Three Admitted After Wreck near Old Braddock
Four youths were injured when the car they rode in hit a culvert head on two miles west of Frederick. Ralph Kolb 17 suffered a fractured ankle and burns, George Dutrow 19 had lip and dental injuries, C Austin Stitely 19 had forehead lacerations and a shoulder injury, Loraine Stitely 15 had brush burns. Dutrow was driving and faced reckless driving charges. separate incident: Robert Bussard 19 of Ellicott City was hospitalized for contusions after being struck on Route 40 by Samuel Viet 26 of Randallstown. Viet swerved to avoid him but Bussard was hit Saturday afternoon.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
Old Braddock
Ralph R. Kolb
Frederick
George C. Dutrow
Ceresville
C. Austin Stitely
Wisner Street
Lorraine Stitely
Dutrow
Philip Kreisinger
Kreisinger
Dutros
Howard County
Route 40
Robert Ellsworth Bussard
Route 2
Ellicott City
Samuel S. Viet, Jr
Liberty Road
Randallstown
W. W. Corbin
Bussard
Viet
Grammer Case Before Md Court of Appeals
G Edward Grammer seeks a new trial before Maryland's Court of Appeals in Annapolis for the bludgeoning and killing of his wife Dorothy May Grammer. Convicted last year without a jury, the New York businessman faces death by hanging. Arguments by defense lawyer Joseph Sherbow and State's Attorney Anselm Sodaro are scheduled. decision likely next month. If lost, appeal to the U S Supreme Court remains, with gubernatorial commutation as a path to avoid the penalty.
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Annapolis
G. Edward Grammer
Court of Appeals
Grammer
New York
Fierman M. Moser
Dorothy May Grammer
Joseph Sherbow
Anselm Sodaro
U. S. Supreme Court
President Recovers Back At His Desk At White House
Eisenhower, recovering from intestinal flu, was at his desk by 8 am and expected a full schedule with 10 appointments. The White House listed visitors including Adm. Radford, Secretary Wilson, and lawmakers Goldwater Halleck for a busy day. In Philadelphia, Roman Catholic men held a rosary procession for peace and Christian conversion of communism.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Wilson
Sen. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Rep. Halleck
R-Ind
Philadelphia
New School Cornerstone In Position
The cornerstone of the North Frederick elementary school was laid with ceremonies attended by city officials and NECA members. Superintendent Eugene W. Pruitt announced the building, now rising to the second story, should be completed by next spring, with 14 classrooms and a multipurpose area planned for the Fall 1954 opening. The ceremony featured remarks from County Commissioner A. Grant Hooper and others, plus the placing of old annual Board of Education reports in the cornerstone.
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North Frederick
Eugene W. Pruitt
Charlies V. Main
NECA
A. Grant Hooper
Robert R. Rhoderick
Jacob R. Ramsburg
Donald B. Rice
Eben T. Finney
John T. Walcott
Finney, Walcott and Associates
Baltmore
Keller
W. Merval Weaver
Presbyterian Church
Pruitt
Hooper
Frederick County
Board of Education
Board of County Commissioners
Middletown
Supreme Court to review ban on giveaway shows
The Supreme Court agreed to hear government efforts to ban radio and television giveaway shows. The FCC appealed after a New York three-judge court ruled the ban only applies when contestants must furnish money or value and possess a product. The court struck down a ban on schemes that pressure audiences to listen as a condition to win prizes.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Federal Communications Commission
High Tribunal
New York
Commission
Reds Ready To Start Interviews
Former Baltimore mayor William F. Broening, 83, a Republican figure in the early 20th century, died at home after two years invalid. He served two mayoral terms beginning 1919 and 1927, failed runs for attorney general in 1926 and governor in 1930, and helped mentor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, later mayor and governor. Surviving widow, son, daughter, and brother. Funeral plans not yet set.
