Man Killed Two Injured In Route 40 Crash
A Tuesday night crash on Route 40 near Amos curve west of West Friendship killed Robert Deering 56 of Baltimore and injured Robert Snyder 40 of Miami and Edward Heingering 40 of Baltimore. Snyder driven, manslaughter possible, speed cited. Vehicles and bodies recovered, Mercury sedan valued about 2500 demolished.
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Route 40
West Friendship
Amos
Randallstown
St. Agnes Hospital
Baltimore
Robert Deering
Robert Snyder
Miami
Fla
Edward Heingering
Snyder
Amos Curve
Deering
T. M. Hignutt
John M. Morgan
T. J. Talbert
A. N. Herbert
Howard County
Higginbottom Funeral Home
Ellicott City
Cold Weather Reported In Plains States
The three day death toll from floods and tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma rose to 13 with about 13,200 homeless and 100 injured. A drastic chill moved across the upper Plains with snow and hail reported in Montana and North Dakota and temperatures falling to the upper teens in Billings Williston and Great Falls. The cold was forecast to reach Chicago by tomorrow midday and then move east.
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Associated Press
Texas
Oklahoma
Upper Plains
U. S. Weather Bureau
Montana-North Dakota
Billings
Great Falls
Mont
Williston
North Dakota
Aberdeen
S. D
Texas Panhandle
Canadian
Mississippi
Chicago
Qualified Approval To Closed Shop Is Given
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America has given qualified approval to the closed shop or union shop. The council, representing 27 Protestant and eastern Orthodox denominations, said in a statement adopted yesterday by its executive committee that where either shop emerges with proper safeguards as the result of collective bargaining, the agreement should be approved and supported by church people.
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New York
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
No Pacific Defense Pact Soon, He Says
Secretary of State Acheson said there are serious dangers to world peace in Asia but ruled out for now any U S participation in a Pacific defense pact. He cited unsettled Chinese conditions as the main danger in Asiatic affairs.
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Washington
Acheson
Asia
United States
China
Hood Olympics Set With Four Nationalities On Campus
The Hood Olympics of 1949 will occur on the college campus Saturday May 21 from 1 30 to 5 p m. Volleyball softball tennis and golf will feature teams representing Chinese Irish Russian and American groups. Captains Helen Kamp Grace Underwood Eva Shipman and Barbara Young lead their teams with Northern Pennsylvania New Jersey New York and other regions contributing players. The day ends with a formal banquet in Cob lentz hall and the White Blazer award announced for sportsmanship and scholarship.
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Helen Kamp
Saddle River
N. J
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
New England
Canada
Grace Underwood
Hancock
N. C
Delaware
West
Eva Shipman
Elkins Park
Washington
Maryland
South
Barbara Young
Middletown
Mary Ellen Wood
Westchester
Catherine Russo
Connellsville
Barbara Bagley
Haddonfield
Jane Kellberg
Plainfield
A. A
Randy
Trespass Case Denied in North Market Street Fence Suit
Mrs. Ruth Flautt denies trespass and damages in an injunction suit filed by Sara Rau Lee, J. Tyson Lee, and Marian Rau Heater, claiming no intent to erect a wall or obstruction on property at 225 and 227 North Market Street. The bill alleges a fence would block a right of way to Hershberger building.
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Ruth Flautt
Sara Rau Lee
J. Tyson Lee
Marian Rau Heater
James R. Heater
H.S. Felton
Flautt
North Market Street
Hershberger
Mrs Bowers and Baby Escape Fort Worth Flood Waters
A Frederick woman and her nine month old baby narrowly escaped flooding in Fort Worth Texas. Mrs G H Bowers Jr said she woke to police at 5 am and drove through high water with the child wearing only their clothes. They sought safety with friends while Lt Bowers was away on a flight mission. Floodwaters reportedly reached the roof of her prior home and telephone lines experienced heavy delays.
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Frederick
Ft. Worth
Tex
G. Hunter Bowers, Jr
Myr
James H. Gambrill
Rockwell Terrace
Lt. Bowers
G. Hunter Bowers
Harmony Grove
Carswell Field
Mrs. Gambrill
Mrs. Bowers
Two Given Terms In Court Here
Johnnie Kline 19 of 128 East Third street was sentenced to a year in the House of Correction. Two Frederick youths received suspended sentences and fines for tampering with Roy Gaver's automobile on East Patrick street May 10. A juvenile implicated was admitted to Loch Raven Training School for Youths after juvenile court. Magistrate Manuel M. Weinberg presided in Peoples Court. William Williams 22 of 226 East Fifth street was fined 100 with 5 weekly installments. Lee Weddle 18 of 38 East Seventh street to pay 5 weekly until 50. Williams and Weddle also received a year’s suspended sentence. Officers Sgt. Ben Foebus and Lt. R. O. Six testified. The youths admitted ransacking many cars that night. Williams had prior court history. Kline had multiple prior sentences. De Paepe of Washington received three months for possession of a hypodermic needle. He will be hospitalized. A divorce: Charles Van Swearingen from Maude May Mohler Van Swearingen granted. defendant may resume maiden name. Rains help crops report noted.
