Fifth straight 90 degree day grips region
Baltimore area endures a heat wave with a 95 degree forecast as the fifth consecutive day above 90. Humidity remains low and breezes ease discomfort, while cooler Canadian air is expected to arrive midweek lowering temperatures. Forecasters warn moisture shortages linger and scattered thundershowers possible Thursday night in Western Maryland.
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Washington
Baltimore
New York
Harrisburg
Allentown
mid-west
Chicago
Joliet
Maryland
Baltimore weather bureau
Canada
Civil War Round Table of Chicago visiting Martinsburg area
Chicago group of lawyers historians and educators visits Martinsburg W Va for Civil War battlefield tours. About 75 attendees plan tours of Charles Town Harpers Ferry Keedysville Antietam and Gettysburg with dinners and lectures by Judge Edward S Delaplaine Otto Eisenschiml and local hosts. Masonic services planned at Grace Episcopal New Market and Gettysburg College gym event follows a two day Gettysburg field tour.
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Edward S. Delaplaine
Frederick
Charles Town
Harpers Ferry
Keedysville
Francis Scott Key
Keedysville park
Antietam
Francicott Key
Otto Eisenschiml
Chicago
battle of
Gettysburg
Tudge Delaplaine
Gettysburg College
Truman backs higher taxes to curb deficits
Washington June 191P President Truman urged higher taxes at a news conference saying no Democratic president would cut taxes and that Republicans could not reduce taxes without worsening the country’s finances. He stated he would have tried to reduce taxes if possible.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Wachter Dies at Home a Frederick Veteran of Guard
Raymond S Wachter longtime National Guard veteran and former sergeant major of the 15th Infantry died at his home 223 West Seventh street after a two day illness aged 59. He served 1918 1945 and helped with regiment paperwork at State Armory. Survived by wife Mary A Wachter stepchildren and sister Irene Esterly. Funeral at 840 oclock Saturday at funeral home then St Johns Catholic church for nine oclock mass. Interment St Johns cemetery. Funeral directors M R Etchison & Son.
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Raymond Sharetts Wachter
National Guard
15th Infantry
Frederick
West Seventh street
Wachter
David E
Josephine Smith Wachter
Maryland National
Guard
St. John’s Catholic church
Holy Name Society
St. John’s Council
Knights of Columbus
Mary A. Roberts Wachter
Charles W. Ritenour
Mary Terrence
Philadelphia
James W. Chaffin
Roanoke
Irene Esterly
East Church street
St. Johns Catholic church
St. John’s cemetery
M. R. Etchison
Names Five To Aid Physically Handicapped
Baltimore June 19 Gov McKeldin named five new members to his committee to promote employment of the physically handicapped. They are Matilda F Brundick passenger representative of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Frank W Powers director of the Bureau of Mines at Westernport Phillip Robrecht national service officer of the Disabled American Veterans Dr Merrill L Stout director of the Hospital for Women of Maryland and Thester A Troy owner of Troy Inc distributor of farm machinery.
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BALTIMORE
McKeldin
Matilda F. Brundick
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Frank W. Powers
Bureau of Mines
Westernport
Phillip Robrecht
Disabled American Veterans
Merrill L. Stout
Hospital for Women of Maryland
Thester A. Troy
Troy, Inc
N. S. Baker Heads Bank Auditors Group
Nevin S. Baker of Citizens' National Bank was installed as president of the Blue Ridge Conference of the National Association of Bank Auditors and Comptrollers at a Peter Pan Inn dinner. More than 200 guests attended as new officers were inducted and a light program followed.
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Nevin S. Baker
Citizens’ National Bank
Blue Ridge
National Association of Bank Auditors and Comptrollers
Peter Pan Inn
Public Service Commission approves fare hike in Baltimore
The Public Service Commission on June 19 approved taxicab fare increases for Baltimore, a city now regarded as among the nation's cheapest for taxi fares.
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BALTIMORE
Public Service Commission
McKeldin Backs Eisenhower In Effort For GOP Nomination
Maryland Governor Page McKeldin endorsed Dwight D. Eisenhower for the Republican presidential nomination at a Los Angeles press conference, saying he would consider a vice presidential bid and noting most of Maryland's 24 GOP delegates favor Eisenhower. Baltimore Senator and two House members disagreed, saying the campaign will be decided on issues, with Taft seen as possibly pulling more support. McKeldin, in Paris earlier, had alternated between backing Eisenhower and Taft.
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LOS ANGELES
Maryland
Gav
McKeldin
Gen
Eisenhower
Ike
Sen
Taft
Ohio
BALTIMORE
House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Edward T. Miller
Eastern Shore
James P. 5
Devereux
Robert A. Taft
Miller
John Marshall Butler
Bob Taft
MecKeldin
Seattle
Wash
Living Cost Rising Again
Washington June 19 The governments cost of living barometer is headed for a higher mark as the monthly index for the period ending May 15 is expected to rise. The index tracks clothing, food, rent and other essentials with a January peak of 189.1 percent of the 1935–39 average, while April 14 readings stood at 188.7.
