A H Derr Dies At 68 After Illness In Walkersville
Abraham H Derr longtime county official and prominent Frederick County resident died early today at 68 after a yearlong illness at his son Edward Derrs home in New Windsor He served as president of the Board of County Commissioners from 1939 to 1958 and held other local posts He is survived by his wife Ada Florence Derr three children two sisters one brother ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 pm at G C Barton funeral home Walkersville with burial in Mt Hope Cemetery Woodsboro Prepared by local obituary staff.
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Abraham H. Werr
Board of County Commissioners
Atlock
Edward N. Derr
New Windsor
Mr. Derr
Creagerstown
George N
Arabel Long Derr
Glade Valley
Manchester
Frederick
Dill Avenue
Cramer Tile S ¥ O Company
Walkersville
Derry
Derr
Frederick City
Grade Reformed Church
Frederick Lodge
B. P. O. Ellis
Frederick County Fish Ands
Game Protective Association
Old
Ada Florence Derr
Edward N. Derr Sr
Melvin H. Derr
Robert C. Keller
Waynesboro
Elmer E. Smith i
Florence Derr
Offi Walkersville
John. B. Derr
Philadelphia
Wren
Frederick Jaycees Install New Officers at Annual Dinner
Frederick Junior Chamber of Commerce installs new officers for 1956 57 at the Peter Pan Inn annual past president dinner. Clyde M Roney Jr passes local president pin to Donald Z Koons as William Burger and Ralph Kuehne lead as officers.
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Frederick
Rene Rea Aay
Charles K. Taylor
Frederick News- Post
WFMD
Reney
G. Bernard Callan Jr
Clyde
A. Dinsmore
Charles Doll
Pam Gordon
Glenn A. Main Jr
Willie Memmi
Richard M. Metcalf
Jaycee Sparkplug
William S. Burger
Louis P. Greenberg
Donald Koons
Messrs
Dismore
Callan
Doll
Gordon
Main
Metcalf
Roney
Mebri Duvall
Arthur Johnson
Bernard Lorenzen
Joseph McNeal
William B. Mercer
Herman Atller
Donald Null
A. Royal Remsberg Jr
James van Fossen
George Yee
Messrs. Burger
Call
Savage Weather Strikes Texas Amid Floods and Deaths
Severe weekend rains swept across Oklahoma and Texas with rising rivers and floods from the border to the Rio Grande. Tornadoes occurred with seven Texas deaths linked to the weather, a fatal two car crash, two airmen swept away at Randolph AFB, and heavy crop damage especially to cotton and grains in north Texas.
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Dallas
Texas
Oklahoma
Rio Grande
Randolph Air Force Base
San Antonio
Nun Killed In Auto Wreck Involving Washington School Teachers
A Baltimore Washington Expressway crash killed one nun and injured six others from St. Gertrude's School in Washington. Seven Benedictine sisters were en route to Pennsylvania after a term ended, with Sister Adelard named as the deceased and Sisters Maureen Winifred Teresa Janelle Louanne and Madonna among the injured.
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Baltimore
St. Gertrude’s School
Washngton
Baltimore- Washington
St. Agnes Hospital
Adelard
St. Gertrude’s. 2
Washington
Nuins
Pennsylvania
Maureen
Winifred
Teresa
Janelle
Louanne
Madonna
Maxwell Loses Libel Suit Over Farouk Memoir Damages Set
In Paris a court ruled Elsa Maxwell must pay 306000 francs in damages plus 142 francs fine to Farouk for libel over passages in her memoir I Married the World. The post office and translators were fined as costs. neither Maxwell nor Farouk attended the hearing.
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Carl
Thomas
Frederick
Paris
Elsa Maxwell
Maryland
Lions
Egypt
Farouk
Nuas
Atlantic City
Maxwell
Thomas Will
Miss Maxwell
G. Robert Eyles
Ha! SR Aor Frame Totes Dee
U.S
Far ‘Rouk
Lions Elect Thomas District Governor
Thomas named district governor for the Lions district covering Allegany Carroll Frederick Garrett and Washington counties. He is with P L Hargett and Co Frederick, a leading hardware firm. A former Carroll Manor Lions Club president, he chaired the district zone last year.
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Allegany
Carroll
Frederick
Garrett
Washington
Thomas
P. L. Hargett and Co. O
Plunges To Death On Eve Of Trial
Daniel D Carmell prominent labor attorney and Chicago Federation of Labor counsel dies after falling from a South Side apartment building. He was to stand trial in U S District Court for Mann Act charges related to transporting a woman for prostitution and debauchery. Carmell had pleaded innocent in Davenport last October and was awaiting transfer to Chicago for trial.
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Chicago
Daniel D. Carmell
U.S. District Court
Isouth Side
Hyde Park
Carmell
Illinois
Chicago Federations of Labor
Ilnois Central Hospital
Davenport
Iowa
Ethel Darlene Fenn Cameron
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
6000 Take Part In Folk Festival Here
Braving showers 6000 children from city and county elementary schools staged the tenth annual folk dance festival in Baker Park. About 2064 parents attended with 205 teachers supervising. The program featured Danish Swedish Norwegian American and German numbers across grades with a closing Danish dance.
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Baker Park
Frederick County
Assembly Point
Warren Evans
Thhe County
Louise F. Thompson
Alice M. jLove
Fred Ward
Middletown
Yankees Fined $1000 Each For Club Brawl
The New York Journal American reports six New York Yankees were fined $1000 apiece for the May 16 Copacabana night club incident. Hank Bauer Mickey Mantle Billy Martin Yogi Berra Whitey Ford and Johnny Kucks face internal disciplinary action. Bauer also faces a possible felonious assault hearing over alleged injuries to a Bronx delicatessen owner.
