschau cites the Berlin crash of an American C 47 amid claims of danger to Germans, though most residents were unharmed.
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Berlin
Germany
Telegraf
Die Welt
Taegliche Rundschau
Errant Husband Seeks Reconciliation Amid Court Scene
A tense Fulton County hearing focused on Rev. D. A. Martin and Miss Chandler as detectives allege a long affair since 1947. A 22 year old Furman player and an 18 year old daughter are noted, with Mrs. Martin interruptedly weeping as she claims the girl pursued her husband for years. Martin reportedly agreed to move his family to Greenville if released. Separately, Charles Riggis faces Montgomery County fraud-like charge over unpaid taxi bill.
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Atlanta
South Carolina
D. A. Martin
Chandler
Bourst
Fulton County Criminal Court
Chandier
Martin de Fears
Baptist
Greenville
Bae Eee Rainars
Furman University
Martin Rose
Frank White
Frederick to host huge August stamp celebration
Frederick welcomes an expected crowd of at least 13 000 visitors on August 9 for the first day of the commemorative Scott Key stamp event. Hotels, dining rooms, and larders will be expanded to serve stamp collectors with rapid turnover. Police and civic leaders coordinate crowd control, information duties, and auxiliary sub stations as government officials pledge attendance and official ceremonies are planned at the commemorative site and Key monument rededication.
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Frederick
Scott Key
Francis Scott Key
Chambers of Commerce
Alvin W. Hall
U. S. Bureau of Engraving and
Hot Weather to Persist as Showers Strain County Farmlands
Heavy showers and a light thunderstorm drenched the city and county overnight with more storms forecast today and tomorrow. Rainfall nears three and a half inches this month, over two and a half in the last ten days. A Potomac Edison circuit was briefly out after a broken tree limb struck the main line. Temperatures near 88 today, 89 yesterday, with a cooler, less humid Thursday. Farms report unthreshed wheat, rising moisture in marketed wheat, and corn vulnerable to borers. Two arrests logged by city police for reckless driving and disturbing the peace.
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Weather Bureau
Potomac Edison Company Tow
Henry R. Shoemaker
Army Recruiting Leads to Home for Erie Family
A sergeant recruiting for the Army eased into a sales pitch targeting Earl Easton, a father of three. The tale recounts Petroski pushing hard to secure the enlistment, claiming a five room house as a perk. Easton enlisted, and now Foston serves in the Army while Petroski claims the house.
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Erie
Wincen Petrocki
Earl Easton
Easton
Petroski
Foston
Pe'reki
Truman urges price controls and six other limits on spending
President Truman pleaded for limited price controls and an excess profits tax to curb rising costs and prevent economic depression. He outlined an eight point program including consumer credit controls, expanded Federal Reserve power, regulation of speculation, inventory controls on scarce goods, rent limits, and standby rationing authority.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Free Nations
Europe
Senate
House
GOP
Federal Reserve Board
Russa
Joe Tinker Dies On 68th Birthday
Orlando, July 27 Joe Tinker famed double play short stop of Tinker to Evers to Chance died in a hospital at 11 15 a m on his 68th birthday from respiratory trouble. He had been there for a checkup on his diet and treatment of a respiratory ailment. His death followed a note of improving condition hours before.
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Orlando
Fla
Joe Tinker
Chicago Cub
Marriages and Divorces Rise in Frederick County
First half of the year shows slight gains in marriages and divorces over 1947. Clerk of Court reports 698 marriage licenses up from 670 and 62 divorces up from 56. June leads with 169 licenses and 60 divorces. other months show varied counts. Cleveland report notes former police lieutenant Mulharn faces up to 80 years for accepting bribes from racketeers.
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Frederick
Cleveland
Ernest L. Mulharquday
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