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Baltimore
William F. Broening
Broening
Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin
First Forest Fires Occur Over Weekend
District Forest Supervisor Herman Toms reports three fires over the weekend in Washington county near Harmony and Mt. Briar. The Harmony blaze burned about three quarters of an acre from careless smoking. two Mt. Briar fires, each about half an acre, were likely incendiary. Fire lines and dry conditions hampered water access, with volunteers from Boonsboro aiding in fighting near Mt. Briar.
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Herman Toms
Catoctin Mountain
Harmony
Mt. Briar
Keedysville
Washington County
CAP
Western Union
Marion Hoffman
Frank Plunkett
Toms
Confesses He Held Up Loan Office
BALTIMORE Ira W Armes 29 unemployed from Danville Va said I did it when arraigned on a charge of holding up a loan office at Baltimore s busiest downtown intersection A police magistrate set 10 000 bond and bound him over for grand jury action Police allege Armes got 9067 in the robbery The officer and the others are right Armes told the magistrate I did it Four downed Centreville A Sunday boat outing turned tragic when a skiff overturned and four of eight aboard drowned
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Baltimore
Ira W. Armes
Danville
Armes
Foucr
Centreville
Dies and injuries in Route 140 crash near Pikesville
A Baltimore woman Barbara Lorraine Zeller 21 died in a head on collision on U S Route 140 about a mile north of Pikesville. Three other Baltimore residents were injured including Miss Zeller’s car occupant William Fleagie 26. Mrs Bessie Taborsky 64 was in critical condition. The driver of the other car Dan Walderman 32 was charged with manslaughter and other offenses but escaped injury. Traffic was blocked for nearly an hour.
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Pikesville
Lorraine Zeller
Baltimore
Here
Miss Zeller
William John Fleagie
Bessie JM. Taborsky
University Hospital
Fleagie
St. Joseph's Hospital
University
Theresa Fieagle
Dan Walderman
Wable Arrested in New Mexico After Turnpike Murders
John Wesley Wable, 24, was captured after a high speed chase by New Mexico state police and a foot escape with two companions. He denied guilt and stated he is cold and tired in a Bernalillo County Jail cell. Police linked him to the July Pennsylvania Turnpike killings of Harry Pitts and Lester Woodward and a later shooting of John Shepard as a watch thief note. Rewards totaling 11,000 are posted by trucking groups, with Pennsylvania officers arranging extradition.
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Albuquerque
John Wesley Wable
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
Wable
Bernalillo County
California
Belen
Harry F. Pitts
Bowling Green
Lester B. Woodward
Duncan
Jack R. Dodson
John K. Shepard
West Alexander
Shepard
Cleveland
Yugoslav Demands Conference Over Trieste Decision
Belgrade today demanded a conference with the United States Britain and Italy to discuss last week's Anglo American agreement on Trieste and protested the withdrawal of British and American troops from Zone A and its transfer to Italian administration.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Britain
Italy
Trieste
United Nations
Two men quarrelled on Route 46. one shot in elbow at Bud's Tavern
John Wesley Dively of Baltimore and Vernon Stanley Roberts of Mt Airy were charged with assault after Roberts fired a pistol at Dively near Plane 4 on Saturday night. Dively was treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital and released. State Trooper James Rouzee led the investigation. A second item notes the Presbytery of Baltimore opening a two day meeting in Cumberland with about 125 clergy and laymen from 66 churches attending.
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Poute 46
John Wesley Dively
Baltimore
Vernon Stanley Roberts
Route 1
Mt Airy
James H. Rouzee
Imho
Dively
Roberts
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Cumberland
Presbytery of
The
Presbyterian Church
Paul C. Warren
Second Presbyterian Church
Firemen lauded for Civil Defense Exercise in Hagerstown
Frederick County volunteer firemen earned praise from Director J Roger Fisher for their performance in Operation Fireball on Sunday. Ten companies from Frederick City and County joined in the Civil Defense drill with rapid call coordination aided by C P Telephone. Pumpers moved water from Hagerstown Lake to a local pool while Emmitsburg residents were less informed, and units arrived within about thirty minutes after notification.