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New York
New York jJournal American
New York Yankees
Til Ferdenzi
Yankees
Hank Bauer
Mickey Mantle
Billy ‘Martin
Yogi Berra
Whitey Ford
Johnny Kucks
Copacabana
Bauer
Bronx
Yankee
Ferdenzi
Worcester hotel fire leaves three dead eight injured
A Worcester 60 room hotel fire killed three people and injured eight as flames cut through the building early today. Firefighters rescued more than a dozen on the fourth and fifth floors while witnesses reported screams heard blocks away. Hospital treatment continued for critically injured victims as investigators assessed the scene.
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Worcester
Mass
Jbersonas
Othr
Pleas
Abt
City Hospital
Belmont Horse
Martha Carlson
Ste
Wes
Annie Welch
Damaging Storms Strike Once More
The Associated Press reports storms and heavy rain eased but floods persisted across Texas, Oklahoma and other Southwest areas after a weekend of damage. Markets opened with a narrowly mixed tone in New York trading.
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Associated Press
Southwest
Texas
Oklahoma
New York
Inferno Destroys Upper Floors as Fire Draws Crowd
A multi alarm blaze drew 36 fire companies and hundreds of onlookers, many in nightclothes. The origin is undetermined, with the two upper floors a total loss and extensive damage to the tower floors reported.
Cool Air Mass Drops Temperatures Across County
A cool air mass moved in Sunday after a freak shower dumped brief heavy rain in some areas and none in others. Morning temperatures were about ten degrees below Sunday, with a high near 70 expectation and a low around 55 tonight. 37 last night. The airport recorded 0.10 inch of rain, a first for the new month, as scattered showers continued across the county.
Brucker Warns West Point on Economy Threat
Secretary of the Army Brucker told a West Point class that U S military power is being threatened in the name of economy He warned the current economy is meatax not serving broad national interests and increasing the nation's peril at a time of defense scrutiny.
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West Point
N. Y
Brucker
United States
Local Bankers Face Disturbances During Cuba Trip
A Maryland bankers' delegation touring Cuba faced threats and a city blackout in Havana amid unrest. H. Deets Warfield and family escaped narrowly as a driver was warned off. Edward D. Shriner recounts the tense encounter and cautions about interference while American money draws attention. Local guides and Fr. Edward McCarthy aided the visitors during the travel and tour.
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Maryland
Havana
Caribbean
H. Deets Warfield
Damascus
Corn
Edward D- Shriner
Warfield
Shriner
Mr. Shriner
Arthur V. Myers
F. Ross Myers
Edward McCarthy
Villanova Hospital
Father McCarthy
Fr. McCarthy
Villanova
Cuba
Lumber Man Held in Towson Wife Found Dead
Robert J Van Horn, 52, a lumber company executive, was arrested after a police standoff on the Baltimore Harrisburg Expressway. His wife Bernice Ward Van Horn, 33, was found beaten and dead beside the roadway. Officers said the couple had married two years earlier and lived in Baltimore with a country home in Shawan.
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Towson
A_ lumber company
Robert J_ Vans Horn
Baltimore County
Here
Empert F. Adams
van Horn
Bernice Ward van Horn
Mysel
van Horns
Charles St
Baltimore
Shawan
Edward Schaffer
James A. Rieh
van Hore
Schaffer
Rich
Adams
William
Powers
Ais
Sigi
600 Being Laid Off By B and C Railroad
Baltimore The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced a seasonal furlough affecting about 600 workers mainly maintenance staff Starting Thursday this follows a prior layoff scaling across the system The two furloughs involve only a fraction of the 50000 employees About 50 to 1156 workers will be furloughed at Cumberland and Mount Clare shop in Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
B&o
Cumberland
Mount Clare
President Seeks 149.5 Million for Post Office Budget
President Eisenhower asked Congress for a supplemental 149.5 million to the Post Office Department to avoid substantial rail service cuts starting July 1. The request would add to the 2.192 billion already appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1953. White House and Postmaster General Summerfield reaffirmed the need as of May 27, despite prior budget cuts by the House and Senate.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Post Office Department
White House
James C. Hagerty
Post Office ‘Department
Hagerty
Summerfield
House
Senate
Five Day Forecast for Maryland and Delaware
The Associated Press notes showers and scattered thundershowers likely Tuesday and Wednesday and again over the weekend. Totals average about half an inch. Periods remain cool with a warmer weekend. Temperatures run three to four degrees below normal. western Maryland normal highs in the 70s and lows in the 40s. The rest of Maryland and Delaware show highs around 80s and lows in the upper 30s to mid 60s.
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Associated Press
Maryland
Delaware
County taverns split on time clocks sparking late night trouble
County authorities note city bars close at midnight under daylight saving time while rural taverns stay on eastern standard time and stay open an hour later. Sheriff Horace M. Alexander cites most incidents between midnight and 1 a.m. A North Carolinian, Joseph N. Marhar of Raleigh, was jailed for displaying a deadly weapon after an early Sunday incident at a county tavern.
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South County
Horace M. Alexander
Joseph N. Marhar
Raleigh
George Bender
Roland Smith
J —E. Austin James
Gail L. Cutt Shall
Frederick
Brunswick
Alexander
2000 Scientists Urge Global Ban On Nuclear Tests
Pasadena California reports 2000 American scientists sign an appeal urging international agreement to halt nuclear bomb testing. Nobel laureate Linus Pauling presents the appeal and calls on governments and people to act.
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Pasadena
Calif. i
Linus Pauling
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