Remains Found In Mountain Field Near Mason Dixon Line
Moss-covered remains of a human body were found along Friends Creek road in a northern county area two miles south of the Mason and Dixon line. The skull and two thigh bones were recovered near an old school site. A medicine bottle fragment and possible clothing thread were found nearby. Authorities expect the bones to be at least ten years old and will be checked by the county medical examiner as the investigation continues.
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Friends Creek
Mason and Dixon Line
Sheriff's Office
George F. Crouse
Paul Buhrman
Warren H. Cannon
Washington
Gulf Oil Corporation
Frank Shuff
Cannon
Benjamin Shufe
Frederick
Martin W. C. Eyler
Subway Car Short Circuit Triggers Mass Westbound Exit
Thousands of passengers on a Manhattan to Queens subway line escaped via ladders and catwalks after a short circuit on a ten car train caused flashes and smoke in the East River tunnel during the evening rush. Eight people required medical care but no serious injuries were reported. Power was cut off and trains backed up for miles.
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New York
Manhattan-to-Queens
East River Tunnel
mid-Manhattan
Queens
First Avenue
Lexington Third Avenue Station
Mother Kills Son Then Takes Her Own Life
In Auburn Maine a 47 year old woman shot her five year old son and herself after a kindergarten card from the boy reading I love you. The bodies were found in the living room by Patrolman Maurice Cray the husband. Detectives say four shots were fired three into the boy and one into the mother with a .38 pistol. The county attorney cited temporary unstable physical conditions as the motive.
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Auburn
Lucy Cray
Herbert Cray
Herbert
Pickets At Harrisburg Strike Closes PRR Traffic
Harrisburg May 13 striking firemen formed picket lines at Pennsylvania Railroad installations to disrupt traffic in Harrisburg. The action aims to halt all PRR movements in the city as officials seek to end the dispute.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
PRR
Harris
Burg
Hood College May Day crowns Queen in 36th annual event
Miss Carolyn Maurer of Hegins Pennsylvania will wear the May Queen crown during Hood College celebrants' 36th May Day. The day featured a plantation themed pageant with court members, a luncheon, horse show, swimming, dances and a mothers and fathers club program. Approximately 1500 attendees witnessed the coronation and events continue through the evening with a semi formal dance.
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Carolyn Maurer
Hegins
Hood College
Miss Maurer
Prince Hood
Jucille Butler
New York
N. Y
Miss Butler
Hoad
Patricia Karl
Montclair
N. J
Beverly Pertsch
Scarsdale
Mauret
Fay Ann Aldrin
Upper Montcia
Elizabeth Butler
Nancy Gamon
Merchantsville
Katherine Gill
Forest Hills
N.Y
Mary Hendershot
Northumberland
Jane Kelibert
Plainfield
Elizabeth le Patourel
West Grove
Jean Reynolds
Upper Montclair
Joy Ann Hollka
Teaneck
Martha Smith
Annapolis
Harriet Straley
Rockville Centre
Grace Underwood
Hancock
Diane Bruhner
Jamaica
Hudson Pool
Alumniae
Fathers Club
Coblentz Hall
Friends of the Library
Dela Plaine
Miriam Apple
Hudson Theate Garden
Farents
Mothers of the Hord
Meyran
Shriner
Coblentz
Adelaide Campbell
Carolyn Loomis
Ruth E. Petry
Gambrill Gymnasium
Bob Craig
Hundreds Headed to Washington for Safety Patrol Parade
Buses from several states carried hundreds of Frederick and Washington county safety patrol members and bands to the capital for the fourteenth annual parade. City and state officers guided the convoys as skies cleared from an early fog and rain, with weather forecasts predicting a pleasant weekend. An unidentified truck driver was burned to death when a trailer hit a bridge abutment near Pulaski Highway.
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Frederick County
Washington
Weather Bureau
Frederick High School
Otf
Frederick
Washington County
Capital
Norman Dietz
Charles Bell
Kenneth D. Bond
Stone
Maguire
Pennsylvania
Frederic
American Automobile Association
Automobile Club of Maryland
The
Baltimore
Pulaski High
Waystar
Escaped Convict Sought in West Virginia Killings
Berkeley Springs West Virginia May 13 A second escapee from Moundsville State Penitentiary John Shriver is hunted by state troopers who say they want to question him about the murder of a red haired unidentified woman found near a footbridge. No direct link established and FBI reports awaited hairs found in a car near Sharpsburg Maryland. The victim, about five six and 125 pounds, had a small scar on the forehead.
