Court upholds trooper testimony in Maryland betting case
The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that state troopers may testify about a poolhall betting investigation even if not properly ordered into a municipality. Leonard Chick Little was convicted of taking bets on horses, fined 1,000 dollars, and given six months in the House of Correction. Troopers testified they placed bets at Little's poolroom on August 29 and that Little repaid them the next day after a horse was scratched.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Court of Appeals
Leonard
Chick) Little
Cumberland
Egdyee
Little
House of Correction
Washington
Joseph D. Mish
Sagerstown
John J. Long
Cumberland Police and Fire
William L. Henderson
Appeals Court
Henderson
Little’s Place
Crownstone to Return From 1904 World’s Fair Journey
Marydel Maryland reports the Crownstone, a Mason Dixon line marker, to be returned from the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair after side trips to Annapolis and Baltimore. The Maryland Board of Natural Resources, led by Executive Secretary William Bayliff, will oversee reinstallation on the old border site. The stone carries the coats of arms of Lord Baltimore and the Penn family and has a long history from England to Maryland exhibits and storage before this reestablishment.
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Marydel
St. Louis
Delaware
Lord Baltimore
Penn
Bayliff
England
Caroline County
St. Lows
Maryland
Annapolis
House of Delegates
State House
Maryland Academy of Science
Academy
Charles Street
Baltimore
Enoch Pratt Library
Mahoney backs juvenile conference committees in Maryland
Baltimore May 24 Democratic gubernatorial candidate George P. Mahoney urged Maryland to form juvenile conference committees. Comprised of probation and school officials plus private citizens, the groups would assist courts with delinquency cases. He cited New Jersey success and a Maryland delinquents rate near the national average due to court usage and urged more community resources. He spoke to the Young Democrats of Baltimore District and planned a Kent County rally in Chestertown.
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Baltimore
George P. Mahoney
Maryland
New Jersey
Mahoney
Commission On
Sun District
U S Flying In Supplies To Central American Nations
The United States airlifted weapons to Nicaragua and Honduras amid reports of Red arms arriving in Guatemala. Reichs of U S equipment, including jeeps and three quarter ton carriers, flagged as rapid aid under mutual defense pacts. Rumors of additional shipments from Poland circulated with no official confirmation.
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Washington
United States
Nicaragua
Honduras
Guatemala
State Department
Lincoln White
Defense Department
Korea
Indochina
U.S
iNor
Gulf of Mexico
Red Poland
Mobile
Caribbean Air Command
Panama
Poland
Iron Curtain
Auto collision cited driver at Union Beach street corner
Eva V. Davis of 603 Beachview Avenue Union Beach New Jersey was cited for failing to stop at a boulevard sign causing a collision with Charles A. Willard of 343 South Market Street. Monday at 4 09 pm Officer Martin L Kanade estimated damage to Daviss car at 150 to 200 dollars and to Willards car about 100 dollars.
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Eva V. Davis
Beachview Avenue
Union Beach
N. J
Charles A. Willard
South Market Street
Martin L. Kanade
Davis
Center Street
Willard
Madison Street
Road stockholders prepare for Albany meeting clash
Homeowners refused entry and alerted police after a dispute started last February over board seats. Central board rejected Young and Allan P. Kirby positions, each side claiming victory as about 2,500 of 50,000 stockholders expected at a state armory in Albany unless a court postpones tomorrow’s meeting.
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Central Board
Young
Allan P. Kirby
State
Albany
Magazine salesmen methods scrutinized in Frederick
Local police scrutinized young out-of-town magazine salesmen who sought entry to Frederick homes to display wares. Five teens aged 17 to 19 from Ohio Massachusetts and New York admitted posing as repairmen or neighborhood experts to gain access and sell magazines. They warned of disorderly conduct if complaints continued, with fears they were burglars casing homes. They used lines such as offering information on local youth or testing phone service to justify entry.
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Frederick
Ohio
Massachusetts
New York
Adiencene Ures
Ben Phebus Jr
Fate of New York Central Control Decided Wednesday
New York Central Railroad faces a decisive stockholders meeting in Albany after a heated battle for control. William White, president, will preside and address the crowd, while opponent Robert R. Young plans to join the special train with over 1,000 stockholders.
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New York
William White
New York Central Railroad
Albany
M. Y
White
Central
Robert R. Young
Peace Council Meets Berlin Six Day Session
More than 400 delegates gathered in East Berlin for a six day World Peace Council meeting to discuss international security and the atomic bomb problem.
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Peace Council
Berlin
East Berlin
World Peace Council
Victories Won By Negroes in Supreme Court Rulings
The Supreme Court today considered six segregation cases involving colleges public housing a city amphitheater and municipal golf courses. While it did not overturn segregation outright in all, it ordered reconsideration in three cases and left others standing. The decisions continued after last week when the court struck down separate public schooling.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
University of Florida
Loni State University
Louisville
San Francisco
Hardin Junior College
Wichita Falls
Tex
New Orleans
Houston
Warren
Louisiana State University
The Cream Maker Is Guilty In Tax Case
Frank J. Jordan an ice cream and candy maker in Washington and owner of a plant and two stores was found guilty of evading federal income taxes. He was fined 15000 and costs and sentenced to one year in prison for underreporting about 248,948.83 in taxes from 1946 through 1949. Prosecution said income was understated by about 584,000 while the defense claimed 43000 of the amount were gifts from his mother and that most of the rest came from interest on loans for an old soldiers home with high rates.
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Baltimore
Frank J. Jordan
Washington
D. C
Jordan
Maryland
Kensinger to Die in Electric Chair After Governor Refusal
Gov. Stanley declined to intervene to spare 28 year old Clay Kensinger, slayer of a Takoma Park taxi driver, from execution by electric chair on Wednesday. Kensinger admitted shooting Leroy Applegate after hailing the taxi with Richard McCaughey in Washington the night of June 23.
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Richmond
Stanley
Clay Kensinger
Takoma Park
Kensinger
State Supreme Court
State Penitentiary i
Leroy Applegate
Richard Lee McCaughey
Applegate
Washington
Hedge Row Fire Near U.S. 40 West of Frederick
Independents county fire engine crew was dispatched at 7 25 p m to extinguish a grass fire along a hedge row on U S 40 west of Frederick. Firemen said brush burning sparks had spread into the hedge on the Mrs Mary Reynolds property.
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Hedge Row
County
U.S. 40
Frederick
Mary Reynolds
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