Salesman Killed by Train Near Graceham In Fatal Accident
Robert Sylvester Wolle Seiss aged 45, of Graceham, was killed when struck by a westbound freight train while sitting on the tracks between Loys and Graceham. Investigators say he may have fallen asleep due to illness and a weak leg. He served in the Navy after World War I and was a member of the Graceham Moravian church. Funeral services are set for Saturday in Thurmont, with burial in Evergreen cemetery, Gettysburg.
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Graceham
Seiss
Harkrader
Guy Anders
St Isi
Ohio
Gracesham
William
Mamie Helwick Seiss
Heas
Edwin
James
Philadelphia
Caroline
Thurmont
Evergreen Cemetery
Gettysburg
MM L. Creager and Son
Approves Fund To Continue Recount In Senate Contests
Senate Rules committee voted unanimously to approve $85,000 to fund four months of investigators for contested senatorial elections in Maryland and West Virginia. Chairman Brooks said the request will go to the Senate promptly. The panel also planned to recall counsel Jack W. Hardy for referral to a subcommittee amid Kilgore Sweener contest allegations.
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Washington
Senate
Maryland
West Virginia
Brooks
R-I
Jack W. Hardy
Kilgore
D-Wve
Thomas Sweener
Repubs
Langley Field Tests First Silent Plane
Langley Field Virginia reports the demonstration of a silent airplane after engineers combine noise silencing devices. The craft rose to over 300 feet, producing only a faint sound like a glider. The design uses a slower rotating propeller and an engine muffler to reduce noise.
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Langley Field
May Weather Brings Showers Then Sunny Driest Outlook
The observer notes rising humidity and only small temperature drops with 62 degrees the warmest overnight. Tomorrow should be sunny and drier with a high around 73. Brief overnight showers add 1.03 inches to May total as New York stocks show little buoyancy despite a few 2 cent gains.
U S C C Officers to Headline Frederick Chamber Event
Frederick hosts the thirty fifth anniversary dinner for United States Chamber of Commerce affiliation with Arch N Booth and Farr Owen Shreve attending. Officials from Maryland Virginia West Virginia Pennsylvania join local leaders, with tickets available at the Chamber office in the Key Hotel.
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Frederick
United States Chamber of Commerce
Vindobona
Braddock Heights
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
G. S. Chamber
Arch N. Booth
National Chamber of Commerce
Farr Owen Shreve
Booth
Chamber of Commerce
Shreve
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
J. Glenn Beall
Edgar Morris
Washington
National Organization Board
William Press
Washington Board of Trade
Joan Jacob
Salisbury
Maryland Junior Chamber of Commerce
Barney
Henry T Hardenberg
Winchester, Va
H Nelson Clark
Martinsburg
W. Va
Robert Deane
Hagerstown Group
Charles B. Cindell
Larry Stroh
Mit
William
R. Patrick Turner
The
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Trusty Quits Cattle Job Here
State and city police were notified this morning that a House of Correction trusty at the Fair Grounds with a consignment of cattle from the Jessups institution for the Holstein sale today escaped. Leroy George Staub, 29, formerly of Westminster, sentenced to four years for housebreaking, escaped from a detail gang around 3 am. He weighed 142 pounds, wore blue denims and no hat. Staub had nine prior convictions and had pleaded for a suspended sentence claiming to have quit crime.
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House of Correction Trusty
Fair Grounds
Jessups
Leroy George Staub
Westminster
Frederick County
Staub
Vindobona
Braddock Heights
Award Contract To Change Stream's Course
The State Roads Commission will award a contract for Route 40 improvements east of the Frederick-Hagerstown road after bids were opened. MM J Grove Lime Company submitted the low bid of 59634 dollars for 1.15 miles of drainage, grading, and asphalt surfacing including a new box culvert at Wertheimer farm. The project will alter the stream under Route 49, eliminate the Knoll, and improve drainage to prevent road flooding after heavy rains.
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State Roads Commission
Frederick-Hagerstown
MM. J. Grove Lime Company
Wertheimer Farm
Plan for Modern Bible Translation Gains Church Backing
London May 21 leaders of the Church of England approved plans for a two man modern reader Bible translation. The upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury adopted a resolution authorizing the archbishop to appoint church representatives to an interdenominational editorial committee.