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Berkeley Springs
W. Va
West Virginia
John Shriver
Moundsville State Penitentiary
Shriver
Brownsville
Moundsville
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Sharpsburg
FBI
Washington
Potomac River
Hancock
Sherif
Akron
Ohio
Big Nose George Body Found in Whiskey Barrel
May 13 Rawlins Wyoming report: the mortal remains of Big Nose George alias George Parrott were found in a whiskey barrel coffin during construction work. Bones and a skull with a sawn top were recovered. The top skull piece had been given to Dr. Lillian Heath by Dr. John Osborne. Coroner E Ben Sturges confirmed the skull matched the barrel remains. The outlaw's 1880 derailed UP train plot and his lynching after capture are part of the tale.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Big Nose George
Lillian Heath
Lou Nelson
John Osborne
Nelson
E. Ben Sturges
George Manuse
George Parrott
Union Pacific
Rattlesnake Canyon
Elk Mountain
Bob Woodersfield
Big Nose
Dad
Final Day For Talks By Ministers
London May 13. Big Three foreign ministers Dean Acheson Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman held urgent talks on strengthening the Middle and Far East against Soviet aggression. They moved past European disputes to focus on Far East problems and Indochina. Western leaders planned broad policies with likely emphasis on economic and political moves rather than immediate China action.
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London
West’s
Middle
Far East
Atlantic Pact
Dean Acheson
United States
Ernest Bevin
Great Britain
Robert Schuman
France
Europe
Indochina
China
Middle East
Tran
West Germany
Fas T
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Count Carlo Sforza
Bevin
Trieste
Overpass Contract Awarded for Rt 240 in Washington
Zirkel Construction Company of Washington has secured a 94235 contract from the State Roads Commission for an Amelung Glass Works road overpass on the new Washington expressway. The project includes a four span steel beam bridge and road approaches, linking Route 240 near Frederick Junction to the Amelung road.
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Zirkel Construction Company
Washington
Washington Expressway
Amelung Glass Works
State Roads Commission
Zerkel Company
Araby Church Road
Frederick Junction
Frederick
Urbana
Monocacy River
Horse and Rider Trapped After Stairway Fall
An 11 year old rider, Billy Lee Clark of Selah, was pinned beneath his horse for 40 minutes when the animal toppled backward down a fruit cellar stairway in Yakima Washington. Rescuers freed them without serious injury as the horse struggled to escape the tight opening. The incident occurred while the boy was practicing parade maneuvers on his farm, and Dr. Maguire assisted in the rescue.
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Yakima
Wash
Billy Lee Clark
Selah
Maguire
US pressures Czech consulates to close in Cleveland and Pittsburgh
The United States demanded Czechoslovakia close its Cleveland and Pittsburgh consulates and recall about 36 diplomats in retaliation for Prague’s expulsion of roughly two thirds of American diplomatic staff. The move amounts to an official order issued in Washington.
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Washington
United States
Czechoslovakia
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
State funds for school construction sought by county
The County Commissioners and Board of Education filed resolutions with the State Department of Education to request state funds for Bruns wick Brunswick Emmitsburg and Woodsboro school projects. Projects include a Brunswick elementary school about 420000 with 16 classrooms, Emmitsburg High School auditorium gym and cafeteria additions around 1800 00, and a Woodsboro four room school about 103000. One fourth of costs may be grants. rest from state bond pool. Plans expected ready within three months and applications hoped late this year or early 1951. Also seeking about 350000 for Middletown High School and payable toward Liberty High School addition.
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State Department of Education
Brunswick
Emmitsburg
Woodsboro
Board of Education
Eugene W. Pruitt
New Brunswick
Middletown High School
Mortright
Liberty High School
Daily Index Of Prices Hits New High For Year
Washington May 13 government daily index of prices rose to a weekly high for May 28 with 28 commodities up two percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted a steady price climb over a long period and said it is studying the trend to gauge its significance.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
High School Alumnae To Plan Summer Dance
Frederick High School Alumni Association officers and directors meet at the YMSC.A. Monday at 7 30 p m to plan the annual summer dance and nominate committee members. The June event will elect officers for the coming year. A second item notes a May 13 stock market report on radio and TV issues with modest gains and losses.