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Johnnie Kline
East Third Street
House of Correction
Frederick
Roy Gaver
East Patrick Street
Loch Raven
Manuel MM. Weinberg
Peoples Court
Charles William Williams
East Fifth
Williams
Kline
Williams and Weddle
Murray Fout
Blenata
E. Zimmerman
Band concert by Col Howard in Frederick High School
United States Air Force Band under Col Howard will perform tonight at 8 30 in Frederick High School auditorium. Freder ick County Teachers' Association presents the event with reserved seating for lecture series ticket holders and open seating elsewhere in auditorium lobby and gym. Temporary seating is arranged in the lobby and entire gym for expected large crowd.
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Col. Howard
United States Air Force
Frederick High School
Frederick County
Teachers’ Association
Oklahoma City Tornadoes Flash Over Central Oklahoma
Violent electrical storm moved north from Texas clustering cloudbursts and four small tornadoes. No deaths, two hospitalizations, over three dozen treated as a tornado hit a Meeker high school crowd. Damaging twisters also scattered destruction near Anadarko and Caddo county. Torrential rain flooded Norman, knee-deep on campus, while a softball tournament halted by rain.
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Oklahoma City
Pia
Texas
Oklahoma
Meeker
Here
Anadarko-Binger
Caddo County
Norman
University of Oklahoma
Church of God
Arra
Dunham
Pork Barrel Bill Set For House Action in 1950
Washington May 18 text outlines a nonbinding bill to authorize future Federal buildings in each of 435 districts. It creates a 40 million dollar land acquisition and planning fund and a 30 million dollar modernization fund, to be funded and built later by Congress. The bill ties projects to the Federal Works Administrator and the Postmaster General.
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Washington
House
House Rules Committee
Congress
House Public Works Committee
Federal Works Administrator
Cigarette Bootleg Bill Approved by Senate
Washington May 18 A bill to curb cigarette bootlegging moved through the Senate after the House approved it amid debate. The measure would require interstate sellers to report sales to destination state tobacco tax administrators unless shipments go to licensed dealers, aiming to cut tax loss from mail order cigarette shipments.
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Washington
Senate
House
Curbs on Crime News Censorship Claim
Three Baltimore radio stations urged the Court of Appeals to overturn contempt convictions for pre trial broadcasts of a police report that a murder suspect confessed. They argued Rule 904 bans publication of confessions and police records in pending cases amount to censorship.
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Annapolis
Baltimore Supreme Bench
Court of Appeals
Baltimore
High Court
U.N. Rejects Plan To Cut Up Colonies
United Nations General Assembly rejects the Bevin Sforza plan to split Italy's prewar colonies among nine nations. Latin American delegates lead a revolt, voting against the trustee administration of Tripolitania with 14 for and 37 against. Argentinia, El Salvador oppose any partial settlement. Delegates adjourn to reconvene for further talks in September.
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New York
Bevin Sforza
Italy
U.N. General Assembly
Mediterranean
Sharp
Mussolini
Ernest Bevin
Carlo Sforza
London
U.N
Tripolitania
Libya
Haly
Iad
Assembly
Argentina
Jose Arce
el Salvador
Arrest Youth In Explosion In Vancouver House Blast
Lawrence Jean Sharp a 20 year old University of Washington sophomore was held on a destruction of government property charge after an April 1 explosion at the McLoughlin Heights housing project in Vancouver Washington that damaged 28 surrounding homes and injured Mr and Mrs Lawrence L Sharp. FBI agent J B Wilcox said Sharp rented a car in Seattle March 1 drove to Vancouver planted the bomb and returned to Seattle. He was later located on the University of Washington campus after the April blast. The Sharps daughter Marie and son were ill earlier from food poisoning.
