Means To Keep Two In Prison Means To Keep Two In Prison
Cir cuit Judge Joseph L. Carter in Baltimore sentenced William Chapman to 260 years and Ernest Robinson Jr. to 100 years for a series of robberies totaling nearly $1,900. Both pleaded guilty and were told they are not fit for civilized society. Chapman’s term runs consecutively and Robinson’s likewise, with parole eligibility after one third of each sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Joseph L. Carter
William Chapman
Ernest Robinson, Jr
Chapman
Robinson
Carter
Gun Carrying Charge Dismissed In Baltimore
William P. Bolton former Maryland Second District congressman and Baltimore County Civil Defense Director had a charge of illegal gun carrying dismissed after authorities accepted he had authorization from the Baltimore County Sheriff to carry a .32 revolver. The weapon was found in his car glove compartment on Pulaski Highway during a stop by Patrolman Warren C Wells for a minor traffic issue. Bolton had sought deputization for protection following a 1949 incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
William P. Bolton
Maryland
John A. Janetzke
Bolton
Baltimore County
Tawson
Sheriff's Office
Peaceful Picketing In Martinsburg Strike
In Martinsburg West Virginia peaceful picketing occurred at the Perfection Garment Co plants and at Rawson with about 20 arrests for obstructing sidewalks over Monday and Tuesday. State Police were withdrawn by Mayor Stuckey after arrests. About 70 of 400 workers returned to work, company citing 100. An injunction requires 15 foot spacing for pickets and bans parking in front of the plant. Negotiations in New York last week were broken off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
W. Va
Perfection Garment Co
Rawson
Carlton B. Stuckey
International Garment Workers Union
New York
Mistakes Daughter For Burglar Fatal Cabin Shooting
CLAIRFIELD Tenn April 29 A coal miner fired at a rattling front door of a remote cabin and killed his 11 year old daughter Edna Marie Taylor who was walking in her sleep. Clifford Taylor 34 expressed shock at the tragedy saying it is such a terrible thing. The girl slid 15 feet after being wounded and died at the scene as family members arrived. The incident occurred about 11 p.m. near Middlesboro Kentucky, five miles from the mining community and 30 air miles north of Knoxville. The mother and grandfather provided details before authorities. The U S has about 275090 blind people in the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clairfield. Tenn
Clifford Taylor
Middlesboro
Knoxville
Edna Marie Taylor
Taylor
Grant Taylor
35 Americans Return Home
35 Americans freed in Korea arrived at Travis Air Force Base California after a swift 8 hour 20 minute flight from Hickam Field Honolulu. The group includes 76 walking patients and nine on stretchers. They were greeted by a band and welcomed by cheers as they entered the United States for the first time in over two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Korea
U. S
Edward G. Anderson
Alabama City
Ala
Hickam Field
Honolulu
Pfc
John M. Jankovits
Philadelphia
Air Force Base
San Francisco
Air Force
Odie Lawley
Medicine Park
Okla
Johnny
California
Sherodo Santos
Panmunjom
Burkittsville 4-H Club Demonstration and Meeting Notes
Dorothy Marker presented a sewing machine how to at Burkittsville 4-H Club with Beverly Ahalt assisting. Mary Shoemaker reported on the square dance and basketball tournament. Mary Thomas led a discussion on attire. New members Geraldine Ahalt and Mistie Ward were admitted as members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burkittsville
Dorothy Marker
Beverly Ahalt
Mary Shoemaker
Mary Thomas
Geraldine Ahalt
Mistie Ward
Cook Killed in Crash at Conowingo Dam
Md and Joseph E Mullaney a 71 year old cook at Bainbridge Naval Training Center was killed late last night when the car he was driving crashed at one end of Conowingo Dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Conowingo. Md
Joseph. E. Mullaney
Bainbridge Naval Training Center
Conowingo Dam
ES Dedicates Plant Addition At Gala Ceremony
At a Friday gala Everedy Company dedicated a new 3 000 square foot section adding to its plant. The expansion fronts three city blocks and covers over 75 000 square feet for warehousing and storage releasing space for direct production of Everedy wares including Photo, Tater Baker, and defense materials. President Harry Leichert spoke to employees as David Hagan entertained with magic and sleight of hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everedy Company
Everedy
Frank Keefer
Tater Baker
Harry 3. Leichert
David Hagan
Humanitarian View Urged By Rotary Club Speaker
Rotary members heard Dr. Andrew Ormsby lecture on business ethics and the humanitarian point of view. He urged applying the Golden Rule in pay, jobs for those displaced, and broader education for businessmen including psychology and statistics. He warned against sweatshop wages and emphasized practical training, case studies, and internships to prepare graduates for real work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Ormsby
Clarkson College
N. Y
Francis Scott Key
Ormsby
Pottsdam
Rotary Club