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Frederick High School Alumni Association
Ymsc.a
Harry D. Baumgardner WY
New York
Soviets Trade Livestock Furs in Cold War Twist
The Associated Fur Manufacturers of New York disclosed a deal with Soviet Russia to exchange 32 live American mink for 12 live Russian sables for breeding. The trade was completed but New York furriers found the Russian sables were sterilized before shipment.
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New York
Associated Fur Manufacturers of
Soviet Russia
Truman touts Fort Peck dam plan as path to peace
President Truman, on a cross country tour, framed the Fort Peck dam and flood control project as vital investments in America's future and world peace. He urged support for federal education aid and criticized critics who warn of bankruptcy or socialism while stressing national strength and leadership of free nations.
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Fort Peck Dam
Mont
Truman
United States
Big
Fort Perk
Mt. Whistle
Smidwest
Pacific Northwest
Am Travisie
Great Falls
Margaret
Helena
Cate
Wavre
Congress
Senate
Lattimore to be guest of honor at Hopkins
Owen Lattimore, director of Johns Hopkins University Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, will be guest of honor at a faculty dinner Tuesday to show solid faculty support amid Senate probes of Communist influence in the State Department. Dr George Boas said the dining gesture underlined that the attack is an assault on free speech and academic freedom.
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Baltimore
Owen Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Lattimore
Walter Hines Page
University
Senate
State Department
George Boas
History of Philosophy
Delayed Planes as Air Force C-47 Goes Missing
About 12 planes were delayed at Washington National Airport while officials searched for an Air Force C-47 that radioed it was near Baltimore and planned to land. The C-47 altered its destination and landed uneventfully at Andrews Field, Maryland.
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Washington
Washington National Airport
Baltimore
National Airport
Air Force
Andrews Field
Strike Against Airline Causes Pan American Disruption
New York May 13 CIO Transportation Workers union struck Pan American World Airways in a bold labor action threatening a sharp reduction in flights from the United States. The stoppage marks a major challenge for the carrier amid ongoing labor tensions and productivity concerns.
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Airline
New York
CIO Transportation Workers Union
Pan American World Airways
United States
Chavez Says Attack on Budenz Was His Own
Senator Chavez declared his attack on ex Communist Louis Budenz was his own idea with no prompting from the Truman administration. He told reporters he would be in the Senate a long time and would not be duped by others. Chavez cited Budenz as a Catholic using his conversion for emphasis and criticized his past.
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Washington
Chavez
Louis Budnex
Truman
McCarthy
R-Wis
Mexica
Budenz
Joe McCarthy
Senate
Communist Daily Worker
Mc‘Carthy
Johns Hopkins ‘University
Lattimore
State Department
Russia
Yudenz
Catholic Fordham University
New York
Congress
Louis Budenz
Tydings
Lucas
Ill
No Resumption Of Air Service For Frederick
All American Airways has no plans to resume air line service to Frederick. Frederick will not appear on the summer schedule starting May 15 for regular stops. Authorities doubt Frederick will be added to the schedule soon. A separate note says a messenger contract to carry air mail to the airport was briefly authorized but suspended when service ended. A later authorization may resume payments, but no summer service is planned.
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Frederick
All American Airways
Air Line
Washington
All American
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Frank Keefer
Lucille Butler
New York City
Maurer
Hood
Queen
Andrew G. Truxal
Cob- Jentz Hall
Hudson Theater Garden
Fathers’ Club
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Walter Kleist
Elizabeth Eckhardt May
West
Virginia
Nat Bernice Franklin
Linden Hills
West Virginia State Highway Patrol
Bernice Franklin
John R. Fitzpatrick
Washington and Frederick
Here
Franklin
George
Whiskey
Zirkel Construction Co
Young Clark
U.S
Hopkins
New Mexico
Cross
Durango
Colu
PRA
Gerry Simmons
Lewis Fanslan
Falfa
Matt Simmons
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