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J. Roger Fisher
Frederick County
Hagerstown
Frederick City
Washington County CD
Charles L. Mobley
Fisher
Frederick
Paul B. Rhoads, Jr
Civil Defense Office
United
C. and P. Telephone Company
Emmitsburg
Middletown
Braddock Heights
Frederick Company
Ousted Leaders Begin Strike In British Guiana
Ousted leftist cabinet ministers launched a general strike and anti-British boycott in Georgetown. Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan said the walkout was due to foreign troop invasion and loss of democratic rights. Britain moved 600 Royal Welch Fusiliers from Jamaica and suspended the colony’s constitution. The U.S. backed the British action amid regional tensions and the Dominican crisis. The United Nations debate on Charter revision opened as Gov Byrnes prepared to speak.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Britain
Cheddi Jagan
People’s Progressive Party
PPP
Royal Weist Fusiliers
Jamaica
Jagan
Russia
Privy Council
London
Sir Alfred ‘Savage
U. S
William Alexander Bustamante
Bustamante
Indies
Kingston
Guiana
United Nations
N.Y. G
South Carolina
James F. Byrnes
Belgrade Thugs Attack USIS Chief in Trieste Protest
Yugoslav rioters invaded US Information Service and British reading rooms in Belgrade in protests over Western plans to transfer northern Trieste to Italy. USIS chief William B. King was assaulted, his nose broken, as attackers seized bulletins and damaged property. British official Keith Welberg-Kerr said staff were unharmed. riots followed Tito’s speech signaling possible troop moves. Western officials viewed the action as organized but not escalation toward war.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
U. S Information Service
Trieste
Italy
USIS
William B. King
Associated Press
King
Keith Welherg - Kerr
Tito
Macedonia
London
Washington
Rome
Florence
D. C
Welberg-Kerr
Daily Bulletin
North Africa
Turkey
Greece
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Unicef
Zone A
Lasteek
Farmers Block Roads In France Barricade Protest
U Famer Pierre Rousseau led a two wheel farm cart onto a highway in LUSIGNAN France and shouted to comrades to the barricades. About 200 farmers blocked national highway No 11 seven miles west of the village and halted traffic as thousands elsewhere joined the protest across central and southwest France.
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Lusignan
France
Pierre Rousseau
FBI says Hall and Heady confess to kidnapping and killing Bobby Greenlease
Washington reports FBI Director Hoover announced signed confessions from Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady admitting Hall killed 6 year old Bobby Greenlease in Kansas. The two also said the grave was dug behind Heady's home in Missouri before the abduction, with evidence from the Plymouth wagon and Hall revolver.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Carl Austin Hall
Bobby Greenlease
Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
Hoover
Mrs. Heady
Greenlease
Kansas
Kansas City
Heady
St. Joseph
Bobby
Atty
Brownell
Missouri
Moa
1St. Louis
Pandit Sees Eisenhower For Korea Parley Prospects
Madame Pandit, president of the U N General Assembly, met a half hour with President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles after a White House visit. She said a Korean political conference may be held soon and that Panmunjom discussions are being studied by a high level Allied group. She cautioned the White House statement on Korea may come later today and expressed cautious optimism tempered by concern.
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Washington
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
White House
Madame Pandit
U. N. General Assembly
Eisenhower
Dulles
Red China
North Korea
United States
Panmunajom
WhiteHouse
Korea
Jone
GN Assembly
India
Hormeris
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Rt. 40
MD. Court of Appeals
Reds
U. N
UNC
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
Yalu River
Red Air
Antung
Manchuria
Peiping
Stockholm
Sweden
K. H. L. Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold
Blockade
Gen
Justice Department
Penna. Turnpike
Pitisburgh
Maul Usis
Marsh
Mme. Pandit
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