Ivory Towers
Dr. Ormsby
iHe
Rotary
Service Club
Officers Elected By Mt Airy WSCS Meeting
Mt Airy Calvary Methodist church members and 26 visitors from nearby churches attended a WSCS meeting last Tuesday with 53 members present. Mrs J Keller Smith was elected president with a slate including Mrs Harry Horne as vice president and several department secretaries. A German exchange student was welcomed, and a 90th birthday card was requested for Mrs Judia Smith. A skit, readings, scripture, and prayers followed as refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WSCS
Calvary Methodist Church
Mt. Airy
Montgomery Chapel
Mt. ,Olive
Prospect
Kerptown
Mt Airy
J.keller Smith
Keller Smith
Harry Horne
Herbert Glaze
Aubert P- Burdette
Charles Gartrell
Raymond Brandenburg
Wilson Etzler
Edna Spurrier
George Free
Preston Brown
Henry Hood
Mark Leatherwood
Marion Runkles
Lindsay Browning
Dewitt Dickey
Cissel
Mt. Airy- Ridgeville
Germany
L. E. Jones
Judia Smith
Harry Bellisoh
Donald Watkins
Fulton Green
Frank Conaway
William Wagner
Dickey
Ruth Hood
Planning Institute Hears J. R. Wiggins in Baltimore
J R Wiggins spoke at the fourth annual Program Planning Institute of the Baltimore Association for Adult Education urging close ties between adult education projects and serious TV and radio programs. He touched on foreign policy and internal disputes during the day long institute in Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
The
Washington Post
J. R. Wiggins
Baltimore Association For Adult Education
Wiggins on Loyalties in Education and Legislation
John Hopkins University quotes Wiggins on good and evil on both sides and the difficulty of battling legislative tyranny versus executive tyranny. He cites Jefferson favoring teacher loyalty emphasis in Virginia education and opposes Congress running loyalty tests, urging that loyalty standards are for individual institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johns Hopkins University
Wiggins
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
Congress
Carroll Court To Convene On May 11
The May term of the Circuit Court for Carroll County will convene at 10 a.m. on Monday May 11 in Westminster. Jurors are listed by district including Taneytown Uniontown Myers Woolery's Westminster Hampstead Franklin Middleburg New Windsor Union Bridge Mount Airy and Berrett districts with numerous named jurors. A separate item notes Sammy Thompson, a Frederick resident, was briefly jailed then floated to Montgomery County for traffic offenses, later returning to Frederick after an incident at the Square and damage at a kiosk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Carroll County
Taneytown
Wade H.harner Jr
Kenneth R. Lambert
George Emanuel Overholtzer
Sterling Wilson Fritz
Uniontown
Dennis Spaulding Coale Jr
Russell M. Warner
Ralph Monroe Crabbs
Norman Willet
Myers
O. Thurman Heltibridie
Raymond
Milton Rosenstock
Walter K. Warehime
Kenneth LeRoy Bohn
Howard Albert Hyle
Wilbur M. Shreeve Jr
Melvin O. Carlson
James Lloyd Leahy
Thomas Paul Velnosky
Hampstead
Robert C. Bean
Elmer T. Sprinkle
Raymond Charles Buchman
Franklin
Raymond Luther Franklin
Morris D. Frye
Middleburg
William T. Newman
George R. Johnson
New Windsor
Edwin A. Englar
E. Miller Richardson
Guy Graham
Babylon
Union Bridge
Raymond R. Johnson
John Walter Cranmer
Mount Airy
Charles Oscar Baker
Howard L. Etchison
Berrett
George Alfred Conaway
Grover E. Harrison
Jatl
Sammy Thompson
Frederick
Frederick County
Montgomery County
Rockville
Tom Stockman
Thompson
Stockman
Polish-born worker testifies on stealing secret WWII plans
Thad Mason testified before the Senate internal security subcommittee that he stole blueprints for a military diesel engine and a livestock disease preparation during World War II. He delivered the plans to a Red spy ring in Cleveland and described a hidden cafeteria headquarters used for copying the blueprints while working at General Motors and Du Pont plants in the 1940s. Mason, who lived in Wallington New Jersey, said he became disillusioned with communism after visiting Poland in 1950 52 and is writing a book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cleveland
Russia
Thad Mason
Thad Mosiejewsky
Senate
Internal Security
Mason
Poland
Wallington
N. J
General Motors
Sen. Welker
Idaho
du Pont Chemical Plant
Walking Tour Advocated By Quynn For Kiwanians
Allen G. Quynn Jr a MIT graduate and Parsons engineer urged Kiwanians to walk while traveling. He described 18 months hitchhiking in Europe and the Seer Peninsula noting Europeans see Americans as affluent and urged slow travel to build goodwill. Quynn recounted contacts in Germany France Austria Switzerland and England and said few pleasure cars and high fuel costs make walking common abroad. He shared risky riverbank picnic in the Russian zone and said jobs overseas were plentiful though living standards were lower. The talk was introduced by Otho J. Keller Jr with Dean Rev Claude S Ridenour and Admiral Quran as luncheon guests at the Kes Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen G. Quynn
Western
Europe
Seer Peninsula
Quynn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parsons Company
United States
Vienna
Berlin