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WASHINGTON
Bureau of Labor
Sites picked for ten hospitals in three states
The United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund announced locations for ten hospitals to be built in Kentucky West Virginia and Virginia. They will be near Harlan Hazard Middlesboro Pikeville Wheelwright and Whitesburg Kentucky Beckle Logan Williamson Wise Virginia.
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WASHINGTON
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund today
Kentucky
West Virginia
Virginia
Harlan
Hazard
Middlesboro
Pikeville
Wheelwright and
Whitesburg
Beckle
Logan and Williamson
W Va
Wise, Va
Gideons to Meet Here This Weekend in Frederick
Gideons International members from Delaware Maryland and the District of Columbia gather in Frederick for the Delmaric States cabinet meeting and rally on June 21 22 After a 230 pm cabinet session at the Y M C A a 630 pm banquet will be held at the Francis Scott Key Hotel Charles S Piepgrass of Silver Spring is state president with C Wesley Coddington Selbyville Del as area chaplain The Sunday program features talks on Bible distribution in the United States and abroad and a quest of Frederick pastors The local group led by John D Hayne plans the arrangements with Zehnder Taylor Edwards Swank and Roessler assisting
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Gideons International
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Frederick
Gideons
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Charles ,S. Piepgrass
Silver Spring
jttelt
Gideon ministry
C. Wesley Coddington
Selbyville
Del
Delmarcic States
Frederick county
United States
Gideonslin Frederi
Fran Scott Key
Camp Detrick
John D. Hayne
Charles W. Zehnder
Retail Liquor Dealers To Meet Here Monday
Retailers from 13 counties and Baltimore city will gather Monday evening at the Francis Scott Key Hotel for an address by Roger V. Laynor, chief of the Alcoholic Beverages Division of the Maryland Comptroller's office. The event is the Frederick County Alcoholic Beverage Dealers Association annual dinner dance. Franklin Tamsville, president, invited all county retailers to attend and hear Maryland's administrator of alcoholic beverage laws. Lasner was recently elected national president of the State Liquor Administrators Association. Frederick County Association hosts the Maryland State Licensed Beverage Association board of governors two-day quarterly meeting in Frederick. Leslie W Grove Jr Woodsboro, entertainment chairman, reports advance sales promise a top-notch gathering.
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Baltimore city
Francis Scott Key
Roger V. Laynor
Alcoholic Beverages
Maryland Comptroller's office
Frederick County Alcoholic Beverage Dealers Association
Lawrence M. Franklin Tamsville
Maryland
Lasner
State Liquor Administrators Association
Frederick Counix Association
Maryland State Licensed Beverage Association
Frederick
Leslie W Grove, Jr
Woodsboro
City Gets 2 Page Spread in Naval Recruiter Issue
Chief Clarence O Bowers is profiled for establishing Frederick’s local naval recruiting office two years ago. The feature offers eleven scenes of recruiting practice with city officials and officers. Frederick is highlighted as the sole city in the second naval recruiting area meeting qualifications. Photographed officials include Sgt A Norman Dietz, Sgt Marshall Murray, County Commissioner Samuel Young, and Mayor Donald B Rice.
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U.S Naval
Naval
Clarence O Bowers
Frederick
A. Norman Dietz
Marshall Murray
Samuel Young
Donald B. Rice
Germ warfare clash at UN over 1925 Geneva protocol
United Nations debate sharpened into a clash as the United States denounced a Soviet resolution urging ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol outlawing bacteriological weapons. Soviet Delegate Malik presented a mild bequest while U S Deputy Gross charged it as fraudulent maneuvers to abandon germ warfare.
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UNITED NATIONS
N. Y
United States
Russia
U. N. Security ‘Council
Jacob A. Malik
U. S
Korea
Malik
Ernest A. Gross
Gross
June council
Brazil
Pakistan
Security Council
Tru Man
Senate
Eject Lawyer From Billet in Frankfurt
In Frankfurt on June 19 1 U S soldiers evicted American attorney Elmo Gower of Cumberland Maryland and his wife from their Army requisitioned billet after he refused to leave claiming the order illegal. Soldiers removed furniture as utilities were cut off. Gower had urged Truman to halt the move and noted a legal ejectment should occur in court.