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Seattle
Lawrence Jean Sharp
University of Washington
Vancouver
Wash
Lawrence L. Sharp
Young Sharp
J. B. Wilcox
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Sharps
McLoughlin Heights
Sharp
Wilcox
Marie
Jill
New Soviet Restrictions In Germany
May 18 Hamburg reports that Soviet authorities restrict German road traffic into the eastern zone. At Helmstedt frontier 150 trucks waited, 80 remained in line at noon, with many turned back for lacking permits from the East German Economic Commission. Gift parcels destined for the east were redirected to rail. Police demanded papers bear verbal signatures, rejecting rubber stamp copies. Nearby, traffic was normal at Luebeck. British zone border police received notice only late last night and were told no German goods could pass without permits. The measure would bar German shipments to the east pending Soviet approval.
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Hamburg
Germany
Helmstedt
East Germany
East German Economic Commission
Berlin
Hemstedt
Frontier Point
Luebeck
McCloy Named U. S. High Commissioner for Germany
President Truman appoints John J. McCloy as United States High Commissioner for Germany. McCloy resigns as World Bank president to assume the post, effective by July 1. Eugene Black named World Bank president to replace him while McCloy aids transfer of non military occupation duties to the State Department and ECA.
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John J. McCloy
Washington
Truman
United States
Germany
McCloy
World Bank
Eugene Black
White House
Army
State Department
Economic Cooperation Administration
Russ Must Reappraise Conference Strategy
Berlin reports that Germanys 4 000 000 votes against Communism may force the Soviet Union to pause and reappraise plans at the Paris four power talks. The east German election produced a huge Communist victory yet one third oppose them, affecting positions on occupation armies withdrawal. Stocks in New York showed sluggish trading with minor changes amid tight price moves.
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Berlin
Germany
Paris
Soviet Union
Supreme Court sides with Terminiello in free speech ruling
The Supreme Court upholds the dismissal of the Chicago case against Rev. Arthur Terminiello, ruling that free speech allows stirring unrest and does not justify automatic suppression. The decision avoids a universal standard, noting future cases may yield different results and highlighting dissent by Justice Jackson.
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James Marlow
Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Chicago
Arthur Terminiello
Alabama
Christian Veterans of America
Gerald L. K. Smith
Huey Long
Terminiello
Father Coughlin
South
Francisco Franco
Spain
Europe
Gerald Smith
Eleanor Roosevelt
U. S. Supreme Cart
Jackson
Supreme Court
Never Again Seattle Rescue By Seven Year Old’s Bridge Stunt
Seven year old Jimmy Albright climbed under a railroad trestle and stuck his head in a gap, prompting a halted Great Northern mail train, a speeding firetruck, and a traffic jam below. After 90 minutes he pulled free with swollen ears, tears, and a vow never to crawl under another bridge.
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Seattle
Jimmy Albright
Great Northern
Jimmy
Flood Waters Recede in Fort Worth as Death Toll Rises
Fort Worth faces record flood damage with seven dead and 30 injured in the Trinity valley. 13,000 homeless sought shelter after water flooded homes and businesses while authorities warned against drinking untreated water. Aerial and ground searchers recovered a victim near Forest Park as Dallas braces for a crest above flood stage.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Trinity Valley
John B. Fawks
Forest Park
Texas
Oklahoma
Amarillo
Ninles
Spur
Sooner
Stratford
Camp Hood
Dallas
Trinity River
Red Spearhead Menaces Shanghai Front Lines
In Shanghai the Communist spearhead pushed near the Whangpoo river, entering close to the city and threatening Foo Chow in Fukien. A Shanghai garrison communique claimed the thrust was wiped out in fierce fighting, while Chinese Nationalist reports said Reds penetrated Tungkaw eight miles downriver from Shanghai and were eliminated at the Bund.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo
China
Foo-chow
Foochow
Fukien
Canton
Tungkaw
Sheriff Seeks Polaroid Camera To Speed Prisoner ID
Sheriff Guy Anders proposes buying a folding box style Polaroid camera for the county jail to photograph prisoners on intake and send prints to state and federal agencies within minutes. Currently fingerprints and photos go to State Police Barracks and headquarters with delays of up to ten days. Faster IDs would reduce release of arrestees and jail costs.
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Guy Anders
Board of County Commissioners
Sheriff Anders
Baltimore
FBI
Washington
Anders
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Plains States
Louis A. de Pauepe
Set. Phobus
Austin Murray
Church
North Market
Narcotics Bureau
de Paepe
Charles van Swearingen
Maude May Mohler van Swearingen
Patrick M. Sehnauffer
Francis Perrott
van Swearingen
Ames A. Holter
George S. Howard
University
Twister
Nebraska
Hastings
Neb
Chauncey Crutcher
Ed Paulus
Douglass Hemp
Jefferson
Steiner's Hill
Pwwep,sde
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