New Maryland Guard Officer Appointed Medical Company Commander
Lt Col Robert H Pilgram named commanding officer of the Medical Company 115th Infantry Maryland National Guard with headquarters at the State Armory. He also becomes regimental surgeon succeeding Lt Col Thomas Jr. Pilgram trained at University of Pennsylvania Medical School RO T C and served in the Medical Corps from 1941, with assignments at Camp Grant, Camp Tyson, Fort Jackson, and overseas in Calcutta with the University of Maryland Hospital Unit before discharge in 1946.
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Robert H. Pilgram
115Th Infantry Regiment
Maryland National Guard
B. O. Thomas, Jr
State Armory
Col Pilgram
115Th
Thom
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Reserve Corps
Medical Corps
Camp Grant
Camp Tyson
Tenn
Pilgram
Fort Jackson
D. C
Barnwell
Hampton, Aiken
Norway
University of Maryland
Calcutta
India
Remington Rand VP Groves Criticizes World Disarmament Push
Groves, now vice-president of Remington Rand, Inc., runs a research lab and denounces a group of Senators and Representatives backing a world disarmament movement. He argues the United States would gain nothing and face a backstabbing instead, citing Russia's insincerity and past records.
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United States
Groves
Remington Rand, Inc
Russia
Groves Warns U S On Atomic Information Exchange
Hartford June 11 Lt Gen Leslie R Groves who led the wartime atomic bomb project warned against exchanging atomic information with other nations predicting the United States would suffer a stab in the back if it pursued such exchanges He urged strong security measures and criticized a small group advocating openness at the Hillyer College commencement in Hartford Connecticut.
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Hartford. Conn
United States
Leslie R. Groves
Hillyer College
Homes Of Two Enka Workers Dynamited
Morristown Tennessee June 11 two Enka Carp rayon workers were targeted in dynamite incidents. No injuries reported as eight people sheltered at Murry Bible home after a blast in a ditch shattered windows and flattened the mailbox. A second blast hit Hugh Bloomer's yard near Bean Station. The attacks, part of a CIO Textile Union protest, mark the third and fourth assaults on nonstrikers amid demands for higher pay and benefits. A former Chinese bishop said a resilient Chinese church is emerging under Communism during a St Johns College sermon. Damascus High School seniors will hold activities at the new high school including class night and commencement events from June 16 to 20.
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Morristown
Tenn
Enka Carp Rayon
Roger Medlin
Murry Bible
Hugh Bloomer
Bean Station
Bible
CIO
Wweek
Medlin
China
Annapolis
Lloyd R. Craight
Anking
Craighill
Red China
St. John’s College
Damascus High School
12 Room Home Is Destroyed Believed Incendiary Fire
A two room frame home near Mountaindale was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening with no injuries. Firefighters and volunteers recovered bones they later identified as a dog and two chickens. Glenn Kauffman, head of the family, was briefly jailed for investigation but released after claiming memory loss about the blaze. The home and its contents were uninsured and the couple’s threats to burn the place were noted during the investigation.
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Kauffman
Mountaindale
Kenneth F. Bond
R. Paul Buhrman
Glenn Kauffman
Independent County
Buhrman
Ruhrman
Family loses all in blaze at Kauffman home
Mrs. Kauffman said the fire left the children and family with only the clothes and personal belongings they wore when it broke out, after they fled to her parents’ house Saturday night.
Double wedding planned for two Delaware couples
Lewes Del June 14 A double wedding was planned for two young Delaware couples for next Saturday. Last night the two couples went for a drive. Their car skidded and crashed into a tree. Dorothy Elzey 24 a University of Pittsburgh graduate and
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Lewes
Del
Dorothy Elzey
University of Pittsburgh
Two Die In Lewes Crash. Purse and Cantrell Wounded
Oscar Collins aged 22, a Pennsylvania Military College graduate, was killed in a crash. Patricia Purse 23 and Floyd Seel 23 were taken to Beebe Hospital in Lewes in serious condition. The two planned a double wedding with Miss Purse and Cantrell also to marry.
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Oscar Collins
Pennsylvania Military College
Patricia Purse
Floyd Seel
Beebe Hospital
Lewes
Miss Purse
Cantrell
Saucers real, says Eddie Rickenbacker in interview
Indianapolis June 11 Captain Eddie Rickenbacker backs saucer sightings as real, noting many trustworthy men have seen them and denying hallucination. In Washington the Chicago White Sox announce recall of outfielder Gerat Scala from Buffalo of the International League.
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Indianapolis
Eddie Rickenbacker
Chicago White Sox
Gerat Scala
Buffalo
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