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FRANKFURT
Germany
U. S
Elmo Gower
Cumberland
WACs
Gower
Truman
Playground Staff Named For Summer in Frederick
The Frederick Recreation Commission announced staff for twelve city playgrounds and two municipal pools for the summer. Linden Hills adds a new playground. Washington Street School’s site will not operate as a supervised center. Opening ceremonies at Baker Park mark the start, with band concert to follow. The Baker Park pool gains state health permit after improvements including a hypo-chlorinator and new paint. tennis courts near the pool are being upgraded. Supervisors and instructors for the playgrounds include Mrs. Helma Hann Bowers and a large roster of named aides and lifeguards assigned to Baker Park and Diggs pool sites.
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Frederick
Baker and Mullinix Park
Frederick Recreation Commission
Linden Hills
Washington Street
McCurdy
Baker Park
Tiny
Baughman
Babee Park
Harmon
State Department of Health
Helma Hann Bowers
Mary Lowe Smith
Charlotte Koontz
Arnold Fleagle
Constance Boone
Doris Crawford
Mary Frances Grove
Helen Hall
Mary Catherine Hartman
Gwendolyn Henson
Barbara Kaufman
Antoinette Lane
Patsy Layman
Ellen Lee
Alice Love
Margaret Powell
Fern Rice
June Rice
Peggy Robinson
Ann Rothenhoefer
Mary Jane Shockley
Doris Simpson
Joyce Simpson
Mary Thomas
Nanty Wenzel
Hann
Baker Park pool
Nannie Reddick
Kay Oden
Janet Moore
Robert Routzahn
Louis Hammond
Nancy Meintzer
Mark Hoke
Diggs
James Hill
Philip Morrison
Ernest Wise
Ordered To Pay Weekly Support In Court
In a non support hearing Roy Harley of Yellow Springs was ordered to pay 36 weekly to his wife Ruth Harley of Lewis town. Magistrate H Reese Shoe maker Jr issued the order. Harley was found guilty of failure to provide support for his wife and four minor children. Mrs Harley cited unpaid bills and collateral was forfeited by Virg il Zentz Thurmont for speeding 10 dollars. Frank Sprague Jr Ligonier Indiana was fined 25 dollars for reckless driving. Arrests were made by Sgt Daniel Swomley and Officer R Arnold Simmons. STALL FOR SEAWAY Truman said the country would support Canada in building the St Lawrence Seaway despite Senate rejection of direct US participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoples Court
Roy Harley
Yellow Springs
Ruth Harley
Lewistown
H. Reese Shoemaker, Jr
Harley
Virgil S. Zentz
Thurmont
Francis P DeLane
Alexandria
Truman cites progress in avoiding third world war emergency continues
Washington reports President Truman announcing progress toward preventing a third world war while the ongoing emergency persists. Private William Henry Lakin, U S Army, served in Korea and Koje Island since June 23, 1951, recently completed a 30 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs William C Lakin of Walkersville and is now at Fort Meade.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
United States
William Henry Lakin
U. S. Army
Korea
Koje Island
William C Lakin
Walkersville
Fost Meade
Steel Workers Face Money Strain Amid Walkout
PITTSBURGH June 19 CIO United Steel Workers face financial hardship as the 18 day old walkout bites into the defense program. Walter Klis of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp says members are running out of money with several requests for aid. The union provides no strike benefits but locals are financially sound and plan their own welfare group this week.
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PITTSBURGH
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steel
national defense
Walter Klis
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Klis
Westminster by-pass bridge bids opened noon July 8
The State Roads Commission will open bids at noon July 8 for a three-span concrete deck bridge carrying the Westminster by-pass over U S Route 140 about 0 4 mile north of Westminster. On the same day bids will be taken for grating drainage and surfacing of 2259 miles of the north bound lane of an ultimate dual highway along the Columbia Burtonsville road from 0 8 mile southwest of Scaggsville to Burtonsville along U S Route 196.
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State Roads Commission
Westminster
U. S. Route 140
commission
Columbia-Burtonsville
Montgomery
Howard counties
Scaggsville
Burtonsville
Communists Launch Two New Assaults
In east central Korea Communist forces attacked two United Nations positions as six red tanks and self propelled guns opened fire on two out posts southeast of Kumsong. Five infantry platoons joined the assault after six days of savage fighting. Chinese Communists renewed efforts to dislodge U N soldiers from a T shaped hill west of Chorwon.
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SEOUL
Korea
U. N
Kumsong
Chorwon
Red Cross Course At Hood College Aims 175 Participants
A hundred and fifty high school students and 25 adult volunteers will attend a leadership training course sponsored by the American Junior Red Cross at Hood College. Sessions run June 29 to July 6 with participants from all sections of the Red Cross Eastern Area. The center at Hood is among nine across the national headquarters for 800 Junior Red Cross members and 200 adult volunteers. Local delegate is Mrs. Benjamin B. Rosenstock. juniors include Miss Connie Harbaugh and Miss Mary Hartman. The Frederick County Red Cross chapter hosts, with Charles V. Main as chairman. Training covers water safety first aid home nursing nutrition and a briefing on Junior Red Cross programs abroad blood recruitment disaster service and Red Cross work in military and veterans hospitals.
