The News Frederick Briefs
The Frederick paper reports a brief update from Tuesday with terse local items and details, including names, places, and dates drawn from the day’s edition.
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1947
Page
8
The Frederick paper reports a brief update from Tuesday with terse local items and details, including names, places, and dates drawn from the day’s edition.
Col. Breyd E. Fellenz of Camp Detrick urged a unified national security program at the 7th annual Repubiation Day banquet of the Sergeant Lawrence Everhart Chapter S A R. He called for a healthy educated population, coordinated intelligence, scientific research, industrial mobilization, and universal military training to deter aggression and ensure peace.
Col Fellenz argues that universal military training should be a component of a balanced national defense program. He says it has no standalone purpose and must be integrated with other elements. The dinner honored local and visiting Maryland Society leaders including Edward Shriner Jr and George Robertson with attendees from Baltimore and Harrisburg.
In Calvert County Circuit Court 47 gambling indictments were challenged today as 11 defendants pleaded innocent and sought jury trials. The grand jury returned charges November 14 accusing 325 persons of maintaining gambling devices in business establishments. Judge John B Gray heard demurrers arguing lack of exact location details.
Thanksgiving services are held at 11 am in the Christian Science Society at Pythian Castle on Court Street. Testimonial meetings occur on the first Wednesday of each month at 8 pm.
Harold E. Stassen formally launched his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination with an eight point domestic and international program aimed at housing health care and steady growth. He spoke at Milwaukee’s auditorium stressing conservative attitudes and urged support funding and votes for his first official campaign appearance. A second item notes a Baltimore tavern shooting where Henry Rose, 37, died after firing shots and then a self inflicted gunshot.
The iron figure topping the Marie Diehl Memorial fountain on West Church Street toppled Sunday evening and shattered after reports of corrosion and a rusted pedestal edge. City workers recovered fragments and noted wind as a probable cause, with an automobile bump cited in another report. The fountain, erected by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, commemorates Marie Diehl.
City workers report the reassembled remaining statue and fountain pieces stored at the City Light plant may allow restoration. A falling figure narrowly missed Wilbur F Sheffield Jr's car on West Church Street as the sculpture toppled from its pedestal.
Cairo reports more than twenty arrests after a plot to bomb the chief of staff of the Egyptian army, Ibrahim Attala Pasha, was uncovered. Details were not disclosed and the public prosecutor forbade printing further.
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