Quyno
Mr. Quynn
America
Frederick
Otho J. Keller
Carsten Molesworth
Claude S. Ridenour
Admiral Quran, Sr
Francis Scott Kes Hotel
Bluesand Gray Room
Post Office on DST Follows Eastern Time for Deliveries
City carriers will depart the post office at 9 am and rural routes will leave about the same time under daylight saving time. The post office will operate on DST with window service during current hours and changes to star routes will follow the city schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredenck
Postimaster Dames A Grove
Hood College selects Miss Jean Baker as CGA president
Miss Jean Baker daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry O Baker Sr Hanover Pa has been elected president of the Hood College Cooperative Government Association for the coming year She has served as vice president of her class and held roles in the WCA cabinet Home Economics Club Permanent Dance committee Campus Chest and other student fund raising efforts for foreign student aid and international relief programs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CGA
Jean Baker
Harry O. Baker
Hanover
Hood College
Cooperative Government Association
Miss Baker
WCA
Home Economics Club
Hood
World Student Service Fund
Jthe Foster Parents’ Plan, Inc
Near East Relief
Foreign Student Fund
Frederick Art Club elects officers and reviews Renaissance lecture
Members of the Frederick Art Club elected officers for the coming year at the C. Burr Artz library and heard a lecture on Renaissance Art in Nearby Galleries. President Mrs. Roger Willard and others were named. a buffet at Mt. Pleasant on May 7 will feature Charles Mathias Jr. speaking on Frederick County history. Miss Florence Eigenbrode hosted the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Art ‘Club
C. Burr Artz Library
Roger Willard
Grace Beard Young
Robert E. Clapp
Robert E. Delaplaine
Mary E. Rhoads
George B. Crist
Roger H. Willard
Leroy D. Fothergill
Mt. Pleasant
Charles Mathias, Jr
Frederick County
Florence Eigenbrode
Hattie Willett
Katharine Long
Safrit
Rights And Prerogatives Speech At Frontiers Club
Dr. Leonard Earl Terrell, president of Storer College in Harpers Ferry West Virginia, spoke to the Frontiers of America Club at Asbury Church Tuesday on rights and prerogatives. He argued that citizens must exercise votes properly under the Constitution and warned of evils when voting is improper. He said you can legislate the right to work but not efficiency and urged democracy as a path to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He concluded rights are given but prerogatives belong to us.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frontiers Club
Leonard Earl Terrell
Storer College
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Frontiers of America Club
Asbury Church
Terrell
Storer
350 Women At GOP Rally In Maryland 1954 1956
About 350 women from Maryland attended the Maryland Federation of Republican Women spring meeting at Peter Pan Inn. Speaker Mrs Carroll D Kearns urged grass roots organizing and noted GOP margins in 1952 and 1954 56 while emphasizing unity and realistic goals for a Republican victory in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
National Federation of Republican Women
GOP
Maryland Federation
Peter Pan Inn
Carroll D. Kearns
Pennsylvania
Kearns
United States
Baltimore
House of Representatives
Los Angeles
House
Senate
White House
Washington
National Federation
Richard N. Simpson
Congressional National Campaign Committee
Everett M. Dirksen
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Lauding Federation
Dirksen
Congress
Bertha Adkins
Miss Adkins
Eisenhower
Republican Party
Tuch
Adkins
Emmett R. Powlus
State Federation
Helena Kemsburg
Frederick County
Republican Womens Club
J. Grean Bea
Maryland Federation of Women’s Clubs Elects Leaders
At the first district annual meeting in Cumberland on April 29, Mrs. F. William Tillinghast of Hampstead was elected president. Other officers include Mrs. E. Irving Baumeariner Oakland as vice-president, Mrs. C. Earl Blankenship Sykesville as recording secretary, and Mrs. Clifford M. Yinger of Frederick as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yinger
Cumberland
F. William Tillinghast
Hampstead
Maryland Federation of Womers Clubs
E. Irving Baumeariner
Oakland
C. Earl Blankenship
Sykesulle
Secetary
Mra Clifford ML
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Calvary Methodist Church School
Austin Trout
Edna Myers
Leslie Dorsey
Frank Grimes
Josephine Darner
Margaret Beil
Dorsey
Grimes
Fiavry
Ignatius Bjorlee
Clyde M. Roney
Lester R. Loomis
Pennyan
James Houck
Towson
Willi L. Lloyd Cincotta
Brunswick
Louis Reed
Graham Alvord
Kittery, Me
M. R. McCandish
Hancock
Wases
Planning Institute
Frank Aceier
Republican
MOMEN
Peter Paninn
Federation of Republican Women of Maryland
Frank Smail
James Carrico
Federation
Pearl D. Foster
L. Brent Frey
Emma V. Corkran
Louise Gore
DeWart Hyde
J. Glenn Beall
Emmett R. Rowlus
Marsland Federation
State Central Committee
Harold Lady
George Barncord
Lilian G. Miller
Richard C Smith
James Smith
Armed Forces
Army Retention Center
Fort George G. Meade
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