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London
Church of England
Convocation of Canterbury
T ‘Oxford
Cambridge
Une: Presses
Week-Old Bread Secon Wil Not Grow Stale
Kansas City May 21 researchers at a convention of the American Association of Cereal Chemists reported a paste solution named polyoxethylene stearate that will keep bread fresh for seven days with a fraction of an ounce. H Favor and H F Johnson of East Norwalk Conn noted shortages of raw materials limit use.
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Kansas City
American Association of Cereal Chemists
H. F. Johnson
East Norwalk
Conn
Seven Killed In Army B-25 Crash Near Champaign Illinois
Seven soldiers were killed when an Army B-25 crashed in a farm field during a violent electrical storm. The wreckage lay miles from Champaign, Illinois, with engines separated from other debris. The plane was en route from Cheyenne Wyoming to Chanute Field near Champaign and last radioed near Burlington Iowa.
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Champaign
Cheyenne
Wyo
Chanute Field
Burlington
Iowa
Decisive Horse Damage Trial Near Frederic
A claim that the race horse Decisive failed to regain form after an accident near Frederic in May 1945 was presented in circuit court. Foster of Brunswick owns the horse. the suit seeks about 31,000 damages with Zimmerman as the defendant.
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Frederic
John S Foster
Brimswick
Foster
Ote 2
Jeter
Zimmerman’s
Ana Gig
Patri
Weather In Early May Ruined Maryland Crops
Maryland crop conditions report extreme May weather with freezes on May 8 10 severely damaging truck crops and fruit blossoms. Asparagus peas beans cucumbers and tomatoes suffered above ground losses. cabbage and strawberries show limited damage. Replanting underway. marketing starts late May to June.
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College Park
Mayr
Maryland
Bureau
Wicomic- Somerset
Baltimore
Gift Of $111 To Cancer Fund
A contribution of 111 to the Frederick county Cancer Control Drive by the Civic Club was announced at the club’s final meeting of the season. Envelopes were sent to 85 members for donations as the drive failed to meet its quota. Officers and a speaker from Washington urged backing uplifting art and club movements. Acquittal of John Henryer noted. other local notices include fines and a Chicago death in a death cell.
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Frederick County
Civic Club
Herman
Weener
John W. Wolfe
C. Thomas Summers
Raymond I. Ford
Wolfe
Robert E. Delaplaine
Lauren B. Askew Jr
Washington
Rocky Ridge
Carroll Albauzh
Maryland Federation of Women’s Clubs
Westminster
Ien
Garden Club
Calva Methodist Parish Hall
Teachers Map Plans For Year
The Frederik County Teachers Association opens November 4 with Virginia’s Barter Theater group as the season’s first program. The 1947 48 series includes a Little Theater show, a Walter Judd lecture, and possibly J Edgar Hoover or Ruth Byron Owen as later speakers. Officers were elected with Mrs Mary K Repp becoming president and Miss Etchison moving to second vice president.
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Frederik County Teachers Association
Virginia
Little Theater
Walter Judd
J. Edgar Hoover
Ruth Byron Owen
Association
Frederick High School
Julia E. Etchison
Congressman Judd
China
Congress
Judd
Barter Theater Players
Barter Theater
Etchison
William B. Jones
Brunswick
Irene Price
Frederick
Zelman. Smith
Walkersville
Maryland State Teachers Association
Baltimore
Walter W. Culler
Thurmont High School
E. Maurice Clarke
Sabillasville
Frank Lewis
Elm Street
Fred Ward
Middletown High School
National Education Association
Cincinnati
Jesse Nicodemus
New Midway School
Herman A. Hauver
Nitti Fails to Form Italian Cabinet
Rome May 21 Francesco Saverio Nitti announced he could not form a new Italian government after five days of effort. The 79 year old independent told newsmen he refused the post of Premier after Alcide De Gasperi’s government resigned eight days ago. De Nicola will resume consultations to seek a new Premier.
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Rome
Francesco Saverio Nitti
Enrico de 3Cola
Alcide de Gasperis
de Nicola
Poisoned Air Problem Under Study By U S
Washington May 21 The deed Lives of a radiation weapon are complici for hiding men and ud for ground inderior age warfare. But the problem of sealing subterranean sites against posdn ts under study according current un rice eaton armor Journal The article was written before Glenn L Martin closure of experiments the Army and Navy to create radioactive clouds.