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American Junior Red Cross
Hood College
Red Cross
Hood
Benjamin B. Rosenstock
Junior Red Cross
Frederick
Connie Harbaugh
Thurmont high school
Mary Hartman
St. John’s school
Frederick County
Charles V, Main
Frederick names William C Wheeler as new in charge bacteriologist
William C Wheeler has been appointed bacteriologist in charge of the Frederick branch of the State Health Department laboratory. He will begin work after three months of in service training in Baltimore, succeeding Theron Green who resigned to go to Camp De trick. Wheeler, a Chapel Hill native with NC degrees, served in the Navy as a pharmacist’s mate and was chief pharmacist at State Hospital Butler. The Frederick lab, one of 12 county branches, is being reorganized and full physician services will be restored gradually.
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William C. Wheeler
Frederick
State Department of Health laboratory
Baltimore
Wheeler
Theron Green
Camp Detrick
Forbes Burgess
Chapel Hill
N. C
University of North Carolina
Navy
State Hospital
Butler
Frederick laboratory
Burgess
Shirley L. Fugle
Vernon avenue
Margaret Corniroost
Two Suits For Damages Filed
Two circuit court suits allege caused injuries and seek sums from defendants. Helen H. Combs and Calvert Fire Insurance sue Austin L. Wood of Tamsville for 4000 dollars claiming a May 25 1951 collision east of Frederick damaged her car and insurance aid. The insurance company seeks 2350 dollars repaid it paid toward the loss. A separate suit by Robert L. Everhart and Anneth P Taylor of Brunswick against Clayton Neal and Charles Shipley claims 3000 dollars for a May 18 collision on Route 340 where Shipley allegedly blocked traffic. the insurer seeks 81415 dollars it paid toward damages. Robert E. Clapp Jr attorney for plaintiffs.
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Helen H. Combs
Calvert Fire Insurance Company
Austin
Robert L. Everhart
Anneth P Taylor
Brunswick
Clayton Neal
Charles Shipley
Frederick
Taylor
Everhart
Shipley
Neal
Robert E. Clapp, Jr
Small Maryland Plane Is Missing
A Yellow Piper cub piloted by G. N. Keller of Silver Springs Maryland, took off from Tri Cities Airport near Bristol Kingsport and Johnson City at 8 13 a m yesterday and was listed missing today after failing to arrive at Nashville Airport from upper East Tennessee. The craft was last reported near Nashville.
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NASHVILLE. Tenn
Maryland
Nashville
upper East Tennessee
G. N. Keller
Silver Springs
Tri-Cities
Bristol
Kingsport
Johnson City
Truman May Turn To Taft Hartley Strike Law
President Truman said he is considering invoking the Taft Hartley Act in the steel dispute. He doubts the 650,000 CIO Steel Workers would obey a court order to return to work and said decision would not be swayed by Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Truman
CIO
Senate
House
$75 000 Year Lobbyist Returns Punch At Pearson
Washington June 19 Drew Pearson was punched at the Mayflower Hotel by Charles Patrick Clark a $75 000 a year lobbyist. The blow grazed Pearsons cheek leaving a red mark. Pearson filed a simple assault charge and Clark was due in court. Clark is a lawyer who worked for the Truman committee and now lobbies for the Spanish government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Drew Pearson
Charles Patrick Clark
Clark
Pearson
Mayflower
U. S. attorney’s office
Truman War Investigating committee
White House
Government aims to end year better off financially
Washington reports the government expects a smaller deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, with experts estimating the overspend could drop to as low as 5.1 to 6.0 billion dollars from Truman’s January budget projection of 8.2 billion. Officials say the year will finish still in the red but improved. Deeds recorded show property transfers in Frederick and New Market with values around 25 000 and 16 000 dollars. Maryland Delaware and D C softball crews plan a regional women’s tournament in Allenown and a men’s event in Frederick. The stock market edged higher overall with major divisions steady to near highs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Truman
Daniel T. Dutrow
Rosemont and
Fairview avenues
James B Thomas
Horace H. Thomas
William G. Hill, Jr
liamsville
New Market district
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Francis L. Smith
Liberty
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Holyoke
Mass
Smith
R. Arnold Simmons
Plamte
WEYMOUTH
Marion L Manning
South Shore Hospital
Lea C. Wetzel
M. L
Nora Wetzel
St. Anthony's Shrine
Emmitsburg
Wetzel
Mary Immaculate
Delmardic
bilding
St. Lawrence seaway
Roger S. Quinn
Washington Loan and Trust Company
District of Columbia Bankers Association
Mayflower Hotel
Quinn
Harry Quinn
Ruth Quinn
Lena Ray
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