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Washington
Rice Eaton
Armor- Journal Tne
Glenn Lo Martin c Losure
Army
Navy
Martin
Lobbying in Washington Reveals Hidden Big Players
A study of 947 quarterly lobbying reports shows many registrants dodge full disclosure by attaching statements, masking expenses, and listing Washington representatives only. It highlights top lobbies including tax relief groups, railroads, real estate, oil, and industry associations with millions in reported and unreported spending.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
National Hane Property Owners Foundation, Inc
Taft
James Edward Mack
John Lford Richardson
National Association of Manufacturers
Topman
Walter Chamblain
Clarence R. Ailes
Southern States Industrial Council
California
Wisconsin
Ohio
Dallas
Alaska
Purcell Lam
Stephen McWalter
National Association of Electric Compar
J Carter Fort
American Association of Railroads
Ernest W. Greene
Howe Planters
Robert H Shields
US Beet Association
Inland
Allis Chalmers
President Truman's mother held her own amid illness in Missouri
President Truman said his mother Martha E Truman is gravely ill but holding her own at home in Missouri. He described her as very tired with a weak heart while remaining hopeful and continuing to receive care as plans for foreign aid legislation proceeded in Kansas City.
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Martha E Truman
Hope Springs
Kansas City
Grandview
Truman
Missouri
Ford Foremen Strike Affects Rouge Lincoln Highland Park Plants
About 3,800 foremen began a strike at Ford Motor Co plants in Detroit including Rouge Lincoln and Highland Park. FAA union leader Keys said the action was unanimously approved with a 30 day waiting period extended for talks after failed contract renewals.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Detroitman’s Assemnct
the & Motor Co
Robert H Kexs
Ford
FAA
Keys
Fore of America
CIO United Auto Workers
Rouge
Lincoln
Highland Park
Henry Ford I
Pretty Young Mother Shot To Death In Brooklyn
In Brooklyn a 31 year old mother of two, Margaret Tannazzo, was shot five times by an unidentified woman in a crowded area as she hurried to work at a garment factory. The assailant fled, and police cordoned the area while the victim died at a hospital.
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New York
Brooklyn
Margaret Tannazzo
Must Look At Selves Too Minister Says
Baltimore May 21 Reverend Dr Harold Bosley pastor of Vernon Methodist church urged a room of about 300 students to curb superficial morality and critique their own nation first before judging Soviet Russia He praised the Christian Science Monitor as a rare outlet that criticizes Russia while calling Americans to honest words and deeds.
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Baltimore
Russia
Soviet Union
Harold Bosley
Mi Vernon Methodist Church
Bosley
Christian Science Monitor
Dr. Bosley
Engineers testify at FCC hearing on Abell and Berks stations
Engineers offered technical testimony at a Communications Commission hearing on radio station applications by the A. S. Abell Company of Baltimore and the Berks Broadcasting Company of Reading. Both claim there would be no day or night interference.
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Washington
Communications Commission
A. S. Abell Company
Baltimore
Berks Broadcasting Company
Reading
Nation pushes plan for a national science foundation
Washington May 21 The Senate approved a proposal to create a national science foundation aimed at training scientists and funding basic research including cancer work. House action expected soon with possible annual funding between 20 million and 30 million dollars. The plan envisions a presidentially appointed board, an executive committee, a full time director, and specialized divisions in fields like cancer and heart disease. The foundation would fund research and scholarships but would not provide patient treatments. Also reported a boiler explosion at Lockhart Iron and Steel Co in McKees Rocks injuring eleven.
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James Marlow Washington
Senate
National Science Foundation
House
Congress
Foundation
Efert
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U.S.C.C
Tel Aviv
Pale
Taga
Hegana
Bureau of Labor Statis
Manila
Roxas
Lily Marlene
Cotabeto
Mindareo
Edward J. Smith
Peoples Cox
John Henryer
Dublin
Route 15
R. F Stone
Gerald K. Powell
Arthur C Yutty
L M. Ridge
Barter Theater Group
Nitti
U. S
Business Lobby
Peter Edson
NEA
Washington Correspondent
Mr. Truman
Pittsburgh
Lockhart Iron and Steel Co
McKeese Rocks
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